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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
reason_n	body_n	soul_n	union_n	2,456	5	9.5499	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41854	The Great advocate and oratour for women, or, The Arraignment, tryall and conviction of all such wicked husbands (or monsters) who held it lawfull to beate their wives or to demeane themselves severely and tyrannically towards them where their crafty pleas are fully heard and their objections plainly answered and confuted ...		1682 (1682)	Wing G1631; ESTC R40508	48,310	156

armes nor Vulcan on his anvile playd Musick unto the Gods whiles forged was the sword VVhich now with sharp revenge Seconds each hasty word No trumpets then to stirr up warrs were heard no strif But in this Golden Age they livd a golden life And parallell allso to the purity of this golden age was the perfection of man and womans soule For when their bodies were first framed God created there in a lively soule which he stiled the breath of life and that Spirit beeing of an Angelical Essence diffused it self into each part giving motion sence and reason to the whole Now in this naturall marriage of Souls and body the Soul acts the body and the body supports the soule The Soule brought with her a rich dowry for the body quick apprehension deepe understanding and a treasurie fraught with memory The body brought a faire posession for the soule and received her within his habitation and Seated her with in the warlike castle of his heart fortifyed her with the thick bullwark of his breast attended her with waiting faculties as a family of so many servants made his eyes her watchmen his tongue her Orator his ear her sentinel his hands her Champions his feet her lackies his common parts her common vassals Now whosoever we please to take a review of womans first Creation equal unto mans having the same maker the same manner of making better then mans because framd of a better Substance in a place more Excellent and at a more remarkable time and of the Originall of mariage equal to both in as much as both were one flesh and one nature more expresly binding the man unto the royall Law of Love Lastly of the purity of that age from whence all theise testimonies are drawn he will easily Conclude what I have been endeavouring to confirme That man and wife here lived a peaceable life they enjoyed a loving union they lived in purest Love if ever there was made an absolute Law if ever Statute of such perfection as neither errour could corrupt it nor vice deprave it we are sure This was it where God in the ●irst Creation was the Law giver man in his first perfection the Law receiver and Obedient Conformist Thereunto Now whereas our imitation is to be drawn from the best patterns Here may we rest our selves as at the mouth of God and draw sweet waters from the very Fountain head of truth it self And that we may not waver and fructurate as at uncertainties God hath pleased farther to confirme us in the due esteeme of this Sacred Bond of Love by the Testimony of his spirit speaking likewise by the mouth of his great Apostle Paule who tells us that Marriage is a Type of that Mysticall Union that is between Christ our great Husband and his Church the Spouse beeing indeed the stricktest Injunction of mutual Love where was not to be so much as a secret thought or word touching rigorous Predomination our Lord Christ himself al tho the head of deare Spouse yet became a Servant to her in the highest and most eminent offices of Love nor of unkind preheminence for he endowes his church with the same priviledges of Adoption as Himself received in beeing his fathers first born and beloved childe in giving unto her likewise the same glorious Inheritance which his father invested Him withall It was saith St. Augustine a Mysterie of Union a Sacrament of Love a Bond of fidelitie a heavenly Paradice of peace for terme of this present life and the way unto perfection in that better life to come But man you will say by occasion of the woman fall from this integritue and therefore women are not now to exspect from men such duties of amitie True it is the Serpent by long perswasions induced her to a delightful sin of eating the forbidden fruit yet she shewd a stout resistance before she yeelded She made a short and sharp ●nswer to the Serpents cunning demand hath God forbidden you to eate of the fruite of the garden Implying a plaine falsification in his close assertion we may eate of the fruites of the garden but of the fruit of the tree in the midst of Paradise God commanded us not to eate we may not eate least we die From hence she drove the old cunning Serpent to his naturall shift and open traode down right lying you shall not die the death c. Adding there with all' a vaine hope of her knowing some thing which beeing discovered to her would much add to the beauty and perfection of her State and made as if God for that reason had withheld it from her for God doth know that in the day you eat thereo● yee shall be as Gods viz as the Elo him 〈◊〉 knowing good and evil Thus in 〈◊〉 faire combate for a fair time sh● stood out at staffs end with him til● by his stratagemes at lenth gott the glory of the day But Adam as soone as the fruite was proffered unto him did not make any demurr at all not so much as once questioned the matter but strait way tasted the sweetnes thereof whose bitter relish remaines in us to this day I see no reason then but that man all tho he was not first in the trangression should have an equall blame with the woman and perhaps more for the woman was drawn on and deceived with much greater difficultie then the man who suddenly and with less deliberation yelded unto Sin Especially when that generall Prohibition of eating this forbidden fruite was not given unto the woman but to the man THOU shalt not eat of the Tree c. And howsoever St. Gregorie hath it you shall not eate thereof as if it were spoken to both man and woman yet the originall reads it in the singular number And St. Austine tells us that by tradition the woman received this commandement from the man and not immediatly from the mouth of GOD as Adam did This I willingly doe grant and thence allso conclude that for this reason which hath weight in it the woman might Chaunce more easilie to breake this Law then the man Since the Allglorious Majesty of God Commanding can not but have a stronger influence on Adam then Adams command who was but a fellow-creature and One with her selfe could have upon Eve his wife Now the woman was indeed the Occasion of mans sin but not the reall cause and if Adam had but observed the command of God To whom it was in a distinct and perticular manner enjoyned though his wife had broken it ten thousand times yet we had not tasted death and as this is the Common received Opinion of the learned Schoole men and other Interpreters so the Apostle Paul makes the matter I think beyond dispute where he says that by One man sin entered into the world and death by sin and in Adam as our first Root and common head we all Sinned c. not mentioning

is the earnest desire of your assured Friend CHAP. I. An Introduction to the following discourse ALltho we all know that unto women the world oweth half of its life and man is indebted the greatest part of his love next unto God yet now a days it is grown a custome so common to undervalue the worth of that sexe because of the lewd and allmost unparrald lives and examples of some that every rymer hath a severall libell to impeach their name and every person a poeme to accuse them of unfaithfullnes c The Courtier tho he weavs his Mistresse favour yet upon slight occasions nay sometimes none at all Sticks not to sing her shame And the cobler tho in himself deserving greater disgrace yet wants not a ballade to reproach their name And as this course is usuall with most men so the cause heer of is manifect unto all The fairest Mark you know is most often aimed at and the goodliest starr is mostly gazed upon so VVoman the beauty fullest creature of all the visible creation is most of all Observed and Observation as it is sometimes the guide unto honour so often allso is it the mother of disgrace Particular reasons heereof may be collected out of the severall humours of such who stand out in disloyaltie with them for some men will dispraise that woman whom before they adored because her modesty hath repelled their un chaste desires Some will turne their amorous termes of wooing into a barbarous stile of rayling because for want of desert they obtaine not how to love them and the greater part of men beeing evil themselves love but few things that are good and so perchance hate women also Some likewise pretend a reall dislike of women unto whom themselves are all the while reall stranger to make Ostentation of their witt before the publique stage of the world few upon good shew of reason and fewer yet upon just grounds and these sort of persons have filled the world with Pamphlets things most idle in themselves and most disgracefull unto women But O unmanlike men and slaves of your sex Is this a point of your man hood or any ornament of your valour to buisy your selves for the disgrace of women whom nature hath disarmed of corporall strenth and education disenabled of mentall courage for revenge Is this the thankfull tribute you repaye unto the author of your beeings Is this the best embraces you bestow on the papps that gave you suck Is this the gratefull allowance you afforde them for their sorrow pains at your birth for their care and diligence in your youth And for that labour of love which they have bestowed upon you throughout the severall periods of your life All such courtesies methinks should not be forgotten in such an ungratefull manner much less injuriously remembred But why talk I with these men of gratitude the greatest of virtues who never were acquainted with any vertue at all And therefore had it been the highest of womens misfortune to have been traduced by this in famous crew they might easily have smiled it out counting it no dishonour to be evil spoken of by such who never learned to speak well of any But now this bad cause hath gotten better Patrones especially when in the universities their names are mentioned in their Acts and publique disputations their capacities thought unfitt for learning or ever attaining to the speculative knowledg of the liberall Arts and sciences Nay if this were all their blind ignorance might be passed over in judicious silence but when they shall adjudg them worthy of blowes what more strange and prodigious Paradox then this What opinion more unnaturall and uncivill then that of theirs that it is lawfull for a husband to beate his wife Most impure heart which didst first conceive and move the most barbarous tongue which did afterwards bring forth such a Monster of opinion Had I but one word to Speake unto mankind before I yeelded up my breath and but one only line to write I would both Speak and write in Defiance thereof CHAP. II. That it is not Lawfull for a husband to beat his wife prooved by reasons drawn from Nature ANd to begin first whence we all began from Nature self Her eternall Laws stampt from the worlds beginning in all her creatures witnesseth such a soveraigne Union of male female that in all kinds between them there is found no unkindnesse No Lyons rage against the Lionesse The Tygre to the Tygresse is not fierce No eagles doe their fellow birds oppresse The Hawke doth not the Hawke with talents pierce All couples live in love by Natures love VVhy should not man and wife doe thus and more Man the great Creators greatest creature indued with Remembrance a Register to recount former events with wisdome a Glass to behold the present state of things with Providence an Oracle to conjecture of future accidents and above all with Reason a Ballance to weigh out all his actions must now become more cruell and tyrannous nay more savage and barbarous then very beasts who neither have remembrance of things past wisdom in things present nor providence of things to come nor reason in any thing at all The Doves are observed to be most exquisite in their love and at the fatall departure of one the other pines to death with sorrow The Nightingall makes plesant melodie in his loves well-fare but in her distresse he mourns in sadder tunes The Swanne is of a nature sutable to his feathers white and faire and all his feare is to keepe his mate from feare Go therefore into the fields and the Doves will teach thee a lecture of Love returne into the woods and the Nightingalles will sing thee madrigals of love walk by the water and the Swanns will schoole thee the art of love Every where such loving couples of bruitish beasts will shame the disagreeing matches of reasonable creatures For shall the bare instinct of a sensible nature work so powerfully in this case with beasts and shall the helpe of a purer essence work a contrary effect in man and shall not such men be adjudged worse then beasts by many degrees The Lion that barbarous Creature who spareth no shape is said to tremble at a woman and hardly proffereth her that violence which usually he doth to man as though Nature had taught him a more gentle behaviour towards so fair a Personage or his own heroick Spirit the shame of so base a victory For never gotten was immortall fame By working of the weaker Sexes shame The Viper a beast more vile then the vilest poisonous by nature and spitefull odious to be seen and hatefull yet when the time of his breeding approacheth withdraws himself unto the sea or river side and by the Gentle murmure of his known hisse calleth forth the Lamprey with whom his nature is to engender the Lamprey beeing so kindly invited doth as