Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	faith_n	good_a	work_n	21,552	5	6.5180	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12480	Six sermons upon severall occasions preached before the King, and elsewhere: by that late learned & reverend divine John Donne, Doctour in divinitie, and Dean of S. Pauls, London.	Donne, John, 1572-1631.	1634 (1634)	STC 7056; ESTC S109990	89,403	184

thing save Jesus Christ and him crucified And then the way by which he would proceed and take degrees in this wisdome was stultitia praedicandi 1. Cor. 1. 21. the way that God had ordained When the world by wisdome knew not God it pleased God by the foolishnesse of preaching to save them that beleeve These then are the steps of Christian wisdome my foundation is Christ of Christ I enquire no more but fundamentall doctrines him crucified and this I apply to my self by his ordinance of preaching And in this wisdome I have the image of the second person And then of the third also in this that his attribute being goodnesse I as a true Christian call nothing good that conduceth not to the glorie of God in Christ Jesus nor any thing ill that draws me not from him Thus I have an expresse image of his goodnesse that Omnia cooperantur in bonum Rom. 8. 28. all things work together for my good if I love God I shall thank my fever blesse my povertie praise my oppressour nay thank and blesse and praise even some sinne of mine which by the consequences of that sinne which may be shame or losse or weaknesse may bring me to a happie sense of all my former sinnes and shall finde it to have been a good fever a good povertie a good oppression yea a good sinne Vertit in bonum sayes Joseph to his brethren You thought evil but Gen. 50. 20 God meant it unto good and I shall have the benefit of my sinne according to his transmutation that is though I meant ill in that sinne I shall have the good that God meant in it There is no evil in the Amos 3. 6. citie but the Lord doth it but if the Lord do it it cannot be evil to me I beleeve that I shall see bona Dei the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the living Psal 27. 13. that is in heaven but David speaks also of signum in bonum Shew me a token of good and God will shew me a present token of future good an inward infallibilitie that this very calamitie shall be beneficiall and advantageous unto me and so as in nature I have the image of God in my whole soul and of all the three persons in the three faculties thereof the understanding the will and the memorie so in grace in the Christian Church I have the same images of the power of the Father of the wisdome of the Sonne of the goodnesse of the holy Ghost in my Christian profession And all this we shall have in a better place then paradise where we considered it in nature and a better place then the Church as it is militant where we considered it in grace that is in the kingdome of heaven where we considered this image in glorie which is our last word There we shall have this image of God in perfection for if Origen could lodge such a conceit that in heaven at last all things should ebbe back into God as all things flowed from him at first and so there should be no other essence but God all should be God even the devil himself how much more may we conceive an unexpressible association that is too farre off an assimilation that is not neare enough an identification the School would venture to say so with God in that state of glorie Whereas the sunne by shining upon the moon makes the moon a planet a starre as well as it self which otherwise would be but the thickest and darkest part of that sphere so those beams of glorie which shall issue from my God and fall upon me shall make me otherwise a clod of earth and worse a dark soul a spirit of darknesse an angel of light a starre of glorie a something that I cannot name now not imagine now nor to morrow nor next yeare but even in that particular I shall be like God that as he that asked a day to give a definition of God the next day asked a week and then a moneth and then a yeare so undeterminable would my imaginations be if I should go about to think now what I shall be there I shall be so like God as that the devil himself shall not know me from God so farre as to finde any more place to fasten a temptation upon me then upon God nor to conceive any more hope of my falling from that kingdome then of Gods being driven out of it for though I shall not be immortall as God yet I shall be as immortall as God And there is my image of God of God considered all together and in his unitie in the state of grace I shall have also then the image of all the three persons of the Trinitie Power is the Fathers and a greater power then he exercises here I shall have there here he overcomes enemies but yet here he hath enemies there there are none here they cannot prevail there they shall not be So Wisdome is the image of the Sonne and there I shall have better wisdome the spirituall wisdome it self is here for here our best wisdome is but to go towards our end there it is to rest in our end here it is to seek to be glorified by God there it is that God may be everlastingly glorified by me The image of the holy Ghost is Goodnesse Here our goodnesse is mixt with some ill faith mixt with scruples good works mixt with a love of praise and hope of better mixt with fear of worse there I shall have sincere goodnesse goodnesse impermixt intemerate and indeterminate goodnesse so good a place as no ill accident shall annoy it so good companie as no impertinent no importune person shall disorder it so full a goodnesse as no evil of sinne no evil of punishment for former sins can enter so good a God as shall no more keep us in fear of his anger nor in need of his mercie but shall fill us first and establish us in that fulnesse in the same instant and give us a satietie that we can wish no more and an infallibilitie that we can lose none of that and both at once Whereas the Cabalists expresse our nearenesse to God in that state in that note that the name of man and the name of God ADAM and JEHOVAH in their numerall letters are equall so I would have leave to expresse that inexpressible state so farre as to say that if there can be other world 's imagined besides this that is under our moon and if there could be other Gods imagined of those worlds besides this God to whose image we are made in Nature in Grace in Glorie I had rather be one of these Saints in this heaven then one of those Gods in those other worlds I shall be like the angels in a glorified soul and the angels shall not be like me in a glorified bodie The holy noblenesse and religious ambition that I would imprint in you for attaining of this

speaking of our state in the generall resurrection That Lambe who was brought to the slaughter and Isa 53. 7. opened not his mouth and I who have opened my mouth and poured out imprecations and curses upon men and execrations and blasphemies against God upon every occasion that Lambe which was slain from the beginning and I who was slain by him who was a murderer from the beginning that Lambe which took away the sinnes of the world and I who brought more sinnes into the world then any sacrifice but the bloud of this Lambe could take away this Lambe and I these are the persons shall meet and marrie there is the action This is not a clandestine marriage not the private seal of Christ in the obsignation of his Spirit and yet such a clandestine marriage is a good marriage nor is it such a parish-marriage as when Christ married me to himself at my baptisme in a Church here and yet that marriage of a Christian soul to Christ in that sacrament is a blessed marriage But this is a marriage in that great and glorious congregation where all my sinnes shall be laid open to the eyes of all the world where all the blessed Virgins shall see all my uncleannesses and all the Martyrs see all my tergiversations and all the Confessours see all my double dealings in Gods cause where Abraham shall see my faithlesnesse in Gods promises and Job my impatience in Gods corrections and Lazarus my hardnesse of heart in distributing Gods blessings to the poore and those Virgins and Martyrs and Confessours and Abraham and Job and Lazarus and all that congregation shall look upon the Lambe and upon me and upon one another as though they would all forbid those banes and say to one another Will this Lambe have any thing to do with this soul And yet there and then this Lambe shall marrie me and marrie me In aeternum For ever which is our last circumstance It is not well done to call it a circumstance for the eternitie is a great part of the essence of that marriage Consider then how poore and needie a thing all the riches of this world how flat and tastlesse a thing all the pleasures of this world how pallid and faint and dilute a thing all the honours of this world are when the very treasure and joy and glorie of heaven it self were unperfect if it were not eternall and my marriage shall be so In aeternum For ever The Angels were not married so they incurred an irreparable divorce from God and are separated for ever and I shall be married to him In aeternum For ever The Angels fell in love when there was no object presented before any thing was created when there was nothing but God and themselves they fell in love with themselves and neglected God and so fell In aeternum For ever I shall see all the beautie and all the glorie of all the Saints of God and love them all and know that the Lambe loves them too without jealousie on his part or theirs or mine and so be married In aeternum For ever without interruption or diminution or change of affections I shall see the sunne black as sackcloth Reve. 6. 12 13 14. of hair and the moon become as bloud and the starres fall as a fig-tree casts her untimely figs and the heavens rolled up together as a scrowl I shall see a divorce between princes and their prerogatives between nature and all her elements between the spheres and all their intelligences between matter it self and all her forms and my marriage shall be In aeternum For ever I shall see an end of faith nothing to be beleeved that I do not know and an end of hope nothing to be wished that I do not enjoy but no end of that love in which I am married to that Lambe for ever yea I shall see an end of some of the offices of the Lambe himself Christ himself shall be no longer a Mediatour an Intercessour an Advocate and yet shall continue a Husband to my soul for ever where I shall be rich enough without joynture for my Husband cannot die and wise enough without experience for no new thing can happen there and healthy enough without physick for no sicknesse can enter and which is by much the highest of all safe enough without grace for no temptation that needs particular grace can attempt me There where the Angels which cannot die could not live this very bodie which cannot choose but die shall live and live as long as that God of life that made it Lighten our darknesse we beseech thee O Lord that in thy light we may see light illustrate our understandings kindle our affections poure oyl to our zeal that we may come to the marriage of this Lambe and that this Lambe may come quickly to this marriage and in the mean time blesse these thy servants with making this secular marriage a type of the spirituall and the spirituall an earnest of that eternall which they and we by thy mercie shall have in that kingdome which thy Sonne our Saviour hath purchased with the inestimable price of his incorruptible bloud To whom c. FINIS A SERMON Upon the xliiii verse of the xxi Chapter of MATTHEW By Dr. DONNE DEAN OF PAVLS ¶ Printed by the Printers to the Vniversitie of CAMBRIDGE MDCXXXIIII Matth. 21. 44. VVhosoever shall fall on this stone he shall be broken but on whomsoever it shall fall it will dash him in pieces ALmightie God made us for his glorie and his glorie is not the glorie of a tyrant to destroy us but his glorie is our happinesse he put us in a fair way towards that happinesse in nature in creation that way would have brought us to heaven but there we fell and if we consider our selves irrevocably he put us after into another way through many hedges and plowed lands through the difficulties and encumbrances of all the ceremoniall Law there was no way to heaven but that after he brought us a crosse way by the crosse of Christ Jesus and the application of his Gospel and that is our way now and if we compare one way of nature and our way we went out of that way at the towns end assoon as we were in it Adam died assoon as he lived and fell assoon as he was set on foot if we compare the way of the Law and ours the Jews and the Christians their Synagogue was but as Gods farm our Church is as his dwelling house Locavit vineam He let out his vine to husbandmen and then Peregrè profectus He went into a farre countrey he promised a Messias but deferred his coming a long time But to us Dabitur regnum A kingdome is given here is a good improvement the lease changed into an absolute deed of gift here is a good enlargement of the term he gives therefore he will not take away again he gives a kingdome therefore there is a