Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	diligence_n	knowledge_n	temperance_n	2,179	5	11.6173	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10232	The communicants duty set forth in eight sermons / preached at Kings-Lynne in Norfolke by Thomas Purchas ...	Purchas, Thomas.	1639 (1639)	STC 20509.3; ESTC S1282	68,428	342

first he be a lover of the truth Wee must love one another not for their riches honours greatnesse but for themselves their good must be sought not their goods we must not love one another as Dogges doe bones for the flesh that is on them or as men doe Trees for their fruite but wee must love them for themselves for this that they are men but especially for that they are vertuous and good men Lastly the Receivers love Constant love must be constant With some friends are like flowers no longer regarded then whiles they are fresh Many mens love is like the harlots love who love while there is lucre and when gifts goe hence their love goes hence they are like the puttocks in the fable that followed the old Wife bearing meate to the market but forsooke her homeward when her meate were sold En ego non paucis quondam munitus amicis A man shall bee loved in prosperity but in adversity as Rats forsake an house when it is ready to fall so his lovers and his friends will forsake him Thus our love should bee holy just true constant this is true Christian love wherein men should keepe themselves this is like unto the Sunne unto the World a Candle unto the house a light for our journey a line for our life and a rule for our reprehensions Si diligis fac quicquid vis if thou beest in love doe what thou wilt speake or be silent exhort or rebuke call or cry so it be in love all is well Beloved much is gotten by love there is much comfort in love I love is the fulfilling of the Law Love is the fulfilling of the Law First Reductive Secondly Effective Thirdly Formaliter First Reductive Because love is the fulfiling of all the Commandements Secondly Effective For hee that loves the Love is beneficiall Lord is ready alwayes to obey him Thirdly Formaliter For all actions should be referred to the glory of God As the benefit is great The estate of those that love not miserable where there is love so the misery of such as love not is great also First They are children of darkenesse and all under the bondage of the first death and in danger of the second Secondly They can never enter into the Kingdome of Heaven every one can say a murtherer shall not bee saved now the Lord hates a man that loves not his brother as a murtherer and the Apostle saith that no murtherer hath eternall life abiding in him h 1 John 3 15. I will conclude with the saying of S. Peter the end of all things is at hand be sober therefore and watch unto Prayer this is good but not sufficient and above all things saith he have fervent charity for charity shall cover a multitude of sinnes i 1 Pet. 4. 7 8. It is love that hides the blemishes of our sinnefull nature and the same Apostle cals upon us to give all diligence to adde to our Faith vertue and to vertue knowledge to knowledge temperance to temperance patience and to patience brotherly kindnesse and to brotherly kindnesse charity k Pet 2. 1. 5 6 7 8 9. And the reason is given because if this be in us we shall not be barren and unfruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord JESVS CHRIST but he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see farre of and hath forgotten that hee was purged from his old sinnes l 2 Pet 1. 9 Wee have finished the first conclusion that whosoever would receive worthily must examine narrowly Come we to the second That the selfe examiner must bee a receaver Let The examiner must be a Receiver him eate of that Bread and drinke of that Cup. Doe this saith our Saviour m 1 Cor. 11 24. So that it is not left indifferent for a man to come or not to come but commanded I if that wee looke but into the Booke of God wee shall finde that such as were bidden to the Wedding and would not come made light of it were destroyed as well as hee that came without his Wedding garment n Mat. 22. 4. to 13. O that we would consider First Who it is that calls cries It is the Lord by the mouth of the Minister he it is that bids his guests shall he cry come and shall we not come shall hee call and shall not we answer he it is that bids and shall wee make excuses send his Messingers to prepare and shall not we come where all things are prepared Secondly Consider that besides calling bidding sending he offers himselfe and what a fearefull thing is this to contemne this blessed Sacrament When Moses called Dathan and Abiram to come up to the Lord they answered presumptuously we will not come o Num. 16. 12. When the King in the Gospell had invited many and sent his servants at supper time to say to them that were bidden come for all things are now ready they all with one consent beganne to make excuse p Luke 14. 16 17. 18. Beloved doth not the Lord call us as Moses Dathan and Abiram to come up and doe wee not as they did say wee will not this wee not only say but doe Doth he not invite us I the Table is covered the supper is ready yet how doe wee slight it Many will come but it is to looke on not receave what is this Beloved but to have the Minister of CHRIST in derision our Saviour did not say let a man examine himselfe and stay at home or examine himselfe and looke on but let a man examine himselfe and so let him eate of that Bread and drinke of that Cup. With what face then with what countenance or conscience can these come to the house and Table of God But it may be objected Ob. 1. That often receiving Of enreceaving no more then needes is more then needs Res Those that make this objection shew to the World what spirit they are of for besides the Word of God requiring of us often to receive have wee not our owne wantes crying out unto us I and that aloud that wee have neede to come and surely if ever any of these had tasted of any sweetnesse at the Table of God they would never have objected so absurdly or argued I have often received therefore neede to receave no more but rather I have often receaved therefore will receave againe There is almost none so absurd as to say I have been often at the Church therefore I will bee seene there no more I will heare no more because I have heard a little but as he that knoweth what it is to heare will heare often so hee that knowes what it is to receave the blessed Sacrament will not content himselfe with receaving but will receave often Ob. 1. It may in the second Often receiving without profit a signe we are not good place be objected we have often come and received but wee profit