Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	let_v	lord_n	love_v	12,105	5	6.4310	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13320	A myrror for Martinists, and all other schismatiques, which in these dangerous daies doe breake the godlie vnitie, and disturbe the Christian peace of the Church. Published by T.T.	Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601, attributed name.; T. T., fl. 1590.	1590 (1590)	STC 23628; ESTC S118084	30,611	40

soules in the other is the saluation of the whole Church The place is pregnant And Saint Augustine proueth that schisme offended God more then idolatrie because it was more grieuously punished as in Chore Dathan Abiram who were schismatiques then in Aaron and them that worshipped the golden calfe who were idolaters The greater punishment most commonly is a token of the greater sinne Also the danger is greater which groweth by conuersing with schismatiques and heretiques then with Painims idolaters which Augustine noteth verie well in these words handling the Psal. 54. Ab his qui longe sunt a me facilis cautio est Non enim me tā cito fallit qui dicit veni Idolum adore multū a me iste longe est Christianus es Christianus inquit ex propinque aduersatur prope est redime Domini pace animam meam ab his qui appropinquant mihi I can easily beware of them that are far off from me He doth not so soone deceiue me that saith come worship an Idoll he is verie far off from me but I saie to another Art thou a Christian Yea forsooth a Christian saith he This fellow standeth néere me and may quickly ouerthrow me Redéeme and deliuer my soule O Lord from them that after this sorte approch and come néere vnto me And Saint Cyprian saith Non aperta tantum periculia metuenda sunt facilior cautior est vbi manifestier formido est plus cauendus est inimicus qui latentur obripit c. It is a most dangerous thing to be separated by anie occasion from the true Church the which God be thāked may be so plainly séene at this day in this realme of England that no man can doubt of it And yet very many haue bin carried awaie from the same through the blasts of false doctrine and some without anie cause haue too too rashly diuorced themselues what color of reformation so euer they haue pretended The Corinthians were very much diuided among themselues one woulde be of Paul another of Cephas another of Apollo and so they attributed as much to theyr Ministers as vnto Christ. They brought their strifes and contentions to the iudgement seate of Ethnikes they suffered an incestuous man who had the wife of his Father to be conuersant among them they thought not whooredome to be sinne they did euery where eate with the Painims of things offered vnto idols they celebrated the supper of the Lord with vnquietnes of minde they abused the gift of tongues neither did they iudge trulie and godlie of the resurrection These were no doubt grieuous blemishes yet notwithstanding Paul did not forsake the Church of Corinth Neuertheles some men can as they thinke with a safe conscience condemne this our most Christian Church both by speaking and writing against it and also by cutting off themselues frō the same gathering themselues together into corners and in secret conuenticles as the Family of Loue the Brownists the Martinists and others like vnto them Such were in olde time theyr predecessors the Donatists who in comparison of thēselues condemned all other Christians They released theyr owne crue from the seueritie of the censure and yet in theyr congregation suffered most impure men namely the Optatians the Gildonians and the Primians Be not ye like vnto those men abstain from theyr companies refraine theyr assemblies frequent not theyr sermons reade not theyr libels defend not theyr opinions but rather detest them By reading hereticall bookes many learned men haue yéelded to error and may not ignorant men much sooner Dionysius Alexandrinus a most learned and vertuous Bishop confesseth to a friend of his that he felt himself much the worse by reading of euil bookes If ye shall presume vpon your constancie knowledge that there can insue no danger Qui stat videat ne cadat Let him that standeth take héed least he fall Yea know he that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith and the wise man saith Qui dormit iuxta sepem mordebit eum coluber He that sleepeth by a hedges side shall be bitten of a snake Euill wordes corrupt good manners so doth euill companie to Furthermore my brethren take heed of self-liking of arrogancie of singularitie and of contempt of wholsome doctrine deliuered by this Church for these are the deuils cordes by which he draweth men at the last into horrible heresies fearfull examples wherof there haue bene too many of late within this lande especiallie in the Countie of Suffolke where sundrie persons within these three or foure yeres both men and women beginning first to bee so singular that they controlled the Ecclesiasticall gouernment present state of the Church fell at the last yet further became plaine Anabaptists denying flatly the power and office of magistrates not staying here fell yet more horriblie into greater wickednesse namely into the heresie of the Arrians most blasphemously denying the Godhead of Christ Iesus For the which most detestable heresies three of them being by the deuill obdurated in their wickednesse namely Lewes Cole and Ket were burned at Norwich and some others of them abiured their heresies openly in the town of Ipswich Let these fearefull examples brethren moue you to beware of contempt of wholsome doctrine and of singularitie and so many of you in whom there resteth as yet such heart burning and diuision about things of no moment as if in religion we were vtterly sundered one from another and had no point of faith at all that were common betwixt vs I doe humblie beseech for Christes sake and of the peace of his Church whereof you professe your selues to bee members that with all speed you returne vnto that vnitie againe from whence ye are most dangerouslie fallen Amemus Dominum Deum nostrum c. Let vs loue the Lord our God saith S. Augustine and loue we his Church also him as our Father and the Church as our mother this matrimony is conioyned with singular loue no man offendeth she one and hath the fauour of the other The Epharamites were of the people of God and yet reuolted awaie from the lawe though still they held after a sorte the profession thereof and hauing so done they so continued a long time after as a wanton vntamed and vnrulie heifer notwithstanding al the warnings that God by his Prophets did giue vnto thē But yet it is recorded of them that at the length they returned againe smiting vpon the thigh and acknowledging that they had committed many shameful things If now with Ephraim ye haue so erred and stept aside pittie it were but that ye should be as ready with him to repent and returne againe Remember what S. Paul writeth to the Ephesians Be ye careful to keep the vnitie of the spirit through the bond of peace Againe One Lorde one Faith one Baptisme one God the Father of all which is aboue all through all and in all Hee saith also that we bée one