Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	evil_a	good_a	overcome_v	2,148	5	9.0851	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67247	The antidote: or, a seasonable discourse on Rom. 13. 1 Shewing the necessity and reasonableness of subjection to the higher powers. With an account of the divine right or original of government. By John VValker, M.A.	Walker, John, 1650-1730.	1684 (1684)	Wing W392; ESTC R222266	59,633	307

Jesus did never allow or countenance any thing of this kind much less authorize the Subverting of Governments the pulling down of Empires or the destruction of that Order and Subordination God had placed in the World but of the other side with the strongest Sanctions and most powerful Arguments persuaded to the contrary so never did any true and sincerely honest Christians exert and avow such wicked and damnable Exploits or by a Covenanting Dispensation presume to make so large Entrenchments upon the Law of Nature and of Grace That there have been Treasons and Rebellions acted in a Kingdom and amongst a People professing Christianity if we look no farther than our selves we have an undeniable Testimony and Evidence but then certainly this was not done by us as we were Christians or by the Authority of our Religion but as we were sensual carnal and devilish acted by a spirit of Pride and Ambition of Hypocrisie and Dissimulation of Malice and Revenge of Self-interest and Covetousness For the wisdom that is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisie The Christian Institution like its Author is of all things the most innocent and harmless the most meek and humble the most self-denying and condescending It s design and business is to inflame us with the love of God and of our Neighbour to promote and establish Peace within and Peace without and to make our Conversation and way of living here on Earth in some degree and measure a resemblance and expression of that more perfect Concord and Unity Love and Amicableness we shall fully possess hereafter in Heaven And therefore as it equally detests and forbids whatsoever may hinder or lessen the increase and growth of these excellent fruits of the Holy Spirit in us through the whole course of our Lives so in order hereunto doth it strictly enjoin and command us to render to all their dues To owe no man any thing but to love one another To be of the same mind one towards another To bless them which persecute us to bless and curse not To recompence to man evil for evil to provide things honest in the sight of all men And if it be possible as much as lieth in us to live peaceably with all men Not to avenge our selves but to give place unto wrath And therefore if our enemy hunger to feed him if he thirst to give him drink Finally Not to be overcome of evil but to overcome evil with good And agreeable to this is what St. Peter in other terms expresly commands That we should honour all men Love the Brotherhood Fear God Honour the King Indeed so full and copious is the Gospel in asserting this Truth that as one may run and read it so there needs no abusing of Scripture by straining it as hath been maliciously and untruly suggested to evince and prove it For what can be more plain and full if we 'll believe either the Text or Context than what our Saviour enjoins and prescribes Render unto Cesar the things which are Cesars And what they are St. Paul acquaints you viz. first in general Subjection then in particular Tribute Custom Fear Honour and Love For love worketh no ill to his neighbour And as express and clear is what he infers in ver 5. Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but also for conscience sake Religion then you see utterly disclaims and disowns all Invasions and Usurpations of PRINCES Thrones and Dominions of their Persons and Affairs It hath secured and bounded their Rights and Properties by an unalterable and not to be violated Fence and Law and separated and lifted them up above all others by a special mark of Sacredness and Majesty For I have said ye are Gods From whence then come Wars and Fightings among us All those horrid and hellish Rebellions Conspiracies and Treasons all those injurious and scurrilous Speeches and foul Language all that unjust and unnatural Resisting and Gainsaying and all that unworthy and dishonourable Usage and Treating of our Superiours and Governours by subtle and slie false and malicious Insinuations Suggestions Back-bitings Whisperings and Slanderings Come they not hence saith the Apostle even of your lusts that war in your members Ye lust and have not ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain ye fight and war and yet ye have not Come they not from our Ambition and Haughtiness that will not suffer us to sit still and acquiesce in that state and condition of life Providence had placed us in but to be more Honourable and Great Eminent and Powerful Come they not from our Avarice and Greediness which will not be satisfied with the Christian allowance of Food and Raiment but like the Horseleech cries Give Give Et per fas nefasque And by right or wrong Oppression and Injustice makes way to greater Riches and more plentiful Treasures Or come they not from our Self-love which whilst it exceedingly magnifies our own merits will as much decry and depress those of others And then are we so fit for and worthy of Honourable Employs to be thus slighted and contemn'd will be the next Suggestion and the next to that a desire to revenge and right our selves join'd with an implacable hatred against those that stand in our way and oppose us These and the rest of this accursed Litter are no doubt the true Fountains and Springs of our evil Thoughts bad Words and worser Actions against our Governors of our despising Dominions speaking evil of Dignities and stretching forth the Hand against the Lord 's Anointed These are the great Boutefeu's and Incendiaries in Church and State they who excite and teach us first to murmur and complain then form Parties and enter into Associations and in fine openly to Resist and Rebel And would we be but so Christian and prudent as once to make the Experiment i. e. extirpate and banish them all out of our hearts and lives lay by all our Prejudices and Passions our Sins and Follies we should upon a review of our former practice easily and quickly find and as readily confess that our Complaints and Murmurings were unjust or at least impertinent our bandying together in Parties unnecessary and dangerous and our open resistance wicked and abominable And as it would extort this just Confession and great Truth from us so would it make us better natur'd and better manner'd more civil kind respecful and obedient to the Higher Powers For now having none of these unruly and boisterous Passions and Lusts to support and cherish to maintain and defend we should be fitly prepar'd and dispos'd to embrace and receive the Truth in the love of it and so be able to understand and see the necessity and convenience in respect at least of our present welfare of a dutiful subjection to our Superiors And though