Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	bruise_v	heel_n	serpent_n	2,564	5	9.8176	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42921	The holy limbeck, or, A semicentury of spiritual extractions wherein the spirit is extracted from the letter of certain eminent places in the Holy Scripture : and a compendious way discovered for the spiritual improvement of the literal sense, in order to the better understanding of the minde and meaning of the spirit therein / by Jo. Godolphin.	Godolphin, John, 1617-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing G944; ESTC R37865	39,502	269

blood shall not live out half his days Psal 55.23 And Cain rose up against Abel and slew him Here the Serpents seed hath bruised the heel of the womans Gen. 3.15 The seed of all true Religion slain from the beginning of the world Innocent Abel the first Martyr that suffered for Religion and lively Type of Christ of Christ the Prince of Martyrs the heel of the blessed Seed bruised a Type of what the Head himself should suffer Bloody Cain the first Apostate after that first Evangelical Promise the first builder of that spiritual City of the Wicked the Seed of the Serpent founded in his brothers blood the true portraicture whereof is Mystical Babylon or Rome founded by Romulus by the like example of fratricide in the murther of his brother Remus the Seat of the Beast and of the Whore by whose Authority Christ himself was slain since drunk with the blood of his Saints and still breathing out blood and slaughter to every Abel that refusing to communicate in her Spiritual Whoredoms will not with her offer the earthly Sacrifice of Cain the fruits of the ground which hath nothing of Faith or the Spirit in them Thus Goodness and Envy like Rebecca's Twins the one is never born without the other If God hath more respect to Abels then to his brothers Sacrifice by his brother shall himself be Sacrificed Goodness is ever accompanied with danger and he indeed is onely Martyr-proof that dares be good The wicked would be rather blinde then see Religion thrive or vertue flourish had God loved Abel less Cain would have loved him more his favor with God purchased his Brothers hate so that he needed not to have slain Abel whom he had murthered before For whosoever but hateth his brother is a murtherer 1 John 3.15 Both these Brethren did Sacrifice to the Lord yet Cain must have Abels blood for offering that in faith which himself did with a false heart How parallel doth this run to the Cains of this Age who with the faithful once walked in the House of God as Friends yet now stile them Enemies to God for the service of his House is not this to slay thy Brother Nothing acutes the Spirit of a man to assay some desperate design as desire of revenge and he that 's caught in this whirlwind lives like the Salamander in the fire 't was desire of revenge that hurld Charls the Sixth of France incens'd against the Duke of Britain into a Bedlam-Lunacy discontent and emulation beget this passion if sin get not Priority of Honor from desert desert shall have Priority of Fate Cain here in reference to his Brother Abels death deals with his Fathers Posterity in respect of Gods glory as the rich Man in Quintilian did with his garden Flowers in respect of his Brothers profit poyson them all because his Neighbors Bees should suck no more Hony from them and hazards eternal life onely to abreviate his Brothers temporal looking at him as they in Lucians Rock of Honor with an envyous eye proud of his own ruine for anothers damage Every other sin hath some pleasure in it or admits excuse envy alone wants both Angebat illum non proprium peccatum sed fratris prosperitas saith Theodoret 't was his Brothers happiness that gall'd him Presidents hereof Divine and Humane we may flye and read Jacob and Esau Saul and David Rachel and Leah Gen. 30.1 Joseph and the Patriarchs David also had a touch of this vice by his own confession in Psalm 37. but all these syllable'd to a word cannot spell Cain cursed Cain yet reprieved and life continued even for the same cause that other Murtherers lose it that he might live a stigmatiz'd example in this unpeopled condition of the worlds non-age branded to the terror of all that should afterward behold the spectacle cursed from the earth drunk with his Brothers blood now spews out his own banished the presence of God to become the lively Image of the deadly state of sinners out of Christ dead whilest alive a moving Sepulchre the Devils Captive damnations first-born Hells heir Heavens exile and the Earths vagabond his own fury a horror to himself indeed Hells Compendium O tremble then thou man of blood whosoever thou art guilty of murther either by the Tongue or Sword Tremble ye Persecutors of the Saints of God their blood shall never quench Hell sheath your malice yet swell not against conviction of Conscience for in those Orient days of Gospel-light it is not possible you can think to do God good service by slaughtering the lambs of heaven Remember God is a Spirit Infinite his very Essence proclaims what kinde of Worship he doth challenge and expect from his Creatural Image Touch not any Cains blemished Sacrifice offer with righteous Abel and if thou suffer with him Amen Welcome to the Marriage of the Lamb thy blood shall from the Altar cry for Justice not unequivalent to that on Cain when he slew his brother Gen. 4.8 The Holy VValk And Enoch walked with God Gen. 5. ver 24. ANd Enoch walked not in the counsel of the ungodly Psal 1.1 not in the ways of evil men Prov. 4.15 not in froward and strange ways Prov. 21.8 not in the broad way that leadeth to destruction Matt. 7.13 not in the way of bribery Isa 33.15 whose Tabernacles shall be consumed by fire Iob 15.34 not in the company of riotous men Prov. 28.7 not in ways seeming right onely in his own eyes Prov. 12.15 not in ways of discord but in love Eph. 5.2 not disorderly 2 Thess 3.6 not after the imaginations of a corrupt heart Ier. 9.14 not as driven with every wind of Doctrine Eph. 4.14 not as a stumbling block in the way of the blinde Levit. 19.14 not without wisdom towards them that are without Col. 4.5 not wandring from God Psal 119.10 nor turning aside from his Commandments Deut. 17.20 not walking after the flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8.1 And With God before him with a perfect heart Gen. 17.2 in his Statutes keeping close to his Commandments Levit. 26.3 in all the ways which the Lord his God commanded him Deut. 5.33 Ier. 7.23 in the ways of righteousness wherein is life Prov. 12.28 in the good way Ier. 6.16 walking in his house with a perfect heart Psal 101.2 doing the will of God from the heart Eph. 6.6 perfecting holiness in the fear of God 2 Cor. 7.1 believing with all his heart Acts 8.37 living in all good Conscience before God Acts 23.1 always void of offence Acts 24.16 seeking the Lord with his whole desire 2 Chron. 15.15 in whose heart God hath so put his fear as that he shall not depart from him Ier. 32.40 giving himself unto Prayer Psal 109.4 continuing instant therein Rom. 12.12 meditating on Gods Precepts Psal 119.15 holding fast the mystery of Faith in a pure conscience 1 Tim. 3.9 alway speaking the truth in love Ephesians 4.15 refraining his feet from every evil way Psal 119.101