Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	dear_a	friend_n	love_v	2,516	5	5.8302	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66856	An epistle to all Friends that be travelling towards the holy city and rest that is in the everlasting life, that they may not over-charge themselves, nor burden themselves in their journey. With a visitation of pure love to all such as have err'd in their hearts from the holy commandment, that to the Lord, who is very gracious and merciful, with all their hearts they may be turned, and so be by him saved.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1674 (1674)	Wing W3291; ESTC R224071	10,182	15

about him do bring their Presents to him and they that be afar off and in the out-most parts be afraid of his Tokens for he is a great King in whose Hands be all the Corners of the Earth and above all Gods is he that ought to be feared So let the holy Hands be lifted up without Wrath or Doubting and the Head uncovered and lifted up without Spot and the Offerings and Sacrifices being seasoned with Salt and salted with Fire of the Word being clean without the Blemishes and without the Corruption which the Salt and the Fire taketh away and being brought and offered in a clean Vessel the Lord is well pleased and smelleth a sweet Savour and then the lifting up of the Hands being washed in Innocency becomes as a Morning or Evening Sacrifice acceptable to him For Friends As the Prayers and Sacrifices of the Wicked are Abomination even so the Prayers of the Righteous and the Cry of the Innocent is his Delight and therefore Christ spake a Parable concerning the Unjust Judge that feared not God nor regarded Man nor doing of Judgment or Equity and yet because of the Woman-Importuning him lest by continual coming she should weary him he would avenge her of her Adversary and saith he Shall not God avenge his own Elect that cry to him Day and Night yea he will avenge them speedily And this was Christ's End in speaking this Parable That men should pray even continually without fainting And again by the same Spirit it is said I will pour clean Water on them that be athirsty yea when the Poor and the Needy seek Water in a dry and thirsty Place where there is none I the Lord will open a Spring to them I the God of Jacob will not forsake them but will cause my River whose Streams be pure as Chrystal and do make glad and refresh the Weary to run in d●y Pl●ces and upon all Hills and Mountains there shall be Rivers and Streams and like the Waters of Jordan in time of Harvest over-flowing all its Banks So to the Afflicted and Grieved in Spirit for want of the Lord and Power over the Destroyer of their Vine and of their Peace I say Do not quench the Spirit of Prayer and Supplication when in the least Mea●ure and in the Will of God it moves although but with Sighs and Groans that in words cannot yet be uttered for it alwayes maketh Intercession and teacheth us to call God Our Father and submit to his Heavenly Will in all we desire and pray for and all that do not thus call upon him and ●eek him they seek amiss and ●o they obtain not for s●ch would con●ume it on their Lusts But the Prayer in the Faith goeth through the dark Clouds and is of a saving Kind and Nature to all that be sick and weary of their Sins it is like the Sword of Saul or Jonathan that returned not empty from the Blood of the Slain and the Far of the Mighty or the holy Hands of Moses that were stay'd up by Aaron and Hur in the same thing whereby Amalek was smitten and Israel in the cro●s and crooked Wayes to smite the Weak and the Feeble and he feared not God So let all that be in Trouble call upon God in that Day and he will redeem and deliver you out of the Hands of all your Enemies that have been too strong for you that ye may Prai●e him in the Land of the Living and in the Glorious Liberty the Sons of God and his Daughters stand in But without Faith it is impossible to please God that is the Word that in the Power of the Endless Life ari●eth to you But to the Evil Doers that are not willing to be reproved for their Iniquity when committed reformed or gained from it but preceed from one Evil to a wor●e by covering their Transgression and hiding their Sin like Adam or like Saul in the Stubbornness and Rebellion which is as Witchcraft by hiding it as a sweet Morsel in their Bosom and although the Witness of God hath turned their Meat in their Bellies yet in the Pride and for want of Humility and Self Denyal that alwayes goes before Honour will they not lose their sweet VVords nor Bread of Deceit that was sweet to them and such do not declare their Integrity as David did who said I will confess my Sin and be sorry for my Sin And they that hide their Sin shall not prosper nor have Peace with God in that State or true Joy and Delight in his People to whom the Reproofs of Life and Smitings of the Righteous were as pretious Balm And the Apostle saith Confess your Faults one to another and pray one for another that ye may be healed or restored So here is the Spirit of Corah of Cain and Saul judged and the Troubler of Israel even the Accursed hid Thing in the Tent that was goodly in the sight of the Evil Eye digged up and east out So Friends if any have done amiss come to Plainness and to David's Mind and Peter's Mind that ye may be restored and kiss the Son and bow to him in the VVay of his Righteous Judgments which David loved more then fine Gold and rose at Midnight to Praise God for So dear Friends to whom my Exhortation is in Bowels of pure Love and Pitty desiring you in the Name of the Lord to be reconciled to God by putting away the Evil that brings the Curse to your House and so separates the Soul from God and is blessed Life out of which as out of a great Deep it should be watered and receive its Life lest the Lord be angry with and depart from you and so your House become desolate as over-thrown by Strangers and ye perish from the VVay and the Day of your Visitation pass over you the Clouds return after the Rain and your Sun set in a perpetual Night of Desolation So Friends we had all need to be watchful and diligent in our holy Calling and VVork lest we even we who by him were quickened when we were dead dye again a second time and so be plucked up by the Roots and cut down as they that cumber the holy Ground that we may be a living People to his living Praise who would not have any to be sloathful in Business or idle in his Market-place and Vine-yard but to be fervent in Spirit serving God And here none laboureth for the perishing Food but for that which endures to Eternal Life for he serves the Lord Christ the Bread of God that strengthens his Heart and he seeks the Kingdom and Righteousness first and the Heavenly Treasure before all other things the One thing needful and with Mary chuseth the better part and so the Redeemed of the Lord do not labour in vain or ●pend their Strength for nought for they witness all other things added unto them as the Lord hath promised and every good Word of his doth he bring to pass for he