Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	body_n	head_n	member_n	5,319	5	8.1605	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02400	The Romish chaine. By Edmund Gurnay, parson of Harpley	Gurnay, Edmund, d. 1648.	1624 (1624)	STC 12530; ESTC S121205	26,705	112

of the Body which is most preposterous and also in case no such head growes vp for that either the Body must remaine without a head which will still be monstrous or some other member must supply the heads place which will be miserably ridiculous For when the inferiour members which cannot discerne a Head from a Hand or a Foote but only by the outward shape and figure therof shall see suppose a hand or at least that which is like a hand to be in the place of the head they must needs a great while take it for but a fellow member and so not doe it that respect and obedience which to the Head is due and then when at length after many admonitions they haue learned to see the power of an Head vnder the shape of an hand yet withall when they shall also learne how that hand came there namely by cutting off the vnsound or foolish Head what remaines but that they thinke it necessary at least lawfull for them to obserue whether that Hand be found or whether some fit of a Chyragra be not growing vpon it which if they finde what else but that some other member be thought of for the place and then who perhaps so likely to put forward as the Foote which if it attaines to the place of the Head as it must needs be a miserable shame and confusion to the Domesticke members so how can it bee otherwise then a most horrible scorne vnto the forraigne enemies and as good sport as the walking of men with their heeles vpwards is to idle beholders Yea what more vniust euen in the eies of common Sense then that the Master-builder should bee at this passe either to giue account of the soundnesse of his worke vnto those which are beneath him or else to be at their mercie to haue the Stage pulled from vnder him But Christian Reader I feare mee you thinke I haue committed an excursion and yet I pray suffer mee to answer one Obiection more which is thought to be of Demonstratiue force for the Intitling the Spirituall man to the Throne before any and it is this The first Adam vpon his fall did forfeit all the domini and titles which the Lord vpon his Creation had set him in Such therefore as haue no other birth but from the first Adam can haue no title to dominions or authorities whatsoeuer and therefore they which are borne of the second Adam vnto whom the first Adams inheritance must lapse vnto must be the only true Heires thereof and consequently as men are more or lesse borne of the second Adam that is as they are more or lesse Spirituall they shall more or lesse haue titles to Kingdomes Lordships properties or capacities whatsoeuer and no otherwise Wherevnto wee answer first that though Adam vpon his fall did loose the sweetnesse of his dominions the curse of God inuading it yet does it not follow but that he might still retaine the state and title thereof euen as a rich man when hee falls into some tormenting desease and so hath no ioy of all his riches yet still remaines seazed and possessed of his riches neuerthelesse Secondly the estate and dominion which God gaue vnto Adam though it might be a ioy dignitie vnto him yet was it principally to bee taken in the nature of a charge which charge it was not in Adams power to auoid or forfeit vpon his trespasse and fall but rather to double and increase it thereupon a mans voluntary dashing his abilities being no dispensation for his duties negligence being of no more force to discharge vs then voluntary ignorance is to excuse vs. Thirdly that the Lord did make vnto the first Adam a generall grant of vniuersall propriety and dominion we expresly find Gen. 1.28 c. but that hee did reuoke the same we finde not Paradise indeed both the heauenly the fruition of God and also the earthly the Garden of Eden we find expresly that it was taken from him but wee also finde as expresly that it was giuen him only vpon condition of his obedience whereas the donation of vniuersall dominion had no such condition annexed vnto it Fourthly had Adam apprehended that superiority and dominion should vpon his Fall be conueyed vnto men by the course of Grace and not by the course of Nature hee would neuer haue intitled his vngracious first borne vnto all his possessions as the name Cain signifies and left nothing for his best-borne but the younger brothers portion vanitie as the name Abel signifies Fiftly the Lord euery where so establishing the Hethen Princes in their States and Kingdomes as Pharaoh Nabuchadnezar Cyrus Ahashuerosh Darius Caesar c. who had no kind of right therunto but by the Law of Nations which hath his originall only from consecrated reason the Law of the first Adam of whom only they were discended the second Adam being to them vnknowne it may sufficiently teach that no reuocation of originall Dominions did follow vpon the fall But finally and principally and in stead of all may be this for that the second Adam and his line vnto whom only such supposed forfeiture was to extend did neuer make the least title or claime thereunto either when he was first promised or when he was first made manifest in the flesh For as concerning the time when hee was first promised so farre was hee then from taking any vantage of the Fall as that the first mention of him did promise a Succour against our Enemie that gaue the Fall in these words The seede of the Woman shall bruise the Serpents head Likewise his first-borne Abel who by faith in him offered the the good Sacrifice was so farre from attayning any superiority by vertue of his being borne of him as that it proued the only cause of his earthly ruine his Brother therefore hating him because his works were good and his works wee know being therefore only good because he was borne of him So also the Patriarkes and holy men in their times did they not alwaies account themselues rather loosers then gainers by this second birth they euery where vndergoing tributes and bondages more willingly and more faithfully then any And as for the time of the second Adams manifesting himselfe in the flesh so farre was he then also from claiming any of the first Adams rights as that vpon all occasions hee professeth the maine intent of his comming to be for the restoring of his losses euen though it were with the losse of his owne life euery where styling himselfe no better then The Sonne of Man which the meanest of Adams Race might assume as well as hee and finally as often telling vs that his Kingdome was not of this world that he came not to be ministred vnto but to minister that he had not whereon to lay his head and refusing so much as to arbitrate a matter betwixt two brethren which the most priuate persons that are may be allowed to doe least he