Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	holy_a	spirit_n	word_n	5,544	5	4.1289	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68991	The hauen of hope containing godlie praiers and meditations for diuers purposes. Gathered by R.A.	Allin, Ralph.	1585 (1585)	STC 376.3; ESTC S115873	28,164	222

to take delight therin as in a most pretious iewell For euen as wine O Lord is pleasant vnto the taste and senses of men euen so good Lord let thy word bee delectable vnto my mind and soule For if I take pleasure in a worldlie thing that is delightfull and pleasant vnto the bodie being heere this day and gone the next how much more ought I to take pleasure in that vnspeakable treasure the delight and food of the soul which for euer shall endure And although the world be so ful of wickednes that whosoeuer is a true professor of thy holie word is accounted of the worldlings as one that is vnwoorthie of their companie yet neuertheles O Lord I beseech thee giue me grace that I may suffer the rebukes of the world so that I may be accounted in the number of thy faithfull children thorough our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Chrst Amen A praier for repentance for the amendment of our former wicked liues with a thanks giuing to God for all his gratious benefits bestowed vpon vs. MOst mercifull and euerliuing father I a most wicked and damnable sinner which haue many waies and most greuously transgressed thy lawes and offended thy diuine maiestie in leauing the vse and studie of thy diuine and heauenly word the readie path-way to my saluation and following the wicked desires filthie lusts of the flesh wherby I haue beene driuen to be altogither carelesse of thee the euerliuing God and also of all godlie liuing the cause whereof hath been mine owne negligence which the frowardnes of the flesh wherby I am fallen into such a greeuous sinne that were not thy great mercie oh Lord I should be accounted among the number of them which go downe into destruction But oh most mercifull and louing father in the name of thy decre sonne our only Sauiour aduocate and mediator I appeale to the high throne of thy mercie beseeching thee for his sake and for thine owne mercie sake to blot out of thy remembrance all my former sins and offences wherby I haue most greeuously offended thy maiestie And furthermore O Lord I pray thee to blot al my secret sins out of thy remembrance so that they may neuer be seene nor stand in iudgment against me And also Lord I beseech thee giue mee the grace of thy holie spirit and so inlighten me with the same that henceforth I may liue according to the precise rule of thy holie word and doo those things which may be pleasing vnto thy diuine maiestie And Lord I beseech thee giue vnto mee the light of thy holie spirit that I may praise thy name for all the benefits which thou of thine abundant goodnes hast so mercifully bestowed vpon me especially O Lord for the great graces and benefits of my creation redemption and sanctification For my creation in that it hath pleased thee to create and make me a liuing soule and also in similitude like vnto thine owne person whereas if it had pleased thy maiestie thou mightest haue made me a beast a foule a tode a serpent c. For my redemption in that it pleased thy maiestie after that through the transgressiō of my first parents Adam and Eue I was become like as one that was sold vnto sin and indeede was in bondage vnto the deuill then when all hope of recouerie was past thou oh most merciful and louing father diddest send thine onelie begotten sonne to take our nature vpon him and to make satisfaction for our sins and to suffer a most shamefull death euen the death of the crosse that we by his great patience might be redeemed iustified saued and deliuered from sin death and hell and that so manie as do by faith lay hold vpon the sweete promises of thy deerly beloued sonne our sauiour should surely haue euerlasting life and reigne with him in that place of rest which thou hast appointed for all thy faithful children c. For my sanctification for that after I was by thy heauenly wisedome and diuine power created and made a liuing creature and after that being fallen from thee by the concupiscence of the flesh and then redeemed by the pretious death and bloodshedding of thy deer sonne our sauiour and redeemer Christ Iesus Then after my creation and redemption thou againe of thine exceeding loue and fauour didst send thy holie spirit vpon me to giue me vnderstanding and knowledge of thy holie word that therby through faith in thy promises I might haue euerlasting life thus oh Lord is thy gratious goodnes shewed vnto me Lord of thy great mercie make me thankfull for it for thy deere sonne Christ Iesus sake our onlie mediator aduocate to whom with thee and the holie Ghost be all honor praise and glory both now for euer Amen A praier in the affliction of conscience ETernall and most louing father I thy humble seruant most entirely beseeching thee of thy woonted goodnes and mercie to giue vnto my conscience being fore afflicted ouerloden with sin the cares of this world and tyranny of sathan the sweet comfort of thy holy spirit which is the comforter of all them that put their trust in thee I besech thee O heauenlie father so to inlighten and comfort me with the grace of the same thy spirit that I may giue ouer all worldlie cares and betake my selfe wholy to the fulfilling of thy heauenly wil oh Lord that knowest the secrets of all harts that seest me a most vile and wicked sinner being borne in sinne nouzeled vp in sin and stil day by day continue in sin yea that which is woorst of all I do euen commit the same with greedines whereby I am fallen into such an obliuion of thy goodnes that I haue as it were forgotten all the benefits and graces which thou of thine abundant goodnes hast so manie waies bestowed vpon me This mine obliuion of thy graces oh Lord togither with the suggestions and entisements of sathan hath beene and is such a terror vnto my conscience that were not thy sweet promises oh most mercifull father promised by thine onlie sonne our Sauiour Iesus Christ I might vtterly despaire of my saluation But as thou oh father art in promising most bounteous so art thou in performance most true Although good father my sins and ingratitudes haue deserued eternall damnation and are a continual grudge vnto my conscience yet Lord I beseech thee of thy great mercie to comfort my conscience being sore afflicted and laden with the burthen of my sins Thou O most sweete Sauiour Christ hast commanded all those which labor and are laden with the but then of their sins to come vnto thee saieng Come vnto me all ye that labour and are laden and I will refresh you Oh what comfortable words were these of a most sweet Sauiour Therefore oh Lord heauenlie father I giue thee most hartie thanks for these thy sweet promises in our Sauiour Christ Iesus To whome with thee and the holie Ghost be

ascribed all honor power praise dominion and thanks giuing both now and for euer Amen A praier for the obtaining of true loue both to God and to our neighbour O Most sweete Sauiour which art the life of al them that beleeue in thee the hope of all them that trust in thee the comforter of all them that come to thee for succour the helper and assister of all them which loue thy cōmandements put into my hart oh most mercifull Sauiour the true loue which thou hast cōmanded Oh Lord I confesse that I haue been a louer of my selfe more than thee exalting and lifting vp my selfe with pride ambition and selfe-loue contrarie to thy commandement I haue good Lord loued my selfe more than my neighbor I haue soght for my selfe worldlie promotion by al means possible and haue sought by all means to thrust downe into the mire my poore neighbor all which was cleane contrarie to the loue which thou hast appointed whereby I haue deserued thy curse vnto euerlasting condemnation But most mercifull Sauiour I appeale to thy high throne of mercie beseeching thee from the bottom of my hart to forgiue me al the sins of my youth and al that hitherto I haue cōmitted both ignorantly and wilfully And furthermore oh Lord I pray thee to giue thy grace from aboue that I may abandon all selfe-loue as a thing which thou most despisest And also let me not do as the worldlie rich yoong man did which would know the means whereby he might be saued who as soone as hee vnderstood that he must sel all that he had and distribute it to the releefe of his poore neighbors which stood in great necessitie he went away very heauie bicause he was maruelous rich But giue me grace good Lord so to loue my neighbor that I may do as Zacheus did who said Behold Lord the halfe of my goodes I giue vnto the poore if I haue done any man wrong I will restore it foure fold againe Heer was thy grace O Lord heer was not selfe loue but heere was brotherly loue the loue which thou hast appointed to be in euerie Christian that seeketh for saluation in thee put this loue into my hart oh Lord that I may loue thee with all my hart and my neighbor as my selfe put from me good Lord all rancor and malice all debate and strife O Lord thou hast in thy holie Gospel commanded all men not onlie to loue their friends by whome they reape profit but also to loue euen their enimies by whom they haue receiued losse and damage how far this loue is from me thou oh Lord canst tell Thou commandest me to loue and I hate thou commandest me to be fauorable and I am enuious in fine thou commandest me to bee charitable vnto all men and I am filled with rancor malice strife debate and contention with innumerable other vices which thou oh Lord hast commanded the contrarie What is the cause that I should behaue my selfe so contrarie to thy commandements Truly mine owne blockish negligence which hath so sore blinded my mortall eies that I am not able to looke into the mysteries of thy holie word which should be my guide and leader vnto the knowledge of thy heauenlie wil. What is the reward of al this wickednes which I haue and do daily commit Thy holie Apostle Paule doth make mention in these words saieng The reward of sin is death but what death the death of the bodie yea truly and that which is woorst euen the death and condemnation of the soule Sithen oh Lord that thou of thy great mercy hast giuen me the grace to see and know what is sin and what is the reward thereof I beseech thee oh most merciful Sauiour giue mee also the grace to flie from sin and cleaue vnto godlines least that I knowing and will not knowe be accounted among those which sinne against knowledge which is a sinne against the holie Ghost and therefore as some thinke irremissible Oh Lord I beseech thee forgiue me all that is past and guide me to turne vnto thee renew also good Lord a right spirit in me that I may liue in thy law which thou hast appointed me grant this oh sweete Sauiour for thy death and passion sake Amen A praier to be said in any kinde of tribulation desiring God to giue patience vnto the afflicted that they may endure whatsoeuer his fatherly wisedome will lay vpon them IT is an vnpossible thing for any mortall eie O most mercifull father to see into the depth of thy wisedome and how thou goest about to call home thy children being gone astray Thou first dost touch them with thy fatherlie correction as being loth to make them despaire and as the prophet Dauid saith Like as a father pitieth his owne children euen so is the Lord mercifull vnto all that feare him Thy correction good father is only fauorably to chastise thy children being erred from the truth to cal them hom by a little and a little vnto the knowledge of thee againe and then they being once reclaimed thou doest withdrawe thy rod from them I beseech thee oh heauenlie father giue me patience patiently to suffer whatsoeuer thy fatherly goodnes wil lay vpon me and diligently to wait the time when it shall please thee to ease me of my trouble that with the prophet Dauid I may say Oh giue thanks vnto the LORD for hee is gratious and his mercie endureth for euer Let them giue thanks whome the LORD hath redeemed and deliuered out of the hand of their enimie and gathered them out of the lands from the east from the west from the north and from the south They went astray in the wildernes and found no citie to dwell in so they cried vnto to the Lord in their trouble and he deliuered them out of their distresse He led them foorth by the right way that they might go to the citie where they dwelt O that men would therefore feare the Lord and declare the woonders that he doth for the children of men For he satisfieth the emptie soule and filleth the hungrie with goodnes such as sit in darknes and in the shadowe of death being fast bound in miserie and iron Heer O most merciful father dost thou shew thy gratious goodnesse vnto me thou releeuest euerie soule that calleth to thee faithfully in distresse O good Lord I beseech thee giue me grace to call vpon thee by faith for as the scripture saith Whatsoeuer is not of faith is sin and he that asketh not faithfully can not obtaine Grant this O most mercifull father and whatsoeuer else thou knowest to be needfull for me for thy deere sons sake Iesus Christ our onlie mediator and aduocate to whom with thee and the holie Ghost be all honor power praise and glorie both now and euermore Amen A praier to be vsed when the lust of the flesh doth rage wherin the gift of continencie is begged ALmightie and most mercifull father I beseech thee