        item: #1 of 7
          id: A52038
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: An expedient to preserve peace and amity, among dissenting brethren. By a brother in Christ
        date: 1647
       words: 15645
      flesch: 43
     summary: To this I answer ▪ That for the substance of this government , wee have the infallible word of God , whereof neither part doubteth ; for the frame and circumstances thereof , we have also the word of man as infallible , as mans can be , for that we may take upon good trust , to be morally infallible , which proceeds from men , who neither deceive , nor are deceived . There were also other Lawes , which God prescribed by his servant Moses , to the people of Jsrael , politicke and Iudiciall Lawes , for preserving humane society , and governing the Common-wealth ; and Ceremoniall Lawes , for the outward manner and forme of his publike worship ; for performance whereof , he ordained divers Sacrifices and Sacrificers ; allotting maintainance for them both ▪ But when the time fore-appointed came , that God would restore man , to that happinesse , he had deservedly lost , by the sin of the first Adam ; he sent his onely Son Iesus Christ the second Adam , in the flesh ; who after he had manifested his divine power to the world , by his Doctrine and miracles , did by his last words on the Crosse , and by the first visible testimony of the power of his death finish and consummate the Law , and rent from the top to the bottome , the vaile of separation ; by both declaring , the necessity of types , and ceremonies , places and times of worship differences of people , Sacrifices and Sacrificers , fixed and impropriated maintainance ; for any of them , was no longer to bee continued strictly in the letter , although a morall equity shadowed by them was to be perpetuall .
    keywords: bee; brethren; christ; church; civill; conscience; god; government; hath; law; liberty; light; magistrate; man; peace; power; things; word; worship
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        item: #2 of 7
          id: A59696
      author: Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649.
       title: Wine for Gospel wantons, or, Cautions against spirituall drunkenness being the brief notes of a sermon preached at Cambridge in New-England, upon a day of publick fasting and prayer throughout the colony / by that reverend servant of the Lord, Mr. Thomas Shepard, deceased.
        date: 1668
       words: 6133
      flesch: 69
     summary: It is a fearfull Judgement of God , when the Lord shall give men their contentment in this way . 3. It manifests it self in a spirit of Rage 〈…〉 against another , especially when there is no reason for it 〈…〉 Lord shall give men up to a spirit of rage , and division , an 〈…〉 , and the Lord leaves men here , even his own dear people that shall one day meet in Heaven , no means , no friends can perswade them to agree , but they are given up of God unto a spirit of wrangling and contention ; this is that which goes before the calamity of a people , Mica . 7.4 .
    keywords: doth; drunkenness; god; hath; lord; men; people; spirit; wine
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        item: #3 of 7
          id: A66428
      author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
       title: A true representation of the absurd and mischievous principles of the sect, commonly known by the name of Muggletonians
        date: 1694
       words: 11287
      flesch: 81
     summary: Finished their Testimony ; that is , the Doctrine of Truth , which is , that Jesus Christ is God the Father , Son , and Spirit , &c. The Beast ; that is , the Spirit of Reason in the Lord Mayor , Aldermen , and Jury . 4. Because it discovers all irrational Opinions concerning God , &c. 5. Because it allows no Man to murther another , to cut off the head Magistrate , &c. 6. Because it denies all Power , Spiritual or Natural , to be capable to act without a continued Light to proceed from a Spiritual Body , &c. 7. It 's from an unerring Spirit , because they were induced to write a Volume as large as the Bible , and as pure a Language as that is , without looking in any writing whatsoever .
    keywords: commission; glass; god; look; man; scripture; spirit
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        item: #4 of 7
          id: A67894
      author: D'Ewes, Simonds, Sir, 1602-1650.
       title: The primitive practise for preserving truth. Or An historicall narration, shewing what course the primitive church anciently, and the best reformed churches since have taken to suppresse heresie and schisme. And occasionally also by way of opposition discovering the papall and prelaticall courses to destroy and roote out the same truth; and the judgements of God which have ensued upon persecuting princes and prelates. / By Sir Simonds D'Ewes.
        date: 1645
       words: 27603
      flesch: 32
     summary: This Heroick action of the Turkish Monarch , was not much short of that policie of one of the ancient Christian Emperours , who having his Army mixed of Christians and Pagans , and desiring to discover who of the first were little better then those of the latter , made , like another Jehu : a publike Declaration for the restoring of Paganisme , upon which , divers of the Christian Commanders shewing themselves forward to desert the truth , and to follow the stream and time , he presently reproved and cashier'd them ; alledging , that all such were unworthy to serve any Prince that had proved unfaithfull to that divine Majesty , by which Princes rule . The second , in the manner of his first wound , which was given him in his throat , and caused immediately the bloud so abundantly to stream out of his mouth , as he never had time once to call on God for mercy or forgivenesse , but spent the last minute of his life , in the revenging himself on his murtherers .
    keywords: bloud; charles; christians; church; day; death; divers; duke; england; france; god; godly; gods; hee; henry; john; king; kingdome; life; men; papists; paris; persecution; pope; popish; prelates; prince; protestants; queen; religion; romish; second; sect; self; time; true; truth; yeare; yeer
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        item: #5 of 7
          id: A83525
      author: Edwards, Thomas, 1599-1647,
       title: To the High Court of Parliament. A dilemma, from a parallel. Humbly presented. Published according to order.
        date: 1646
       words: 4150
      flesch: 56
     summary: This all men are bound to beleeve , though they see the Protestant Religion , and the Professors thereof miserably reproached , and in danger of being destroyed by a vitious and malignant party of Brownists , Anabaptists , and other Sectaries , ( the principall Ring-leaders of whom , have too great a power , even with some Members in both our Houses of Parliament ) our Authority despised , and as much as in them lies , taken from us , and reviled in Pulpits and presses by persons immediately in their protection , and recommendation . They may read in Ecclesiasticall Stories , what hath befallen Princes for not serving the Lord in feare , and kissing his Sonne ; and they see before their eyes the many evills that hath befallen the King , and the great straights to which he hath been reduced for favouring too much the Popish , and Prelaticall party against the mind and humble desires of both his Kingdomes : and can particular persons think ( who are not Kings , but under that title of Judges ) that they can prosper long in standing for a Sectarian faction against the mind of both Kingdomes , and that the Kingdomes will not see and desire to understand how it comes about ? and by whose meanes it is , that we having taken a Covenant for uniformity in Doctrine , Government , &c. and for extirpating of Heresie , Schisme , and the Parliament , having declared in some Declarations and Remonstrances against Anabaptists , Brownists , preaching of men not ordained , and against leaving particular persons and Congregations to their owne Liberty ; that yet all things should be done quite contrary , with an high hand ?
    keywords: declaration; houses; kings; members; parliament; persons; tcp; text; things
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        item: #6 of 7
          id: A85551
      author: Graunt, John, of Bucklersbury.
       title: Truths victory against heresie; all sorts comprehended under these ten mentioned: 1. Papists, 2. Familists, 3. Arrians, 4. Arminians, 5. Anabaptists, 6. Separatists, 7. Antinomists, 8. Monarchists. 9. Millenarists, 10. Independents. As also a description of the truth, the Church of Christ, her present suffering estate for a short time yet to come; and the glory that followeth at the generall resurrection. / By I.G. a faithfull lover and obeyer of the truth. Imprimatur, John Downame.
        date: 1645
       words: 36536
      flesch: 48
     summary: Wherefore it appeares plainly you do not understand the Apostles meaning ; And that you may consider the Text , look again , and it will teach you , which saith , this man was counted worthy of more glory then Moses , in as much as he who hath builded the house , hath more honour then the house ; and again , Christ is faithfull , as a son over his own house , to purchase and redeem , to call , to make , to blesse , to sanctifie and save it eternally ; and this spirituall house , this heavenly Tabernacle is that which the Apostle proves Christ to exceed Moses in even in the substance it self , which all Moses work did but witnesse to , and figure forth , and therefore the Apostle makes the Sons house to be the Saints , the called and justified of God , whose house are wee , &c. that is , all Gods elect regenerated ones ; wherefore , as the Holy Ghost saith , To day , saith he , if you will hear his voyce , harden not your hearts , that is , repent , that your sins may be done away , this is Christs way and method to build his House , his Church , to make them spirituall by regeneration , and of these spirituall sons to build his everlasting Tabernacle ; and thus Christ the Lord , the Son , the great Master-builder , is the high Priest and Minister of the holy sanctuary , the true Tabernacle which God doth build or pitch , and not man , Heb. 8. 2. and in this sense every where doth the Holy Ghost understand the Sons House , or Church of Christ ; the Temple of God is holy , saith the Apostle , which Temple yee are , 1 Cor. They loved not their lives unto the death ; hee said unto them on his right hand , Come yee blessed of my Father , &c. and abundance the like Scriptures , by which terms , either sex is to be understood : now where the Scriptures set forth unto us the Saints and Church of Christ in the Feminine gender , under the name and title of a woman , then it notes unto us her fruitfulnesse , in bringing forth unto God , as well as unto men .
    keywords: apostle; christ; church; doctrine; doth; earth; god; gods; grace; hath; hee; holy; jesus; john; kingdome; life; lord; man; men; power; prophet; rev; saints; saith; scriptures; spirit; spirituall; things; thy; time; truth; wee; word
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        item: #7 of 7
          id: A90720
      author: Palmer, George, b. 1596 or 7.
       title: Sectaries vnmasked and confuted. By the treating upon divers points of doctrine in debate betwixt the Presbyterialists and sectarists, Anabaptists, Independents, and Papists. / By George Palmer wel-wisher to a warrantable uniformity in godly religious exercises.
        date: 1647
       words: 29135
      flesch: 61
     summary: ●●e Indepen●●nts ( many of ●●em ) doe fear ●●at we shall ●●ve no Lawes 〈◊〉 punish Ido●●ters as God ●●●h comman●ed . not every particular man or woman should bee converted to Christ ; but that the Nation should in the more generall profession embrace the doctrine of Christ ; and many of them in truth of heart , as the Jews did at that time , when David the kingly Prophet spake those words now quoted out of the 33 Psalm aforesaid , though there be many rebellious Corahs , and other sinfull murmuring people and wicked transgressors amongst these , as there was amongst those Jews , as they were in the way to Canaan land ( the type of heaven . ) And now me thinks this Monster is stopped in his aime and hopes ; I therefore now will proceed to another Point , as I have proved it by Reason and Scripture , that divisions in the divine exercises of our Religion , is naught and dangerous to the state of Christians : And also that it is a great happinesse to bee united together in a warrantable uniformity in the Divine ordinances of our Religion ; Now I come to prove more particularly what speciall decrees and ordinances the Apostles did ordain and appoint for the Churches of God in the Primitive time , the better to accommodate them in a warrantable uniformity , and thus I prove it , Acts 15. 23. to 31 , & 4● .
    keywords: apostle; bee; christ; church; doe; god; good; hath; hee; law; lord; man; men; people; point; preachers; things; time; truth; ver; viz; way; wee; words; yea; ● ●
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