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
A19623	A short declaration of the ende of traytors, and false conspirators against the state & of the duetie of subiectes to theyr soueraigne gouernour: and wythall, howe necessarie, lawes and execution of iustice are, for the preseruation of the prince and common wealth. Wherein are also breefely touched, sundry offences of the S. Queene, co[m]mitted against the crowne of this land, & the manner of the honorable proceding for her conuiction thereof, and also the reasons & causes alledged & allowed in Parliament, why it was thought dangerous to the state, if she should haue liued. Published by Richard Crompton, an apprentice of the common lawes. Seene and allowed.	Crompton, Richard, fl. 1573-1599.	1587 (1587)	STC 6055; ESTC S109080	31,136	50

Princes person Howe often doth almighty God by hys Prophet Dauid say as is aboue sayd Touch not mine annoynted as though he should say Forasmuch as I haue placed her in the kynglye throne of thys Realme and haue appoynted her to rule and gouerne my people looke thou touch her not lay no handes on her offer no violence vnto her personne for I haue annoynted and consecrated her to that office and function I finde in the first Booke of Samuell where Dauid was vrged by hys men to haue kylled Saule a great and mighty Prince and yet out of the fauour of God a mortall enemy to Dauid of whom almighty God so often sayth I haue found Dauid a man euen according to my hartes desire but what did Dauid dyd hee laye hys handes on hym no he made his prayers to almighty God saying Lord keepe me that I lay not my hands vpon my master the Lordes annoynted for as surely as the Lord lyueth except he discende into the battayle and there perish or that hys day become to dye or that the Lord doo smyte hym the Lord bee mercifull to me that I lay not my handes vppon the Lordes annointed and so they departed without dooing any hurt to Saule I find also in the same Booke that Dauid and Abysay hys seruaunt at an other time came into the Tent where Saule was fast a sléepe and Abysay sayde vnto Dauid Forasmuch as the Lord hath deliuered thy enemy Saule into thy handes at thys time suffer me to strike him but once with my speare and I wyll not smite him the second time Meaning to haue kylled hym euen at the first blowe but Dauid sayde destroy him not for who can lay his hands vppon the Lordes annointed and be guiltles for as sure as the Lorde lyueth except he discend into the battaile and there perish or that the Lord doth smyte him or that hys day become God forbidd that thou shouldest lay thy hande vpon the Lords annoynted and so they departed without dooing any hurt to him I finde also in the History of Kynges that an Amelekite taking vpō him the death of Saule whom he found dead brought his Crowne of Gold vnto Dauid because he thought thereby the rather to perswade Dauid that hee was the man that had slayne Saule and hoped to haue had some great rewad for hys labour whē Dauid did sée the Crowne and did knowe that it was Saules Crowne he rent his clothes and wept saying to thys Amalekite How is it that thou wast not afrayd to laye thy hand vppon the annointed of the Lord to destroy him as truely as the Lord lyueth forasmuch as thy owne mouth doth witnes against thee thou shalt dye the death and so he commaunded his seruauntes and they did kill him presentlie Now let vs sée what hath happened to murmurers against the Rulers and Magistrates appointed ouer them by God It appeareth in sundry places of the Scriptures that some of them were striken with foule leprosie many burned wyth fire suddainlie sent from God sometime a great many of thousandes were consumed with the pestilence some times they were stinged to death with fierie Serpents of straunge kind sometime the earth opened and swallowed vp quicke into hell their Captaynes and bandes of murmurers and their wiues children and familie Thus you sée what straunge and horrible plagues hath fallen vpon such subiects as did but onelie murmure and speake euill against theyr heads and Rulers Then touching such as haue apposed themselues against their soueraigne Gouernour by rebellion though they haue not laid violent hande vpon him yet it appeareth they haue béene by Gods iust iudgment sundry wayes punished as by the example of Absolon is manifest who entred into conspiracie against King Dauid his father and vsed the aduise of manie wittie men and assembled a verie great and huge company of Rebelles which Absolon though he were most goodly of personne of great nobility béeing the Kinges sonne in great fauour of the people and so déerely beloued of the King himself so much that he gaue commandement notwithstanding hys rebellion his life should be saued When for these considerations most men were afraid to lay their hands vpon him a great Trée stretching forth her arme as it were for that purpose caught him by the great long bush of his goodly haire lapping about it as he fled hastilie bare-headed vnder the said Trée and so hanged him vp by the hayre of the head in the ayre to giue an eternall document that neither comlines of personage neither nobilitie nor the fauoure of the people nor the fauour of the King himselfe can saue a Rebell from due punishment God the King of all kinges béeing so offended with him that rather then he should lacke due execution for his treasons euery trée by the way will bée a gallowes or Iebbet vnto him and the haire of hys own head will be vnto him in stedde of a haulter to hang him vp with rather then he should lacke one A fearefull example of Gods punishment to consider Achitophell though otherwise an excéeding wise man yet the mischeuous Counseller of Absolon in this wicked rebellion for lacke of a hangman a conuenient seruiter for such a Traytor went and hanged vppe himselfe a worthie end of all Rebelles who rather then they should lacke due execution will by Gods iust iudgment become hangmen to themselues Thus happened it to the Captaynes of that rebellion besides forty thousande of rascall rebelles slayne in the fielde and in the chase likewise it is to be séene in the holy Scriptures howe that great rebellion which the Traytor Seba mooued in Israell was suddainly appeased the heade of y e Captaine Traytor by meanes of a silly woman beeing cutt off Thus you sée also the ende of Traytors false Rebels though theyr intent were not to touch the person of their soueraigne Gouernour Surely it is not lawfull for the Subiect of the Turke nor of the most vngodliest King that raigneth to murmure or rebell a-against his Prince whom God hath placed in y e throne of gouernment either for the comfort of good people or for the punishmēt of the bad if ought be to be reformed touching gouernment in the king it dooth not belong to the Subiect to redresse the same but he must refer the matter to God onely who hath the hartes of Kinges in his order and disposeth them as it séemeth best to hys godlie wisedome The duety of the Subiect is alwayes to be obedient as S. Paule saith Submitte your selues vnto the higher powers for there is no power but of God all powers that be are ordeyned of God who that resisteth powers resisteth the ordenaunce of God and procureth vnto himselfe damnation Héere is no exception of Turke nor Infidell of the wicked and vngodlie Prince more then of the Christian and vertuous King for his wordes be generall there is no power