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	lord_n	saul_n	3,363	5	9.9017	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08300	A poore mans rest founded vpon motiues, meditations, and prayers. Expressing to the inward man, true consolation. In all kindes and times of afflication. By Io. Norden.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1620 (1620)	STC 18629; ESTC S105984	150,903	437

mouthes but thou who relieued mée when I wanted things necessary but thou who hath deliuered mée in the time of danger but thou who shall haue the praise and glory but thou the God of my saluation and mine euerlasting refuge But what recompence deare Father shall I make vnto thée what reward shall I giue thée what sacrifice shall I offer thée I am a worme no man I haue no good thing to present vnto thée but onely I say and confesse and acknowledge euen from my heart and soule with my tongue and lips that thou onely art God onely good onely able and willing to helpe the poore to relieue the distressed to comfort the abiect and to deliuer them that are ready to be swallowed vp of mercilesse waters I am poore yet thou prouidest for mée I want and thou giuest mée things expedient I haue Enemies but thou defendest mée from their tyranny I am féeble and weake and fearefull to fall but thou doest yet strengthen mée and vphold mée thou leauest mée not in misery thou forgettest mée not in my calamity thou doest not euer hide thée from mée nor turne thy face when I séeke thée but thou rather hearest me before I call and preparest mée salue before I vnfold my sore and giuest before I aske more then I can desire Yea Father when I thinke my selfe ouer-whelmed with the troubles that like raging waues doe follow one another thou takest mée vp and settest me on a sure Rocke and when I begin to slide and my faith séemeth to faile me thou euen then with thy helping hand dost hold me vp so that neither the waters of this worlds troubles can altogether swallow mee vp neither I altogether so fall as if there were none to helpe me vp Therefore O Father full of loue full of power full of compassion and patient to thée onely I yéeld praise for my present reliefe and comfort I thanke thée for thy louing and fatherly helpe who art absolute in thy prouidence and therein raisest meanes to support thy Children when they are in danger And as thou of thy frée fauour in Christ thy beloued hast at this time and for euer deliuered mee yea when I was past hope so continue my louing God and helper and Sauiour vnto the end and as thou séest my Soule in aduersity continually so be thou my continuall helper that I may still sing vnto thee the song of praise for thou art worthy to be praised oh thou art worthy to be praised to thée be praise for euer Amen O Lord increase my Faith PSAL. 18. 2. The Lord is my rock and my fortresse and he that deliuereth me my God and my strength In him will I trust my shield and the horne also of my saluation and my refuge A Thankesgiuing to God for that Enemies haue not preuailed according to their desires with prayer to preuent them OH Lord of Hosts Lord of heauen and earth who defendedst Dauid from the malice of Saul Hezekiah from the power of Senacherib and all thy Children from their Enemies so farre as was euer expedient for thy glory and their soules comfort I thanke thée and blessed be thy holy Name for euer for that thou hast not suffered mine Enemies to triumph ouer mée buc hast most graciously deliuered mée from their malicious deuices hatefull inuentions Thine eye hath séene their laying in wait for mée and their wicked practices and in thy prouidence they are fallen and I stand they are snared and I am deliuered they are punished and I am preserued But it was not mine owne policy mine owne power wisedome or sword that hath kept them backe it was thine owne will thy worke and thine is the glory neither haue I escaped their wicked practices because I was iust nor because I was innocent neither of which deserueth so much but it was thine owne frée mercy in Jesus Christ by which they are snared and I am deliuered and I doe acknowledge it and doe confesse before all men yea I doe publish thy praise for thy goodnesse who art my strength and my saluation be thou euermore so and I shall neuer be moued be thou my rock whereupon I may euer more rest saie And grant that as I haue séene thy saluation tasted of thy sauing health felt the power of thy right hand and béene partaker of so many of thy benefits and blessings make mée able to glorifie thy Name that as thou hast now disappointed mine Enemies of their hope and weakned their power as thou hast scattered them brought their deuices and imaginations to nought so Lord stand alwaies by me and as they haue made a mocke of me trusting in thée so let shame befal them for their cruelties let their mouthes which spake lyes be stopped their armes still weakened and their hearts wa●e faint whensoeuer they shall attempt their malicious deuices against me againe when they shall compasse me about with the multitude of their wicked imaginations then let the multitude of thy mercies ouer-match them They haue sought my hurt without a cause and therefore fell without my force thou tookest my cause into thine owne hand and hast brought me out of the snare that they had laid and taken them for thou iudgest right let them therefore know that it is thou hath hast done it and although they say in their hearts The Lord will not see nor consider let them finde that thou séest and considerest their practises and let them vnderstand that thou regardest the cause of the oppressed let them neuer haue power to rise againe against me let them neuer preuaile let mee euermore reioyce in thée O Lord my God my strength and my Redéemer O Lord increase my Faith A Thankesgiuing to be vsed after the returne of a Iourney or comming to some Inne or place of rest O God of all goodnesse mercy and loue I giue thée most humble hearty thankes for thy diuine prouidence in leading and conducting me in this my Journey and for preseruing mée from dangers in the same wherein I doe acknowledge thy goodnes towards me who as thou diddest euen by thy hand conduct Lot out of Sodome so hast thou taken mée as it were in thine armes and deliuered mée from perill And as thou diddest send Raphael thine Angell to conduct Tobias And as thou diddest leade the Seruant of Abraham and diddest guide Iacob in their iournies euen by thy holy ministring Spirits so doe I acknowledge that thou hast béene this day with me in my iourney thou hast brought mee in peace and safety vnto this place wherein I may take my bodily rest and refection hauing graciously protected mée from many secret dangers not onely of Enemies Robbers and Théeues but also from danger and hurts of my limbes which are commonly incident and d ee befall euen thine owne Children blessed be therefore thy holy Name for euer I giue glory vnto thy sacred and most glorious Name for that thou hast not onely preserued me but

God and make him their enemy for he hath said Vengeance is mine Rom. 12. 19. And therefore we must take heede wee take not the office of God vpon vs in taking reuenge of our Enemies either by our owne sword or by any sinister meanes but to appeale vnto the Christian Magistrate who beareth the Sword to right the wrongs done vnto his children Wee must leaue the reuenge to whom it belongeth and seeke to be and to continue at peace with God without which no Creature can be at true peace with vs. And being reconciled to him in Christ we shall not need to feare our enemies for he will make our Enemies to feare vs as he made Esau to feare Iacob Genes 35. 5. 6. If we walke in his commandements and obserue his Lawes among many other blessings We shall chase our Enemies they shall fall before vs Leuit. 26. 7. 8. Deut. 11. 23. 25. 28. 1. 7. And hee will deliuer our Enemies into our hands if it be expedient or our cause being heard before the Magistrate hee will giue censure with vs and make vs to reioyce ouer them that would triumph ouer vs. And therefore in these crosses of Enemies we must flye vnto God by prayer as Dauid in many of his Psalmes sheweth himselfe to haue done and especially in the 35. Psalm If therefore thy cause be iust and thou be vniustly pursued feare not for God will not faile thee nor forsake thee A Prayer against the power and practices of Enemies who slander and pursue a man either without a cause or in a matter which he cannot reconcile INcline thine eare Lord vnto my prayer and harken mercifully vnto my complaints for thou séest how man intendeth mischiefe against mée many lay snares for mée to catch me that they may take mée and so deuoure mée but thou art my trust I will not feare what man can doe vnto mée yet good Father iudge and reuenge my cause let them not triumph ouer me that hate me without a cause say I without a cause yea Lord without cause cōmitted against them vnlesse thou calling to minde my sins committed against thée doest stirre them vp to be instruments of thy wrath against me So am I indéede in excusable for I doe confesse that I haue transgressed thy Lawes I haue done euil in thy ●ight but to these men Lord what haue I done my conscience is cleare of all desire to offend them and therefore Lord let their malice come to an end if not Lord giue me Faith in thée and patience to indure them for thée whom indeede I haue offended They trauell in mischiefe thou art mercifull they conceiue wickednesse and bring forth lyes but thou art righteous the God of truth my defence is in thée and therefore though they digge pits for mee they shall fall in themselues and be taken in the same that they themselues haue laid Their mischiefe shall returne vpon their owne head and their cruelties vpon their owne pates although in their pride and malice they boast themselues as if they had already destroyed me Up Lord therefore and defend mee let them not preuaile against mee rather let them relent or perish They thinke in their hearts as it séemeth by their insolence they shall neuer be remooued and thou séest it thou beholdest their wrong done vnto thée take my cause therefore into thine owne hand for thou iudgest right and helpest such as suffer violence Oh breake the arme of the wicked and malicious who bend their bow and make ready their arrowes vpon the string that they may secretly shoote at them which are vpright in heart they shoote out their sharpe and malicious accusations bitter words and slenders against mée yet Lord of thy mercy it is that though they hit mee yet they wound mée not deadly their hatred and malice tendeth but to the hurt of my body not being able to touch my soule and therefore if they should preuaile their conquest were small but my ransome is their owne ruine curbe them good Father and bridle their wicked deuices set mée at liberty whom these wicked men would hold for euer snared I rest vpon thy prouidence to be defended I séeke not reuenge against them vengeance is thine thou wilt reward but were I inclinable to reuenge they are more mighty then I more carnally politicke then I more befriended of the world then I and yet as Elisha said vnto his Seruant there are more with mée then with them for thou pitchest an Hoast of Angels about such as are thine Therefore I will neuer feare what these men can doe vnto mee either by fraud or force openly or secretly for thou who iudgest rightly wilt turne all their malicious deuices to worke for my good and their owne confusion as thou didst end the malice of hatefull Haman against harmelesse Mordecai Wherein thy prouidence brought it to passe that he was snared that laid the grin and fell into the pit he made for another Therefore good Father I will rest me vpon thy prouidence and relye vpon thy mercies in Christ in whom all things shal worke together for my good as did the selling of Ioseph by his Brethren his Mistresses false accusation his wrongfull imprisonment all which together wrought to his high aduancement Euen so Lord let all things worke to my conformation and consolation in Christ heare mée oh heare me lest they reioyce ouer me for when my féet slip they reioyce and extoll themselues against me O Lord increase my Faith and weaken mine Enemies A Prayer of the Flocke for their diligent painfull and faithfull Pastor O Most bountifull and great God how gracious hast thou béen vnto vs in lending vs a good and godly Past or according to thine owne heart who is able and willing to instruct vs with knowledge and vnderstanding and to deliuer vnto vs faithfully thy holy Word one who is sufficient to resolue vs in our doubts and to comfort vs in our calamities to recall our wandrings to instruct our ignorances and to goe before vs as a guide in the way that leadeth to saluation O Lord thou hast not so dealt with all people neither is there any desert at all in vs for which thou shouldest bestow on vs such a fauour If thou hadst still left vs in our naturall darknesse and hadst suffered vs to be perpetually plunged into that region of the shadow of death in which we sate of our selues it had béene but iustice in thée euen vtterly to haue forsaken ●s O Lord make vs thankfull and quicken vs vp that we may euen fill our mouthes with the praises of thy name who hast caused the light of thy Gospell thus to shine amongst vs to our excéeding great comfort O make vs carefull and diligent to walk while we haue light that wée may be the children of light and to beware how we receiue thy word in vaine or neglect so great saluation let vs euer remember that to whom much is giuen of