Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	good_a	seed_n	sow_v	2,339	5	10.3710	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77686	Concerning the judgements of God; for and against what they are decreed, and what judgement is in it self. : And also what is the eternal judgement of God against the wicked and ungodly.	R. B. (Richard Baker)	1660-1669 (1669)	Wing B514A; ESTC R170429	6,726	6

Concerning the Judgements of God for and against what they are decreed and what Judgement is in it self And also what is the eternal Judgement of God against the wicked and ungodly THe Judgement of God is according to his mind and w●ll and is not against but for his creature and attends to his creatures preservation and it never became painful to his creature untill he went from his Spirits guidance and then into the unsoundnesse of Judgement for according to sound and true Judgment he wroug●● and established all his Decreeings in the councel of 〈◊〉 Will and working of his mighty Power and therein his purposes and determinations are exalted so that the Judgments of God are against nothing but what makes for his creatures hurt and they that have such an eye of respect thereto and faith and belief therein are made sound in Judgement thereby For the working of the Spirit of God is first in the Judgement of the creature wherein it convinceth him of sin and offence to the Spirit of God and for that reproves him and then of righteousness in the same mind held and retained and as it leads from the one the self-righteousnesse c. so it leads to the other the righteousnesse of God wrought by faith in him and then comes the Prince of the power of the Ayre to be judged But in this work the judgement of the creature in reference to what hath been first joyned to comes forth torne and unsound for God first breaks and tares the creature from other Lovers then Himself the cause of the bruising being then in the creature and as he submits to the Judgement of God a short work is made in the Earth without any struglings and strivings of such the creature for all the struglings and strivings of the creature is to keep life in that the Judgement is against and therein is the pain and woundings and bruises of the creature and the weakness and nakedness of the creature comes thereby to be seen which otherwise would be covered hid and healed as Judgement had its due on the wrong part in the creature and that which is for Judgement either for the Sword or the Famine or the Plague given up thereto And the plagues and torment ceaseth the creature then comes forth sound and wholsome in Judgement and to be of a healing spirit and saving nature and the plague stays in the Earth and good tidings and the Gospel of peace springs up and the storm is alayed and all is quieted and calme● within and without and then How beautifull are their feet on the Mountains and over every high hill they can walk pleasantly that being under which was once over when the Seed was in the Valleys of Israel but then comes to be raised and truth to spring up over all And thus are all the Judgements of God according to righteousness and thereby is Zion redeemed even by the spirit of judgement and burning and so the Judgements are for a light and then mercy and truth meets in one and in that one righteousness and peace can and doth embrace and kisse each other and so Zion hath the Law of God and his Word goes forth from Jerusalem and Daughters of Zion a●e no more healed deceitfully nor no smooth thing preached to the world but Judgement laid to the Line and Righteousnesse to the Plummet and yet all at home quiet and well composed but the uneven and rugged is abroad and then the hewings and plainings goes on the uneven and that according to true and sound Judgement where nothing even is battered against but the Line takes that in but the rugged it leaves out and the hewers sets on that And so though the fire be eternall that is kindled in such and shall never go out yet the pain is not eternall but as the creature is made as willing to leave the evill that God doth shew unto him and judge in him as God is so to discover and judge it he dyes from the evill and so all pain in the Judgement of God ceaseth and then come death or life or any afflictions though he seeth it come up under the sufferance of Gods Spirit and in judgement to the cause thereof yet the cause being removed in him he hath learned content therein and there under having a faith in the redeemed life and the work of God therein that hath kept from fainting by the way and doth keep from desparation or sinking of spirit under any outward afflictions so the Creation of God shall be redeemed in all the world and not without Judgement to that which hath caused it to suffer and none that keeps in the sense of its sufferance and faith of the redemption thereof shall ever be left to fail by presumption or desparation under this Judgement The Ground of all the occasion of offence in the world at this day given or taken in the wrong Ground and Part and how and wherein many are offended in Christ it being the same mind that gives the just occasion of offence that unjustly taketh occasion therein THe Ground of all the occasion of offence in the world and at this day given and taken in the wrong part is against Christ that many are stumbling at because he is become a Rock of offence to both the houses of Israel and offences will come but woe unto them by whom they so come yet herein is a consideration very great and weighty that the whole man is not to be judged in the occasion given or taken in this wrong part and ground for there may be a good ground from whence these tares cometh and proceedeth and in this ground God sowed good seed but this is the enemies work while the good man slept and he it is sowed all these tares that cumbers the ground and take heed of being too hasty in the plucking them up least thou also offend the Lord of the Harvest that art offended at the tares for both are to grow together untill then Now that which gives or takes offence in the wrong ground and part is self for self is high and will full and cannot bear any thing it sees or imagines amiss in others but presently falleth to judging never considering where it be thy place to judge and whether it be Gods time way and manner thou art giving sentence in that would have nothing judged before the secret of the heart be manifest or rather whether something be not got up that would usurp the Seat and Authority of Judgement for and to self And then if the thing were really an evill thou may spye out or imagine and so readily passest sentence on it being thy place rather to bear and suffer it untill an Authority in God is raised to minister for the removing thereof in the want of patience and the wisdome of God to manage the matter thou undertakest thou manifesteth thy own evil and weaknesse in judgement and it appeares that it is the