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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	commandment_n	love_n	love_v	8,043	5	7.2273	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79493	The evening star appearing to the saints, directing them to celebrate their holy rest, even the Sabbath-day (not from morning to morning nor from midnight to midnight but) from even to even, according to the word of God ... There is an epistle to the Parliament in the conclusion ... Unto which is annexed, A new Christian creed ... / By Samuel Chidley, Cler.	Chidley, Samuel.	1650 (1650)	Wing C3839B; ESTC R173826	39,041	163

verbally but really communicate with God and have by faith a true tast and sure earnest of all heavenly preferments which St. Peter calleth an entrance into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ and this is administred saith he abundantly And some Divines setting forth this happines say that the beleever hath one foot in Heaven as old men have one foote in the grave and wicked men one foote in hell The use of this point is to add sorrow to the sorrowfull but not to such as are filled with godly sorrow because they sin against their loving Father but this augmenteth the sorrow of such as are filled either with worldly sorrow or with slavish and distrustfull sorrow For all such sorrow bewrayeth the want of faith for as Mr. Ward saith such before alleadged such as is our Faith such is our joy and by consequence such as is our sorrow such is our unbelief That is if our sorrow be worldly or slavish and distrustfull Such men as so sorrow may well be told that they have Faith and so they may rest as a man in a dreame and suppose they have Faith but God giveth his children such a Faith which bringeth forth such true testimonie with it that men nor devils cannnot prevaile against it such a faith as justifieth the sinner before God and giveth him inwatd peace toward God in Christ And to speak more plainly though the degrees of peace and joy may be extenuated yet the testimony of its being in nature still remaineth so strong that the child of God can ever say yea when he feeleth God to be withdrawing himself my God my God why hast thou forsaken me And in this might of Gods absence he remaineth confident that though sorrow be over night yet joy will come in the morning So that though the Lord should seeme to kill him with unkindnes yet will he put his trust in him knowing that for all this his Redeemer liveth yea in spight of infidelity his Redeemer liveth and my God hath hid his face and such like phrases are most frequent with the faithfull The 3. Signe is a generall restraint of all mans appetites And here we are carefully to mark two things First how manifold mans appetites are Secondly how farre they are rest●●ined The appetites of man may be 〈◊〉 ●●●ehended in 3. Heads That is 〈◊〉 ●ppetites cordiall rationall 〈◊〉 The cordiall appetites are most of all restrained the rationall ●ppetites are lesse restrained and the ●en●u●● are least of all restrained yet ●●l re●t●ained in some degree To enlarge these three points a ●●ttle The cordiall appetites or the naturall longings of the heart though they move in man most strongly yet are they most hidden from man and where a man doth sensibly perceive the appetite of his heart once he perceiveth the rationall ten times and the sensuall ten hundred times This appetite of the heart is nothing else but a silent mourning of the Spirit for its proper good which is God as it was shewed in the second Chap. Now then it must needs follow that when the heart hath met with God and is arrived in him it must follow that this appetite of the heart must be very much restrained being in a manner full through the fulnesse of God in which it is established The second appetite is the rationall that is the wandring of mans mind in desire of the comprehensible goods according to the determination of the understanding This appetite is more discerned then the former though it move not so strongly and the reason why it is more discerned is because the object of our understanding upon which this appetite worketh is comprehensible so that the mind no sooner moveth but the whole man is for the most part alwayes acquainted with it except only at such times as the sensuall appetites work more strongly in eodem puncto temporis in the same instant Now this rationall appetite being variably and often exercised by reason of the strong cry of the heart expressing its discontentment to the understanding in a perpetuall cry of emptiness must needes be very much restrained because that moving of this appetite the hearts emptiness is now supplyed The mind of man hath a naturall motion for its own delight and recreation as it were and this appetite still remaineth in the mind of man but that motion which was violent from the cry of the heart is now restrained so that the appetites of mans mind are nothing so unruly nor so forceable as before for all the unrulines of this appetite is subjugated and subdued in the peace of the heart The 3. and last appetite is the sensuall and this is least bridled because it is most exercised in relieving of the outward man notwithstanding the inordinateness of this appetite is brought into a very comely decorum and order So that now the sensuall appetite can with much more easiness and contentednesse be denyed the object of its desire yea the sensuall appetite can in a good measure be content with what is most repugnant to its desire as with hunger cold nakedness yea and with death it self such is the wonderfull working of the hearts quietness it requireth a volumn to express how it rectifieth and ordereth the whole man The use of this lets us see that whereas all the appetites are unrestrained the peace of the heart is not attained The fourth and last Symptome is such Eucharisticall love love arising from a thankfull heart extended first to God then towards men and it is to be noted that it is love arising from thankfulness that is from a thankfull heart to God because that his everlasting love in his Christ is made known to the heart This man doth not frame him-self to love and to do good duties that so he may have somewhat to thank God for vain-gloriously as did the Pharisee But being assured of Gods love doth stand bound over again to God in love and thus out of 〈◊〉 thankfull heart standeth knit to God and to the obedience of his Commandements saying in his heart O how I love thy Law and every particular of it This love of God shed abroad i● his soule doth cut down self-love so that now this man is for God and his Neighbour to all and every such services wherein he may glorifie God and do good unto men so that it is as his meat and drink to be doing of the will of God FINIS