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
A60647	The nevv-creation brought forth, in the holy order of life wherein the immortal birth is revealed, and the precious pearl, out of the mixture extracted ... / from ... William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1661 (1661)	Wing S4320; ESTC R2552	40,012	52

and in his Subtilty he tempted her to eat of the fruit of the Tree that God had forbidden and he said unto her hath God said ye shall not eat of every Tree of the Garden and the Woman said unto the Serpent We may 〈◊〉 of the fruit of the Trees of the Garden but of the fruit of the Tree which is in the midst of the Garden God hath said Ye shall not eat of it neither shall ye touch it lest ye dye And the Serpent said unto the Woman Ye shall not surely dye for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as Gods knowing Good and Evil And when the Serpent had entred the Woman with this Temptation and had drawn her mind to look at it then she saw that the Tree was good for food and also pleasant to the eye and to be desired to make one wife and she did take and eat and did give also to her husband and he did eat So through the weaker part of the Creation did the Subtilty work and thereby reached unto the strongest and entred and prevailed with the strongest that the Creation moved out of the Power and contrary unto the Power so the Power was transgressed in which all should have rested and not have moved but in the Power and the Creation went out of order then Man fell from the Power and Wisdom of the Creator and hearkened to the Voice of the Deceiver and transgressed against the God of his Life and so he became a degenerate plant and lost his Authority over the Creation and became subject to the Serpents subtilty then was he driven out of Paradise and was driven into the Earth where he became corrupted and defiled amongst the mixtures of the Earthly Properties and so lost the Heavenly Image in which he was created and an Earthly Image came upon him in the generation of the Serpents subtilty and the World entered into his heart and from the foundation of it the Lamb was slain and in the World the Serpent seated himself and exercised his Power and became a god of the World and then the Tree of Life was fenced with Cherubims and a flaming Sword and what way soever Man turned in the Serpents subtilty to have come and tasted of the Tree of Life the flaming Sword turned and met him then the Serpent wrought deceivably and began to generate in the mixture of the Earthly Properties into which Man was driven and in which the Serpent had got dominion over him and in a moment all the Faculties and Properties of Man changed and he was suddenly turned from the Image of the Heavenly to the Image of the Earthly and so he became an Earthly Man with an Earthly carnal mind that was at Enmity with God and an Earthly Wisdom sensual and devillish in which the Serpent stood exalted and had dominion over Man that brought the pure Creation into Bondage where it groaned and travelled in pain and here was the pure Creation lost as it stood in the mercy and love of the Creator and it fell from the Mercy and Love into the dark Mixtures where the Wrath is exercised and so became a Subject of the Wrath where the Curse came upon him and Death over-shadowed him and Hell inclosed him where the Torment Anguish and Pain is Then the Compassion of the Eternal Mercy moved and the Love opened and the Seed was promised that should bruise the Serpents Head that had so betrayed and deceived Man that Man therein might again be recovered out of the dark Mixtures where the Wrath is exercised and be restored into the Love and Mercy which he did partake of and was his portion in the pure Creation and through the Serpents subtil working the first holy Image was lost and a defiled Earthly Image came up which marred the Beauty of the Holy and the mind that was gone into the Earthly could see no beauty or comliness in it that it should desire it so could never love it but hath ever appeared at enmity against it and the Earthly Image is most desirable to the Earthly Mind and appeareth most beautiful and so the Rejoycing standeth in its like whether it be Heavenly or whether it be Earthly and Man in the Fall is in the Mixture of the Earthly part where the Serpent hath generated and also brought forth an Earthly Image which hath its nourishment from the old Creation and its vital parts have their course through the Mixture of the Earthly Properties and in the old Heavens and the old Earth Man hath his way and the Earth is become his habitation and his dwelling-place And thus is Man degenerated and out of Paradise driven and from the Tree of Life fenced and is become an Earthly man with an Earthly Image CHAP. III. The state of Man in the Separation and also the Serpents Working VVHen Man had transgressed and sinned against the Power and Wisdom of God and was driven out of Paradise and fenced from the Tree of Life he became a servant to the Subtilty and followed his leadings downward and turned a Wanderer in the Earth where the Serpent led him in dark corners and in dry paths and Man being joyned unto him he became an Enemy unto God and full of Cruelty in the Serpents Enmity unto every thing that was good and the treacherous Enemy wrought deceivably to keep Man under his Dominion into which he had drawn him with his enticing temptations and when any thing arises and breathes towards the Lord he standeth ready with his devouring mouth to swallow it up and destroy it and he having the dominion over Man he makes him bow at his will and with his subtil working keeps him in the Earthly habitations and Earthly paths into which he hath drawn him and there holdeth him in the Separation from God that made him and leadeth him about in the dark Imaginations of the Earthly part and there doth beget and generate the things that be evil and sinful so that Man is become deformed and hath lost that pure Image in which he was created and is turned into the Serpents beastly nature and is acted and ordered by his unclean spirit that bringeth forth the deeds of darkness and leadeth Man to commit sin with greediness and Man having lost the Authority in which he ruled over the Creatures he is fallen under the power of darkness and the Serpent hath weakned him and set the Creatures over him and then leads him to commit evil in the use of the Creatures and Mans heart being run into them and become subject to them he is taken Captive with them at the will of the Serpent and hence it is that Drunkennesse and Gluttony Pride and Covetousnesse is come to rule over Man and the Devil hath him Captive in them and he neither knoweth what to eat nor what to drink nor what to put on nor how much Earthly Substance to desire the Serpent

the Eternal Word in the Wisdom make Man in his own Image and breathed into him the Breath of Life and he became a living Soul and the Lord God filled him with Wisdom and Understanding and gave him Dominion over all the Works of his Hands and Man in the Wisdom of God ruled over them all he stood in the Wisdom and received Counsel and had his Way in the Holy Life he walked in the Paradise of Pleasure and fed upon the Tree of Life he lived in still communion with his God and his living Soul stood in his living Virtue and the Breath of Life was alwayes reaching to it he was in the pure Oneness with God that made him and the Image of the Holy Life was upon him and he was in the Power Wisdom and Strength of God and bare the Image in Righteousness and true Holiness without any mixture and all things stood clear in the Separation as they were created and there was no mixture to defile Then did the Wisdom behold his Work and lo it was very good in his sight and he had great pleasure and delight therein and his Mercy Love Goodness and Tenderness was to it and his Blessings and Peace was upon it and Man enjoyed the living Presence of his Maker and did partake of his Love Mercy Blessing and Peace he had a free course unto the Well-spring of Life and there was nothing stood in his way to let him so the Breath of Life was breathed and in it the Soul lived and was in perfect unity with it and this came into Man through the Wisdom of the Creator according to his own pleasure and as it seemed good in his own sight it was not a thing from without but the pure operation of the Power and Wisdom within after he had formed an earthly Body and brought forth a visible Creation that he might fill it with his heavenly Treasure and with his Holy Life which in his Wisdom he breathed into it and brought forth the Man in his own Image and there was no mixture in his Life and Being which is the earthly bodies Nature and it is a Compounded Vessel yet so prepared and formed in the Wisdom as to be a Vessel for the Incorruptible Image of Life which had its course through it and filled it with its heavenly Being and there was no mixture of the Earthly in it And this was the Man that was made after God in Righteousness and true Holiness and bare his Image in perfect Glory and the Body was prepared to be a Vessel fit for his own use who made it that he might fill it with his Pure Holy Life which he breathed into it in his Wisdom whereby Man became a living Soul and bare the Heavenly Image and here Man stood in obedience to the Father of Spirits who had made him a spiritual holy righteous Man and fed him with spiritual holy Food and Man had no will nor desire after any Creature but stood in the Eternal Will and ruled over all the Creatures and his desire was to enjoy the Holy Life in which he was generated and brought forth and what he desired to partake of in the Life it was ministred unto him according to the good Pleasure of the Creator in whom he had his Life and Breath and lived in the pure Enjoyment of the Eternal Being in which he was daily comforted and continually satisfied and in this state no Sin or Evil was committed by him nor no Curse reached him nor no Death was upon him nor no Grave did hold him nor no Wrath went forth against him but in the Mercy he liued and Mercy was his portion and his delight was in his Maker and with him he walked day and night and he had Liberty in Paradise without Restraint and the Tree of Life he had free course unto and the Cherubims and flaming Sword were not set to fence it So was Man created in Righteousness and served God in Righteousness and lived in the Life of Righteousness and he was not in the mixture of any Unrighteous thing but was created in the Wisdom of God and bare the Image of God which drew its Breath and Life from the holy Fountain of its Generation and stood in the Eternal Essence of the Divine Nature and so did the Everlasting God of Wisdom Power and Strength bring forth his own Work in which his own Name was glorified and then he rested from ill the Works that he had made CHAP. II. The state of Man in the Degeneration and also the Serpents Working VVHen the Pure Creation was finished in the Eternal Power and Wisdom it rested in the Holy Order of Life and was in the Pure Harmony and Oneness with the Creator and there should have rested in the Holy Order and not have moved ●●t in the Power and Wisdom of Life but there was a part which did not keep its station but moved out of the Wisdom and wake the Order and did aspire towards the Equallity of the Holy Essence for which cause it was cast down by the Power and driven into the lowest parts of the Creation and was there to have its place and habitation at the furthest distance from God and his Anger kindled against it and he drove it down in his Anger and his Wrath abides upon it and it is sealed down in the Anger and Wrath without recovery and this is the place of that part which kept not in the holy Order of the pure Creation but aspired to have been equal with the Power and his name is Serpent the Devil and his place is Hell the bottomless Pit where the Almighty God exerciseth his Wrath without ceasing because through the Aspiring the Creation went out of its holy Order in which it was created good and in which it should have rested with God and have had its Order in his Power and Wisdom and when this Aspiring Part was cast down into the Lowest Part it became beastly carthly sensual and devilish and was more subtil than any Beast of the Field and having now lost his place in the Pure Creation and cast down in the Separation where the Almighties Wrath was exercised upon him without ceasing and he was alwayes in the Torment of the Anger and Wrath which sealed him down without recovery then did he labour with his Subtilty to draw out of order that which yet did keep its station and order and to beget a motion out of the moving of the Power and the Lord God having given a Command unto Man in the day that he put him into Paradise and charged him Not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye saith the Lord God which the Serpent knowing and having in his fall seen through the Creation he attempted the Woman because she was nearest unto Man being given as one meet to be an help unto him and being also the weaker part of the Creation