Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	death_n	saul_n	1,009	5	9.4042	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03792	The troubled mans medicine verye profitable to be redde of al men wherein they may learne pacyently to suffer all kyndes of aduersitie made [and] wrytten by wyllyam Hughe to a frende of his.	Hugh, William, d. 1549.	1546 (1546)	STC 13910; ESTC S109482	59,726	236

consydre the ly●lye● of the felde howe they growe they labour not neyther spynne yet for al the I say vnto you that euen Salamon in al his royalty was not arayed like vnto one of these Wherfore if god so cloth grasse which is to daye in the felde to morowe shall be caste into fornace shall he not muche 〈◊〉 do the same vnto you D ye of lyttell faith Therefore take 〈◊〉 thought sayenge What shall we eate or what shall we drinke 〈◊〉 wherewith shall we be clothed After all these thynges seke the gentyles For your heuenly father knoweth that ye haue nede of all these thynges But rather seke fyrst the kyngdome of god the ryghtuousnes therof and all these shall be ministred vnto you Thus by promyse made by the mouth of Christe wherein was neuer founde disceyte nor gyle we shall lacke nothyng yf we be faithful that is necessary for vs. I haue bene yonge sayth the prohet and I haue waxed olde yet I neuer sawe the ●uste lefte nor ●s sede beggynge breade Psal 〈◊〉 Calte thy cogitations on the lord and he shall nourishe the. 〈◊〉 4. be you carefull for no worldely thynge but with prayer and obsecration lette your petitions 〈◊〉 knowen of god Philip. 4. He that geueth seede to the sower shal giue vs both meat drinke 〈◊〉 Cor. 9. Comforte we our selues therefore beleuynge these promises neuer despairinge vttetly But bicause we beleue those thinges the better whereof we haue profe I wyll bringe examples whereby ye shal se that go● both wil is able to perfourm so muche for his faythful as he hath promised Daniell cast into the lyons denne many a mile from all such frendes as wolde ministre meate or drinke to hym ha●● meat sodenly sent of god by th● prophet Abacuck Sampson almost lost for thirst after the conflict that he had with the Phili●ans praied to god foūd drink in an asses Iawes Agar on the wildernes dispairing of hir o●● life and hir childe 's for lacke 〈◊〉 vittles with many a salte tealaieng the childe farre from her lest hir motherly eyes shuld sed dye was fedde of god cōforted beiond hir expectaciō The poore woman of Sarepta lokyuge to dye with hir chylde the day after the prophet came to hir house had hir oyle meale so augmented the she lacked not tyl the time of plentye returned Therefore whā so euer any lacke happeneth be it of corne or such other necessaries dispaire we not calling to ●emēbraūce this example let vs thinke with out selfes that god is able at al times to encrease out corue ●yenge in the barne growyng in the fylde beynge breade in the ●uen yea or in thy mouth at his pleasure as well as he dyd the oyle or meale of the woman of Sa●epta or the oyle of the dettours wife by his prophet Helise But 〈◊〉 it so chaunce that no hope be left of our temporall norysshmet yet haue 〈◊〉 no iuste cause to dispayre Remembryng that scrypture saith mā doth not onely liue in bread but in euery worde that procedeth frō the mouth of god The omnipotent god dyd vse at mour and weapons yet not necessarily as instrumentes by the which he dyd gyue to his people Israel many victories yet his power was onely the chiefest an● for of the same So though he vse meates drinkes as meanes wherby he nourissheth vs yet the principall cause of our sustentation is his vertue and godly power and as he dydde often gy● victories to the Israelites their handes and weapons not moued at all So hath he also fedde and cā do agayn his faithful though worldly meate and drinke be not vtterly ministred A better proftnedes not than the example of 〈◊〉 oyfes and Hely whom he susteyned with his heuenly power the spaee of fourtye daycs without the ministratiō of any worldly fedynge Therfore as Dauyd sayed my sworde shall not saue me neither yet wyl I trust in my bowe So saye we our meates drynkes shall not saue vs neyther wyl we trust in worldly thin ges for the power of god susteyneth vs and in hym wyl we trust by whome all thynges doo consiste Col. 1. Which susteyneth all thinges with the word of his power Heb. 1. whiche openeth his hand filleth euery beast with his blessinge Psa 145. whose hand being open all thynges are fylled with goodnesse whose face turned awaye all thynges are troubled whose spirit withdrawen al thiu ges shall sayle be brought into dust 103. Which saueth man and beast 36. Which couereth the heauens with clowdes prepareth rayne for the grounde and bryngeth forth grasse in the mountaynes whiche geueth to beastes their meate and to the chykēs of the rauens callynge vpon hym 36. in hym to whome all these thinges be iustlye asscribed do we lyue moue and be Act. 17. In whom of whom and by whome all thinges are to whom be glorye for euer Roma 11. Yf ye haue respect to the afore going examples ye shal perceiue that the lorde after he hath brought vs euen to the extremytye as the Psalmyste sayeth can and wyll yf it be expediente delyuer vs. Not onelye from hunger and thyrste but frome all other miseries harmes and aduersities frome persecution and drowenynge frome fyre and oure enemyes frome syckenesse sclaunders and deathe Who delyuered Dauid so ofte vniustlye persecuted from the bloudye handes of Saule The three chyldren thruste into the whote fornace from burnynge Noe from drowenynge Lot frome the vengeance that light on So dome and Gomor Danyel from the hungry mouthes of the liōs the Israelites from the Egiptians their ennemyes from seruitute and intollerable bondage Ioseph from sclaunders Susanna from the cruell death the sclauderoūs Iudges wold haue put hyrto Peter from his bandes and Imprisonment Who restored so many lepres to clennes amōges the Iewes Peters mother in lawe frome hir ague to helth so many lame to their lymmes so many blind to their sight was it not the myghty hande of god which is not yet abbrcuiate neyther weakened but as strōge as euer it was And thoughe it please hym to deferre oure delyueraunce as it chaunced te Ioseph to Israell oppressed with the Egiptians whereby his glory may be more illustrate yet let vs thinke no other but he hathe bothe power and wyll to helpe saue vs from all miseries what so euer they be if it stande with our soules health and his glory If it do not he wyll not yf he loue vs if he will not let vs take in goodworth and conforme our willes to his Playenge the part of a wyse pacient whiche wolde be glad to haue his disease and the cause thereof expelled by kepynge a harde diete and receyuynge of bitter medycynes one moneth and no legar if it might be But in case his syckenes can not be healed except he vse those bytter medicines and hard dyet an hole yere He wyl rather so do in hope of healthe afterwarde than by