Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	let_v	lord_n	scatter_v	1,870	5	10.3518	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43651	A discourse of the soveraign power in a sermon preached at St. Mary Le Bow, Nov. 28, 1682, before the Artillery Company of London, and now published at their desire / by George Hickes ...	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1845; ESTC R2173	18,621	42

Honour and never do them hurt or damage but Defend them to your Power But if notwithstanding your Care and Endeavours to the contrary any disaffected Persons have or may hereafter creep in among you let their Right-hands forget their Cunning and cease to be dextrous in handling the Sword Let them never be able to stretch forth Hand or Sword against the Lords Anointed or if they do let them prosper according to the presage of our Blessed and Obedient Saviour who said He that taketh up the Sword that is without or against Autority shall perish by the Sword Let their Calamity as Solomon saith rise suddenly Let swift Destruction as David pray'd against his Enemies come upon them unawares let them be as the Chaff before the Wind and the Angel of the Lord scattering them Let all this come upon them as upon Absalom Brutus Cassius and Choerea and I hope there is none so disloyal in this Audience at least in this Honourable Company that will not heartily say Amen There are other Excellent Uses to be made of this Doctrine especially against the unchristian Practises of those Men who not having the fe●r of the King of Kings before their Eyes love to speak and do every thing as far as safely they may against the Honour of his Vice-gerent standring his Person and Government belying or mis-construing his best Proceedings blaming or Censuring his most Innocent Actions delighting in his Misfortunes Triumphing in his Wants Aggravating his Infirmities dispersing Stories and Rumours to his Prejudice and loving to do every thing that tends to weaken his Autority and withdraw the Hearts of his People from him and render him Odious and Contemptible in their Eyes If you ask these Men with what Conscience they can thus treat their Soveraign they will tell you they do nothing but what they can Justifie by Law as if the Laws of the Land and not the Laws of the Gospel were the compleat and adequate Rule of Christian Duty Subjection and Obedience Or as if Men were to be Try'd at the last Judgment by those and not by these But alas the Man of God as the Apostle calls a Christian cannot be made Perfect in any one Duty by the Laws nor furnished by them unto every good Work but quite contrary the Laws of the Realm will allow us to do many grievous things against Father Mother Wife Children or any other sort of Relations or Neighbours for which without Repentance we shall be surely Damned Wherefore as the Laws of the Land are not the Measure of our Duty of our Parents c. so neither are they the Perfect Rule of our Duty to our Prince as it is plain from the Verse after my Text where the Apostle having told the Romans that the Emperour was the Minister of God he then adds Wherefore you must needs be subject not only for Wrath or fear of Legal Punishment but also for Conscience-sake To Conclude all these Disloyal Men with which these Kingdoms so abound Act more like Greeks than Christians and as if they had been bred at Athens and Sparta rather than in the School of Christ Otherwise they would be better Affected towards Gods Anointed they would Pray more for him and Murmure and Clamour less against him as knowing that God giveth us what Kings soever he pleaseth and that the Kings Heart is in the Hand of the Lord and that he turneth it whithersoever he will He is King of Kings Lord of Lords and the only Ruler of Princes He is the Fountain of Soveraign Power every King is his Vice-gerent and every Kingdom a Theocracy and therefore let us bless the Lord before all the Congregation and say in the words of David 1 Chron. 29. Thine O Lord is the Greatness and the Power and the Glory and the Victory and the Majesty For all that is in the Heaven and in the Earth is thine thine is the Kingdom O Lord and thou art exalted as Head above all Which in other words is the very Doctrine of the Apostle who saith That there is no Power but of God and that he beareth not the Sword in vain because he is the Minister of God To whom Father Son and Holy Ghost be ascribed c. AMEN