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	lord_n	love_v	5,479	5	6.4086	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08002	A commemoration of the inestimable graces and benefites of God, infused through the bryght lyght of the knowledge of his holy word, in our most dradde soueraigne lorde Henry the eyght, by the grace of God kyng of Englande and of Fraunce, defender of the the fayth, lorde of Irelande, and in erth the supreme heed next and immediate vnder Christe of the Churche of Englande, with hartye prayse and thankes gyuyng vnto God for the same, / composed uppon the glad prophecy and ioyefull psalme of Benedictus dominus deus Israel. &c..	Pylbarough, John.	1540 (1540)	STC 20521; ESTC S94811	17,194	36

his name is holy and his mercy is infinite for he hath not on ly shewed it in her but frome generation to generation suche as feare hym he hath taken vp his seruaunt Israel beinge remembred of his holye couenante accordyng as he promysed Abraham and his seede for euer more Whiche Mary and zacharie bothe enforce vs nowe also as trewe Israelytes and seers of god to magnyfie and prayse our lorde god of Israel for his great mercy and holy couenant late shewed and performed in vs. For lyke as it is also wrytten That there fel an heuy slepe vpon Abraham and gret darkenes Genes 15. fell vpon hym And the lord sayde vnto him knowe this of a suertye that thy seede shall be a straunger in a lande that is not theyrs And they shall make bondemen of them and intreate them euyll foure hundred yeres but the people whom they shall serue wyll I iudge afterwarde they shall go forthe with great substaunce Euen soo was it come to passe with vs for our fathers and also we beinge seduced and led blynde with fantasies and mens inuentions by the subtyle practise of the ambicyouse Romanyste Lucifer and his complices were caste into an heuy slepe and great darkenes of ignoraunce in god and his mooste holy worde and therby also were we as subtylly and slylye conueyed and made captyue straungers at Rome bycause we had of ryghte nothynge to do in that citie or lande and therfore were we euyll intreated of them with theyr myschiefes and abhominations accordyngelye And as men vse theyr bondemen soo vsed they vs. For they set vs besyly and vylye a worke to clyme the ladder to brynge them word what god dyd in heauen but the more we dydde clyme the farther downe we wente And then we must seke this saynte and that saynte this blocke and that stocke this toye and that toye offer here and offer there and kysse here and lycke there tylle it was tyme to reste for werynes The Egipcian tirannye was neuer more laborous to our forefathers And what so euer we coulde get or gather together was shortly after theyr owne good and had nothing therfore but cleane remissiō of thrift And neyther wold they manumise one of vs but take our cheuage and let vs go tyll a nother time gather more And this cōtinued more thē foure hundred yeres vntyll our lorde god of Israell whose inestimable mercy and goodnes whose inenarable ryghtuousenesse and trouth excedeth al thynge that is vouchedsafe of late tyme to illumyne moste graceousely our sayd darkenes with his holy word wherby we haue perceyued Christ the auctour of our lyght and our onely sauiour to be as it were newly come and incarnate for vs and that throughe the fayth whiche we haue in hym we be as Paule sayth reputed iustified as Galath 3. Roma 4. was our father Abraham whose chyldren adoptiue and multiplication of his sede by faythe we nowe also be And the very partetakers with our sayde forefathers Abraham Isaac Iacob and al the remanaunt of the olde testamente and newe bothe and they with vs of the merytes of Christes bloud promysed by god to Abraham and his sayde sede for euermore to whom the bloudde of a lambe was a figuratiue saluation in Egypte Exod. 12. And we perceyue also by the illumination of the sayde holy worde that the byshoppe of Rome to whose tyranny we were thus as is sayde thrall is iudged of god to be Chrystes vtter aduersary and the vsurper of the ryghtful power of kynges and prynces goddes ryghte mynisters ouer his people And we newely adoptiue Israelites from Exod. 12. 13. 14. the sayde thraldome of the sayd byshop through the same worde also no lesse wonderfully delyuered into great welthe and ioye by our most godly captayn the kynges highnes then were our forefather Israelites from the captiuitie of the tyran nous Pharao into the plesaunt land of promission by theyr holy prophete and leader Moyses Vt sine timore de manu inimicorum nostrorum liberati seruiamus illi In sanctitate iusticia coram ipso omnibus diebus nostris SITHENS through thonly inestimable goodnes Vt sine timore de manu inimicorum nostrorū liberati mercy and loue of god towarde vs and not by any part of our deseruyng towardes him we be thus graciously carclesse and without any feare delyuered from the handes of our before rehersed ennemies and are become the seers of god and the adoptyue chyldren of Abraham by faythe through the illumination of his most holy worde in vs and conuerted from the nyght in to the daye that is from the darkenes of the ignorant knowlege of god to the bryght knowlege Seruiamꝰ illi of hym it behoueth vs with all our mynde with all our harte with all our soule and with al that which is or may be in vs to loue and dreade him and with pure and sincere holynes and faythfull In sanctitate iusticia ryghtuousenes serue and honour hym lyke as Paule sayth god hath not called vs to lyue impurely Roma 12. but to lyue holyly not to fasshion our selfes vnto this worlde but to be changed through the renewyng of our mynde And therfore Paule Ephes 5. byddeth vs to be the folowers of god as mooste derely beloued chyldren and to walke in loue as Chryste loued vs. And puttynge vs in remembraunce that we were sometyme darkenes and nowe lyght in our lorde god biddeth vs to walke as chyldren of the lyght for the fruite of the spyrite is all maner of rightuousnes and trouth and to proue what is pleasynge vnto the lorde And haue no felowshyp with the vnfruitefull workes of darkenes but rather rebuke them And Peter also comfortyng vs in our chosen generation our 1. Petri. 2. holy nation and that we be a peculiar peple willeth vs that we shuld shewe the vertues of him whiche hath called vs frome darkenes vnto his merueylouse lyght Euen we whiche are nowe a people of god whiche sometyme were not so and whiche nowe haue obteyned mercy whiche some tyme we had not and commaundeth vs to sette a syde all vice that they whiche backebyte vs for euyl doers maye se our good workes and prayse god in the day of visitacion And he there subioyneth dyuers rules of good workes of the which the fyrste is that we shoulde submytte our selfes vnto all creatures for goddes sake whether it be vnto the kyng as vnto the chiefe heade and most excellent aboue other or vnto any other his substitute rulers and deputies which ar sent by him for the punishement of the euyl and prayse of the good for soo is the wyll of god And briefely amongest other he compileth this lesson Honour all men loue brotherly felowshyp feare god and honour the kynge And our auctour of lyghte Chryste saythe of hym selfe I am the lyght of the Ioan. 8. world and who that foloweth me walketh not in darkenes but shall