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	lord_n	love_v	2,724	5	5.9186	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54045	Observations on some passages of Lodowick Muggleton, in his interpretation of the 11th chapter of the Revelations as also on some passages in that book of his stiled, The neck of the Quakers broken, and in his letter to Thomas Taylor : whereby it may appear what spirit he is of, and what god his commission is from : whereunto is added A brief account of my souls travel towards the Holy Land, with a few words concerning the way of knowing and receiving the truth / written ... by Isaac Pennington.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1668 (1668)	Wing P1181; ESTC R23187	23,070	30

against the Lord and against his dear people so far am I from wishing any harm unto him that I could wish with all my heart that it were possible for him to come to a true sense of the true Light of Gods holy Spirit that by it he might examine wherein he hath provoked and sinned against the Lord that the Lord should thus leave him not only to be deceived himself but to become an head or root of deceit to others and so to bring the blood of many Souls upon him which will be his bitter burthen and misery in the day of the Lord upon him when the Lord shall rebuke him for blaspheming his Name his Light his Spirit and shall justifie in the sight of men and Angels those to be his Heritage and everlastingly dear unto him whom he hath reproached misrepresented and cursed unto eternity but they are gathered by God into the blessed Seed which he knoweth not nor in this spirit nor by this Commission shall ever know where he cannot curse nor can his curse reach or touch them but they therein are blessed for evermore Amen A brief account of my Souls Travel towards the Holy Land and how at length it pleased the Lord to joyn my heart to his pure holy living Truth wherein I have witnessed the new Covenant and peace with the Lord therein with a few words concerning the Way of knowing and receiving the Truth which is not done by disputes and reasonings of the mind about it but in waiting aright for the Demonstration and Power of Gods Spirit to open the heart and vnderstanding and by submissive obedience to it even in its lowest appearances in the inward parts MY Heart from my childhood was pointed towards the Lord whom I feared and longed after from my tender years wherein I felt that I could not be satisfied with nor indeed seek after the things of this perishing World which naturally pass away but I desired true sense of and unity with that which abideth for ever There was somewhat indeed then still with me even the Seed of Eternity which leavened and ballanced my spirit almost continually but I knew it un●●distinctly so as to turn to it and give up to it entirely and understandingly In this temper of mind I earnestly sought after the Lord applying my self to hear Sermons and read the best Books I could meet with but especially the Scriptures which were very sweet and savory to me yea I very earnestly desired and pressed after the knowledge of the Scriptures but was much afraid of receiving mens interpretations of them or of fastning any interpretation upon them my self but waited much and prayed much that from the Spirit of the Lord I might receive the true understanding of them and that he would chiefly endue me with that Knowledge which I might feel sanctifying and saving And indeed I did sensibly receive of his Love of his Mercy and of his Grace which I felt still freely to move towards me and at seasons when I was most filled with the sense of my own unworthiness and had least expectations of the manifestation of them But I was exceedingly entangled about Election and Reprobation having drunk in that doctrine according as it was then held forth by the strictest of those that were termed Puritans and as then seemed to me very manifest and positive from Rom. 9. c. fearing lest notwithstanding all my desires and seekings after the Lord he might in his decree have passed me by and I felt it would be bitter to me to bear his Wrath and be separated from his Love for evermore yet if he had so decreed it would be and I should notwithstanding these fair beginnings and hopes fall away and perish at the last In this great trouble and grief which was much added to by not finding the Spirit of God so in me and with me as I had read and believed the former Christians had it and in mourning over and grapling with secret corruptions and temptations I spent many years and fell into great weakness of body and often casting my self upon my bed did wring my hands and weep bitterly begging earnestly of the Lord daily that I might be pitied by him and helped against my enemies and be made conformable to the image of his Son by his own renewing Power And indeed at last when my nature was almost spent and the pit of dispair was even closing its mouth upon me mercy sprang and deliverance came and the Lord my God owned me and sealed his Love unto me and light sprang within me which made not only the Scriptures but the very outward creatures glorious in my eye so that every thing was sweet and pleasant and lightsom round about me But I soon felt that this estate was too high and glorious for me and I was not able to abide in it it so overcame my natural spirits wherefore blessing the Name of the Lord for his great goodness to me I prayed unto him to take that from me which I was not able to bear and to give me such a proportion of his light and presence as was sutable to my present state and might fit me for his service Whereupon this was presently removed from me yet a savour remained with me wherein I had sweetness and comfort and refreshment for a long season But my mind did not then know how to turn to and dwell with that which gave me the savour nor rightly to read what God did daily write in my heart which sufficiently manifested it self to be of him by its living vertue and pure opperation upon me but I looked upon the Scriptures to be my rule and so would weigh the inward appearances of God to me by what was outwardly written and durst not receive any thing from God immediately as it sprang from the Fountain but only in that mediate way Herein did I limit the holy One of Israel and exceedingly hurt my own Soul and I afterwards felt and came to understand Yet the Lord was tender to me and condescended exceedingly opening Scriptures to me freshly every day teaching and instructing warming and comforting my heart thereby and truly he did help me to pray and to believe and to love him and his appearances in any yea to love all the sons of men and all his creatures with a true love But that in me which knew not the appearances of the Lord in my spirit but would limit him to words of Scripture formerly written that proceeded yet further and would be raising a fabrick of knowledge out of the Scriptures and gathering a perfect rule as I thought concerning my heart my words my ways my worship and according to what I thus drank in after this manner from the Scriptures I practised and with much seriousness of spirit and prayer to God fell a helping to build up an Independent Congregation wherein the savour of Life and the Presence of God was fresh with me as I believe there are