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1668 J. Austin Devotions 126 When we, alas! lay buried in the abyss of nothing; his own free goodnes first cal'd us into Being.

1734 J. Hunt Ess. Hist. & Revelations of Script. 18 A long train of descendants springing from this first pair, by the manner of their being called into existence, came under the strongest obligations that can be conceived to maintain mutual affection.

1754 T. Sherlock Several Disc. preached at Temple Church I. ii. 76 To call Men from the Grave into Being.

1826 Liverpool Mercury 22 Dec. 194/1 I called the new world into existence to redress the balance of the old.

1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. x. 501 It was no small work to call into being that mighty Abbey.

1873 F. M. Müller Sci. Relig. 29 By which a canon of sacred books is called into existence.

1920 Mod. Med. Dec. 833/1 Children should..be told the truth in a plain manner that will cause them to have a wholesome respect for that which called them into being—the reproductive impulse.

1968 B. Mazlish Riddle of Hist. viii. 256 Man, in seeking to realize his potentialities and purpose, calls into existence new purposes.

1994 W. Shaw Spying in Guru Land (1995) p. x He still lives locally in the small cottage which became the headquarters of the mysterious millenarian cult he called into being.