item: #1 of 26 id: A23688 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: The art of contentment by the author of The whole duty of man, &c. date: 1675.0 words: 46145 flesch: 64 summary: 5. Propriety ( the great incendiary below ) breeds no confusion in those celestial Orbs , but they are every mans tresure , yet no mans peculiar ( as if they meant to teach us , that our love of appropriation descends not from above Jam. 3. 15. is no heavenly quality . ) 8. AND as they make no distinction of the ranks and degrees of men , so neither do they of their vertues . He that sheddeth mans blood , by man shall his blood be shed , Gen. 9. keywords: account; acts; advantage; afflictions; alas; alwaies; angry; apostle; appetites; apt; author; benefits; best; better; bin; blessings; blood; bodies; body; books; bounty; bread; burden; calamities; calamity; care; cause; change; children; christian; christianity; circumstance; comforts; common; comparison; compassion; complaints; concern'd; concerns; condition; consider'd; consideration; contemt; contentment; contrary; cor; course; creation; creatures; cries; cure; daily; david; day; death; degree; design; desires; discontents; distresses; divine; don; drink; duty; early; earth; ease; eebo; effects; eie; end; english; enjoiments; equal; estimate; eternal; events; evil; exod; experience; face; faith; farther; favor; fear; felicity; fit; flesh; force; form; friends; future; general; glory; god; gods; good; good things; goodness; grace; gratitude; great; greater; greatest; hand; happiness; happy; hath; heart; heaven; heb; higher; highest; holy; honor; hope; human; humor; ill; image; imaginary; impatient; inferior; instance; interest; isa; israel; israelites; job; joy; justice; king; land; leave; left; life; like; little; lives; living; long; loose; lord; love; luk; man; mankind; mans; mat; materials; matter; mean; meat; men; mens; mention'd; mercies; mercy; mere; mesures; method; mind; miserable; multitude; murmurs; natural; nature; nay; necessary; need; neighbors; new; notice; notion; number; observation; ones; ordinary; original; outward; oxford; particular; parts; past; patience; peculiar; people; perpetual; person; piece; place; plesure; point; poor; possible; power; praiers; present; pretence; project; proper; prophet; proportion; providence; psal; psalmist; purpose; quality; ready; real; reason; reasonable; repinings; resignation; respect; rest; return; rich; right; rom; saies; sam; satisfaction; savior; saying; scarce; scene; sect; section; secular; security; self; selves; sense; sensible; set; share; short; single; sins; sleep; small; soever; somthing; somtimes; sons; sorrows; soul; spiritual; spring; state; strange; subject; sufferings; sun; sure; tcp; temporal; terms; text; thee; things; tho; thou; thought; thro; time; title; torment; true; truth; turn; universal; unjust; utmost; value; vertue; visible; want; way; wealth; weight; whereof; wild; wills; wine; wisdom; wise; wish; work; world; worse; yea cache: A23688.xml plain text: A23688.txt item: #2 of 26 id: A23696 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: The art of patience and balm of Gilead under all afflictions an appendix to The art of contentment / by the author of The whole duty of man. date: 1694.0 words: 55278 flesch: 72 summary: Take heed , lest whilst thou art too querulous , thou prove unthankful ; and whilst thy Humbleness disparages thee , thou make God a Loser . Is not thine heart perplexed with the Thoughts of thy Spiritual wants ? Dost thou not truly desire , that God would Renew a right Spirit within thee ? Be cheerful : This is the Operation of God's Spirit : As well may a Man breath without Life , as thou couldst be thus affected without Repentance . keywords: advantage; affections; affliction; afraid; age; air; almighty; angels; answer; apostle; assurance; assured; author; bear; bed; behold; beseech; best; better; betwixt; blessed; blessedness; blessing; blind; blood; bodies; bodily; body; books; bosom; capable; care; careful; cause; change; children; christ; christian; church; close; cometh; comfort; common; company; condition; conscience; contentment; contrary; cor; country; course; crown; cry; danger; darkness; david; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; desire; did'st thou; didst; difference; disposition; divine; dost; dost thou; doth; dreadful; duty; dye; dying; earth; earthly; easie; election; endeavour; enemies; enemy; eph; eternal; everlasting; evil; eyes; face; faith; faithful; fall; far; father; favour; fear; fire; fit; flesh; free; friends; gain; gen; glorious; glory; god; good; goodness; grace; gracious; grant; great; greater; greatest; grief; guilty; hadst; hand; happy; hath; head; health; hearing; heart; heaven; heavenly; heavy; heb; height; hell; help; high; holy; home; honour; hope; hour; house; humble; humility; infinite; inward; israel; jesus; job; john; joy; judge; judgment; justice; king; kingdom; knowledge; labour; land; lay; leave; lev; liberty; life; light; like; little; lives; living; long; look; lord; lord god; loss; love; luke; majesty; malice; man; master; mat; mayst; means; measure; meekness; meet; men; mercies; mercy; mind; miserable; miseries; misery; mortality; mother; mouth; nature; near; necessary; needs; new; o lord; obedience; old; ones; open; pag; pain; parents; patience; patient; paul; peace; people; perfect; pet; pity; pleased; pleasure; poor; power; powerful; praise; prayer; presence; present; proud; prov; providence; psal; psalmist; publick; quiet; ready; reason; redeemer; repentance; repine; rest; rich; riches; righteousness; rom; sad; safe; saints; sake; salvation; sam; satan; saviour; sea; second; sect; seeing; self; selves; sense; sensible; servant; set; shame; shew; sickness; sin; sinful; sinners; sins; sleep; small; solomon; son; sons; sorrow; soul; spirit; spiritual; state; strength; strong; subject; sufferings; sun; sure; sweet; tcp; temporal; temptations; text; thankful; thee; thine; things; thou; thou afraid; thou art; thou canst; thou complainest; thou fearest; thou god; thou may'st; thou wilt; thoughts; throne; thy; thy god; time; tongue; troubled; true; truth; turn; use; vain; voice; walk; want; way; weak; weakness; wert; whatsoever; whil'st; whil'st thou; wicked; wilt; wisdom; wise; words; work; world; worse; worthy; wrath; years; young cache: A23696.xml plain text: A23696.txt item: #3 of 26 id: A23710 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: A discourse concerning the beauty of holiness by the author of The duty of man, laid down in express words of Scripture. date: 1679.0 words: 29462 flesch: 59 summary: Is it fit and congruous that God should take measures from men in his Oeconomy of the World ? is it reasonable that the whole course of things should be put out of order , to satisfie every private mans humor ? can there be any greater madness , than to prescribe rules of Government to infinite Wisdome ? I might here appeal to every mans breast , whether Holiness does not calm and quiet the Consciences of men ; whileas a natural horrour results from the commission of vice , more heavy than the severest lashes ever inflicted by Ceditius or Rhadamanthus . keywords: account; actions; advantages; age; ambition; apostle; argument; base; beauty; best; better; blessed; blessings; body; calm; case; certain; chap; charity; christ; christian; christianity; condition; conscience; conversation; danger; days; deal; death; delights; designe; despise; difficulties; disciples; discourse; divine; doth; doubt; duty; earth; ease; eebo; english; enjoyment; esteem; eternal; evidence; evil; example; excellent; excite; experience; express; eye; father; fear; felicity; fire; folly; fools; future; glorious; glory; god; good; good men; gospel; great; greater; greatest; grievous; happiness; happy; hath; heart; heaven; holiness; holy; holy men; honour; humane; humility; imaginable; instances; interest; intolerable; joy; judgement; justice; kingdom; lasting; laws; life; like; little; lives; long; lord; love; lovely; lusts; madness; man; manner; mans; master; matth; mean; meek; meekness; men; mens; motives; natural; nature; nay; necessary; need; noble; obedience; onely; original; pains; particular; peace; perfect; persons; plain; pleasant; pleasures; possible; power; practice; precepts; present; profitable; promises; prov; psalmist; quiet; ravishing; real; reason; reasonable; religion; reward; riches; righteous; righteousness; rule; sacred; satisfaction; satisfie; scripture; sect; self; selves; sense; sensual; set; shall; short; sin; sinner; sins; soul; spirit; state; strange; sweet; tcp; temporal; text; things; thoughts; torments; trouble; true; truth; uneasie; vertue; vertuous; vice; view; walk; ways; wicked; wicked men; wisdom; wise; wonder; words; work; world; worship; wrath cache: A23710.xml plain text: A23710.txt item: #4 of 26 id: A23713 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: A discourse concerning the period of humane life, whether mutable or immutable by the author of The duty of man laid down in express words of Scripture. date: 1677.0 words: 21663 flesch: 61 summary: In the first ages of the World , the lives of Men were extended , that the earth might be replenished ; and it is very plain , that this common Period was shortened according as Man miultplyed . A discourse concerning the period of humane life, whether mutable or immutable by the author of The duty of man laid down in express words of Scripture. keywords: absolute; accomplish; account; act; actions; affliction; ages; altho; answer; argument; author; bad; beginning; beings; best; better; blessed; bounds; care; case; casual; certain; common; common period; condition; consideration; contrary; cut; david; days; death; decree; determined; discourse; divine; dominion; doth; doubt; dye; earth; eebo; end; english; evident; evil; experience; express; fall; flood; following; foreknowledg; future; general; god; gods; good; goodness; great; ground; hand; happy; hath; humane; humane life; inconditionate; infinite; instance; job; jobs; knowledg; lawful; learned; life; like; little; lives; long; lord; man; manner; mans; mans life; men; mens; misery; months; mutable; natural; nature; need; needless; non; number; occasion; old; opinion; ordinary; particular; past; people; period; person; phrase; physitian; place; plain; poor; power; prayer; predictions; present; providence; psalmist; reason; reasonable; religion; repentance; rest; return; rule; run; saith; saul; scripture; selves; sense; set; shortned; sick; sin; state; tcp; text; thee; things; thou; threatned; thy; time; trouble; true; truth; turn; use; way; ways; wicked; wisdom; wise; words; work; world; years cache: A23713.xml plain text: A23713.txt item: #5 of 26 id: A23715 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: The divine aut[h]ority and usefulness of the Holy Scripture asserted in a sermon on the 2 Timothy 3, 15 by R. Allestree ... date: 1673.0 words: 13570 flesch: 73 summary: And this I dare boldly say , that if the Scripture did say as expresly , that the Pope had a supremacy or soveragnity over the whole Church , or that he or the Roman Church were infallible ; their definition , or the living voice of their present Church , a most sure rule of Faith , as it does say Scripture is able to make us wise unto salvation , those Articles would suffer no dispute , it would be blasphemy or sacriledg to limit or explain them by distinctions , when those sayings of the perfectness of Scriptures are forc't to bear many . If they knew them forg'd all ; that a 600000 men , besides their wives and families , should endure this Moses , having brought them forth only into a wilderness , there to lay such a heavy Law , and so severe a yoke upon them , with such penalties annext to every least transgression , and adjure them to observe it on the account of all those prodigies that had bin wrought among them , and upbraid them with stiffneckedness , rebellion , and appeal to their own senses for the truth of all this , and record all to posterity in this Scripture , cause all to be read before them ; and that they should bear all this from him they knew so impudent a deceiver , and conveigh that Scripture and the faith of it to their posterity , ground their so strict , so chargeable Religion on that book , which they were certain had no word of truth in it : this sure transcends belief and possibility . keywords: able; account; age; allestree; apostles; apud; beginning; bible; bin; blood; book; care; cause; certain; children; christ; christians; church; cor; day; death; design; divine; doctrine; don; early; earth; easy; eebo; end; english; euseb; evident; exod; express; faith; fathers; general; god; gods; good; gospel; great; having; heaven; holy; iesus; image; jews; john; judg; known; law; leave; life; lord; luc; man; mar; mat; meaning; means; men; mind; miracles; moses; nation; necessary; needs; obscurity; oxford; paul; people; plain; possible; power; practise; principle; reason; religion; salvation; scripture; self; service; spirit; sufficient; sure; tcp; text; things; thou; time; timothy; tongue; true; truth; wise; words; work; world; worship; yea; years cache: A23715.xml plain text: A23715.txt item: #6 of 26 id: A23734 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: The government of the thoughts a prefatory discourse to The government of the tongue / by the author of The whole duty of man. date: 1694.0 words: 47351 flesch: 67 summary: Fear thou not , for I am with thee : Be not dismay'd , for I am thy God , I will strengthen thee , and I will help thee . 3. IN Religious Acts , God left not Israel to their own disposing in minor things , but commanded Moses , See thou make all things according to the Pattern shewed thee in the Mount , Heb. 8.5 . keywords: able; actions; acts; adultery; advantage; adversity; advice; affections; affliction; afraid; almighty; anger; angry; apostle; apprehension; assurance; author; behold; beseech; best; better; bitterness; blessed; blood; body; broken; calm; care; case; cast; certain; chap; christ; comfort; committed; confidence; conscience; content; contrary; cor; corruption; counsel; creature; curse; dangerous; david; day; death; delight; desire; despair; desperate; destruction; deut; direct; divine; dost; doth; duty; earth; ease; end; endeavour; enemies; enemy; envious; envy; estate; evil; example; excellent; exod; express; external; eyes; faith; fall; false; father; fear; fire; fixed; flesh; folly; foolish; frail; fruit; future; gal; gen; glory; god; gods; good; goodness; government; grace; gracious; great; greater; grief; guilty; hand; happiness; happy; hast; hath; health; heart; heaven; heavenly; heb; hell; help; high; holy; hope; house; humane; impatient; impious; impossible; infinite; iniquity; internal; inward; issue; james; jealousie; jer; jesus; job; john; joy; judge; judgments; justice; kingdom; kings; knowledge; known; labour; law; life; like; little; live; living; long; lord; lord god; loss; love; luke; malice; man; manifest; master; mat; matt; mayst; means; measure; men; mercies; mercy; mind; mirth; misery; moses; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; object; observe; occasion; open; pag; pardon; passion; patience; paul; peace; perfect; person; peter; pleased; pleasure; poor; power; practice; prayer; presence; present; promise; prophet; prosperity; prov; providence; prudent; psal; psalmist; quiet; ready; reason; regenerate; religion; repentance; resolution; rest; return; revenge; riches; right; righteousness; rom; rules; sake; salvation; sam; sanctity; satan; saviour; saying; sea; second; secret; secure; self; selves; sense; sensible; serpent; servants; service; set; sick; sin; sinful; sinners; sins; solomon; sorrow; soul; sound; spirit; spiritual; strength; strong; subject; sudden; tcp; temporal; temptations; text; thee; thine; things; thou; thou art; thou canst; thoughts; thy; time; tongue; true; trust; truth; tryal; understanding; unhappy; use; vain; vanity; vertue; victory; vigilant; want; waters; way; ways; wicked; wilt; wisdom; wise; words; work; world; worldly; wounded; wounds; wrath cache: A23734.xml plain text: A23734.txt item: #7 of 26 id: A23740 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: The government of the tongue by the author of The whole duty of man, &c. date: None words: 46940 flesch: 62 summary: In mere secular wisdom it will therefore become men to consider , whether this trade be like to turn to account , or whethere it be worth the while , at once to make a jest and an enemy . 12. AND if it be imprudent to make man our enemy , t is much more to make God so , by levelling our blowes at any thing sacred : but of that I have already had occasion to speak , and shall not repete ; only give me leave to say , that besides the profaner sort of jests , which more immediately reflect on him , he is concern'd in all the unjust reproches of our brethren , our love to them being confirm'd by the same divine Sanction with our reverence to him : and sure nothing is more inconsistent with that love , then the exposing them to that contemt we are our selves so impatient of . The government of the tongue by the author of The whole duty of man, &c. Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. 1667 Approx. keywords: abuse; account; acts; advantages; age; alas; alwaies; anothers; answer; apostle; apt; atheism; atheistical; attemt; author; base; baseness; benefit; best; better; bin; boasting; body; books; breath; brethren; business; care; case; causes; caution; certain; character; charity; children; christian; chuse; circumstances; civil; common; company; concern; conclude; confess; confidence; consider; considerable; consideration; contemt; contrary; converse; cor; counsel; credit; crime; current; danger; day; death; defamation; defeat; degree; design; detraction; discourse; discovery; disease; divine; don; duty; early; earnest; earth; easy; eebo; effects; eies; endeavor; english; envy; equal; estimate; evidence; evil; example; excellent; face; faculties; faculty; fall; false; fame; fancy; farther; faults; fear; fit; flattery; folly; fools; force; friend; friendship; general; glory; god; gods; good; grace; grand; great; greater; greatest; guilt; hand; hard; hath; hearers; heart; heathens; heaven; help; higher; highest; honor; human; humor; ignorance; ill; impious; importance; industry; ingenuity; injuries; injury; innocence; innocent; instances; interest; inward; james; jest; judg; judgment; justice; kind; kindness; knowledg; language; law; liberty; lies; life; light; like; lips; little; long; lord; love; lying; malice; malicious; man; mankind; mans; matter; mean; men; mens; mere; mind; mischiefs; moral; mouth; natural; nature; nay; necessary; need; neighbors; new; news; notions; observation; office; old; ones; open; opinion; original; oxford; particular; parts; pass; paul; people; persons; piety; place; poor; possible; power; practice; present; pretence; pride; principle; private; proof; proper; prophet; proud; prov; psal; psalmist; public; purpose; raise; ready; real; reason; regard; relation; religion; reports; reproch; reputation; respect; restrain; reverence; ridiculous; rule; run; sacred; sacrifice; satan; scarce; scorn; scripture; second; secret; sect; secular; secure; self; selves; sense; set; sets; severe; shame; sin; single; sins; small; sober; society; soever; solomon; somthing; somtimes; sort; souls; speech; spirit; state; stone; strange; subject; sure; talk; tcp; text; thee; thing; tho; thought; title; tongue; trade; true; trust; truth; turn; unhappy; universal; use; useful; uses; utmost; value; vanity; vertue; vice; vile; want; way; wickedness; willing; wisdom; wise; wit; wonder; words; work; world; worse; worth; yea; zeal cache: A23740.xml plain text: A23740.txt item: #8 of 26 id: A23744 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: The ladies calling in two parts / by the author of The whole duty of man, The causes of the decay of Christian piety, and The gentlemans calling. date: 1673.0 words: 69244 flesch: 55 summary: 'T is said of Philopemen , that the Lacedemonians finding it their interest to corrupt him with mony , they were yet so possest with the reverence of his vertues , that none durst undertake to attaque him ; and sure 't were not impossible for women to arrive at the same security : such an autority there is in Vertu , that where 't is eminent , 't is apt to controle all loose desires , and he must not be only lustful but sacrilegious , that attemts to violate such a Sanctuary . 'T is true , 't is not alwaies in ones power to shun the meeting with such persons , they are too numerous , and too intruding to be totally avoided ; unless , as St. Paul says , 1 Cor. 5. 10. one should go out of the World. keywords: accomplishments; account; act; acts; address; advantage; affected; age; ages; alas; alms; alwaies; amiable; angry; answer; apostle; apt; atheist; attemt; attendance; author; autority; bear; beauty; behavior; benefit; best; better; bin; black; bodies; body; business; calling; capable; care; case; cast; caution; certain; changes; charge; charity; children; choice; christian; christianity; church; circumstances; civility; command; common; company; compassion; competition; concern'd; concerns; condition; confidence; conscience; consequent; consider'd; considerable; consideration; contemt; contrary; conversation; converse; cor; country; creatures; crime; critical; curiosity; custom; daily; danger; day; dead; death; degree; deplorable; design; design'd; desire; despicable; destruction; devotion; direct; discipline; discourse; distance; distinct; distinction; divine; don; doubt; dress; duty; early; ears; easie; easy; education; eebo; effects; eies; eminent; end; endeavor; english; equal; esteem; estimate; eternal; event; evidence; exact; example; excellent; eyes; face; fall; families; family; fancy; farther; fault; fear; female; feminine; fire; fit; flesh; folly; force; form; fortune; foundation; frequent; friends; future; general; giving; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; grace; great; greater; greatest; greatness; ground; guard; guilt; habit; hand; happiness; happy; hard; hath; heart; help; higher; highest; holy; home; honor; hope; hours; house; human; humanity; humility; humor; husband; ill; image; imaginable; important; impressions; impudence; industry; infamy; influence; ingenious; innocence; innocent; instances; instant; interest; jews; judg; judgment; justice; kind; kindness; king; knowledg; ladies; lady; law; learning; liable; liberty; life; like; little; long; look; loose; lord; love; madness; man; mankind; manners; marriage; married; matches; matter; mean; meanest; meekness; meer; meet; mercy; mesure; mind; mischiefs; miserable; misery; modesty; moral; morning; mother; motives; multitude; native; natural; nature; nay; necessary; necessity; need; neglect; new; nobler; notion; number; obedience; object; obligation; observable; occasion; offices; old; omission; ones; opinion; opportunities; order; original; ornament; outward; pains; parent; particular; parts; passions; paul; pay; peculiar; people; perpetual; persons; piece; piety; place; plesures; point; poor; possible; power; practice; praier; preaching; present; pride; primitive; principal; principle; privat; profaneness; proper; prov; providence; prudence; prudent; public; purpose; pursuit; quality; rank; rational; reader; real; reason; relation; religion; renders; reproch; reputation; rescu; respect; return; revenge; reverence; reward; right; roman; ruine; rule; sacred; sacrifice; scandalous; scarce; scene; second; sect; secular; secure; self; selves; sense; servants; service; set; sets; severe; sex; shame; shew; sin; sober; socrates; soever; solemn; solomon; som; somthing; somtimes; somwhat; sort; soul; spirits; spiritual; spring; state; stay; strange; study; subject; sufficient; sun; supply; sure; tcp; temper; temporal; temtations; text; themselvs; thing; tho; thought; time; title; tongue; tract; true; trust; truth; turn; understanding; unequal; unhappy; universal; use; utmost; vain; valu; vanity; variety; vertu; vertues; vertuous; vice; vicious; virgin; visible; visits; vow; want; way; wealth; widows; wife; willing; wisdom; wise; wit; witnesses; wives; women; wonder; works; world; worse; worship; worthy; yea; young; youth; zeal cache: A23744.xml plain text: A23744.txt item: #9 of 26 id: A23752 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: The lively oracles given to us, or, The Christians birth-right and duty, in the custody and use of the Holy Scripture by the author of The whole duty of man, &c. date: 1678.0 words: 56468 flesch: 63 summary: The Bible was not committed ( like the Regalia , or rarities of a Nation ) to be kept under lock and key ( and consequently to constitute a profitable office for the keepers ) but expos'd like the Brazen Serpent for universal view and benefit : that sacred Book ( like the common air ) being every mans propriety , yet no mans inclosure : yet there are a generation of men whose eies have bin evil , because Gods have bin good : who have seal'd up this spring , monopoliz'd the word of Life , and will allow none to partake of it but such persons , and in such proportions as they please to retail it : an attemt very insolent in respect of God , whose purpose they contradict ; and very injurious in respect of man , whose advantage they obstruct . Now at this rate of infidelity , what way will they leave God to manifest any thing convincingly to the world ? which is to put him under an impotency greater then adheres to humanity : for we men have power to communicate our minds to others , tell whether to we own such or such a thing , to which we are intitled ; and we can satisfy our Auditors that it is indeed we that speak to them : but if every method God uses , do's rather increase then satisfy mens doubts , all intercourse between God and man is intercepted ; and he must do that of necessity , which Epicurus phancied he did of choice ; viz. keywords: absurd; account; acts; add; advantage; ages; almighty; alwaies; answer; apostles; appeal; appetites; apprehensions; apt; argument; attemt; attention; attestation; author; autority; bear; belief; benefit; best; better; bible; bin; blessed; body; book; business; call'd; capable; care; case; cavil; certain; chap; characters; children; christ; christian; christianity; church; churches; circumstances; clear; command; common; communion; comprehensive; concern'd; concerns; condition; consider'd; consideration; constant; contemt; contrary; cor; creation; credit; custody; daily; david; day; dead; death; declares; degree; deliver'd; design; design'd; deut; dignity; disciples; discourse; divine; doctrin; don; doubt; duty; earth; easy; eebo; effect; eies; eminent; end; ends; english; epistles; errors; event; evidence; evident; exact; example; excellent; faith; fall; false; farther; fathers; fear; fire; fore; foundation; fourth; future; gen; general; gives; giving; glory; god; gods; good; goodness; gospel; grace; great; greater; greatest; grounds; guilt; hands; happiness; hath; having; hear; heathen; heaven; heb; higher; highest; history; holy; holy scripture; hom; hope; house; human; image; imaginable; immediat; important; infallible; inspir'd; instance; interest; israel; jews; judg; judgment; justice; kind; kindness; knowledg; later; law; laws; lay; learned; leave; liberty; lie; life; like; little; long; lord; love; luk; making; man; manifest; mankind; manner; mans; mat; matter; mean; men; mens; mention'd; mesure; method; mind; miracles; moral; moses; multitude; nation; natural; nature; nay; necessary; necessity; need; new; notions; obedience; object; oblig'd; office; old; ones; oracles; order; original; particular; parts; paul; peculiar; people; perfect; persons; pet; peter; phancy; place; plain; point; possible; posterity; power; practice; precepts; present; primitive; principle; privat; privilege; profane; promises; proof; proper; prophetic; prophets; propriety; psal; purpose; question; rate; rational; reader; reading; reason; records; regard; relation; religion; renders; reputation; requir'd; respect; revenge; reverence; right; roman; rule; sacred; said; saies; saint; salvation; savior; saying; scripture; second; sect; secular; self; selves; sense; set; shews; short; sin; single; small; soever; solemn; solomon; som; somtimes; soul; spirit; spiritual; stand; state; stile; study; subject; suffering; sufficient; sure; tcp; temporal; testament; testimony; text; thee; things; tho; thought; thro; time; title; tongue; tradition; true; trust; truth; universal; us'd; use; vain; veneration; vertue; vice; viz; vulgar; want; way; whereof; wicked; wisdom; wise; witnesses; word; work; worship; worthy; writers; writing; written; yea; years; ● ● cache: A23752.xml plain text: A23752.txt item: #10 of 26 id: A23765 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: Scala sancta: or The exaltation of the soul. Being a train of pious thoughts, compleating the whole duty of man: or, Devotions compiled by R.A. Gent. in his solitudes. date: 1678.0 words: 58296 flesch: 62 summary: O cleanse thou me from my secret sins , keep thy Servant also from presumptuous sins , lest they get the Dominion over me , so shall I be undefiled and innocent from the great offence ; save Lord , and hear me , O King of Heaven when I call upon thee ; the Lord is my Shepherd , therefore shall I lack nothing , but be not thou far from me ; O Lord thou art my succour , haste thee to help me ; unto thee , O Lord , will I lift up my Soul ; my God , I have put my trust in thee , let me not be confounded , neither let mine enemies triumph over me ; shew me thy ways , O Lord , and teach me thy paths : lead me forth in thy Truth , and learn me , for thou art the God of my Salvation , in thee hath been my hope all the day long : call to remembrance , O Lord , thy tender mercy , and thy loving kindness which hath been ever of old : O remember not the sins and offences of my youth , but according to thy mercy think upon me , O Lord , for thy goodness , for thy Name sake ; O Lord , be merciful to my sin , for it is great ; turn thee unto me , and have mercy upon me , for I am desolate and in misery , the sorrows of my heart is enlarged : O bring thou me out of my trouble ; look upon my adversity and misery , and forgive me all my sins ; consider mine enemies how many they are that bear a tyrannous heart against me ; O keep my Soul and deliver me ; let me not be surrounded , for I have put my trust in thee ; let perfect and righteous dealing wait upon me , for my hope hath been in thee ; deliver Israel , O God , out of all his troubles ; be thou my Judge , O Lord , for I have walked innocently ; my trust hath been also in the Lord , therefore shall I not fall ; examine me , O Lord , and prove me : try out my Reins and Heart , for thy loving kindness is always before mine eyes ; and I will walk in thy Truth : thou hast charged that we should diligently keep thy Commandements ; wherewithal shall a young Man cleanse his way , even by ruling himself after thy word ; teach me , O Lord , the way of thy Statutes , and I shall keep it unto the end ; O give me understanding , and I shall keep thy Law ; yea , I shall keep it with my whole heart ; O turn away my eyes , lest they behold vanities , and quicken thou me in thy way ; O establish thy word in thy Servant , that I may fear thee ; O think upon thy Servant as concerning thy word , wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust ; the same is my comfort in my trouble ; for thy word hath quickned me : O Lord thou hast dealt graciously according to thy word ; before I was troubled I went wrong ; but now I have kept thy word , thou art good and gracious ; O teach me thy Statutes : O let my heart be sound in thy Statutes that I be not ashamed ; quicken me after thy loving kindness , and so shall I keep the Testimonies of thy mouth : keywords: affections; almighty; alwaies; amiss; angels; anger; beseech; better; blessed; blessed lord; blessing; blood; body; cast; cause; charity; children; christ; church; collect; cometh; comfort; coming; commandments; compassion; confess; confidence; conscience; countenance; cry; daies; dangers; darkness; day; dear; death; defence; delight; deliverance; desire; didst; displeasure; divine; dwell; earth; end; enemies; eternal; everlasting; evil; eyes; face; faith; faithful; fall; father; favour; fear; flesh; free; ghost; glorious; glory; good; goodness; grace; gracious; gracious lord; grant; great; guide; hand; hast; hath; head; health; heart; heaven; hell; help; high; holiness; holy; holy lord; holy spirit; honour; hope; house; humble; increase; infinite; iniquity; israel; jesus christ; judgment; justice; kindness; kingdom; knowest; land; law; life; lift; light; like; lips; live; long; look; lord god; lord jesus; love; loving; majesty; man; mercies; merciful; merciful god; mercy; mercy o; merits; mind; misery; morning; mouth; multitude; number; o god; o heavenly; o holy; o lord; o thy; obedience; offences; open; pardon; peace; people; perfect; pity; pleased; pleasure; poor; portion; power; praise; prayer; precious; presence; present; receiving; redeemer; redemption; rejoyce; remembrance; repentance; rest; riches; righteousness; sacrament; saints; sake; salvation; saviour; seek; self; servant; service; set; sickness; sinful; sinner; sins; son; soul; spirit; spiritual; statutes; strength; sweet; thanks; thee; thee o; thine; things; thou; thou art; thou god; thou lord; thou merciful; thou o; thoughts; thy; time; trouble; true; trust; truth; understanding; ungodly; vain; voice; wait; way; whatsoever; wicked; wickedness; wilt; wisdom; works; world; worthy; wrath; yea cache: A23765.xml plain text: A23765.txt item: #11 of 26 id: A23767 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: A sermon preached in St. Peter's Westminster on Sunday, Jan. 6, 1660 at the consecration of the Right Reverend Fathers in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Bristoll, Edward, Lord Bishop of Norwich, Nicholas, Lord Bishop of Hereford, William, Lord Bishop of Glocester by Richard Allestry ... date: 1660.0 words: 12736 flesch: 69 summary: Alex. saith , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , that he went clean throughout Asia and the adjacent Regions , constituting not only Bishops , but others of inferiour Clergie : and even in the lowest thus it was ; when the first Deacons were to be made , Men full of the Holy Ghost and Wisedome were to be look'd out , Act. This seemes to be his great work : and indeed how can he chuse but be particularly concern'd in those offices which are his own 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Timothy's is expressly call'd so , in each of his Epistles , 1 Tim. 4. 14. keywords: act; age; allestry; angels; apostles; barnabas; bishop; body; books; break; calling; calls; censures; characters; christ; church; churches; commission; consecration; devil; discipline; doe; early; earth; eebo; english; exod; express; fathers; ghost; gifts; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; government; great; greater; hand; hath; heaven; high; holy; holy ghost; holy spirit; jewish; john; law; laying; left; life; like; little; lord; man; matth; men; moses; new; office; onely; order; original; oxford; paul; persons; peter; place; present; priests; reason; religion; richard; right; saint; saith; saul; scripture; second; self; separate; separateness; separation; set; sin; sound; spirit; stars; succession; tcp; tei; text; thee; things; thou; tim; time; timothy; words; work; world cache: A23767.xml plain text: A23767.txt item: #12 of 26 id: A23768 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: A sermon preached at Hampton-court on the 29th of May, 1662 being the anniversary of His Sacred Majesty's most happy return / by Richard Allestry ... date: 1662.0 words: 10918 flesch: 69 summary: And as a Iew observed of their own Nation , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , To have one and the same opinions of God , and not to differ in their rites from one another , breeds the best harmony in mens affections . Moses was the first King in Ieshurun , and he was onely gone into the Mount for forty daies , and they set up a golden Calf ; they make themselves a God if they want him whom the Lord makes so , as he does the Magistrate : if they have not a Prince , that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , living Image of God , then they must have an Idol . keywords: allestry; best; betwixt; books; characters; children; church; court; crown; david; day; depart; destruction; doe; dwelling; early; eebo; english; face; farre; fear; forsake; glory; god; goodness; great; hath; heart; heaven; holy; house; image; iniquity; israel; kindness; king; kingdome; land; light; like; long; lord; love; majesty; man; men; nation; nay; onely; oxford; people; place; presence; prince; psal; religion; repent; return; richard; sacred; sanctuary; self; set; sin; sins; soul; state; sure; tcp; tei; temple; text; thee; things; thou; throne; thy; ver; waies; way; words; work; world; worship; years cache: A23768.xml plain text: A23768.txt item: #13 of 26 id: A23769 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: A sermon preached before the King at White-hall, October the 12th 1662 by Richard Allestrey ... date: 1663.0 words: 8753 flesch: 69 summary: Let others joy in friends that wine does get them : such as have no qualification to endear them , but this , that they will not refuse to sin and to be sick with their companions : men that do onely drink in their affections , as full of friendship as of liquor , and probably they do unload themselves of both at once , part with their dearness and their drink together , and alike . Friends , and My friends . keywords: abraham; affection; allestrey; blessed; books; bosom; care; characters; christ; commands; condition; death; devil; early; eebo; enemies; enemy; english; eternal; faith; favour; friendship; gift; glory; god; good; great; greater; hath; head; heart; heaven; hell; james; john; kindness; life; like; little; lord; love; men; obedience; onely; place; present; promise; reason; religion; richard; saviour; self; sin; sins; son; soul; state; sure; tcp; tei; text; things; thou; thoughts; thy; true; use; vengeance; vice; words; work; world cache: A23769.xml plain text: A23769.txt item: #14 of 26 id: A23770 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: A sermon preach'd before the King, Decemb. 31, 1665, at Christ-Church in Oxford by R. Allestree ... date: 1666.0 words: 9226 flesch: 64 summary: And he live and be worship'd alwayes in a Stable ? Because God became man , must men therefore become beasts ? Is there any more uncouth or detestable thing in the whole world , then to see the great Lord of Heaven become a little one , and man that 's less then nothing magnifie himself ? to see Divinity empty it self , and him that is a worm , swell and be puffed up : to see the Son of God descend from Heaven , and the sons of Earth climbing on heaps of wealth , which they pile up , as the old Gyants did hills upon hills , as if they would invade that Throne which He came down from : and as if they also were set for the fall of many , throwing every body down that but stands near them , either in their way or prospect . keywords: allestree; better; birth; blessed; blood; books; characters; child; christ; christians; church; condition; counsel; death; difficulties; doctrine; early; earth; eebo; effects; english; everlasting; example; fall; glory; god; gods; good; great; greater; hath; heaven; israel; king; life; light; like; little; man; mean; meanness; men; mercy; messiah; nature; necessary; occasion; onely; original; oxford; people; poor; possible; poverty; reason; religion; ruine; saith; salvation; saviour; self; set; signe; sin; sins; state; sure; tcp; tei; text; things; time; true; use; vice; work; world; yea cache: A23770.xml plain text: A23770.txt item: #15 of 26 id: A23771 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: A sermon preached before the King at White Hall on Sunday Nov. 17, 1667 by Richard Allestree ... date: 1667.0 words: 10527 flesch: 68 summary: Now if a Serpent siding with her inclination could so quickly stagger and quite overthrow her Faith ; if she , because she sees and likes a pleasing Object , can , in mere defiance of her own assured conviction , when the Revelation look'd her in the face , and God himself was scarce gone out of sight , straight give credit to a Snake , that comes and confidently gives the lie to God her Maker , offers her no proof at all of what he says , but onely flatters her desires with promises and expectations of she knows not what , a Ye shall not die , but ye shall be as Gods ; if in spite of Knowledge she turn Infidel so soon and easily : 't is no great wonder if that Serpent do , at this distance from Revelation , prevail on men , whose conversation being most with Sense , ( their satisfactions also consequently gratifying of their Sense ) they do not willingly assent to any thing but that which brings immediate evidence and attestation of the Senses , which the objects of our Faith do not , ( especially if it give check to and restrain those satisfactions , as those do ; ) on such men , I say , that do not care , nor use , in things that are against their mind , to apply the Understanding close and strongly to reflect on those considerations which should move assent , and work belief . As if God had made that state of men , far the most generous part of the whole kinde , and best appointed for the noblest uses of the world , to serve no other ends but what the Grashoppers and Locusts do , to sing and dance among the Plants and Branches , and devour the fruits ; and Providence had furnish'd them with all advantages of plenty for no better purposes . keywords: able; affections; allestree; assault; bloud; books; characters; christ; condition; covetous; desire; devil; doe; duty; early; earth; eebo; enemy; english; eyes; faith; fear; fire; flesh; god; good; great; happy; hath; heart; heaven; hell; high; holy; hopes; idleness; imployment; infidelity; interest; king; labour; let; like; man; matt; men; mere; mind; miracle; nature; necessary; onely; paul; person; places; project; purposes; religion; resolutions; richard; satan; saviour; sea; self; set; sin; sodome; spirit; strong; sufficient; sure; tcp; tei; temptation; text; things; time; use; vertue; vice; weak; willing; work; world cache: A23771.xml plain text: A23771.txt item: #16 of 26 id: A23772 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: The vanity of the creature by the author of The whole duty of man, &c. ; together with a letter prefix'd, sent to the bookseller, relating to the author. date: 1684.0 words: 19743 flesch: 60 summary: Oh that we would then be exhorted in the Apostles words , To stand fast in the Faith , to quit our selves like men , and be strong : and not to be as children , toss'd to and fro , and carried about with every wind of Doctrine ; but to be as men in understanding , stedfast and immoveable ; that so God may have cause to glory on our behalf , as he did on Jobs , Hast thou consider'd ( says God to Satan ) my servant Job ? For you know that when God would chuse a King for Israel , he chose him not by outward and perishing excellencies , for then he would have chosen in the room of Saul , Eliab , Aminadab , or Shammah , who were the three elder brothers of David , and men of goodly personages to look upon ; yet God chose none of these , ( says the Text ) but David the youngest of them , though not so outwardly , yet inwardly glorious , being a man after his own heart . keywords: adversity; aegypt; age; alterations; apostle; author; better; betwixt; bodies; body; book; brethren; cause; chang'd; changes; children; christian; church; city; condition; creature; david; day; days; death; doth; dust; duty; early; earth; earthly; eebo; efficient; empire; end; ends; english; estates; evil; example; excellent; eyes; face; faith; fall; families; glory; god; gods; gold; good; goodness; government; great; greater; greatest; greatness; hand; happiness; hath; hearts; heathen; heaven; hebrews; high; honour; house; jerusalem; job; joseph; kingdom; kings; land; later; liberty; life; light; like; little; long; look; lord; man; means; measure; men; mind; moment; nation; natural; nature; nay; new; opinion; order; ordinary; outward; particular; people; place; point; poor; power; present; pride; princes; principal; prophet; prosperity; providence; psal; reason; religion; respect; riches; roman; rome; run; sea; second; self; selves; set; sets; sin; sinning; small; space; spirits; stand; strange; strong; subject; sun; tcp; text; thee; things; think; thou; time; true; truth; turn; vanity; vessel; viz; way; ways; weak; wheel; wind; wisdom; wise; work; world; worldly; years cache: A23772.xml plain text: A23772.txt item: #17 of 26 id: A23773 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: The whole duty of divine meditation described in all its various parts and branches : with meditations on several places of scripture / by the author of The whole duty of man. date: 1694.0 words: 32440 flesch: 66 summary: Shew Obedience to thy Superiours , give Counsel and Aid to thy Equals , and Defend and Instruct thy Inferiours : Subdue thy Body to thy Mind , and thy Mind to the Will of God : Heartily bewail thy past Evils , and set not thy Affections on Temporal Enjoyments , but fix them on that which is Eternal : Mourn for Sins , upon remembrance of them ; and often remember Death , that thou may'st cease from Sin : Let the Justice of the Almighty keep thee in Fear , and his Mercy preserve thee from Despair . INFORM me now , thou that art so indulgent to the World , and hunts for Paradise in a Park of Sins ; thou that makest Terrestrial things thy Treasure , and foldest up the Riches of thy Hopes in the Bosom of Old Time , or the Compass of a Span ; when those lucid and swift Guides of Life , thine Eyes , shall wax dim with Age , or tired with Pain ; when every Member shall become Sorrow's Object , and those Parts which were so employ'd in the Operation of Sin , shall become Instruments of Despair ; when that delectable Frame , that magnificent Darling Edifice , thy Body , shall , by its shivering Qualms , and trembling Convulsions , consternate its disconsolate Owner ; how will the Fulgurations of a Future Justice , and the Terrours of thy Ultimate End , confound thee ! V. CAN those transitory Enjoyments that allured away thy Immortal Part , restore it in convenient time ? keywords: actions; affected; affections; air; almighty; ambition; angels; apostle; approach; assistance; assurance; author; better; blessed; blood; body; books; celestial; characters; charity; chastity; christ; christian; comfort; conscience; considerations; convinced; covetous; creator; crown; crucified; darkness; day; death; delights; desires; destruction; devotion; difficult; divine; doctrine; doth; duties; duty; earth; eebo; end; enemy; english; enjoyments; eternal; eternity; everlasting; evil; exercise; eyes; faith; father; fear; felicity; fire; flames; flesh; forsake; future; glorious; glory; god; gold; good; goodness; grace; grant; great; greater; guilty; happiness; happy; hath; heart; heaven; heavenly; heb; hell; high; holy; honour; hopes; hour; humble; humility; ignorant; image; immortal; infernal; infinite; isa; jesus; joys; judgment; justice; kingdom; knowledge; law; life; light; like; lives; long; lord; lost; love; lustre; man; manner; mat; may'st; meditate; meditation; members; memory; men; mercies; mercy; merits; method; mind; miserable; miseries; misery; mortality; nature; nay; necessary; necessity; need; neglect; new; obedience; objects; omnipotency; page; parts; past; path; performance; period; perpetual; person; pharisee; piety; place; pleasures; poor; power; prayer; presence; present; pride; prophet; proud; psal; psalmist; purity; reach; reason; receive; recompence; religion; religious; repentance; resolutions; rest; reward; riches; righteousness; royal; rule; sacred; salvation; sanctity; satan; saviour; scripture; sect; self; selves; sense; service; set; sin; sincere; sinners; sins; solemn; sordid; sorrow; soul; spirit; spiritual; state; strength; subject; tcp; tears; temporal; text; thee; thine; things; thou; thoughts; thy; time; torments; transitory; treasure; trembling; true; universe; use; vain; vanities; vanity; verity; vertue; vii; viii; vision; voice; want; way; whil'st; wilt; works; world; wounded cache: A23773.xml plain text: A23773.txt item: #18 of 26 id: A23803 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: The whole duty of mourning and the great concern of preparing our selves for death, practically considered / written some years since by the author of The whole duty of man, and now published upon the sad occasion of the death of our Most Gracious Sovereign Lady Mary the II, Queen of England, &c. of blessed memory. date: 1695.0 words: 34243 flesch: 65 summary: Death hath his several Instruments to accomplish his Ends ; sometimes we are taken away by Violence and secret Influence , by the Aspect of a Star , and the stink of a Mist , or by the sending out of a Cloud , and meeting of a Vapour ; Accidents has happened , by the Fall of a Chariot , a sinking House , or a high mettled Horse to cast his Rider ; others by the stumbling at a Stone ▪ the scratch of a Nail or Fin , by a full Meal , or an empty Stomach , by watching at the Wine , and drinking of it in full Bowls and Glasses , the Healths of others , when in the mean time they destroy their own : Some by too great Study and Watching at Prayer , others is blasted by the Sun , or Planet-struck by the Moon ; sometimes Death's Harbingers are Heats or Golds , watchfull Nights , or slumbring Days ; by Water turn'd into Ice , or thaw'd into the Flouds of a River ; sometimes by a Hair , or a Ra●sin ; by violent Motion , or sitting still ; by Severity , or Dissolution ; by God's Mercy , or his Anger ; by every thing in Providence , and every thing in Manner , Nature , and Chance . and though he bring them back again , yet is this done by the Almighty for a Memorial of Death : God brings Men into such Extremities , that nothing but Death is to be expected , they receive the Sentence of Death in themselves , and despair of Life , 1 Cor. 8.9 . and are free among the Dead , in their own and others Judgment , Psal. 88.4 , 5. and thus many times they are in Deaths often , 2 Cor. 11.23 . keywords: abraham; affairs; affection; age; alas; almighty; angels; apostle; approach; author; beauty; bed; beloved; best; better; bishop; blessed; bodies; body; books; breath; care; chap; charity; children; christ; christians; cities; city; come; comfort; continual; cor; corruption; crown; david; day; days; dead; death; decay; desire; deut; dissolution; divine; doth; dust; duty; dwell; dye; earth; earthly; eccles; eebo; end; english; estate; eternal; eternity; evil; express; eyes; face; faith; faithful; fall; father; fear; flesh; food; frail; frailty; friends; fruit; gain; gate; gen; glorious; glory; god; good; goodness; gracious; grave; great; grief; hand; happiness; happy; hast; hath; head; heart; heaven; heavenly; heb; help; holy; hope; hour; house; image; immortal; isa; jerusalem; job; john; joy; kingdom; kings; knowledge; labour; law; life; light; like; little; live; living; long; lord; loss; lost; love; luke; man; mat; means; memorial; memory; men; mercy; mind; miseries; misery; moment; moon; mortality; mother; motion; mournful; mourning; natural; nature; nay; necessary; needs; occasion; old; pains; patience; paul; persons; pious; place; pleasure; power; prayer; prepared; present; prophet; providence; psal; queen; ready; reason; respect; rest; return; rev; rich; righteous; royal; sad; safety; saints; sam; saviour; says; seek; self; selves; sense; set; shadow; sickness; sin; sins; sleep; sorrow; soul; spirit; spiritual; strength; strong; subjects; sun; sure; tcp; text; thee; things; thou; thought; time; tree; true; vain; vanity; vii; viii; walk; want; water; way; wicked; wise; wish; words; work; world; xii; xiii; years cache: A23803.xml plain text: A23803.txt item: #19 of 26 id: A23804 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: The whole duty of prayer containing devotions for every day in the week, and for several occasions, ordinary and extraordinary / by the author of The whole duty of man ... date: 1692.0 words: 31796 flesch: 55 summary: THis is the day which the Lord hath made , let me rejoyce and be glad therein , it is a day of rest and sweetness unto my Soul , and a day of Ease from Labour● unto my Body ; as thou , O God , didst rest this day from the Works of thy Creation , so grant that I may cease this day from all Sin , and by an earnest Repentance implore thy Pardon ; thaw this frozen Heart of mine , that this day it may melt at thy presence ; and say unto my Soul those comfortable Words which thou wert pleased once to say to Zacheus , This day is Salvation come to thy House , O Lord , I am utterly unworthy in my self to stand at the Door of thy Sanctuary , much less to appear in thy presence , and be made partaker of thy Heavenly Gifts , for thou , O Lord art a God of pure Eyes , and canst not behold Iniquity ; and I am thy sinful Creature , not only wilfully opposite unto thee , but even Enmity it self against thee . LORD hear my Prayers , and let my Praises be acceptable in thy sight , for unto thee , O Lord , upon the Altar of my Heart do I offer up all possible Praise and Thanksgiving , for all thy Blessings both Spiritual and Temporal , which thou hast in a great measure bestowed upon me ; but above all , for Jesus Christ the Fountain of them all , by whom I have Redemption through his Blood , and Access through his Life . keywords: affections; almighty; angels; behold; benefits; blessed; blessings; blood; bodies; body; bring; children; christ; church; comfort; compassion; conscience; danger; darkness; day; days; dear; death; deep; deliverance; didst; divine; duty; earth; end; endue; enemies; eternal; evening; everlasting; evil; eye; eyes; face; faith; family; father; favour; fear; flesh; food; glorious; glory; god; good; goodness; grace; gracious; grant; great; guide; hand; hast; hath; health; heart; heaven; heavenly; help; holiness; holy; holy spirit; honour; hope; hour; humility; ibid; infinite; iniquity; jesus; jesus christ; justice; kindness; kingdom; land; law; life; like; live; lively; living; lord god; lord jesus; love; majesty; man; meditations; men; mercies; merciful; mercy; mind; morning; new; night; o lord; obedience; occasions; offer; pardon; past; patience; peace; pleased; pleasure; poor; power; praise; prayer; prayer p.; precious; presence; present; providence; pure; queen; receive; redemption; rejoyce; rest; return; righteousness; royal; sacrifice; saints; sake; salvation; saviour; sea; self; selves; servant; service; sick; sins; sleep; son; sons; soul; spirit; spiritual; strength; tcp; temporal; text; thanksgiving; thee; thine; things; thou; thou art; thou lord; thou o; thoughts; thy; thy holy; time; truth; understanding; vouchsafe; waters; way; wilt; wisdom; words; work; world cache: A23804.xml plain text: A23804.txt item: #20 of 26 id: A27003 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: The ready way of confuting Mr. Baxter a specimen of the present mode of controversie in England. date: 1682.0 words: 4019 flesch: 69 summary: The ready way of confuting Mr. Baxter a specimen of the present mode of controversie in England. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1395:31) The ready way of confuting Mr. Baxter a specimen of the present mode of controversie in England. keywords: allestry; baxter; blood; books; characters; cold; day; dead; early; eebo; england; english; forgiveness; general; great; hand; house; king; life; long; man; men; monk; oxford; parliament; party; presbyterians; present; report; richard; saith; sir; tcp; tei; text; thomas; time; true; truth; words; years cache: A27003.xml plain text: A27003.txt item: #21 of 26 id: A38268 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: A defence and continuation of the Discourse concerning the period of humane life being a reply to a late answer, entituled A letter to a gentleman, &c. : to which is added, an appendix wherein several objections urged in private are considered, and Mr. Gales severe, but groundless charge is examined. date: 1678.0 words: 16107 flesch: 66 summary: First , Scripture ( he says ) frequently compares the life of man to the Grass ; the flourishing and decaying of which , is fixed and determined . Man that is born of a Woman , is of few days and full of trouble , he cometh forth as a Flower , and is cut down . keywords: absolute; account; act; actions; acts; agent; answer; appendix; argument; author; bad; books; cause; charge; conditions; creature; danger; dangerous; david; days; death; decree; defence; desire; determined; discourse; divine; doctrin; doth; eebo; end; english; eternity; evident; examin; excellent; free; future; gale; general; gentleman; god; good; great; ground; hath; hezekiah; holy; humane; humane life; independent; judgment; knowledge; late; letter; life; like; lives; long; lord; man; means; men; natural; nature; necessity; notion; old; opinion; pag; particular; period; philosophy; place; plain; possible; power; prayer; price; private; prolong; providence; reason; repentance; reply; result; sacred; saying; scripture; second; self; severe; sin; sure; tcp; text; thee; things; thou; threatning; time; true; truth; use; ways; wicked; words; world cache: A38268.xml plain text: A38268.txt item: #22 of 26 id: A41038 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: The life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond written by John Fell ... date: 1662.0 words: 30182 flesch: 34 summary: For the little good I am now able to doe , I can doe it with deliberation and advice : but if it please God I should live and be call'd to any higher Office in the Church , I must then doe many things in a hurry , and shall not have time to consult with others , and I sufficiently apprehend the danger of relying on my own Judgement . In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. keywords: account; advantage; advice; affairs; affected; affectionate; almighty; alwaies; ancient; annotations; answer; appear'd; appearance; arguments; assistance; attendance; author; bear; bed; beginning; behalf; beloved; benefit; best; better; bishop; blessing; body; books; business; call'd; care; cause; certain; chamber; characters; charge; charity; children; choice; christian; church; clergy; college; common; concern'd; condition; considerable; consideration; constant; content; danger; day; dayes; dean; death; degree; design'd; desir'd; desire; devotions; different; diligence; discourse; disease; dispute; distance; divines; divinity; doctor; doe; duty; early; edition; eebo; effect; eminent; employ'd; employment; engag'd; english; equal; example; excellent; expedient; faculties; family; farther; finding; fit; friend; friendship; future; general; giving; god; good; good doctor; gout; great; greater; greatest; ground; guilt; hammond; hand; happen'd; having; health; highest; holy; hours; house; humility; ill; immediate; importunate; instance; interest; issue; john; judg'd; judgement; kinde; kindness; knowledge; labour'd; large; later; lay; learning; liberal; life; like; little; london; long; lord; love; low; majesty; making; man; manner; master; means; men; mercy; method; morning; nation; natural; nature; nay; necessary; need; neighbours; new; night; non; number; obedience; occasion; office; old; onely; ones; opportunities; opportunity; order; oxford; particular; parts; passion; past; peculiar; pensehurst; perfect; performance; person; piety; pious; place; pleasure; point; poor; possible; power; practical; practice; prayer; preaching; present; prince; private; providence; publick; purpose; quality; rate; reason; reception; reference; relief; religion; restraint; return; return'd; reverend; ruine; sacred; satisfaction; satisfied; scarce; seasonable; second; self; selves; sermon; servant; service; set; short; sickness; single; sober; solemn; soul; state; stead; stone; strict; studies; study; summe; sure; task; tcp; temper; tender; tenderness; text; thing; thoughts; time; tract; truth; unhappy; university; us'd; use; useful; usual; vertue; want; war; way; week; wonder; words; work; world; worst; writings; years; young; youth; zeal cache: A41038.xml plain text: A41038.txt item: #23 of 26 id: A41040 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: The privileges of the University of Oxford in point of visitation cleerly evidenced by letter to an honourable personage : together with the university's answer to the summons of the visitors. date: 1647.0 words: 3390 flesch: 70 summary: And in 19. El●●zab . part 12. in dors . rot. And in 19. El●●zab . part 12. in dors . rot. keywords: a41040; act; answer; authority; bonif; books; confirm'd; dors; early; english; foundation; hare; hen; honourable; john; jurisdiction; kings; letter; lib; ox ●; oxford; parliament; personage; point; power; privileges; right; rot; statut; tcp; text; title; university; vet; visitation; visitors; vniv; words; ● ● cache: A41040.xml plain text: A41040.txt item: #24 of 26 id: A56225 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: The Vniversity of Oxfords plea refuted, or, A full answer to a late printed paper intituled, The priviledges of the University of Oxford in point of visitation together with the universities answer to the summons of the visitors ... / by William Prynne, Esq. ... date: 1647.0 words: 22044 flesch: 36 summary: 3. in Dorso , for visiting the University of Cambridg ; wherein Sir William Paget , Contributor of the Kings houshold , Thomas Smith the Kings Secretary , Iohn Cheek the Kings Tutor●William Mayor Doctor of Law ; one of the Master of Requests , and Dean of Pauls , and Thomas W●●die the Kings Physitian , or any 7. 6. To the fifth I answer ; First , that if these Objections were of moment , they might all be made against all proceedings of Justices of Ass●● , Justices of Peace , and Juries , at Assi●es and Sessions ; yea , against Magna Chart● , and the fundamental Laws of the Realm , which enact ; That no man shal be condemned or proceeded against , but by the Lawfull Iudgment of his PEERS , not of Kings and Nobles , of his Superior● ; And against all proceedings in the University it self , either in Congregation , Convocation or the Vice-Chancellors Court , where Schollars and others are judged and ordered by fellow-subjects , and the whole University , by some particular Members of it , without any guilt of perjury or violence offered , either to nature or common justice . keywords: a56225; academiae; act; acts; advice; aliis; aliquo; alured; ancient; anciently; angliae; anno; answer; antiqu; apud; arbitrio; archbishop; archiepiscopum; arundel; atque; aut; authority; better; bishop; boniface; books; brent; brit; bull; buls; cambridge; cancellarius; canon; cantebrigiae; canterbury; cantuariensis; capella; cardinal; case; catalogue; chancellour; charles; charters; christo; church; clause; cleer; colledges; collegii; collegium; commissarios; commission; commissioners; committee; commons; consuetudine; contest; continuatione; contrary; controversie; convenit; convocation; coram; court; courtney; cum; day; delegates; demonstrate; determination; dictis; dicto; dictum; die; diocaesis; diocesse; dispute; dit; divers; doctoribus; doctors; domino; dominus; doth; duodecimo; early; eccles; ecclesiam; edward; eisdem; ejusdem; election; eliensis; eliz; england; english; eodem; eorum; episcopal; ergo; est; et quod; etiam; eundem; evidence; evident; ex ●; exemption; exigentiam; expresse; extant; false; fellow; fift; fol; forma; foundation; founders; fourth; free; fuerint; fuisse; fuit; godwin; good; grants; gratia; great; ground; hac; hall; hals; hath; henrici; henry; hoc; hospitals; houses; hujusmodi; ibidem; immediate; intention; inter; iohn; ipsius; ipsorum; item; judicio; judicium; jure; jurisdiction; justice; juxta; king; king henry; king richard; large; late; law; letters; lincoln; lincolniensis; loco; london; lord; magistris; majesty; making; man; mandatum; maries; mary; masters; matthew; meer; members; mensis; metropolitical; modo; monasteries; necnon; new; nobis; non; nos; nostrae; nostri; nostrum; oath; obedientiam; object; old; omnes; omnia; omnibus; omnium; onely; ordinance; ordinaries; ordinary; ordinationi; ought; oxford; oxonians; oxoniensis; oxonii; page; papa; parker; parliament; pars; parte; particular; parties; patents; pater; perjury; personal; personaliter; personarum; persons; pertinere; petition; phil; places; plea; point; popes; position; potestatem; power; praedictae; praedictarum; praefato; praefatum; predecessors; prerogative; prescription; present; pretended; priories; priviledges; privilegiis; pro; proceedings; proctors; procuratores; progenitors; prorogatione; province; proviso; prynne; publike; quae; queen; question; qui; quibus; quid; quod; quos; quàm; qvam; realm; reason; recepturi; records; regem; regentium; regis; register; regni; reign; religious; requisita; resolution; respective; reverendissimus; rex; richard; richardum; right; robert; royall; said; sanctae; schedula; scholares; scholarium; schollers; seal; second; sed; self; septembris; seu; sibi; sigillo; sine; singulis; sint; sir; sive; sole; statuta; statutes; sua; suae; suam; sub; subject; substance; successores; successoribus; sui; suis; summons; suos; super; superior; support; supradictis; suum; svos; synodo; tam; tamen; tempore; temporibus; tenorem; text; things; thomas; time; title; true; truth; tunc; tàm; ulterius; una; universitate; university; vel; vestrum; vice; videlicet; visitandi; visitare; visitation; visitavit; visitors; vniversitatis; vniversities; vos; way; wel; whereof; william; words; yea; yeer; ● m; ● s; ● ● cache: A56225.xml plain text: A56225.txt item: #25 of 26 id: A75017 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: The lively oracles given to us. Or the Christians birth-right and duty, in the custody and use of the Holy Scripture. By the author of the Whole duty of man, &c. date: 1678.0 words: 56014 flesch: 64 summary: Now at this rate of infidelity , what way will they leave God to manifest any thing convincingly to the world ? which is to put him under an impotency greater then adheres to humanity : for we men have power to communicate our minds to others , to tell whether we own such or such a thing , to which we are intitled ; and we can satisfy our Auditors that it is indeed we that speak to them : but if every method God uses , do's rather increase then satisfy mens doubts , all intercourse between God and man is intercepted ; and he must do that of necessity , which Epicurus phancied he did of choice ; viz. In short , 't were endless to cite the places in these prophetic Books , wherein God do's thus condescend to solicit even the sensitive part of man ; and that with such moving Rhetoric , that I cannot but wonder at the exception som of our late Critics make against the Bible , for its defect in that particular : for Oratory is nothing but a dextrous application to the affections and passions of men . keywords: absurd; account; acts; add; advantage; affections; ages; alas; almighty; alwaies; answer; apostles; appeal; appetites; apprehensions; apt; attemt; attention; attestation; author; autority; belief; benefit; best; better; bible; bin; blessed; body; book; business; call'd; capable; care; case; cast; certain; chap; characters; children; christ; christian; christianity; church; churches; circumstances; clear; command; common; communion; comprehensive; concern'd; concerns; condition; consider'd; consideration; constant; contemt; contrary; cor; creation; credit; custody; daily; david; day; dead; death; declares; degree; deliver'd; design; design'd; deut; dignity; disciples; discourse; divine; doctrin; don; doubt; duty; earth; easy; eebo; effect; eies; eminent; end; ends; english; epistles; errors; event; evidence; evident; exact; example; excellent; faith; fall; false; farther; fathers; fear; flesh; fore; foundation; fourth; future; gen; general; gives; giving; glory; god; gods; good; goodness; gospel; great; greater; greatest; grounds; guilt; hands; happiness; having; hear; heathen; heaven; heb; higher; highest; holy; holy scripture; hom; hope; house; human; imaginable; immediat; important; infallible; inspir'd; instance; interest; israel; jews; john; judg; judgment; justice; kindness; knowledg; later; law; laws; lay; learned; leave; left; liberty; lie; life; like; little; long; lord; love; luk; making; man; manifest; mankind; manner; mans; mat; matter; mean; men; mens; mesure; method; mind; miracles; moral; moses; multitude; nation; natural; nature; nay; necessary; necessity; need; new; notions; obedience; object; oblig'd; office; old; ones; oracles; order; original; particular; parts; paul; peculiar; people; perfect; persons; pet; peter; place; plain; point; possible; posterity; power; practice; precepts; present; primitive; principle; privat; privilege; profane; promises; proof; proper; prophetic; prophets; propriety; psal; purpose; question; rate; rational; reader; reading; reason; records; regard; relation; religion; renders; reputation; requir'd; respect; revenge; reverence; right; roman; rule; sacred; said; saies; saint; salvation; savior; saying; scripture; second; sect; secular; seed; self; selves; sense; set; shews; short; sin; single; small; solemn; solomon; som; somtimes; soul; spirit; spiritual; stand; state; stile; study; subject; sufficient; sure; tcp; temporal; testament; testimony; text; thee; things; tho; thought; thro; time; title; tongue; tradition; true; trust; truth; universal; us'd; use; vain; veneration; vertue; vice; viz; vulgar; want; way; whereof; wicked; wisdom; wise; witnesses; word; work; worship; worthy; writers; writing; written; yea cache: A75017.xml plain text: A75017.txt item: #26 of 26 id: A75019 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: Private devotions for several occasions, ordinary and extraordinary date: 1660.0 words: 23114 flesch: 70 summary: I will lay me down in peace , and take my rest , for it is thou Lord only that makest me dwell in safety . O thou who hast as my high Priest , sacrificed for me , interceed for me also , and plead thy meritorious sufferings on my behalf , and suffer not , O my Redeemer , the price of thy blood to be utterly lost : And grant , O Lord , that as the sins I have to be forgiven are many , so I may love much . keywords: able; anger; approach; beseech; blessed; blessings; blood; body; bowels; broken; care; cast; christ; church; day; dear; death; desire; didst; early; earth; end; enemies; eternal; everie; evil; eyes; face; faith; father; fear; fit; flesh; glorie; glory; god; gods; good; goodness; grace; gracious; gracious lord; grant; great; greater; greatest; hand; hath; health; heart; heaven; help; holiness; holy; holy lord; honour; hope; house; inward; jesus; jesus christ; judgement; kingdome; life; light; like; long; look; lord god; lord jesus; lord thou; love; loving; man; means; men; mercie; merciful; mercy; mind; morning; mouth; neglecting; neighbour; o holy; o lord; o thou; obedience; order; outward; pardon; peace; perfect; pleased; power; praise; prayer; precious; present; private; redeemer; repentance; rest; righteousness; sake; salvation; saviour; self; selves; servant; set; sincere; sins; son; soul; spirit; spiritual; strength; suffering; temptations; text; thee; thine; things; thou; thou art; thought; thy; time; true; truth; turn; use; want; way; whatsoever; wickedness; wilt; wisdome; work; world; worthy; wrath cache: A75019.xml plain text: A75019.txt