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
A43633	Scandalum magnatum, or, The great trial at Chelmnesford assizes held March 6, for the county of Essex, betwixt Henry, Bishop of London, plaintiff, and Edm. Hickeringill rector of the rectory of All-Saints in Colchester, defendant, faithfully related : together with the nature of the writ call'd supplicavit ... granted against Mr. Hickeringill ... as also the articles sworn against him, by six practors of doctors-common ... Published to prevent false reports.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1825; ESTC R32967	125,748	116

complain against them in the Name of the Commons of England and to perswade the King not to disoblige his People for the sake of a few Court-Prelats But do you think that that unthinking King would hear them And did not he lose their Hearts thereby And did they not all join with an Vsurper against him that had no Title to the Crown nor a thousand Men at first when he landed One says well Lege Historiam ne sias Historia Let us observe the History of Times past lest our inconsiderate Actions fill the Chronicles of Times to come Let us remember Rehoboam and Richard 2d I dare say the Defendant does not so much as in a wish regret what 's past for all things shall work together for good c. 'T is only short-sightedness and want of Faith in God that makes Men stag and despond Nay no good thing will he with-hold from them that desire to walk uprightly And what unrighteousness has the malice of the Adversary been able to prove against Mr. Hickeringill and yet there are Man-catchers enough that have perverted his words which were but due and just Reproofs against a wicked foolish and perverse Generation The Defendant has cause if any other have more cause to say with Holy David Psal 37. 4 6. My Soul is among Lions and I lie even among them that are set on fire and the Sons of Men that are set on fire whose Teeth are Spears and Arrows and their Tongue a sharp Sword They have prepared a Net for my steps my Soul is bowed down They have digged a Pit before me in the midst whereof they are fallen themselves God shall send from Heaven and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up He travaileth with Iniquity and hath conceived Mischief and brought falshood Hide me secretly in thy Pavilion from the strife of Tongues until this Tyranny be overpast My Enemies in the Hebrew Man-catchers would daily swallow me up for they be many that fight against me oh thou most High Every day they wrest my words all their thoughts are against me for evil yet have I not refrained to declare thy Truth to the great Congregation and therefore they gather themselves together they hide themselves they mark my steps when they wait for my Soul Psal 22. 12 13 16 19 20 21 22. Many Bulls have compassed me strong Bulls of Bashan have beset me round They gaped upon me with their Mouths yea the very abjects gathered themselves against me making mouths at me and ceased not For Dogs have compassed me the Assembly of the Wicked have inclosed me Deliver my Soul from the Sword my Darling from the power of the Dog Save me from the Lion's Mouth And then I will declare thy Name unto my Brethren In the midst of the Congregation I will praise thee Psal 56. 7 8 9 3 10 11. Shall they escape by Iniquity In thine Anger cast down the People oh God Thou tellest my wandrings put thou my Tears into thy Bottle Are they not in thy Book When I cry unto thee then shall mine Enemies turn back This I know for God is for me What time I am afraid I will trust in thee In God will I praise his Word in the Lord will I praise his Word In God have I put my trust I will not fear what Man can do unto me Psal 57. 1. In the shadow of thy Wings will I make my Refuge until these Calamities be overpast Psal 58. 6 7 8 9 10 11. Break their Teeth O God in their Mouths c. The Righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the Vengeance He shall wash his Feet in the Blood of the Wicked so that a Man shall say verily there is a Reward for the Righteous verily there is a God that judgeth in the Earth But of all the whole Book of Psalms there is not one Psalm better suits his Condition or administers more Comfort than every Verse of Psal 94. It was when David hid himself and play'd Bo-peep 1 Sam. 23. 14 15. in the Wilderness of Ziph in a Wood. He fled not from Goliah when hand to hand but he would not contend with the Power of the King and yet he did study Self-preservation Who can blame him against combin'd malice And wherefore were David's Enemies so malicious not for any fault of mine he saith Psal 59. 2 3. for loe they lie in wait for my Soul the Mighty are gathered together against me not for my Transgression nor for my Sin O Lord for they compassed him about with words of Hatred and fought against him Psal 109. 3. without a cause Yet though they compassed him about yea they compassed him about yet he had Faith to say Psal 118. 11 12. that though they compassed him about like Bees stinging stingy and in Swarms yet in Faith he said in the Name of the Lord I will destroy them Ay but when might some say to David When can you tell us that for to a carnal Eye there was little probability of it Nay in the very next Onset Psal 118. 13. Thou hast saith he thrust sore at me that I might fall but the Lord helped me That whole 118 Psalm is spoken of Christ and his Kingdom under the Type of David and his Sufferings typified and his Resurrection and Ascension by David's Victory at length then God had delivered him from the hands of all his Enemies it was long first he was glad to fly for it first and from the Hand of Saul But at length Vers 22. of that 118 Psalm the Stone which the Builders refused typified of Christ and verified also in David the same is become the Head of the Corner This is the Lord 's doing and it is marvellous in our Eyes In Mr. Hickeringill's Retirement his Muse the Heavenly and only Companion of his Solitude compos'd this Psalm an Infallible Antidote if sanctified against all Discontent the common Plague of Mankind Sorrows and Fears And which for that purpose he sent since his Fiery-Tryal to his most dearly beloved Wife to Confirm her not to Bishop her but to strengthen her against the Bishop's Promotions and Suits which for the Publick-Good or Common-Weal I here publish viz. THat which disquiets most Poor Mortals here Is not the Pains they feel but what they fear And what we fear Either it will not come Or else sooner may come our fatal Doom And free us lodging us in our Long-Home Where neither Bishops nor his Clerks will come To wrack us any more Then do not whine The present Good or Ill alone is thine But what 's i' th' depth of future Times can'st tell Thou Fool for thou the Morrow know'st not well Nor where thou shal't to morrow be nor tell Whether on Earth thou'lt be in Heaven or Hell Let Fools and Knaves then for the Morrow pine And fear they know not what nor can divine And let the morrow for its self