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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	2,955	5	9.9011	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95806	The good of peace and ill of vvarre, set forth in a sermon preached in the cathedrall church of S. Paul, the last day of July, 1642. By Ephraim Vdall, Rector of S. Austins, London.	Udall, Ephraim, d. 1647.	1642 (1642)	Wing U9; Thomason E113_16; ESTC R23094	24,719	49

dwelling place of thy Name to the ground they have burnt up all the Synagogues of God in the Land Thus by War the holy Cities of Jury became a wildernesse and Zion a desolation Esay 64.10 And no marveile for when great Armies are got on foot wherein are men for the greater part of them most impious and licentious in their violent lust what can be imagined but outrage and villany Here is nothing but robbery and spoyle all is fish that comes to net per fas per nefas by hooke or crooke all is one In war there is a continuall squeezing of the Spungt that sucked up abundance in the time of Peace treasures are exhausted plate● turned into earthen dishes and people mightily inpoverished by the expensive oppression of war In War trading decayes lands lie untilled and briars grow up instead of corne Merchandize by exportation and Importation cease Cities are unfrequented like the wayes in Juels time and are made desolate and waste Et discordiâres magnae dilabuntur by war and discord great things are brought to nothing In war Wives are made Widdows Children Fatherlesse Parents childlesse Friends friendlesse And in civill Wars the most uncivill and barbarous of all other the father often fights against the son and the son against the father and a mans enemies are those of his owne house and bloud so that one brother becomes the butcher of another and the slaughters are most unkindly and unnaturall all bonds of affinity consanguinity and humanity being violently broken and cut asunder as in those civill wars between the houses of Saul and David betwixt Israel and Judah betwixt York and Lancaster in which the brother hath sought against the brother and the Kings own friends have been forced into the field against him and have died in that fight in which they have been but faint enemies to him and to which they were altogether unwilling In these uncivill civill Wars most wofull are the desolations none being more destructive and pernicious enemies than enraged friends countreymen kindred For when love is turned into hatred that hatred is most deadly Corruptio optimi pessima as it is with any other thing the better it was in its native Goodnesse the worse it is in its Corruption I exemplifie this in those bloudy Wars between the two houses of York and Lancaster in which let that only reigne of Edward the fourth be made our Map to descry the desolations of civill War in which were fought nine civill Battailes in England insomuch that in his time most of the flower of the Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdom either died by the Sword valiantly fighting in the field or by the Axe of the Executioner being taken prisoners for partaking The Civill wars between Marius and Sylla bad almost unpeopled Rome which made Quintus Catulus a noble Roman cry out one day in the Senate with whom shall we live at last Si in bello armatos in Pace inermes occidimus If in War we slay the armed and in Peace the unarmed In that Civill War mentioned Judg. 21.2 Between the tribe of Judah and Benjamin when the fury was over the conquering Tribe wept sore for the destruction of Benjamin whom they had slaine down to the small number of 600 men that fled and hid themselves in the rock of Rimmon In War what losse is there of Limbs of Eyes of Armes of Legs What living sorrows of such as comming off maimed from the Battell do live in misery and want for ever after So that for all their Markes of Honour the dead are better than they And what dying groans and moanes of men ready to gaspe out their soules to whom all pity and compassion is prevented by Fifes and Drums and Trumpets which are used in War not only to encourage the Souldier to make havocke of man-kind but as in the valley of Hinnom that the parents might not heare the screeking of their Infants sacrificed to Moloch lest their eare should affect their heart So are these loud Instruments used in War that men may not heare the woefull complainings of their wounded friends lest pity should enfeeble that Hellish fury they call courage and valour in killing and destroying In War all priviledges and immunities cease for here is no Law but power and lust no Iustice but spoyle and rapine Men had led saith Seneca a most quiet life if they had taken away these two words Meum tuum out of the nature of things which made Licurgus set up a community in Lacedaemon that his Citizens might have no contention for any private interest But in Warre these pronounes meum tuum mine and thine are not known but what the stronger can lay hold on and carry away by might that is his own and it is here according to that proverbe That that is thine is mine and that that is mine is mine own Here is no Charter nor Freedom of the City here is no distinction betweene the Magistrate and people but Cade and Straw and Tyler will beard the King and give all Iudgements out of their lawlesse lips and the most noble here are made a scorne unto the basest villaine Here is no assurance of one penny to morrow to him that this day is full and hath abundance Jocus l●●us sunt in militiâ domos diripere fana spoliare virgines rap●re solida urbes atque oppida incendere Eras in Adag In War the goodliest Cities are set on a Flaming fire laid in their dust and rubbish Here the chaste Wife and Virgin are ravished before the face of the miserable Husband and Parent unable to relieve or rescue them from villany Here the little Infants are tossed on the pikes or taken by the heeles and their braines dashed out against the stones or slaine in the armes or on the knees or in the bosome of their deere mother that bare them and ripped sometimes out of their mothers belly In war there are a thousand indignities and barbarous cruelties and nothing to be heard or seen but weeping wayling wringing of hands nothing but mourning and lamentation and woe heu miseri qui bella gerunt Indeed War is the last and soarest of all Gods Iudgements sent out among men for their sins the famine and pestilence not to be compared with it For men that be wolves and insatiable in their cruelties yea devils one to another be the executioners of Gods sore vengeance brought on a people for their transgressions when famine pestilence and other more gentle corrections have done no good upon them to reclaime them from their sins against which if God being angry but a little shall put this rod into the hands of men they will helpe forward and increase the fury Zecha 1.15 Nay more than this in War the fury reacheth out only to living men but to the reasonlesse creatures that are appointed for their comfort And more than that to the very senselesse creatures the trees of fruit the