Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	heaven_n	love_v	soul_n	5,739	5	5.0400	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06477	A dreame of the diuell and Diues most terrible and fearefull to the seruantes of Sathan, but right comfortable and acceptable to the children of God : plainely described by way of dialogue, verie necessarie to be read aduisedly, and heard attentiuelie, both of rulers and inferiours, rich, and poore, younge and olde, wise and simple, that wish rather to dwel in heauen, then in hell.	Lupton, Thomas.	1589 (1589)	STC 16947.5; ESTC S108956	49,122	110

A Dreame of the Diuell and Diues Most terrible and fearefull to the seruantes of Sathan but right comfortable and acceptable to the Children of God Plaineley described by way of Dialogue verie necessarie to be read aduisedly and heard attentiuelie both of Rulers and inferiours rich and poore younge and olde wise and simple that wish rather to dwel in heauen then in hell LONDON Printed by Thomas Dawson for Henrie Carre 1589. To the right honorable Lord Francis Earle of Bedford one of her Maiesties most honorable priuy Counsel Knight of the noble order of the Garter grace and peace with God and man THough some right Honorable haue with no smal industry study set forth bookes pamphlets most false yea and ridiculous for the seducing of the simple hurt of many also though diuers do daily publish fond fantastical bookes neither tēding to the publike profit nor common commodity of any but only to feede the foolish fancies of fond heads yet I as Christian charitie commandeth as one that detesteth such wicked erronious writing and vaine and vnprofitable inditing haue now in this perillous time when no good admonition wil be accepted neither any godly thing practised of very zeale set forth a dreadfull dreame of the diuell Diues to terrifie the wicked to feare the faithlesse and to stay the Atheistes and the sinfull worldlings from going to hell fearing that many are so diuellishly bent regard God so little that they will not be the better for it but weigh it rather as a false foolish dreame who if there be any such as I feare there be too many wil wish they had taken warning therby if they come once in hel and though the booke seeme little and light yet the matter therein contained is of great importance weight if our euerlasting saluation and damnation and the losing of the kingdome of heauen and the winning of the dungeon of hell may be so counted a more curious worke and cunningly contriued I might haue penned but a more necessarie booke I could not haue published and as the same is most worthy to be marked and regarded euen so I thought meete to dedicate it to your honour being a zealous and worthy personage trusting your Lordship will not onelie pardon my boldnes herein though I so simple a person and vnknowne of your honour haue so rashly presumed but also that you will respect the gift not the Giuer the meaning not the penning and the marke that I shoote at and not my vnskilfull shooting and thus briefly I commit your honour to the liuing God whose mercie is maruellous whose power is infinite whose loue doth exceede Your Lordships most humble and obedient to command Thomas Lupton A Dreame of the Diuell and Diues most terrible and fearefull to the seruants of Satan but right comfortable and acceptable to the children of God plainly described by way of Dialogue very necessarie to be read aduisedly and heard attentiuely both of Rulers and inferiours rich and poore young and olde wise and simple that wisheth rather to dwell in heauen then in hell Theophilus and Eumenides being speakers Theophilus I Muse very much why Eumenides commeth hether so sadly hee was woont to be verie merie as other worldlings as he is are most commonlie when God knoweth they haue most cause to lament and bee sorrie but though he liue contrarie to the Rule of a Christian I will as charitie willeth me giue him some godlie and comfortable counsell if hee will vtter to me the cause of his sorrow Eumenides how chanceth it that you are so sad What aileth you man Is your wife sick or any of your children dead Or are you robbed or spoyled of any of your goods or treasure Or haue you had any other worldly misfortune Hide not thy griefe from me for though you do not greatly care for my cōpany yet I assure you I am much desirous of yours yea and I do loue you better then you loue your selfe for I loue you so wel that I wish the endlesse life ioyes both of your soule and body in the kingdome of heauen whereas you onely desire the most vaine and short pleasures of your body in earth though it tende to your endlesse destruction in the dungeon of hell Therefore hide not your griefe from him that loueth you so deerely and though I am not able to recouer your losse or amend that is amisse yet with my good counsel I hope to comfort you Eu. I thanke you for this your vndeserued friendship Indeede as you say the losse of goods the death of children the sicknesse of a faithfull and louing wife and such other worldly calamities doo make worldly men thoughtfull and their hearts to be sorrowful But to say truely sicknes of wife death of children losse of goods and other worldly calamities should make vs mery and ioyfull in respect of other things that we make no account of Theo. I perceiue now in you a greater alteration then euer I did for euer since I knew you you haue beene altogither a right worldling and so accordingly nothing could make you more sorrowfull then wordly mis-fortunes and nothing more merry then earthly prosperitie but now it seemeth that you are otherwise changed and minded Eu. You haue hit the trueth for I assure you since you last sawe me I am as cleane turned as though blacke should be white and darkenes should be light Theo. Of this your godly change none is more glad then I for I haue perswaded you as much as I might to despise worldly pleasures to be patient in trouble not to lamēt for worldly losses not to mourne for the Godly death of your friends nor to be carefull for any worldly calamitie for I haue tolde you many a time and oft that neither perfite felicitie not extreame misery are to bee founde in this life Therefore this your godly alteration maketh me beleeue that either you haue beene in some godly mans company or at some learned mans Sermon which is Gods appointed ordinarie meanes to win the wicked Eu. Though I am changed yet it is not by any good counsell nor by any preaching or Sermon as you suppose for I neuer cared for that company that vsed any vertuous talke or would giue any godly counsel and as for preachings or sermons I cared not much for them mary sometimes but that was verie seldome I went to a Sermon rather to seeme obedient to my prince then for any deuotion to Gods word and for an hypocriticall shew then for any desire to learne any goodnesse which might wel appeare by my fruits that do follow For whē I came home from the Sermon the least thing contrary to my minde woulde make me fret and fume fall out with my wife or brawle with my seruants though the preacher taught me to be patient and though I had great and dainty cheere yet I neuer remembred my poore hungrie brother

Deuill were on them they woulde auoide my case Then sayd the Diuell I am not onely on them but with them and in them nay they are as thou thoughtst thy brethren were they must haue one come from hel to tell them newes that thou art heere or els they will not beleeue For I haue so hardened their hearts that they will not beleeue it though one should come out of Hel to tel them thereof For though Christ had come downe from the crosse at the wicked Iewes commandement yet they would haue beleeued in him neuer the more Thy case is preached vnto them dayly out of the Gospel but they are no more sterred thereat then a milstone is mooued with a blaste of ones mouth For when these rich gluttons come from the Sermon wherein the preacher dooth threate them with thy being in hel for thy vnmercifulnesse to poore Lazarus and thundring out vnto them that if they bee not mercifull to their poore Brethren and releeue theire needy necessity they shal with out all doubt bee companions with thee in hell they for all that doe goe shrinking away or looking disdainfully on their poore naked and hungry brethren without giuing them one penne or any mercifull or comfortable wordes or causing any reliefe at al to be prepared for them Which makes me hope verely that I shal haue them here in hel with thee ere it be long Then sayde Diues Oh but if I were in their place and case I woulde make no account of any thing that I shoulde haue al my minde shoulde be in shewing mercy and pittie to the needie For Christ at the last day when hee shal come to iudge them and vs al wil say Come my blessed to the kingdome prepared for you from the beginning for when I was hungry yee gaue me meate when I was thirstie ye gaue me drinke when I was naked you clothed me c. Hee wil not say you had ritche furred gownes vpon your backes you had goodly gold Chaines about your neckes and you had riche houses and costly buildings and so because you were riche on earch I wil make you richer in heauen No no it is not money but mercy not pride but pittie not lofttnesse but loue nor gay clothes but charitie that then wil serue their turne For if honour wealthe costly building riche attire and dainty feeding would haue brought men to heauen I should not haue gone to hel for I lackt none of all that Nay patient pouertie is the thing rather through Christ wyl doe it as may appeare by poore Lazarus which hath the most greatest pleasure and ritchest treasurs that can be wished or desired Thoe Diues said most truely herein which he knoweth too well by proofe as as these riche greedy and wicked worldlings shall feele themselues in hell hereafter if they bee not more mercyfull to the poore then they bee and haue a greater care for them then they haue But they are so drowned in wealth that they had rather die then to giue any parte thereof to any good or godly vse Eu. Yea but when their abusing mispending or hourding of their riches shal drown them in hel with Diues and when they shal be tormented with the deuils in y e fire flams of hel for euer then they wil crie out of their ritches then they wil lament the mispending of their goodes and then they will repent that they hourded their goods and that they kept it from the poore as Diues did But now I wil goe on with my doleful dreame then said the Deuil to Diues Lazarus hath gotte for shorte paines endles pleasure but thou for thy short plesure hast got endles paine they that are on the earth may auoide these thy paines if they will for they are yet in the place of repentaunce and mercie but thou canst not if thou wouldest for thou art out of the place of repentaunce and mercy To whom Diues aunswered the more doulful is my case Oh what bewiched fools are these wicked rich men that so little regard their vtter distruction of both body and soule If I were on the earth againe as they are I wold goe from house to house to releeue the poore I would feede the hungrie prisoners and would releue them that are in misery according to my power I would not banquet the rich nor feede the flatterers but the most poore and miserable wretches Yea the lame the blinde and the sore that lye in the streets I woulde sende for and they should be my guests and they should fedde on my foode and if my rich neighbours disdained me for it yet Christe that is richer then they would not mislike me for it My purse should neuer be shutte from the poore and I would alwayes bee ready to lende to the needy and I woulde be most glad that I had it to serue theyre turne when they lacked for that would bee the next way to make God to serue my turn when I lake if one were promised to bee a duke and to haue a Dukes honour and liuing at y e end of two yeeres would he think much to giue Cockleshelles Oystershelles or stones to them that did aske him during that time especially if the not giuing thereof would make him loose his dukedome I thinke not nay hee would haue such a reioysing in y e Dukedome y t he should haue at y e two yeers end y t he would little regard Cockleshelles Oistershelles or stones Then what fooles and noddies are they that will refuse to giue in this short life to them that lacke Syluer Gold Iewels or other their worldly goods seeing they are promised the endlesse ioyes and kingdome of heauen the not giuing whereof may make them loose that worthy kingdome which Siluer and Gold of theirs is more vile without comparison to the endles kingdome of heauen then Cockle-shelles or stones are to an earthly dukedome Therefore I should and so would they if they were wise haue such a ioy and pleasure that I should haue such an endlesse and ioyfull kingdome that I should regard the giuing of my siluer and golde no more to euery one that should aske me then these rich earthly worldlings do now regard or esteeme cockle-shels oistershels or little peeble stones in respect of a dukedome Then saide the diuell I must needes grant that many haue proud hearts stately countenances and mercilesse mindes for if a cockleshel or little stone would doo a poore blind or lame man pleasure that sits by the way as they go they would not once stoope to giue them one of them nor yet stay one step therefore Then said Diues yea but perhappes they will stay and stoope to a gawdie and vaine woman whome God doth detest for her pride and giue her some Iewel or other thing worth no small peece of money yea and that vnrequested and though they disdaine to stoope for a cockleshell to giue the