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	hand_n	lord_n	1,184	5	3.6502	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02487	A comparison betvveene the dayes of Purim and that of the Powder treason for the better continuance of the memory of it, and the stirring vp of mens affections to a more zealous observation thereof. Written by G.H. D.D.	Hakewill, George, 1578-1649.	1626 (1626)	STC 12615; ESTC S103633	13,103	40

A COMPARISON BETVVEENE THE DAYES OF PVRIM and that of the Powder treason for the better Continuance of the memory of it and the stirring vp of mens affections to a more Zealous observati on there of Written by G. H. D. D. OXFORD Printed by IOHN LICHFIELD WILLIAM TVRNER Printers to the Famous Vniuersity Ann. Dom. 1626. I said I would scatter them into Corners I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemie least their adversaries should behaue themselues strangely and least they should say our hand is high and the Lord hath not done all this For they are a nation voyd of Counsell neither is there any vnderstanding in them Deut. 32. 26. 27. 28. A COMPARISON BETWEENE THE DAIES OF PVRIM AND THAT OF THE POWDER TREASON c. THese dayes of Purim or of Lots mētioned in the ninth chapter of the booke of Ester were the fourteenth and the fifteenth dayes of the moneth Adar answering in parte to our February inioyned to be kept Festiuall of the Iewes first by Mordecayes letter and then by Queene Esters decree in remēbrance of there wonderfull deliuerance from Hamans bloudy designe for their vtter extirpatiō at that time These daies the like being scarcely to be found againe in holy Scripture I purpose to compare with our day of the Powder plott together with the Authority the Causes and Reasons of the institution of both that from thence it may appeare that the mercy of God was more cleerely manifested in our Deliuerance then in theirs and that consequently we haue greater cause religiously with thankfull acknowledgement to obserue our day then they theires In the opening whereof I will compare plott with plott persons with persons motiue with motiue assurance With assurance preuention with preuention issue with issue moneth with moneth day with day First then for Hamans plot vpon the Iewes it was vndoubtedly a very cruel one thinking it too little too small a satisfaction to hishonor reuenge to lay hands vpon Mordecai he purposed in one day to haue put them all to the sword as the Sicilians did the French in one night young and old women and children without distinction of age or sexe throughout all the large dominions of Ahafhuerosh reaching from India to Ethiopia and comprising an hundred 7 twenty Prouinces yet putting to the sword is not so cruell as blowing vp with powder in as much as in the former some hope is left by teares or prayers or guifts to staie the executioners hand but in the latter none at all For as men are presumed to haue more mercie then beasts and beasts then insensible Creatures Which are altogether inexorable so among them all the two elements of fire and water haue the least mercy and of the two fire specially if it be enraged with store of powder least of all Againe Hamans project vpon the Iewes was not so suddainly to be acted but that they had leasure giuen them to appease the fury of their Aduersary or to procure the Kings fauour as afterwards they did they had oportunity to stand for their liues or to saue themselues by flight or if it came to the worst they had respite to cast vp their accounts and make all things leuell betweene God and their owne Consciences But this proiect of our conspiratours should haue beene acted in a moment in the tourne of an hand in the twinckling of an eye the parties aimed at should neither haue had time to flie nor to fight to intreat nor to threaten to let fall a teare or castvp a sigh for their sinnes or so much as to say or to thinke in manus tuas Domine The cruelty of Haman then extended onely to mens bodies but this of our Conspiratours to their soules they held the maine body of that assembly to be hereticall and that for an heretique so departing this life there is no possibility of salvation and consequently they could not but make account to send all so affected quicke to hell And for the bodyes of the Iewes though after the shedding of their bloud the loosing of their liues they could not haue promised to themselues any decent kind of buriall yet was their case better then to bee torne in a thousand peeces and to haue the shiuers of their bones the sprinkling of their bloud and gobbets of their flesh if any such remained to be cast into far distant places and exposed as a prey to dogs and rauens Besides the cruelty of Haman extended not to insensible creatures as this did to the vtter demolishing of that famous Senate house in which the Ancestors of the Conspiratours themselues had often met to consult about the making of wholsome lawes for the suppressing of vice and the advancing of the honour of the English name We count it but madnesse in a dog to snarle at a stone and can we count it lesse in men to fight with stones and timber Surely if wee should haue held our peace these verie beames stones would haue cried for vengeance and the rather being to haue bin stained with the bloud of so many right noble and worthy personages which is the second point of Comparison The Iewes though at that time the Church of God was in a manner impaled within their nation yet liued they but as strangers nay as vassals Captiues among the Persians as at this day for the greatest part they doe aswell among the Turkes as the Christians It was true though by Haman malitiously vrged that their lawes were diuers from all people neither did they obserue the Kings lawes Haman himselfe the chiefe plotter against them was not onely an Infidel but an Amalakite a mortall enemy to their religion and moreouer being of great place and command he had gotten both the King and the whole state to countenance his designe against them But in this of our Conspiratours the case vvas contrary There Pagans and Infidels Persians Amalakites conspired against the Israelites heere natiue English professed Christians though in truth most vnvvorthy the name of either conspired against their ovvne Countreymen baptized and reioycing in the glorious name of Jesus Christ nay I make no doubt but that some of their ovvne neere kinsmen and of their ovvne romish profession at leastvvise in heart and affection should for company haue perished by that blovve There superiours those of Eminent note and ranke conspired against their inferiours and those of the lovvest and meanest degree in that state Here inferiours against their superiours subiects against their liege Lord and lawfull Soueraigne seruants against their masters for so was one of them at least and that in honourable place and as if it had beene too little to lay hands vpon the King alone they all conspired against that venerable Court the highest in the Land consisting of their lawfull and competent Iudges the murthering of the least of which