item: #1 of 53 id: A47967 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A letter concerning the matter of the present excommunications date: 1683.0 words: 6825 flesch: 45 summary: Providential dispensations are various , and no certain Judgment can be made on them , as unto the final and eternal determination of things and causes ; No man knoweth love or hatred by the things of that nature that are before him ; But this is ordained by the Law of Christ to be a just Representation of his future Judgment , with a Recognition of the causes which he will proceed upon : Therefore it is divinely instructive , in what he himself will do in the great day ; it is futuri judicii praejudicium : But he will scarcely be thought well advised , who shall send men to Doctors-Commons , to learn the way and manner of Christs Judgment of his Church , with the causes which he will proceed upon . But that , I found , which did principally affect the minds of men , was the event which these proceedings do tend unto , and will produce ; and they generally concluded , that they would be highly prejudicial , if not ruinous unto all Trust and Trade , among the peaceable Subjects of the Kingdom . keywords: account; administration; authority; books; catholick; causes; christ; church; civil; communion; concerned; conscience; court; dissenters; divine; doth; eebo; end; english; excommunicated; excommunications; faith; god; gospel; hath; institution; jesus; judgment; law; letter; man; manner; matter; men; mind; nature; office; ordinance; persons; power; present; pretended; proceedings; religion; representation; rule; scripture; self; tcp; text; things; way; word; work; worship cache: A47967.xml plain text: A47967.txt item: #2 of 53 id: A49114 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: An exercitation concerning the frequent use of our Lords Prayer in the publick worship of God and a view of what hath been said by Mr. Owen concerning that subject / by Thomas Long ... date: 1658.0 words: 52088 flesch: 60 summary: Sect. 2. The immediate occasion of prescribing this form in S. Matthew was our Saviours great dislike of that ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) superfluous repetition of words used by one Battus a Poet , and the word ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) or much-babling , is of a neer signification , as Hesychius and Suidas expound it ; learned men do parallel these expressions with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 : 〈◊〉 . keywords: abraham; acceptable; account; adde; administration; affections; ages; ancient; answer; antiquity; apostles; apostolical; argument; aske; assembly; augustine; authentique; authority; ball; baptisme; baptist; believers; bellarmine; best; better; beza; bishop; blessed; blessing; blood; body; books; bread; brethren; brugensis; calvin; care; cause; certain; chemnitius; chief; children; christ; christians; church; churches; commanded; common; composed; composure; conclusion; congregation; consent; consistent; constant; contrary; copies; copy; cor; corrupted; cum; cup; customes; cyprian; danger; david; dayes; dayly; desire; devotion; devout; difference; directory; disciples; divers; divine; doctor; doctrine; doe; doth; doubt; doubtless; doxologie; doxology; drusius; dutie; duty; early; easie; edition; eebo; eminent; end; enemies; enemy; english; est; evangelists; evil; excellent; exercise; expressions; extant; ezra; faithful; familiar; far; father; fault; fear; fit; form; formes; frame; frequent; general; gift; glassius; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; grace; grant; great; greater; greek; gregory; grotius; ground; guilty; hand; hard; hath; heads; hearts; heaven; heavenly; hebrew; help; hereticks; hierome; high; hold; holy; hope; ignorant; injunction; instances; iohn; israel; jesu; jewes; jewish; john; joyn; judgement; king; kingdome; labour; language; latine; lawful; lay; left; lib; life; lightfoot; like; lips; little; liturgies; liturgy; long; lords prayer; luke; man; manner; mark; matter; matthew; mean; men; method; mind; ministers; montanus; moses; mount; mouths; names; nature; necessary; need; neglect; new; nobis; non; noster; notes; number; objection; observation; occasion; office; old; onely; opinion; orationis; order; ordinance; ordinary; owen; papists; pardon; particular; parts; passeover; pater; pattern; paul; people; perfect; persons; petition; pious; place; plain; power; practice; praise; prayer; praying; preaching; precept; preface; prejudice; prescribed; prescribing; prescription; present; priest; primitive; private; pro; probability; promise; proper; prophets; protestants; psalmes; publick; publick prayer; purpose; quae; question; qui; reason; received; religion; reply; respect; rest; right; rule; sacrament; saint; saith; saviour; saviours prayer; saying; scaliger; scripture; second; sect; self; selves; sense; servants; service; set; set form; shew; sic; signifie; singing; sins; solemn; spirit; spiritual; strange; study; subject; sufficient; supposition; sure; syriack; tcp; terms; testament; text; thanksgiving; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; title; tongue; traditions; translation; trespasses; true; truth; understanding; unlawful; unto; use; usual; vain; verba; verbis; verse; view; viz; vulgate; warrant; way; whereof; wonder; words; work; world; worship; yea; years cache: A49114.xml plain text: A49114.txt item: #3 of 53 id: A52591 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A Declaration of the faith and order owned and practiced in the Congregational churches in England agreed upon and consented unto by their elders and messengers in their meeting at the Savoy, October 12, 1658. date: 1659.0 words: 22816 flesch: 53 summary: And truly , the very turning of the Gentiles to the owning of the same Faith , in the substance of it , with the Christian Jew ( though differing in greater points then we do from our brethren ) is presently after dignified by the Apostle with this stile , That it is the Confession of Jesus Christ himself ; not as the Object onely , but as the Author and Maker thereof : I will confess to thee ( saith Christ to God ) among the Gentiles . So that in all such accords , Christ is the great and first Confessor ; and we , and all our Faith uttered by us , are but the Epistles , ( as Paul ) and Confessions ( as Isaiah there ) of their Lord and ours ; He , but expressing what is written in his heart , through their hearts and mouthes , to the glory of God the Father : And shall not we all rejoyce herein , when as Christ himself is said to do it upon this occasion : as it there also follows , I will sing unto thy Name . keywords: able; account; apostle; assemblies; assembly; authority; believers; body; brethren; care; chap; christ; christian; church; churches; common; communion; confession; congregational; conscience; contrary; corruption; counsel; covenant; creatures; day; days; dead; death; differences; divisions; doctrine; doth; duty; elect; end; eternal; everlasting; evil; faith; fall; father; free; freedom; general; ghost; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; government; grace; great; hath; heart; holy; jesus; jesus christ; john; judgement; justified; knowledge; known; law; lawful; liberty; life; light; like; lord; love; magistrate; man; matter; means; members; men; mutual; nature; necessary; new; obedience; old; onely; opinions; order; ordinances; particular; peace; people; persons; pleased; power; prayer; profession; providence; publique; quarto; religion; repentance; righteousness; rule; sacrament; saints; salvation; satan; saving; scripture; self; set; sin; sins; souls; special; spirit; spiritual; state; substance; testament; text; thereunto; things; time; true; truth; use; vii; way; word; work; worship; yea cache: A52591.xml plain text: A52591.txt item: #4 of 53 id: A53665 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Animadversions on a treatise intituled Fiat lux, or, A guide in differences of religion, between papist and Protestant, Presbyterian and independent by a Protestant. date: 1662.0 words: 86372 flesch: 54 summary: COnsidering the condition of Affairs in these Nations , in reference to the late Miscarriages , and present Distempers of men about Religion ; it was no hard Conjecture , that some would improve the Advantage , seeming so fairly to present it self unto them , unto ends of their own : Men of prudence , ability , and leasure , engaged by all bonds imaginable in the persuit of any special Interest , need little minding of the common wayes of wisdom for its promotion . This work , it seems , cannot be effected , unless men are contented to part with Scripture and Reason ; all that whereby they are Christians and Men. keywords: able; account; advantage; adversaries; agreement; answer; antient; antiquity; apostles; arguments; attempt; author; authority; bear; beginning; best; better; bible; bishop; blame; blessed; bloud; body; book; bread; business; care; cast; catholicks; cause; celsus; certain; chap; charge; children; christ; christianity; christians; church; churches; claim; clear; close; coming; command; common; communion; concerned; concernments; condition; confidence; consideration; contempt; contests; contrary; conversion; corrupt; councils; countenance; cup; darkness; dayes; deal; death; design; desire; devotion; differences; discourse; disputes; divine; divisions; doctrine; doth; drink; duty; earth; easie; effects; efficacy; empire; end; ends; england; english; entrance; epistle; errors; evidence; evident; evils; excellency; exercise; expression; eye; faith; fall; false; fancies; farr; fathers; fear; finding; fine; fire; flourish; folly; fore; foundation; general; gentleman; giving; glory; god; good; gospel; grace; grant; great; greater; greatest; ground; guide; hand; hard; hath; head; heaven; hell; help; heresie; high; holy; home; honour; hope; ignorance; ignorant; ill; images; importance; impossible; infallible; ingenious; innumerable; instances; interest; jesus; jews; judge; kind; kings; know; knowledge; labour; language; large; late; latin; law; lay; learned; leave; lies; life; like; little; long; lord; love; lusts; lye; main; making; man; manifest; manner; matter; meaning; means; meet; men; mention; method; mind; ministry; miscarriages; mistake; moderation; moses; nations; nature; nay; necessary; necessity; need; new; notice; obedience; objections; obscurity; obtain; occasion; old; open; opinions; order; pagans; pains; papal; papists; paragraph; particular; parts; pass; past; paul; people; persons; peter; place; plain; pleased; poor; pope; popery; power; practice; practises; prayers; praying; preaching; prejudices; presbyterians; present; pretence; pretended; pretensions; priest; primitive; princes; principles; private; professed; profession; progress; promise; proper; prophets; protestants; purgatory; purpose; question; rational; reader; ready; real; reason; reference; reformation; religion; religious; respect; rest; return; revelation; right; roman; roman church; romanists; rome; rule; sacrament; sacred; sacrifice; saints; salvation; scripture; second; section; self; selves; sense; service; set; setting; shew; sinners; sins; small; souls; soveraignty; special; spirit; state; stories; story; strange; sum; sundry; supposition; sure; talk; task; tcp; terms; testament; testimony; text; things; thoughts; time; title; tongue; translation; treatise; trouble; true; truth; tumults; understanding; unknown; unto; use; vain; value; vulgar; way; weight; whereof; whereunto; wherewith; wisdom; wise; wonder; words; work; world; worse; worship; writings; yea; years cache: A53665.xml plain text: A53665.txt item: #5 of 53 id: A53667 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A brief and impartial account of the nature of the Protestant religion its present state in the world, its strength and weakness, with the wayes and indications of the ruine or continuance of its publick national profession / by a Protestant. date: 1682.0 words: 12859 flesch: 51 summary: However numerous therefore the Christians were in those dayes , they were all absolutely private persons without pretence of Law or Right to defend themselves ; in which state of things it is the undoubted Principle of all Protestants , that where men are persecuted meerly on the account of Religion without Relation unto the Civil Rights and Liberties of Mankind , their duty is patiently to Suffer without the least Resistance . The Protestant Religion may be considered either as it is Religion in General , that is , Christan Religion ; or as it is distinct from and opposite unto another pretended Profession of the same Religion , whereon it is called Protestant . keywords: account; advantage; ages; antichristian; blood; cause; change; christ; christian; christian religion; church; concerned; counsels; danger; day; defection; design; divine; eebo; english; faith; general; glory; god; goodness; gospel; great; hath; honour; hopes; instances; interest; issue; kings; light; like; long; mankind; means; men; minds; nations; nature; new; obedience; opposition; outward; papacy; papal; people; persons; places; pope; power; present; preservation; pretended; princes; principles; profession; protestant religion; protestants; publick; ready; reason; reconciliation; reformation; religion; rome; ruine; rule; self; small; sort; state; subjects; tcp; terms; text; things; time; true; truth; utterly; way; wayes; weakness; wisdom; works; world; worship cache: A53667.xml plain text: A53667.txt item: #6 of 53 id: A53669 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of the person and satisfaction of Christ / accommodated to the capacity and use of such as may be in danger to be seduced, and the establishment of the truth by J. Owen. date: 1669.0 words: 44222 flesch: 68 summary: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 denotes an act of God , if the words be spoken with reference in the first place to any acting of his towards Cain , Certainly these tremendous Mysteries , are not by us willingly to be exposed , or prostituted to the Cavils of every perverse querist , and disputer ; those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; whose pretended Wisdom , indeed ignorance , darkness and folly , God hath designed to confound and destroy in them and by them . keywords: able; abraham; account; actings; acts; adversaries; answer; apostle; attonement; author; authority; bare; beginning; begotten; blessed; blood; body; brief; cause; chap; christ; christ god; church; common; consideration; contrary; creation; danger; death; debt; declaration; declare; deity; design; direct; discourse; distinct; distinction; divine; doctrine; doth; dye; earth; effect; end; essence; essential; eternal; exceptions; existence; expressions; faith; father; flesh; forgiveness; foundation; free; general; ghost; glory; god; gods; good; goodness; gospel; grace; grant; great; hast; hath; head; heaven; heb; high; high god; holiness; holy; holy ghost; holy god; importance; infinite; iniquities; instances; isa; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; judge; justice; late; law; life; like; lord; love; man; manifest; manner; matter; meaning; means; meet; men; mind; natural; nature; necessary; new; obedience; object; office; old; operations; opinions; opposition; order; pardon; particular; people; person; personal; pet; place; plain; power; present; pretended; principle; properties; punishment; purpose; ready; reason; redemption; reference; respect; revelation; righteousness; rom; room; sacred; sacrifice; satisfaction; scripture; self; sense; sin; sinners; sins; socinians; son; soul; spake; spirit; stead; subject; subsistence; substance; substitution; suffering; sufficient; sundry; tcp; terms; testimonies; testimony; text; thee; things; thou; thought; time; trinity; true god; truth; understanding; unto; use; voluntary; way; wisdom; words; work; world; worship; wrath; yea cache: A53669.xml plain text: A53669.txt item: #7 of 53 id: A53671 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A brief instruction in the worship of God, and discipline of the churches of the New Testament, by way of question and answer with an explication and confirmation of those answers. date: 1667.0 words: 42587 flesch: 70 summary: What is an instituted Church of the Gospel ? Answ. A society of Persons , called out of the World , or their natural worldly state , by the administration of the Word and Spirit , unto the obedience of the Faith , or the knowledge and Worship of God in Christ , ●oyned together in an holy band , or by special agreement , for the exercise of the communion of Saints in the due observation of all the Ordinances of the Gospel , Rom 1.5 , 6. 1 Cor. 1.2 . 1 Cor. 14.15 . ( 3 ) to propose and recommend them unto the whole Church , with prayers and supplications to God for them . keywords: account; acts; admonition; answ; answer; apostle; appointment; authority; believers; body; brethren; care; case; celebration; chap; christ; church; churches; commands; communion; condition; consent; constitution; continuance; cor; covenant; deut; discharge; disciples; discipline; doctrine; doth; duties; duty; edification; effect; elders; end; ends; ephes; especial; exercise; exod; explication; faith; father; foundation; gal; general; ghost; gifts; glory; god; good; gospel; grace; great; hath; head; heb; holiness; holy; house; increase; instituted; institutions; isa; jesus; jesus christ; john; knowledge; law; laws; light; like; lord; lord christ; love; manner; matter; matth; means; members; men; mind; ministers; ministry; nature; neglect; new; obedience; observance; observation; offence; office; officers; old; order; ordinances; outward; particular; pastors; people; performance; persons; pet; place; power; prayer; principal; profession; purpose; quest; reason; relation; respect; rev; rom; rule; scripture; self; set; sin; society; souls; spirit; spiritual; state; testament; thereunto; things; thirdly; thou; thy; tim; time; titus; truth; way; wayes; whatsoever; whereof; wisdom; work; world; worship cache: A53671.xml plain text: A53671.txt item: #8 of 53 id: A53674 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A brief vindication of the non-conformists from the charge of schisme as it was managed against them in a sermon preached before the Lord Mayor by Dr. Stillingfleet, Dean of St. Pauls. date: 1680.0 words: 19976 flesch: 50 summary: But that Church being so compleat , the Apostle appointed other particular Congregational Churches , in the same Province , who had Officers of their own , with a Power of Government ; these he mentions and calls the Churches of Macedonia ; 2 Cor. Until this be disproved , until it be proved , either that they are not Churches , because they are Congregational , or that although they are Churches , yet they have no Power to Govern and Reform themselves , they are free from the guilt of Schism in their so doing . keywords: account; apostles; assemblies; author; authority; believers; case; ceremonies; charge; christ; christians; churches; common; communion; comply; concerned; congregations; consciences; consideration; design; differences; different; discipline; discourse; dissent; distinct; divine; doth; duty; edification; end; england; evil; faith; families; forbearance; force; god; good; gospel; government; great; guilty; hath; institution; interest; judgment; law; lawful; liberty; light; like; lord; love; magistrates; man; means; men; mind; ministers; mutual; nation; national; nature; necessary; nonconformists; number; observation; occasion; order; outward; pag; page; parochial; particular; particular churches; parties; peace; people; persons; power; practice; present; pretended; protestant; publick; reasons; religion; reverend; rule; schisme; scripture; self; separation; sermon; sin; sort; state; tcp; text; things; time; total; true; use; way; words; worship cache: A53674.xml plain text: A53674.txt item: #9 of 53 id: A53677 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: The church of Rome, no safe guide, or, Reasons to prove that no rational man, who takes due care of his own eternal salvation, can give himself up unto the conduct of that church in matters of religion by John Owen ... date: 1679.0 words: 17440 flesch: 57 summary: The Person of whom I speak I suppose to be a wise man ; that is , one who prefers things eternal unto those that are temporal , so as not to be ensnared by earthly Interests and Advantages , unto the forfeiture of his Interest in things above ; and will be careful not to be imposed on by men who design their own Advantage in what they would perswade him unto . And I shall not deal with them by abstruse Arguments , nor by Testimonies of men that may be bandied up and down , on the one side and the other ; but by such plain Reasonings as are accommodated unto the common understanding of all sober , sedate , rational Persons , who own the Principles of Christian Religion , which have their force from the general usage of mankind in things of an alike nature , the common natural Principles of mens minds , where they are not vitiated and depraved , with the experience of what they have found already in any Duties of Religious Worship . keywords: absolute; account; advantage; apostles; assurance; authority; believers; blood; care; case; christ; christians; church; commands; condition; conduct; consciences; contrary; design; differences; divine; doctrine; doth; duty; eebo; english; eternal; evident; experience; faith; foundation; glory; god; good; gospel; great; ground; guidance; guide; hath; hereof; holy; images; interest; jesus; john; kings; knowledge; light; like; lives; lord; love; lusts; man; means; men; minds; nations; nature; necessary; obedience; occasion; pernicious; persons; place; pope; power; practices; present; pretence; pretended; principles; reason; religion; resignation; respect; revelation; rome; rule; safe; salvation; scripture; secular; self; sense; sorts; souls; spiritual; state; sufficient; supposition; tcp; text; things; trust; truth; understanding; use; vertue; waies; way; wisdom; wise; words; world; worship cache: A53677.xml plain text: A53677.txt item: #10 of 53 id: A53681 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A discourse concerning evangelical love, church-peace and unity with the occasions and reasons of present differences and divisions about things sacred and religious, written in the vindication of the principles and practise of some ministers and others. date: 1672.0 words: 65851 flesch: 53 summary: And this Kingdome or Church of Christ ▪ on the earth , may be , and is generally by all considered under a threefold notion . And were it not ▪ that we ought not to boast our selves against others , Especially such as have not had the Spiritual Advantages that the Inhabitants of these Nations have been intrusted withal , and who have been exposed unto more violent Temptations than they , we should not fear to say , that among those of all sorts who in these Nations hold the Head , there is probably according unto a Judgment to be made by the fruits of that Spirit which is savingly communicated unto the Church in this sense alone , a greater number of Persons belonging thereunto , than in any One Nation or Church under Heaven . keywords: able; account; acts; administration; admission; advantage; affections; agreement; apostles; assemblies; attendance; authority; believers; best; better; body; care; case; cast; catholick; catholick church; causes; censures; certain; charity; christ; christians; church; church communion; churches; civil; commands; committed; common; communion; compassion; compliance; concerned; condition; conformity; consciences; consent; consideration; constant; constitution; continued; contrary; corrupt; countenance; day; design; desire; differences; discharge; disciples; discipline; divine; divisions; doctrine; doth; doubt; duties; duty; ecclesiastical; edification; effects; end; endeavour; ends; england; ensue; errors; especial; esteemed; eternal; evangelical; evidence; evident; evil; example; exercise; express; faith; fall; false; follow; forbearance; forbidden; force; foundation; general; glory; god; good; gospel; government; grace; great; greater; grounds; guides; guilt; hath; head; heaven; holiness; holy; hope; incumbent; instances; institutions; interest; jesus; jesus christ; judge; judgment; kind; know; knowledge; labour; law; lawful; laws; left; liberty; life; light; like; little; lord; lord christ; love; man; manifest; manner; matter; means; measure; meet; members; men; minds; ministers; miscarriages; mutual; nations; nature; necessary; necessity; need; neglect; new; notion; obedience; observance; observation; occasion; offence; office; old; open; order; ordinances; outward; particular; particular church; pastors; peace; people; persons; places; power; practice; prescribed; present; preservation; pretence; pretended; primitive; principal; principles; professed; profession; professors; purpose; question; reason; received; reformation; regard; relation; religion; religious; respect; rome; rule; rulers; sacred; salvation; scripture; secular; self; selves; sense; set; sincerity; sins; societies; sorts; souls; spirit; spiritual; state; sufficient; sundry; terms; text; thereon; thereunto; things; thoughts; time; true; truth; unity; unto; use; useful; visible; want; way; ways; whereof; withal; work; world; worship; yea cache: A53681.xml plain text: A53681.txt item: #11 of 53 id: A53684 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A discourse concerning liturgies, and their imposition date: 1662.0 words: 27503 flesch: 56 summary: When men cry to God for the Liberty in his Worship , which was left unto them by Christ and his Apostles , he will undoubtedly hear , though their Fellow servants should be deaf to the like Requests made unto them : And truly they must have a great Confidence in their own Wisdome and Sufficienty , who will undertake to Appoint and Impose on others the Observation of things in the Worship of God , which neither our Lord Jesus , nor his Apostles did appoint or impose . In things which concern the Worship of God , the commanding Power is Christ ; and his Command the adaequate Rule and Measure of our Obedience . keywords: abilities; account; actions; adde; additions; administration; apostles; appointment; argument; assemblies; authority; body; book; care; cause; chap; christ; christians; church; churches; circumstances; command; condition; consciences; consideration; contrary; dayes; desire; discharge; disciples; doth; duty; edification; enabled; end; ends; enquiry; exercise; faith; form; general; gifts; god; gods; good; gospel; grace; great; hath; holy; imposing; imposition; instituted; institutions; invention; jesus; jesus christ; jews; known; law; left; liberty; like; liturgies; liturgy; lord; lord christ; manner; matter; means; measure; men; mind; ministers; ministry; nature; necessary; necessity; new; obedience; obligation; observance; observation; office; old; onely; order; ordinances; outward; particular; parts; people; performance; persons; place; power; practice; prayer; prescribed; prescription; present; pretence; pretended; provision; publick; publick worship; purpose; reading; reason; reformation; religious; righteousness; rule; saviour; scripture; self; spiritual; state; tcp; testimonies; text; things; time; truth; uniformity; use; vertue; vvorship; way; whereunto; wisdome; words; work; world; worship cache: A53684.xml plain text: A53684.txt item: #12 of 53 id: A53685 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A discourse of the work of the Holy Spirit in prayer with a brief enquiry into the nature and use of mental prayer and forms / by John Owen ... date: 1682.0 words: 61055 flesch: 61 summary: The word is formed from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the other , to be gracious or merciful ; and expressing our Act towards God , it is Prayer for Grace , Supplication . Hence those who plead for Prayer by vertue of supplies of Gifts and Grace from the Holy Spirit , do admire that the use or necessity of them herein should be contradicted . Nor can they understand what they intend , who seem to deny , that it is every mans Duty in all his Circumstances , to pray as well as he can , and to make use in his so doing , of the Assistance of the Spirit of God. keywords: abba; abilities; ability; able; acceptance; access; account; acquaintance; actings; acts; adoption; advantage; affections; ages; aids; answer; apostle; assemblies; assistance; believers; benefit; best; boldness; cases; cause; chap; children; christ; christians; church; churches; circumstances; commanded; commands; common; communion; concerned; concernment; condition; confidence; consideration; constant; contrary; cry; crying; day; delight; design; desires; devotion; difference; discharge; discourse; divine; doth; duties; duty; edification; effect; efficacy; enabling; end; endeavour; ends; enquiry; eph; especial; evidence; evil; exercise; experience; express; expressed; expressions; extraordinary; faculties; faith; families; family; father; fear; forms; foundation; frame; free; general; ghost; gift; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; grace; gracious; great; guilt; hath; hearts; heb; help; holiness; holy ghost; holy spirit; imagination; immediate; instance; institution; intercession; interest; invention; jesus; kind; knowledge; known; law; liberty; life; light; like; little; lord; love; manner; matter; means; measure; meer; meet; men; mental; mercy; mind; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; neglect; new; obedience; object; occasions; office; old; outward; particular; peculiar; people; performance; persons; place; plead; power; practice; prayer; praying; prepared; prescribed; present; pretence; pretended; principal; principles; priviledge; profession; promise; proper; psal; publick; purpose; reading; reason; religion; requests; respect; rule; scripture; self; selves; sense; set; sin; sorts; souls; spirit; spiritual; state; subject; sufficient; suited; supplication; supplies; tcp; testament; testimony; text; thereunto; things; throne; time; true; truth; unbelief; understanding; unto; use; utterance; variety; vertue; vocal; voice; wants; way; ways; whereof; words; work; working; world; worship; yea cache: A53685.xml plain text: A53685.txt item: #13 of 53 id: A53689 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Eshcol: a cluster of the fruit of Canaan; brought to the borders, for the encouragement of the saints, travelling thither-ward, with their faces towards Syon. Or, Rules of direction, for the walking of the saints in fellowship, according to the order of the Gospel. Collected and explained for the use of the Church at Coggeshall, by John Owen their pastor. date: 1648.0 words: 15959 flesch: 76 summary: Experience shewes us , that not many great , not many wise , not many mighty after the flesh , are partakers of the heavenly calling ; not that the Gospel of Christ doth any way oppose , or sever ; those many differences and distinctions among the sons of men , caused by power , authority , relation , enjoyment of earthly blessings , gifts , age , or any other emminency whatsoever , according to the institution and appointment of God , with all that respect , reverence , duty , obedience , and subjection due unto persons in those distinctions ; much lesse , pull up the ancient bounds of proprietie , and interest in earthly things ; but only declares , that in things purely spirituall , these outward things , which for the most part , happen alike unto all , are of no value or esteem ; men in the Church are considered as Saints , and not as great , or rich ; all are equall , all are naked before God . THe former Rule concerned our dealing with God , in the behalf of the Church ; This our dealing with men , to the right performance hereof many things are required ; as 1. Diligent labouring in the Word , with fervent prayer , to acquaint our selves with the mind and will of God , concerning the way of worship which we profess , and the rules of walking , which we desire to practise , that so we may be able to give an account to humble enquirers , and stop the mouths of stubborn opposers ; according to our knowledge , such will be our valuation of the ordinances we enjoy : a man will not contend unless he knows his title . keywords: account; acts; admonition; alwayes; assistance; believers; body; brethren; brother; care; charity; christ; church; churches; col; common; communion; conversation; cor; day; doctrine; doth; duty; edification; ephes; evill; explic; faith; false; fellowship; flock; fruit; gal; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; grace; great; hath; heart; heb; hold; holy; jesus; john; labour; like; little; lord; love; man; matth; member; men; mind; motives; necessity; non; order; ordinances; particular; pastor; patience; peace; people; performance; persons; pet; poore; power; practise; prayer; promise; right; rom; roman; rule; saints; sake; self; selves; set; sin; spirit; spirituall; text; thee; thess; things; thou; tim; time; truth; use; ver; vers; walking; way; word; works cache: A53689.xml plain text: A53689.txt item: #14 of 53 id: A53699 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: The glory and interest of nations professing the Gospel preached at a private fast, to the Commons assembled in Parliament / published by their command, by J. Owen. date: 1659.0 words: 9519 flesch: 71 summary: The next intendment of the words in the Type , seems to relate to the deliverance of the People of the Jews from the Babilonish captivity , and the presence of God amongst them upon their return ; God frequently taking occasion from thence , to mind them of the Covenant of Grace , with the full ratification and publication of it by Christ , as is evident from Jer. 31. and 32. and sundry other places . 2. The presence of God in special providence over a people , attends the presence of Christ in grace with a people ; if Christ the glory be with them , a defence shall be upon them ; what lies else in allusion to the mercy-seat , not drawn forth in these propositions , may be afterwards insisted on . keywords: account; ark; blood; books; christ; church; cloud; commons; defence; end; english; fast; glorious; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; grace; great; hath; hearts; house; interest; isa; john; leave; life; lion; little; lord; man; men; mercy; nation; number; old; onely; owen; parliament; peace; people; persons; pillar; portion; power; presence; present; preservation; principle; profession; promise; psal; religion; remnant; righteousnesse; safety; sermon; set; spirit; tabernacle; text; things; thou; truth; ver; wayes; wisdom; words; work; world cache: A53699.xml plain text: A53699.txt item: #15 of 53 id: A53700 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Gospel grounds and evidences of the faith of God's elect shewing : I. The nature of true saving faith, in securing of the spiritual comfort of believers in this life, is of the highest importance, II. The way wherein true faith doth evidence it self in the soul and consciences of believers, unto their supportment and comfort, under all their conflicts with sin, in all their tryals and temptations, III. Faith will evidence it self, by a diligent, constant endeavour to keep it self and all grace in due exercise, in all ordinances of divine worship, private and publick, IV. A peculiar way whereby true faith will evidence it self, by bringing the soul into a state of repentance / by John Owen ... date: 1695.0 words: 29253 flesch: 57 summary: Accordingly the Practice of many doth answer their Inclination and Desire ; they will profess Religion and Obedience unto God , but will keep back part of the Price , will hide a Wedge in their Tents , through Indulgence unto some Corruption , or Dislike of some Duties in their Circumstancees : They would give unto themselves the measure of their Obedience , and according as Mens Practice is , so do they desire that things indeed should be , that that Practice should please God which pleaseth them : This Faith abhorrs ; the Soul that is under the Conduct of it , is not capable of any one Desire that any thing were otherwise than it is in the will of God , concerning our Holiness and Obedience , no more than it can desire that God should not be what he is . For , 3. A Negligence herein , or the want of stirring up Faith unto a due Exercise in all Duties of worship , is the highest affront we can put upon God , arguing a great Regardlesness of him ; whilst it is so with us , we have not , we cannot have a due Sense of any of the divine Perfections , of the divine Nature , we turn God what lies in us into an Idol , supposing that he may be put off with the out side and appearance of things . keywords: acting; affections; answer; apostle; approbation; believers; best; blessed; case; christ; col; comfort; conscience; consideration; constant; contrary; day; delight; design; desire; divine; doth; duties; duty; elect; end; endeavour; eternal; evidence; exercise; experience; faith; faith doth; frame; general; glorious; glory; god; godly; gods; good; goodness; gospel; grace; gracious; great; hath; hearts; hereof; hereunto; holiness; holy; humble; image; infinite; jesus; judgment; knowledge; law; life; light; like; lord; love; man; manner; matter; means; measure; men; mercy; mind; nature; necessary; new; obedience; occasions; operations; outward; particular; peace; peculiar; perfection; performance; persons; power; present; principal; principle; psal; reason; religion; repentance; respect; rest; righteousness; rom; rule; said; salvation; satisfaction; saving; scripture; self; selves; sense; sin; sincerity; sinners; sins; sorrow; soul; spiritual; state; suited; tcp; temptations; testimony; text; thereon; things; thoughts; times; true; true faith; truth; use; way; ways; wisdom; work; world; worship; yea cache: A53700.xml plain text: A53700.txt item: #16 of 53 id: A53701 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A guide to church-fellowship and order according to the gospel-institution wherein these following particulars are distinctly handled, I. The necessity of believers to joyn themselves in church-order, II. The subject matter of the church, III. The continuation of a church-state, and of the administration of evangelical ordinances of worship, briefly vindicated, IV. What sort of churches the disciples of Christ may and ought to joyn themselves unto as unto entire communion / by ... John Owen ... date: 1692.0 words: 17931 flesch: 63 summary: If it be said , that if all Men be thus allowed to judge of what is best for their own Edification , and to act according unto the Judgment which they make , they will be continually pa●ting from on Church unto another , untill all things are filled with disturbance and Confusion ; I say , ( 1. ) That the contrary Assertion , namely , that Men are not allowed to judge what is meer and best for their own Edification , or not to act according to the Judgment they make herein , may possible keep ●p some Churches , but is the ready way to destroy all Religion . ( 2. ) That many of those by whom this Liberty is denyed unto professing C●ristians , yet do indeed take it for grant●d , that they have such a Liberty , and that it is their Duty to make use of it . Church -- Foundation. keywords: act; administration; authority; believers; best; books; care; cease; choice; christ; christian; church; church communion; church state; churches; commands; communion; compleat; continuation; covenant; discharge; disciples; discipline; divine; doth; duties; duty; edification; efficacy; end; ends; esteemed; evangelical; exercise; external; faith; foundation; fundamental; general; gifts; glory; god; good; gospel; gospel church; grace; great; hath; institution; interest; jesus; joyn; judgment; kingdom; known; large; law; laws; liberty; lord; love; man; matter; matth; means; members; men; ministry; nature; necessary; new; obedience; observation; office; old; order; ordinances; original; outward; particular; persons; power; present; principal; privileges; profession; religion; required; respect; right; rule; salvation; scripture; self; sin; society; sort; spiritual; state; subject; tcp; testament; text; things; time; true; truth; use; visible; way; ways; work; world; worship; ● ● cache: A53701.xml plain text: A53701.txt item: #17 of 53 id: A53702 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: An humble testimony unto the goodness and severity of God in his dealing with sinful churches and nations, or, The only way to deliver a sinful nation from utter ruine by impendent judgments, in a discourse on the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, Luk. 13, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 / by John Owen. date: 1681.0 words: 33039 flesch: 66 summary: Yet it may be observed , that after things were come to that pass , that there was no possibility of turning away the Judgment threatned , yet God exercised Forbearance towards them , and gave them the outward Means of Repentance and Reformation , 1 Pet. 3. 20. That God may be Glorified in a due manner , that we may be found in Peace , whatever be the Event of things ; that we may be usefull unto others ; and in all serve the Will of God in our Generation , are all expected from us in a way of Duty , Unto this End , the ensuing Directions may be made use of . keywords: abound; accomplishment; account; apostle; application; approach; blessed; blood; calamities; calls; case; chap; christ; church; churches; city; coming; concernment; condition; confidence; consideration; contempt; day; deliverance; deserved; design; destruction; determined; discourse; displeasure; divine; doth; duties; duty; earth; end; enquiry; equal; especial; evidence; evil; example; faith; fall; fear; fire; frame; general; generation; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; grace; great; guilt; hand; hath; heart; heaven; hereof; high; holy; impendent; instances; isai; jer; jesus; judgments; land; life; light; like; long; lord; love; magistrates; manner; matter; means; mercy; mind; ministry; nation; nature; necessary; neglect; old; ordinary; outward; patience; peculiar; people; persons; place; power; present; previous; priviledges; professors; promises; prophet; providence; provoking; publick; ready; real; reformation; religion; repentance; respect; righteousness; ruine; rule; saviour; scripture; search; season; security; self; selves; severity; sin; sincere; sinful; sinners; sins; sorts; souls; spirit; state; tcp; temple; text; things; thoughts; threatned; time; tokens; true; truth; unto; use; vain; vengeance; voice; vvorld; warnings; way; ways; wisdom; work; world; wrath; yea cache: A53702.xml plain text: A53702.txt item: #18 of 53 id: A53703 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Indulgence and toleration considered in a letter unto a person of honour. date: 1667.0 words: 11697 flesch: 48 summary: But to affirm that he hath Authorized men to proceed in the way before mentioned , is to say , that he hath set up an Authority against himself , and that which may give controule to His. These things being so , seeing Men are bound Indispensibly not to Worship God so as they are convinced and perswaded , that he will not be Worshiped ; and to Worship him as he hath Appointed and Commanded , upon the Penalty of Answering their Neglect and Contempt her●of with their everlasting Condition at the last day ; And seeing God hath not Warranted or Authorized any man to inforce them to Act contrary to their Light , and that perswasion of his Mind and Will which he hath given them in their own Consciences ; nor to punish them for yeilding Obedience in Spiritual things unto the Command of God as his mind is by them apprehended , if the things themselves , though mistaken , are such as no way interfere with the common Light of Nature or Reason of Man-kind , the Fundamental Articles of Christian Religion , Moral Honesty , Civil Society , and Publike Tranquility : especially if in the things wherein men acting , as is supposed , according to their own Light and Conscience in difference from others , are of small Importance , and such as they probably plead are unduly and ungroundedly imposed on their Practice , or Prohibited unto them , it remains to be considered whether the grounds and ends proposed in Exercise of the Severity pleaded for , be agreeable to common Rules of Prudence , or the state and condition of things in this Nation . But neither is this all that these Authors contend for : Men are not only denied by them an admission into their Societies to preach the Gospel , unless it be on such terms as they cannot in conscience admit of , and which others are no way obliged in conscience to imposs upon them ; but all forbearance of , or indulgence unto them who cannot conform unto the present establishment , is decried , and pleaded against : What though men are peaceable , and useful in the Common-wealth ? What though they are every way sound in the Faith , and cordialy imbrace all the doctrine taught formerly in the Church of England ? What though those in this condition are many , and such as in whose peace and industry , the welfare of the Nation is exceedingly concerned ? What if they offer to be instructed by any who will take that work upon them , in the things about which their differences are ? What if they plead conscience towards God , and that alone , in their dissent ; it being evidently against their whole temporal interest ? What if they have given evidence of their readiness in the ways of Christ and the Gospel , to oppose every errour that is either pernicious to the souls of men , or any way of an evil aspect to publique peace and tranquility ? keywords: actions; assent; christian; church; churches; civil; common; concerned; condition; conscience; consideration; contrary; course; day; desire; differences; dissent; doth; eebo; end; england; english; evidence; force; foundation; future; god; good; gospel; government; great; hath; inclination; indulgence; interest; judge; judgement; kingdom; known; law; laws; liberty; light; like; little; man; matter; men; minds; multitudes; nation; nature; peace; persons; power; practise; present; pretended; principle; publique; reason; reference; religion; ruine; self; severity; state; tcp; text; things; thoughts; time; toleration; tranquility; true; truth; uniformity; use; utmost; way; ways; work; world; worship; years cache: A53703.xml plain text: A53703.txt item: #19 of 53 id: A53708 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Meditations and discourses on the glory of Christ, in his person, office, and grace with the differences between faith and sight applied unto the use of them that believe / by the late Reverend John Owen, D.D. date: 1691.0 words: 76045 flesch: 69 summary: For of him , and through him , and to him are all things ; to whom be Glory for ever , Amen , Rom : 11. 33 , 34 , 35 , 36. 2. IN and through Christ we do believe in God , 1 Pet. 1. 24. No such thing , as the lifting up of the Light of Gods countenance upon us , which will put gladness into our hearts ; that gladness which comprizeth all the things mentioned ; No such thing as rejoycing upon Believing with joy unspeakable and full of Glory ; no such thing as Christs shewing and manifesting himself unto us , supping with us , and giving us of his loves ; that the divine promises of a feast of fat things , and Wine well refined in Gospel-Mercies , are empty and insignificant words ; that all those ravishing joys and exultations of spirit that multitudes of faithful Martyrs of old , and in later ages have enjoyed by a view of the Glory of God in Christ and a sense of his love , whereunto they gave testimony unto their last moments in the midst of their torments , were but fancies and Imaginations . keywords: able; account; act; actings; acts; admiration; affections; angels; apostle; beauty; behold; beholding; believers; best; blessedness; blood; bodies; body; capable; carnal; cause; change; chap; christ; church; col; communication; comparison; condescention; condition; conjunction; consideration; constant; constitution; contemplation; cor; creation; creatures; darkness; day; days; death; degrees; delight; design; desire; difference; diligence; diligent; discharge; disciples; discourse; distance; distinct; divine; divine glory; divine nature; doth; dust; duties; duty; earth; effects; end; ends; enjoyment; enquire; ephes; equal; especial; essential; eternal; eternal glory; eternity; evidence; evident; evil; exaltation; exalted; excellency; exercise; experience; express; eyes; face; faith; father; flesh; form; foundation; fruits; fulness; future; future glory; general; giving; glass; glorified; glorious; glory; god; goodness; gospel; grace; great; greatest; hand; hath; head; hearts; heaven; heavenly; heb; hereof; hereunto; high; holy; hope; human; image; immediate; imperfect; ineffable; infinite; interest; invisible; isa; jesus christ; joh; john; joy; kind; knowledge; known; large; law; left; life; light; like; likeness; little; long; lord christ; love; lusts; man; man christ; manifestation; manner; means; meditations; meet; men; mercy; minds; moses; mystery; mystical; natural; nature; necessary; new; notions; obedience; object; office; operations; order; outward; parts; peculiar; perfect; person; pet; phil; place; power; present; present glory; principal; priviledge; properties; psal; punishment; real; reason; refreshment; religion; representation; respect; rest; revelation; righteousness; rom; salvation; satisfaction; scripture; self; selves; sense; sin; sins; souls; spiritual; spring; state; subject; substance; sufferings; sun; testament; text; thee; thereon; things; thoughts; thy; time; true; truth; understanding; union; unto; use; vain; vertue; view; vision; way; ways; weak; wherewith; wisdom; work; world; worship; yea cache: A53708.xml plain text: A53708.txt item: #20 of 53 id: A53712 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: The nature, power, deceit, and prevalency of the remainders of indwelling-sin in believers together with the wayes of its working and means of prevention opened, evinced, and applyed with a resolution of sundry cases of conscience thereunto appertaining. date: 1675.0 words: 88568 flesch: 71 summary: But it is one thing for a man to know in general , that there is a Law of Sin : Another thing for a man to have an experience of the power of this Law of sin in himself . Adam had a Law of sin proposed to him in his temptation , but because he had no Law of Sin inbred and working in him , he might have withstood it . keywords: able; account; actings; actions; acts; actual sin; advantage; affections; alwayes; answer; apostle; attendance; aversation; bear; beauty; beginning; believers; best; blessed; blood; body; bringing; calls; captive; care; carnal; case; chap; children; christ; close; coming; common; communion; conception; condition; conscience; consent; consideration; constant; contrary; convictions; corrupt; corruption; course; creatures; cross; cut; danger; darkness; david; day; deal; dealing; death; decay; deceit; deceitfulness; deceived; declared; degrees; delight; deliverance; design; destruction; diligence; discovery; doctrine; dominion; doth; doth god; duties; duty; earth; effects; effectual; efficacy; end; endeavours; ends; enemy; enmity; entangled; especial; eternal; evidence; evil; exceeding; experience; eyes; faith; fall; false; farther; fear; fire; fixed; flesh; folly; foolish; force; forth; frame; free; fruit; gal; general; ghost; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; grace; great; great sin; ground; guilt; habitual; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; heb; heed; hold; holiness; holy; hope; imagination; inclination; indwelling; indwelling sin; influence; instance; inward; isa; jesus; kind; know; knowledge; labour; large; law; lead; leaves; liberty; life; light; like; little; lives; living; long; look; lord; love; lusts; lyes; madness; man; manner; matter; means; men; mercy; mind; moral; natural; nature; need; neglect; new; obedience; object; oftentimes; old; open; operations; opposition; outward; pardon; particular; particular sin; peculiar; people; performance; persons; pet; place; pleasures; poor; power; powerful; prayer; present; prevail; prevailing; prevalency; principal; principle; private; profession; professors; progress; promises; proper; prophet; providence; psal; purpose; pursuit; rage; ready; reasonings; reference; relief; respect; rest; righteousness; rom; root; ruine; rule; saints; satan; satisfaction; saviour; scripture; season; seat; secret; self; selves; sense; set; sets; shew; shewed; short; sin; sin doth; sin hath; sinners; sinning; sins; soul; spirit; spiritual; springs; state; stop; strength; strong; subject; success; suitable; sundry; supplies; taking; temptation; things; thoughts; thy; time; true; truth; universal; unto; use; utmost; vain; verse; vigorous; violence; walking; watch; watchfulness; way; wayes; weak; weariness; weary; whereof; whilest; wisdom; wise; work; working; world; worship; wrath; wrought; yea cache: A53712.xml plain text: A53712.txt item: #21 of 53 id: A53715 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Of the mortification of sin in believers: the 1. Necessity, 2. Nature, and 3. Means of it. With a resolution of sundry cases of conscience thereunto belonging. By John Owen, D.D. a servant of Jesus Christ in the work of the Gospel. date: 1668.0 words: 44874 flesch: 71 summary: 2. Sin doth not onely still abide in us , but is still acting , still labouring to bring forth the deeds of the Flesh ; When sin lets us alone , we may let Sin alone : But as Sin is never less quiet , than when it seems to be most quiet ; and its waters are for the most part deep , when they are still ; so ought our contrivances against it to be ; vigorous at all times , in all conditions , even where there is least suspition . Now this cannot be done without the daily Mortifying of sin : Sin sets its strength against every Act of Holiness , and against every degree we grow to . keywords: able; account; act; acting; affections; alwayes; apostle; believers; best; blood; body; business; case; cast; chap; christ; clear; col; comfort; communion; condition; conscience; consideration; constant; contrary; conversion; corruption; course; covenant; daily; dangerous; darkness; david; day; dead; deal; death; deceitfulness; deeds; deliverance; desire; destruction; direction; discourse; distemper; doctrine; doe; doth; duties; duty; effect; eminent; end; enemy; eternal; evidence; evident; evil; expectation; face; faith; farther; fear; flesh; folly; foundation; frame; fruits; gal; general; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; grace; great; ground; guilt; hand; hath; head; healing; heart; heb; help; high; hold; holiness; holy; indwelling; indwelling sin; isa; issue; jesus; joh; john; killing; kind; knowledge; law; life; light; like; little; lives; living; long; look; lord; love; lust; lyes; man; manner; means; measure; men; mercy; mind; mortification; mortifie; mortifying; natural; nature; new; obedience; old; onely; opposition; outward; owen; particular; parts; peace; peculiar; perfection; perplexing; persons; pet; poor; power; present; principle; promise; proper; psal; purpose; quiet; ready; relief; religion; relinquishment; respect; rest; righteousness; rom; root; ruine; sad; season; second; self; selves; sense; set; sets; sick; sin; sincerity; sins; soul; spirit; spiritual; spoken; state; strength; success; sundry; tcp; temptation; text; thee; things; thou; thoughts; thy; time; trouble; true; truth; understanding; universal; unmortified; use; vain; vigour; walking; wayes; whilest; wilt; words; work; world; wound; yea; ● ● cache: A53715.xml plain text: A53715.txt item: #22 of 53 id: A53716 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Ouranōn Ourania, the shaking and translating of heaven and earth a sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament assembled on April 19, a day set apart for extraordinary humiliation / by John Owen. date: 1649.0 words: 17344 flesch: 78 summary: For he is Lord of lords , and King of kings , and they that are with him ( whose help and endeavours he will use ) are called , and chosen , and faithfull . And is there not a cry for all this , How long , Lord , holy and true , doest thou not avenge our blood on them that live on the earth ? Revel. keywords: accomplishment; antichristian; apostle; arguments; babylon; beast; blood; bringing; chap; christ; church; civill; close; commons; covenant; dark; dayes; destruction; doth; earth; eminent; empire; end; english; evident; flesh; frame; generation; glorious; glory; god; gospel; government; grace; great; ground; hand; hath; hearts; heaven; heights; high; holy; house; interest; isa; jesus; john; kingdom; kings; lambe; lesse; light; like; long; lord; lord jesus; luk; matth; men; mighty; minde; mountain; nations; new; non; old; opposition; owen; parliament; people; pieces; place; politicall; poore; power; present; principall; promises; prophet; psal; removall; residue; revel; righteousnesse; roman; saints; saith; season; self; sermon; set; shaking; signes; sinfull; spirit; spirituall; stand; state; strength; text; things; thou; thy; time; vengeance; vse; way; words; work; world; worship; yea; yeers cache: A53716.xml plain text: A53716.txt item: #23 of 53 id: A53717 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A peace-offering in an apology and humble plea for indulgence and liberty of conscience by sundry Protestants differing in some things from the present establishment about the worship of God. date: 1667.0 words: 16919 flesch: 42 summary: Neither doth the addition of ours , disturb the Harmony that is in the Confessions of the Reformed Churches , being in all material points the same with them , and no otherwise differing from any of them in things of less importance , than as they do one from another ; and as all Confessions have done , since the first Introduction of their use into the Churches of God. They relate , as is confessed , unto things spiritual and supernatural : that the will of God in these things cannot be known but by Revelation from himself , all men will acknowledge : and we suppose they will with no less readiness consent , That Divine Revelation cannot be apprehended or assented unto , but according to the nature and measure of that light , which God is pleased to communicate unto them , unto whom such Revelation is made : That this Light doth so equally affect the minds of all men , or that it is possible it should do so , considering the divers ways and means of its communication , with the different dispositions of them that receive it , that they should all have the same apprehensions of the things proposed unto them , none will judge , but such as take up their profession in these things on Custom , Prejudice or Interest . keywords: account; alwayes; apprehensions; authority; case; christ; christian; church; churches; civil; concernments; condition; consciences; consent; consideration; contrary; day; days; declared; desire; differences; dissent; doctrine; doth; duty; eebo; endeavour; ends; england; english; establishment; evil; external; faith; force; foundation; future; general; god; good; gospel; great; guilt; hath; holy; impossible; indulgence; interest; jesus; judge; judgement; law; laws; liberty; light; like; lord; majesty; man; mankind; matter; means; men; minds; mistake; nation; nature; obedience; occasion; old; outward; particular; peace; penalties; persons; pleased; power; practice; prejudice; present; pretences; pretended; principles; profess; profession; professors; publick; reason; religion; revelation; ruine; rules; self; selves; set; severity; society; spirit; sundry; tcp; text; things; thoughts; time; truth; unto; use; way; work; world; worship cache: A53717.xml plain text: A53717.txt item: #24 of 53 id: A53723 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: The principles of the doctrine of Christ: unfolded in two short catechismes, wherein those principles of religion are explained, the knowledge whereof is required by the late ordinance of Parliament, before any person bee admitted to the sacrament of the Lords Supper. For the use of the congregation at Fordham, in the county of Essex. By John Owen pastor there. date: 1645.0 words: 12971 flesch: 90 summary: What is the intercession of Christ ? A. His continuall soliciting (10) of God on our behalf , begun here in fervent prayers , continued in Heaven , by appearing as our advocate at the Throne of Grace , Psal. 2.8 . Q. 4. How know you them to bee the word of God ? A. keywords: act; bee; beeing; blood; body; chap; christ; church; col; cor; covenant; curse; death; decrees; deut; doe; doth; elect; ephes; esa; eternall; exod; faith; father; free; gal; gen; glory; god; gods; good; grace; hath; head; heb; hee; holinesse; holy; ioh; jesus; joh; law; life; luk; man; mark; matth; nature; new; obedience; offices; onely; people; person; pet; phil; power; providence; psal; required; respect; revel; rom; sacrament; scripture; sin; sins; spirit; spirituall; text; things; tim; union; way; wee; word; works cache: A53723.xml plain text: A53723.txt item: #25 of 53 id: A53726 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: The reason of faith, or, An answer unto that enquiry, wherefore we believe the scripture to be the word of God with the causes and nature of that faith wherewith we do so : wherein the grounds whereon the Holy Scripture is believed to be the word of God with faith divine and supernatural, are declared and vindicated / by John Owen ... date: 1677.0 words: 58220 flesch: 59 summary: For the Faith whereby we believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God , is on all occasions absolutely melted down into that whereby we believe the Scriptures to be the Word of God. Plainly that which the Apostle teacheth us is , that we believe all other Divine Truths for the Scriptures sake , or because they are declared therein ; but the Scripture we believe for its own sake , or because holy men of God wrote it as they were moved by the Holy Ghost . keywords: account; acts; advantage; ages; answer; apostle; arguments; assent; assurance; authority; beginning; believers; believing; best; book; capable; care; cause; certainty; chap; characters; children; christ; christians; church; cogent; committed; common; communication; condition; confirmation; consciences; consideration; contrary; cor; creation; credibility; darkness; day; declaration; demonstration; design; discourse; divine; divine authority; divine inspiration; divine original; divine power; divine revelation; divine supernatural; divine testimony; divine truth; doctrine; doth; duty; effect; effectual; efficacy; end; enquiry; especial; esse; esteem; evidence; evidencing; evident; excellency; exercise; experience; external; eyes; faculty; faith; faith divine; false; far; firm; folly; force; formal; formal reason; foundation; future; general; ghost; giving; glorious; glory; god; gods; good; goodness; gospel; grace; grant; great; greater; ground; hath; hearts; heaven; heb; hereof; highest; holy; humane; illumination; immediate; infallible; inspiration; interest; internal; isa; jesus; jews; john; judgment; kind; knowledg; known; large; law; life; light; like; lives; long; lord; man; manifest; mankind; manner; material; matter; means; meer; men; minds; ministry; miracles; moral; moses; motives; nations; nature; necessary; need; new; non; obedience; object; objections; objective; old; open; opinion; order; outward; particular; people; persons; perswasion; pet; place; possible; power; preaching; prejudices; present; pretence; pretended; principal; principles; private; profession; proper; properties; prophets; proposal; proposed; providence; psal; purpose; question; quod; rational; real; reason; religion; reputation; required; respect; rest; revelation; rom; rome; room; rule; sake; satan; scripture; second; self; selves; sense; set; sin; sole; sort; souls; spirit; spiritual; subject; sufficient; sundry; supernatural; supposition; tcp; temptations; testament; testimonies; testimony; text; thereunto; things; things divine; thou; time; true; truth; understanding; unto; use; veracity; vvord; way; ways; weight; whereon; wisdom; wise; witness; word; work; worship; writing; yea cache: A53726.xml plain text: A53726.txt item: #26 of 53 id: A53727 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A short and plain answer to two questions: I. Where was your religion before Luther? II. How know you the Scriuptures to be the word of God? By a Protestant. date: 1682.0 words: 7085 flesch: 63 summary: As , Who gave you Authority to call in question the Scriptures ? How dare you insinuate doubts into any Christians mind concerning the Truth and Authority of that Book , which is the Rule of our Duty both to God and Man ? In this manner I presume , they would answer my Queries , nor do I know any better way : And just thus it is in the Case before us ; for , from these very grounds it will appear , that the Scriptures have proceeded from God. keywords: adversaries; answer; arguments; authority; better; body; book; cause; characters; church; conscience; copies; creation; divine; doth; early; eebo; english; evidence; force; fountain; god; good; goodness; great; hath; holy; humane; iniquity; life; light; like; lives; luther; man; manner; matter; men; mind; nature; online; original; person; phase; power; principles; protestant; question; reason; religion; rule; scriptures; self; selves; sense; short; sir; spirit; sun; tcp; tei; text; things; time; true; truth; universal; way; works; world cache: A53727.xml plain text: A53727.txt item: #27 of 53 id: A53728 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Some considerations about union among Protestants, and the preservation of the interest of the Protestant religion in this nation date: 1680.0 words: 4725 flesch: 42 summary: This Right of Kings , and this Liberty of Subjects also , are so sacred , as that they ought not to be entrenched on by any pretence of Church or Religion . Church and state -- England. keywords: authoritative; body; care; christian; church; church state; constitution; divisions; eebo; england; english; faith; form; general; government; interest; king; law; laws; legal; liberties; liberty; means; nation; national; parliament; people; persons; places; popery; power; present; preservation; protestant; protestant religion; publick; religion; state; subjects; tcp; text; things; union; way; whil'st cache: A53728.xml plain text: A53728.txt item: #28 of 53 id: A53731 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A treatise of the dominion of sin and grace wherein sin's reign is discovered, in whom it is, and in whom it is not : how the law supports it, how grace delivers from it, by setting up its dominion the heart / by John Owen ... date: 1688.0 words: 31615 flesch: 72 summary: The appearing evidences of it , are their adding drunkenness unto thirst ; one kind of sin unto another , making a visible Progress in sinning , adding boasting and a profane Contempt of all things Sacred , unto their Course in Sin. Convictions on the one hand , will make a great Pretence and Appearance of an Opposition in the Will unto Sin , by their unavoidable Impressions on it , when it is not so . And disturbed Affections under Temptations , will plead , that the Will it self is given up unto the choice and service of sin , when it is not so . keywords: acts; affections; apostle; application; assurance; believers; bondage; case; chap; christ; comfort; communication; condition; conflict; conscience; constant; continual; contrary; convictions; course; crucified; darkness; day; death; delight; deliverance; design; destruction; divine; dominion; doth; duties; duty; efficacy; end; endeavour; ends; enemy; enquiry; especial; evidence; evil; exercise; experience; faith; fear; force; frame; free; freedom; general; god; good; gospel; grace; great; guilt; hardness; hath; heart; hereof; holy; iij; imaginations; interest; isa; jesus; law; liberty; life; light; like; long; lord; love; lusts; man; manner; matter; means; men; mind; mortification; nature; neglect; new; obedience; opposition; peace; performance; persons; power; prayer; present; pretences; prevalency; promise; proper; psal; reign; repentance; righteousness; rom; ruine; rule; satisfaction; scripture; seasons; self; selves; sense; sensible; servants; service; set; sin; sin doth; sin hath; sinners; sins; sort; soul; spiritual; state; strength; supplies; tcp; temptation; text; things; thoughts; throne; time; title; true; use; way; ways; wisdom; work; world; yea cache: A53731.xml plain text: A53731.txt item: #29 of 53 id: A53733 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Truth and innocence vindicated in a survey of a discourse concerning ecclesiastical polity, and the authority of the civil magistrate over the consciences of subjects in matters of religion. date: 1669.0 words: 87492 flesch: 47 summary: Now concerning these one Rule may be observed ; namely , that they cannot be of one kind , and signifie things of another , by vertue of any command , and consent of men , unless they have an absolute Authority both over the sign , and thing signified , and can change their Natures , or Create a new Relation between them . 2. The Question being only about Religious Duties , or things pertaining to , or required in or about the Worship of God ; no exception against the general thesis ca●● take place , but such as consists in thing● directly of that nature . keywords: absolute; account; acknowledged; actings; actions; acts; actual; administration; advantage; adversaries; affairs; affections; ages; ancient; answer; antecedent; apostle; appear; appearance; apprehensions; argument; assertion; atheism; author; authority; best; better; blessed; book; capable; care; case; ceremonies; certain; chapter; charge; christ; christian; christian religion; christianity; church; churches; circumstances; civil; cognizance; command; common; conceptions; concerned; concernment; concerns; condition; conduct; confessions; confirmation; conformists; confusion; consciences; consent; consideration; contempt; contrary; controversie; conversation; countenance; court; creation; crime; day; debate; declaration; declared; defence; deity; design; desire; determination; determine; dialogues; dictates; difference; direct; direction; discourse; disgrace; dissent; distinction; disturbance; divine; divine worship; doctrine; doth; doubt; duties; duty; earth; easie; ecclesiastical; effects; efficacy; end; endeavour; ends; england; english; enquiry; ensue; entrance; especial; established; esteemed; eternal; evidence; evident; evil; exemption; exercise; experience; expressions; faith; fall; false; farther; fear; follow; forbidden; foundation; free; fury; general; giving; glory; god; god doth; godliness; gods; good; goodness; gospel; government; grace; grant; great; greater; greatest; guilt; hand; hath; hath power; head; hearts; heaven; highest; hitherto; holy; honour; hope; house; humane; idolatrous; ignorance; importance; inconsistent; indifferent; indignation; infinite; instances; institutions; interest; inward; jesus; jews; judgement; jurisdiction; kingdom; kings; known; late; law; lawful; laws; lay; learned; left; let; liberty; life; light; like; little; live; long; lord; love; lyes; magistrate; magistrate hath; making; man; management; manifest; mankind; manner; matter; mean; measure; meer; meet; men; mens; mind; mistakes; moral; morality; moses; nation; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; new; non; obedience; obligation; obliged; observance; observation; occasion; old; open; opinions; order; ordinary; original; ought; outward; outward worship; pag; particular; parts; past; paul; peace; peaceable; peculiar; penalties; people; performance; persons; perswasions; places; pleads; pleased; pleasure; political; pope; power; practice; precepts; prescribed; present; pretence; pretended; priesthood; princes; principal; principles; private; priviledge; profess; profession; proper; publick; purpose; pursuit; question; rational; real; reason; reference; reflections; reformation; regard; relief; religion; religious; religious worship; representation; reproaches; require; respect; return; revelation; ridiculous; righteousness; rule; rulers; sacred; sacrifices; satisfaction; satisfied; saviour; scarce; scheme; scorn; scripture; second; security; seditious; self; selves; sense; sentiments; severity; significant; signification; sin; sinners; sins; small; sober; society; sorts; souls; soveraign; spirit; spiritual; state; subjection; subjects; substance; sufficient; suited; sundry; superiour; superstition; supposition; supream; sure; survey; tcp; temporal; tendency; terms; testament; text; thereunto; things; thoughts; time; trade; tranquility; true; trust; truth; understanding; universal; unto; use; useful; vain; vertue; vertuous; vice; way; wayes; weak; whereof; wherewith; whilest; wisdom; withal; words; work; world; worship; wrath; writing; yea; years; zeal; ● ● cache: A53733.xml plain text: A53733.txt item: #30 of 53 id: A53735 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Dr. John Owen's two short catechisms wherein the principles of the doctine of Christ are unfolded and explained : proper for all persons to learn before they be admitted to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and composed by him for the use of all congregations in general. date: 1700.0 words: 14685 flesch: 91 summary: A. The gracious free Act 1 of God , imputing the righteousness of Christ to a believing Sinner , and for that speaking Peace unto his Conscience , in the Pardon of his Sin , pronouncing him to be just , and accepted before him , Gen. 15. 6. Act. 13. 38 , 39. Luk. 18. 14. A. That ( a ) universal 4 5 sincere obedience to the whole will of God , ( b ) in our hearts , minds , wills , and actions , ( c ) whereby we are in some measure made conformable to Christ our head . keywords: act; believers; blood; body; books; chap; christ; church; col; cor; covenant; curse; death; decrees; deut; doth; elect; english; ephes; esa; estate; eternal; exod; faith; father; free; gal; gen; general; glory; god; gods; good; grace; hath; head; hearts; heb; holiness; holy; jer; jesus; joh; law; life; lord; luk; man; mark; matth; nature; new; obedience; offices; onely; people; person; pet; phil; power; providence; psal; required; respect; revel; right; rom; rule; sacrament; scripture; sin; sins; spirit; spiritual; tcp; text; things; tim; union; way; word; works cache: A53735.xml plain text: A53735.txt item: #31 of 53 id: A53736 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A vindication of some passages in a discourse concerning communion with God from the exceptions of William Sherlock, rector of St. George Buttolph-Lane / by the author of the said discourse, John Owen. date: 1674.0 words: 47016 flesch: 55 summary: That God entred into the New Covenant Originally only for the sake of those things whereby that Covenant was ratified and confirmed , and that Christ was so the Mediator of the New Covenant , that he dyed not for the Redemption of Transgressions under the first Covenant , whereby the whole Consideration of his Satisfaction and of Redemption properly so called , is excluded , that there is no Consideration to be had of his Purchase of the Inheritance of Grace and Glory , with many other things of the same importance , and that the Gospel or the Doctrine of the Gospel is the New Covenant , which is only a perspicuous Declaration of it , are things that may become these New Sons of the Church of England , which the Elder Church would not have borne withall . The Blood of Christ , as the Apostle witnesseth , doth therefore take away Sin , because through the Eternal Spirit he offered himself unto God without spot ; as that which sanctifyed our nature in Christ , that which made it a Sacrifice available to take away sin , is the same which quickneth it , raised it out of the Grave after Death , and exalted it unto Glory . keywords: able; account; acquaintance; acts; adam; advantage; alwayes; ancient; answer; apostle; arguments; assertion; author; believers; better; body; book; cause; charge; christ; christian; church; common; communication; communion; concerned; concernment; confidence; consideration; contrary; covenant; death; design; desire; discourse; distinct; divine; doctrine; doe; doth; effects; end; england; eternal; evident; excellencies; exceptions; exercise; expressed; expressions; faith; false; father; flesh; fountain; ghost; glorious; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; grace; great; hath; having; head; holiness; holy; hope; humane; ignorance; imputation; jesus christ; john; judgment; justice; justification; knowledge; known; law; laws; leave; life; light; like; little; lord christ; love; man; mankind; manner; matter; means; mediation; mediator; meet; men; mercy; mind; modesty; nature; necessary; necessity; new; notice; obedience; occasion; office; operations; opposition; pag; pardon; particular; parts; passages; peculiar; person; personal; place; pleased; power; present; principles; proceeds; proper; properties; proved; purpose; reader; real; reason; receive; regard; religion; respect; revelation; righteousness; said; salvation; sanctification; satisfaction; saviour; scorn; scripture; section; self; selves; sence; sin; sinners; sins; soul; speak; spirit; spiritual; state; subject; sufficient; sundry; tcp; testimonies; text; things; time; true; truth; understanding; union; use; way; whereof; wherewith; wisdom; words; work; world; writings; yea cache: A53736.xml plain text: A53736.txt item: #32 of 53 id: A63500 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A true copy of the Welch sermon preached before the two princes, Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice, at Dover, a little before they imbarked themselves, with what they had plundered out of England and Wales, to passe beyond the seas preached by Shon up Owen, priest, his text being 2. Esdras Chap. 7, verse 15. date: 1646.0 words: 3352 flesch: 45 summary: A true copy of the Welch sermon preached before the two princes, Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice, at Dover, a little before they imbarked themselves, with what they had plundered out of England and Wales, to passe beyond the seas preached by Shon up Owen, priest, his text being 2. A true copy of the Welch sermon preached before the two princes, Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice, at Dover, a little before they imbarked themselves, with what they had plundered out of England and Wales, to passe beyond the seas preached by Shon up Owen, priest, his text being 2. keywords: a63500; art; books; copy; country; dover; dutch; england; english; esdras; good; hath; home; lead; leyden; little; man; maurice; men; owen; prince; prince maurice; prince rupert; quem; rupert; selfe; sermon; terminus; text; thou; tivell; true; verse; wales; welch; word cache: A63500.xml plain text: A63500.txt item: #33 of 53 id: A70766 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Moderation a vertue, or, A vindication of the principles and practices of the moderate divines and laity of the Church of England represented in some late immoderate discourses, under the nick-names of Grindalizers and Trimmers / by a lover of moderation, resident upon his cure ; with an appendix, demonstrating that parish-churches are no conventicles ... in answer to a late pamphlet entitled, Parish-churches turned into conventicles, &c. date: 1683.0 words: 39699 flesch: 61 summary: 2. Because we are Christians , we should form our Conversation according to the Pattern of our heavenly Father , and blessed Saviour , who governs and keeps the World and Church together by Moderation . A VINDICATION OF Moderate Church-men , SUpposing Moderation to be a Duty , Every Christian ought to be zealous for this Grace , and against all such Persons and Things as are Enemies of it , said the Reverend and Worthy Bishop Wilkins , answering an Objection in his Sermon of Moderation , pag. keywords: act; age; answer; arch; articles; authority; baptism; best; better; bishop; body; book; bow; brethren; canon; canonical; care; case; ceremonies; ceremony; character; charge; charity; child; christ; christian; church; churches; clergy; close; common; communion; comparison; conformity; conscience; consent; consequence; constant; construction; contrary; controversy; conventicles; conversation; creet; cross; cunning; danger; declaration; design; desire; difference; dissenters; divine; doctrine; doth; duty; enemies; england; english; equity; evil; exact; excellent; exercise; eye; face; fancy; fashion; foresee; frequent; friends; gain; general; givers; god; good; government; grace; great; greater; greatest; grindalizers; half; hand; happy; hath; haven; head; heart; holy; honest; honour; house; image; indifferent; indulgence; interest; judgment; kind; king; kneel; known; late; law; lawful; laws; lay; leave; left; legal; life; like; little; london; long; lord; love; man; manner; matters; mean; members; memory; men; mind; minister; moderate; moderate church; moderate man; moderation; modum; moles; morning; names; nature; necessary; need; new; nonconformists; north; notion; obedience; observe; occasions; offence; old; omission; open; order; orthodox; pag; parish; particular; party; patience; peace; people; persons; places; power; practice; prayer; preacher; present; priest; principles; private; promise; protestant; publick; queen; reading; reason; religion; respect; reverend; right; ring; rites; room; rubrick; rule; saith; schism; second; sect; self; selves; sence; sermon; service; set; sin; sir; souls; south; spirit; standing; state; strict; subscriptions; sure; surplice; table; tcp; temper; tender; text; things; thought; time; title; true; truth; uniformity; use; vertue; vindication; way; ways; weak; west; whitgift; wisdom; wise; word; work; worship; zeal; zealous cache: A70766.xml plain text: A70766.txt item: #34 of 53 id: A89790 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A declaration of the faith and order owned and practised in the Congregational Churches in England; agreed upon and consented unto by their elders and messengers in their meeting at the Savoy, Octob. 12. 1658. date: 1659.0 words: 22737 flesch: 53 summary: And truly , the very turning of the Gentiles to the owning of the same Faith , in the substance of it with the Christian Jew ( though differing in greater points then we do from our Brethren ) is presently after dignified by the Apostle with this style , That it is the Confession of Jesus Christ himself ; not as the Object onely , but as the Author and Maker thereof : I will confess to thee ( saith Christ to God ) among the Gentiles . So that in all such accords , Christ is the great and first Confessor ; and we , and all our Faith uttered 〈◊〉 Us , are but the Epistles , ( as Paul ) and Confessions ( as Isaiah there ) of their Lord and ours ; He , but expressing what is written in his heart , through their hearts and mouthes , to the glory of God the Father : And shall not we all rejoyce herein , when as Christ himself is said to do it upon this occasion : as it there also follows , I will sing unto thy Name . keywords: able; account; apostle; assemblies; assembly; authority; believers; body; brethren; care; chap; christ; christian; church; churches; common; communion; confession; congregational; conscience; contrary; corruption; counsel; covenant; creatures; day; dead; death; differences; divisions; doctrine; doth; duty; elect; end; england; eternal; everlasting; evil; faith; fall; father; free; general; ghost; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; government; grace; great; greater; hand; hath; head; hearts; holy; jesus; jesus christ; judge; judgment; justification; justified; knowledge; known; law; lawful; liberty; life; light; like; lord; love; magistrate; man; manner; matter; means; members; men; mutual; nature; necessary; new; obedience; old; onely; opinions; order; ordinances; particular; peace; people; persons; pleased; power; prayer; profession; providence; publique; religion; repentance; rule; sacrament; saints; salvation; satan; saving; scripture; self; set; sin; sins; souls; special; spirit; spiritual; state; substance; testament; text; thereunto; things; time; true; truth; use; vii; way; word; works; worship; yea cache: A89790.xml plain text: A89790.txt item: #35 of 53 id: A90263 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: The branch of the Lord, the beauty of Sion: or, The glory of the Church, in it's relation unto Christ· Opened in two sermons; one preached at Berwick, the other at Edinburgh. By John Owen, minister of the Gospel. date: 1650.0 words: 14316 flesch: 77 summary: Hence it is most evident that this Church of Christ is a House , and being appropriated unto God , God's House . the Residue of this House , being predestinated to be made conformable unto him : He is before all things , by him all things , ( that is all spirituall things , all the things of this House ) consist , He is the Head of the Body the Church : this I mean , God purposed that Christ should be the bottom and foundation of this whole building , that it should be all laid on him : I do not mean , that God first intended Christ for a foundation , and then his Elect for a building . keywords: altar; ark; beauty; blood; building; candlestick; christ; church; condition; cor; dead; doth; dwell; elect; ephes; fabrick; father; foundation; glorious; glory; god; gold; good; gospel; graces; great; habitation; hath; head; heb; hee; holy; house; incense; isa; jesus; jesus christ; joh; john; law; life; light; like; living; lord; lord christ; love; men; nature; non; onely; order; ordinances; owen; peace; people; poor; power; prayer; psal; relation; respect; revel; rock; roman; sacrifice; saints; saith; self; set; sion; soul; spirit; spirituall; stones; tabernacle; temple; text; things; thou; thy; time; title; true; way; work; world; worship; yea; zech cache: A90263.xml plain text: A90263.txt item: #36 of 53 id: A90265 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: The duty of pastors and people distingushed [sic]. Or A briefe discourse, touching the administration of things commanded in religion. Especially concerning the means to be used by the people of God (distinct from church-officers) for the increasing of divine knowledge in themselves and others. Wherein bounds are prescribed to their peformances, their liberty is enlarged to the utmost extent of the dictates of nature and rules of charity: their duty laid downe in directions, drawn from Scripture-precepts, and the practise of Gods people in all ages. Together with the severall wayes of extraordinary calling to the office of publike teaching, with what assurance such teachers may have of their calling, and what evidence they can give of it, unto others. / By John Ovven, M.A. of Q. Col. O. date: 1644.0 words: 23775 flesch: 51 summary: For all prelacy , at least , untill Nimrod hunted for preferment , was dejure divino : I finde then , that before the giving of the Law , the chief men among the servants of the true God , did every one in their owne families with their neighbors adjoyning , of the same perswasion , performe those things which they knew to be required , by the Law of nature , tradition , or speciall revelation ( the unwritten word of those times ) in the service of God , instructing their childeren and servants in the knowledge of their creed concerning the nature and goodnesse of God , the fall and sin of man , the use of sacrifices , and the promised seede , ( the summe of their religion ) and moreover performing {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} things appertaining unto God . that of Priest , which to the takers seemed to import a more mysterious imployment , a greater advancement above the rest of their brethren , a neerer approach unto God , in the performances of their office , then that of Ministers : wherefore they embraced it , either voluntarily , alluding to the service of God and the administration thereof amongst his antient people the Jewes , or thought that they ought necessarily to undergoe it , as belonging properly to them , who are to celebrate those mysteries , and offer those sacrifices , which they imagined , were to them prescribed : the imposers on the contrary , pretend divers reasons why now that name can signifie none but men rejected from Gods work , and given up to superstitious vanities ; attending in their minds , the old Priests of Baal , and the now shavelings of Antichrist : it was a new Etimologie of this name , which that learned man cleaved unto , who unhappily was ingaged into the defence of such errours , as he could not but see , and did often confesse : To which also he , he had an entrance made by an Arch-bishop ; to wit , that it was but an abbreviation of Presbyters , knowing full well , not only that the signification of these words , is divers amongst them , to whom belongs jus & norma loquendi , but also , that they are widely different in holy writ . keywords: acts; adde; administration; advantage; alwayes; answer; assemblies; assurance; bee; body; brethren; calling; cap; cases; chap; charity; children; christ; christians; church; command; common; contrary; corrupted; covenant; day; desire; deut; dictates; discourse; distinct; divers; divine; doctrine; doe; doth; doubt; duty; edification; end; ephes; evidence; extraordinary; faith; false; find; flesh; generall; gifts; giving; glorious; god; gods; good; gospell; grace; great; greater; hand; hath; hearts; heavenly; heb; hee; himselfe; holy; humane; institution; instruction; interest; john; kinde; knowledge; law; lawfull; liberty; light; like; lord; love; manner; meanes; men; mens; ministers; miracles; moses; nature; necessary; new; non; offering; office; officers; old; onely; order; outward; owne; particular; pastors; paul; people; performance; place; power; practise; preaching; precept; present; priesthood; priests; private; prophets; publike; purpose; reason; regard; religion; respect; rest; revelation; roman; rule; sacrifices; saint; saviour; scripture; seemes; servants; service; set; severall; sin; sort; soules; speake; speciall; spirit; spirituall; sufficient; teachers; teaching; testament; text; thereunto; things; thou; thy; time; true; truth; use; vertue; vocation; warrant; way; wayes; word; work; worship; yea cache: A90265.xml plain text: A90265.txt item: #37 of 53 id: A90266 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Eben-ezer a memoriall of the deliverance of Essex, county, and committee, being an exposition on the first ten verses of the third chapter of the prophesie of Habakkuk in two sermons. The first preached at Colchester before his Excellency on a day of thanksgiving for the surrender thereof. The other at Rumford unto the committee who were imprisoned by the enemy Sep. 28. a day set apart unto thanksgiving for their deliverance. / By John Ovven pastor of the church of God which is at Coggeshall. date: 1648.0 words: 27861 flesch: 79 summary: By John Ovven pastor of the church of God which is at Coggeshall. By John Ovven pastor of the church of God which is at Coggeshall. keywords: act; affections; affliction; afraid; almighty; anger; answer; appearance; armies; army; assistance; beginning; believers; bin; blessings; blood; bottome; bow; bringing; burning; canaan; chariots; children; christ; church; churches; colchester; comming; committee; condition; counsells; county; creatures; cry; cushan; day; days; delight; deliverance; desire; destruction; deut; dispensations; doe; doth; doubtlesse; earth; eminent; end; enemies; enemy; essex; everlasting; evill; excellency; exod; faith; fall; father; fear; fire; flint; following; frame; friends; gen; glorious; glory; god; gods; good; grace; great; habakkuk; hand; hast; hath; hearts; heaven; help; high; hills; himselfe; hope; horses; iniquity; isa; israel; john; jordan; joy; judgements; kingdome; kings; land; late; light; like; long; look; lord; love; majesty; making; men; mercies; mercy; middest; midian; mighty; moses; mountaines; naked; nations; need; new; non; obser; old; onely; particular; parts; passe; people; pharaoh; place; portion; power; praise; prayer; presence; present; pretious; priviledges; promise; proper; prophet; providence; psal; quiet; ready; reas; remembrance; rest; rivers; rock; roman; ruine; saints; salvation; sam; season; seene; set; severall; shall; sigionoth; song; sons; soule; spirit; stand; streames; strength; strong; tents; text; thee; thine; things; thou; thoughts; thousands; thy; time; title; tremble; trembling; tribes; trouble; truth; undertakings; use; verse; view; vse; want; water; way; wayes; wee; wildernesse; wind; wise; word; work; wrath; years cache: A90266.xml plain text: A90266.txt item: #38 of 53 id: A90268 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: God's presence with a people, the spring of their prosperity; with their speciall interest in abiding with Him. A sermon, preached to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, at Westminster, Octob. 30. 1656. A day of solemn humiliation. / By John Owen, D.D. a servant of Jesus Christ, in the work of the Gospel. Printed by Order of Parliament. date: 1656.0 words: 13186 flesch: 70 summary: Secondly , Observe the nature of this dependance of Gods presence on our abiding with him : it doth not depend upon it , as the Effect upon its proper cause , as though it were procured by it , merited by it ; we enjoy not the least morsel of bread on any such account , much less such eminent priviledges as attend Gods special providential presence ; we deserve nothing at the hand of God , and therefore if he should take us in the middest of the choysest obedience , and fill us with the fiercest of miseries , he did us no wrong ; and therefore the Lord does so deal sometimes with his ; and that not only with particular persons , as in the case of Job , but also with his people in general , as Psal , 44. These things I have spoken to in general before ; besides your own dependance on God , and comportment with his providence , the things incumbent on you , are such as respect either persons , or things . keywords: abiding; account; advantage; affairs; asa; blessed; care; cases; cause; chap; christ; church; cloud; concernment; counsel; covenant; day; desires; difficulties; direction; discourse; dispensations; doth; duty; end; england; enquire; exod; glory; god; gods; goe; good; grace; great; hand; hast; hath; hearts; hope; house; interest; isa; issue; jesus; john; law; life; lord; means; men; mercies; nation; nature; night; non; octob; owen; parliament; peace; people; persons; pillar; pledge; power; presence; present; proposition; prosperity; protection; providence; providential; psal; respect; roman; rule; saints; sermon; set; special; success; tenor; text; thee; things; thou; trust; undertakings; way; wayes; words; work; world cache: A90268.xml plain text: A90268.txt item: #39 of 53 id: A90269 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: God's work in founding Zion, and his peoples duty thereupon. A sermon preached in the Abby Church at Westminster, at the opening of the Parliament Septemb. 17th 1656. / By John Owen: a servant of Jesus Christ in the work of the Gospell. date: 1656.0 words: 14462 flesch: 66 summary: you that have praied under persecution for Reformation , you that have fought in the high places of the field for Reformation , you that have covenanted and sworne for Reformation , goe now , reforme your selves ; you Ministers , preach as often as you will , as frely as you please , no man shall controll you , live as holily as you can , pray as often , fast as often as you will ; be full of bounty and good workes , giving examples to your flock , none shall trouble you ; be instant in season , out of season , preach the whole counsell of God without controll ; you people be holy , serve God in holinesse , keep close to his worship and ordinances , love them , delight in them , bring forth such fruits as men may glorify God on your account , condemne the world , justifie the cause of God , by a Gospell Conversation ; Take seaven yeares peace and plenty , and see what you can doe . Is it not then evident that setting aside prejudicate affections , and such determinations , as may reasonably be supposed to arise from them , laying away all private animosities , and desire of Rule and preheminence , with other worldly and selfish designes ; the universality of the people of God , doe answer to them that enquire , that in the last perswasion lies the ayme , and work of God in our generation . keywords: able; account; affaires; answer; broken; cause; christ; church; common; condition; consideration; day; designe; desire; dispensations; divided; doth; duty; earth; end; enemies; enquiries; enquiry; envy; establishment; evident; feare; founding; generall; glorious; glory; god; gods; good; gospell; great; hand; hath; heart; himselfe; interest; issue; jesus; land; leave; lies; like; lord; love; lye; men; messengers; nations; non; owen; owne; palestina; parliament; particular; peace; peculiar; people; poore; power; present; private; proper; providence; reformation; rod; roman; season; selves; set; severall; sion; state; text; things; thy; time; trust; way; wisdome; words; work; world; worship cache: A90269.xml plain text: A90269.txt item: #40 of 53 id: A90271 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: The humble proposals of Mr. Owen, Mr. Tho. Goodwin, Mr. Nye, Mr. Sympson, and other ministers, who presented the petition to the Parliament, and other persons, Febr. 11. under debate by a committee this 31. of March, 1652. for the furtherance and propagation of the Gospel in this nation. Wherein they having had equall respects to all persons fearing God, though of differing judgements, doe hope also that they will tend to union and peace. With additionall propositions humbly tendred to the Committee for propagating the Gospel, as easie and speedy means for supply of all parishes in England with able, godly, and orthodox ministers. For, setling of right constituted churches, and for preventing persons of corrupt judgements, from publishing dangerous errours, and blasphemies in assemblies and meetings, by other godly persons, ministers, and others. date: 1652.0 words: 5532 flesch: 53 summary: The humble proposals of Mr. Owen, Mr. Tho. Goodwin, Mr. Nye, Mr. Sympson, and other ministers, who presented the petition to the Parliament, and other persons, Febr. 11. The humble proposals of Mr. Owen, Mr. Tho. Goodwin, Mr. Nye, Mr. Sympson, and other ministers, who presented the petition to the Parliament, and other persons, Febr. 11. keywords: able; admiral; amsterdam; assemblies; blasphemies; churches; committee; constituted; corrupt; counties; county; dangerous; divers; duke; dutch; england; english; errours; fit; fleet; gallant; godly; goodwin; gospel; great; hath; humble; judgements; king; lord; march; meetings; ministers; nation; number; nye; orthodox; owen; parishes; parliament; peace; persons; petition; places; pleased; present; prince; proposals; propositions; rest; right; said; set; ships; speedy; states; supply; text; thomason; time; war cache: A90271.xml plain text: A90271.txt item: #41 of 53 id: A90272 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: The labouring saints dismission to rest. A sermon / preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable Henry Ireton Lord Deputy of Ireland: in the Abbey Church at Westminster, the 6th. day of February 1651. By John Owen, minister of the Gospel. Licensed and entered according to order. date: 1652.0 words: 10401 flesch: 62 summary: It is the wisdom of a man , to see the name of God , to be acquainted with his will , his minde , his aime in things , when his providentiall voice crieth to the City . This carnall policie enquires not into , but is wholly swallowed up in the concatenation of things among themselves , applying secondary causes unto events , without once looking to the Name of God , like Swine following Acorns under the tree , not at all looking up to the tree from whence they fall . keywords: abilities; accomplishment; account; aime; art; bloud; christ; close; condition; daniel; dayes; desire; dismission; doth; duty; eminent; employment; end; following; generation; glorious; glory; god; good; gospel; great; hand; hath; henry; industry; issue; john; kingdome; labour; labouring; life; like; lord; lot; love; man; men; minde; moses; nature; obs; occasion; oftentimes; onely; owen; particular; peace; people; persons; principles; providence; rest; righteousnesse; saints; saith; season; self; sermon; service; sin; spirit; state; text; things; thou; time; utmost; visions; way; whereof; wisdome; words; work; world cache: A90272.xml plain text: A90272.txt item: #42 of 53 id: A90276 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Of schisme the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the present differences in religion. / By John Owen D.D. date: 1657.0 words: 60695 flesch: 64 summary: l. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , p. 131. l. 20. hath been , p. 133. unruly , or disorderly persons , not abiding in obedience to the order prescribed by Christ in , and unto his Churches : and sayes , they walked 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Thess . 3 6. out of all Church order : whom he would have warned and avoided : so also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Th. 3 2. persons that abide quietly in no place or station , but wandred up & down ; whom whatever their profession be , he denies to have faith . keywords: able; account; achaia; act; adde; administration; advantage; againe; ages; answer; apostacy; apostles; appeare; appointment; apprehension; argument; assemblies; assertion; authority; beare; believers; best; better; bishops; body; bond; breach; broken; businesse; cap; catholick church; cause; certaine; charge; christ; christ hath; christians; church; church hath; church officers; church order; church power; church state; churches; civill; claime; common; communion; concerned; concernment; condition; confesse; congregation; consciences; consent; consideration; consist; contrary; corinth; councell; crime; dayes; debate; defence; departure; description; designe; desire; differences; discourse; dispute; divisions; doctrine; doe; donatists; doth; duties; duty; ecclesia; ecclesiasticall; efficacy; elders; elect; end; england; enquiry; eph; epistle; esteemed; evidence; evident; evill; evince; exercise; expression; externall; faith; false; farre; farther; flesh; forme; foundation; generall; generall church; ghost; gifts; god; good; gospell; government; grace; grant; great; greater; ground; guilty; hand; hath; head; heart; himselfe; hold; holy; hope; importance; incumbent; innumerable; instance; instituted; institution; interest; issue; jesus; jesus christ; joh; joyned; joynt; judgement; jurisdiction; kind; knowledge; large; late; law; laws; learned; liberty; life; light; like; little; lives; lord; love; lyes; making; man; manifest; mannaged; manner; matter; meanes; measure; meet; members; men; mens; mention; minde; mistake; nationall church; nations; naturall; nature; necessary; necessity; need; neque; new; non; notion; number; obedience; occasion; officers; old; order; ordinances; ordinary; ordination; originall; papall; participation; particular church; parties; paul; peculiar; people; performance; persons; perswasion; peter; place; plea; politicall; pope; possible; power; present; pretence; pretended; principles; priviledges; professe; profession; promise; protestants; pure; purpose; quae; question; reason; reference; reformation; relation; religion; relinquishment; respect; rev; rise; roman church; romanists; rome; rule; rulers; saints; salvation; saving; saviour; schismaticks; schisme; scripture; second; selfe; selves; sence; separated; separation; set; severall; shall; single; sinne; society; speake; spirit; spirituall; stated; subjection; subordination; sufficient; summe; sundry; supposition; tcp; text; thereunto; things; thought; time; title; true church; truth; united; unity; unlesse; unto; variance; vertue; visible church; vnion; vniversall church; walking; way; whereof; wherewith; whilest; wisdome; work; world; worship cache: A90276.xml plain text: A90276.txt item: #43 of 53 id: A90277 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Of temptation the nature and povver of it. The danger of entring into it. And the meanes of preventing the danger. With a resolution of sundry cases thereunto belonging, / by John Owen, D.D. date: 1658.0 words: 33075 flesch: 70 summary: Whilest all the issues of Providentiall dispensations , in reference to the publick concernements of these nations are perplexed and intangled , the footsteps of God lying in the deep , where his pathes are not known ; whilst in particular , unparalleled distresses , and strange prosperities are measured out to men , yea to Professors ; whilest a spirit of errour , giddinesse , and delusion goes forth with such strength and efficacy , as it seemes to have received a Commission to go and prosper ; whilst there are such divisions strifes , emulations , attended with such evil surmises , wrath , & revenge , found amongst brethren ; whilest the desperate issues and products of mens temptations are seen day● in partiall , & totall apostacy , in the decay of love , the overthrow of faith ; our dayes being filled with fearful examples of back sliding , such as former Ages never knew whilst there is a visible declension from Reformation seizing upon the professing party of these nations , both as to personall holinesse , and zele for the interest of Christ ; He that understands not that there is an houre of temptatiō come upon the world to try them that dwell in the earth is doubtlesse either himselfe at present captivated under the power of some woefull lust , corruption , or Temptation , or is indeed starke blind , and knowes not at all what it is to serve God in temptations : With such then I have not at present to doe ; for those who have in generall a sense of these things , who also in some measure are able to consider that the Plague is begun , that they may be farther awakened to look about thē , lest the infection have approached nearer to them , by some secret & imperceptible wayes , than they did apprehend ; or lest they should be surprized at unawares hereafter by any of those temptations that in these dayes either wast at noone , or else walke in darknesse , is the ensuing warning intended ; & for the sake of them that mourne in secret , for all the Abominations that are found among , and upon them that professe the Gospell ; and who are under the conduct of the Captaine of their salvation fighting and resisting the power of Temptations , from what spring soever they rise , in themselves , are the ensuing directions proposed to consideration . Againe actively considered , it either denotes in the Tempter , a designe for the bringing about of the speciall end of temptation , namely a leading into evill ; so it is said , that God tempts no man , Jam. 1. 13. with a designe for sinne , as such : or the Generall nature , and end of Temptation which is Triall ; so God tempted Abraham , Gen : 21. keywords: able; account; advantages; affections; againe; ambition; apostle; assistance; befall; care; carelesse; case; chap; christ; church; condition; consideration; corruption; danger; david; day; dayes; deliverance; direction; doe; doore; doth; duties; duty; efficacy; end; enemy; entangled; entring; evill; faith; faithfull; fall; feare; flesh; folly; frame; generall; glory; god; good; gospell; grace; great; hand; hast; hath; heart; heb; heed; high; himselfe; hold; houre; innumerable; interest; issue; joy; keeping; knowes; knowne; lesse; lest; liberty; life; like; litle; long; lord; love; lust; lyes; man; manner; matter; meanes; men; mind; naturall; nature; neglect; non; obedience; occasions; outward; owne; particular; patience; peace; peculiar; people; persons; peter; power; prayer; present; preservation; pretences; pride; profession; professors; promise; prosperity; purpose; ready; roman; saints; satan; saviour; season; selfe; selves; sense; set; sinne; soule; speciall; spirit; state; strength; strong; temptation; text; thee; things; thinke; thou; thoughts; thy; time; triall; use; waies; walking; watch; watching; way; weaknesse; whilest; words; work; world; yea cache: A90277.xml plain text: A90277.txt item: #44 of 53 id: A90278 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Of the death of Christ, the price he paid, and the purchase he made. Or, the satisfaction, and merit of the death of Christ cleered, the universality of redemption thereby oppugned: and the doctrine concerning these things formerly delivered in a treatise against universal redemption vindicated from the exceptions, and objections of Mr Baxter. / By J. Owen, minister of the gospel. date: 1650.0 words: 34537 flesch: 67 summary: Will his words bear any other sense ? 3 Whether tantundem and idem in the way of Satisfaction be equivalent to the obtaining the End ipso facto aimed at , ( which he here asserts , though elsewhere constantly denyes couching in this distinction the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of a great part of his Discourse ) certainly is nothing at all to the Question I there agitated ; maintaining , That it was idem and not tantundum that Christ paid , and so the End of it obtained ipso facto , answerable to the kind of the Efficacy and procurement thereof . And this I place as the Causa {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of the Satisfaction of Christ , and the whole dispensation of making out Love unto us , through various Acts of Mercy . keywords: acceptance; acceptation; acts; actual; anger; answ; answer; antecedent; apprehension; arguments; assertion; baxter; beleeving; benefit; business; cap; cause; christ; compact; condition; consideration; constitution; contrary; covenant; curse; death; debt; deliverance; discourse; divine; doctrine; doth; effects; efficacy; ejusdem; elect; end; enjoy; eph; equal; equivalent; est; eternal; exceptions; execution; expressions; facto; faith; far; father; favour; foundation; free; freedom; fruits; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; grace; gracious; great; grotius; hand; hath; heb; idem; immediate; ipso; issue; jesus; joh; justice; justification; kind; large; law; learned; life; like; lord; love; main; making; means; mercy; merit; mind; nature; new; non; obligation; occasion; opposed; opposition; order; owen; page; pardon; particular; payment; penalty; person; place; possession; present; procured; procuring; promise; punishment; purchase; purpose; question; reader; redemption; reference; refusable; relaxed; remission; respect; right; roman; satisfaction; scripture; season; second; self; sense; sin; sinners; solutio; state; sub; suffering; sundry; suppose; text; thereunto; things; thoughts; time; treatise; true; truth; undertaking; unto; value; viz; way; words; work; yea cache: A90278.xml plain text: A90278.txt item: #45 of 53 id: A90280 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Of the divine originall, authority, self-evidencing light, and povver of the Scriptures. With an answer to that enquiry, how we know the Scriptures to be the Word of God. Also a vindication of the purity and integrity of the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Old and New Testament; in some considerations on the prolegomena, & appendix to the late Biblia polyglotta. Whereunto are subjoyned some exercitations about the nature and perfection of the Scripture, the right of interpretation, internall Light, revelation, &c. / By Iohn Owen: D.D. date: 1659.0 words: 71401 flesch: 67 summary: This sacred depositum had no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , whereby it might be knowne to be the Word of God ; but it is upon our credit alone , that it passes in the world , or is believed ; we have added to it many bookes upon our owne judgement , and yet thinke it not sufficient for the guidance of men , in the worship of God , and their obedience they owe unto him : yet do they blush ? are they ashamed as a thiefe when he is taken ? nay do they not boast themselves in their iniquity ? and say , they are sold to worke all these abominations ? Of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Rabbena Haskadosh there is no more news as yet in the world , then what he is pleased to acquaint us withall . keywords: 2ly; aben; ability; able; abominations; accents; account; acknowledged; adde; advantage; affirmes; againe; ages; agreement; ancient; answer; antiquity; apostles; appeare; appendix; arguments; arias; asher; assertion; assistance; assurance; authority; authors; authour; beare; beginning; believing; ben; best; better; bible; biblia; bold; book; bottome; briefe; businesse; buxtorfius; cap; capellus; care; cause; chaldee; change; chap; chapter; characters; christ; christians; church; churches; cleare; close; collection; coming; command; committed; common; communication; companions; concerned; condition; confesse; conjectures; consciences; consent; consideration; consonants; contrary; copies; copy; corrupted; corruptions; countenance; creation; creatures; credit; criticall; dayes; dead; declares; dei; designe; desire; destruction; difference; differing; diligence; discourse; discovery; distinct; divine; doctrine; doe; doth; doubt; duty; earth; easy; edition; eebo; effectuall; efficacy; elias; eminent; english; enquiry; entire; eternall; evidence; evidencing; evident; evince; excellency; exercitations; expression; extant; eyes; ezra; fables; faith; false; farre; father; figure; fire; fit; following; force; foregoing; formall; foundation; fountaine; galatinus; generall; ghost; giving; glorious; glory; god; god himselfe; good; goodnesse; gospell; grace; grammarians; grant; great; greater; greatest; greek; grotius; ground; hands; hath; heads; hearts; heaven; hebrew; help; hierome; himselfe; holy; honour; hope; ignorance; importance; individuall; infallible; innate; innumerable; instances; integrity; interpretation; invention; isa; issue; jesus; jewes; jewish; joh; judaicall; judge; judgment; keri; kind; knowes; knowledge; knowne; language; large; late; latine; law; learned; learning; leave; lections; lesse; letters; lib; liberty; life; light; like; line; little; long; lord; love; lye; lyes; majesty; making; man; manifest; mankind; manner; margin; massora; massorites; math; matter; meanes; meaning; measure; meet; men; mens; mind; miracles; mistakes; montanus; morall; morinus; moses; names; nature; necessary; necessity; need; new; nihil; non; notes; novell; novelty; number; obedience; objections; obscure; observations; observed; occasion; old; omnium; open; opinion; opposition; order; originall; owne; oxford; pag; papists; particular; parts; passe; peculiar; pentateuch; people; persons; perswasion; pet; place; plea; pleased; points; polyglotta; possible; power; powerfull; praefat; preface; prejudice; premises; present; preservation; preserved; pretence; pretended; principles; private; professe; prolegomena; promise; proper; properties; prophesy; prophets; protestants; providence; psal; publick; punctation; purity; purpose; quae; question; qui; quod; rabbins; rationall; raymundus; read; reader; readings; reason; received; receiving; reference; reliefe; religion; remaines; report; reputation; respect; rest; reveale; revelation; rise; rule; sacred; saies; samaritan; satisfaction; saviour; scripture; second; sect; sed; seeing; seemes; selfe; selves; sense; set; severall; skill; small; sort; soules; sound; spake; speakes; speaking; spirit; spirituall; spring; state; story; strength; subject; sufficient; suited; summe; sundry; sunt; synagogues; talmud; tcp; tels; temple; testament; testimonies; testimony; text; thē; things; thinke; thought; tiberias; time; title; tongue; tradition; translations; treatise; trinity; true; truth; uncertaine; understanding; unlesse; use; usefull; utmost; vaine; vanity; varieties; variety; view; voice; volume; vowels; vulgar; vvord; way; weight; whereof; whereunto; wisdome; wise; witnesse; word; worke; worship; worthy; writing; yea; yeares cache: A90280.xml plain text: A90280.txt item: #46 of 53 id: A90284 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Proposals for the furtherance and propagation of the gospel in this nation. As the same were hubly presented to the Honourable Committee of Parliament by divers ministers of the gospell, and others. As also, some principles of Christian religion, without the beliefe of which, the Scriptures doe plainly and clearly affirme, salvation is not to be obtained. Which were also presented in explanation of one of the said proposals. date: None words: 6376 flesch: 82 summary: That the Ministers so sent forth and established be enjoyned , and required to attend the solemne Worship of God in Prayer , Reading , and Preaching the Word , Catechising , expounding the Scriptures , and ( as occasion shall require ) visiting the Sicke , and instructing from house to house , residing amongst the People to whom they are sent , and using all care and diligence by all wayes and meanes to win soules unto Christ . Whosoever transgresseth , and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ , hath not God , he that abideth in the doctrine of Christ , he hath both the Father , and the Sonne . keywords: acts; christ; dead; doe; faith; father; flesh; god; gospel; hath; holy; jesus; john; knowne; law; life; lord; man; men; ministers; nation; parliament; persons; principles; proposals; righteousnesse; rom; salvation; scriptures; sins; sonne; spirit; text; thee; things; truth; ver; verse; whosoever; world; yee cache: A90284.xml plain text: A90284.txt item: #47 of 53 id: A90286 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A review of the annotations of Hugo Grotius, in reference unto the doctrine of the deity, and satisfaction of Christ. With a defence of the charge formerly laid against them. / By Iohn Ovven D.D. date: 1656.0 words: 11659 flesch: 58 summary: eodem sensu {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Ioh. 1. 29. & {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} & {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Isa. 53. 4. ubi Graeci {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} : vitia nostra it a interfecit , sicut qui cruci affiguntur interfici solent . That he is called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Psal. 33. 6. is to me also evident . keywords: abstulit; account; addes; annotations; annotator; apologist; assertion; auferre; autem; booke; calvin; cap; chapter; charge; christ; christus; cleare; concerned; consideration; contrary; crellius; crime; cum; defence; deity; designe; desire; discourse; doctrine; doth; end; epistle; est; eternall; exposition; expresse; expression; farther; god; good; grotius; hand; hath; head; heb; himselfe; hoc; hugo; importance; instance; interpretation; iohn; john; judge; judgment; lib; literall; little; matter; mind; mortem; nam; new; nihil; non; non enim; nos; nostra; notice; old; owne; page; particular; peccata; person; pet; place; plea; present; pro; purpose; quae; quam; qui; quidem; quod; quod non; reader; reference; review; roman; sacrifice; saies; saith; satisfaction; scripture; second; sed; sense; sin; socinians; socinus; speake; summe; sundry; sunt; testament; testimonies; testimony; text; thing; thomason; thought; truth; verse; verò; vindication; vitia; volume; words; world cache: A90286.xml plain text: A90286.txt item: #48 of 53 id: A90287 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A review of the true nature of schisme, with a vindication of the Congregationall churches in England, from the imputation thereof unjustly charged on them by Mr D. Cawdrey, preacher of the Word at Billing in Northampton-shire. / By John Owen D.D. date: 1657.0 words: 34926 flesch: 44 summary: The open and manifest injury done , not only to my selfe , in laying things to my charge which I know not , lading me with reproaches , tending to a rendring of me odious to all the ministers and Churches in the world , not agreeing with me in somefew things concerning Gospell administrations , but also to all other Churches and persons of the same judgment with my selfe , called for a speedy account of the true state of the things contended about . I suppose the reader is weary of pursuing things so little to our purpose : if he will hear any further , that Independents are schismaticks , that the setting up of their way hath opened a door to all evills and confusions , that they have separated from all churches , and condemne all churches in the world but their owne ; that they have hindred Reformation and the setting up of the Presbyterian Church ; that being members of our Churches , as they are members of the nation , because they are borne in it , yet they have deserted them ; that they gather Churches which they pretend to be spick and span new ; they have separated from us , that they countenance Quakers , and all other Sectaries , that they will reforme a nationall church whether men will or no , though they say that they only desire to reforme themselves , and plead for liberty to that end . keywords: able; account; advantage; answer; apostle; assertion; author; better; body; book; breach; brethren; businesse; catholick church; cause; celebration; chapter; charge; christ; christian; church; churches; common; communion; concerned; confesse; congregation; consideration; contrary; controversie; corinth; day; designe; desire; differences; discourse; divisions; doctrine; doth; england; evill; exceptions; expression; false; farre; farther; foundation; generall; god; good; gospell; grace; great; hand; hath; head; himselfe; hope; importance; independents; instance; institution; jesus; john; judge; judgment; kind; knowes; leave; lesse; like; little; lord; love; manifest; matter; members; men; mention; mind; ministers; ministry; nature; necessary; need; new; non; notice; notion; onely; opposition; ordinances; ordination; owne; pag; particular; particular church; parties; party; people; person; place; pleased; possible; presbyterian; present; pretended; principles; professe; profession; purpose; question; reader; ready; reason; reference; reformation; respect; reverend; reverend author; roman; rome; saies; saith; schisme; scripture; seeing; selfe; sense; separation; severall; spirit; state; sundry; text; thing; thoughts; time; title; treatise; true; true churches; truth; union; use; visible; way; whereof; withall; word; worship cache: A90287.xml plain text: A90287.txt item: #49 of 53 id: A90288 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons, in Parliament assembled: on January 31. A day of solemne humiliation. With a discourse about toleration, and the duty of the civill magistrate about religion, thereunto annexed. Humbly presented to them, and all peace-loving men of this nation. / By John Owen, pastor of the Church of Christ, which is at Coggeshall in Essex. date: 1649.0 words: 38366 flesch: 64 summary: In that thing which to man is sinfull , God worketh as it is a thing onely , Man as it is a sinfull thing : to their worth and excellency is mans opposition proportioned . keywords: actings; acts; ages; almighty; alwayes; answer; apprehensions; arguments; assistance; authority; better; blood; bottome; brazen; businesse; cap; cause; charge; christ; christians; churches; civill; close; cognizance; committed; common; concernment; condition; consent; consideration; constitutions; contempt; contest; contrary; convinced; corrupt; counsels; course; crime; cruelty; cry; darknesse; day; death; debate; defence; deportment; desire; destruction; difference; difficult; discourse; disturbance; doe; doth; doubtlesse; draw; duty; earth; earthly; eccles; emperours; end; ends; enemies; equity; erring; error; est; euseb; evill; examples; expressions; eyes; faith; false; favour; feare; fenced; fire; flesh; following; folly; forbearance; force; foundation; free; generall; generation; giving; glory; god; gods; goe; good; gospel; grace; great; greatest; ground; hand; hath; head; hearts; heaven; hee; heresie; hereticks; himselfe; hist; hold; holy; honour; honourable; house; humane; idolatry; instance; instruments; interest; isa; israel; issue; jesus; john; judah; judgements; kings; large; late; law; lib; liberty; life; like; little; lives; long; lord; lusts; lye; lyes; magistrate; maine; making; manner; matter; meanes; meet; men; mens; mercy; minde; moses; nation; nature; new; non; number; occasion; old; onely; opposers; opposing; opposition; order; owen; owne; papists; parliament; particular; paths; peace; people; persecution; persons; perswasion; places; power; practise; present; principles; prophet; protection; providence; psal; publick; punishing; punishment; purpose; question; reason; reference; religion; religious; respect; returne; revealed; right; righteousnesse; roman; ruine; rule; saints; sam; samuel; scripture; second; selfe; selves; sentence; sermon; service; set; severall; sinfull; sinne; society; soveraignty; spirit; spirituall; state; sundry; superstition; supportment; sword; text; things; thoughts; time; toleration; trouble; true; truth; tyranny; unto; utmost; vers; violence; viz; walke; walking; wall; want; warrant; wayes; wee; wisedome; withall; witnesse; words; worke; working; world; worship; wrath; yea; yeares cache: A90288.xml plain text: A90288.txt item: #50 of 53 id: A90290 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A sermon preached to the Parliament, Octob. 13. 1652. A day of solemne humiliation. Concerning the kingdome of Christ, and the power of the civile magistrate about the things of the worship of God. / By John Owen. date: 1652.0 words: 15034 flesch: 63 summary: This I say is the frame and temper he describes himselfe to be in : a man under sad Apprehensions of the Issues and events of things , and the dispensations of God , as many are at this day : and upon that account closly , and neerly perplexed . Gen. 10. 10. & when the great Shepheard sets up his Kingdome , the beginning of it shall be Syon : so farther it is at large expressed , Mich. 5. 7 , 8. Nothing is more cleare to any , who , being not carryed away with weake , carnall apprehensions of things present , have once seriously weighed the promises of God to this purpose : what the Lord Christ will doe with them , and by them , is not so cleare , this is certain , that their returne shall be marvelous , glorious , as life from the dead . keywords: account; act; authority; beginning; care; carnall; christ; church; committed; condition; consideration; daniel; day; destruction; doe; doth; duty; earth; end; face; father; feare; frame; gentiles; glorious; glory; god; good; gospell; great; hath; head; hearts; heaven; heb; himselfe; holy; interest; isai; israel; issue; jesus; judgement; judges; kingdome; kings; life; like; little; lord; lord christ; lusts; magistrates; man; manner; men; mens; mind; nations; new; old; peace; people; power; promises; prosperity; psal; quiet; reference; rev; right; righteousnesse; rise; rule; rulers; saints; saviour; sea; set; spirit; subserviency; syon; text; things; thoughts; trouble; truth; visions; work; world; worship cache: A90290.xml plain text: A90290.txt item: #51 of 53 id: A90291 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: The stedfastness of promises, and the sinfulness of staggering: opened in a sermon preached at Margarets in Westminster before the Parliament Febr. 28. 1649. Being a day set apart for solemn humiliation throughout the nation. By John Owen minister of the Gospel. date: 1650.0 words: 16854 flesch: 70 summary: When God made Promises to Abraham , because he could swear by no greater , he sware by himself . Even this way also hath the Lord taken to confirm and establish his Truths and Promises , that all doubtings and staggerings may be excluded , he hath wrapped them all up in a Covenant , and brought himself into a faederal Ingagement , that upon every Occasion , and at every Temptation , we may draw out his Hand and Seal , and say to Satan and our own false hearts ; see here , behold God ingaged in Covenant , to make good the word , wherein he hath caused me to put my Trust : and this is his property , That he is a God keeping Covenant : So that having his Promise redoubled , and that confirmed by an Oath , all Sealed and made sure by an unchangeable Covenant , what can we require more , to assure us of the Truth of these things : keywords: able; abraham; accomplishment; apostle; believing; bloud; business; carnal; cause; christ; close; covenant; day; dead; difficulties; doth; doubt; end; engaged; faith; faithful; father; fear; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; grace; great; hand; hath; heart; heb; hope; interest; ireland; isa; jesus; kingdom; life; like; little; long; lord; love; manner; matter; means; men; mercy; mind; nation; non; oath; occasion; opposition; people; peter; place; poor; possible; power; present; promise; purpose; question; reasonings; rest; righteousness; roman; seed; self; set; short; sin; sincerity; sins; soul; staggering; text; thee; things; thou; thoughts; thy; true; truth; unbelief; verse; want; way; wayes; weight; word; work; yea cache: A90291.xml plain text: A90291.txt item: #52 of 53 id: A90293 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Theomachia autexousiastikē: or, A display of Arminianisme. Being a discovery of the old Pelagian idol free-will, with the new goddesse contingency, advancing themselves, into the throne of the God of heaven to the prejudice of his grace, providence, and supreme dominion over the children of men. Wherein the maine errors of the Arminians are laid open, by which they are fallen off from the received doctrine of all the reformed churches, with their opposition in divers particulars to the doctrine established in the Church of England. Discovered out of their owne writings and confessions, and confuted by the Word of God. / By Iohn Owen, Master of Arts of Queens Colledge in Oxon. date: 1643.0 words: 69174 flesch: 64 summary: For what doe they else , who ascribe such an absolute independent libertie to the will of man ; that it should have in its owne power every circumstance , every condition whatsoever , that belongs to operation ; so that all things required on the part of God , or otherwise to the performance of an action being accomplished : it remaineth solely , in the power of a mans owne will , whether he will doe it , or no : which supreame and plainely divine liberty , joyned with such an absolute uncontrollable power and dominion over all his actions , would exempt and free the will of man , not onely from all fore-determining , to the production of such and such efffects ; but also , from any effectuall working or influence of the providence of God into the will it selfe , that should sustaine , helpe or co-operate with it , in doing or willing any thing : and therefore the authours of this imaginarie liberty , have wisely framed an imaginary concurrence of Gods providence , answerable unto it : viz. 3. against Moulin , and the third Section : where first , he alloweth of the distinction of the will of God , into that whereby he will have us doe something , and that whereby he will doe any thing himselfe : the first is nothing but his Law and Precepts , which we with him affirme may be said to be resisted , in as much as it is transgressed : the latter he saith , If it respect any act of mans , may be considered as praeceding that act , or following it : If praeceding it , then it may be resisted , if man will not co-operate : Now this is the will of God whereby himselfe intendeth to doe any thing : The summe of which distinction is this , the will of God concerning the future being of any thing , may be considered as it goeth before the actuall existence of the thing it selfe , and in this regard it may be hindered or resisted ; but as it is considered to follow any act of man , it is alwaies fulfilled : by which latter member , striving to mollifie the harshnesse of the former , he runs himselfe into inexplicable non-sense , affirming , that , that act of the will of God , whereby he intendeth men shall doe any thing , cannot be hindered after they have done it , that is , God hath irresistibly purposed they shall doe it , provided they doe it : in his following Discourse also , he plainly grants , that there is no act of Gods will about the salvation of men , that may not be made voide and of none effect , but onely that generall decree , whereby he hath established an inseparable connexion betweene faith and salvation , or whereby he hath appointed faith in Christ , to be the meanes of attaining blessednesse : which is onely an immanent act of Gods will , producing no outward effect : keywords: abilitie; able; abraham; absolute; act; actions; acts; actuall; adam; affection; affirmeth; affirming; againe; agents; almightie god; altogether; alwayes; ames; ancient; answer; antip; apol; apologie; apostle; appeare; arbit; arguments; arminians; arminius; article; ascribe; assertions; attaine; attaining; attempt; aug; aut; authour; beginning; behalfe; beleeve; beleevers; beleeving; benefit; bestoweth; bestowing; better; betweene; betwixt; birth; blessed; blessings; blood; body; borne; briefe; calleth; calling; cap; care; cause; certaine; change; chap; chapter; children; chooseth; christ; christians; church; claime; cleere; coll; commandeth; commands; common; concerning; condition; confesse; consideration; consisteth; contingent; contrary; conversion; cor; corrupted; corruption; corvinus; counsell; covenant; creation; creature; cum; curse; damnation; damned; david; day; dayes; dead; death; decree; dei; deitie; denomination; denying; deo; desert; desire; determination; determined; determining; deum; deus; difference; direct; discourse; discovery; distinction; divers; divine; doctrine; doe; dominion; doth; doubt; doubtlesse; dutie; earth; eebo; effect; effectuall; efficacie; election; end; endeavour; endowments; ends; enemies; england; enim; ephes; episcopius; epist; equall; errors; essence; est; eternall; eternitie; event; everlasting; evident; evill; execution; expresse; faith; fall; farre; father; fault; favour; feare; fieri; finall; fire; flesh; fol; following; foolish; fore; foundation; fountaine; free; freedome; fruit; frustrate; future; generall; gift; glorious; glory; god; god bestoweth; god doth; god himselfe; goddesse; gods; goe; good; goodnesse; gospel; grace; grant; great; grevin; ground; guilt; hag; hand; happinesse; hath; head; heart; heaven; heb; hell; helpe; heresie; high; himselfe; hitherto; hoc; holinesse; holy; homo; hope; humane; ibid; idem; idol; iesus; iewes; image; immediate; immutable; imputation; imputed; inclination; independent; infallible; infants; influence; inherent; iniquitie; innocency; innumerable; instances; intendeth; intention; interest; internall; iohn; isa; israel; issue; ita; iudas; judgement; justice; kinde; kingdome; knowledge; knowne; large; law; learned; leave; lesse; lib; libertie; life; light; like; little; long; lord; love; making; man; manner; matter; matth; means; measure; meere; men; mercy; merit; meritorious; molin; morall; naturall; nature; nay; necessary; necessitie; needs; new; nisi; nobis; non; nos; number; obedience; object; obtaine; obtaining; old; omnes; omnibus; onely; open; operation; opinion; opposition; order; originall; outward; owne; pag; parents; partakers; particular; passion; paul; peccatum; pelagian; people; peremptory; performance; performe; persons; perswasion; pet; peter; pharaoh; place; plaine; pleased; pleasing; pleasure; pollution; poore; possible; posteritie; potest; power; powerfull; praescience; praise; preaching; precepts; predestination; prejudice; present; principle; production; promise; proper; proud; providence; psal; punishment; pure; purpose; quae; quam; question; qui; quia; quis; quod; reason; received; reconciliation; redemption; reference; regard; regeneration; religion; rem; remission; repentance; reprobates; requireth; respect; resurrection; revealed; revel; righteousnesse; rom; root; rule; ruling; sacrifice; said; saint; sake; salvation; sam; satisfaction; saving; saviour; scientia; scripture; second; secret; sect; sed; seed; seemes; seeth; selves; sense; set; severall; sheepe; shew; sic; sinfull; sinne; sinners; sins; small; sole; sonnes; soules; speake; speciall; spirit; spirituall; state; strange; strength; subject; sufficiencie; sufficient; summe; sunt; suo; supernaturall; supreme; suum; synod; tamen; tcp; teach; tels; temporall; termes; testimonies; text; thee; things; things god; thinke; thou; thought; throne; thy; time; title; transgression; troubled; true; truth; turne; ubi; universall; unlesse; vaine; vel; velle; vertue; vitall; voluntary; vult; waies; walke; way; whereof; wherewith; wicked; willeth; wils; wisdome; wise; words; worke; worketh; working; world; wrath; writings; yea cache: A90293.xml plain text: A90293.txt item: #53 of 53 id: A90296 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A vision of vnchangeable free mercy, in sending the means of grace to undeserved sinners: wherein Gods uncontrollable eternall purpose, in sending, and continuing the gospel unto this nation, in the middest of oppositions and contingencies, is discovered: his distinguishing mercy, in this great work, exalted, asserted, against opposers, repiners: in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, April. 29. being the day of publike humiliation. Whereunto is annexed, a short defensative about church-government, (with a countrey essay for the practice of church-government there) toleration and petitions about these things. / By Iohn Owen, minister of the gospel at Coggeshall in Essex. date: 1646.0 words: 24364 flesch: 68 summary: If a man in those daies had gone about to perswade us , that all our pressures were good omens , that they all wrought together for our good , we could have been ready to cry with the woman , who when she had recount●d her griefs ●o the Physicians and he still replied , they were good signes , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , good signes have undone me , these good signes will be our ruin ; yet behold ( we hope ) the contrary . Now truly after my best search , and inquiry , into the first Churches and their constitution , framing an Idea and exemplar of them , this poor heap following , seems to me , as like one of them , as any thing that yet I have seen : nothing at all doubting , but that if a more skilfull hand had the limning of it , the proportions , features and lines , would be very exact , equall and paralell : yea , did not extream haste , now call it from me , so that I have no leisure , so much as to transcribe the first draught , I doubt not but , by Gods assistance , it might be so set forth , as not to be thought altogether undesirable ; if men would but a little lay aside beloved preconceptions : but the Printer staies for every line : only I must intreat every one that shall cast a candid eye , on this unwillingly exposed Embryo , and rude abortion , that he would assume in his minde , any particular Church mentioned in the Scripture , as of H●erusalem , Corinth , Ephesus , or the like , consider the way and state they were th●n , and some ages after , in respect of outward immunities and enjoyments , and tell me , whether any rationall man can suppose , that either there were in those places , sundry particular Churches , with their distinct peculiar officers , acting in most pastorall duties severally in them , as distinguished and divided into entire societies , but ruling them in respect of some particulars loyally in combination , considered as distinct bodies ; or else , that they were such single Congregations , as that all that power and authority which was in them , may seem fitly and conveniently to be entrusted , with a small handfull of men , combined under one single Pastour , with one , two , or perhaps no associated Elders . keywords: account; acts; aim; appearance; apud; aug; aut; authority; beginning; best; better; blinde; bloud; body; bread; cap; cause; chap; children; christ; church; churches; close; commons; communion; condition; contingencies; cor; counsell; covenant; creature; cry; daies; daniel; darknes; day; dead; death; desire; deus; differences; discipline; discovery; dispensation; doth; earth; england; ephes; errours; eternall; ezek; fall; false; farre; father; fire; flesh; forth; free; fruit; gen; generall; giving; glorious; glory; god; gods; good; goodnesse; gospel; government; grace; great; greater; greatest; ground; hand; hath; hearts; heaven; hell; help; holy; honourable; hope; house; humiliation; iohn; isa; israel; jesus; jews; joh; john; judgements; justice; kingdom; known; late; left; lesse; lib; liberty; life; light; like; little; long; lord; love; macedonia; manner; master; mat; matth; means; meer; men; mercies; mercy; message; middest; minde; mountains; names; nation; nature; necessary; nisi; non; old; onely; open; oppositions; outward; owen; particular; parts; paul; peculiar; people; person; petitions; place; pleasure; poor; power; practice; preaching; present; promises; prov; providence; psal; publike; purpose; quae; qui; quo; quod; reason; reformation; regular; respect; righteousnesse; rise; roman; root; rule; salvation; second; sed; self; sending; sermon; set; shadow; short; sin; sins; small; sorts; souls; spirit; spring; state; sun; tertul; text; thee; things; thorow; thou; thoughts; throne; time; toleration; truth; value; variety; vineyard; vision; viz; vse; want; water; way; weeks; wheels; whereof; whereunto; whilest; wisedom; words; work; working; world; worship; yea; ● ● cache: A90296.xml plain text: A90296.txt