Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	battle_n	great_a	slaughter_n	1,027	5	9.5987	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03425	The king's request: or, Dauid's desire A sermon preached at the last generall fast holden at Yorke, the 21. of Aprill last. By Phinees Hodson Doctour of Diuinity, and Chancellour of the Metropoliticall Church of St. Peter-Yorke.	Hodson, Phineas, d. 1646.	1628 (1628)	STC 13551; ESTC S104137	19,311	38

hee may euer dwell There againe is God David and the Temple And thirdly the end of his desire to dweell there to behold the beauty of the Lord and to visite his Temple There againe is God Dauid and the Temple So the parts are three and these are one and one hath all But in euery of these one is most eminent in the first David in the second the Temple in the third God Frist David in his humble maiestie A petitioner and therein humble But importunate and therein he weares a badge of maiestie In the second the Temple indeed the Tabernacle in her glory the Lords house for a house can haue no greater honour then to be domus Dei In the third you haue God discouer'd in his sweetest forme The beauty of the Lord which made Davids heart and his tongue run vpon that place where he beheld such beauty Of these the first is for the second and both are for the last He prayes in the first part and the end of his prayer in the second place is that hee may dwell in Gods house And he prayes to dwell there in the third place that he may behold his beauty In the first he is a suitor to God His suit makes way that he may be soiourner with God He sues to soiourne and that not for a time but all the dayes of his life that hee may see his beauty For that was the Architectonicon to all his desires and endeuours Hee prayes to God and will haue no nay for that he desires he will require Secondly if he may be heard he would dwell in a place from whence he would neuer remooue all the dayes of his life And no maruell if importunate in his suit no maruell if pleased with his seat that had such a prospect such a spectacle as the beauty of the Lord. This appeares He that sets vp his rest on Gods seruice shall finde and see that shall euer delight him But hee must be desirous and diligent too whom God admits to behold his beauty He that so loues God as he makes him his Vnum his darling will be diligent for nothing works diligence so much as loue hence is Ditectio one of loues names And he that is diligent shall suerly speed Let but Mary be so diligent as to rise early and come first to the Sepulchre and she shall first see Iesus Mark 16. And this Vt Videam is the Center of my Text wherein all the lines of the circumstances meet his Petij his Requiram For this he prayed for this he importuned This was his Vnum that so seriously sent him to God for this he would bee in Gods house not onely repaire thither but dwell there and that not for a time but all the dayes of his life all was to this end Vt Videam Now to the parts wherein David the King appeares with his Petij To desire and pray is ordinary with Gods Saints but to tell of it is not so Here he tels what he had done and what hee will do He had prayed this is worth the enquiry why he tels vs what he had done He had no doubt found extraordinary comfort by it and could not conceale it For when persecuted by Saul he had many enemies and few friends suffered much and in reason could see no end of his sorrow by his prayers he seeks to support and sustaine himselfe in that his desolate condition Nor was he frustrated of his hope God speakes peace vnto him and thence he cheeres himselfe in his God from whom he receiued assurance that in his owne time he would make good that honour which he begun in him Hence in the midst of all dangers he not onely escapes not onely feares not but with confidence triumphs ouer his enemies The Lord is my light and my saluation whom then shall I feare their rage and fury was so farre from ouerthrowing him that they were not able to shake him A house may shake and yet stand many a day But all their forces cannot make him affraid And to manifest his courage he doubles his chalenge Quem timebo à quo trepidabo And yet it seemes there was cause why he should feare For his enemies came with that confidence against him that they came rather to the slaughter than to battell to deuoure than to fight for they came to eat vp his flesh the second verse of this Psalme so great was the ods But the ods was not so great for them at first as it was against them at last for they stumbled and fell verse 2. But hee was set vpon a rock verse 5. and his head was lifted vp aboue his enemies round about him verse 6. They lower for all their power and aduantage he higher that seemed a prey vnto their teeth But though he haue escaped hitherto it will not be so still The pitcher goes often to the Well but at last comes broken home what if Sauls troopes were disapointed or defeated it cannot serue his turne An army is prepared nay ready in the field all waies are laid to intercept him and if they misse and he stand out for a time the warre shall bee continued which shall neuer end but with his destruction For all this David is still where he was Nor army can daunt him nor further preparation driue him from his trust the verse before my Text. But how came he to this courage whence got he this assurance surely euen in the Sanctuary where malefactors themselues are freed And shall not God secure his children that serue him there that 's content wicked men be safe that fly thither He had learned and found in the Sanctuary that the Lord was his light and his saluation and because of such comfort he could neuer haue enough whilst his enemies are in the field he betakes himselfe to the Church this was his care this his endeauour this his sute Vnum petij Others assail'd fly to worldly succours they prouide armies and mony the sinewes of armies and all great actions They enter treaties conclude leagues strengthen themselues by factions and friends build Magizins for munition raise Forts fortifie Citadels and Castels take all courses to strengthen themselues and weaken their aduersaries What David in this case did this way I examine not perhaps he had sometimes more sometimes lesse of these aduantages But whatsoeuer else hee did he slipt not this to get himselfe either in his person or his desire to Gods house Other things to him were but the By this was the Maine of his strength you would thinkt it were all By and Maine for it was his Vnum And if it were not all he did it was all he desired to doe If he wanted any thing there he sped If he got any thing there by his thankfulnesse he had it doubled Therefore would he dwell there to pray too and praise God all the dayes of his life Surely our condition in many respects is not vnlike Davids