Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	adversary_n	beauty_n	zion_n	48	3	8.9497	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35684	Pelecanicidium, or, The Christian adviser against self-murder together with a guide and the pilgrims passe to the land of the living : in three books.	Denny, William, Sir, 1603 or 4-1676.; Barlow, Francis, 1626?-1702.	1653 (1653)	Wing D1051; ESTC R22350	177,897	342

Not in the Acknowledgement Seneca Controverting the matter brings in such a Criminall Modestie Gravius punior nunc cum peccasse pudet quam cum peccavi Ti 's more Irksome to unload than to bear my Burthen He had a kind of proud Lazinesse that he was loath to confesse But it is better adjudged Minus est quod vitiat it quam quod negavit Lesse is the Evill in the Deed than in the Denyall Periculosius est negare quam commisisse what hope of that Patient that will not acknowledge himself sick How canst thou come near Pardon when thou block'st up Confession When that is the way to It. As Christ and the Sanctified Intellectuall nature of Man His Church are Relative as Bridegroom and Spouse Sin likewise makes a Contract with the Wicked man's Soul But ti 's A Dower with a Mischief The wages of Sin is Death Thou Distressed Christian since it hath been so with thee that such an unlawfull Marriage hath lept into the Saddle Let Repentance ride upon the Crouper Better is a Cramp in thy Jawes than a Convulsion in thy Bowels than a Stich at the heart Repent Thou Know'st the nature of thy Sin best It is thy Dear Acquaintance thy Familiar thy bosome-Friend But trust it not It has betray'd thee And will undo thee Look about thee then in time For the Philistins are upon thee Break the Fetters Rend asunder the Cords that bind thee In time Repent Small Matters have their Great Effects in All humane Actions One Word misunderstood One Opportunity or Instant of time slipt hath many times occasioned so much Danger as even the Overthrow of an Army Of the Action and the Actors Thou hast undertaken A Mighty war against Three Confederates those Three Conspirators in one Combination The World The Flesh and the Devill One word makes good thy Battel Repentance If the word be not given Or not Rightly And in time too Thou maist nay thou wilt lose the day by 't Custome hath taught Nations Reason Men and Nature Beasts that self-defence is more than Lawfull It is Necessary Stand to thine Armes then Betake thee to thy Tears For the Roaring Lyon goeth about seeking whom he may devour In time Repent When Homer that blind Seer among the Auncients For Poets were their Prophets then discourses of a Certain woman whom he names Ate he sets forth her Character as a Dittie to this tune That shee was Hurtfull and Pernicious to All the Race of men He might mean Eve by it as well as cover another truth under a like Fable in that of Jupiter whom he feigns to have been the wisest of all men living Yet was Once deceiv'd by Iuno by his wife Thereby He might in the dark point at Adam And in A Heathen Language speak good Hebrew sense Thou maist not rightly understand his story And maist mistake the text also Adam left thee much in debt in such a condition as to part with All that thou hadst and to prison too was the sentence thou wert subiect to everlasting condemnation had not one stood in the Gap thou wert within the Penall statute of eternall Losse and never-dying torment It was in vain for the man to put it upon the woman It was no proper excuse It was his own sin It was his own Fault And he and his must pay the Forfeiture This Debt thy Saviour undertook as Sponsor when He should be Incarnate performed it Actually in the wildernesse what Adam should have performed in Paradise adhered and vanquisht as his Active obedience and satisfied on the Crosse for the Guilt that Adam contracted by Non-performance satisfying the Justice of the Father by his passive and was by the Father consummated in him by his Resurrection and Ascension This Score was by Him washed out in thy Baptisme But thine Actuall transgressions though they be cast from that Serpent are Egges of thine own hatching Thou woud'st lay these Bastards to thy First Parents now too Thou woud'st have thy Excuse the Son of theirs No. As Nathan said to David with reverence may I say to thee to my self to any grievous Sinner thou art the man Thou art the Reus laesae Majestatis Thou the Traitor against God thine own Soul Perditio tua ex te O Israel Out of thine own Bed the weeds come Thou art the unprofitable Servant the idle Gardiner the Garden also of wickednesse Thou art thine owne Ate. None more malitious than thou to thy self Thou that reall Pandora that open'st the Forbidden Box That scatt'rest within thy self and poudrest thine own head with all Evills Christ upon thy Resentment and desires is ready to make Intercession for these also for these thine Enormous Sins but as Elisha did the Cure to Naaman in such another Leprosie He must wash at his appointed waters at Jordan where thy Saviour bath'd for thy sin which likewise shall be Cleansed but his way and upon such Condition Repent and Believe Saint Iohn was sent upon that Embassage mainly to publish the Doctrine of Repentance No Saint Iohn no Christ. No Repentance no Salvation If thou beest not baptized in water with the Baptisme of Repentance of the Remission of Sins thou hast no part in the Baptisme of Fire the purification and purgation of Sins with the Holy Ghost No Regeneration no Resurrection no Glorification Take then S. Iohn's Advice He preaches to thee Now the Ax is laid to the root of the Trees Every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good Fruit shall be hewed down and cast into the Fire To Day sings the Psalmist if you will hear his voice harden not your hearts as in the Provocation as in the day of temptation in the wildernesse It is an Invitatory Song Repent What else can'st thou ought'st thou do Fellow Christian whither else woud'st thou turn thee Turn thee Look upon thy self as Ieremie on the Jewes How doth the City sit solitary that was full of People full of Graces which thy Sins have sent into Exile How is shee become like a widdow How is shee become Tributary shee weepeth sore in the Night and her teares are on her Cheeks Among All Her Lovers shee hath none to comfort Her All Her Friends have dealt treacherously with her they have become her Enemies c. Her Adversaries are the chief her Enemies prosper For the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions her children are gone into Captivity before the Enemy And from the Daughter of Zion all her Beauty is departed Her Princes are become like Harts that find no pasture and they are gone without strength before the pursuer c. Her filthiness is in her Skirts Shee remembreth not her last end Therefore shee came down wonderfully She had no comforter c. The Adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things For she hath seen that the Heathen entred into her Sanctuary whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy Congregation Where are All thy