Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	work_n	workman_n	wrought_v	103	3	8.2380	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12750	A mouzell for Melastomus, the cynicall bayter of, and foule mouthed barker against Euahs sex. Or an apologeticall answere to that irreligious and illiterate pamphlet made by Io. Sw. and by him intituled, The arraignement of women. By Rachel Speght	Speght, Rachel.	1616 (1616)	STC 23058; ESTC S117735	21,062	52

the first promise that was made in Paradise God makes to woman that by her Seede should the Serpents head be broken whereupon Adam calles her Heuah life that as the woman had beene an occasion of his sinne so should woman bring foorth the Sauiour from sinne which was in the fullnesse of time accomplished by which was manifested that he is a Sauiour of beleeuing women no lesse then of men that so the blame of sinne may not be imputed to his creature which is good but to the will by which Eue sinned and yet by Christs assuming the shape of man was it declared that his mercie was equiualent to both Sexes so that by Herods blessed Seed as Saint Paul affirmes it is brought to passe that male and female are all one in Christ Iesus To the second obiection I answer That the Apostle doth not heereby exempt man from sinne but onely giueth to vnderstand that the woman was the primaric transgressour and not the man but that man was not at all deceiued was farre from his meaning for he afterward expresly saith that as in Adam all die so in Christ shall all be made aliue For the third obiection It is good for a man not touch a woman The Apostle makes it not a positiue prohibition but speakes it onelie because of the Corinths present necessitie who were then persecuted by the enemies of the Church for which cause and no other hee saith Art thou loosed from a wife seeke not a wife meaning whilst the time of these perturbations should continue in their heate but if thou art bound seeke not to be loosed if thou marriest thou sinnest not only increasest thy care for the married careth for the things of this world And I wish that you were without care that yee might cleaue fast vnto the Lord without separation For the time remaineth that they which haue wiues be as though they had none for the persecuters shall depriue you of them eyther by imprisonment banishment or death so that manifest it is that the Apostle doth not heereby forbid marriage but onely aduiseth the Corinths to forbeare a while till God in mercie should curbe the fury of their aduersaries For as Eusebius writeth Paul was afterward married himselfe the which is very probable being that interrogatiuely he saith Haue we not power to leade about a wife being a sister as well as the rest of the Apostles and as the brethren of the Lord and Cephas The fourth and last obiection is that of Salomon I haue found one man among a thousand but a woman among them all haue I not found for answere of which if we looke into the storie of his life wee shall finde therein a Commentary vpon this enigmaticall Sentence included for it is there said that Salomon had seuen hundred wiues and three hundred concubines which number connexed make one thousand These women turning his heart away from being perfect with the Lord his God sufficient cause had hee to say that among the said thousand women found he not one vpright Hee saith not that among a thousand women neuer any man found one worthy of commendation but speakes in the first person singularly I haue not found meaning in his owne experience for this assertion is to be holden a part of the confession of his former follies and no otherwise his repentance being the intended drift of Ecclesiastes Thus hauing by Gods assistance remoued those stones whereat some haue stumbled others broken their shinnes I will proceede toward the period of my intended taske which is to decipher the excellency of women of whose Creation I will for orders sake obserue First the efficient cause which was God Secondly the materiall cause or that whereof shee was made Thirdly the formall cause or fashion and proportion of her feature Fourthly and lastly the finall cause the end or purpose for which she was made To beginne with the first The efficient cause of womans creation was Iehouah the Eternall the truth of which is manifest in Moses his narration of the sixe dayes workes where he saith God created them male and female And Dauid exhorting all the earth to sing vnto the Lord meaning by a Metonimie earth all creatures that liue on the earth of what nation or Sex soeuer giues this reason For the Lord hath made vs. That worke then can not chuse but be good yea very good which is wrought by so excellent a workeman as the Lord for he being a glorious Creator must needes effect a worthie creature Bitter water can not proceede from a pleasant sweete fountaine nor bad worke from that workman which is perfectly good in proprietie none but he Secondly the materi●ll cause or matter whereof woman was made was of a refined mould if I may so speake for man was created of the dust of the earth but woman was made of a part of man after that he was a liuing soule yet was shee not produced from Adams foote to be his too low inferiour nor from his head to be his superiour but from his side neare his heart to be his equall that where he is Lord she may be Lady and therefore saith God concerning man and woman iointly Let them rule ouer the fish of the Sea and ouer the foules of the Heauen and ouer euery beast that moueth vpon the earth By which words he makes their authority equall and all creatures to be in subiection vnto them both This being rightly considered doth teach men to make such account of their wiues as Adam did of Eue This is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh As also that they neyther doe or wish any more hurt vnto them then vnto their owne bodies for men ought to loue their wiues as themselues because hee that loues his wife loues himselfe And neuer man hated his owne flesh which the woman is vnlesse a monster in nature Thirdly the formall cause fashion and proportion of woman was excellent For she was neyther like the beasts of the earth foules of the ayre fishes of the Sea or any other inferiour creature but Man was the onely obiect which she did resemble For as God gaue man a lofty countenance that hee might looke vp toward Heauen so did he likewise giue vnto woman And as the temperature of mans body is excellent so is womans For whereas other Creatures by reason of their grosse humours haue excrements for their habite as foules their feathers beasts their haire fishes their scales man and woman onely haue their skinne cleare and smoothe And that more is in the Image of God were they both created yea and to be briefe all the parts of their bodies both externall and internall were correspondent and meete each for other Fourthly and lastly the finall cause or end for which woman was made was to glorifie God and to be a collaterall companion for man to