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	tare_n	1,657	5	12.7414	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54125	The continued cry of the oppressed for justice being a farther account of the late unjust and cruel proceedings of unreasonable men against the persons and estates of many of the people call'd Quakers, only for their peaceable meetings to worship God : presented to the serious consideration of the King and both Houses of Parliament : with a postscript of the nature, difference and limits of civil and ecclesiastical authority, and the inconsistency of such severities with both, recommended and submitted to the perusal of Cæsar's true friends / by the author of England's present interest, &c.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1675 (1675)	Wing P1270; ESTC R18856	19,683	36

in the Heart And Conscience is my Throne upon that will I sit and rule the Children of Men in Righteousness and who ever lives soberly righteously and godlily in this World shall be my good and 〈…〉 s and they will certainly make no ill ones for C 〈…〉 Virtue is the end of Government and renders hi● S 〈…〉 more easie safe then before Had I any other Des●g● then ●●is would I suffer my Self to be reproached traduced and per●ecuted by a conquered people were it not more my 〈◊〉 to suffer then revenge would not their many provocation have drawn from me some instance of another Nature then the Forbearance and Forgiveness I teach Certainly were I animated by another principle then the perfection of Meekness and Divine Sweetness I should not have forbiden Peter fighting 〈…〉 ing put up thy Sword or endoctrinated my Followers to bear Wrongs but revenge all Affronts and by Plots and other Stratagems have attempted Ruin to my Enemies and the Acquest of worldly Empire and no doubt but they would have fought for me Nay I am not only patiently and with Pitty to Enemies sensible of their barbarous Carriage towards me for my Good Will to them for their Eternal Happiness I only seek but I foresee what they further intend against me they design to crucifie me and to do it will rather free a Murderer then save their Saviour they will perform that Cruelty with all the Agravation and Contempt they can deriding me themselves and exposing me to the Derision of others for they will mock my Divine Kingship with a Crown of Thorns and in my Agonies of Soul and Body for a Cordial give me Gall and Vineger to drink but notwithstanding all this to satisfie the World that my Religion is above Wrath and Revenge I can forgive them and to secure Caesar and his People from all Fears of Imposition whatever Authority I have and how many Legions of Angels soever I might command both to my Deliverance and the Enforcement of my Message up●n Mankind I resolve to promote neither with worldly Power for it is not of the Nature of my Religion and Kingdom and as I neither assume nor practise any such thing my Self that am the great Author Promoter and Example of this Holy Way so have I not only never taught my Disciples to live or act otherwise or given them a Power I refuse to use my Self but expresly forbad them and warn'd them in my Instructions of exercising any the least Revenge Imposition or Coertion towards any This is evident in my Sermon preached upon the Mount where I freely publickly and with much Plainness not only prohibited Revenge but ●njoyned Love to Enemies making it to be a great Token of true Discipleship to suffer Wrongs and conquer Cruelty by Patience and Forgiveness which is certainly a great Way off Imposition or Compulsion upon other Men. And when I was strongly bent for Jerusalem and sent Messengers before to prepare some Entertainment for me and my Company in a Village belonging to the Samaritans and it seems the People refused because they apprehended I was going to Jerusalem this provoakt some of my Disciples particularly James and John to that Degree that they asked me if I were willing that they should command Fire from Heaven to destroy those Samaritans as Elias in another Case had done I turned about and rebuked them saying Ye know not what Manner of Spirit ye are of for I am not come into the World to destroy Mens Lives but by my peaceable Doctrine and Example to save them At another Time one of my Disciples relating to me some Passages of their Travails told me of a certain Man they saw that cast out Devils in my Name and because he was not of their Company nor followed them said he we forbad him as if they had thereby served and pleased me but I presently testified my Dislike of the Ignorance and Narrowness of their Zeal and to inform them better told them they should not have forbid him for he that is not against us is for us my Drift is not Opinion but Piety they that cast out Devils convert Sinners and turn Men to Righteousness are not against me nor the Nature and Religion of my Kingdom and therefore ought to be cherisht rather then forbid That I might sufficiently declare and inculcate my Mind in this Matter I did at an other Time and upon a different Occasion preach against all Coertion and Persecution for Matters of Faith and Practice towards God in my Parable of the Sower as my Words manifest which were these The Kingdom of Heaven is likened unto a Man which sowed good Seed in his Field but while Men slept his Enemy came and sowed Tares among the Wheat and went his Way but when the Blade sprung up and brought forth Fruit there appeared the Tares also so the Serv●nts of the House-houlder came and said didst thou not sow good Seed in thy Field from whence then hath it Tares he answered an Enemy hath done this the Servants said unto him wilt thou then that we go and gather them up but he said NAY lest while ye gather up the Tares ye root up also the Wheat with them let both grow together till the Harvest and in the Time of Harvest I will joy to the Reapers gather ye together first the Tares and bind them in Bundles to burn them but gather the Wheat into my Barn And that I might not leave so necessary a Truth mis apprehended of my dear Followers or liable to any Mis-constructions my Disciples when together desiring an Explanation I interpreted my Words thus He that soweth the good Seed is the Son of Man the Field is the World the good Seed are the Children of the Kingdom but the Tares are the Children of the Wicked One the Enemy that sowed them is the Devil the Harvest is the End of the World and the Reapers are the Angels This Patience this Long-Suffering and great Forbearance belong to my Kingdom and the Subjects of it my Doctrine speaks it and my Example confirms it and this can have no possible Agreement with Imposition and Persecution for Conscience And that I might sufficiently deter my Followers from any such Thing as I profess my self to be their Lord and Master so have I commanded them to love one another in a more especial Manner but if instead therof any grow proud high minded and beat or abuse their Fellow Servants in my religious Family when I come to take account of my Houshold he shall be cut asunder and appointed his Po●●tion among the Unbelievers behold the Recompence I appoint to Imposing Lordly Persons such as count others Infidels and to make them such Believers as themselves will exercise Violence towards them and if they prevail not will call for Fire from Heaven to devour them and if Heaven refuse them will fall a beating