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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
A65833	The accuser of our brethren cast down in righteous judgment against that spirit of hellish jealousie vented in a great confused book, falsly entituled, The Christian-Quaker distinguished from the apostate and innovator, in five parts ; the fallacy and force whereof being herein clearly detected & justly repelled.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1681 (1681)	Wing W1887; ESTC R19917	128,311	327

shew forth that if we should feed upon or admire any excellent Qualification or Endowment whatsoever and not have the Eye of our mind chiefly unto the Giver we might then come to a loss From all whîch observe that our Adversary has here found out a Salve or better Construction for the said Doctrine than his opposing and contradicting of it before as not being according to Truth At this rate he may make large Books against us but to what purpose thus to Say and Unsay as if he should tell us 't is unsound Doctrine to say The Tree of Knowledge is not good for Food But to turn about again It may be used in a good and sound Sense and therefore I would not be understood to reflect upon all that have used that expression viz. The Tree of Knowledge is not good for Food What kind of Preacher would he make if he should tell People The Tree of Knowledge is good for Food The Tree of Knowledge is not good for Food And what if some as he saith have reflected on the Wisdom that is Sensual when they have declared the Tree of Knowledge not good for Food What unsoundness can he prove therein as to the Allusion The Question is whether Man by transgressing God's command in eating of that Tree did not fall into that Wisdom that was Earthly and Sensual or Devilish Whether that Sensual Wisdom was not produced in Man by that Transgression And therefore W. R's telling us That which is a discoverer of Good and Evil being in it self Good as the Tree of Knowledge is cannot be a proper Allusion c. We are sure his Allusion and Comparison here is not proper nor according to Scripture He here confounds the Discoverer which is Christ the Tree of Life with the Tree of Knowledge As if man in Innocency were forbidden to eat of the Tree of Life For our Opposer in his very next instance p. 28. hath these Words John the Evangelist testifies This is Life Eternal that they might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent A very good Scripture but no Proof that the Tree of Knowledge was good for Food or that God did forbid the knowledge of himself and of his Son to man in Innocency when he gave him this command But of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye Gen. 2. 17. This Tree was excepted from every Tree yielding Seed and good for Food which was allowed unto Man Gen. 1. 29. and 2. 9. Did God forbid man in Innocency the knowledge of his Maker or command him not to eat of that which was good for his Souls Food No sure Who then presented the Tree of Knowledge as good for Food to be eaten to make one Wise c 'T was the Serpent Therefore the Scripture is not silent in it 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 Woman saw that the Tree was good for Food and a Tree to be desired to make one Wise she took of the Fruit thereof and did eat c. Gen. 3. 4 5 6. Did the Serpent say true in saying Ye shall not surely dye No sure For God had said the contrary In the Day thou eatest thereof dying thou shalt dye Therefore when the Woman saw that the Tree was good for Food she saw not aright she had let in the Serpents perswasion to eat thereof contrary to God's command There was an Eye open giving way to the Temptation which God did not open a mistaken sight It was the same by which she saw it was a Tree to be desired to make one Wise. VVhence came that Desire but from the Serpent's allurement That begot a false sight a misapprehension not consistent with the Law of Innocence or Uncorruptness of mind that stood in the Simplicity of the Truth All which considered our Opposer is so far from proving any of us Apostates and Innovators in saying That the Tree of Knowledge is not good for Food that he has discovered his own Apostacy and Innovation in introducing the Serpent's Doctrine contrary to God's command and the Doctrine anciently preached among us And therein we cannot believe that God or Christ is his Teacher but the Serpent who beguiled Eve through his Subtilty So he hath corrupted the minds of some from the Simplicity that is in Christ Jesus to feed upon that which brings Death over them and to fall into that Knowledge which puffs up the Fleshly Mind And that Eye that the Serpent opens is not a Single but an Evil Eye which Christ came to blind and to bring that Knowledge to nought that puffs up before men can clearly see with that Innocent Single Eye that Christ opens or partake of that true Divine Knowledge which is Life Eternal The Matter we Principally aim at and stand for both in the foregoing and following Controversie on our parts is included in these general Propositions viz. I. That since the Term Church-Government is of late so much cast upon us we do thereby intend Christ's Government in his Church exercised by him both Immediately and Instrumentally II. That Christ Jesus our Lord and Master Governs Rules and Orders in his Church and People Immediately and Principally by himself and Instrumentally in some measure by his Ministers and Servants as well as he Teaches and Instructs both Immediately and Instrumentally III. That Christ's Governing and Ruling Instrumentally by his Ministers and Servants relates to the Godly Care good Instructions Admonition and true Judgment given to and Ministred by such his Faithfull Servants Ministers and Elders in Truth whom the holy Ghost has made Overseers and appointed for Helps and Governments in the Church for the sake especially of the Younger and Weaker Members Children and such as are under Age as to Truth and Experience in the Work of the Lord. 'T is about this last Proposition that the Controversie does most depend for Christ's Immediate Rule and Government in the Conscience is in words owned by our Opposers IV. No other kind of Government in the Church of Christ in Substance Nature and End do we at this day plead for than what was exercised in the Primitive Christian Churches before the Apostacy in a Spiritual Perswasive Convincing Way and Manner suitable to Christ's Spiritual Kingdom which prospers by his Truth and Meekness Righteousness and true Judgment wherein we acknowledge him to be our King Lord and Lawgiver all Carnal Force and Rigour being excluded his Kingdom V. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ we utterly deny and detest Exercising Lordship over God's Heritage or seeking Dominion over the Faith and Conscience of his People and assuming to our selves any Power Dominion or Arbitrary Jurisdiction over their