Selected quad for the lemma: glory_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	everlasting_a	king_n	mighty_a	2,880	5	9.3624	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14083	Asylum veneris, or A sanctuary for ladies Iustly protecting them, their virtues, and sufficiencies from the foule aspersions and forged imputations of traducing spirits.	D. T. (Daniel Tuvill), d. 1660.	1616 (1616)	STC 24393; ESTC S118753	52,443	161

with the sillie Flie make the obiect of his enuie an occasion of his tragedie What sweete perfections are in women which ill disposed men haue not endeuoured to depraue through false and forged imputations what faire abilities and graces which they haue not sought to blacke with their calumnious aspersions She hath beene a long time the white at which their hate hath leuelled but as they that shoote against the starres may peraduenture hurt themselues but neuer endanger them their arrowes many times haue rebounded backe and deliuered a fatall answere to those that sent them The dissection of their weakenesse hath happened to bee a strict anatomizing of their owne The snuffers in the Temple were of pure gold to signifie vnto vs that such as take vpon them to remoue from others the superfluitie of the weeke that their light may burne out the clearer ought to be free from all taxation themselues It were ridiculous for any man to talke of a mote in his neighbours eye when there is a beame in his owne Hee may well beare with a wart who is himselfe disfigured with a wenne But alas it is the nature of sicke and crazie appetites to thinke the meate which is set before them is vnsauourie when indeede the fault proceedeth not but from a meere distemperature in their owne palates The diseased person complaineth of the hardnesse of his bed when the cause of his disquiet is a weakenesse in his bones Looke vpon such as are ouercome with wine and yee shall see them ready to accuse euen temperance it selfe of their owne folly the earth which standeth still immoueable cannot escape their censure They will by no meanes be perswaded but it is that which reeleth when alas it is onely their own braines which are set on wheeling But I will not here professe my selfe a champion to that sex least by so doing I might be thought to question their sufficiencie the strength of their owne merit without the helpe of any forraigne supply is that which must free them from the siege of barbarous opposition and set their honour out of the reach of daring contradiction which out of doubt will easily be effected as by the sequell briefely shall appeare CHAP. I. Of womens worth in generall THere is no greater argument of a generous minde then to ioy in whatsoeuer it seeth generous in others The Owle and the Bat though they haue eyes to discerne there is a sunne yet haue so euill eyes that they cannot delight in the sunne it is for Eagles onely and such kingly birds as haue had no other Aerie for their breeding than the lappe of loue to gase with pleasure admiration on his glory The meaner sort of people whose spirits are oppressed aggraued with such grosser humours as the channels of their bloud are vsually dammed vp with dare not but with cowardly feare approach the pallaces of Princes it is honour enough for them they thinke if they may be suffered to obserue the frontispice or at the most to take a view of such inferiour offices as are in them Their ambition is of a shorter wing then to aspire so high as to looke into a roome of state yet euen these if in these meaner parts their duller obseruation find any thing which holdes not correspondency with their conceit will not sticke at their departure for a little errour to discommend the workmanship of the whole frame They which out of a cynicall disposition doe wound the reputation of Women with inuectiues are men of no better garbe The graces haue found no sweeter habitation vpon earth to rest in then their bosomes Our Sauiour did not scorne when hee came downe from heauen to make the wombe of a Virgin the receptacle of his glory Whereupon Saint Bernard transported with a diuiner ecstacie crieth out O venter capacior coelis diffusior terris latior elementis qui illum continere valuit quem totus mundus capere non potuit O blessed wombe wider then the heauens broader then the earth larger then then the elements which was able to containe him whom the whole world was too little to receiue And to say truely where could vertue in the pourpris of this vniuerse haue picked out a fairer mansion It seemes to me that Women were erected of purpose for her to soiourne in and that by the hand of God himselfe who built her built her I say for this is the proper word by which the mouth of wisedome in the originall expresseth hir creation to shew the absolutenesse of his skill in the closing vp of his worke But Calumnie suggesteth here that she was built indeede but the foundation was a crooked rib Inde genus curuum placidae virtutis inane And from hence a crookednesse both in manners and behauiour hath euer since descended by way of propagation from hir to hir posteritie which I will no otherwise confute than by condemning such of ignorance as haue beene authors of this improper speech Art would haue termed it an Arch which of all kindes of Architecture is both the firmest and the fairest But this is not the period of their traducements they will seeme to tax the Artisan himselfe of errour and mistaking He made hir for a helpe say they to Man when she fell out to be nothing lesse as if that patron of all exemplary goodnesse had beene ill aduised in his ends They consider not the fault is in themselues if they proue contrary to his intention Their owne peruersenes is that which maketh them such as they report them Let Phaebus haue the guiding of the day and ye shall see it cleare and lightsome but if Phaethon haue the mannaging of those steedes his presumptuous ouer weening wil go neere to set all things in combustion I but say they she was according to that Spanish adage Armas del Diablo cabeza del Peccado destruycion del Parayso The sword wherewith the diuell cut the throate of mans felicitie she was the head of sinne the ouerthrow of Paradise But let them consider the good they gained by this hir errour and transgression and vnlesse their foreheads bee of Adamant they will recant those blasphemies and cry out with a better reformed zeale O foelix culpa quae talem ac tantum meruit Redemptorem O necessarium Adae peccatum quod Christi morte deletum est O happie fault of Eue which stood in neede of such a worthy and so mightie a redeemer O needefull offence of Adam which was not to be cancelled but by the death of Christ Then was it and not till then that the dores of those euerlasting taberacles in which the king of glory hath is residence were opened vnto wretched Man He was driuen out of an earthly Paradise by one Angel that he might be welcommed by Legions of them into a heauenly one whereof that other was but a figure and a type And this it may be was the cause why God after the time of her fall and not