Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	child_n	good_a	love_v	6,316	5	6.3785	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10792	A treatise against the folishnesse of men in differinge the reformation of their liuing and amendment of their manners, compyled by the godly lerned man John Riuius, and translated into Englishe by Iohn Bankes.; De stultitia mortalium, in procrastinanda correctione vitæ. English	Rivius, Johann, 1500-1553.; Bankes, John, fl. 1550.	1550 (1550)	STC 21065; ESTC S104544	62,520	220

lead guyde gouerne instructe sanctifie raise vp comforth and strengthen vs like as in the gospell Chryste hath promised that the father wyll gyue the holye ghoste to such as requyre it of him And in the meane tyme by geuing place to prau and wicked affections let vs not agaynste our owne conscyence withstand the holy ghost nor banishe and greue hym but rather as Paule exorteth vs let vs walke in n●…enes of lyfe and be no slaues nor seruauntes to sinne Let vs offer oure bodyes a lyuely pure and acceptable sacrifice before god Let vs crucifie and kyll the flesshe with all the ragious lustes and pleasures thereof and kepe our selues pure from the worlde Let vs be renewed in spirite and put vpon vs the newe man whiche in ryghtuousnes and true holynes is made lyke vnto the image of god Let vs be folowers of god as louynge chyldren and walke lyke as it becometh the seruauntes and saynctes of the lorde one berynge with an other by loue and studyenge to preserue and maynteyne by the bonde of peace the vnytye of spiryte gentyll and louyng one towardes an other Let vs loue our enemies praye for suche as curse vs do good to such as hate vs pray for them that vexe and trouble vs gyue fode to the hungry drynke to the thristie money to the pore and neady Let vs harbour the harbourles cloth the naked viset the sycke shewe the way to him that wādereth instructe the ignoraunt helpe hym that is in perplexitie with our good counsell comforte the comfortelesse make agrement amonges them that are at varyaunce let vs also condempne honoures forsake vayne glorye passe for no ryches Finally let vs endeuour to oppresse and vanquyshe this naturall enclination to vyce which is graffed in vs And let vs not onely beware of this that our hertes be not burdened at anye tyme with excessyue eatynge or drynking but also prepare oure selues some tymes by abstinence and fastynge for to pray and in so many and sundrye assaultes of the deuyl the world and the fleshe most ardētly to require the helpe of god Neyther let vs be to proude in prosperitie nor caste downe in aduersitie and what thing so euer we do let vs referre it vnto the glorye of god not respectinge so much our owne pryuate profitte and cōmoditie as the common profit commodity of others Let vs moreouer behaue our selues so that we be no cause of offēce to others but that they may rather by oure example be moued and stered vp vnto vertuous and godly behauyour And to conclude let vs pray contynually with out ceasynge gyue thankes in all thynges preace euermore vnto heauenlye thynges and sette the vayne thinges of the world at naught But thou wylt peraduenture say These thynges are harde and of much difficultie I wyl not denye that thyng But surely they are thynges as well fytte and agreable to our profession as also necessarye vnto saluacion Wherfore in dryuynge out and expulsynge this folyshe nysenes of the mynd let vs be very diligent let vs not pamper our selues to much nor flatter our owne weakenes nor faile our selues wyllingly sith that we are not yet destitute of the grace of god Let vs not wetyngely fal into synne but rather strongly resyst the deuyll which stereth vs and prouoketh vs thereunto Let vs not gyue cowardlye ouer at the fyrste brunte What thing is not to be thought light and easye to atteyne that lyfe whiche aboundeth withall good thynge and euerlastynge ioye Paule sayeth by good ryght I recken that the miseries of this present lyfe shal not be so greate as the glory which we shall haue reueled to vs which thynge is declared and proued by this place in scripture For it is written that the eye hathe not sene nor the eare herde nor the thinges haue not entred into the herte of man which god hathe prepared for them that loue hym What a greate thynge is this Howe scarsly can it be not onelye by any mans tongue vtterered but imagined in the mynde what a state that is to be citizen of heauen heyre of god partener with Christe in his fathers herytage to possesse that kingdome which was before the creacion of the worlde prepared for the godly to beholde euermore the highest felicitie and greatest good thing that can be to see and haue the most sweate contemplacion of gods countenaunce to accompnye aungelles to be in the numbre of the blessed soules in the felowshyp of the iuste to praise god cōtinually with himpnes which is the euerlastynge sprynge fountayne of al trewe glorye among aungelles Patriarches Prophetes Apostles and all the godly whiche are partakers of the blessed and euer lastynge lyfe what be not all the paines grefes and calamites of this lyfe to be thought light and easye yf thou compare them with the glorye whiche shal be Nor hable to deserue such a rewarde as is ordeined for thē which bere those paciently and take them well in worthe so that we may iustly be ashamed of our nise delicatenes what man wolde I beseche the wisshe to tary here in earth and not to be dissolued rather with Paul calling to remembraunce the kingdome of heuen the immortal lyfe and ioye thendles blesse the company of aungels the felowship of al them which liued here in earth in the seruice and feare of god and be nowe pertakers of the blessed and euerlastyng kyngdome of god Let vs not thinke therfore that these thinges ar difficile or hard which Christ setteth forth to hꝭ disciples for that e●ment hereof sith that of the contrary wise whoso doth not kepe gods commaundemēt whiche is a thing necessary and nedefull vnto saluacion shal not onely be depriued of that blessed lyfe whiche we spake of but shal also be cast īto that regyon and place where the wycked abide ●nd shal be greuously tormented in hel with such punishement as is ordeined ●or the deuelishe and vngodly and shal be addict to hel fyer endles death and cast into that depe darknes where there is wailing and gnashing of ●eth and where as they shal be most sharpely rigorously and euerlastingly punished tormented and shal be also in the felowship and company of deuyls and the wycked soules without al hope of better that is to wit in extreme desperaciō whiche pricketh vexeth a man a thousande partes more then the pein and punishment which he abideth what man wolde not refraine him selfe fro sin whiche hath those thinges before his eyes the feare of hell endles punishmēt euerlasting de●h the vnquēcheable fire tormen●es which no mā is able to tel the company of deuils the felowship of the vngodly horror anguishe continual tremblinge and quaking which is such that it cā not be conceaued muche lesse described set forth in wordes whom wolde not the day of anger make a ferd as both the Prophet and Paul also vnto the Ro. calleth●…t the day of punishement and afflictio● the day of miserye the day of mist