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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	beget_v	love_v	only_a	2,697	5	6.4558	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12363	The lavviers question The answere to the lawiers question. The censure of Christ vpon the answere. By Henry Smith.	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1595 (1595)	STC 22679; ESTC S103005	28,698	73

counsell at the mouth of the Lord Examine all thine actions by the touchstone of the worde and bee sure to doo nothing for the which thou hast not the worde for thy warrant If harlots entise thee to lewdnes as Putiphars wise entised Ioseph Genesis the thirty nine Chapter fly from them as Ioseph did from hir and remember what the law saith thou shalt not commit adulterie If sinners such as haue no feare of God before their eyes entise thee saying Come with vs wee will lay waite for blood and watch to state the simple man consent thou not but consider what is written in the Law Thou shalt do no murther If they say cast in thy lot among vs wee will all haue one purse wee shall get great riches and fill our houses with spoile Prouerbs the first Chapter and fourteenth verse Walke not thou in the way with them refraine thy foote from their path and looke what the Lawe requireth of thee thou shalt not steale If Papists would perswade thee to change thy religion because thy Fathers were of another religion looke into the Scriptures examine thy religion by the word of God and then as Elias saide vnto the people If the Lord be God then follow him but if Baal be hee then goe after him the first booke of Kings the eighteenth Chapter and twenty one verse So answere thou them if this religion be agreeable to the worde as in truth it is then will I be of this religion though my forefathers haue beene of your religion And to conclude if thy father that begate thee thy mother that bare thee thy wife that lyeth in thy bosome thy friend that is as thine owne selfe or thy childe which is the fruite of thy body Deutronomium the thirteenth Chapter and sixth verse shall require thee to doo any thing which the Lorde hath forbidden in his law or shall forbid thee to doo any thing which the Lorde hath commanded in his word then thou maist answere them as Iob answered his wife thou speakest like a foolish woman Iob the second Chapter and tenth verse or as Christ answered his mother VVoman what haue I to doo with thee Iohn the second Chapter and fourth verse or as hee answered his friend Peter Go after me Sathan for thou sauerest not the thinges that bee of God c. Matthewe the sixteenth Chapter and twenty three verse Yea if it come to this that thy Prince which hath power ouer thy life commaund one thing and the Lord commaund the contrary thou must answere as Peter and Iohn answered the Rulers Acts the fourth Chapter and nineteenth verse whether it bee meere c. Yea thou must be content with Sydrach Misach and Abednego Daniel the third Chapter to vndergoe any punishment euen vnto the death rather than thou wouldst dishonor him or disobey his worde that hath power to call both bodie and soule into hell together Matthew the tenth Chapter and twenty eight verse It followeth verse twenty seauen And he answered and saide Thou shalt loue thy Lord God with all thy heart and with all thy soule and with all thy strength and with all thy thought and thy neighbour as thy selfe Before the Lawier mooued the Question Now t is the Lawiers turne to answere and in his answere he sheweth him selfe a learned Lawier for whereas the lawe of God consisteth of tenne precepts he reduceth the same vnto two The one taken as it seemeth out of Deutronomium the sixt Chapter conteining our duety towarde God the other taken out of Leuiticus the nineteenth Chapter conteining our duety to our neighbour Here is the abridgement of Moses lawe which as it was deliuered in two tables so it is reduced to two dueties and both these require but one thing and that is loue Deutronomium the tenth Chapter So doth our Sauiour Christ himselfe diuide the lawe Matthew the twenty two Chapter where beeing asked which is the great commandement hee answereth as here this Lawier dooth Thou shalt loue the Lorde thy God with all thy heart with all thy soule and with all thy minde This is the first commaundement and the second is like vnto this Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe Heere is nothing but loue my brethren and yet here is the fulfilling of the law Romaines the thirteenth Chapter For all the benefits that God had bestowed vpon the Israelites his people hee requireth nothing but loue And for all the fauours which he hath done vnto vs he asketh no more but loue againe If wee were not too vnkinde God needed not to craue our loue hauing so well descrude our loue in louing vs before wee loued him first of Iohn the fourth Chapter But nowe hee is ●aine to become a Suter for our loue which he hath dearely bought for he shewed his loue to vs before hee craues our loue to him By his almightie power hee created vs of nothing and made vs the most excellent of all his creatures if that bee little worth because it cost him little for he spake the word and we were made Psal. 33.9 Yet this is such a loue as cannot be expressed that when wee were fallen from that excellent estate wherein wee were created and become heyres of hell and condemnation so did he loue this sinfull world that he gaue his onely begotten sonne to die for the sinnes thereof That hee might bring vs to heauen hee came downe from heauen that hee might deliuer vs from hell hee went downe to hell for vs Not golde nor siluer but his dearest bloud was the price of our redemption 1 Peter 1. What can a man doo more than to giue his life for his friend Rom. 5.6.7 And what can God doo more than to die for sinfull men And for all this what dooth this louing Lorde require of thee but that thou loue the Lord thy God Blessed be such a Lorde that requireth nothing of his seruants but loue If any Prince were so gratious vnto his subiects that he would require no other subsidies nor tribute nor custome of them but loue how were the subiects bound to loue and honor such a Prince And such a one is our most gratious Lord and King who for all the blessings and benefits that we enioy vnder his most happy gouernment craueth no more but loue at our hands for recompence Once he required burnt offerings that was a deere kinde of seruice but now he asketh loue a kind of seruice which euery man may well affoorde He asketh not learning nor strength nor riches nor nobility but he asketh loue a thing that the simplest the weakest the poorest the basest may performe as well as he that is most learned most strong most riche or most nobly borne If God had required this of thee that thou shouldst be able to dissolue doubts like Daniell and to dispute subtile questions what should then become of thee that art vnlearned If the Lorde should accept of none but such as were strong and