Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	hair_n	nature_n	wear_v	1,532	5	9.6915	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63067	A commentary or exposition upon the four Evangelists, and the Acts of the Apostles: wherein the text is explained, some controversies are discussed, divers common places are handled, and many remarkable matters hinted, that had by former interpreters been pretermitted. Besides, divers other texts of Scripture which occasionally occur are fully opened, and the whole so intermixed with pertinent histories, as will yeeld both pleasure and profit to the judicious reader. / By John Trapp M. A. Pastour of Weston upon Avon in Gloucestershire.	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.; Trapp, Joseph, 1601-1669. Brief commentary or exposition upon the Gospel according to St John.	1647 (1647)	Wing T2042; ESTC R201354	792,361	772

flasheth in their faces The nearer any man draws to God the more rottennesse he findeth in his bones Abraham is dust and ashes Iob abhorreth himself in dust and ashes Isaiah cryes Woe is me for I am 〈◊〉 Peter Depart from me I am a sinfull man All these had right 〈◊〉 of Gods greatnesse and this is that that is required so oft in Scripture under the tearm of magnifying God when we get him into our hearts in his own likenesse and enlarge his room there when we take him into our thoughts under the notion of a great King when we get so far as to conceive of him above all creatures far above all the glory that can be found in earthly 〈◊〉 and Potentates Thinke of God as one not to be thought of and when you have thought your 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 affirmeth concerning Socrates described by Plato and desireth of his Readers concerning Lucius Crassus that they would imagin far greater things of them then they finde written so assure your selves your highest apprehensions of God fall infinitely short of his incomparable and incomprehensible greatnesse And if he could adde If any think me overlavish in their commendation it is because he never heard them or cannot judge of them How much more may we 〈◊〉 the same of this blessed and only Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords Who only hath immortality dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto whom no man hath seen nor can see to whom be honour and power everlasting 〈◊〉 Verse 36. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head That is by thy 〈◊〉 which is the life of our lives say some by thy life say others which is a sweet blessing for a living dogge is better men a d ad Lyon yea though full of crosses yet why is living man sorrowfull q d. it is a mercy that amidst all his crosses he 〈◊〉 yet alive 〈◊〉 is yet alive I have enough saith Iacob They told 〈◊〉 of his honour he speaks of his life Life is better then honour and is not therefore to be laid to pawn upon every light occasion as they that to often use As I live and As true as I live whereof something before Because thou 〈◊〉 not make one hair c. God is great in great things saith St Augustine and not little in the smallest What lesse then an hair yet in making a hair white or black Gods power appeareth The devil can as little create a hair of the head as he 〈◊〉 of old a louse in the land of Egypt There are miracles 〈◊〉 in mans body to fill a volume It is the Image of God and a little world an epitome of the visible world as his soul is of the invisible The Idea or example of the great world which was in God from all eternity is as it were briefly and summarily exprest by God in man Hence Man is called every creature Go preach the Gospel to every creature Mark 16. 15. as if there were none to him none besides him A Philosopher could say There is nothing great in earth besides man And an Oratour The greatest thing in the least room is a good soul in a mans body Man saith the Poet is the master-peece of the wisest Workman he is saith the 〈◊〉 the fairest peece of the chiefest Architect the very miracle of daring nature saith Trismegist Galen a profane Physician after he had described the nature and parts of mans body was forced to sing a hymne to that God that he knew not And St Augustine complaineth that men can admire the height of the hills the 〈◊〉 of the waves the compasse of the ocean and the circumvolution of the starrs and yet not once marke nor admire the power and goodnesse of God shining in their own souls and bodies as in a mirrour Fearfully and wonderfully am I made saith David yea and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth that is in my mothers womb Psal. 139. 13 14 15. A councel was called in Heaven when man was to be formed Let us make man Gen. 1. 26. And were not the birth of a childe so common should it fall out but once in an age people would run together to see it as to a miracle Pliny wondereth at the Gnat so small a creature yet making so great a buzz ng and so 〈◊〉 at the 〈◊〉 He also 〈◊〉 mention of one that spent 58 years in searching out the nature of the 〈◊〉 and could not in all that space attain to the full of it What a shame is it for us not to see God in every creature in our selves especially and every the least part of us There is not a hair upon our heads white or black but hath God for the maker and God for the Master too Let those that pride themselves in their hair think what a heavy account 〈◊〉 made to God for that sin Long hair in women is a token of modesty But modesty grows short in men as their hair grows long saith one And 〈◊〉 speaking of the 〈◊〉 and crisped youths of his time 〈◊〉 us that they had more care of their locks then of their limmes and had rather the common-wealth should be disturbed then their frizzled tresses disheveled Pompey was taxed for this neat nicety Unico digitulo caput scalpit And of Helen too curious of her hair at her mothers funerall the Poet bringeth in one that saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is old Helen still no changeling in all this space The holy women of old durst not adorn themselves with plaited or broided hair as St Peter testifieth but trusted in God and decked themselves with a meek and quiet spirit And doth not nature it self teach us saith St Paul that it is a shame to a man to 〈◊〉 long hair It is objected That the Apostle intends such 〈◊〉 as is as long as womens But it is answered That Homer 〈◊〉 the same word of 〈◊〉 Greeks calling them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 they did not wear 〈◊〉 hair long as womens But as it is a shame to 〈◊〉 it so it is a sin to swear by it whether long or short white or black 〈◊〉 helps it to say The matter is but small we swear by For first it is a forsaking of God and count you that a small matter Compare Jer. 5. 7. with Jer. 2. 12 13. 〈◊〉 The more 〈◊〉 and vile the thing is a man 〈◊〉 by the greater is the oath 〈◊〉 he ascribeth that to a vile creature which is proper to God only so to know the heart to be a discerner of secrets and an a venger of falshood And if a man may 〈◊〉 swear by his hairs much 〈◊〉 by his faith and troth that are much more precious and to 〈◊〉 by them so oft and ordinary what doth it argue but that we are low brought