Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	charity_n	love_v	true_a	2,883	5	5.1048	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03025	Horæ succisivæ, or, Spare-houres of meditations upon our duty to [brace] God, others, our selves / by Ios. Henshaw.	Henshaw, Joseph, 1603-1679.	1631 (1631)	STC 13167.5; ESTC S2727	61,976	360

thing even by those they love best If Ioseph be his Fathers darling hee is his Brethrens eye-sore and I doubt me whether Davids brothers were more glad that Goliath was slaine or angry that by their brother bad natures whom they cannot reach by imitation they will by detraction He casteth out Devills through Beelzebub was the Pharisees of Christ it argues very little goodnesse in us when we malice it in others none but a Cain that ever I read of will envy because his workes are evill and his brothers good they are desperately wicked that love not the lookes of godlinesse It is an hard matter for a man to know much or have much and know himselfe and whence hee hath it if we would think worse of our selves we should be better thought of but now our selfe-conceitednesse breaks our necke Most men are Pharisies in this that they love the upermost seats all would be sonnes of Anak if their bodies did but swell with their minds The care of the most is to live honorable not well their reputation is more car'd for than their God Occidat modò regnet With that Mother of Nero Let them be damn'd so they may be dub'd what is this but to exchange a heavenly kingdome for an earthly Hee that will be great upon any termes shall one day repent that He hath beene happie too soone My Friends faults as my owne where I see I will remedie I may happily hide or excuse them to others never to himselfe this were to kill him with kindnesse and lest I should lose a friend lose a soule I am guilty of the losse of that soule I might save and do not Some Friends there are such as Ionadab to Ammon Pandors to their wickednesse Brethren they are but in iniquitie He shall be no friend to me that is a friend to my faults and I am no friend to my selfe if I think him my enemy that tells me of them one day if not now I shall heare of them to my cost Men may God will not winke at small ful●ts There is a friend to himselfe as Nabal and his charitie beginnes at home and there it ends neere is his coat but neerer is his skinne againe there is a friend for gain by Diana wee live hee shall be their friend that they can live by So some love CHRIST because they feare Him He can destroy both soule and body in c. Others because they neede him but if we be true friends though there were none of these wee would love Him Friend of all compellations is the dearest the sweetest and as one of ingratitude si ingratum dixeris omnia dixeris So may I of friendship call him friend and you have said all another selfe or rather the same selfe multiplied skinne for skinne and all that a man hath will he give for his life and yet a man's life will he give for his friend if our love will not follow CHRIST through fire and water wee are but counterfeits Therfore did not God at first make many women and but one man or many men and but one woman that everie man should not know there were more than one woman in the World nor any woman more than one man they that know more shall not be knowne CHRIST shall say Depart from me c. I know yee not I see many marriages in the World and never a good one to his barnes with the foole another to his board with the glutton one to his cups another to his coffers onely those marriages are blessed from heaven that are made in heaven they are ill holpe up that are married to one another and not maried to CHRIST Beauty is as it hits if the heart do not answere the face it were better missed it will proove a snare which was an ornament the more any have of this the more cause they have to pray Leade us not into temptation Earth is a place of penance and small drinke and Camells haire doth well t is a place of toile and labour and men goe not to worke in their best cloathes Men should do well then to pranke up their insides a little better and let the bodie shift I never heard any man found fault with for his ragges I heare it upbraided to one that hee went in purple It is not our meanes but our sinnes that shuts us out from God I will be asham'd of nothing but my sinnes and proud of nothing but that I am a Christian. I will never care what I am in mens eyes but in Gods Beautie Wealth Honour may make us accepted of men but 't is onely a broken heart can doe the deed with God never any man came to Heaven for his good lookes Hee is not a Iew that is so outwardly then had not Hlerusalem fallen nor he an Apostle that doth so professe it then had not Iudas been a cast-away The washing of the out-side cleane will not quitt us of being Pharisees The Kings Daughter is all glorious within if wee bee good Christians we are best at core The good man ever sets God betweene him and harmes and sayes The Lord is on my side c. He is no good Christian that thinkes he can bee safe without Him or not safe with Him Never any man was a loser by his God or left in a danger and stood to Him Lazarus may stinke in his grave but he shall not be seene rot there neither the dungeon nor the denne can shut us from His providence His care Elias Ravens shall serve him in his meate and Daniels Lyons since they cannot feede him shall fast with him and rather starve than eate a Saint what cannot God doe where He will what will He not do where He loves Oh God they doe not know thee that distrust thee To give with hope to receive is to lend and not to give or rather to put to use and not to lend I will give where I cannot be requited so shall my reward be in Heaven Charitie is of that which a man hath and not of that a man hath not If the purse will not reach to a Sepulcher with that Counseller of Arimathea yet a pound or two of spice would bee seene If Silver and Gold that hast none yet such as thou hast a Mite would be spared Something hath some savour Obedience is as well seene in a little as in much and if he which gives a cup of cold water shall not lose his reward I can never be so poore to want this Where the cruse meale is low 't is not look'd that the Cake should be bigge As wee must use this World so we must love it as if wee lov'd it not God would have earthly things look'd at and affected with all temperance We may not be peremptorie in our desire of them But as our SAVIOVR of His cup Father if it be thy will and yet not my will but thy will Beggers must not be choosers Religion will teach