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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	dead_a	life_n	raise_v	9,308	5	6.9695	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04190	Nazareth and Bethlehem, or, Israels portion in the sonne of Iesse. And, mankinds comfort from the weaker sexe Tvvo sermons preached in St Maryes Church in Oxford. By Thomas Iackson, Bachelour of Divinitie, and fellow of Corpus Christi College in Oxford.	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.	1617 (1617)	STC 14314; ESTC S107487	41,136	80

why might not the Apostle vse the like language Yet in saying thus much and no more they make the maner of his speech more capable of excuse then meritorious of admiration whereas to my apprehension there lies a mysterie in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as here it is vsed by the Apostle which had not been so well exprest either by the common name of the sexe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 foemina or by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 virgo For better notification of what I conceiue you are to consider that virgo and mulier as the words answering to them in the Greeke haue two significations or rather importances Virgo somtimes implies no more then foeminam intectam or viri ignaram a woman that knowes not a man somtimes it signifies foeminam intactam nec desponsatam a woman not betrothed Mulier likewise implies sometimes an opposition to the first importance or signification of virgo and signifieth as much as foeminam corruptam or viri gnaram sometimes it imports no more then foeminam viro desponsatam And this later vse or importance whether of the Latine mulier or of the Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is not opposite but coincident to the second vse or importance of virgo or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One and the same foemina may be intacta and yet desponsata a wife or woman betrothed vnto a man yet a virgin So Eue is called by the septuagint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the originall Ishah a wife at her first creation Matrimonie it selfe was established in her extraction out of Adams side In this sense she was mulier a wife when she committed the first transgression and yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or foemina intacta a virgin too for shee did not knowe her husband before shee had contaminated her soule with lusting after the serpents bayts And for this reason would the wisdome of God be made man of a virgin and yet withall ex muliere of a virgin betroathed vnto an husband that Eues miscariage might be regaind in her Eue was created to be a helpe to Adam but proued his ruine The blessed virgin must likewise bee solemnly consecrated for an helpe to Man but so consecrated becomes a comforter not to Ioseph only but to all his bretheren to all the Israel of God whether they be Iewes or Gentiles 21 For the wisdome of God thus solicitously and accurately to contriue and plot the meanes of mankinds redemption it was expedient and necessary in respect of that inbred superstitiō wherewith both Iewes and Gentiles were deepely tainted All of vs from our cradle from the wombe are sicke of our mother Eues disease prone vpon every light accidentall circumstance or want of ceremoniall references to pick occasion when none is offered to distrust Gods promises for our good The subtletie of the old serpent continues still the same rather increast by long experience then impaired by age No Sophister so captious no Lawier so cunning as He to misperswade men either that the instrumēts of their assurance want words to carry the inheritance vnto all or that their Redeemer is vnable or vnwilling to instate thē in it or that some at least in respect of their particular conditiō or state of life are vncapable of the good intended For prevēting this his cūning hath God in his wisdome incompast and hedged in all mākind with such a world of references and admirable alliances vnto his Sonne made man of a woman as no sort or condition of men that frame their aspect aright can suspect themselues to bee excluded Every circumstance of his person conception birth and life are suited as it were of purpose to giue checke vnto the vtmost curiositie of superstitious humane fancie 22 Had our redeemer beene onely man though a man much more after Gods own heart then his father Dauid was wee would haue said of him as we doe of a friend whose minde we knowe to be better then his meanes Surely hee wisheth me well and would lay downe his life to doe mee good but being once dead what dominion can he haue over death Or raised againe yet being farr absent in the highest heavens how shall he guard me against Sathan and his Angels still present to assault me here on earth Againe had he been only the Sonne of God wee would haue conceaued of him as we doe of many great ones whom we acknowledge to be honourably disposed but not so tenderly compassionate of poore mens cases as might bee wisht because they haue no acquaintance with povertie or the miseries that attend it To prevent these temptations to distrust God would haue his only Sonne to bee made a Man of sorrowes and of entire acquaintance with greefe a man subiect to greater bodily vexations then any in this life can tast And yet at last to be exalted according to his humane nature vnto glory that we might haue a solicitour in the Court of Heaven of our owne corporation and stocke one that could pittie our wants and compassionate our grievances by the liuely experience and never fading memorie of his owne more grievous sufferings whilst he liued on earth able withall to plead our deliverance from danger out of that infinite wisdome which He is and to procure it by that infinite favour and respect which hee hath with his father from everlasting 23 Or if the sonne of God had beene made man as Adam was of the earth or not thus miraculously made of a woman the old serpent might easily haue brought the weaker sexe into a relaps of their natiue distrust vnto Gods promises Feare if not despaire would in temptations haue overtaken them least Christ had beene sent forth to redeeme the Man onely whose sexe hee assumed not silly woman to whom hee had no speciall reference Or had he beene made MAN of a Virgin onely not of a wife or woman betroathed to an husband married persons might haue mistrusted least matrimonie had made them more capable of their first parents curse then of the blessing made in the promised seed or least the coniunction of twaine in one flesh might haue caused a divorce of both from him vnto whom whosoever is conioyned is made one spirit w●●h him Now that the world might knowe marriage to bee honourable among all men and that the bonds of vndefiled wedlocke are no setters to the soule it pleased the wisdome of God to be conceiued in wedlocke borne of a virgin affianced to a man On the contrary least the Eunuch Hee I meane that either by nature is vnfit for marriage or out of iudicious resolution and discreet choice holds marriage vnfit or vnexpedient for him should take vp his complaint and say alasse I am a dry tree and can bring forth no fruit vnto eternall life it hath pleased the only begotten SONNE of God to grace sanctifie single life by his owne practise and example For though he were made man of a woman