Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	clothe_v	crown_n	shame_n	982	5	9.2881	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91570	The nevv distemper. Written by the author of the Loyall convert. Hilar. de Trin.Lib. 4. Hoc habet proprium Ecclesia; dum persecutionĕpatitur, floret; dum opprimitur, proficit; dum læditur, vincit: dum arguitur, intelligit; tunc stat quum superari videtur.	Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.	1645 (1645)	Wing Q110; Thomason E17_20	19,252	30

and mollify your hearts Behold behold the miseries of your land and if Compassion be not banisht from the earth pitty O pitty the approaching Ruines of this your groanning this your native kingdom Heare O harken to the sad Complaints of your afflicted petitioners and if your hearts be not of Adamant relent and let them not in vaine petition for their lives Let the breath of this distempered kingdom contracted into one extreame sigh move you to the speedy endeavours of a timely Cure Inquire into her Constitution Examine her distempers and reduce her to her first Principles Try no experiments upon a body so declined and let not the Acutenesse of her disease perswade you to a desperate remedy Look O look back into the blessed dayes of Queene Elizabeth Observe what blessings we then had both by Sea and Land What plenty what successe what victories what honour abroad what unity at home and indeed what had we not that could make a kingdom happy Reduce us O reduce us to that happy government and let not the eagernesse of a Reformation be a means to want men to be Reformed or matter for a Reformation Remember O remember that great Reformer Christ Jesus He was against all blood shed but his own for that blood sake follow his Example Or if the way must needs be made by blood let it light rather a little upon many Generations then all upon one the ruine whereof will deny us an other Generation Let not the children of your Mother sterve in the land of bread and let not the foundations of your naturall kingdom be longer dabled in unnaturall blood Turne O turn your eyes upon her breaches and let not strangers Lord it in her Gates For the mercyes of that God which hath been mercifull to you be mercifull to millions of Christians whose lives depend upon your Care be mercifull to millions of children that know not their right hands from their left be mercifull to generations unborne to whom when deep Records shall bring the Chronicles of your Actions ages to come may magnifie your Merits For his sake that is the Prince of peace as you desire to meet peace upon your Death beds let this Sea of blood already spilt be thought sufficient For the whole body of Englands sake who have trusted their power into your hands that have cast all their welfares upon your wisdomes for their sakes that venture their lives and fortunes upon your providence for your own sakes for your tender wives and dear children sakes for the God of mercyes sake as you love mercy for Christ Jesus the God of peace his sake as you prize the peace of a Good Conscience hearken to and ensue peace while there is a possibility of Peace Darken not that Religion with the black storms of contention you professe to glorifie Lessen not the glory of that Church by partiality which you have promised to beautifie Draggle not that Gospel in the sinks of bloud which you have protested to magnifie The sinnes of Nineveh were not too great for Gods compassion and shall the offences of poore England be too great for yours Nineveh cryed mightily to heaven and they were spared and shall the miseries of three Kingdomes be hollowed in your eares and not heard Well If Ruine by a forreigne power come Hest 4. 13 which the God of heaven and earth forbid think not with your selves that you shall scape the Fury more then all the rest 14. But if you altogether stop your eares at such a time as this then shall Enlargement and Deliverance arise to England from another place but you and your houses shall be destroyed And who knowes whether you are sent to this employment for such a time as this O thou that art the great preserver of mankind to thee to thee we turne the voyce of our complaint Thou thou art gracious and plentifull in Compassion but in man there is no help Lam. 3. 24 nor mercy in the sons of men Job 13. 15. Thou art my portion O God and I will trust in thee Psal 146. although thou kill me I will not trust in my bow Ps 14. 1 2. it is not my shield that can save me but it is thou alone O God that canst deliver us Deliver us O God from the evil men preserve us from the cruell men which imagine evill in their hearts and make warre continually Have mercy O Lord have mercy upon us 123. 3. for we have suffered too much contempt Heare the mourning of the Prisoners 102 20. and deliver the children from death 83. 5. They have consulted together in heart and have made a league against thee 79. 4. We are a reproach to our neighbours even a scorne and derision to them that are round about us 74. 10. O God how long shall the Adversary reproach thee Shall the enemy blaspheme thy Name for ever Remember the children of Edom O Lord in the day of Ierusalem 137. 7. which said Rase it rase it to the foundations thereof 132. 9. Let thy Priests be clothed with righteousnesse and let thy Saints rejoyce 89. 46. Lord how long wilt thou hide thy selfe for ever Shall thy wrath burne like fire Wilt thou be angry with us for ever 85. 5. Wilt thou prolong thy wrath from generation to generation 84. 9. Behold O God our Shield and look upon the face of thine Anointed Let thine hand be upon the man of thy right hand whom thou hast made so strong for thy self Give thy Iudgements to the King 80. 17. and thy righteousnesse to the Kings sonne that peace may be in his dayes 72. 1. and let his enemies lick the dust Clothe his enemies with shame but upon his head let his Crowne flourish 132. 18. How long shall the wicked O Lord how long shall the wicked triumph 94. 3. They prate and speak fiercely and the workers of iniquity vaunt themselves They smite downe thy people O Lord and trouble thine Inheritance They slay the widow and the stranger 115. 10. and murther the fatherlesse O house of Aaron trust in the Lord for he is our help and our shield He will blesse the house of Israel and he will blesse the house of Aaron Praise ye the Lord ye house of Israel 135. 19. praise ye the Lord ye house of Aaron praise ye the Lord ye house of Levi Ye that feare the Lord praise the Lord. PSAL. 122. 6 7 8 9. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee Peace be within thy walls and prosperity within thy palaces For my brethren and companions sakes I will now say Peace be within thee Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good Hier. sup Epist ad Rom. Quisquis corpus suum affligit concordiam deserit laudat Deum quidem in Tympano sed non laudat in Chore. The End