Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	death_n	sting_n	victory_n	1,403	5	9.4621	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15621	An A.B.C. for layemen, othervvise called, the lay-mans letters An alphabet for lay-men, deliuering vnto them such lessons as the holy Ghost teaches them in the worde, by thinges sensible, very necessary to be diligently considered.	Wither, George, 1540-1605.	1585 (1585)	STC 25888; ESTC S101869	82,014	180

for y t the● haue light to direct them by so they that direc● thē selues in their calling by the light of y e wor● goe aright and vpright because God doth giue them Therefore it is sometimes vsed for know●ledge gotten by reading and hearing the wor● preached Thirdly the day of the Lorde shall no● come soudenly and vnlooked for vppon the chil●dren of light stealing vppon them as it were theefe in y e night for y t they be endued with god●ly knowledge and therefore liue in continua● expectation of his comming and watch lookin● for it Lastly we are to exhort one another whil● it is called to daye and also to obey them 〈◊〉 whome God doth speake to day both because 〈◊〉 knowe not whether hee will speake to vs any more and also least we be excluded out of his 〈◊〉 as our Fathers were Darknesse THe Darknesse of dongeons in prisons where prisoners are voide and destitute of all comfort doth shadowe vnto vs the terriblenesse and fearfulnesse of Hell The workes of darknesse are so called either of ignoraunce of the doer which the Darknesse of the minde causeth or because they are commonly done in the night or closely out of sight or else because the dooers of them dare not and loue not to come to try their doings by the light of the Word or else because the rulers of the Darknesse of this worlde worke them in the reprobate Darknesse should make vs remember what we somtime were and what we be now called vnto and how we should therefore walke and lead our liues leaste wee declare our selues to be vnfaithfull and shewe that wee loue Darknesse better then light which is flat damnation Dawbers AS Dawbers that dawbe Walles with Morter which was neuer tempered cannot make those walles continue for that the morter crumbleth away So false and lying Prophetes that speake in the name of the Lord that which he neuer commaunded them can not make their wordes true or to come to passe as they haue promised Death THe death of all men doth admonish vs of the trueth and constancie of gods worde and how certayne that is which he once hath vttered The Death of the godly which yeelde their soules to god ioyfully shoulde make vs consider y t though death be the last enimy that shall be destroyed that is to say abolished yet he is already swallowed vp by our Sauiour Christe in victory and his sting taken away and so after a sort for euer destroyed because his power of hurting and harming Gods people is taken from him When righteous and mercifull men dye and are taken of the earth It is time for vs to looke for euilles which God will sende vppon vs for our sinnes from the sight and greefe of which God hath taken them away By this that all men dye wee are taught that all men are sinners When we see howe harde a thing it is for a man bee hee neuer so good or so welbeloued to finde another man to suffer Death for him We are to consider the vnmeasurablenesse of the loue of Christe who died for vs not onely when we were moste sinfull wretches but also moste spitefull enemies to him Further death shoulde teache vs to dye to sinne As the bandes of matrimony are set free by the Death of one of the married couple So are we by Christe made deade to the Law and freeed from the yoke seruitude and bondage of it When wee see God plague vs with the sicknesse and Death of greate numbers Then are we to enter into our selues diligently to spie the cause thereof And especially to looke whether our grosse contempt of the Worde and vnreuerent abusing of the sacrament haue not procured the same Deade men can doe nothing that liuing men should doe So when we are deade in sinne wee coulde doe none of those thinges which declare and shewe foorth our life in Christe As great a myracle therefore as it is for deade men to bee raised againe So is the chaunge that Christe hath made in those that be his Christe by dying not onely ouercame death but also him that had Lordshippe ouer Death that is the Diuell and that to this ende that Death now shoulde be no more fearefull and terrible to vs. Defence ALl outwarde means of Defence when men passing by God put their confidence in them are but vaine As Siluer Golde Horses Charriots high Towres strong Walles victualles ●trong men valiant captayns honorable persons ●age graue couneellers c. Put not therefore ●our trust in princes nor in y e sonnes of men for ●n thē ther is no help But know y t he is accursed that maketh flesh his arme Therefore though some trust in Chariots and others in Horses yet the people of God aduaunce their standerdes in the name of the Lorde And when their mighty enemies are brought downe and fallen they rise and stande vpright Dewe AS the morning Dewe soone after the sonne rising vanisheth away So the strength glory prosperity and pride of the Idolaters is by God soone brought to naught Debters IF we when we haue poore and needy debters pitying their pouerty do forgiue their debtes and then thinke that by good right we may challenge loue and the more loue where we haue moste forgiuen then are wee to thinke howe much and how deepely we are bounde to loue Christ by whom so manye and so great thinges are forgiuen vs. Dearth DEarth is procured to countries and nations by their great and grieuous offences especially by Idolatry whereof we haue example in the dayes of king Achab next by periury as appeared in the dayes of King Dauid three and ready to kicke against their keepers so is it with very manye men the more temporall blessinges and worldly commodities God heapeth vppon them the more they kicke againste him and will be the lesse ruled by his Ministers and Word Father THe naturall pietie and compassion that Fathers and mothers haue towardes their infants doth teach vs how much greater the compassion of our heauenly Father is towardes vs his children And if our Parents are ready to giue their infantes good thinges when they begge or craue then much rather we shall be denyed nothing if we in faith do begge and craue of God And if Parents be carefull according to their abilitie to prouide thinges needfull for their children how can we want any thing at the handes of our GOD which he knoweth to be good and needfull for vs Also Christe hath therefore in praying taught vs to to call him father that we might be admonished to come with such reuerence as Children owe vnto their Fathers that we come not in confidence of our selues or anye thing in vs but in confidence of his mediation by whom in whom we are made the

gayning or getting to the slouthfull It is impossible that Corne shoulde growe or prosper and come to good among the bushes of thornes so likewise is it that the seede of the word shoulde become the seede of new-byrth to him that continueth full of worldly cares and is snared with the deceitfulnesse of ritches Throanes WHensoeuer wee see throanes or Chayres of state wherein it is not lawfull for any but princes and great estates to sit then are we admonished to remember the greate maiestye and glory whereunto Christ will aduance those that follow him Temples TEmples Churches Chappelles which places we therefore esteem holy because they are dedicated to the seruice of GOD and holy exercises of religion shoulde bring to minde that we are also the temples of God and therfore ought also to be holy Tooth AS the stump of a tooth is vnprofitable to eate withall So they in whome there is no fayth nor credite to be reposed are friendes vnfit vnprofitable for a man in the day of trouble Toppe THe house top should put vs in minde howe much better it is for a man to bee quietlye matched though he dwel in neuer so small a corner rather then haue neuer so pleasante and roomthy an house with a contentious brawling brabbling wife Tongues THe gift of speaking with strange tongs thogh it be very commendable and excellent yet if it be not vsed to the common benefite profit of those among whom we liue It maketh a man no better then a peece of sounding brasse or a tinckling cimbal They that speake to other in a tong that the other vnderstand not are as straungers to them to whom they speak so are they y t speake lattin to the vnlerned multitude at church Men cannot iudge them to bee well in theire wittes whom they hear talk and prate to them in a tong which they vnderstād not Further when things are so vttered in the church that they can not be vnderstood of the hearers it is a plain and manifest token of Gods anger against them for theire vnbeleefe Trauaile ONe great trauaile that God hath giuen vnto men to humble them thereby is to learn and gather wisedom by the diligent and aduised consideration and viewe of all thinges vnder the sunne Trees WHen we see trees digged vp by the rootes not to the end to destroy them but to plant them in another place where they maye growe better more conueniently then are wee to remember that the grieuous troubles of the righteous sent to them from God are of the like sort for their better planting in another place A tree pleasantly planted by the water side prospering bringing forth fruit in greate plenty doth admonish vs how we which pretēd to be graffed in Christ Iesus shold aboūd be replenished with all good works The strength of a Cedre tree or of a great Oke sodainly rent or pulled vp by the rootes and the grene flourishing of a bay tree sodainly blasted and withered away doe represent vnto vs the strength and prosperitye of the wicked how momentany they be and how sodainlye they perish A tree the fruit whereof is good for preseruation of life and health therfore of many much sought for should bring to minde howe wholsome a good tongue is and carefully Wisdome is to bee sought after Trees in Winter which for that they are naked and voide both of leaues of fruit do seeme for the time little to differ from dead starued trees and yet haue secretely hid in them theire iuice which maketh them spring again and as it were reuiue again in summer doe represent vnto vs the state of the Church of God which though in bitter persecution seemeth to be as it were quenched extinguished Yet when God giueth some peace rest flourisheth and springeth again When we see a little twig spring out of an old seare stocke such as we would haue thought it impossible for any thing to grow on it then are we to remember in what decay the stock of Dauid was when Christ was borne The Church of God after persecution shal like a fruitefull Tree take roote againe flourish and growe till the worlde bee filled with the fruite thereof When we see some trees higher fayrer greater and stronger then others then are we to remember that euen so is the greate power of those Nations which God aboue other hath exalted As trees are knowne to be good or bad by their fruite so men are discerned by their doing And as men are wōt to hew down y e trees y t either are vnfruitfull or else bring foorth bad fruit make firewood of thē so God in his good time will root out of his church al wicked men and throw them into eternall fier When trees blossome and shoot foorth buddes we are assured that sommer draweth neare So when we heare of warres rumours of warres pestilence famine and earth-quakes then are we to know that the end of the world draweth neare Troubles GReat are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord riddeth them out of them all and in the meane space comforteth them in the middest of their troubles that they may be able to becomme instrumentes of comfort to others and able to cheare others in their affliction by that comfort which they them selues receiued of god Trumpet WHen we heare the trumpet sound out aloud to giue souldiers and seruitors warning to prepare and put them selues in a readinesse for that which they are appoynted for Then are ministers to remember howe much they shoulde strayne their voyces and how loude they shoulde cry both to Princes and people to shewe them the daungers that are iminent and at hande for their sinnes As the Trumpeter that is set to watch for the comming of his enemies is guilty of the bloud and death of his Citizens and people if through his negligence and for want of warning by his trumpet the enimy steale vppon them and make slaughter and hauock of them at vnawares so the ministers of the word also if the people without continuall admonition and calling vpon to repent do perish in their sinnes If the trumpet should giue an vncertaine sounde it should not profite for so the souldier shoulde not be warned to prouide for the battell euen so the tongues which the people vnderstande not are not profitable to be spoken withal in the church And by the sounde of the Trumpete wee are warned to hearken after and to looke for the sound of the last trump at the noyse of the which the dead shall rise incorruptible and we shall be chaunged Treasure THe gathering of treasur● by deceitfull tung and speeche is a vanity euen so delighting men and as commonly exercised of men that seek their own destruction as the tossing of a tennice bal. As in treasure howses