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id: A95879
author: Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.
title: Behold Romes monster on his monstrous beast!
date: 1643.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 818
sentence: 50
flesch: 77
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summary:
  (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f8[29]) Behold Romes monster on his monstrous beast! Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A95879 of text R212106 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.8[29]).


id: A32429
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
title: By the King, a proclamation for disarming and securing of popish recusants
date: 1678.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1146
sentence: 51
flesch: 60
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id: A66248
author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary)
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1216
sentence: 53
flesch: 62
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title:
  By the King and Queen, a proclamation whereas by the act of this present Parliament intituled An act for the amoving [sic] papists and reputed papists from the cities of London and Westminster, and ten miles distance from the same ...

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id: B06225
author: Tolson, John, 1575 or 6-1644.
date: 1641.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 905
sentence: 56
flesch: 73
cache: cache/B06225.xml
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title:
  A true confutation of a false and lying pamphlet entituled, A divelish designe by the Papists to blow up the citty [sic] of Oxford with gunpowder, on Thursday the 13. of January 1641.

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06225 of text R185575 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T2608). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179148)


id: A78109
author: F. B.
title: To all that observe dayes.
date: 1660.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1148
sentence: 52
flesch: 73
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txt: txt/A78109.txt
summary:
  F. B. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A78109 of text R170409 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing B64). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 172457)


id: A39418
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
date: 1678.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1118
sentence: 49
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A39418.xml
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title:
  At the court at Whitehall the second of November, 1678 by the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and the Lords of His Majesties most honourable Privy Council : His Majesty was this day pleased to declare in Council, that whosoever shall make discovery of any officer or souldier of His Majesties horse or foot-guards, who having formerly taken the oaths of allegiance ...

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id: A66859
author: Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.
date: 1661.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1134
sentence: 56
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A66859.xml
txt: txt/A66859.txt
title:
  Is this to deny the Popes supremacy? to wear his robes and livery, to worship in his form, and contrary to the form and power of God.

summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A66859) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 63854) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A39411
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
date: 1679.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1084
sentence: 49
flesch: 63
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title:
  At the court at Whitehall, December the nineteenth 1679 present the Kings Most Excellent Majesty ... : His Majesty being willing by all means to provide that no papists or suspected papists may be harboured ...

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id: A75900
author: Abbot, George, 1562-1633.
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1416
sentence: 62
flesch: 61
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title:
  His Grace the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury's address to His Majesty for the suppression of monasteries, fryeries, nunneries, and other popish seminaries, or allowing any general tolleration to the Roman Catholicks of England

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id: A83909
author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1589
sentence: 174
flesch: 77
summary: Earl of Oxford . Earl of Shrewsbury .
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title:
  An order of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, assembled at Westminster, in the House of Lords, December 22. 1688.


id: A39431
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
date: 1678.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1728
sentence: 79
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A39431.xml
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title:
  At the court at Whitehall, this sixth day of December, 1678, present, the Kings Most Excellent Majesty ... whereas His Majesty and this board are informed of the bold and open repair made to several places ...

summary:
  At the court at Whitehall, this sixth day of December, 1678, present, the Kings Most Excellent Majesty ... whereas His Majesty and this board are informed of the bold and open repair made to several places ... England and Wales. Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 107504) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1632:7) At the court at Whitehall, this sixth day of December, 1678, present, the Kings Most Excellent Majesty ... whereas His Majesty and this board are informed of the bold and open repair made to several places ... England and Wales.


id: A64682
author: Ussher, James, 1581-1656.
date: 1681.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1866
sentence: 63
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A64682.xml
txt: txt/A64682.txt
title:
  Bishop Ushers second prophesie which he delivered to his daughter on his sick-bed wherein is contained divers prophetick sayings for the years 1680, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1684, which were by him predicted for the said years : wherein also is laid down the divers revolutions for the ensuing years : likewise a very strange prophesie concerning the Kings restauration, which he gave to a person of quality in the time of his sickness : also he foretels that the papists were the persons that should cause all the calamitites that would ensue.

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id: A46154
author: Essex, Arthur Capel, Earl of, 1631-1683.
date: 1673.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1978
sentence: 62
flesch: 56
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title:
  Whereas information hath been given that many persons of the popish religion inhabiting within this kingdom have great store of arms now in their possession, and that of late they have generally taken the liberty to ride armed beyond what hath formerly been accustomed by them ... by the Lord Lieutenant General and General Governour of Ireland, Essex.

summary:
  For the County of Sleigo , Robert Morgan and Charles Collis Esq For the County of Roscomon , James King and Edmond Donelan Esq For the County of Leitrim , Sir William Gore and Henry Crofton of Mohill Esq For the Town and liberties of Gallway , Sir Francis Gore and James Bulteel Esq For the County of Down , Collonel Vere Essex Cromwell , James Lesley and William Hill Esq For the County of Antrim and Town of Carickfergus , Francis Stafford , Arthur Upton and William Lesley Esqs For the County of Ardmagh , Major Sydney Fotherby , Arthur Brownlow and Thomas Ball Esqs For the County of Tyrone , the Lord Glenaully , Major Sidney Fotherby and Arthur Newburgh Esq For the City and County of Londonderry , Collonel William Cecill , Dudley Philips and Thomas Dawson Esqs For the County of Donegall , Collonel William Cecill , William Waren and William Dutton Esqs ; For the County of Monaghan , William Barton and Simon Richardson Esqs For the County of Cavan , Sir Charles Hamilton , Humphrey Perrot and Thomas Gwillim Esq For he County of Fermanagh , Sir Michael Cole and Cromwell Ward Esq And in case any persons who by this Proclamation are required to bring in and deliver up their said Arms , shall neglect or refuse , to conform themselves and yield Obedience thereunto , We do hereby further declare , that We shall not only take a most strict and severe course for the seizing and securing their said Arms , but shall also look upon all those so detaining the same , both as contemners of His Majesties authority , and as persons designing the disturbance of the publique Peace of this Kingdom . (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A46154) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 104881)


id: B05688
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1982
sentence: 60
flesch: 52
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txt: txt/B05688.txt
title:
  A proclamation for seising the horses and arms of Papists, and persons above the degree of commons, not qualified according to the Act of Parliament.

summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05688) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180022) A proclamation for seising the horses and arms of Papists, and persons above the degree of commons, not qualified according to the Act of Parliament.


id: A04525
author: John, of Capistrano, Saint, 1386-1456.
date: 1621.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2143
sentence: 86
flesch: 67
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title:
  The pope translated out of the old Dutch coppye, in print all most 50 yeares since, and novv reprinted, 1621.

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id: A39576
author: Fisher, Samuel, 1605-1665.
title: To the Parliament of England, and the several members thereof
date: 1659.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2005
sentence: 46
flesch: 51
cache: cache/A39576.xml
txt: txt/A39576.txt
summary:
  I told you in the Name of God , who then moved me so to do , that you cannot possibly prosper in your Councels , nor be accepted in your sacrifices , if before him you be found guilty of forswearing your selves , which whether you are or no in that tedious Case of Tithes , I then also warned you to consider : I have since that seen such necessity laid upon me from the Lord this once more to arise and contend on the Lords behalf , who hath a Controversie with you , O ye mountains , and ye strong foundations of the earth , that whatever should befal me from you for so doing , yet wo is unto me from him if I do it not : in order to the clearing of my Conscience in which service , and in obedience to him , whose Spirit hath prest me to it , and also in bowels of true love to all your Souls , and tender compassion to this bleeding Nation , I have here presented you with these few following Queries , which you are to read in the fear of the Lord , and in the light of God , that shines into all Souls , and searches the secrets of all your hearts , to answer to God himself in your own Consciences . 1. Whether have you not said , vowed , covenanted and sworn , and caused this Nation to vow , covenant and swear with hands lifted up to the most High God , to endeavor to the utmost of your , and their power the Extirpation of all Innovation in Religion , Popish institution , superstition , &c. and to Reform according to the example of the best Reformed Churches ? 2 Whether Parish-Churches , Parish-Priests , and the Parish-pay by that way of Tithes ( which was the Ordinance of God under the Law , which together with the Priesthood thereof is now changed be not Superstitions , Innovations and Institutions of the Pope , imposing the establishment thereof by their civil Laws upon simple Priest-Ridden Princes , Powers and Parliaments , in the dark dayes of his undue dominion over them in this English Nation , and that so unquestionably , that none of you , but such as are willingly so , can in these times of Trying of all things be easily ignorant of it ? 3.


id: A45765
author: Essex, Arthur Capel, Earl of, 1631-1683.
date: 1674.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2546
sentence: 74
flesch: 47
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title:
  Whereas we the lord lieutenant and Council according to His Majesties pleasure, and commands signified unto us by the lords of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council of England, by their letters bearing date the twenty sixth day of September last ... by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Essex.

summary:
  Lord Lieutenant (1672-1677 : Essex) 1674 Approx. Lord Lieutenant (1672-1677 : Essex) Essex, Arthur Capel, Earl of, 1631-1683.


id: A31346
author: By-stander.
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3087
sentence: 165
flesch: 81
cache: cache/A31346.xml
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title:
  The Catholick gamesters, or, A dubble match of bowleing with an account of a sharp conference held on the eve of St. Jago between His Holiness and the Mahometan dons in St. Katherines Bastile ... : to the tune of The plot in the meal-tub, or, Tan-ta-ra-ra-ra make shift / published by a by-stander to prevent false reports.

summary:
  My Self may get by 't , save a Thing more rare Than this same Triple Bawble now I wear , Which otherwise is hazarded I swear . Howere I 'le venture 't , prove it good or ill , And have a Push for 't ere I lose it will.


id: A39622
author: Gentleman in Scotland.
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3284
sentence: 102
flesch: 60
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title:
  Five letters from a gentleman in Scotland to his friend in London being a true account of what remarkable passages have happened since the Prince's landing, the manner of the taking of the Chancellor, and his lady in mans apparel, the burning of the Pope, demolishing of the popish chapels, &c. with the total overthrow of the Roman Catholicks : Edinburgh, Decemb. 3. 1688.

summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A39622) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 95327) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A39432
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
date: 1678.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1219
sentence: 52
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A39432.xml
txt: txt/A39432.txt
title:
  At the court at Whitehall, the nineteenth of November 1678 by the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and the lords of His Majesties most honourable Privy Council : whereas His Majesty by his late royal proclamation ... did straitly charge and command all persons, being popish recusants ...

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id: A32540
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
title: By the King, a proclamation for the discovery and apprehending all popish priests and Jesuits
date: 1678.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1275
sentence: 54
flesch: 59
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id: A83871
author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.
title: Die Mercurii 8⁰ Septemb. 1641 Whereas divers innovations in or about the worship of God,...
date: 1641.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 983
sentence: 49
flesch: 68
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summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83871 of text R209692 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.3[14]). 17 C The rate of 17 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words.


id: A32545
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
date: 1674.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1447
sentence: 51
flesch: 58
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title:
  By the King, a proclamation for the discovery and apprehension of Jesuites, seminary priests and others that have taken orders from the Church and See of Rome

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id: A46156
author: Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1677-1685 : Ormonde)
date: 1679.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1598
sentence: 64
flesch: 64
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title:
  Whereas it appears by the examination of John Totty, one of the officers at mace in the city of Dublin, taken upon oath before the lord mayor of the said city, that on the first day of this instant April, the examinant being commanded, went with the magistrates and other officers, pursuant to an order of this board, to a mass house on the Merchants-Key in this city, where they found a priest & many people assembled together ... by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Ormonde.

summary:
  Lord Lieutenant (1677-1685 : Ormonde) 1679 Approx. Lord Lieutenant (1677-1685 : Ormonde) Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688. 1 broadside.


id: A46858
author: Oldham, John, 1653-1683.
title: The Jesuits justification, proving they died as innocent as the child unborn
date: 1679.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1074
sentence: 56
flesch: 66
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id: A32441
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1270
sentence: 52
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A32441.xml
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title:
  By the King, a proclamation for inforcing the laws against conventicles and for preservation of the publick peace against unlawful assemblies of papists and non-conformists

summary:
[cell repeats an earlier one in this file: 409 characters]


id: A46621
author: James, Elinor.
date: 1683.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1591
sentence: 50
flesch: 60
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title:
  To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen and all the rest of the loyal citizens.

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id: A46617
author: James, Elinor.
title: My Lord, I thought it my bound duty to return your Lordship thanks
date: 1687.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1855
sentence: 61
flesch: 64
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summary:
  For there was nothing in the World I lov'd above Him , but God. That I had Died , that He might have Liv'd , then you would not have been exposed to the Flouts , Mocks , and Derisions of your Adversaries ; but it is the Wisdom of God to suffer it to be so , for all our Trials , and I do not doubt but your Loyalty will remain to the end , that you may obtain the Crown of your Reward :


id: A32451
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1526
sentence: 53
flesch: 56
cache: cache/A32451.xml
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title:
  By the King, a proclamation for preventing the fears and dangers that may arise from the concourse of papists or reputed papists in or near the cities of London or Westminster during this present sitting of Parliament

summary:
[cell repeats an earlier one in this file: 409 characters]


id: A32371
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
date: 1680.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1356
sentence: 54
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A32371.xml
txt: txt/A32371.txt
title:
  A proclamation commanding all papists or reputed papists, forthwith to depart from the cities of London and Westminster, and from within ten miles of the same

summary:
[cell repeats an earlier one in this file: 409 characters]


id: A83736
author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.
date: 1641.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1197
sentence: 49
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A83736.xml
txt: txt/A83736.txt
title:
  Die Mercurii: 5⁰ Maii. 1641. It is this day ordered by the House of Commons now assembled in Parliament ...

summary:
  A●●●inding also that there have been , and having just cause to suspect that there still are , even during this 〈…〉 ting in Parliament , indeavours to subvert the fundamentall Lawes of England and Ireland , a●● to introduce the exercise of an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall Government , by most pernicious and wicked Coun●●s , Practices , Plots , and Conspiracies : And that the long intermission ▪ and unhappy breach of Parliaments , h●●h occasioned many illegall Taxations , whereupon the Subject hath been prosecuted and grieved : And that di●●rs Innovations and Superstitions have been brought into the Church ; multitudes driven out of His Majesti Dominions , Iealousies raised and fomented betwixt the King and His people , a Popish Army leavied in Ireland , ●●d two Armies brought into the bowels of this Kingdom , to the hazard of His Majesties Royall Person , the co●umption of the Revenues of the Crown , and Treasure of this Kingdom : And lastly , finding great cause of Ielousie , that indeavours have been , and are used to bring the English Army into a misunderstanding of this Parl●●ment , thereby to incline that Army , with force to bring to passe those wicked Councels , Have therefore thought ●●od to joyn our selves in a Declaration of our united Affections and Resolutions , and to make this ensuin● Protestation . IT is this day ●●dered by the House of Commons now assembled in Parliament , That the Preamble , together with the Prot●●ation , which the Members of this House made the third of May , shall be forthwith Printed ▪ and the Copie● Printed brought to the Clark of the said House , to attest under his hand , to the end that the Knights ▪ Citiz●s , and Burgesses may send them down to the Sheriffs and Justices of Peace of the severall Shi●s , and to the Citizs and Burgesses of the severall Cities , Boroughs , and Cinque Ports , respectively .


id: A34571
author: Corker, James Maurus, 1636-1715.
date: 1680.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6577
sentence: 409
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A34571.xml
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title:
  Roman-Catholick principles in reference to God and the King explained in a letter to a friend and now made publick to shew the connexion between the said principles and the late Popish plot.

summary:
  It is a farther Comfort to Us , that our Sufferings ( God be praised ) are in some measure , not unlike to those of Christ our Lord ; For it was laid to his Charge as it is to Ours , that he was a Traytor to a Caesar ; That he perverted the People , and endeavour'd the b Destruction of Church and State ; Nor were there wanting , then as now , an OATS and BEDLOE , c two false Witnesses to Swear all this . 6. This Way or Means is not the Reading of Scripture , Interpreted according to the Private k Reason or l Spirit of every Disjunctive Person , or Nation in Particular ; But , 7. It is an Attention and m Submission to the Doctrine of the Catholick or Vniversal Church , established by Christ for the Instruction of all , n Spread for that end throughout all Nations , and visibly continued in the Succession of Pastors , and People throughout all Ages : From which Church o Guided in Truth , and secured from Error in Matters of Faith , by the p promised Assistance of the Holy Ghost , every one may , and ought to q Learn both the Right Sense of the Scripture , and all other Christian Mysteries and Duties , respectively necessary to Salvation .


id: A84455
author: England and Wales. Council of State.
date: 1660.0
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title:
  By the Council of State, a proclamation whereas by an act of the last Parliament intituled An act for dissolving the Parliament begun the third of November 1640 ... persons engaged in the late rebellion in Ireland, and all who profess the popish religion, and all ... who have assisted ... in any war against the Parliament ... shall be incapable to be elected to serve as members in the next Parliament ...

summary:
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id: A23600
author: Essex, Arthur Capel, Earl of, 1631-1683, recipient.
date: 1679.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2007
sentence: 80
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A23600.xml
txt: txt/A23600.txt
title:
  A letter to the Right Honorable A. Earl of Essex, from Dublin Declaring the strange obstinacy of papists, (as here, so) in Ireland; who being evidently convict and condemn'd for criminal causes, yet at their death, and upon the gallows, absolutely deny the fact; and the erroneous and impious motives, given by their priests, by which they are deluded to do it.

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id: A37436
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1700.0
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words: 7331
sentence: 166
flesch: 46
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title:
  Reasons humbly offer'd for a law to enact the castration of popish ecclesiastics, as the best way to prevent the growth of popery in England

summary:
  REASONS Humbly offer'd for a Law to enact the Castration of Popish Ecclesiasticks , &c. THE Honourable House of Commons having been pleas'd to take into their Consideration the unaccountable growth of Popery amongst us of late , and to appoint a Committee to consider of Ways and Means for preventing the same : It is thought fit , among the croud of Proposals for that end , to publish what follows . The Case then being thus , let 's consider what a deluge of Uncleanness may be pour'd out upon this Nation by 1000 or 2000 , supposing there were no more of those Popish Ecclesiasticks in England at a time ; especially since they look upon it to be their Interest to debauch the Nation , as one of the best Expedients to advance Popery , as was evident from the practice of the late Reigns : and therefore it seems to be the natural way of obviating the growth of Popery , to make the Romish Ecclesiasticks uncapable of promoting it by that Method which they like best , and find most successful .


id: A83738
author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.
date: 1641.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1573
sentence: 61
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A83738.xml
txt: txt/A83738.txt
title:
  Die Mercurii 5 Maii 1641 It is this day ordered by the House of Commons now assembled in Parliament, that the Preamble, together with the Protestation, which the Members of this House made the third of May, shall be forthwith printed, and the copies printed brought to the clark of the said House, ...

summary:
  Die Mercurii 5 Maii 1641 It is this day ordered by the House of Commons now assembled in Parliament, that the Preamble, together with the Protestation, which the Members of this House made the third of May, shall be forthwith printed, and the copies printed brought to the clark of the said House, ... Proceedings. House of Commons.


id: A51652
author: Musgrave, Christopher, fl. 1621
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8259
sentence: 213
flesch: 50
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title:
  Motives and reasons for dissevering from the Church of Rome and her doctrine wherein after the declaration of his conversion, he openeth divers absurdities practised in that Church, being not matters of report, but such things whereof he was an eye and ear witness / by Chr. Musgrave, after he had lived a Carthusian monk for twenty years.

summary:
  Motives and reasons for dissevering from the Church of Rome and her doctrine wherein after the declaration of his conversion, he openeth divers absurdities practised in that Church, being not matters of report, but such things whereof he was an eye and ear witness / by Chr. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1406:29) Motives and reasons for dissevering from the Church of Rome and her doctrine wherein after the declaration of his conversion, he openeth divers absurdities practised in that Church, being not matters of report, but such things whereof he was an eye and ear witness / by Chr.


id: A35277
author: Crown, Mr. (John), 1640?-1712.
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8425
sentence: 379
flesch: 79
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title:
  Dæneids, or The noble labours of the great dean of Notre-Dame in Paris for the erecting in his quire a throne for his glory, and the eclipsing the pride of an imperious, usurping character, an heroique poem in four canto's, containing a true history, and shews the folly, foppery, luxury, laziness, pride, ambition, and contention of the Romanish clergy.

summary:
  All things in Church by Order must be done , ( Said he ) that rears and fixes every Throne . At length the Dean from his long slumbers woke , Burst through his Cloud , and Church repose he broke .


id: A80546
author: Corbet, Jeffrey.
date: 1656.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2201
sentence: 97
flesch: 69
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title:
  The Protestant's warning-piece or, The humble remonstrance of Ieffery Corbet citizen and grocer of London, composed for the view of his Highness, the Parliament, and all the good people in England, Scotland, and Ireland; and published to frustrate the designes of the incendiaries employed by the Pope, and the King of Spain, who have severall yeares contrived to fire the city of London in a 100 places at once, and then proceed to their long intended massacre.

summary:
  The Protestant's warning-piece or, The humble remonstrance of Ieffery Corbet citizen and grocer of London, composed for the view of his Highness, the Parliament, and all the good people in England, Scotland, and Ireland; and published to frustrate the designes of the incendiaries employed by the Pope, and the King of Spain, who have severall yeares contrived to fire the city of London in a 100 places at once, and then proceed to their long intended massacre. Corbet, Jeffrey. The Protestant's warning-piece or, The humble remonstrance of Ieffery Corbet citizen and grocer of London, composed for the view of his Highness, the Parliament, and all the good people in England, Scotland, and Ireland; and published to frustrate the designes of the incendiaries employed by the Pope, and the King of Spain, who have severall yeares contrived to fire the city of London in a 100 places at once, and then proceed to their long intended massacre. Corbet, Jeffrey.


id: A55426
author: Pope, Walter, d. 1714.
date: 1675.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1971
sentence: 86
flesch: 71
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txt: txt/A55426.txt
title:
  Room for a ballad, or, A ballad for Rome being a continuation of the Catholick ballad inviting to popery, upon the grounds and reasons that could ever yet be produced.

summary:
  〈◊〉 all you that would sure Salvation procure , And yet still live as you list : 〈◊〉 but mutter and Pray , and say as we say , And your Catholicks good as e're P — . The second Part , to the same Tune Our Zeal has been felt , where ever we dwelt , On all that our Doctrine deny : 〈◊〉 have a Suspition , we make Inquisition , ●nd straight the poor Hereticks Fry.


id: A66200
author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III)
title: By the King, a proclamation
date: 1700.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2269
sentence: 62
flesch: 49
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summary:
  WILLIAM R. WHereas by an Act made the last Session of this present Parliament , Intituled , An Act for the further Preventing the Growth of Popery , reciting , That there has of late beén a much greater Resort into this Kingdom than formerly , of Popish Bishops , Priests and Jesuits , who openly and in insolent manner , do Affront the Laws , and daily endeavour to Pervert Our Natural-born Subjects , which has beén occasioned by Neglect of the due Execution of the Laws already in Force ; For Preventing the further Growth of Popery , and of such Treasonable and Execrable Designs and Conspiracies against Our Person and Government , and the Established Religion , It is Enacted , That from and after the Five and twentieth Day of March , One thousand seven hundred , all and every Person and Persons , who shall Apprehend and Take one or more Popish Bishop , Priest or Jesuit , and Prosecute him or them , so Taken , until he or they be Convicted of Saying Mass , or of Exercising any other Part , of the Office or Function of a Popish Bishop or Priest within these Realms , shall Receive of the Sheriff or Sheriffs of the Country where such Conviction shall be made ( without Paying any Feé for the same ) for every such Offender , so Convicted , the Sum of One hundred Pounds , within Four Months after such Conviction , and Demand thereof made , in such manner as in the said Act is Directed . And it is thereby Provided , That nothing in the said Act contained , shall be Construed to Extend to any Popish Priest , for saying Mass or Officiating as a Priest , within the Dwelling-house of any Foreign Minister Residing here , so as such Preist be not one of Our Natural-born Subjects , nor Naturalized within any of Our Dominions , and so as the Name of such Priest , and Place of his Birth , and the Foreign Minister , to whom he shall belong , be Entred and Registred in the Office of Our Principal Secretary of State.


id: A66316
author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary)
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1293
sentence: 53
flesch: 59
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title:
  By the King and Queen, a proclamation for the confinement of popish recusants within five miles of their respective dwellings

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id: A69527
author: Abernethie, Thomas, fl. 1638-1641.
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words: 2845
sentence: 65
flesch: 50
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title:
  A vvorthy speech by Mr. Tho. Abernethie ; wherein is discovered the villany and hellish plots (which himselfe hath been an eie and eare witnesse of) wrought in the Popes courts against these our three kingdomes, and now disclosed this 29, Iuly, 1641.

summary:
  My counsell now to you that are Covenanters is , that qui stat , videat ne cadit , let him that thinkes he stands take heed lest he fall , for the Crowne of glory is onely for him that overcommeth , Qui perseveraverit usque in finem hic salvus erit , hee that shall indure to the end the same shall be saved : yeeld not a word , a syll●ble , a jot , lest thou scandalize thy weake brother , and give occasion to Rome , to stand and expect thy returne , she not so much as beginning a motion towards thee : for they seeing your novations of Bishops , Deanes , Doctors , kneeling at Sacrament , crosse in Baptisme , and the rest of these articles , were in assured confidence , that ye were turning to them again , and used commonly to say , ( see so faine as they are to creepe into us againe ) which did confirme all our people , and made sundry of yours to follow us : If these points which sometime by the most part were thought allowable , did so much harme to Gods Church , what their English masse , canonicall inquisition , and the rest of that almost banished trash had done , if they had not beene prevented by the alseeing God , judge yee . To this lawfull question , I answer , that I know more then any Protestant in this land , of this businesse ; for I was imployed in it in the yeare of God , 1632. and gave in ( amongst other points of my commission ) a petition to the foresaid congregation at Rome , and elsewhere , desiring them to advise upon the meanes , for the reducing of this Kingdome to Rome ; divers were proponed by these politicke heads , who study onely to destroy Kings , and pervert Kingdomes , of many , these few were most considerable .


id: A48195
author: Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
title: A letter to a member of Parliament on the account of some present transactions.
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2484
sentence: 71
flesch: 52
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id: A66767
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2003
sentence: 81
flesch: 68
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title:
  Predictions of the overthrow of popery, and the landing of the Prince of Orange in the west written by George Wither Esquire, in the year 1660 ; and some proposals for perpetual Parliament written by the same author in 1652.

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com).


id: A39423
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
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mime: application/xml
words: 1495
sentence: 74
flesch: 64
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title:
  At the court at White-hall, January the seventeenth, 1678/9, present the Kings Most Excellent Majesty ... there having been lately presented by the justices of the peace ...

summary:
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id: A80973
author: Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
date: 1658.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 649
sentence: 39
flesch: 71
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txt: txt/A80973.txt
title:
  By the Protector. A proclamation commanding all papists, and all other persons, who have been of the late king's party or his sons, to repair unto their places of abode, and not to remove above five miles from the same.

summary:
  Contains seal, header, and first five lines of text only. 327 F The rate of 327 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words.


id: A34722
author: Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.
date: 1641.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 10400
sentence: 182
flesch: 34
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title:
  Serious considerations for repressing of the increase of Iesvites, priests, and papists without shedding blood written by Sir R.C. and presented to King James of happie memory.

summary:
  For if Aristotles City defined to be a society of men , assembled to live well , be the same , which in our Law hath reference to the maintenance of the poore in peace : so long as we taste of the sweet of a peaceable Government ; we cannot say , but that we live well , and that the City consisting of Men , and not of Walls , is happily guided . Huomini ( say they ) Senza Dio , & Senz anima : Men without feare of God , or regard of their Soules ; Who busying themselves onely with matters of State , retaine no sense of Religion : without doubt , if the Authors of this partition have cast their account aright , we must confesse , the latter Broode is to be ascribed properly vnto them ; For if the vndermining of the Parliament House , the scandalizing of the King in Print , who is Gods annoynted ; And the refusall of naturall obedience , be workes of those that neither stand in awe of God or Conscience ; well may the Papists boast , that they are assured of the first number ; and may presume likewise of the lasts friendship , when occasion shall be offered ; For the preventing of which combination ; it is a sure way to cut off the Heads ; that should tye the knot , or at least , to brand them with a marke in the forehead , before they be dismissed , or after the opinion of others , to make them vnwelcome to the faeminine Sexe ; which now with great fervency imbraceth them .


id: A29095
author: Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.
date: 1683.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3119
sentence: 121
flesch: 71
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title:
  The godly exhortation of holy Father Bradford which he gave to his wife, children and friends a little before his death, who dyed a martyr for the Gospel in Q. Maries days : wherein is plainly shown the excellency of the Protestant religion and the happiness of those that profess and live the same : as also the damnableness of the Romish religion with their bloody and rebellious crimes laid open : with the relation of the murder of that just justice Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey.

summary:
  Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 103748) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1586:12) The godly exhortation of holy Father Bradford which he gave to his wife, children and friends a little before his death, who dyed a martyr for the Gospel in Q. Maries days : wherein is plainly shown the excellency of the Protestant religion and the happiness of those that profess and live the same : as also the damnableness of the Romish religion with their bloody and rebellious crimes laid open : with the relation of the murder of that just justice Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey.


id: A70777
author: Penn, William, 1644-1718.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5310
sentence: 139
flesch: 56
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title:
  The great and popular objection against the repeal of the penal laws & tests briefly stated and consider'd, and which may serve for answer to several late pamphlets upon that subject / by a friend to liberty for liberties sake.

summary:
  By a Friend to Liberty for Liberties sake Licensed February the 4th 1687. But that we should be less safe , because the King , we so much Fear , is ready to Consent to a GREAT CHARTER for Liberty of Conscience , by which , it shall be Declared the RIGHT of Mankind to make a free and open choice and profession of Faith and Worship towards GOD , and that any Constraint or Interruption upon that Freedom , is Impiety , and an Evil in it self , and that Law , therefore Indispenfible , Is , I must confess , a Notion very Extraordinary .


id: A66198
author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III)
title: By the King, a proclamation William R.
date: 1699.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1103
sentence: 48
flesch: 61
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id: A26927
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1663.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13924
sentence: 399
flesch: 60
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title:
  Fair-warning, or, XXV reasons against toleration and indulgence of popery with the Arch-bishop of Canterbury's letter to the King and all the bishops of Irelands protestation to the Parliament to the same purpose : with an answer to the Roman-Catholicks reasons for indulgence : also the excellent reasons of the Honourable House of Commons against indulgence, with historical observations thereupon.

summary:
  have you any care of precious Souls ? will you endure those men that will not suffer us to rest upon the foundation of God which standeth sure , and allure us to trust in the foundation of men that wil fail : wil you indulge men that delude your people to rely upon man that is a lye , and the son of man that may deceive ) will your God keep silence when he observes you looking on men making one another a God and yet keep silence : will you stand by and see God robbed of his honour , and vain man indeavouring to be as God , and use not that power God gave you to punish : hath he pulled down the usurpers of your throne ; and will you not keep under the usurpers of his attributes , hath he overturned them that would be Kings as well as you : and will you encourage them that would be infallible as well as he ? can you stand still and see so many perish and led away in that great Errour of the wicked : That man is Infallible : O suffer not that way which leadeth us to man , bottometh us upon man : and leaveth us short of God.


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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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: A66427
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1687.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10110
sentence: 397
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A66427.xml
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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: A30399
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1685.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15921
sentence: 1461
flesch: 81
summary: c. 26. & de fide & op . l. 9. c. 15. &c. 23.
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title:
  The Protestant's companion, or, An impartial survey and comparison of the Protestant religion as by law established, with the main doctrines of popery wherein is shewn that popery is contrary to scripture, primitive fathers and councils ... / by a true son of the Protestant Church of England as established by law.


id: A10684
author: Rhodes, John, fl. 1606.
date: 1602.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7460
sentence: 397
flesch: 84
cache: cache/A10684.xml
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title:
  An ansvvere to a Romish rime lately printed, and entituled, A proper new ballad wherein are contayned Catholike questions to the Protestant, the which ballad was put foorth without date or day, name of authour or printer, libell-like scattered and sent abroad, to withdraw the simple from the fayth of Christ, vnto the doctrine of Antichrist the pope of Rome / written by that Protestant Catholike, I.R.

summary:
  Till Luthers time , you say that we heard not of Christ : but you shall see , That we , not you , haue heard of him , as onely pardoner of our sinne . Well , yet if God and learned men will giue me leaue to vse my pen , I answere will ( though simply ) your questions drawne from Popery .


id: A44535
author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.
date: 1681.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17344
sentence: 333
flesch: 44
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title:
  The honesty of the Protestant and dishonesty of the popish divinity in a letter to a lady revolted to the Church of Rome / by Anthony Horneck.

summary:
  6. 9 yet we are modest , and whatever the principles of that Church may lead men to , we hope , there may be many in that Church , that either , while they live in the communion of that Church , have an aversion from the dangerous , and Idolatrous practices of it , or sometimes before they die do heartily repent of the absurd , and unreasonable Doctrines , and worship , they have too long asserted , and complied with , and of such we cannot but entertain a very favourable opinion , and indeed I could name you some very famous men both in France and Italy , who , though they have continued in the Communion of that Church , i. e. have not joyn'd themselves to any particular publick Protestant Church , yet have not approv'd of such things in the Roman Church , as manifestly obstruct mens Salvation , and though like Nicodemus they have not dared openly to avow their dislike of such Errous , for fear of danger , yet in their hearts they have abhorr'd them , and declared so much to their Friends , and intimate acquaintance . We know not what mercy GOD may shew to many poor people in that Church , who are invincibly Ignorant , and never saw a Bible , from whence they might rectify their mistakes , and do live honestly in this present world ; but we must withal confess , that the Servant , who hath known his Masters will , and hath not done it , shall be beaten with many stripes , and whether those that have been enlightened in our Church , and have tasted the good Word of GOD , and cannot but see our Agreement with the Gospel , and after all this embrace the Errors of the Roman Church , whether these will be excusable at the last day , we justly doubt of ; To live in great Errours is to live in Sin , but where that living in Errours is joyn'd with resistance of great light , and knowledge , there the Sin becomes all crimson , which was but of a faint red before ; And if this be the Character of Christs Friends to do whatsoever he commands us , then the inference is very easy , that those cannot be Christ's Friends , nor reign with him in Heaven , that wilfully leave undone , what they know he hath commanded , and set up a new Worship , which he hath no where commanded : Madam , had you never seen such a thing as the Scriptnre , your going over to that Church might have deserved some apollogy , but when you were surrounded with the beams of that light which shines in darkness , as St. Peter calls the word , with all those rayes about you , to shut your eyes , and desperately to venture upon a Church , which enjoines men to live against some of Gods laws , as against Exod.


id: A45350
author: Halley, George, 1655 or 6-1708.
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7225
sentence: 182
flesch: 49
cache: cache/A45350.xml
txt: txt/A45350.txt
title:
  A sermon preached in the cathedral and metropolitical church of St. Peter of York, on Thursday the fourteenth of February, 1688/9 being the day appointed by the lords spiritual and temporal, assembled at Westminster, 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 and arbitrary power / by George Halley ...

summary:
  Because we have accurately filed Religion , polished and freed it from the Rust it had contracted , and set upon it its former Lustre ; because we have fully discovered their horrible Cheats , and grand Impostures , by which they get their Wealth : The Romanists for these reasons industriously endeavour to take away both our Place and Nation , to destroy not only our Holy and Excellent Religion , but our Incomparable Government , and to bring our independent Freedom into a Subjection to their Foreign and Antichristian Yoke . How many Efforts have been made ? How many Arrows have been shot at this Glorious Nation , out of their Quiver of malice and revenge ? but all of them missed the Mark ; it was God that covered this Nation with the Wings of his Providence , that Defended it from the Arrows that flew by Day , and from the Pestilence that walked in Darkness . Stand and admire the Divine Providence ; God hath not only Blessed us with a Prince who will be a Nursing Father , but also with a Princess who will be a Nursing Mother of our Church ; our Church was never more Blessed before ; a Princess of our own Nation , as well as Religion ; a Princess of exemplary Piety , and unparallell'd Goodness .


id: A47913
author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
title: A reply to the second part of The character of a popish successor by Roger L'Estrange.
date: 1681.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15852
sentence: 505
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A47913.xml
txt: txt/A47913.txt
summary:
  But the Great Danger I find is in a Bigotted Papist , and either our Popish Successor is That , or That Danger does not fall into this Case . The Scope of his Discourse is briefly this ; First , to Render the Duke as Odious and Dangerous to the Nation , as Art and Malice can make him , by Virulent Reflections upon his Person under the Dreadfull Character of a Popish Successor .


id: A35023
author: Croft, Herbert, 1603-1691.
title: A letter written to a friend concerning Popish idolatrie
date: 1674.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11856
sentence: 230
flesch: 44
cache: cache/A35023.xml
txt: txt/A35023.txt
summary:
  And therefore with Dr. Thorndick's good lieve , though we descend from a Church too too much given to Idolatry , yet our Bishops consecrated by them need no more a new Consecration , than those Jewish Priests who were most certainly polluted with Idolatry ; but relinquishing their Idolatry , and with penitential hearts sacrificing to the true God , were reconciled again to God , and in mercy accepted by the Divine Goodness . And who doubts but a Christian believing aright in God and Christ may be guilty of Idolatry , as many true believing Christians were in the horrible persecutions under Heathen Emperors , meerly out of fear sacrificing unto them and their Gods , whom they abhorred in their hearts .


id: A10823
author: Robertson, Bartholomew, fl. 1620.
date: 1615.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12855
sentence: 455
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A10823.xml
txt: txt/A10823.txt
title:
  A blovv for the pope, or, A discourse had in S. Giles Church, in Elgen of Murray at a conference with certaine papists, plainely prouing that Peter was neuer head of the Church : with a short register of all the attempts and murthers vpon kings and princes in our time by the persuasion of the Iesuits.

summary:
  A blovv for the pope, or, A discourse had in S. Giles Church, in Elgen of Murray at a conference with certaine papists, plainely prouing that Peter was neuer head of the Church : with a short register of all the attempts and murthers vpon kings and princes in our time by the persuasion of the Iesuits. A blovv for the pope, or, A discourse had in S. Giles Church, in Elgen of Murray at a conference with certaine papists, plainely prouing that Peter was neuer head of the Church : with a short register of all the attempts and murthers vpon kings and princes in our time by the persuasion of the Iesuits.


id: B06285
author: Boswell, William, Sir, d. 1649.
title: A true relation of the Popish-plot against King Charles I and the Protestant religion.
date: 1679.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17081
sentence: 492
flesch: 57
cache: cache/B06285.xml
txt: txt/B06285.txt
summary:
  eng Charles -- I, -- King of England, 1600-1649. First then it is a Maxim most true and undoubted , That a Vacuum in Nature may be as soon allow'd , as that there is any Court of King or Prince where these Jesuits do not swarm and abound , if they can but creep in at the least Creviss .


id: A42313
author: Guild, William, 1586-1657.
date: 1656.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 25321
sentence: 1046
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A42313.xml
txt: txt/A42313.txt
title:
  The noveltie of poperie discovered and chieflie proven by Romanists out of themselves / by William Guild ...

summary:
  * Note that hee calleth all Bishops , Bishops of the Vaive● Call Church , but will haue none call●d Vniversall Bishop : this beeing the difference , ( as their ow●●Salm●ron sh●w●t● ) that the one hath a care of 〈◊〉 good of the whole Church , & vult om●ibus prodesse , the other will bee aboue the whole Church , & folus omnibus preesse . Christ●●dit Co●o●●●● .


id: A32576
author: G. B. C.
date: 1642.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22176
sentence: 574
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A32576.xml
txt: txt/A32576.txt
title:
  Plots, conspiracies and attempts of domestick and forraigne enemies, of the Romish religion against the princes and kingdomes of England, Scotland and Ireland : beginning with the reformation of religion under Qu. Elizabeth, unto this present yeare, 1642 / briefly collected by G.B.C. ; whereunto is added, the present rebellion in Ireland, the civell practises in France against the Protestants, the murthers of Henry the 3d. and Henry the 4th, by the popish French faction.

summary:
  AT the beginning of the raigne of Qu. Elizabeth , Philip the second of Spaine sought to win her to him by Marriage , not doubting to procure a dispensation for the Incest , but was as wisely answered , as he wickedly and craftily intended , that the Queen could not so soon forget her Sisters death , she knowing it to be a part of discretion to keep in hope so potent an Adversary , if he should be incensed by a denyall ( her own Kingdom , by reason of the change of Religion , and the depriving of many Popish Bi●hops , which the blinded people had in some esteem , among many other alterations , being of doubtfull affections ) till she could better provide for her own security . NOt long before this time in Ireland , Thomas Stucley a prodigall , riotous and needy English-man , discontented for that he lost the Stewardship of Wexford , breathes out contumelies against the Queen , and betaketh himselfe to the Pope , with whom he treateth , and b●asteth that he will subdue Ireland with 3000. men , and burne the Queens Navy .


id: A44805
author: Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.
date: 1662.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 23577
sentence: 396
flesch: 40
cache: cache/A44805.xml
txt: txt/A44805.txt
title:
  The rock of ages exalted above Rome's imagined rock on which her church is builded she proved not to be the onely Church of Christ, her corrupt doctrines reproved not to be apostolick, but contrary to the true Church of Christ in the apostles dayes : also divers arguments answered which may convince the papists that they are not the true church wherein a book is also answered called A catechism against all sectaries, newly published by C.M. in the year 1661 / by Francis Howgil.

summary:
  The Rock of Ages exalted above Rome's imagined Rock on which her Church is builded , &c. GReat hath been the Havock and Spoile that the Beast which John saw rise out of the waters , made against them , in destroying them who received not his Mark in their foreheads ; and the cry hath been long , Who is able to make war with the Beast ? and great hath the suffering been ( these many ages ) of the Children of Light , and still is of the Members of the true Church of Christ , which is in God , which hath proceeded from her , who sate as a Queen upon the Waters , which are Nations , Kindreds , Tongues and People , which hath been the seat of Mysterie Babylon , the Mother of Harlots , who hath held out her golden Cup of Fornication , ful of Abomination , false Doctrine and Error which the Nations have drunk of , and the Kings of the Earth have been made drunk with , and all have been in instability , and have reeled and staggered up and down in the dark , in the night of ignorance , and have wildered in the Mysts o● Error , and lost the true Foundation , and are gone from the Rock upon which the true Church is builded , which is neither Peter nor his Successor , but Christ the true Foundation , which abideth sure ; and all that believ in him , and have their minds staid upon him , know settlement and establishment in that which the Gates of Hell prevails not against . Upon him which was revealed unto Peter by the Father , the Son of God , which was the Rock which the Fathers eat of , and drank of , Christ the Rock of ages ; and another Foundation can none lay ( said the Apostle ) then that which is laid already , Christ the Rock and Corner-stone , and not Peter ; for Christ is unchangeable , and abideth for ever , and so was not Peter , though Peter and the rest of the Apostles received power from Christ ; yet in the 22. and 23. verses of the same Chapter , he was gone out of the savour and discerning , and Christ said unto him , Get thee behind me Satan , for thou savourest not the things of God ; and what though it could be proved that Peter was at Rome , a Pastor , an Elder , or a Biship , who fed the Flock , and did feed the Flock , and so might be reckon'd as an Elder , and worthy of Honor in respect of his labour and diligence in the work of Christ ; is the Promise so entailed to Rome or to any place , that the next that succeeds in that place must needs receive the same honor , when he doth not the same work , which is worthy of honor , neither is in the same power ; but this I am sure of , though the Church of Rome lay claim unto Peters Bishoprick , as they say , yet they have not done his work .


id: A42453
author: Falkland, Lucius Cary, Viscount, 1610?-1643.
date: 1674.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 32164
sentence: 927
flesch: 57
cache: cache/A42453.xml
txt: txt/A42453.txt
title:
  The papists bait or their usual method in gaining proselites answered by Charles Gataker ... ; to which is added, a letter of the Lord Viscount Falkland to the same gentleman, much to this present purpose.

summary:
  1. Whether according to the veracity of Gods promises , there were not then to be a Visible Church of the Jewes ? 2. Seeing the Kingdom and Church of the ten tribes pretended to the truth and service of God , as well as the House of David with the Priesthood at Hierusalem , and even that Kingdom and Priesthood were sometime infected with gross Idolatry , and that publickly set up and erected ; I desire to know by what designation a Jew , that was truly inquisitive of the way and means of Salvation , should then discern and discover that Church , in which he might find it , and out of which , he could not , since ( as Christ himself affirms John 4. 22. ) Salvation was then of the Jews ? 3. Whether the Visible Society of the Jewish Nation that was in covenant with God could not teach her Children any error as matter of Religion , that was corruptive of the same , and destructive of Salvation ? 4. If the said Church could teach such errors , how any Jew could be infallibly certain , that the living Oracles committed to that people were not corrupted , or lying legends obstructed under pretence of Holy Scripture .


id: A57500
author: Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680.
date: 1683.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 27814
sentence: 1091
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A57500.xml
txt: txt/A57500.txt
title:
  Rome rhym'd to death being a collection of choice poems, in two parts / written by the E. of R., Dr. Wild, and others of the best modern wits.

summary:
  Now like proud H●man being stretch'd upon The heightned Pegs of vain Ambition , Above Pride's highest Ela , how he took Poor Mordechai's advancement , and could brook Hanging , instead of Honouring ; that Curse Which made him set the Cart before the Horse : Just such was Faux , his baffled hopes bequeath No comforts now , but thoughts of suddain Death . Since it their Salvation o●tains , Makes them Orthodox , with blows and with knocks , And hammers Faith into their Brains .


id: A30394
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1673.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 31514
sentence: 654
flesch: 46
cache: cache/A30394.xml
txt: txt/A30394.txt
title:
  The mystery of iniquity unvailed in a discourse wherein is held forth the opposition of the doctrine, worship, and practices of the Roman Church to the nature, designs and characters of the Christian faith / by Gilbert Burnet ...

summary:
  It is true , they will not hear of th●… harsh word of selling Indulgences , but disguise it with their giving them to such as will offer Alms to the Church ; but really , this whole contrivance is so base●… so carnal , and so unlike the Spirit of Christianity , that to repeat it , is to refute it ▪ Here was a brave device for enriching the Church , when the making great Donations to it , was judged so effectual fo●… delivering out of Purgatory . Another practise yet more base and sordi●… was , the selling of Indulgences and Pardons for money ; certainly here was Simon 's crime committed by the pretende●… Successors of him , who had of old accused him , that thought the gift of God migh●… be purchased with money , and thereupon di●… cast him out of the Church .


id: A44810
author: Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.
date: 1665.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 31194
sentence: 218
flesch: -45
cache: cache/A44810.xml
txt: txt/A44810.txt
title:
  The true rule, judge, and guide of the true church of God discovered, and borne testimony unto what it is, and wherein it consisteth in opposition to the pretended Catholick Church of Rome her rule, foundation, guide, and judge, being returned in answer to Captain Robert Everrand his book, titled An epistle to all the nonconformists ... / by ... Francis Howgil.

summary:
  And whatsoever people or Church ( though they claim infallibility ) that teaches a contrary Doctrine unto this ; we have good reason to suspect it , to be that hasty driving and overdriving spirit that would force a faith , where God hath not given it ; ( not to be the infallible spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ ) of which the Church of Rome hath given a vehement cause of suspition , by their cruelty and tortors they have exercised towards them , who could not receive their Principles and own their Judgment in all things : But R. E. the Lay-Gentleman blinded thy eye , when he made thee call into question the truth of Scripture , and that it proceeded from the infallible Testimony of Gods spirit , and if thou had a certain feeling of the same in thy self , and in thy own Conscience to let this go and make this void as an insufficient ground to receive Christianity upon , & to lean to a prop without thee , and to be judged by men , who have been as fallible and changable in their Judgments as the Moon ; which have assumed the name of Catholick Church , whose Testimony thy Instructer I perceive told thee , ought to be received , concerning what as is pretended to be revealed or not revealed by God , yet all must be obliged to stand to their Judgment though never so repugnant to the Doctrine of Christ , and practice of the Church of Christ in the first Primitive times , truly so called ; yet it is granted that the Church of Christ are the dispersed Members through the World , though not of it , agreeing in one faith , being in the power of God , and being led and guided by the Holy Ghost , their Judgments ought to be received , which cannot ( as lead by the Spirit ) fail , in giving true Judgment in matters of faith , which pertains to Salvation , but as men they may fail , and as erring from the spirit they may fail ; and infallibility is not intailed to the persons of any men , but as they continue in the grace of God , and walk in the spirit , and bring forth the fruits thereof , nor to any place or City , but as they continue in Covenant with God ; for the promise of God was to Jerusalem , and Mount Zion , and to many other places and people in divers Cities , where the glory of God once appeared , but now through their Apostacy and unbelief , and disobedience they are desolate , as to the presence and power of God , and their Sun is set , and they are covered as with the shadow of a Cloud ; but this true Church whereof I have spoken , was seen to fly into the Wilderness for time , times and a half , and that since the Apostles days , and then was she not so visible and universal as she had been before ; and the man child was caught up unto God ; now if thou reckon the Roman Church to be this true Church ; shew the time , times , and half a time , wherein she fled into the Wilderness ; and how long she hath been there , and when was the time of her return , and if ever she was there , how that will hang together with your assertion , that she hath been visible , and so universal this fiften hundred years ; and if this could be proved that Rome hath been so , whether doth it not rather demonstrate her to be the Whore that sat upon the many waters ? which waters are Nations , Kindreds , Tongues and People , and what Church ? instance if thou can , doth lay claim to the Nations , Kindreds , Tongues and People to be yours , and to rule over so many Kings of the Earth , as you lay claim to be universally of your faith , and of your Church , which gives us a shrewd character to believe , that indeed you are mystery Babylon ; besides the blood of the Saints that have been shed under the name of Hereticks , by this visible Catholick Church among the Nations this twelve 100. years , doth give clear evidence that it can be reckoned or imputed unto none but you . But an old Plea comes to my mind , which some of the members of the Church of Rome hath alledged to me in the days of my youth , when I was conversant with them , and among them , in a friendly , neighbourly , and sober discourse , of things of this nature before mentioned ; it was said unto me , the Roman Catholick Church is that Church whereby Christianity hath been conveyed to all Nations , and the great Oraccles thereof delivered unto us , and the Scriptures also came from us , by which you know the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God , and the knowledg thereof came unto all , and all her Children ought to be subject unto her , as the true mother that brought them all forth , and if any went astray either into Heresie , or Schisme , which might not only hurt themselves , but also others ; ought not the Mother in natural love to her Children to correct them , and ought not they to bear her correction , and submit unto it ; and hath not she power to correct her Children when they go astray ? unto which is answered , Christianity that which is truly such , and them whom God will own to be Christians was dispersed through the Nations by the power of God ; and we say , that the Church of Rome hath begotten Christendom into that mould and frame into which they are now cast , more by force and awe then any sound Doctrine ; and as for the Scriptures coming from her , that we deny ; We know they came from the Apostles , and from the Primitive Christians , according to the will of God , and have been preserved to this day , though through many polluted hands they have come ; and we know how much your rage was kindled , that ever it should be Translated into the English Tongue , and many felt the effect of it to the loss of their Lives , as I hope many in England doth well consider : But suppose a true Mother have many Children , and suppose some do swerve and go astray from her precepts , and under pretence of correcting of them she shut them up in Goals , and nasty holes , and afflict them with sundry kind of torments , and at last of all kill them and destroy them ; what Judgment will be given by reasonable Men of such a Mother , but this , that she is become unnatural and cruel , and hard hearted , and degenerated from the nature of a loving and tender Mother , and deserves not to have or ever to have had any Children ; and such a kind of Mother hath your Church been , to all that have dissented from her ; that I may say of her as the Prophet Jeremiah said , ( especially in these latter ages ) the Sea Monsters and Dragons of the Wilderness draw out their breasts to feed their young ones , but the daughter of my people is become cruel .


id: A30330
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1685.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 42562
sentence: 1341
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A30330.xml
txt: txt/A30330.txt
title:
  A collection of several tracts and discourses written in the years 1678, 1679, 1680, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1685 by Gilbert Burnet ; to which are added, a letter written to Dr. Burnet, giving an account of Cardinal Pool's secret power, the history of the power treason, with a vindication of the proceedings thereupon, an impartial consideration of the five Jesuits dying speeches, who were executed for the Popish Plot, 1679.

summary:
  But I must again and again repeat , what I often told you in discourse ; That no Member of that Church can thorowly understand and believe the Principles of it , and be a good Subject even to a King of his own Perswasion : If then there be such reasons offered them , for susspecting foul dealing from their Priests and Church , as would make them suspect an Attorney , Physician , or any other person with whom they were to deal , they will be prepared to hear reason ; which is all that we desire : and upon this Head these following Considerations may be laid before them .


id: A69679
author: Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.
date: 1679.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 37394
sentence: 2221
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A69679.xml
txt: txt/A69679.txt
title:
  Popery, or, The principles & positions approved by the Church of Rome (when really believ'd and practis'd) are very dangerous to all and to Protestant kings and supreme powers, more especially pernicious, and inconsistent with that loyalty, which (by the law of nature and scripture) is indispensably due to supreme powers, in a letter to a person of honor / by T. Ld Bishop of Lincoln.

summary:
  1661. &c. a So Bellarm●●● , Longas à Coriolano , Rives , &c. b Corpus Juris Canonici Lugduni . 1661. 2. That the Pope ( as Pope ) has TEMPORAL POWER .


id: A70152
author: Guild, William, 1586-1657.
date: 1656.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 52938
sentence: 2602
flesch: 75
cache: cache/A70152.xml
txt: txt/A70152.txt
title:
  An ansvver to a popish pamphlet called the touch-stone of the reformed gospell. made speciallie out of themselves. By William Guild, D.D. and preacher of Gods word.

summary:
  First , That the Impudencie and malice of this Pamphleter beside his Ignorance , is such , that to make the Protestant profession the more odious to his Proselyts , hee would charge our Profession with such Doctrines and Tenets , which we never taught nor owned , So that whil he fights against such , he beats the wind and fights onelie with his owne shaddow , A few Instances in place of many are these . As for his references to places of Scripture .


id: A44790
author: Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.
date: 1661.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 55246
sentence: 854
flesch: 32
cache: cache/A44790.xml
txt: txt/A44790.txt
title:
  The glory of the true church, discovered, as it was in its purity in the primitive time also, a manifestation how and when the apostacy came, and how long it hath continued in the Church of Rome, proved to be in it, because she differs in doctrin & practice from the Church of Christ in the Apostles dayes : published for this end, that people may be informed, and their understandings opened to discern of the times and seasons, and see the difference between the lambs wife and the mother of harlots / by one who desires that all may come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved, and walk in the light of the Lord, Francis Howgill.

summary:
  And all these Temples , Bells , Hour-glasses , Pulpits , & Cushons , Altars , Tables , and Founts , which are things that pertain to them that locks they are come out of the Apostacy ; but the Spiritual minded sees over them , and beyond them , and before these things ; And also sees through the Spirit of Prophesie and time when they shall be no more adored , worshipped and honoured ; But God shall be feared in the hearts of the Sons of men , and glory shall be given to him , and he shall be worshiped in Spirit and in Truth as he was in the Primitive times , when the Beast and the false Prophet , and them that wrought Miracles before him , and all they that have cryed who is able to make war with the Beast , and have cryed worship him , All must be taken alive ; Remember that ( alive ) in their strength , and cast into the Lake , and the Mother of Harlors shall be made desolate , her Cup of Fornication thrown under foot ; The Kings of the Earth shall deny it , and to give their strength any longer to the Beast ; and then shall that be fulfilled , Rejoce ye Prophets and holy men of God , and ye that have suffered , for the hour of his Judgement is come , and as she hath served the Saints , so shall she be served , and rewarded double , and the day hastens , and the times and seasons we see and know as God hath made them manifest . But to come to the reformed Churches so called , and there is so many Officers and names , but few that do accord with the Apostles times either in name or nature ; As Metropolitan Bishops , Arch-bishops , Lord-bishops , we heard not of Lord Timothy , or Lord Titus Bishops , before mentioned ; but to come on to other Orders , Arch-deacons , Deans and Chapters , Prebends , and these must attend on some old superstitious Buildings called Cathedrals or Ministers , and there performs a service somewhat like the former , & these are injoyned their service like the Levites and Priests of old by turns and course , as once in a month or two it may be , and have a hundred or two hundred pounds in the year for the same , and hardly stir from thence till they die , except some greater advance offer it self ; also Commissaries , Procters , Parotters and these are subservient to the former : then Chancellors , Vice-chancellors , Doctors of Divinity , Batchelors , of Divinity , Doctors of Art , Masters of Art , Batchelors of Art , Graduates , under-graduates , and these belong to the former ; then Prelates , Parsons ; Vicars , Priests , Curates and Church wardens , all which titles and names , and Officers , if they be but compared with the Scripture , there will be hardly any parallel either concerning office , work , or Doctrine ; and notwithstanding all these orders and sorts who are fitted by humane learning or natural study , though divers years exercised therein , are not skilled in the word of righteousnesse , neither hath the tongue of the learned to administer a word in season to the weary , nor to turn the sinner from his sins ; and thus the form of things , titles and names are holden up , but who seeks after the power of God , or to be made able Ministers of the Spirit .


id: A71330
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 66956
sentence: 1221
flesch: 38
cache: cache/A71330.xml
txt: txt/A71330.txt
title:
  A preservative against popery. [Parts 1-2.] being some plain directions to unlearned Protestants, how to dispute with Romish priests, the first part / by Will. Sherlock ...

summary:
  But though we believe such things , when they are revealed by God , which Natural Reason could never have taught us , and which Natural Reason does not see the depths and mysteries of ; and therefore do not stint our Faith , and confine it within the narrow bounds of Natural Reason ; yet we use our Reason to distinguish a true from a counterfeit Revelation , and we use Reason to understand a Revelation ; and we Reason and Argue from revealed Principles , as we do from the Principles of Natural Knowledge : As from that Natural Principle , that there is but one God , we might conclude , without a Revelation , that we must Worship but one God : so from that revealed Doctrine of one Mediator between God and man , we may as safely conclude , that we must make our Applications , and offer up our Prayers and Petitions to God , onely by this one Mediator ; and so in other cases . And this can be known onely by Revelation ; for Reason cannot discover it , because it depends not upon any necessary Reason , but on the free and arbitrary appointment of God : as St. Paul tells us , That as no man knows the things of a man , but the spirit of man , that is in him ; so no man knoweth the things of God , but the spirit of God : That is , as no man can tell the secret thoughts and purposes of a man , nor how he will determine himself in matters of his own free choice and election :


