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
A87160	A vindication of the Holy Scriptures. Or the manifestation of Jesus Christ the true Messiah already come. Being the Christians antidote against the poysons of Judaisme and atheisme of this present age. Proved out of sacred scripture, ancient historians, and Jewish Rabbins. / By that learned, and late eminent divine, John Harrison.	Harrison, John, of the Inner Temple.	1656 (1656)	Wing H896; Thomason E1685_1; ESTC R209168	62,938	174

unto his party Whosoever will come and be my servant if he be a Footman I will make him a Horseman if he be an Horseman I will make him ride with Coaches if he be a Farmer I will make him a Gentleman if he possess a Cottage I will give him a Village if he have a Village I will give him a City if he be Lord of a City I will make him Prince of a Region or Country and as for gold I will pour it forth unto them by heaps and weight and not by number This was the Proclamation of Cyrus the great King of Persia to his followers very glorious as we see in pomp of words and to the eye of flesh and blood Let us now compare herewith the proclamation of our Cyrus Jesus Christ to his Disciples and Followers the entrance and preface whereof was this Repent c. And then it followeth instead of whosoever will come and be my servant if he be a Footman I wil make him a Horseman If any man wil follow me saith Christ let him forsake himself and take up his cross and follow me not on horseback as the Pope doth with all his proud Cardinals Bishops in his pontificalibus I have seen servants on horses and Princes walking as servants on the ground So did an Emperour bare-footed to his Holiness But what would Solomon have said if he had seen a Prince hold his stirrop and yet forsooth will this proud Prelate be Servus servorum a follower of Christ and Peter's Successor Insteed of possessing lands and Lordships gold and treasures he saith Possess not gold nor silver nor money in your purses nor a scrip for the journey neither two coats neither shoes nor so much as a staff in your hands Insteed of these preferments and pleasures of the world saith Christ contrary to Cyrus In this world ye shall have affliction yea which is more ' Ye shall be delivered up to the Councels and to the Synagogues ye shall be beaten and brought before Rulers and Kings for my sake ye shall be hated of all men for my names sake ye shall be betrayed also of your Parents brethren kinsmen and friends And which is most of all Ye shall be put to death for whosoever will save his life shall lose it Finally If any man come to me and hate not his Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Brethren and Sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my Disciple And whosoever beareth not his cross and cometh after me he cannot be my Disciple For which of you minding to build a Tower sitteth not down before and counteth the cost c. So likewise whosoever he be of you that forsaketh nor all that he hath he cannot be my Disciple This was the Proclamation and Edict of Christ to his followers This was the entertainment proposed by Jesus to such as would come and serve under his colours with express protestation that himself was sent into the world not to bring peace rest and ease to flesh and blood but rather to be the cause of sword fire and tribulation Think not that I am come to send peace into the earth I came not to send peace but the sword and yet with these cold offers presented to the world first by himself to his Apostles and Disciples won thereby to follow him even upon the first call they left all and followed him and by them to all others afterwards I say by this Doctrine so cross and opposite to mans nature inclination and sensual appetite he gained more hearts unto him within the space of forty yeers then ever did Monarch in the world possess loving subjects by whatsoever temporal allurements they did or might propose which argueth the omnipotent puissance of him that contrary to mans reason in so short a time could bring to pass so miraculous a conquest were there no other argument in the world of the truth of Christian Religion this were sufficient His Death and Passion FOr his Death and Passion with all the disgrace despite and indignities were done unto him by the Jews it was also foretold by the Prophets and so expounded by their own Rabbins as also by our Saviour himself Behold we go up to Jerusalem and all things shall be fulfilled to the Son of man that are written by the Prophet c. He made his entrance into the Citie upon an Ass in all humility as was prophesied the Messiah should do Rejoyce greatly O daughter Zion shout for joy c. Fulfilled even at the same time when the people spread their garments in the way cut down branches from the Trees and strewed them in the way crying Hosanna to the Son of David c. He was betrayed by his own Disciple as David in divers places had foretold under a type of those his secret enemies in the days of Saul as also himself prophesied beforehand saying He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish he shall betray me Being apprehended he was most barbarously entreated by the Jews according to that of Isai I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to the nippers I hid not my face from shame and spitting After all this inhumane dealing he was nailed to the cross hand and foot according to that of David They pierced my hands and my feet I may tell all my bones they beheld and looked upon me they parted my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture And in another place They gave me gall in my meat and in my thirst they gave me vineger to drink He was crucified between two malefactors or evil doers one on the right hand the other on the left according to that of Isaiah He was counted with the Transgressors yea Barrabas a murderer in the esteem of the Jews preferred before Jesus and quit by a common consent and cry away with him and deliver unto us Barrabas crucifie him crucifie him He prayed for his enemies and persecutors Father forgive them for they know not what they do according to that of Isaiah He bare the sin of many and prayed for the trespassers Not a bone of him was broken according to that Law of the Passover a lively type thereof To conclude that Christ should die for the sins of the world it was a received opinion of the Jews in all ages both prefigured and foretold throughout all the Scripture prefigured by the sacrifice of Isaac the lifting up of the brazen Serpent and by all other sacrifices in the Law Foretold not only by the Scriptures before mentioned but also by Daniel in most plain terms After threescore and two weeks shall the Messiah be slain c. acknowledged also by Caiphas himself high Priest even the self same year that Christ suffered his words are these to the Pharisees taxing their great