Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	heart_n	set_v	2,588	5	5.0743	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30153	A holy life, the beauty of Christianity, or, An exhortation to Christians to be holy by John Bunyan.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1684 (1684)	Wing B5537; ESTC R30867	84,448	237

has been provoked most bitterly by us while we have profaned his name making use of his Name his Word and Ordinances to serve our selves O Lord what wilt thou do to this Land We are every one looking for something even for something that carrieth terrour and dread in the sound of its Wings as it comes though we know not the form nor visage thereof One cries out another has his Hands upon his Loyns and a third is made mad with the sight of his Eyes and with what his Ears do hear And as their Faith hath served them about Justification so it now serves them about Repentance and Reformation it can do nothing here neither for though as was said Men cry out and are with their Hands upon their Loyns for fear yet where is the Church the House the Man that stands in the gap for the Land to turn away this Wrath by Repentance and amendment of Life Behold the Lord cometh forth out of his place and will come down and tread upon the places of the Earth and the Mountains shall be molten under him and the Valleys shall be cleft as Wax before the Fire and as the Waters that are poured down a steep place but what is the cause of all this For the transgression of Jacob is all this and for the Sin of the House of Israel It is that that is observed by them that can make Observation that all that God has done to us already has been ineffectual as to cause that Humility and Reformation by which his judgments must be turned away Repentance is rare this day and yet without doubt that without which things will grow worse and worse As for them that hope that God will save his people though but from temporal Judgments whether they Repent and Reform or do otherwise I must leave them and their Opinions together this I have found that sometimes the Repentance even of the Godly has come too late to divert such Judgments And how some of the Godly should be so indulged as to be saved from punishment without Repentance when the true and unfeigned Repentance of others will not deliver them leaves me I confess in a Wilderness But that which is most of all to be lamented is That sin through custom is become no sin The superfluity of naughtiness is at this day become no sin with many Surely this was the case with Israel else how could they say when the Prophets so bitterly denounced Gods judgments against them Because we are innocent surely his anger shall turn from us When custom or bad example has taken away the Conscience of sin it is a sign that Soul is in a dangerous Lethargy and yet this is the condition of the most that profess amongst us this day But to leave this and to proceed As there is a twofold Faith two sorts of good Works and the like so there is also A twofold love to Christ. The one standing or stopping in some passions of the mind and affections The other is that which breaks through all difficulties to the holy Commandment to do it Of both these there is mention made in the Scripture And though all true Love begins at the Heart yet that love is but little set by that breaks not through to practice How many are there in the World that seem to have the first but how few shew the second The young Man in the Gospel did by his running kneeling crying enquiring and intreating of Christ to shew him the way to Life shew that he had inward Love to Christ and his own Salvation but yet it was not a love that was strong as Death cruel as the Grave and hotter than the Coles of Juniper It was a Love that stopt in mind and affection but could not break out into Practice This kind of Love if it be let alone and not pressed to proceed till it comes into a labouring practising of the Commandment will love as long as you will to wit as long as Mouth and Tongue can wag but yet you shall not by all your skill drive this Love farther than the Mouth For with their Mouth they shew much Love but their Heart goeth after their Covetousness Nor may this Love be counted for that of the right kind because it is in the Heart for the Heart knows how to dissemble about Love as much as about other matters This is feigned Love or Love that pretends to dear affections for Christ but can bestow no cost upon him Of this kind of Love the world is full at this day especially the Professors of this Age but as I said of this the Lord Jesus makes little or no account for that it hath in it an essential defectiveness Thus therefore Christ and his Servants describe the love that is true and of the right kind and that with reference to himself and Church First with reference to himself If a man loves me saith he he will keep my Words And again He that hath my Commandments and keepeth them he it is that loveth me And He that loveth me not keepeth not my Sayings And The Word which you hear is not mine but the Fathers which sent me Behold you now where Christ placeth a sign of love it is not in word nor in tongue Not in great and seemingly affectionate gestures but in a practical walking in the Law of the Lord. Hence such and such only are called the undefiled in the way You know who sayes I am the way Blessed saith David are the undefiled in the way who walk in the Law of the Lord. But here again the hypocrite will give us the slip by betaking of himself to exterior matters as to his mint anise and cummin still neglecting the more weighty matters of the Law to wit Judgment Mercy Faith Or else to the significative ordinances still neglecting to do to all men as he would they should do to him But let such know that God never ordained significative ordinances such as Baptism the Lords Supper or the like for the sake of Water or of Bread and Wine nor yet because he takes any delight that we are dipped in Water or eat that bread but they were ordained to minister to us by the aptness of the Elements through our sincere partaking of them further knowledg of the death Burial and Resurrection of Christ and of our death and resurrection by him to newness of life Wherefore he that eateth and believeth not and he that is Baptized and is not dead to sin and walketh not in newness of Life neither keepeth these ordinances nor pleaseth God Now to be dead to sin is to be dead to those things forbidden in the moral Law For sin is the transgression of that and it availeth not to vaunt that I am a Saint and under this or that significative ordinance if I live in the transgression of the Law For I am convicted of the Law as a