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
A13261	A Christian loue-letter sent particularly to K.T. a gentlewoman mis-styled a Catholicke, but generallie intended to all of the Romish religion, to labour their conuersion to the true faith of Christ Iesus. By Iohn Swynnerton, Gent	Swynnerton, John.	1606 (1606)	STC 23558; ESTC S120777	49,016	88

deposing of my lawful soueraigne the Lords anointed no not although my king were a tyrant as we all know and his very enemies acknowledge he is gratious and mild and after the Apostles precept hath put on euen the howels of compassion but concerning this last treason that treason of treasons the vnparalleld arch-treason of the world my protestation shall extend it selfe fvrther Namely that were I assared besides the fruition of all the former cited felicity that my God neither in this world by the worme of conscience nor in the world to come by eternall confusion would lay the same to my charge but absolutly remit it for euer yet that I should abhor from my soule such a bloody inhumaine action neuer be won to giue my consent thereunto for my loue to god and his church my king and country would I know religiously and forcibly restrain ●ne heere you may thinke I go very far but I assure you no fur●her then I am directed by holy warrant and this I affirme to be the true resolution of a protestant and present vnto you as the proper fruit of our religion Whereupon if you please to fix the eie of your soule which is your vnderstanding and weigh the same in the true and single ballance of impartial Iudgment you wil presently I doubt not distast the fruits of your religion and happely discouer the same not to be as it seemeth but rather like the aples of Sodome which are said to be faire and beautifull in shew but when they are touched turne to ashes and reueile themselues to be of no substance But I ouerlong detaine you and confesse it is more then hie time I had concluded I leaue therefore this and all the other pointes formerly touched to your mature and indifferent consideration and theirs whomsoeuer that shall likewise daigne the perusall thereof and will now make bold though an vnbidden guest and but an intruder to come to your wedding It should seem without impeachment of the gent. worth that the deere expence of your time that pretious and vnualuable Iewell was an eloquent and powerfull aduocate in his behalf that at last hath so happily made conquest of your affection wherein I must approue your wisedome for there is no earthly Iewel to be compared therewith Iewels being lost may by possibility be recouered againe but time being spent can neuer be recalled againe I condemne my selfe in iustisieng of you Indeede therein I confesse I haue bene a prodigall for I haue played so long at this dangerous game of delay that I deserue methinkes to be notorious for ill husbandry The idle time-spender being as it is truely saide the greatest vnthrift you haue conside ratiuely avoided this scandall wherunto I onely say this that as you haue bin wise to enter into that happy and honourable calling of marriage and for ought I knowe aduised in making your choise so it is and shall be my prayer how weake soeuer you account the power thereof that you may bee hlessed in your course that your husbande that lyeth in your bosom the yssue which is likely to spring from those imbracements and all other blessings belonging to marriage may deriue vnto you such contentment ment and happinesse as your vttermost desires can aime at or any Gentlewoman of the world euer inioyed If you haue deserued well of me this for the present is my best requitall if otherwise it is my vttermost reuenge But if the world which is wedded to idle inquisition and sicke of her old disease sinister misconstruction would vnderstand the reason that brake the marriage betwixt vs two and gaue you occasion otherwise to dispose of yourselfe as you haue done let them know that on my part nothing but our different religion was the impediment I appeale vnto yourselfe whether I speake truely For you cannot but remember that in all oportunity I was still harping vpon that string and euer did my best though all in vaine to haue set the same in perfect tune I told you that if you would alter your grosse and foolish opinions or but giue mee hope that in future time I should haue better hearing and might happily win you thereunto I woulde be most willing and thinke my selfe most happy to knit that gordean knot without longer deferring although our friends should vtterly withstand it and euen inforce vs to get our maintenance I with my pen and you with your needle yea albeit we were sure to haue gone a begging which we then had not neither I hope euer that haue reason to stand in feare of These words I spake oftner then once vnto you I spake them from my hart I protested that I spake them so and I protest againe that I protested truly This methinks may discharge me from all imputations touching that matter and vpon this targe of proofe will I safely take all the malevolent darts that shall be throwne against my reputation I say if I was not so forward and willing as the world expected and your worth required our different manner of doing God seruice gaue the occasion And you are not the only Iewell of worth for I will euer acknowledge your worth your morral ver tues your gifts of natur all your praise-worthy parts as al are praise-worthy that that onely which obscureth ali the rest excepted I say you are not the onely Iewell of worth that this religious and lawfull impediment hath debarred me the wearing of But my god whose blessed will I refer my self vnto and vpon whose holy pronidence I pray I may euer depende will I know sufficiently prouide for those that faithfuly trust in his goodnesse and in his insinite and vnspeakeable distribution of blessings I am in good hope not forget my poor and sinful selfe though his most vnworthy seruant And so I beseech his diuine Maiesty Our almightie creator for the merit of his deere sonne Our merciful redeemer by the illumination of his blessed spirit Our holy sanclisier to renew you in the spirit of your mind to giue you grace to lay lowne the old man which is corrupt and to put on that new man which after God is shapen in righteousnesse and holinesse of truth To sill you with knowledge of his will in all wisedome and spirituall vnderstanding to free you from these strong delusions and to giue you a true liuely iustifieng faith in the righteousnes of Christ Iesus our Sauior wherby you haue cause to say and sing with holy Dauid My soul is escaped euen as a bird out of the snare of the fowler the snare is broken and I am deliuered That when your house of clay whose foundation is but dust shall be consumed You may be translated into the great citty holy Ierusalem be fed by the Lambe which is in the midst of the throne be led into the fountains of liuing water haue all your teares wiped from your eyes And in a word be crowned amongst the true seruants of the euerliuing God with eternall ioy and felicity in heauen where I hope notwithstanding our seperation vppon carth we shall one day by the mercy of our god liue and raign together FINIS