Selected quad for the lemma: world_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	hate_v	love_v	persecute_v	3,099	5	9.6553	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60635	An holy kiss of peace, sent from the seed of life, greeting all the lambs and little ones with a tender salutation with a few words, entituled, relief sent forth into the camp of Israel.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1660 (1660)	Wing S4307; ESTC R21311	9,911	18

AN Holy kiss of Peace Sent from the SEED OF LIFE Greeting all the Lambs and little Ones with a Tender Salutation With a few Words entituled Relief sent forth into the Camp of Israel OH ye little Ones who in the eternal Power of the everliving God are raised and redeemed out of the Earth and from the glory of its fading beauty and in whom and through whom the everlasting love of the Father is made manifest and in your hearts shed abroad by which you are drawn into the one-life and power of the Pure God in whose Eyes you have found favour and through the leadings of his Power hath made you partakers of the riches of his Grace wherein ye now stand and hath also brought you into the Covenant of his Life and Peace and therein is present with you and daily making manifest his everlasting goodness to you that your Souls in him might be replenished daily and thereby grow up into him who filleth All in All his love is strong unto you and his Compassion doth not fail you for he hath chosen you because he delighteth in you Oh what manner of love is it that he bestows upon you and wherewith he loves you and daily renews unto you even before the sons of men whereby when you read you may understand And all his benefits retain and do not let them slip out of your minds but consider your Calling and walk worthy of it and know assuredly that Gods determinate Council is to do you good for he will save you from your Enemies and deliver you from the hands of those that hate you for marvellous loving kindness he hath prepared for you and manifold Mercies will he give unto you Oh his Love his Love his dear and tender Love it runs and abounds towards you and with mighty overflowing streams it reaches to you meet it in the salutation and rejoyce in the lovely Greeting for it will seal upon your lips everlasting Peace Oh my Brethren What is like the Cords of Love and what Vessel can contain it when it arises in its strength Many Waters cannot quench it neither can the Floods drown it nor Prisons keep it but through the World it runs to visit the little Babes that cannot live without it Oh this is the Day of Loves abounding and overflowing prize it highly esteem it chiefly for the strength of it breaks the bonds of Deaths and this is not shut up from you but with a swift motion runs towards you that it might draw you and with its strong Cords gather you that you might dwell in it and it might dwell in you Oh! my Brethren be not at all cast down the strength of Love will blow over the Storm and will gather you under the shadow of its own Wing until all be passed over For certainly the Lord is with you and the shout of a King is sounded amongst you and dreadful will his Appearance be unto the whole Host of the uncircumcised sealed is his Council and his Decree with Abraham's Seed must stand for he hath blessed it and it is blessed for ever And this is his Love unto you who in the blessed Seed hath gathered you that he might not leave you nor forsake you but in his eternal Power preserve and save you and unto the end keep you and reward you Oh! draw nigh draw nigh ye little Ones the Cords of Love are about you cast come willingly on and halt not in the way that his vertue and goodness you may taste for Mercy stands ready Truth to meet and Righteousness is prepared Peace to embrace Oh! feel them in their Meeting and rejoyce in their lovely Greeting and Salutation Oh! the Lord is gathering his little Ones and from all the Quarters of the Earth he is bringing up his Sons and Daughters and in the bundle of Life he will bind you all and in the Covenant of Peace he will joyn you perfectly together and make you stand as one man in the power of the holy Birth which in you is born that with one heart and mind you may glorifie his Name and this is the end of your Calling Brethren to give up your selves freely unto him who tells you That according to his good pleasure he may work his work in you and glorifie his own Name in the beauty of Holiness you are the Vessels prepared for his use and with the Heavenly Treasure of his Love he is filling you full Oh! The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord is Holy which Temple you are he hath made you and formed you and in the New Creation hath stamped his Heavenly Image upon you and this is the Work the World doth not know neither can their corrupted Eye behold the beauty of it for which Cause they hate you and do despight unto you and speak all manner of evil against you which is a sure Seal that you are not of the World for if you were so they would love you but because you are not so therefore do they hate you and think it not strange because the World hates you for they hated him before they hated you and if they hated him they will also hate you and if they persecuted him they will persecute you for you are not greater than your Lord who endured the Mocking and Spitting and Buffetting and the Contradiction of Sinners against himself and through Sufferings was made perfect and Reigns for ever Oh my Brethren unto him keep your Eye lest you be weary and faint in your minds for it was a sharp Cup when he cryed that it might pass from him yet he learned Obedience though he was a Son and yielded up himself into the Fathers eternal Will and offered up himself an Acceptable Sacrifice this is your Fore-runner who is gone before the Way to open and make easie for you be faithful and shrink not but follow with boldness and be of good Courage and think it not strange concerning the Tryal that is come amongst you to prove you but rejoyce in as much as you are partakers of his Sufferings and counted worthy to bear his Reproach for the recompence of Reward will answer it all for ever And know that all things work together for your good and thorow it he will perfect his praise Oh my Brethren be Bold and of a good courage for the Lambs day is come and you hath he Chosen to be followers of him be not slack to yield all Obedience to him for the day is his the Wicked shall know it when through Egypt he smites in the fierceness of his wrath be you strong in his Power and valiant for his Cause and certainly he will plead it for you and speedily will he make a short work in the Earth Look up unto him all ye little Ones his love breaths strongly towards you and is exceeding dear over you it Greets you and Salutes you with a kiss of Unity to comfort you and refresh you with its living