Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	enmity_n	seed_n	serpent_n	8,737	5	10.2957	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55570	Tsofer bepaḥ, or, The bird in the cage, chirping four distinct notes to his consorts abroad I. of consideration, counsel and consolation, II. some experiences and observations gathered in affliction ..., III. the lamentations of Jeremiah ..., IV. a true Christians spiritual pilgrimage setting forth his afflicted and consolatory state in another metre : and as a preface hereto, an epistle to the Welsh churches, and a brief narrative of the former propagation and late restriction of the Gospel ... in Wales ... / by Vava. Powell.	Powell, Vavasor, 1617-1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing P3078; ESTC R19436	71,339	204

some allowance was granted to the widdowes of Ministers deceased These things Considered and the low rates at which the Tiths were Let and Set at in divers Counties because some would not pay others would not take them to Farme and the Country poor and worse stock'd so soon after the wars will evince there could not be much spare espcially considering that the Act lasted but for three years viz. till fifty three and what was done since let them account who medled therein and acted under O. C. which I and many more of my brethren did not nor took any Salary at all nor any other Maintenance whatsoever since withall what was setled upon me together with some other Preachers was by the Committee for Plundered Ministers long before that And let me deal freely and truely with all the world in this particular I never received by Salary and all other waies for my Preaching in Wales from Christians and from the States putting all together since the beginning which is above twenty years but between six seven hundred pounds at most and I can with much clearnesse confidence and comfort call God the searcher of all hearts to witness and I do call him to record on my Soul that to my knowledge and remembrance I had not any thing directly nor indirectly but what was ordered me nor have I nor any other for me I expresse it without any Collusion or Reservation so much as a Pound or Shilling of any money from any tyths or otherwise in my hands belonging to the Publick I humbly challenge bid defiance to envy it self to prove the contrary and I desire to be called to an account if I be suspected for I will maintain my innocency herein till I die And yet my Accusers have some by writing who were ashamed to put their names thereto and others by word published That I had many thousand pounds of the Tyth-mony nay had purchased of Kings-Rents and Lands some thousands yearly or at least many Hundred pounds per annum where as now it is returned to the King again it appears it is under seventy pounds yearly and I never received any year of that above sixty six pounds ten shillings this the Auditor and Country knowe sufficiently and let them or any other disprove me herein if they can And whereas it is charged that many good godly men were turned out of their livings But I did not know any such and I suppose it will be yet easy to prove the contrary by their former and present practices however for my own part I often publickly tendred this to the ejected Ministers that if they could bring any in that could manifest they received any spiritual good from them they should as far as it lay in my power be restored but none produced such Further as a Consequence therof it was complained that the Sabbaths were profaned whereas men might ride throughout some Counties neither see men working travelling nor playing upon the Sabbath the like I am sure neither was before nor now is our enemies themselves being Judges But they further object that the people were turned Infidels Papists So many do where the powerfullest means are if they come not under them But why then do these men complain so many are turned to be quite contrary and were these accusers faln out with such men then how come they now to own them so much But to disprove that take this single instance In a few years time a great part of former Edition of the Welsh-Bible was bought up and afterwards two Editions more one of the New Testament and another of the whole Bible of these two I believe are sold off at least between 5 and 6000. by this you may perceive that Religion did grow Also in the beginning of the Wars there was but one or two gathered Congregations in all Wales and in some Counties scarce one that made Profession yet it hath pleased the Lord so to blesse the weak meanes there that there were lately and hope are still above 20 gathered Churches in some 2 in some 3 some 4 or 500 members with their officers differing little in opinion and Faith and walking in love and the fear of the Lord. Having given this brief account of the former endeavours of some who yet acknowledg their weakness and want of wisdom therein to propagate the Gospel Be pleased now to cast your eye upon the late Restriction which I might well call persecution of the Gospel in Wales To omit mentioning the great wrong unto many scores about May and June 1660 in committing and continuing them in Prison without any cause but to fulfil that saying Quicquid volumus facimus since there hath been very violent proceedings especially in some Counties where some poor and peaceable people have been drag'd out of their beds and without regard of Sex or Age have been driven some twenty miles to Prison on their feet and forced though in heat of Summer till their feet were much blistred and they ready to fall with faintness to run by the Troopers horses receiving many blows and beatings In Merionydd sh Others as if they had been Brute-beasts driven into Pinfolds or Pounds where they were kept several hours their enemies in the interim drinking in an Ale-house and forcing the poor people to pay for it though they tasted not of the drink then bringing them to the Sea-side and leaving them in the night in danger of being swallowed up by the Sea Others were committed to Prison at pleasure kept there many moneths and yet their cattle and sheep to the number of above six hundred taken from them and sold Others forced when they were called to the Quarter-sessions to walk in chains which should not by law upon any such ground be put upon them unless they had atempted to make an escape or break Prison Others who were quietly met together after their usual manner for many years to worship God and edify one another were cast into Prisons without any Examination or Commitment upon them that they could understand contrary to the Jewish Roman and our English Laws Nay such was the enmity of the seed of the Serpent against the seed of the Woman that though the King was pleased to grant by his Proclamation Christian liberty for some time yet upon the next Lords-day following after the receit of the said Proclamation some of the Officers of one Corporation drag'd and hal'd some poor women that were hearing of the Word of God into an Ale-house and kept them there till after night and until they made them pay for the Ale which these disturbers did drink Besides all this ejecting the Godly Preachers that would not conform and indicting many hundreds for Recusants which are not indeed so and under the notion of suppressing Conventicles and unlawful Assemblies hindring the meetings of Christians to serve God which according to the letter of the Law and the opinion of many