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
A62112	The Lord Jesus his commission (under the broad seal of His Highnes the Royal & Real Lord Protector of heaven and earth) as man, to be the alone judge of life and death in the great and general assize of the world proved and improved before the reverend judges at the assize holden at Maidstone, March 17, 1655 for the county of Kent / by Henry Symons.	Symons, Henry, fl. 1657-1658.	1657 (1657)	Wing S6360A; ESTC R26957	35,152	56

5. Thou art a cruell and bloody hypocrite Prov. 11. 9. A hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour it shews thy nature to be brutish and bloody to judge mens soules to eternall ruine and destruction and to have no thoughts of pitty towards them Didst thou ever see a Judge passe sentence upon a poore malefactor for the death of his body without teares or sorrow how canst thou so readily and rejoycingly passe sentence on their soules But to drive home this naile to the head and heart the persons thou judgest either are Elect or Reprobate 1. Elect wilt thou condemne them whom God hath not will not condemne Rom. 8. 1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus v. 34 Who is he that condemneth The glove is cast downe by way of a challenge and thou darest to take it up Our Saviour when he saw no man condemned the woman in adultery would John 8. 11. not condemne her But now God hath not condemned his Elect yet thou O vaine man wilt condemne them Who art thou that judgest another James 4. 12. 2. Reprobate persons thou condemnest them before their time 1 Cor. 4. 5. Let us judge nothing before the time There is a time for every purpose under heaven Eccles 3. 1. Now to meddle with any thing before that time as it is unseasonable so it is unsafe Our Saviour would not torment the Devils before their time and wilt thou condemne thine own flesh before its time Oh grutch them not an inch of time they are shortly to be tormented eternally in hell Be not so cruell a hangman as to hasten a malefactor that is to suffer within an houre 6. Thou shalt have the hypocrites portion Hell is the hypocrites Fee simple Matth. 24. 51. And appoint him his portion with hypocrites Hypocrites are Free-holders of hell others are but terants Judas that grand hypocrite Acts 1. 25. He went to his owne place Christ will be as forward to send them to hell as they have been forward to send others Matth. 7. 2. With what judgement you judge you shall be judged and with what measure you mete it shall be measured to you againe My brethren be not many Masters knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation James 3. 1. All that a man gets by such judgement is greater judgement thou provokest Christ as Lot did the Sodomites to deale worse with thee then with them Thus the Pharisees those eminent hypocrites are threatned with greater condemnation Math. 23. 14. God heats the Furnace of hell as Nebuchadnezzar did his Furnace for the Dan. 3. 19. three Children seven times hotter for hypocrites than for other sinners Inform. 8. See what little cause Saints have too much and too immoderately to lament the death and departure of their deare and neare relations either by the flesh or spirit they are not lost but laid downe in a full and firme assurance of coming againe this Judge will send his Writ of Habeas Corpus to remove them from the prison of the grave See how forcibly the Apostle presses this argument on the Thessalonians 1 Ep. 4. 13. That they mourn not as those that have no hope He renders the reason v. 14. Those that sleepe in Jesus will God bring with him Every one that sleeps shall be awakened the Curtaines of the grave shall be drawn and every Lazarus shall come forth then shall that Scripture be litterally true Eph. 5. 14. Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee ligbt Lumen gloriae 2 Vse Is of examination To try our selves by this Touchstone whether we are in the number of those that do believe this truth That Christ shall shortly come to be a Judge I shall propose four Questions to be resolved by your own hearts 1. What interest have you in him 2. What influence have you from him 3. What affections beare you to him 4. What preparations make you for him 1. What interest have you in him Hath a true and lively saith entituled you to invested you with all his glorious benefits Hath a surpassing love matcht and married you to his person Doth faith make him your head Doth love make him your husband Can you not only say with Ignatius our Love is crucified but also our Love is Judge Hear the not triumphant but triumphing Spouse Cant. 6. 2. I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine Hast thou resigned up thy selfe to be his and accepted him to be thine and that by a matrimoniall Covenant Doest thou love him as a husband and not feare him as a Judge then thou expectedst him to come as a Judge 2. What influence have you from him Are you ingrafted branches in that Vine which suck all their sap John 15. 4 5. strength sweetness from it whereby you bring forth all those delightfull fruits of prayer fasting hearing meditation conference doe you doe all in the name of Christ Col. 3. 19. Are you perswaded you can do all things through Christ Phil. 4. 13. 3. What affections do you beare to him 1. To his person 2. To his people 3. To his appearing 1. To his person Is his person the feate and centre of thy affection the height and heaven of thy love Canst thou really and experimentally use the Spouses sweet Periphrasis as being ravished with his person Cant. 3. 1 2 3 4. Four times in four verses Thou whom my soule loveth Is Christ all the love of thy soule hath he the love of all thy soul do all the parts and powers of thy soul meet as the beames of the Sun in a burning Glasse in the person of Christ Then is thy love pure and pretious love such as is in those believers who shall admire the glorious coming of Christ as a Judge 2 Thess 1. 10. 2. To his people have the Saints the chiefe roome in thy heart and house as they had with Ingo King of the Draves who placed his Peeres in his hall but believers in his parlour because they were to be Peeres with him in a better Kingdome 1 John 4. 17. Herein is love made perfect with us that we may have boldnes in the day of judgement Those that truly love their brethren shall not only dwell in God here but also dwell with God hereafter Cotton in loc for the words are nothing else but an argument deduced from v. 12. on which these words have their dependance 3. To his appearing 1. Doest thou love it are the thoughts thereof delightfull would the sight thereof be joyfull 2 Tim. 4. 8. Vnto them that love his appearing the day of judgement will be a day of coronation to all them that love his appearing 2. Doest thou look for it expecting and waiting for it as the Indians do for the Sunnes rising in the morning Tit. 2. 13. Looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ 3. Doest thou labour