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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
A44932	The spirit of prophecy a treatise to prove, by the wayes formerly in use among the Jews, in the tryal of pretenders to a prophetic spirit, that Christ and his Apostles were prophets : together with the divine authority of christian religion and the Holy Scriptures, the insufficiency of human reason, and the reasonableness of the christian faith, hope, and practice, deduced therefrom, and asserted against Mr. Hobbs, and the Treatise of Hvmane Reason / by W.H.	Hughes, William, b. 1624 or 5.	1679 (1679)	Wing H3346; ESTC R19799	183,906	298

But besides Allurements and enticements unto Sin the Devil sometimes by especial permission from God hath other wayes of provoking men thereunto And this he hath power to do by bringing afflictions perhaps the ●orest pains both of Loss and Sense that possibly he can upon them Thus we read of Gods Servant Job whom he tempted by great and grievous afflictions in his Person Goods and Kindred And thus it pleased God to permit him to do by our Blessed Saviour It was we know at first foretold that the Seed of the Woman should bruise the Serpents head and the Serpent should bruise his heel i. e. that the Messias should destroy the power and authority of the Devil and the Devil should sorely but not irrecoverably wound the Messia● Now in order hereunto there was to be a time wherein the Devil was to be permitted to do his utmost against him this bitter Conflict with the Devil it is thought our Saviour apprehended at his triumphant Ingress into Jerusalem three dayes or more before he entred upon it This seems it he spake of when he said Now is my Soul tr●ubled and what shall I say Father save me from this hour No this he himself upon a little deliberation seems to disapprove because for this cause saith he came I to this hour he resolved therefore to say Father glorifie thy Name Hereby he commits himself to his Father's disposal and prayes him to make the Contest glorious unto Him A little while after J●sus knowing that this hour was come said unto his Disciples hereafter I will not talk much with you f●r the Prince of the World cometh Satan it seems would again try his strength upon him and that not as before with subtilty and snares but with greater force and violence than formerly had been permitted to him and accordingly so it seems he did in his Agonie and Bloody Sweat at which time saith a great Divine his Fath●r permitted Satan to exercise the utmost of his power against him only over his Soul or Life he had no power Yet doubtless during this Agonie he suff●red pains more than natural such as neither the Prophets before him nor the Apostles or Martyrs after him either felt or could indure the pains of Hell they could not be because the Prince of the World having nothing in him he was not a Patient rightly disposed to indure those pains yet doubtless as the glory of our Saviour Christ is now much greater than the glory of all his S●ints which have been or shall be hereafter so no doubt his Sufferings did far exceed the sufferings of all his Martyrs But what they were is it seems best expressed in the ancient Greek Liturgies by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unknown Sufferings Hereby the Devil tempted him to Impatience or some other obliquity in one kind or other but his design was frustrate for when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death he was heard in that he feared The Paroxysme was over the sharpness of the pain was abated if not quite extinguished by t●ese means at this assault in this battel also the Devil was beaten he ceased therefore from farther attempts by way of single Duel But the Contest b●●ng for no less than the Crown and Empire of the whole World Satan resolv●d not so to leave him but once again to attaque him and it should be in that manner wherein throughout all Ages he had found himself most successful in doing mischief and that is not by hims●lf alone and immediately but by his wicked Instruments Men being left to the freedom of their own Wills are not under so strict a restraint as the Devil is ●ereupon he hath tempted them to be executioners of his Malice and they at his suggestions have often acted greater cruelties than were permitted to him to do by himself immediately Judas therefore and the Jews he most e●fectually t●mpted to the most barbarous and unnatural cruelty that they could possibly execute on the Holy One of Israel Thence was it that when he was apprehended He said unto them that took him This is your hour and the power of darkness whereby it is plain not only that at that time our Dear Lord was delivered into their hands to do what they would with him but also though the Devil did not appear yet he was the greatest Actour in all the Scenes of that sad Tragedy from the Apprehension to the Crucitixion of our Lord Jesus his Darkness was in its power his Will was then done his Pleasure was ful●illed The Outrages and Barbarisms that men then committed upon him were but the Venom which that Old Serpent spit at him and by so doing did the worst he could against him viz. he bruised his heel i e. he crushed his Humanity to death yet neither so could he conquer him by obtaining the least Sin to be committed by him Had he effected this he had obtained his purpose and done his own business viz. he had de●cated our Salvation and established his own Throne for ever but blessed be God the Captain of our Salvation was Victorious and by so doing he ●ath canc●lled all the Claim that the D●vil can p●ssibly make unto us and hath utt●rly dissolved and ●isp●●sed all Shadow of pretence to the Right of Conquest over us and since he received his Commission from God and in all his Temptations and trials he fought his Battels against the Devil it is evident that his Right hand and his holy arm h●ve gotten God the victo●y and so indisputable is the Right of Conquest as that by the Law of Nations Conquerours are always and every where Lords and Sovereigns over them that they have taken in just and lawful Wars since therefore in the War between Christ and the Devil most justly and graciously designed for our Redemption our Blessed Saviour was the Conquerour he hath thereby undoubtedly renewed if not also augmented Gods Rig●t of Sovereignty over us and by so doing hath laid as we shall see in the Sequel f●esh Obligations of All●giance and Subjection to Him upon us Neither is that all for by his sufferings he did not only ●e●●ore us into the freedom of Gods service but did also propitiate and make him gracious unto us For God sent his Son to be the Propitiation for our Sins or he set him forth to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood and so the Son Himself tells us that his Blood was shed for many for the Remission of Sins As a farther proof and illustration hereof it will not be amiss to observe That the Law of Moses had this severe Sanction Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the Book of the Law to do them the matter of this Curse was a violent death without mercy so that whosoever transgressed it was for that