Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	able_a	lord_n	power_n	1,161	5	4.7135	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95353	Thanatoktasia. Or, Death disarmed: and the grave swallowed up in victory. A sermon preached at St. Maries in Cambridge, Decemb. 22. 1653. At the publick funerals of Dr. Hill, late Master of Trinity Colledge in that University. With a short account of his life and death. To which are added two sermons more upon the same text, preached afterward in the same place. / By Anthony Tuckney, D.D. Master of St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge.	Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670.	1654 (1654)	Wing T3218; Thomason E1523_2	63,890	147

c nay I am perswaded that none of all these that nothing at all shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord Rom. 8. 33 34. c. And lastly over the last enemy of all which is death and the grave as here in the Text and following Verses O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory the sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the Law but thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ In all observe that it is still through Jesus Christ our Lord and through our Lord Jesus Christ Happy man that could say it and more blessed grace of faith that could prompt and enable him to it but above all most blessed be the Captain of our Salvation who gave that faith such strength and thereby this man of God such a conquest that when world and sin death and hell had done their worst they had done him none but themselves all the mischief by bruising his heel had broken their own head so that now as vanquished and lying prostrate at his feet as Joshuab over the Ganaanitish Josh 10 24. Kings or as a little David over a great Goliath he treads on 1 Sam. 17. 51. their necks trampleth on the Lion and Dragon without fear of hurt their teeth being broken and their sting taken out and in this joyful 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at once Both insulteth over them O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory And withal exulteth and triumpheth in God through Christ Now thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ The enemies here triumphed over are death and the grave 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the latter whereof answereth to the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which if Del-Rio will needs have to be alwayes in Adagial Sacr in 2 Sam. 22. Digress 2. Scripture meant of Hell I must needs say that I think Job was not of his minde for then he would not have so desired to be hid in it as he doth Job 14. 13. And therefore the Jesuite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when he undertakes to prove that it is so understood in all the places of Scripture where it is used though he endevour to cleare no fewer then 87 places did very wisely overlook and leave out this which it may be he could not so well satisfie I grant that you may here finde Hell set down in the Margin of your Bibles but it s not to be found in the Text for that Hell never loseth its victory nor will the prayer no not of a Gregory though never so great whatever they fable rescue any that is once become its prisoner Ours oft translate it the grave and so both here and in many other places it must be meant Generally it signifieth the state of the dead after their dissolution and so the latter word may onely hold out a continuation of what was in the former both very near of kinne and as such you Cant. 8. 6. Rev. 1. 18. Rev. 6. 8. Rev. 20. 13 14. have them often in Scripture linked together In effect they are the same and so the Vulgar Interpreter here in stead of these two words Death and Grave hath the same word Death in both clauses of the Verse and besides transporteth the other words as Beza and others also do Junius in Parallelis who read them thus O death where is thy victory O grave where is thy sting Contrary to the Greek Syriack and Arabick Copies yet in Beza's judgement better suiting with the following Verse in which I crave leave to dissent for I finde the word sting joined to the word death there also He might rather have said that so it would be more agreeable to the Hebrew in Hos 13. 14. from which place this Text is taken with some variation of words which I now passe by but fully agreeing in the same sense Which is to represent death and the grave to us in a double but much different view and posture 1. As an enemy in himself armed and so formidable to all and so death hath its sting and the grave hath or will have the victory 2. As the same enemy by Christ the Captain of our Salvation disarmed and so to the believer made contemptible and so as to such by Jesus Christ death hath lost his sting and the grave shall at last be swallowed up in victory For that is the true meaning of this question O death where is thy sting c. In which the Apostle doth not ask where that was which they never had but what they once were possessed but now by Christ as to his servants are despoiled of I begin with the first Death in it self and as to those Doct. 1 1 Sam. 26. 16. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those sons of death who are not rescued from the power of it hath its sting and the grave hath or will have the victory to which agreeth that proverbial expression Cant. 8. 6. Strong as death which overcometh all and cruel as the grave which spareth none But more particularly 1. Death hath its sting A Metaphor taken from some poisonous Serpent or Scorpion which with its sting poison's wound 's kill 's and this sometimes suddenly unavoidably irrecoverably And this death doth 1. To the bodily life as it is the destruction of it and so life and death are opposed Deut. 30. 15. and if Hezekiah must die he cannot live Isa 38. 1. And were this all yet thus as it is the dissolution and destruction of nature and the violent parting of soul and body those two long acquainted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plat. Gorgias Ethic. l. 3. and near united friends Even pure nature and that in our Saviour himself Matth. 26. 36 37 38 39. innocently recoileth from it But to meer natural men even in the Philosophers account is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and although some of them whilest death was at a distance in a Philosophick bravery could call them fools that were afraid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sophocl Aeschylus Epictetus of it and call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hermach with their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as though not death it self but only our opinion of it were terrible yet usually as divers of them confesse when after all those vaunts and braves death indeed came neer them it had a more grim visage that affrighted them and although some of them even then either out of brutish senslesnesse or some passion of pride could in a desperate frolick rush upon it as the horse doth into the Jer. 8. 6. battle yet in cooler blood it was wont to put them into a shaking fit with the great Emperors pallidula rigida nudula and if Epictetus will except Socrates yet the common rule which obtained with the most sober of them was 〈◊〉

victorious triumphant Conquerour treading on the necks of these vanquished enemies cries victoria and shout 's out with triumphant song O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory In which words as to the strength and elegancy of the expression take notice of 1. His Rhetorical Prosopopaeia and Apostrophe in this Catacleuasticall compellation O death O grave It seem's this man of God durst look these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bugbears in the face and speak out to their heads without fear and astonishment 2. His as elegant but stinging Interrogation Where is thy sting Where is thy victory Which addeth weight to the expression but yet more elevateth and sleighteth the adversary as wholly vanquished and his power and terrour quite vanished 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when Chrysost in● locum sought for it cannot be found This question of the Apostle being like that of Zebul to Gaal Jndg. 9. 38. Where is now thy mouth when hee stood before him speechlesse Or rather like that chap. 1. of this Epistle Where is the wise man where is the Scribe c. v. 20. which he had answered before ver 19. in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they were destroyed and brought to nought And so here when he asketh the question O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory he also had before answered it in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ver 26. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ver 54. both words being strongly significant to our present purpose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is destroyed abolished made idle and vain that it can do nothing at least to our hurt whilest its sting is broken and quite taken out the Bee is become a Drone It is as a vipera medicata that whatever good it may doe to be sure it can doe us no harm but rather as Moses his Serpent becometh a staff in his hand to support him which before he was afraid of and ran away from and might he not then well ask the question O death where is thy sting And then adde O grave where is thy victory when he had immediatly before in the fore-going verse said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it self was swallowed up in victory Thus the strong man is overcome by Luke 11. 21 22. the stronger who by taking out this sting hath taken from him his armor and so even the lawful captive of the Isa 49. 24. 25. mighty is taken away and the prey of the terrible delivered whilest this terrible enemy is thus despoiled and this painted Lion is not armed which is now a foul fault in Deaths Heraldry Now as an Ex-Consul a quondam Tyrant like the beast that was and is Rev. 17. ● not and miserum est fuisse our enemies misery but our happinesse when being once landed on the shore of Eternity we shall with everlasting joy look on death and the grave with all their power and terrour as at waters that are past and amongst Job 11. 16. the many other dead corpses of our Egyptian enemies see Death it self Exod. 14. 30. with 15. 1. Revel 15. 2 3. also dead on the sea-shore and then having the harps of God sing the song of Moses and the Lamb Or if you will this of the Apostle in the Text O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory In which Myrothec pag. 37 31. words Came●o think 's the Apostle hath special respect to that great promise of our Saviour Matth. 16. 18. that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against his Church which gates of Hell he expound's of the power of death and the grave which being weakned and annull'd by the death of Christ he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they shall not be able altogether to prevail as that compound Verb signifieth Something indeed death and the grave are able to doe and that to the elect of God those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those cords and chains of Psal 18. 4. death will be able to draw them to the grave and there for a time keep them bound under their dominion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 valebit sed non praevalebit as he speaketh of death but at worst this will not be alwaies time will be when this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Text which have so long kept us prisoners in the grave shall at last themselves as condemned prisoners be cast into the lake of fire Rev. 20. 14. when the the Elect after all their fore-tastes of this mercy here as it were by faith antedating this Triumph and before-hand tuning the Instrument against that blessed Consort being then fully and for ever freed from this last enemy as well as all others shall sing out aloud this blessed triumphant song which shall then fill Heaven and Earth with the sound of it O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory But more particularly That death even in this life hath lost its sting to such appeareth from this that 1. for any hurt it can doe them they have been enabled to sleight and despise it 2. In regard of that great good it bring 's with it they have earnestly desired that it would come and as chearfully welcomed it when it did 1. For any hurt it can doe them they have been able to sleight and despise it and as it is here in the Text to triumph over it O death where is your sting As though he had said to this Serpent you make an hissing but you hurt not Your Canon makes a roaring but it s no bullet that you shoot but powder which cannot blow me from Christ and my stedfastnesse such Shaw-fowls doe not scare me which instead of being affrighted I can smile at Mors Christianis ludus est So Vincentius nay as Chrysostome expresseth it In 1 Cor. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is such as tenderest Virgins and weakest children could laugh at and although they were more serious then with Sir Thomas More to die Bacon Aug. ment l. 4. ca. 1. p. 205 So also Vespatian died with a jest and Augustus in a complement Ecce miser tuam partem assasti verte alteram with a light jest in their mouths yet they could with an holy derision of their cruellest Tormentors as Laurentius when now broiling on the grid-iron to Decius in that facetious Sarcasme Behold wretched Tyrant thou hast roasted thine own part turn the other It would be too long to relate in particular how ambitious and sometimes too forward Primitive Christians have been by crowds to presse to death and martyrdome blunting the edge of the keenest persecutors swords and choaking those ravenous beasts of prey whose throats were as open sepulchres or Rom. 3. 13. like the Behemoth Job 40. 23. thinking to swallow down all the tenderest age being enabled chearfully to endure the greatest hardship and the weakest sex to over-master strongest pains and torments as so many flea-bites or medicinable

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Theophylact upon the Text. He endured the conflict and in and by him gained the victory or as Chrysostome expresseth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ille pugna●● sustinuit nos coronis triumphis suis ornavit P. Martyr Rev. 4. 10 11. Ezek. 21. 26 27. He got the victory and let us wear the Crown But shall not then humble and thankful ingenuity cast down our Crowns at his feet or rather set them on his head whose right it is and say thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory and honour and power for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created all is by him and from him and therefore let the praise of all be to him for ever It was 1. His death which gave death its deadly wound and by death be destroyed him who had the power of death Heb. ● 14. which is the Devil And this As most gloriously whilest thus in his greatest weaknesse he foileth Satan in his greatest strength vincit dum 2 Cor. 13. 4 vincitur when as a weak man he is overcome of death as the mighty Almighty God hee overcometh both death and him that had the power of it and on the very Crosse made a shew Coloss 2. 15. Musculus Rom. 6. 23. of him openly when he himself was there made a spectacle So most justly for seeing death is the wages onely of sinne he most righteously forfeited that his power and authority by inflicting death on him who 2 Cor 5. 21 knew no sin and thus Jeroboams arm 1 Kin. 13. 4 In Epitaph Nepot Vt Hydrus Crocodilum interficit P. Dammian li. 2. ep 18. Dentes infringes in nimis solido concoquere non poteris sed sicut Danielis bolo Babylonius draco eruciaberis crepabis Del Rio Adagial pag. 250. drieth up when stretched out to lay hold on Gods Prophet and the waspish angry Bee fastening her sting where shee should not hath lost both it and her life together This made Hierom insult over death illius morte tu mortua es devorasti de●orata es but withall he blesseth Christ for it Gratias tibi Christe Salvator quod tam potentem adversarium nostrum dum occideris occidisti its most just that death should die for seising on the Lord of Life who never deserved it and although we did yet just too that we should be delivered seeing our Surety hath satisfied And thus our blessed Redeemer by being lifted up on the Crosse fought with these our enemies from the higher ground and so mortally wounded their head and that spear which pierced his heart brake this string which else would have wounded ours in hoc sign● vinces so that however other Souldiers are wont to be dismaied at the death of their Captains yet we are delivered and so animated by the death of ours his death is our life therefore let him have that praise which he purchased at so dear a price 2. His Resurrection is both the cause and pledge of ours 1 Cor. 15. 20 21. hath a speciall influence into our justification Rom. 4. 25. 8. 34. affording faith by which we are justified Rom. 5. 1. a sure handhold in that it clearly manifesteth that he had paid the debt when the prisoner was set free satisfied Gods Justice when the arrest of death was taken off and then O death where i● thy sting and by opening his own grave had done as much for ours and then O grave Ezek. 37. 12. where is thy victory 3. The imputation of his sufferings death and unrighteousnesse is that which in our justification takes off Gods revenging wrath and the condemning guilt of sin which our Apostle saith is the sting of death and so he saveth us from going down into the pit or at least bringeth us up out of it because he hath found a ransome Job 33. 24. 4. It is the grace of his Spirit by which we are enabled to mortifie the the deeds and lusts of the flesh Rom. 8. 13. which was another sting of sin and so of death which the finger of the Spirit of Christ only take's out It is not our strongest purposes or resolutions that will be able to over-master these enemies a foul sore til it be indeed healed will run though we say it shall not Nor will the Heathens and Philosophers Purgative virtues cleanse this sink in which the best of them so foully wallowed Nor the Papists Purgatories penances watchings whippings lousie shirts or S. Francis his kissing Bonavent in ejus vita cap. 2. or licking of Lepers sores which will cleanse this fretting leprosie The poor woman in the gospel after she had spent all she had on other miserable Physicians could not get her Mark 5. 25. 26 27. issue of blood stopped till she got a touch of Christs garment Porphyric himself confesseth that nothing else can effect this cleansing sola principia Morn de veritat Rel. cap. 27 hanc purgation● perficere possūt By which Principia some conceive were meant the 3 Persons in the blessed Trinity but whatsoever he meant by them I am sure it was the blood of the sacrifice Lev. 14. 14. 15 16. and the oil that cleanseth the Leper in the Law and that by them was meant the blood of Christ and the grace of his Spirit which alone hath power to cleanse and heal both them then and us now under the Gospel 5. They are also the consolations and comforts of the same Spirit of Christ which are the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Lenitives which actually formally take away all that pain and anguish which the sting of sin and death make Gal. 5. 22. Rom. 14. 17. in our consciences such joy and peace are fruits of this spirit and spring from no other root It is the Lord Joh. 10. 11. See Ainsworth on Gen. 25. 2. Jesus who is our good Shepherd and as it is the good Shepherds work and office first to feed his sheep and then secondly to make them lie down and rest so he onely doeth both these to our souls feedeth us in green pastures Psal 23. 2. and makes us lie down at noon yea and at night too Cant. 1. 7. the first in our life time and the other event in death and thence no sting in death to a good Christian 6. Finally it will be his last glorious appearing at the bright lustre whereof the shadow of death will then quite vanish and death it self which till then had continued and prevailed and just then having cut down all before it had as it were completed its conquest shall then for ever be swallowed up in victory And thus we see our Christ who is our all from first to last in this Col. 3. 11. great atchievement of our victory over death put down all and therefore to him most deservedly let be all the praise and if the Philistims when