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	put_v	wife_n	1,393	5	7.3606	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82070	A declaration by Congregationall societies in, and about the city of London; as well of those commonly called Anabaptists, as others. In way of vindication of themselves. Touching 1. Liberty, 2. Magistracy, 3. Propriety, 4. Polygamie. Wherein their judgments, concerning the particulars mentioned are tendred to consideration, to prevent mis-understanding.		1647 (1647)	Wing D561; Thomason E416_20; ESTC R204489	9,356	17

due limits or that we gave any quarter in our judgments to such an opinion as favors plurality of wives or if any who have been looked upon as professors of religion have so fearfully falne as to break through bounds not only of Religion but also of morality and to defile themselves with those that are not their wives to cover their shame shal go about to plead the lawfulnes of polygamy we earnestly desire that all men may do both us that way of Religion which we profess in the world that right as not in the least to charge either the one or the other therewith as if we were any partrons thereof For we do with great zeale and detestation of soule declare and prote●t against the folly and filthinesse of such persons and of any such opinion as is that now last mentioned as being contrary to the Scriptures of truth For though God having the residue of the Spirit could in the day of creation as easily have made more women then that one which he did create for one man as the Prophet Malachy observes y Mal. 2.15 yet his pleasure was to make but one to the end there might he a godly seed or a seed of God that is a seed propagated according to Gods institution and appointment And therefore our Saviour referring to the first institution of marriage for correction of some corruptions and abuses of men about marriage saith Have yee not read that hee which made them at the beginning made them male and female for this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife and they twaine not they three or they foure but they twaine shall bee one flesh z Mat. 19.3.5 Answerably the Apostles advice is for the avoyding of fornication that every man should have his owne wife not wives and every woman her owne husband not husbands a 1 Cor. 7.2 And when the Apostle gives those cautions concerning such who were to be chosen into the office of a Bishop or Deacon viz. that they should be men that had but one wife as well as men that were not given to wine nor strikers nor greedy of filthy lucre b 1 Tim. 3.2,3 Tit. 1.6 undoubtedly he accounted the one as well as the other a blot and matter of dishonour otherwise he would never have put it in the number of those things whereof he made matter of exception in the election of such Officers And when our Lord Jesus Christ who is Truth it selfe utred this grave saying c Matth. 16.9 Whosoever shall put away his wife except it be for fornication and shall marry another committeth adultery he had not said true but upon this supposition that a man commits whoredom with what ever woman he shall marry over and besides that one wife unto which he hath first joyned himselfe the bands of that Conjunction not being dissolved For otherwise his putting away a former wife injuriously could no wise disable him from marrying a later For can a mans doing one unlawfull act make him uncapable of doing another act that 's lawfull And therefore as all other words of the lips of Jesus Christ which continually dropp'd wisedom and grace are dear and precious to us so these also have taken hold of our hearts so as to cause us to abominate the very opinion and how much more the practice of Polygamy as ri●ing up in opposition against them Thus having shaken off those Vipers of calumnie and reproach which some unworthily have laboured to fasten upon us and having cleared our own innocency both before Angels and men as touching those things whereof either in whole or in part we have been either accused or suspected by malevolent men our hope is that all men except those that have ioyned themselves in a confederacie with Hell and have strucke hands with the Devil as being resolved with him to accuse the brethren into whose hands this ingenuous and solemn Declaration of our selves shall come will both perceive and believe that wee are no friends or favourers either of those unrighteous wayes against which we have now declared more particularly or of any other thing that is contrary to wholesome Doctrine d 1 Tim. 1.10 For so farre are we from patronizing or tolerating any thing of this nature that our earnest desire is that the Magistrate into whose hand the sword of justice is put may draw it out impartially against all those whether pretenders or not pretenders to any strictnesse in Religion that doe in word or deed disturbe the Civil peace of the Land in doing or speaking things destructive to the honour safety or interests of men in body name or goods And our unfained desire likewise is that wee with all other men and all other men with us may by purenesse by knowledge by long-suffering by kindnesse by the Holy Ghost by love unfained by the word of truth by the power of God by the armour of righteousnesse on the right hand and on the left e 2 Cor. 6.6.7 oppose and contend against all unrighteousnesse of men and what ever in them either in opinion or conversation rises up against the honour of the Cospell and the well-being of men That so the civill and externall peace of men may by the sword of the Magistrate be secured on the one hand and their spirituall and internall peace effected maintained and defended by the sword of the Spirit on the other hand from suffering by the hands of those fleshly lusts crooked and perverse imaginations which war against the soule f 1 Pet. 11. The high and honourable advancement of which peace of men in both kinds shall through the helpe of the most High be the subject matter of our studies labours and prayers during our pilgrimage on earth that God in all things may bee glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise in all the Churches of the Saints Amen FINIS