item: #1 of 16 id: A44509 author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. title: An account of what happen'd in the kingdom of Sweden in the years 1669, and 1670 and upwards In relation to some persons that were accused for witches; and tryed and executed by the Kings command. Together with the particulars of a very sad accident that befel a boy at Malmoe in Schonen in the year, 1678. by the means of witchcraft, attested by the ablest and most judicious men of that town. Both translated out of High-Dutch into English, By Anthony Horneck D.D. date: 1682 words: 10700 flesch: 72 summary: In his Whip for the Droll , P , 43. l. 3. r. scene of things . To whom the King modestly replied , That his Judges and Commissioners had caused divers Men , Women , and Children to be Burnt and Executed upon such pregnant Evidences , as were brought before them ; but whether the Actions they confessed , and which were proved against them , were real , or onely effects of strong Imagination , he was not as yet able to determine . keywords: boy; children; commissioners; devil; men; people; stones; text; things; time; town; witches; year cache: A44509.xml plain text: A44509.txt item: #2 of 16 id: A44512 author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. title: The blessed advantages of peace and peace-makers In a sermon preach'd at the Savoy in London upon the fifth of St. Matthew; Ver. IX. Blessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the children of God. By Anthony Horneck, D.D. late preacher at the Savoy. date: 1697 words: 10737 flesch: 65 summary: The peaceable Christian shall feel it , feed upon it , possess it , live upon it , peace with God , peace with the Prince of Peace , Christ Jesus , peace with all the Angels of God , peace with all the Spirits of Men made perfect . Peace among men God delights in , peace among Christians especially ; to whom he hath vouchsafed a higher dispensation . keywords: blessed; children; christ; church; god; good; gospel; hath; love; makers; making; man; men; peace; text; world cache: A44512.xml plain text: A44512.txt item: #3 of 16 id: A44515 author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. title: Delight and judgment: or, a prospect of the great Day of Judgment and its power to damp, and imbitter sensual delights, sports, and recreations. By Anthony Horneck, D.D. date: 1684 words: 64408 flesch: 47 summary: The result of all , is this Proposition : That the prospect of a future Judgment , is enough to embitter all the sensual and carnal delights of Men , particularly of young Men , and to bring a damp upon the most Youthful , and most jovial temper imaginable : Not only the sense of the Text , I have already laid down imports so much , but there is this farther in it , that the wise Man seems to couch his argument plainly thus ; do but take a view of that dreadful Judgment , God is resolved to bring thy guilty Soul to , and thou wilt not dare to indulge thy self in the mad rejoycings of thy Youth , nor walk in the ways , and after the fancies of thy corrupted Heart , nor suffer thy wanton Eyes to fix on those objects , from which God hath bid thee turn thy Face away . Having to deal with Christians , at least with Men that profess themselves such , this query seems needless , for the Scripture which the Christian World pretends to believe to be derived from God , is full of passages of this Nature , and assures us , that this belief of a future Judgment is as ancient , as the Creation of the World ; For Enoch the seventh from Adam , who in all probability had it from his ancestors , Prophesied of these , saying , Behold the Lord cometh with Ten thousand of his Saints , to Execute Judgment upon all , and to convince all that are ungodly among them , of all their ungodly deeds , which they have ungodlily committed , and of their hard speeches , which ungodly sinners have spoken against him , Jude v. 14 , 15. keywords: art; christ; christian; day; delight; doth; eyes; flesh; future; glory; god; good; gospel; great; hath; heart; heaven; holy; jesus; judge; judgment; law; life; lord; love; man; men; mercy; mind; nature; persons; reason; religion; self; shall; sin; sins; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thoughts; thy; time; use; vain; way; world cache: A44515.xml plain text: A44515.txt item: #4 of 16 id: A44516 author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. title: The exercise of prayer: or, A help to devotion Being a supplement to the happy ascetick, or best exercise. Containing prayers and devotions, suitable to the respective exercises with additional prayers for several occasions. By Anth. Horneck D.D. date: 1685 words: 22067 flesch: 80 summary: Why shouldest thou prohibit it ? why shouldest thou warn , entreat , and beseech me not to do it , but that thou who knowest all things , knowest it to be prejudicial to my Soul. Lord do thou appear very amiable to my Soul , that this sight may constrain me to learn of thee . keywords: art; christ; day; exercise; glory; god; good; hast; heart; jesus; love; o lord; prayer; self; soul; thee; things; thou; thy; world cache: A44516.xml plain text: A44516.txt item: #5 of 16 id: A44517 author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. title: The fire of the altar, or, Certain directions how to raise the soul into holy flames before, at, and after receiving the blessed sacrament of the Lords Supper : with suitable prayers and devotions, to which is prefix'd a dialogue betwixt a Christian and his own conscience : concerning the true nature of the Christian religion, intended chiefly for the inhabitants of St. Mary le Strand, and the precinct of the Savoy / by Anthony Horneck ... date: 1683 words: 34942 flesch: 81 summary: If thou canst but get Food and Raiment , content thy self ; and that most certainly thou wilt get , if thou art industrious in thy lawful Calling , and darest but trust God ▪ Crosses , Losses , and Disappointments , are necessary for thee to drive thee from Earth to Heaven ; and if all this while thou dost not lose thy Soul , thou art safe enough . Thou art not only willing to impart thy Graces to me , but in thy Supper givest me thy Self ! and here thou offerest to carry me in thy Arms , to be my nursing Father , and to be Food to my hungry Soul. keywords: art; blood; christ; day; death; didst; glory; god; good; hath; heart; holy; jesus; life; lord; love; men; mercy; o lord; salvation; self; soul; thee; thine; things; thou; thou art; thou o; thy; world cache: A44517.xml plain text: A44517.txt item: #6 of 16 id: A44521 author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. title: The first fruits of reason, or, A discourse shewing the necessity of applying our selves betimes to the serious practice of religion by Anthony Horneck ... date: 1686 words: 19737 flesch: 64 summary: Men give God but little encouragement to employ his miraculous power to convert them , when during the vigour of their age , they have mocked all his Stratagems , and defeated his Methods of Compassion , and whatever God hath done upon extraordinary occasions , and under extraordinary circumstances , we are assur'd by the Psalmist that he sware in his wrath , that they who had grieved him Forty years in the Wilderness should never enter into his rest , Psal. 95.10 , 11. 2. Except a man remember his Creator in the days of his youth , he is not in a likely way to compass all those graces which are fit and proper for a Candidate of Eternity . And is it not our greatest interest then to remember now in this our day the things which belong unto our peace ; to remember our Errours , that we may turn from them ; to remember our duties to God and man , that we may conscienciously discharge them ; to remember what our Creator , our Father , our greatest Benefactors requires of us ; to remember the Exhortations , the Entreaties , the Expostulations , the Adjurations of a merciful God , that the Great Jehovah may remember us in that day when he makes up his Jewels , and spare us as a man would spare his Son that serves him ? keywords: age; creator; days; doth; fear; god; good; hath; life; lord; love; man; men; mercy; religion; remembrance; sin; soul; thee; things; thou; time; world cache: A44521.xml plain text: A44521.txt item: #7 of 16 id: A44522 author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. title: Four tracts by A. Horneck ...; with a preface by Mr. Edwards. date: 1697 words: 28924 flesch: 56 summary: And what have we done , that we must not be counted a Catholick Church ? Is it because we will not receive things which the Church of Rome hath since added to the Catholick Faith ? Is it because we will not admit of the Doctrines which that Church was first induced to believe by the Darkness and Ignorance of the Ages it lived in , and at last loath to part withal for fear they should be thought to have been so long in an Error ? Is it because we will not yield to things which we apprehend to be directly against the Word of God , and destructive to that Catholick Faith the Christian World hath professed in all Ages ? When you had already begun to doubt , whether our Church were a true Church or no , because you found not that Satisfaction in it your sickly Desires wanted ; it was then an easie matter to give ear to confident People , that magisterially and peremptorily assured you , that you would find Satisfaction in their Church ; and being fed with this hope , your Inclinations to that Church grew stronger every day , as our Mother Eve , the hopes of being like God , suggested to her by the Serpent , did egg and spur her on to eat of the fatal Tree . keywords: anger; blood; body; catholick church; christ; church; faith; god; hath; man; men; new; people; reason; religion; rome; sacrament; saints; scripture; self; sin; things; time; world; worship cache: A44522.xml plain text: A44522.txt item: #8 of 16 id: A44523 author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. title: Gods providence in the midst of confusion set out in a sermon preach'd at the Savoy, January the 30, 1681, being the anniversary of the martyrdom of King Charles I / by Anthony Horneck. date: 1682 words: 17472 flesch: 47 summary: If God takes care of any thing , thinks the sensual Man , it must be of the true Religion , this we must conceive to be his Darling , and if he hath more tender Affections for one thing than another , this we must suppose is the chief Object of his sollicitude : This makes most for his Honour , and his Glory is advanced by nothing so much as by true , and genuine Worship ; This therefore he must be thought to mind and cherish most , and to look upon with the kindest Aspect : But to see this Jewel scorned , derided , affronted , and its lustre darkened by Clouds of Ignorance and Malice : To see this Pearl broken , shattered , and the dust of it dispersed into the various corners of the Earth : To see its Foes live great , and those that touch this Apple of his Eye , brave it in their pleasures : To see them erect their Throne on the Necks of Gods Servants , and securely trample on these supposed Favourites of Heaven ; what can we conclude , but that either this is not the true Religion , or that Providence is careless , and supine in its Protection ? 5. Such another Disorder is , Base and contemptible mens climbing up to the Thrones of Kings , and displacing the true Owners , and usurping their Authority ; When the vilest of Men are advanced to Royalty , and they that were but Subjects a little before , come to sit in their Lords Tribunal : vvhen Persons of the Dregs of the People get up to the highest Povver , and they that vvere but Scum before , come to svvim like Oyl on the top , and throvv dovvn Gods Anointed ; when a Jeroboam from Surveyor of the Kings Works , rises up to be King himself ; and a Zimri that dvvelt in a Cottage before , comes to possess himself of the Royal Palace . Nay , God himself is concerned to see this Justice maintained in Commonwealths , and it is part of his Prerogative to preserve its Laws inviolable , so that it 's being lost in a Corporation , seems to reflect upon him ; and as it was he alone , that first taught Men to gather into Societies , so to let Oppression come among them , which is the Bane , that kills them , to a sensual Eye seems to be no small disparagement to his Providence . keywords: confusions; day; disorders; doth; fire; god; gods; good; hath; heaven; king; life; lord; man; men; people; power; providence; reason; religion; things; thou; time; way; world cache: A44523.xml plain text: A44523.txt item: #9 of 16 id: A44535 author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. title: The honesty of the Protestant and dishonesty of the popish divinity in a letter to a lady revolted to the Church of Rome / by Anthony Horneck. date: 1681 words: 17344 flesch: 44 summary: 6. 9 yet we are modest , and whatever the principles of that Church may lead men to , we hope , there may be many in that Church , that either , while they live in the communion of that Church , have an aversion from the dangerous , and Idolatrous practices of it , or sometimes before they die do heartily repent of the absurd , and unreasonable Doctrines , and worship , they have too long asserted , and complied with , and of such we cannot but entertain a very favourable opinion , and indeed I could name you some very famous men both in France and Italy , who , though they have continued in the Communion of that Church , i. e. have not joyn'd themselves to any particular publick Protestant Church , yet have not approv'd of such things in the Roman Church , as manifestly obstruct mens Salvation , and though like Nicodemus they have not dared openly to avow their dislike of such Errous , for fear of danger , yet in their hearts they have abhorr'd them , and declared so much to their Friends , and intimate acquaintance . We know not what mercy GOD may shew to many poor people in that Church , who are invincibly Ignorant , and never saw a Bible , from whence they might rectify their mistakes , and do live honestly in this present world ; but we must withal confess , that the Servant , who hath known his Masters will , and hath not done it , shall be beaten with many stripes , and whether those that have been enlightened in our Church , and have tasted the good Word of GOD , and cannot but see our Agreement with the Gospel , and after all this embrace the Errors of the Roman Church , whether these will be excusable at the last day , we justly doubt of ; To live in great Errours is to live in Sin , but where that living in Errours is joyn'd with resistance of great light , and knowledge , there the Sin becomes all crimson , which was but of a faint red before ; And if this be the Character of Christs Friends to do whatsoever he commands us , then the inference is very easy , that those cannot be Christ's Friends , nor reign with him in Heaven , that wilfully leave undone , what they know he hath commanded , and set up a new Worship , which he hath no where commanded : Madam , had you never seen such a thing as the Scriptnre , your going over to that Church might have deserved some apollogy , but when you were surrounded with the beams of that light which shines in darkness , as St. Peter calls the word , with all those rayes about you , to shut your eyes , and desperately to venture upon a Church , which enjoines men to live against some of Gods laws , as against Exod. keywords: blood; christ; church; god; gospel; hath; madam; men; new; people; priests; reason; religion; rome; saints; scripture; thing; world; worship cache: A44535.xml plain text: A44535.txt item: #10 of 16 id: A44536 author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. title: A letter from a Protestant gentleman to a lady revolted to the Church of Rome date: 1678 words: 17412 flesch: 44 summary: 6.9 yet we are modest , and whatever the principles of that Church may lead men to , we hope , there may be many in that Church , that either , while they live in the communion of that Church , have an aversion from the dangerous , and Idolatrous practices of it , or sometimes before they die do heartily repent of the absurd , and unreasonable Doctrines , and worship , they have too long asserted , and complied with , and of such we cannot but entertain a very favourable opinion , and indeed I could name you some very famous men both in France and Italy , who , though they have continued in the Communion of that Church , i. e. have not joyn'd themselves to any particular publick Protestant Church , yet have not approv'd of such things in the Roman Church , as manifestly obstruct mens Salvation , and though like Nicodemus they have not dared openly to avow their dislike of such Errous , for fear of danger , yet in their hearts they have abhorr'd them , and declared so much to their Friends , and intimate acquaintance . We know not what mercy GOD may shew to many poor people in that Church , who are invincibly Ignorant , and never saw a Bible , from whence they might rectify their mistakes , and do live honestly in this present world ; but we must withal confess , that the Servant , who hath known his Masters will , and hath not done it , shall be beaten with many stripes , and whether those that have been enlightened in our Church , and have tasted the good Word of GOD , and cannot but see our Agreement with the Gospel , and after all this embrace the Errors of the Roman Church , whether these will be excesable at the last day , we justly doubt of ; To live in great Errours is to live in Sin , but where that living in Errours is joyn'd with resist●nc● of great light , and knowledge , there the Sin becomes all crimson , which was but of a faint red before ; And if this be the Character of Christs Friends to do whatsoever he commands us , then the inference is very easy , that those cannot be Christ's Friends , nor reign with him in Heaven , that wilfully leave undone , what they know he hath commanded , and set up a new Worship , which he hath no where commanded : Madam , had you never seen such a thing as the Scripture , your going over to that Church might have deserved some apollogy , but when you were surrounded with the beams of that light which shines in darkness , as St. Peter calls the word , with all those rayes about you , to shut your eyes , and desperately to venture upon a Church , which enjoines men to live against some of Gods laws , as against Exod. keywords: blood; christ; christian; church; god; gospel; hath; madam; men; new; people; priests; reason; religion; rome; saints; scripture; thing; world; worship cache: A44536.xml plain text: A44536.txt item: #11 of 16 id: A44537 author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. title: The nature of true Christian righteousness in a sermon preached before the King and Queen at Whitehall, the 17th of November, 1689 / by Anthony Horneck ... date: 1689 words: 7757 flesch: 64 summary: I mean , the Church of England , did not split their Vessel against this Rock ; I am sure , the Scribes and Pharisees did : They made no account of the inward Frame , but rested in the Shell , and thought God would be pleased with the staying of a Bullock , or Lamb , or He-Goat ; and they measured the Goodness of their Prayers by their Length and Number more , than by the great Sense they had of the Shekinah , or Divine Presence , whereas an humble and devout Mind in the Religious Service , was the thing God required at their Hands , Matth. xv . This humble Temper the Scribes and Pharisees were very great strangers to , who look'd upon their Religious Services , as Things which God was obliged in Honour , and Equity to look upon and Reward ; Pride , Self-Conceitedness , and Self-Admiration , mingling with almost all they did ; and they did not , would not know , what a contrite and humble Heart meant , and what it was to lie low before God , with a deep Sense of their Un-worthiness , and of the great Imperfection of their Services ; and though they Fasted often , yet that was not so much to arrive to an humble Sense of their Corruptions and Infirmities , as to increase their Merits , and to do Things which might Challenge Gods kinder Inclinations ; and this was the Rock against which these Men stumbled : keywords: christ; god; heaven; kingdom; matth; men; pharisees; righteousness; scribes; self; text; world cache: A44537.xml plain text: A44537.txt item: #12 of 16 id: A44538 author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. title: The passion of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: or, Cries of the Son of God Digested from the works of the late Reverend Dr. Horneck. Licens'd and enter'd according to order. date: 1700 words: 6039 flesch: 78 summary: to thee I lift up my languishing Head , stretching ●ut my trembling Hands to reach at thy G●ories , for so he that was dead , and laid in the Grave low enough to prove himself M●n , is risen again , and asc●nded into Heaven , high enough to prove himsel God. What from the sixth till almo●t the ninth Hour , is my dear Saviour in the heighth of this vehement Agony , and not over yet ? What Sin am I guilty of that is not atton'd yet ; that God is so incensed at , that he will not yet pardon ? O quickly , quickly help me , O my God , to find it out , that thou may'st no longer be extorted and convul●'d in these grievous Torments . keywords: art; blood; god; jesus; lord; soul; thee; thou; thy cache: A44538.xml plain text: A44538.txt item: #13 of 16 id: A44540 author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. title: A sermon preached at the solemnity of the funeral of Mrs. Dorothy St. John, fourth daughter of the late Sir Oliver St. John, Knight and Baronet, of Woodford in Northamptonshire, in the parish church of St. Martins in the Fields, on the 24th of June, 1677 by Anthony Horneck ... date: 1677 words: 15022 flesch: 62 summary: In the vanity of the Creature , let us take notice of the odiousness of sin , and it 's large demeri●s ▪ when God for mans sin hath subjected the Creature unto van●●y , it shews what an abhorrency he hath from sinful actions , and how displeased he is with transgression of his Laws , in that he confines not the punishment to Man alone , but extends it to the Creatures , or to his Servants too . And indeed , he will soon be convinced , that the Creature was made subject unto vanity , that shall observe how much its gloss , and beauty decay'd after the fall of Adam ; how the Earth , that before was a stranger to all noxious herbs and plants , brought forth Thistles and thorns now ; how her former fertility was lost in a dismal barrenness , and the ground that before required no labour , would yield little now , but what Men forced and squeezed out of it by the sweat of their brows ; how the Blessing that enrich'd and adorn'd it before , exspir'd into a Curse ; and Nature , which before knew no poison , no enmity to Man , degenerated now into Hostility , and from a friend became a foe ; how her former lovely face is all disfigured with spots and freckles now , and that which was all charm to a rational soul before , is now become an object , keywords: creature; day; death; doth; earth; eyes; god; good; hath; heaven; life; man; men; nature; pleasure; reason; sin; soul; subject; text; things; thou; vanity; world cache: A44540.xml plain text: A44540.txt item: #14 of 16 id: A44542 author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. title: A sermon preached at Fulham in the Chappel of the Palace, upon Easter-day, MDCLXXXIX, at the consecration of the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum by Anthony Horneck ... date: 1689 words: 8615 flesch: 54 summary: It 's call'd a Body too , and this hath various Members , and these , various Offices , which cannot be all Eyes , and Overseers ; if they were , where would be the hearing ? It was therefore that the Apostles , in the places where they preach'd the Gospel , before they left them , or took their final leave of the People , ordain'd them Bishops and Elders , to succeed them in the Ministerial Function ; such a Bishop was Timothy , the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , the President , and Overseer of the Church of Ephesus ; and not only of the Church in the City , but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Diocess ; of Ephesus , saith Eusebius : and if we may believe St. Chrysostom , of all Asia , whose Office was , besides his other Ministerial Labours , to inspect the Clergy under his charge , and other Officers belonging to the House of God , whereof the Fifth Chapter of the First Epistle to Timothy , seems to me a very clear Evidence ; for it speaks of an Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction lodged in Timothy , an Overseer constituted and appointed by St. Paul , even by the laying on of his hands , whereof he puts him in mind in the Text , and of the Gift , that was bestow'd upon him by that imposition of hands , and of his duty to exercise it . This Call of God which our Church accounts requisite and necessary upon such occasions , is no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bath Kol , no Daughter of the Voice , no audible Sound or Language dropp'd from Heaven , as it was Act. xiii . keywords: apostles; christ; church; gift; god; good; hands; holy; love; men; office; spirit; text; timothy cache: A44542.xml plain text: A44542.txt item: #15 of 16 id: A44543 author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. title: The sirenes, or, Delight and judgment represented in a discourse concerning the great day of judgment and its power to damp and imbitter sensual delights, sports, and recreations / by Anthony Horneck ... date: 1690 words: 66913 flesch: 46 summary: Providence can be silent for a time ; but at last the sleeping Lion wakes , and roars so , that all the Beasts of the Field do tremble ; and Solomon , on whose Head the Candle of the Lord had shined so long , found that Light at last go out in a Snuff , and himself the Object of Gods wrath and indignation ; he found by sad experience , what it was to abuse the Wisdom God had bestowed upon him , how dangerous the Paths were he had walked in , what it was to pervert the End and Design of the Gifts of God ; and what darkness and confusion it brought upon Men , and that makes him impart this sad Memento to the Man who hath Blood , and Youth , and Strength enough to be vain and foolish ; Rejoyce , O young Man , in thy Youth , and let thy Heart chear thee in the days of thy Youth , &c. And how can we imagine , that the whole World , at least the wiser part of it , should so unanimously believe a future Judgment after this Life , if either there had not been a great propensity in their Nature , to believe the Notion , or Reason had not convinced them of the Certainty and Reality of the Thing : If we grant , that God hath given a Law to Man , we must necessarily grant , that there must be a Judge to call those to an account , who have violated and broke those Laws . keywords: art; christ; christian; day; delight; doth; eyes; flesh; future; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; great; hath; heart; heaven; holy; judge; judgment; law; life; lord; love; man; men; mercy; mind; nature; persons; reason; religion; self; selves; shall; sin; sins; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thoughts; thy; time; use; way; world cache: A44543.xml plain text: A44543.txt item: #16 of 16 id: A47513 author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. title: A new family-book, or, The true interest of families being directions to parents and children, and to those who are instead of parents : shewing them their several duties, and how they may be happy in one another : together with several prayers for families and children, and graces before and after meat : to which is annexed a discourse about the right way of improving our time / by James Kirkwood ... ; with a preface, by Dr. Horneck. date: 1693 words: 54186 flesch: 66 summary: A●●lurements of Sinners ; This is like g●●ing down hill , which is easie , conside●●ing Mens natural bent an● Inclination * : Where●● Self-denyal and mortifyin● our Lusts and Passions , 〈◊〉 more difficult , especially at first , 〈◊〉 going up hill . Parent and child -- Early works to 1800. keywords: care; children; christ; duty; endeavour; example; father; god; good; hath; holy; life; lord; love; man; manner; men; minds; parents; persons; souls; thee; things; thou; thy; time; use; way; world; ● ● cache: A47513.xml plain text: A47513.txt