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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	devil_n	soul_n	4,462	5	5.0081	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13262	The arraignment of the Arrian. His beginning. height. fall In a sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, Iune 4. 1624. Being the first Sunday in Trinitie terme. By Humphry Sydenham Mr. of Arts, and fellow of Wadham Colledge in Oxford.	Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650?	1626 (1626)	STC 23559; ESTC S101838	24,628	39

THE ARRAIGNMENT OF THE ARRIAN His Beginning Height Fall In a Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse Iune 4. 1624. Being the first Sunday in Trinitie Terme BY Humphry Sydenham Mr. of Arts and Fellow of WADHAM Colledge in OXFORD LONDON Printed for IOHN PARKER 1626. TO MY APPROVED WORTHY FRIEND Mr. Francis Crossing This. SIR I Was neuer yet so preposterous in my respects as to value the worth of him I serue by the title but the disposition He is noble to me that is so in his actions not his descent those high-swolne priuiledges of bloud and fortune are for the most part tympanies in greatnesse pricke them and they proue windes of honour not substances Had I beene ambitious of a high Patronage this weake peece I send you might haue worne an honourable inscription but I haue that within me which chides those insolencies and tells me that the name of friend sounds better than of Lord and hee is lesse mine that doth onely countenance me than he that feeds me He onely deserues to be a protector of my Labours which hath beene a cherisher of my fortunes to you then this at once flies for Patronage and acceptance desiring you to receiue it as a monument of his thankfulnesse who euer deuotes himselfe Your most-most respectiue HVM SYDENHAM THE ARAIGNMENT OF THE ARRIAN IOHN 8.58 Before Abraham was I am NEuer age afforded a perfection of that eminencie which was not exposed to enuie or opposition or both Truth is the childe of vertue and as the inheritresse of all her glories so her sufferings Now vertue growes by vniust wounds so doth truth too and like steele that is bent springeth the other way She shewes her best lustre vpon encounter and like the Sunne shines brightest betwixt two clowds malice errour both here conspire to ouercast and darken the glory of those beames which enlighten euery man that comes into the world the sunnes of righteousnesse It hath euer beene the stratagem and proiect of that Arch-enemy of man for the aduancement and strengthening of his great title The Father of lies either to strangle truth in the conception or smother it in the birth If he miscarry in his owne particular vndertakings hee will suborne his Factors Scrives and Pharisees and these not onely to question but to oppose a deity fit agents put vpon such a damned designe for it is theirs no lesse by debt than parentage Ye are of your Father the Deuill v. 44. He hath bequeathed you a prodigious lie and you would faine practise it on the Sauiour of the world labouring to nullifie his acts blemish his descent imposture all his miracles Where were they euer seconded but by the finger of a God or where contradicted but by the malice of a Iew could the powers of the graue and the shackles and bands of death be dissolued and broken by the meere hand of Beelzebub or a dead and stinking carkasse enliued and quickened by a Samaritan and his deuill could the kingdome of darknesse and all those legions below fetch a soule out of the bosome of your Abraham and re-inthrone it in a body foure daies entombed no that Magnus hiatus interte nos returnes the lie vpon all hellish power and the prince thereof Between you and vs there is a great gulfe fixed Luke 16.26 Why then exclaime you on the iniustice and falshood of his testimonies Opera quae ego facio the workes which I doe beare witnesse of me Looke on them and if they vnscale not your wilfull blindnesse the axioms and principles of your owne law will conuince you It is written in your Thalmud That the testimony of two men is true Behold then out of your own bloud and Nation two strong euidences against you Iewes both and both speake him a true God A virgin shall conceiue and bring forth a Sonne and his name shall be called Emmanuell God with vs Isa 7.14 This is our God and there shall be none in comparison of him Baruch 3.36 Why then are ye so startled at his naming Abraham or why doth your indignation swell that he saies he is before him Abraham reioyced to see my day and saw it and was glad vers 56. My day of eternity and my day of incarnation with the eie of faith Why enquire you into the number of his yeeres a whole age to him is as an houre two thousand yeeres but as a minute and all the wheeles and degrees of time within his span and as a nunc or instant before Abraham was before the world before all time I am Iew take his word it is orthodox or if not his asseueration and if that be too slight and single loe hee doubles it Verily verily I say vnto you before Abraham was I am And now thou that sittest in the chaire of Moses heare what S. Augustine tells thee Appende verba cognosce mysterium the words indeed are of a narrow circuit yet they shrine and inuolue a mystery and carry with them both maiesty and depth like rich stones set in Ebonie where though the ground be darke yet it giues their lustre and beauty clearer learne here then both propriety and weight of language and how to criticke between a God and thy owne frailty Intellige fieret ad humanam facturam sum verò ad diuinam pertinere substantiam Was points onely to a humane constitution I am to a diuine substance and therefore the originall hath a 〈◊〉 for Abraham an 〈◊〉 for Christ Diuinity is not cloistered or confined to time either past or future but commands all as present and therefore not I was but I am Neither doe the Latines giue Abraham an esset but a fieret nor Christ a fui but a sum Hereupon the full tide of Expositors besides * Ego latius extendo Cal. in 8. lo. M. Caluine and his Marlorate who though they a while diuide the streame yet at length they meet in the same channell and so make the current a little fuller waue this way and send vs to that I am of Exodus in the 3. chap. 14. vers where wee finde the roote with an Ehich Asher Ehich which though the Chaldee renders Ero qui ero I will be that I will be which indeed is the genuine signification of the originall yet the vulgar Edition giues it in the present I am that I am and the Septuagint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I am he that is it being both frequent and necessary with the Hebrewes to place the future for the present and by this they imply Gods eternall and vnchangeable being in himselfe The Thalmudists also whose authority must passe for current where there is no power to contradict or scanne allow this Ehich as much as Sam Fisi ero the comprehension of three times past present and to come So the Rabbins in Elleshemoth Rabbi vpon this Text reade I that haue beene and I the same now and I the same for time to come Howeuer the Chaldee Paraphrast