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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	true_a	word_n	6,623	5	4.5200	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88553	The life of Adam. Written in Italian by Giovanno Francesco Loredano, a Venetian noble-man. And renderd into English by J.S.; L'Adamo. English	Loredano, Giovanni Francesco, 1607-1661.; J. S.	1659 (1659)	Wing L3067; Thomason E1909_1; ESTC R209952	36,489	95

a presuming too high upon our selves The woman put the pain of the transgression in doubt saying Perhaps we shal be subject to death because we faine those things always easy and of litle danger which we most desire and put the Judgements of God ever in uncertainty so much the more in that incredulity is the particular defect of the Woman The Divell animated by the lye and incredulity of the Woman began to hope for victory perswading her to violate the precept of God He indeavour'd therefore with admirable artifice to remove the fear of the punishment menaced by his Divine Majesty to allure her with the hope of that good which is the most desirable to man Wherefore he said unto her Comfort your self ô Woman your fears are vaine for death is an imaginary subject to terrify the simplicity of the more weak How can a thing die that is the immediate production of Gods hands It would be too great a disparagement to the divine workmanship to say that his labours could be subject to death Works that have took their qualities from God cannot dissolve without the dissolution of God himselfe He hath intimated death unto you as being an ordinary thing in them that command to menace their vassalls with impossible chastisements for to be served with the more blind obedience He prohibited you to tast of this fruit because he feared that ye should be equall to Him And he that hath Supreame authority can very hardly be perswaded to admit of Competitors Envy is of the quality of thunder that smites the sublimest things Her fangs exempt not Divinity it selfe God knows very well that with tasting these fruits you shall open the eyes of your understanding and obtaine the science of good and evill And what is it that renders God considerable what makes God admirable what maketh God GOD more than this knowledge These words of the Serpent were false impious absurd and incredible He made God a Lyer and Envious He would perswade that a Tree had power to communicate Sapience and that men with this should equall themselves with God and this by taking the fruit to eate The woman not adverted of this so impious and so impossible a falsity was deceived by his promises The Ambition of becoming equall with God and the desire of tasting the Apple forbidden deprived her of judgment and reason What thing more contrary to sense and possibility than to style truth falshood and clemency envy and to say that by tasting this fruite we should gaine the Sapience and similitude of God Yet in the opinion of the Woman these things past for truths because when Women treat of their interests they take shadows for substances The Woman might have said to the Serpent If thy words be not masked with deceits wherfore takest not thou of that fruite and givest that to thy selfe which thou promisest to me How came I to merit so much of thy affection that thou shouldest desire that I should first obtaine a benefit so great a prerogative so rare as to be divine Eat thou first and testify whether thy promises are true If God envying our state so great a felicity did prohibit us this Tree why did he not rather not create it or having made it extirpate it The unfortunate woman believed all for truth because she desired all to be true She did not contradict him because she reputed it a lesse crime to sin with the hazzard of acquiring divinity than by not sinning to lose the hope though impossible of obtaining it Howbeit the words of the Serpent were full of fallacie and ambiguity The not-dying might be understood of dying presently upon the transgression or of the death of the soule The opening the eyes referred to the misery confusion in which man should be after the sinne The resemblance to God might signify the Divell Lastly the knowledge of good and evill might be ment by the privation of good and the experience of evil How subtle a Sophist is the Divell The Woman had beheld the Tree before with some curiosity but after the words of the Serpent she betooke her selfe to contemplate it with ardent desire of tasting it Her eyes mis-led her soul and believing that the beauty of that plant must needs produce births equall in goodnesse contracted in that all her complacencies and affections It is probable that the debt of obedience and loyalty which liveth in those soules that have vowed their genius to rebellion might administer to the Woman these conceits Woman curb thy vaine curiosity Thou shouldest yield obedience to that God which after he had conferred upon thee thy beeing hath also given thee the dominion over all things created It s ingratitude its impiety to controvert those commands which deny thee nothing but the fruit of a Plant. All the fruits in Paradice are permitted thee but only that of the Tree of the knowledg of good and evill If therfore all the others be perfect and you know the good why will you eate of this Apple to know the evill also Seek not to know that which is not fit for thee The knowledg of evill is not knowledge but ignorance Keep thy selfe from the things prohibited that thou lose not those that be allready granted That Plant which thou beholdest with so much curiosity and with so much complacency compriseth in its fruit together with thy death the perdition of all mankind To what end doe you look upon a thing which cannot be tasted without offending God The hands commonly follow the delight of the eyes It s true thou art not forbidden the sight but the tasting of this Tree Yet neverthelesse though the beholding it be no sinne yet it is the beginning of sinne it is the occasion of Sinne. Give no credit to those promises which that they are deceitfull it sufficeth to know they are the promises of a Serpent the most sagacious of all beasts With giving thee an Apple he would rob thee of Paradise He treates thee with simplicity to take thee with Apples But inspirations avail not in a soule that suffers it selfe to be transported by promises and he cannot but sin who fixeth his eyes with immoderate delight on sinne The Woman tooke the Apple and with a disobedience so much the more inexcusable by how much the more unjust gathers it and makes it serve for food The woman had sinned with Sloth Lying and Gluttony whereupon she would Seal so many evills with the violation of the law of God because when praevarication begins in a soul there 's no end of sinning Shee called not Adam to eat of the Apple before her as was the duty of her subjection because believing divinitie to be reposed in that fruit she would not admit any to have the precedence of her In summe Self-interest destroyeth all the lawes of the will and of nature The woman having essayed the dulcity of the fruit and absolutely obliged her credulity to the lyes of the Serpent