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	swallow_v	victory_n	1,217	5	9.2933	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74387	An act for setting apart Tuesday the eighth of October next, for a day of publique thanks-giving· Together with a narrative and declaration of the grounds and reasons thereof. Die Martis, 17 Septembr. 1650. Ordered by the Parliament, that this Act, narrative and declaration be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1650 (1650)	Thomason E1061_17; ESTC R209251	6,749	14

AN ACT For setting apart Tuesday the Eighth of October next for a Day of Publique THANKS-GIVING Together with a Narrative and Declaration OF The Grounds and Reasons thereof Die Martis 17 Septembr 1650. ORdered by the Parliament That this Act Narrative and Declaration be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by Edward Husband and John Field Printers to the Parliament of England 1650. AN ACT For setting apart Tuesday the Eighth of October next for a Day of Publique THANKS-GIVING Together with a Narrative and Declaration OF The Grounds and Reasons thereof IF any Nation in the World hath at this day upon them mighty and strong Obligations unto the Lord for his peculiar Manifestations of Mercy and goodness unto them wherein he hath filled with Admiration and Astonishment all that have been Spectators and Observers of the out-goings of his Power in Deliverances and Preservations It is the Parliament and People of England in the midst of whom the Lord hath walked most eminently for these Ten years last past and constantly exercised them by various and wonderful Providences being pleased to make use of a few weak and unworthy Instruments contemptible in the eyes of men to bring great things to pass and carry on his own Work that the Power might appear to be of God and not of Man and this in the weakest and lowest conditions of his Servants when we have been reduced to the greatest Straights and had as it were the sentence of death in our selves and our Enemies heightned and hardned by their Power and Multitudes in their Confidences even to Pride and Arrogance ready to swallow us up and destroy us So that upon most of the Victories vouchsafed unto us there hath been written in broad and visible Characters This hath God wrought Thus far hath God helped us And as it is the duty of all persons in this Commonwealth especially those that fear the Lord to observe these his marvellous and gracious Dispensations and be taught by them not onely to submit unto and close with the Actings and Appearances of the Lord who worketh all things according to the Councel of his own Will but to be enlarged in Rejoycings and thankful Acknowledgements and to trust him in like straights for time to come So the memorial of such Mercies and glorious Deliverances of the Almighty deserve to be transmitted to Posterity and for ever recorded unto his Praise In the Number of these and as that which may have the first place The Parliament is most exceedingly affected with the late Wonderful and gracious dealing of the Lord towards their Army under the Command of their present General General CROMWEL in Scotland and with the glorious Victory which he hath there wrought for them in an unexpected season against the Scots For which inestimable Blessing of God unto the Parliament and People of England enriched with so many remarkable circumstances that all along evidence his Divine Presence this Commonwealth can never be sufficiently thankful especially if it be considered That in this is given in a Seal and Confirmation from Heaven of the Justice of our Cause and of the Sincerity of his Servants that are his unworthy Instruments in the carrying of it on after that most Solemn Appeals were made on both sides to God himself the Righteous Judge in this necessitated War between England and Scotland And that all means of Christian love and tenderness towards those that bear the Name of Godly in the Scotish Nation have been used to inform and perswade them and prevent if it had been the will of God a decision by the Sword and the same rejected And indeed such is the riches and fulness of this high and unexpressible Mercy that the value and consequence thereof is not in a short time to be apprehended but is of that nature as succeeding Generations will be tasting the sweet and good of it as often as they look back upon it and penetrate into it For in the bosom of it is comprehended the safety of all that hath been fought for these many years late past And together with this Victory God hath renewed Being and Life it self to this Commonwealth and the Government thereof whose total Ruine and Subversion was not onely contrived and designed but almost ripened unto an Accomplishment by all the Enemies of it under the fairest Vizards and Disguises they could clothe themselves with that is to say of The Cause of God The Covenant and Priviledges of Parliament the more easily to seduce and deceive a Party within this Nation who lay waiting for it and to concentre in one all the Strength that could be heap'd up together of various destructive Interests unto the Power of Godliness and true Liberty and Freedom of the People the maintenance whereof is so much in the desires and endeavors of this Commonwealth In this Combination the Popish Prelatical Prophane and Malignant Parties stood behinde the Curtain and seemed for a season to be quite laid aside that the Cause of God the Covenant and Work of Reformation might bear the Name and the Promoters thereof the onely Power and Sway through whose seeming Credit and Authority our hands might be weakned our Cause blemished and general Insurrections from all parts of England procured and so obtain that through Deceit and Hypocrisie joyned with Power which by Force alone they durst not attempt as having found by frequent and dear Experiences the mighty hand of God drawn out against them as often-soever as they appeared in a way of meer and open Force And now when the Design was thus subtilly and dangerously laid and the Enemy in his own thoughts was in so fair a way of accomplishing thereof that they doubted nothing less then of having our Army at their mercy and of marching up unto London without opposition with their new King at the Head of theirs The following Narrative will declare how suddenly the Lord turned himself against them and arose like a Gyant refreshed with Wine bestowing upon England the most seasonable and wonderful Victory over his Enemies that it hath ever known or been made partaker of The Narrative AFter the march of our Army into Scotland upon the grounds of Justice and Necessity and in the prosecution of those ends heretofore declared by us And that all means had been used by the General and his Councel of War for to prevent the effusion of Blood and bringing the guilt of it upon their own heads which might incur upon their obstinacy especially of such as we beleeved might fear God in the Scotish Nation Our Army did often press upon them and several times tempt them to engage with us which they did as often avoid waiting for their advantage over us by our weaknings and sickness and their own strengthning by the continual access of forces to them And when it was found notwithstanding all ways used by us it would work no effect to fight us It was at length by the