Selected quad for the lemma: father_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	love_n	son_n	spirit_n	15,059	5	5.7830	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60664	Univeral love In which a visitation floweth through the creation, that all people may be informed into the truth, and in their several places come to walk in the truth, and live in the truth, to be a good favour unto God, and honour God. 1. To parents of children. 2. To masters and dames of families. 3. To servants in their places. 4. To aged people. 5. To such as live a single life. 6. To young people. 7. To children. 8. To such as are in outward government. 9. To ministers of parishes, so called. 10. To such as practise in the nations law. 11. To such as trade in wights and measures. 12. To such as buy and sell in the markets or in any other places. With a general exhortation. Also something concerning faith, and hope, and love, and the word, and mans restless part, and the election, and a particular place of bondage opened. ... William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1668 (1668)	Wing S4344; ESTC R219638	76,293	165

because in that place there is not perfect liberty which the hope hopeth for and all that feels this hope they feel Christ and they breath in his hope for perfect liberty in his life and waits to be delivered by his power from under the bondage of corruption and waits for the glory and hopes for the glory and so the hope is kept in the life and breaths in the life to come into the glory and in due time there is an answer given and it comes to a full possession of that which it hoped for and so comes to its satisfaction in the glorious liberty for it is to be understood that whilst the Seed is in travel in any place that there is something of the oppressing nature over and then the hope is exercised through Faith and the Faith believes over it and the Hope hopes in the Faith and in that state there is a hope to be eased and a hope to be delivered and a hope to come into the glory and a hope to be established in rest and here Faith and Hope have their unity together and are exercised together and Faith is the substance of things hoped for and by the power in which it standeth it makes way for the hope and brings in the evidence of things not yet seen for Faith and Hope are united in the ground and Faith goes forth in the power to make way for the liberty of the hope and through the Faith the hope overcomes oppositions and comes to the enjoyment of that which it hopeth for and so Christ is in man the Author of Faith and also the hope of glory and this is a living hope and a standing hope for it is begotten in the life to breath after life and hopes for the full perfection of life and the glorious liberty in the life which being attained the hope is then satisfied and possesseth the thing which it hath hoped for through the travel and there the hope is fully answered and satisfied and then faith and hope rejoyces in the glorious liberty of Christ the fulness And this hope is not like the hypocrites hope that perisheth for the hypocrites hope is generated in the airy part by the motion of imagination and it is like the Spiders web which by her own labour she makes to her self And how many have created their own hope through their own belief and hath something which the hope looks at to be its satisction in the end but that hope perisheth and the end of it is misery For how do people deceive themselves with a vain hope and how much are many perswaded of assurance of life through their own hope and yet know not Christ in them the hope of glory but through imagination have created an object and their belief standeth in that and their hope reaches to that and no further for is it not the cry of many people that they hope to be saved and they hope God will shew them mercy and they hope he will pass by their offences and pardon their sins and so in a vain hope enclose themselves as a Spider in her web and there sleeps at ease as if there were no danger And this is the hope of the hypocrite that perishes who knows not Christ in him for there is no hope that is created through an imagination or that reaches to any thing which the imagination frameth that can give satisfaction to the soul for the soul being immortal there is not any thing below life and immortality that can satisfie it and life and immortality is in Christ Jesus the souls Saviour and there can be no assurance of eternal life through any other faith or hope but what standeth in himself then how miserable are such that have neither faith nor hope but what they have created to themselves and hath no further Seal of eternal life but what they draw to themselves through their own belief and hope which being created in the perishing part there must an end come and both the object of the belief and hope and also the belief and the hope will fall and perish together But Christ is for ever and the living Faith and Hope is in himself and he alone is the object of that Faith and Hope and this hope gives peace in hoping and gives assurance of that which is hoped for and through assurance there is satisfaction in the travel and in the end there is perfect rest in Christ. And this is a true hope Concerning Love GOD is Love and Love is his Nature and it is in God the fulness and as it is in God it is unmeasurable every way the heights and depths and length and breadth is past sinding out and it is a secret in it self unto which no mortal eye can approach for it doth contain it self within its own perfect body and there is in it self in everlasting fulness and by its own motion and in its own pleasure it manifests it self to the Sons of men universally and spreads it self as an unbounded River which hath its natural course from the body of the Sea and in its passage doth refresh the thirsty and returns into the body of the Sea again even so it is with love which in it self is a pure perfect body containing it self within its own body as to its own fulness and yet is alwayes sending from it self many sweet and pleasant streams of vertue which refresheth and watereth all that are athirst for it and all the streams that proceed from it they have their course and passage and returns into their own natural body again and so love is in it self an incomprehensible being and from Eternity to Eternity it stands unchangable and it is the greatest of all things and its vertue is the chiefest good it is a fountain which abounds in largeness and fulness and in freeness it opens it self in tenderness and with its own vertue it doth supply the want of all that thirst for it and it gives forth a measure of it self in the openings of it self which as a stream of pure water doth reach the thirsty soul and this is love in it self which disposeth of it self by measure according to its own pleasure and with this love God loves the world and he sends his only begotten Son into the world that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life and with this his love he reaches all people through a manifestation of light which light is Christ the only begotten of the Father and with this light of Christ is every man Englightned that comes into the world and with this light the sinner is sought and for sin reproved and that is love which doth reprove and who do not answer the reproof they do not answer the love of God neither doth receive the love when it is tendered but who answers the reproof and loves the light which doth reprove they answer the love and receives the love and then with the love they

are drawn to love God again and so there is not any people in the fall that first loves God untill he have manifested his love unto them by Jesus Christ which love is certainly manifested through Christ unto all people which love being received it draweth to its self and begeteth a love to it self whereby man comes to love God not that he loved God first but that God first loved him and gave his only begotten Son for him and through his own love manifested in Christ Jesus he begetteth man to love him again and as man receives Christ Jesus in the reproof he receives the love of God for if man do not joyn unto Christ when he reproves him and close with the tender of love in that dispensation he is an opposer and a rejecter of Christ in whom the Fathers love is made manifest and so will not come to Christ to receive the love and the life that is in him and hence it is that so many are destitute of God Christ and wants the salvation and the peace and the vertue of love because they are more in love with those things that are reproved than with that which doth reprove and though Christ do come to do the Fathers will and tender the love of the Father in himself yet many do reject him and outstand him and proves rebellious against him and though he waite to shew mercy and from time to time doth manifest his kindness in tendering yet there is not a readiness of receiving but rather of despising and contemning and here he comes to many but they receive him not and here he wooes many but they will not come unto him that they might have life in him so do many turn their backs upon him and with their rebellious nature grieves him and causes him to draw his love into his own bosome and so they lye destitute of love though in it self it be large and full and in its manifestation universal And such are miserable and wretched who rejects the love of God which is tendered in Christ Jesus But to as many as do receive him to them he gives power to become the Sons of God even to as many as believes in his Name which are born not of flesh nor of blood nor of the will of man but of God Mark they that receives Christ Jesus they come to be born of God and Christ gives them power to become the Sons of God and this is a state beyond the birth of flesh and blood and the will of man for that birth hates the light and loves darkness rather and will not come to the light left the light should reprove its deeds but they that love the light they bring their deeds to the light and they are manifest to be wrought in God and such grows in the love and springs in the love and is nourished with the vertue of the love and the love is the babes consolation for the babe bring new born in the love it is brought forth a little child filled with Innocency it waits for nourishment from the brest of love and waits to grow in strength through the nourishment and it hath no will to any thing but delights to do the will of the Father only and thus God is known to be love through the measure of his love manifested and received in Christ and all that have received Christ they have received the love of God and in that love they love God again and are born of God and knoweth God for every one that loveth are born of God and knoweth God and there is the true knowledge of God and of his love by Jesus Christ and they that do not thus know God they have not yet received Jesus Christ his Son and so neither knows the Father nor the Son with a true knowledge neither do they walk in the way of peace nor feels the vertue of the streams of love and all such are dry and withered and only please themselves with their own imagined way But the birth born of love drinks in the streams of pure water and it knows the fountain that holds it and it grows up to the enjoyment of the fountain and so comes to the spring and drinks full draughts of an overflowing cup of blessing and rejoyces in the possession of its portion And thus to know God is life Eternal for all born of love they know the Son and the Son reveals the Father and is the way to the Father and they that have the Son they have life and are in the possession of life which can never be compassed by the wisest part of man nor fathomed with all his wisdom but to an innocent babe it is revealed and the babe knows the secret and gives thanks to the Father that he hid those things from the wise part which would have gained them for knowledge out of the life and this is the greatest attainment who are born into it such knows the End of all flesh and sees faith hope and love remain but the greatest of all is love and if love be wanting there is nothing profitable though a man should give all his goods to the poor and his body to be burned if he want love it profits him nothing so that the greatest of all is love for there is the fulness known and there is the Inheritance sealed and that is the End unto which faith looketh and for which hope hopeth in the travel which being possessed and enjoyed then the End of faith and hope is fully answered and the salvation of the soul is witnessed and the heir rejoyces in the fulness of his portion which is love And here is faith hope and love briefly opened and in themselves are in one perfect body united which in every manifestation there is comfort found according to measure but the greatest of all is love and in love the Babe sits down and is in co-heirship with Christ and in the Kingdom Everlasting and in the Power of an Endless Life it possesseth the durable Riches and Treasures and is filled with joy and peace and blessing and crowned with glory and renown for Ever Concerning the Word THe Word is pure and the whole Universe is upheld by the Power of it all things that were made were made by it for it was in the beginning with God and was God and it hath never changed from what it was in the beginning Adam heard it in the Garden and Abraham heard it in his own Countrey and it called him forth and he obeyed and followed it and he was blessed Moses heard it in the Mount and he received the Law from it the Prophets heard it and they prophesied in it and in fulness of time the Word became flesh and dwelt amongst men and they beheld it as the glory of the onely begotten of the Father full of grace and truth And the Apostles had the Word and they preached the Word and that was their Message and they

conceived and through the motion of the Principle is manifested and in obedience observed and whoever judges the observation of this practice they judge the power of God in the ground because it is a practise observed in obedience to the motion of the power for as I know that Regeneration doth lie wholly inward as to the work of it so I also know that being wrought and perfected the Seed of God doth manifest its own nature which may be seen without and where it is not so the Seed is in bondage and Regeneration is not perfected And who would know Regeneration perfected they must learn to stand still and not to oppose the power by which Regeneration is wrought and perfected nor to reason against the operation of the power for in doing so they wrong themselves but in standing still and eyeing the power in its motion obeying the power when it moveth the power will call the reason into silence and having silenced the reason it then hath a free course to work effectually and then the belief standing in the power the power comes over every strong hold and layes the fenced Cities wast and brings desolation upon every part of the oppressing nature and strikes the whole body of it with death for with the Power all things are possible And this comes to pass in all that in the power believe and being come to pass and perfected then is the Seed raised and in the Seeds resurrection man becomes wholly changed and renewed and both body soul and spirit glorifies God then doth the Seed manifest it self in its perfect holiness which holiness cannot own any manifestation of darkness and in this path is perfect peace and satisfaction for to be regenerated and born again is a state beyond the strongest part of mans own reason and is is a work which reason can never bring to pass and therefore lies beyond it and is not to be comprehended with that part but as the belief stands in the power so the power worketh and removeth that nature which hath oppressed and the Seed is raised in the power and comes up in the power and there is Gods salvation felt and known and all his fresh springs opens in his Love and Life and the birth is nourished with his vertue and feeds upon that which is good for food And here is eating and living feeding and rejoycing the presence of the Lord is felt and fulness of joy in his presence and his Love and Life and Wisdom spreads abroad and his pure Nature is manifest in all good works and hath a Testimony against all the evil and the Birth delights to do the Fathers will and doth not reason against his Counsel but 〈◊〉 a witness unto the Truth and against that which is out of the Truth in every place So let this be read in the fear of the Lord God and with a meek spirit in the love for it is love to the Seed And know that the Living Stone is the sure Foundation though the wise Builders do reject it and upon that the Building is fitly ●●●med and stands and rejoyces though many tempests blows upon it And take heed of Judas for he betrayes with a kiss From a Lover of the Seed of God universally William Smith THou pure Life what is like unto thee Thy Path is Peace thy Love is full and free 〈◊〉 art the chiefest good thy beauty doth excel ●lessed are those that in thy Bosom dwell 〈◊〉 fulness of thy Springs do satisfie the poor ● 〈◊〉 freshness of thy Streams is alwayes rich in store 〈…〉 of thy own hand doth take deep root in thee 〈◊〉 supplies its tenderness and sets it wholly free 〈…〉 first and last and there is not another 〈…〉 liberty in thee they do not thy Life smother 〈…〉 love they spring and in thy Power stand 〈…〉 in Life and Peace and rest safe in thy hand THE END