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
A87639	Jurors judges of law and fact or, certain observations of certain differences in points of law between a certain reverend judg, called Andr. Horn, and an uncertain author of a certain paper, printed by one Francis Neale this year 1650. styled, A letter of due censure and redargution to Lievt. Col. John Lilburn, touching his tryall at Guild-Hall, London in Octob. 1649. subscribed H.P. Written by John Jones, gent. Not for any vindication of Mr. Lilburn against any injury which the said author doth him, who can best vindicate himself by due cours of law; if not rather leav it to God whose right is to revenge the wrongs of his servants. Nor of my self, but of what I have written much contrary to the tenents of this letter; and for the confirmation of the free people of England, that regard their libertie, propertie, and birthright, to beleev and stand to the truth that I have written, so far as they shall finde it ratified by the lawes of God and this land; and to beware of flatterers that endevor to seduce them under colour of good counsel, to betray their freedoms to perpetual slavery.	Jones, John, of Neyath, Brecon.	1650 (1650)	Wing J970; Thomason E1414_2; ESTC R209436	24,554	117

JURORS JUDGES OF LAW and FACT Or certain Observations of certain differences in points of Law between a certain reverend Judg called Andr. Horn and an uncertain Author of a certain Paper printed by one Francis Neale this year 1650. styled A Letter of due Censure and Redargution to Lievt Col. JOHN LILBURN touching his Tryall at Guild-Hall London in Octob. 1649. subscribed H. P. Written by JOHN JONES Gent. Not for any vindication of Mr. Lilburn against any injury which the said Author doth him who can best vindicate himself by due court of Law if not rather leav it to God whose right it is to revenge the wrongs of his servants Nor of my self but of what I have written much contrary to the Tenents of this Letter and for the Confirmation of the free People of England that regard their libertie propertie and birth-right to beleev and stand to the truth that I have written so far as they shall finde it ratified by the laws of God and this Land And to beware of Flatterers that endevor to seduce them under colour of good counsel to betray their Freedoms to perpetual slavery Hostis vera dicens amico ad gratiam simulanti omnino perponendus est An Enemy speaking truth is to be always preferred before a flattering Freind London Printed by W. D. for T. B. G. M. at the three Bibles in Pauls church-yard near the west end To the POLITIQUE BODIE And Unanimous Fraternitie of the ARMY of ENGLAND Officers and Souldiers Ioyntly and severally HOnored and Honorable Commanders and Commanded Wise and Prudent Grave and Valiant Seniors and Juniors Souldiers all Unknown to most Cherished by som ingaged to many I presume to write to you all concerning what most concerneth us all To Honor God To love his Children and hate and quell his enemies are his own Commandements And although the two first be the greatest yet is the third none of the least duties required of us all as appeareth by that account given by David saying Psal 139.21 22. Vers speaking to God Do not I hate them that hate thee And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee I hate them with a perfect hatred and count them my enemies And the affliction of Saul for sparing Agag was a full example to us in that case Nay an Heathen could tell Charislaus King of Sparta he did not his office when he forbore to punish dishonest men I confess you have fought a good Fight and declared your selvs constant workers in the waie of our Reformation in our Land of Promise promised by many performed by none endeavored by too few And I also acknowledg that you are now upon service conducing in order to secure maintain the model to be perfected in time from which expedition I desire not to divert you as I have written formerly to his Excellencie the Lord General but to give you to understand you have left behind you more pestiferous dangerous obnoxious manifest sedulous and constant enemies to God your Countrey your selvs and us all then you have or can have before you unless that for sparing those at home unpunished as you might before you went God will raise afflictions against you abroad to make you minde your error before you return And let you know Achan and his Wedg must be discovered and he and his Familie punished at home before you can expect prosperitie abroad for it is usuall with God to send forraign Correcters to punish the Magistrates of his People that neglect the punishment of their domestique wickedness Many were our Achans even most of our Lawyers and Judges that in the late Kings time Sacrilegiously and daily by secret briberies and open extortions exhausted the treasure of the people even the whole estates real and personal of many thousands of the free-men of England consecrated to the said free-men and established upon them even by God himself and his then Viceroy's and the great Charter of England attesting their agreement thereupon And this to be done saith the Lord Cook somtimes Chief-Justice under the Colour of Justice is the greatest kind of Injustice and the cunningest Robberie that can be in the World And do none of you know that we have still such as do the same in comparison of which and whom Achan was but a sole sillie filching thief and his single Wedg but a poor trifling theft nothing valuable to the least share of the meanest undertaker for draining Lincolnshire Fenns and that is nothing in respect of the constant draining of the purses of the rest of that Countie which also is nothing in respect of the rest of all England and Wales more perfectly and constantly drained by the Artists of Westminster then any Fen is or can be by Mr. Henley and his partners Nay the extorted Fees for Habeas Corpus's from the Kings Bench and Fleet yearly amount to a richer Wedg then Achans which was no more then he could carri to his Tent of the spoyle of Jericho Less loss to the Israelites that were at libertie to fight for more then what is daily and hourly carried by many of the price of starvlings bread to the severall Chambers of severall Westminster Judges so lossfull to hungrie Prisoners that many thousands of them lose their lives by that means before they can procure their libertie to speak with their Creditors Have we not had more men lost so in dungeons in England and Wales wrongfully imprisoned and murthered by Judges and Gaolers then you have lost in the field hurt by the hands of your enemies And were not too many of those so lost under the hands of Goalers and dooms of Judges souldiers that returned safe from the mouths of Cannons and the Swords of enemies whose widows and fatherless children crie to men in vain for Justice and relief in this case And shall not God hear the crie of the poor and of the blood of so many Abels when men will not I beseech you lay these things to your hearts and consider in time And let it not be said that any of you accept bribes of Lawyers to dispence with their bribing extorting and murthering of whom and as many as they please of your Friends kindred and Countreymen whose case another day may be your own if you timely prevent it not Som do inform you that they are beneficial men unto you those are fals counselors for what can they give unto you but what is none of their own Nay more but what is your own forfeited and adjudged unto you amongst the rest of the Common-wealth and so confessed even by their own mouths as I have written and proved formerly be therefore pleased to make your selvs Masters of your own whiles it is in your power or expect it shall be told you the Virgins Lamp is out If your present ingagement will not permit any of you to see this done cease not to sollicit his Excellencie to write to the Hous to