Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	love_n	love_v	neighbour_n	3,555	5	9.3021	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59749	Ta proz eirenen, the things that belong unto peace, or, A seasonable discourse for these factious times delivered lately in a sermon before the judges at St. Maries in Nottingham at the assizes there, and now printed at the command of some persons of honour ; to which is annexed A short and modest apology for the author and book of the several weighty considerations, humbly recommended to the serious perusal of all, but more especially to the Roman Catholicks of England, by Thomas Sheppey ...	Sheppey, Thomas.	1682 (1682)	Wing S3221; ESTC R33738	21,949	42

God's and Man's Nature together which were before at such vast distance and by Grace he re-unites the Will of God and the Wills of Men which were so contrary And now you see what reason there is we should study to be Quiet since Peace and Quietness are the very end for which the Son of God came into the World did and suffer'd so much and at his last Departure bequeath'd it to his Church for his richest Legacy And therefore he that doth not make this his study doth as much as in him lies to frustrate the whole Course that God hath taken with us and to render the Bloud of the Son of God of no effect And yet for all this wicked and Turbulent Men will not be quiet with any like Ishmael their hand is against every man and every mans hand against them They are at War with themselves by the disorder of their Passions at War with their Neighbour by quarrels and discord at War with God by disobedience They are uneasy and unquiet on all hands From God they are troubled with the dreadful threats of his Justice from Man they meet with a thousand disturbances and contradictions and from themselves with infinite disquietudes But good Men Gods Children are at perfect Peace with all with themselves by due curbing in their Passions with their Neighbours by perfect Love and Amity and with God by an Universal Obedience to his Commandments They are at quiet with themselves by submitting the Flesh to the Spirit Lust to Reason the Inferiour part to the Superiour For as in a Consort of Musicians the Harmony proceeds from this that every Voice keeps its own part so in Man when the flesh is kept under and the Soul permitted to reign from this due Order and observance as from a Consort of Voices proceeds the sweet harmony of interiour Quietness And as a Musick-Master is continually attentive to keep every Voice in its due rank to elevate those that are too low and depress those that are too shrill thus Reason in Man must keep a strict eye over the Body and keep it from mounting too high and disturbing the Harmony And this was our Apostle's great secret when he found the flesh rebell against the Spirit Castigo corpus meum in servitutem redigo Thus by captivating our flesh and subduing our Passions Reason will command the Soul will reign and maintain the Microcosm in perfect Peace and Unity But man being in the Philosophers phrase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Creature shaped out for Converse and Society he can no ways keep peace with himself if he be not at quiet with his Neighbour As one member of the body ruines its self if it attempt to loosen that which fastens it to the rest of the Members And de facto there are no persons so uneasy and unquiet as envious Persons Riotous Debauch'd Seditious Men who make it their study to sow Dissentions 'T is true they are a trouble and vexation to their Neighbour but a far greater torment to their own Souls and while they scatter abroad the seeds of War and Tumult they reap the first fruits of it in themselves And thus both Nature and Reason teach us that if we desire to be happy and injoy Repose and Tranquillity in our selves we must study to be quiet with our Neighbour But especially we are obliged to this Duty since the Son of God who so dearly purchased this Peace for us hath so earnestly commended it to our practice by his own Doctrine which breaths nothing but Peace and by his own example who truly acted as the Prince of Peace and in his commands by the mouth of his Apostle that we should keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace and from the Nature of the Church it self which is but one Body whereof the Holy Ghost is the Soul and Jesus Christ the Head and the faithful are the Members Love is the life of this Body and Peace and Quietness that band that ties one Member to another and all to the Head Who ever yet saw in one and the same Body one Member war against another And yet both in the mystical Body of the Church and the Political Body of the State what more ordinary than for Christians who are all Members of this Body to bite and devour one another It belongs to none but Madmen and Desperadoes to tear their own flesh and rend out their own Bowels And yet every day presents us with Christians snarling at each other nay man becomes a Wolf to his Neighbour one member devours another and what would be accounted a prodigy in Nature is become a familiar spectacle in Religion But let such Persons flatter themselves with what specious pretences they please we are assured they cannot be Members of Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace but limbs of Satan the Father of Dissention no Children of God whom they hypocritically profess but of the Devil whom they so exactly imitate They belong not to the Heavenly Jerusalem the Temple of Peace but to Hell the Mansion of Tumult and Theatre of Confusion God in the old Law commanded us to love our Neighbour as our selves and Jesus Christ renewed it in the Gospel A new Commandment I give unto you that you Love one another And he hath extended this Love even to our Enemies themselves But I say unto you love your Enemies Desiring to establish a firm Peace among Men as he had done between God and Man But alas May we not complain with Linacer Aut hoc non est Evangelium aut nos non sumus Christiani Either this is not Gospel or we are not Christians We are at this time so far from studying to be Quiet from minding the Things that belong to Peace that we seem to want that Love that is between Beast and Beast If one Sheep faint the rest will stand betwixt it and the Sun to shelter it If a Swine be injured the whole Herd will muster together to revenge the Jujury Natural Historians are full of examples of grateful Lyons kind Eagles and trusty Dogs ready to dy both for and with their Masters In holy Writ we read of Elijah fed by Ravens and of Daniel not hurt among Lyons Sed O detestandam Humanae Malitiae Crudelitatem Aves pascunt ferae parcunt Homines saeviunt as the blessed Martyr St. Cyprian complain'd in his time Or as holy David in his Ill minded Men imagining mischief in their heart and stirring up strife all the day long Their throat is an open Sepulchre the poyson of Asps is under their Lips Their mouth is full of Cursing and bitterness c. their teeth are Spears and Arrows and their tongue a sharp Sword Psalm 20. More sharp saies S. Bernard de Tripl Custod than the Spear which pierc'd our Saviour's side for it doth not onely wound Christs mystical Body but even rent it in pieces making as Many factions in the Kingdom as there are Offices and