Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	king_n	lord_n	treason_n	1,227	5	9.1593	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03494	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, August the 5. 1623. By Barten Holyday, now archdeacon of Oxford	Holyday, Barten, 1593-1661.	1626 (1626)	STC 13615; ESTC S104169	16,484	48

as willingly professing the miracle as the victory The King giues thanks and God is both his argument and his auditor He lead him about he instructed him hee kept him as the apple of his eye As an Eagle stirres vp the nest flutters ouer her young spreades abroad her wings takes them beares them on her wings so the Lord alone did lead him and there was no strange God with him And now let the blasphemous Stoicke predestinate God vngratefully abusing his ftee mercie by the bondage of Fate Let the Epicure conceiue a Prouidence more delicate then his owne fansie and with ridiculous impietie busie himselfe about his lazie God who lyes retired from the prospect and fable of the world Let the patrones of treason with impotent malice still deny this treason and bee guiltie of it Let them for euer enuie and increase our joy Let them be angry with God's mercy and his King And thy King O Lord shall prooue his deliuerance by his thankfulnesse and thy King O Lord shall prooue the integritie of his thankfulnesse by thy jealousie and thy King O Lord shall prooue himselfe safe from thy angry jealousie by the continuance of thy mercy Heare an argument as hard to be deluded as the Almighty The jealous God has since deliuered his anointed from the admirable danger of the Powder-treason therefore hee does delight in the gratefull institution of this dayes vnfained thankfulnesse And this thankfulnesse shall be told no doubt in time vnto the Heathen vnto our Heathen who are ordained to conuersion and this joy by the instruction of our Virginian Apostles And we ought to rejoyce with a great joy as confident as the fury of this treason And wee ought to vnderstand the greatnesse of this joy without which wee had heard no more noyse of the Powder-plot then by rare mercy we did of the Powder Besides here the Dagger was at the breast of a King and there was bloud-shed in this wonderfull deliuerance but in that though most wonderfull the Powder did not desperately betray it selfe into a flame And we ought not to leaue out our thankes and honour vnto him whom God's choice brought-in as the honorable instrument of this deliuerance But what monument shall we prouide for him Should we lay-vp his sword like the sword of Goliah Alas that were to preserue rust as well as fame Should we erect a Statue Why that will proue as mortall as his body Sure then we will fasten this labell to the mouth of fame wheresoeuer the Gospell of the deliuerance from Gowry shall bee preached in the whole world there shall also this that Ramsay has done be told for a memoriall of him And for our Lord the King what glory shall wee giue vnto him Surely wee must acknowledge him the friend of God the fauovrite of the Almighty whom God has reserued as the great example wherewith hee will instruct this later World Whom hee has proposed as the proofe and subject of his Almightie mercie Whom he preserued for the vniting of the Britainies a worke that required no lesse preface then this Miracle Wee haue heard the lamentations of our neighbours the bloud of whose King was suffered to bee shed like their teares whiles we haue enjoyed our King and our selues Happy art thou O Israel who is like vnto thee O people saued by the Lord the shield of thy helpe and who is the sword of thy excellency The King liues and his people must reioyce and euery street must professe the flaming embleme of this affection and the loudest musique of our Temples must recompence their inarticulate thankes by repetition The King liues and his people must rejoyce Awake Psalterie and Harpe awake Deborah awake vtter a Song Arise Barak and lead thy captiuity captiue The King liues and we must rejoyce His God did not let his enemie exact vpon him nor the sonne of wickednesse afflict him But has exalted his horne like the horne of an Vnicorne he has anointed him with fresh oyle His enemie bowed at his feet he fell hee lay downe at his feet he bowed he fell where he bowed there he fell downe destroyed The friends of Gowrie whispered among themselues why is he so long in comming Why is the report of his triumph so slow His wise Counsailours answered yea their feare returned answere to them Haue they not killed Haue they not diuided to euery man a Prouince To Gowrie a Crowne set with royall Diamonds with royall Diamonds set with curious worke to bee fitted for the brow of him that takes the spoile So let all the enemies of the King perish O Lord and let the treason of this day bee the triumph and instruction of our Nephewes And let the deliuerance of this day bee made as glorious as the Conspiracie was secret To the God of this day the God of our Dauid bee ascribed the joy and glorie of this day The end