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	hate_v	hatred_n	1,155	5	10.0548	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12327	A sermon preached in the cathedrall church of Durham, Iuly, 7. 1628. By Peter Smart	Smart, Peter, 1569-1652?	1640 (1640)	STC 22641; ESTC R212597	19,767	42

A SERMON PREACHED IN THE CATHEDRALL CHVRCH OF DVRHAM IULY 7 1628. BY PETER SMART PSAL. 31.7 V. I hate them that hold of superstitious vanities Printed in the Yeare 1640. Psalme 31. part of the 7. verse IN the cōmon translation I have hated them that hold of superstitious vanities In the n●w translation Them that regard lying vanities In the Geneva translation Them that give themselves to deceitfull vanities whereupon they give this good note This aff●ction ought to be in all Gods childr●n to hate whatsoever thing is not granted upon Gods word as deceitfull and vaine Such are all humane Traditions Ethelothreskiai superstitious will-worships the inventions of mans braine The vulgar Latine hath Odisti thou O God hatest And Vatablus hath Odi observantes vanitates frustra or Vanitates mendacij vaine vanities or vanities of a lye That is saith hee Odi observantes opera qua prae se ferunt vanitatem mendacium id est eos qui superstitioni student ea observant quae à vero Dei cultu animos piorum avocant I hate them that observe workes carrying a shew of or which vphold and countenance vanity and falshood That is hate the followers and favourers of superstition observing things which with-draw godly mindes from the true worship of God Now whereas some have Odi other Odisti God hateth or I hate they are all one to one effect for we m●st hate what God hateth we must love what God loveth we must apply our selves to Gods will and conforme our selves to the similitude of God af●er whose image we are made as much as we can Be you perfect saith our Saviour as your heavenly Father is perfect Therefore wee must hate with a perfect hatred whatsoever God hateth as David did Psal. 139.21 ver. Doe not I hate them ô Lord that hate thee Doe not I earnestly contend with those that rise vp against thee Yea I hate them with a perfect hatred or vnfeined hatred I count them mine enemies On which words one observeth well● The Prophet teacheth vs boldly to contemne all the hatred of the wicked and friendship of the world when they would hinder vs from serving God sincerely● God is good yea goodnesse it selfe Therefore it is not possib●● but God should love best that which ●s most like himselfe and hate the contrary So must we do not love our selves or that which is like our selves for we are naught Omnis homo mendax every man is a lyer and the imaginations of mans heart are onely evill continually saith God Therefore we must not love but hate our ow●e imaginations inventions and lyes and love God who is good and Christ who is truth vnder whose lips no vanity no guile no lye can lie As a Father saith expounding my text Recte veritas odit vanitatem quia vanitas in falsitate consistit odisse enim dicitur id quod reprobat Christ being truth must needs hate vanity because vanity consists in falshood for what a man hates that ●e rejects Esau was a reprobate rejected of God because God h●ted him As we reade in the first of Mala●chy Iacob have I loved but Esau have I hated yet herein we may not imitate God in hating any man vnder pretence that we thinke him a reprobate We may not presume to enter into Gods judgements and give sentence of election or reprobation vpon any Because we know not he that now stands whether he may fall and he that hath fallen whether he may rise againe and stand Therefore in that respect w● must hate none we must love our enemies and all As our Saviour saith in the 5. of Math. Yee have heard that it hath beene said of old Love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy but I say vnto you Love your enemies And St. Iohn saith 1 Epist. 3 chap. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death and againe he that hateth his brother walketh in darknesse and yet ●gaine he that hateth his brother is a man●sl●yer Was David a manslayer did he walke in darknesse and abide in death because he hated them that hold of superstitious vanities No ve●ily for he hated not their persons bu● their iniquities their evill workes and affections hee did wish their amendment and salvation taking God for an example of whom thus he speaketh in his 5. Psal. Thou art not a God that loveth wickednesse thou hatest all them that worke vanitie Yet he saith elsewhere Thou ô Lord savest both man and beast how excellent is thy mercy O God Which appeareth in that he maketh his Sunne to shine and his raine to fall upon just and unjust And as St. Paul saith hee would have all to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth● Therefore hee loveth the man though he hate their manners their naughtinesse and vanities So must we doe as the Prophet Amos bids vs in his 5. ch. 15. v. Hate the evill and love the good● we must not simply hate not simply love because no man is so absolutely evill but he hath some goodnes nor so absolutely good bu● he hath some badness As our Savior saith There is none good but God How then They that hold of superstitious vanities must we not hate them Not their persons which may perhaps have some sparkes some tincture of goodnesse but their badnesse is to be hated and themselves quatenus so farre forth as they invent and maintaine superstitious vanities opposite to Gods Law which they ought to love As David professeth in his 119 Psal. 113. vers. I hate vaine inventions but thy law doe I love So must we love Gods law which forbiddeth Idolatry and hate vaine inventions and the inventours of vaniti●s when they would ins●are and intangle us with their fra●dulent impostures to seduce and allure us to their superstitious and idoll services So farre forth we must hate them though they be never so neere and deare unto us As our Saviour teacheth us Luke 14.26 verse If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother brother and sister wife and children hee can not be my Disciple That is hee that casts not off all affections and desires which draw him from God to the world from Christ to Antichrist So then it is no impiety to hate our carnall and naturall friends when they become our ghostly enemies hindering Gods glory and our salvation Neither must wee hate them secretly hold our tongues and let them alone As the Prophet Hosea saith Ephraim is turned after Idols Let him alone that is trouble not your selves with him he is incorrigible in a desperate case Let him alone let him perish in his sinnes But wee must endeavour to amend our Ephraimites hoping to reclaime them from their Idols after which of late they have hastily turned But if they prove stubborne and stifnecked then must wee cry aloud and proclaime their folly we must discover their blindnesse and nakednesse to the world we must persecute them