Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	hate_v	lord_n	love_v	5,673	5	6.6468	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87829	Kollourion, or eye salve to anoint the eyes of the ministers of the Province of London; that they may see their error (at least) in opposing the present proceedings of the Parliament and Army, in the due execution of justice. / By a Minister of the Gospel.	Minister of the Gospel.	1649 (1649)	Wing K746; Thomason E542_16; ESTC R205970	5,189	9

judgement and conscience and as well insighted in the nature of the present transactions as those few Ministers of the province of London as they are pleased to stile themselves though without any warrant in Scripture who are known by experience at least diverse of them to come exceeding short both of learning and the power of godlinesse and have more need to hearken to the Counsell of the Lord Jesus in Matth. 7.3 First to take out the Beam that is in their own eye then to attempt to pluck out the Moat that is in their brothers eye X. Whether the Parliament and Army in waging a just warre against the King and his malignant party had not been free from the bloud of the King if his life had been taken away in these warres and whether it be not every way as lawfull when they have overcome him through the blessing of God upon their endeavours to proceed against him in a legall way to try him for his abominable murthering his innocent subjects as it was formerly to wage warre against him XI Whether the premises duly weighed yee the Ministers of the province of London have not ill requited he Lord his faithfull servants in this Nation for their great work and labour * Heb. 6.10 of love in saving hitherto this miserable kingdome though your opposing so bitterly contrary to the nature and commission of true Gospel and Evangelicall Ministers their just and righteous proceedings in a legall way to have the known and undoubted enemies of the Lord and his people brought to condigne punishment and whether this may not in an houre when you little think of it be found just matter of shame and sorrow to your poore soules XII Whether yee have not heretofore in your consciences beleeved and accordingly in a publick manner professed that the King whom you now so much plead for hath been a notorious enemy to the Lord Jesus Christ and sought quantum in se fuit to lay violent hands on his Throne and to make his heritage desolate and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannicall power into the civill State and to confirm as to this day that Antichristian Government in your Church which you have covenanted against and whether you have not preached prayed and written if not some of you fought against him in your proper persons or at least incouraged the Souldiers thereunto when you have been formerly in the relation of Chaplains or Preachers to them though now your judgements and practises without any just grounds are clean altered and turned about XIII Whether now in this present juncture of time for such as yee are that pretend to be Ministers of Christ and friends to the kingdomes peace to plead for the King and his malignant party that were happily secluded from sitting at the Helm of the Kingdome any longer they steering so directly contrary to the safety of the Kingdome and to preach pray and write for them and against the present Parliament and Army that cannot justly be taxed of carrying on any other designe then the glory of God and salvation of this miserable Kingdome and have deserved far better at your hands bee not with Iehosophat that godly Prince to * 2 Chron. 19.2 help the ungodly and love those that hate the Lord and whether this be any other then to fall from your * Rev. 2.4 first love and betray your trust you pretend to be committed to you by Christ and whether wrath be not for this gone out against you from the Lord. XIV Whether if you narrowly ransack your bosomes deale impartially with your own hearts many of you if not all of you that have subscribed the Letter lately sent to the Lord Generall and his Councell of War have not appeared against their present preceedings with the Parliament in the secluding the malignant members and triall of the King out of meere prejudice against them because you understand they are about to pull downe that Dagon of the presbytery viz. Tyths offerings c. the which you so much strive to keep up though altogether inconsistent with the Ark of God and can no more endure to have taken from you then old Micah could his carved and moulten Image his Ephod and Teraphim Iudg. 18.18 who cried out Yee have taken away my Gods and what have I more XV. Whether in this late setting your selves against the proceeding of the Parliament and Army in trying of the King and bringing him to justice ye doe not directly break the Covenant you so much idolize and plead for by endeavouring what in you lies to keep from condigne punishment such as are convicted of delinquency and are without controversie known enemies to the State and Kingdome in the highest degree and whether your exempting the person of the King from justice be not to make the righteous God a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. a respecter of persons XVI Whether this course you have lately taken by your publick preaching praying and writing to oppose the present weighty proceedings of the Army be not in a very great measure a making sad the hearts of the godly party and rejoycing the hearts of the wicked yea a strengthening their hearts and hands to be more active and desperate then ever if the Lord from heaven did not put a hook * Isa 37.29 in their jaws to restrain them in their old wayes of bloody Cavalerisme and whether you doe not hereby give just occasion as to the enemy to justifie the King and themselves in their former cursed wayes of disobedience to the lawes of God and this Kingdome so to the Lords people to doe your errand to Heaven and fill the eares of Jehovah with loud cryes and sad complaints against you and to beseech him either to open your eyes or stop your mouthes XVII Whether you have not just cause to feare that you are in the number of those the Prophet Malachi speaketh of chap. 3.2 who shall not abide the day of Christs coming into his Temple nor stand when he appeareth as a Refiners fire and like Fullers sope and whether you are not some of those Priests and Levits there spoken of that stand in need of Christs putting you into his Refining pot that he may purge out that drosse and take away that scum of ambition covetousnesse and bitternesse that so apparently remains upon you so that you may be able to offer to the Lord a pure offering and an offering in righteousnesse indeed and not mingle the cleane and unclean any longer together when you draw nigh to God in the wayes of his sacred worship and service FINIS