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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	witness_v	word_n	yield_v	13	3	6.1937	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01562	Practique theories: or, Votiue speculations vpon Abrahams entertainment of the three angels Sarah, and Hagars contention. Isaacs Marriage with Rebekah. Iohn Baptists natiuity or birth decollation or beheading. S. Peters calling. confession. denyall. repentance. vpon Sauls cruely. Pauls conuersion. By Iohn Gaule.	Gaule, John, 1604?-1687.	1630 (1630)	STC 11690; ESTC S118745	112,147	433

It is euer a badge of a base mind to waxe insolent albeit through inward much lesse outward Gifts against either Superiours or Benefactours I could here pitty poore Sarahs case but that I see she is beaten with no other then her owne rod. It is that Minion whom her owne hand would needes set vp in whose eyes she is so despised Euill counsell I haue heard is worst to the counsellor And selfe-doe selfe-haue may I bee Iudge is as farre from deserued pitty as iust complaint So vile impudency thinkes Sarah can neither alone breed in nor burst from a seruile breast She maruels an vnderling should be capable of so high contempt And hereupon iealous of some further cause or countenance she accuses her Husband together of the crime whereof her Handmayd was conscious alone As if none had done it but he she layes it all on him My wrong be vpon thee Gen. 16.5 I haue giuen my Maid into thy bosome I am despised in her eyes the Lord be iudge between thee me So oft are rash Passions mistaken in their accusations Such also is a Womans anger and impatience I should here almost grow angry at a Woman and so thus would I censure her words In all that was vttered was a Womans impatience imprudence immodesty and in some part impiety Impatience in being so rashly prouoked against an Husband Imprudence in falsely imputing the fault Immodesty in vpbraiding him with her benefits Impiety in willing God to witnesse an vntruth Say the Man had beene no wiser then the Woman here had beene enough if not to separate yet set them all at oddes This causes priuate contentions when all are foolish together And this keepes vnity in a Family when one or other see their times and turnes to forbeare or beare The Good-man heedes not so much the bitternesse of his Wiues words as yeelds to the weakenesse of her Sexe And so while the weaker vessell thus vents her soming rage and rashnesse he loath to adde one sparkle to her fire in a soft answere onely turnes her ouer to take punishment Gen. 16.6 where she receiued offence Behold thy Mayd is in thine hand doe to her as it pleaseth thee Hagar is another Wife to Abraham reuerthelesse is she Sarahs Maid Sarah before had giuen Hagar into Abrahams bosome as Abrahams Wife Abraham now againe deliuers Hagar into Sarahs hand as Sarahs Maid Behold thy Maide Neither would Abraham like a chast Husband goe in vnto Hagar till Sarah had giuen her to his bosome nor durst Sarah like a dutifull wife doe ought against Hagar till Abraham had restored her to her hands Thy Maide is in thine hand doe to her as it pleaseth thee It is leaue enough to let a Woman haue her will Euen weake hands will not now want violence to stretch to a seuerity in the vindication of a priuate wrong She now whether through violence or authority dealt roughly with her Neither is Hagars fault precisely expressed nor her punishment One way or other she had despised her Mistresse and her Mistresse one way or other dealt but roughly with her Hagar had despised Sarah not acknowledging perhaps that she was now her Mistresse and Sarah dealt roughly with Hagar making her know it is likely she was yet her Maide She dealt so roughly indeed that for feare of her hands therefore fled she from her face If nature will dare to insult ouer grace my Free-women shall likewise learne to deale so roughly with this Bond dame that shee may at leastwise rule her if not be rid of her Ere now no doubt both Hagar had offended her Mistresse and Sarah chastised her Maide yet for all that fled she not before A little liberty makes a seruile condition but the rather impatient of subiection She had now borne a Seruants punishment but that she was brought to a Mistresses conceit Rather will she breake the reins then bow vnder the yoke And as is wont with Seruants turne Fugitiue rather then be made submissiue Yet neither hath she long nor farre wandred in obstinacy ere that as she is summoned she returnes in humility Aduersity is no lesse then aduertisement to all But the rod of correction especially is the slaues rule of instruction Slauish people are taught best when they smart most for their learning I had rather my seruile Affections should smart to learne vnder my soule in this world then my soule should learne to smart for them in the world to come Now Hagars time growes neare in which necessity would enforce her to lay downe her load at his feet by whose helpe she had so readily taken it vp The Bond-woman hath conceiued iniquity and she brings forth shame Now begins she to groane for him for whom shee might both sigh and blush afterwards Loe now a Man-child so like his Mother that saue his shaping had nothing of his Father The Free-woman is yet barren when behold a Brat is ingendred vnto bondage The wicked bring forth sinne to a numerous generation but the Godly are dead to such a wombe Let me rather be accursed in this Barrennesse then be blessed in such a Fruitfulnesse But now at length reioyce thou barren that bearest not Smother no longer thy secret laughter of Diffidence breake forth into an open laughter of Admiration It hath beene said Sarah shall haue a Sonne Gen. 18.10 and not said but done all is come to passe as was promised Sarah hath now done all the offices of a Mother Gen. 21. Conceiued and Borne and giuen Sucke The wombe that was dead hath conceiued the wombe that was closed hath borne the Breasts that were dryed haue giuen sucke Therefore gaue she sucke to make it m●nifest it was she indeed that both Conceiued and Bare The Hand-maid is the first Mother in euent and according to the flesh but the Mistresse is the first and onely Mother in ayme and according to the promise Hers was the former but this the better brood hers the more hasty but this the more happy seede The world commonly beareth while the Church is barren Fruits of the flesh are more easily abundant then those of the spirit At length notwithstanding as this mother of the faithfull so the mother of vs all becomes though slowly yet happily fruitfull And at each birth of euery Babe there meetes to make merry the loue of a Father the care of a Mother the ioy of Brethren When Hagar had but Conceiued Sarah was despised in her eyes but though Sarah hath Borne yet is Hagar no whit viler in her esteeme The wicked are proud of Gods least gifts to thinke better of themselues the Godly are humble in the best to thinke worse of none I will neither enuy another because of his gifts nor disdaine him because of mine owne Sarah and Hagar are vnder one roofe and both bring forth So are Grace and Nature in one body and both beare fruit The one will not be idle the other not well