Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	adultery_n	heart_n	look_v	1,650	5	6.2797	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27259	Psychomachia, or, The soules conflict with the sins of vain glory, coldnesse in professing Christ, envie, photinianism (of the last resurrection), ingratitude, unpreparednes to meet the Lord, revenge, forgetfulness of God : pourtrayed in eight severall sermons, six whereof were delivered at St. Maries, and Christ-Church in Oxford, and two at Sherburn in Glocestershire / Henry Beesley ...	Beesley, Henry, 1605-1675.	1656 (1656)	Wing B1691; ESTC R13325	163,090	260

as mountains Forrests Seas Heaven God hath so done this marvelous worke P●● 〈◊〉 that it ought to be had in remembrance giving the eye such a preheminence above other parts in man ether 1. in regard of the eldership thereof before the birth a seniority as we may call it in the wombe where it is first begun to be formed before any other part that as the light was the first creature which God made in the greater world Gen. 1.3 Mat. 6.22 so this light of the body is the first thing too that is made in man the lesser world Or 2. in regard of its composition with such manifold variety of humours and tunicles as if this litle globe were the model of nature wherein are comprized all her perfections Or 3. in regard of the munition being fortifyed in a cave of bone more artificiall and defensive then the tent of a diamond as the jewell within it is farre more pretious and besides too fenced above with a pentice of brows shuttings of lids whose quick motion comes nearest in nature to the rate of a moment as if thereby to prevent beside other annoyances the temptations of sin Jerem. 9. that death may not enter by these windoes But you will cheerfuly give God the praise of so rare a worke if you consider the singular use and office thereof It is the Eye whereby we put our selves into our own protection and then make no doubt of our being in safety when this centinel tells us Exod. 10.23 we are not in danger which the sight by a kind of providence can discover before it approach and needs not as the other senses to be warned in the smart of it It is the Eye that makes us to be in the presence each of other which we seem to acknowledge with bashfulnesse at the looke of it and wanting this we come somewhat near the Egyptians case in their plague of darkness Exod. 10.23 to account all the world but our dungeon or sepulchre It is the eye that assureth our understanding by the most certain demonstration and turneth our opinion into knowledge Iohn 20.27 28. as no less our infidelity into belief that on the testimony of our sight we disclaim and renounce our reason and are confident any thing may be so because we see that so it is It is the eye that enricheth us by giving us the fruition of all Gods creatures and not onely satisfies our curiosity but assists our invention for the enquiry of arts and sciences It is the eye whereby we can travell even while we sit still by whose celerity we can out-run the swiftest star and be in an instant at the end of that journey which they must by leisure attain unto Nay lastly Cum spectamus totam hanc coelestem rempublicam in ea singulorum quasi quaedam officia disposita ad summi Rectoris obsequium c. Mou. Polym c. 25. Acts 17.28 by this we can make that better use of Astronomy that beholding the Common-wealth of those heavenly bodies how regularly they observe their courses and conform unto the first mover we should strive to imitate their orderly Government and frame our actions after the image of him in whom we move and have our being Thus have you seen the excellencices of the eye and now be content to see the iniquity which the eye so abounds withall that some Heathen Philosophers as Clemens reports maintained it to be mans highest happinesse to abstain from the evils thereof Nay some Christians too we read of that in an impious and ignorant obedience to the literall advice of our Saviour Mat. 5.29 finding their eyes to offend them plucked them out lest they should light them to utter darknesse But without the help of madnesse to aggravate this wofull truth we may with grief enough confesse that there is scarce any sin that is not promoted by the eye which by reason of its activeness and volubility is apt to offend both with more frequency and facility and that at a distance too without the company of the body For if it look on food with greedinesse without the charging of the stomack it commits the sin of gluttony Mat. 5.28 and if it look on a woman with lust with out the touch of carnal embraces it commits the sin of adultery and if it look on riches with covetousnes without the seizure of the land it commits the sinne of robbery Not that the eye alone is guilty of producing these wicked acts which flow originally from the heart as the fountain of evil things Mark 7.21 and by name of the evil eye as our Saviour voucheth it Mark 7.22 The heart then that corrupts the eye and the eye betrayes the heart and both have their respective interest in the service of iniquity But however the eye is entitled to the fault because it doth not onely yield to the heart but seduces it and it is as the window to let in evil as you may find in viewing only the Records of sin it was the eye that enticed Eve next to the serpent Gen. 3.6 or rather tempted her beyond the tempter When the woman saw that tht tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eye she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and thence bequeathed the itch of curiosity to all her posterity And if you turn over to the next great sin of the world that could not be purged without a deluge of waters you shall find that all beginning from the eye Gen. 6.2 The sonnes of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair and they took them wives of all that they chose by which wild polygamie they replenished the earth not so much with children as transgressions and yet this was but the dull mischief of the eye unacquainted as then with the art of sin but if you look into the elder age of the world you shall see the studied and elaborate malice of the eye 1 Sam. 18.8 bursting forth from Saul in envy against David when being applauded with songs of triumph for his victory on the Philistine it followes thereupon Saul eyed David from that day and forward confingebat oculos so renders Tremelius darted his eyes on him as it were sharpened or pointed with envy that sure we may be he was full of rancour which thus run over so high as his eyes And yet the eye is not sole instrument of envy for blind men may be affected therewith and the Ear also can entertain envy as the tongue can utter it but this notwithstanding the eye is chief actour in this passion Because being of a more busie and inquisitive nature it meets with many occasions of envy that come not unto the knowledge of the ear 2. Besides being of a quicker apprehension it more deeply affects the mind with such objects as be presented unto it than the ear can move her by the