Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	mean_v	seed_n	serpent_n	1,887	5	10.3579	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B36556	The spouse raised from under the apple-tree, or, The way by which children of wrath come to be made the children of grace opening the doctrine of our redemption by the Lord Jesus Christ, both in respect to the purchase and application / by John Collings ...	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.	1650 (1650)		31,472	83

regards his old Debtor more This is our case Adam had runne us in debt an infinite debt which neither he nor we are able to pay A Writ of Vengeance was out mankinde ready to bee arrested and bound in Chaines and throwne into an everlasting prison from whence hee should have been sure never to come out till hee had paid the utermost farthing which he could never have done with all the friends and estate he could have made Jesus Christ seeing some of his elected friends that his Father had given him having their names in the Writ steps in and sayes Father these are my friends Isa 63.8 Surely they are my people children that will not lye so he was their Saviour I will undertake their debt upon me charge it upon my score I will pay every farthing if thou pleasest to accept it it shall be paid at such a time Gal. 4.4 When the fulnesse of time was come God sent forth his Sonne made of a woman made under the Law to redeeme them that were under the Law that we might receive the Adoption of sonnes The Father accepts this tender therefore he is stiled Gods beloved Sonne in whom he is well pleased The word is in whom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An emphaticall word which generally signifies to love but more specially and properly it signifies to love something by adhering to it with the minde and heart and so to be content and fully satisfied with it that one desires nothing else Me thinks I cannot but observe three things in it 1. God signifies by it that he is pleased with him and with his tender As if wee should say I like that well 2. God signifies by it that he is fully content with him so that hee desires nothing else As if we should say I desire no better security than his 3. God doth signifie by it that he will trust to it As it we should say in such a case to a surety Well then I will no more look after my Debtor now I will trust to you onely So upon Christs offer saith God I like thy tender as sufficient and am so fully content with it that I desire no more but now I shall wholly trust to thee for all Now God repeateth these words in the Gospell at Christs Baptisme and at Christs Transfiguration Matth 3. Mat. 17. And to what purpose but to witnesse to the world as that hee was well pleased with Christ as his Sonne that in heaven his worke was to delight in his Sonne and he did so delight in him that he desireth no other pleasure than the company and beholding of his Sonne which puts me in minde of a sweet notion of Master Rutherfords that God spent all his time from Eternity till the Creation of the World in delighting himselfe in Christ But I say as it doth signifie that and so set out the infinite love of the Father that he would be pleased to part with such a darling of glory for us as also in this it sets out the Fathers love that he should send to looke after inglorious wretches when hee needed not our companies for hee had pleasure and delight enough in the company of his Eternall Sonne whose company did so content him that he desired nothing else for himselfe So I also thinke that God by his twice repeating of it after Christ came would have us understand that God was well pleased with him as our Surety Heb. 7.22 Christ is called our Surety with what payment hee should make c. But now in regard it was in time that Christ came in the fulnesse time saith the Apostle Gal. 4.4 How did the Lord Jesus make our paiment sure I answer By engaging his word God the Father had nothing but the Lord Jesus Christs word for the paiment of all the Elects debts not from eternity till Christ came and made payment according to his engagement Now thus hath the Lord Jesus Christ raised us out of our lost condition by engaging his word and entring into a Covenant 2. He did it Assumptione carnis By assuming of our flesh He made a Covenant with his Father for us from all Eternity But hee tooke out this Bond in time canceling it with his owne bloud Therefore saith the Apostle Galatians Chapt. 4. Verse 4. God in the fulnesse of time sent forth his Son made of a Woman born under the Law to Redeem those that were under the Law that they might receive the adoption of sons He could Covenant for us as God but he must dye for us as man In the fulnesse therfore of time he bowed the heavens and came downe and tooke upon him our flesh not changing the Godhead into flesh neither confounding the substances nor the Natures but personally uniting of them that the two Natures became one Person and so he became a Saviour fit to raise us Now to him that raised this was necessary 1. That justice might be done It had been no justice in God to have charged the guilt of one Nature upon another Gods wayes appeare equall in charging the guilt upon the guilty Ez. 18.3 Forasmuch then as the children whom he came to redeeme were partakers of flesh and bloud he also tooke part with them that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death even the Devill Heb. 2.14 and ver 17. In all things it behoved him to be made like to his brethren and why ver 16. He had taken upon him the seed of Abraham that is the guilt of the seed of Abraham to satisfie for them 2. It was requisite That he might be a faithfull High-priest faithfull to his word You shall observe it that Christ gives it as a great reason of his condescentions and actions of Grace That all righteousnesse may be fulfilled and that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet c. Christ is tender of his Fathers Truth Now God had said that the womans seed should bruise the serpents head Gen. 13 ver 15. And though by Abrahams seed was spiritually meant Christ Gal. 3.15 16. to whom the Promises were made yet the Promises had not been fulfilled if that Christ had not also been Abrahams seed and therefore Heb. 3.17 one reason is given why the Lord Jesus became man and tooke part of flesh and bloud with us that he might be a faithfull High-priest 3. It was requisite that he should thus raise us that he might fulfill the Law for us Now the Law was to be fulfilled two wayes 1. Actively 2. Passively Neither could have been done without the Assumption of our flesh There is not such a contradiction between the Covenant of Grace and the Covenant of Works as some ignorant Libertines would this day make God gave a Law and his Covenant was doe this and live this is that which we call the Covenant of Works man could not doe it What is Gods mind altered now no such matter God sayes Doe this and live