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
A18767	A warning for the wise, a feare to the fond, a bridle to the lewde, and a glasse to the good Written of the late earthquake chanced in London and other places, the. 6. of April 1580. for the glorie of God, and benefite of men that warely can walke, and wisely can iudge. Set forth in verse and prose, by Thomas Churchyard Gentleman. Seen and allowed.	Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.	1580 (1580)	STC 5259; ESTC S105093	9,563	30

seconde Earthquake when it commes will stryke before it threat This came to trie how you can take a threatning at his hande That rydes vpon the Starrie cloudes and hath a whysking wande Will make the worlde to yarke and fling when he sées tyme therfore Well for this season gentle friends I dare now speake no more The Iudgements of the Lord are great God graunt that well in grée From him you do good warning take and weigh these wordes of mée FINIS ꝙ Churchyarde A true Reporte vpō the great Earthquake SInce forrain Reportes right christian Reader may not suffice to call in question our frailty nor the hearing of Children monsterously borne prouoke vs to bridle our vntamed flesh nor the warres and cruel bloodsheds of other Cuntries with their great pes●…ilences sorowes and vnquiet state can make vs to be thankful for the Gospel which wée haue quietly maintaned by so gratious a Prince that the vniuersall world hath in admiratiō yet must this present cause this fearful w●…nder this gentle token and swéet correction mortifie our cankred conceits and break in peeces our hardned ●…arts Dul sighted is that man that séeth no●… through this perfect spectacle the heauy burden of his grée●…ous offences when Heauen and Earth Fish and Fowle Beasts and Woormes quake for our sin Now dooth the ancient Enemie séek after starting holes and with vain encouragements would perswade men to esteeme these rare tokens as common trifles therefore it behooues vs to put on the helmet of Saluation the swoord of the Spirit y ● Armour of life kéep the Castle of a cléer Conscience to with stand the gréeuous assaults of those thrée Rebels the world the flesh and the deuil If wée haue with Péeter the Apostle broken promise with our Maister and denyed him let vs also with Péeter the Apostle s●…ed sorowful teares and with hartie repentaūce win him to be our good Father again If wée haue with cruel hands committed murder or bondes of holy mariage let vs with Dauid be waile the death of Urias lament the raye of Bet●…sabe for hée is a gratioꝰ God and hath no plesure to giue vnto his Enemy the olde ser pent the creature that hée hath made and fashioned for him self to make vp his nūber of Saints If thou hast béen a persecuter with Saul thy remedy is to become a Preacher with Paul for hée hath no pleasure in the death of a Sinner but rather that hée may liue and amend If thou hast with Mary Magdalen broken the boundes of modestie and folowed the vain whistle of wantonnes forgetting from whence thou camst whers thou art and whither thou must throwe from thée the goldē ball of pleasure which is secretly linde with poyson humbly with Mary Magdalenanoint the feet of thy Sauiour with the teares of thy hart and wipe them with y ● heares of thy hed Doo not with the vnwise man fall in argument with thy maker why thou art made of this fashion or framed of y e mettel for it is no reason the pot should say to the Potter why haste thou made mée of this fashion If thou finde in thy self any imperfections by Nature thy remedie is to make it perfect by Nurture Set not thy glory vpon sumptuous and stately buildings which are subiect to the winde that is due vnto thy God which bothe winde and wethers doo obey for so dooing thy wilful pleasure wil in the end return thy woful disproffit Striue not with Pharo to be a roring Lyon but labour with the Apostles tob●… a méek Lamb. Consider what a familiēr name the Lord was content to take vpon him hauing the choise of all names in his owne hands Had hée called him self Emperour to that name had belonged great maiestie Had hée called him self King great is the feare of a Subiect toward that name Had hée called him self Iustice to decide controuersies there had belongd a woorshipful reuerence to that degrée but hée to showe the kindenes of a merciful God took the name of our Father vpon him and did not disoain to cal vs his Children Then must wée by naturall reason think which by bodily Fathers when wée sée our owne Children go astray fall into themiseries of y e world run after the slesh and become carelesse of their Elders counsel if it make our ●…eds gray our harts heauy must it not néeds offend our heauenly Father to sée his swéet promises refused his deuine ex cellencie so slightly credited and his Ministers so slowly followed That woūded man deserues to haue his sore rancle his flesh rot his bones putrifie y ● knowes a ●…alue and wil not be his owne Surgiō Euen so since it hath pleased him to say Come vnto me all you that are heuy loden and I wil ease you if wée come not our sloth is the cause of our sorrow and wée found guiltie of our owne blood If thou hast béen prodigall or vainly spēt thy life or liuing vpon surfeting dishes y ● worldly pleasure had prouided for thée or if thou hast doted vpon y ● painted bea●… tie of Harlots whose secret winks and priuy smiles are like drawing Adamāts If thou hast béen ●…ld in the Cradle of delight and ●…ng a ●…léep with the Sirens labor ernestly in y ● Uiniard of thy minde and with the prodigall Sonne return to to thy Father and say Father I haue sinned against heauen and against thee I am no more woorthy to be called thy sonne Then he according to his fatherly mercy wil cause the fatted Calf to be kild put a ring on thy hand and a faire garment on thy back That wée may be all so accepted after our time of prodigalitie vain expence of life let vs w t harty repentaunce humble harts lowe knées pray vnto y ● Lord to whōe be all honor glory Amē A true Reporte of the Earth quake in London Two or thrée honest men that walked for their pleasure into Moorféeld sitting vpon a hil were vpon a suddain tūbled down with such violence that when they recouered them selues they were so amazed that for a good space they could not one speake to the other ¶ Two honest Men more sitting on a Cannon vpon Tower hil were on a sudden throwen of and the Cannons rolled and hop●… vp and down very straunge The very waters and diches shooke and frothed wunderfully There were diuers Chimneies in many places about the Citie the vpper part throwen down The Beasts in the féeld ●…orde meruelously In Christes Church with a stone that fel there was one kild and many hurt in stri●…ing to get foorth of the Church ¶ They were so terrified in the Royall Exchaunge that many wept with feare with asmuch spéed as they might many shut vp their windowes béeing very fearfully amazed Through the whole Citie this suddain token was suddainly feard and I stand in do●…t wil as suddainly be forgotten A number of other things which are so cōmonly