Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	woman_n	world_n	worthy_a	15	3	6.5182	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03609	The soules implantation into the naturall olive. By T.H.; Soules implantation	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.	1640 (1640)	STC 13732; ESTC S104198	169,253	375

before him and his right hand shall teach thee terrible things therefore if beauty will please thee he is the fairest of all if strength will please thee hee is the strongest of all if riches will please thee hee is more rich if it bee possible than he is strong for Heb. 1.2 he is the heire of all things he is not for a Crowne or a Kingdome or lands or revenues but the heavens are his and the earth and the sea farre and wide and all the depths thereof are his yea and thine also if thou wilt have him Hee is rich likewise in regard of his grace as the Apostle saith Col. 2.3 In him are hid all the treasures of wisedome and knowledge What wouldst thou have eternall life and happinesse then he that hath Christ hath all these for Christ is the Author of life and happinesse to all that have him and hee hath not onely these in himselfe but hee will infeoffe thee in them if thou wilt but match with him If the world and beauty and strength and life and salvation will prevaile it is all thine let the Lord Jesus Christ once have your love and it is done See what the Prophet David saith Psal 63.3 Thy loving kindnesse is better than life therefore my lips shall praise thee You know what we use to doe in the world if a man match with a maid where there is much wealth wee say he is made for ever so say I Truly the world cannot nor will not doe so for you it promiseth faire and performes nothing If thou set thy heart upon riches and honours they will faile thee Where is all the beauty of the world Some sicknesse or other makes many a men ready to run out of his wits for griefe A man is here in health to day and in hell to morrow but if thou wilt love the Lord Jesus Christ he will never faile thee he onely is worthy of the choyce of thy affections therefore set them not upon that which cannot comfort thee if thou wilt have Christ set them upon him and all that he hath is thine Secondly Christ as he is worthy of our love so he deserves it if his worth cannot win our love yet let his desert have it It is a great matter to win the affections of a man If a man be never so worthy of himselfe for his parts and gifts yet if hee have wronged me and dealt basely with me and exprest the part of an enemy saith a woman I will not have him no not though he had all the world But it is not so with the Lord Jesus Christ for as hee is worthy of all love in himselfe so hee hath dealt mercifully and graciously with you and therefore he deserves your love deale equally with him and give him what he deserves We have had hard dealings from the world and base usage from these base things never a man here but hath found it so for it hath promised much and done nothing and all the pleasures it affoorded us have left nothing but vanity and emptinesse behinde them Let the adulterer come forth and shew what pleasure he hath ever had by his filthy dalliances and base courses he hath had but an ill match a galled conscience for the present and the expectation of plagues and punishments for ever The world also hath vexed the covetous man and pleasure hath disquieted the ambitious man but the Lord Jesus Christ hath ever dealt graciously and mercifully with his servants In your sicknesse who helped you in your want who supplied you in anguish of heart who revived you was it not the Lord Jesus Christ and therefore doe not onely what religion requires but what reason requires If you love them that love you doe not the Publicanes even the same they doe good to such as doe good to them The Lord Jesus Christ hath loved you therefore love you him and enlarge your hearts to him for ever Ob. Oh but saith the soule I confesse the Lord hath been mercifull and it is his mercie that I live and he hath inlarged himselfe towards me but yet I grow gracelesse What love is this if the Lord Jesus Christ give me these and deny me that which is better than these what love is this I now speake to all that want assurance To all such I answer in three things Three things done by Christ for a sinner though as yet he want assurance Ans I will tell thee what he hath done for thee taking thy selfe in the worst condition First consider that thou livest in the bosome of the Church and that Jesus Christ hath brought life and immortality to light by the Gospel many thousands of poore Infidels and Heathen would bee glad to gather the crummes that fall from thy Table The Heathens never knew the way to a Saviour they never had the meanes to comfort them and is not this mercy then that God hath brought the word of life and salvation to thee and set thee under the meanes for he hath not dealt so with other Nations neither have the Heathen knowledge of his wayes he hath not dealt so with many better than thy selfe I meane better in regard of many actuall transgressions of thine Oh therefore love him for this favour Secondly consider farther what the Lord Christ hath done for thee he hath not onely brought the meanes of grace to thee and planted thee in a land of Goshen where thou didst enjoy them but after thou hadst resisted and opposed them and cast his kindnesse behind thy backe and sleighted his Spirit sinfull wretch that thou art he hath often come and intreated thee to receive mercy and though againe and againe thou hast opposed it yet he hath beene patient and good to thee love him for it Again the Lord Christ takes no advantage against thee as thou surmisest He might have done it and that justly too thou that resistest the meanes of grace it is just that thou shouldst never have them If God had sent thee one way and the Gospel another it had beene just but hee hath not done so therefore love him he deserves it at thy hands Thirdly he hath not onely brought thee under the meanes of grace and beene patient to thee though thou hast resisted the meanes but he hath let in some inkling of his love and come neerer to thee than all this Why should Jesus Christ offer mercy to thy wife and child it is extraordinary kindnes thou canst not but know that there are many in the same family that have the same means and yet remaine in a miserable condition and why are thy eyes opened and thy conscience awakened in any measure every morning you rise and every night you goe to bed blesse and magnifie the Lord Christ that hath dealt thus mercifully with you for he is worthy of it as Jude said Joh. 14.22 Why wilt thou reveale thy selfe to us and not to the world why wilt thou shew mercy