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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	deliver_v	hand_n	king_n	10,812	5	4.0168	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91675	Adam unvailed, and seen with open face or, Israel's right way from Egypt to Canaan, lately discovered. Wherein his estate is laid down, opened and compared with ours, under severall dispensations; in opposition to what ever hath been formerly declared by most men: in which many excellent truths appear, to the great comfort and consolation of all those that are made capable of it. By William Rabisha.	Rabisha, William.	1649 (1649)	Wing R111; Thomason E1376_3; ESTC R209250	51,390	114

witnessses did testifie against Christ Matth 26 61. And likewise against Steven Act. 6. 13. Although these witnesses speak nothing but truth as it appears Joh. 2. 19. compared with Math. 26. 61. and also Steven denies not what was testified against him and proves it by Moses the Prophets Acts 6. 33. 48. Yet for all this those two sorts of witnesses are called false witnesses inasmuch as they did not speak according to their meaning and in this sense the Serpent is called a lyer from the begining because he speakes not according to Gods meaning of death But he was not a lyer according to the womans sense or interpretation of death which was the dissolution of the body for they did eate that day but did not die a naturall death thus it is also proved from the Serpent's testimony that their eyes shall be opened and they shall become like Gods knowing good and evill Thirdly It will appear to be a truth from the effects that the fruit did work on them by which the Serpent's words to the woman is made good vers 6. 7. And when the woman saw the Tree was good for food and pleasant to the oye and a Tree to be desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat And the eyes of them both were opened and they knew they were naked Those eyes were not mortal or substantial eyes of the body for they were open to see the fruit before they eat thereof vers 6. what eyes are there else to be opened besides the mortal eyes of the body there are two sorts of eyes besides the mortal eyes of the body the first is the natural eyes and the second is the spiritual eyes and as I told you before there was two sorts of fruits to open these two sorts of eyes and here you may see upon eating the first sort of fruit the first sort of eyes were opened namely the eyes of their natural knowledge wisdom and understanding for the text saith and they knew that they were naked it doth not say it made them naked for they were so before but before they eat they had not that understanding to know that they were naked or be ashamed of their nakednesse but by vertue of their eating of that fruit there was knowledge and wisdom and light conveyed into them whereby they knew what was good and what was evill therefore well might it be called the Tree of Knowledge of good and evill when it hath such vertue in it to give knowledge which could not be attained unto any other wayes as it may be necessarily gathered by that converse between God and Adam when the Lord called to Adam and said where art thou ves 9. Adam's answer was I heard thy voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked vers 10. Gods answer to him again was who told thee that thou wast naked hast thou eaten of the Tree whereof I commanded thee thou shouldst not eat as much as if God had said it is true thou art naked he denyes it not but it is impossible that thou shouldest know of it without thou wast told because thou hast no knowledge in thy self except thou hast eaten of the forbidden fruit this speech of God is as if a man should determine in himself to doe some good for his son and yet make it known but to one man in the world and yet the son shall come to his father and say if you would doe such a thing for me his father knowing that none knew it but one will say who told thee hast thou spoken with such a man implying that he did give his son knowledge of such a thing without which he could not know No more could Adam know his nakedness which indeed was his earthliness without he had eaten of that Tree as it is clear from these words who told thee that thou wast naked hast thou eaten of the Tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat Here you see opening of eyes and discovery of nakedness effected in Adam and Eve by their eating the forbidden fruit Fourthly We shall confirm all these and put the point out of question from God himself where the saith behold the man is become as one of us knowing good and evil Chap. 3. vers 22. If Adam by his eating the forbidden fruit became like God then it will follow that he was not like God before But Adam by his eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil became like God in the knowledge of good evil that is what God esteemed to be good that Adam knew and esteemed likewise to be good and what God esteemed to be evil that Adam also knew and esteemed to be evil although Adam did not know things in that measure and fulness as God did yet he knew as God did in the same manner or nature as a coale is like a whole world set on fire so was Adam like God in the knowledge of good and evil but here lies Adam's misery in knowing good and evil and yet not having power to do the good known and shun the evil which could not be obtained by the eating this fruit but by the eating of the second fruit which is of the Tree of life as I shall hereafter shew I might further confirm this truth by divers arguments and reasons but before I proceed it is necessary that I should answer divers objections which lie in the way Object You will say it is true God saith the man is become like one of us but God speakes by the way of an Ironye as Micaiah speakes to Ahab the 1 of Kings 22. 15. the King asked him whether he should go up to Ramoth-Gilead to battle or no The Prophet Micaiah bids him go up and prosper and the Lord shall deliver it into the hands of the King So God speakes to Adam because of his former high thoughts and indeavours to be great and when Adam fell short of what he thought to be God speaks to him in dirision Answ God speakes not in the way of an Irony my reasons are these first because God speakes not to Adam as the Prophet did to Ahab or as the wise man in the Proverbs did to the young man But God speaks to himself in respect of his threefold relation that is either like God in his eternal essence or being or like God in respect of his influence and power or thirdly like him as he dwelleth and acteth and abaseth himself in Christ or rather like him in the knowledge of good and evil according as he esteems good and evil in either of these relations therefore I say God speaking to the Trinitie and not to Adam It is impossible for God to speake in the way of an Irony or deriding or rather blasphemy because he speakes not to the person offending as the Prophet did therefore your