item: #1 of 23 id: A36765 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: An historical treatise, written by an author of the communion of the Church of Rome, touching transubstantiation wherein is made appear, that according to the principles of that church, this doctrine cannot be an article of faith. date: 1687 words: 34169 flesch: 69 summary: It must needs be , that by the sence of these customs , there must be Bread and Wine in the Sacrament , that it may be broken , and improperly called Body . Thirdly , † Peter Dayly , Cardinal and Bishop of Cambray saith , It doth not clearly follow from the Determination of the Church , that the substance of Bread ceaseth , therefore he doth not believe this to be the ancient Doctrine . keywords: austin; author; bishop; blood; body; book; bread; church; consecration; cup; disciples; doctrine; doth; drink; est; eucharist; figure; flesh; god; hath; holy; jesus christ; john; lord; man; manner; nature; sacrament; saith; substance; thing; transubstantiation; virtue; water; wine; words; year cache: A36765.xml plain text: A36765.txt item: #2 of 23 id: A48123 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: A letter of several French ministers fled into Germany upon the account of the persecution in France to such of their brethren in England as approved the Kings declaration touching liberty of conscience : translated from the original in French. date: 1688 words: 5892 flesch: 60 summary: And Popery has been banished out of England by Laws made by King and Parliament , and which cannot be repealed but by the Authority of King and Parliament together ; so that therefore there is just cause to complain , that the King should go about to overthrow them himself alone by his Declaration . And the King of England , as well as his Subjects , ought to observe the Laws which have been established by King and Parliament together . keywords: conscience; dissenters; england; king; laws; liberty; parliament; religion cache: A48123.xml plain text: A48123.txt item: #3 of 23 id: A51288 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: A brief discourse of the real presence of the body and blood of Christ in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist wherein the witty artifices of the Bishop of Meaux and of Monsieur Maimbourg are obviated, whereby they would draw in the Protestants to imbrace the doctrine of transubstantiation. date: 1686 words: 27514 flesch: 55 summary: But if Christ meant that Body or Flesh of his and not some other that is rightly also called his Flesh or Body , it would follow that that Souldier by doing that savage and inhumane act , would have obtained Everlasting Life . And he thus dwelling in us , he enlivens us , we becoming one with Christ in a manner as the Soul and Body makes one , as it followeth in the next verse , As the living father has sent me , and I live by the father , so he that eateth me shall live by me , and so we become one with Christ and Christ with us , we living by Christ as he by his Father ; that is to say , as Christ ▪ lives by his Father , so we live by the Spirit of Christ dwelling in us , Rom. 8. 11. which Spirit or Life of Christ always implies the Divine Body . keywords: blood; body; bread; christ; church; common; doctrine; faith; flesh; god; holy; life; manner; presence; saviour; self; sense; spiritual; synod; transubstantiation cache: A51288.xml plain text: A51288.txt item: #4 of 23 id: A64936 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: Sure and honest means for the conversion of all hereticks and wholesome advice and expedients for the reformation of the church / writ by one of the communion of the Church of Rome and translated from the French, printed at Colgn, 1682 ; with a preface by a divine of the Church of England. date: 1688 words: 62807 flesch: 64 summary: 17. * Malus vos pari●tum amor accepit , malè Ec●lesias in t●ctis aedificiis● ; veneramini , &c. † Hil. But if yet any further doubt should still remain , this I hope at least will fully cle●r it , that the Archbishop of Tholouse has lately thought fit to cause this very Bo●k to be reprinted , with a publick Permission so to do . keywords: apostles; authority; bishop; body; cap; cardinal; catholick; christ; christian; church; churches; city; clergy; contrary; council; court; day; doth; earth; emperor; empire; est; example; faith; fathers; france; god; good; gospel; hath; head; hereticks; heretofore; holy; inquisition; italy; jesus; jesus christ; kings; lib; lord; makes; man; manner; means; men; monks; non; papacy; paul; people; peter; piety; place; popes; power; priest; primacy; princes; reason; religion; roman; rome; salvation; scripture; sed; self; subject; super; temporal; thing; time; truth; unity; use; world; year; ● ● cache: A64936.xml plain text: A64936.txt item: #5 of 23 id: A66109 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: An appeal to all the true members of the Church of England, in behalf of the King's ecclesiastical supremacy ... by William Wake ... date: 1698 words: 31831 flesch: 69 summary: Some things which , at first Sight , may seem an Abatement of the Authority of the Church , is rather such a way of Regulating the Exercise of its Power , as , under Religious Princes , is for the Churches Advantage . But I shall chuse rather to express the process of this Convocation , in the Words of an Author , who may perhaps be less liable to Exception ; and whose account of it is this : That the Clergy being met in their Convocation , according to the Tenour and Effect of his Majesties Writ , his Majesty was pleased , by Vertue of his Prerogative Royal , and Supreme Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical , to give and grant unto Them , by his Letters Patents , dated April 12. and June 25. full , free , and lawful Liberty , Licence , Power and Authority , to Convene , Treat , Debate , Consider , Consult and Agree upon such Canons , Orders , Ordinances , and Constitutions , as they should think necessary , fit , and convenient , for the Honour and Service of Alimighty God , the good and quiet of the Church , and the better Government thereof from time to time &c. — Which being Agreed on by the Clergy , and by them presented to the King , humbly requiring him to give his Royal Assent unto them , according to the Statute made in the 25 of King Henry VIII . keywords: authority; bishops; canons; christian; church; clergy; convocation; councils; god; king; laws; matters; pag; power; princes; religion; right; shall; supremacy; synods; time cache: A66109.xml plain text: A66109.txt item: #6 of 23 id: A66123 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: A brief history of several plots contrived, and rebellions raised by the papists against the lives and dignities of sovereign princes, since the reformation. Taken from faithfull historians. date: 1692 words: 35501 flesch: 62 summary: But this Design not being sufficient , the Pope offered England to James the Fifth , King of Scots , and presented him with a Cap and consecrated Sword. b After this , Anno 1555 we find that Pope Paul the Fourth , following the steps of his thundering Name-sake , when the Dyet of the Germans at Ausburgh made an Edict for full Liberty of Conscience , whereby the Protestants were maintain'd in the Possession of their Church Revenues , fell into a furious rage , publickly threatening the Emperour and King of the Romans , That he would make them repent it ; protesting , that if he did not recall the Edict , he would proceed against them with as severe Censures as he intended to use against the Protestants ; telling all the Ambassadors in his Court , That he was above all Princes , that he expected not that they should treat with him as with their Equal , that he could alter and take away Kingdoms as he thought good : And one day at Dinner , in the presence of many Persons of the highest Quality , he affirmed , That he would subject all Princes under his Foot. keywords: account; anno; army; authority; bull; cardinal; catholick; cause; church; d. p.; death; design; duke; england; english; father; fowlis; france; god; good; henry; hist; holiness; holy; ireland; irish; jesuites; king; letter; life; majesty; men; obedience; order; paris; parliament; party; people; pope; power; priests; princes; queen; rebellion; religion; romanists; rome; spain; spaniards; speed; time; year cache: A66123.xml plain text: A66123.txt item: #7 of 23 id: A66124 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: The case of the exiled Vaudois and French Protestants stated, and their relief recommended to all good Christians, especially to those of the reformed religion in a sermon preach'd at St. James Westminster, April 5, 1699, being the day of the publick fast / by William Wake ... date: 1699 words: 8624 flesch: 71 summary: We are all Members of the same Common , Catholic , Church of Christ. Yet still that Church preserved its Liberty for near 1100 d. years after Christ ; and then by Artifice , and Faction , was either forced , or perswaded to part with it . keywords: account; charity; christ; christians; church; churches; god; good; gospel; men; religion; reward; text cache: A66124.xml plain text: A66124.txt item: #8 of 23 id: A66162 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: A defence of the Missionaries arts wherein the charge of disloyalty, rebellions, plots, and treasons, asserted page 76 of that book, are fully proved against the members of the Church of Rome, in a brief account of the several plots contrived, and rebellions raised by the papists against the lives and dignities of sovereign princes since the Reformation / by the authour of the Missionaries arts. date: 1689 words: 36513 flesch: 64 summary: * Nelson , Hance , Lacies , Briant , &c. † See his Letter in Speed●● . King ; but King Francis being taken Prisoner at the Battel of Pavia the year following , and the Duke of Suffolk slain , the Design fell . keywords: account; army; authority; book; bull; cardinal; catholick; cause; church; d. p.; death; design; duke; england; english; father; fowlis; france; god; good; hath; henry; hist; holiness; holy; ireland; irish; jesuites; king; letter; life; majesty; men; obedience; order; papists; paris; parliament; party; people; pope; power; priests; princes; queen; rebellion; religion; romanists; rome; spain; spaniards; speed; time; war; year cache: A66162.xml plain text: A66162.txt item: #9 of 23 id: A66185 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: An exhortation to mutual charity and union among Protestants in sermon preach'd before the King and Queen at Hampton-Court, May 21. 1689 / by William Wake ... publish'd by His Majesties special command. date: 1689 words: 8634 flesch: 61 summary: Such was their Duty to one another then ; and we ought certainly no less to esteem the same to be our Duty towards one another now : And First , As to the business of Charity ; God forbid that any differences in Religion whatsoever , much less such little ones as those we are now speaking of , should ever make us deny that to our fellow Christians . Wherefore receive ye one another , as Christ also received us , to the glory of God. keywords: charity; christians; church; differences; faith; god; good; men; religion; text; things; worship cache: A66185.xml plain text: A66185.txt item: #10 of 23 id: A66207 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: The false-prophets try'd by their fruits being a sermon preached at St. James's Westminister, November Vth 1699, in which it is shewn, that the principles, and practices, of the Church of Rome, with relation to those whom they call hereticks, are not only destructive of civil society, but are utterly irreconcileable with the gospel of Christ / by William Wake ... date: 1700 words: 10008 flesch: 79 summary: The Catholick Church , is the Whole Church ; of which every Particular Church , ( as the Church of England , the Church of Rome , &c. ) are Parts . THE Genuine Epistles of St. Barnabas , St. Ignatius , St. Clement , St. Polycarp , the Shepherd of Hermas , &c. with a large Preliminary Discourse . keywords: christ; church; doctrine; god; hist; king; men; prophets; religion; saviour; text cache: A66207.xml plain text: A66207.txt item: #11 of 23 id: A66213 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: The missionarie's arts discovered, or, An account of their ways of insinuation, their artifices and several methods of which they serve themselves in making converts with a letter to Mr. Pulton, challenging him to make good his charge of disloyalty against Protestants, and an historical preface, containing an account of their introducing the heathen gods in their processions, and other particulars relating to the several chapters of this treatise. date: 1688 words: 51799 flesch: 65 summary: I reserve the Account of their Treasons to be published when ever Mr. Pulton or any for him shall think fit to begin with us , as he hath threatned he would upon the first provocation , WHICH I HAVE GIVEN HIM , but having affirmed , p. 71 , 72. that they have been often both in publick Courts of ●ustice and in other places , call'd upon to renounce the Deposing Power as unlawfull , but could not be perswaded to it ; to prevent their Cavils at that Assertion I thought it not unnecessary to give some few instances which may suffice to prove it . And Mr. Kirby , Cottom , Richardson , Ford , Shert , Johnson , Hart and Filbee all Priests , affirmed under their hands to her Majesties Commissioners appointed to examine them , that the Pope hath Power to depose Princes , and her Majesty was not to be obeyed against his Holiness's Bull ; in which answer they all agreed , only two sheltred themselves under this general Assertion , That th●y held as the Catholick Church held . keywords: account; affirm; answer; assertion; author; authority; bishop; book; charge; christ; church; churches; clergy; communion; contrary; day; design; discourse; divines; doctrine; doth; edit; england; english; faith; father; fol; france; gentlemen; god; good; hath; history; holy; ibid; instances; jesuits; king; les; letter; lond; man; means; men; non; opinion; p. p.; people; person; place; point; pope; power; present; princes; protestants; pulton; que; qui; reason; religion; roman; romanists; rome; self; shew; thing; time; truth; use; way; works; world; years; ● ● cache: A66213.xml plain text: A66213.txt item: #12 of 23 id: A66214 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: Of our obligation to put our trust in God, rather than in men, and of the advantages of it in a sermon preached before the honourable society of Grayes-inn, upon the occasion of the death of our late Royal Sovereign Queen Mary / by William Wake ... date: 1695 words: 9896 flesch: 66 summary: And therefore , whatsoever Power he has , is confined within those Bounds which the Divine Wisdom has thought fit to set to it : Nor can he Go , the least Tittle , beyond what God has permitted him to Do. And when such is the Advantage of God , in this Respect , above Any of his Creatures ; much more above Man , the Lowest of all the Rational Kind in Power and Dignity : Well may the Psalmist pronounce him Blessed , whose Wisdom and Piety have taught him to fix his Trust there , where Nothing can hinder it from being Beneficial to Him , but his own Neglecting to seek for Help as he ought to Do. keywords: god; good; help; man; men; place; power; queen; tcp; text; thing; trust cache: A66214.xml plain text: A66214.txt item: #13 of 23 id: A66244 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: A practical discourse concerning swearing especially in the two great points of perjury and common-swearing / by William Wake ... date: 1696 words: 30971 flesch: 77 summary: So for this , ( which-seems to be more properly Religious ) they have appointed the Publication of it to be made in the * House of God , and at the Time that Men are Assembled for his Service in it . IT was upon the first Solemn Publication , at which I was present , of this Law in that Church , in which it has pleased God to call me to Minister , that I composed the following Discourses ; and embraced that Advantage , which the Publick Authority had so happily put into my hands , to lay open the Hainousness of a Vice , which had not some such Care been taken to Correct ; it would , I fear , have been very difficult for us , by all our other Endeavours , ever to have put a stop to . keywords: common; evil; god; good; jews; law; man; men; oath; occasion; perjury; practice; reason; saviour; sin; swearing; thing; tho; time; truth; use cache: A66244.xml plain text: A66244.txt item: #14 of 23 id: A66253 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: Preparation for death being a letter sent to a young gentlewoman in France, in a dangerous distemper of which she died. date: 1687 words: 12320 flesch: 63 summary: 6. FOR the last you are infallibly to believe what God has promised ; especially that he will give pardon of sin , and everlasting salvation to all humble and repenting sinners ; and for what refers to your own particular , you are confidently to rely upon his word , that if you perform your part , Christ will never fail in his ; and that therefore you ought to fulfill those duties , which he commands , and to which alone this promise of Reward is given . REPENTANCE is usually defined to be a change of mind , an absolute entire conversion of our Souls from sin to God. keywords: death; duty; god; life; madam; man; self; sin; time; world cache: A66253.xml plain text: A66253.txt item: #15 of 23 id: A66289 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: The principles of the Christian religion explained in a brief commentary upon the church catechism. By William Wake, D.D. rector of St. James Westminster, and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty. date: 1699 words: 56340 flesch: 88 summary: Q. Upon what Account do you give to God the Title of FATHER ? A. Upon several Accounts , but chiefly on these Two : 1. With Respect to our Lord Jesus Christ , whom , in the next Article , we profess to be his Son : And , secondly , as he may also be accounted our Father . Q. Can God then Do All things ? A. keywords: christ; church; cor; day; duty; father; god; heb; holy; iii; lord; man; mat; rom; sins; thing cache: A66289.xml plain text: A66289.txt item: #16 of 23 id: A66335 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: A sermon preach'd before the honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster June 5th. 1689 being the fast day appointed by the King and Queen's proclamation, to implore the blessing of Almighty God upon Their Majesties forces by sea and land, and success in the war, now declared, against the French King / by William Wake ... date: 1689 words: 8911 flesch: 70 summary: I will not dispute of what use some of these External Performances may be to assist our Repentance , and render our Sorrow for Sin the more solemn , and so in some Cases , as I have before observed , the more pleasing to God. Whatever be the Import of these Phrases ; whether by the mighty and terrible Host here spoken of , we are only to understand that swarm of a Locusts , and other Insects , that we are b before told were utterly to devour all the Fruits of the Land : Or whether under the Character of these , we shall c with most Interpreters , comprehend the numerous and mighty Armies of the Chaldaeans and Babylonians , which at divers times brought such Desolations , as we read of , upon the Jews : This is plain , that we have here the denunciation of some Judgment worthy of God , and great as the sins and incorrigibleness that occasion'd it . keywords: anger; church; day; evil; god; heart; lord; mercy; repentance; sins; text; turn cache: A66335.xml plain text: A66335.txt item: #17 of 23 id: A66338 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: A sermon preached before the Queen at White-Hall, April 2, 1690 being the fifth Wednesday in Lent / by William Wake. date: 1690 words: 9488 flesch: 66 summary: 'T is true indeed so great was the care of God heretofore to restrain the Jews from an Idolatrous Worship , that he threatned for this Sin to visit the Iniquities of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth Generation ; i. e. upon those who could not possibly have been in any manner accessary to their Impieties . And that especially by these two ways : * By his wicked Doctrine ; and , * By the Scandal and Influence of a bad Example : And by either of which , if another be led into Sin , we find the Person who conduced but even thus far towards it , nevertheless charged by God as Partaker of it . keywords: church; evil; god; man; men; mens; selves; sins; text; tho cache: A66338.xml plain text: A66338.txt item: #18 of 23 id: A66348 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: A sermon preach'd before the lord-mayor and Court of Alderman at S. Sepulchres-Church on Wednesday in Easter-week, A.D. MDCXC by William Wake ... date: 1690 words: 13789 flesch: 73 summary: But otherwise to tarry to the last hour , and never think of doing Good to others with the Portion which God has Given us , till we are no longer in a condition to enjoy it our selves ; this must certainly be very Sinful and Scandalous : And tho I will not say that such a Legacy , rather than Charity , at the last , shall utterly lose its Reward ; Yet as it wants much of that Praise which the Early giver meets with among Men , so I think it may be justly doubted whether it shall find so Favourable an Acceptance in the sight of God. In short , * If to have given the plainest and most express Commands for the exercise of such a Charity , and to have repeated those Commands more frequently , and to have enforced them more earnestly , than almost any other Precepts in the Gospel besides a : * b If to have set before us the Practice of it , as that whereby above all things we may the most nearly imitate the Perfection of God himself ; † and render him our debtor from whom we have received all , whatsoever we enjoy : * If to have made our Kindness and Charity to our Neighbour , the very mark whereby to try our Love and Duty to God ; and to have declared that no service we can do the One , shall be accepted , whilst we continue to neglect the Other . keywords: charity; duty; god; good; lord; man; men; poor; text; thou; thy; time cache: A66348.xml plain text: A66348.txt item: #19 of 23 id: A66358 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: A sermon preach'd before the King and Queen at White-Hall, May the 4th. M.DC.XC. by William Wake ... date: 1690 words: 9045 flesch: 65 summary: How much more might we hope to see Piety and Religion revive among us , would the Princes and Nobles of our Israel seriously resolve to set the Example : And make Vertue as necessary to a good Esteem , and Interest , and Reputation with Men , as it is to gain the Love of God , and the Blessings and Glories of Eternity ? And thus have I consider'd very briefly a few of those Advantages which oblige Persons of Great Authority , and Fortune and Quality in the World , to a more strict and careful discharge of their Duty than other men . We esteem'd them neglected of God , the scorn of Men , and out-cast of the people . keywords: duty; god; good; life; man; men; persons; text; things; time; world cache: A66358.xml plain text: A66358.txt item: #20 of 23 id: A66371 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: A sermon preach'd before the Queen at White-Hall, May the Xth. M.DC.XC.I by William Wake ... date: 1691 words: 9366 flesch: 66 summary: God has indeed called us to a Glorious Hope of Everlasting Happiness . I will shew , that God has left us a Promise of Entring into his Rest ; a Promise enough to satisfie all our Desires , and to engage our heartiest Endeavours after it . keywords: fear; god; happiness; man; men; promise; rest; reward; state; tcp; text; world cache: A66371.xml plain text: A66371.txt item: #21 of 23 id: A66382 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: A sermon preach'd before the Lord-Mayor and court of Aldermen in the church of St. Mary le Bow, on Thursday the 26th of November, being the day of the publick thanksgiving William Wake ... date: 1691 words: 13004 flesch: 78 summary: 9. I will sing a new Song unto Thee O God ; upon a Psaltery and Instrument of Ten Strings will I sing Praises unto Thee . IT is but a very little while since we were wont to meet together in this Place , to implore the favour of God in the Preservation of their Majesties Persons , and for the Good Success of their Arms in those Great Enterprizes they were pleased so generously to undertake , for the necessary Defence of our Country ; the Preservation of our Religion and Liberties ; and to put a quicker End to those unhappy Confusions , we have been so long and dangerously exposed to . keywords: david; enemies; god; hand; kings; manner; providence; religion; right; text; thanksgiving; world cache: A66382.xml plain text: A66382.txt item: #22 of 23 id: A66392 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: A sermon preached in the parish church of St. James, Westminster, April xvith, 1696 being the day of the publick thanksgiving for the preservation of His Majesty's person from the late horrid and barbarous conspiracy and for delivering this kingdom from the danger and miseries of a French invasion / by William Wake. date: 1696 words: 8966 flesch: 68 summary: For not to say any thing of those many Deliverances we have heretofore assembled to bless God for : How great was the Mercy that Saved us from our present danger ? How evident was the hand of God , in every Circumstance of it ? That Men , neither the most Religious , nor Compassionate of Any in the World ; Enemies to our Religion , and ( if it were possible ) somewhat worse than Enemies to our present Government ; should yet be so strook with the Regret of an Enterprize , which alone could give them any just Hopes of succeeding in their designs against us , as to become Themselves the Discoverers of their Own Wicked Undertakings ; is certainly very Strange : And what can hardly be accounted for , without Acknowledging some Extraordinary Impulse of Conscience in it . will I Praise Him. THO' it be difficult to say what the particular Occasion was which moved the Royal Psalmist to Compose this Psalm ; yet there is more than enough , in the very Subject of it , to shew , how suitable it is to that Great Deliverance which we are now Assembled to Offer up our Thanksgivings unto God for . keywords: david; deliverance; enemies; god; king; lord; religion; tcp; text; tho; trust cache: A66392.xml plain text: A66392.txt item: #23 of 23 id: A71251 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: A sermon preached upon the XXXth of January S.V. 1684/5, at Paris in the chappel of the Right Honourable the Lord Vicount Preston, His Majestie's envoy extraordinary in the court of France date: 1685 words: 9397 flesch: 64 summary: How did our Cities become Solitary , that were full of people ? Our Country , Once great among the Nations , How did she become Tributary , even to her own Vassals ? Our King , the Anointed of the Lord , fell by their hand ; Our Princes were led into Captivity ; Our Churches , the Places of our Assemblies , were profaned ; The solemn Feasts and days , were forgotten in our Zion , and God in the Indignation of his anger , despised both the King and the Priest. Let us no more give our Enemies this advantage against us , to force the Almighty to withdraw his presence from amongst us , and leave us again to engage them upon equal Terms : But let our lives and our prayers both join in the Request , to save and to defend us , Spare thy People , O Lord , and give not thine Heritage to reproach ; that the Heathen should rule over them : wherefore should they say among the People , Where is there God ? keywords: church; day; fast; god; heaven; lord; men; people; prophet; reproach; sanctifie; sins; solemn; tcp; text cache: A71251.xml plain text: A71251.txt