Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	arm_n	great_a	lord_n	1,164	5	3.4827	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11670	The intentions of the armie of the kingdome of Scotland, declared to their brethren of England: by the commissioners of the late Parliament, and by the generall, noblemen, barrons, and other officers of the armie	Scotland. Army.; Henderson, Alexander, 1583?-1646, attributed name.; Scotland. Parliament.	1640 (1640)	STC 21921; ESTC S120784	10,414	16

just ●esires and grievances of the Subjects as they have made manifest by breaking up of the Parliament in both Kingdomes though we know them to be often countervoted by many of that Honourable Board more candid and peaceably minded To sit still in senselesnesse and security wayting for our own destruction at the discretion of our mercilesse enemies which were it not at this time with the Cause of God would move us the lesse is not only against Religion but Nature teaching and commanding us to study our owne preservation To indure continuall threatnings and so great hostility and invasion from yeare to yeare which is the professed policie of our enemies is impossible and when we have examined our own strength more then we are able to beare We have therfore after much agitation and debating with and amongst our selves resolved to have our proceedings which have been canvased by so many and are brought to some point of determination in our own Parliament to be better known to the Kings Majesty and the world and especially to the Kingdome of England that against all false and artificiall relations they being nakedly seen to be what they are we may obtaine a better grounded and more durable peace for the injoying of our own Religion and Laws and as we desire the unworthy Authors of our troubles who have come out from our selves to be tryed at home and justice to be done upon them according to our own Laws so shall we presse no further processe against Canterbury the Lievtenant of Ireland and the rest of those pernicious Counsellours in England the Authors of all the miseries of both Kingdomes then what their own Parliamant shall discerne to be their just deserving When we look upon this work of reformation from the beginning and perceive the impressions of the Providence of God in it we are forced in the midst of all our difficulties and distresses to blesse God for his Fatherly care and free love to his Church and Kingdome and to take courage and spirit to proceed in patience aed perseverance whither He shall goe before us and lead us on When the Prelats were grown by their Rents and Lordly dignities by their power over all sorts of his Majesties Subjects Ministers and others by their places in Parliament Councell Colledge of Justi●e Exchequer and High Commission to an absolute Dominion and Greatnesse and setting the one foot upon the Church and the other upon the State were become miserably Insolent even then did the worke begin and this was the Lords opportunity The beginnings were small and promised no great thing but have been so seconded and continually followed by divine providence pressing us from step to step that the necessity was invincible and could not be resisted It cannot be expressed what motions filled the heart what teares were powred forth from the eyes and what cryes came from the mouthes of many thousands in this Land at that time from the sence of the love and power of God raysing them as from the dead and giving them hopes after so great a deluge and vastation to see a new world wherin Religion and Righteousnesse should dwell When we were many times at a pause and knew not well what to doe the feares the furies the peevishnesse and the plots of our dementat adversaries opened a way unto us and taught us how to proceed and what they devised to ruine us served most against themselves and for raysing and promoting the worke O Providence to be adored Although neither Counsell nor Session nor any other Judicature hath been all this time sitting and there have been meetings of many thousands at some times yet have they been kept without tumult or trouble and without excesse or ryot in better order and greater quietnes then in the most peaceable times have been found in this Land When we were content at the pacification to lay down arms and with great losse to live at home in peace our wicked enemies have been like the troubled Sea when it cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt and will have us to doe that which it seems the Lord hath decreed against them The purity of our intentions farre from base and earthly respects the bent and inclination of our hearts in the midst of many dangers the fitting of instruments not onely with a desire and disposition but with spirit and abilities to overcome opposition and the constant peace of heart accompanying us in our wayes which beareth us out against all accusaions and aspersions are to us strong grounds of assurance that God hath accepted our worke and will not leave us we know the Lord may use even wicked men in his service and may fill their failes with a faire gale of abilities and carry them on with a strong hand which should make us to search our hearts more narrowly But as this ought not to discourage his own faithfull servants who out of love to his Name intend his honour walke in his wayes find his peace comforting them his providence directing them and his presence blessing them in their affaires So can it not be any just ground of quarrelling against the worke of God Yet all these our incouragements which have upholden our hearts in the midst of many troubles could not make our entry into England warrantable if our peace which we earnestly seek and follow after could be found at home or elsewhere Where it is to be found we must seek after it and no sooner shall we finde it clearly secured to us but by laying down our Armes and by the evidences of our peaceable disposition we shall make it manifest to the world and especially to the Kingdome of England that we are seeking nothing els but peace and that our taking up of Armes was not for Invasion but for Defence No man needeth to plead by positive law for necessity It is written in every mans heart by nature and in all actions we find men have received it by practise that Necessity is a soveraignity A Law above all Law is subject to no Law and therfore is said to have no Law Where Necessity commandeth the Laws of nature and Nations give their consent and all positive Laws are silent and give place This Law hath place somtimes to excuse somtimes to extenuate and somtimes to justifie and warrant actions otherwise questionable and no greater necessity can be then the preservation of Religion which is the soule of the Countrey which is the body of our lives who are the members and of the honour of our King who is the head All these at this time are in a common hazard and to preserve and secure all we know no other way under the Sunne And if any be so wise as to know it we desire to here it and shall be ready to follow it but to take order with our common Enemies where they may be found and to seek our assurance where it may be given The Question is not whether