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
B00958	Homelies sette forth by the righte reuerende father in God, Edmunde Byshop of London, not onely promised before in his booke, intituled, A necessary doctrine, but also now of late adioyned, and added thereunto, to be read within his diocesse of London, of all persons, vycars, and curates, vnto theyr parishioners, vpon sondayes, & holydayes.	Bonner, Edmund, 1500?-1569.	1555 (1555)	STC 3285.2; ESTC S103088	74,513	149

knowledge of good and euyl And lyke as in a most maruelous sorte he made Adam the fyrste man so in as marueylous straunge a sort he made Eue the first woman euen of a rybbe taken out of Adams lefte syde and her he made parfytte and furnyshed her with like gyftes as he had done Adame the first man What canne we then thinke or deuyse that God might haue don more for vs in our creation then herein he dyd He made the soule immortall that is such as shulde continue for euer without ende He furnished it with moste singuler gyftes both of nature and of special grace also The body of man in the estate of originall innocencie had in it helth strength cumlines and other like qualities in the highest degre of perfection it had in it selfe then no fond lust or concupiscens no pronitie or inclination to euyl no lothsumnes in doing good no infirmitie or wekenesse no lacke or want of any qualitie fyt and decent for it The body of man was then obediente to the soule the soule altogether obedient to God So that on Gods parte oure maker and creator there is nothyng towardes vs but all perfection all great kyndnes al fatherly loue fauour Holy scrypture most euydently affyrmeth that al creatures were made good in their creation saying Vidit deus omnia que fecerat et erant ualde bona Gene. i. Genesis ● That is God sawe al things which he had made and they were very good Which thyng as it is generally true in all creatures concerning their creation so is it in a certen degre of excellencye to be verified in man touchyng the estate of his originall innocency Thus we may perceaue that in the creation of man al was excellent parfytte whiche oughte greatly to inflame vs the more to loue and serue almighty God our most louynge creator But for asmuche as that blessed estate is lost mankynd by the losse thereof fell into extreme miserie and wretchednes it is consequently to be well considered of our part by what meanes man was brought from soo good and blessed a case to so euyll and miserable an estate whiche poynte well wayed is a sufficiente grounde to cause vs on the other syde vtterly to detest abhorre al synne For that greuous fal of man came of synne Synne it was for which God thrust man oute of paradyse synne it was that caused the fleshe to striue agaynste the spirite and the spirite agaynst the fleshe synne it was that broughte vnto mankynde necessitie of bodyly death and all the infirmities and diseases which man in thys transitory lyfe sustayneth synne fynally it was that caused all the posteritie of Adam and Eue to be borne in state of dampnation But some perchaunce are desyrous fardar to knowe by what meanes man was fyrst brought to commytte synne For the vnderstandyng whereof Genes 3. lette vs haue recourse to the iii. chap. of Genesis where it is wrytten how that the wyly serpent the deuyll came vnto Eue and sayde vnto her Why hath God gyuen you commaundement not to eate of euery tree in paradyse where vnto the woman answered and sayde of the fruyte which is in paradise we eate but of the frute of that tree that groweth in the myddest of paradyse GOD hath charged vs not to eate or touche it leste perchaunce we dye Then sayde the serpente to the woman Naye you shall not dye For God knoweth that whatsoeuer daye you shall eate thereof youre eyes shal be opened and you shal be like Gods knowynge good and euyll The woman therefore saw that the tree was good to eate of and beautifull to the eye and pleasaunte to beholde and she tooke of the fruyte thereof and dyd eate and gaue part to her husbād who also dyd eate Thus through the prouocation of the deuyll man first fell into synne Wherefore as we must alwayes abhorre synne and forbeare it bycause of the greate misery it brought vs vnto so should we no les hate and to the vttermost of our power fly the deuyl and all his suggestions knowing that thereby we were fyrst induced to commytte synne For as thys oure aduersary was busye at the begynnynge with oure fyrst parentes so is he no les i. Peter 5. but rather more busye with vs at thys present as wytnesseth Saynt Peter in the .v. chapiter of his first epystle saying Youre aduersary the deuyl as a roryng lion goeth about seking whom he may deuour Thys aduersary of mankynde disdaynynge at the greate felycytye that Adam and Eue were in neuer ceasyd questionynge and craftyng with the woman being the weker and trayler vessell vntyll he had made them disobey gods commaundement by which their doyng they lost the orygynall great innocency which they had at there creation which being lost nether the body woulde be obedient to the soule nor the soule to god but al was in man turned vpsidoune yea therby they fel also into necessitie of temporall death of body and which is worst of all into the estate of eternall damnation and euerlasting death both of body and soule But now because it maye paraduenture seme in some mans iudgement that seyng the thing that Adam and Eue did was but the eatynge of an appell therefore their faut was not great nor deserued so greuous punishment let vs consider the circumstaunces and we shall sone perceyue the offence not lyght but verye sore and heynous Fyrst the thyng which god commaunded man to forbeare was a thyng most easye for hym to forbeare and so much was his faute the greater Besides this whan a man is tolde before of great peryll and daunger that shall lyght vpon him if he doo this or that in case after such warnyng he offende therein his fault is thereby made the greuouser Thyrdly the lesse inclination a man hath to any synne the more he synneth yf he doo the same Nowe Adam and Eue had in them no inclination at al nother to one vice nor to other Fourthly when a man hath late receyued great benefites at hys soueraygns handes if he incontinently breake his expresse wyll the contempt and disobedience is made therby the greater The thyng that Adam and Eue dyd eate was in dede but an appell yet the eatyng thereof in that case was an high disobediēce against god and the corrupting of all mankynd for as much as they two were the very route whereof all men must ryse and the route being once naughte howe can the tree or braunches cummynge of that route be good Therfore S. Paule in his Epistle to the Romaines in the .v. chapiter thereof saieth Roma 5. By the offence of one man synne came vpon all men to condempnacion and in the same chapiter immediatly after he sayeth to lyke purpose throughe the disobedience of one man manye became synners And within a lytle after he saieth Sinne came into this world by one man through synne came death so death passed