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	sow_v	tare_n	2,063	5	12.8341	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77079	A taste of the spirit of God, and of this vvorld, as they have appeared in opposition heretofore, so now latest of all at New-Windsor. Occasioned through the violence, and reproach of evil men, against the temple and tabernacle of God, and them that dwel therein. Presented in a narrative to the honourable committee, for the propagating the Gospel. / By Robert Bacon, preacher by the allowance of God, and the nation, now these five years there.	Bacon, Robert, M.A.	1652 (1652)	Wing B371; Thomason E669_13; ESTC R207030	41,008	52

his reason in general his countenancing not only here but appearing openly in London on the behalf of one that though he seemed said he to walk according to rule yet he is indeed a very great seducer and a marvellous let to all good in this place which when he understood to be spoken of me and that with great heat he told him that he should take time to consider of it but could not for the present give credit to it unless he should understand more then ever he could believe concerning me hitherto The first was this That I should borrow Col. Okeys Horse sometimes and when I had it in my Custody should go with it into Smithfield to sell it there The second was this That I should be present where I saw a man in bed with another mans Wife The third That Mrs. Ceenee sometimes lodged at my house The fourth and the last that no man can tell that hears me whether I will speak from or of God or the Devil All these were named of him with this profession that he would make proof of them telling it him as glad to have somewhat of this nature to report of me 1. Now as touching Col. Okey I scarce ever had any speech with him save only once he spoke to me at Slow going to meet the Lord General coming out of Ireland 2. As concerning his Horse I never borrowed any of him he and the Lord knows 3. Yet I will not deny but being in Glocester I came to London upon a Horse which Colonel Okeys Wife said was hers 4. This Horse Col. Massie now prisoner in the Tower when he seized on me with some 16. of his Troop ordered for my use in this Journey which as I did not so I had no cause to take notice of whose it was being his prisoner and so wholly in this business passive 5. This Horse trotting altogether I road not on till I came to Warwick being till then in the custody of the Corporal and one Trooper two most honest and Christian men riding till then on the Corporalls Horse and he riding on that appointed for me both which did of their own minds offer and endeavour to exchange it for me that I might have one more easie nothing suspecting but that it had been the Governours own who had done me all this wrong which ten Horses could not give me reparation for 6. Col. Massie did himself before the Committee promise to accommodate me well and with a good Horse to London 7. This Horse as I have heard as well as these men were the States for whom and in whose cause I had suffered great loss before at Bristol 8. This matter is fully enough spoken to in a Book I writ of that relation of my sufferings wrong I sustained in that place Mr. Bachiler giving a ready and full approbation of it being the then Licenser of Books 9. When this Book and suffering was I was then justified of the Independents so call'd as an Independent but many of them have seen cause to do since more unwarrantably what they then condemned the Presbyter for whence it is my lot to suffer under some of them as I did of their Fathers that went before I mean those whether Prelatical or Presbyterian of like spirit with them 10. This Horse I refused in London to deliver at the first challenge to Mrs. Okey as I had cause to do neither did I deliver it she being a stranger to me till I had an Order from the Captain-Lievtenant under Col. Massey so to do which when I saw she had her Horse as she desired 11. This Charge was in particular once also brought against me by my loving Neighbor Mr. Bachiler who had himself justified me and the thing in the book he licensed but indeed I was then related to my Honoured Lord Say and he a man then of great power and Mr. Bachiler was not yet fellow of Eaton nor had as yet by a full Table left off trusting in God for from his own mouth it came as God is witness I was told by the Governor in the presence of his Wife and some others that he had trusted in God so long that he was once like to be starved 12. I bless God through his grace I am innocent and without blame in my heart and life as touching this business both as towards God and man I do confess I have thought of some further recompence for this my suffering and wrong at Glocester which hath been so judged heretofore especially of Mr. Bachiler and those of the Independant way that I say not of the whole Nation as it is now but as sure as God is this adulterous and wicked Generation having through Apostacy from God and his people enriched themselves by the spoils of others care not what become of the Israel of God so they may sit in quiet feeding themselves full with the Onyons and Garlick and other the flesh-pots of Egipt Lastly let it be judged of God and man what spirit this is that thus boldly and with a most impudent face reproacheth the truth of God manifested in the extream sufferings of his Saints and people Mr. Wood for I will not refuse now to name him his second charge is That I should be present where there was a man in bed with another mans Wife To this I will say first in general that where the good man soweth as becometh him good seed there cometh the Enemy and soweth tares That which I have innocently and for the furtherance of the truth as it is in God declared That this adversary of God and me hath somewhere picked up to fling as dirt into my face wherefore as the Lord is witness in me I will return it back from whence it came and give out the report truly with the foundation of it whence it hath and doth arise It 's not unknown to some that being to see a Brother sometimes in Wells when I came his Wife my Wives Sister told me he was then a prisoner at Taunton by the means of Mr. Pine which indeed I think cost him his life though he was put forth again and nothing layd to his charge which freedom I obtained by a Letter from the L. Fairfax that then was General wherefore my Sister rode behind me to Taunton but she had ordered it to take Horse at one Garmans a poor man yet much talkt of who came now and then to her house At this mans house I stayd about half a quarter of an hour I had the rather a mind to see him in that among others I had heard Mr. Peters as well as others particularly speaking of him This man about some two or three years after with his Wife as they said came to London of whom I only heard but saw them not but having again with my Wife a Journey into the West we overtook and left behind on foot some half a dozen of men and Women on the Road the