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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	lord_n	nation_n	praise_v	1,658	5	9.9407	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53304	The father of the faithfull tempted as was more concisely shewed August 31, 1674, at a solemne funeral in the church at Wotton under Edge in the countie of Gloucester / by Giles Oldisworth ...	Oldisworth, Giles, 1619-1678.	1676 (1676)	Wing O251; ESTC R15932	41,531	84

innocent and just It was but in v. 32. of Gen. 18. that the Lord inclined to spare a wicked City for righteous persons sakes Is he now for spareing the ungodly and for condemning the righteous 3. Power out thy wrath upon the Heathen which have not known thee as for Isaac he is no idolatrous Chaldean no prophane Canaanite no un-circumcised sinner of the Gentiles but a person circumcised and religious One who anon asketh g Where is the lamb for a burnt offering 4. He was as of the same holy profession with this Father of the Faithfull so no stranger foriener or proselite but a native and this native a domestick and this domestick a favourite Hereafter David may spare Mehpibosheth but no such libertie may Abraham now use 5. The person demanded for a sacrifice is as a domestick favourite so no kindred afar off no nor yet some one or other of Lots incestuous offspring no nor any Daughter or Son of any concubine for as yet concubine Abraham had none neither yet the Son of his hand-maiden Hagur but the Son of Sarah his Wife 6. If the better Jonathan deserveth the more hatred he findeth Thou shalt surely die will Saul say to Jonathan But unto His Father Isaac was a Son as deare as deserving Again Absolom he was a Son dearly beloved of his Father yet was not he the heire of his Fathers throne the heir of David was Solomon but unto Abraham Isaac is as a deare Son so an onely heire and this onely heir is born unto his parents in their old Age given beyond hopes given by promise by the promise of the same Jehovah who now saith b offer him up for a burnt offering What was if this was not to tempt Abraham 2. Abraham was tempted as in a commandement thus grevious so in the manner how his God wordeth his Commandement Ye know bitter pills would be guilded to the eye and loathsom potions would be sugred to the tast Burdensome taxes are levied by acceptable Names and severe Edicts neede a gratifying language Is it not a little one said Lot of Zoar and of what he would have the seller part with It is naught it is naught will the buyer say That pain is almost past which is not fore thought of therefore to him that is afflicted this pitie should be showed that where every word woundeth there few words would be used words not aggravating but extenuating miseries Whereas that form of speech which God b useth unto his Patriarch is if ye review it unto his head a maul in his side arrows and in his Heart a Sword Take now No leisure to deliberate No time to prepare Take now thy Son Ever the nearer the relation the more cutting the severitie Thine onely Son Oh stabbing For pure pitie that word onely would have bin omitted Thine onely Isaac What by Name too Thine onely Isaac whom thou Lovest No more except ye would breake Abrahams heart no more If ye would not enrage do not awaken his greedie sorrowes Do not first draw out the bowels of his affections unto a full length and afterward twist and torture them The fathers memorie is fresh enough of it selfe do not vex it as a thing that is raw Offer up thy Son thine onely Isaac thine onely Isaac whom thou lovest Certainly if fainting did not astonishment did render the Patriarch quite speechlesse and as certainly the same vehemency of anguish which un-tongue-tied the Son of Cresus when dumb as he was he found words to preserve his condemned Father might make this Patriarch while he now seemeth speechlesse argue the cause of his demanded Isaac 1. Did I not say unto thee Do not thou deceive mee Was not my request O that Ismael might live in thy presence 2. Hath God said and shall not He do it Hath He spoken and will not He make it good Is he a man that his purpose should change Or the Son of Man that he should lye 3. Hath He sworn and would he repent Where is the truth of his free and frequent promises of his voluntarie and solemn covenant In whom shall all Nations be blessed if Isaac must die 4. Accompt that God is able to raise him up from the Dead yet what profit is there in his blood Shall the Dust praise thee O Lord Shall it declare thy truth 5. If the Lord will have sacrifice rather then mercie shall not the judge of all the Earth do right He who forbeareth the guiltie will He slay the innocent 6. All Soules are thine even the Soules of the righteous as well as the Soules of the unrighteous yet loe Can the blood of Isaac speak better things then the blood of Abel did As Abel was shall Isaac likewise be a type a figure of good things to come Or. 7. If the Lord for the Lord is a God that weigheth actions if the Lord according unto the Counsel of his good pleasure be indeed working some great mysterie of godlinesse Since Samson will not refuse to interpret His riddle to his Delilah yea since the Lord concealed not what flames of vengance he was bringing upon Sodom will he now hide from Abraham the thing which he is now doeing Answ He a will and because he m will 3. Answ Abraham was tempted as b in the manner how so b in the place where this burden was layed upon him For Quest whence did he c arise but from thence where he rested all the last night Where did he lodge all the last night but in Beersheba at his owne home Within his owne home Where except in the tent of Sarah his Wife Answ If there Trouble him not the door is now shut and the wife of his bosome is with him in bed True were he now while this agonie is upon him as farr absent from His dwelling place as David and Davids cavalires will then be distanced from their un-concerned families when they shall hereafter lament over Ziklag Were He now as they will be left alone in fields wide and open he might now like them by himselfe alone securely lift up his voice in weeping untill he hath no more power to weepe But being now surprised within his own doores even in the tent that I may not say in the bosom of his Wife Sarah Start out of his sleep he a doth but should one sigh one sob one groan escape his strangled thoughts Imagine ye the result His Wife she would cling about his elbow A bloodie Husband unto Me thou art Isaac would hide himselfe among the stuffe Domestick Servants would mutinie Shall Isaac die who is the Heir of promise Isaac shall not die In short His own trained bands would arise in armes against Abraham as against a Fanatick To conclude either his Obedience toward his God he must frustrate and frustrate his Obedience toward his God he will not else being in bitterness for his only Son for his only Son he dareth not weep no not for his only Isaac Upon Benjamins

breath for his blamelesse and dearest Son he intercedeth not Qu Why this Answ Holy Abraham loved one righteous Isaac more then all the sinners of Sodom but so it was God had revealed concerning Sodom onely a conditional pleasure saying I will go down and see Concerning Isaac he had revealed his absolute pleasure saying Take now Wherefore so absolute is the Patriarch his resignation that notwithstanding his God had yeelded unto him seven times together in all that he had spoken in the behalf of Sodom he doth not at all open his lips unto God in behalf of his Isaac Go thou and do likewise When God saith Offer up with-hold not thou Being called unto self-denials Let Duty teach thee not to argue but to submitt not to dispute but to obey not to request but to resigne Let thy meek thine humble thy modest thought be I am dumb I open not my mouth because thou doest it Nay 5. Since thou owest not onely whatsoever is in thy custodie but even thy selfe also unto Him that is Lord of all Araunah like meete thou thy King in His Desires Make friends of unrighteous Mammon What thou mayest not detaine that give and give chearefully unto Him who loveth a chearefull Giver What thy God calleth for that present dedicate and consecrate first love thy Relations as dearly as Abraham loved Isaac and then esteem Father Mother Wife Children and with them whatsoever else is precious esteem all of them together too small too mean a present to testifie the readinesse of thy devotion or the sinceritie of thy gratitude unto the Father and Giver of thy Lord Jesus Christ especially seeing so many as he loveth them he chastneth and so many as he chastneth them he chastneth for the spiritual and eternal good of themselves or of others or of both whether 1. For the benefit of others Accompt upon it that wherein the God of all comfort doth comfort us in all our tribulation therein he prepareth and bespeaketh us to comfort them who are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God Are the consolations of God small with thee I hope not Or 2. By casting down thine old and outward man thy God preventeth thy new thine inward man from falling Jesurum when he waxed fatt Kicked and Solomon when he was full denied God So is it with thee and with other Saints Alas the more holy mens lives are the more advantage Satan seeketh to gett over them that old Serpent well knowing by his own woful experience that there is no pride like unto Spiritual pride Wherefore that even the Fall of his children may bruise this Serpents head when the right hand of God exalteth them most usually his left hand doth humble them It is indeed unto their humiliation but it is so unto their humiliation that it conduceth unto their honour that God doth so often place them in the forlorn hope When no man upon earth was so upright as Job then was the roaring Lion let lose against him After Hezekiah had pleaded sinceritie God gave him a taste of his unprosperous vain gloriousness David was confessedly a man after Gods own heart and as confessedly Adulterie Murder and Pride it self brought him very Low Jacob prevailed when he wrastled with God but God sent him halting away Who more stout hearted then Peter and who more cowheartedly denied his Jesus Satan had not bin permitted to buffet Paul had not Paul bin exalted by abundant Revelations Moses was a meek man but he spake so unadvisedly with his lips that there was for him no Entrance into Canaan Abraham so excelled in Faith that he was exemplarily and eminently the Father of the Faithful but where was the Faith of Abraham when more then once he dissembled that Sarah was only his Sister And as that he who thinketh he standeth may take heed lest he fall the wisest of men was made a mere fool by the Vilest of Women so that we may not be ignorant of the devices of Satan Christ himself when he was first baptized next endued with the Spirit and then declared mightily declared to be the Son of God was afterwards led into the Wilderness and in the Wilderness forty daies together tempted of the Devil 3. To rouse a Soul from drowsiness to pursue some unrepented Crime to dislodge some bosom Sin c. It was when Saul failed of his expectation that Jonathan was questioned for eating honey and when Israel was repelled then was the Sacriledge of Acham discoved Before he was troubled David himself went wrong and until he was cast into a troubled Sea Jonah fled from the presence of the Lord. Many times there is in our calamities a Spirit of discerning while like that Angel which met Baalam they give us to understand our present misadventures Search me O Lord and know my heart trie me and know my thoughts See if there be in me any way of pain A daily praier this and this praier almost every day before we call God answereth 4. To satisfie our selves or others of the truth or groweth of our Graces it is the furnace that as well approveth as trieth Silver The same trial which inviteth worldlings to esteem Preachers no better then earthen Pitchers the self same trial occasioneth every one that appeareth before God to look upon those Preachers as upon the precious Sons of Zion and to value those precious Sons of Zion comparable unto fine gold the which the more it is tried the better it is refined and the more it is refined the brighter it shineth The sufferings which all these holy Martyrs in this whole context endured were not only the trials but the vindications not only the vindications but the approbations not only the approbations but the publications and recommendations of their Faith Such was their Faith that to their praise be it spoken their names are Registred by the Holy Ghost himself That poor widow was made rich by the applauses of Christ Jesus when he vouchsafed to attribute a greater munificence unto her small mite then unto the largest gifts that were cast unto the Treasurie The like was the successe of that true hearted Mary unto whom the same blessed Jesus gave this felicitie that where soever His Holy Gospel shall be preached there her Name shall be as ointment powred forth In every deed neither the deare-heartedness of that penitent nor the plain dealing of Jeremiah nor the meekenesse of Moses nor the Spirit of Elijah had ever bin one half so famous as they now are had not malicious tongues given occasion to have the excellencie of their graces brought to the test Said that envious Eliab unto his brother David I know the pride and the naughtinesse of thy heart but where was David his pride when he refused the costly armour of King Saul and contented himself with a sling and a stone Or where was the naughtiness of his heart when in love toward his nation and in Zeal toward his