Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	know_v	see_v	soul_n	5,443	5	4.7990	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60347	A funeral sermon occasioned by the death of Mr. William Rathband an aged and learned servant of Christ, and preached Octob. 13. 1695. at Highgate. By Samuel Slater, M.A. minister of the gospel.	Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.	1695 (1695)	Wing S3965; ESTC R220549	27,757	34

but as comfortable as they can But alas how short is their Arm how many outward and inward Troubles are there which their skill and power cannot reach But it must be granted all that which they can do is not comparable to that which God doth for his People nor to be named in the same day with it All that own a God must acknowledge he is infinitely beyond the greatest of men in power infinitely above the highest and best of Creatures in love What is a broken Cistern that will hold no water to the Well of Salvation the Fountain of living waters What is a pitiful little Drop but one remove from nothing to the boundless bottomless Ocean of Being and Goodness Suppose there were ten thousand thousand worlds and put them all together what would they all be to one God And then though the enjoyment which the Saints have of God now doth far exceed all the sinful and sensual enjoyments of carnal and profane Worldlings which was the reason why Moses did esteem the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt and rather chose to suffer affliction with the People of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season and made that Noble Italian Marquis Galeaceus say Cursed be that man who counts all the world worth one hours enjoyment of Iesus Christ. Yet compare the best and fullest and sweetest of the Saints enjoyments here with those in the mansions above and they fall exceeding short of them for what is sitting under the shadow of Christ to the beholding of his glory what is the joy of Faith to that of sight what is a love letter or message of peace or kind token from God now and then to a lying in his bosom to a being and continuance in his joy what is seeing of his power and glory in the Sanctuary to the beatifical Vision what is seeing in a glass darkly to a seeing face to face seeing as we are seen and knowing as we are known what are the first-fruits of the Spirit to the whole harvest what some Praelibamina foretastes to a sitting down with Abraham Isaac and Iacob in that Kingdom of God at the feast of glory and there taking the fill of love to all eternity while the Saints are present in the body they are absent from the Lord and a state of absence neither doth nor can afford satisfaction the holy Soul during that will with the enamoured Spouse be longing and crying Make haste my Beloved and be thou like a Roe or young Hart upon the mountains of spices It is only in the glorious presence of God that such an one will find a fulness of joy and at his right hand those pleasures which are for evermore Let us now come to the improvement of this Point in a way of Application and the first Use shall be for Information in three things If it be just matter of rejoicing to holy Souls that at death they go to God then from hence First We may learn the folly and misery of those who do now depart from God whose lives are nothing else but a continual departure from him Yea in the very Acts of Worship when they draw nigh to him with their lips their hearts are estranged and far from him running after their covetousness The folly that is in this course of life is very apparent and the misery that certainly attends it will be one day no less sensible but there are too too many among us guilty hereof some through the principle and power of Unbelief their not giving credit to the reports of the Word neither to its dreadful Threatnings nor to its sweet and gracious Promises Do you I beseech you look carefully to it that there be not in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God Others yea and the same persons too make this departure from God out of love to the world for if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him And it is no wonder to see men going from that place and company where and with whom they do not love to be have a care of the world therefore let it not bewitch you While ye live in it be ye not devoted to it but weaned from it If you do set your hearts upon the world you will turn your back upon God Demas saith the Apostle hath forsaken me and in forsaking him he forsook Christ what was the reason of it but his embracing this present world 2 Tim. 4. 10. How powerful and prevalent are these two things unbelief and love of the world with the generality of men what a vast multitude of persons do they carry away from God! What is there that in a moral way he could have done more than that which he hath done He hath frequently and loudly called them by messenger after messenger he hath most graciously invited them most lovingly and sweetly allur'd them and used variety of means and arguments to conquer their aversness to convince their judgments to gain their hearts and bring them to him yet after all he hath cause to complain Ye will not come to me that ye may have life Nay in stead of coming to him they are running further and further from him as if they thought they could never be at too great a distance whereas they have no cause to run from God for in so doing they run from life and rest and happiness and into the mouth of ruin and destruction and are too far removed from him already They are already without God in the world Ephes. 2. 12. They were born with their backs upon God were Transgressors from the womb going astray speaking and seeking Lyes and so they continue to do for every wilful Sin is a step from God Now I would desire such to consider and that seriously whether this their way be not their folly The Scripture doth expresly tell us They that are far from him shall perish Psal. 73. 27. and that he hath destroyed all them that go a whoring from him And as he hath done so he will go on to do for he is in one mind and in this case Repentance shall be hid from his eyes And to this add one Consideration more You must appear before him at the last whether you will or no though you should call to the rocks to cover you and the mountains to fall upon you and hide you from the wrath of the Lamb and from the face of him that sitteth upon the Throne yet you must appear Now you will not be invited to him as a Saviour then you shall be dragged before him as a Judge Suppose you should then beg and plead Lord Lord open to us what answer can you look for at his hands but this Depart from me for I know you not And how do you think he should know you since as long as you liv'd you would never acquaint your selves with him Oh