Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	field_n	seed_n	sow_v	1,239	5	10.0934	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05694	A christall glasse of christian reformation wherein the godly maye beholde the coloured abuses vsed in this our present tyme. Collected by Stephen Bateman Minister.	Batman, Stephen, d. 1584.	1569 (1569)	STC 1581; ESTC S115367	68,767	152

there is no secrete where drunkennes raigneth least they being drunken forget the lawe and peruerte the iudgement of all poore mens children Who hath woe who hath sorrowe who hath strife who hath brawling and who hath woundes without cause or who hath red eyes euen they that bee euer at the wine and seeke excesse Bee not thou a wine bibber for that hath destroyed many a man The fire proueth the hard yron euen so doth wine proue the hartes of the proude All such therefore as peruert bee and seekes to maintaine their estate Without repentance straight shall see the endles woe and dreadfull gate ¶ The signification THe two foremost excesse the king mainteinaunce the Frier sufferance and Backus the god of wyne the Beare force the seruing man riot and the Popishe priest careles dyet GLuttonie is the worke of darknes let vs not therfore be geuen vnto it but let vs set against it the prayer that is written in the 23. chapter of Ecclesiasticus As Esau which for one messe of meate solde hys byrthright For ye know how that afterward when he would by enheritance haue receaued blessing hee was put by for hee found no place of repentaunce though hee sought for it with teares Thus by example it is manifest that gluttony looseth the memory and causeth many a man to promise that which after he repenteth Gluttony is neuer satisfied and when the belly is full then doth y e body craue rest Gluttony loseth fyrst memory secondly consumeth substaunce and thirdly Gods vengeance and wrath falleth vpon such disobedient liuers Example of the childrē of Israell who being not satisfied with the Lordes prouision grudged and shortly after so much prouoked the wrath of God that they were destroyed the meate being in their mouthes Thus therfore as the Lord is a reuenger of the gluttonous euen so is he also of the superbious and all other offendors as Diues was punished had his reward so also shall be all those that in time haue no regard As sluggishe sleepe the tyme doth spend and loytering luskes no paine will take So fire consumes them in the end as filthy varmin the idle forsake ¶ The signification HE which lyeth a sleepe in hys bed signifieth sloth in hearing of the worde the fire burning about him signifieth Gods wrath which consumeth hym through hys slothfull negligence and he which lyeth dead with the varmin creeping from hym is filthy behauiour and idle life whose end is also miserable THe omnipotent God plasmator of all creatures neuer ceaseth but still laboureth by hys holy spirite in y e hartes of the faythful to draw procure thē to al vertuous studies exercises as most best seemeth hym among all estates as well y e tēporal as spiritual not y t he hath any neede of man but y t he seing man so subiect to all deformed vices and vanities oft stirreth hym by hys holy spirite to repentaunce For as hys Godhead is incōprehensible so hys mercies are also innumerable Therfore flie sinne and geue not thy selfe to sloth and idlenes least thou by long sleeping ouerpasse the houre and so be shutte out A man negligent is as a land that is barren Also Cato reproueth sluggishnes as a vice most deadly Plus vigila semper nec somno deditus esto Nam diuturna quies vicijs alimenta ministrat Delight not in sloth but frō sleepe sone arise for rest idlenes is mother of all vice Also a mā negligent and slothfull is as a dead mā alwayes apt to great mischiefes There is also an inward sloth or sluggishnes and that is when a man by desire of worldly goods promotions cleane forgetteth his creator and remēbreth more y e goods of this world then y e life to come S. Paul to Timothe sayth Take hede vnto thy self vnto learning continue therin For if thou shalt so do thou shalt saue thy selfe them that heare thee Miserable are the daies of the sluggishe and sleepie vagabondes as will not worke nor once geue them selues to labour whose dayes are dolefull and endes most odious and hatefull The sleepie minde doth tyme forget and youth to toyes do most desire So tyme once paste is hard to fet to late in age learning to require The signification HE which sitteth sleeping signifieth slothfulnes amongest teachers whose desire being satisfied careth not for the charge the children idlenes whose mindes without a carefull tutor are bent to nothyng but ease and vanities OUr Sauiour Christ rebuked his Disciples when he came and founde them a sleepe sayd vnto Peter What coulde ye not watch with me one houre watch and pray that ye fall not into temptation the spirite is ready but the flesh is weake Also the kingdome of heauen is lyke vnto a mā which sowed good seede in his field But while men slept there came hys enemye and sowed tares amōg the wheate went his way Which signifieth y e negligence y t mē haue in y e thinges belōging to God which is by y e carefulnes of riches pleasures of thys world Quintilian sayth y t naturall sinne foreseeth sloth idlenes Ishbosheth was slaine by Rechab Baanah in his sleepe Sampson by sleeping lost y e lockes of hys head whereby his great strength was diminished so takē of y e Philistians Ouid declareth in his first boke of one Argus who had an hūdreth eyes alwaies whē he slept certain of his eyes were open saw so y t at no time he might be found with all on slepe But Mercury by his subtil musicke brought Argus in so sound a sleepe y t he strake of hys head so deliuered Io y t before was transformed into a Cow There be many y t haue an hūdred eies for they see very cleere haue also quicke wittes and perfect vnderstādinges but neuertheles Mercury that is to say the world oft bringeth them a sleepe and then the Cow that is to say the flesh is lost and perisheth An idle hand maketh poore but a quicke labouring hand maketh rich Time is the most precious thing that is All such as will not labour in time but spend their dayes in idlenes Full soone are caught vp with the line of sorrowe paine and wretchednes ¶ The signification HE which standeth by hys tooles signifieth the dissēbling labourer who mindeth to worke no longer then his cōmaunder standeth by and when there is none to controle hym then hee loytereth as before Of such idle labourers there are to many AS smoke is vnto y e eyes euen so is a sluggishe person to them that send hym forth A slothfull person shutteth hys handes into hys bosome as into a pot and will not take paine to put it to his mouth A slothfull body will not go to plough for colde in the winter therfore shall he go a begging in the