Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	brother_n	mother_n	sister_n	2,328	5	9.5317	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05280	The first step, towards heaven, or Anna the prophetesse sacred haunt, to the temple of God. Preached at Standish Church in the Countie of Lancaster. By VVilliam Leigh, Batchillor of Diuinity and paster there. With the second edition of great Brittaines deliuerance, newly corrected and enlarged by the author.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.; Leigh, William, 1550-1639. Great Britaines, great deliverance, from the great danger of popish powder.	1609 (1609)	STC 15424; ESTC S103610	66,134	240

vs from these sinnes that we be not partakers of more heauy iudgements then euer yet we felt What euer it is I feare our future fall for our present neglect of God and godlinesse Now let vs proceed it may be some wil obiect How is it that women as Anna and such tooke vpon them the function and ministery of teaching in the Church sith Paul saith women must be silent and not speake in the congregation I answer although the office of teaching in the Church ordinarily be committed of God to men yet that the Lord may declare his freedome in teaching and that he is a free agent in all his workes and tieth himselfe to no particular he hath sometimes endowed women with a propheticall spirit to publish his praise and such a one was this Anna and of old Miriam the sister of Moses Also Hanna the wife of Elkanah and Hulda the prophetes in the dayes of Iosia And after al in the dayes of the Apostles the foure daughters of Philip the Euangelist Nay I know not how but though in these dayes women be most wanting in filling of Churches following of Christ and publishing his praise yet of old womē kept the doore of the tabernacle and came out with their Timbrels and praised the Lord that Saule had killed his thousand and Dauid his ten thousand and sure I am about Christ women were most officious to do him any seruice either in life or death Mary the blessed virgin and mother of Christ no sooner receiued the message from heauen of the conception in her wombe but her hart was full and she dispatched her selfe into the mountaine country to communicate the newes to her cosin Elizabeth And Elizabeth no sooner heard the salutation but the Babe sprang in her wombe for ioy and she was filled with the holy Ghost and being full she could not but vent it with a crying loude voyce to the praise of her Sauiour Blessed art thou amongst women because the fruite of thy wombe is blessed Where note that Mary is blessed not for her virginity or any worth in her selfe but for that the fruite of her wombe was blessed and yet may I say with Augustine Motherly piety had done Mary no good vnlesse she had caried Christ more faithfully in her heart then she did in her wombe to iustifie that of Christ when they told him Thy Mother and brethren stay for thee Who is my mother or who is my sister or brother saith he euen he that heareth the word of God and doth it he is my mother sister and brother And this is the spirituall kindred we haue with Christ more excellent then the carnal by how much more the soule excelleth the body What shal I say more Women they were that ministred vnto him in his life at his death and after his death In his life when they left their houses country and delights and followed him from Galily ministring vnto him of all their substance At his death when all his acquaintance stood a farre off the women that followed him from Galily beheld these things And women they were that ministred vnto him after his death when they came early in the morning with spice balme and syndone to bury him to whom the Angell sayd Go tell the Disciples that he is risen where obserue that women Factae sunt Apostolorum apostolae And how negligēt soeuer our women be in all duty to God and his Christ yet know they this to their sin and shame and I feare to their iudgement and confusion one day that though they wil not conceiue Christ yet a woman did though they will not receiue Christ yet ● woman did though they will not follow Christ yet women did and ministred vnto him of all their substance though they will not behold Christ in his passion yet women did And though they will bring no spice balme or Syndon to bury Christ yet women did though they will neither come to the Church nor abide in it yet Anna wil and there continue both night and day fasting praying praising the babe Christ. I tell you plaine these women wil stand vp in iudgement against you one day for that they haue followed the Lord and ye are fallen from him they haue lulled the Lord in mercy and ye haue wakened him in iudgement they haue found him in Bethel and yee haue lost him in Bethauen I say in this that they haue bene officious to serue him in all duty both in his life at his death and after death and ye haue neglected him in all serued your selues and done him no deuotion Martha Martha thou carest and art troubled about many things one thing is needfull Mary hath chosen the better part which shall not be taken from her and that was when she sate downe at the feete of Iesus to heare his preaching thereby lodging Christ more truly in her heart then Martha did in her house Hauing thus made good vnto you the sufficiency of restees manifesting Christ his blessed natiuity all of speciall note 1. For Pietie 2. For Paucitie 3. For Perspicuitie It now remaineth that we come to the description of Anna her line life and doctrine of Christ euery circumstance whereof is sufficient to giue credite to the cause she hath in hand and grace her person And first for her name it is worthy ●our consideration that it is a name of worth for Canna by interpretation is gracious Bonum nomen bonum omen of which word Iohn was called the Harbenge● 〈◊〉 Christ And Anna the mother o● Samuel a word proper to both sexes to giue vs to vnderstād that neither is of worth with God but by speciall grace preuenting attending perfecting for by grace ye are saued not of your selues it is the gift of God not of workes lest any man should boast And here giue me leaue a little to taxe the pride of this world who giue names rather sauoring of flesh and bloud then of the spirit of God and practise of the godly Such were the cosins of Zachary and Elizabeth who when she said her sonne should be called Iohn Tush sayd they there is none of the kindred that is called by that name which done they left ●he mother and went to the father and made signes how hee would haue him called he wrote vpon the tables His name is Iohn as and if he should haue sayd Some build houses call them by their own names but God hath built me by my sonne and he shall be called Iohn To his further glory god hath made me gracious in that I haue begotten the Harbenger of my Christ my wife is gratious in that she hath borne the Messenger of my Christ and he is gracious in that he may but vntie the shoe latchet of his Christ. Cleipe him not Zachary for the Prophets are ended but cleipe him Iohn for grace is now begun and will