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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	save_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	23	3	9.0990	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05406	Ignis cœlestis: or An interchange of diuine love betweene God and his saints. By Iohn Lewis, minister of Gods word at St. Peters in the tovvne of St. Albons	Lewis, John, b. 1595 or 6.	1620 (1620)	STC 15558; ESTC S103072	37,144	136

soule oh where my soule is there let my body be also The fourth marke of our loue of God is tranquility and peace of conscience the loue of God chaseth away feares asswageth cares sweetneth afflictions To them that loue God crosses become blessings their bodily pouerty is a spirituall dyet their banishment teacheth them to leaue this world their sequestring from honours is their approaching to God their enemies are their Physitions causing them to be circumspect and wary death is an entry vnto life afflictions the passage of the red Sea to Canaan Thus he that loues God hath a quiet conscience which like Iacob sleepes securely at the bottome of the ladder of peace The furious tempests of Satans malice the enuious persecutions and slanders of wicked men doe not once moue him but make him more stedfast for nothing can separate his loue from God nor Gods from him The fift marke of our loue of God is our zeale for his glory The sonne of Croesus seeing his father assayled by his enemies in the wars though he were borne and till that time continued dumb yet feare and griefe hauing ouercome all naturall impediments hee presently cryed out Saue my father So the child of God seeing his fathers honour and glory trampled vnder-feet and his most sacred and blessed Name wounded and torne in pieces with most blasphemous oathes is not able to containe himselfe but like the hand will interpose himselfe to saue the head This zeale did exulcerate Paul being at Athens and grieued his sou●e to see the towne so giuen to Idolatry There is no more certaine effect of the loue of God then this zeale if wee be more angry to heare the Name of God blasphemed then our selues euill spoken of This is an assured witnesse that the loue of God is imprinted in our soules Good blood will not belie it selfe All wel●borne children are touched at the quicke with their fathers iniuries The high spirited Gallants of our Age and Nation that stand vpon their owne and friends reputation will rather hazzard their liues then heare a disgracefull tearme put vpon them beloued if we be of Gods seed children of the most high and of the bloud Royall we will rather loose our liues then our father should loose his honour This made the holy Martyrs to step out of their owne element into the fire with greater ioy and willingnesse then worldlings ●it downe at their banquets to refresh them or lie downe on their beds to rest them If we haue the spirits of Eliakim Shebnah and Ioah we will rent our cloathes when we heare Rabshekah raile on the li●ing God Degeneres animos timor arguit Feare argues we come of a bastardly generation If therefore we desire a sure testimony of our loue of God see whether we be zealous for his honour and if neede require to lay downe our life in his cause and quarrell Greater loue can no man haue then this to lay down his life for his friend The sixt and last marke of our loue of God is to loue those that are the children of God Euery one that loueth him that begetteth loueth him that is begotten And if any man say he loueth God and hateth his brother he is a lyar Can a man truely loue his friend and yet hate his picture Can a man loue God and hate those that haue the image of God Doe we not loue the children for the fathers sake Diuine loue is of such a diffusiue and spreading nature that it cannot be confined within the heauens it cannot be limitted to God onely it will redound vnto the children of God also I will neuer beleeue that man loues my selfe that hates my children because they are mine There is such an vnion betweene the godly that the good of one is the good of another and there are good reasons why it should be so they are children of one father brethren with one Christ nourished with the same meate of one houshold namely the Church trauellers and pilgrimes to the same home combatants for the same cause called to the same hope coheires of the same kingdome all which considerations are as so many strait lines meeting in one center which is the loue of God these are so many obligations binding vs to loue one another in Christ in whom we are all one because we are one with him This loue toward our brethren must be shewed in dando condonando in giuing and forgiuing in giuing to them that are in necessitie If a brother or sister bee naked and destitute of daily foode and one of you say vnto them Depart in peace be ye filled and warmed notwithstanding yee giue them not these things which are needfull to the body what doth it profit In forgiuing trespasses against vs committed It is our daily prayer Forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs. All men cannot giue but all men may forgiue he that would giue and cannot of him a cuppe of cold water is accepted for God respects not so much quid as quo animo not so much donum as donantis animum not what but with what minde He that can giue and will not hath neither loue nor honesty Loue without liberality is hypocriticall loue without charity is Diabolicall Thus haue we the markes of our loue of God Whereby we see that many deceiue their owne soules who are religious in speech not in actions who study to be great not good who know God but loue him not at most but in shew not in deede and in truth they confesse God with their lippes and deny him in their hearts We say many of vs that we loue God but when wee come to the touch we are found but adulterate louing sinne which we should not loue and what we may loue we loue too much we make gold our God and set God behind the dore we cast God out of the temple of our hearts and in his roome wee place a golden Idol We say wee loue him yet his commandements are grieuous wee cannot beare them his company is too strict we must needes abandon it his glory is not regarded wee haue no courage for his cause the superfluity of our attire would cloath many of the poore but all is spent in pleasure nothing in piety Thus wee loue God at aduenture but are found to hate him when wee come to the tryall Let vs therefore euery one in the feare of God search our owne hearts diligently and without selfe-sparing dissimulation by these fore-named markes whether we haue this holy and heauenly loue or no if we find this loue in our hearts it is better then money in our purses but if we find that as yet our hearts are not heated with this celes●iall fire of the loue of God like the laborious Merchant let vs take great paines to get this rich treasure into our hearts with which wee haue all things

Text saith he prayed vnto God and got the conquest if we take the same course we shall speed after the same manner for by prayer we shall vanquish and ouer-come all our sinnes which are in this life our greatest enemies and by prayer we shall offer vp a loue-offering sweet and delightfull to the Lord our God Is thy heart barren and deuoyde of grace as Abrahams prayer opened the barren wombes of Abimelechs houshold so shall thine owne prayers open thy barren and fruitlesse heart and draw downe the blessings of grace and goodnesse vpon thy soule The prayer of Moses parted the red Sea that the Israelites might passe into Canaan Thy feruent hearty and faithfull prayers vnto God shall so part thy sinnes and set them aside from thee that by the tract and path of the loue of God thou shalt be able to passe into the heauenly Canaan The prayer of Ioshua made the Sunne to stand still in the firmament thy prayer will make the Sunne of righteousnesse the LORD Iehouah to send forth the beames of diuine loue into thy heart Thus prayer shall be vnto thee a soueraigne antidote against the poyson of sinne and a precious restoratiue to worke grace in thy soule In our greatest tentations wee shall haue comfort so soone as we haue the grace to pray Ascendit precatio descendit miseratio When prayer ascends to God Gods mercy descends to vs. The second meanes wherby we shall obtaine this sweet grace to loue God is by faith in Christ. For we must know that it is impossible for any man to loue God but onely through Iesus Christ if he be not reconciled to God by faith in his Sonne then God is as hatefull and fearefull vnto him as he was vnto Adam before the promise of the Messiah but by faith in Christ he is perswaded of Gods loue toward him he sees God a louing gracious and mercifull father and therefore is not afraid to approach vnto him But he that comes to God without faith is like him that came vnto the feast without a wedding garment whose end we remember but if we come vnto God cloathed with the robes of Christs righteousnesse we shall be as welcome vnto him as the lost sonne vnto the glad father Faith in Christ is the next and immediate cause of the loue of God faith is the fountaine loue is the streame faith is the roote loue is the branch haue faith and haue loue want faith and want loue Faith is the match that must kindle the flame of loue in our frozen hearts But for the attaining of faith the Apostle hath giuen vs charge to vse a necessary meanes which is hearing t●e Word of God By the Word of God we are taught what is our owne misery through sinne and what is Gods mercy in redeeming vs by it we are taught how to put on Christ and to make him our owne which we must doe if we will be saued for it is as impossible for a man to goe to heauen without Christ as to flie into the ayre with great weights at his heeles They therefore that reiect the preaching and reading of the Word and yet hope to be saued are like a simple foole that hopes to liue and yet will eat no meat The soule is the life of the body and the word of God is the food of the soul without the soule the body is dead and without the Word the soule is dead loue therefore the Word that thou mayest liue in it and practise it that thou mayest be saued by it The third meanes to attaine this loue of God is a serious meditation of his mercy toward vs. What man waighing in an equall ballance Gods mercies and his owne merits would not find the one surmounting the other as much as the heauens doe the earth which truely considered would cause vs ardently to loue him then would we say as Augustine ipsi debeo me totum qui fecit me totum I owe my selfe wholly to him that made me not onely wholly but whole when I was wounded with the sting of sinne If it be demaunded what is the cause why men so little loue God I thinke I may safely answere because they consider not his goodnesse for if they did rightly waigh Gods mercy in his workes of Election Creation Redemption Preseruation Vocation Sanctification and Glorification our hearts would burne within vs as the hearts of the two disciples that went vnto Emaus till we did enioy him The Vses of this doctrine are these First it teacheth vs euery one seeing it is such a special marke of the childe of God to desire God to giue vs grace to loue him Qui dilexit nos non existentes imo resistentes He loued vs when we did not exist yea when we did re●i●t Oh let the loue of God beare rule in our hearts and fill our soules let vs loue him in summo gradu in the higest degree and let vs loue nothing but for his sake Let vs loue God for when we sought him Invenimus sed non prauenimus wee found him but he preuented vs he found vs first Let vs set before vs the example of the couetous Mammonist that makes his gold his God Couetousnesse taketh away rest and troubleth sleep his mony is his last thought at his down lying and the first at his vprising So let the loue of God possesse our thoughts in the night let it breake our sleepe disturb our rest let it be the last of our thoughts at our downe-lying and the first at our waking Couetousnes doth shut the heart of the couetous into his coffer where his treasure is So let the loue of God shut vp our hearts in heauen that where our treasure is there may our hearts be also Couetousnes snatches out of the nigards hand the bread he should eat maketh him be content with little So must the loue of God moue vs to abstinence to be content with little to depriue our selues of our fleshly desires for his seruice The couetous man refuseth no labour fore-sloweth no time to get gaine into his purse So let the loue of God incite vs to refuse no paines to loose no time to feare no dangers so we may get grace into our hearts The couetous man hauing put his money to vse calculateth the time desireth that the day of paiment were come that so he may receiue his money with aduantage So we knowing that God hath in his hands our pledge Christ Iesus and that he will repay vs our good workes with aduantage should very much desire the time of payment and in the meane time very preciously to keepe his obligation which is the doctrine of the Gospel The couetous man the older he growes the more greedy he is he liueth poorely that he may dye rich his de●ire of gathering is at the greatest when his tearme of life is at the shortest So must the loue of