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	heart_n	love_v	5,211	5	6.2414	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41608	A papist mis-represented and represented, or, A two-fold character of popery the one containing a sum of the superstitions, idolatries, cruelties, treacheries, and wicked principles of that popery which hath disturb'd this nation above an hundred and fifty years fill'd it with fears and jealousies and deserves the hatred of all good Christians : the other laying open that popery which the papists own and profess : with the chief articles of their faith, and some of the principal grounds and reasons, which hold them in that religion / by J.L. ; to which is annexed, Roman-Catholick principles, in reference to God and the King.	Gother, John, d. 1704.; Corker, James Maurus, 1636-1715. Roman-Catholick principles.	1685 (1685)	Wing G1334; ESTC R8084	89,548	131

and there to imploy it in Meditation Love Thanksgiving Imitation c. as the Object requires As many good Christians placing a Death'-head before them from the sight of it take occasion to reflect often upon their last end in order to their better preparing for it or by seeing Old Time painted with his Fore-lock Hour-Glass and Scythe turn their thoughts upon the swiftness of Time and that whosoever neglects the present is in danger of beginning then to lay hold when there 's no more to come These Pictures or Images having this advantage that they inform the mind by one glance of what in reading requires a Chapter and sometimes a Volume There being no other difference between them then that Reading represents leisurely and by degrees and a Picture all at once Hence he finds a convenience in saying his Prayers with some devout Pictures before him he being no sooner distracted but the sight of these re-cals his wandring thoughts to the right Object and as certainly brings something good into his mind as an immodest Picture disturbs his heart with naughtiness And because he is sensible that these holy Pictures and Images represent and bring to his mind such Objects which in his heart he loves honours and venerates he cannot but upon that account love honour and respect the Images themselves As whosoever loves their Husband Child or Friend cannot but have some love and respect for their Pictures and whosoever loves and honours his King will have some honour and esteem for his Image Not that he venerates any Image or Picture for any Virtue or Divinity believ'd to be in them or for any thing that is to be petition'd of them but because the honour that is exhibited to them is refer'd to the Prototypes which they represent So that 't is not properly the Images he honours but Christ and his Saints by the Images As it is not properly the Images or Pictures of Kings or Dukes we generally respect or injure but by their Images or Pictures we respect or injure Kings or Dukes themselves All the veneration therefore he expresses before Images whether by kneeling praying lifting up the Eyes burning Candles Incense c. 't is not at all done for the Image but is wholly referr'd to the things represented which he intends to honour by these actions And how by so doing he breaks the Second Commandment he cannot conceive for he acknowledges only one God and to him alone gives Sovereign Honour and is so far from honouring Images as Gods that for any ones satisfaction he is ready to break or tear a Crucifix or other Image whatsoever into a thousand pieces and cast them into the fire And what respect he shews them seems to him no more injurious to any of the Commandments than 't is for a Christian to love and honour his Neighbour because he bears the Image of God in his Soul to kiss and esteem the Bible because it contains and represents to him God's Word or to love a good Preacher because he minds him of his Duty all which respects do not at all derogate from God Almighty's Honour but are rather Testimonies of our greater Love and Honour of him since for his sake we love and esteem every thing that has any respect or relation to him II. Of Worshiping Saints HE makes Gods of Dead Men such as are departed hence and now are no more able to hear or see or understand his necessities And tho' God be so good as to invite all to come unto him and to apply themselves to their only and Infinite Mediator Jesus Christ Yet so stupid is He that neglecting and as it were passing by both God and his only Son and all their Mercies he betakes himself to his Saints and there pouring forth his Prayers he confides in them as his Mediators and Redeemers and expects no Blessing but what is to come to him by their Merits and through their hands And thus without scruple or remorse robs God of his Honour HE believes there 's only one God and that 't is a most damnable Idolatry to make Gods of Men either living or dead His Church teaches him indeed and he believes That it is good and profitable to desire the Intercession of the Saints reigning with Christ in Heaven but that they are Gods or his Redeemers he is no where taught but detests all such Doctrine He confesses That we are all redeem'd by the Blood of Christ alone and that he is our only Mediator of Redemption But as for Mediators of Intercession that is such as we may desire lawfully to pray for us he does not doubt but 't is acceptable to God we should have many Moses was such a Mediator for the Israelites Job for his three Friends Stephen for his Persecutors The Romans were thus desir'd by St. Paul to be his Mediators so were the Corinthians so the Ephesians so almost every sick man desires the Congregation to be his Mediators that is to be remember'd in their Prayers And so he desires the Blessed in Heaven to be his Mediators that is that they would Pray to God for him And in this he does not at all neglect coming to God or rob him of his Honour but directing all his Prayers up to him and making him the ultimate Object of all his Petitions he only desires sometimes the Just on Earth sometimes those in Heaven to joyn their Prayers to his that so the number of Petitioners being increas'd the Petition may find better acceptance in the sight of God And this is not to make them Gods but only Petitioners to God 't is not to make them his Redeemers but only Intercessors to his Redeemer he having no hopes of obtaining any thing but of God alone by and through the Merits of Christ for which he desires the Saints in Heaven and good men on Earth to offer up their Prayers with his the Prayers of the Just availing much before God But now how the Saints in Heaven know the Prayers and Necessities of such who address themselves to them whether by the Ministry of Angels or in the Vision of God or by some particular Rovelation 't is no part of his Faith nor is it much his concern it should be determin'd For his part he does not doubt but that God who acquainted the Prophets with the knowledge of things that were yet to come many hundred years after That inform'd Elijah of the King of Syria's Counsel tho' private resolv'd on in his Bed-chamber and at a distance 2 Kings 6. 12. can never want means of letting the Saints know the desires of those who beg their Intercession here on Earth Especially since our Saviour tells That Abraham heard the Petitions of Dives who was yet at a greater distance even in Hell and told him likewise the manner of his living while as yet on Earth Nay since 't is generally allow'd that even the very Devils hear those desperate wretches who call on them Why