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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	child_n	israel_n	pharaoh_n	1,683	5	10.2863	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36108	A discourse of women, shewing their imperfections alphabetically newly translated out of the French into English.; Alphabet de l'imperfection et malice des femmes. English	Olivier, Jacques.	1662 (1662)	Wing D1611; ESTC R22566	72,101	210

cunning more attractive and more fit and proper to charm the eyes and heart of man than woman he gained her first the more easily by her to entrap him whom in his own person he durst not attaque which he with such fineness accomplished If the first Citizen of the world rendred himself to her discretion as not daring to displease her from whence came the heap of all our miseries For this reason the learned Origen hath painted her out in this manner Woman is the head of sin the weapons of the devil the banishment out of Paradise the corruption of the first and antient Law which God gave to men To which purpose Josephus saith in his Jewish Antiquities That the unfortunate Samson seeing himself at the mercy of his enemies the Philistines by the treachery of his Concubine said in a kind of astonishment I know now to my danger that nothing in the world is more deceitful and cunning than a woman Euripedes also saith That women are the most exact workers and artizans of all wickednesses inventable which we see also in the History of the Prophet Elisah who not dreading the cruelty and tyranny of Ahab in the midst of his Kingdom bravely asserted his cause by bringing to death four hundred of his false Prophets but seeing himself pursued by his Queen Jezabel and knowing that those attempts on his lise were the effects of the splene and malice of that woman he presently abandoned the Cities withdrew himself into the desarts and hid himself under Rocks and was so apprehensive of his danger that he desired nothing more then death and prayed God importunately to take him out of the world Obsecro Domine tolle animam meam A sufficient proof that nothing is more terrible or more malicious than a woman St. John in his 9th of the Revelations speaks of his having seen Locusts whose bodies were like to Horses of war their tails like to those of Scorpions their teeth like to the Lions their mains like Womens hair and that power was given them to hurt men Behold a strange vision but this the most remarkable the holy Ghost to exagerate the malice of these beasts chusing out that which signified the greatest cruelty as the fury of War-horses the poison of venemous Scorpions the teeth and defences of enraged Lions as the accumulation and sum of all inhumanity adds to it the hairs of a Woman importing that nothing is more dangerous or more malicious St. Gregory Nazianzen saith that she hath the venome of an Asp and the malice of a Dragon Malefica res est aspides mala res est Dracores duplex malitia mulieris inter feras And the wise-man saith in the 25th of Ecclesiasticus That all the malice in the world is short in compa ison to that of the Woman Brevis malitia super malitiam mulieris But that which is worst she hath a relentless and merciless heart of this there needs no other proof than that in the first Chapter of the Prophet Hosea where it is said that God to give his people to understand the severity of his justice in the punishments of their faults commanded the Prophet to marry himself presently and to name his first daughter Merciless as a certain Augury that he would show no more kindness to the house of Israel Vocabis nomen ejus sine misericordia quia non addultria misereri domus Israel By which we see God judged equitably when for an embleme of cruelty and an hieroglyphick of malice he used no other but woman But yet see a more strange passage the Prophet Zachary relating his visions saith That he saw among other things a monstrous woman sitting in the middle of a funnel with a weight of lead in her hand and as he was troubled to know what this prodigy meant an Angel serving him for an interpreter presently informed him That it was the image of impiety dixit Hae est impietas wherein we see that Heaven to paint out malice and wickedness would not represent them under any other symbol or resemblance than in the person of a woman the funnel serving her for a seat signifies that woman cannot keep secrets no more then that which hath two vents and therefore I suppose for this reason the Prophet saw in the mouth a lump of lead to shut up her lips and stop her babling To conclude these Emblemes of holy Writ St. John in the 7th of his Revelations saw a woman mounted on a beast armed with seven heads and ten horns having names and titles full of blasphemies being not onely all over most gorgeously attired being clothed with Purple and set with Jewels but moreover infinitely cruel and drunk with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus Christ We have in part interpreted this Vision in the Epistle Dedicatory but I must again speak of it here being the true pourtraict of the malice of woman for in figuring her mounted upon a beast with seven heads it seem to intimate that she will speak more than seven there being as many tongues as heads the Horns fignifie her thousand tricks and artifices her names and titles full of blasphemy her propensity to evil her purple and jewels her arrogance and pride and the innocent blood wherewith she is drunk is the embleme of the cruelty and malice of her mind which hath made her rejected of God and deprived her of his graces St. Cyril in his Third and Fourth Book of the Spirit and the Letter discoursing of God's allotment of the Land of Promise to the children of Israel would not have the women put into the List and also upon the account of that Passage where Pharaoh commanded the Midwives of Egypt to preserve the daughters and destroy the male-issue assumes that God and the devil shewed themselves contrarily in this for the devil would have the males put to death which were the better sort reserving the females and God rejected the females not willing that they should be enrolled amongst the men to share the promised Land as being imperfect and unworthy of that honor See his own words rejicitur quod est reprobare molle imperfectum solis maribus dividitur terra promissa And Origen in his second Homily upon Exodus deriding Pharaoh saith He was ill advised to put the better sort to death that is the males and preserve the worst the females who were sooner able to destroy his Kingdom than the men Pythagoras being asked Why he gave his daughter in marriage to one of his greatest enemies presently answered Nihil illi poteram dare deterius I could not give him a worse thing or better revenge my self of him woman being the most wicked thing in the world The Scripture declares this in the 25th of Ecclesiasticus omnis plaga tristitia cordis est omnis malitia nequitia mulieris as much as to say That as the sickness of the heart which is the principal of life surpasseth the grief