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	hand_n	saul_n	2,591	5	9.7819	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11802	Vox Dei	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1623 (1623)	STC 22097A; ESTC S1715	58,947	100

Thou shouldst haue done this quoth Augustus without my privity now to doe it would not become Some services are only acceptable when they are acted they are first to be done and then are wee to aske leaue for doeing of them when the apparant necessity may pleade our pardon Henry the eight concluded peace with France vpon these conditions that the King of France shoulde pay him a certaine summe of money vpon payment whereof he should restore Bolloigne to the French and in the meane time all things were to stand as then they stood without alteration Presently after Chatilion Captaine of Mountpeaisier begun to rayse a Bastilion which might annoy and endaunger Bolloigne this being obserued by the Lord Grey then Governour of Bolloigne who saw the intent of the enemy how vpon advantage of the commissioners ●versight in composing the articles of agreement great disadvantage might befall the Kings towne and a ready way be made for the enemy to enter by fraud without money which he could not otherwise enter by force without payment of a great summe agreed on He with his troopes fell vpon the enemyes workes and razed it to the ground and this was accounted good service being once done though against the articles because necessity vrged it to repayre an oversight when if he had stayd for commission or sought one to warrant his worke he might haue bene prevented in the worke and that would never haue bene graunted by publique warrant which he sought and so on all sides he should haue beene blamed I know some write that he had warrant vnderhand brought him by worde of mouth by Sir Tho Palmer let this be graunted yet by the King as King that is with his councells consent and by publique instrument he was not only not warranted to doe it but prohibited from doeing it which yet being done was accounted the best peece of service that ever he did Heare the Lord de la N●ve to this purpose in an other passage Solon sayd that in a division a good citizen ought not to stand still but to take the better part in respect of his Band to the Common-wealth But say saith he our Country were not devided but overthrowne Say it were not in perill only to be but almost alltogether lost Should wee in the midst of so great disorders thinke it wisdome and allegiance and piety to sitt with our armes crosse-folded till our throats be cut our lawes religion and state altred when reason bids vs throwe them abroad and bestirre vs nimbly for the suddayne safegaurd and rescue of all shall I meet with Incendiaries who see to set the Countrey one fier and not stopp them but stay for a commision shall the Father of a Family be seene madly to 〈◊〉 his owne house over his eares and kill himselfe whilst the wife children and servants obediently looke on and weepe but dare not offer to hinder it shall it be sinne in them to stay him from such a foule fact to hollde his hands to desire him to be better advised to cast on water I think none will be so madde as once to affirme it Then doubtles our combatant David may kill Goliah an enemy of God and the state though Saul send 's not for him and might after the fact justify himselfe with this speech of his to his brother What haue I now done Is their not a cause CONCLVSION 3. A third Conclusion from hence deduced is that negligence in a case of Necessity that is where the safety of our Prince or our Country or our Religion is in daunger argue's the negligent of cowardice luke-warmenes slavery or treachery AS before wee haue seene the care on member hath of an other in mutuall love a kinde of commutatiue justice so wee may behold how all the members apply themselues especially for the safeguard of the most principall members Insomuch at if the head or heart be aymed at the hand enterposeth it selfe to defend these parts and rather receiue's the wound it selfe then suffers the blowe to touch them In extrema necessitate magis licet de serere filios quam parentes quos nullo modo deserere licet propter be neficia Th Aqua 22. q. 31. A. 34. m. The reason is because the conservation of the whole body consisteth in the vitall noble and principall parts so that if through the eyes defect any mischaunce happen's to it self or to any part of the body especially to the head or to the heart it shall not be blamed alone but the eare and every member shall pertake both of the shame and detryment Because it is judged not a perticular but a generall neglect since if all had not bene equally negligent the vigillancy of some one had giuen warning to the rest and soe the daunger had bene avoyded Bodyes pollitique are best seene in bodyes naturall and what is here orderly cannot be there absurde Cicero is a member a servaunt a childe of the Common-wealth yet is he truly what he is called the father of the Common-wealth The eldest of a family is by nature in place of a King to the rest Yet in case of necessity in age or sicknes or the like infirmity the youngest may both governe and provide for the elder as young Storcks feeding the olde and as gratious children novrishing and informing their decrepid and ignorant parents In defect of Kings Preists haue governed and in case of necessity Vzziah being remoued for leprosie Ionathan his sonn reignes in his stead Yea at such extraordinary times Women haue stept to the helme so carefull is nature so carefull is pollicy so carefull is grace for the preservation of the whole that they reject not the helpe of any nor trusts hazards the securing of all vpon one though that one seeme never so dilligent or able Which laudable custome to prevent generall inconvenience arising from perticular neglect of some speciall duty whereby the publique may be indangered they say the Cranes vse by naturall instinct For notwithstanding they haue one of their owne Company that keepe 's watch whilst all the rest sleepe yet that they may not seeme securely to hazard all vpon the dilligence and trust of one all that sleepe stand vpon one legge hold a stone in the other foote whose weight may keepe them waking at least make them perticulerly watchfull and wary against all feares and daungers whch may suddenly invade them in generall Soe in Armyes the Per-due giue 's notice to the Sentinell the Sentinell to the Corporall the Corporall to the Captaine ank court of guarde Who being too weake to resist the daunger giue 's alarum to the whole body Now if any surprise be made the fault is imputed as well to the Generall who perhaps notwithstanding ordered and commaunded all things well on his part as to the sleeping Sentinell whose personall neglect lost the liue's and honors of so many And therefore it concerne's all to be watchfull and to doe their best for the