Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	friend_n	love_v	2,693	5	6.0383	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12750	A mouzell for Melastomus, the cynicall bayter of, and foule mouthed barker against Euahs sex. Or an apologeticall answere to that irreligious and illiterate pamphlet made by Io. Sw. and by him intituled, The arraignement of women. By Rachel Speght	Speght, Rachel.	1616 (1616)	STC 23058; ESTC S117735	21,062	52

Christ after his Resurrection haue appeared vnto a woman first of all other had it not beene to declare thereby that the benefites of his death and resurrection are as auaileable by beleefe for women as for men for hee indifferently died for the one sex as well as the other Yet a truth vngainesayable is it that the Man is the Womans Head by which title yet of Supremacie no authoritie hath hee giuen him to domineere or basely command and imploy his wife as a seruant but hereby is he taught the duties which hee oweth vnto her For as the head of a man is the imaginer and contriuer of proiects profitable for the safety of his whole body so the Husband must protect and defend his Wife from iniuries For he is her Head as Christ is the Head of his Church which hee entirely loueth and for which hee gaue his very life the decrest thing any man hath in this world Greater loue then this hath no man when he bestoweth his life for his friend saith our Sauiour This president passeth all other patternes it requireth great benignity and enioyneth an extraordinary affection For men must loue their wiues euen as Christ loued his Church Secondly as the Head doth not iarre or contend with the members which being many as the Apostle saith yet make but one bodie no more must the husband with the wife but expelling all bitternesse and cruelty hee must liue with her louingly and religiously honouring her as the weaker vessell Thirdly and lastly as hee is her Head hee must by instruction bring her to the knowledge of her Creator that so she may be a fit stone for the Lords building Women for this end must haue an especiall care to set their affections vpon such as are able to teach them that as they grow in yeares they may grow in grace and in the knowledge of Christ Iesus our Lord. Thus if men would remember the duties they are to performe in being heads some would not stand a tip-toe as they doe thinking themselues Lords Rulers and account euery omission of performing whatsoeuer they command whether lawfull or not to be matter of great disparagement and indignity done them whereas they should consider that women are enioyned to submit themselues vnto their husbands no otherwaies then as to the Lord so that from hence for man ariseth a lesson not to bee forgotten that as the Lord commandeth nothing to be done but that which is right and good no more must the husband for if a wife fulfill the euill command of her husband shee obeies him as a tempter as Saphira did Ananias But least I should seeme too partiall in praysing women so much as I haue though no more then warrant from Scripture doth allow I adde to the premises that I say not all women are vertuous for then they should be more excellent then men sith of Adams sonnes there was Cain as well as Abel and of Noahs Cham as well as Sem so that of men as of women there are two sorts namely good and bad which in Mathew the fiue and twenty chapter are comprehended vnder the name of Sheepe and Goats And if women were not sinfull then should they not need a Sauiour but the Virgin Mary a patterne of piety reioyced in God her Sauiour Ergo she was a sinner In the Reuelation the Church is called the Spouse of Christ and in Zachariah wickednesse is called a woman to shew that of women there are both godly and vngodly For Christ would not Purge his Floore if there were not Chaffe among the Wheate nor should gold neede to bee fined if among it there were no drosse But farre be it from any one to condemne the righteous with the wicked or good women with the bad as the Bayter of women doth For though there are some scabbed sheepe in a Flocke we must not therefore conclude all the rest to bee mangie And though some men through excesse abuse Gods creatures wee must not imagine that all men are Gluttons the which wee may with as good reason do as condemne all women in generall for the offences of some particulars Of the good sort is it that I haue in this booke spoken and so would I that all that reade it should so vnderstand me for if otherwise I had done I should haue incurred that woe which by the Prophet Isaiah is pronounced against them that speake well of euill and should haue instified the wicked which thing is abhominable to the Lord. The Epilogue or vpshut of the premises GReat was the vnthankefulnesse of Pharaohs Butler vnto Ioseph for though hee had done him a great pleasure of which the Butler promised requitall yet was hee quite forgotten of him But farre greater is the ingratitude of those men toward God that dare presume to speake and exclaime against Woman whom God did create for mans comfort What greater discredit can redound to a workeman then to haue the man for whom hee hath made it say it is naught or what greater discurtesie can be offered to one that bestoweth a gift then to haue the receiuer giue out that hee cares not for it For he needes it not And what greater ingratitude can bee shewed vnto GOD then the opprobrious speeches and disgracefull inuectiues which some diabolicall natures doe frame against women Ingratitude is and alwayes hath beene accounted so odious a vice that Cicero saith If one doubt what name to giue a wicked man let him call him an vngratefull person and then hee hath said enough It was so detected among the Persians as that by a Law they prouided that such should suffer death as felons which prooued vnthankefull for any gift receiued And Loue saith the Apostle is the fulfilling of the Lawe But where Ingratitude is harbored there Loue is banished Let men therefore beware of all vnthankefulnesse but especially of the superlatiue ingratitude that which is towards God which is no way more palpably declared then by the contemning of and rayling against women which sinne of some men if to be termed men no doubt but God will one day auenge when they shall plainely perceiue that it had been better for them to haue been borne dumbe and lame then to haue vsed their tongs and hands the one in repugning the other in writing against Gods handie worke their owne flesh women I meane whom God hath made equall with themselues in dignity both temporally and eternally if they continue in the faith which God for his mercie sake graunt they alwayes may to the glory of their Creator and comfort of their owne soules through Christ Amen To God onely wise be glorie now and for euer AMEN Certaine QVAERES to the bayter of Women WITH CONFVTATION of some part of his Diabolicall Discipline LONDON Printed by N. O. for Thomas Archer and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head-Pallace 1617. To the