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	life_n	saul_n	1,175	5	9.4858	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96180	The anchor of hope, for Gods tossed ones, or, Mercies thoughts for the vessels of mercy under misery, or, Gods bowels let out, opened, proclaimed to afflicted saints in a little treatise on the 29 of Jer. 11 vers. / by John Welles ...	Wells, John, 1623-1676.	1645 (1645)	Wing W1290A; ESTC R42975	70,879	217

God so the Sun will not be darkned he that is light it selfe will not Eze. 2 33.11 cannot be blinded he that is a most glorious Soveraigne will not be bafled he cryes to you 1 Sam. 24.25.26.27 why will ye dy why do not you answer him and say Lord give us to live why do not you melt in your hearts and with teares say is this thy voice O our Father what hast thou so much mercy such multitudes of bowels dost thou cry after us why will ye dy when we chose such a death our selves oh thou hast rewarded us good whereas we have rewarded thee evill thou hast shewed us this day in this voice of mercy in these thoughts of mercy how well thou dealest with all thine and willest to save those who have kild themselves can God say more then to cry returne returne my thoughts are towards you come to me my mercies shall be all yours ah poore soules you have destroyed your selves yet there is helpe in me for destroyed creatures you have kild your selves yet there is life in me for dead creatures you have damned your selves yet there is salvation in me for such damned creatures as you are you have sinned and so have infinitly displeased me yet there is mercy enough in me to reconcile you to me say you bring sin yet I can take it away say you multiply sin yet I can tell how to multiply pardon and so to forgive you all Isa 55.7 as well as some is not this Gods voice does not God say thus much in effect by this gracious voice if I did intend that sin should still part betwixt you and me why do I call upon you why do I proclaime this great mercy to you my heart sais Christ cannot rest till those I dyed for enjoy the fruit of my death my love saye● Father will not keep in towards those I have purposed love unto they shall have it sayes God I will be their God I will be their portion I will become their saviour Oh that sinners had eares to heare his voice Oh that they had such hearts in them that would beleeve that would make them restles under all their false gods and fly to the true 2. This truth calls upon unbeleevers to come off from glorying over the people of God when they are brought into a low condition by tyranny oppression or any sad hand of rebuke from God it is usuall with the world then to trample upon the servants of Christ when they be afflicted ones they will persecute where God smites they will grieve those whom God wounds The Church in Micah was no sooner down but the world was glad therefore she thus gives the enemy a faire warning she thus puts in a prohibition Rejoyce not over me O mine enemy Micah 7.8 When I fall I shall rise agine when I sit in darknesse the Lord will bee a light unto me Shee speaks of rising again on purpose to make her enemy to know that he should fall and never rise which was not her case nor never should shee grants she sits in the darke but denies that this will be her condition still the Lord will be a light unto me She grants the worst and beleeves the best T is as much as if she should say O mine enemie doe I fall Oh what a fall wilt thou have then Does judgement begin at me what then will thy end bee When I sit in the darke I have the Lord to be a light to me but what Lord hast thou to bring thee into light He that will raise me will judge thee he that will be a light to me for my comfort will be a terror to thee for thy condemnation Shee thus replies for herself against the ungodly giving them to know of her rise and recovery as well as fall and cleerly intimating their fall without recovery their darknesse without light their judgement without mercy which shall fall upon them and grinde them to powder take heed then yee Wicked ones tell not the people of God they be out-casts who seeks after them who cares for them they be now downe they shall never up more now they be in miseries there is an end of them they shall never rise againe What cannot God 's Ionahs live under the waves and in the Whales belly What must his Daniels needs be broken in pieces because they be in the Lyons den shall an Iron furnace in Egypt consume all the Israel of God or shall an oppressig Babylon still keepe them under hatches What is there no sun rising there is no deliverance comming Be there no thoughts of peace in the heart of the great God toward his Yes yes yee fooles and blinde why then do you thus push with your hornes Why then do ye thus pride up your selves like Moab and exalt your selves against those whom God will exalt Ier. 48.26 27. you will have for your pride one day divine justice will see you paid hear what it is make ye him drunken for he magnified himselfe against the Lord c. For was not Israel a derision to thee Was he found among theeves thou didst use him as if hee had been so even the very est villaine upon earth since thou spakest of him thou skippest for joy Oh how glad was Moab that Israel was broken Israels affliction was her melody But Moab shall be broken for it the horne of Moab where with he pusht the people of God so is cut off and his arme is broken saith the Lord ye spirituall Philistines ye may sport your selves with the sorrowes of Gods deer ones it may be your mirth cannot go well forward 25. v. till a blinded imprisoned Sampson is sent for in but what will you gaine unlesse it be ruine to your selves the losse of your own soules of your own lives and all that is truly good 3. This truth may serve to call them in from persecution from pursuing their bloody thoughts aginst the Saints why boastest thou thy selfe in mischiefe O mighty man sayes David to bloody Doeg the goodnes of God endureth continually Psal 54.1 Doeg thought hee had done such a chare when hee had told Saul where Dauid was Oh how he boasted Oh how fast he went on in pursuing him in his mischievous waies but David both heartens himself checks his enemy with this the goodnesse of God endureth continually do what thou canst thou hast not thou canst not part either God from his goodnesse or his goodnesse from me or from his people this will endure this will last when thy arrowes be all spent when thy breath is gone when thy life is lost and thou art drinking the very gall of thy most deserved portion t is as much as if David should say to Doeg O thou enemie how art thou besotted that thinkest thy waies will prosper thy vaine heart perswades thee thus thou sayst in thy self now I shall have my lust and my will I

shall get the upper hand Now now I shall see David his fellowe stumble shortly now Saul will meet with him and he shall never escape his hands yea but saies David the goodnesse of God endures thou forgettest thy selfe Doeg our God hath purposes of love hee hath fruits of love his goodnesse endures in it selfe it is so constant that it is unchangeable it endures in regard of Gods owne people t is made over to them God himself hath made it sure to them t is so his that t is theirs too in way of title and they may challenge challenge the fruits and manifestations of it in Jesus Christ do not thou think Doeg that there is no more ado but kill and slay Saints at thy pleasure what ever God hath permitted thee to do hitherto the goodnesse of God endures it is not as yet come to an end towards the Saints not never will thou deceivest thy self yet God is good to Israel he is good to David he is good to all Anointed ones thus David cooles persecuting Doeg and certainly if those that are thus bad against God and his people could were able or would see God thus good unchangeably in himself relatively towards his people they would have little heart to persecute it is a fond conceipt of having the fill of their own desires upon the people of God that flushes wicked men so that puts such wicked motions in life against the Saints it is a vain hope of successe that claps them on the back and bids them go on and be desperately resolute Secondly let the Saints know here is a glasse for them to see many precious duties in 1 Ye that believe ye that by faith are brought home to Jesus Christ and have the blessed fruits of these thoughts of his love powred out upon you fall a wondring let it work you to admiration and to blessed acknowledgements such a view should you take of the sweet wayes of Gods love towards you think not with your selves we have mercies and there is an end Saints must not make such sinfull stops you must go abroad to see mercy and neither house up nor hood-wink your selves 1 Does not God minde you when you are in your greate● straits under the heaviest clouds He hath an ear to hear your groaning when oppression hath a● hand to make you groan Isra●● though dis-respected in Egypt yet hath respect in heaven when Saints have the harshest vilest bloudiest usage from a proud Pharaoh they shall have tender mercy from their God God that heard the voice of a perishing Ishmael Gen. 21.17 the bond-womans sonne will much more hear the voice of a living and a faithfull Isaac the sonne of the free-woman when tyrants be trampling Saints under feet and writing their names in the dust yet then are they graven upon the palmes of Gods hands and their broken walles their broken conditions Isa 49.16 are continually before him there was never a time as long as time hath been never a strait as many as Saints have had wherein God hath forgotten them God ever yet walkt with his children though in the fiery furnace he will be where they be when they be where he would have them to be he will be with his mercy and his grace where they be in their sorrows and in their troubles God hath many thoughts and all precious thoughts of love towards them what do you thinke that God minds not his Saints in England that could not that would not that was not unmindfull of his Saints in Egypt do you thinke that these onely are forgotten or in this age alone God puts his people out of his mind or do you thinke that God minds not the degree of their sufferings how far they be gone how low they be brought the depth of their miseries or the height of their extremities or the rage of their adversaries or will God now content himselfe with an everly looke upon his peoples case with a cast of an eye with a glaunce onely towards them no no he hath them alwaies in his heart upon his breast he hath them alwaies in his eye he hath them alwaies graven upon his hand behold and wonder at such love and yet this is not all In the 2. place he is a forecasting God for them he purposes deliverances long before even from all eternity his thoughts be a contriving as it were the time the best time the way the sweetest way the end the happyest end the mercy the greatest mercy for his owne people to have in this way he is now walking with his people in this land his thoughts have been long at worke upon these things and now is our God a bringing forth his owne purposes to light a shewing his owne thoughts now he is a telling his Saints in England that he is a God that can love can contrive can take care for his people can tell how to send them good to give them mercy to worke for their liberties for their peace blesse our God ye Saints cause the voice of his praise to be heard publish and say Who may be compared to our God he alone is excellent in his thoughts in his purposes in his bowels in his workings there is none marvelous but him there is none like unto him And therefore yet more in the third place these thoughts of our God are they no full of wonders do they not deserve to be sought out of all his Saints see into this love that passes knowledge that is so above the reach of the minds eye see into the length and depth of this mercy of our God which is so unfadomable these purposes these thoughts they are the blessed issues of Gods own heart towards his they are those pure and living streams sweetly and immediately flowing from the fountain of life it self and how can mercy be deeper set then in the very nature in the very heart of God and can these be any other then mercies of a full length how can they have lesse then an infinite an eternall reach with them are these like to end that had never any beginning in the thoughts of God shall man give a measure or time put a period to such a love no no this mercy endures for ever and ever and here is ground enough for Saints to praise yea to call upon others too and say O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever yea to speak it over and over as David did Psal 136.1 2 3.26 verses who plyes this thing so that he doubles and trebbles it yea four times he makes mention of it in that one Psalm oh this pleads strongly for thanks it cries mightily for an high strain of praise his mercy enduring for ever the Lords eternity of mercy puts on Saints hearts sets them upon this heavenly tune O give thanks unto the Lord. In the 4. and last place see is not our God waiting to be gracious