Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	eat_v	fruit_n	serpent_n	1,943	5	9.6634	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25742	Order and disorder, or, The world made and undone being meditations upon the creation and the fall : as it is recorded in the beginning of Genesis.	Apsley, Allen, Sir, 1616-1683.	1679 (1679)	Wing A3594; ESTC R31266	45,515	85

grace That we may it with fuller joy embrace Which when it brings a frighted wretch from hell Makes it love more than those who never fell But mankinds love to God grows by degrees As he more clearly Gods sweet mercy sees And God at first reveals not all his grace That men more ardently may seek his face Averted by their folly and their pride Which makes them their confounded faces hide As still the Sun 's the same behind the clouds Such is Gods love which his kind anger shrouds Which doth not all at once it self reveal But first in the thick shadows that conceal Its glory doth attenuation cause Then the black dismal curtain softly draws And lets some glimmering light of hope appear Which rather is a lessening of our fear Than an assurance of our joy and peace A truce with misery rather than release Thus had not God come in mankind had died Without repair yet came he first to chide To urge their sin with its sad consequence And make them feel the weight of their offence To ' examine and arraign them at his bar And shew them what vile criminals they were But ah our utterance here is choak'd with woe With tardy steps from Paradise we go Then let us pause on our lost joys a while Before we enter on our sad exile Canto V. SAd Natures sighs gave the Alarms And all her frighted hosts stood to their arms Waiting whom the great Soveraign would employ His all deserted rebels to destroy When God descended out of heaven above His disobedient Viceroy to remove Yet though himself had seen the forfeiture Which distance could not from his eyes obscure To teach his future Substitutes how they Should judgements execute in a right way He would not unexamin'd facts condemn Nor punish sinners without hearing them Therefore cites to his bar the Criminals And Adam first out of his covert calls Where art thou Adam the Almighty said Here Lord the trembling sinner answer made Amongst the trees I in the garden heard Thy voice and being naked was afeard Nor durst I so thy purer sight abide Therefore my self did in this shelter hide Hast thou said God eat the forbidden tree Or who declar'd thy nakedness to thee She answer'd Adam whom thou didst create To be my helper and associate Gave me the fatal fruit and I did eat Then Eve was also call'd from her retreat Woman what hast thou done th' Almighty said Lord answer'd she the serpent me betray'd And I did eat Thus did they both confess Their guilt and vainly sought to make it less By such extenuations as well weigh'd The sin so circumstanc'd more sinful made A course which still half softned sinners use Transferring blame their own faults to excuse They care not how nor where and oftentimes On God himself obliquely charge their crimes Expostulating in their discontent As if he caus'd what he did not prevent Which Adam wickedly implies when he Cries 'T was the woman That thou gavest me Oft-times make that the devils guilt alone Which was as well and equally their own His lies could never have prevail'd on Eve But that she wisht them truth and did believe A forgery that suited her desire Whose haughty heart was prone enough to ' aspire The tempting and the urging was his ill But the compliance was in her own will And herein truly lies the difference Of natural and gracious penitence The first transferreth and extenuates The guilt which the other owns and aggravates While sin is but regarded slight and small It makes the value of rich mercy fall But as our crimes seem greater in our eyes So doth our grateful sense of pardon rise Poor mankind at Gods righteous bar was cast And set for judgement by when at the last Satan within the serpent had his doom Whose execrable malice left no room For plea or pardon but was sentenc'd first Thou said the Lord above all beasts accurst Shalt on thy belly creep on dust shalt feed Between thee and the woman and her seed And thine I will put lasting enmity Thou in this war his heel shalt bruise but He Thy head shall break More various Mystery Ne're did within so short a sentence lie Here is irrevocable vengeance here Love as immutable Here doth appear Infinite Wisdome plotting with free grace Even by Mans Fall th' advance of humane race Severity here utterly confounds Here Mercy cures by kind and gentle wounds The Father here the Gospel first reveals Here fleshly veils th' eternal son conceals The law of life and spirit here takes place Given with the promise of assisting grace Here is an Oracle fore-telling all Which shall the two opposed seeds befall The great war hath its first beginning here Carried along more than five thousand year With various success on either side And each age with new combatants suppli'd Two Soveraign Champions here we find Satan and Christ contending for mankind Two Empires here two opposite Cities rise Dividing all in two Societies The little Church and the worlds larger State Pursuing it with ceaseless spite and hate Each party here erecting their own walls As one advances so the other falls Hope in the Promise the weak Church confirms Hell and the world fight upon desperate terms By this most certain Oracle they know Their war must end in final overthrow Some little present mischief they may do And this with eager malice they pursue The Angels whom Gods justice did divide Engage their mighty powers on either side Hells gloomy Princes the worlds rulers made Heavens unseen host the Churches guard and aid Till the frail womans conquering son shall tread Beneath his feet the serpents broken head Though God the speech to mans false foe address The words rich grace to fallen man express Which God will not to him himself declare Till he implore it by submissive prayer Sufficient 't is to know a latitude For hope which doth no penitent exclude Had deaths sad sentence past on man before The promise of that seed which should restore His fallen state destroying death and sin Cureless as Satans had his misery been But though free grace did future help provide Yet must he present loss and woe abide And feel the bitter curse that he may so The sweet release of saving mercy know Prepar'd with late indulged hope on Eve Th' almighty next did gentler sentence give I will said he greatly augment thy woes And thy conceptions which with painful throes Thou shalt bring forth yet shall they be to thee But a successive crop of misery Thy husband shall thy ruler be whose sway Thou shalt with passionate desires obey Alas how sadly to this day we find Th' effect of this dire curse on