Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	blood_n	child_n	womb_n	2,043	5	9.7787	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96433	The art of divine improvement, or, The Christian instructed how to make a right use of [brace] duties, dangers, deliverances both as they concern himself and others : opened and applied in several sermons / by Nathaniel Whiting ...	Whiting, Nathaneel, 1617?-1682.	1662 (1662)	Wing W2020A; ESTC R43819	228,106	313

he fights with his own arme God hath now forsaken him but how know you that he is in a deserted estate O 't is clear and legible in those sore distresses that are upon him hee 's a man mark'd out to ruine God will not deliver him and thus deridingly did the wicked scoff at David Psal 22.7 8. Contemptus p●puli ludibri●s opprobriis declaratur applied by the Evangelist to the Lord Jesus Matth. 27.39 when he was nailed to the cross all they that see me in this afflicted and calamitous condition laugh me to scorn they shoot out the lip they shake the head saying He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him let him deliver him seing he delighted in him a gauling Sarcasm reproachfull language Good God! how great is thy patience to pardon at least to pass over for the present such blasphemous scoffs against thy self and against thy son and if it was done thus to the green tree what shall be done to the drie Post Carthaginem vinci neminem puduit Let not the Saints be overmuch troubled at the taunts of the wicked when the Son of God himself suffered the same measure from them but stay speak no more so proudly O ye ungodly ones do you think the tender Mother has cast off all care all bowels all love because she lets her helpless Infant lie crying in the cradle a while no no she 'l come and take it up kiss it lay it in her bosome and draw forth her breast unto it Thus doth the Father of mercies do though he may suffer his children to be brought into great and pressing calamities and to lie crying for some time upon the ground yet do not conclude that God hath cast away his people and cast off all care over them no hear at what a rate of love he speaks how he useth affection with a tender Mother and outvieth her Isa 49.14 Zion said the Lord hath forsaken me and my Lord hath forgotten me but what is the reply can a woman forget her sucking childe that she could not have compassion on the son of her womb Mothers usually have more tenderness and their affections put forth greater strength to their Babes then Fathers do Therefore the question is not can a man forget but can a woman again it is not can this or that woman but indefinitely can any woman yea the tenderest of that sex again it is not can a woman forget her Childe that she may a little when nursed at anothers womans breast but her Childe that drawes life and love from her own breasts and then too when it lies at her breasts and she feeds it with her own bloud again it is not can a woman forget a sucking childe another womans childe to whom she is onely nurse though this engageth much and much love runs through the milky veins even to the childe of a stranger yet shee may forget it but it is a sucking childe which is the son of her own womb nay further it is not can a woman forbear to kiss or can she at any time refuse to dandle her childe in her armes no but can she forget or can she withhold maternal compassion from it can she expose it can she shut up her bowels so that she ceaseth all expressions of care and compassion towards it which in women in Mothers in wives in chaste and loyal wives is very rare if possible yet be it so should a mother one of a thousand be found so hard hearted and unnatural to forget her sucking childe the son of her womb yet will not I forget thee no Jer. 31.20 Ephraim is my dear son all Gods sons are dear to him he is a pleasant child All Gods children are children of his delights so the Heb. reads it since I speak against him or chide him for all afflictions are the rebukings and chidings of God I do earnestly remember him still I have not forgot him nor the affections of a father unto him though I have dealt a little roughly with him and left him a little in a distressed condition My bowels are troubled for him like a tender Mother that bears her Childe company with her own tears whilest she is correcting of him she whipps him and weeps over him and drawes more tears with the rod from her own eyes then she does bloud from the flesh of her crying childe so 't is with God his bowels sound louder then his blows and whilest he punisheth as a Judge he pittieth as a father and as it is with a mother when she hath whipp'd her childe she speaks it fair sets it upon her knees and dries its cheeks and eyes again with her own lips so the Lord when he hath lash'd his Ephraim takes him into his armes and sayes peace my dear son be quiet my pleasant Childe for I will surely have mercy upon thee miserendo miserebor an Elegant Hebraisme implying the certainty of mercy from the Lord to his Ephraims but when will the Lord have mercy upon them will he hasten his help will he speed his supplies yes have you never seen a tender mother what hast she makes when the shrill outcries of her fallen childe sound sadly in her ears so Isa 31.5 As birds flying so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem the Lords mercies are a as bird upon the wing they mount high farre above all opposition and they fly swiftly not to be overtaken by the malice of man nor succours prevented by the pollicie and power of Hell O! how doth this sweeten that bitter cup which is in the hand of an afflicted Saint how doth this support and stay up a sinking spirit how doth this charge folly and falsshood upon wicked men who cry out against the Saints in the day of their distress God hath forsaken them the Lord hath cast them off and how doth this comport with that great truth spoke unto in this Treatise viz. That the appearances of God are eminent and immediate certain sudden to the help of his people in their distressed estate For ever then let all black mouthes be stopped from belching forth reproaches against the Saints charging them to be the greatest sinners hypocrites and forsaken of God because they meet with many and sore afflictions in this valley of tears 2. This reproves those who strengthen themselves with the arm of flesh and lean upon the creature when afflictions overtakes them that forsake the fountain of living waters and hew out unto themselves cisterns even broken cisterns that will hold no water the choicest creature-enjoyment is leaking sin hath perforated the creature and fill'd it full of chinks so that all that comforting healing helping satisfying and relieving good wherewith God fill'd the creature at its first creation leak's out untill sin be pardoned and the leaks be stopped by Gods own hand This then speakes the great folly of men to lay any expectancy of help from the creature yet what more usuall Many