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
A20736	Lectures on the XV. Psalme read in the cathedrall church of S. Paule, in London. Wherein besides many other very profitable and necessarie matters, the question of vsurie is plainely and fully decided. By George Dovvname, Doctor of Diuinitie. Whereunto are annexed two other treatises of the same authour, the one of fasting, the other of prayer.	Downame, George, d. 1634.	1604 (1604)	STC 7118; ESTC S110203	278,690	369

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counsel_n 10._o or_o example_n for_o he_o that_o love_v his_o brother_n abide_v in_o the_o light_n and_o there_o be_v no_o scandal_n in_o he_o nay_o they_o desire_v to_o be_v so_o far_o from_o hinder_v the_o salvation_n of_o other_o as_o that_o they_o acknowledge_v it_o to_o be_v their_o duty_n to_o further_a by_o all_o good_a mean_n the_o salvation_n of_o their_o brethren_n and_o to_o win_v they_o to_o christ_n and_o to_o that_o end_n observe_v one_o another_o to_o stir_v they_o up_o to_o charity_n and_o good_a work_n 24._o they_o instruct_v the_o ignorant_a reclaim_v those_o that_o err_v admonish_v those_o that_o be_v backward_o and_o exhort_v they_o 14._o reprove_v those_o that_o be_v fall_v and_o restore_v they_o comfort_v the_o weak_a mind_a go_v before_o other_o in_o good_a example_n and_o by_o all_o good_a mean_n desire_v to_o edify_v they_o neither_o be_v they_o hurtful_a to_o they_o in_o temporal_a matter_n but_o labour_v as_o much_o as_o in_o they_o lie_v to_o preserve_v 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