# bib

id: A95368
author: Church of England. Diocese of Ely. Bishop (1684-1690 : Turner)
date: 1686
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words: 1228
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title:
  Salutem & officia in Christo Jesu. Good brother, Finding my self obliged by his Majesty's most gracious letters patents, for the relief of the French that have lately taken refuge in this kingdom to give a particular recommendation to the clergy of my diocese, for the advancement of so pious and charitable work, ...

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). [2+] p. s.n., [London : 1686] Title taken from caption title and opening lines of text.


id: A43731
author: Hide, Edmund.
date: 1655
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mime: application/xml
words: 7105
sentence: 97
flesch: 30
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title:
  The naked mans peace is obedience in a word to the magistrates, priests and people. To which is annexed the will of dead living, and living dead man, now called Nicholas Keate, with a word in generall to all sorts. Written by me Edmund Hide.

summary:
  Now to you my Brethren that are thus made by God , and are become partakers of the godly nature , do I direct this copy of my own hand writing , and sure it is , that my heart and hand is guided by a power above what the world doth call meum & tuum , otherwise I should say , my house , my lands , my goods , which are proper unto me by the Laws of men , and I should be like the world , having a wife and relations ; but now I am as if I had none , and use them as I do the world , which is as if I used it not ; the Lord is now come to prove you , whether you be dead unto the world , with its wayes and fashions , traditions and customes , for doubtless I am the house of God where judgment is begun , and although I have had many tribulations , afflictions , and fierce trials , yet I expect many more before I enter into the Lords rest ; I dare not judg any man for keeping a competent maintenance , considering the worlds cruelty ; but an Heir of heaven , that is a chosen out of the world , dareth not claim the priviledg of mans Law , to withhold any thing that should relieve his brothers necessity ; I write not this unto you to shame you , or boastingly , as if I , as a man were better or freer then other men , because I give so liberally , but I tell you , as I told you before , the Lord is the giver and taker , it is not my will nor goods , nor my gift as I am a man , neither ought any to receive it as man willing his own will , but when the will of God is done in man , and mans will is no more , then the creature is new , and his old covetous self-seeking heart being done away , he will receive nothing but for his necessities , and that he ought freely to have given him ; and as the Lord hath freely given me a new heart , so let it be freely manifested , that the Sower and the Reaper may rejoyce together , and how can it be otherwayes , God being in us of a truth ; but you my friends that have made your vaunts , and brags , and boasted of your freedome in and to God , and that if he would require and call for your lives and estates , you would be free to sacrifice whatsoever he would call for : Consider , hath the Lord spared yours and you from the hardship that others are put upon , if I speak after the manner of men , it is my own condition ; terrible things , so as to flesh and blood are required and imposed upon me by the Lord , he hath snatched my life and livelihood from me , and stripped me stark naked , not suffering one friend to succour me for the present , but hath exposed my naked body to the devouring teeth of wilde savage beasts in a barren wildernesse ; neverthelesse , the Spirit of the Lord doth compel me to part with all , and obey , as aforesaid . Therefore a word to all ye people that are led by your Priests , as may be witnessed by your following them , there is pride in the Priest , and also in the people , covetousness in the Priest , so in the people , envy in the Priest , so in the people , the Priest his communion is propriety , so is the peoples , the Priest hath a clamorous tongue , so have the people , the Priest denieth the coming of Christ to be the Resurrection of God in man , so do the people , the Priest denieth a true Judgment day of God to be come upon the Man of Sin and unrighteousness , and that Christ will not bring us to the perfect life of holinesse here , and so do the people , the Priests have not laid down their lives for Christ , neither have the people ; for if the Magistrates , Priests , and Lawyers had no greater rewards of men for following the world and its wayes , then they should have for following Christ and his wayes , it 's possible we should have neither Magistrates , Priests , nor Lawyers , to supply the places they now stand in ; therefore ,


id: A26938
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1671
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words: 8015
sentence: 270
flesch: 62
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title:
  How far holinesse is the design of Christianity where the nature of holiness and morality is opened, and the doctrine of justification, imputation of sin and righteousness, &c. partly cleared, and vindicated from abuse : in certain propositions, returned to an unknown person, referring to Mr. Fowlers treatise on this subject / by Richard Baxter.

summary:
  As elsewhere I have often said , we must carefully distinguish between the Primitive or Primary and Natural part of Holiness ; which is GODLINESSE or our LOVE to God as such ; and the mediate remedying , subservient Part , which is Faith in Christ , or Christianity as such . The Wisdome , and Goodness of God are wonderfully glorified , in providing this incomprehensible way of our Redemption , that by it Justice and Holiness may be as fully glorified , the Truth of God vindicated , the Honour and Authority of the Law and Lawgiver preserved , and sin disgraced and confounded , by the Sacrifice , Merit and Intercession of Christ , as if all sinners themselves had been condemned .


id: A46244
author: Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685?
date: 1660
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words: 8310
sentence: 342
flesch: 77
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title:
  Divinity and morality in robes of poetry composed for the recreations of the courteous and ingenious by the author Tho. Jordan.

summary:
  VVhat private Plots , or publike Power dare flye at The Lord of Hosts ? whose battaile-word is — Fiat VVhat is mans strength if thou dost not renew a Right heart in him to do — Voluntas tua , VVe are but Men , none but an Angel's fellow Can lead a life on Earth — Sicut in Caelo , The Pious Poore complain , they who refresh 'um , Shall , when they want , from thee have — ita etiam He that would Heaven gaine must not defer a Work of such Piety , whilst hee 's — In terra . May all those desperate distinctions that Have made our Island much unfortunate , Be so composed by Religious Laws , That rigour may no more dispute the Cause : For ( I confess to my intelligence , That hath relation but to common sense ) It is a Paradox , that all the wise Holy and Learned in large Misteries , Of Church and State , that in convention sit Crown'd with the Genius of a Nation's wit , With all the aids that Art and Nature can Contract within the circuit of man , Should flight the Helm and let the peoples fate Be left unto the rageing stormes of state ; Such is a Civil War , whose fury vents Artillery , instead of Arguments ; As if the Holy Ghost ( Spirit of Love ) That once descended like a Turtle Dove : Should now resigne his function , and appeare Like a devouring Vulture : may this yeare Register no such Apparitions , but May all tranquility ( that God e're put Into the Power of Vnion , on a Nation Receiv'd to Grace by true Humiliation ) Fall on your Souls , may a New Spring of tears Renew your Graces , Health , Wealth , Beauty , Years : And may your fair Posterity nere know The wild Confusion of our moderne woe ; May Peace and verity ( conjoyn'd in Glory )


id: A96110
author: Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.
date: 1657
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mime: application/xml
words: 10130
sentence: 551
flesch: 81
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title:
  The upright mans character and crown. Preached in a sermon at Pauls before the right Honourable the Lord Major, and the aldermen of the City of London, March 29. 1657. / By Thomas Watson minister of Stephens Walbrook London.

summary:
  The Greek word is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , that they may be set upon a Theatre , and have Spectators ; when they give almes they blow a trumpet , Mat. 6. 2. and their hearts were as hollow as their trumpet ; they did it that they might have glory of men , verse 2. It was not giving almes , but selling them ; they sold them for praise and applause : Verily I say unto you ( saith Christ ) they have their reward . Unsound Christians are ex salice , like willows which will bend every way , a good Christian is like the palm tree which grows upright , Jerem. 10. 5. when we let men {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , Lord it over our consciences ; if they bid us break our vows , sell our Religion , we are ductile , and malleable to any thing , like hot iron which will be beat into any forme ; like wooll , that will receive any die , this argues much unsoundnesse of heart .


id: A35983
author: Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.
title: Observations vpon Religio medici occasionally written by Sir Kenelme Digby, Knight.
date: 1643
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words: 12956
sentence: 305
flesch: 49
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summary:
  What should I say of his making so particular a narration of personall things , and private thoughts of his owne ; the knowledge whereof cannot much conduce to any mans betterment ? ( which I make account is the chiefe end of his writing this discourse ) As where he speaketh of the soundnesse of his body , of the course of his dyet , of the coolenesse of his blood at the Summer Solstice of his age , of his neglect of an Epitaph : how long he hath lived or may live what Popes , Emperours , Kings , Grand-Seigniors , he hath beene contemporary unto , and the like : would it not be thought that hee hath a speciall good opinion of himselfe , ( and indeed hee hath reason ) when he maketh such great Princes the Land-markes in the Chronology of himselfe ? Surely if hee were to write by retaile the particulars of his owne Story and life , it would bee a notable Romanze ; since he telleth us in one totall summe , it is a continued miracle of thirty yeares . But if it had , I beleeve his naturall parts are such as he might have kept the chaire from most men I know : for even where hee roveth widest , it is with so much wit and sharpenesse , as putteth me in mind of a great mans censure upon Ioseph Scaligers Cyclometrica ( a matter he was not well versed in ) that hee had rather erre so ingeniously as he did , then hit upon Truth in that heavy manner as the Iesuite , his antagonist stuffeth his Bookes .


id: A09403
author: Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.
date: 1604
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mime: application/xml
words: 20047
sentence: 540
flesch: 60
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title:
  Hepieíkeia: or, a treatise of Christian equitie and moderation. Deliuered publikely in lectures by M. W. Perkins, and now published by the consent of his assignes in Cambridge by a preacher of the word

summary:
  As this publike Equitie principally stands , in the moderation of the laws of men ; so it descends more specially euē to all the publike actions of a mans life : so that by the rule and direction of this Equitie , thus described , men may know how to guide themselues , in suing bondes , and taking forfeitures : and how men may with good conscience , carrie themselues in suretyships , in taking of fines , in letting of leases , and in all manner of mutuall bargains , betwixt man and man. A notable example hereof we haue in Salomon , of whome God saith to Dauid , If he sinne , I will chastise him with the rod of men : as if he shold haue said , I could in my iustice , for Salomons great sinnes , beate him with scorpions , and bring him to nothing , by my heauie hand , but I will consider , he is my child , and but a man : therefore will I lay vpon him no more , then the nature of man is able to beare .


id: A26939
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1682
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mime: application/xml
words: 21130
sentence: 732
flesch: 68
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title:
  How to do good to many, or, The publick good is the Christians life directions and motives to it, intended for an auditory of London citizens, and published for them, for want of leave to preach them / by Richard Baxter.

summary:
  It were as good have no Life , as not to use it : And why doth God make men good , but that they may do good , even in their duty to God , themselves , and one another ? 4. It is Gods great mercy to mankind that he will use us all in doing good to one another ; And it s a great part of his wise Government of the world , that in societies men should be tyed to it , by the sense of every particular mans necessity ; And it is a great honor to those that he maketh his Almoners , or Servants to convey his gifts to others ; God bids you give nothing but what is his , and no otherwise your own than as his Stewards . I. One , and the worst , is Malignity , which is an Enmity to Spiritual good : For who will promote that which he is against ? II. Another is unbelief of Gods Commands and Promises ; when men take not themselves to be his Subject and Stewards , nor can take his promise for good security for their reward . III. Another is the forementioned sin of Selfishness , which makes a mans self to be his chiefest love and care , and more to him than Christs interest , or the Church or Kingdom .


id: A40653
author: Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
title: The cause and cure of a vvounded conscience by Tho. Fuller ...
date: 1647
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mime: application/xml
words: 22430
sentence: 1202
flesch: 79
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summary:
  Y●…s , to teach us to pitty and pray for those that have afflicted Consciences , not like the wicked , * who persecute those whom God hath smitten , and talke to the griefe of such whom he hath wounded . In all other afflictions , man encountreth only with man , and in the worst temptations , only with Sathan , but in a wounded Conscience , he enters the Lists immediately with God himselfe .


id: A29868
author: Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.
title: Religio Medici
date: 1642
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words: 30868
sentence: 529
flesch: 36
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summary:
  Schismes , or Errors , of which at present , I shall injure Truth to say I have no taint or tincture ; I must confesse my greener studies have beene polluted with two or three , not any begotten in the latter Cen●uries , but old and obsolete , such as could never have been revived , but by such extravagant and irregular heads as mine ; for indeed Heresies perish not with their Authors , but like the River Arethusa , though they lose their currents in one place , they rise up againe in another : one generall Councell is not able to extirpate one single Heresie , it may be canceld for the present , but revolution of time and the like aspects from heaven , will restore it , when it will flourish till it be condemned againe ; for as though there were a M●te●p●ucho●is , and the soule of one man passed into another , opinions do find after-revolutions , men and mindes like those that first begat them . There is i● these workes of nature , which seeme to puzzle reason , something Divine , and hat● more in it then the eye of a common spectator doth discover .


id: A61980
author: Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663.
title: Nine cases of conscience occasionally determined by Robert Sanderson.
date: 1678
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mime: application/xml
words: 39428
sentence: 846
flesch: 45
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summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.


id: A41450
author: Goodman, John, 1625 or 6-1690.
date: 1674
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mime: application/xml
words: 54172
sentence: 1349
flesch: 52
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title:
  A serious and compassionate inquiry into the causes of the present neglect and contempt of the Protestant religion and Church of England with several seasonable considerations offer'd to all English Protestants, tending to perswade them to a complyance with and conformity to the religion and government of this church as it is established by the laws of the Kingdom.

summary:
  But most strange of all , that Enemies abroad should make men quarrel with their Friends at home ; that Iron and Steel , Wounds and Blows should make men tender-conscienced ; that those who can find in their hearts to shed the blood of Men , of Christians , and of their Brethren without remorse , should be so queasie stomached as to scruple every punctilio and nicety in Ecclesiastick matters . All therefore that can be allowed in the case is , That by reason of such a mans unhappy circumstances , his disobedience will then be only a sin of infirmity , which is pittyable amongst men upon consideration of common humanity , and is pardonable with God as other errors are upon a general repentance .


id: A41441
author: Goodman, John, 1625 or 6-1690.
title: The old religion demonstrated in its principles, and described in the life and practice thereof
date: 1684
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words: 54835
sentence: 1003
flesch: 38
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summary:
  But all these men , as they do too palpably betray they have no love to Religion , nor no desire it should be true : so they evidently discover that they neither understand what satisfaction is fit for God to give in these matters , or for man to require ; nor do they consider what the nature of Virtue and Religion will admit of , no nor do they understand themselves so well as to know what motives will work upon men ; nor lastly , have they applied their minds to take a just estimate of the value and efficacy of these motives of hopes and fear which it pleases God to set before them . Forasmuch as it is evident , that the approving a mans self to God , and the taking care of Eternity , are such weighty and important affairs , that they must needs require the greatest composure of thoughts , and the utmost intention of our minds ; and can neither be worthily taken in hand , nor much less pursued as they ought , in such a light and jolly humour as the custom of tipling doth ordinarily put men into ; for that relaxes a mans thoughts , and fills his spirit with froth and levity ; it renders the mind of a man so airy and trifling , that he becomes transported with a jest , and diverted by every impertinence ; it banishes sollicitude , and puts him besides his guard of caution and circumspection ; a mans head in such a case is impatient of weighty considerations , incapable of grave deliberations ; his thoughts are fluctuating and uncertain , he comes to no stable resolution , nor can he make any constant progress ; and surely such a temper cannot make a fit soil for Religion to take root in , or to thrive upon .


id: A26306
author: Abbadie, Jacques, 1654-1727.
date: 1695
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mime: application/xml
words: 65275
sentence: 1569
flesch: 50
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title:
  The art of knowing one-self, or, An enquiry into the sources of morality written originally in French, by the Reverend Dr. Abbadie.

summary:
  I confess , Reason of it self is capable of ●eaching us to beware how we injure our Health , and become our own Enemies , thro' Excesses of Debauchery ; but this Consideration does not lead us very far , since Intemperance consists not simply in Excess of Plea●ure , but also in making even but a moderate Use of forbidden Pleasure . Prin●iple , and to set out it self in its native and ●al Hue.


id: A29880
author: Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.
title: Religio medici
date: 1682
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mime: application/xml
words: 67963
sentence: 1876
flesch: 56
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summary:
  34 These are certainly the Magisterial and master pieces of the Creator , the Flower or ( as we may say ) the best part of nothing , actually existing , what we are but in hopes , and probability ; we are onely that amphibious piece between a corporal and spiritual Essence , that middle form that links those two together , and makes good the Method of God and Nature , that jumps not from extreams , but unites the incompatible distances by some middle and participating natures : that we are the breath and similitude of God , it is indisputable , and upon record of holy Scripture ; but to call our selves a Microcosm , or little World , I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick , till my neer judgement and second thoughts told me there was a real truth therein : for first we are a rude mass , and in the rank of creatures , which onely are , and have a dull kind of being not yet priviledged with life , or preferred to sense or reason ; next we live the life of Plants , the life of Animals , the life of Men , and at last the life of Spirits , running on in one mysterious nature those five kinds of existences , which comprehend the creatures not onely of the World , but of the Universe : thus is man that great and true Amphibium , whose nature is disposed to live not onely like other creatures in divers elements , but in divided and distinguished worlds : for though there be but one to sense , there are two to reason ; the one visible , the other invisible , whereof Moses seems to have left description , and of the other so obscurely , that some parts thereof are yet in controversie . Men that look no farther than their outsides , think health an appurtenance unto life , and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick ; but I that have examined the parts of man , and know upon what tender filaments that Fabrick hangs , do wonder that we are not always so ; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death , do thank my God that we can die but once .


id: A41637
author: Gouge, Thomas, 1605-1681.
date: 1661
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mime: application/xml
words: 76527
sentence: 2808
flesch: 70
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title:
  Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...

summary:
  I. Begin with God , by seeking unto him by Prayer , as for the pardon of thy sin● , and supply of all needful graces , so for his blessing upon thy lawful pains and endeavours , for as the Apostle speaketh , By the Word of God and Prayer all things are sanctified , and therefore it must needs be an unsanctified way and course to begin any thing without first seeking unto God by Prayer for a blessing ; for indeed it is his blessing alone that maketh rich , and that causeth any thing we take in hand to thrive and prosper ; which Moses acknowledgeth , where speaking to the people of Israel , he saith , It is the Lord that giveth thee power to get wealth . 3 To swear ra●hly is to swear lightly , and frequently , in our familiar talk and discourse ; this , though it be a common and ordinary sin , indeed too too common and ordinary , yet it is a most grievous Sin , and a sin that crieth loud in the ears of God for vengeance .


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  & aux hommes la liberte que le droit des gens leur laisse à fait tant de progres depuis trois cens & quelques annees qu'il


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  ne puisse perir que par la corruption de dedans , & par la dissolution de parties qui composent un corps si


