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	holy_a	spirit_n	3,392	5	5.0488	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29281	The mysterie of the true ministry unvailed as it was to be before, under, and shall be after Antichrists time, and the unlawfulness of the call of the now ministry. By a witness of the gospel, John Brayne.	Brayne, John.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4329; ESTC R224004	12,193	21

Children shee then should have are even more then the married Wife 2. On this God promiseth the Church great encrease to betide her under that estate ver 2. where her Seed shall inherit the Gentiles and shall make the desolate Cities be inhabited Desolation being the estate God cals the world by when without Communion with the Lord Jesus in the fellowship of the Gospel Hence Antichrist for destroying the Gospel-Church Constitution is called the abomination that maketh desolate shee having made the world desolate as it was before Christ Ver. 4. The holy Spirit tels her of her youth which time followed shortly on her Conversion when she apostatized and fell from her first Love adulterating the wayes of God and in the end fell to Idolatry by which the marriage Bond came to be broken Object The time of her youth was before Conversion a time which precedes Marriage Resp The Time before Conversion was a desolate Time and she desolate in that time which is not accounted of with God at all and ver 6. plainly proves this time of youth was time of marriage for she is there plainly called a wife of youth The 3. estate is an estate of Widowhood ver 4. 1. Which proves her once to have been the wife of Christ before or how could she be said to be now a Widow 2. This Widow-hood is expresly set down how it came to be brought upon her and that is she was a forsaken woman her Husband had left her And now desiring to be again admitted to be the Lords Spouse she is rejected and refused as not meet as in ver 6. 3. This estate is that estate that we have been in since the fall of the Gospel-Church 4. Ver. 7. Proves it where the Lord is brought in saying for a little moment have I forsaken thee 1260 years in Eternity are lost as a moment is in the worlds thousands of years or as drop of water is lost that fals into the great Seas The fourth Estate is her second Restauration in which Christ takes the Gentile Church again to himself which is that we look for and is now immediately to come 1. As in Verse 5. in which Christ again puts the Church upon the looking on him as her Husband 2. Verse 6. holds out the means how he assumes her to himself again and that is giving her Call Rev. 18.4 3. Her condition at this time of Calling is excellently set forth she is then grieved in spirit for lack of her Husband and for her former dishonoring of him yea she is in a forsaken Estate having a multitude of enemies and no friends Rev. 16.14 and so knoweth not what to do for lack of Christ 4. The way God hath to bring her to be his Wife after Calling is set out by the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by gathering Members into a Church-Society which work God is said to do 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the words are both in the plural as that the greatness of all mercies is included in the Lords taking of the Church to himself again and proves the Church shall yet have abundance of sweet experience of Jesus Christs Love unto her above all other days or times past 5. Observe the order things are set down in by God as first Calling upon which followeth gathering and the mercies mentioned Hosea 2.19 20 21 22. are thereupon made good 6. Vers 9. God gives the promise Gen. 9.11 to the Church for assurance his wrath should no more rest on her to which water God alludes Rev. 21.1 saying There shall be no more Sea which proves Isaiah to mind the fame things time and people with John 7. This Scripture agreeth with Johns in many things to be fulfilled now among the Gentiles as the departure of the hills and the removing of the mountains spoken of Rev. 6.14 16.14 in which worldly greatness that our impediments to this great work are so removed as never was to be in any age as now v. 10. 8. In this Vers 10. after these are removed and not before the means by which the Gospel Call may be effectual to us is set down and that is by binding Christ to us and us to Christ by a Covenant which is the marriage knot 9. Vers 11. sets out the estate of the Gentiles with all exactness before this Marriage time they are afflicted tossed with tempest and not comforted as our estate at this day doth abundantly witness when God begins to comfort her in her Church estate to be he being now about to build the Gospel Temple according to that of John Rev. 11.1 In which consider 1. He speaks of laying the very foundations which he would not do if any foundations that is if any true Church were now in being Vers 11. 2. God faith he will make her Windows that is her Ministers of Agates which God by an extraordinary way comes to make again as in Vers 12. 3. He will make her gates of Carbuncles which shews that God would again now come to restore the way of Church-admission to its Membership which Antichrist like another Sampson had carryed away as he the gates of Gaza Applic. That none of the stones mentioned but the Saphir stones which are the foundation stones which signifie the Apostles are not of those in Rev. 21. or in Aarons brest which shew this was the Gentile Church and not the Jews in this place 2. In that he saith he would lay the foundations make gates and windows he sheweth the desolation of the Church to be otherways then is now thought on Vers 13. he saith All her children shall be taught of God In my Treatise of the Resurrection of fallen Churches see my Exposition of Heb 8.10 11. which accords with the Gospel estate only Vers 13.14 He comforts her in the peace she should enjoy after her Churches Constitution and none before in that Magistrates were wise and would be warned of God herein Vers 14. In Righteousness she shall be established to which 2 Pet. 3.13 alludes in his new heaven and new earth Vers 15.16 17. God tells her what would come on her before these things were fulfilled as that the enemies would gather together Rev. 16.14 not by God but the frogs who should fall for her sake Rev. 3.9 12.8 9. and then with what they should come against her with the Smiths instruments of War and with false accusations from their deceitful tongue calling the Saints Schismaticks Hereticks Deceivers c. It remains I should prove this against the common received Expositions but think it needless only thus generally men understand here by the Jewish Church only not the Gentiles which the word Married wife set down in the beginning by way of opposition to the desolate Church is a sufficient conviction of it self to prove the contrary and that the Scripture as before applyed concerns us our peace and way to true happiness if the Lord give us grace to embrace it which only can secure us from the desolation and misery so eagerly pursues us which the Lord in this sweet and saving way of mercy deliver us from for his Glory and his Names sake Amen FINIS