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
A79474	The man of honour, described in a sermon, preached before the Lords of Parliament, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, March 26. 1645. The solemn day of the publique monethly-fast. / By Francis Cheynell, minister of Gods Word. Die Jovis, 27. Martii, 1645. It is this day ordered by the Lords in Parliament, that this House doth hereby give thanks to Master Cheynell for his great pains, taken in the sermon, he preached on the 26. of this instant March, in the Abbey Church Westminster, before the Lords of Parliament, it being the day of the publique fast. John Brown, Cler. Parliament.	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.	1645 (1645)	Wing C3812; Thomason E279_3; ESTC R200026	64,263	74

It may be the weaknesse came by the mothers side And what though true Nobility should hide its head as it were in a Generation or two it may like that River which falls under ground rise up again Ishmael was none of the best onely he was Abrahams son and God blessed him so far as to make him fruitfull he begat twelve Princes and of them came a famous Nation Gen. 17. 20. There are certain generous Ignicles and sparks of Nobility which lay raked up in ashes and seem to be extinct in an Heir or two and yet these Ignicles do revive and sparkle again in succeeding Generations There is an Heroicall Impetus in men of high-born spirits and yet this Impetus may be silent and scarce worke notably in men of Noble Families by reason of some great Obstructions yet good Education and good company may by Gods blessing remove those Obstructions in their Successours and evidence to the world that the old Strein is not decayed A young Heir may start up that hath as Publike a spirit as his Grandfathers great-Grandfather and then the ancient vertue and wealth so far forth as it hath been an Instrument of vertue in his Noble Family addes much to the dignity of such an Heir But you will tell me that the Heir of a Noble-man of England is a Peer of the Realm and therefore by his Peerage hath a Right to sit in Parliament And shall every degenerate Heir that is but an Inch of a man and hath not one dram of reason or true Noblenesse in him sit and vote away his own Liberty and our Safety To this I answer That therefore the Parliament of England and every Noble-man in England should take the greater care for the Education of their children especially of their Heirs that they might be well principled and rightly qualified for that Service for which they were born for our Nobles are Parliament-men born 2. The Parliament of England can best judge who are fit to sit in Parliament and you know how to suspend a person from the exercise of a Power which he is not fit to manage without depriving the Noble House or Race of that Native and Hereditary Power which is setled upon the lineall Heirs of that renowned Family I read that in some States young men were reckoned members of a Family but never parts of the Common-wealth till they had that honour as to be avouched fit for Service by some approbation from the State And Master Cambden relates that in the Reign of Edward the first the wise men of ancient Families were called to sit in Parliament but some of their Heirs were passed by because they were unlike their fathers I leave it to your Honours to dispute whether this were an Act of the Kings Prerogative for I am not wise enough to determine in what cases or how far such severe examples are to be imitated as long as the Blood of Nobles remains untainted We are commanded to render to all their Dues Custome to whom Custome Fear to whom Fear Honour to whom Honour Rom. 13. 7. He who hath Honour due unto him by the dignitie of his Office place employment Authority in the Common-wealth by the Noblenesse of his Ancestors by the Laws and Customes of the Realm he is to be honoured in all these respects with a Civil Honour though he hath but little personall worth in him yet we must acknowledge his outward eminency for we cannot in reason deny him Civil Honour untill it be denied him by Civil Authority This is the common and ordinary Rule onely it is fit to enquire how far some Civilities may be prejudiciall to Religion l gall Libertie and the Kingdoms safety the highest of Laws And if any demand what is to be done in such an extraordinary case as that which fell out between Haman and Mordecai I answer That these things are of higher consideration the points have been sufficiently discussed by ingenious and pious men and I must not forget the work of the day Take it therefore thus in brief Extraordinary examples must not be urged as generall rules nor can ordinary rules give you sufficient direction what to do in extraordinary Cases Certain it is That vile persons are contemned in the eyes that is in the judgement of the godly Psal. 15. 4. especially if they be so vile as to rise up against the God of Heaven the King of Kings for then they are to be hated with a perfect hatred as David doth farther explain himself Psal. 132. 21 22. Do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee And am I not grieved with those that rise up against thee I hate them with a perfect hatred I count them mine enemies and for this reason as I conceive Antiochus whom his flatterers called the mighty God and they that write of him do usually call Antiochus Epiphanes that is Antiochus the famous is called by the Holy Ghost Antiochus the vile And in his estate shall stand up a vile person to whom they shall not give the honour of the Kingdom Dan. 11. 21. But enough of that God is the God of Order he hates Confusion and therefore doth approve and make great use of those different Dignities Degrees and Orders which are established by humane policie According to the light of nature in severall Nations throughout the world men are not born of Noble Ancestors either by chance or fortune nor is an act of will or reason left to the choice of the sons of men Besides different degrees of Civil Honour are usually conferred upon men in some proportion at least answerable to the different bounds of their Habitation Now God doth determine the severall bounds of mens Habitation Act. 17. 26. Divine providence devides all by an unerring lot and appoints who shall be Heir to the Wealth and Civil Honour of every Noble Man If the Heir forfeit his Estate and Honour yet let him be Homo in Pretio a man civilly honoured till God or his Deputies take the forfeiture Private men must know their place and keep their bounds for if male-contents may be connived at they will quickly make as bold with the Temporall Estate as Civil Honour of the greatest men Finally the sons of Nobles may have many Honourable and Lordly qualities in them though they have not one dram of saving grace and Protestant Divines do constantly maintain against Jesuiticall seducers that undeniable maxime Dominium Temporale non fundatur in gratiâ Take one of an ennobled blood endued with the Spirit of Government but a meer stranger to the Spirit of Holinesse and this man is Homo in Pretio a man highly to be prized and honoured and yet let me deal plainly as well as civilly with your Honours he may fall from all his Civil Honour and will if he repent not become like the Beasts that perish I have done with our Civil Account and therefore I passe from Civil Honour to 2