Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	call_v	heart_n	lord_n	3,290	5	3.5363	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01382	Communion vvith God. in two sermons preach'd at Paul's: the first, Sept. 3, 1654, the second, March 25, 1655. / By Samuel Annesley L.L.D. minister of the gospel at John Evangel London.	Annesley, Samuel, 1620?-1696.	1655 (1655)	Wing A3227; ESTC R223508	33,565	54

question Zach. 7.5 When you fasted and mourned even those seventy years that is longer than most men live did you at all fast unto me even unto me Once more 4. The most noble accomplishments eminent services unparaleld sufferings are nothing if love to God be not in us the primum mobile the very impulsive cause 1. Cor. 13.1.2.3 Aaron's bells Ministers preaching will be like tinkling cimbals childrens rattles if we do it not in love Martyrdome it self may go for a kind of self murder if flaming love do not kindle the fire And that love to God is principally meant 't is cleare because it is that love which is more excellent then faith So that now you see All the time that is spent in earning our bread in the enjoyment of our comforts in the worship of God in the highest services and sufferings it is all lost if the enjoyment of God in all these be not principally aymed at 3. Religion is a very sublime businesse As 't is generally abusively managed 't is nauseous Oh how many have been hardened against it by those that professe it but accordingly to its undeniable Principles 't is not only amiable but Majestick Judge of the piece by a patterne constantly and reverently to use every Ordinance and yet to look thorough them as having no worth at all but as they tend to God Psal 84.1.2 How amiable are thy tabernacles O Lord of hostes my soul longeth yea even fainteth for the Courts of the Lord. Passionate expressions but doth he rest here no no. My heart and my flesh cryeth out for the living God Again To be contented with every thing yet satisfied with nothing Phil. 4.11 I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content but vers 19. no lesse than riches of Glory will supply all his wants Again humbly to take deniall of degrees of grace and yet restlesly to strive to be above them 2. Cor. 12.10 I take pleasure in infirmities for when I am weak then am I strong Christs strength is most seen in my weaknesse aye but Phil. 3.11 I would if it were possible be as holy now as I shall be at the resurrection of the dead In a word to live in heaven upon earth Phil. 3.20 our conversation is in Heaven These are some of the Principles of the oracles of God Is not Religion a more heroick businesse than most men think it Exortation Be exhorted therefore to account no paines too much to take no time too long to write no thing too much to suffer so you may manage Religion according to the worth of it and enjoy God in all ways communicable Let your eyes be ever towards the Lord. 1. Be not envious at the prosperity of the wicked never so much as tamper with any of their wayes of getting that which they call happinesse Suppose saith Cyprian thou was placed on the top of some Mountain whence thou mightest safely behold fluctuantis mundi turbines the unquiet world that cannot rest among the wicked 't is a crime to be innocent Pleasures are surfetting Honour 's blandientium virus occultum the poysonous breath of flatterers And riches O nominum quanta diversitas how are they mis-called we cal them goods and they are almost constantly made use of to evill Suppose you saw with a heart to consider such a prospect would this tempt you to fall in love with it But now look back again for alas while you are gazing on the world you have your back upon God you may hear a voice behind you Prov. 23.17.18 let not thine heart envy sinners but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long For surely there is an end and thine expectation shall not be cut off More need pitty then envy those that have their portion in this life they must pay deare for every moments beggarly happiness The uncleane person for every motion of burning lust shall lye millions of years in everlasting burning The intemperate for every sip of generous wine shall have no other drinke then rivers of brimstone In a word these whom God now beseecheth by us whom we pray in Christs stead to be reconciled to God but in vaine they shall never be troubled with these intreaties more but as they love a distance from God they shall be set at an eternall distance And as they laugh now at ministeriall reproofs God will laugh then at their destruction And those that complement with God in an empty profession God will professe he knows them not and deny them Salvation Consider this you that forget God now draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you but you must first cleanse your hands yee sinners purify your hearts ye double minded Be afflicted and mourn weepe let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heavinesse Humble your selves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up Jam. 4.8 9 10. 2. Seriously set your selves to finde out experimentally what it is to enjoy God to have communion with God Long for it you shall never lose your longing Pant after it God understands the Rhetorick of your breathing as well as of your cry If saith Augustine I desire nothing else but thee I beseech thee Father let me finde thee if I doe desire any thing superfluous doe thou thy selfe cleanse me and make me fit to see thee Christians rouze up your spirits what is it that makes you so low spirited as to have the least contentment in the greatest enjoyment on this side God Doe you not know the worth of Communion with God whose fault 's that Hos 6.3 You shall know if you follow on to know the Lord you have a promise that your knowledge shall encrease from the morning of Regeneration to the noone day of glory What yet hinders Is it variety of fears Worldly fears your hearts are tost to and fro with worldly businesse doubting fears you have more to object than ever you have hopes to be answered Trembling fears alas you dare not think of such an enjoyment To all these God the Father bids you cast your cares upon him the earth is the Lords and the fulnesse of it and he knows what things you have need of Christ bids you bring your doubts unto him have you any doubt that Christ cannot answer and if he can surely he hath done and suffered enough to perswade us of his willingnesse there is in him Voluntas Omnipotens as Bernard expresseth it his will is Almighty And let those that are of a trembling heart goe to the Comforter 't is his Office to pray in you as 't is Christs Office to pray for you He is the God of all Grace what grace then can you want Deare Christians I would be an importunate wooer and take no deniall no excuse no delay Commune with your owne hearts and deale ingeniously is there any lust worth keeping to the losing of God and you cannot keep both