Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66104	Love's pedigree, or, A discourse shewing the grace of love in a believer to be of a divine original delivered in a sermon preached at a lecture in Boston, Febr. 29 1699/1700 / by S. Willard ...	Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707.	1700 (1700)	Wing W2283; ESTC R39758	12,825	30

to all and his tender mercies are over all his works And Acts 14. 17. He left not himself without witness in that he did good and gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons filling our hearts with food and gladness And there is an Especial love of his that we are told of which he bears only to some and in comparison with which others are said to be hated according to Rom. 9. 13. Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated and it appears in those peculiar favours which he hath laid in for and bestows upon them of which we have such observations Joh. 3. 16. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son c. 1 Joh. 4 9. In this was the love of God manifested towards us because God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him and this is the love that we are now considering of and is intended in our Text which if we run up to the top of it is nothing else but that good will of his by which he purposed to bestow all saving good upon us There is a natural love which we ascribe to God by which he loveth himsâ—lf eternally being his own last end and with this love every Sacred Person in the undivided Trinity love each other and there is a voluntary love which we conceive in him which must needs flow from his good pleasure for we are told Rom. 9. 18. He hath mercy on whom he will have mercy And such must be all â—e love which he bears to the Creature since â— being and all that he doth to it or for it â—rive from his holy pleasure Who doth all things â—ording to the Counsel of his will Eph. 1. 11. And â— was this love that procured our Salvation Gal. â— 20. Who loved me and gave himself for me 2. That by our loving of God we must understand â—at Cordial respect which we have for him where â— we have chosen him for our portion and are enâ—ely devoted to his fear Love in us is an Afâ—ction leading us in pursuit after Union to the object â— it in order to our having intimate Communion â—ith it for love is a Closing Affection and â—rrieth us forth after that which we love That â—hich attracts our love to it is the Goodness â—hich we apprehend to be in the object of it â—hich renders it a thing lovely the discovery â—â— which goodness made to the Understanding â—oves on the Judgment and by that on the â—eart and draws it out after it Now the exâ—ession of this love is in a suitable respect that â—e shew to the object of it and is accordingly â—iversifyed as there is a different reference or reâ—tion that we bear to it the love therefore â—â— Parents to their Children and of Children â—â— their Parents doth not shew it self after the â—me manner There are therefore these two â—ings wherein our real love to God appears Viz. In our renouncing of all other things â— him chusing him alone for our portion aâ— accordingly depending upon him for all whâ— we can say as the Church Lam. 3. 24. The Lâ— is my portion saith my Soul therefore I will hopâ— him And as the Psalmist Psal 62. 5. My Sâ—â—ait thou only upon God for my expectation is frâ— him And in our submitting our selves wâ— greatest willingness and delight to his Servicâ— Christ therefore directs to this as the Evideâ— oâ— our love Joh 14 15. If ye love me keep â— Commandments Love is therefore used in â— Scriptures to express all that Obedience whâ— we pay to God in studying and practising uâ—versal conformity to his revealed will Thiâ— rooted in our hearts by the delight we have his precepts when we can say with him Râ— 7. 22 I delight in the Law of God after the inwâ— man And it is exerted in our life when â— devote our whole man to New Obediencâ— When we love the Lord our God with all our heâ— and all our soul and all our mind Matth. 22. â— It nâ—w â—â—llows that we proceed to the reâ—lâ—tion of the Case and we may take it upâ— the following Propositions 1. This love of ours with which we love God not barely a Natural Affection or a Moral Prâ—ciple in it but a Grace of the Spirit The â—tural affection indeed is the Subject of it in â—hich it is rooted but we must distinguish beâ—â—een the affection it self and the love which â— rooted in it Love hath Good for its Object â—nd such as the good is so is the love denomiâ—ated We love the things that are suited to â—ur inclinations and hence there is in Unreâ—enerate mâ—n a Carnal Love which inclines them â—â— the gratification of their carnal Lusts and so â—e objects which are suited thereto attract â—eir love There is a Natural Love in men to â—ch persons or things as are agreeable to their â—atures and there is a love to the things that â—â—e Morally Good and Honest which some Unâ—onverted men have in them and it proceeds â—om a principle of Morality which either reâ—ains in them notwithstanding the fall or hath â—een acquired by them but none of these aâ—ounts to the love which we are now in the Consideration of There is then a Divine Love which carries men out to God and to Heavenly things and fixeth them there and â—is flows from a special gracious principle inâ—sed into the man by the Spirit of God and can â—laim its Original from no other it is thereâ—ore called one of the fruits of the Spirit and â—â— the first named Gal. 5 22. The fruit of the Spirit is love c. This love of God indeed was â—onnatural to man in his state of integrity being â—ne of those Graces of Sanctification which were concreated in him and belonged to thâ— Image of God which was at first put upon hiâ— and adorned him This love was active aâ— vigorous in man before such time as he had â— praâ—ed himself by Sin and none of the Commâ—â— were grievous to him 2. The Apostasy robbed man of that holy love God which was at first planted in him This it â— when it stript him of the Image of God in whâ— this and all the other Graces of Sanctificatiâ— were contained When man put off the Imaâ— from him all that was Spiritual or Theologicâ— good in him went with it So that every Uâ— regenerate man if he will say the Truth mâ— confess of himself entirely as Paul doth of hiâ— self in respect to his worser part Rom. 7. â— In me that is in my flesh there dwells no good thiâ— Man who at first loved God as his last end aâ— chief good now ceaseth to do so and there is nâ— one spark of that primitive love left in him â— is said of every natural man that the love of â— Father is not in him 1 Joh. 2. 15. The Affectiâ— of love abides in the man it being essential his Humanity and inseparable from it but

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