Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	army_n	raise_v	siege_n	1,147	5	9.1227	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57460	Divine meditations and contemplations upon severall heads of divinity by G.R. compiled for his owne private use, and published for the common good.	G. R.	1641 (1641)	Wing R17; ESTC R25600	72,461	276

and they shall receive right which would not doe right Princes and Popes which none did dare to call in question shall be here both examined and censured and the more mighty men have beene to do wrong the more mightily shall they be confounded Lastly the sentence is very short Come yee blessed Goe yee cursed but of the greatest weight and strength that ever was for this doth not passe on one man or a family or a Nation onely but on all mankind at one time neither is it touching goods and lands or credit or limme or life of the body but it doth concerne bodies and soules too for salvation or damnation and that not for a day or yeare to continue but for ever without any repealing And are these things so what manner of persons ought wee to be then in holy conversation and godlinesse looking for and hasting to the comming of the day of God for these things must so come to passe not to feare or trouble Gods children but to take revenge on his enemies As when some mighty Prince commeth towards a Castle of his besieged by the enemy and bringeth a great army with him to raise the siege this putteth them in no feare which are within but is to them a great comfort and therefore they looke over the walls and rejoyce at it with shouts and cryes but they which are without are perplexed with feare for the hurt which is neare unto them know yee not that to the worlds end the Church is besieged by the devill the world and the flesh then God will come to raise this siege and bring all his enemies under his feete and his comming is not to put them in feare which are within his Church but which assault it and therefore Christ said to his owne Lift up your beads for your salvation draweth nigh and in another place he saith Behold I come shortly and my reward is with m●e to give every man according to his worke Blessed are they that do his Commandements that their right may be in the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the City for without shall be dogges and enchanters and whoremongers and murtherers and Idolaters and whosoever loveth or maketh lies Meditation 45. Hell A Thought of Hell is sad not so sad as to feele the paine and they shall certainly feele it which thinke not oft on it and that sadly too make thy choyce if thou like mine goe forward with mee it is a punishment which shuts us out from the presence of God that is a losse of all good it is a paine of griefe in all parts of man according as their dispostion is to take griefe easlesse that 's the extremity comfortlesse it findes no pity endlesse it hath no remedy it is called the second death a worme of the conscience a bottomlesse pit utter darknesse fire unquenchable a river of brimstone which is kindled by the breath of the Lord of Hoastes there is no order but confusion weeping and gnashing of teeth Wilt know where it is how spatious the rage of the tormentors the fury of the torments the dispaire of the tormented God keepe thee and mee from this experience But is God so infinitely angry will hee so unmercifully forsake so hardly handle these which might have knowne and loved him had hee so listed and can never do him hurt though they would Dispute not vaine clay thou art in the Potters hand to deale with thee as hee pleaseth his judgements are too high for thee beleeve his word obey thy calling follow him which descended into hell to fetch thy condemnation thence and thou shalt find God mercifull to thy soule yea nothing but mercy and in this cause I put thee over for a conclusion of all to the meditation of Heaven Meditation 46. Heaven and the heavenly inheritance THis is not meate for all mouthes art thou truly humbled for thy sinnes persecuted for the truth oppressed in thy right dost thou hate the world and art thou prepared for death then art thou a Gomer fit to keepe this Manna without corrupting but thou must beleeve else shalt thou not understand for most true is that which the Apostle saith We walke by faith and not by sight the things which are seene are temporall but the things which are not seene are eternall and as Saint John saith Now are wee the sonnes of God but yet it doth not appeare what wee shall be and wee know that when hee shall appeare wee shall be like him for we shall see him as he is If a King can do so much what trow you will the King of Kings do for that man which hee meanes to honor he hath already given his Son for thee and by him forgiven thy sinnes he hath given unto thee the priviledg of thy calling the honour of thy profession the liberty of thy conscience the helpes of his Sacraments the use of his Word the communion of Saints the counsell of the wise the familiarity of the good the beginnings of regeneration the proceedings of faith hope and love the fruits of patience peace joy and conscionable dealing last of all that great prerogative the intercession of Christ in all thy prayers if he have done so much for thee in this pilgrimage what will hee do for thee in thy country if thou have had such benefits in the wildernesse what art thou to hope for in Canaan The eye hath not seene the heart of man is not able to conceive how then can the tongue utter them but beleeve thou in thy soule which loves God the things which he hath provided for them that love him this world was made without any provision what a world will that be which God doth provide so long before hand and hee tels thee hee hath provided it that thou mightst know thou canst not be deceived before we have it we have the earnest of it and when wee have it nothing can take it from us so that there is presently an immunity from evill and a security never to returne to evill and there is also plenty and community we enjoy all good yea God himselfe the well of goodnesse therefore wee live still but what wee were is a shadow to what we are yea the best we were is almost nothing to that we are wee were in grace wee are in glory wee live still but more in God than in our selves we rejoyce as much for others as for our selves we are not onely reformed in bodies and soules but also transformed into a divine nature as the Angels free from necessities as Christ highly favoured in Christ as God eternalnally blessed such is the heavenly inheritance of the Saints which although it be common to many yet every one of the family hath his proper right in it and though it be divided yet is not the propriety of any the lesse or the communion the weaker for every one is fully content with his part and doth rejoyce as much in