Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	child_n	mother_n	womb_n	3,217	5	9.6644	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61998	A sermon at the funeral of the virtuous lady, and honoured, Ann, late wife of Thomas Yarburgh, Esq . Preached on Monday, the 10th day of July, 1682. By Matthew Sutcliffe.	Sutcliffe, Matthew, 1637 or 8-1707.	1682 (1682)	Wing S6205B; ESTC R222127	17,195	23

A SERMON AT THE FUNERAL OF The Virtuous Lady and Honoured ANN late Wife of Thomas Yarburgh Esq Preached on Monday the 10th day of July 1682. By MATTHEW SVTCLIFFE LONDON Printed for Thomas Cockerill at the Three Legs in the Poultrey over-against the Stocks-Market 1682. JOB 14.1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble WHEN the Royal Psalmist looked upon these aspectable Heavens and beheld there the glory of God written in Characters of Light he admires that grace that first made Man a little lower than the angels Psal 8.5 and crowned him with glory and honour and that Providential care which is mindful of him and visi●… him every moment Such an infinite distance there is betwixt God and man that it is a wonder God will spend a thought upon us Lord Psal 134.3 4. what is man that thou takest knowledg of him or the son of man that thou takest account of him Man is like to vanity his days are as a shadow that passeth away His being in this world hath nothing firm and solid but is like a shadow which depends upon a cause that is always in motion the light of the Sun and is always changing till it vanisheth in the darkness of the night The consideration whereof made the same Psalmist in another place break forth in that pathetical exclamation How vain a thing is man How vain indeed in every act and scene of his life from his first entrance to his exit He is begotten in sin formed in darkness brought forth in pains His first voice is Cryes no sooner is he disclosed from his Maternal Cells into the open air but he weeps and no wonder seeing his birth is his unhappy entrance upon the valley of tears where he is attended with so many miseries as nothing but the shortness of his abode there could make tollerable that so this compendious Draught of Man might in all its parts be exactly conformable to the wretched Original which holy Job hath exposed to our view in the words of the Text Man that it born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble These words comprehend a picture of Man in Minature but very like and to the life He is born of a Woman that 's his Original and as from thence he receives his being so together with it his weakness and infirmities he liveth here a few days but in so short a time he endureth a multiformous multitude of miseries In each step of Man's progress we read his vanity He is vain in his procreation born of a woman there is nothing more mean nothing more abject And lest the thoughts of that pleasure his senses may furnish him withal from corporeal objects should exalt him in his very ingress into life he is sadly warned of his departure out of it he must not expect many days for he shall live but a few And lest he should flatter himself that this short space of time which is allowed him he shall enjoy free to himself he is here told that even that time shall be taken up with misery and sorrow His sew days are full of trouble 1. Let us consider Man in his Original or first entrance into the World and in respect of that How mean and abject is he What came we from at first and originally but from nothing There was a time when we were not having alone a potential being a being not yet in being but wrapt up in the causes of it yea there was a time when we were not in any secondary causes but alone in the Omnipotency of God who was able to make us out of nothing And that which came from nothing can surely be no excellent thing in it self or if it have any excellency it hath it from another even from that Almighty Efficient which did produce it to whom the glory of it is due But we must consider Man in his natural or more immediate Original or in his procreation Man that is born of a woman He is the sinful Off-spring of sinful Progenitors To be born of a woman imports both the sinfulness and the weakness of our Nativity We are all conceived in sin and before we enjoy the light we are spotted and stained in our Originals and before we enter upon the scene of life we receive that infection which wraps up in it the seeds of death The Infant of a day old is not without sin and the continuation of his life is but a multiplication of that first guilt Wherefore holy David had just cause to deplore so sensibly the corruption of his nature which bears equal date with life it self Psal 51.5 Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me And how can he be free from sin that is born in sin Job 25.4 How can man be justified with God Or how can he be clean which is born of a woman Sin hath possessed our reins and covered us in our mothers womb Eph. 2.3 We are all born children of wrath and heirs of vengeance Indeed our Nature as it proceeded from God in our primitive creation was perfectly pure and undefiled but as it comes now by natural generation propagated from Adam it is corrupted and unsound All the good we possess in our life and in our faculties in our senses and in our understanding we received from God our Creator the chief Fountain of all good but the vicious pollution which hath infected and depraved all these proceeded not from that most pure Author of our beings but from Original sin committed by the wilful prevarication and apostacy of man from his Maker Let the consideration of this teach us humility and repress in us the poyson of pride the first sin that ever sprung out in our natures next to Infidelity and last in rooting out Consider O man thy Original that thou wast born void and destitute of all holiness and in a state of pollution and by reason thereof a child of wrath without any possibility to escape eternal damnation by any merit or power of thy own but must needs sink down to Hell and be made fewel for eternal burnings and canst thou find any thing in thy self whereof to be proud Let us therefore look back to the vileness of our Original and be humbled let us lament and bewail our most wretched estate by nature and consider seriously how deeply our first Parents have engaged us in sin and misery Before we had any possession of felicity or could claim any interest in it we had forfeited it in Adam We had a punishment before we had a being We are all of us here born in the last age of the world but we dyed in the first This is the portion left us by our Parents Original sin and a corrupt inclination in our natures unto all evil And sin being the cause and forerunner of death it hath so sown and involved the seeds of it in our