Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	believe_v	faith_n	lord_n	3,568	5	3.9247	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77703	Repentance and prayer or, the two fundamental pillars of the nation. Being the substance of four sermons preached at St. Peters Poor, London. By that famous and reverend divine Ralph Brownrigge, formerly vice-chancelour of Cambridge, and lately Lord Bishop of Exeter.	Brownrig, Ralph, 1592-1659.	1660 (1660)	Wing B5208; ESTC R229484	54,943	157

Heathen shall be all turned into Hell but the Damnation shall be more easie Socrates lesse punish'd than Cato Lastly a man that lives according to the rules of nature keeps within the compass of these principles though not able to reach at Salvation yet their Conversion is more easie it 's more possible to gain him to grace this stock of nature is fit to graff grace and religion on more kindly yet at the best it cannot fructifie and bring forth fruit to eternal life but grace being graffed it will fructifie to Salvation A man within the sphere of morality that lives peaceable sober just and of an humble mind there is more hope of salvation in that man he is not so far from the Kingdom of God as those that sin against nature evil and wicked men have some principles of knowledge ye are evil and yet ye know some good things The third truth is Ye that are evil among the decayes ruines and rubbish of nature yet this truth is preserved ye are tender affected Parents and seek the good of your Children God hath placed this forcible instinct as the bowels of most unnatural men is natural love to their Children In the first original God did create us all one flesh and one blood men were not created apart as Angels one independant from another but all one blood one root and the sap of all this is natural affection it 's this that glues and holds all the world together it keeps the world in being without which all would fall asunder this tender and kindly affection of parents to Children it 's the Conveyance of all nurture Thus Wisdom in the Proverbs takes upon it the place of a Father O my son keep the instructions of thy father and what my son c. How forcible are these perswasions to piety and vertue Thirdly this is a spur to labour and industry what 's that that keeps the world in action not all for the belly but keep something for the Babes it 's that that quickens industry this is the plummet that turns the great Wheel of all the world that makes perpetual motion of labour to leave something behind for Children Fourthly the sweetness as that it takes off the harshness of all the toyl and care incident to parents the care in bringing forth the care in bringing up they account it no labour or a labour much sweetned by this tender affection St. Austin saith that the labour of loving and tender parents to their Children is either no labour or sweet labour Lastly this tender affection is a provocation to piety Salvin urgeth it Dost thou love thy Children be religious and pious those that are pious claim a blessing to their Children and the want of this affection is a sign of a reprobate mind Want of this natural affection Rom. 1. also Tim. 2. you may see what it is if natural affection be wanting it signifies some great mischief And so much for the first Now I come to the second and that 's the use and improvement that Christ makes of it he cloaths himself with this affection this similitude of a loving Father to Children he useth this language of love to us conveyes these thoughts in the sweetest expressions that we may feel the sweetness of the love of God in the sweetest expressions Take it in three manifestations First as to himself the most careful resemblance compares himself to a watchman he that watcheth over Israel neither sleepeth nor slumbereth Wouldest thou conceive his Care to feed and provide for thee he compares himself to a Sheepherd that feeds his Sheep Wouldest thou conceive his Tenderness he presents himself as a Hen that gathers her chickens under her wings Mat. 23. And as a Hen bears up her wings c. Deut. 32. or as the Eagle St. Bernard saith all of these are sweet resemblances of his tender Care Secondly as he takes to himself the sweetest resemblances so the most loving relations a friend is a sweet relation a brother a sweet relation Abraham believed and he was accounted a friend of God a father is a tender relation I will be thy Father a husband is a sweet relation I have married thee to my self And because all these relations fall short he joyns all together he that doth the will of my Father is my Father my Mother my Brother c. and in the Canticles Open unto me my love my dove my undefiled Thirdly he cloaths himself with the tender affection of love as in St. John Pity that is a tender and melting affection the Lord is exceeding pitiful as in S. James he hath a fellow-feeling of our sorrows as in the Prophet Esay he assumes that he is void of passion nay he hath bowels of Compassion there 's the rowling and turning and yearning of his bowels So we have seen the first main particular of the text Ye that are evil and sinfull I come now to the second the Conclusion drawn from this Argument Your heavenly father knows how to give the holy spirit to them that ask him Fathers upon earth provide gifts and portions for their Children but here 's the gift of the holy spirit Here are three particulars Considerable First the Donor your heavenly Father Secondly the gift the holy Spirit Thirdly the qualification of those that receive it they must ask First your heavenly father he is the Donor look upon it as a hint of incouragement heavenly father here 's but three words in all First a father it 's a word of much kindness and affection it argues his forwardness and propensity to help us Secondly heavenly father it argues his allsufficiency God father of heaven Lord of heaven and earth he 's abundantly able to supply our necessity Thirdly your heavenly father it s a word of ingagement Ye may believe your father this word gives us our right and portion that in humble confidence we may lay Claim to his goodness here 's alinck of love father heavenly father your heavenly father these three put together prevents three doubts that faith may object when a Christian is to pray First the doubt of the poor Leper Matt. 8. Lord if thou wilt thou canst make me clean O never question his willingness for he is a father and what will not a loving father do for his Child The second doubt that faith may object is the doubt of the poor man for his son Lord if thou canst c. He needs not question his power he is a heavenly father he hath al-sufficiency The third doubt is that in Mark 4. Lord dost thou not care if we perish c. never question that for he is your heavenly father this it is that makes up a full comfort without these infidelity would be ready to cast off all hope and give over all prayer to God as thinking God will neither do good nor can or else objects there 's no ingagement Put these three together he 's a father and is willing a