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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	harden_v	heart_n	pharaoh_n	2,001	5	11.6391	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17121	An historicall narration of the iudgement of some most learned and godly English bishops, holy martyrs, and others (whereof III; viz. Archbishop Cranmer, B. Latimer, and Bishop Hooper, suffred martyrdome, in the dayes of Q. Mary, for the truth and Gospell of Christ Iesus) concerning Gods election, and the merit of Christ his death, &c.	J. A., of Ailward.; Ailward, John, attributed name. aut; Andrewes, John, fl. 1615, attributed name. aut	1631 (1631)	STC 4; ESTC S100399	62,871	120

18. B. Esa 5. A. 3. D. 55. B. 65. A. Lament Ier. 3. Cap. Ezek. 18. c. D. 24. b. 33. c. Ioel. 2. A. 4. Esdr 1. c. 2. a. 7. c. 8. c. Math. 23. E. Act. 17. G. 1. Tim. 2. A. 4. c. 2. Pet. 3. B. The same saith St. Augustine also plainely in these words Non ergo Casu● Ruentium ne● Malignitatem iniquorum neque Cupiditates Peccantium Predestinatio Dei aut EXCITAVIT aut SV ASIT aut IMPVLIT sed planè pradestinavit IV DICIV M suum quo unicuique retributurus est prout gessit sive Bonum sive Malum Quod IV DICIV M futurum Non esset Si Homines Dei VO LVNT ATE peccarent Neither the Falls of them that Fall nor the wickednesse of them that are wicked Nor the Lusts of them that offend hath the predestination of God either PROVOKED MOOVED or COMPELLED but without doubt He hath Fore-Ordain●d his IV DGMENT whereby He will recompense every man according as He hath done whether it bee Good or evill The which should bee no Iudgement if Men did sinne by the WILL of God And although There bee some places of Scripture whereupon They would ground this Opinion That Men should sinne By the WILL of GOD or that GOD should predestinate or ordaine men to sinne as where it is said That God hardened the Heart of Pharaoh and such like yet pertayneth it Nothing to that purpose if it bee weighed with the Rest of the Scripture For as St. Augustine saith Ipse quasi eos indurat quia Iusto Iudicio indurari sinit He doth saith St. Austin as it were Harden Them because that with his Iust Iudgment he suffereth them to be hardned And in his Booke De lib. arbitr gra C. 21. He saith Where at any time we reade in the Scripture That Men bee SEDVCED or Their Hearts HARDNED of GOD There may we not doubt but that Their wicked DESERVINGS went BEFORE Lest ye run saith he into the saying of Salomon Insipientia viri violat vias eius Deum autem causatur in corde suo The Foolishnesse of a Man Defileth his wayes but hee saith in his heart GOD is the CAVSE Of this HARDNING of Heart Melancthon in his Common-places speaketh very plainely saying Nee Figurae illae verborum offendunt c. Neyther saith he do these figurative speeches offend as I will HARDEN the Heart of Pharao and such like For it is Certaine that in the HEBREW Phrase they signifie a PERMISSION or Suffering and not an Effectuall WILL of GOD. As Leade us not into Temptation That is to say SVFFER us not to bee lead into Temptation These are Melancthons words And Marke what Hee sayth of the HEBREW Phrase For All Men know Him to be a Man Learned But to bee short It is surely to bee marvailed at that although They doe thus accuse Gods predestination to be the onely Cause of of ADAMS FALL which is indeed Not onely Sinne but also the very Well-spring of All wickednesse And the Filthy-Fountaine of all our Vncleannesse That yet THEY dare affirme THEMSELVES to bee the ONELY Friends and Lovers of Gods Predestination and All Others to be the Enemies of GODS Holy Predestination who doe not subscribe unto This their fantasticall Imagination Moreover if it should be said That They make GOD the Author of Sinne They would cry Nay and say They were slandered But whether GOD be not the Author of That whereof He is the onely Cause Let the un-corrupted Heart Iudge Also to say the Truth when They see their Time and Place They are Bould-enough yea even to use the Terme Author in that same manifest sense as in a Booke set forth by Iohn Knoxe Against an Adversarie of Gods Predestination as He calleth Him Wherein Hee Page 158. sayth thus viz. Therefore whatsoever the Ethnicks and Ignorant did attribute unto Fortune WEE assigne to the PROVIDENCE of GOD. And straight w●y he saith Wee shall Iudge nothing to come of Fortune but that All commeth by the Determination of His Counsell And further It Displeaseth him when we esteeme Any thing to proceed from Any other So that wee doe Not behold and know him Not-onely the Principall Cause of All Things but Also The AVTHOR appointing All things to the One-part Or to the Other by his Counsell Marke well his wordes and the very Sense thereof All commeth from God saith Hee GOD is the principall Cause and God is the Author of it whatsoever it be God appointeth All things both to the One part and to the Other both to the wicked and to the Godly All THINGS Nothing is excepted As well DAMNATION as Salvation as well Sinne as Vertue as well Wickednesse as Holinesse yea if it hap to bee MVRTHER it selfe For THAT a little before by Name Hee rehearseth Whatsoever it be it Proceedeth from None other saith Hee but from GOD. GOD so hath appointed it God is the Principall cause of it Yea not onely the principall Cause but also the Author of it Here thou seest those Plaine-termes which sometime for a little nice lisping they Cannot or will not Speake Sc. That God is the Author of all MV●THER and Mischiefe As for Fortune I know it to bee an Heathenish-Fable But where He saith that God is not onely the Principall Cause but Also the Author of all things without any exception and that whatsoever the Ethnicks attributed to Fortune That same wee ought to ascribe unto the Providence of God It is such a Wide WANDRING and Large BLASPHEMY as hath not beene lightly heard For who knoweth not that unto FORTVNE the Ethnickes ascribed Treason and crafty Conspiracie As where they call Her Insidiosa perfida Malefida Vnto Fortune they ascribed cruell Murder and tyrannicall Mischiefe As when they call Her Aspera Dura Sava Truculenta Vnto Fortune they ascribed filthy Lust and impudent Bawdry as when they call her Lenocinans Bruta and Impudens Vnto Fortune they ascribed scornefull Pride and Vaine-glory calling her Imperiosa Procax and Superba Vnto Fortune they ascribed beastly Blindnesse and rude Ignorance calling her Caeca and Exoculata To conclude unto Fortune the Ethnickes ascribed All perverse and Pestilent wickednesse and all abhomination Detestable calling her Nefaria Abominanda and Improba Yet say these Professours of Destinie whatsoever the Ethnickes ascribed unto Fortune That same ought wee to attribute to the Providence of GOD. Yea and GOD is the very Author the Principall cause and the Onely cause thereof But now to returne againe to Mr. CROVVLY After that hee hath written that GODS Predestination is the Onely cause of Adams Fall Then goeth hee forth in the same Booke and the same Article unto the NEXT execrable Wickednesse committed in the world saying Now what say wee of CAINE Was Hee not Predestinate to slay his Brother No say the Free-will men Here thou seest Dearely Beloved Who they are that so Odiously are noted with the Name of Free-will-men