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id: A93905
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
title: Sir, you may perceive by the inclosed brief for rebuilding the cathedral church of St. Paul ...
date: 1678
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words: 3741
sentence: 146
flesch: 69
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summary:
  In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. I am sensible what Objections a Work of this nature is like to meet with in our Age ; wherein some love to cavil at whatever relates to God and his Worship ; and especially if it be like to cost them any thing ; others who seem very zealous for some kind of Religion , are for enjoying it on as cheap and easie terms as may be ; and many of those who declare a good will to this Work , yet express great dissatisfaction both as to this method of proceeding , and the time we have chosen , which they think very unsuitable to such a design , if we either respect the present State of the City or Nation .


id: A61621
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1690
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mime: application/xml
words: 8209
sentence: 256
flesch: 62
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title:
  A sermon preached before the King & Queen at White-hall, March 23, 1689/90 by ... Edward, Lord Bishop of Worcester.

summary:
  How much are such imposed upon by meer Shews and Appearances of things , which are really what God made them , but are not what we fansie them to be ! There are , no doubt , real Conveniencies of Life in Riches , and Honour , and Ease , and Plenty , or else they could never be esteemed Blessings , nor could we have reason to thank God for them ; but there is a great difference between the Fitness of things for our present use , and for our happiness ; i. e. when we make them our End , and do not employ them in order to a farther End.


id: A61625
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1694
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mime: application/xml
words: 9003
sentence: 255
flesch: 58
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title:
  A sermon preached before the King & Queen at White-Hall on Christmas-Day, 1693 by the Right Reverend Father in God, Edward Lord Bishop of Worcester.

summary:
  A sermon preached before the King & Queen at White-Hall on Christmas-Day, 1693 by the Right Reverend Father in God, Edward Lord Bishop of Worcester. A sermon preached before the King & Queen at White-Hall on Christmas-Day, 1693 by the Right Reverend Father in God, Edward Lord Bishop of Worcester.


id: A61622
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1691
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mime: application/xml
words: 8856
sentence: 354
flesch: 70
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title:
  A sermon preached before the Queen at White-Hall, March the 1st, 1690/1 by the Right Reverend Father in God Edward, Lord Bishop of Worcester.

summary:
  But what a Reproach is it , to the very Profession of Christianity among us for so plain , so easie a Command of Christ to be broken so commonly , so unconcernedly , so impertinently , as is every day done ; and yet they call Christ Lord , Lord ? So that , if we look abroad in the World , we find little Regard shew'd to the Precepts of Christ ; and yet those who commit these things call Christ Lord , Lord.


id: A61620
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
title: A sermon preached before the Queen at White-Hall, February 22d, 1688/9 by Edward Stillingfleet ...
date: 1689
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words: 9329
sentence: 314
flesch: 65
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summary:
  And whatever strugglings we may find within our selves about it , yet the more we search , and weigh , and consider things , the more we shall be satisfied , that the Resignation of our selves to God , as to all our Concernments in this World , is the best means to calm our Passions , to abate our Fears , to prevent our Impatience , and so to attain to that Ornament of a meek and quiet Spirit , which is with God of great Price . For even those who have most corrupted the Doctrine of Repentance do confess , that there can be no true Contrition of Sin , which is not founded on the Love of God as the Principle of it , and however they have dangerously flattered and deceived those who are so weak to believe them , that Attrition with the Sacrament of Penance is sufficient to put men into the state of Grace ; yet St. Peter's Keys must have an extraordinary virtue , if they can change Nature into Grace , or Fear into Love , or mere Horrour of Conscience into true Repentance .


id: A61598
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1694
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mime: application/xml
words: 9159
sentence: 317
flesch: 67
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title:
  A sermon concerning sins of omission preached before the King and Queen at White-Hall, on March 18th, 1693/4, being Midlent-Sunday / by ... Edward, Lord Bishop of Worcester.

summary:
  Do we know him and love him and serve him as we ought to doe ? Do we not fail in the Manner and Degree of those very Duties which we in some measure perform ? And are not these Failings Omissions ? And will not these Omissions be charged upon us as Sins ? How then can Mankind hope to escape the Wrath of God against those who continue in the Practice of Sin ? To answer this , we must distinguish between Omission as a Defect and as a Wilfull Sin. This cannot therefore be understood of any sudden Act of Passion and Surprise , nor of any Failings as to the Manner of our Duties , but of a wilfull deliberate Practice of some one known Sin , although the Person may be carefull to avoid many others ; Because this is not consistent with that Integrity of Mind , and that sincere Regard to God and his Laws , which every good Christian ought to have ; and so being guilty of the whole Law , is to be understood with Respect to the Favour of God ; which can no more be expected where there is a wilfull persisting in any one known Trangression of the Law than if he were guilty of all .


id: A61603
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
title: A sermon preached before the King, March 13, 1666/7 by Edward Stillingfleet ...
date: 1667
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mime: application/xml
words: 9527
sentence: 226
flesch: 53
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summary:
  Such who take the measure of mans perfections downwards , and the nearer they approach to beasts , the more they think themselves to act like men . But it is with this , as it is with the other arguments they use against Religion ; there is something within , which checks and controlls them in what they say : and that inward remorse of conscience , which such men sometimes feel in their evil actions ( when conscience is forced to recoil by the foulness of them ) doth effectually confute their own hypothesis ; and makes them not believe those actions to be necessary , for which they suffer so much in themselves because they knew they did them freely . Or is it as fatall for man to believe himself free when he is not so , as it is for him to act when his choice is determined ? but what series of causes is there that doth so necessarily impose upon the common sense of all mankind ? It seems very strange , that man should have so little sense of his own interest to be still necessitated to the worst of actions , and yet torment himself with the thoughts that he did them freely . Or is it only the freedome of action , and not of choice , that men have an experience of within themselves ? But surely , however men may subtilly dispute of the difference between these two , no man would ever believe himself to be free in what he does , unless he first thought himself to be so , in what he determines ?


id: A61575
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1691
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mime: application/xml
words: 10304
sentence: 386
flesch: 67
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title:
  The mysteries of the Christian faith asserted and vindicated in a sermon preached at S. Laurence-Jewry in London, April the 7th, 1691 / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Edward, Lord Bishop of Worcester.

summary:
  It is a faithfull saying , and therefore must be contained in that Revelation which God hath made concerning our Salvation by Christ. II. Was this nothing but the Glory which God had designed to give him ? This is so far from being peculiar to Christ , that it is common to all whom God designs to glorifie ; and takes away the distinction between the Decree and the Execution of it .


id: A61615
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
title: A sermon preached before the King, February the 15, 1683/4 by Edward Stillingfleet ...
date: 1684
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mime: application/xml
words: 10167
sentence: 305
flesch: 63
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summary:
  But when and where did this race of Mankind live , whom these designing Men first cheated into the belief of a Deity , and the practice of Religion ? The eldest Writings in the World , without all dispute , are those of the Holy Scriptures ; and among these , the Book of Job hath been thought the most antient ; for in all this Book we have not one word of the Law of Moses , or of Circumcision ; which makes it very probable to have been written before the Children of Israels coming out of Aegypt ; ( and some Arabic Writers think that Job lived before Abraham ; and others , at least in the time of Jacob ) however it be , this Book of Job gives an account of the sense of Mankind about Religion very early ; and by it we find that the great , and wise , and understanding Men of the World , such as Job and his three Friends were , ( who as far as appears by the story , were all of them independent Princes ; such as were common then , and a long time after , in those parts about Arabia ) had a mighty sense of God and Providence , and the Duties of Religion upon their minds . whether the changing his outward condition , would not alter the inward disposition of his mind , as to God and Religion .


id: A40071
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1690
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mime: application/xml
words: 10758
sentence: 316
flesch: 60
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title:
  An answer to the paper delivered by Mr. Ashton at his execution to Sir Francis Child ... together with the paper itself.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. For the Prince Elector Palatine was chosen King of Bohemia , and sent over for King Iames's Advice about it :


id: A62586
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1697
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mime: application/xml
words: 11620
sentence: 583
flesch: 71
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title:
  A seasonable vindication of the B. Trinity being an answer to this question, why do you believe the doctrine of the Trinity? : collected from the works of the most Reverend, Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and the right Reverend Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, now Lord Bishop of Worcester.

summary:
  Though neither the word Trinity , nor perhaps Person , in the Sense in which it is used by Divines when they treat of this Mystery , be any where to be met with in Scripture ; yet it cannot be denied but that Three are there spoken of by the Names of Father , Son , and Holy Ghost , in whose Name every Christian is Baptized , and to each of whom the highest Titles and Properties of God are in Scripture attributed . 5 Why we believe the Doctrine of the Trinity ? 10 How it can be proved that God hath Revealed it ? 12 Object .


id: A61608
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
title: A sermon preach'd before the King, Feb. 24, 1674/5 by Ed. Stillingfleet ...
date: 1675
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mime: application/xml
words: 11817
sentence: 307
flesch: 58
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summary:
  As though he had said to them , You who now glory in the name of Believers , and are hitherto as forward as any in the profession of Christianity , do not think your selves to be above the need of any helps to confirm your faith , and to arm you against the assaults of temptations , for your very security may betray you ; but consider the sin that doth so easily beset you on every side , the various artifices it makes use of to deceive men , and when it hath once gotten admission , how strangely it bewitches and infatuates the minds of men , how unwilling they are to be convinced of their sins , how much more unwilling to part with them , and how naturally the love of sin brings men to infidelity , and then you will see how great reason there is , why you should be exhorting one another daily while it is called to day , lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfulness of sin . 2. The manner whereby sin doth prevail upon men to harden them , through the Deceitfulness of sin .


id: A61578
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1682
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mime: application/xml
words: 12022
sentence: 460
flesch: 65
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title:
  Of the nature of superstition a sermon preached at St Dunstans West, March 31, MDCLXXXII / by Edward Stillingfleet ...

summary:
  Thence Plutarch mentions such Mens , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , uncouth ways of Worship ; and he observes , that at the same time , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , they flatter and reproach God ; they think unworthily of him , as of one that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 very easily provoked ; and yet that he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , as easily changed ; and that is the reason why a Superstitious fear puts men upon finding out any ways and methods to please him , though never so unreasonable ; for they looking upon God as a peevish , angry , humoursome Being , they have no certain Rule to judge what will please him , and therefore follow their own fancy and imagination about it . The next is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Humility , a Vertue so graceful , so becoming Mankind , with a respect to God and to each other , that whatever makes a Shew of that , doth so of Wisdom too .


id: A61590
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1674
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mime: application/xml
words: 12547
sentence: 359
flesch: 59
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title:
  The reformation justify'd in a sermon preached at Guild-Hall Chappel Septemb. 21, 1673, before the Lord Major and Aldermen, &c. / by Edw. Stillingfleet ...

summary:
  Besides , how can the Protestants ever answer their rejecting the Authority of the present Church which they lived under ? and to whom God had promised his infallible Spirit ? how can they clear themselves from faction and disturbing the peace of the Christian world , which lived in so great unity and peace before ? But although the Writer of this History gives us only the short heads of his accusation ; yet we may easily suppose by St. Pauls answer , that he insisted more largely on this , than on any of the rest : representing to Felix , That when the Jewish Church had been at first established by God himself under Laws of his own making , when he had so settled the several orders and degrees of men among them , that the Priests lips were to preserve knowledge , and the Law to be sought at their mouths ; when under this Government , their Religion had been preserved for many hundreds of years , and after many revolutions they enjoyed one common and publick Worship among them , though there were several distinct Orders of Religious men ( such as the Pharisees and Essens ) yet all agreed in the same Divine Worship ; but now at last to their great regret and horror appears one Jesus of Nazareth , a person of obscure parentage and mean education , who pretended to discover many corruptions in the doctrine and practices of our best men ; and without any Authority from the High Priest or Sanhedrin he gathered Disciples , and drew multitudes of people after him ; till at last the wisdom of our Governours thought it fit to take him off , and make him an example for Reformers ; notwithstanding this , his bold and forward Disciples after his death carried on the same design , pretending that the time of Reformation was come ; and accordingly have formed themselves into a Sect , vigorous and active , of high pretences , and dangerous designs , which if it continues and increases can end in nothing short of the ruine of our antient Jewish Catholick Church ; which hath had so constant and visible a Succession in all Ages ; that hath had so many Martyrs and Confessors in it ; so many Devout and Religious Persons as the Pharisees are ; so excellent an Order and Government , so much unity and peace before this new Sect of Nazarenes arose in opposition to that Authority with which God had invested the High Priest and Rulers of the People .


id: A61526
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1686
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mime: application/xml
words: 13014
sentence: 444
flesch: 65
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title:
  An answer to some papers lately printed concerning the authority of the Catholick Church in matters of faith, and the reformation of the Church of England

summary:
  Church of England -- Doctrines. It is granted , that the Guides of that Church have been very bad Men ; and that in Councils they have frequently erred about the Deposing Power , being only a Matter of Practice , and not of Faith.


id: A61546
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1662
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13166
sentence: 351
flesch: 50
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title:
  A discourse concerning the power of excommunication in a Christian church, by way of appendix to the Irenicum by Edward Stillingfleet ...

summary:
  Power then in its general and abstracted notion , doth not necessarily import either meer authority , or proper coaction , for these to any impartial judgement , will appear to bee rather the severall modes whereby power is exercised , then any proper ingredients of the specifick nature of it ; which in generall , imports no more then a right to Govern a constituted Society , but how that right shall bee exercised , must bee resolved not from the notion of Power , but from the nature and constitution of that particular Society in which it is lodged and inherent . The want of understanding the right notion of power in the sense here set down , is certainiy the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Erastianisme , and that which hath given occasion to so many to question any such thing as Power in the Church , especially , when the more zealous then judicious defenders of it have rather chosen to hang it upon some doubtful places of Scripture , then on the very nature and constitution of the Christian Church , as a Society instituted by Jesus Christ.


id: A61586
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1689
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 14008
sentence: 256
flesch: 32
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title:
  Proposals tender'd to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament for uniting the Protestant interest for the present, and preventing divisions for the future together with the declaration of K. Charles II, concerning ecclesiastical affairs, and some proposals of terms of union between the Church of England and dissenters / long since published by the Reverend Dean of S. Pauls.

summary:
  The Archbishop of Canterbury was to earnest to promote this so Christian Design , that among those admirable Articles recommended by his Grace to all the Bishops within his Province , ( which were to be more fully insisted upon in their Addresses to the Clergy and People of their respective Diocesses ) this was one : That they also walk in Wisdom towards those that are not of our Communion : And if there be in their Parishes any such , that they neglect not frequently to confer with them in the Spirit of Meekness , seeking by all good Ways and Means to gain and win them over to our Communion : More especially that they have a very tender Regard to our Brethren the Protestant Dissenters ; that upon occasion offered , they visit them at their Houses , and receive them kindly at their own , and treat them fairly wherever they meet them ; perswading them ( if it may be ) to a full compliance with our Church , or at least , that whereunto we have already attained , we may all walk by the same Rule and mind the same thing . The Advantages which must necessarily attend the making of such a Law , would be very great both to our interest in Church and State ; amongst which I beg leave to name the following .


id: A71074
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1687
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 14732
sentence: 461
flesch: 62
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title:
  A second letter to Mr. G. in answer to two letters lately published concerning the conference at the D. of P.

summary:
  If it be , that in doubtfull places he is to rely on his own Judgment , without making life of the best helps , then we pretend to no such thing ; for we assert the contrary , and do think in all doubtfull cases that persons are bound to make use of the best and most reasonable means for their satisfaction ; among which we not only reckon Prayer , Meditation , comparing Scripture and Expositors upon it , but the help of Spiritual Guides , and the Sense of the Primitive Church ; which our Church doth especially recommend , and which we look on as the best Arbitrator between us in all our Controversies about the sense of doubtfull places of Scripture . A second letter to Mr. G. in answer to two letters lately published concerning the conference at the D. of P. Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699. 1687 Approx.


id: A61606
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
title: A sermon preached November V, 1673, at St. Margarets Westminst by Edward Stillingfleet ...
date: 1674
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13755
sentence: 453
flesch: 65
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summary:
  There are three things which mainly uphold Civil Societies , Truth , Obedience , and a care of the good of others ; but if men fall not through any sudden infirmity or surprize , but openly and avowedly justifie the lawfulness of falshood , treason and cruelty , when they are intended for the carrying on their design ; what could they invent more contrary to the Laws both of God and man ? where in could they better discover themselves , notwithstanding their Sheeps clothing , to be meer ravening Wolves ? 1. Falshood , and that both in their words and dealings . For if the Christian Religion did indeed justifie all the fraud and treachery , the mischief and cruelty which hath been either acted or designed by men under the glorious pretence of advancing the interest of the Catholick Church , we might better choose not to be Christians , than to be such men : Because whatever Religion overthrows the common principles and duties of humane nature , such as those of Civil obedience , integrity and humanity are , cannot be supposed a Religion proper or intended by God for mankind ; whose great end in Religion is to improve and rectifie , and not to debauch or corrupt the dispositions of men .


id: A61568
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1680
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mime: application/xml
words: 16644
sentence: 574
flesch: 64
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title:
  The mischief of separation a sermon preached at Guild-Hall Chappel, May 11. MDCLXXX. being the first Sunday in Easter-term, before the Lord Mayor, &c. / by Edw. Stillingfleet ...

summary:
  But if , notwithstanding such plain examples , men will extend Churches to Congregations of many Families ; why may not others extend Churches to those Societies which consist of many Congregations ? Especially considering , that the Apostles when they instituted Churches , did appoint such Officers in them , as had not barely a respect to those already converted , but to as many as by their means should be added to the Church ; as Clemens affirms in his Epistle ; The Apostles , saith he , went about in Cities and Countries preaching the Gospel ; and appointed their First-fruits , having made a spiritual trial of them , for Bishops and Deacons , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , of those who were to believe . And so as to Churches , we find Uniformity and Order condemned as Tyrannical , till men come into Power themselves , and then the very same things and arguments are used and thought very good and substantial , which before were weak and sophistical .


id: A61536
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1695
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20126
sentence: 758
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A61536.xml
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title:
  A discourse concerning bonds of resignation of benefices in point of law and conscience by ... Edward Lord Bishop of Worcester.

summary:
  As to the Law against Simoniacal Contracts : The Statute is expresly against Presenting to a Benefice for a Summ of Money , Reward , Gift , Profit or Benefit , directly or indirectly , or entring into Bond or Covenant for that purpose ; 31 Eliz. c. 6. n. 5. This is somewhat strange Doctrine : that a Presentment should be void by Reason of a Simoniacal Bond , and yet that Bond not be void in Law.


id: A61596
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1688
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10439
sentence: 473
flesch: 74
cache: cache/A61596.xml
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title:
  Scripture and tradition compared in a sermon preached at Guild-Hall Chapel, Novemb. 27, 1687 / by Edward Stillingfleet ...

summary:
  Walking in him is an Eastern way of speaking and supposes both an adhering to that Faith they had then received , and living according to it , looking on Christ and his Doctrine , as their only way to Heaven . There are some who pretend , that the Apostles Writings were meerly Accidental and Occasional things , but that the main design was to lodge the great Assurance of the Doctrine of Christ in Tradition from one to another ; and what they wrote was not to make any Rule of Faith , but only to give some good Advice to those Churches they wrote to .


id: A61565
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1677
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20980
sentence: 611
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A61565.xml
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title:
  A letter to a deist, in answer to several objections against the truth and authority of the scriptures

summary:
  The Laws of Nations do suppose that greater credit is to be given to eye witnesses than to any others , thence the Rule in the Civil Law Testimonium de auditu regulariter non valet : Because , say the Civilians and Canonists , Witnesses are to testifie the Truth , and not barely the possibility of things ; that which Men see , they can testifie whether they are or not : That which Men only hear , may be , or no● be ; and their Testimony is no● of the Fact , but is looked on as more uncertain , and ought to have greater allowances given it ; but the Apostles testified only what they saw and handled ; and that after the most scrupulous enquiry into the Truth of Christ Body , and after many doubts an● suspicions among themselves abou● it ; so that they did not seem hastily and rashly to believe what they afterwards declared to the World. If a Man may believe and be saved , without these things , to what purpose are they objected for the overthrow of the Christian Faith ? Do you think a Man hath not reason enough to believe there is extended Matter in the World , unless he can solve all the difficulties that arise from the extension or divisibility of Matter ; or that he hath a Soul , unless he can make it clear how an immaterial and material Substance can be so united as our Soul and Body are ? Or that the Sun shines , unless he can demonstrate whether the Sun or the Earth moves ? Or that we have any certainty of things , unless he can assign the undoubted criterion of Truth and Falshood in all things ? These things I mention on purpose , to let you see , that the most certain things , have difficulties about them , which no one thinks it necessary for him to Answer , in order to his assurance of the Truth of the things ; but as long as the evidence for them is much more considerable than the Objections against them , we may safely acquiesce in our assent to them , and leave the unfolding these difficulties to the Disputers of this World , or the Knowledge of another .


id: A61624
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1692
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9309
sentence: 288
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A61624.xml
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title:
  A sermon preached before the Queen at White-Hall, March the 13th, 1691/2 by the Right Reverend Father in God, Edward, Lord Bishop of Worcester.

summary:
  I confess it is hard to determine what a Habit or Principle abiding in our minds is ; yet the Scripture doth evidently suppose such a thing , when it speaks of the New Birth , and the New Life , and the New Creature , and the Children of God ; all which are very insignificant Terms , if there be not under them something answerable to the First Principles of Life ; and if there be not a Divine Spirit dwelling and acting in the Souls of Good Men , and raising them up above Carnal and Sensual Objects to things Divine and Spiritual , and carrying them through the Passage of this World so as to prepare them for a better . I confess we meet with two Instances to the contrary in Scripture , which deserve our Consideration ; and those were of Extraordinary Persons too , eminent for their long and faithfull Service of God ; and yet upon single Faults committed by them , he was very severe with them . Which may seem to take much off from this Lenity and Goodness of God towards such who have a general Sincerity of Mind towards him .


id: A61593
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1700
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8273
sentence: 295
flesch: 66
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txt: txt/A61593.txt
title:
  Reformation of manners the true way of honouring God with the necessity of putting the laws in execution against vice and profaneness : in a sermon preached at White-hall / by the late Right Reverend Father in God, Edward, Lord Bishop of Worcester ; and published by Their Majesties special command.

summary:
  The Rules and Measures whereby God bestows Honour on Mankind . But , however , none ought to be discouraged from so Excellent a Design ; which Recommends it self to all Wise and Good Men , and will never want the Assistance and Prayers of all that are so ; and God himself will in an especial Manner give Honour to Those who thus Honour him in his own Way ; by using the most Effectual Means for the Reforming the Manners of Men.


id: A61618
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1681
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title:
  A sermon preached at White-Hall, February the 19th, 1685/6 being the first Friday in Lent / by Edw. Stillingfleet ...

summary:
  It is true , God hates all Sin for its own Sake ; but not all equally ; some Sins being of a higher Nature than others are ; being against plainer Light , stronger Convictions , more easie Commands , stricter Obligations than others are ; but yet it is the Temper of a Sinner's Mind , which is most provoking , when Sins are committed not through Infirmity , or sudden surprise , or a violent Temptation ; but habitually , knowingly , wilfully ; especially when they are done in Contempt of God and his Laws , and with an obstinate Resolution to continue in the Practice of them . God was a Father by the Right of Creation and Providence : but he was a Master to the Jews in respect of the Bondage of the Law ; and as there was a Spirit of Bondage on that account in them , which inclined them to a more servile Fear ; so there ought to have been a natural Spirit of Adoption toward God as their Supreme Creatour and Father ; which should excite all men to such a dutifull Love , such a Reverential Esteem , such a mixture of Awe and Kindness as is in Children towards their Parents .


id: A61600
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1666
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11307
sentence: 321
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A61600.xml
txt: txt/A61600.txt
title:
  A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at St. Margarets Westminster, Octob. 10, 1666 being the fast-day appointed for the late dreadfull fire in the city of London / by Edward Stillingfleet ...

summary:
  For whatever arguments or reasons we can imagine , that should compose the minds of men to a sense of their own or others calamities , or excite them to an apprehension of the wrath of God as the cause of them , or quicken them to an earnest supplication to him for mercy , they do all eminently concurr in the sad occasion of this dayes solemnity . Till at last it may be in the Prophets expression for their covetousness , the stone cry out of the wall , and the beam out of the timber answer it ; i. e. provoke God to give a severe check to the exorbitant and boundless desires of men , as he hath done by this dayes calamity .


id: A61528
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1693
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12462
sentence: 331
flesch: 57
cache: cache/A61528.xml
txt: txt/A61528.txt
title:
  The case of an oath of abjuration considered and the vote of the honourable House of Commons vindicated in a letter.

summary:
  And the Citizens of London on their part , swore Faithful Service [ took the Oath of Fidelity ] to King Richard and his Heirs , and engaged , that if he died without Issue , they would receive John for their Lord and King. The Use I make of it , is this , to shew you , that John , by this first Treasonable Attempt of causing People to swear Fidelity to him , against the King's Will , and without his Knowledge , and when he was not so much as Presumptive Heir , must make him justly liable both to the King's Anger , and to the Punishment of the Laws of the Land ; but that his second Attempt upon the Crown made him undoubtedly a Traitor , and not to be endur'd either by King or Subject .


id: A61530
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1691
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17408
sentence: 760
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A61530.xml
txt: txt/A61530.txt
title:
  The Bishop of Worcester's charge to the clergy of his diocese, in his primary visitation begun at Worcester, Sept. 11, 1690

summary:
  eng Church of England -- Pastoral letters and charges. The Obligation is to perpetual Residence , but as it is in other positive Duties , there may other Duties intervene , which may take away the present force of it ; as Care of Health , necessary Business , publick Service of the King , or Church , &c.


id: A61623
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1692
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8186
sentence: 303
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A61623.xml
txt: txt/A61623.txt
title:
  A sermon preached before the King & Queen at White-Hall, Novemb. 29, 1691 by the Right Reverend Father in God, Edward Lord Bishop of Worcester.

summary:
  The Rules and Measures whereby God bestows Honour on Mankind . But , however , none ought to be discouraged from so Excellent a Design ; which Recommends it self to all Wise and Good Men , and will never want the Assistance and Prayers of all that are so ; and God himself will in an especial Manner give Honour to Those who thus Honour him in his own Way ; by using the most Effectual Means for the Reforming the Manners of Men.


id: A61567
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
title: A letter to Mr. G. giving a true account of a late conference at the D. of P.
date: 1687
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2244
sentence: 76
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A61567.xml
txt: txt/A61567.txt
summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A61531
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1690
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8926
sentence: 361
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A61531.xml
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title:
  Christian magnanimity a sermon preached in the cathedral church at Worcester at the time of the assizes, September 21. 1690 / by ... Edward, Lord Bishop of Worcester.

summary:
  If I could once see the Spirit of Love and a sound time prevail among us ; If men would be contented to Sacrifice their Humours and Piques to the Publick Interest ; in short , if there were any hopes Men would be Wise and Good , there were then a great Foundation for hope , that all things would be settled among us , so as to continue for succeeding Generations . For , what Comfort could he hope for among them , who were turned away from S. Paul ? Such a Defection as this must needs bring great dishonour to Religion , as well as dissatisfaction to him . ( 2. ) He observed a busie sort of Seducers , who were crept in among them ; who were crafty , restless and designing Men ; such as could not compass their own ends without taking upon them a pretence of Zeal for Religion .


id: A61587
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1681
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12583
sentence: 419
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A61587.xml
txt: txt/A61587.txt
title:
  Protestant charity a sermon preached at S. Sepulchres Church, on Tuesday in Easter week, A. D. MDCLXXXI / by Edward Stillingfleet ...

summary:
  And let not men deceive themselves ; if they look onely at themselves and the things of this world , let their pretences be never so spiritual , if they dare not doe acts of Charity so as to trust God for a reward , they do but sow to the flesh ; and though the world may be cheated , and men may sometimes deceive themselves , yet God cannot be mocked ; he knows the hearts , and intentions , and secret designs of men , and according to them their reward shall be ; for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he reap . And I do not see , but where men have a due regard to God and Religion , such considerations as these do more effectually stir men up to true Acts of Charity , than those mercenary and corrupt Doctrines in the Roman Church ; which look rather like cunning devices to pick the Peoples Pockets than any real Arguments for Charity .


id: A61614
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
title: A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, March 7, 1678/9 by Edward Stillingfleet ...
date: 1679
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15130
sentence: 680
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A61614.xml
txt: txt/A61614.txt
summary:
  Caram●●l . It was a bold saying of Epicurus , That it is more d●sirable to be miserable by acting according to reason , than to be happy in going against it ; and I cannot tell how it can well agree with his notion of felicity : but it is a certain truth , that in the consideration of happiness , the satisfaction of a mans own mind doth weigh down all the external accidents of life .


id: A58738
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1679
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 25861
sentence: 956
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A58738.xml
txt: txt/A58738.txt
title:
  Several weighty considerations humbly recommended to the serious perusal of all, but more especially to the Roman Catholicks of England to which is prefix'd, An epistle from one who was lately of that communion to Dr. Stillingfleet, Dean of St. Pauls, declaring the occasion of the following discourse.

summary:
  yet my mind was not quiet : and those stupendous Distractions both of Church and State that immediately followed , did infinitely add to my Perplexity . It is the express Doctrin of S. Thomas Aquinas ( and his Doctrin in that Church is little less than Canonized )


id: A61604
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1669
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10364
sentence: 299
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A61604.xml
txt: txt/A61604.txt
title:
  A sermon preached before the King, January 30, 1668/9, being the day of the execrable murther of King Charles I by Edward Stillingfleet ...

summary:
  It makes all Government dangerous to the persons in whom it is , considering the unavoidable infirmities of it , and the readiness of people to misconstrue the actions of their Princes , and their incapacity to judge of them ; it not being fit that the reasons of all counsels of Princes should be divulged by Proclamations . For if those things which were then acted among us , had been done among the most rude and barbarous Nations , though that had been enough to have made them for ever thought so ; yet they might have been imputed to their ignorance in matters of Civility and Religion : but when they were committed not only by men who were called Christians , but under a pretence of a mighty zeal for their Religion too , men will either think that Religion bad which did give encouragement to such actions , or those persons extremely wicked , who could make use of a pretence of it for things so contrary to its nature and design .


id: A61636
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1691
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5238
sentence: 149
flesch: 53
cache: cache/A61636.xml
txt: txt/A61636.txt
title:
  A vindication of Their Majesties authority to fill the sees of the deprived bishops in a letter out of the country occasioned by Dr. B---'s refusal of the bishoprick of Bath and Wells.

summary:
  2. This Supremacy , though it do not extend to the administration of Holy Offices or Church Censures , yet it reaches the Persons and external Jurisdiction of Bishops , and the other Clergy , and the Regulating and Ordering the Externals of Religion : As the making and deposing Bishops , when there is just Cause for it , belongs to the Supremacy ; which Authority was exercised by the Iewish Kings over the High Priest himself : and to resolve all this into a meer Ecclesiastical Authority , is to set up a Pope , or a Presbytery , or a National Synod , above the Supream Power ; and we may as well say at this day , that the Supream Power has no Authority to make a Bishop , because by the ancient Canons and Practice of the Church , a Bishop ought to be freely and canonically elected by the other Bishops of the Province , or by the Clergy and People of the Diocess ; as that it cannot depose a Bishop from the exercise of his Episcopal Authority within their Dominions , without a Synod or Council . They who have lost it , want it ; And what then ? so do a great many Men want what is not theirs , what they never had , as well as what they have lost : And must no Man take a Preferment in Church or State , which another wants ?


id: A61609
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1678
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 14423
sentence: 473
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A61609.xml
txt: txt/A61609.txt
title:
  A sermon preached on the fast-day, November 13, 1678, at St. Margarets Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons by Edward Stillingfleet ...

summary:
  For since mankinds entring into society is both necessary and advantageous to them ; and God doth not barely permit and approve , but dispose and incline men to it ; and hath given them Laws to govern themselves by , with respect to society ; it is but reasonable to suppose that God should call men to an account in that capacity ; and to distribute rewards and punishments according to the nature of their actions : which must either be done in this world , or it cannot be done at all ; for all those bonds are dissolved by death , and men shall not answer for their sins by Kingdoms and Nations in another world , but every man shall give account of himself unto God. When men daily and insolently break the Laws of God , and bid as it were defiance both to them and to the Laws of men ; when wickedness spreads like a leprosie , and infects the whole body ; when vices become so notorious that they are a reproach and a by-word to Neighbour Nations ; these are the signs and tokens of National guilt .


id: A61544
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1689
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 34237
sentence: 1276
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A61544.xml
txt: txt/A61544.txt
title:
  A discourse concerning the illegality of the late ecclesiastical commission in answer to the vindication and defence of it : wherein the true notion of the legal supremacy is cleared, and an account is given of the nature, original, and mischief of the dispensing power.

summary:
  Whether the King's Supremacy by Law extends to the Dispensing with Laws : Of the Nature and Original of that Power ; The Inconsistency of such a Dispensing Power with the Frame of our Government . Whether the King's Supremacy by Law extends to the Dispensing with Laws : Of the Nature and Original of the Power ; The Inconsistency of such a Dispensing Power with the Frame of our Government .


id: A66343
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1698
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 35399
sentence: 1047
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A66343.xml
txt: txt/A66343.txt
title:
  The answer to the report, &c., which the united ministers appointed their committee to draw up, as in the preface also letters of the Right Reverend the Bishop of Worcester, and the Reverend Dr. Edwards to Mr. Williams, against whom their testimony was produced by Mr. Lob : and animadversions on Mr. Lob's defence of The report / by Daniel Williams.

summary:
  Yea , we 〈◊〉 scarce hope they would have re-united , could we 〈◊〉 submitted to their Papers , because , as we are infor●ed , Mr. Cole and Mr. Mather refused their assent to 〈◊〉 And this their Letter was subscribed in the Name , 〈◊〉 of several ( not of all ) to whom it was Communica●●●● ; nor ( as we find ) was any Union , or Agreement ●●gaged , or expressed , except in Doctrine , had this expedient obtained . The answer to the report, &c., which the united ministers appointed their committee to draw up, as in the preface also letters of the Right Reverend the Bishop of Worcester, and the Reverend Dr. Edwards to Mr. Williams, against whom their testimony was produced by Mr. Lob : and animadversions on Mr. Lob's defence of The report / by Daniel Williams.


id: A61594
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1666
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 25672
sentence: 703
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A61594.xml
txt: txt/A61594.txt
title:
  A reply to Mr. J.S. his 3d. appendix containing some animadversions on the book entituled, A rational account of the grounds of Protestant religion. By Ed. Stillingfleet B.D.

summary:
  And when the● were silenced , all the disputes th● arose in the Church concerning matte● of faith , was about the sense of the books ; as is evident by the procee●ings in the case of Arius and Pelagi● Wherein Tradition was only used a means to clear the sense of the S●ptures , but not at all as that which t● faith of all was to be resolved int● But when any thing was pleaded fr● tradition for which there was ground in Scripture , it was reject with the same ease it was offered ; a● such persons were plainly told , t● was not the Churches way ; if they b● plain Scripture with the concurr● sense of Antiquity , they might produce ●t and rely upon it . In which sense only I shall grant our Protestant Writer● to build on uncertainties , and Mr. White and Mr. Serjeant to be the great Demonstrators of this age .


id: A61547
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1689
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 16334
sentence: 672
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A61547.xml
txt: txt/A61547.txt
title:
  A discourse concerning the unreasonableness of a new separation, on account of the oaths with an answer to the History of passive obedience, so far as relates to them.

summary:
  Here we have then a plain Instance of one who was in the Possession of Power without Colour of Right , and yet Oaths of Allegiance were taken to him , both by the Senate and People . 2. Submissive Allegiance ; where no more is required than is contained in the Duke of York ' s Oath , and yet he declared this was no Prejudice to his Right .


id: A61522
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1697
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 33204
sentence: 1272
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A61522.xml
txt: txt/A61522.txt
title:
  The Bishop of Worcester's answer to Mr. Locke's letter, concerning some passages relating to his Essay of humane understanding, mention'd in the late Discourse in vindication of the Trinity with a postscript in answer to some reflections made on that treatise in a late Socinian pamphlet.

summary:
  It is certain , that what God created is no meer Name or Idea : It is certain , that God created not only Individuals but the several Kinds , with the Differences , which they have from each other ; it is certain , that these Differences do not lie in meer Names or Ideas : How comes it then not to be certain that there is a Real Common Essence or Nature in the Individuals of the same kind ? That your Notions about Ideas have no Connexion with any Objections that are made by others against the Doctrine of the Trinity , or against Mysteries .


id: A61556
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1680
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 41411
sentence: 1848
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A61556.xml
txt: txt/A61556.txt
title:
  The grand question, concerning the Bishops right to vote in Parliament in cases capital stated and argued, from the Parliament-rolls, and the history of former times : with an enquiry into their peerage, and the three estates in Parliament.

summary:
  To conclude this matter ; whether the Acts of Parlament which contain this declaration of the Peerage of Bishops , and their Iurisdiction in Cases of Treason , were sufficiently repeal'd or not ; this solemn Assertion of it in two several Parlaments , together with the Petition of the Commons mentioned before , are a most clear evidence , that in the general Opinion of the King , Lords , and Commons , this Iurisdiction did of right belong to the Bishops . For if the Protestation 's being allowed by King , Lords and Commons , make it ( as the Authour of the Letter affirms ) a perfect and compleat Law , then their Right to be present in all Debates of Parlament is a Law ; and so much the more considerable , because it is no enacting Law , making that to be so , which was not before , but declarative of what was confessed to be their undoubted Right by King , Lords and Commons .


id: A61550
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1688
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 30938
sentence: 1756
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A61550.xml
txt: txt/A61550.txt
title:
  The doctrine of the Trinity and transubstantiation compared as to Scripture, reason, and tradition. The first part in a new dialogue between a Protestant and a papist : wherein an answer is given to the late proofs of the antiquity of transubstantiation in the books called Consensus veterum and Nubes testium, &c.

summary:
  And it is the less wonder it is so in the Incarnation , wherein an Union is implied between an Infinite and Finite Nature ; when the Union of the Soul and Body , though both Finite , is above our Comprehension , though we our selves consist of Souls and Bodies so united ? For he did not think Hypostatical Union necessary , to make the Elements become the Body of Christ , but a Divine Energy was sufficient , as the Bodies assumed by Angels are their Bodies , tho there be no such vital Union , as there is between the Soul and Body of a Man.


id: A61545
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1688
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 38151
sentence: 1491
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A61545.xml
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title:
  A discourse concerning the nature and grounds of the certainty of faith in answer to J.S., his Catholick letters / by Edw. Stillingfleet ...

summary:
  After the Certainty of Scripture from Tradition was admitted , there was no Refusing to admit that Tradition causes Certainty , and makes Faith as certain as Scripture . Afterwards Mr. S. starts something that comes nearer to the business ; which is , that Certainty of Faith and Certainty of Scripture , are two things :


id: A61552
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1686
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 50272
sentence: 2271
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A61552.xml
txt: txt/A61552.txt
title:
  The doctrines and practices of the Church of Rome truly represented in answer to a book intituled, A papist misrepresented, and represented, &c.

summary:
  The Distinction of the Court & Church of Rome is wholly impertinent in this Case . 4. Indulgences , he saith , are nothing else but a Mitigation or Relaxation , upon just Causes , of Canonical Penances , which are or may be enjoyned by the Pastors of the Church on penitent Sinners , according to their several degrees of Demerits .


id: A61523
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1698
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 39404
sentence: 1510
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A61523.xml
txt: txt/A61523.txt
title:
  The bishop of Worcester's answer to Mr. Locke's second letter wherein his notion of ideas is prov'd to be inconsistent with itself, and with the articles of the Christian faith.

summary:
  What is meant by these Archetypes in the Mind which cannot deceive us ? I confess here are such things said in order to Certainty , which are above my Understanding , if taken with respect to Things ; as how we cannot but be infallibly certain , that all the Knowledge we attain concerning these Ideas is real , and reaches things themselves , and yet they are Archetypes of the Mind 's own making , not intended to be the Copies of any thing , nor referr'd to the Existence of any thing . And to pretend to Certainty by Ideas without pretending to clear and distinct Ideas , is to judge without Evidence , and to determine a thing to be certainly true , when we cannot know whether it be so or not ; for how can you be sure that your Ideas agree with the Reality of things ( wherein you place the Certainty of Knowledge ) if there be no such Ideas of those things , that you can perceive their true Nature , and their difference from all others ?


id: A30412
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1687
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 54697
sentence: 1376
flesch: 56
cache: cache/A30412.xml
txt: txt/A30412.txt
title:
  A relation of a conference held about religion at London by Edw. Stillingfleet ... with some gentlemen of the Church of Rome.

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


id: A61635
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1687
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 58464
sentence: 2560
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A61635.xml
txt: txt/A61635.txt
title:
  A vindication of the answer to some late papers concerning the unity and authority of the Catholic Church, and the reformation of the Church of England.

summary:
  To answer this , Let us suppose the Common Council of the City should agree to make men swear that the Monument near London Bridge , is a living creature , and should exclude all those from the City Priviledges who do not ; and that others having examin'd the Monument , and found nothing but Stones and Iron , were resolved to follow their Senses , and declare their minds , That upon due consideration , they did judg the Monument to be no living creature ; Would any say , these men ma●e it an Article of their Faith , when they only rejected a false proposition imposed upon the Faith of others ? Why may not a Church declare what it doth not believe , as well as what it doth ? Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.


id: A34970
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1672
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 38801
sentence: 1233
flesch: 57
cache: cache/A34970.xml
txt: txt/A34970.txt
title:
  Fanaticism fanatically imputed to the Catholick church by Doctour Stillingfleet and the imputation refuted and retorted / by S.C. a Catholick ...

summary:
  Hereto ( quia de gustibus non est disputandum ) all that I conceive needfull to say , is that the Doctour seems to me not yet cordially reconciled to the Ceremonies and Common Prayer Book of his own lately adopted Church , which he knows to have been borrowed from the Catholick Liturgy , and for that reason hated by his freinds the Presbyterians and Independents , and by them esteemed a tedious and ceremonious way of Externall Dev●tion , as dull and as cold as the Earth it self . No Pagans or Cannibals must be esteemed so blindly , so horribly I dolatrous , No Quakers so ridiculously Frantick , No Fifth-Monarchists so dangerous both to Church and State.


id: A61555
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1698
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 65981
sentence: 3130
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A61555.xml
txt: txt/A61555.txt
title:
  Ecclesiastical cases relating to the duties and rights of the parochial clergy stated and resolved according to the principles of conscience and law / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Edward, Lord Bishop of Worcester.

summary:
  Law of Tithes c. 8. Cr. Car. The Obligation is to perpetual Residence , but as it is in other positive Duties , there may other Duties intervene , which may take away the present force of it ; as care of Health , necessary Business , publick Service of the King or Church , &c.


id: A30411
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1676
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 55110
sentence: 1440
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A30411.xml
txt: txt/A30411.txt
title:
  A relation of a conference held about religion at London, the third of April, 1676 by Edw. Stillingfleet ... and Gilbert Burnet, with some gentlemen of the Church of Rome.

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


id: A61532
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1688
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 62801
sentence: 3083
flesch: 72
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title:
  The Council of Trent examin'd and disprov'd by Catholick tradition in the main points in controversie between us and the Church of Rome with a particular account of the times and occasions of introducing them : Part 1 : to which a preface is prefixed concerning the true sense of the Council of Trent and the notion of transubstantiation.

summary:
  Ca●●●ists about this matter ; and the latter affirmed that Chris●● was not appointed by Christ , but ast●●wards by th● Church ; and that the Pope could dispense with it ; which he could not do if it were of Christ's Insti●●●ion . ●●●●esie to assert , that the Substance of the Elements did remain after Consecration .


id: A61561
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1677
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 66493
sentence: 1877
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A61561.xml
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title:
  The Jesuits loyalty, manifested in three several treatises lately written by them against the oath of allegeance with a preface shewing the pernicious consequence of their principles as to civil government.

summary:
  Here then being a Case confessedly possible , and an Opinion which Authority renders probable , in which Case , and according to which Opinion , Kings and Princes have , at least by Authority of the Church , and with others , Power and Authority to depose the Pope , I see no objection offer it self , but the way open and fairly smoothed to this Resolution of the Case , That no Catholick can safely take this counter-Oath , nor securely swear , that no King or Prince , either of himself , or by any Authority of the Church or See of Rome , or by any other means , with any other , hath ( in any possible case ) any Power or Authority to depose the Pope . Besides all this , if it be true what these Authours assume , that Temporall Princes have ( when the good of Souls and the necessity of the Church requires it ) Power to depose one another , how can any man , being of this opinion , lawfully swear the Pope hath not any such Power , who , as we all know , is a mixt person , and as well a Temporal Prince as a Spiritual Pastour ? and therefore it would argue great partiality in this Doctrine , wholly to exclude him , at least as he is a Temporal Prince , from his share in the Deposing power : from whence it would finally follow , that the Oath could not be taken without a distinction of different formalities in the same person , that is , without distinguishing the Pope as Pope from himself as he is a Temporal Prince ; and then also the two formalities being at odds , the Temporal Prince would be the more powerfull Pope of the two .


id: A61548
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1697
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 80615
sentence: 3456
flesch: 70
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title:
  A discourse in vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity with an answer to the late Socinian objections against it from Scripture, antiquity and reason, and a preface concerning the different explications of the Trinity, and the tendency of the present Socinian controversie / by the Right Reverend Father in God Edward, Lord Bishop of Worcester.

summary:
  God , saith he , is the Father of his Son 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , without any Division of the Substance . His great Argument is from the use of the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which may extend to Individuals of the same kind .


id: A71070
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1673
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 83814
sentence: 2505
flesch: 59
summary: ●●ist . G●●ad . de E●cl●s d●gmat .
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txt: txt/A71070.txt
title:
  An answer to several late treatises, occasioned by a book entituled A discourse concerning the idolatry practised in the Church of Rome, and the hazard of salvation in the communion of it. The first part by Edward Stillingfleet ...


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type: ORG
entity:
  francois à l'advertisement des catholiques anglois pour l'exclusion du roy de navarre de la couronne de france


