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
A63912	The middle way betwixt. The second part being an apologetical vindication of the former / by John Turner.	Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1684 (1684)	Wing T3312A; ESTC R203722	206,707	592

to the evidence of truth and to the more gentle Yoke of the Messias the common Saviour both of Jew and Gentile in whom all the Families of the Earth are to be blessed and as for those that expound this place of the revolt of Edom from under the subjection of the Jews in the second Book of Kings it is so poor a shift and so inadequate a fulfilling of this Prophecy considering what a small handful of Men those were in respect of those many and distant Nations descended from the loins of Esau some of which in all probability were not so much as known to the Jews that it does sufficiently betray its own weakness without any further animadversion of mine Esau then is the legal dispensation from Hasah fecit because the Justification which is by the works of the Law cannot be obtained without a perfect and unsinning obedience and because of the many Ceremonies and troublesome external offices belonging to it And Jacob is the Gospel by which the dispensation of the Law was supplanted a type of the seed of the Woman that was to bruise the Serpents heel Gen. 13. 15. Where the Hebrew word hakeb is the Root from whence this name is to be derived Esau's selling his Birthright for a mess of Pottage what was it else but the Jews rejecting the Covenant of Grace to whom the first offer of it was made and all for the sake of a few hartless Ceremonies and weak Resemblances of that more perfect dispensation which was afterwards in the fulness of time to be revealed and which are far from being able to satisfie the saint and weary Soul Further the Pottage being red was a Type of that Religion that consisted mainly in the observation of Days and Times which in ancient as well modern Calendars were used to be marked with red Letters and from hence he had his name Edom Gen. 25. 30. Which being likewise exactly the same as to all its Radicals with Adam may also signifie that Religion which besides the divine Revelation was likewise by the Pharisaick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or traditions to be swelled into so vast a Bulk of trifling by humane ordinances and Institutions Esau's being rough and Jacob smooth signified the intricacy and perplexity of the legal and the simplicity and honest plainness of the Evangelical Administration Jacob his name was called Israel from God's appearing to him in Padan Aram which is one reason assigned of that name Gen. 35. 9 10. And by this name he was a Type of the Messias for Israel what is it but Ishraah el Man hath seen God but the Scripture saith expresly Joh. 1. 18. No man hath seen God at any time but the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father he hath declared him Wherefore nothing is more plain than that this name was typical of the Messias and that more perfect Revelation of the will of God which is there called seeing and declaring him which he was to introduce into the World Farther the hairyness of Esau was a sign of that Religion which was to be setled and preserved by force and violence as the Israelites were first setled in the Land of Canaan by the utter extirpation of so many Nations and as the Jewish Establishment did endeavour afterwards in the beginnings of Christianity to maintain it self by Persecution Horrida membra quidem durae p●r brachia setae Ostendunt atrocem animum This may also be the signification of his name Edom which carries along with it the notion of Blood and Slaughter and with allusion to this notion it is used Esa 63. 1 2 3 Who is this that cometh from Edom with dyed Garments from Bozrah Wherefore art thou red in thine Apparel and thy Garments like him that treadeth in the Wine Fat I have trodden the Wine Press alone and of the people there was none with me For I will tread them in mine anger and trample them in my fury and their Blood shall be sprinkled upon my Garments and I will stain all my Rayment as on the contrary the smoothness of Jacob was an Emblem of the calmness and benignity the peaceable and gentle nature of the Gospel which is likewise intimated in his name Jacob to shew the supplanting and insinuating power of Truth which does prevail upon Men's minds without violence by perswasion and gentle means Lastly the hairyness of Esau was to signifie the ferine or animal Life and portended the promulgation of that Law all whose promises were Temporal and belonging to this lower state being a sort of sensual and inferiour gratifications as on the other side the smoothness of Jacob was the humane Nature properly so called whose ultimate end looks farther than this life whose gratifications as they are distinct from the brutish Nature united to the humane so they are more refined and noble more calm serene and quiet and look beyond the rough and turbulent enjoyments of this life into the peaceable joys and the unspotted pleasures of another Thus I have proved beyond all possibility of answer from the Authority of Scripture that there are some things which God cannot lawfully do and if there be any thing at all to which the exercise of his power does not extend it must be the condemning of Watches and Sun-dyals to eternal Torments for such are all Men who are acted either by an external fate or by an internal necessity of nature being no more able to avoid what they do than the hand of the Watch can help obeying the motions of the Springs and Wheels that are within or than the Sun-dyal can resist the influences of the Sun or help discovering the time of day when the Sun shines directly upon it and if the Watch be down you must not blame that but its Keeper that it does not inform you what it is a Clock if the Sun does not shine you must not blame the Gnomon for not casting the shadow upon the hour of the day if the Watch when it is wound up will not go right or the Sun-dyal when the Sun shines never so bright and full upon it will not go so exactly as the Parish Clock you may blame the Artificer that made them if you please but them you cannot because they are perfectly passive in the business and can no more represent things otherwise than they do than Stones can fly upwards or smoak descend to the Center of the Earth I have proved likewise that the instance of Jacob and Esau of which the predestinarian parly is so fond is nothing at all to the purpose and that though the preferring of Jacob before Esau was Arbitrary as to their person considered barely in themselves yet as these persons were Typical of things to come there was a design in it and it had at least a prophetical and mystick meaning and though this difference put between them were never so Arbitrary yet if you exclude the Type and Mystery which was hid