Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	good_a	love_n	love_v	3,988	5	6.5055	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05406	Ignis cœlestis: or An interchange of diuine love betweene God and his saints. By Iohn Lewis, minister of Gods word at St. Peters in the tovvne of St. Albons	Lewis, John, b. 1595 or 6.	1620 (1620)	STC 15558; ESTC S103072	37,144	136

soule oh where my soule is there let my body be also The fourth marke of our loue of God is tranquility and peace of conscience the loue of God chaseth away feares asswageth cares sweetneth afflictions To them that loue God crosses become blessings their bodily pouerty is a spirituall dyet their banishment teacheth them to leaue this world their sequestring from honours is their approaching to God their enemies are their Physitions causing them to be circumspect and wary death is an entry vnto life afflictions the passage of the red Sea to Canaan Thus he that loues God hath a quiet conscience which like Iacob sleepes securely at the bottome of the ladder of peace The furious tempests of Satans malice the enuious persecutions and slanders of wicked men doe not once moue him but make him more stedfast for nothing can separate his loue from God nor Gods from him The fift marke of our loue of God is our zeale for his glory The sonne of Croesus seeing his father assayled by his enemies in the wars though he were borne and till that time continued dumb yet feare and griefe hauing ouercome all naturall impediments hee presently cryed out Saue my father So the child of God seeing his fathers honour and glory trampled vnder-feet and his most sacred and blessed Name wounded and torne in pieces with most blasphemous oathes is not able to containe himselfe but like the hand will interpose himselfe to saue the head This zeale did exulcerate Paul being at Athens and grieued his sou●e to see the towne so giuen to Idolatry There is no more certaine effect of the loue of God then this zeale if wee be more angry to heare the Name of God blasphemed then our selues euill spoken of This is an assured witnesse that the loue of God is imprinted in our soules Good blood will not belie it selfe All wel●borne children are touched at the quicke with their fathers iniuries The high spirited Gallants of our Age and Nation that stand vpon their owne and friends reputation will rather hazzard their liues then heare a disgracefull tearme put vpon them beloued if we be of Gods seed children of the most high and of the bloud Royall we will rather loose our liues then our father should loose his honour This made the holy Martyrs to step out of their owne element into the fire with greater ioy and willingnesse then worldlings ●it downe at their banquets to refresh them or lie downe on their beds to rest them If we haue the spirits of Eliakim Shebnah and Ioah we will rent our cloathes when we heare Rabshekah raile on the li●ing God Degeneres animos timor arguit Feare argues we come of a bastardly generation If therefore we desire a sure testimony of our loue of God see whether we be zealous for his honour and if neede require to lay downe our life in his cause and quarrell Greater loue can no man haue then this to lay down his life for his friend The sixt and last marke of our loue of God is to loue those that are the children of God Euery one that loueth him that begetteth loueth him that is begotten And if any man say he loueth God and hateth his brother he is a lyar Can a man truely loue his friend and yet hate his picture Can a man loue God and hate those that haue the image of God Doe we not loue the children for the fathers sake Diuine loue is of such a diffusiue and spreading nature that it cannot be confined within the heauens it cannot be limitted to God onely it will redound vnto the children of God also I will neuer beleeue that man loues my selfe that hates my children because they are mine There is such an vnion betweene the godly that the good of one is the good of another and there are good reasons why it should be so they are children of one father brethren with one Christ nourished with the same meate of one houshold namely the Church trauellers and pilgrimes to the same home combatants for the same cause called to the same hope coheires of the same kingdome all which considerations are as so many strait lines meeting in one center which is the loue of God these are so many obligations binding vs to loue one another in Christ in whom we are all one because we are one with him This loue toward our brethren must be shewed in dando condonando in giuing and forgiuing in giuing to them that are in necessitie If a brother or sister bee naked and destitute of daily foode and one of you say vnto them Depart in peace be ye filled and warmed notwithstanding yee giue them not these things which are needfull to the body what doth it profit In forgiuing trespasses against vs committed It is our daily prayer Forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs. All men cannot giue but all men may forgiue he that would giue and cannot of him a cuppe of cold water is accepted for God respects not so much quid as quo animo not so much donum as donantis animum not what but with what minde He that can giue and will not hath neither loue nor honesty Loue without liberality is hypocriticall loue without charity is Diabolicall Thus haue we the markes of our loue of God Whereby we see that many deceiue their owne soules who are religious in speech not in actions who study to be great not good who know God but loue him not at most but in shew not in deede and in truth they confesse God with their lippes and deny him in their hearts We say many of vs that we loue God but when wee come to the touch we are found but adulterate louing sinne which we should not loue and what we may loue we loue too much we make gold our God and set God behind the dore we cast God out of the temple of our hearts and in his roome wee place a golden Idol We say wee loue him yet his commandements are grieuous wee cannot beare them his company is too strict we must needes abandon it his glory is not regarded wee haue no courage for his cause the superfluity of our attire would cloath many of the poore but all is spent in pleasure nothing in piety Thus wee loue God at aduenture but are found to hate him when wee come to the tryall Let vs therefore euery one in the feare of God search our owne hearts diligently and without selfe-sparing dissimulation by these fore-named markes whether we haue this holy and heauenly loue or no if we find this loue in our hearts it is better then money in our purses but if we find that as yet our hearts are not heated with this celes●iall fire of the loue of God like the laborious Merchant let vs take great paines to get this rich treasure into our hearts with which wee haue all things