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	good_a	saul_n	976	5	9.2797	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04917	A godly letter sent too the fayethfull in London, Newcastell, Barwyke, and to all other within the realme off Englande, that loue the co[m]minge of oure Lorde Iesus by Ihon Knox; Admonition or warning that the faithful Christians in London, Newcastel Barwycke and others, may avoide Gods vengeaunce	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1554 (1554)	STC 15059.5; ESTC S108135	51,203	96

wil permitte doubte not / but his merciful hande shal releaf vs in moste vrgent necessite extreme tribulaciō Therefore such men as teacheth vs / that necessarely it is not required that we vnderstād not what we pray / because God knoweth what we nede wold also teach vs / that neither we honor God nor yet referre / or geue vnto hī thākes for benefites receiued / for howe shall we honor and prayse hī / whose goodnes liberalite we know not / how shal we know / oneles we receiue / and sometime haue experiens And howe shall we know that we haue receiued / onlesse we know verely what we haue asked The seconde thinge to be obserued in perfit prayer is / that standing in the presens of God / we be found such as beryes to his holy law reuerence / Prou. 18. earnestly repēting our iniquite passed and intēding to leade a new lyfe / for otherwise in vayne are all our prayers / as it is written / who withdrawes his ear / that he wil not hear the lawe of God / his oration or prayer shal be abhominable And also ye shall multeply your prayers / I shal not heare / because your handes are full of bloude / that is off all crueltie and mischeuous workes And the sprete of God appeareth by the mouthe of the blynde / Ioh. 9. whome Iesus Christ doth illuminate by these wordes / we knowe that God heareth no synners / that is such as glories / do continew in iniquites ¶ Whē sinners are not hard of God SO that of necessite true repētaūce most nedes be had / passe before perfitte prayer / or syncere inuocaciō of gods name And vnto these two presidēces must be annexed the thride which is the directiō of our selfs in godes presence Vtterly refusing castīg of own iustice with all cogitaciōs opinion therof / that nothinge proceding of our selfes / that we should be harde / for all suche as auaunce / boast or depende any thing vpon their own iustice / from the presence of his mercye / repellith holdeth with the hygh proude pharesey And therfore the moste holy men / we fynde in praiers most deiected hūble Psal 79. Dauid sayeth o Lorde our sauiour help vs / for the glory of thy own name deliuer vs / be mercifull vnto oure synnes for thy owne name Remēber not oure olde iniquities / but hast thou o Lorde / let thy mercy preuent vs. Ieremie sayeth yf oure iniquities beare testimoni against vs / do thou accordyng to thy owne name And behold I say / thou art crabbid / O Lorde / because we haue synned / are replenished with all wickednes Esay 64 And oure iustice is like a filthy clothe c. But now O Lord / thou art our father / we are claye / thou arte the worke mā / we the workemāship of thy hādes Daniel 9 Be not crabid O Lord / remember not our iniquities for euer And Daniel greatly cōmēdid of God / maketh in his prayer most hūble cōfessiō in these wordes / we be sinners / haue offeded / we haue done vngodly / fallē frō thy cōmaūdemēt / but not in our own righteousnes make we our prayers before the / but thy most rych great mercy brīg we forth for vs. O Lord heare / Lord be merciful / spare vs Lord / attēd / helpe cease not my God / euē for thy names sake / do it for thy people thy citie called after thy name Behold / that in these prayers is no mēciō of their own iustice / their owne satisfaction / or their owne merites / but most humble confession / procedinge frō a sorowfull and penitent harte / hauing nothinge wherupon it might depende / but the mercy of God alone / who had promised to be their God that is their help / cōfort / defendor / deliuerer as he hath also don to vs by Iesus Crist in tyme of tribulacion Note And therfore / they / dispayrid not / but after knowlege of ther Sinnes / callid for mercy obtayned thesame / wherfore it is playne / that suche men as in theyr prayrs / haue respecte to any vertue / proceding of them selffe / thinkinge therby theyr prayrs to be accepted / neuer prayd aright ¶ What fastinge almoses dedes are without praye ANd albeit to feruent prayer be Ioynyd / fastinge / waking and almos dede / yet are none of these the cause / that God dothe except our prayrs but they are spurres which suffer vs not to vary / but make vs more able to continew in prayr / Psal 38.86 which the mercy of God dothe accepte But here maye it be obiectid / Dauid praythe / kepe mi lyfe o Lorde for I am holy / o Lorde here my iustice and suffer me not to be confoundid / 4. reg 20 and Ezechius remēbre Lorde I beseche the / that I haue walked righteously before the / and that I haue wrought that which is good in thy sight These wordes are not spokē of mē glorious / neither yet trusting in ther owne workes Note we But here in they testefy them selfes to be the sonnes of God by regeneraciō / to whom he promisid alwayes to be merciful / at al tims to hear theyr praiers ¶ The cause of ther boldnes was Iesus Crist ANd so theyr wordes springe a wontyd / constante and feruent faythe / surely beleuinge that as God of hys infinitie mercy / had callid them to his knowlege / not sufferinge them to walke after theyr owne natural wickednes / but partly had through them to confirme them to his holy lawe / and that for the promised sedes sake / so mighte he not leaue them destitute or comfort / consolacion and defence / in so great and extreme necessite And so theyr iustice a leage they not to glory therof / or to put trust therin / but to confyrme and strengthen them selfes in Godes promyses / and this consolation I wolde wyshe to al Christians in theyr prayers / a testimony of good conscience to assure them of Godes promises / but to obtayne what they aske must depende vpon his mercy / al opinion and through of our own iustice layd aside And more ouer Dauid in the wordes aboue compareth hym selfe with Kinge Saule / and with the rest of his enemies / who wrōgfully did persecute hym / desyiringe of God that they preuayle not agaynste hym as who saye iniustlye doo they persecute me therfore according to my innocensi defende me / for otherwyse he confessith him self moost greuously to haue offendid God / as in the precident places he clearly testifieth ¶ Ipocrisie is not alowid with god THirdly in prayer is to obserued / that what we aske of God / that we moste ernistly desier / the same knowleginge vs to be indigent voyde therof / and that God allone may graunte the peticion of our hartes mark