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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
A91901	The petitioners vindication from calumnie and aspersion. And the young mans animation to the building up of Zion. Published in their defence, against a scurrilous book or pamphlet lately written against them by I.W. and scandalously intituled, Petitions against bishops and their votes in Parliament. Subscribed unto after a clandestine, delivered after a tumultuous manner, and falsly going under the name of a whole county or town, proved to be both contrary to our late taken Protestation, as also utterly unlawfull by many other cleare and evident reasons. Now answered and refuted, and petitions delivered unto the Parliament, by impregnable reasons proved to be both lawfull, and according to the petitioners duty, and the late taken Protestation. With many other remarkable passages worthy of observation. By T. Robinson, veritati devotum.	Robinson, T., fl. 1642.	1642 (1642)	Wing R1715; Thomason E146_24; ESTC R212725	45,496	53

commanded us to pray unto him Matth. 9. 38. he will make his word in all those whom he appointeth unto this work as it was in the Prophet like fire they cannot withhold it they cannot keep it in Jer. 20. 9. it will be more then their meat to them or any worldly respect Joh. 4. 32. 34. Now the glory of the Church Christs Spouse and of all her Ministers is inward in the graces of the spirit God hath chosen the poore of this world rich in faith Jam. 2. 5. and the weak things of this world to confound the wise c. 1 Cor. 1. 27. 28. The Kings daughter is all glorious within Psal 45. 13. It is the propriety of a harlot outwardly to paint and adorn her self but the honest woman arayeth her self in comely apparell with shamefastnesse and modesty as it becometh one professing the fear of God 1 Tim. 2. 9 10. and 1 Pet. 3. 3. Thus doth the Spouse of Christ whose apparelling is not outward but the hid man of the heart her voice is sweet but not seducing her sight is comely but not gorgious Cant. 2. 14. Here I have somewhat digressed because most conceive that outward estate is so exceedingly advantagious to the Church of God But I say such abundance is rather disadvantagious as wofull experience palpably testifies and the Apostle saith that the kingdom of God is not meat and drink that is in the things of this life but righteousnesse peace and joy in the holy Ghost in vertue and grace and he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God and approved to men Rom. 14. 17 18. Wealth indeed is good and profitable but it edifieth not Let us follow therefore after the things which make for peace and the things wherewith one may edifie another Rom. 14. 19. Now I come to my Author To whom I grant yea I fear that others though t inferiour in place and power to the present Bishops may prove as imperious and tyrannicall as they have been if not worse and it is most probable if they be not rightly chosen and constituted And who knoweth if that little horn spoken of in Daniel 7. 8. be not now to come up For it must rise up among the ten horns in some of the ten kingdoms this shall look well but it shall speak big and before it there shall be three of the first horns plucked up by the roots it may be A. S. H. but I prophesie not nor am I a Prophets sonne Howsoever it is justly to be feared and may be expected that yet within this Nation there will be a generall apostasie in Religion which in fine will produce a generall desolation For light and that in abundance is come into the world and men love darknesse rather then light Like Jannes and Jambres they resist the truth men of corrupt minds that turn their eares from the truth unto fables being abominable disobedient and to every good work reprobate 2 Tim. 3. 8. and 4. 4. Tit. 1. 16. Oh how averse is the whole kingdom to a * Molū omen For for this very cause hath God a quarrell with us and if we will not bowe he will break us through Reformation Will God think you alway brook our loathsome Laodicean like qualitie No certainly Revel 3. 16. The * Here I understand the regallor Imperiall State Sunne shall be turned into darknesse and the * The Church or Ecclesiasticall State The Author Moon by persecution unto blood before that great and terrible day of the Lord come Joel 2. 31. Neverthelesse all this argueth not that because through ignorance or negligence as great inconveniences may come in these present known evils are not to be taken away no more then it followeth that a man should not repaire his house because it may in time want repaire again Yea we had the more need to remove the evils present and to use the best means and heed to prevent the like for time to come And so I come again to cite his own words fo 10. viz. Fourthly that though there be obstacles and mountains in the way and the supposed u enemies of Gods Church and children yet as I am a Christian I w dare not judge them or curse them as they do or use any unlawfull x means to remove them or under the pretence of pulling down one Babell to set up another What David did by way of prediction as he was a King and a Prophet against the inveterate and y incurable enemies of the Church of God I as an ordinarie Christian ought not to do I may live peradventure to see mine enemies desert upon them which I may not desire to see That there are mountains in the way and u enemies to the Church and children of God my Author acknowledgeth but Answer judge or curse them he w dare not Indeed I beleeve him lest the curse being just should come and so he suffer with them being a Dependant on them Touching the unlawfull x means used and Babel raised by my Author so much objected read my answer to his first Cause fol. 17. c. of this book and my Answer to his second and third Cause in the 22. fol. of this book in both which places and elsewhere that grosse aspersion is refelled Judgement I confesse is onely proper to the Lord and so is vengeance nor may we either curse or prosecute for any personall injury yet of their outward actions and obstinate transgressions we may judge and ought to be jealous of them untill we see some assured testimony of their good will to Zion Act. 9. 26 27. and have we not good cause to suspect those for inveterate and y incurable foes that in stead of confessing and repenting their Popish superstition and Ceremonies usurpation and violenoe over Gods people do still persist therein and * Witnesse the Bishop of Peterborough Elies and Glocesters beastly bowings rotten Sermons and Popish prayers justifie their actions yes and still would were they not restrained exercise their Antichristian power and cruelty by obtruding * Witnesse at the Kings return from Scotland their violent pressing that grand Idol the Service Book to all good men so detestable and burthensome on the conscience things offensive and idolatrous And under favour so farre forth as they manifest themselves the professed foes of Christ and his Kingdom I hold it lawfull to curse them and that without prediction for if they remain hardned as may be justly Feared God hath alreadie told what shall become of them Psal 129. 5 6. And do not I hate them that hate thee and contend with those which rise up against thee saith holy David Psal 139. 19 20 21 22. yea I hate them with an unfeigned hatred as they were mine utter enemies Now did ever any man hate another unfeignedly as his utter enemy and not curse him I think not But see Psal 28. 4. Lament 3. 64. to the end If Meroz