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OE Blickling Homilies 21 Gehyron we nu..hwæt awriten is on Godes bocum.

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxxv. 300 Se ðe god lufað and men, he hylt ealle godes bec.

c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 140 Ac he us þa bysene onstealde þæt we sceolon yfelræ mannæ hate..forberæn, and symle Godes bocæ teachunge ȝeorne fylȝean.

1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. A.ii All thinges that are written in Goddes boke.

1581 P. Wiburn Checke or Reproofe M. Howlets Shreeching f. 175 Wherefore be aduised, Leaue this hollow hollownes of poperie, Embrace Christes true religion prescribed and described in Gods book.

1591 H. Smith Restit. Nabuchadnezzer sig. B3 They which vnderstand not yet what is the booke of God, are but horse and mule, though they beare the visors of men.

a1649 T. Shepard Parable Ten Virgins (1660) i. xiii. 130 What is this but to take from Gods Book, and he that so doth, God will blot him out of the Book of Life.

1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 191 I have by my sins run a great way into Gods Book . View more context for this quotation

1718 S. Ockley Hist. Saracens (ed. 2) I. 371 Abu Obeidah..came to Ali, and ask'd him, If he would take the Government upon him, upon Condition that he should be obliged to administer according to what was contained in the Book of God.

?1882 J. A. Allen True & Romantic Love-story Col. & Mrs. Hutchinson 67 Our love was, as our life, predestinate, Sure, from the first, writ in the book of God.

1967 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Grain of Wheat ii. 13 Its origins can, so the people say, be traced to the day the whiteman came to the country, clutching the book of God in both hands.

2004 Foreign Affairs Jan. 50 We demand from the Shi'ite youth that they return to the book of God and the Sunna of Muhammad.