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
A43763	A looking-glass for loyalty, or, The subjects duty to his soveraign being the substance of several sermons preached by a person who always looked upon his allegiance as incorporated into his religion ...	Higham, John, 17th cent.	1675 (1675)	Wing H1966; ESTC R19006	105,066	207

shall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the Congregation of the Lord i. e. neither he nor any descending out of his loins because he is a Bastard Nullus descendentium ex eo quia spurius est propter infamiam And why not a Bastard because such a person is infamous When the H. G. would brand the Israelites with a mark of the greatest reproach he calls them the seed of the adulterer and the whore Names given to Bastards The Greeks call the children which come of such a sinful copulation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because they are subject to contumelies The Hebrews call them Brambles Judg 9.14 Abimelech was a right Bramble Such an one was Abimelech who by the assistance of vain and light persons that he had hired assassinated his brethren to prevent competitors resolving to suffer never a rub in the way to hinder the running of his Bowl to the Jack which he aimed at A right Bramble indeed who grew in the base hedge-row of a Concubine and scratched and drew bloud to purpose Mamzerim spots abroad Shatakim such as must say nothing when others are praising their Parents because they are the reproaches of those that begat them Jeptha an exception from that general rule and the usual objects of other mens reproach also Jeptha though otherwise a very good man was upbraided with this note of Infamy Judg. 11.2 Reason of it Thou shalt not inherit in our fathers house for thou art the son of a strange woman or a harlot which was all one as if they had called him Bastard He was made afterward a Judge and proved to be a Deliverer of the People Necessity hath no Law But it was in case of necessity otherwise by the Law he was uncapable Another end of that Law beside the former A Law not made to punish the guiltless child who shall never be called to an account for his Parents sin as it is their sin but to secure his own Ordinance from contempt and for an admonition of chastity in regard of the infamy and contempt of such a polluted posterity 2. Secondly Requires that from them as well as puts that into them which may be attractives of this from their Subjects As they are called to a more eminent place so their conversation should exceed the vulgar and common sort What an undervaluing censure did Michal pass upon David dancing before the Ark and with what reproachful language doth she accost him though he did it to testifie his religious joy the only thing that could excuse him and all that he had to say to stop the mouth of Calumny 2 Sam. 6.20 How glorious was the King of Israel to day who uncovered himself in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants as one of the vain fellows shamelesly uncovereth himself Bathshebas advice Bathsheba giving good advice to her Lemuel i. e. her son Solomon tells him Prov. 31.3 4 5. Give not thy strength unto women nor thy ways unto that which destroyeth Kings It is not for Kings O Lemuel it is not for Kings to drink Wine nor for Princes strong drink lest they drink and forget the Law and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted What Gods expectation is from their place and education It is expected from their advantage they have from their place and education to transcend all others that they should live and converse among men like Angels If they as one saith should play the Hogs and Monkeys abasing themselves to childishness of spirit and to a life corrupted with the curious delights and voluptuousness of the body this would be a thing as unreasonable in its nature Caussin's Holy Court Chrysost in Polycrat lib. 4. Principatus non tam sanguine quam meritis debetur inutiliter regnat qui Rex nascitur sed non meretur Rabanus in Prov. 25.5 Reges à recte agendo vocati sunt ideoque rectè faciendo Regis nomen tenent peccando amittitur as it is prodigious in its effects Principality is due rather to deserts then birth and he raigns unprofitably who is born but doth not deserve to be a King The very derivation of their stile minds them of performing actions that are suitable which is from doing good and so long as they do so they keep up their title whereas in doing the contrary in the account of their people they lose it And as God by these and the like provisions As he would not have them deserve it so he will not allow their Subjects to offer it hath bound Kings from occasioning it from their Subjects so hath he by strict precepts tied Subjects from offering it to their Kings imposing a restraint upon their actions upon their words yea upon their very thoughts 1. First upon their actions Restriction on their actions Psal 105.15 Dr. Westfield Bishop of Bristol his Sermon on Psal 105.15 Touch not mine anointed which though some are pleased to think mis-applied to Kings yet a learned Divine of late Times undertakes to prove that in that place and all others where mention is made of the Lords anointed it is to be understood of Kings and no others to whose works I refer the Reader for further satisfaction This consideration startled David and makes him stay Abishai's hand who tells him that he hath his enemy now in his power and at his mercy that God had delivered him up to him by an extraordinary providence profers himself freely to be the executioner to give the fatal stroke which should put an end to Sauls life and his own troubles And David said to Abishai 1 Sam. 26.7 8 9 10 11. Destroy him not for who can stretch out his hand against the Lords Anointed and be guiltless 2. Secondly upon their words Exod. 22.28 Thou shalt not revile the gods not the gods of the Heathens which were so only in their own foolish imaginations God himself hath set us a pattern what we ought to speak and think of such For all the gods of the Heathens are Idols of silver and gold Silver Gods Psal 95.5 115.4 5 6. the works of mens hands which have mouths but they speak not eyes have they but they see not c. upbraiding them in another place Wooden gods of the goodly matter whereof they are made and the common use which the remainder of it was put to He burneth part thereof in the fire Isa 44.16 17. with part thereof he eateth flesh he roasteth roast and is satisfied yea he warmeth himself and saith ha ha I am warm speaking of the Chips that were hewen from those Blocks which these Blockheads adored Had they not been so they would never have made gods of the residue and resolve with as much zeal as if they had been the God that made them to fall down