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id: A66406
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1687.0
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title:
  The papist represented, and not misrepresented being in answer to the second sheet of the second part of the Papist misrepresented and represented : and for a further vindication of the catechism truly representing the doctrines and practices of the Church of Rome, in the point of their praying to the cross.

summary:
  That thou wouldest vouchsase to bless this Wood of thy Cross , that it may be a wholsom [ saving ] remedy to mankind ; a stability of Faith , an increase of good works ▪ the Redemption of Souls , a comfort , protection and defence against the evil darts of the Enemies , through our Lord , &c. And as if this were not sufficient , after the consecration of the Incense , the Bishop sprinkles the Cross with Holy-Water , and Incenses it ; Saying , Let this Wood be sanctified in the name of the Fa ✚ ther , and of the S ✚ on , and of the Holy ✚ Ghost . A comely and bright Tree , Adorn'd with the Purple of the King , Chosen out of a Stock worthy , &c. To touch so sacred Members , Hail , O Cross , our only Hope , Increase Grace in the Godly .


id: A66419
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1685.0
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title:
  A sermon preached July 26, 1685 being the day of publick thanksgiving appointed by His Majesty for the late victory over the rebels, in the parish-churches of St. Mildred's Poultrey, and St. Ann's Aldersgate : published in vindication of that, and the author / by John Williams ...

summary:
  If the Truth of God hath more abounded through my lye unto his Glory , why yet am I also judged as a sinner ? And not rather , as we be slanderously reported , and as some affirm that we say , Let us do evil that good may come , whose damnation is just ? IN the Former Chapters of this Epistle , the Apostle had considered the sad Condition which the whole Mass of Mankind was in , whether Jews or Gentiles ; and shewed that the Jews , whatever Preheminence they had of the Gentiles , as God's peculiar People , and invested with many Eminent Priviledges and Marks of the Divine Favour ; yet in case of Unbelief and Disobedience , they could not be thereby secured against the Wrath of God which is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men , who hold the truth in unrighteousness [ ch . 1.18 . 28. ] He is not a Jew which is one outwardly , neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh ; but he is a Jew which is one inwardly , and circumcision is that of the heart , in the spirit , and not in the letter , whose praise is not of men , but of God.


id: A66423
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1697.0
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title:
  A sermon preach'd at St. Mildred's Poultrey, January 3. 1696/7 By John Lord Bishop of Chichester, and late rector of the said church, upon his leaving that parish.

summary:
  This I am sure of , and what all must allow , that if there was a joint concurrence in the Divine Worship , that all Persons were of one Mind , and with one Mouth Celebrated the Divine Praises , that the Publick Worship were Universally frequented ; it would be to the Honour of our Religion and Church , and consequently to the Honour of God. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.


id: A66422
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1697.0
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words: 7236
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title:
  A sermon preach'd before the King at Whitehall, on January 30, 1696 by John Lord Bishop of Chichester ...

summary:
  So Gideon had the Name of Jerubbaal given to him by his Father Joash , upon his breaking down the Altar of Baal : And Jacob was called Israel , because as a prince he had power with God and men . That this is consistent with the Providence of God and his Government of the World. III. That in the sequel God doth right to his Providence , and to their Piety and Virtue by extraordinary Events .


id: A66370
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1688.0
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flesch: 73
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title:
  An answer to a late printed paper given about by some of the Church of Rome in a letter to a gentleman.

summary:
  That the Church of Rome is not now what it was in Apostolical and Primitive times ; when it might most of all pretend to be ( as he calls it ) a most pure , excellent , and flourishing Church . For what will it signifie , if it be granted that the Church of Rome was once a most pure , flourishing Church , if she be now abominably corrupted ? What if she was a Mother-Church planted by the Apostles , and watered with their Doctrine , and their Bloud , when she now preacheth another Doctrine than she was taught by them , and hath grosly corrupted that Faith which they did there establish ? What if she was a Mother-Church to some other Churches , yet , that as it gives her no Authority over those whom she was not in any sense a Mother to , so even not over such as she might pretend that Relation to , when she is now not to be approached to , or held Communion with , without apparent hazard of Salvation ; and is faln from those Principles and that Faith which she at their first conversion instructed them in ? When she is faln by Apostasie , Heresie and Schism .


id: A66407
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1696.0
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words: 7201
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flesch: 67
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title:
  The perfection of the evangelical revelation, a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Nov. 4. 1695 being the eighth and last of the lecture for that year, founded by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  God who at sundry times , and in divers manners spake in time past unto the Fathers by the Prophets , hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son , &c. IN which words ( as I have shewed ) there is . But whatever it was , the sum amounted to this , That God was reconciled to man after his Apostacy ; that he had established an Atonement ; and that in process of time the Son of God should in our Nature actually appear , and become a Saviour to us , and be a Propitiation for our Sins .


id: A66388
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1679.0
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title:
  Christianity abused by the Church of Rome, and popery shewed to be a corruption of it being an answer to a late printed paper given about by papists : in a letter to a gentleman / by J.W.

summary:
  2. That the Church of Rome is not now what it was in Apostolical and Primitive times ; when it might most of all pretend to be ( as he calls it ) a most pure , excellent , and flourishing Church . For what will it signifie if it be granted that the Church of Rome was once a most pure , flourishing Church , if she be now abominably corrupted ? What if she was a Mother Church planted by the Apostles , and watered with their Doctrine , and their Blood , when she now preacheth another Doctrine than she was taught by them , and hath grosly corrupted that Faith which they did there establish .


id: A66420
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1695.0
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flesch: 57
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title:
  A sermon preached at St. Lawrence Jewry, before the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery-men, of the city of London, on Saturday the 28th of September, 1695 at the election of the Lord-Mayor for the year ensuing / by John Williams ...

summary:
  How excellent a state of things would there be , if this so Generous and Noble a Principle , Charity , and the peace of God ruled in our hearts , Col. 3. 15. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.


id: A66404
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1696.0
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words: 7773
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flesch: 63
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title:
  Of the perspicuity of Scripture, and rules for interpretation of it a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Mar. 2, 1695/6, being the third of the lecture for this present year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  And if there should be any place of Scripture that such Hereticks would produce in their favour , we may peremptorily conclude , that the meaning they would force upon it , is no more the meaning of that Scripture , than that can be the Spirit of God , which confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh . As for Instance ; God is in Scripture said to have Eyes and Hands , Ears and Bowels , which are terms belonging to a Natural and Human Body : And also to Laugh , and to be Angry , and to Repent , which are passions belonging to Mankind .


id: A66409
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1695.0
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title:
  The possibility, expediency, and necessity of divine revelation a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Jan. 7. 1694/5 : at the beginning of the lecture for the ensuing year, founded by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  1. There are things of pure and simple Nature , and knowable by the Light of it , without Revelation ; of this kind is the Knowledge of God by the Effects of a Divine Power and Wisdom in the world ( as has been shewed ) of which the Apostle treats , Rom. 1. 20. Now Revelation is a means extraordinary ( as has been shewed ) and consequently such as the means are , such must the case be , extraordinary ; for God , not doing any thing in vain , cannot be supposed to use extraordinary means , where the case is ordinary , and may as well be served by ordinary means .


id: A66408
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1696.0
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flesch: 63
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title:
  The perfection of the evangelical revelation a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Jan. 6, 1695/6, being the first of the lecture for this present year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  But if for the matter of it , it be false , it 's a double Falshood ; as it pretends to a Revelation , which is not Revelation , and also calls in the Veracity of God to give testimony to a falsehood . Revelation has somewhat in it of a Miracle ; it is a way extraordinary ; and as we cannot suppose God will work Miracles , and break through the standing Laws of Nature , when there is no occasion for it , nor necessity to require it ; so we cannot suppose he will communicate himself by a way of Revelation , and immediate Inspiration , and much less break down an Established Order of his own appointment , when there is as much reason for the Continuance of it , as for the Institution ; and that it answers all the Ends for which a new Constitution can be framed , or a new Revelation made .


id: A66421
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1695.0
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title:
  A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, on Wednesday the 11th of December, 1695 being a solemn day of fasting and humiliation, appointed by His Majesty, for imploring the blessing of Almighty God upon the consultations of this present Parliament / by John Williams ...

summary:
  Before I proceed to which , give me leave to observe , That though it is in the power of every man , more or less , as well as it is his Duty , to honour God by his Words and Actions , by the Obedience he gives to his Laws , and the Acknowledgments he makes of his Providence , by the regard he pays to the Sacred Offices and Institutions of Religion ; yet that this more especially belongs to those that are in a more eminent Station , and have greater advantages and opportunities for doing Good , than others , by their Authority , Power , and Example . And howsoever the Providence of God may vary in its motions , now turning it self this way , and then another ; yet there are immoveable Reasons upon which it always proceeds , and that is Religion , and the Blessing of God ; our honouring of him , and his honouring of us , in conjunction and co-operation .


id: A66425
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1697.0
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title:
  A sermon upon the resurrection preached before the Right Honourable Sir Edward Clark, Lord-Mayor, the Aldermen, and Governors of the several hospitals of the city, at St. Bridget's Church, on Easter-Monday, April 5, 1697 : being one of the anniversary spittal-sermons / by John Lord Bishop of Chichester.

summary:
  THIS Court doth Desire the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Chichester to Print his Sermon Preached at the Parish-Church of St. Bridget's on Monday in Easter Week last , before the Lord-Mayor , Aldermen , and Governors of this several Hospitals of this City . ACTS X. 40 , 41 , 42. Him [ Jesus ] God raised up the third day , and shewed him openly , not to all the people , but unto witnesses chosen before of God , even to us , who did eat and drink with Him after he rose from the dead .


id: A66426
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1696.0
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title:
  The several ways of revelation a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Octob. 7, 1695 : being the seventh of the lecture for the said year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  Thus far I have treated of the several ways of Revelation recorded in the Holy Scripture , and in which God spake in time past by the prophets . 2. The Certainty of that Revelation , 't is by way of Declaration , God who at sundry times , &c. spake .


id: A66396
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1696.0
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title:
  The divine authority of the scriptures a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Sept. 2. 1695 : being the sixth of the lecture for the said year, founded by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  For if the Errors had proceeded immediately from the Writer , they would have appeared more in the Composures of the Unlearned than the Learned : But when the Unlearned are as free from them as the Learned , 't is an unquestionable sign that the Unlearned wrote from the same Spirit as the Learned , and both from a Spirit that is Divine . How we can prove the Matter of Scripture to be true ? Q. 2.


id: A66424
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1698.0
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title:
  A sermon preach'd at the funeral of the Reverend Thomas Jekyll, D.D. late preacher at the New Chappel, Westminster, October 7, 1698 / by John Lord Bishop of Chichester.

summary:
  Of this kind was Canaan , a Land of Rest , which God promised to their Forefathers : And yet notwithstanding , for their Unbelief and Disobedience , he swore that none of that Generation ( except Caleb and Joshua ) should enter into it , and so their carcases fell in the Wilderness . So that whatever Proof we have of the Goodness of God in revealing such a State of Rest and Happiness to us ; yet as the meer Revelation of such a State will not entitle us to it without a Promise , so neither will the Promise alone alter the case , as long as it is confined and limited by certain Conditions to those that are duly qualified for it .


id: A66417
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1679.0
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title:
  A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and aldermen of the city of London, at the Guild-hall chappel, October 12. 1679 by John Williams ...

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. 1. By shewing that the preservation of a Church and Religion , is mainly depending upon a setled Order and Constitution .


id: A66398
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
title: The history of the gunpowder-treason collected from approved authors, as well popish as Protestant.
date: 1678.0
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summary:
  But That King told them that he was now otherwise resolved and it became him not to hearken to such proposals , after he had sent Embassadors to the new King of England to treat of a Peace . EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org).


id: A66416
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
title: A sermon preached upon the fifth of November, 1678. By a Protestant divine
date: 1678.0
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summary:
  Could that Church do no more than others , and had it no such thing as a treasure of Merits and Superarogaions , no publick and general stock from whence such may be relieved as having made little conscience of Religion whilst they lived , have no other claim to the priviledges of it when they come to dye ; where would be the profit that doth daily accrue to it by the issuing out of Indulgences ? Were there nothing in the Reliques that are shewed by them , and no more in that Blood of Christ which they expose to the view and veneration of the people , than that of a Duck ( as my Lord Herbert in his History of Henry the 8 th . Upon which of these occasions this Psalm was penned , it is not so fit to determine , as it is to observe the lively representation that is here made of the enmity which the wicked do bear to the Church and people of God ; and of the need which the Church hath of , and of the protection it finds by the Divine Providence .


id: A66386
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1696.0
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title:
  The certainty of divine revelation A sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Feb. 4. 1694/5. Being the second of the lecture for the ensuing year, founded by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire. By John Williams, D.D. chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty.

summary:
  So that had we no such Promise upon record , as , The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head ; yet however , we might be as sure that there was some such kind of Revelation made to Adam , some Promise of Forgiveness , when God did intend to Redeem him and all Mankind , as there was a Design to Redeem them : It being as necessary toward their present Comfort to have a Revelation of that Mercy in their Redemption , as Redemption it self was necessary toward their Happiness . Now if this be unreasonable for Man to expect , it is so then in the case of Revelation , which God had committed to the Custody of Men themselves , and made them whose Interest it was , to be the Conservators of it .


id: A66427
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1687.0
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flesch: 69
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title:
  A short discourse concerning the churches authority in matters of faith shewing that the pretenses of the Church of Rome are weak and precarious in the resolution of it.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. If he will , as some have , acknowledge the deposing Doctrin to be true ; let the World consider what kind of Subjects those must be that are in such a Communion ; and if he disavows it ; he makes it appear that he does not think their Church Infallible . Nor can I think that Church has sufficiently cleared it self from the Charge of this Doctrin , which some of them call a Calumny , till it be as Publickly and Authoritatively Repealed , as it was Decreed .


id: A66418
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1684.0
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title:
  A sermon preached at the Northampton-shire feast, November 8, 1683 being the first general meeting of such citizens and inhabitants in London, as were born within that county / by John Williams ...

summary:
  A sermon preached at the Northampton-shire feast, November 8, 1683 being the first general meeting of such citizens and inhabitants in London, as were born within that county / by John Williams ... A sermon preached at the Northampton-shire feast, November 8, 1683 being the first general meeting of such citizens and inhabitants in London, as were born within that county / by John Williams ...


id: A66389
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1696.0
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title:
  A declaration of the sense of the archbishops and bishops, now in and about London, upon the occasion of their attendances in Parliament concerning the irregular and scandalous proceedings of certain clergy-men at the execution of Sir John Freind [sic] and Sir William Parkins.

summary:
  A declaration of the sense of the archbishops and bishops, now in and about London, upon the occasion of their attendances in Parliament concerning the irregular and scandalous proceedings of certain clergy-men at the execution of Sir John Freind [sic] and Sir William Parkins. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 678:18) A declaration of the sense of the archbishops and bishops, now in and about London, upon the occasion of their attendances in Parliament concerning the irregular and scandalous proceedings of certain clergy-men at the execution of Sir John Freind [sic] and Sir William Parkins.


id: A66431
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1691.0
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title:
  A vindication of A discourse concerning the unreasonableness of a new separation on account of the oaths from the exceptions made against it in a tract called, A brief answer to a late discourse, &c.

summary:
  All that the Civil Power here pretends to , is to secure it felf against the practices of Dissatisfied Persons , and to try who are such , it requires an Oath of Allegiance to be taken to their Majesties , by all in Office , Ecclesiastical , Civil or Military : And in case of Refusal , by Deprivation to disable such , as far as they can , from endangering the Publick Safety . For the Christian World has hitherto been persuaded , that in sitting Cases both Bishops might be deprived , and both Clergy and People discharged of any Obedience owing to them , by a secular Authority : ( as has been shewed )


id: A66405
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1687.0
extension: .xml
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flesch: 61
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title:
  The papist represented, and not misrepresented being in answer to the first sheet of the second part of the Papist misrepresented and represented : and for a further vindication of the catechism truly representing the doctrine and practices of the Church of Rome.

summary:
  Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 62580) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 951:82) The texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines.


id: A71259
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7938
sentence: 247
flesch: 58
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title:
  The characters of divine revelation a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, March 4. 1694/5 : being the third of the lecture for the ensuing year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  And therefore since Revelation is to make up the Defects of Natural Light , and is as well for the satisfaction of Mankind , as to be worthy of God , we may reasonably expect that these should be the chief Subject of such Revelation . 2. The Matter of Revelation being thus of Divine Inspiration and Authority , must also be worthy of God , and of great Importance , and consequently requires a Proof suitable to the Nature and Importance of it .


id: A66415
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1696.0
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flesch: 68
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title:
  Scripture the rule of faith a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Febr. 3, 1695/6, being the second of the lecture for this present year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  It being an innate Privilege of Mankind not to be led blindfold ; but to be governed by their Reason , a privilege that true Religion doth evermore preserve , and what every Man is obliged to defend , since every Man must give an account of himself to God : And therefore the Bereans are commended by St. Paul , as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 more generous and free-spirited , Who Searched the Scriptures daily , whether those things were true , which that Apostle Taught , and compared one with another , his Doctrine with that Holy Standard ; and finding them to accord , they received the word with all readiness of mind . Do the Sadduces , that denied a Future State and a Resurrection to it , contend with our Saviour about it ? He argues with them from the Scriptures , Ye do err , not knowing the Scriptures .


id: A66394
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
title: A discourse concerning the celebration of divine service in an unknown tongue
date: 1685.0
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summary:
  Of this mind is Bellarmin , &c. who saith , 1. That the Greek Phrase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , according to the use of that Tongue , doth not signifie one that is in the stead of an Idiot or unlearned , but thereby are meant all rude unlearned Men. doth not oppose Service in Latin , they undertake to shew , That he opposeth no other Service than what is altogether unknown and no Body understands , as Persick and Arabick , and that he doth not condemn a Learned Tongue ; thereby supposing the Learned Tongue and Tongue altogether unknown to be different in kind , whereas they only differ so , that the one is rarely understood and by very few , in comparison , and the other is understood by none .


id: A66381
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
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flesch: 63
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title:
  The case of indifferent things used in the worship of God proposed and stated, by considering these questions : Qu. I. Whether things indifferent used in divine worship (or, whether there be any things indifferent in the worship of God?) : Qu. II. Whether a restraint of our liberty in the use of such indifferent things be a violation of it?

summary:
  Whether a restraint of our liberty in the use of such indifferent things be a violation of it? Whether a restraint of our liberty in the use of such indifferent things be a violation of it?


id: A66430
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1696.0
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mime: application/xml
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flesch: 67
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title:
  The unreasonableness of infidelity a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, April 6, 1696, being the fourth of the lecture for this present year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  For then men may require to be rapt up into Paradise , as St. Paul was ; or to see the heavens opened , and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God , as did St. Stephen : Nay , they may be as impertinent as Philip , and say , Shew us the Father , and it sufficeth . Suppose we on the other hand a person as miserable as this world can make him , poor so as to beg ; full of Sores and Ulcers , so as not able to help himself ; destitute of Friends , so as to be cast at the Rich man's gate ; hunger-starved so as to need the very crumbs which fell from the other's table ; contemned so as not to be regarded though lying at the gate , in the passage and view of all ; or if taken notice of , yet so as not to be relieved ; naked , so as not to have wherewith to cover his Body , or to defend his sores from the cold , and that found more pity among the dogs than men , while alive ( for they came and licked his sores ) ; and when dead through want , pain and anguish , found as little charity to bury him .


id: A66413
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1688.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 17399
sentence: 657
flesch: 72
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title:
  The Protestant's answer to The Catholick letter to the seeker, or, A vindication of the Protestant's answer, to the seeker's request

summary:
  So in the Sacrament , to our sight and tast is plain Bread and Wine , but to our Faith ( in Gods word ) it is the Real and Intire Body and Blood of Christ. 2. Had I said corporal , I see little distance betwixt that and carnal ; for as Body and Flesh is all one , so is corporal and carnal .


id: A66429
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7785
sentence: 233
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A66429.xml
txt: txt/A66429.txt
title:
  The truth of the Holy Scriptures a sermon preached at St. Martin's in the Fields, April 1, 1695 : being the fourth of the lecture for this present year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  So when we have so great reason to believe the Scripture's Relation of things to be true , the Difficulties about it ought not to derogate from its Veracity ; nor give us the confidence any more to question the Truth of Scripture , than the Certainty of Providence . For according as the nature of the thing is , and the ground upon which its Proof and Evidence depends , such is the Certainty : And as in things Mathematical , Demonstration is the Proof ; and in things Natural and Sensible , Sense is the Proof ; and in things Rational and Moral , Reason and Argument are the Proof ; so in Matters of Fact ( where we our selves are not present )


id: A66373
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1694.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
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flesch: 75
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title:
  A brief discourse concerning the lawfulness of worshipping God by the common-prayer being an answer to a book entituled A brief discourse concerning the unlawfulness of the common-prayer worship lately printed in New-England, and re-printed in London, in which the chief things objected against the liturgy, are consider'd.

summary:
  He saith , Sometimes the Liturgy makes bold directly and in terms to contradict the Scripture ; so Psalm 105. As for his Quotation from Dr. Abbot , it 's a gross mistake , at least ; all he saith is , That the Buyers and Sellers , Rev. 13. 16. are the Bishops , Priests , and Monks , that expose to sale Masses and Indulgences , &c. that bind themselves by Oath to the Bishop of Rome , and in testimony of it , are divided from the rest of the Church by Rites , Vows , Vnctions , Tonsures , Garments .


id: A66395
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8773
sentence: 305
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A66395.xml
txt: txt/A66395.txt
title:
  The divine authority of the scriptures a sermon peached at St. Martin's in the Fields, May 4. 1695 : being the fifth of the lecture for this present year, founded by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  1. It is a Character belonging to Revelation , and a sign of the Truth of it , when it apparently has God for the Author , and can proceed from none but him . And if we take a view of the Scheme of what the Scripture sets before us as to this matter , it will abundantly confirm what I have proposed as a Character of Revelation , and that is , That it is from God , and only from him .


id: A66402
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1679.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10088
sentence: 473
flesch: 73
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txt: txt/A66402.txt
title:
  An impartial consideration of those speeches, which pass under the name of the five Jesuits lately executed viz. [brace] Mr. Whitebread, Mr. Harcourt, Mr. Gawen, Mr. Turner, and Mr. Fenwick : in which it is proved, that according to their principles, they not only might, but also ought, to die after that manner, with solemn protestation of their innocency.

summary:
  And that it is not so , whatever they pretend , is evident from their own Constitutions n , where the Title of one Chapter is , that the Constitutions do not bring any under an obligation to sin ; but how little it answers that Title , any one that reads the Chapter may perceive ; for it's the●e said , that it seems to us — that no Constitutions , &c. can bring under an obligation to mortal or venial sin , unless the Superior in the name of Christ , or in the virtue of obedience should command it : and then that may be done in the cases so judged of , which tends much to a private or universal good . ‖ If a Confessor that hath heard another man's Confession should be demanded , whether such an one had confessed such a sin unto him or not , he may not only say I know not , but answer directly , that he hath not confessed any such thing unto him , albeit he had so done ; and that the said Confessor may not only say , but swear also this answer of his , understanding and reserving in his mind , that the Penitent hath not confessed unto him so as he may utter it , &c.


id: A66434
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1684.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20983
sentence: 866
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A66434.xml
txt: txt/A66434.txt
title:
  A vindication of The case of indifferent things used in the worship of God in answer to a book intituled The case of indifferent things used in the worship of God, examined, stated on the behalf of the dissenters and calmly argued.

summary:
  Surely it can be no Guilt at all to do a thing not commanded , if not also forbidden , because ( as he owns ) there are Indifferent Things in the Worship of God ; and what are indifferent Things , but Things not commanded , as well as not forbidden ? If things Indifferent be such as are neither Commanded nor Forbidden , and that things are not unlawful because not Commanded , then things thus Indifferent and not commanded are not additions to the Word of God : and the places usually insisted upon must be understood , according to the sence I gave of them ; and which may serve as a sufficient reply to what he hath said upon that Head.


id: A66432
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20084
sentence: 752
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A66432.xml
txt: txt/A66432.txt
title:
  A vindication of the answer to the popish address presented to the ministers of the Church of England in reply to a pamphlet abusively intituled, A clear proof of the certainty and usefulness of the Protestant rule of faith, &c.

summary:
  M DC LXXXVIII A VINDICATION OF THE ANSWER To the POPISH ADDRESS , &c. A Clear Proof of the Certainty and Usefulness of the Protestant Rule of Faith , Scripture , after the Help of Ministerial Guides , finally Interpreted by each Man 's private Sense . The Author thereof had required that clear and plain Texts of Scripture be offer'd , which interpreted in the Protestant way , by those who receive it thus expounded for their whole Rule of Faith , should so prove the two principal Articles of Christian Belief , the Trinity and the Incarnation of Christ ; as also the Obligation of keeping holy the Sunday , and not Saturday , as one of the Commandments seems to require ; and that so convincingly , that a Christian might ground on them his Faith. Interpreted , I say , in the Protestant-way , without any deciding Church-Authority when doubts arise about the sense of the Letter .


id: A66372
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
title: An answer to the address presented to the ministers of the Church of England
date: 1688.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 11291
sentence: 366
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A66372.xml
txt: txt/A66372.txt
summary:
  Church of England -- Doctrines. Then because Infallibility knows no degrees , I my self should in that Church be as Infallible as the Supreme Pastor of it .


id: A66428
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1694.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11287
sentence: 681
flesch: 81
cache: cache/A66428.xml
txt: txt/A66428.txt
title:
  A true representation of the absurd and mischievous principles of the sect, commonly known by the name of Muggletonians

summary:
  Finished their Testimony ; that is , the Doctrine of Truth , which is , that Jesus Christ is God the Father , Son , and Spirit , &c. The Beast ; that is , the Spirit of Reason in the Lord Mayor , Aldermen , and Jury . 4. Because it discovers all irrational Opinions concerning God , &c. 5. Because it allows no Man to murther another , to cut off the head Magistrate , &c. 6. Because it denies all Power , Spiritual or Natural , to be capable to act without a continued Light to proceed from a Spiritual Body , &c. 7. It 's from an unerring Spirit , because they were induced to write a Volume as large as the Bible , and as pure a Language as that is , without looking in any writing whatsoever .


id: A66393
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1687.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20045
sentence: 1282
flesch: 76
cache: cache/A66393.xml
txt: txt/A66393.txt
title:
  The difference between the Church of England, and the Church of Rome in opposition to a late book, intituled, An agreement between the Church of England, and Church of Rome.

summary:
  The Names and Number of the Canonical Books , Genesis , &c. And the other Books ( as Hierom saith ) the Church doth read for example of Life and instruction of Manners ; but yet doth not apply them to establish any Doctrine . Christ in the Truth of our nature was made like unto us in all things , Sin only except , from which he was clearly void , both in his Flesh , and in his Spirit , &c. But all we the rest ( although Baptized , and born again in Christ ) yet offend in many things ; and if we say we have no Sin , we deceive our selves , and the Truth is not in us .


id: A33206
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1683.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 23592
sentence: 593
flesch: 52
cache: cache/A33206.xml
txt: txt/A33206.txt
title:
  The Difference of the case, between the separation of Protestants from the Church of Rome, and the separation of Dissenters from the Church of England

summary:
  And since it is not in the Power of any Man or Church , to dispense with our Obligations to the Laws of God , we could not be obliged to preserve Communion with the Bishop of Rome and his Adherents , upon those Terms . It is a plain case that they who Separate from our Church upon the account of Unommanded Rites and Practices in Gods Worship , are something more obliged by this principle to avoid Communion with all Foreign Churches ; if Rules for Customs concerning things Indifferent are to be found amongst them all , as most certainly such Rules more or fewer all of them have : For in the former case our Separatists are disobedient to their proper Governours and Pastors , whose Authority over them is some thing more clear and indisputable , than that of the Governours of other Churches where they might happen to go .


id: A28981
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 23036
sentence: 743
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A28981.xml
txt: txt/A28981.txt
title:
  A free discourse against customary swearing ; and, A dissuasive from cursing by Robert Boyle ; published by John Williams.

summary:
  Sin , because natural to us , is so readily learnt by us , that as in shooting , by practising to hit Wrens and silly Sparrows , we learn the art of killing Feldifares , Thrushes , and the other sort of Birds we never aimed at ; so by committing some small sin , we learn , tho insensibly ( and perhaps undesignedly ) to commit other and grosser kinds of sins . So in Hosea , Swearing has the Van of the most crying and provoking Sins , in that same dismal passage ; By swearing , and lying , and killing , and stealing , and committing adultery , they break out , and blood toucheth blood : Therefore shall the land mourn , and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish , with the beasts of the field , and with the fowls of heaven ; yea , the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away .


id: A66435
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1681.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 35786
sentence: 1524
flesch: 74
cache: cache/A66435.xml
txt: txt/A66435.txt
title:
  A vindication of the history of the gunpowder-treason and of the proceedings and matters relating thereunto, from the exceptions which have been made against it, and more especially of late years by the author of the Catholick apologie, and others : to which is added, A parallel betwixt that and the present popish plot.

summary:
  This Garnet did offer in his own behalf , that he was bound to keep the secrets of Confessions , &c. and when asked by the Earl of Nottingham , if one confessed this day to him , that to morrow morning he meant to kill the King with a Dagger , if he must conceal it ? answered , that he must conceal it . But all this while this is far otherwise , it being very notorious that this Plot was discovered out of Confession to Garnet and Greenwell , &c. as will appear from the account which Garnet himself gives of it , ( as far as he was concerned . )


id: A66414
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 35378
sentence: 1417
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A66414.xml
txt: txt/A66414.txt
title:
  Pulpit-popery, true popery being an answer to a book intituled, Pulpit-sayings, and in vindication of the Apology for the pulpits, and the stater of the controversie against the representer.

summary:
  And surely the Inquisitors of Goa , and Archbishop of Bourdeaux are themselves of that Church which he saith has the promise of the Holy Ghost , &c. And who shall decide this case , or what security have we against 〈◊〉 ●●●●tians fate , if at Goa , or of Imbert's , if in the Diocess of Bourdeaux ? Upon this our Author saith , their Religion is attacked only by the Vnchristian Artifices of passion and imposture .


id: A66383
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1683.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 28262
sentence: 1352
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A66383.xml
txt: txt/A66383.txt
title:
  The case of lay-communion with the Church of England considered and the lawfulness of it shew'd from the testimony of above an hundred eminent non-conformists of several perswasions.

summary:
  We enjoy and joyn together in the use of those outward means , which God hath ordained in his Word for the gathering of a visible Church , and have been effectual to the unfeigned conversion of many , as may appear both by the other fruits of Faith , and by the Martyrdom which sundry have endured that were Members of our Church , &c. 2. Our whole Church maketh profession of the true Faith. This is sufficiently proved by many a , that Christ did communicate with the Jewish Church , and is granted as well by those of the Congregational as b Presbyterial way : And yet Doctrine , Discipline , and Worship were much corrupted , of which M r Hildersham doth give a specimen c , but especially D r Bryan d ; There were many great corruptions in the Church of the Jews in Christ's time , the Priests and Teachers were ignorant and wicked , and had a corrupt and unlawful entrance into their calling ; and the People were like to the Priest , generally notoriously and obstinately ungodly ; and the Worship used in that Church was wofully corrupt , many superstitious Ceremonies , the observation whereof were more strictly urged , than the Commandments and Ordinances of God , the Temple made a Den of Thieves , the Discipline and censures shamefully abused , the Doctrine was corrupt in many points ; yet the word tells you , Christ ( whose example it binds you to follow , and you profess your selves followers of him in all imitable things ) made no separation from this Church , professed himself a Member of it , was by Circumcision incorporated a Member , received Baptism in a Congregation of that People , was a hearer of their common Service and their Teachers , allowing and commanding his Disciples to hear them , communicated in the Passover with the People and the Priest ; no more did his Apostles make separation from this Church after his Ascension , till their day had its Period , &c.


id: A66436
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 47458
sentence: 1541
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A66436.xml
txt: txt/A66436.txt
title:
  A vindication of the sermons of His Grace John Archbishop of Canterbury concerning the divinity and incarnation of our B. Saviour : and of the Lord Bishop of Worcester's sermon on the mysteries of the Christian faith, from the exceptions of a late book, entituled, Considerations on the explications of the doctrine of the Trinity : to which is annexed, a letter from the Lord Bishop of Sarum to the author of the said vindication, on the same subject.

summary:
  But here our Author interposes , and because he confesses he has met with these two names in the Church History ; and when he did , to be sure finds no passable Character of them ; therefore he will not have Ebion a Person , nor Cerinthus a Unitarian ; and for the proof of the latter , offers no Testimony ( the way for proving matter of Fact ) but an Argument of his own ; For , saith he , if Cerinthus held the Unity of God , and denied the Divinity and Pre-existence of our Saviour ( as his Grace and the Moderns suppose ) neither it should seem , would the Unitarians have reckoned him a Heretick , nor have rejected the Books which they supposed to be his ; namely , the Gospel , Epistles , and Revelation , now attributed to St. John. Was there never a time when the Church of God professed the same Tenets which our Church defends , without any of those great Rewards to bribe them ; and when on all sides they were beset with the Aws and Fears of a Furious and Embitter'd Adversary ?


