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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	father_n	son_n	3,252	5	5.6495	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08528	An homilie of Marye Magdalene declaring her ferue[n]t loue and zele towards Christ / written by that famous clerke Origene ; newly translated ...	Origen.	1565 (1565)	STC 18847; ESTC S2254	23,199	94

it is not thought shal be hidden some precious Iewels of secret misteries This godly man is called Abraham no where we reade that God called him with that name or that he spake to him saing Abraham Abraham for hee coulde not bee called of God by a name which shoulde be diminished but he called him with that name whiche himselfe did giue him not with the name only he called him but he dubleth his name Abraham Abraham And when he had answered Lo here I am he sayed vnto him Take now thyne onelie sonne whome thou louest Isaac I say and offer thou him vp for a brent sacrifice in one of the montaines which I will shew vnto the. For what cause God gaue him a name and called him Abraham himself declareth it for saithe he I haue apoited the to be the father of many nations This promise made God to him after he had Ismahell his sonne how be it he made the promise to be fulfilled in that sone which Sara should be are vnto him Thus therefore had hee kyndled hys hearte in the loue of his sonne not onely in consideration of the posterity but also in the hope of the promises And yet is he commaunded to offer this his sonne to the Lorde for a brēt Sacrifice in one of the mountaines his onlye Son in whom so great and maruelous promises were made I say euen that sonne in whose respecte hee had his name to be called Abraham What saist thou to this Abrahā what manner cogitations are tossed in thy hearte A worde is come from God him self which will discusse and trie thy faithe What sayest thou to this What thinkest thou what musest thou doest thou thinke thus with thy self withī thy heart that if in Isaac that promise is made vnto me and I offer him vp for a brente sacrifice it muste nedes fall out that the hope of the promise is frustrat or rather doest that thus reasō within thy self saist bicause it is not possible for him to lye who hath made the promise therfore what so euer that promise be it shal stand How be it because I am so base I am not hable to searche out the cogitations of so excellēt a patriark nor yet am I able to fynde out what manner of deliberations that voice which came from God to proue him stirred him to what counsaile it broughte with it when he was commaunded to cal his onlie sonne Notwithstandinge because the spirit which is in prophettes ys subiect to prophettes Rom. 4. Paule the Apostle which as I beleue was instructed by the holye spirite what mynde what counsail Abraham bare in his heart hath reueled it sayinge Abraham in his faith staggered not when he was about to offer vp his only sōne in whom he receued the promises iudgīg thus in himselfe God was able to raise him vp again thoughe he we are dead Thus therefore doth the Apostle declare vnto vs the cogitations of this faithfull man that the faith of the Resurrection was then sene to haue a beginning in Isaac Abraham therfore did hope that his son Isaac should rise agaī And he beleued that it wolde be hereafter fullfilled which as yet was not don How thē be they Abrahams children which do not beleue to be fulfilled in Christ which he beleued wold be fulfilled in Isaac yea if I should speake yet more plainly Abraham knew that he did forme out before as it were an Image of that truthe which was to follow That is he knew before that Christe shoulde bee borne of his seed whiche should as a more parfa●ct sacrifice bee offred vp for the whole world and that hee shoulde also rise againe from deathe But thus in the meane whyle writeth Moyses God did proue Abraham and said vnto him Take vp thy on lye beloued sonne whom thou derelye louest It was not enough to say Take vp thy son but thi onli beloued sonne Let it be so what is more added And whome thou louest O see consider the weighty grauity of this tentatiō how with so deare sweete names so oft and oft repeted is the Fathers heart and affecriō sturred vp whereby the freshe remembraunce of his loue this father shoulde holde of his righthande to offer vp his son wherby the whole power of his flesh shoulde fight against the faith of his heart And further is added euen in the very rune when he proued him Take vp saith he thy moste deere Son Isaac I say whome thou louest Let it so he O Lorde that thou puttest the father in remembraunce of hys sonne and commaūdest him to kill him why addest thou Thy most deere Son Let this suffice to the torment of a Father Thou ioynedst to it again Yea whom thou louest Let this doble treble affliction be enough and enoughe to the Fathers hearte What need it to rehearse to memory the name Isaac was not Abrahā aduised of this that his ōly so wel beloued son he whom he loued was called Isaac But why is mention made of him at this very time was it for the Abraham calling to his remēbraūce how thou saidst vnto him that in Isaac thy sede shal be called that in Isaac shoulde the promises be fulfilled and by rememberaūce of his name he shoulde be driuē to dispaire of all the promises which wer made vnto him ūder that name But what All these thinges thus wer don for that God did proue Abraham And what yet foloweth Go thy way saith he into the hie lāde to one of the mountaines which I wil shew the and there offer thou him for a brent sacrifice Consider euery thinge by it self how the tentations abounded Get the vp into the hye lande I pray you wolde not Abraham firste be led with the childe to the high land to be placed vpō the hill whiche the lorde had chosen out there to be said vnto him that he shoulde offer his sonne But it is firste said vnto him that he shoulde offer his sonne thē is hee commaunded to goe to a highe Land and to ascende vp into the hill What meaneth this Truly that whilest he went and made his iournye hee shoulde as I might say be torn in peces by his owne thoughts throughout the wholl way and that hee shoulde be crucified of one side through the commaundemente of god vrging him on the other side through the Fatherly affection of his onely sonne g repining and abhorring the facte Therefore for this cause he was enioyned to go a longe wave to clyme vp an hye hill to this intēt that his fansy and fayth the loue of God and the loue of his owne flesh the desire of thinges present and the lookinge after thinges to come should stryue together for a time in all those thinges he is sent therfore into an hye lande And it sufficed not to prescribe vnto the Patriarche whiche shoulde doe so not able a worke vnto the Lorde for to go vnto an hye lande but