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	think_v	5,028	5	3.7942	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44535	The honesty of the Protestant and dishonesty of the popish divinity in a letter to a lady revolted to the Church of Rome / by Anthony Horneck.	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1681 (1681)	Wing H2844; ESTC R28116	32,752	156

you did truly repent of all your Sins or you did not If you did not most certainly you could have no solid peace but if you did truly repent as you say you did what could hinder you from applying the promises made to penitent Sinners to your self which are the true grounds of comfort and satisfaction may be you wanted a Voice from heaven to confirm the promise of the Gospel but have you since heard such a Voice from heaven in the Church of ROME I think not if you truly repented in our Church then certainly by the word of God you were assured that your Sins were pardoned and if they were pardoned why should you not comfort your self with that pardon That which makes you rejoyce now is because you believe your Sins are pardoned but if when you were of our Church you verily believed you truly repented you could not but believe that your Sins were pardoned and consequently you might have taken as much comfort as you do now But the Ministers of the Church of England you say gave me no absolution which the Roman Priest did Why Madam did any of our Ministers deny you absolution when you could assure them that your Repentance was sincere did you ever ask absolution and were you refused Nay I appeal to your Conscience did not those Ministers you conversed withal assure you over and over that you need not doubt of the pardon of your Sins so long as you did detest and abhor them and watch and strive and pray against them and were sincerly resolved to commit them no more and did avoyd the very occasions of Evill and what was this but absolution which however you might have had performed with greater Ceremony if you had had a mind to it It is no very hard matter to guesse at the rise and progress of your peace and satisfaction in the Roman Church All new things please and provided they have but a good face allure our fancy and this being pleased It s very natural to defend them and having once defended them our Love to them advances and by degrees we think our honour and Credit is too far engaged to part with them We see how Children are quieted with new trifles pardon the uncourtly comparison I know not how to shun it and the new object they never saw before surprizes and charmes them makes them fix their Eyes upon it and cry if they cannot have it In the nature of Children we see our own and embraceing new objects which our sickly fancy is roving after is but the Scene of Childrens longing for new play things changed the Novelty of the thing you were venturing upon the new Church new indeed new to you and new to Almighty God which you were to joyn your self to the Stool of Confession in the Church and the Priests new habit and mortified face which perhaps he owes more to his Country than to his Vertue and affected gravity and assuring of you that their absolution had a wonderful Vertue and efficacy all these together surprized you and raised your expectation and struck some kind of reverence into you Your mind being thus possessed with the Idea's of these new thing 's you never tried before and working upon your affections and moving your will to confess to this man of Wonders you naturally fell into a fancy that so much formality and Ceremony different from that you had been used to in our Church had more charmes in it than our plain and honest way and then laid the stress of your pardon upon the new Priests absolution in that formal manner wherewith your fancy being impregnated it soon diffused a cheereful air in your countenance and raised some gladness in your heart because you had now done something more than ordinary as an Antidote against your Sin And from hence arose your pretended peace and satisfaction or delusion rather because you layd the stress of your pardon upon the absolution of that Roman Priest and not upon the sincerity of your repentance If a Priest could forgive Sinn 's whether men Repent or no Then indeed you might have layd the stress of your pardon on that forgiveness of the Priest but since by your own confession that absolution of the Priest signifies nothing except people truly repent for you to build your comfort on that absolution when it should have been founded upon your sincere repentance cannot but be a false fire and a conterfeit comfort if you say you did not fetch your peace from that absolution but from the sincerity of your repentance you catch your self for if your true repentance must be the foundation of it then you might have taken the same comfort in our Church if you still reply you could not you only mean you would not for true repentance is true repentance in any Church and if true repentance causes true comfort it would have caused true comfort in our Church as well as in the Roman and therefore there must be some cheat in this comfort The fancy you have since taken up that the reason why you found comfort in the Church of ROME upon your confession and absolution and none in ours must needes be because the Priests of that Church are true Priests and those of ours are not is as solid as your peace If we have no true Priests in the Church of England then most certainly the Church of ROME hath none The Bishops which in the beginning of our reformation did ordain Bishops Priests and Deacons among us were ordained by Bishops of that Church and if the Character of Orders by their own confession be indeleble then it was not all the thunders and Lightenings of Excommunication at ROME could annul it It 's true your ghostly Father very confidently tells you a Quality incident to that sort of men That our first Protestant Bishops never received Orders from Bishops of the Church of ROME but one would admire what Spirit doth possess these men that they dare contradict all the publick authentick Records we have of their being consecrated by Bishops of the Church of ROME they might as well deny that there were no such Kings of England as Henry 7th and Henry 8th for we have nothing but publick Records to shew for it as deny that the Bishops of the Reformation were never consecrated by Bishops of the Roman perswasion I am perswaded that if any Papist should come into trouble about the title of an Estate he hath and did but know that the name of his Ancestors the manner of the Conveyveyance and his just title were in some publick Record or Register he would soon make use of it alledge it as a sufficient proof and thank God for preserving a Record that is so much for his advantage I know not what can be a better testimony in matters of fact next to Revelation than publick Records and Registers and we dare venture our reputation upon it that in the Authentick Registers of the respective