Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	fruit_n	peace_n	spirit_n	5,624	5	5.4384	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42022	Three general epistles for the whole body of Friends 1 from William Caton, 2 from R. Greenway, 3 from Christopher Bacon.	Caton, William, 1636-1665.; Bacon, Christopher.; Greenway, R. (Richard)	1662 (1662)	Wing G1864; ESTC R26437	11,728	17

life to come And now therefore as a servant of the Lord God to you all who writes these things with tears unto you do I in his Name beseech you to be faithful and obedient quiet and peaceable children behaving your selves as Lambs or as new-born babes in his sight in this generation lest you should provoke him through your disobedience by being unfaithful and unquiet in his house and they that are or become so they must be excluded and shut out too among them that are without without love faith hope peace comfort and refreshment in the reprobate state where the rents schisms strivings divisions envyings and hatings are which are the fruits which they produce that go out from the Spirit in which love joy and everlasting peace is Therefore I exhort and beseech you all to walk together in this one Spirit to meet together to serve the Lord in this one Spirit that you may be like-minded that the fruits of it may abound in and among you plenteously to the glory of him that hath visited you with the day-spring from on high and hath opened a Fountain for you and hath prepared a Feast of fat things for you and withal a rest for your weary souls Wherefore faint not in the day of your adversity lest your Enemies vaunt themselves as if your God would not preserve you in unity love peace patience in which you had need to continue lest that the Enemy within or without should get an advantage against you which might easily be if prejudice should be permitted to have place in any of you one against another thereby might the Lord be provoked to jealousie against you And therefore above all things let brotherly love continue that through your love to the Father one to another to all men it may evidently appear that you are of your Father the Lord Iehovah who is love and who delights in love and mercy both which I ●ear him record he hath richly vouchsafed unto you my dearly beloved unto whom in his love I have writ this in brief which to that end I received from him and wh●ch J have now finally communicated to you or rather the Spirit of the Lord through me his servant your dear and faithful brother in the one truth William Caton Greetings of strength in the holy life and salutations of endeared love to the rising seed of the invisible God every where as this may come A Salutation of Love from the motion of the Spirit of Life and Love sent to all that are of the Royal birth and are of the Seed immortal and of the Flock of God who in this his blessed and glorious day his Fold of Rest are come to know and are waiting to feel the same more and more to be read in the fear and wisdom of God All you tender Lambs who are gathered out of the World and its evil wayes and customs by the powerful Arm of the living God in that which is pure dwel low in the pure holy fear and your good Shepherds Fold you wil feel and therein do you abide and you wil be safe in the storms and from the terrors and affrightments of the wild Beasts of the field and the Wolves of the night wil not be able to come near your dwellings to enter your holy habitation nor to touch your Life for from them it wil be hid in God And Friends therein watch and wait and the good Shepherds voice you wil come to hear who speaks peace to all his Lambs and little ones that are of an upright heart who wait upon fear and trust in him and in so doing you wil also feel his Eternal Arm made bare for your salvation deliverance and defence And all you children of the Day of God which hath sprung from on High by which he hath visited and called unto you even by the good Word of his Grace by which he hath begotten you again and chosen you to be his Inheritance and generation which hath sprung up from the Seed of Life which the Father and Fountain of Love and Life hath shed abroad in this the day of his large kindness and rich mercy which in your hearts in measure you have felt Oh dear friends let the eye of your minds be alwayes fixed and fastened upon the same even upon that in which the God and Father of Mercies hath so exceeding largely extended himself unto you and in which he hath abundantly appeared in the manifestation of his loving kindness towards you in begetting you again which were strayed and in gathering you that were scattered afar off and lost from him and in raising you up to be a people to himself that were not his people and in begetting you to be his children that were sometimes strangers and in the alienation and all this hath he done for you of his own good wil in the riches of his free grace when there was no worthiness at all in you even when you were wallowing in your filth when you were in your blood no eye pittied you even that was the time of his Love Oh my dear Friends I say prize this his large Love and forget not those his benefits but dwel in the sence and feeling thereof so that from the virtue of his Love felt in your hearts you may receive daily strength and growth in the Heavenly Life of Righteousness and true Holiness that so the Image of your Heavenly Father you may come to bear more and more every day and may live walk and abide therein to his praise a chast peculiar people a chosen generation zealous of good works and hating the very appearance of evil that so you may be manifest unto all men that you are of the Houshold of Faith children of Truth and of the Family of the living God who are sitting in the Heavenly places in Christ and know and feel the Table of the Lord and are feeding together on the Bread of Life which comes down from above which the World are ignorant of and drinking of the Cup of Blessing in which you may feel and taste of the salvation of God to the comforting of your souls and gladding of your hearts by which you may be strengthened and enabled to do the Wil and Requirings of the Lord either in doing or in suffering Oh you dear Babes and tender Plants you that have felt of the sweetness of the Milk of the Breast of Consolation when you were ready to pine for want and have been watered with that which came from the everlasting Spring and Well of salvation in a time of great drought Oh dear hearts I say again abide in the feeling of the same that so you may always see and behold the hand of God's mighty power that he hath reached out unto you and watch thereto and wait therein to receive more and more of the Heavenly Virtue and dew from above that so you may grow as the Lillies and spread forth as

the Trees that are planted by the Rivers side bringing forth fruits of righteousness the planting of the Lord bringing forth fruit in due season wherein you wil be lovely to the Father and one unto another and so in the Love and Life abiding and keeping in the unity you wil be known to be the planting of the Lord to the glory of his most holy Name And tender Friends and little ones I exhort you in the Name and fear of the Lord to watch against and to be aware of suffering any root of bitterness to spring up amongst you or of harbouring any prejudice one against another but in that Spirit of Love dwel which thinks no evil nor is not easily provoked for that which gives offence and that which takes the offence is one and comes from the same old root of bitterness and proceeds from him that watcheth to divide and devour and to break the unity amongst the Lambs and to make a prey a rent a division and a spoil and if any are overtaken in these things for want of a diligent watch to their thoughts words and actions in it the Enemy will have a great advantage to hurt your peace and to weaken you And therefore dear friends be tender one to another let the strong bear with the weak and be you pittiful and tender-heatted towards the bruised Reeds that have been hurt by the subtilty of the Enemy and let your bowels earn over any in whom there is yet remaining a little Love or Zeal though it be but as a smoaking Flax or of any that are wounded by reason of their fall which they have taken in the Evening-tide I say again in God's fear Be very tender to any such that in the spirit of love and meekness such may be restored if so it may be For Friends you your selves may be tempted snared and overtaken by the subtil Enemies bait and therefore let all that think they stand fear continually and take heed lest they also fall And Friends beware of watching over one another with an evil eye for that watcheth for the evil and doth not see the good and by that the good manners is and hath been corrupted and they that watch with that eye they provoke to evil and not to good And Friends it lieth upon me to warn you to take heed of looking back to Egypt or to any thing that you have left behind but pass on and let your eye be to that which is before and abide in the way in which you have begun to walk and in the patience dwel and keep to the good Word thereof that in the Faith you may be found that so the old Enemy may not beguile you and so you come to be dispossessed of the blessing through disobedience therefore to your Guide keep and faithfully follow him and take heed of staying behind and beware of being too forward in going before for there is danger in both of being overcome with the Enemy In staying behind you wil be guilty of disobedience and so not onely lose your reward and the blessing of rest and peace but you will have that Talent taken away which you do possess and you wil have your portion where wil be weeping and gnashing of teeth And he that goes before wil be puffed up above his measure and so forget the Lord and he wil have his portion also with the wicked Therefore I do exhort and warn you all to take heed of an evil heart of unbelief and of departing from the living God Be you all therefore stedfastly grounded setled and staid in your minds unmoveable upon the everlasting Foundation of God that standeth sure that so you may not be tossed turned aside nor easily shaken in your minds from that which you have believed nor weakned in your confidence but that you may hold out unto the end and then you wil assuredly receive your reward if you faint not So you that have believed in the Truth take heed of fainting and beware of hunting abroad for my Friends there may be erring on the right hand as wel as on the left therefore to your Leader keep and dwel low in the pure fear and so the Cross you wil be led into and then you wil feel that which wil slay your Enemies on every hand for of a truth friends there is no safety out of the fear nor prosperity out of the Cross therefore let your resolution be for ever therein to dwel and then you wil obtain the Crown and reap the Blessing that is everlasting So remember it was he that hunted abroad that fainted and sold his Birth-right for a little of the earthly enjoyment to satisfie his earthly desire and so he lost the blessing Therefore all dear Lambs and little ones keep at home and dwel in your own habitation in the Light the House of the living God and be you faithful unto him in all things that he doth require that so none might deprive you of your blessed Inheritance nor take away your Crown of glory joy rest and peace And Friends Brethren and Sisters children of God think it not strange that we have tryal upon tryal and if the Furnace of affliction cometh to be heat more hotter yet look not out thereat be valiant for the Lord and for his Truth upon the Earth and in that stand which is immovable for this I have seen in the eternal Light that there wil be a day of dividing and separating between the precious and the vile the good metal and the dross between the weighty Wheat and the light airy chaff between the meek gentle patient sheep and the rough rugged Goats the vile in nature shal no longer be hid under a false outside form of likeness without the Power and Life that dross shall no longer abide among the good Metal to darken the brightness thereof for the day is come that burns as an Oven the Furnace is already kindled and the Refiners fire is lighted which wil try each matter metal and work of what sort it is neither shal the chaff any longer cover the good Wheat but by the Arm of Gods Eternal Power wil be threshed off and blown away with the wind of his wrath for he is come whose Fan is in his hand by which he wil scatter the chaff and the wheat he wil gather into his Garner therein to be preserved and he wil also purge his Floor in this his notable day and all the gentle meek and patient sheep on his right hand he wil set where the fulness of joy mercy peace and pleasures are for ever and for evermore when as the rough and bruitish Goat● shal be separated on the left hand to receive the curse having walked out of the way of righteousness which is the way of peace in that therefore dear Friends all abide which wil make you fruitful and to abound in every good word and work for this is the day wherein he is come to seek for