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	work_n	6,340	5	6.3714	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63826	A good day vvell improved, or Five sermons upon Acts 9. 31 Two of which were preached at Pauls, and ordered to be printed. To which is annexed a sermon on 2 Tim. 1. 13. Preached at St. Maries in Cambridge, on the Commencement Sabbath, June 30. 1650. By Anthony Tuckney D.D. and Master of St Johns College in Cambridge.	Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670.	1656 (1656)	Wing T3216A; ESTC R222406	116,693	318

for if rightly understood 1. It was a most happy revelation of God to the Prophets and Apostles when he made known to them his will and directed them to write the Scriptures one of the Books whereof bears the name of the Revelation But I pray know too that these Revelations were on purpose vouchsafed to give us a standard of Scripture by which we might discover the impostures of those other fained Revelations 2. The Scripture also calleth it a spirit of wisdom and revelation Ephes 1. 17 18. that shews and seals to us our Interest in Christ and the riches of the glory of the Inheritance of the Saints in light But now this Spirit is a spirit of promise v. 13. which onely sealeth that whch the Scripture writeth 3. I deny not but that sometimes possibly there may be some more then ordinary intimation of Gods will to some of his servants For their persons holy humble faithfull and Orthodox For the things declared ●t may be they may be helped to apply some generall word in Scripture to a part●cular case But never thereby put upon others either to believe or do any thing above much lesse contrary to the Scripture in all which our chief pretenders to Revelations are notoriously exorbitant but the Scripture remaineth the square and standing rule still which the more others slight and neglect and blaspheme the more let us honour and study and stick to And therefore take care that your otherwise well-furnished Libraries want not a Bible as it hath been with some that none of our Doctors may have cause with shame to confesse as some of the Popish Schoole-Doctors have done that when they were 50. years old they had never read any of the Scripture but what onely they met with in Hierom and the Canon-law See Voetii disp pag. 26. And as Carolostadius acknowledgeth that it was seven years after he was Doctor that he began to read the Bible Nay post galeros infulas after some have been Bishops and Cardinals Canus complaineth Non Prophetas Cani loc com lib. 9. non Apostolos non Evangelistas sed Cicerones Platones c. You should see in their hands not the Bible but Tully or Plato or Aristotle Quibus Averroes Paulus est Alexander Aphrodisaeus Petrus Aristoteles Christus Plato non Divinus sed Deus to whom Averroes is their Paul Aphrodisaeus their Peter Aristotle in stead of Christ and Plato no longer onely Divine but a Deity In all whose books some now adayes become so learned that although they cannot finde Christ in them yet they think they can spell salvation out of them Sure I am that Paul could not in them finde this Form of Sound Words in the Text for that Timothy had heard from him and so it was Apostolicall not Philosophicall and was in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus Which words contain the 4th particular in the Text which several In saith and love Interpreters refer several wayes Some to Pauls preaching viz. That he had preached them out of a principle of Faith and out of that love which he bare to him in Christ Jesus Others to Timothy receiving As telling him that if he would hold them fast as in the first words he exhorted him it must be by faith and love which is in Christ Jesus I as at first I said with most and best Interpreters rather refer this clause to the subject matter which these Sound Words hold forth It 's faith and love and that in Christ Jesus for quae circa alia sunt sanè sana non sunt as Espencaeus expresseth it Faith and love 1. A most lovely paire most loving sister Twins Egregia biga 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefore are Grotius in Philem. 5. usually met going hand in hand together up and down in our Apostles writings Love with Faith Eph. 6. 28. And Faith with Love 1 Tim. 1. 14. 6. 11. 1 Thess 3. 6. And Faith working by love Gal. 5. 6. The work of Faith and labour of Love 1 Thess 1. 3. And what in Scripture are so joyned together let them not in our hearts or lives be put asunder All will prove Nothing if they be 1 Cor. 13. 1 2. 2. Of very large extent And therefore from this very Text made the two main parts of Divinity which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So Theophylact. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So Oecumenius paraphraseth the Text containing Credenda Agenda all things both concerning Doctrine and Conversation 3. Especially and most expresly containing the substantials of godliness whence to omit many things which I might observe I desire to hint to you what of all sound words we are to hold fastest Let Jet catch straws but let the Loadstone draw Iron let want on stomachs be greedy of trash but let more healthfull constitutions feed on more solid meat Let Nominals and Rationals dispute but let Reals beleeve and love let light heads and vain hearts busie their brains with Notions and Niceties the onely oyle which feeds the blaze of many of our Saints zeal but eateth out of them all the power of godliness but let Faith and Love be the exercise of every solid and serious Christian Oh had we more faith grounded on the word we should have less error founded for the most part on our own phansy and had we more love either we should have fewer breaches or they would be sooner healed and made up But we must be sure then that 5. In Christ Jesus this Faith and Love be in Christ Jesus which words contain the 5th particular of the Text and which some refer only to Love In love which is in Christ Jesus Grotius others to both Faith and Love and so In Christ Jesus is For Christ So some Which Christ hath taught and expressed so Erasmus sicut Christus instituit so Lombard 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so Oecumenius But yet so as that most conceive Sausbout Grotius this clause to adde a restriction telling us that it is not every kinde of faith and love that is to be held so fast as here is prescribed and so close stuck to for we have now adays a great variety of Creeds Religions and mishapen bodies of Divinity and of Families of love As in the Apostles times severall combinations of Hereticks as there were Sects and Fraternities enough of Heathen Philosophers and their followers whose books and disputes were often better then themselves and yet both by some now adays thought so good that their charity concludes for their Salvation and for every honest moral mans in every Religion or of what ever perswasion But shall we wrong God to gratify men or be so charitable to them as to be injurious to Christ by thinking that he would needlesly and lavishly shed his blood to purchase that Salvation which they could compass without him or at best only to set open a more convenient passage to life which they were able though