Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	death_n	life_n	lord_n	7,059	5	3.5024	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66781	Speculum speculativum, or, A considering-glasse being an inspection into the present and late sad condition of these nations : with some cautional expressions made thereupon / by George Wither, immediately after His Majesties restauration, to preserve in himself and others a Christian obedience to God's various dispensations ; hereby also are some glimmerings discovered of what will probably ensue hereafter.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1660 (1660)	Wing W3193; ESTC R200947	83,568	179

lovest me ev'n Hell a Heaven would be Since Love enough to praise Thee he that could thither bear Should make the Devils praise thee And quench the Fires there 26. For LOVE all things created subdued Hell and Death Thy Law it hath compleated outlasteth Hope and Faith Thou when that love doth praise thee givest best respects thereto And till in love we praise thee in vain is all we do 27. Were I therefore bereaven of all that 's called mine Of Body Soul and Heaven my love should live in thine And as I then did praise thee when I no being had So I again shall praise thee When I am quite unmade 28. But never comprehended Can be thy Love to me And therefore never ended My Songs of praise must be A Hymne wherein to praise thee I have on earth begun And better hope to praise thee When this short life is done 29. Then when asleep Death lays me LORD let me from the Grave Where Dead-men cannot praise thee A Joyful Rising have Let those likewise who praise thee With me whilst I am here Where Saints and Angels praise thee To praise thee meet me there Two other Meditations here I 'll add Which though such Musings mean esteem have had In latter times may now as useful be To some in my case as they are to me 1. BUt are in my Riches gone and all those fled away Whose love depended thereupon for ever Farewell they Since these have gotten wings I will not them pursue But set my heart on better things and bid them quite adieu 'T is GOD that gives and takes whose love remains the same And whether rich or poor he makes still blessed be his Name With suffrings to comply loth was I to begin But better thoughts of them have I since they have proved been 3. For what I dreadfull thought when first the same appear'd Hath joys to me by sorrows brought and hopes by what I fear'd To be despis'd and poor if in my GOD I trust Will me at last advantage more then if I nothing lost 4. Long time I have profest in words a Christian Creed And now am-with occasions blest to shew it forth by Deed. We holy men would seem and up for Saints are cride But now comes that Probation time In which we must be tride 5. Whilst Riches I enjoyd They made me but a drudge To be on their affairs imployd and on their Errands trudge Me poor my plenties kept made me engage my Friends And often wake whilst others slept to wait upon their ends 6. They fild me with Desires whose Lusting endlesse was And onely brought forth thorns and briers to choak the seeds of Grace They made me fearful too Of Tyrants and of Knaves Yea which is ten times worse then so Made me a slave to slayes 7. My heart then be content let wealth and honour go For better things to thee are meant then these can raise thee to Let those who on them dote by our deportment see That in those Gods we trusted not which their chief Idols be 8. Though my despightful Foes Now my Estaie is gone I having nothing else to lose my body seize upon Therefore take thou no care for GOD thy help will be And put on them a greater fear then they can put on thee 9. And to encrease that load which I at present bear Though they say Where now is thy God of whom thy boastings were He will of me of me be found and also make it known When open shame shall them confound that he my Cause doth own 10. Thy Cross with patience take do not there at repine But bear it stoutly for his sake who bore his Cross for thine Still meekly in thy way therewith proceed thou so That others it encourage may to what they see thee do 11. The Lot of Saints hath been Afflictions Wants and Scorns And he that is the best of Men was mockt and crown'd with Thorns No House to him they gave wherein to rest his head Him also in a borrow'd Grave they laid when he was dead 12. Yea he that 's LORD of all when first with flesh arrayd Was meanly housed in a Stall and in Manager layd A Guest so poor he was that whilst he lodged there The labouring Ox and toyling Ass his Chamber-fellows were 13. Yet Wisemen from the East were guided by a Star To bring to this despised Guest Gold Frankincence and Myrrhe They fooled for his sake a Tyrannizing King GOD'S Angels care of him did take and round about him sing 14. To him allide am I and he will send to me Howere obscurd the like supply as oft as need shall be For timely he relieves all those that trust in him And charge unto his Angels gives to be a guard to them 15. In Stables Barns and Stalls the poor as much he heeds As those that are in Princes halls to help them at their needs Yea unto them he comes and will their suffrings mark Although they lie in nasty Rooms or Dungeons deep and dark 16. A portion more secure then Goods or Lands is he An Heritage that will endure when Kingdoms lost shall be And when exposd to shame their Bodies we behold It shall more magnifie their name then Statues made of gold 17. But this to them will seem who dote on outward things No better then an idle Dream which no assurance brings If pompously they live and in rich Tombs may lie Themselves they happy men believe although like beasts they die 18. And I am half in fear when this is sung among Those who in love with riches are 't will seem a Bedlam-Song For seldome we perceive that when his Mammon's gone A Rich Man's able to believe he is not quite undone 19. It makes them almost mad to hear another preach That joyes and comfort may be had whereto they cannot reach LORD help their unbelief and mitigate their fears For though they pity not my grief yet I do pity theirs 20. Preserve in me that Grace which now infus'd I find And let not time events nor place hereafter change my mind For in them good or bad External things have nought But as Good or ill use is made Or else as got or sought Another Meditation relating to the Authors present Condition 1. MY Foes you have your hearts desire a spoyle of me you make And as I hear you now inquire what Course I mean to take I now am brought so low you say so destitute and poor That well assure your selves you may I shall arise no more 2. You naytheless may be deceiv'd and of your aims have mist For in those things which are bereav'd my wealth doth not consist And I have that within my view which if pursude it be May make me as much laugh at you as you now laugh at me 3. But though it makes you to be glad to see my griefs encreast I have for some of you been sad when you were less opprest And if you