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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26270	The government of the passions according to the rules of reason and religion viz, love, hatred, desire, eschewing, hope, despair, fear, anger, delight, sorrow, &c.	Ayloffe, W. (William)	1700 (1700)	Wing A4290; ESTC R23106	50,268	134

ever they should hearken to a reconciliation since it is so impetuous in its motions that it makes a Man despise his own life to prosecute his Revenge nay dye with Joy and Consolation if he can but crush his Enemy with his own Fall From hence we may learn the violence of Hatred that there is no Torment but it despises no Crime so enormous but it resolves on it presently to farther its furious Instigations If the Properties of this Passion are so very strange its Effects are fatal She is the occasion of all the Tragical Actions which swell up History and indeed he who follows her counsel is capable of committing any thing This Hellish Passion taught us that Man could dye in the Flower of his Age without any Distemper and that a Brother was not always safe in the company of his Brother She gave us first the Cursed Instructions of mixing Poison with Drink and murthering People under the colour of Hospitality 'T was she and not Avarice tore up the bowels of the Earth to furnish Instruments for her Cruelty She teaches us to kill Man decently and makes us approve of a Parricide if it be but according to Art In a word after she has pronounc'd most bloody Sentences as a Judge she will her self have the pleasure of executing them as a Hang-man The Good Use of Hatred ALL the Works of Nature are perfect and cannot without Jnjustice become Objects of our Hatred Another likes what I do not and what displeases my sight gratifies his smell And what Nature has produc'd of most unacceptable aspect is a foil to the most charming and illustrates the variety of the Created Beings All such things then must be exempted from the violence of this Passion Sin only can be its proper and legitimate Object and that with this reservation too that our own Offences be rather made so than those of our Neighbour We know not so well the Circumstances of his Transgression as our own We are not Judges over him therefore must not exercise our hatred with his failings It s greatest edge must be against our selves and there it can never prove excessive when we justifie God's Goodness by our implacable hatred of iniquity 'T is an act of Justice to abominate sin And David thought he shewed his Love to God when he demonstrated his hatred to his Enemies and therefore ceased praising him to curse the wicked and ungodly To make our Hatred meritorious as was that of the Royal Prophet it must have those two Conditions with it which his had That is we must hate Sin but not Nature We must detest the work of the Creature but cherish and admire that of God Thus by the assistance of Grace Hatred becomes a Virtue and assistant both to Justice and Charity But she is practised much more securely against our own Imperfections than those of our Neighbours Self-love here will tye up our hands that we shall never exceed in it what holy Fury soever our Love to God might inspire us with yet that natural inclination we have to our selves would hinder us from proceeding without any dangerous severity The hating our selves is one of the Foundations of Christ's Gospel We must deny our selves and follow him if we will be his Disciples Love and Hatred are taught in his School after an extraordinary manner For we are to give all our Love to our Neighbour and to reserve the same degree of Hatred for our selves This Command is more rigorous in appearance than effect For under the severity which it seems to carry along with it there is conceal'd the sweetness of Love for by a happy destiny attending this prosecution of Hatred we love our selves so much the more really by how much we hate our selves for sin This Doctrine of our Saviour extends to the Spirit as well as the Flesh and enjoyns us not only Mortification to repress the sawcy motions of the Body but Self-denial thereby submitting our very Will to that of God Our Hatred cannot be perfect if it reach no farthet than the Body alone for it must equally act against every disorder that is caus'd by sin And as Nature has lost her Original Purity so both the parts whereof she consisteth are become criminal The inclinations of the Soul are not more innocent than those of the Body they have both their imperfections and are both corrupted What thick Clouds of Error and Ignorance obfuscate our Understanding With what labour do we learn and how easily is it all forgotten our Memory which passes for a Miracle in Nature treasures up Idea's that are false as well as what are not so She is treacherous and leaves us at a pinch furnishing us rather with futilous unnecessary things than what are of moment to us Perfectly to practise this great Doctrine of Jesus Christ we must denounce War against both Soul and Body and Combate the Darkness of our Understanding the Weakness of our Memory the Malice of our Will the Error of our Imagination and the Perfidiousness of our Senses together with the Rebellion of every Member of our Body These ill Qualities which deface the Image of the Creator in the Creature are the proper Objects of all our Hatred we may abhor them with Innocence and punish them without Injustice In a word we must detest and abominate every thing that Sin produces and which Grace cannot suffer Of the Nature and Properties of Desire DEsire is the Motion of the Soul towards a good which it loveth but is not yet in possession of from this Definition we may gather its first and chiefest Property which is Inequitude There can be no real Contentment where this Passion is conceived Some have voluntarily condemned themselves to horrours and miseries thinking every Remedy pleasant that cur'd so intollerable a Malady Seneca tells us of a Woman who followed her Son into Banishment chusing rather the Torments of Exile than those of regretting her Son's Absence and desiring his Return But Nature who designed this Passion for a Plague hath given us Hope for to mitigate the Horrours which its Motions create for 't is the wretchedness of the damned to desire without Hope of ever obtaining and to languish after a Felicity which 't is impossible for them to possess This Torment alone is far more insupportable to them than the scorching of the inquenchable Flames or the Company of Devils nay more sensible than the very Eternity of their Damnation it self But 't is not in Hell alone that this Passion exerts it self in the Rigours of its Cruelty she afflicts Man here upon Earth and she is a Minister of Divine Justice she is also by a Holy Artifice subservient to Mercy The Innocent and Godly desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ This Passion gives Life and Motion to all the others in our Soul Hatred only tortures us because it desires Revenge Ambition because it thirsts after Honours Avarice because it longeth after Gold and all