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id: A62569
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
title: A letter written to my Lord Russel in Newgate, the twentieth of July, 1683
date: 1683.0
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  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A62569) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 99550)


id: A30007
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1689.0
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title:
  A true copy of a letter from the Right Honourable the Earl of Mulgrave, to Doctor Tillotson, Dean of Canterbury

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id: A62591
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
title: A sermon preached before the King, April 18th, 1675 by John Tillotson ...
date: 1675.0
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  If a mans life lay at stake , and he had but one throw for it , with what care and with what concernment would he manage that action ? What thou art doing next may , for ought thou knowest , be for thy life , and for all eternity . Seneca expostulates excellently with this sort of men ; Who shall ensure thy life till that time ?


id: A62590
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
title: A sermon preached before the King, Febr. 26th 1674/5 John Tillotson ...
date: 1675.0
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  And this no doubt is an admirable means to improve men in virtue , a most effectual way to keep our consciences continually waking and tender , and to make us stand in awe of our selves , and afraid to sin , when we know before hand that we must give so severe an account to our selves of every action . I know that the tempers of men are very different , and therefore I do not say that tears are absolutely necessary to repentance , but they do very well become it ; and a thorough sense of sin will almost melt the most hard and obdurate disposition , and fetch water out of a very rock .


id: A71107
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1679.0
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title:
  A sermon preached at the first general meeting of the gentlemen, and others in and near London, who were born within the county of York in the church of S. Mary-le-Bow, Decemb. 3, 1678 / by John Tillotson ...

summary:
  As , humanity and kindness in all our carriage and behaviour towards one another ; for Love smooths the dispositions of men , so that they are not apt to grate upon one another : Next , to rejoyce in the good and happiness of one another , and to grieve at their evils and sufferings ; for Love unites the in erests of men , so as to make them affected with what happens to another , as if it were in some sort their own case : Then to contribute as much as in us lies to the happiness of one another , by relieving one anothers wants , and redressing their misfortunes : Again , tenderness of their good name and reputation ; a proneness to interpret all the words and actions of men to the best sence ; patience and forbearance towards one another ; and when differences happen , to manage them with all possible calmness and kindness , and to be ready to forgive , and to be reconciled to one another ; to pray one for another ; and if occasion be , at least if the publick good of Christianity require it , to be ready to lay down our lives for our brethren , and to sacrifice our selves for the furtherance of their Salvation . It makes our minds calm and cheerful , and puts our souls into an easy posture , and into good h●mor , and maintains us in the possession and enjoiment of our selves : It preserves men from many mischiefs and inconveniences , to which enmity and ill-will do perpetually expose them : It is apt to make Friends , and to gain Enemies , and to render every condition either pleasant , or easy , or tolerable to us .


id: A62598
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1683.0
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title:
  A sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Benjamin Whichcot, D.D. and minister of S. Lawrence Jewry, London, May 24th, 1683 by John Tillotson ...

summary:
  And then it follows , For we that are in this tabernacle do groan being burthened ( that is , with the afflictions and pressures of this life ) not that we would be unclothed ( that is , not that we desire by death to be devested of these bodies ) but clothed upon ( that is , if God see it good we had rather be found alive , and changed , and without putting off these bodies have immortality as it were superinduced ) that so mortality might be swallowed up of life . 5. This Consideration should wean us from the love of life ; and make us not onely contented but willing and glad to leave this world , whenever it shall please God to call us out of it .


id: A62584
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1687.0
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title:
  A seasonable new-years-gift a sermon / preached at White-Hall before His Late Majesty by John Tillotson.

summary:
  So that they did not only build these doctrines upon Christianity , but they made them equal with the Foundation , saying , that unless men believed and practised such things they could not be saved . The true consequence of which principle if it be driven to the head , is to perswade men to forsake Christianity , and to make them take up in the principles of natural Religion , for in these all Religions do agree .


id: A58627
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
title: A sermon preached at White-Hall before His Late Majesty / by John Tillotson.
date: 1686.0
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  For doubt not , but the belief of the ancient Cre● provided we entertain nothing that is destr●●ctive of it , together with a good life , will ce●●tainly save a man ; and without this no m● can have reasonable hopes of salvation , Also a Third Volume of the Works of the Learned Is● Barrow , D. D. late Master of Trinity Colledg in Cambri●●● in Folio : Never before Printed ; and are the last that 〈◊〉 be Published of his in English .


id: A47971
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
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title:
  A Letter formerly sent to Dr. Tillotson, and for want of an answer made publick, and now reprinted with the said doctor's letter to the Lord Russel a little before his execution.

summary:
  THE Author of the following Letter sent the Original to Mrs. Tillotson for her Husband , and a Copy of it to my Lady Derby , for the Princess of Orange , several Months ago ; and when he writ it , he hoped the Members of Parliament would have been , against the Sessions , awakened by their Disappointments and Taxes , to consider aright , what is the present State of this miserable Nation , and how much worse is our future prospect ; and had he found them in that Temper , and acting steddily for their Countrey , he had thoughts to have presented with his own hands , his Reasons , why he thinks they have wronged King James , over-rated their Disease , and mistaken their Cure ; and he would also have given in Proposals , how the King may be restored , without hazard , either to our Religion or Property ; and this the Author would have done , because he thinks , that if either Reason or Religion would prevail , such an Offer must have had some weight ; but whilst the Whigs as much Sacrifice their Understandings to support this Change , as the Tories did their Consciences to make it , a Man would be reckoned mad that attempted in such a manner to reclaim such a Sett of Men , as have no more publick Spirit , than what lies in wrangling for their particular Parties ; or common sense , than what is p●oper to get into Pensions , and Places , that , at the witty Sir Charles Sidley once said in the House , They may charge in Armor . The excessive Value I have for you , for your Knowledge , your Judgment , y●ur largeness of Spirit , your Moderation , and many other great Qualities that ●ave signaliz●d your Name , once made you one of the greatest Ornaments of the Christian Church , one of the greatest Exemplars of sound Morality , and all that Philosophers call Virtue , make what seems to me an Apostacy from what you Preached and Writ , pretended to believe , and would have others to belive , shake me so violently in the first Credenda of Religion , that I beseech you , if you think it necessary upon no other account , that you will publish such a Discourse , at least , for the Satisfaction of mine , and the Consciences of many others , who I can assure you of my own knowledge , lie under the same Scruples with my self , have the same Scruples in relation to the Government , and the same Temptations to question Religion it self upon your account : It is the interest of the Government to satisfie such Men ; and if you think that we ought particularly and privately to apply our selves to you , our Number is so great that it would be too constant a trouble for any one Man to undergo ; nor can we safely debate a point of this Nature ; nor can you expect Men should trust themselves under the Protection of your Honour , whilst they think you have in the Face of the World , so grosly Prevaricated both from that and what ought to be a Principle of a higher Nature , the dictates of your own Conscience .


id: A62604
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1690.0
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title:
  A sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons, on Wednesday the 16th of April, a day appointed by Their Majesties, for a solemn monthly fast by John Tillotson ...

summary:
  But then , lest men should cast off Religion , and deny the God that is above ; lest they should trust in their sword and their bowe , and say , the Lord hath not done this ; lest men should look upon themselves as the Creators and framers of their own fortune , and when they do but a little outstrip others in wisdom or power , in the skill and conduct of humane affairs , they should grow proud and presumptuous , God is pleased sometimes more remarkably to interpose , to hide pride from man , as the expression is in Job ; to check the haughtiness and insolence of mens spirits , and to keep them within the bounds of modesty and humility ; to make us to know that we are but men , and that the reins of the World are not in our hands , but that there is One above who sways and governs all things here below . For if there be a God and a Providence , it is reasonable that things should be thus : Because a Providence does suppose all things to have been at first wisely fram'd , and with a fi●ness to attain their end ; but yet it does also suppose that God hath reserved to himself a power and liberty to interpose , and to cross as he pleases , the usual course of things ; to awaken men to the consideration of him , and a continual dependance upon him ; and to teach us to ascribe those things to his wise disposal , which , if we never saw any change , we should be apt to impute to blind necessity .


id: A62605
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1690.0
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title:
  A sermon preached at St Mary le Bow before the Lord Mayor, Court of Aldermen, & citizens of London, on Wednesday the 18th of June, a day appointed by Their Majesties, for a solemn monthly fast by John Tillotson ...

summary:
  Let us therefore consider a little the astonishing patience of God towards that perverse People . And here in the Text , after God had threaten'd destruction to Jerusalem , because of the over-flowing of all manner of wickedness and oppression in the midst of her , he gives her a merciful warning to prevent this ruine and desolation by repentance , vers .


id: A62608
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1692.0
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title:
  A sermon preach'd before the Queen at White-Hall, March the XXth, 1691/2 by John, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.

summary:
  Half title: His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury's sermon before the Queen, March 20th, 1691/2. Later published with title: God the only happiness of man. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. If a man were to chuse a happiness for himself , and were to ransack Heaven and Earth for it , after all his search and enquiry he would at last fix upon God as the chief happiness of man , and the true and only rest and center of our souls .


id: A62600
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
title: A sermon preach'd before the Queen at White-Hall, March the 8th, 1688/9 by John Tillotson ...
date: 1689.0
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summary:
  The Enemy , as our Saviour calls the Devil , will sow these Tares in the night , and when we least discern it , will scatter the Seeds of Discord and Enmity among men ; and will take an advantage either from the Envy , or the Malice , or the Mistakes of Men , to make them Enemies to one another . THE Gospel hath promised forgiveness of Sins to us upon two Conditions ; That we sincerely repent of the Sins which we have committed against God ; and , That we heartily forgive to men the injuries and offences which they have been guilty of towards us .


id: A62587
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1693.0
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title:
  A sermon concerning the unity of the divine nature and the B. Trinity by John, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.

summary:
  And if we cannot comprehend the manner of those Operations which we plainly perceive and feel to be be in our Selves , much less can we expect to comprehend things without us ; and least of all can we pretend to comprehend the infinite Nature and Perfections of God , and every thing belonging to Him. And to Him likewise by whom we offer up our Prayers to God , and is among us Christians the only Mediator between God and Men , in virtue of that Price and Ransome which he paid for the Redemption of all Mankind : I say , for this reason it must needs be very acceptable to Him that we should pray for all men , because he dyed for all men , and now that He is in Heaven at the right hand of God intercedes with him for the Salvation of those for whom he dyed : There is One God , and one Mediator between God and Men , the Man Christ Jesus , who gave himself a Ransome for all . Which words , though they be brought in to prove more immediately that it is acceptable to God our Saviour , that we should put up Prayers to Him for all men , because he desires the Salvation of all men , and hath sent his Son to purchase the Salvation of all men , by the Sacrifice of himself ; and in virtue of that Sacrifice to be the only Mediator between God and us : I say , though this be the immediate scope and design of these words , yet they are likewise a direction to us , unto whom we ought to address our Prayers , namely , to God ; and by whose mediation and intercession we ought to put up our Prayers to God the Father , namely , by his Son Jesus Christ , who is constituted the only Mediator between God and Men.


id: B06084
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
title: A letter written to my Lord Russel in Newgate, the twentieth of July, 1683.
date: 1683.0
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  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06084) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179135)


id: A55819
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
title: A letter to a friend relating to the present convocation at Westminster
date: 1690.0
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  For when our divisions ran so high , and our animosities against each other so far increased as that Dissenters were driven by them to take shelter from us in the Camp of our common Enemy , and join with the Papists against us to the endangering both of Church and State to utter ruin . For what are those things which we differ about , that we must for ever sacrifice to them the peace both of Church and State without abating the least tittle for so great a good as that of the common union of Christians among us ? are a few excepted passages in our Liturgy , and two or three ceremonies in our Worship things of so great value that we must for the sake of them still maintain those discords and divisions both in Church and State which have so long harassed both almost to utter ruine ? Is it not enough that we have had already a twenty years War about them ? and , is it not enough , that ever since our deliverance from that , for the sake of those trifles , we have for these thirty years last past driven up our divisions and animosities against each other to that height as that we had almost totally given up our Church to Popery and our Government to Tyranny thereby ? Certainly , after all this , it 's time to sit down and consider whether those things are of such great value for the sake of which we bring so much mischief to this poor distressed Church and Nation , that nothing must be abated of that unreasonable rigor whereby we have hitherto maintained them .


id: A94360
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1693.0
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title:
  A sermon concerning the sacrifice and satisfaction of Christ. preached before the Queen at Whitehall, April 9., 1693.

summary:
  And if this Sacrifice for Sin , and the Pardon purchased by it , be not effectual to reclaim us from Sin , and to beget in us an eternal dread and detestation of it : If we sin wilfully after so clear a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men , there remains no more sacrifice for sin , but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation to consume the adversaries . For what could God do more to testify his displeasure against sin , and to discountenance the practice of it , than to make his only Son an offering for Sin , and to give him up to be wounded for our transgressions , and bruised for our iniquities ?


id: A62612
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1694.0
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title:
  A sermon preached before the King and Queen at White-Hall, February the 25th, 1693/4 being the first Sunday in Lent / by John Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.

summary:
  Nay , the Scripture tells us that he hath the malice and impudence to accuse good men before God ; as he did Job , charging him with Hypocrisie to God himself ; Who , he knows , does know the hearts of all the children of men . For men generally love rather to hear evil of others than good , and are secretly pleas'd with ill reports , and drink them in with greediness and delight :


id: A71106
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
title: A persuasive to frequent communion in the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper
date: 1685.0
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  To such our Lord may say as he did to the Jews , Why call ye me Lord , Lord , and doe not the things which I say ? How far the Ignorance of this institution , or the mistakes which men have been led into about it , may extenuate this neglect is another consideration . Which severe threatning ought not to discourage men from the Sacrament , but to deter all those from their sins who think of engaging themselves to God by so solemn and holy a Covenant .


id: A62586
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1697.0
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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: A62568
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1681.0
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title:
  The lawfulness, and obligation of oaths a sermon preach'd at the assises held at Kingston upon Thames, July 21, 1681 / by John Tillotson ...

summary:
  And surely never in any Age was this Sign of the coming of the Son of man more glaring and terrible than in this degenerate Age wherein we live , when almost all sorts of men seem to have broke loose from all obligations to faith and truth . And yet in this also I was the more easily induced to comply with your desire , because of the suitableness of the Argument to the Age in which we live : Wherein as men have run into the wildest extremities in other things , so particularly in the matter of Oaths ; some making conscience of taking any Oath at all , and too many none at all of breaking them .


id: A62597
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1682.0
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title:
  A sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Mr Thomas Gouge, the 4th of Novemb. 1681 at S. Anne's Blackfriars with a brief account of his life / by John Tillotson ...

summary:
  Contrary to common account , he esteemed every advantage of being usefull and serviceable to God and men a rich Benefice , and those his best Patrons and Benefactors , not who did him good , but who gave him the opportunity and means of doing it . For if the Souls of men be extinguished by death ( as the Sadduces believed ) what did it signifie to Abraham , Isaac and Jacob to have God called their God after they were dead ? But surely for God to be any ones God doth signifie some great benefit and advantage ; which yet ( according to the notion which the Jews had of this Phrase ) could not respect this life , because , according to them , God is not said to be any ones God till after he is dead : But it is thus said of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob after their death , and therefore our Saviour infers very strongly against them , that Abraham , Isaac and Jacob were not extinguished by death , but do still live somewhere : for God is not the God of the dead , but of the living .


id: A62557
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
title: A discourse against transubstantiation
date: 1684.0
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summary:
  Cardinal h Cajetan confesseth that the Gospel doth no where express that the Bread is changed into the Body of Christ ; that we have this from the authority of the Church : nay , he goes farther , , that there is nothing in the Gospel which enforceth any man to understand these words of Christ , this is my body , in a proper and not a metaphorical sense ; but the Church having understood them in a proper sense they are to be so explained : Which words in the Roman Edition of Cajetan are expunged by order of Pope i Pius V. Cardinal k Contarenus , and l Melchior Canus one of the best and most judicious Writers that Church ever had , reckon this Doctrine among those which are not so expresly found in Scripture . And of this the more discerning persons of that Church are of late grown so sensible that they would now be glad to be rid of this odious and ridiculous Doctrine .


id: A62578
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1680.0
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title:
  The Protestant religion vindicated, from the charge of singularity & novelty in a sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, April the 2d 1680 / by John Tillotson ...

summary:
  Laws are a good security to Religion ; but the Example of Governours is a living Law , which secretly over-rules the minds of men , and bends them to a compliance with it , — Non sic inflectere sensus Humanos edicta valent , ut vita Regentis . The temporal felicity of men , and the ends of Government can very hardly , if at all , be attained without Religion . Take away this , and all Obligations of Conscience cease : and where there is no obligation of Conscience , all security of Truth and Justice and mutual confidence among men is at an end .


id: A62646
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1698.0
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title:
  Two discourses The first, of evil-speaking: by His Grace, John, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. The second, of the government of the thoughts: by His Grace, John, Lord Archbishop of York. Both preach'd before Their Majesties, 1694.

summary:
  But it must be acknowledged on the other hand , that these general Discourses do not so immediately tend to reform the Lives of men : Because they fall among the Croud , but do not touch the Consciences of particular Persons in so sensible and awakening a manner as when we treat of particular Duties and Sins , and endeavour to put men upon the practice of the one , and to reclaim them from the other , by proper Arguments taken from the Word of God , and from the nature of particular Vertues and Vices . Fourthly , I shall add some further Considerations to dissuade men from it .


id: A62566
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1695.0
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title:
  The last sermon of his grace John late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Preach'd before the King and Queen at White-Hall, February 25th, 1693/4/ Together with his Grace's sermon on Phil.3.20. For our conversation is in Heaven.

summary:
  Every one desires such a man's friendship , and is apt to repose a great trust and confidence in him : And when he is dead , men will praise him ; and next to Piety towards God , and Righteousness to Men , nothing is thought a more significant commendation , than that he was never , or very rarely heard to speak ill of any . But it must be acknowleged on the other hand , that these general Discourses do not so immediately tend to reform the Lives of men : Because they fall among the Croud , but do not touch the Consciences of particular Persons in so sensible and awakening a manner as when we treat of particular Duties and Sins , and endeavour to put men upon the practice of the one , and to reclaim them from the other , by proper Arguments taken from the Word of God , and from the nature of particular Vertues and Vices .


id: A62601
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1689.0
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title:
  A sermon preach'd before the King and Queen at Hampton-Court, April the 14th, 1689 by John Tillotson ...

summary:
  They are so zealous about small things , the tithing of mint and anise and cummin , that they neglect the weightier things of the Law , Faith and Mercy , and Judgment , and the Love of God : They spend so much of their time and heat about things doubtfull , that they have no leisure to mind the things that are necessary : And are so concern'd about little Speculative Opinions in Religion , which they always call fundamental Articles of Faith , that the Practice of Religion is almost wholly neglected by them : And we may easily understand what it is by considering the Context , and the occasion of these Words , which was briefly this : Our Saviour , as He went about preaching the Kingdom of God , came into a certain Village , where He was entertain'd at the house of two devout Sisters .


id: A62603
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
title: A sermon preach'd before the Queen at White-Hall, March the 7th, 1689/90 by John Tillotson ...
date: 1690.0
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  And Secondly , because the belief of the threatnings of God in their utmost extent is of so great moment to a good Life , and so great a discouragement to Sin : For the sting of Sin is the terrour of eternal punishment ; and if men were once set free from the fear and belief of this , the most powerful restraint from Sin would be taken away . Thirdly , it is said in the last place , that God hath set before men everlasting Happiness and Misery , and the sinner hath his choice .


id: A58607
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1694.0
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title:
  The parable of the ten virgins in a sermon preached before Her Royal Highness Princess Ann of Denmark at Tunbridge-Wells, September the 2d, 1688 / by John Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.

summary:
  And yet this Conceit of the foolish Virgins , as absurd as it is , hath been taken up in good earnest by a grave Matron , who gives out her self to be the Mother and Mistress of all Churches , and the only infallible Oracle of Truth , I mean the Church of Rome , whose avowed Doctrine it is , that there are some Persons so excellently good that they may do more than needs for their own Salvation : And therefore when they have done as much for themselves as in strict duty they are bound to do , and thereby have paid down a full and valuable consideration for Heaven , and as much as in equal justice between God and Man it is worth ; that then they may go to work again for their Friends , and begin a new Score ; and from that time forwards may put the Surplusage of their good Works as a Debt upon God , to be laid up in the Publick Treasury of the Church , as so many Bills of Credit which the Pope by his Pardons and Indulgences may dispense , and place to whose account he pleases : And out of this Bank , which is kept at Rome , those who never took care to have any Righteousness of their own may be supplied at reasonable rates . By this means , when we are called to meet the Bridegroom , we shall not be put to those miserable and sharking shifts which the foolish Virgins were driven to , of begging , or borrowing , or buying Oyl ; which will all fail us , when we come to depend upon them : And though the Dying man may make a hard shift to support himself with these false Comforts for a little while , yet when the short Delusion is over , which will be assoon as ever he is stepp'd into the other World , he will to his everlasting confusion and trouble find the door of Heaven shut against him , and that notwithstanding all his vast Treasure of Pardons and Indulgences , which have cost him so much and are worth so little , he shall never see the Kingdom of God .


id: A62589
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
title: A sermon lately preached on I Corinth. 3.15. By a reverend divine of the Church of England
date: 1685.0
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summary:
  Now if any man build upon this Foundation Gold , Silver , precious Stones , Wood , Hay , Stubble , every man's work shall be made manifest , for the day shall declare it ; but it shall be revealed by Fire , and the Fire shall try every mans work of what sort it is . If any mans work abide which he hath built thereupon , he shall receive a Reward .


id: A62565
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1687.0
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flesch: 64
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title:
  The indispensable necessity of the knowledge of the Holy Scripture in order to man's eternal salvation and ignorance therein, the mother of idolatry and superstition asserted in a sermon / preached by John Tillotson ...

summary:
  And if what is done be not particularly understood , he tells us the People are not Edified , nor can say Amen to the Prayers and Thanksgivings that are put up to God : And that any Man that should come in and find People serving of God in this unprofitable and unreasonable manner , would conclude that they were mad . For our parts we have no fear that our People should understand Religion too well : We could wish , with Moses , that all the Lord's People were Prophets : We should be heartily glad the People would read the Holy Scriptures more diligently , being sufficiently assured that it is their own fault if they learn any thing but what is good from thence : We have no Doctrines or Practices contrary to Scripture , and consequently no occasion to keep it close from the sight of the People , or to hide any of the Commandments of God from them : We leave these mean Arts to those who stand in need of them .


id: A62611
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1693.0
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mime: application/xml
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sentence: 234
flesch: 54
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title:
  A sermon preached before the Queen at White-Hall, April the 9th, 1693, concerning the sacrifice and satisfaction of Christ by John, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.

summary:
  AMONG many other great ends and reasons for which God was pleased to send his Son into the World to dwell amongst us , this was one of the chief , that by a long course of the greatest innocency and the greatest sufferings in our Nature he might be capable to make a perfect Expiation of Sin : But now once in the end of the world , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , in the conclusion of the Ages , that is in the last Age of the World , which is the Gospel Age , hath he appeared to take away sin by the sacrifice of himself . And if this Sacrifice for Sin , and the Pardon purchased by it , be not effectual to reclaim us from Sin , and to beget in us an eternal dread and detestation of it : If we sin wilfully after so clear a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men , there remains no more sacrifice for sin , but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation to consume the adversaries .


id: A62648
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
title: The wisdom of being religious a sermon preached at St. Pauls / by John Tillotson ...
date: 1664.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 19777
sentence: 487
flesch: 54
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summary:
  Thirdly , But if neither of these be satisfactory , he hath one way more ; which although it signifie little to Men of sober and severe Reason , yet it very unhappily hits the jealous and suspicious humour of the generality of men , who from the experience they have had of themselves and others , are very apt to suspect that every body , but especially their Superiours and Governours , have a design to impose upon them for their own ends . Men do generally and without difficulty assent to Mathematical Truths , because it is no bodies interest to deny them ; but men are slow to believe Moral and Divine Truths , because the Lusts and Interests of men do prejudice them against them .


id: A62609
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1692.0
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mime: application/xml
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sentence: 263
flesch: 61
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title:
  A sermon preached before the King and Queen at White-Hall, the 27th of October being the day appointed for a publick thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the signal victory at sea, for the preservation of His Majesty's Sacred Person, and for his safe return to his people / by John, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.

summary:
  The goodness of God is too hard for the pride and malice of man , and will last and hold out when that has tir'd and spent it self . 2005-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-09 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2005-10 John Latta Sampled and proofread 2005-10 John Latta Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-01 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A SERMON Preached before the KING and QUEEN AT WHITE-HALL , The 27th of OCTOBER , Being the Day appointed for a Publick Thanksgiving to Almighty God , For the Signal Victory at SEA :


id: A62599
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1689.0
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flesch: 68
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title:
  A sermon preached at Lincolns-Inn-Chappel, on the 31th of January, 1688 being the day appointed for a publick thanksgiving to Almighty God for having made His Highness the Prince of Orange the glorious instrument of the great deliverance of this kingdom from popery & arbitrary power / by John Tillotson ...

summary:
  And so likewise , after he had summoned all the powers and faculties of his Soul to joyn in the praises of God , he interposeth this seasonable meditation , He hath not dealt with us after our sins , nor rewarded us according to our iniquities . First , Here is a Case supposed ; should we , after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds , and since God hath punished us less than our iniquities deserve , and hath given us such a deliverance as this ; should we again break his Commandments .


id: A62596
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
title: A sermon preached at White-hall, April the 4th, 1679 by John Tillotson ...
date: 1679.0
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summary:
  And this is every mans duty , for the maintaining of Order , and out of regard to the Peace and Unity of the Church ; which is not to be violated upon every scruple and frivolous pretence : And when men are perverse and disobedient , Authority is Judg , and may restrain and punish them . For all Revelation from God supposeth us to be men , and to be indued with Reason ; and therefore it does not create new Faculties in us , but propounds new Objects to that Faculty which was in us before .


id: A62554
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1695.0
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flesch: 78
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title:
  Bibliotheca Tillotsoniana: or A catalogue of the curious library of Dr. John Tillotson late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Containing, a collection of Greek and Latin fathers, councils, historians (ecclesiastical and civil) philosophers, poets, orators, lexicographers, &c. all of the best editions and neatly bound. Together with the library of Mr. Seth-Mountley Buncle, late master of Mercers school, London. Consisting of Hebrew, Chaldaick, Syriack, Persick, and other Oriental books, with French, Italian and Spanish. Which will be sold by retail at Mr. Christoph. Bateman's shop, the Bible and Crown in Middle Row, Holborn, on Tuesday April 9. 1695. According to the method of the following page.

summary:
  Danicae , libri tres . — Hafn. 1630 87 Aelnothus de Vita & Passione S. Canuti , cum Not J. Meursii — ibid. 1631 87 Jo. Meursii Solon , sive de ejus Vita , Legibus , Dictis , & Scriptis — — 88 Procop. Gen. 1608 81 Jo. Clerici Paraphrasis , Commentar . &c. in Genesin ( dorso deaurato ) — Amst. 1693 82 Sermones Discipuli & de Tempore & de Sanctis ( charact .


id: A62640
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1694.0
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title:
  Six sermons I. Stedfastness in religion. II. Family-religion. III. IV. V. Education of children. VI. The advantages of an early piety : preached in the church of St. Lawrence Jury in London / by ... John Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.

summary:
  Labour to beget in Children a right apprehension of those things which are most fundamental and necessary to the knowledge of God and our Duty ; and to make them sensible of the great evil and danger of Sin ; and to work in ●hem a firm belief of the next Life and of the eternal Rewards and Recompences of it . Another and very necessary Part of the good Education of Children is , by degrees to inform and carefully to instruct them in the whole compass of their Duty to God , their Neighbour , and Themselves : That so they may be taught how to behave themselves in all the steps of their Life , from their first capacity of Reason till they arrive at the more perfect use and exercise of that Faculty ; when , if at first they be well instructed , they will be better able to direct and govern themselves afterwards .


id: A62619
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1695.0
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flesch: 50
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title:
  Sermons concerning the divinity and incarnation of our blessed Saviour preached in the Church of St. Lawrence Jewry by John, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.

summary:
  , he made no ostentation of his Divinity : For this I take to be the true meaning of that Phrase , both because it is so used by Plutarch , and because it makes the sense much more easie and current , thus , who being in the form of God , did not assume an equality with God , that is , he did not appear in the Glory of his Divinity , which was hid under a Veil of human flesh and infirmity ; But he emptied himself , and took upon him the form of a servant , and was made in the likeness of men , and being found in fashion as a man , or in the habit of a man , he became obedient to the death , &c. So that if his being made in the likeness and fashion of a man does signify that he was really Man by his Incarnation , then surely his being in the form of God when he took upon him the fashion and likeness of man and the form of a Servant or Slave , must in all reason signify that he was really God before he became Man : The Word was made flesh : What a step is here made in order to the reconciling of Men to God ? From Heaven to Earth ; from the top of Glory and Majesty to the lowest gulf of meanness and misery : The Evangelist seems here to use the word flesh , which signifies the meanest and vilest part of Humanity , to express to us how low the Son of God was contented to stoop for the Redemption of Man.


id: A62629
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1678.0
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title:
  Sermons preach'd upon several occasions By John Tillotson, D.D. Dean of Canterbury, preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inn, and one of His Majesties chaplains in ordinary. The second volume.

summary:
  For the Prophet in that chapter plainly makes use of this consideration of the falshood and deceitfulness of mans heart , as an argument to take off the people of Israel from trusting in the arm of flesh , and in those promises which were made to them of forreign assistance from Egypt : Because men may pretend fair , and yet deceive those that rely upon them ; for the heart of man is deceitful and desperately wicked , and none but God knows whether mens inward intentions be answerable to their outward professions ; for he searcheth the heart and tryeth the reins . Matth. IX . 31 , 32 , Wherefore I say unto you , all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men ; but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men . And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man , it shall be forgiven him : But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost , it shall not be forgiven him , neither in this world , neither in the world to come .


id: A62579
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1700.0
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title:
  The remaining discourses, on the attributes of God Viz. his Goodness. His mercy. His patience. His long-suffering. His power. His spirituality. His immensity. His eternity. His incomprehensibleness. God the first cause, and last end. By the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Being the seventh volume; published from the originals, by Ralph Barker, D.D. chaplain to his Grace.

summary:
  But it is very probable , that neither of these are the meaning of this Text , which may be rendered with much better sense , and nearer to the Hebrew , thus , God hath ordained every thing , to that which is fit for it , and he wicked hath he ordained for the day of evil ; that is , the Wisdom of God hath fitted one thing to another , punishment to sin , the evil day to the evil doers . What ever right and power God hath reserved to himself about the execution of his threatnings , he hath plainly declared , that of all others , those who encourage themselves in a sinful course from the hopes of God's Mercy , notwithstanding his threatnings , shall find no favour and mercy at his hand ; whatever he may remit of his threatnings to others , he will certainly not spare those , who believe so largely concerning the Mercy of God , not with a mind to submit to the terms of it , but to presume so much the more upon it .


id: A62638
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1700.0
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flesch: 59
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title:
  Several discourses of repentance by John Tillotson ; being the eighth volume published from the originals by Ralph Barker.

summary:
  Is it not then better to remember our ways now , and to be ashamed and repent of them , than to bring everlasting Shame and Confusion upon our selves , before God , and Angels , and Men ? This is the Argument which St. John useth , to take men off from sin , and to engage them to Holiness and Righteousness of Life . There are so many other Arguments , that are more Humane and Natural , and more proper to work upon the Reason and Ingenuity of Men ; as the great Love and Kindness of God to us ; the grievous Sufferings of his Son for us ; the Unreasonableness and Shamefulness of sin ; the present Benefit and Advantage , the Peace and Pleasure of an Holy and Virtuous Life ; and the mighty Rewards promised to it in another World , that one would think these should be abundantly sufficient to prevail with men to gain them to goodness , and that they need not be frighted into it , and to have the Law laid to them , as it was once given to the People of Israel , in thunder and lightning , in blackness , in darkness and tempest , so as to make them exceedinly to fear and tremble .


id: A62644
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1696.0
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sentence: 2130
flesch: 56
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title:
  Sixteen sermons, preached on several subjects. By the most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Being the third volume; published from the originals, by Ralph Barker, D.D. chaplain to his Grace

summary:
  A Person or People must have proceeded to the utmost degree of degeneracy , when God will consider them no longer as his Creatures , nor shew any Pity or Favour to them ; things must be come to extremity , when God deals thus with us , as he threatned the People of Issr●el , Isa . Thus the Church of Rome would deal with us in Things which are as plain as the noon-day ; as Whether God hath forbidden the Worship of Images in the second Commandment ?


id: A62632
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1697.0
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flesch: 56
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title:
  Several discourses viz. Of the great duties of natural religion. Instituted religion not intended to undermine natural. Christianity not destructive; but perfective of the law of Moses. The nature and necessity of regeneration. The danger of all known sin. Knowledge and practice necessary in religion. The sins of men not chargeable on God. By the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late lord arch-bishop of Canterbury. Being the fourth volume; published from the originals, by Ralph Barker, D.D. chaplain to his Grace.

summary:
  Men never play the fools more , than by endeavouring to be over subtle and wise ; ver . 23. and changed the glory of the incorruptible God , into an Image made like to corruptible Man , and to Birds , four footed Beasts , and creeping things ; here he speaks of the sottishness of their Idolatry , whereby they provoked God to give them up to all manner of lewdness and impurity ; ver . And as for Revealed Religion , as that Jesus Christ the Son of God came in our Nature to save us , by revealing our Duty more clearly and fully to us , by giving us a more perfect Example of Holiness and Obedience in his own Life and Conversation , and by dying for our Sins , and rising again for our Justification ; these are things which Men may easily understand ; and yet for all that , they are difficulty brought to the Practice of Religion .


id: A62636
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1699.0
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flesch: 65
cache: cache/A62636.xml
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title:
  Several discourses upon the attributes of God viz. Concerning the perfection of God. Concerning our imitation of the divine perfections. The happiness of God. The unchangeableness of God. The knowledge of God. The wisdom, glory, and soveraignty of God. The wisdom of God, in the creation of the world. The wisdom of God, in his providence. The wisdom of God, in the redemption of mankind. The justice of God, in the distribution of rewards and punishments. The truth of God. The holiness of God. To which is annexed a spital sermon, of doing good. By the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Being the sixth volume; published from the originals, by Raph Barker, D.D. chaplain to his grace.

summary:
  The Knowledge of God only implies his bare Understanding of Things ; but his Wisdom implies the Skill of ordering and disposing things to the best Ends and Purposes , to make every thing , and to govern and administer all things in Number , Weight , and Measure . The Knowledge of God rather considers things absolutely , and in themselves : The Wisdom of God considers rather the Respects and Relations of Things , looks upon things under the Notion of Means , and Ends ; accordingly I described them thus .


id: A62570
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1695.0
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flesch: 56
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title:
  Of sincerity and constancy in the faith and profession of the true religion, in several sermons by the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... ; published from the originals, by Ralph Barker. ...

summary:
  On the contrary , that is an unsincere Piety , to which we are moved , meerly by the regard of Men , and the consideration of some temporal Advantages ; and when these have the chief influence upon us , it is easie for any Man to discern in himself ; for he that will carefully observe himself , can hardly be ignorant of the true spring and motive of his own actions ; but there is one sign , whereby a Man may certainly know that his heart is not right towards God , and that is , if when these motives are absent , our Piety and Zeal for the true Religion doth either cease , or be sensibly cooled and abated , as if Impiety , or Popery , or any thing else that is bad , begin to be in fashion , and to have the Countenance of great Examples ; if those whom we fear , and upon whom we depend , do discover any inclination that way , if the garb of Religion cease to be for our interest , or in the revolution of things , happen to be contrary to it ; if in any of these cases , we let fall the profession of our Religion , or neglect the practice of it , this is a plain , and undeniable demonstration of the insincerity of our former Piety . And now having explained the nature of Sincerity to God and Man , by declaring the properties of it , and in what instances we ought chiefly to practise it , and what things are contrary to it ; that which now remains , is to perswade Men to endeavour after this excellent quality , 〈◊〉 to practise it in all the words and 〈◊〉 of their Lives .


