Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	beget_v	love_v	send_v	3,830	5	6.1378	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64977	The best gift, or God's call upon young men for their hearts Delivered in a sermon to young men. By Thomas Vincent, minister sometime of Maudlins Milkstreet, London.	Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678.	1672 (1672)	Wing V427; ESTC R222561	16,894	33

is beyond all and God can do beyond what we can ask in spiritual riches the riches of glory are exceedingly abundantly beyond the riches of grace we may conceive and think more than we can have confidence or find words to ask but God can do for us beyond our either desires or thoughts yea there is more in himself than we can imagine God is a fountain of goodness which is alwayes running overflowing and ever-flowing He is a treasury of all good things which can never be exhausted and emptied Surely then God is the most sutable good for the Heart and most deserveth the Heart 3. If Love do deserve the Heart and call for return of Love surely God hath infinitely more of this than any else none can match him in loveliness and none can match him in Love See Iob. 3.16 God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son c. God so loved the world How did he love the world There is no comparison to set it forth by nothing great enough to express it it is too big to be put into the scales with any creature-creature-love except you would weigh vast mountains in one balance and a light feather in the other yea I may safely say that the smallest dust on the ground or the least more that flyeth in the air may better be compared with the whole globe of the Earth for weight than the love of any creature can be compared with the love of God to Mankind and therefore if you ask how God loved Mankind the answer must not be by a comparison for it passeth comparison and it passeth comprehension but it is set forth by the expression of it in giving his onely begotten Son for men that believing in him they might not perish but have everlasting life here is love not in word so much as in deed love in a love-token in a gift and such a gift as is unvaluable a gift so necessary as without which eternal ruine could not be avoided so beneficial that by it and with it eternal life and happiness is obtained Gods love is so great in giving his Son that when the Apostle Iohn doth speak of it he telleth us not onely that God hath Love but that God is Love 1 Ioh. 4.8 9 10. God is love In this was manifested the love of God towards us because God sent his onely begotten Son into the world that we might live through him Herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his son to be a propitiation for our sins Creatures have love it is a quality in them and hath degrees the highest capacity which we have for love is but as it is a quality and even in that which we are capable of we are deficient whilst in this world but Love in God is not a quality for a quality is an accident and there are no accidénts in God and therefore it is his essence He is Love there is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a depth in the expression which we cannot fathom If the Apostle cryeth out Rom. 11.33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments and his wayes past finding out We may also cry out in an extasie of admiration O the depth of the riches of the goodness and love of God! how unsearchable are his mercies and the wayes of his grace past finding out Apprehend we may something of Gods love but comprehend it we cannot Who ever did or could look into the depth of Gods heart The heart of man is deep but the heart of God is far deeper and indeed in comparison with God the streams of our Love are but small brooks and shallow rivulets unto the dep current and bottomless ocean of Love in the heart of God to sinners through Jesus Christ. Gods Love is First Free Tender Unchangeable from everlasting to everlasting But I must not lanch too deep into this subject of Gods Love which in many discourses of those that have the most raised apprehensions and sweetest tasts of it cannot be set forth with any sutableness unto its greatness Now such love of God surely doth deserve the Heart and the return of the choicest and chiefest affections which the children of men can possibly present him withall Love doth usually draw forth particular and endeared Love more than Loveliness but when such infinite Loveliness Sutableness and withall such infinite incomparable Love do meet in one God surely we must say that he is the most deserving object for the Love R. 5. Lastly All especially young men ought to give God their Hearts because he will best use their Hearts their Hearts will be abused by any thing they give them unto except it be God alone If they give their Hearts to the world it will debase and degrade them but if they give their Hearts unto God He will advance and ennoble them if the creatures have their hearts they will impoverish them but if God have their Hearts He will enrich them if Sin get their Hearts it will deform them but if God get their Hearts He will beautifie them if Lust be received into their Hearts it will defile them but if God be received into their Hearts He will cleanse them If God have not the Heart the Devil and the World and Lust will possess it and be sure they will abuse it Better it is a thousand fold to entertain God into the Heart than any other inhabitant He having promised to dwell where he is entertained 2 Cor. 6.16 For ye are the Temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in you and walk in you and be sure He will use the Hearts well where he dwells The Devil and Lust make the Heart a Dungeon but Gods presence maketh the Heart a Palace God hath two Palaces the one is the highest Heavens the other is the lowest Hearts and where God dwelleth he will bring his own Furniture He will throw out of doors the rotten furniture of Sin which he findeth and bring in the furniture of Grace he will as it were hang the Heart with the rich Tapistry and curious Embroidery of the Spirit that He may take delight in his Habitation adorned with his own Ornaments And He will bring in his own Provisions too and feast them with his Love and the most kind expressions thereof which shall yield such peace and satisfaction such comfort and sweetness and sometimes such ravishing joyes as have not entred into the hearts of the carnal and worldly to conceive Moreover He will watch over the Heart and defend it from many mischiefs and dangers from many snares and temptations from many sins and those ruines which sin doth lead the ungodly unto To conclude By the Grace which He giveth the Heart here He will qualifie and prepare it for glory hereafter and at length when the Soul now given to him shall be separated from the