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
A90811	Authentēs. Or A treatise of self-deniall. Wherein the necessity and excellency of it is demonstrated; with several directions for the practice of it. / By Theophilus Polwheile, M.A. sometimes of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now teacher of the Church at Teverton in Devon.	Polwheile, Theophilus, d. 1689.	1658 (1658)	Wing P2782; Thomason E1733_1; ESTC R209629	246,682	521

more therefore to some if thus to our enemies much more therefore to our friends to our kindred to those of our owne family Wee are some way related to all men in as much as wee are all of one bloud Acts 17.26 and therefore we must love all and doe good unto all but there are some to whom wee are more especially related and those wee must love with a more especial love the nearer the relation the dearer the love and the more endearing must the expressions of it be And in this sense that particular precept to Husbands of loving their Wives Ephes 5.28 and to Wives of loving their Husbands Tit. 2.4 must bee understood To be without natural affection is made a note of the foulest wicedness not only in the Gentiles Rom. 1.31 but also in the professors of the Gospel 2 Tim. 3.3 of whom the Apostle saith that if any provide not for his owne and specially for those of his owne house hee hath denied the faith and is worse than an Infidel 1 Tim. 5.8 The Pharisees taught the people even as the Papists doe at this day that if any one Consecrated his estate to God he was exempted from his duty of releeving his poor Parents if hee could say to his Father or Mother It is Corban that is to say a gift by whatsoever thou mightest bee profited by mee then hee should bee free and they suffered him no more to doe ought for his Father or his Mother But our Saviour sharply reproved them for it telling them that they rejected the Commandement of God that they might keep their owne tradition Mar. 7.9 and that they made the Word of God of none effect through their tradition which they had delivered vers 13. therefore that must be warily understood which hee elsewhere saith If any man come to mee and hate not his Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Brethren and Sisters hee cannot be my Disciple Luke 14.26 Wee see it cannot bee understood absolutely Christ means not so but only in some certaine respect when our love to them and our love to Christ are incompatible I shall thus explaine it Wee are to hate Father and Mother Wife and Children Brethren and Sisters as wee are to hate other men We are not to hate them absolutely so as in no respect to bear any love unto them for we are commanded to love them and to doe good unto them even the worst of them as I have shewed above but in some certaine respect as they are enemies to God and to our serving of God so we not only may but wee ought to hate them and in this respect David pleads it unto God as an argument of his sincerity Doe not I hate them O Lord that hate thee and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee I hate them with perfect hatred I count them mine enemies Now what follows Search me O God and know my heart try mee and know my thoughts Psal 139.21 22 23. in this respect wee are to hate our nearest relations and it is a special evidence of true love to Christ so to doe And therefore 2 Affirmatively to deny Self in respect of our Relations is 1 Not to connive at them in any way of sin if wee be Superiours It was commanded in the Law of Moses If thy Son or thy Daughter or the Wife of thy bosome intice thee secretly saying Let us goe and serve other gods which thou hast not known thou nor thy Fathers thou shalt not consent unto him nor hearken unto him neither shall thine eye pitty him neither shalt thou spare neither shalt thou conceal him but thou shalt surely kill him thine hand shall bee first upon him to put him to death and thou shalt stone him with stones that hee dye because hee hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God Deut. 13.6 11. That this for the substance of it shall bee in force in the times of the Gospel is fore-told in the Prophesie of Zechary I will cause the Prophets and the unclean spirit to passe out of the Land and it shall come to passe that when any shall yet Prophesie then his Father and his Mother that begat him shall say unto him Thou shalt not live for thou speakest lyes in the name of the Lord and his Father and his Mother that begat him shall thrust him thorow when hee prophesieth Zechary 13.2 3. A Blessing was pronounced upon the Tribe of Levi c Levitae in punitione Idololatrarum puta adorantium vitulum aureum Exod. 32.28 Non miserti sunt amicorum cognatorum ac fratrum filiorum suorum sed occiderunt eos aeque ac alios perinde ac si eos non novissent imo non vidissent aut ad spexissent A Lapide Qui certe vergem sensus Rivet in Decal 1. Tom. 1354. because in the execution of Justice upon the Idolaters Exod. 32.27 they had no respect to their nearest relations Deut. 33.8 9. And of Levi hee said Let thy Thummim and thy Urim bee with thy holy one who said unto his Father and to his Mother I have not seen him neither did hee acknowledge his Brethren nor know his owne Children Asa was commended for removing his Mother Maachah from being Queen because shee had made an Idol in a Grove 1 King 15.13 but old Eli sharply reproved and threatned with a terrible Judgement for his too much indulgence to his Sons 1 Sam. 2.27 28 29. Wherefore kick yee at my Sacrifice and at my Offering which I have commanded in my habitation and honourest thy Sons above mee to make your selves fat with the chiefest of all the Offerings of Israel my people wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith I said indeed that thy house and the house of thy Father should walk before me for ever but now the Lord saith Be it farre from me for them that honour me I will honour and they that despise mee shall be lightly esteemed Behold the dayes come that I will cut off thine arm and the arme of thy Fathers house and there shall not be an old man in thy house vers 30 31. Hee had reproved his Sons before when their evil report was brought unto him vers 23 24. but this was not enough d D●bebat eos fust●bus carcere coerce●e quia erat pater Magistratus Paraeus in L●c. he was a Judge in Israel and therefore should have punished them which because hee did not being loath to crosse them therefore God threatens him in this manner here and afterwards saith concerning him Behold I will doe a thing in Israel at which both the cares of every one that heareth it shall tingle in that day I will performe against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house when I begin I will also make an end for I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which hee knoweth because his Sons made themselves