Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	father_n	great_a	son_n	10,169	5	5.4959	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03104	The mirror of pure devotion: or, The discovery of hypocrisie Delivered in sixe severall sermons, in the Cathedrall Church of Chichester, by way of an exposition of the parable of the Pharises and the publican. By R.B. preacher of the word, at Chidham in the county of Sussex.	Ball, Robert, fl. 1635.	1635 (1635)	STC 1323; ESTC S113587	64,577	210

love they have forsaken like vow-breakers and adulterers They can be content to acknowledge this to bee the true Church and yet in a pharisaicall humour they will not sticke to cut themselves from it Some for filthy lucre teaching such things as they ought not as the Priest of Bell and Hyminaeus and Philetus and Demas departing for the love of this present world And as Paulus Samosatenus gaping for preserment from Zenobia Queene of Arabia Some for ambition as Donatus because he could not get a Bishoprickei ●n Carthage And Novati● missing the cushion for another in Italy And Arrius greatly stomacking the matter because his schoole-fellow Eustathius was Ierome in 13. Zach consecrated Bishop of Pontus and not he Some as sicke as ever they can hold of self-selfe-love their very conceit is their Idol The covetous man worships his money and the Hereticke his opinion both like to the Athenians worshipping an unknowne God Simon Magus said hee was the great power of God the Father to the Samaritans the Sonne to the Iewes and the Holy Ghost to the Gentiles Some amongst us like the Manichees Tertul. who take their name from Manna all that they say is Angels food Some like Montanus who said he was the Comforter none edifie but they Some like Novatus calling himselfe Moses and his brother Aaron their Pastor and Elder Some like Donatus there is no Clem. Alex. Church but in their Affrica causing our charitie to wither like grasse on the house top and truth to bee disguised like Ieroboams muffled wife hardly to be known and our concord to fall in pieces like sand and to be cut in the head like the greeke letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There was an harlot you know would not suffer Salomon to cut in pieces her living child yet these miscreants can indure to divide their ever-living Saviour Some hold of Paul some of Apollos some of Cephas who if they had any grace might at length heare their Saviour to complaine I was torne with speares rent with nailes shed my blood and laide downe my life ut te mihi conjungerem Aug. con Ar. tu dividis me to joyne thee to my selfe and thou dividest mee Christ is the head of the Church and the Church is the fulnesse of his body as they are not to be divorced so they should not bee divided The Olive Tree must be left with her fatnesse the Iudg 9. 9. Fig-tree with her sweetnesse the Vine with her wine that cheereth the heart of man and the bramble bush forsooth must bee annointed King that men may trust under the shadow of her branches As if wee could gather grapes of thornes or figges of thistles It is impossible to gather wholesome grapes sound doctrine good life true worship dutifull subjection of thornes mutinous mindes turbulent spirits throats full of adders poyson feete swift to shed blood Or figges of thistles bread for hungry soules certaine for doubting spirits comfort for pined consciences they are both full of stinging prickes malice and melancholly humours and rumours conceit and deceit disorder and discord madnesse and badnesse Thistles indeed that have in their tops flowers like wooll but are tossed to and fro of every winde Their libels are more then standerous their scoffes more then histrionicall and their calumniations more then Sycophanticall They would bee petty Popes in their parishes Princes in their priviledges and Neroes after their five and few yeeres governement Vtinam abscindantur say I with the Apostle I wold to God they were even cut off that thus disquiet you They pretend that the zeale of Gods house hath even eaton them up when indeede the zeale of their owne houses would eate up Gods house Zealous Peter would faine build three tabernacles one for Christ one for Moses and one for Elias In that hee wot not what hee said hee was wrapt Zealous Boanerges Iames and Iohn those Sonnes of thunder at one time would faine have commanded lightning from heaven to destroy the unbeleeving Samaritans at another time they desired to sit the one at the right hand the other at the left hand of Christ in his Kingdome In neither of which knew they of what spirit they were or what they asked Christ grants his Disciples no such busie warrants as Antichrist Et ad quid perditio isthaec said Iudas in his thriftie zeale This oyntment might have beene sold and given to the poore But wee all know he was a purse-bearer Zealous Iewes crucifie the Lord of light as a blasphemer making himselfe the Sonne of God And zealous Pharises will part his Garment amongst them even that tunicam inconsutilem that seamelesse coate the Vnity of the faith and pretend all conscience without science they will loose life and living and yet not for righteousnesse sake These are the strongest bolts they shoote upon the suddaine and the choisest arrowes in all their quiver All things they Rom. 11. say are lawfull for them but all things are not expedient Which being spoken by the Apostle of things indifferent nothing at all concerne matters of necessity Fides docet quid debet charitas quid decet Our faith shewes us what is lawfull our charity what is expedient And therefore the ordinances of the Church are necessary quoad benè esse being the fosterers of faith and cherishers of charity The second arrow which is feathered with folly shafted with errour and armed with blindnesse is this Stand fast in the liberty which Gal. 5. yee have received in Christ Iesus and bee brought no more into the bondage of beggerly rudiments Let them proove that they are the traditions of men unwashed hands the bondage of the world and not the wholsome discipline of the true Church of God inspired by the holy-Ghost warranted by Scriptures admitted by Councels and approoved by presidents and wee shall quickly yeeld Otherwise it will bee told them their colorable insinuations and metaphoricall shaddowes à dicto secundum quid ad dictum simpliciter The ceremonies Leviticall of the Law are abolished Ergo our Injunctions are abhominable Such men such matter It is well knowne the Aple speakes there of justification by workes and faith and not of the ceremonies of the Gospell And yet forsooth these men in substance of religion can come and build with us as did the men of Samaria by Zerubbabel But to steale away the hearts of the people as Absolon did Proclaiming fasts as did Iezabel but to massacre Naboth Devouring Widdowes houses in pretence of long prayer they kisse like Iscariot but they kill like Iudas If reasonable and judicious men would not willfully suffer themselves to be hood-winked and flattered in their folly they might easily discerne these Gibeonites for all their rent sackes old shooes dryed and moulded bread I beare them record they have a zeale indeed but not according to knowledge I could rather wish they would have an inoffensive conscience both towards God and Man then