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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	love_n	parent_n	6,450	5	9.2665	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12653	Ester hath hang'd Haman: or An ansvvere to a lewd pamphlet, entituled, The arraignment of women With the arraignment of lewd, idle, froward, and vnconstant men, and husbands. Diuided into two parts. The first proueth the dignity and worthinesse of women, out of diuine testimonies. The second shewing the estimation of the fœminine sexe, in ancient and pagan times; all which is acknowledged by men themselues in their daily actions. VVritten by Ester Sowernam, neither maide, wife nor widdowe, yet really all, and therefore experienced to defend all.	Sowernam, Ester.	1617 (1617)	STC 22974; ESTC S111037	31,313	62

that Axiome in Philosophy To take a vantage vpon a disaduantage Quicquid efficit tale illud est magis tale That which giueth quality to a thing doth more abound in that quality as fire which heateth is it selfe more hot The Sunne which giueth light is of it selfe more light So if Woman receaued her crookednesse from the rib and consequently from the Man how doth man excell in crookednesse who hath more of those crooked ribs See how this vaine furious and idle Authour furnisheth woman with an Argument against himselfe and others of his Sexe The Authour hauing desperately begunne doth more rashly and impudently runne on in blasphemy which he doth euidently shew in the inference vpon his former speeches And therefore saith he Euer since they haue beene a woe vnto Man and follow the liue of the first leader Now let the Christian Reader please to consider how dishonestly this Authour dealeth who vndertaking a particular prosecuteth and persecuteth a generall vnder the cloake and colour of lewd idle and froward women to rage and raile against all women in generall Now hauing examined what collections Ioseph Swetnam hath wrested out of Scriptures to dishonor and abuse all women I am resolued before I answere further particulars made by him against our sexe to collect and note out of Scriptures First what incomparable and most excellent prerogatiues God hath bestowed vpon women in honour of them and their Creation Secondly what choyse God hath made of women in vsing them as instruments to worke his most gracious and glorious designes for the generall benefit of man-kind both during the law of Nature and of Moyses Thirdly what excellent and diuine graces haue beene bestowed vpon our Sexe in the law of Grace and the worke of Redemption With a conclusion that to manifest the worthinesse of women they haue beene chosen to performe and publish the most happy and ioyfull benefits which euer came to man-kinde CHAPTER II. What incomparable and excellent prerogatiues God hath bestowed vpon Women in their first Creation IN this ensuing Chapter I determine briefly to obserue not curiously to discourse at large the singuler benefits and graces bestowed vpon Women In regard of which it is first to bee considered That the Almighty God in the worlds frame in his Diuine wisedome designed to himselfe a maine end to which he ordayned all the workes of his Creation in which hee being a most excellent worke-master did so Create his workes that euery succeeding worke was euer more excellent then what was formerly Created hee wrought by degrees prouiding in all for that which was and should be the end It appeareth by that Soueraignty which God gaue to Adam ouer all the Creatures of Sea and Land The prerogatiues giuen to women in their Creation that man was the end of Gods creation wherevpon it doth necessarily without all exception follow that Adam being the last worke is therefore the most excellent worke of creation yet Adam was not so absolutely perfect but that in the sight of God he wanted an Helper Wherevpon God created the woman his last worke as to supply and make absolute that imperfect building which was vnperfected in man as all Diuines do hold till the happy creation of the woman Now of what estimate that Creature is and ought to be The last worke which is the last worke vpon whom the Almighty set vp his last rest whom he made to to adde perfection to the end of all creation I leaue rather to be acknowledged by others then resolued by my selfe It is furthermore to be considered as the Maide in her Mussell for Melastomus hath obserued that God intended to honour woman in a more excellent degree Created vpon a refined subiect in that he created her out of a subiect refined as out of a Quintissence For the ribbe is in Substance more solid in place as most neare so in estimate most deare to mans heart which doth presage that as she was made for an helper so to be an helper to stay to settle all ioy all contents all delights to and in mans heart as hereafter shall be shewed That delight A better countrey solace and pleasure which shall come to man by woman is prognosticated by that place wherein woman was created for she was framed in Paradice a place of all delight and pleasure euery element hath his creatures euery creature doth corresponde the temper and the inclination of that element wherein it hath and tooke his first and principall esse or being So that woman neither can or may degenerate in her disposition from that naturall inclination of the place in which she was first framed she is a Paradician that is a delightfull creature borne in so delightfull a country When woman was created Men are worldlings Women paradicians God brought her vnto Adam and then did solempnise that most auspicious Marriage betwixt them with the greatest Maiestie and magnificence that heauen or earth might afford God was the Father which gaue so rich a iewell God was the Priest which tied so inseperable a knot Womans marriage God was the Steward which prouided all the pleasures all the dainties all the blessings which his deuine wisdome might affoord in so delightfull a place The woman was married to Adam as with a most sure and inseparable band so with a most affectionate and dutifull loue Adam was enioyned to receaue his wife as is noted in the Bible printed 1595. There is no loue alwayes excepting the transcending loue which is so highly honoured so graciously rewarded so straightly commanded or which being broken is so seuerely punished as the loue and duty which Children owe to their Parents Yet this loue albeit neuer so respectiue is dispensed withall in respect of that loue which a man is bound to beare to his wife For this cause saith Adam as from the mouth of God shall a man leaue Father and Mother and cleaue onely to his Wife This word cleaue is vttered in the Hebrew with a more significant emphasie then any other Language may expresse such a cleauing and ioyning together which admitteth no seperation It may be necessarily obserued that that gift of the woman was most singularly excellent which was to bee accepted and entertained with so inestimable a loue The wedding Ring and made inseparable by giuing and taking the Ring of Lone which should be endlesse Now the woman taking view of the Garden shee was assaulted with a Serpent of the masculine gender who maliciously enuying the happinesse in which man was at this time like a mischieuous Politician Womans temptation hee practised by supplanting of the woman to turne him out of all For which end he most craftily and cunningly attempteth the woman and telleth her that therefore they were forbidden to eate of the fruit which grew in the middest of the Garden that in eating they should not be like vnto God Wherevpon the woman accepted tasted and