Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	fear_n	john_n	perfect_a	5,796	5	8.9279	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88880	Israels condition and cause pleaded; or some arguments for the Jews admission into England. Objections answered, cautions added, with a vindication of Mr. Peters from those foul and unjust aspersions cast upon him by W. Prynn, Esq;.	D. L.	1656 (1656)	Wing L9; Thomason E1677_2; ESTC R202696	42,532	117

also to all Strangers to make little or no difference as the Lord of old commanded his people and promised to bless them for it and this will enrich a Nation mightily as we see in Holland and not hurt any Natives as envious persons think and can by good reasons be proved and quotes these places of Scripture for it Deut. 19.33 34. Deut. 10.19 Exod. 23.9 22.21 worthy the Reading to move you to harbour Strangers Again at page 53. S. 5. the same Author speaks solidly concerning Criminall and Civil things Let no difference be made between Jews and Gentiles Stranger or Natives in either Criminall or Civil things for so hath God commanded and by this means shall the Governours be true fathers of Humanity and it will mightily populate and enrich the Common-wealth when the Oppressed in any other Country know where to go dwell under so just Government with freedome from Oppression and these places are quoted for proof Deut. 1.16 17. Prov. 24.23 Prov. 20.8 At page 90. Sect. 6. He wisely and Judiciously sets down these words Let forraingners and all Strangers Jews and Heathens have full as just speedy and cheap Justice as any so shall All Nations tell what the Lord hath done for you and how will Riches flow In 1 Cor. 6.5 And secondly Naturall Affections bids us to do good against Evill Be saies the Apostle kindly affectioned one towards another with Brotherly Love Rom. 12.10 v. 17. the Apostle addes this Recompence no man Evil with Evil. Suppose that some or most of the Jews that lived here formerly were not so good as they should have been might it not be for want of good Magistrates or Ministers 't is said in St. Matthew his Gospel Mat. 28. And the people did as they were taught had they been taught better they would have done better 't is to be feared the fault lies at our doors however to do good against Evil is to do as God himself doth who causeth his Sun to shine and his rain to fall both upon good and bad and further must it of necessity follow that because those Jews were bad that were here 300. or 200. years since that these that come In now must needs be so we know that many of our fore-fathers were Popish and the Land full of it then but is it so still what a Reformation may be by Gods good hand wrought and brought about in a few years is plainly seen in our own in 14. and that might have been further heightened too and therefore we are not to requite evil with evil but if thine Enemy hunger give him bread if he thirst give him drink and as our blessed Saviour hath it in his Sermon upon the Mount But I say unto you Love your Enemies Bless them that Curse do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despightfully use and persecute you that you may be the Children of your Father which is in Heaven Matth. 5.44 54. Look well to the performing of this Next as we are to do good against evil so are we not to supect them it 's the nature of true charity 1 Cor. 13.5 To think no evil David speaks of wicked men they were in fear where no fear was id est when there was no cause of fear suspitious persons are ill to bee judges perfest love casteth out fear and where fear is there is no perfect love so says John 1 John 4.18 why then should we fear or suspect them it is because their predecessors were evil or because these are thought to be nought or that they may do us hurt for the first many a bad father may have a good son was not Ahaz father to good King Ezekiah and Amon a wicked father yet Josiah his son was a godly zealous King 2 Chron. 28.29 2 Chron. 33.34 Were not the children of Israel in one Generation bad and in another holy and good are not all states subject to alteration and chang we are not therefore to suspect this generation because of the former Malus cultura fit bonus An evill man by due order and government is made good to the second I say ill thoughts are the froth of the soul if they be evill you must either have it by knowledge or hearsay say not what you know not and take not up a false Report to lay a scandall upon a Nation is not a light matter they may perhaps not be so good as they should yet they may not be so bad as they are accounted All is not Gold of Ophyr yet may be used I do not wonder so much that they have Vice but I wonder that they should retain any vertue being so tost from place to place driven to such extremities and exigencies necessitas soepe cogit ad turpia besides what comes by contraction from the persons and places where they live they that live in Christendome are reputed the worst a poor credit for those Nations that make themselves patterns for Iews to sin by for the third of doing us Hurt to our persons they dare not to our estates they cannot can they that are strangers out-strip us in our own wayes very improbable but to proceed As we are not to suspect them so much less not to aggravate long buried things there are a sort of men that are always skilfull in multiplying this way 't is an unseemly thing alwaies to be raking among the graves of the dead our Saviour saies sufficient to the day is the Evil thereof so certain is it with that of a moneth or a year or a generation an Act of Oblivion or an Amnesty would do well in this point 't is observed of those two men possessed with devils 't is said of them that they lived among the graves and were so fierce that no man could pass that way Mat. 8.28 such certain who live by tearing up tombes of the dead that are buried and their names out of minde with their faults while they lived aggravated with additions certainly I say they may be said to be divelish men and fierce men that would have no man pass quietly by them but are ready to tear him in his good name c. surely such as raile at and revile the poor Jews for to hinder their Coming In that rage that are mad that drive so furiously like Jehu are they not like too too like those men I say who were possessed and knew not indeed what spirit they are off these are like the raging Sea casting out its dirt and mire they should remember that Solomon saith 't is the Honour of a Prince to pass by offences that love covers not discovers a multitude of sins to consider our own infirmities and sins against which we cannot be too active to hinder their Coming In and living In yes and Ruling In our Souls 't is ill to give these admittance 't is good wisdome to write against these to strive against these but as for to hinder by writing