Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	arise_v	lord_n	people_n	1,152	5	4.9500	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40340	Honest, vpright, faithful, and plain dealing with thee O army of the common-wealth (so called) without flattery, in true unfeigned love to thee with something more particularly unto the officers of the army, and those that join with them in the outward government of this nation : wherein truth, uprightness, and equity is declared for, and deceit, wickedness, oppression, and tyranny is declared against / by one who loves the prosperity of truth, and the good and well-being of all creatures, George Fox the younger.	Fox, George, d. 1661.	1659 (1659)	Wing F2005A; ESTC R37833	11,867	16

Honest Vpright Faithful AND PLAIN DEALING With Thee O ARMY OF THE COMMON-WEALTH OF ENGLAND So called Without flattery in true unfeigned Love to thee With something more particularly unto the Officers of the ARMY and those that join with them in the outward Government of this Nation Wherein Truth Uprightness and Equity is declared for and Deceit Wickedness Oppression and Tyranny is declared against By one who loves the prosperity of Truth and the good and well-being of all creatures GEORGE FOX the younger LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. Honest Vpright Faithful and Plain Dealing with thee O Army c. AT your first going forth there was a true honest Principle which stirred in the hearts of many of you which convinced you of sin in the particular and it also shewed you the desperate wickedness cruelty tyranny and oppression which was upheld by unjust and unrighteous Laws and Rulers whereby the honest people were much oppressed and in several of you there arose a true zeal against this abomination and then I know your lives and what you had was not dear to some of you but was freely given up to do your Nation service in breaking down that oppression and tyranny which was brought upon it by the Enemies of God and it and then a mighty courage and boldness arose in many of you against oppression and oppressors and the Lord appeared with you against them because they were his Enemies and sought to destroy the very appearance of truth and then many of you were low and tender and the hearts of such people as had honest desires in them and breathed for liberty they were much affected with you and the cause you declared for and vowed and engaged to be true and faithful unto and then the Lord appeared with you in the field giving you mighty Victories over your Enemies that so he might make way for his living truth to be spread which was then stirring in his people and the Lord vveakned his Enemies before you and ye savv his mighty hand therein and his mighty Work in overturning those his Enemies prospered in your hands for he made you instruments therein until he had scattered his Enemies and then he gave you povver and opportunity to accomplish that you had vovved and engaged to do and vvhich his light in your hearts had shewed you that you ought to have done But you not keeping to that which first appeared in you and made you sensible of the oppression that was upheld by the unrighteous Laws Lawyers and Rulers an earthly selfish spirit got up in many of you which exceedingly increased covetousness and pride in you and then the greatness of your pay and the spoile of your enemies and idleness and the fulness of the creatures began to be more delightful to many of you then the liberty you once declared for and then some among you began to see how deceit and hypocrisie crept in amongst you and appeared against it but you whose hearts went after your covetousness and self-seeking soon stopt them either by threatning them or by advancing them into greater places or by turning them out of the Army and thus you began to back-slide and then deceit began to wax strong among you and several of you began to settle your selves in the earth and in your Enemies Estates and then you little regarded the oppression that others suffered under you being at ease your selves and thus the Enemy beguiled you and deceit wrought in you even as it did amongst some of the Sects and Opinions for in many of them there was a true Principle of God stirring once which convinced them of their own sins and also shewed them the cruelty wickedness and deceit of the Bishops and Prelates and others and caused them to witness against such but they not keeping to the measure of God in them a worldly carnal deceitful spirit increased in them and then they soon began to settle themselves in another form without the life and power of God which was as bad in the nature and ground of it as that they had witnessed against only it had another Name And in the same manner have ye acted for ye going from the measure of God in you which shewed you the cruelty of the oppressors vvhich ye had fought against ye soon began to settle the same thing in the nature and ground of it among your selves which you had fought against in others onely in deceit and hypocrisie you gave it another Name And then truly great Wickedness encreased among you which made the heart of the righteous sad even the same as abounded among your Enemies which God overthrew for their Wickedness yea for then many of you ran into hunting hawking bowling Horse-racing drinking and other vain Games and Sports and Lusts and Excess and Pride both in your Dyet and Apparel and your behaviour was grown so lofty many of you that you became a burthen to all honest-hearted people who once had an honest love going forth towards you but this your Wickedness caused their love to wax cold towards you and many who were your true friends became ashamed of you because of your backslidings And you raised up the spirit of enmity and bitterness in your Enemies more and more against you by these things which you ran into yea you gave them great advantage by your back-slidings and some of you saw these things many times with Gods Witness but ye not keeping to Gods Witness in you deceitful fears arose in you which stopt the mouth of truth in you when you should have witnessed against the Wickedness that was amongst you and your fears was lest you should have been turned out of your places and upon this account deceit was grovvn so strong among you and treachery that ye durst not speak your minds one to another for fear ye should be betrayed one by another and so turned out of your places And thus deceit and a slavish spirit possest ye even till you had lost your Dominion and Authority over your Enemies then many of you became afraid to do that vvhich vvas just many times lest your Enemies should be more displeased with you and in deceit ye bowed many of you even to your Enemies and sought more to please them then to do that you had engaged to do then you turned out many of your friends and took in many of your Enemies and mixed your selves with them yea you turned out many of your faithful friends onely for coming into the life and obedience of that which many of you professed in words and pretended once that you fought for the liberty of O ARMY this is plain truth to thee vvithout flattery and thus falshood overspread you until the honest principle that once stirred in you was almost destroyed and then ye little regarded the sufferings of the innocent nor the oppression that vvas in the Land but ye rather sought to