Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	dissimulation_n	love_v	restriction_n	34	3	15.8487	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29368	The freeness of the grace and love of God to believers discovered in reference to 1. their services and suffering, 2. their consolations, and 3. their salvation and eternal glory : together with the excellency of the fear of God, the goodness and pleasantness of brotherly love, the wisdom of hearing the voice of the rod, repentance the only way to prevent judgements / delivered in several sermons by the late reverend and faithful minister of Christ, Mr. William Bridg ...	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1671 (1671)	Wing B4454; ESTC R19668	79,842	192

you even so ought you to love one another how was that why Christ loved you freely in opposition to all the injuries you had done unto him It is said 1 Joh. 1.6 7. If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lie and do not the truth but if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another and in John 3.16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son Yea Christ hath so loved us that he hath laid down his life for us and we are to love as Christ loved even to the laying down of our lives for our brethren Fifthly If your love be true it ought to be without restriction yea and without all dissimulation I say you are to love without any restriction the only measure of love is to know no measure and you are to love without any dissimulation yea and your love ought to be also without degeneration many do begin to love spiritually but end carnally but true love is without restriction dissimulation or degeneration Sixthly If your love be true and such as it ought to be then it will never be bought neither can it be sold Love cannot be bought and if it be true love it will never be sold neither directly nor indirectly Seventhly If your love be as it ought to be it will be singular it will make you singular in your love Love your enemies saith Christ It hath been said you shall hate your enemies and love your neighbours but I say unto you love them both love your enemies do good to them that hate you and despightfully use you for if you love them that love you what reward have you do not even the Publicans so Mat. 5.43 44 45. Love them that hate you this is singular love and love where it is true will make a man thus singular in his ways and carriage Eighthly True love is a praying love Saies one I never loved any man till I had prayed for him in particular true love I say is a praying love And true love is a love at all times at one time as well as another And a man that loves truly declares that he is loosned from the world and that he is one that is wrought upon by the Holy Ghost In the Primitive times it was said that they were all of one heart and all things were common among them and when we are thus of one heart and of one mind it doth declare that we have been wrought upon by the Holy Ghost and therefore certainly there is a great mistake in mens love all men say they love the saints they love them in words though I am afraid many love them but little in their hearts But you will say how far is our love to be exercised upon whom and how farr I say no more but this so far as the word Brethren doth extend so far this union and love ought to go Behold how good and how pleasant it is for Brethren to dwell together in unity So far I say as this word brethren extends and that is so far as God is their Father it matters not for opinion or what judgement they are of if God be their Father they are your brethren and are to be beloved by you and so far is your love to reach and extend But you will say wherein doth this love consist Why in these three things In the matter of our judgements In the matter of our Affections In the matter of our Practice First In the matter of our Judgements Rom. 12.16 Be of the same mind one towards another mind not high things but condiscend to men of low estate Be not wise in your own conceit recompence no man evil for evil if it be possible as much as in you lieth live peaceably with all men Secondly In the matter of our Affections in the 10. verse of this Chapter Be kindly affectioned one towards another with brotherly love in honour preferring one another Thirdly In the matter of our Practice read the 3. verse of this Chapter For I say through the grace given unto me to every man that is among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think but to think soberly according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith Thus you see how we should act as to our Judgements Affections and Practices one toward another But you will say if this be so then how much is our love wanting one toward another but what shall we do that our love to one another may be more knit together what shall we do that we may advance and rise to this holy agreement both in our own hearts and others For answer hereunto take these directions First Be serious in this work and lay aside the former hinderances of your love and your former divisions and let not any of you say this is the fault and that is the fault and such a one is the cause of it and such a one is the occasion of it No but lay the sault on your selves lay it upon your selves and not upon others and say It is I the Lord knows it is I it is I that have raised this storm and say as David I have sinned I have sinned Let not your former divisions be forgotten but take warning by them lay not the fault I say upon others but upon your selves and acknowledge it and say It is I I Lord that have sinned And Secondly If you do desire to be serious in this work then do you desire Peace and if it be possible live at peace with all men the same word that is used in the original for Persecutors is also used for peace to shew that we should follow after it with might and main as Persecutors follow those they persecute and that if possible we should live at peace with all Thirdly Be sure you strengthen your love Love must be strengthned else this union cannot continue it is the property of love to interpret love in the best sence to interpret things well Fourthly It is the property of love to speak highly of the person or thing beloved where there is an uniting and a sweet agreement there love will speak high things of each other Fifthly The property of love is to cover the infirmities of those they love and indeed how can there be any agreement if infirmities be not covered It is the property of love to give no offence nor to take any and it is a great sign that there is no agreement nor no love when people are so apt to give offence and to take offence for true love is apt to do neither but to take all in good part Sixthly True love knows how to give and how to take admonitions And thus you have heard what love will do therefore I beseech you to strengthen your love to one another yea I beseech you in the Lord to increase it more