Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	hand_n	lord_n	stretch_v	1,025	5	9.8952	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78399	The Cavaliers catechisme, and confession of his faith, consisting in foure principall heads, viz. 1. His duty towards God, and confession of the holy Trinity 2. His duty towards his King, and superiours, spirituall and temporall. 3. His duty to his neighbour in generall. 4. His duty to and opinion of the Sacraments. All familiarly explained (by way of question and answer) betweene a zealous minister of the Gospell, and a gentleman who had serv'd his Majesty in the late unhappy warre, being very usefull for all sorts of people to practise.		1647 (1647)	Wing C1568; Thomason E1186_7; ESTC R204935	7,318	24

and my God Iohn 20.28 Rom. 9.5 thus much of Christ who is eternall God blessed for ever Amen I hope Sir you are satisfied in this point Mini. Very well I protest now I pray Miui prove the deity of the holy Ghost Sold. The testimonies before mentioned Sold. Math. 28.19 Mark 16.15 Mat. 3.17 as where our Saviour bids Baptise in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost c. here is unity in Trinity and Trinity in unity For they were not to Baptise in the name of the Father or of the Son c. but and of making of three Persons one God Also in the Baptisme of Christ the Son was apparent in humane shape the Holy Ghost in the figure of a Dove and the Father only distinguished by a voice from heaven saith this is my beloved Son now this voice of the Father was of his Son Christ there is two distinct persons the Holy Ghost the apearing in the Species of a Dove was neither the Father nor the Son therefore was it and ever shall be the third person of the holy and individuall Trinity all three in one Coessentiall Coequall Iohn 14.6 and Coeternall I will pray to my Father saith our Lord and he shall send you another comforter meaning the Holy Ghost note here c. I pray you The Holy Ghost must be sent from the Father through the meanes of the Son therefore from both proceeding is consubstantiall and a like equivalent with both Pet. 1.10.11 of which salvation the Prophets have enquired and diligently searched who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you searching what or what maner of time the spirit of Christ which was in them did signifie when it beforehand testified the Passion of Christ Iohn 5.7 and the glory that should follow But I le conclude this point and I hope sufficiently with what hath bin spoken before out of Saint Iohn there are three which beare record in heaven the Father the word and the holy Ghost and these three are one that is to say the the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost are three distinct persons and one eternall and everliving God to whom bee all honour glory dominion and power now and for ever Amen Mini. Are Kings and other Magistrates of divine institution Sold. Yea questionlesse as t is apparent by many and sundry places Sold. Rom. 13. ● Prov. 8.15 Prov. 21.1 Let every soule bee subject unto the higher powers for there is no power but of God c. By me Kings Reigne and Princes execute Justice saith God The Kings heart is in the hands of the Lord as the Rivers of water he turneth it whither soever he will Mini. May this honour and service extend only to good Kings or to all both good and bad Sold. Even to the bad as well as the good for in St. Pauls time there were no Christian Princes to obey the Apostle imposing this obedience even to the heathen Tyrant Nero who then persecuted him and afterwards cut off his head exhorting also his disciple Timothy in these words even for Nero and this life I exhort therefore first of all that supplications Prayers intercessions and giving of thanks 1. Tim 1.2 be made for all men for Kings and for all that are in authority c. So Saint Peter 1 Pet 2 13.14 submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreame or unto Governours as to them that are sent by him c. Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but for Conscience sake Rom. 13.5 Mini. Is it not lawfull then to resist a King that rules according to his Lusts turning the Ordinance of God into Tyrany Sold. That which hath beene and shall be spoken hereafter proves plainely the contrary David resisted not Saul though a wicked King a Tyrant and his persecutor but on the contrary spare him twice when it was in his power to have slaine him First in the Cave at Engedi where hee came so neare him that he cut of his skirt 1 Sam. 24 31.4 5 6 his men beginning to exult saying this is the day wherein the Lord hath delivered thine enemy into thy hand to do with him what thou wilt but what answer made loyal David to al these God forbid that I should do this thing unto my Master the Lords anoynted to stretch forth my hand against him seeing hee is the anoynted of the Lord c. The whole Chapter is worth reading Another time David found Saul sleeping with his Speare pitched on the ground 1 Sam. 26. p. 9. c. 2. Sam. 23.18 1 Chro. ●●●0 and a Pitcher of water at his bolster Abishay one of Davids worthies said God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand now therefore I pray thee let me smite him with the Speare to the earth at once I will not smite him twice and David said unto Abishay destroy him not For who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords anoynted and be guiltlesse c. Mat. 2.14 15. Also our blessed Saviour whose holy humanity wee should all strive to imitate though by his divine power as being King of Heaven and Earth he could have destroyed Herod and all his wicked confederates Ier. 27.6.7 8. yet for exemplary obedience hee flies into Egypt til the storme of persecution is over was not Nebuchadnezer a wicked King a Tyrant a Pagan and Idolater and yet he by whom Kings Reigne Prov. 21 1 as hee was King vouchsafeth to call him his Servant that Nation or Kingdome saith the Lord that will not put their necks under the yoak of Nebuchadnezer King of Babylon my Servant that Nation will I visit with the sword Ier. 29.7 Pestilence and Famine untill I have destroyed it by him the same Nebuchadnezer having caried Captive into Babylon Iechoniah King of Iudah with his Queene eunuches and Princes of Iudah the Prophet Ieremiah writes a letter to his Country-men in Captivity exhorting them to obedience bidding them to seeke the peace of the City Babylon wherein they lived and not to stir rebellious insurrections and to pray unto the Lord for it for in the Peace thereof saith he you shal have Peace the Prophet Daniell told the same Nebuchadnezer thus thou O King art a King of Kings Daniel 2.7 for the God of Heaven hath given thee a Kingdome Power and strength and glory by what clearer testimonies then these can any truth be ratified here t is plaine that not only the best but even the worst of Kings as they were ordained of God So were they obeyed by men that Kings in generall with out exception are not to bee resisted no not so much as thought mucklesse spoken evill of is manifoldly proved by the word of God where the word of a King is there is power who may say unto him what dost thou Eccl.