Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	day_n	great_a	time_n	3,379	5	3.3867	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90521	The Scriptures stability or, the Scripture cannot be broken. Proved, explained, and several wayes applied, whereby all Scripture may with singular advantage come to be improved. Very seasonable and usefull in these last and worst dayes, wherein the authority and truth of the Scripture is now much oppugned, and by few so improved as it ought. By Robert Perrot, B.M. and minister of Gods word, at Deane in Bedfordshire.	R. P. (Robert Perrot)	1658 (1658)	Wing P1646; Thomason E1928_2; ESTC R209990	89,342	222

THE SCRIPTURES STABILITY OR The Scripture cannot be BROKEN Proved Explained and several wayes applied whereby all Scripture may with singular advantage come to be IMPROVED Very seasonable and usefull in these last and worst dayes wherein the Authority and Truth of the Scripture is now much oppugned and by few so improved as it ought By ROBERT PERROT B. M. and Minister of Gods Word at DEANE in BEDFORDSHIRE For ever O Lord thy word is settled in Heaven Psal 119. 89. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 2 Pet. 1. 19. Verbum dei Caelo praevalet terrae Bernard Scriptura pura absque omni cummixtione falsitatis stabilis c. Rivet in Orat. ante Isag ad S. Sacram. LONDON Printed by S. G. for Iohn Rothwell at the Fountain in Cheap-side and Iohn Hancock in Popes-head-Ally 1658. TO The truly PIOUS and Worthily Honoured Lady the Lady Elizabeth Alston wife of the Right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Alston Baronet Grace Mercy and Peace MADAM THose many and great Obligations wherein I stand ingaged to your Ladiship for those many Favours and Respects vouchsafed to me since the happiness of my first acquaintance with you have made me very studious of taking all occasions whereby I might testifie my sensibleness thereof and well knowing there was nothing in which I could do it more acceptably than in the tender of that which might any wayes contribute to your Ladiships spiritual advantage I have made bold to adventure to make tenders of this what it is to your Ladiship Truly Madam I know not to give flattering titles to any in so doing my Maker would soon take me away But this I must needs acknowledge to Gods glory and your Ladiships own encouragement yea and for the happy imitation of others of your Ladiships Rank that my self and all that know you have much cause to bless God upon every remembrance of you when we consider your exemplary piety adorned with such remarkable humility * Magna rara virtus est ut magna licet operantem magnum te nescias manifestam omnibus tuam tibi solum latere Sanctitatem Mirabilem te apparere contemptibilem te reputare hoc ego ipsis virtutibus mirabilius judico Bernard your so singular pretiousness of spirit and yet being withall so poor in spirit your steeliness as to the truth and yet tenderness both to and for sin your great care and unwearied pains to promote Religion in your Family yea and in the place where you live having a heart to bewail what according to your Ladiships earnest desire you cannot see reclaimed and to mourn for what to your Ladiships great grief you cannot see amended your countenancing and so much encouraging God's so much despised Ministry in these last worst daies God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which herein you have shewed and made manifest towards his name Blessed be God for your love of firm stedfastness to and zeal for his truth against whatever is opposite thereunto in these times wherein so many have left their first love and are fallen from their stedfastness being like Children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine But blessed be God who hath kept you firm the Lord confirm and establish you still unto the end Madam I have the rather Dedicated what here followes unto your Ladiship because it is that which indeed does so much and so many wayes make for your Ladiships comfort and encouragement for if the Scripture cannot be broken as indeed it cannot then your Ladiship hath chosen that good part that shall not be taken away having chosen that part of which the Scripture so affirms And if the Scripture cannot be broken then your Ladiship is indeed blessed being among those whom the Scripture pronounceth blessed then doth your Ladiship lean on a firm and strong prop having made that word which cannot be broken your stay then what infinite cause hath your Ladiship to bless God that through grace you should have hopes upon good grounds of entrance into the Kingdom of heaven the Scripture that cannot be broken affirming that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of heaven and the Scripture elsewhere thus speaking you see your calling brethren how that not many noble are called 1 Cor. 1. 26. And hath not God chosen the poor of this world Rich in Faith and Heirs of the Kingdom James 2. 5. the poor of this world And yet that your Ladiship should enter into the Kingdom of heaven when such of your Ladiships Rank do so hardly enter hardlier than others as the Scripture which cannot be broken doth affirm such having greater temptations and hinderances than others * Plenitudo abundantia temporalium oblivionem inopiam facit aeternorum Bernard though greater Obligations to God and that though not many noble are called yet that your Ladiship should make one * That though orta è magnis yet ●na è paucis and that though the poor of this world are such as God usually and for the most part hath chosen rich in Faith and Heirs of the Kingdom yet that the Lord should choose you though rich in the world to be rich in Faith too and an Heir of the Kingdom and that that happy conjunction which is so desirable but so exceeding rare should yet unite in your Ladiship that grace and place should meet together and godliness and greatness should kiss each other Truly this Madam is the Lords wonderful and gratious doing and should be marvellous in your eyes it should be matter of praise and admiration continually here and it will be so to all eternity hereafter and all little enough In a word if the Scripture cannot be broken O what a River of consolation doth hence then flow to your Ladiship the streams whereof I hope shall much make glad your heart But I shall not longer at present detein your Ladiship but humbly refer you to that which followes which that it may contribute to your Ladiships comfort and spiritual benefit as also to the benefit of others yea of all who shall read it is and shall be the Prayer of him who is MADAM Your Ladiships humble and much obliged Servant in the Lord ROBERT PERROT TO The CHRISTIAN READER Reader THou maist probably wonder as I do my self that in these dayes wherin such throngs of Books still daily come forth some of which indeed are of so great and singular worth though others do but as it were weary and oppre●● the Press that I if thou knowest any thing of me of what I know very much my self namely of my own unworthiness that I after so many already come and still daily comming forth should appear amongst them truly there were several things that long retarded what I have been at length prevailed with to do as the multitude of Books that still daily come forth * Quis leget haec min