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id: A59244
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
date: 1688
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title:
  The schism of the Church of England &c. demonstrated in four arguments formerly propos'd to Dr. Gunning and Dr. Pearson, the late Bishops of Ely and Chester / by two Catholick disputants, in a celebrated conference upon that point.

summary:
  We prove the second by enumeration : If they do not so separate themselves , let that Church be nominated amongst the forementioned , from which they do not voluntarily separate themselves . Whosoever either Possess the Sees and Offices of lawful Bishops , those lawful Bishops yet living , or unite themselves to such as possess them , are such schismatical Pastors ; But Matthew Parker , and other first Protestant Bishops of his time , either possest the Sees and Offices of lawful Bishops , those lawful Bishops yet living , or united themselves to such as possest them : Therefore Matthew Parker , and all the first Protestant Bishops of his time , were such schismatical Pastors .


id: A59231
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
title: The method to arrive at satisfaction in religion.
date: 1671
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mime: application/xml
words: 5503
sentence: 144
flesch: 55
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summary:
  As for the following Discourse , I only say , that I could heartily wish Learned Writers of what Judgement soever , would think fit to take the same short concluding Method , and go about to settle some other Ground or Rule of Faith ; and thence , by shewing who adhere to , who reject that Rule , conclude evidently who are truly Faithful , who not . Wherefore , he who sincerely aims at Satisfaction in Religion ought first of all to find out and establish some assured Means or Rule by which he may be secured , which is true Faith ; For , till this be done , He cannot be secure either of Scripture , Church , Council , or Father ; but having once done this , is in a ready way to judge certainly of all ; Whereas if he begin with any of the other , orindeed argue from them at all , till the Rule of Faith be first settled , he takes a wrong Method , and breaks the Laws of Discourse , by beginning with what is less certain , and indeed to him as yet uncertain ; and in effect , puts the Conclusion before the Premises ; unless he argue , Ad Hominem , or against the personal Tenets of his Adversary , which is a good way to Confute , but not to Satisfie .


id: A59227
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
date: 1695
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mime: application/xml
words: 7474
sentence: 343
flesch: 81
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title:
  A letter from a trooper in Flanders to his comrade shewing that Luxemburg is a witch, and deals with the Devil.

summary:
  We , in our March , were joyn'd by several Thousands ; so that our Army was increased to Ninety thousand Men , the French being not near so many . The French King , after he had taken Namur , was gone to Paris ; and a good part of his Army was sent towards Germany ; and our Army was much increased .


id: A59228
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
title: A letter from the authour of Sure-footing, to his answerer
date: 1665
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mime: application/xml
words: 6960
sentence: 167
flesch: 49
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summary:
  I wish they would as heartily hold to it in all other Points which descended by it , and look into the Virtue it has of ascertaining , and declare in what that Virtue consists ; I am confident , a little candour of confessing truly what they finde , joyn'd with an endeavour of looking into Things rather than Words , would easily make way to a fair Correspondence . But , because there is difference between being call'd an Answer and being an Answer , and that 't is extremely opposit to my Genius , to be task't in laying open mens Faults even as Writers , ( though it has been my unhappiness formerly to meet with Adversaries , whose way of writing made that carriage my only duty ) wherefore to prevent , as much as I am able , all occasion of such unsavory oppositions , and to make way to the clearing the point , that so our Discourse may redound to the profit and satisfaction of our Readers , I make bold to offer you these few Reflexions ; which in effect contain no more but a Request you would speak to the point , and in such a way as is apt to bring the matter nearer a clearing .


id: A46856
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
date: 1679
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 23731
sentence: 1878
flesch: 85
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title:
  The Jesuits Gospel according to Saint Ignatius Loiola wherein their impious doctrines against the Christian faith, their pernitious maxims against Christian princes, and their unjust practices destructive to all humane society, contrary to the Sacred Scriptures, the laws of God, and right reason are declared.

summary:
  He hath power of making sin more sin ; and that which is no sin , to be sin . He that prayes not to God in a temptation against chastity , sins only against chastity ; for he sins not in omitting prayer , but because of the danger he is in to violate chastity .


id: A59239
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
title: Of devotion By J. S.
date: 1678
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 25370
sentence: 668
flesch: 54
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summary:
  Hence , 't is very easy to remark , that in this Treatise , I meddle not with the Efficaciousness of Prayer for others , nor with other stranger Effects of it , ( nay , somtimes , even miraculous Ones ) which , by means of a firm Faith , and Relyance on God , are brought to pass . Nor , lastly , do I Treat of Prayer ( or Devotion ) as they depend on God ' s Grace , or the secret Workings of the Holy-Ghost , ( as I hint also in the Treatise it self , p. 60. ) ; which I from my Heart acknowledge to give us Ability to begin , continue , and consummate both Prayer , and every good Act that is Supernatural :


id: A59242
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
date: 1661
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 26758
sentence: 766
flesch: 53
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title:
  Reflexions upon the oathes of supremacy and allegiance by a Catholick gentleman, and obedient son of the church, and loyal subject of His Majesty.

summary:
  Secondly , besides this she gives power to any one that takes the Oath , in taking it to signifie that he accepts it with the said meaning ; for sayes she , If any person that hath conceived any other sence of the Form of the said Oath , shall accept the same Oath with this interpretation , sence or meaning , her Majesty is well pleased to accept every such in that behalfe as her good and Obedient Subject , and shall acquit them of all manner of penalties contained in the said Act against such as shall peremptorily or obstinately refuse to take the same Oath . It is true , the teaching of such an Arti●le of faith brings very great temporal commodities to those few that have the cruelty to their Country to become the preachers and Apostles of it : great favour and power they gain thereby abroad , and therefore they will take it kindly at the hands of English Catholicks , if for a mere Secular advantage of theirs , they will be content to Sacrifice their own Estates , Honours , Families and lives , as traytors , to the law●s , and withall bring an unavoydable scandal to Catholick Religion , besides .


id: A59238
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
date: 1698
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 27014
sentence: 702
flesch: 56
cache: cache/A59238.xml
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title:
  Non vltra, or, A letter to a learned Cartesian settling the rule of truth, and first principles, upon their deepest grounds / by J.S.

summary:
  For , 1. There cannot be any so great Clearness , or Evidence , as is Self-Evidence ; nor so Close Connexion of the Terms in any Proposition , or Speech , that expresses Truth , as is Perfect Identity , or Self-Connexion ; consisting in this , That the Thing , or Mode of Thing spoken of , is what it is , or , is its self . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.


id: A59219
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
date: 1665
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 32050
sentence: 900
flesch: 57
cache: cache/A59219.xml
txt: txt/A59219.txt
title:
  A discovery of the groundlesness and insincerity of my Ld. of Down's Dissuasive being The fourth appendix to Svre-footing : with a letter to Dr. Casaubon, and another to his answerer / by J.S.

summary:
  Nor is the Being or Nature of Church known , till it be Certainly known who are truly Faithful or have true Faith , who not ; which must be manifested by their having or not having the true Rule of Faith : First , making the School and Church , Private Opinions , or Explications and Faith all one ; and , at next , that the difference amongst such Opiners and Explicaters argues our difference in Faith ; How strange a malice is this !


id: A59229
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
title: A letter of thanks from the author of Sure-footing to his answerer Mr. J.T.
date: 1666
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 34763
sentence: 896
flesch: 55
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summary:
  Admitting then this Distinction , and that the Sence of words is the Soul of , them , I cannot allow that Letter with any propriety to be called Gods word , unless inform'd and enlivened with Gods Sence ; but onely dead Characters ; for sincerely , Sr , I never saw a Bible creep about and move it self that I should call it , that is , the paper and characters , Living . As oft as you omit what 's important , mistake either voluntarily or weakly , triumph causlesly , injure me undeservedly , cavill groundlesly , prevaricate from the business purposely , revile bitterly , jeer sillily ; or falsify and pervert my meaning or words palpably ; so many reall Kindnesses you conferr upon your poor Servant , of which in this Letter of mine both to your self and the world I here make my hearty Profession and Acknowledgment .


id: A59221
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
date: 1667
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 39519
sentence: 861
flesch: 44
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txt: txt/A59221.txt
title:
  Faith vindicated from possibility of falshood, or, The immovable firmness and certainty of the motives to Christian faith asserted against that tenet, which, denying infallibility of authority, subverts its foundation, and renders it uncertain

summary:
  § 9. 'T is hence farther demonstrated that the Position we impugn destroys the Notion of Metaphysical Unity , consisting in an Indivision or Indistinction of any Notion , Nature or Thing in it self , and a Division or Distinction of it from all other : For , according to this Tenet , Truth or the Conformity of our Understanding to the Object , put by our joynt supposition that the Proposition of Faith is true , may possibly be Disconformity or Falshood , and this Determinate State , Indeterminate ; which makes the mind as having in it One Notion , that is indeed that One Notion , capable to admit into its bowels Another , not only disparate , but Opposit , that is , One possible to be not One , but Another . Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 926:3) Faith vindicated from possibility of falshood, or, The immovable firmness and certainty of the motives to Christian faith asserted against that tenet, which, denying infallibility of authority, subverts its foundation, and renders it uncertain Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.


id: A59224
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
date: 1694
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 39716
sentence: 819
flesch: 47
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title:
  An historical romance of the wars between the mighty giant Gallieno, and the great knight Nasonius, and his associates

summary:
  A ●ertain Hydropick , ( for these 〈◊〉 have a pretty kna●k at 〈◊〉 Picture ) would needs 〈◊〉 N●●●nius in a motl● Coat , and a ●abel out of his Mouth , with this Motto NON POTAR●M , and a Phryg●●n inspiring him how to c●●ch ● Butter●ly , which when 〈◊〉 ●ame near , and reach'd out hi● hand 〈…〉 , it immediately 〈◊〉 away , so that all he could do was to 〈◊〉 after it . After this , Nasonius's Coronation was to be Celebrated , which w●● performed with all the Splendour imaginable : But while he walk'd 〈◊〉 Convalcade in his Knightly Robes under his Royal Canopy , a sad and 〈◊〉 accident happened , which in the worst and ugliest manner dusk'd and 〈◊〉 dirted the whole Solemnity : His Heart was so full , and so over-swol●●● with the windy Glory of his Coronation , and the Joy he conceiv'd the●● of was so overflowing , that it burst forth backwards , and the Perfu●● of that Yellow Aromatick Matter was so strong , that it imparted , and c●●municated it self to as many as were near him ; And which was wors● all , his thus annointed Majesty was not in circumstances to alter his Condition , but was forc'd to remain in the same abominable Pickle , and to retain the same Scent a long time after ; the Effluviums of which were so very puissant , that whoever smelt it might safely swear it was specifick to a King ; nor could proceed from any other but from the most powerful , and most magnanimous Monarch in the World.


id: A59251
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
date: 1659
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 43103
sentence: 1197
flesch: 56
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title:
  A vindication of the doctrine contained in Pope Benedict XII, his bull and in the General Council of Florence, under Eugenius the III concerning the state of departed souls : in answer to a certain letter, printed and published against it, by an unknown author, under this title, A letter in answer to the late dispensers of Pope Benedict XII, his bull, &c., wherein the progress of Master Whites lately minted Purgatory is laid open and its grounds examined ... / by S.W.

summary:
  And I cannot pardon this your so confident imposing on your Reader ; You tell us , our present controversie , concerning the delivery of souls out of Purgatory , stands not here defined , because the Word Purgatory , is not in the Bull , ( however , it is sufficiently in the Council , ) and the Pope decrees of soul● now purged : And you require , pag. And first , In the Third Article which the Publishers gave you it defines ; If truely penitent Souls shall depart this life , before they have satisfied for their Commissions and Omissions , by worthy fruits of Penance : that their Souls are purged by the punishments of Purgatory after their bodies death , &c. Which Doctrine can finde no admittance in your new modell ; for all the sufferings of souls , which you fancy by their irregular , and now unchangeable affections , avail nothing as to the Purging or cleansing of Souls in their state of Separation : since that is wholly reserved , by you , to the change of those affections at the re-union .


id: A59240
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
date: 1699
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 49876
sentence: 1503
flesch: 60
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title:
  Raillery defeated by calm reason, or, The new Cartesian method of arguing and answering expos'd in a letter to all lovers of science, candor and civility / by J.S.

summary:
  But it is unheard of , that to be Uncreator , or Destroyer , of Things , was ever attributed to GOD ; or , that Contradictory Attributes could be peculiarly Appropriated to him ; as my Adversaries hold there can , while they deny both Creating , and Uncreating , or Annihilating , to be Possible to any , but to GOD ; that is , Peculiar to him . Who can say that GOD , if he pleases to alter the Course and Nature of Things , or to order the Circumstances of the next World , by Ways unknowable by us , cannot , by his Miraculous Power , effect , that Imperfect Souls may be releas'd from the Chains of their Captive State , and be reciev'd into Heaven before the Last Day ? Or , Who dares contend , that his Divine Goodness , that oft-times does Stupendious Miracles for the Prayers of one single Saint on Earth , will not do Miracles , and this frequently , for the Prayers of his Spouse , the Church !


id: A59248
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
date: 1665
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 63361
sentence: 1531
flesch: 49
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title:
  Sure-footing in Christianity, or Rational discourses on the rule of faith with short animadversions on Dr. Pierce's sermon : also on some passages in Mr. Whitby and M. Stillingfleet, which concern that rule / by J.S.

summary:
  4. ) those Ancestours renouncing Tradition formerly were by so doing cut off from the Root of Faith , their Followers ( for how many Generations soever they continue ) must be so likewise , as wanting and not daring even to pretend to that Faith●causing Principle of Tradition or uninterrupted Delivery which their Forefathers had renounc't . Such an unwearied Constancy in Devotion , such a degree of Fervor in that Constancy , cannot possibly proceed from a luke-warm Probability in Faith : such frequent Retirements to intimate Conversations with Heaven , such Mortifications , and contempt of Court-Entertainments , and ( which is yet harder ) such Innocence and Purity amidst the necessary Admittances of them , as they all conspire to speak Your Soul Angelical , so they clearly prove the vigorous Activity of the Faith that breeds them , far beyond the drowsy Indifferency of a probable Opinion .


id: A59220
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
date: 1673
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 65104
sentence: 1398
flesch: 47
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title:
  Errour non-plust, or, Dr. Stillingfleet shown to be the man of no principles with an essay how discourses concerning Catholick grounds bear the highest evidence.

summary:
  ] which had Dr. St. done , any considerate Reader , whom his much talking of Gods Power and what God may do , had not diverted from reflecting that his Wisdom determins his Power in ordinary and General Effects to do what accor●ing to the establish'd natures of things is the fittest means to compass such an end , would quickly have inclin'd to judge this the most connatural and fittest way , and therefore actually to have been made choice of by God ; being assisted or supported by the basis of Human Nature according to its Sensations which are naturally fram'd to receive right Impressions , and according to his Rational Faculty , which determins him to speak Truth still in open and undisguisable matters of Fact ; and , if that Body of men call'd the Church had any effectual means of Goodness in practice amongst them , super-assisted also by Grace not to v●ry from right Faith , and knowingly deliver a False for a True one . In a word , let him prove Scripture to have in it the nature of a Rule of Faith , or ( which will fall into the same ) to have been intended by God for that end , that is , to be of it self such to people of all capacities that soberly enquire , as secures them from erring in Faith while they rely on it , and this of it self without needing any society of Men , or Church to attest or explain it , and then I shall yeild his discourse to run as currently as his own heart can wish : but in proving this , he hitherto hath and ever must fall short most miserably .


id: A59234
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
date: 1665
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 57643
sentence: 3791
flesch: 76
cache: cache/A59234.xml
txt: txt/A59234.txt
title:
  The mysterie of rhetorique unveil'd wherein above 130 the tropes and figures are severally derived from the Greek into English : together with lively definitions and variety of Latin, English, scriptural, examples, pertinent to each of them apart. Conducing very much to the right understanding of the sense of the letter of the scripture, (the want whereof occasions many dangerous errors this day). Eminently delightful and profitable for young scholars, and others of all sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the elegancy in any author they read, &c. / by John Smith.

summary:
  The fine manner of words , in the Greek , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , [ tropos ] verborum imitatio , in English , a change of words , derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , PAroemia , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , [ paroimia ] proverbium , adagium , vulgare dictum : A Proverbial speech or Proverb , applyed to things and times ; derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 [ paroimiazomai ] proverbialiter loquor , to speak Proverbially or in Proverbs .


id: A59241
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
date: 1672
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 78726
sentence: 1773
flesch: 49
cache: cache/A59241.xml
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title:
  Reason against raillery, or, A full answer to Dr. Tillotson's preface against J.S. with a further examination of his grounds of religion.

summary:
  Neer three parts of his Book impose wrong Tenets on me , changing constantly my Sence , and sometimes my Words : And , whereas in things subject to Reason no Scholar is bound to defend more than himself maintains , He often puts me to defend the Reasonings of other men . Dr. T. being still able to boast his Book was not particularly answer'd , and so uphold his Credit with those who look not deeply into Things , seem'd by his silence well-appay'd ; and I heard of no more extraordinary Anger against me ; And for my part I was contented that superficial People should judge as their wit serv'd them ; it being abundant satisfaction to my Labours that Intelligent and Insighted Persons might perceive by them how matters stood , and into how narrow a compass Controversie was reduced .


