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
A49958	Contemplations on mortality Wherein the terrors of death are laid open, for a warning to sinners: and the joyes of communion with Christ for comfort to believers.	Lee, Samuel, 1625-1691.	1669 (1669)	Wing L892; ESTC R221707	76,929	158

more then these and yet spendest so little time in communion Communion manifests where a mans heart is and the measure of Communion is the Standard of our love We would fain have a sense of his love and yet watch not for the presence of his person When Christ knocks doe our Souls melt within us When he cries a Song 5.2 Open to me my sister my love my dove my undefiled doe the everlasting dores fly abroad at the voice of the King of Glory Love and Kingdomes abhorre Rivalls Do I not hate them that hate thee saies David b Ps 139.21 yea with perfection of hatred 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thine enemies are enemies to me Can'st thou love carnall friends and vain persons their frothy jests and squandring of precious hours with vain newes the sinfull pleasures the Soul-choaking and strangling profits of the cheat and grand Imposture of the c Ezek. 28.18 Tyrian traffick of the world And yet darest say that thou lovest God Thou art a lyar and the truth d 1 Joh. 2 15. is not in thee Vain distinctions will taste like wormwood and gall and wine e Mark 15 23. of myrrhe when thou appealest at Death He that spends his time his strength and brains f Joh. 6.27 for meat that perisheth g 1 Cor. 6 13. the belly that hides it must perish with it But living bread and living water that comes down from heaven nourishes our love to the doner and nurses up fair countenances to stand before the King of Glory There 's many an empty headed talker that wears in his Cap the aiery plume of profession and yet locks up his pennies in chests of flint The hammer of judgments the fire of divine wrath will scarce melt down a few drops to comfort a brothers bowells then 't is tinctur'd with the bitter fears of the ruin of his family or at least that he shall not raise it to the dignity of his ancestors The Axe of the sorest affliction can hardly hew off a few scattering chips to warm a poor brothers Cottage They keep h Deut. 26.13 Jos 6.19.24 hallowed things in their house without fear of Achans curse They hide in their Tents things that should be devoted to the Sanctuary This sinks many a fair estate 't is a worm at the root because they consecrate not of their gain to the Lord of the whole earth O ye of no faith Mic. 4.13 is this your false love If faith work by love love be a fruit of faith and love to a Brother be the token of love to God Where 's your faith or love to God or Brother But here 's not all I am asham'd of the converses of Christians Dost thou love God and talkst all day of the world Baineson the Ephes p. 201. Holy Baines gives it as a notable character of a carnall heart whose conference is cold and carelesse and for the most parr about unnecessary and curious Arguments As whether we shall know one another in heaven or not Whether Hell be in the Ayr in the Earth or where it is or like some of the hollow hearted and Sickbrained Schoolmen 1 Tim. 6.4 of what mettall the Trumpet of the Archangell is made whether Gold or Silver Such have hot heads but cold hearts they are branded by the Apostle Paul as proud knowing nothing but doting about questions strife of words whereof cometh envy strife railings evill surmisings perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth you shall hear them lavish out many impertinent words about idle controversies tending to jangling and meer vanity Differences about some Historicall matters and doubts about reconciling seeming varieties in the Scriptures these things shall awaken their drowsie minds tip their tongues with some discourse that they may seem pious and cheat conscience smoothly Alas at the hour of death conscience will shew it self to be no fool but will call all these things to mind with deadly horror What we love we love to talk off You may fetch out the hearts of Lovers by talking of what they love though otherwise prudent persons Love gilds the tongue with eloquence It makes the dumb to speak as Codrus his mute Son when the Fathers life lay at stake Love is a native an overflowing Oratour When it gluts the tongue with its fulness that it cannot utter then it proclaims the heart by blushes and casts forth it self at the windows of the eyes by quick and nimble glances It s a Song 8.5 as strong as death many waters can't quench it nor floods drown it It contemns Gold and all the Substance of thy House Is thy love sincerely inflamed to God A Kingdome a World a Heaven can't buy or bribe off thy heart from God Methinks when I stand and muse upon Soul-sick mortalls as they run up and down the streets of London and strike fire upon the stones and kick up the dirt and justle and quarrell for hast To see them reel about the lanes and alleys like drunkards intoxicated with the venemous cup of profit while their b Job 3● 5 foot hasteth to deceit oh what a dirty heaven have these bemired wretches what a pittyfull molehill doe these giddy pismires huddle about and scarce deserve at last to taste of the Parthian banquet with Crassus to have molten Gold but Kennell filth powr'd down their Throats with this Epitaph Satia te stercore quod sitisti be fil'd with the mire for which thou hast thirsted Oh how greatly should we pitty and mourn over the faln estate of man when we behold such wofull spectacles of decayed reason so far from rationall actors that they rather sustein the distracted person at Athens For though they say not yet by their deportments seem to wish that all the Ships in the Thames were theirs that all the Wharfs Cranes Ware-houses and their Stowage were all theirs As if the Lord had set a Job 34.13 the world in their hearts not to contemplate his wisdome in its beautifull structure but to adore it as a God They spend their spirits in heaping of clay and compass themselves with thick clods of the earth Most mens lives are exhausted in playing for glistering Counters he is counted wisest that lurcheth most Though Solomon the wisest of all mortalls determineth by the guide of Gods spirit that bread is not to b Eccl. 9.11 the wise nor riches to men of understanding nor favour to men of skill but time and chance happeneth to them all But yet in all ages among the depraved and frothy spirits of the herd of this vain world Riches and not wisdome advances to honour and the raw unsavoury undigested blatterings of rich misers are lickt up by fools like themselves as if they were Delphian Oracles But oh lamentable state of the faln children of Adam to grind out their dayes with sorrow and to pour out the strength of their nerves