Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	heart_n	love_v	world_n	13,220	5	5.1546	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64225	A loving and friendly invitation to all sinners to repent and a warning to all backsliders to return unto the Lord, while they have time and space given them : with a brief account of the latter part of the life of John Perrot, and his end &c. : also a testimony against Robt. Rich and John Perrot their filthy books lately printed against God's people in scorn called Quakers : with a postscript by another hand.	Taylor, John, d. 1708.; Field, John, 1652-1723.	1683 (1683)	Wing T535; ESTC R24602	13,336	20

Rob. Rich and John Perrot gave forth in a time when great darkness was over them both for they went from the Light into darkness having been once convinced of the way of Life and Truth they like Hipocrites turned from the grace by which they were called into wantonness and so went out from us that it might be known they were not of us and turned again with the dog to his vomit joyning with the Rotten Principles of the Ranters And as for Iohn Perrot who had once tasted more then the other of the good work of God and of the Powers of the World to come Yet he with Corah and his Company gainsayd and withstood the Spiritual appearance of Christ among the Saints and people of God and with his strange Principles and whimsies as the keeping on his Hat in his Prayers to God and the like he grieved the People of God and prov'd a great trouble amongst the Faithfull because with his flattery faigned humility he deceived the hearts of the simple the which I can speak by experience So when he saw that he was seen through here in England then he would needs go over into Barbadoes contrary to the good Counsel and advice of Friends he having been a long time yea several years from his Wife and family before and then had but been a little time with her And not having sufficient of his own to maintain his Wife and Family and bear his own Charge great Expence in travelling some Moneys he borrowed here in England when come to Barbadoes he got into the affections of some Friends there who gave him very Liberally and bought him a Sloop which came down to Iamaica sull Fraighted with the Gifts of Friends from the Barbados for him and Robert Mailins who was too much tainted with the Rotten Principles of the Ranters and proved a Castaway as well as he and thus from time to time he was even Loaded with the Love and Kindness of Friends in hopes he would become a Reformed Man again but he like an unhappy and unworthy Man abused all the kindness of Friends and the very Mercies of God unto him for I was at Iamaica when he came there and while he lived and dyed there and when he came down thither first he made a great show of love to us and of Humillity and self-deniall and the like but it was soon manifest what his Heart run after for he loved and delighted in the Company of the Loose Debaucht Prophane People of the World more then ours Ah! many a night have I and others sate up with aking hearts waiting for him being desirous to a had his Company from amongst such a Lewd Crew which would be so loud with Singing Leaping and Danceing c. that we could hear them at a great distance off so then he having gotten several hundred pounds worth of goods that Friends from other parts had given him and trusted him with together Poor Man he Bragged and Swaggered too much what great matters he would do for the Island and Planters c. and went to them into the Fields of a Generall Muster day when that part of the Country was generally met together in arms and there at the Head of the regiment he made a Large Speech What he would do for the Country and withal gave them directions How they should Plant their Tobacco for him and he would take it off their Hands but alas alas all came to nothing or worse in the End although whilst he let them have Goods a Trust and to Receive pay for it when the Tobacco was Ripe and fit for Sale Oh! they Cryed him up for a Brave Man and none like him and he loved it as well but when the time of payment came then it proved quite another thing then their Tobacco was Bad and not done according to His order And their pay was bad and indeed the people were many of them bad too Insomuch that he Entred Sixty or Seventy Actions against them at one Court of which he was the Clerke it being a small petty Court for the business of that part of the Country but could determine nothing of above 20 l. value well but many of these Debts which he sued for were proved there in the Court to be paid so he was put by all the Rest for that time And then he that was so Brave a man before with them was now accounted as the very worst of men And so having this great occasion given them they Raild on him exceedingly and the whole Country Cryed out against him very much and so like an unstable man that had lost his guide and as it s said of the wicked grew worse and worse every way for one while he would have a Plantation and be a Planter Another while he would Build a house and talk as if he would have a Fish Pond a top on it although it was about three miles from any springs or wells of water and he would go and live there but that when it was almost built was all CONSUMED BY FIRE IN ONE NIGHT ALTHOUGH NO OTHER HOUSE WAS NEER IT OR ANY WAYS JOYNED TO IT And so the Hand of the Lord turned against him Every way in every thing he took in hand And then he went and got liberty of the Governour to turn Lawyer and plead in the Courts which he did and as a Justice told me If a man would go to the Devil my Friend John Perrot would send them headlong for he never saw one swear men so closely as he did in all his life but I answered he was not my Friend in that for we d●d disowne him and his practices And thus he Run into the Worlds ways of swearing men and Drinking and Riding about of any day without regard either to worship or fear either of the Form or Power of Godliness and so ended his unity and amity Many other strange Fancies and delusions which he Run into might be mentioned but I ●udge these may be sufficient to manifest and discover unto all what a fearfull thing it is for any to oppose the Lord God in the Order of his working in and among his people and break out from the unity of the Faith and bond of Peace who died as he lived without manifesting a return by repentance as this poor miserable man died for as he went from the Truth in himself and became a troubler and an opposer of them that lived in it so he going from the Light into the darkness proved a withered branch and so was cut off from the true Vine Christ Jesus and lost the unity of them that kept their first Love and of all Friends in General indeed who had done so much for him and not onely so but he lost his Credit and repute among men And the very world spewed him out and so he ended his dayes miserably for soon after he was dead and buried in an old Popish