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id: A27311
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1689.0
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title:
  A Pindaric poem to the Reverend Doctor Burnet on the honour he did me of enquiring after me and my muse by Mrs. A. Behn.

summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A27311) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 97272)


id: A30346
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1688.0
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title:
  The expedition of His Highness, the Prince of Orange, for England giving an account of the most remarkable passages thereof, from the day of his setting sail from Holland, to the first day of this instant December, 1688 : in a letter to a person of quality.

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A30346) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 52272)


id: A30375
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1688.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 3531
sentence: 80
flesch: 54
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title:
  A letter to a lord upon his happy conversion from popery to the Protestant religion by G. Burnett ...

summary:
  This is the true glory , and the sound boasting of Christianity ; for hereby is God's mercy extolled , and mans pride troddon under foot , by which a man trusting too much to himself , rebelleth against God ▪ This glorious boasting makes us humble even in our highest honours , and modest and meek in prosperity , patient and quiet in adversity ; in troubles strong and courageous , gentle towards all men , joyful in hope , fervent in prayer , full of the love of God , but empty of all love of our selves , or ought in the world ▪ yea , it makes us Christs true Beadsmen , and his sworn servants , and make us yield up our selves wholly to imitate and follow Christ , and to esteem all things else as frail and vain , yea dung and dross that we may win Christ. Right Noble Lord , WHen I consider seriously these words of St. Paul ▪ Brethren , you see your calling , that not many noble , not many wise , according to the flesh , not many mighty are called : but hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise , and weak things to confound the mighty , and base things in the world , and things not accounted of , and things that are not , to bring to nought things that are ▪ When , I say , I consider of these words so often , I admire at that rare blessing of God , which he hath vouchsafed to you a Noble and mighty Man ; namely , that he should grace you with that true and incomparable Nobility , which is attained by true Faith in Christ Jesus , and a holy life .


id: A55468
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1688.0
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title:
  Popish treaties not to be rely'd on in a letter / from a gentleman at York, to his friend in the Prince of Orange's camp ; addressed to all members of the next Parliament.

summary:
  The Spaniards and Portugueses have acted so treacherously with the Africans , and the Natives of both Indies , that the Cruelty of the History would be incredible , if it was not related by their own Historians ; their Leagues and Treaties ( the most sacred Bonds under Heaven ) were soon neglected , and the Spirit of their Religion broke all before it ; how many Millions of those innocent Creatures were murder'd in cold Blood , and for Pastime sake , with all the variety of Torments that the Devil could inspire into them ; how soon were the vast Regions of Mexico , New Spain , Peru , Hispaniola , Brasel , &c. depopulated , above twenty Millions of the poor harmless Inhabitants being put to death in full Peace , and they the best natur'd People in the World , and very Ingenious ; tho' they may seem Savages to a sort of Men , who think all Barbarians that differ from them in Habits , Manners , Customes , Diet , Religion , Language , &c. not considering that all-wise Nature hath contriv'd a different Scene of things for various Climates ; Nay , such is the Inhumanity of these Catholick Nations here at home , that they will frequently bring Strangers ( settled amongst them by the Laws of Commerce ) and their own fellow Subjects into the Inquisition ▪ especially if they are Rich , upon a pretence of some Heretical opinion , tho' they themselves at first protect and license the Opinion ; as in the case of Molino , whose Book had receiv'd an Imprimatur from most of the Inquisitors of Spain and Italy , and even from the Infallible Head of the Church , yet afterwards it was burnt , and he himself together with many of his Followers miserably tortur'd ; the Pope scarce escaping the Punishment . I will not insist upon the violations of Laws and Treaties in the Low Countries , or the Spanish Tyranny over them ▪ because the Spaniards have got so much by that Persecution and Cruelty , that they might be tempted to practise the like again ; for by forcing the Netherlanders to take up Arms for their defence , and by necessitating Queen Elizabeth to assist and preserve them , they have set up a Free and Glorious State ( as they themselves have call'd them in some Treaties ) that hath preserv'd the languishing Monarchy of Spain , and the Liberty of Christendome .


id: A30424
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1684.0
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flesch: 56
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title:
  A sermon preached at the Chappel of the Rolls on the fifth of November, 1684 being Gun-Powder-Treason day / by Gilbert Burnet.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. WE have no greater encouragement in our Addresses to God , than the remembrance of past deliverances ; and we never Worship him more decently , than when we mix our acknowledgments for what is past , with our Prayers for what is to come .


id: A30416
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1678.0
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flesch: 64
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title:
  A sermon preached at St. Dunstans in the West at the funeral of Mrs. Anne Seile, the 18th of July, 1678 by Gilbert Burnet.

summary:
  It is not only to be so far good as to live without scandal in the world , nor to quiet the clamours of Conscience which may rise upon us after some more notorious sins ; but it imports somewhat beyond all these : That a man should dedicate himself to Religion , making it his business ▪ and as the bloud circulates over the whole body , in greater vessels thorough the nobler parts , and in smaller ones even thorough the remotest members ; so the true spirit of Christianity runs through a mans whole life , with a due proportion of care and application : Not putting his whole strength to lesser matters , and doing the greatest slightly and carelesly , but applying his greatest Industry to things of chief concernment , yet so as not to be too remiss in the smallest matters . If men therefore do so carefully manage their fortunes , that they set off large portions of their time either daily , weekly , or yearly , to examine their accounts : How can it be imagined that a thing of that importance , upon which all the hopes of our eternal state depends , should be so easily transacted ?


id: A30362
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1688.0
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title:
  An enquiry into the measures of submission to the supream [sic] authority and of the grounds upon which it may be lawful or necessary for subjects to defend their religion.

summary:
  And these Laws have been put in the form of an Oath , which all that have born any Imployment either in Church or State ●ave sworn ; And ther●fore ●h●se Laws , ●or the assu●eing ●ur Liberties , do indeed bind the Kings conscience , and may af●●ct his Ministers ; y●t since it is a M●x●m of our Law , t●at the King can do no wrong , these cannot be carried so far as to justifie our taking Arms against him , be the trans●r●ssions of Law e●er so many and so manifest : And since this has be●n the consta●t Doctrine of the Church of England , it will be a very h●avy Imputation on us , if it appears , that tho we held these opinions , as long as the Court and the Crown have favoured us , ●et as soon as the Court turns against us , we change o●r Principles . 1. It is certain that the Law of Nature has put no difference nor subordina●ion among Men , except it be that of Children to Parents , or of Wives to their Husbands ; So that with Relation to the Law of Nature , all Men a●e born free ; And this Libert● must still be supposed Entire , unless so far as it is limited by Contracts , Provisions and Laws ; For a Man can ei●her bind himsel● to be a Servant , or sell himself to be a Slave , by which he becomes in the power of another , only so far as it was provided by the Contract :


id: A30368
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1688.0
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title:
  An enquiry into the reasons for abrogating the test imposed on all members of Parliament offered by Sa. Oxon.

summary:
  After that , he tells the Genty , that Transubstantiation was a Notion belonging to the School-men and Metaphysitians , and that he may bespeak their Favour , he tells them in very soft words , That their Learning was more polite and practicable in the Civil Affairs of Human Life , to understand the Rules of Honour , and the Laws of their Countrey , the practice of Martial Discipline , and the Examples of Great Men in former Ages , and by them to square their Actions in their re●●●●tive Station● , and the life . They are severe Masters , and will not be put off with Secret Civilities , Lewd Jests , Entertainments , and Healths drank to their good Success ; so now the Price of the ●residen●ship is to be pay'd , so good a Morsel as this deserved that Dr. Stillingfleet , Dr. Tillotson , Dr. Burnet , and some other Divines should be ill used , and He to preserve the Character of Drawcansir , which is as due to Him as th●t of Bays , falls upon the Articles of the Church , and upon both Houses of Parliament .


id: A30449
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1697.0
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title:
  A sermon preached before the King at Whitehall, on Christmas-Day, 1696 by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  A sermon preached before the King at Whitehall, on Christmas-Day, 1696 by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum. A sermon preached before the King at Whitehall, on Christmas-Day, 1696 by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum. Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.


id: A30333
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1680.0
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flesch: 49
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title:
  The conversion & persecutions of Eve Cohan, now called Elizabeth Verboon a person of quality of the Jewish religion, who was baptized the 10th of October, 1680, at St. Martins in the Fields, by the Right Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.

summary:
  The conversion & persecutions of Eve Cohan, now called Elizabeth Verboon a person of quality of the Jewish religion, who was baptized the 10th of October, 1680, at St. Martins in the Fields, by the Right Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 484:30) The conversion & persecutions of Eve Cohan, now called Elizabeth Verboon a person of quality of the Jewish religion, who was baptized the 10th of October, 1680, at St. Martins in the Fields, by the Right Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.


id: A30321
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
title: An answer to a letter to Dr. Burnet, occasioned by his letter to Mr. Lowth
date: 1685.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 1919
sentence: 66
flesch: 63
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summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A30321) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 47922)


id: A30450
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1697.0
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title:
  A sermon preach'd before the King in the chappel at Whitehall on the third Sunday in Lent, being the 7th day of March, 1696/7 by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  This in general then is certain , That God has not imposed Religion on the World , as it were , to lay a Tax on men , or raise a Tribute from them ; he needs nothing from us , as we cannot give him any thing ; he has only commanded us to be Religious , because it is the only possible way to exalt our Natures , to compose our Minds , and to govern our Actions . Here is then the design of Religion ▪ the chief Aim to which all the rest is directed , to raise and perfect our Natures , to make them as great and as pure , as wise and as good as is possible to raise them above the Depressions of Interest and Sense , above the Intanglements of Appetite and Passion , above little , low , and narrow things , to an enlargement of their Capacities , to an exaltation of their Thoughts and Tempers , and , in a word , to make them become like God , that is , the perfectest kind of Beings possible .


id: A30448
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1695.0
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title:
  A sermon preach'd before the King, at St. James-Chapel on the 10th of February 1694/5, being the first Sunday in Lent / by Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  Bodies 〈◊〉 great Purity and fineness of Composition , so fixe● as to be subject to no Wast , and liable to no Neces●ties ; and so well Temper'd as to suggest to us 〈◊〉 bad Thoughts ; that are capable of a great quickne●● of Motion , and of enduring a perpetual bent of 〈◊〉 Mind : Words that carry such an august sound and sense in them , that they must beget in us the highest Idea's possible of the dignity of his Person ; tha● this Person , I say , was made a Sacrifice for us , and went through such a black and ignominious Scen● of Sufferings ; that at all this distance from tha● time , the History of them cannot yet be read without giving great tenderness to every seriou● Reader ; and that all this was done only to reconcile us to God , to obtain to us the pardon o● our Sins , and the favour of God.


id: A30372
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1685.0
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title:
  A letter from Gilbert Bvrnet, D.D. to Mr. Simon Lowth, vicar of Cosmus-Blene in the diocess of Canterbury, occasioned, by his late book of the subject of church-power

summary:
  The words are remarkable : Nor do those of meaner Order and Qualily undertake that Authority which is in it self none , falls of it self to the ground , nor was ever influential upon any ? (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A30372) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 47935)


id: A30451
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1698.0
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title:
  A sermon preached before the King, at Whitehall, on the second of December, 1697. Being the day of thanksgiving for the peace. / By the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  By the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.


id: A30434
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1690.0
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title:
  A sermon preached before the Queen, at White-Hall, on the 16th day of July, 1690, being the monthly-fast by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  Would to God it were but a Secret , and not too notorious and publick ! Where is the ancient gravity and composure of Behaviour that made a large part of the Character of this Nation ? Where is the Truth and Fidelity which was formerly one of the distinctions of Englishmen ? Where is the Good-nature and Generosity that was the Ornament of those that were nobly born ? Where are even the Decencies of Religion , or of the Worship of God ? What is become of the Love of our Country , and of its ancient Government and Liberty ? What can cure all those Diseases under which we languish , but the possessing mens minds with inward principles of Religion , which will make them to become a Law and a Rule to themselves ? What can raise in men a generous love to their Country , which is the root of all Political Virtues , to so high a degree as the Principles of Christian Love and Charity , the sense of an Account to be given to God for all we do , and that noblest Principle of all Religion , the raising up our Natures to become as like the Divine Being as possibly we can ; which will give us a Zeal of doing all the good we can to Mankind , and of being publick Blessings to the Age and Place we live in .


id: A30395
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1682.0
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title:
  News from France in a letter giving a relation of the present state of the difference between the French king and the court of Rome : to which is added the Popes brief to the assembly of the clergy, and the protestation made by them in Latin : together with an English translation of them.

summary:
  You aggravate the danger of a breach between the Priesthood and the Civil Power , and the ill effects that may follow from thence , both in Church and State : And inferr that therefore you thought it became you to find out a mean for removing the difference that was encreasing , and that no mean appeared more convenient than those remedies proposed by the Fathers of the Church for tempering the Canons by a prudent condescention according to the necessity of the times , in such things as might no way endanger either the truth of Religion , or the Rules of Morality : and that you thought your Order and the whole Gallicane and indeed the Universal Church owed so much to a King that had merited so eminently of the Catholick Religion , and who was daily desiring to merit further of it , and that therefore you passed from your Rights , and resigned them to the King. or any other that have followed since that time , or any thing that has been acted or done by vertue of those , shall be no wayes hurtful or prejudicial to the Rights of the Gallicane Church , and shall turn to no Precedent or Warrant for doing the like in any other time or place ; and that none may thereupon presume to oppose the ancient Canons of the Church , or the established Customs of this Kingdom , or the received practices of the Gallicane Church , or think that he may lawfully do any thing , pursuant thereunto ; and let none be ignorant , that these things notwithstanding the Canons , Customs , Rights , and Liberties of the said Church , shall still remain and preserve their ancient Force and Authority entire :


id: A30441
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1692.0
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title:
  A sermon preached at the funeral of the Honourable Robert Boyle at St. Martins in the Fields, January 7, 1691/2 by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  And tho the errors of this good man's conduct may in some things give advantages to bad men , who are always severe censurers ; yet his unspeakable comfort is , That he can make his secret Appeals to God , who knows the whole of his heart as well as the whole of his life ; and tho here and there , things may be found that look not quite so well , and that do indeed appear worst of all to himself , who reflects the oftenest , and thinks the most heinously of them ; yet by measuring Infinite Goodness with his own proportion of it , and by finding that he can very gently pass over many and great defects in one whose principles and designs seem to be all pure and good , he from that concludes , That those allowances must be yet infinitely greater , where the Goodness is infinite ; so being assured within himself , that his vitals , his inward principles , and the scheme and course of his life are good , he from thence raises an humble confidence in himself , which tho it does not , as indeed it ought not , free him from having still low thoughts of himself , yet it delivers him from all dispiriting fear and sorrow , and gives him a firm confidence in the love and goodness of God , out of which he will often feel an incredible source of satisfaction and joy , springing up in his mind . The capacity of our Powers , and the disposition of our Minds are in a great measure born with us : The circumstances and accidents of our lives depends so immediately upon Providence , that in all these respects , Knowledge comes , at least in the preparations to it , from God : There are also many happy openings of thought , which arise within the minds of the Searchers after it , to which they did not lead themselves by any previous inferences , or by the comparing of things together .


id: A30370
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1689.0
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title:
  A letter, containing some reflections on His Majesties Declaration for liberty of conscience dated the fourth of April, 1687

summary:
  X. At the end of the Declaration , as in a Postscript , His Majesty assures his Subjects , that he will maintain them in their Properties , as well in Church and Abbey-Lands , as other Lands : but the Chief of all their Properties being the share that they have by their Representatives in the Legislative Power ; this Declaration , which breaks thro that , is no great Evidence that the rest will be maintained : and to speak plainly , when a Coronation Oath is so little remembred , other Promises must have a proportioned degree of Credit given to them : as for the Abbey Lands , the keeping them from the Church is according to the Principles of that Religion Sacriledge ; and that is a Mortal Sin , and there can no Absolution be given to any who continue in it : and so this Promise being an Obligation to maintain men in a Mortal Sin , is null and void of it self : Church-Lands are also according to the Doctrine of their Canonists , so immediatly Gods Right , that the Pope himself is only the Administrator and Dispencer , but is not the Master of them ; he can indeed make a truck for God , or let them so low , that God shall be an easy Landlord : but he cannot alter Gods Property , nor translate the Right that is in him to Sacrilegious Laymen and Hereticks . And if His Majesty renounces his Pretensions to our Allegeance as founded on the Laws of England ; and betakes himself to this Law of Nature , he will perhaps find the Counsel was a little too rash ; but to make the most of this that can be , the Law of Nations or Nature does indeed allow the Governours of all Societies a Power to serve themselves of every Member of it in the cases of extream Danger ; but no Law of Nature that has been yet heard of will conclude , that if by special Laws , a sort of men have been disabled from all Imployments , that a Prince who at his Coronation Swore to maintain those Laws , may at his pleasure extinguish all these Disabilities .


id: A30335
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1688.0
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title:
  A discourse concerning transubstantiation and idolatry being an answer to the Bishop of Oxford's plea relating to those two points.

summary:
  When they accuse them for those Corruptions of Divine Worship , they did not consider the softning Excuses of more refined Men , so much as the Acts that were done , which to be sure do always carry the stupid vulgar to the grossest degrees of Idolatry ; and therefore every step towards it is so severely forbid by God , since upon one step made in the publick Worship , the People are sure to make a great many more in their Notions of things , therefore if we should accuse the Church of Rome for all the Excesses of the past Ages , or of the more ignorant Notions in the present Age , such as Spain and Portugal , even this might be in some degree well grounded , because the publick and authoris'd Offices and Practices of that Church has given the rise to all those Disorders ; and even in this we should but copy after the Fathers , who always represent the Pagan Idolatry ; not as Cicero or Plutarch had done it , but according to the grossest Notions and Practices of the vulgar . so that tho the worshipping the Host of Heaven , or the worshipping an Image as a Resemblance of the Divinity , may be acknowledged to be the highest degrees of Idolatry , yet many other Corruptions in the Worship of God are justly reducible to it , and may be termed not only idolatrous , but Idolatry it self .


id: A30343
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1689.0
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title:
  An exhortation to peace and union in a sermon preached at St. Lawrence-Jury, on Tuesday the 26th of Novemb. 1689 / by ... Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  Parallel'd and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 to be practi●… under the present 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 A Se●…mon Preached at the A●…zes at 〈◊〉 July 8. 1689. To crown all ; We have still one reason to persuade us to reflect a little more frequently on our being Brethren , since we know our Enemies do it to purpose ; their Bottom is on Absolute Authority and Infallibility , that are maintained by Implicit Faith , and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which gives them indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ou●… Principles do not allow us ; yet it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…ccountable piece of the pervers●…ness of human nature , that false Persuasions should have so great an Influence , when certain Truths are so feeble ; and when all the weight that our Saviour has laid on mutual Love and Charity , shall have so little force , while some False Notions work more certainly .


id: A30337
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1665.0
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mime: application/xml
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sentence: 450
flesch: 65
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title:
  A discourse on the memory of that rare and truely virtuous person Sir Robert Fletcher of Saltoun who died the 13 of January last, in the thirty ninth year of his age / written by a gentleman of his acquaintance.

summary:
  In regard that , as that skilfull Statuary did engrave his Name in Pallas Shield , with so deep a stroak , as could not be defaced while the whole Statue were undone : So God did Imprint so lively treates of the Divine Nature on the Soul of Man , as the remaines thereof are yet to be seen even in the greatest Monsters of Mankinde , which the Earth doth bear . For God doth not come to a Soul , as a way-faring Man to tarry for a night ; But he dwelleth and abideth in it .


id: A30325
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6688
sentence: 125
flesch: 43
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title:
  An apology for the Church of England, with relation to the spirit of persecution for which she is accused

summary:
  As for the security which is offe●ed us in this repeating of the Kings promise● , we must crave leave to remember , that the King of France , even after he had resolved to break the Edict of Nantes , yet repeated in above an hundred Edicts , that were real and visible violations of that Edict , a clause con●irmatory of the Edict of Nantes , declaring that he would never Violate it : and in that we may see what account is to be had of all promises made to Hereticks , in matter● of Religion , by any Prince of the Roman Commu●ion , but more particularly by a Prince who has put the conduct of his Consciince in the hands of a Iesuite . Another Buffo●n , 〈…〉 to pl●gue the Nation with three or four P●pers a week , whi●h to the Reproach o● t●e Age in which we live , had but too g●eat and too general an effect , for poysoning the spirits of the Clergy .


id: A30391
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1676.0
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sentence: 404
flesch: 57
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title:
  A modest survey of the most considerable things in a discourse lately published, entituled Naked truth written in a letter to a friend.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. And it is most just that propositions this way ought to begin from them : they are Subjects , and the Laws are settled : and they gave very just cause both to Church and State to be displeased with them and to distrust them , and so they ought to address for favour upon such reasonable terms , that the insolence of their demands may give no new grounds of irritation and offence .


id: A70113
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15146
sentence: 337
flesch: 49
cache: cache/A70113.xml
txt: txt/A70113.txt
title:
  Their highness the Prince & Princess of Orange's opinion about a general liberty of conscience, &c. being a collection of four select papers.

summary:
  My first Reason is the certainest of all Reasons , That it will be His Highnesses interest to settle matters at Home , which only can be done by a Legal Toleration or Comprehension in Matters of Religion ; and by restoring the Civil Liberties of the Nation , so much invaded of late . I. Mijn Heer Fagel's first letter to Mr. Stewart -- II.


id: A30432
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9555
sentence: 211
flesch: 50
cache: cache/A30432.xml
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title:
  A sermon preached before the King & Queen at White-Hall, on Christmas-Day, 1689 by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  We have St. Paul here in my Text concluding a charge that he had given to Timothy , and in him to all that should minister in holy things , that he should from the Rules here set him , learn how he ought to behave himself in the Church of God : for since the World that is ever apt to be implicit in its thoughts of Religion , will judge of that which they do not know , nor understand , I mean the Doctrine , from that which they do see and know , I mean the lives of those who do teach and profess it ; and since the Majesty that is in some Mysteries requires a suitable authority and gravity in those that handle and propose them ; therefore the obligation that lies on Church-men to a great exactness of deportment , appears particularly from this , That the Mystery of their Religion is without controversie great ; and that it is likewise a Mystery of godliness that leads to Right thoughts of God , and to a way of worshipping him , that is suitable to his Nature and Attributes : both which considerations agree to point out this to us , That the Bishops and Pastors of the Church ought to be Men of a sublime pitch of mind , and of an unaffected strictness of holiness . It seems also unreasonable to think that God has given us Faculties which yet we must contradict and over-rule in matters of Religion .


id: A66129
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10436
sentence: 198
flesch: 36
cache: cache/A66129.xml
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title:
  The declaration of His Highnes William Henry, by the grace of God Prince of Orange, &c. of the reasons inducing him, to appear in armes in the kingdome of England, for preserving of the Protestant religion, and for restoring the lawes and liberties of England, Scotland and Ireland Here unto are added the letters of the aforesaid his illustrious Highnesse to the sea and land forces of England, together with the prayer for the present expedition.

summary:
  And Wee doe likewise resolve that as soon as the Nations are brought to a state of Quier , Wee will take care that a Parliament shall be called in Scotland , for the restoring the Ancient Constitution of that Kingdome , and for bringing the Matters of Religion to such a Setlement , that the people may live easy and happy , and for putting an end to all the Injust Violences that have been in a course of so many years Committed there . IT is both certain and evident to all men , that the publike Peace and Happines of any State or Kingdome , can not be preserved , where the Lawes , Liberties and Customes established by the lawfull authority in it , are openly transgressed and annulled : more especially where the alteration of Religion is endeavoured , and that a Religion which is contrary to Law is endeavoured to be introduced : upon which those who are most immediatly concerned in it , are indispensably bound to endeavour to preserve and maintain the established Lawes , Liberties and Customes : and above all the Religion and worship of God , that is established among them ; and to take such an effectuall care , that the Inhabitants of the said State or Kingdome , may neither be deprived of their Religion nor of their Civill Rights .


id: A30379
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
title: A letter written upon the discovery of the late plot
date: 1678.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 16096
sentence: 523
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A30379.xml
txt: txt/A30379.txt
summary:
  But I must again and again repeat , what I often told you in discourse ; That no Member of that Church can thorowly understand and believe the Principles of it , and be a good Subject even to a King of his own Perswasion : In the Jubilee in the year 1300 , He shewed himself the first day in the Pontifical Habit , but the second day , he was clothed with the Imperial Habit , a naked Sword being carried before him , and cried out with a loud voice , I am Pope and Emperor , and have both the Earthly , and Heavenly Empire .


id: B01848
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1725
sentence: 110
flesch: 78
cache: cache/B01848.xml
txt: txt/B01848.txt
title:
  The declaration of almighty God, in some few texts of scripture, recommended to the reverend conforming divines: / by G.B. B. of S----b---y ... being the publick fast appointed to implore God's assistance for the reduction of Ireland, and the overthrow of the late King James, and his rebellious forces.

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com).


id: A30399
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1685.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15921
sentence: 1461
flesch: 81
summary: c. 26. & de fide & op . l. 9. c. 15. &c. 23.
cache: cache/A30399.xml
txt: txt/A30399.txt
title:
  The Protestant's companion, or, An impartial survey and comparison of the Protestant religion as by law established, with the main doctrines of popery wherein is shewn that popery is contrary to scripture, primitive fathers and councils ... / by a true son of the Protestant Church of England as established by law.


id: A30378
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1693.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9040
sentence: 247
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A30378.xml
txt: txt/A30378.txt
title:
  A letter writ by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, to the Lord Bishop of Cov. and Litchfield, concerning a book lately published, called, A specimen of some errors and defects in the History of the reformation of the Church of England, by Anthony Harmer

summary:
  He treats me always with so much slighting and contempt , that if things of that kind could provoke me much , I should be obliged to watch over both my Thoughts and Pen for fear they should run too quick . Tho' by the way , ones Memory is no very good Voucher , in things of this kind : I published that Work on design to undeceive the World , and to give true relations of things ; therefore I am very well pleased to be informed my self , and to have the World told , tho' at my cost , if I have been mistaken in any thing .


id: A30366
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5435
sentence: 125
flesch: 52
cache: cache/A30366.xml
txt: txt/A30366.txt
title:
  An enquiry into the present state of affairs, and in particular, whether we owe allegiance to the King in these circumstances? and whether we are bound to treat with him, and to call him back again, or not?

summary:
  In a word , we do either too little or too much , if we allow him to be King , and do not likewise vest him with the whole extent of the Royal Authority . To all this it is to be answered , That the end and design of those Oaths was to secure us against the danger of Popery , as any one may see in the Acts by which they were imposed : And tho all these Oaths are still to the King ; yet that is to a Prince who subsists upon Law , and rules by Law ; and therefore if the King ceases to be King , by subverting our Constitution first , and deserting us next , then all our Oaths fall to the ground : as the Matrimonial Oath , tho made for term of Life , yet is capable of being dissolved , when that which is the Essence of the Bond is broke .


id: A30428
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9630
sentence: 224
flesch: 52
cache: cache/A30428.xml
txt: txt/A30428.txt
title:
  A sermon preached before the House of Commons, on the 31st of January, 1688 being the thanksgiving-day for the deliverance of this kingdom from popery and arbitrary power, by His Highness the Prince of Orange's means / by Gilbert Burnet ...

summary:
  The two extreams relating to Religion seem to be Atheism and Idolatry , and yet they come nearer one another than can be imagined ; for as the one worships no God , so the other makes that which is worshipped , to be no God. When we bring God down in our minds to somewhat that is like our selves , or only a very little better , the Impression that such a Religion can make on us will be but feeble , and it working only on our fears , may subdue us into a blind compliance to some contrivances that way prove of advantage to those who have invented them ; but will never purifie , nor exalt our natures , which certainly is the true design of Religion .


id: A30323
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1687.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3268
sentence: 97
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A30323.xml
txt: txt/A30323.txt
title:
  An answer to Mr. Henry Payne's letter concerning His Majesty's declaration of indulgence, writ to the author of the Letter to a dissenter

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id: A30435
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9386
sentence: 193
flesch: 47
cache: cache/A30435.xml
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title:
  A sermon preached before the King and Queen at White-Hall on the 19th day of October, 1690, being the day of thanksgiving for His Majesties preservation and success in Ireland by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  He raiseth up Kings to break his Enemies with a rod of iron , and to ●●sh them in pieces like a Potters vessel ; for the oppression of the poor , and for the sighing of the needy , God will at last arise , and set him in safety from him that puffeth at him . But to compleat the Character of David's Enemies , we are to consider them as breaking through the sacredest Bonds , and protesting that they would maintain them in the midst of the most publick Violations of them , as if they had been equally voi● both of Truth and Shame , giving and breaking their Faith as oft as either their Interests or their Vanity required it , violating the Ties of Nature , as wel as breaking the bonds of humane Society , robbin● all their Neighbours , invading Orphans trusted t● their Care , and ruining whole Provinces after the● had purchased their Protection at the most extravagant Rates , sparing neither Age nor Sex , but destroying both Cities and Countries , and hoping to compensate for all the Crimes to which their Ambition ●nd Fury could lead them , by a pretence of Zeal for ●●eir Idol , and that way of Idolatry which best plea●●d them ; and yet sometimes with the basest sort 〈◊〉 Idolaters , who beat and whip their Idols when ●●ey think they are not favourable enough to them , ●●ey might even rob their own Idol , and profane eve●● thing that had relation to it , when they them●●lves were not made the chief Idol , and served with 〈◊〉 deepest Veneration :


id: A30430
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7663
sentence: 199
flesch: 56
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title:
  A sermon preached before the House of Peers in the Abbey of Westminster, on the 5th of November, 1689, being Gun-Powder Treason-Day, as likewise the day of His Majesties landing in England by the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  But though Balaam , as he said himself , had no power to speak any thing but the words which God should put in his mouth ; in which it seems he was so intirely Passive , that he was not at all Master of himself , when he fell into those Trances ; yet after those Essays he had vainly made to Curse them , he offer●d an advice to Balak , that had a more certain Effect than all the Curses that were desired from him could have had ; which was this , he knew well that God's favour to that People was Conditional , and so could last no longer than they should continue observing their Part of the Covenant ; therefore he Counselled Balak to endeavour first to Corrupt their Morals , and then to Debauch them in their Religion ; or as it is expressed by the Spirit of God , Rev. 2. 4. He taught Balak to cast a Stumbling-block before the People of Israel , to eat things Sacrific'd to Idols , and to commit Fornication ; lewd Women were sent in among them , to intice them first to Vice , and then to the Idolatry of Baal-peor ; the Rites of which were so Indecent , that as the Scripture wraps them up in general words ; so it is better to pass them over , than to explain them . THERE is somewhat in Ease and Prosperity , that does so weaken the Minds of Men , who are apt enough , even without that softning , to forget all the Good they receive , and both the Author of it , and the Instruments made use of by him in it , that it is necessary to call upon them often to reflect on what is past ; and that not only on these visible Blessings of God to them , that fall under the observation of all the World , but on the secret methods , as well as the hidden designs of Providence .


id: A70226
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4705
sentence: 145
flesch: 60
cache: cache/A70226.xml
txt: txt/A70226.txt
title:
  A word to the wavering, or, An answer to the enquiry into the present state of affairs whether we owe allegiance to the King in these circumstances? &c. : with a postscript of subjection to the higher powers / by G.B.

summary:
  The King never ceases to be a King till he ceases to be a Man ; and it is a contradiction in terminis , that the next Heir , should be at the same time King : For if he be actually King , he is no Heir ; and while he is an Heir , he is no King. Besides , considering the distance of time between Richard II. and Edward IV. which was 60 Yeras probably erasing them would not quit Cost , nor be tanti , in comparison of the Smoak and Puther those Agitations might raise , between King and People ; to prevent which , the Wisdom of those latter Definitions ( you speak of ) is Conspicuous , and has been Successfull to the Peace and Welfare of the Kingdom .


id: A30398
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7673
sentence: 195
flesch: 51
cache: cache/A30398.xml
txt: txt/A30398.txt
title:
  A pastoral letter writ by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum, to the clergy of his diocess, concerning the oaths of allegiance and supremacy to K. William and Q. Mary

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. King and Queen of England , Scotland , France , and Ireland .


id: A30360
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3425
sentence: 102
flesch: 60
cache: cache/A30360.xml
txt: txt/A30360.txt
title:
  Injunctions for the arch-deacons of the diocess of Sarum to be delivered by them to the clergy in their Easter-visitations, 1690 : together with a letter from their diocesan, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  You are to enquire , If under the pretence of having the benefit of the Indulgence granted by Law there are any that do cast off quite the Worship of God , neither coming to Church , nor going to any of the Meetings of the Dissenters ; and since it was far from the intent of the Law to grant any Indulgence to Atheism , you are to enquire after all such persons , that they may be procéeded against ; but you are not to suffer any Uexation to be created upon this pretence , to any that go to the Méetings of the Dissenters . And in order to their doing this aright , infuse into them a great reverence for the Lord's Day , as a time separated from the common business of life , for their attending on the Worship of God , and such other Religious Exercises as may both increase their knowledge and their sense of Divine Matters , and that therefore they ought not to satisfie themselves with going to Church , and assisting publickly in the Service of God ; but that they should set themselves more to Prayer on that day , and to the reading of Scriptures , or other good Books , both apart and together in their Families , that so they may grow up in Grace , and in the Knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.


id: A30413
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1673.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21730
sentence: 525
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A30413.xml
txt: txt/A30413.txt
title:
  Romes glory, or, A collection of divers miracles wrought by popish saints, both during their lives and after their deaths collected out of their own authors for information of all true-hearted Protestants ; together with a prefatory discourse declaring the impossibility and folly of such vain impostures.

summary:
  The words of St. Anthony were of such force in the mind of him that was Confessed , that when he came home , he himself cut off the same Foot : St. Anthony being advertised thereof , caused him to be brought unto him , and restored him his Foot again , with the sign of the Cross. though she was utterly ignorant of what had been done , she presently recovered a perfect health of Body and Mind , and without delay rising up , she her self came to do service to the Bishop , being the first of the whole Family which presented to him a Cup of refection .


id: A30351
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22884
sentence: 508
flesch: 47
cache: cache/A30351.xml
txt: txt/A30351.txt
title:
  The history of the persecution of the valleys of Piedmont containing an account of what hath passed in the dissipation of the churches and the inhabitants of the valleys, which happened in the year 1686.

summary:
  They have granted unto them upon this account , from time to time , several authentick Concessions , particularly in the years 1561 , 1602 , and 1603 ; which being enacted and enroll'd in the Senate and in the Chamber of the Accompts of Turin , in the year 1620 , on consideration of a great sum of money which the Waldenses paid thereupon , as appears by the Act of Enrollment , these Concessions thus passed in form of an irrevocable Transaction and of a perpetual and inviolable Law , the execution whereof was ordained by several solemn Decrees of the Dukes of Savoy in the years 1638 , 1649 , 1654 , and 1655. Sixthly , The Edict also ordereth , that besides those that shall go out of the Valleys of their own accord , the Prince should reserve to himself a power to banish whom he shall think fit , for the securing the repose of those that remain , which supposes not only that the conditions of the Edict were so disadvantageous , that there would be many Waldenses , who would not accept them , nor depart out of their Station ; but also that their departure ought not to be looked upon as a Favour , but as a Punishment that they intended to inflict on several Waldenses , since they reserved to themselves a power to banish those who should have a mind to stay .


id: A30444
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1694.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9323
sentence: 192
flesch: 45
cache: cache/A30444.xml
txt: txt/A30444.txt
title:
  A sermon preached before the Queen at White-Hall on the 29th of May, 1694, being the anniversary of King Charles II, his birth and restauration by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  A little memory to lay things together , and a small measure of judgment to observe the visible causes and consequences of them , will serve turn here ; some may descend to more particulars than others , and may reason more exactly ; but every man is capable of thought enough upon this head , to beget in him a sense of the power and wisdom , the justice and goodness of God , in the Government of the World. Sometimes I confess a black prospect and a gloomy face of things , may be on the other hand as unreasonably aggravated by men of melancholly tempers : yet even in that case , the remembring past deliverances gives livelier and more promising hopes , so that this may be well reckoned the easiest and pleasantest exercise of Religion , nor is there any one more useful : nothing shews the folly of Man , and the wisdom of God more eminently , then when we set them together : nothing shews the corruptions of the Human Nature , and mercies of the Divine more conspicuously , nothing mitigates the sharpness of our afflictions , nor tempers our mind in prosperity so much as our depending upon Providence and ascribing the good things that happen to its influence , and not claiming too great a share in them to our selves ; nothing tempers the mind so equally in every turn and sta●● of life , as the Belief of God's go●erning the World , and the turning our thoughts frequently to serious reflections upon it .


id: A37825
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3543
sentence: 120
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A37825.xml
txt: txt/A37825.txt
title:
  An edict in the Roman law, in the 25 book of the digests, title 4, section 10 as concerning the visiting of a big-bellied woman, and the looking after what may be born by her.

summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). If a Woman upon her Husband ' s death pretends that she is with Child , she must intimate that twice every Month thereafter , to those who are the most concerned in it , or to their Proxies , that so they may send some , if they think fit , to visit her Belly .


id: A30402
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1700.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11946
sentence: 350
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A30402.xml
txt: txt/A30402.txt
title:
  Reflections on a book entituled (The rights, powers, and privileges of an English convocation, stated and vindicated) by Gilbert, Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. The Scorn with which he treats my self , and the Malice that he pours out upon me in such a copious manner , are things that I can very easily bear .


id: A58838
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1677.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 27157
sentence: 517
flesch: 41
cache: cache/A58838.xml
txt: txt/A58838.txt
title:
  The life of God in the soul of man, or, The nature and excellency of the Christian religion with the method of attaining the happiness it proposes : and An account of the beginnings and advances of a spiritual life : in two letters written to persons of honour.

summary:
  And then let us never look upon any Sin as light and inconsiderable ; but be fully perswaded , that the smallest is infinitely heynous in the sight of God , and prejudicial to the Souls of Men ; and that if we had the right sense of things , we would be deeply affected with the least Irregularities , than now we are with the greatest Crimes . The Love of God is a delightful and affectionate sence of the Divine perfections , which makes the Soul resign and sacrifice it self wholly unto him , desiring above all things to please him , and delighting in nothing so much as in fellowship and communion with him , and being ready to do or suffer any thing for his sake , or at his pleasure : though this affection may have its first rise from the Favours and Mercies of God toward our selves , yet doth it in its growth and progress transcend such particular considerations , and ground it self on his infinite goodness manifested in all the Works of Creation and Providence .


id: A64361
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1699.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2936
sentence: 92
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A64361.xml
txt: txt/A64361.txt
title:
  His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury's letter to the Right Reverend the Lords Bishops of his province

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. But in some Parts that are more remote , all of them may not so well understand either the Arts or the Industry of these Enemies of Religion : And therefore I thought it a Duty incumbent on the Station wherein Providence has placed me , to desire of You and the rest of our Brethren , to warn the Clergy under your Care , of these attempts against Religion and Virtue ; and to excite them to a Diligence proportionable to the Danger ; and to suggest to them such Methods as are most likely to work a General Reformation .


id: A58432
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1678.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15276
sentence: 472
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A58432.xml
txt: txt/A58432.txt
title:
  A relation of the barbarous and bloody massacre of about an hundred thousand Protestants, begun at Paris, and carried on over all France, by the Papists, in the year 1572 collected out of Mezeray Thuanus, and other approved authors.

summary:
  So on the 26th of August , the King went to the Court of Parliament , and after an invidious repetition of all the Troubles of his Reign , which yet he said , he intended to have quieted by the late Treaty of Peace , he discovered that the Admiral had conspired to kill him , his Brothers , and the King of Navarre , and to set up the young Prince of Conde , whom he also designed afterwards to kill , that so the whole Royal Family being destroyed , he might make himself King : and since extream Diseases required extream Remedies , he was forced to do what he had done ; and concluded , that all was done by his express Order and Command . But the Prince of Conde being advised to it , by Coligny then Admiral of France , did also declare for mitigating the Severities against the Protestants .


id: A34073
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
title: A letter to a bishop concerning the present settlement and the new oaths
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12388
sentence: 257
flesch: 46
cache: cache/A34073.xml
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summary:
  If they find themselves under such an Obligation , then their Endeavours or at least their Wishes ought to be , that the late King might be recalled to his Government ; or that , if He be unfit for Government , a Regency might be setled by the Consent of the Nation in Parliament , He still retaining the Title of King. And therefore since Conditions are vain , and that the late King was unfit for Government , They were for having a Regency set up during the late King's life , He retaining only the Title of King ; and this they thought would salve their Oaths to Him , and their Consciences .


id: A30327
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1700.0
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title:
  Charitable reproof a sermon preached at the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow to the Societies for Reformation of Manners, the 25th of March, 1700 / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  But we need not another Enemy than our selves ; we are going into such strong and deeply rooted Animosities , our hatred to one another , our jealousy of one another , our quarrels and factions , do so increase , and are growing to such a height , that if no Temper can be found , and if there is no Interposition from the Goodness of God , or the Wisdom of Men , to put a stop to the progress of all these Evils , they must end fatally at last ; we may go on to bite and devour one another , till in conclusion we are consumed one of another . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.


id: A30477
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1678.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 12108
sentence: 386
flesch: 64
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title:
  The unreasonableness and impiety of popery: in a second letter written upon the discovery of the late plot..

summary:
  If then there be such reasons offered them , for susspecting foul dealing from their Priests and Church , as would make them suspect an Attorney , Physician , or any other person with whom they were to deal , they will be prepared to hear reason ; which is all that we desire : and upon this Head these following Considerations may be laid before them . First , Whatever Church offers cheap and easie pardons for sin , does take off so much from our sense of the evil of sin .


id: A30417
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1680.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 11918
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flesch: 59
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title:
  A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the city of London, at Bow-Church, September 2, 1680 being the anniversary fast for the burning of London / by Gilbert Burnet.

summary:
  It would very ill become one that saw it not , to spend much Discourse about it to those that saw it , and as it is to be presumed , will never forget it , but will tell it to the succeeding Age ; as God commanded the Israelites to convey down to Posterity , the remembrance of the Captivity they had groaned under in Egypt , with the signal Deliverance out of it : for things of so extraordinary a nature ought never to be forgotten . These are things to which men must be long and well prepared , before they can think they believe them : for it may be justly made a Question , whether they do , or indeed can believe them ? This Religion must of necessity , for its own support , extinguish the Light of the Scriptures : in which , the part that came more immediately , than any other , from God himself , has not escaped their Expurgation : I mean , the ten Commandments ; of which , the Second , one of the fullest and most copious of them is left out of their Catechismes : because it must have cleansed the Churches of Images , and the many other Monuments of Idolatry , with which they had defiled it .


id: A30320
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
title: Animadversions on the Reflections upon Dr. B's travels
date: 1688.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 10817
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flesch: 66
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summary:
  The Reflecter's calling an Extract drawn from a Record , the Fable of the Monks of Bern , is a beauty of Stile peculiar to him : If he had proved , that Dr. B. had falsified the Record , he might justly have called it a Fable , and have also bestowed on the Doctor all the good words that he could invent . Now if he had examined the different sorts of Cubits , either in that Noble Essay , or in other good Authors ; or if he had sought for it in Greek or Latin Dictionaries , he would have found , that as the common Cubit was indeed only a Foot and an half , so there was another Cubit that was Two Foot : and thus this Reflection sinks to the Ground , and here the Reflecter's Learning ends ;


id: A36839
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1680.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4169
sentence: 135
flesch: 65
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title:
  The last words of Lewis du Moulin being his retractation of all the personal reflectins he had made on the divines of the Church of England (in several books of his) / signed by himself on the 5th and the 17th day of October, 1680.

summary:
  For he would have shown him , in the best Reformed Divines , as zealous expressions , as he uses , against an Idle , Naked Faith : and besides would have turned him to a Chapter in that very Book ( the last but one ) where he would have found that he was far from taking men off from depending on Christ , and upon Christ alone for Salvation : for he directs them there how to doe it safely ; and onely told them , they must do something else , before they can come to this high act of Faith , to trust that by Christ's merits and God's mercy , they shall be justified . Where , inquiring after the reason of the boundless ambition which still continues to reign in the breasts of mortal men , notwithstanding the sad fates of those that have gone before them , gives an answer , which may serve for a reason of all other passions wherewith men are madly transported ; which is this , that they lay before them the actions , but not the ends of those that preceded them .


id: A30380
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5930
sentence: 147
flesch: 54
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title:
  The libertine overthrown, or, A mirror for atheists wherein they may clearly see their prodigious follies, vast extravagancies, notorious impieties and absurdities : containing a compendious account of the ... life and ... death of that the whole ... abstracted from the remarks of the Right Reverend D. Gilbert Burnet ... and the Reverend Mr. Parsons ...

summary:
  But so far this went with him , ●●at he resolved firmly to change the course of his ●●fe , which he thought he should effect by the 〈◊〉 of Philosophy , and had not a few no less 〈◊〉 than pleasant Notions concerning the folly 〈◊〉 madness of Vice : but he confessed he had no ●●morse for his past actions , as offences against 〈◊〉 , but only as Injuries to himself and man●●nd . THE daily growth of Impiety and Athe●●● amongst the meaner sort , obliges me to publ●shing the ensuing compendious Abstr●●● wherein will appear the emptiness , shallowness and significany of the greatest and wisest Arguments , aga●●● the Being of an Omnipotent Jehovah ; in hand● of which , I shall transcribe the Remarkable Pass●●● of the Life of John Earl of Rochester , a Great M●●● a greater Sinner , but at the last by divine Mercy , a 〈◊〉 Eminent and Zealous Penitent .


id: A30390
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1669.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 36904
sentence: 1155
flesch: 67
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title:
  A modest and free conference betwixt a conformist and a non-conformist about the present distempers of Scotland now in seven dialogues / by a lover of peace.

summary:
  You had in●volved the Nations in blood ; and not satisfie● with this , after you got all the security yo● could demand , you engaged with his enemie● in England , against him ; you opposed the de●sign of delivering his Father , But we need not seek to rifle the Ca●binets of the King , and his Councellors , ther● being many apparent cogent reasons , to have en●forced the change .


id: A30414
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
title: The royal martyr, and the dutiful subject in two sermons / by G. Burnet.
date: 1675.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19566
sentence: 400
flesch: 45
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summary:
  Nay , Religion will be perhaps called in to serve a turn , and Scriptures wrested to a favourable construction ; all this base and foul dealing will so wound a tender and sincere Conscience , that it will either contract a hardness and callus , and become proof against all these awakenings ; or pull a man out of these base Courses that must be carried on by so bad Methods ; for there is nothing so candid as Conscience , and therefore S. Paul chargeth us not to lye one to another , since we have put off the old man with his deeds , and have put on the new man ; for he that does all things as in the sight of God , can do nothing that he fears should be seen or known of men . Besides , his going to live at Gath with the Uncircumcised , his cutting off the Amalekites , and pretending to Achish that he had destroyed his own People by an unjustifiable deceit ; and finally his going out with the Armies of the Philistines , and professing a great desire to fight against the Enemies of Achish , who were no other but Saul , his natural liege-Lord , and the Armies of Israel ( wherein he either acted a very unsincere part , or did really resolve to have engaged against them ) are things so manifestly contrary to the Laws of God , that they give a strong presumption , that the whole business of his taking Armes was contrary to Law and Religion .


id: A30397
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1698.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7131
sentence: 254
flesch: 67
cache: cache/A30397.xml
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title:
  Of charity to the houshold of faith a sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the aldermen, and governors of the several hospitals of the city, at St. Bridget's Church on Easter-Monday, 1698 : being one of the anniversary spittal-sermons / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  Vanity or Interest may draw somewhat from him , but if he has not this Principle of Charity within him , though he should give all his Goods to the Poor , yet he is nothing in the sight of God , and he has nothing , he has no reason to expect the rewards of true Charity , if what he does is only to be seen of Men , or to trade and truck with God. Of charity to the houshold of faith a sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the aldermen, and governors of the several hospitals of the city, at St. Bridget's Church on Easter-Monday, 1698 : being one of the anniversary spittal-sermons / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.


id: A66131
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1688.0
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mime: application/xml
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flesch: 50
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title:
  The Prince of Orange his declaration shewing the reasons why he invades England : with a short preface, and some modest remarks on it.

summary:
  And Wee do likewise resolve that as soon as the Nations are brought to a state of Quiet Wee will take care that a Parliament shall be called in Scotland , for the restoring the Ancient Constitution of that Kingdom , and for bringing the Matters of Religion to such a Settlement , that the People may live easy and happy , and for putting an end to all the Injust Violences , that have been in a course of so many years Committed there . Tho there is nothing more certain , then that as no Lawes can be made ; but by the joint concurrence of King and Parliament , so likewise lawes so enacted , which secure the Publike peace , and safety of the Nation , and the lives and liberties of every subject in it , can not be repealed or suspended but by the same authority .


id: A30373
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
title: A letter occasioned by the second letter to Dr. Burnet, written to a friend
date: 1685.0
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mime: application/xml
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sentence: 98
flesch: 51
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summary:
  So he thought Bishops and Priests were at first the same thing , and one Office ; and that Princes as well as Bishops , might make Priests ; and that Consecration was not necessary by Scripture to make one a Bishop , or a Priest , but that Election , or Appointing thereto was sufficient : The Archbishop of York differed from Cranmer , and argued these Points copiously , considering the Nature of those Papers , and proved , That the Apostles had Power from Christ to ordain Bishops and Priests ; and that no other Authority was required for doing that , but that which they derived from God ; and that a Bishop is the Overseer of the Priests , who are the Shepherds of particular Flocks ; which distinction he said was derived from the Apostles and the primitive Church ; and asserted , That none but Bishops or Priests could make a Priest : And by a great many Arguments both from the Old and New Testament , he prove that Consecration was necessary , and that Appointment without it was neither convenient nor sufficient ; and that tho in cases of necessity any Christian , tho a Lay-man , might preach and baptize , yet he could not make a Priest ; for no Authority that comes from the Holy Ghost can be used by any Man , unless he has a Commission for it grounded in Scripture ; Tradition , or ancient Use ; and that this Authority was only committed by Scripture to the Apostles , and was from them derived to their Successors ; All the other Bishops and Divines , except the Bishop of St. Davids , whose Paper is lost , agreed with the Archbishop of York in most of his Opinions ; only some of the Divines , Leighton in particular , thought , that a Christian Prince's Consent ought to have been asked by the Apostles , if there had been any at that time , before they had gone , to make Bishops and Priests .


id: A30324
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
title: An answer to the Animadversions on the History of the rights of princes, &c. by Gilbert Burnet.
date: 1682.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 10775
sentence: 291
flesch: 60
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summary:
  yet lest I should fall asleep upon this confidence , I am told in the end that if I do not speedily correct in a second Impression what is amiss in the first , I may look for some rougher hand ; but what hand can be rougher that keeps the Kings Peace , and does not use a Cudgel or a Brick-bat , I do not imagine : For how I can be used more sharply in words , than when I am taxed with want of Integrity and Ingenuity , of falshood and sedition , and being an Enemy to the Government both in Church and State , I cannot readily apprehend . I cite but four of these , and of the first it does not appear what sort of Church it was ; of the second it is clear it was the Cathedral , where St. Martins body lay ; and it mentions Rectors as well as the Abbot .


id: A30425
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7927
sentence: 170
flesch: 50
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title:
  A sermon preached in the chappel of St. James's, before His Highness the Prince of Orange, the 23d of December, 1688 by Gilbert Burnet ...

summary:
  But which is above all , we are blest with that holy Religion which the Son of God revealed to the World , and we are Reformed from those Corruptions which had defiled it , and that in so equal a manner , that we are the chief Object of the Roman Fury , as well as the just Glory of the Reformation : We have had the truths of Religion both in the points of Speculation and Practice opened to us with such advantages , that if we stumble or lose our way in the midst of so much light , we have more to answer for than any Nation under Heaven : and to Crown all , God has put us so far into the hands of our Enemies , as to let us clearly see what we were to expect from them . But if Revenge and Animosity prevail over the softer and wiser Councils , that Reason and Religion may suggest , and if in all that we do , we take not care to have God ever on our sides , it will be easie for him to blast all Councils , and to defeat even the greatest and best-laid Designs .


id: A48024
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1687.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 31145
sentence: 599
flesch: 44
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title:
  A relation of the death of the primitive persecutors written originally in Latin by L.C.F. Lactantius ; Englished by Gilbert Burnet, D.D., to which he hath made a large preface concerning persecution.

summary:
  Men likewise receive with their Impressions of Religion such a respect for them , as makes them look on every thought that calls them in question as criminal : and when persons are bred up to disquiet themselves with Scruples , if they have so much as made a doubt of their Religion , it is not hard to see them adhere so firmly to the Principles of their Education , which stick so fast to the worst sort of men , that even Atheists themselves after all the pains they take to get rid of them , cannot shake them off so entirely , but that they will be apt to return oft upon them . The Officers came with their unreasonable Demands , and those who had not wherewith to satisfy them , were subjected to great Variety of Tortures from which they had no way to save themselves , but by doing that which was impossible for them : Men were beset with such numbers of Souldiers , that they could hardly breath for them : there was little or no cessation in the Trouble to which they were put all the year round ; the very Iudges and the Souldiers that attended upon them , fell into many Quarrels amongst themselves : there was not a Barn nor a Vineyard that was not severely visited ; nor indeed was there enough left to preserve men alive .


id: A69658
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1681.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12983
sentence: 371
flesch: 59
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title:
  An exhortation to peace and union a sermon preached at St. Lawrence-Jury, at the election of the Lord-Mayor of London, on the 29th of September, 1681 / by Gilbert Burnet ...

summary:
  Things of great moment may be managed by men of prudent and calm tempers in so soft a manner , that none of their differences shall be able to divide them : and the inconsiderablest things possible , may by the ill natured sophistry of angry men , be raised up to seem matters of the greatest moment . It is as certain as any humane thing can possibly be , that when any Body of men are engaged against a Common Enemy , and yet divided among themselves and jealous of one another , they will rather let the Enemy prevail than assist their brethren , even in the wisest and best things , if they think the honour of such actions will raise the credit of their Rivals .


id: A54862
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1683.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 38199
sentence: 2065
flesch: 74
cache: cache/A54862.xml
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title:
  A vindication of the King's sovereign rights together with A justification of his royal exercises thereof, in all causes, and over all persons ecclesiastical (as well as by consequence) over all ecclesiastical bodies corporate, and cathedrals, more particularly applyed to the King's free chappel and church of Sarum, upon occasion of the Dean of Sarum's narrative and collections, made by the order and command of the most noble and most honourable, the lords commissioners, appointed by the King's Majesty for ecclesiastical promotions : by way of reply unto the answer of the Lord Bishop of Sarum, presented to the aforesaid most honourable Lords.

summary:
  AAron , Page 304 Abbendone , Edmund de , Page 291 Abendon , Richard de , Page 331 — William de , Page 285 , 326 Abingdon , John de , Page 311 — William de , Page 298 Abney , John , Page 244 Abbot , Robert , Page 276 Abraham , Page 291 Abyndon , John de , Page 327 Adam , Page 288 , 304 Addison , Lancelot , Page 332 Adelelmus , Page 304 Aermyn , Richard de , Page 289 Aiscough , William , Page 274 Akkeburne , Lawrence de , Page 273 St. Albano , Elias de , Page 289 Alchmund , Page 270 Alcock , John , Page 310 Alchorn , Edward , Page 236 Aldhelm , Page 269 Alexander , Page 294 Alfar , Page 271 Alfius , Page 270 Allfftan , Page 271 Alfred , Page 270 Alfrick , Page 271 Alfwold , Page 270 Allix , Peter , Page 294 Alleston , Robert de , Page 301 Alnewyke , William , Page 294 Albert , Joseph , Page 138 Andrews , Nicholas , Page 328 Andrew , Ric. Page 296 , 321 Arche , Richard , Page 293 Arena , Andreas Ammonius de , Page 322 Arundel , Francis , Page 258 ... John , Page 312 , 314 Ashley , Anne , Page 57 ... ... Gertrude , Page 54 ... Margaret , Page 55 , 58 Asser , ....


id: A30466
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1680.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 25928
sentence: 693
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A30466.xml
txt: txt/A30466.txt
title:
  Some passages of the life and death of the right honourable John, Earl of Rochester who died the 26th of July, 1680 / written by his own direction on his death-bed by Gilbert Burnet ...

summary:
  How Animals or Men are formed in their Mothers bellies , how Seeds grow in the Earth , how the Soul dwells in the Body , and acts and moves it ; How we retain the Figures of so many words or things in our Memories , and how we draw them out so easily and orderly in our Thoughts or Discourses ? How Sight and Hearing were so quick and distinct , how we move , and how Bodies were compounded and united ? These things if we follow them into all the Difficulties , that we may raise about them , will appear every whit as unaccountable as any Mystery of Religion : And a blind or deaf man would judge Sight or Hearing as incredible , as any Mystery may be judged by us : All this he freely confessed was true , Upon which I urged , that if it was reasonable for a man to regulate his Appetite in things which he knew were hurtful to him ; Was it not as reasonable for God to prescribe a Regulating of those Appetites , whose unrestrained Course did produce such mischievous effects .


id: A30334
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1687.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 31644
sentence: 722
flesch: 54
cache: cache/A30334.xml
txt: txt/A30334.txt
title:
  A defense of the reflections on the ninth book of the first volum [sic] of Mr. Varillas's History of heresies being a reply to his answer / by G. Burnet ...

summary:
  A defense of the reflections on the ninth book of the first volum [sic] of Mr. Varillas's History of heresies being a reply to his answer / by G. Burnet ... A defense of the reflections on the ninth book of the first volum [sic] of Mr. Varillas's History of heresies being a reply to his answer / by G. Burnet ...


id: A30330
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1685.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 42562
sentence: 1341
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A30330.xml
txt: txt/A30330.txt
title:
  A collection of several tracts and discourses written in the years 1678, 1679, 1680, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1685 by Gilbert Burnet ; to which are added, a letter written to Dr. Burnet, giving an account of Cardinal Pool's secret power, the history of the power treason, with a vindication of the proceedings thereupon, an impartial consideration of the five Jesuits dying speeches, who were executed for the Popish Plot, 1679.

summary:
  But I must again and again repeat , what I often told you in discourse ; That no Member of that Church can thorowly understand and believe the Principles of it , and be a good Subject even to a King of his own Perswasion : If then there be such reasons offered them , for susspecting foul dealing from their Priests and Church , as would make them suspect an Attorney , Physician , or any other person with whom they were to deal , they will be prepared to hear reason ; which is all that we desire : and upon this Head these following Considerations may be laid before them .


id: A30400
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1675.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 25308
sentence: 565
flesch: 48
cache: cache/A30400.xml
txt: txt/A30400.txt
title:
  A rational method for proving the truth of the Christian religion, as it is professed in the Church of England in answer to A rational compendious way to convince without dispute all persons whatsoever dissenting from the true religion, by J.K. / by Gilbert Burnet.

summary:
  Therefore whoever would deal with our Hectors in matters of Religion , must know men as well as Noti●n● and Books . Now the generality of that Church being perswaded that if they Confess with a little Attrition , and be Absolved and receive the Sacrament , they stand clear and innocent in the presence of God ▪ whatever their former life have been , or their present temper may be ; Is not here a very sure way to defeat the whole design of Religion and Holiness , when men are taught so ea●ie a way of getting into the favour of God without repenting of and forsaking their sins ?


id: A30357
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 14893
sentence: 247
flesch: 24
cache: cache/A30357.xml
txt: txt/A30357.txt
title:
  The ill effects of animosities among Protestants in England detected and the necessity of love unto, and confidence in one another, in order to withstand the designs of their common enemies, laid open and enforced.

summary:
  Hereupon the last King not only refused to consent to such Bills as diverse late Parliaments had prepared for indulging Dissenters , & of bringing them into an union of Counsels , & conjunction of interest , with those of the Church of England , for resisting the conspiracies of the Papists against our legal Government & established Religion ; but he rejected an address for suspending the execution of the penal Laws against Fanaticks , which was offered & presented unto him by that very Parliament which had framed & enacted those cruel & villanous Laws . Posterity will hardly believe that so many of the prelatical Clergy , and so great a number of members of the Church of England , should from an enmity unto , and pretended jealousie of the Panaticks , have become Tools under the late King for justifying the Dissolution of so many Parliaments , the invasion made upon their priviledges , the ridiculing and stifling of the Popish plot , the shamming of forged Conspiracies upon Protestants , the condemning several to death for high Treason who could be rendred guilty by the Transgression of no known Law , and finally for advancing a Gentleman to the Throne , who had been engaged in a conjuration against Religion and the legal Government , and whom three several Parliaments would have therefore excluded from the Right of Succession .


id: A30470
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24923
sentence: 553
flesch: 52
cache: cache/A30470.xml
txt: txt/A30470.txt
title:
  The story of Jetzer, taken out of Dr. G. Burnet's letters with a collection of miracles wrought by popish saints, during their lives, and after their deaths, out of their own authours, for information of all true-hearted Protestants : with a prefatory discourse, declaring the impossibility and folly of such vain impostures.

summary:
  St. Ositha's Head being cut off by a Danish Pirate , at the very place a clear Fountain broke forth , which cured several kinds of Diseases ; moreover as soon as her head was off , the Body presently rose up , and taking up the Head in the Hands , by the conduct of Angels walked firmly the streight way to the Church of St. Peter and Paul , about a quarter of a Mile distant from the place of her suffering ; and when it was come there , it knocked at the door with the bloudy Hands , as desiring it might be opened , and thereon left marks of bloud ; having done this , it fell there down to the ground . though she was utterly ignorant of what had been done , she presently recovered a perfect health of Body and Mind , and without delay rising up , she her self came to doe service to the Bishop , being the first of the whole Family which presented to him a Cup of refection Cr. pag.


id: A30406
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
title: Reflections on The relation of the English reformation, lately printed at Oxford
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 29631
sentence: 710
flesch: 52
cache: cache/A30406.xml
txt: txt/A30406.txt
summary:
  Our Author intending to aggravate the Proceedings against Gardiner , shews his great Judgment in setting down the Article relating to the Kings Supremacy at full length , whereas he had only named the others ; for he could have invented nothing that must needs render all his Exceptions to the King's Supremacy more visibly unjust , than this doth , which is in these Words : That his Majesty as Supreme Head of the Church of England , hath full Power and Authority to make and set forth Laws , Injunctions , and Ordinances concerning Religion and Orders in the said Church , for repressing all Errors and Heresies , and other Enormities and Abuses ; so that the same Alteration be not contrary or repugnant to the Scriptures or Law of God. For if the Dr. hath deceived the World by a false Representation of Matters ; yet it must be confessed , that he hath done it with so good a Grace , and with such appearances of Sincerity , and of proving what he relates , and that both our Countrymen and Forreigners have read that Work so much ( as appears by the several Impressions at home , and the several Translations that have been printed beyond Sea ) that it was too great an Omission in the Author of this Recital , if he be still alive , that he hath never mentioned that History , nor said any thing to ruin the Reputation it hath gained .


id: A30381
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1681.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 29460
sentence: 773
flesch: 57
cache: cache/A30381.xml
txt: txt/A30381.txt
title:
  The life and death of Sir Matthew Hale, kt sometime Lord Chief Justice of His Majesties Court of Kings Bench. Written by Gilbert Burnett, D.D.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. So upon the whole matter , there is not that reason to expect either much truth , or great instruction , from what is written concerning Hero's or Princes ; for few have been able to imitate the patterns Suetonius set the World in writing the Lives of the Roman Emperours , with the same freedom that they had led them : But the Lives of private Men , though they seldom entertain the Reader with such a variety of passages as the other do ; Yet certainly they offer him things that are more imitable , and do present Wisdom and Virtue to him , not only in a fair Idea , which is often look't on as a piece of the Invention or Fancy of the Writer , but in such plain and familiar instances , as do both direct him better , and perswade him more ; And there are not such temptations to biass those who writ them , so that we may generally depend more on the truth of such relations as are given in them .


id: A30359
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1680.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 11201
sentence: 312
flesch: 57
summary: eng Catholic Church -- Infallibility. Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.
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txt: txt/A30359.txt
title:
  The infallibility of the Church of Rome examined and confuted in a letter to a Roman priest / by Gilbert Burnet.


id: A30455
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
title: Six papers by Gilbert Burnet.
date: 1687.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 33257
sentence: 531
flesch: 33
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summary:
  And suklik upon the first , second , and third dayes of the moneths of May , Iune , Iuly , August , September , October , November and December , one thousand six hundred eighty five , and upon the first , second , and third days o● the moneths of Ianuary , February , and remnant moneths of the year one thousand six hundred eighty ●ex , and first , second , and third days of the moneths of Ianuary , February , March , one thousand six hundred eighty seven , or ane or other of the days of ane or other of the said moneths or years ; The said Doctor Gilbert Burnet did most treasonabile Recept , Supplied , Aid●●d , Assisted , Conversed and Intercomoned with , and did favour● to the said Iames Steward , Mr. Robert-Ferguson , Thomas Stewart , William Den●olin , and Mr. Robert Martyn , forfaulted Traitors and Rebels in the Cities of R●terdam , Amsterdam , Leyden , Breda , Geneva ; or some other part or place within the Netherlands , or elsewhere ; publickly and avowedly uttered several speeches and positions , to the disdain of our Person , Authority and Government ; continues and persists in such undutiful and treasonable practises against Us and Our Government ( we being his Soveraign Lord and Prince ) expreis contrair to his Allegeance and Duty . We see before our Eyes what they have done , and are still , doing in France ; and what seeble things Edicts , Coronation Oaths , Laws and Promises , repeated over and over again , proved to be , where that Religion prevails ; and Louis le Grand makes notso contemptible a Figure in that Church , or in our Court , as to make us think , that his example may not he proposed as a Pattern , as well as Aid may be offered for an encouragement , to act the same things in England , that he is now d●ing with so much Applause in France : and it may be perhaps tho rather desired from hence to put him a little in countenance , when so great a King as ours is willing to forget himself so far as to copy after him , and to depend upon him : so that as the Doctriue and Principles of that Church must be still the same in all Ages and Places , since its chief pretension is , that it is Infallible , it is no unreasonable thing for us to be afraid of those , who will be easily induced to burn us a little here , when they are told , that such servent Zeal will save them a more lasting burning hereafter , and will perhaps quit all scores so enttirely , that they may hope scarce to endure a Singeing in Purgatory for all their other Sins .


id: A30452
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1697.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10069
sentence: 277
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A30452.xml
txt: txt/A30452.txt
title:
  A sermon preached before the King at Whitehall, on the second of December, 1697 being the day of thanksgiving for the peace / by Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  By the Right Reverend Father in God , GILBERT , Lord Bishop of SARUM , Published by His MAJESTY'S Special Command . 8. Blessed be the Lord thy God , which delighted in thee , to set thee on his Throne to be King for the Lord thy God : because thy God loved Israel , to establish them for ever , therefore made he thee King over them , to do judgment and justice .


id: A30326
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6284
sentence: 111
flesch: 36
cache: cache/A30326.xml
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title:
  The case of compulsion in matters of religion stated by G.B. ; addressed to the serious consideration of the members of the Church of England, in this present juncture.

summary:
  Men likewise receive with their impressions of Religion such a respect for them as makes them look on every thought that calls them in question as criminal ; and when Persons are bred up to disquiet themselves with scruples , if they have so much as made a doubt of their Religion , it is not hard to see them adhere so firmly to the Principles of their Education ▪ which stick so fast to the worst sort of men , that even Atheists themselves , after all the pains they take to get rid of them , cannot shake them off so entirely , but that they will be apt to return oft upon them . It is likewise visible , that all severe Proceedings upon the diversity of Opinions how effectual soever they may be on base-minded men , who will always make Shipwrack of a good Conscience when it comes in competition with the Love of this present World , yet work quite contrariwise on Men of awakened Understandings and generous Souls ; instead of gaining on such Persons , these inspire them with horror at a sort of men who go about to ruin companies of people that never did them hurt .


id: A66436
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 47458
sentence: 1541
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A66436.xml
txt: txt/A66436.txt
title:
  A vindication of the sermons of His Grace John Archbishop of Canterbury concerning the divinity and incarnation of our B. Saviour : and of the Lord Bishop of Worcester's sermon on the mysteries of the Christian faith, from the exceptions of a late book, entituled, Considerations on the explications of the doctrine of the Trinity : to which is annexed, a letter from the Lord Bishop of Sarum to the author of the said vindication, on the same subject.

summary:
  But here our Author interposes , and because he confesses he has met with these two names in the Church History ; and when he did , to be sure finds no passable Character of them ; therefore he will not have Ebion a Person , nor Cerinthus a Unitarian ; and for the proof of the latter , offers no Testimony ( the way for proving matter of Fact ) but an Argument of his own ; For , saith he , if Cerinthus held the Unity of God , and denied the Divinity and Pre-existence of our Saviour ( as his Grace and the Moderns suppose ) neither it should seem , would the Unitarians have reckoned him a Heretick , nor have rejected the Books which they supposed to be his ; namely , the Gospel , Epistles , and Revelation , now attributed to St. John. Was there never a time when the Church of God professed the same Tenets which our Church defends , without any of those great Rewards to bribe them ; and when on all sides they were beset with the Aws and Fears of a Furious and Embitter'd Adversary ?


id: A30437
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1691.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8431
sentence: 163
flesch: 45
cache: cache/A30437.xml
txt: txt/A30437.txt
title:
  A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable Anne, Lady-Dowager Brook, who was buried at Breamor, the 19th day of February, 1690/1 by the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  Upon the whole Matter , it must be acknowledged , from the Observation of all Ages , that this Sex has produced the Eminentest , the most Exact , and unblemished , the most Charitable and Bountiful , and the most Serious and Devout Fearers and Servers of God , that the World has yet had , and that Religion has never shined brighter than in their whole Deportment . She said , she was naturally passionate ; but she came to be early under the Power of Religion , and broke herself so entirely from it , that those who have known her the longest , do affirm they never saw her at any one time under the Power of it : She was more particularly gentle to those who were immediately about her , so that neither her Grief for those great Afflictions , with which it pleased God to visit her , nor the sharp Pains , nor lingring Disease of which she died , ever drew an indecent Expression from her .


id: A30433
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12335
sentence: 325
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A30433.xml
txt: txt/A30433.txt
title:
  A sermon preached at Bow-Church, before the court of aldermen, on March 12, 1689/90 being the fast-day appointed by Their Majesties / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  Great Zeal has appeared against the Idolatry of the Church of Rome , with a constancy in the Matters of Religion , that has amazed all the World : the steps made towards that , alarmed the Nation , and this City in particular : and it appeared that you could not bear those who called themselves the Church of God , but that are the Synagogue of Satan . We cannot make any Reflections on our Condition with relation to God , without observing that he has been offended in a most eminent manner ; while Religion has been so visibly neglected by those who have pretended the most to it ; while not only Vices of all Sorts have abounded among us , and have been acted with so high a Hand , as if the Actors had equally despised the Judgments of God and the Reproaches of Men ; but what do I say , Reproaches !


id: A30438
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1691.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8529
sentence: 198
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A30438.xml
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title:
  A sermon preached at White-Hall before the King and Queen on the 29th of April, 1691, being the fast-day by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  And alas there is but too much reason to add , and the faithful faileth from among the children of men : and that the whole Charge of the Prophet belongs too truly to us , that there is no mercy , no truth , nor knowledge of God in the land , while every Man is ready to cheat and deceive his Neighbour , to flatter him with the Shews and Professions ; and perhaps the Oaths and Protestations of Kindness ; while in his Heart he hates him , and endeavours to undermine him ; while Calumny and Slander are the most common Heads of Discourses ; while no trust can be given to what is said , and almost as little regard to what is sworn ; while it is one of the Arts of Conversation to affirm things which are known to be false , and to promise things which are not intended to be observed ; while all these things are so common among us , Where is that Truth in the inward Parts which God loves ? Where is the Probity and Fidelity that is practised among many Heathen Nations , with so Religious a Simplicity , that the very Name of Christianity is blasphemed among them ? But the poor , while thus oppressed , sighed and cried to God , who as David believed , would at last arise , and set them at safety from 〈◊〉 that puffed at them ; and in conclusion , he was neither terrified with the strength of his Enemies , nor with the weakness of his own Party ; he trusted to the Promises of God , which he knew had not that allay of dross , that was in the words of men ; they were pure words , free from all mixture , exactly true ; ●●ke Silver after it has passed through the severest refinings ; and therefore since God had promised to ●aise him up to reign over his People , he was confident this would be performed ; and sure the Promise was made to him , and to his Posterity ; he was persuaded he should not only be preserved from that generation of his enemies , but that his Posterity should be preserved for ever .


id: A30439
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1691.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10832
sentence: 283
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A30439.xml
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title:
  A sermon preached at White-hall, on the 26th of Novemb. 1691 being the thanksgiving-day for the preservation of the King, and the reduction of Ireland / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  Whereas a Prince whose ill Example has corrupted a Nation , or whose ill designs have divided and distracted it ; leaves behind him a ferment which will be working perhaps for some Ages after he is asleep in his Grave : On the other hand a Prince that is just and true , gracious and merciful , shines with so benigne an Influence that as a good season not only gives us warm and healthful Air while it lasts , but does also ripen those Fruits of the Earth , upon which we must subsist after it is gone ; so by his good Government that is duly tempered between rigorous severity and too Indulgent goodness , he no ● only makes his Subjects happy , during so blest a Reign , but lays the foundations of a Felicity which will be more lasting then the Princes themselves , who tho they are called Gods , yet must die like men . Accesseruit A ●ndli ●● Regni Regis Jacobi I. Apparatus , & Commentarius de Antiquitate , Dignitate , & Officio Comitis Marescalli Angliae .


id: A48243
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1683.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 41123
sentence: 1188
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A48243.xml
txt: txt/A48243.txt
title:
  The letter writ by the last Assembly General of the Clergy of France to the Protestants, inviting them to return to their communion together with the methods proposed by them for their conviction / translated into English, and examined by Gilbert Burnet.

summary:
  Qui pace su● , id est Impietatis suae uni●ate se j●ctant ▪ agen●es se non ut Christi Episcopos sed 〈◊〉 ●ntichristi Sacerdotes . Si ad fidem veram istiusmodi vis adhiberetur , Episcopalis Doctrina obviam pergere● , dicer●●que , Deus universitatis est , obsequio non eg●t necessario , non requirit coactam confessionem .


id: A30396
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1673.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 28865
sentence: 1274
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A30396.xml
txt: txt/A30396.txt
title:
  Observations on the first and second of the canons, commonly ascribed to the holy apostles wherein an account of the primitive constitution and government of churches, is contained : drawn from ancient and acknowledged writings.

summary:
  And Balsamon in his Sholion , makes them one with the Catechists , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and on the Canon of Laodicea , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . But as this Canon is read ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) by some , so they seem to have added to it , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; so that the meaning of it is , that the Presbyters of the City might do nothing without the Bishop's Warrant and Licence in writing :


id: A30479
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1677.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 51115
sentence: 1512
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A30479.xml
txt: txt/A30479.txt
title:
  A vindication of the ordinations of the Church of England in which it is demonstrated that all the essentials of ordination, according to the practice of the primitive and Greek churches, are still retained in our Church : in answer to a paper written by one of the Church of Rome to prove the nullity of our orders and given to a Person of Quality / by Gilbert Burnet.

summary:
  A vindication of the ordinations of the Church of England in which it is demonstrated that all the essentials of ordination, according to the practice of the primitive and Greek churches, are still retained in our Church : in answer to a paper written by one of the Church of Rome to prove the nullity of our orders and given to a Person of Quality / by Gilbert Burnet. A vindication of the ordinations of the Church of England in which it is demonstrated that all the essentials of ordination, according to the practice of the primitive and Greek churches, are still retained in our Church : in answer to a paper written by one of the Church of Rome to prove the nullity of our orders and given to a Person of Quality / by Gilbert Burnet.


id: A30412
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1687.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 54697
sentence: 1376
flesch: 56
cache: cache/A30412.xml
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title:
  A relation of a conference held about religion at London by Edw. Stillingfleet ... with some gentlemen of the Church of Rome.

summary:
  Gregory Nyssen , ( in Orat. de Bap. Christ. ) shewing how common things may be sanctified , as Water in Baptism , the Stones of an Altar and Church dedicated to God ; he adds , So also Bread in the Beginning is common , but after the Mystery has consecrated it , is said to be , and is the Body of Christ ; so the Mystical Oyl , so the Wine before the Blessing , are things of little value , but after the Sanctification of the Spirit , both of them work excellently . And the truth was , there was so little said by the Gentlemen we spoke with , that was of weight , that we had scarce any occasion given us of speaking about things of Importance :


id: A30331
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1687.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 31065
sentence: 872
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A30331.xml
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title:
  A continuation of reflections on Mr. Varillas's History of heresies particularly on that which relates to English affairs in his third and fourth tomes / by G. Burnet ...

summary:
  Some body in Charity to Mr. Var●●las should have told him , that the● was at present a Iesuite , in great cred●● in a certain Court of Europe , that is 〈◊〉 neally descended from this Petre ; yet 〈◊〉 comfort him , tho those of that Orde● are not much celebrated for their gre●● readiness to forgive , I am confident 〈◊〉 Petre will think him below his wrat 〈◊〉 notwithstanding this injury that he do the memory of his Ancestor . 3. The Duke of Northum●erland was less guilty of it than any of 〈◊〉 Ministry ; for when the Emperour●●efused ●●efused to assist them , the Ministry 〈◊〉 , that a War with France and Scot●●nd was too great a load upon them 〈◊〉 a Minority , in which their only ●onsiderable Ally failed them : so that ●hey resolved to make a Peace by the endring of Bulloigne : yet tho the Duke ●f Northumberland saw this could not ●e opposed , he absented himself for ●ome days from Council , and so did not ●●gn the Peace with the other Privy Councellors , who signed it , and of which the Original Order was long in my Hands .


id: A30419
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1681.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13659
sentence: 367
flesch: 60
cache: cache/A30419.xml
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title:
  A sermon preached on the fast-day, Decemb. 22, 1680 at St. Margarets Westminster before the Honourable House of Commons / by Gilbert Burnet.

summary:
  Sardis had a great Name among the other Churches , as being one of those planted by the Apostles : It had a Name that it lived , yet was dead : the Power and Life of Religion was under a great decay , the remainders of it in some few Persons , that had not defiled their Garments , were even ready to die : they were all that left of those who had at first sincerely embraced the Christian Religion ; they were but a Remnant of what had been , and they were like to drop off soon : but for the rest , though they retained the outward Profession of their Religion , yet Christ knew their Works : and though in some things they might be praise-worthy , yet they were not full Weight and Measure ; they were not such as became their Circumstances , their Light , the Advantages they had , nor the Age they lived in , in which they ought not only to have been blameless and harmless , but to have lookt like the Sons of God , and to shine as Lights in the World , holding forth the Word of Life . If we have thus abused the earthly blessings of Peace and Plenty , and have much to answer for on that account : Oh what can we say to excuse our selves who have not only brought no fruit to perfection , notwithstanding all that seed of the Gospel that has been so plentifully sown among us , but have done what we could to defie God himself , and to drive him out of our Country , being weary of that very dead Form of Religion yet remaining .


id: A30336
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
title: A discourse of the pastoral care written by Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.
date: 1692.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 59109
sentence: 1283
flesch: 51
cache: cache/A30336.xml
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summary:
  Written By the Right Reverend Father in God , GILBERT , Lord Bishop of SARUM . To serve God by promoting this Great and Glorious Design , which is so truly worthy of Your MAJESTY'S best care and endeavours , I have purposely written this Treatise , which I do with all humility Dedicate and present to Your Sacred MAJESTY .


id: A30329
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
title: A collection of papers against popery and arbitrary government written by G. Burnet.
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 29724
sentence: 505
flesch: 36
cache: cache/A30329.xml
txt: txt/A30329.txt
summary:
  Upon the whole Matter , it can never enter into my mind , that God , who has made Man a Creature , that naturally enquires and reasons , and that feels as sensible a pleasure when he can give himself a good account of his actions , as one that sees , does perceive in comparison to a blind man that is led about ; and that this God , that has also made Religion on design to perfect this humane Nature , and to raise it to the utmost height to which it can arrive , has contrived it to be dark , and to be so much beyond the penetration of our Faculties , that we cannot find out his mind in those things that are necessary for our Salvation : and that the Scriptures , that were writ by plain men , in a very familiar stile , and addrest without any discrimination to the Vulgar , should become such an unintelligible Book in these Ages , that we must have an Infallible Iudge to expound it : and when I see not only Popes , but even some Bodies that pass for General Councils , have so expounded many passages of it , and have wrested them so visibly , that none of the Modern Writers of that Church pretend to excuse it , I say I must freely own to you , that when I find I need a Commentary on dark passages , these will be the last persons to whom I will address my self for it . Church and state -- England.


id: A30405
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1686.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 26336
sentence: 524
flesch: 46
cache: cache/A30405.xml
txt: txt/A30405.txt
title:
  Reflections on Mr. Varillas's history of the revolutions that have happned in Europe in matters of religion and more particularly on his ninth book that relates to England / by G. Burnet ...

summary:
  The Duke of Somerset was his Governour , and for the Duke of Northumberland , thô the last two Years of that Reign , in which that King was past the Age of Tutelage , he bore the chief sway of affairs , yet he had neither the Character of the King's Tutor or Governour , nor any other whatsoever , but only that of a Privy Councellour , that was much considered by him , and he at his Death professed that he had been always a Catholick in his Heart , so that his pretending to be of the Reformed Religion to serve his interests , shews that he belongs no more to our Church , than the now forced Converts belong to that of Rome . Reflections on Mr. Varillas's history of the revolutions that have happned in Europe in matters of religion and more particularly on his ninth book that relates to England / by G. Burnet ... Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. 1686 Approx.


id: A30473
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 51794
sentence: 1076
flesch: 47
cache: cache/A30473.xml
txt: txt/A30473.txt
title:
  Three letters concerning the present state of Italy written in the year 1687 ... : being a supplement to Dr. Burnet's letters.

summary:
  THE CIRCULAR LETTER , Put in English Most Eminent , or Most Reverend Lord : THIS Holy Congregation , having received Advertisement , that there are some in divers places of Italy , that by little and little are erecting , or perhaps that have already erected , some Schools , Companies , Fraternities , or Assemblies , under some other Denomination , either in Churches , Chappels , or in private Houses , under the pretence of Spiritual Conferences ; and these consisting either only of Women , or only of Men , or of both Sexes together , in which some Spiritual Guides , that are unacquainted with the true way of the Spirit , in which the Saints have trod , and that are perhaps men of ill designs , do under the pretence of leading Souls by the Prayer of Quietness , as they call it , or of Pure Inward Faith , or under any other name , in which tho in the beginning that they carry men , by Maxims that are of the highest perfection , yet at last they by certain principles , that are ill understood , and worse practised , do insensibly infuse into the minds of the simple , divers grievous Errors , that do break out into open Heresy , and to abominable Practices , to the irreparable prejudice of those Souls , who out of their single Zeal to serve God well , put themselves in the hands of such simple Directors , which is too notoriously known to have fallen out in some places . It is true , it was hard to find it out : for those who have been in Rome , know with how much caution all people there talk of matters that are before the Inquisition : those are like the Secrets of state elsewhere : of which a man cannot talk much without incurring some Inconvenience ; and there is no Inconvenience that is more terrible at Rome , than the falling into the hands of the Inquisitors : for besides the Danger that a man runs , if the suspitions are well founded , the least ill effect that this must have , is the cutting off all a mans hopes of Preferment ; for what a Suspition of High Treason is elsewhere , the Suspition of Heresy is at Rome ; and where there are many Pretenders , and there is so much to be expected , you may imagine that Hope and Fear working at the same time so powerfully , it must be very hard to ingage such persons as probably know the secret of things , to trust themselves upon so tender a point , to strangers .


id: A51327
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
title: Utopia written in Latin by Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England ; translated into English.
date: 1684.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 43040
sentence: 700
flesch: 39
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summary:
  And thus they cautiously limit Pleasure , only to those Appetites to which Nature leads us ; for they reckon that Nature leads us only to those Delights to which Reason as well as Sense carries us , and by which we neither injure any other Person , nor let go greater Pleasures for it ; and which do not draw troubles on us after them : but they look upon those Delights which Men , by a foolish tho common Mistake , call Pleasure , as if they could change the Nature of Things , as well as the use of Words , as things that not only do not advance our Happiness , but do rather obstruct it very much , because they do so entirely possess the Minds of those that once go into them , with a false Notion of Pleasure , that there is no room left for truer and purer Pleasures . I Am almost ashamed , my dearest Peter Giles , to send you this Book of the Utopian Common-Wealth , after almost a Years delay ; whereas no doubt you look'd for it within six Weeks : for as you know I had no occasion for using my Invention , or for taking pains to put things into any method , because I had nothing to do , but to repeat exactly those things that I heard Raphael relate in your presence ; so neither was there any occasion given for a studied Eloquence : since as he delivered things to us of the sudden , and in a careless Stile ; so he being , as you know , a greater Master of the Greek , than of the Latin ; the plainer my words are , they will resemble his simplicity the more : and will be by consequence the nearer to the Truth , and that is all that I think lies on me : and it is indeed the only thing in which I thought my self concerned .


id: A30394
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1673.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 31514
sentence: 654
flesch: 46
cache: cache/A30394.xml
txt: txt/A30394.txt
title:
  The mystery of iniquity unvailed in a discourse wherein is held forth the opposition of the doctrine, worship, and practices of the Roman Church to the nature, designs and characters of the Christian faith / by Gilbert Burnet ...

summary:
  It is true , they will not hear of th●… harsh word of selling Indulgences , but disguise it with their giving them to such as will offer Alms to the Church ; but really , this whole contrivance is so base●… so carnal , and so unlike the Spirit of Christianity , that to repeat it , is to refute it ▪ Here was a brave device for enriching the Church , when the making great Donations to it , was judged so effectual fo●… delivering out of Purgatory . Another practise yet more base and sordi●… was , the selling of Indulgences and Pardons for money ; certainly here was Simon 's crime committed by the pretende●… Successors of him , who had of old accused him , that thought the gift of God migh●… be purchased with money , and thereupon di●… cast him out of the Church .


id: A30411
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1676.0
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title:
  A relation of a conference held about religion at London, the third of April, 1676 by Edw. Stillingfleet ... and Gilbert Burnet, with some gentlemen of the Church of Rome.

summary:
  S. P. Said , he was only to speak to the Articles of the Church of England , and desired express words for that Article . Gregory Nyssen , shewing how common things may be sanctified , as Water in Baptism , the Stones of an Altar and Church dedicated to God ; he adds , So also Bread in the beginning is common , but after the Mystery has consecrated it , is said to be , and is the Body of Christ ; so the mystical Oyl , so the Wine before the blessing , are things of little value , but after the sanctification of the Spirit , both of them work excellently .


id: A30478
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1673.0
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title:
  A vindication of the authority, constitution, and laws of the church and state of Scotland in four conferences, wherein the answer to the dialogues betwixt the Conformist and Non-conformist is examined / by Gilbert Burnet ...

summary:
  But the truth is , you have got me here among you , and bait me by turns , either to ease your own Galls , or to try mine ; yet it is needless to attempt upon me , for as I am not convinced by your Reasons , so I will not be behind with you in Reflections : and I will ●●ow and fight both , as a Co●k of the Game . I see Criticus is weary of speaking , and therefore will relieve him for this once , and tell you , that the title Anti●●hus had to command the Iews , is not undoubted : for Iosephus lib.


id: A30350
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1694.0
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title:
  Four discourses delivered to the clergy of the Diocess of Sarum ... by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  It is indeed very probable , that many particular Phrases belonging to them , might have been by a Poetical Liberty , extended to other Matters : for things of the sacred'st nature are by Poets and Orators made use of to give the liveliest Illustrations , and raise the strongest passions possible : yet after all , an entire Thread of a sacrificatory Style , was a form of description , that the World must have known could belong only to an Expiatory Sacrifice , that is , to some person or thing that was devoted to God by a Sinner in his own stead , and upon the account of his sin and guilt was to be some way destroy'd , in sign of what he own'd he had deserv'd ; and this was to be done in order to the reconciling the guilty Person to God , the Guilt being transfer'd from the Person to the Sacrifice ; and God by accepting the Sacrifice , was reconcil'd to the person , whose sin was upon that account forgiven . If these extraordinary things were really transacted as they are related , it cannot be pretended that they were the effects of some Secrets in Nature , which our Saviour might know : For though the Loadstone may be plaid with so much variety , as to amuse a simple man ; and though Jugglers by a slight of hand seem to do wonders ; yet the vast variety , as well as the great usefulness of our Saviour's Miracles , shews he was not limited to a few Secrets , which work always one way : Nor were the Wonders he did , shews of Pomp , that do only amuse ; but they were things of such use to Mankind , that it very well became one who was sent of God to prove his Mission by them : Nor can it be said that Imagination wrought powerfully , and made People fancy they saw things that they saw not ; or that the persuasion which some took up , might so strike their Fancy , as really to cure their Diseases ; for though a Hypochondriacal person may be deceived , especially in the dark or twilight , yet numbers of People in full daylight could not agree in the same Mistakes : Some Effects were too signal to be so mistaken ; such , as for a Man born blind , to be made to see by a word ; or for a Storm to be calmed with a Rebuke : And tho' in critical Diseases , such as Feavers , which lie in the fermentations of the Blood , a strong Conceit may have a real Operation ; yet Chronical Distempers , and Natural Defects go not off by Fancy .


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