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	love_v	true_a	4,053	5	4.6245	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89500	Meate out of the eater, or, Hopes of unity in and by divided and distracted times. Discovered in a sermon preached before the Honourable house of Commons at Margarets Westminster on their solemne day of fast, June 30. 1647. / By Tho: Manton Minister of Stoke-Newington.	Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1647 (1647)	Wing M525; Thomason E395_1; ESTC R201634	37,335	60

Because God will shew you a point of divine skill to make poyson become your preservative and your ruine your establishment he will unite you by your divisions gather you by your own scatterings Judas's treason was called Faelix scelus an happy wickednesse because it occasioned Christ many times God maketh contentions happy in their issue and result and though for the present their influance is very deadly to Religion yet their effect is confirmation to the truth and in the end Gods people are brought more firmly and sweetly to close with one another and their God The noyse of Axe and Hammers doth but square stones for the Temple that they may lye the more evenly in the buildings usually we finde that Religious controversies like the knocking of flints yeild more light and by the providence of God occasion more sincere love before wee had but a negative affection to truth and might rather be said not to hate then to love it every ulgar and low spirit will love truth when 't is honoured and advantaged with common consent true affections are ravished with the beauty of truth and have some positive ground for which they can love truths yea and the more when they are suspected and questioned for then they shine with the greater lustre as being able to endure contradiction and as being more strongly vindicated and asserted thus you know trees shaken are the more firmly rooted and dislocated joynts if well set againe prove the stronger as in the point of assurance after doubtings the soul doth most sweetly closely repose it self in the bosom of Christ so outwardly the more smoke there is in the Temple the greater glory afterward In times of common consent men keep together as those that are bound with a chaine But in times of difference and dissenting Gods people are at one with God and one another upon higher motives and love truth for its own sake it being as I said more cleared and vindicated I have often wondered at that inference of the people of God Mica 4. 5. All people will every one of them walke in the name of his God and we will walke in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever That which is a feandall to the world is to them a motive and ingagement to firmnesse in the truth and union with one another there are different wayes and perswasions in the world therefore let us the more cleave together in the right way the variety that was abroad made them more at one So at that of David Psal. 126. 127 They have made voide thy Law therefore doe I love thy Commandements above gold When the wayes of God are questioned nay disanull'd exploded with contempt and scorne the more precious to a gracious heart therfore doe I love them saith David that was the very motive of his affection ver. 127. 3. Because God loveth to bestow blessings when the creatures most want them to give them the greatest unity after the greatest distractions that their blessings may be according to the rate and degree of their miseries and abasement God I say loveth to make consolations abound in the very degree of sufferings * and therefore you may beare up in the greatest breaches when God meant them Canaan he would first give them enough of the Wildernesse enough to carry some proportion with the future happinesse Deut. 2. 3. Yea have compassed this mountaine long enough turn you northward They had been thirty nine yeares compassing mount S●ir it might have been done in so many weekes or dayes but the pillar of the cloud never went before them till now God may make you fetch compasse enough about this mountaine keep you in the wildernesse of distractions ere you can see providence before you leading of you into better times you shall see the people of God in the wildernesse did plead the equity of this rule and course of heaven Psal. 90. 15. make us glad according to the dayes wherein thou hast afflicted us and the yeares wherein wee have seen evill T was the prayer of Moses in the desert let Canaan countervaile the Wildernesse The longer in the distractions the more aboundance of honey and milke shall wee finde in that good Land more flowings of grace larger discoveries of the minde of God Well then be sensible of the evill of the times but with comfort in the Lord and hope in the promises Object But you will say these are generalls that concerne the whole Church especially at such a season what doe you say to our distempers and distractions Sol. Though the part followeth the reason of the whole and Gods dispensations are alike to both the Catholicke and particular Churches so that what is said of the whole may be applyed to a part as many times on the contrary promises made to particular persons are reputed as catholicke and of a more universall use and so applyed to the whole Yet I shall speake a little more expresly to our own case Much may be spoken in this matter about the cause and cure of our distempers the danger of the times and the hopes But because this would ingage to too large a digression and the discourse will rather be managed and carryed on by rationall conjectures then sure and Theologicall grounds therefore I shall waite for a more convenient season and but a little touch upon matters that otherwise would challenge an accurate discussion None can be ignorant of the state of the times That a spirit of division and delusion is let loose and gone abroad amongst us so that the pillars of Religion are shaken the most concerning truthes questioned nay exploded with scorne and contempt great agitations there are every where and God only knoweth whereunto they will grow 't is a thing of great advantage and benefit to us to consider the ground rise of our distempers and what is the speciall Genius of that spirit of errour that worketh amongst us and so posibly we may come to conceive some hope of the allaying and removeall of it Divers concurring causes there are that help to beget conceive bring forth and midwife such fowle productions into the world and therefore before I touch upon the hopes I shall a little reflect upon the rise and growth of our dissentiency and division and how it came to be thus with us as now it is Wee may let passe the generall causes viz. Gods providence who usually maketh the morning of a glorious day misty and darke Satans malice who when his own holds are shaken loveth to ruine all the world together with himselfe the corruptions of embased nature by which the heart is either weake and so apt to prostitute it self to the grossest fancies if left by God or wicked and so naturally opposite to the truths of God very willing to blot out those impressions that sense that we have of them I say if wee let passe these generall causes we shall finde upon an enquiry