Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	year_n	young_a	youth_n	35	3	7.6903	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72331	Viaticum animæ or, VVholesome repast for the soule in her pilgrimage towards Ierusalem which is above Prepared, and made ready, by the diligent search, & paynes of Iohn Hodges, priest, M. of Arts and vicar of Shakerstone in Leicester-Shire.	Hodges, John.	1638 (1638)	STC 13547; ESTC S125028	34,877	287

others Which may bee a warning not onely to Princes themselves but to all that be in authority to have a care that they become not publique and notorious offenders Let me counsaile you in particular as S. Barnard did Eugenius the Pope It makes much to thy perfection to avoide both evill and the shew of evill in the one thou shalt provide for thy conscience in the other for thy credite REMEMBER thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth whiles the evill dayes come not nor the yeares approach wherein thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them Ecclus 12. ver 1. 3 THERE are many enemies to grace but none more to bee feared then those that fight within us against us and though all Ages bee fruitfull in evill yet none more then Youth which besides all other enemies hath it selfe the greatest enemie to it selfe being destitute of its owne and scorning the good advise of others That which Salomon spake in jest and derision the Young man takes in good earnest Eccles 11.9 Rejoyce O young man in thy youth and let thine heart cheare thee in the dayes of thy youth and walke in the wayes of thine heart and in the light of thine eyes c. And therefore takes his swinge in pleasures presuming that old age is the onely fit time to turne to God So that many times by continuance and longer custome in sinne hee makes his sinnes of a double die even Crimson sinnes yea his sins Esay 1.18 become like a Disease in the bones whereof if one recover many doe rot away Oh therefore harden not thy heart but to day heare Gods voyce calling thee to repentance remember the evill dayes will come Ecclus 12.1 wherein if thou presume to doe great matters to frequent the Church to heare the Word c. thou mayst peradventure bee deceived It is reported of Alexander that great Conquerour that when his Master Aristotle perswaded him to forbeare the Warres till hee were growne to a full and perfect age that hee answered I feare that if I tarry till I come to that age I shall loose much of the heate and vigour of my youth So doe thou answere all temptations whatsoever which shall perswade thee to put off thy repentance till thou beest old Old Age hath enough to doe with its owne griefes there are so many Aches in thy bones so many Crampes in thy joynts and so many paynes in all parts of thy body that thou shalt have litle leasure to think on any thing that is good Would not all Men condemne him for a foole or a mad-man that should lay the heaviest burthen upon the weakest beast who hath enough to doe to beare up it selfe and should let a stronger goe empty by So remember that it is no lesse folly to exempt thy youth which is strong and lusty from the taske of repentance and to impose the same upon thy decrepit old age already sinking under it's owne burthen And that it is the greatest injury unto the Lord that can bee for a man to consecrate the prime day of his youth to the service of the Devill in the pursuite of sinfull pleasures and to serve God with the rotten bones of his doating old age herein men deale with God like the Israelites who if they had ever a Lame a Scabhed Mat. 1.8 or a sick beast that they would bring to the Altar as if any thing had bin good enough for the LORD but all the fat and well-liking they kept to them selves and as to the Israelites so wil God say to such men as these I have no pleasure in you neither will I accept your offerings at your hands Mal 1.10 O therfore let it be thy care to turne unto the Lord betimes And to seeke him while he may be found Esay 55.6 Eccles 12.3 before the keepers of the house doe tremble and the strong men bow themselves and the grinders cease because they are few and they waxe darke that looke out by the windowes So shalt thou be an happy old man in thy Youth as too too many by deferring the worke of their Repentance are unhappily yong in their Age. S. JOB 2. vers 4. SKINNE for skinne and all that ever●d man hath will hee give for his life 1. VVEe are easilie glewed to the things of this life and doe quicklie fasten our minds upon each smale contentment we finde heere and hence it is that wee are so hardly drawne from them being is loath to part from them as from our dearest lives and onely in this case wee sing loath to depart yea with an eye in Sodome and an hoofe in Egypt with much auckwardnesse and backwardnesse wee forsake the one to save the other how dearelie soever wee prise these wordlie commodities yet wee set life at an higher rate and gladly fell all that wee have to purchase this Iewell Doe not thou then staine the glorious Splendor of this pretious jem by vitious living much more take heede thou prove not a Rebell against GOD by a willfull destroying of his workeman-ship doe not thou eyther for the avoyding of evill or procuring of good lay violent hands upon thy selfe least seeking to shunne a temporall calamitie thou fall into an eternall misery like the fish that leapeth out of the broyling Pan into the burning flame The Crocadiles of Nilus pursue such only as flie from them but flie such as stand to them so doth the Devill if hee bee resisted hee turneth his backe and onely preasseth upon such as give him ground Give not place therefore to the Devill Ephel 4.27 nor to such horrible motions as he will bee ready to suggest ●ohn 5.39 but have recourse to the Scriptures search them for the sweete and gracious comforts which they afford arme thy selfe with a constant faith in them Ephes 6.16 and so shalt thou bee able to quench all the fiery Darts of Satan doe thou stoutlie and valiantly resist him Iam. 4.7 and hee will flie from thee but if thou yeeld unto him thou must needs fal into his fearefull Snares and offer violence to that which should be most charily preserved and wilfully perish by thine owne hand SHALL wee receive good at the hand of God and not receive evill Iob 11. ver 10. 2 GOD alone knowes best When to wound and when to heale Deu 32.39 when to kill and when to make alive when to afflict with sorrow when to send comfort thus doth hee many times deale with his deare Children putting into all their Cups of comfort and contentment the bitter drams of sorrow and greife And all this to teach us not to expect any perpetuity of felicity heere wee are all subject to vicissitude change and alteration and what wee are to day wee cannot say with warrant and make it good that wee shall bee the same to morrow Doe thou therefore from hence learne how to entertaine comforts when GOD sends them to use them