Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	child_n	lord_n	pharaoh_n	1,368	5	10.4041	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01753	A briefe treatice of election and reprobation with certen ansvvers to the obiections of the aduersaries of thys doctrine: vvritten by Anthonie Gylbie.	Gilby, Anthony, ca. 1510-1585.	1575 (1575)	STC 11885; ESTC S103156	25,258	74

to the féelyng of the mighty power of God whiche worketh all in all things to the restoring of all things in our Christ both in Heauen and Earth by whome we are called into this state long before appoynted accordyng to his purposed pleasure by whose power all things are wrought that we may boldly say with the Apostle who dare lay any thing to the charge of the Elect of God It is God that instifieth who is he that can condemne Who can seperate vs which are thys chosen Iacob from the loue of God. Can affliction Can anguish Can persecution Can hunger Can nakednes Can peryll Can the sword For I am perswaded sayth he that neyther death nor life nor Angell nor power nor thyngs present nether things to come nether height nor depth neyther any creature can separate vs from the loue of God in Christ Iesu our lord Lo this is the loue wher with the Lorde loueth his Iacob wherby we say O heauenly father Lord of heauen and earth it hath pleased thée that thou mighte shew thy greate goodnesse moste liberally fréely towards vs before that we were and therefore before we had done eyther good or euil without any our merites or deseruings onely thorough thy frée mercy to elect and choose ordayne and appoynte vs Heyres of euerlasting life and thereby to make all thinges perteining to our saluation so fyrme and sure that they can not stagger wauer nor fayle Where contrarywise if they dydde hang of our worthinesse we should euer be doubtefull bicause euery man is a lyer and all our righteousnesse is like a spotted clothe and nothing but counterfeyte hypocrisie weyed in the balance of thy seuere iustice But the grace of this thy frée Election maketh vs most certaine and sure séeing no creature is able to take oute of thy hande O god Wherefore we doo laude magnifie thy name worlde withoute ende So be it Nowe after thys doctrine of Election and loue of God towarde Iacob the hating and Reprobation of Esau must lykewise be declared though the aduersaries of thys doctrine do séeme to denye that there is anye suche Reprobation of the wicked yet the wordes are so playne in Malachie and Romaines 9. that nothyng can be more euidente For what can be more playnely spoken for thys purpose then that God shoulde say before the children were borne that he hated Esau What was this hatred but the Reprobation Reiection and condemnation by God hys owne mouth of thys wicked Esau like as in the laste verse of the first Psalme wher it is said that the Lord knoweth the wayes of the iuste that is he hath them written in hys booke in the Heauens he loueth them as is sayde of Iacob hée hath suche care ouer them that they can not fall but vnto the glory of God and their owne commoditie and by the course of the contraries compared together in that Psalm it shoulde be added the Lorde knoweth not the wicked like as Christe sayth it shall bée answered vnto them I knowe you not the latter parte of the verse is that the way of the wicked shall perishe so that it appeareth to be all one not to be elected accepted and knowen of God and to perish and to be as a Reprobate condemned And Felinus foorthe of Kymhy doth note that that parte of the laste verse of the. 2. Psalme God beeing angry you shall perishe foorth of the way dothe expounde this of the fyrste Psalme so● that the Election knowledge loue a●●… I fauour of God eternall saluation ●●●… not be separate Like as his anger and hatred reprobation and condemnation consequently do follow in Cain Esau Pharao Iudas the Pharisies and like obdurate persons so manifestly vttering them selues to bée of that sort whome God alwayes hated The children not of Abraham but as Christ answereth vnto them of their father the diuel who was a murtherer frō the beginning like as his children haue bene also euer sithe the beginning of the world and therefore muste of necessitie be hated of the moste mercifull Lorde who is compelled by the order of his workes to vse these wicked roddes and cruel scourges for the chastisement of his children dooing many times the worke straunge from his nature that he maye do his worke of mercy peculiar vnto his nature And than vtterly breake hate reiect and cast away into euerlasting fire and vtter destruction this rodde and scurge like a moste mercifull father fa●oring his children and hating the rodde th●●e as he sayth by his Prophet Wootion● Assur the rodde of my fury and the staffe of my indignation and after promyseth to breake the staffe and cast awaye the rodde Psalm 10. Suffering in the meane season yet these instrumentes of his wrathe prepared vnto destruction with greate pacience for this ende that he may vtter the riches of his glory towards the vessels of glory which he hath prepared vnto glory Thus was Pharao the manifest scurge and rodde of God to correct to chastice to exercise the Israelites and to spread the power of God through all the world Therefore was Moyses sente vnto him with the rodde of God hys mightie mercy to breake in sunder thys rodde of chasticement And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses I haue appoynted thée to bée the God of Pharao and Aaron thy Brother shall be thy Prophet thou shalte speake vnto him all that I commaunde thée And he shall speake vnto Pharao to let go the children of Israell foorth of his lande But I will harden hys hearte saythe the Lorde and I wyll multiplie my signes and wonders in Egypte and he shall not heare you And I will bring myne armie and people foorth of the lande of Egypte by most greate iudgementes and the Egyptians shal knowe that I am the lord Exod. 12. Agayne the Lorde sayth Nowe shall I stretche my hande to stryke thée and thy people with a plague and thou shalt perishe from the earth for therefore haue I caused thée to stande for so is the Hebrue woorde that I may shewe in thée my strength and that my name may be renowmed through al the earth Exod. 9. Then the Lorde sendeth a great hayle so that feelyng the hande of God the tenth tyme Pharao was compelled to crie The Lorde is iuste and I and my people are sinners as followeth in the same chapter Yet for all this the Lorde hardeneth his heart that hée pursueth the children of Israell to hys owne destruction Exod. 14. So that resisting the power of God he perisheth in thys worlde and in the worlde to come hée is appoynted to the euerlasting fyre prepared for the diuell and hys Aungels by the iuste iudgemente of the almightie Lorde who béeyng refused and so openly resisted iustely dothe giue ouer the wycked to their owne Reprobate myndes wyth gredinesse to fulfyll theyr fleshely desiers and obstinate purpose to prosecute that which the Deuyll and the woorlde willeth them to doo and so causeth them to heape vpon