Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	affection_n	love_n	love_v	7,004	5	6.6942	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07951	The Christians comfort In a sermon appointed for the crosse, but preached in S. Pauls Church on Candlemas day, 1623. By Thomas Myriell, rector of S. Steuens in Walbrooke London.	Myriell, Thomas, d. 1629.	1623 (1623)	STC 18321; ESTC S103112	27,424	72

choysest vvits the grauest heads the sharpest iudgements continually emptying themselues vnto you that vvhosoeuer comes in among you may truely fal dovvne in admiration and say Now verily God is in you indeed 1. Corinth 14.25 Secondly men are vvith God in affection and by no affection so much as by loue the soule is rather vvhere it loueth then vvhere it liueth And so that soule vvhich loueth God is wholy with him in heauen whilest the body is on earth It is true that Augustine g Aug. de ciu Dei lib. 14. cap. 7. notes that Recta voluntas is bonus amor an vpright will is a good loue and loue is the Master of the affections yea the summe of them for they are all reduced to that for loue when it longs for the thing loued cupiditas est is then desire and when it hath the thing it loues laetitia est it is then ioy On the contrary when it flies from the thing it affects not timor est then it is feare when it feeles the thing it desires not tristitia est it is sadnesse Thus all the affections desire ioy feare griefe are included in loue So then if we loue God we wil desire to enioy him saying Cupio dissolui et esse cum Christo Phil. 1.23 I desire to bee dissolued and to bee with Christ And hauing enioyed him wee will reioyce to keepe him saying Psal 4.6 Lord lift vp the light of thy countenance vpon me This is more ioy to men then wicked men haue when their corne and Wine and oyle is increased And hauing so kept him wee will feare to lose him crying Psal 27.9 Hide not thy face from mee put not thy seruant avvay in displeasure And feeling him leaue vs vve will grieue at his absence with this lamentation Psal 22.9 My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Thus then by loue we are with God charitie is a bond yea the bond of perfection which linketh vs to God and God to vs we are vvith him if we loue him from him if we loue him not and loue him we cannot if vvee loue any thing before him any thing beside him any thing beyond him We loue somthing before him when vve preferre any thing to him vve loue something beside him vvhen wee ioyne any thing with him vve loue somthing beyond him vvhen wee ioy more in it then in him Therefore Augustine h Aug. de doct Christ lib. 1. cap. 22. expounds the precept Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy soule with all thy strength of supereminent and ouerflowing loue Vt si quid aliud diligendum venerit in animum illuc rapiatur quo totius dilectionis impetuss currit That if any other thing offers it selfe to be loued of vs it should be carried along and made to runne together with vs to the loue of God This is spiritually to bee with him in soule in this world that soule and body may be eternally with him in the World to come O then the misery of vncharitable sinners who are so hard-hearted that they care not for God neither is God in all their thoughts Psal 13. That say vnto God Depart from vs for we regard not the knowledge of thy Lawes Iob 22.17 Amōg which is the ambitious man that dotes vpon Courtlike preferment the proud man that pursues glorious titles vain applause the luxurious man that sets the flesh before the Spirit the inconstant man that changes his religion with the time But principally the couetous man who is onely with his money makes that his God and whose heauie bags and cram'd chest presseth downe his soule euen as low as hell it selfe I reade in the life of Saint Anthony of Padua i Alfonso Villegas in vita a late Saint of the Popes coyning That he preaching at a rich mans funerall on this text Where your treasure is there will your heart bee added in the end This text is fulfilled in this couetous man who making his money his treasure had his heart stolne away from Almighty God Certaine persons presently going to his Chest to open it found there his heart as fresh as if it had been newly taken out of a mans brest I presse no man in this company to beleeue this but I presume many men in this company wil moralize this hauing hearts not mounting to God by the loue of heauen but glued to the earth by loue of money who when they haue done all can get but Simon Magus his portion they and their money must perish together Take heede then Be with God in your desires and affection and hee will be with you in his benediction and blessing Thus hauing finished the handling of this first part Come we to the second yet not forgetting to pray Dominus nobiscum in this also It must not leaue vs euen to the end And if ye seeke him he will be found of you c. And this comes by way of answere to a secret question which some might make You say God is with vs if we be with him with him we be if we know him and loue him But how shal we come to know him that we may come to loue him and so be with him The answere is By seeking him If ye seeke him he will be found of you In this please you to consider 2. things First The worke 2. The wages The worke To seek God The wages The finding of him The first intending to the last and the last inuiting to the first For our promise of finding him inuiteth vs to the worke of seeking him For the first to seeke God It is true that in this world wee are all at a losse for hauing all sinned wee are depriued of the glorie of God Rom. 3.23 It came to passe with Adam as with a griping Vsurer who extorting more then is due loseth principall and interest both for Adam by struing to know more then was allowed him lost that knowledge which before was granted him and so became ignorant of God and ignorant of himselfe For as a man that is in the darke cannat see any thing no not himselfe So Adams heires being borne in sinne which is the thickest darknes are ignorant and see not either God their Creator or themselues his creatures Hence it is that there is continuall seeking vp and downe in the world so that if a questiō were made what all the men in the world doe it might be answered in a word Quaerunt they are busie in seeking somewhat we want somwhat we would haue though when wee haue it we are not contented with it vntill we finde that which is able to satisfie vs that is God himselfe A te Domine sumus et irrequietum est cor nostrum donec reuertamur ad te saith S. Augustine k August confes lib. From thee O Lord we be and our hearts are neuer at quiet till wee bee with thee againe