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
A85807	A brief discovery of that which is called the popish religion with a word to the Inquisition discovering their seat of injustice and cruelty, and also a word to them who are in bondage under this deceit that upholdeth the Beasts worship. And a word to the Pope who calls himself a bishop and is not, his throne of deceit is discovered, by the Spirit of the eternall God. / Given forth by me who am called of the world. A. Gargill.	Gargill, Anne.	1656 (1656)	Wing G258; Thomason E887_2; ESTC R202273	29,419	34

you minde not the light of Jesus to guide your minds and stay you in all your actions and to bring your deeds to this light and examine your selves whether they be wrought in God yea or nay God is the Author of all that is righteous he is a righteous God and judges with equity and his judgements are true mind the light in your consciences whether or no it doth not judge your evill deeds and check you in secret this is the witness for God this is the light of Jesus which lets you see your sin wait in it it will lead you to the Father of life and light out of all visible things it will judge your enemies it is your friend turn unto it God hath not left himself without a witness this is his witness that discovers the fruits of darkness all deeds of the flesh are dark that is not by the light guided The light is the beginning to know God for God is light in him there is no darkness at all even as clear as Crystall is his kingdom the transplendent glory of the living God is as a Diadem of Gold as a Scepter of righteousness to this shall all Nations bow and bend Kings shall bring their glory to the Holy City of the living God what is your glory to this you usurpers and grand transgressors the antient of dayes shall levell your glory and your shame shall appear naked as it is you are naked you are naked indeed you want the Lambs ornament with bloody Garments you have long been covered that covering shall stand you instead no longer your abhomination will appear unto all and then is your covering which by it you have been exalted rent in sunder by the brightness of his coming is your deeds made manifest who act in the flesh without God in the the world Are not you ashamed of your practice to sit like Princes in a Palace with your silver Inkhorns and your Gold Rings on your fingers and your silken Carpet and with your Rooms hung and decked with ornaments even as a Kings Palace and antient men wayting upon you cringing and bowing and you but men your selves ye seek glory one of another and set the glory of God behind your back unto you Inquisitioners I do speak Consider with your selves the author of this practise whether it be not of the Devill yea or nay Christ Jesus when he was upon the earth had not a place to lay his head on neither did his Disciples u●urp any seen authority their habitation was not in this world but in another and that world is an encless habitation to those that fear the Lord and keep his Commandements his Commandements i● pure an undefiled an undefi●ed life doth the Lord require consider with your selves all things under the Sun is but vain turn unto the Lord and repent of this your abhomination be all of one minde and set your selves to love innocencie that you may become haters of evill I mean not self righteous for no man can see God and live wait on that which is eternall the light of the Lamb and strength shall be given against all your enemies which is sin and death The light of the Lamb is not so it leads to purity peace and true holiness and love God is love and love is the fulfilling of the Law this Commandement I leave with you saith Christ Jesus that ye love one another he gave his life for the love which he bore to sinners and he left his light in the world that men might know good from evill Every man hath a talent given him the sluggard hath a talent the unprofitable servant had a talent and he hid it in the earth Earthly minded men hides this talent and keeps it under the abhomination Christ Jesus was a Lamb slain from the b●ginni●g in the beginning was the word and the word was God and dwelt among men but men loved darkness rather th●n light because their deeds were evill evill minded men have possessed t●e kingdoms of the earth and by the fall lyes in disobedience and have exal●ed themselves above all that is called God they are exalted by concupiscence and disobedience which they have gathered in by the Prince of the Air. Airy minded men have gathered in by that Clymate swift destructions to their souls from the beginning it was not so when innocencie dwelt in Adam be obeyed God the Serpent being subtle deprived man of his eternall happiness and begot a nature like unto himself and selfly minded men are like unto him their seed is d●ceit full like unto him that sowed it the enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and the good seed was choaked and took not ro●t now cons●der of these things consider there is but two good and evill The good proceedeth from the Lord that seed is innocent and harmless and would the death of no man it is the fruit of righteousness peace it leads unto an holy life and to do righteousness in the fight of God and to do unto every man as you would be done unto it leadeth not into Cains nature that slew his Brother Abell it doth not teach to murder men to be a man-slayer consider with your selves whether your practice be of God yea or nay will you deal so with any that you would not have them so to deal with you would you be slain for conscience sake your selves turn to the Lord that you may see your evill wayes that by the brightness of his coming your enemies may be dissolved and that an end may be put to all these things which have been gathered by subtlety and held up by tradition to advance the Devils Kingdom away with all your vain imaginations away with all your deceit away with all your double dealing all is layd open before the Lord and he is a judge of it and his judgement is true and men are lyers The Devill was a lyer from the beginning he hath deprived man of his eternall happiness by a lye by a lye was Eve beguiled and misled with that which leads to desolation all mankinde desplation hath possest the souls of men by the fruit of iniquity which hath been gathered in by his subtlety that is a deceiver A deceiver is he who judgeth the wayes of God to be a lye false judgement is set up and instead of righteousness that should take place in mans heart disobedience have took place upon the earth and the righteous Law have been neglected because man hath obeyed the Devill in the stead of God that is a pure Author this Author was from the beginning from everlasting to everlasting world without end without end is his glory but you know it not it is hid from you by the grand-enemy of man who is exalted above all that is called God God is a beginner of innocencie and a fountain of life to all those that trust in him come all ye ends of the earth and drink of the water of

life freely he is a ●iving fountain yea he is a living fountain and all that will come shall be tefresht in that Christall fountain where the water of life springs continually to wash the Garments of those that are filthie By his Blood are we all cleansed O ear the living God of life and power for powerfull is he to all them who trust upon him for life and power against sin by faith are we saved If we trust in God as a redeemer Faith is belief and belief makes perfect all those that trust in him for redemption he that hath faith purifies himself even as God is pure by the fountain of righteousness that comes from God he is righteousness for ever and his Kingdom cannot change no changeable thing can therein enter The Heavenly fountain is set open for men therein to wash and to be cleansed to serve the living God of life and power yea unto him is power given who is the Son of God that enlightneth the dark world and leadeth up to the Father of life and light Friends consider of all these things that is herein written they shall stand eternally either for your condemnation or justification If you believe and repent God will shew mercy if not your judgement shall hasten to your Condemnation The innocent Lamb hath long suffered under the abhomination of all flesh now will God get himself a name above all names and his power shall be known above all powers his glory shall stain all flesh and that glory shall be layd in the dust who have been exalted above the innocent and made desolate widows houses and wronged the fatherless and the poor this hath been the cry many hundred years the righteous Law of the living God hath been forgotten and mans will hath been performed by the children of disobedience who have studyed revenge against the innocent Lamb of light and life and power but unto him shall power be given to avenge his enemies a double reward shall the wicked receive their reward shall be doubled the same Bread which they have broken unto others the same shall be broken to them this is the word of the Lord unto you Inquisitioners repent and turn from your evill ways and come down to the light of Jesus and by it be guided and it will turn you from dead works to serve the living God that an end may be put to all that have been gathered and not by the Lord from the eternall Spirit by the power of the living God this was I ordered to write for the good of your souls A friend to your souls and an enemy to your deceit A. GARGILL FRIENDS TO all you who calls your selves Roman Catholicks Romans you are indeed and no Israelites he that is an Israelite knoweth the Lord but your ways are abhomination to the Lord acted in the deceit of your Hearts deceitfull is your practice unstable is your minds you are lead by tradition to the destruction of your souls your cringing and bowing it is all in the fall you bow unto d●ad Images like your selves death seeds on death and that is the end of your practice by tradition of your old Fathers which you call Saints they are Authors say you and you believe as th● Church believes and the Church as you call it have their Author from the Devill the Father of lyes he was a lyer from the beginning and by a lye is his Kingdom upheld in the children of disobedience through mischievous men are the innocent beguiled beguiled are all they whose life is death whose end is destruction learn to live in God that your lives may be holy and unblameable bef●re the Lord of life that a living Sacrifice may be offered and not a dead stone you say your Images and likenesses that are not is your redeemer he that redeems is the Lord you set them in the stead of God when you do say likenesses puts you in mind of Christ Jesus did you ever Preach any su●● Doctrine that a dead thing renews the mind what think you of this are you not ashamed to be called Christians when the very ●urk walks more unblameable do you not whore and swear and murther and steal and cheat and couzen and yet you say you are Christians If you were Christians then you would be like Christ Jesus but him you never knew you have a name to live and are dead the living praise the Lord yea the living p●aise the Lord your moulten Images cannot save you nor all your prayers to Mary and to the Saints Mary her self when she lived upon the earth claimed no such authority but was subject to the Lord of life even as was others who is my Mother Sisters or Brother even they which do the will of my Father saith the Lord Christ Jesus when the Scribes and Pharisees came and told him that there was his Mother and Brethren looking for him he stretched forth his hand toward his Disciples and said these are my Mother and Brethren who do the will of my Father shewing that he was no respecter of persons but loved all who feared the Lord his love is unchangeable his love is undefiled and an undefiled life doth he require no other thing doth the Lord require but separation from sin from the beginning hath it separated man from from God no other thing maketh a stranger but disobedience God require than holy life and that you are strangers to you call your Priests Holy men you have a light from Jesus t●a● shews you they are as bad as you and that you are as bad as them and where is then your Church The Church of Christ is pure and an hidden thing from the carnall the Church is hid in God and none can see his glory but they that are like unto him his glory is an undefiled life amongst his people he taketh delight in those that keeps his Commandements his Commandement is pure and holy and no unclean thing can enter into his kingdom his kingdom is pure indeed even of Christail even as the Sun at noon day so is his glory to them known that keeps his Statutes and his Law and this Law is to be guided by that eternall Spirit which leadeth up out of the world to the Father of life and light This is the condemnation of the world that light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evill be ashamed of your evill deeds and turn to the light of Jesus which discovers sin the light of God placed in all your consciences that tells you you should not swear nor lye nor deal falsly by it God will be known to be a righteous judge God is a judge of evill and a lover of righteousness and he loveth all them that put their trust in him Come all ye ends of the earth and be saved saith the Lord yea come all and drink of the water of life freely the water of life is the wisdom