item: #1 of 261
          id: A02862
      author: Hayward, John, Sir, 1564?-1627.
       title: A reporte of a discourse concerning supreme power in affaires of religion Manifesting that this power is a right of regalitie, inseparably annexed to the soueraigntie of euery state: and that it is a thing both extreamely dangerous, and contrarie to the vse of all auncient empires and commonwealths, to acknowledge the same in a forraine prince.
        date: 1606.0
       words: 19542
      flesch: 74
     summary: First , for that it setleth obe●tence and quiet within the state ; being a bridle to retaine men in order and in awe : for so Cyrus reasoneth in Xenophon c : If all men should be religiously affected they would beare themselues more iust and vpright in cariage , both among themselues and towards him . And so Valerius hath written : f Empires haue not thought much to submit themselues to sacred seruice , supp●sing to obtaine the rule of humane affaires , if they were we and constantly seruiceable in diuine .
    keywords: able; aboue; abraham; absolute; acknowledge; actions; aegyptians; affaires; affirmeth; alexander; alwaies; apostles; aristotle; armes; assured; auncient; authoritie; beare; bee; best; better; betweene; bin; bishops; boniface; books; c. de; canon; cap; cause; ceremonies; certaine; characters; charge; charles; chiefe; christian; church; cicero; citie; ciuill; common; consent; constantine; constantinople; constitution; contrarie; councell; countries; crowne; dangerous; death; decad; decrees; degree; difference; dignitie; direction; discourse; diuers; diuine; doe; doth; duke; early; ecclesiasticall; eebo; emperour; empire; end; english; epist; esse; euery; exercise; externall; fashion; fifth; forme; forraine; foundation; fourth; furie; generall; giuen; giuing; god; gods; good; gouernment; gratian; great; greater; greatest; gregorie; hath; haue; head; heauen; hee; henrie; high; highest; himselfe; honorius; iewes; images; imperiall; iohn; iudge; iupiter; iustinian; king; large; law; lawes; leo; lib; life; like; lin; liu; liuie; long; maiestie; man; manner; matters; meanes; men; nations; nature; necessarie; nice; non; nouel; oath; occasion; offer; office; oftentimes; onely; opinion; order; owne; pan; parts; paul; people; perpetuall; persons; peter; place; pleasure; plut; point; pontifex; pontifices; pope; power; present; priests; prince; principall; proper; publike; question; qui; receiue; regalitie; regard; religion; religious; reporteth; rex; right; rites; romane; rome; rule; sacred; sacrifice; sacrorum; saith; sea; second; senate; set; sir; sonne; sort; soueraigne; speake; speech; state; strength; subiection; subiects; succession; suetonius; super; supreame; tacitus; tcp; tei; temples; testifieth; text; themselues; theodosius; thing; time; title; true; valentinian; vnder; vnto; vpon; vse; weake; wealth; west; words; world; worship; writeth; yea; yeeres; ● e; ● ●
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        item: #2 of 261
          id: A04250
      author: Betts, Richard, 1552-1619.
       title: A remonstrance of the most gratious King Iames I. King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. For the right of kings, and the independance of their crownes. Against an oration of the most illustrious Card. of Perron, pronounced in the chamber of the third estate. Ian. 15. 1615. Translated out of his Maiesties French copie.
        date: 1616.0
       words: 57043
      flesch: 62
     summary: Nay , doubtlesse it was rather a meanes to eleuate and aduance the dignitie of the Crowne of France , and to style the French King , a King of Kings , as one that was able to giue the qualitie of King , to all the rest of the Nobles and Gentrie of his Kingdome . Let vs heare him speake : Jt is not in controuersie , whether obedience bee due to Kings by Gods Lawe , so long as they are Kings , or acknowledged for Kings : but our point controuerted , is whether by Gods Lawe it bee required , that hee who hath beene once recognised and receiued for King by the bodie of Estates , can at any time bee taken and reputed as no King , that is to say , can doe no manner of act whereby hee may loose his right , and so cease to be saluted King.
    keywords: able; aboue; absolute; acknowledge; actions; administration; affaires; againe; age; ages; allegiance; almainus; alwaies; answer; antechrist; apostasie; apostles; armed; article; auncient; authoritie; bee; beleeue; benefices; benefit; best; better; betweene; bishop; blood; bodie; body; boniface; booke; bound; canons; cap; cardinall; care; cast; catholike; cause; censures; certaine; characters; charge; charles; children; christ; christian; church; churches; citie; ciuill; clergie; clerics; common; communion; condition; confession; conscience; consent; consequence; constance; constantius; contrarie; contrary; controuersie; council; counsell; court; credit; crime; crowne; danger; day; dead; death; deepe; degree; deposed; deposing; deposition; depriue; difference; dignitie; dignity; discourse; diuine; doctrine; doe; doth; doubt; doubtlesse; drawne; driuen; durst; earth; easie; ecclesiasticall; eebo; effect; emperour; empire; enemies; england; english; epistles; error; estate; eternall; euen; euery; example; excommunication; execution; fact; faithfull; fall; false; farre; father; feare; fire; force; forraine; forsooth; france; free; french; french church; french king; gaue; generall; giue; glorious; god; gods; good; good king; grace; great; greater; greeke; gregorie; grieuous; ground; hand; hath; haue; head; heart; heauen; hee; henrie; henry; heresie; hereticall; heretikes; high; higher; himselfe; historie; hold; holinesse; holy; honour; honourable; honoured; howsoeuer; humble; iesus; ignorant; iii; images; imperiall; inconuenience; innocent; iohn; issue; italie; iudgement; iudges; iulian; iust; iustice; iustinian; killing; kind; king; king himselfe; kingdome; kings haue; kings owne; lacke; large; late; lawes; lawfull; lay; leaue; left; leo; lesse; letters; lewis; lib; libertie; life; like; little; long; longer; lordship; maiestie; making; man; manifest; manner; martyrdome; masters; matter; meanes; men; mind; mischiefe; moreouer; naked; nation; nature; nay; necessary; need; neere; neuer; neuerthelesse; new; newe; nobilitie; notwithstanding; number; oath; obedience; occasion; offence; office; onely; open; opinion; oration; order; ouer; ouer kings; owne; pag; papall; paris; parliament; parricides; passage; passe; past; paul; people; pernicious; persecution; person; peter; philip; place; play; pleased; pleasure; point; poore; pope; pope hath; popes haue; popes power; possessions; possible; power; practise; predecessors; prelates; present; pretence; pretended; prince; princely; priuate; priuiledges; problematicall; professed; promise; prooue; proper; proposition; prouide; publike; punishment; purpose; quarrell; question; ranke; reade; realme; reason; rebellion; regall; regard; religion; resolution; rest; ridiculous; right; romane; rome; royall; rule; sacred; safetie; said; saith; saul; schisme; scripture; second; secret; sedition; sense; sentence; seruants; serue; seruice; set; shame; shew; sinnes; solemne; sonne; sort; soueraigne; soule; spaine; speake; speaketh; speciall; speech; spirituall; stand; stead; strength; subiection; subiects; sufficient; superiour; supreame; sword; tcp; tearmes; temporall; testifie; text; themselues; things; thou; throne; thrust; time; title; touching; tribute; true; truth; turne; tyrant; vertue; violence; vnder; vnderstand; vniust; vnto; voice; vpon; vse; warres; way; weapons; weight; west; whatsoeuer; whereof; whome; wicked; wife; withall; witnesse; words; worke; world; yea; yeeres; yoke
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        item: #3 of 261
          id: A04286
      author: Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621.
       title: An apologie for the oath of allegiance first set foorth without a name, and now acknowledged by the authour, the Right High and Mightie Prince, Iames, by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. ; together with a premonition of His Maiesties, to all most mightie monarches, kings, free princes and states of Christendome.
        date: None
       words: 54950
      flesch: 70
     summary: But whose hatred did he feare in this ? was it not yours ? Who haue interest , but KINGS , in the withdrawing of true Subiection from Kings ? An apologie for the oath of allegiance first set foorth without a name, and now acknowledged by the authour, the Right High and Mightie Prince, Iames, by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. ; together with a premonition of His Maiesties, to all most mightie monarches, kings, free princes and states of Christendome.
    keywords: aboue; account; againe; aliue; allegiance; alreadie; ancient; anent; angels; ann; answerer; antichrist; apocalyps; apologie; apostles; apostolike; appeare; arch; article; ashamed; attempt; authoritie; authour; babylon; beast; bee; beginning; beleeue; bellarmine; bene; betweene; bin; birth; bishops; blessed; blood; body; booke; brethren; breue; calling; cap; cardinall; carefull; catholike; cause; certaine; chapter; charitie; christ; christendome; christian; chron; church; churches; citie; ciuill; cleare; command; commeth; comming; common; concil; confesse; confession; confutation; conscience; consent; consider; conspiracies; constancie; constantinople; contrary; controuersies; corrupted; councell; countrey; craft; crowne; cruell; daily; day; dayes; death; deposed; description; desire; destruction; deuils; difference; discourse; dist; diuers; diuine; diuinitie; diuinity; doctrine; doe; doeth; dominions; doubt; dragon; earth; earthly; ecclesiasticall; eebo; election; elias; emperour; empire; end; england; english; enoch; epist; epistle; errand; eternall; ethnicke; euen; euery; euill; example; excellent; excommunication; expresse; eyes; faith; fall; false; famous; farre; fathers; feare; fidelitie; fire; fiue; flesh; foorth; forme; foure; france; free; garnet; gaue; generall; giue; glory; god; gods; goe; good; gouernement; great; greatest; greatnesse; gregory; ground; halfe; hand; hath; haue; hauing; head; heart; heauen; hee; heere; hell; henry; hereticall; heretike; high; himselfe; histories; history; hold; holy; honour; hope; hornes; horse; hundreth; iames; ibid; ibidem; idolatrie; ierusalem; iesuites; images; innumerable; interest; iohn; iudge; iudgement; iulian; iust; keepe; kingdome; kings; knowen; knowledge; late; lawes; lawfull; leaue; left; leo; letter; lib; life; like; little; liues; long; lord; lye; lying; maiesties; maine; maintaine; making; man; maner; mans; marke; martyrdome; martyrs; matter; matth; meane; mee; members; men; mention; mightie; monarch; moses; mouth; mystery; nations; naturall; nature; nay; neuer; new; non; number; oath; obedience; occasion; office; old; olde; onely; opinion; order; ouer; owne; pag; papists; paradise; parliament; particular; paul; people; persecution; person; perswade; peter; place; plaine; point; pope; power; practise; prayers; predecessors; preface; premonition; present; pretended; priests; primacie; princes; principall; procure; professe; profession; promise; proofe; prophet; proue; publike; punishment; puritanes; purpose; queene; question; reason; receiue; reigne; religion; respect; rest; reuealed; reuel; reuerence; reward; right; romane; rome; romish; rule; safe; said; saints; sake; saluation; sam; sayd; saying; scotland; scripture; sea; seale; seat; second; secret; seeme; sense; sentence; serue; set; shee; shew; short; sinne; sitting; sixt; sonnes; sorts; soueraigne; soules; space; speake; speaketh; spirituall; state; strange; strong; subiection; subiects; substance; sundry; supremacie; sure; tcp; temple; temporall; testament; text; themselues; thereunto; thing; thinke; time; title; tortus; touching; traitours; true; trueth; verse; vertue; vnder; vnderstand; vnto; vpon; vse; vsed; wares; warrant; way; wee; wel; whatsoeuer; whereof; wil; wise; witnesses; woman; wonder; words; worke; world; worship; worthy; write; wrong; xiij; xvij; yea; yeeres
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        item: #4 of 261
          id: A04434
      author: Barlow, William, d. 1613.
       title: The svmme and svbstance of the conference which, it pleased his excellent Maiestie to haue with the lords, bishops, and other of his clergie, (at vvhich the most of the lordes of the councell were present) in his Maiesties priuy-chamber, at Hampton Court. Ianuary 14. 1603. / Contracted by VVilliam Barlovv, Doctor of Diuinity, and Deane of Chester. Whereunto are added, some copies, (scattered abroad,) vnsauory, and vntrue.
        date: 1604.0
       words: 19371
      flesch: 49
     summary: Here the Bishoppe of Worcester said , that , indeed , the wordes were doubtfull , and might bee pressed to that meaning , but yet it seemed by the contrarie practise of our Church , ( censuring women in this case ) that the compilers of the Booke , did not so intend them , and yet propounded them ambiguously , because otherwise , perhaps , the Booke would not haue then passed in the Parliament , ( and for this coniecture , as I remember , he cited the testimony of my Lord Archbishoppe of Yorke : ) whereunto the Bishop of London replyed , that those learned and reuerend men , who framed the Booke of Common Prayer , entended not by ambiguous termes to deceiue any , but did , indeede , by those wordes entend a permission of priuate persons , to baptize in case of necessitie , whereof their letters were witnesses , some partes whereof hee then read , and withall declared that the same was agreeable to the practise of the auncient Church ; vrging to that purpose , both Actes 2. where 3000. were baptized in one day , which for the Apostles alone to doe , was impossible , at least improbable ; and , besides the Apostles , there were then no Bishoppes or Priestes : And also thee authoritie of Tertullian , and Saint Ambrose in the fourth to the Ephesians , plaine in that point ; laying also open the absurdities , and impieties of their opinion , who thinke there is no necessitie of Baptisme ; which word , Necessitie , he , so , pressed not , as if God , without Baptisme could not saue the child ; but the case put , that the state of the Infant , dying vnbaptized , being vncertaine , and to God only known ; but if it dye baptized , there is an euident assurance , that it is saued ; who is hee , that hauing any Religion in him , would not speedily , by any meanes , procure his Child to be baptized , and rather ground his action vpon Christs promise , then his omission thereof vppon Gods secret iudgement ? His Maiestie replied ; first to that place of the Actes , that it was an Acte extraordinary ; neither is it sound reasoning from thinges done before a Church bee setled and grounded , vnto those which are to be performed in a Church stablished and flourishing : That hee also maintained the necessitie of Baptisme , and alwayes thought that the place of Saint Iohn , Nisi quis renatus fuerit ex aqua &c. was ment of the Sacrament of Baptisme ; and that hee had so defenced it against some Ministers in Scotland ; and it may seeme strange to you , my Lords , saith his Maiestie , that I , who now think you in England giue too much to Baptism , did 14. moneths ago in Scotland , argue with my Diuines there , for ascribing too litle to that holy Sacrament . Yet , because nothing could be so absolutely ordered , but something might bee added afterward thereunto , and in any state , as in the body of man , corruptions might insensibly grow , either through time or persons ; and , in that hee had receiued many complaintes since his first entrance into the kingdome , especially , through the dissentions in the Church , of many disorders , as he heard , and much disobedience to the lawes , with a great falling away to Popery : his purpose therefore was , like a good Physition , to examine & trie the complaintes , and fully to remoue the occasions thereof , if they proue scandalous , or to cure them , if they were daungerous , or , if but friuolous , yet to take knowledge of them , thereby to cast a sop into Cerberus his mouth , that hee may neuer barke againe : his meaning beeing , as hee pleased to professe , to giue factious spirites , no occasion , hereby , of boasting or glory ; for , which cause hee had called the Bishops in , seuerally by themselues , not to be confronted by the contrary opponents , that if any thing should be found meete to be redressed , it might be done ( which his Maiestie twise or thrise , as occasion serued , reiterated ) without any visible alteration .
    keywords: absolution; againe; antiquitie; apostles; archbishop; argument; article; aunswere; authoritie; baptisme; bee; bene; best; better; bishoppe; bishops; booke; catechisme; cause; censure; chamber; chancelor; chester; children; christ; church; common; communion; conference; confirmation; copies; councell; course; court; crosse; day; dayes; deane; death; doctor; doctrine; eebo; england; english; euen; euery; examination; example; excellent; fathers; generall; giue; god; gods; good; grace; great; handes; hath; haue; hauing; head; hee; highnesse; himselfe; holy; ianuary; iohn; king; kinges; kneeling; late; lawfull; lay; libertie; like; little; london; long; lord; maiestie; maiesty; maister; man; matters; mee; men; ministers; motion; necessary; necessitie; neuer; notes; number; obiection; occasion; onely; opinion; order; ouer; owne; papistes; particular; persons; place; pleased; point; popery; practise; prayer; predestination; present; priuate; purpose; queene; reason; religion; repentance; rest; reyn; reynoldes; sacrament; saide; saint; saith; sayd; scotland; second; sinnes; sort; speake; speech; speeches; state; subscription; sufficient; tcp; text; themselues; thing; thinges; time; title; true; verie; vniuersities; vnto; vntrue; vpon; vse; vvas; vvhich; wee; whereunto; whome; willed; winchester; women; wordes; works; yeares
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        item: #5 of 261
          id: A06517
      author: Becanus, Martinus, 1563-1624.
       title: The confutation of Tortura Torti: or, Against the King of Englands chaplaine: for that he hath negligently defended his Kinges cause. By the R.F. Martinus Becanus, of the Society of Iesus: and professour in deuinity. Translated out of Latin into English by W.I. P.
        date: 1610.0
       words: 19067
      flesch: 75
     summary: He truly ( to wit Christ ) is King of Kings , but in that he is King of Kings , he is immortall : he hath no mortall Viceroy ( or Vicar . ) This done , you argue thus : Christ according to his Diuinity , or , in that he is immortall , is King of Kings , and hath all the Kingdomes of this world in his power , yet notvvithstanding hath he no mortall Vicar or Substitute :
    keywords: aaron; againe; annoynted; antichrist; argument; augustine; autem; becanus; bellarmine; better; bishops; booke; byn; caput; cardinall; catholicke; censure; chaplaine; chapter; chiefe; christ; christes; christian; church; ciuill; common; confesse; contrary; court; cùm; data; demaund; doctrine; doe; doth; eare; ecclesiae; ecclesiasticall; eebo; eleazar; els; emperour; england; english; enim; ergo; ethnicke; euery; euill; example; eyes; faith; false; fifth; flocke; followeth; force; germany; ghost; giuen; god; good; graunt; great; hath; haue; head; heere; high; himselfe; hoc; holy; iewes; immortall; iosue; israel; iurisdiction; ius; king; kingdome; kinges; latin; lawfull; leaue; lesse; like; lin; little; lord; malchus; man; manifest; manner; martinus; matters; matthaeus; matthew; moreouer; mortall; moyses; nec; neuer; new; neyther; nomen; non; notwithstanding; oath; office; old; owne; oyle; pag; page; paradoxe; pastors; people; peter; place; point; pope; power; priests; primacy; princes; prophesy; proue; puritans; quae; qui; quod; quàm; quâ; race; read; reges; religion; reproaches; rest; rex; right; said; scripture; second; sed; selfe; set; society; speake; spirituall; subditi; subiects; sunt; supremacy; tcp; temporall; testament; text; thee; therof; thing; thinges; thinke; thou; time; togeather; torti; tortura; tortus; vel; verò; vicar; vnder; vnderstand; vnto; vow; vpon; wealth; whome; wit; wordes; works; world; yov; yow
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        item: #6 of 261
          id: A07856
      author: Church of England. Diocese of Bath and Wells. Bishop (1608-1616 : Montagu)
       title: Iames by the prouidence of God, bishop of Bath and Wels, to all and singular arch-deacons, officials, parsons ... & al other eccelsiastical officers ... greeting whereas His Maiesty, for the seasoning of all youth in their due alleageance, hath caused a booke to bee compiled and imprinted, containing the sum of the Oath of Alleageance, intituled, God and the King ...
        date: 1616.0
       words: 1761
      flesch: 57
     summary: Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28882) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: alleageance; arch; bath; bee; bishop; booke; church; diocesse; early; eebo; english; euery; eyther; god; hath; iames; latine; men; oath; officers; officials; parsons; said; tcp; text; youth
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        item: #7 of 261
          id: A11706
      author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
       title: Charles, by the grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith. To our lovits [blank] heraulds messengers, our sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and severally specially constitute greeting. Forsameikle as wee are not ignorant of the great disorders ...
        date: 1638.0
       words: 1729
      flesch: 62
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: books; characters; charles; disorders; early; eebo; england; english; god; good; grace; ignorant; king; kingdome; laws; online; oxford; partnership; phase; religion; scotland; subjects; tcp; tei; text; works
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        item: #8 of 261
          id: A11752
      author: Church of Scotland. General Assembly.
       title: The protestation of the Generall Assemblie of the Church of Scotland, and of the noblemen, barons, gentlemen, borrowes, ministers and commons; subscribers of the Covenant, lately renewed, made in the high Kirk, and at the Mercate Crosse of Glasgow, the 28, and 29. of November 1638
        date: 1638.0
       words: 4138
      flesch: 32
     summary: 4. Because there is no ground of pretence either by Act of Assemblie , or Parliament , or any preceeding practice , whereby the Kings Majestie may lawfully dissolve the Generall Assemblie of the Church of Scotland , far lesse His Majesties Commissioner , who by his commission hath power to indict and keep it , secundùm legem & praxim : But upon the contrary , His Majesties prerogative Royall , is declared by Act of Parliament , to be nowayes prejudiciall to the priviledges and liberties , which God hath granted to the spirituall office-bearers , and meetings of this Church ; which are most frequently ratified in Parliaments , and especially in the last Parliament holden by His Maiestie himself , which priviledges and liberties of the church , his Maiesty will never diminish or infringe , being bound to maintaine the same in integritie by solemne oath given at His Royall Coronation in this Kingdome . Church and state -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800.
    keywords: acts; assemblie; assembly; barons; bee; books; characters; church; commissioner; commons; confession; covenant; early; eebo; english; faith; free; generall; generall assemblie; gentlemen; glasgow; god; grace; indiction; kingdome; kirk; maiesties; majestie; members; ministers; noblemen; november; presence; present; proceedings; protestation; reasons; scotland; subjects; tcp; text; wee; word; works
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        item: #9 of 261
          id: A14241
      author: Ussher, James, 1581-1656.
       title: A speech delivered in the castle-chamber at Dublin, the XXII. of November, anno 1622 At the censuring of certaine officers, who refused to take the Oath of Supremacie. By Iames Bishop of Meath.
        date: 1631.0
       words: 3654
      flesch: 62
     summary: 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. Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: authority; bee; bishop; books; castle; causes; chamber; characters; church; civill; doe; dominions; early; ecclesiasticall; eebo; english; god; government; governour; iames; keyes; king; man; oath; officers; peter; place; power; prince; right; rome; second; speech; spirituall; supremacie; supreme; sword; tcp; tei; temporall; text; title; wee
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        item: #10 of 261
          id: A16382
      author: Abbot, George, 1562-1633.
       title: The kings maiesties letter to the the Lords Grace of Canterbury, touching preaching, and preachers.
        date: 1622.0
       words: 2881
      flesch: 50
     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).
    keywords: bishops; books; canterbury; catechisme; characters; church; curate; directions; doctrine; doe; early; eebo; encoding; england; english; euery; grace; homilies; images; kingdome; kings; letter; lords; maiestie; online; oxford; parson; partnership; people; phase; points; preachers; preaching; religion; set; seuerall; state; tcp; tei; text; title; vpon; works; xml
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        item: #11 of 261
          id: A17576
      author: Calderwood, David, 1575-1650.
       title: The pastor and the prelate, or reformation and conformitie shortly compared by the word of God, by antiquity and the proceedings of the ancient Kirk, by the nature and use of things indifferent, by the proceedings of our ovvne Kirk, by the vveill of the Kirk and of the peoples soules, and by the good of the commonvvealth and of our outvvard estate with the answer of the common & chiefest objections against everie part: shewing vvhether of the tvvo is to be follovved by the true Christian and countrieman.
        date: 1628.0
       words: 33188
      flesch: 57
     summary: A third sorte setting aside all sophistication , and collusion vvith the enemie , taught plainly by vvord and vvrit from Scripture , and not from the grounds of policie : that vvhen any part of Gods vvorship is in danger , that then for the honour of God , confirmation of the tr●eth , and edification of the Kirk , Confession is necessarie . Euen so the Kirk of God , through the misregard of the lavves of God & ●irection of Scripture , and through the ambition and cove●ousnes of Kirkmen did fall avvay so farre from the first inte●●●itie , that there vvas a necessitie of Reformation , & nothing more certainly looked for , and more plainly foretold a long time before any of our reformers , or Luther himselfe come in the world .
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        item: #12 of 261
          id: A17962
      author: Carier, Benjamin, 1566-1614.
       title: A treatise, vvritten by M. doctor Carier, vvherein hee layeth downe sundry learned and pithy considerations by which he was moued, to forsake the Protestant congregation, and to betake himselfe to the Catholke Apostolike Roman Church. Agreeing verbatim with the written copye, addressed by the sayd doctor to the King his most excellent Maiestie.
        date: 1614.0
       words: 18055
      flesch: 52
     summary: Church and state -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Of him I learned that all false religions in the world , were but policies inuented of men for the temporall seruice of Princes and States , and therefore that they were diuers and alwayes changeable , according to the diuers reasons and occasions of State.
    keywords: able; ancient; appeare; authoritie; beginning; beleeue; best; better; betwixt; blessed; body; booke; caluinists; carier; catholike; catholike church; catholike religion; change; children; christ; christian; church; churches; clergie; comfort; common; confesse; conscience; course; crowne; day; desire; doctor; doctrine; doe; doth; eebo; elizabeth; england; english; enioy; euer; false; fauour; giue; god; goe; good; great; greatest; hath; haue; hauing; heauen; henry; himselfe; hold; honest; honor; hope; iudgement; king; law; lawes; learned; leaue; life; long; lords; maiestie; maiesty; maintaine; man; matter; meanes; men; new; obedience; opinions; owne; peace; people; pope; prayer; preachers; present; priest; princes; principles; purpose; queene; reason; religion; respect; rest; roman; rome; saints; saluation; sauiour; schisme; selfe; serue; seruice; set; shew; soule; state; statute; subiects; tcp; temporall; text; themselues; time; title; treatise; true; truth; turne; vnitie; vntill; vnto; vpon; vse; way; wealth; whatsoeuer; world; yeares
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        item: #13 of 261
          id: A17981
      author: Carleton, George, 1559-1628.
       title: A thankfull remembrance of Gods mercy In an historicall collection of the great and mercifull deliverances of the Church and state of England, since the Gospell began here to flourish, from the beginning of Queene Elizabeth. Collected by Geo: Carleton, Doctor of Divinitie, and Bishop of Chichester.
        date: 1624.0
       words: 60762
      flesch: 65
     summary: And so this great Navy being three yeares preparing with great cost , was within a moneth overthrown , and , after many were killed , being chased away : ( of English there were not one hundreth lost , nor one shippe lost , saving that of C●●ks ) was driven about all Britain by Scotland , Orcades , Ireland , tossed and shaken with tempests , and much lessened , & came home without glory . The deepest deuises of malice , reaching euen from hell vnto hellish men vpon earth haue beene practised against vs , as this last which came from the deepenesse of Satan : wherein without sword or speare , without any shew of warlike preparations , their hellish deuise was at one blow to root out religion , to destroy the state , the head with the body , the King with the stat● , the Father of our Country , the Mother of our Country , the oliue branches the hopefull succession of our King , the Reuerend Clergy , the Honourable Nobility , the faithfull Councellors , the graue Iudges , the greatest part of our Knights and Gentry , the choisest Burgesses , the Officers of the Crowne , Councell , Signet , S●ales , and of other seates of iudgement , the learned Lawyers , with an infinite number of common people , the Hall of iustice , the houses of Parliament , the Church vsed for the Coronation of our Kings , the monuments of our former Princes , all Records of Parliament , and of euery particular mans right , with a great number of charters , and other things of this nature , all these things had the diuell by his agents deuised at one secret blow to destroy .
    keywords: a17981; able; admirall; adversaries; againe; alleagance; ambassadour; ancient; anno; answer; appeare; armes; armour; army; attempt; authoritie; babington; backe; ballard; battell; bee; beginning; best; better; betweene; bishop; blessed; blessing; bloud; booke; brake; brethren; broken; brother; bull; businesse; cardinall; care; castle; catesby; catholike; cause; certaine; chamber; change; chapter; charles; chiefe; christ; church; colledges; come; comfort; command; comming; committed; common; company; conference; confession; conscience; conspiracy; conspiratours; contrary; councell; countries; country; course; court; cruell; cruelty; daily; danger; dangerous; day; dayes; death; defence; deliverance; deputy; desmond; desperate; destruction; div; doctrines; doe; doth; dō; drawne; duke; dutch; earle; earth; edward; effect; elizabeth; emperour; end; enemies; enemy; england; english; euery; example; execution; faith; fall; false; father; favour; fawkes; fire; fit; fitz; flanders; fleet; following; foot; forces; forsake; fort; fortified; forward; foure; france; francis; free; french; friends; fruit; fugitiues; furnished; gaue; generall; gentlemen; george; giffard; giue; glory; god; gods; goe; good; gospell; governement; great; greater; greatest; guiltie; hand; hath; haue; hauing; head; heart; hee; helpe; henry; himselfe; hold; holy; home; honor; hope; horses; house; hundreth; hurt; iames; iesuites; instruments; intended; invasion; iohn; ioyne; ireland; irish; israel; iudgement; iustice; keepe; king; kingdome; knowledge; knowne; labour; lawes; lawfull; lay; learning; leaue; left; lesse; letters; lieuetenant; life; like; little; london; long; lord; lord deputy; lost; loue; low; lyes; mac; maiesties; maintaine; malice; man; manner; mariners; matter; meane; men; mendoza; mens; mischiefe; money; morice; narration; nature; navy; netherlands; neuer; new; night; noble; northumberland; notes; number; o ●; oath; obedience; office; offred; onely; open; oracles; order; ormond; ouer; owne; paget; papists; pardon; parliament; parma; parts; passe; past; people; percy; pernicious; person; philip; pius; place; pleased; plot; poore; pope; popish; power; practises; present; pretence; priests; prince; prison; proiect; promise; protection; proued; provinces; publike; purpose; queene; queene elizabeth; ready; rebellion; rebells; receiue; religion; remembrance; respect; rest; returne; robert; roman; rome; romish; rule; safety; said; salisbury; sanders; sauage; scotland; scots; sea; secret; secretary; seed; seeing; sentence; serue; service; set; shee; shew; shippes; ships; shore; shot; sides; sinnes; sir; small; soone; sort; souldiers; spaine; spaniards; spanish; spanyard; speech; spirit; stafford; stanly; state; stirre; strange; strangers; strength; strong; stucley; subiects; suspition; taking; tcp; text; themselues; things; thomas; thought; throgmorton; time; title; townes; treason; trouble; true; trust; truth; tyrone; victory; vlster; vnder; vnderstand; vnderstanding; vnrighteousnesse; vntill; vnto; vpon; vpon england; vse; walsingham; warre; way; whereof; wherevpon; wicked; william; winde; winter; words; worke; world; writing; yeare; yong; ● d; ● e; ● ●
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        item: #14 of 261
          id: A19445
      author: Church of England. Diocese of Exeter. Bishop (1598-1621 : Cotton)
       title: William, by the prouidence of God, Bishop of Exeter, to all and singular archdeacons, officials, parsons ... and all other ecclesiasticall officers ... greeeting [sic] whereas His Majesty, for the seasoning of all youth in their due alleageance, hath caused a booke to bee compiled and imprinted ... intituled God and the King ...
        date: 1616.0
       words: 1733
      flesch: 58
     summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A19445) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28975) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: alleageance; bee; bishop; booke; characters; church; diocesse; early; eebo; english; euery; exeter; eyther; god; hath; latine; men; officers; officials; parsons; said; tcp; tei; text; william; youth
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        item: #15 of 261
          id: A25459
      author: Annand, William, 1633-1689.
       title: Dualitas, or, A two-fold subject displayed and opened conducible to godliness and peace in order, I. Lex loquens, the honour and dignity of magistracy with the duties thereupon depending and reverence thereunto due, II. Duorum unitas, the agreement of magistracy and ministry, at the election of the honourable magistrates of Edinburgh and the opening of a diocesan synod of the reverend clergy there / by Will. Annand.
        date: 1674.0
       words: 27587
      flesch: 60
     summary: It is evident that God thus marshalling Moses and Aaron in their several Offices , had c●re to protect the we●kest side , with strongest Walls and Barrs : for since Aaron the Elder Brother ha● the Sword took out of his h●●d●y D●cree , and in stead thereof , ge●ting a S●crifi●ing knife ; yet observe it , that knife is put into his hand by a 〈◊〉 statu●e , and to the house of Aaron , wh●reas Moses Sword , able in a great measure , to defend it self , is left in the hand of Providence to fi●d out th●s and that Josu●h , th●s and that Sampson , this and that Sam●●l . Search all Histories , and there is but here a battel if any but such as were fought by Kings and Magistrats whether in Israel , Greece , Baby●on , or Rome ; and their highest Honors flowed from their eminent hazarding themselves , for their Countreys Honour : such a time may this be , and your Scarlet G●wn may but shadow Bloody Services , your Sword comman●ed from its velvet sheath , to lodge in the breast of a declared F●e , the safety of your City , may consist in casting over the W●ll ; the head of some traitorous Sheba , there is valour to be regarded , and valiantly to be debated for , Figure● in that , when any of the People sinned through Ignorance in Moses Law , and it had come to his knowledge , he was to bring a kid of the Goats , or a Female without blemish , Levit.
    keywords: aaron; actings; adam; affairs; afterward; altar; ancient; annand; artaxerxes; authority; beautiful; behaviour; better; betwixt; bishop; body; books; brethren; brother; calf; camp; care; cast; cause; certain; characters; charge; chief; child; christ; christian; church; city; clergy; co ●; coat; comely; cometh; commission; contrary; council; countenance; court; craft; crown; d ●; daughter; david; day; dayes; death; dominion; early; earth; edinburgh; eebo; egyptian; elder; election; eminent; employ; end; english; evil; excellent; exod; experience; eye; eyes; ezrah; f ●; fall; famous; father; fear; fire; flock; fold; future; gates; gen; general; gifts; glory; god; godliness; godly; gods; good; government; governours; great; greater; greatest; ground; half; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; high; higher; holiness; holy; honour; honourable; hood; house; image; iniquity; israel; james; jerusalem; jews; joyned; judah; judgement; judges; justice; keeping; king; kingdom; know; knowledge; land; late; law; laws; left; levit; lex; life; like; little; long; loquens; lord; love; m ●; magistracy; magistrates; making; man; manners; mans; mean; men; mind; minister; ministry; miriam; moses; nature; near; necessity; new; noble; obedience; offer; office; old; order; ordinary; p ●; people; person; pharaoh; place; point; politick; poor; power; prayers; preacher; present; priest; prince; proper; providence; publick; pulpit; punish; punishing; punishment; ready; reason; rebellion; religion; respect; reverence; reverend; right; rule; rulers; sacred; sacrifice; sam; samuel; saying; self; selves; sense; sentence; service; set; severe; shame; solomon; sons; soul; sound; speaking; state; strong; subjects; sure; synod; tcp; teach; teaching; temple; text; th ●; thee; things; thou; thought; time; tongue; tribe; true; truth; understanding; unjust; vertue; viz; want; way; wealth; wisdom; wise; woman; word; work; yea; years; youth; ● e; ● h; ● n; ● ng; ● s; ● st; ● t; ● ●
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        item: #16 of 261
          id: A25798
      author: Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Marquis of, 1598-1661.
       title: A true copy of a speech delivered in the Parliament in Scotland, by the Earle of Argile concerning the government of the church : together with the Kings going to Parliament August 19, 1641.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 1150
      flesch: 66
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A25798 of text R7455 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing A3672). The rate of 13 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words.
    keywords: argile; church; copy; earle; english; good; government; house; kingdom; kings; parliament; scotland; speech; text; true
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        item: #17 of 261
          id: A26144
      author: Atkyns, Robert, Sir, 1621-1709.
       title: The power, jurisdiction and priviledge of Parliament and the antiquity of the House of Commons asserted occasion'd by an information in the Kings Bench by the attorney general against the Speaker of the House of Commons : as also A discourse concerning the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the realm of England, occasion'd by the late commission in ecclesiastical causes / by Sir Robert Atkins, Knight ...
        date: 1689.0
       words: 35213
      flesch: 71
     summary: There has been an Opinion , that hath been stifly maintained by some Divines , and others of late , That the House of Commons originally were no part of the Parliament , at least not as now elected , and consisting of Knights , Citizens and Burgesses ; but that their Beginning was in the forty ninth Year of King Henry 3. when that King had given a total overthrow at the Battle of Evesham , to Symon Montford Earl of Leicester and the Barons . And that to ballance the Power of the Barons , that King caused the Knights , Citizens and Burgesses to be chosen , and to make a Part of the Parliament .
    keywords: abr; act; action; acts; advice; ancient; answer; arch; argument; attorney; authorities; authority; authors; barons; bench; bill; bishop; body; book; burgesses; call'd; cap; car; case; causes; chief; church; citizens; claim; clear; clerk; commission; committed; commons; conspiracy; constitution; contrary; cotton; course; court; crown; custom; dangerfield; defendant; dier; discourse; duty; e. c.; earl; ecclesiastical; eliz; england; english; enquiry; entire; errors; estates; exchequer; exercise; false; filmer; fol; forth; freedom; general; god; good; government; grace; great; guilty; hand; hath; haxey; head; high; high court; highest; historians; honour; house; impartial; information; inst; john; judges; judgment; judicial; jurisdiction; justice; king; king h.; king's; kingdom; knights; large; late; law; laws; legal; liberties; like; london; lords; majesty; making; malice; man; manner; matter; meer; member; mention; nation; nature; need; new; non; note; num; occasion; offence; old; opinion; order; ordinary; original; pag; parliament; particular; peers; people; persons; petition; place; plaintiff; plea; plot; point; power; preface; present; printed; printing; priviledge; proceeding; proof; proper; prosecution; pryn; publick; publishing; quod; realm; reason; record; regis; regni; reign; rep; reports; resolution; right; robert; rolls; royal; rules; said; saxon; seld; selden; self; servant; set; sheriff; shire; sir; sir e.; slander; speaker; speaking; spiritual; statute; strode; subject; suit; summons; supream; tcp; text; thing; tho; thomas; thought; time; title; translators; true; usage; viz; wages; way; westminster; witness; word; work; writ; year
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        item: #18 of 261
          id: A26314
      author: Catholic Church. Assemblée générale du clergé de France.
       title: Actes of the General Assembly of the clergy of France, Anno Domini 1682, concerning religion translated into English for the satisfaction of curious inquisitors into the present French persecution of Protestants.
        date: 1682.0
       words: 10904
      flesch: 62
     summary: English Catholic Church. English Catholic Church.
    keywords: a26314; actes; antient; articles; assembly; austin; authority; bishops; books; bread; brethren; calvin; cap; catholick; characters; charity; chief; children; christ; christian; church; clergy; common; communion; concord; confession; cor; council; cruelties; daily; discipline; dispute; doctrin; donatists; early; eebo; english; error; example; faith; fathers; france; french; gallican; general; god; good; hath; hereticks; holy; hope; jesus; king; light; little; lord; manners; math; men; method; ministers; mother; necessary; occasion; original; page; papists; paris; peace; people; persecution; persons; present; pretended; protestants; reformed; religion; return; roman; said; satisfaction; schism; schismaticks; scripture; selves; seperation; synod; tcp; tei; text; things; time; treatise; true; true church; truth; unity; use; virtue; way; work; world; worse
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        item: #19 of 261
          id: A26737
      author: Barnes, John, d. 1661. Catholico-romanus pacificus. English. Selections.
       title: The ancient liberty of the Britannick church, and the legitimate exemption thereof from the Roman patriarchate discoursed on four positions, and asserted / by Isaac Basier ... ; three chapters concerning the priviledges of the Britannick church, &c., selected out of a Latin manuscript, entituled, Catholico-romanus pacificus, written by F.I. Barnes ... ; translated, and published for vulgar instruction, by Ri. Watson.
        date: 1661.0
       words: 12920
      flesch: 57
     summary: Sir George , upon Theological points of controversie , wherein they differed , and which they discussed with some little earnestness , yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; If the former be not irrecoverably disposed of , Sir , you have now a fair opportunity to secure them ; though , if the good Doctor himself be living , the late misfortune befallen the Country learned * Travellers , not to exercise their function where the duty of praying for the King should be prohibited ; And a signal instance it was of Christian courage in our Reverend Author , when an Exile , to refuse the offer of a plentiful support , where that would not be allowed ; yet it had been worth his journey to Smyrna , to convert the Consul , who now , I hope , hath more than the Merchants argument ( which many times is more prevalent with men of business , than the Divines ) I mean , that of Interest , to convince him . I say , the Origin of every one of these , is referred by the Council ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , to Custome ; And moreover the Synod doth decree a Religious Observation of that Custome in these solemn words , which the Church truly Catholick did perpetually reverence as an Oracle , viz.
    keywords: affairs; alwaies; ancient; appeal; augustin; authority; barnes; basier; bede; bee; bishop; books; britain; britannick; britannick church; canon; case; catholick; catholick church; chalcedon; characters; christian; church; churches; clergy; communion; consent; council; custome; decree; dioceses; doctor; early; ecclesiastick; eebo; eighth; emperour; england; english; external; fact; fathers; force; general; god; good; government; great; hath; hee; henry; holy; imperial; intire; italick; iustinian; jurisdiction; king; kingdome; latin; law; liberty; little; long; lord; manuscript; matter; mee; metropolitane; monk; moses; new; nicene; oath; occasion; oecumenick; onely; order; patriarchate; patriarchs; pope; position; power; priest; priviledges; provinces; publick; reason; religion; rest; right; roman; romanus; rome; royal; sacred; said; second; self; sir; special; state; subject; synod; tcp; text; thing; time; title; universal; use; viz; watson; way; wee; wit; words; work; yea; years
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        item: #20 of 261
          id: A26914
      author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
       title: The difference between the power of magistrates and church-pastors and the Roman kingdom & magistracy under the name of a church & church-government usurped by the Pope, or liberally given him by popish princes opened by Richard Baxter.
        date: 1671.0
       words: 23039
      flesch: 66
     summary: Church and state -- Early works to 1800. It is the great end of Christs coming into the world to destroy the works of the Devil , and to purifie to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works , and to save his people from their sins , and to vindicate the Holiness of God : And the world is so apt to judge of Christs doctrine by his followers , that the Holiness and Concord of Christians is one of Christs great appointed means , for his own and his Fathers glory in the world : That as Gods greatness shineth forth in the frame of nature , so might his Holiness in the Church : And the Enemies of Holiness and condemned by their Creed , when they profess to believe the Holy Catholick Church , and the Communion of Saints .
    keywords: acts; authority; baptism; better; bishops; body; books; carnal; cases; cause; charge; christ; christian; christianity; church; church communion; church government; church power; churches; civil; claim; clergy; command; common; communion; concord; conscience; consent; contrary; cor; corporal; councils; countreys; day; difference; discipline; divine; doctrine; dominions; doth; ecclesiastical; eebo; emperours; end; enemies; english; episcopal; excommunication; execution; exercise; external; false; fit; flesh; force; general; god; gods; good; gospel; government; governours; great; greater; greatest; hands; hath; heresie; holiness; holy; honour; humane; interest; john; judgement; judges; judging; king; kingdom; lawful; laws; lay; learned; leave; let; life; like; lives; lords; love; magistracy; magistrates; man; matters; matth; men; mens; mind; ministers; ministry; moderate; nature; necessary; neighbour; office; officers; open; order; page; parents; particular; parts; pastoral; pastors; peace; people; persons; physicion; pope; popish; power; princes; profession; proper; propositions; protestant; publick; reason; religion; repentance; right; roman; rulers; sacraments; saith; secular; self; sense; set; sin; sober; souls; spiritual; state; subjects; sword; tcp; temporal; terms; text; things; think; time; title; true; truth; universal; use; usurpation; usurped; way; work; world; worthy; yea
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        item: #21 of 261
          id: A27361
      author: Bellamie, John, d. 1654.
       title: A iustification of The city remonstrance and its vindication, or, An answer to a book written by Mr. J.P. entituled, The city remonstrance remonstrated wherein the frequent falsifyings of the said Mr. J.P. are discovered, the many charges by him laid upon the remonstrance and its vindicator, disproved, and the parity and agreement of the remonstrance ... with the propositions, declarations, remonstrances, and votes, of both or either House of Parliament manifested / by John Bellamie.
        date: 1646.0
       words: 22508
      flesch: 46
     summary: what the Remonstrants meane by private and separate Congregations ; it 's answered negatively in these words , That the Remonstrants doe not mean by private and separate Congregations , the private meetings of Christian people for Prayer , Exhortation , Repetition of Se●rmons , or any other laudable and Christian familie , or neighbourly duties amongst the Saints ; as to these I am assured all the Remonstrants will joyne with you in your desire , that abh●r'd h●th by God and all good men , may all requests be that shall bee made for the suppres-pressing of th●se . And both House● of Parliament , since their receiving of this Remonstrance , have in the Propositions sent to his Majesty for a safe & w●l grounded Peace● even in terminis , proposed more to his Maje●ty for his R●oyall ▪ assent , as unto Reformation of Religion , then the Remonst●ant● have desired in their second , third , and fourth Petitidus , so much condemned by you ; for the drift of all that they desire , is 〈◊〉 an equall conformity of all the Subjects of England to the publike dis●ipline and doctrine set forth , or to bee set forth by Authority of Parliament , as by reference to those three Petitions will clearely shew , but both Houses of Parliament in their great wisdome , faithfulnesse , and care for the publike safety and peace of the Kingdome , have in the fifth and sixth Articles of the Propositions in these words thus proposed ; viz.
    keywords: act; acts; aldermen; answ; answer; appeale; argument; assent; authority; bee; bellamie; body; book; cause; charges; christ; church; churches; city; city remonstrance; commons; conceive; confession; congregation; consent; constitution; councell; court; covenant; declarations; desire; direct; distinct; doe; doth; duty; england; estates; evident; expresse; false; farre; god; goe; good; government; grant; great; ground; hath; hee; hold; hope; house; john; judgement; king; kingdome; know; law; laws; leave; like; london; lords; major; making; man; manifested; manner; matters; mee; members; ministery; needs; new; obvious; officers; onely; ordinances; ordination; owne; page; parallel; parliament; particular; passages; people; persons; petition; place; power; practice; prayer; presbyteriall; present; propositions; publike; querie; r ●; reader; religion; remonstrance; reply; replyer; representative; respect; s ●; said; scripture; second; selfe; set; shew; sure; tender; text; thereunto; thing; time; true; truth; vindication; viz; way; wee; witnesse; word; yea; ● d; ● e; ● t; ● ●
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        item: #22 of 261
          id: A27494
      author: Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.
       title: Clavi trabales, or, Nailes fastned by some great masters of assemblyes confirming the Kings supremacy, the subjects duty, church government by bishops ... : unto which is added a sermon of regal power, and the novelty of the doctrine of resistance : also a preface by the right Reverend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of Lincolne / published by Nicholas Bernard ...
        date: 1661.0
       words: 49475
      flesch: 71
     summary: l. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . l. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 .
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        item: #23 of 261
          id: A28174
      author: Binning, Hugh, 1627-1653.
       title: An useful case of conscience learnedly and accuratly discussed and resolved concerning associations and confederacies with idolaters, infidels, hereticks, malignants, or any other knoun enemies of truth and godlinesse : useful for these times and therefore published for the benefit of all those who desire to know or retain the sworn to principles of the sometimes famous Church of Christ in Scotland / by Hugh Binning.
        date: 1693.0
       words: 30055
      flesch: 71
     summary: We wish the name Malignant were Obsolete and antiquate , if so be the thing it self , which is such a root of bitternesse , were extirpated out of the Church ; yea though the thing it self remained , if men would hate it for it self , and account it more odious and hatefull than the name imports , we would be glad it were no more heard of : Is it not all one to follow the Cause for the King and for a mans oun Interest and advantage ? both are alike Extrinsick and Adventitious to the Cause , both are alike Changable .
    keywords: act; ane; answer; armies; arms; army; assembly; association; authority; blood; camp; cause; certain; change; chap; characters; choise; christ; chron; church; clear; command; commission; committee; common; confederacy; conjunction; conscience; constant; contrare; countrey; course; covenant; danger; day; declaration; defence; designe; desire; destruction; deut; difference; doe; doth; duty; employing; employment; endeavour; enemies; enemy; engadgment; english; ergo; estates; evidence; evil; exceptions; faithfull; fear; friends; generall; god; godly; godly men; gods; good; great; greater; ground; hand; hath; heart; help; home; honour; indignation; instruments; interest; isay; israel; joyn; judgment; judicatories; king; kingdom; known; land; law; liberties; like; long; look; lord; malignant; malignant party; man; means; men; mind; mischief; nations; nature; necessary; necessity; old; opposition; oun; parliament; party; peace; people; persons; places; point; power; practise; present; preservation; principles; proceedings; profession; psal; publick; reason; regard; religion; repentance; reproved; resolutions; righteous; rule; rulers; sad; scotland; scriptures; self; selves; shews; sin; sinfull; sins; solemne; state; subjects; tcp; text; thing; thow; thy; time; true; trust; truth; ungodly; unlawfull; vers; walk; war; wars; way; wicked; wicked men; wise; word; work; wrath; yow
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        item: #24 of 261
          id: A28243
      author: Bishop, George, d. 1668.
       title: To the King and his both Houses of Parliament this is the word of the Lord.
        date: 1662.0
       words: 1321
      flesch: 69
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: books; characters; early; eebo; encoding; english; george; god; image; lord; online; oxford; partnership; phase; rule; tcp; tei; text; word; xml
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        item: #25 of 261
          id: A28824
      author: Borfet, Abiel, 1633?-1710.
       title: The minister of Richmond's reasons for refusing to subscribe the association but under the following sense with reflections thereupon / by a minister of the Church of England in a letter to his friend.
        date: 1696.0
       words: 4204
      flesch: 64
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. And such as will do what they count hardly tolerable to be done for the keeping of their Posts , ought not to complain of others for sh●fting from King to Rump , then to the Cromwells , then to the Rump again , then to the Committee of Safety , afterwards to King Charles and James .
    keywords: associates; association; best; books; characters; charles; church; early; eebo; encoding; enemies; english; friend; good; great; honest; images; king; late; letter; little; majesty; man; mean; minister; online; oxford; parliament; partnership; phase; price; reasons; reflections; richmond; rump; self; sense; sir; subject; tcp; tei; text; tho; time; william; xml
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        item: #26 of 261
          id: A29209
      author: Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.
       title: The serpent salve, or, A remedie for the biting of an aspe wherein the observators grounds are discussed and plainly discovered to be unsound, seditious, not warranted by the laws of God, of nature, or of nations, and most repugnant to the known laws and customs of this realm : for the reducing of such of His Majesties well-meaning subjects into the right way who have been mis-led by that ignis fatuus.
        date: 1643.0
       words: 75956
      flesch: 59
     summary: For our Kings doe not receive all Royalty from the People , nor onely for the behoofe of the People , but partly for the People , partly for themselves and theirs , and principally for Gods glory : Those conditionate reservations and limitation●… which you fancy , are but your own drowsy dreames ; neither doth His Majesties Charter , nor can His Oath extend to any such fictitious privilege as you devise : The propriety which His Majesty hath in our Lifes , Libertyes , and Estates , is of publicke Dominion not of private Possession : His interest in things apperteining to the Crown is both of Dominion and Poss●…ssion : the right which we have in him is not a right of Dominion over him , but a right of Protection from him and under him : and this very right of Protection which he owes to us , and we may expect from him , shews clearely that he is born in 〈◊〉 for his People , and is a sufficient ground for him to expose his Life and Fortunes to the extremest perills for his Country . ●…ject .
    keywords: a29209; able; absolute; abuses; account; act; actions; active; acts; ad ●; adde; advantage; advise; affaires; aime; allegiance; almighty; alwayes; ancient; angells; answer; apostles; apostolicall; appeare; arbitrary; arbitrary power; argument; armed; arms; army; assent; authority; authors; b ●; bad; barons; beleeve; best; better; betwixt; bill; bishops; blood; body; bounds; bu ●; caesar; calling; cap; care; case; causes; certain; challenge; change; characters; charles; charta; charter; child; choise; christ; christian; church; churches; circumstances; citty; civill; clear; clergy; co ●; cognizance; college; command; commanders; commission; committed; common; commonalty; commonwealth; company; con ●; concurrence; condition; confesse; confession; confidence; conquest; conscience; consent; consequence; considerable; consideration; contented; contrary; coronation; councell; counsellers; country; course; courts; crown; cry; custome; cut; d ●; danger; dangerous; day; dayes; dayly; de ●; death; degrees; desire; desperate; destructive; difference; dignity; discipline; discourse; discretion; div; divine; division; doctor; doctrine; doe; dominion; doth; doubt; duty; e ●; earth; ecclesiasticall; edward; eebo; effect; elders; election; elizabeth; emperour; end; ends; england; english; envy; episcop ●; episcopacy; equity; error; essentiall; estates; evident; evill; excellent; exception; expedient; experience; expresse; eyes; face; faction; fall; false; family; farre; father; fear; fellow; field; fire; fit; fo ●; force; form; formes; forrein; fountain; fourth; france; free; french; friends; fundamentall; future; g ●; generall; genevah; glorious; glory; god; gods; goe; good; good king; goodnesse; governed; government; governours; grace; grant; great; greater; greatest; grounds; hands; hath; head; hearts; heaven; heires; henry; hereditary; hi ●; high; higher; himselfe; hitherto; ho ●; hold; holy; home; honour; hope; hotham; house; hull; humane; husband; implicit; inferiour; injoy; innocent; instance; institution; intentions; interest; iohn; ireland; irish; issue; itselfe; john; joyn; judgement; judges; jure; justice; kin ●; kind; king; king charles; king henry; kingdome; known; l ●; la ●; late; latitude; law; lawfull; laws; lay; learning; leave; left; legislative; lesse; li ●; liberty; life; like; limitation; limited; limits; little; long; lord; love; m ●; ma ●; magistrate; majesty; majestyes; major; making; man; manner; mans; master; matters; meanes; meaning; meere; meerely; members; mens; militia; mind; ministers; mischief; monarchy; money; moses; mouth; muc ●; multitude; names; nation; naturall; nature; nay; necessary; necessi ●; necessity; need; neighbour; new; nobility; non; notes; number; o ●; oath; ob ●; obedience; obligation; observer; office; old; onely; opinion; opposite; opposition; order; ordinance; ordinary; ordination; ou ●; owne; p ●; pag; page; paramount; pardon; parliament; particular; parties; party; pastors; paul; pe ●; people; perjury; perpetuall; person; personall; peter; petition; pieces; place; plain; pleased; pleasure; po ●; point; policy; politick; poor; pope; popish; popular; populi; positive; possession; power; powerfull; pr ●; practise; pre ●; predecessors; prerogative; present; preservation; president; pri ●; primitive; prince; principall; private; privileges; pro ●; probable; proper; protection; protestant; protestation; publick; pull; purpose; q ●; queen; question; quod; ready; realme; reason; rebellion; rebells; regall; regiment; religion; remedy; representative; repugnant; reserved; respect; reward; rex; richard; right; romans; rome; royall; royalty; ruine; rule; s ●; sacred; safety; said; saint; saith; sake; salus; saviour; scriptures; se ●; sea; second; sect; secure; sedition; seditious; seemes; selves; sense; sentence; servants; service; set; severall; share; shew; ship; single; sinne; sir; small; society; souldiers; soule; soveraigne; st ●; state; statutes; strange; strength; strong; su ●; subjects; subordinate; sufficient; summons; sundry; superiour; supremacy; supreme; sword; t ●; tale; tcp; te ●; text; th ●; tha ●; thi ●; thing; thought; thy; time; title; treatise; true; trust; trusted; truth; tyranny; tyrants; u ●; universall; unjust; unlawfull; unlesse; unto; use; violation; violence; virtue; voice; w ●; wa ●; wales; want; warrant; water; way; wealth; wh ●; whatsoever; whe ●; whereof; whic ●; whilest; wi ●; wife; wise; wish; wit ●; witnesse; words; work; world; worse; worthy; writ; wrong; yea; yeares; ● n
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        item: #27 of 261
          id: A29382
      author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
       title: The humble petition of many thousands, gentlemen, free-holders, and others, of the county of Worcester to the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, in behalf of the able, faithful, godly ministry of this nation / delivered by Colonel Jeff Bridges, and M. Thomas Foly, December 22, 1652 ; with the Parliaments answers thereunto.
        date: 1652.0
       words: 3071
      flesch: 45
     summary: Secondly , that you will be pleased to this end , to take special care of their competent maintenance , that we may not have an ignorant Ministry , while they are forced to be labouring for food and raiment , while they should be in their studies , or watching over their flocks ; and that through disability or unpreparedness , they disgrace not the work of Christ , nor make it and their office contemptible , thereby rejoycing the enemy , and hindring the saving of souls ; specially seeing it is expected that they credit their Doctrine with works of Charity : And seeing that a dependant and beggarly Ministry will lose so much of their Authority with the souls that most need them , and themselves will be laid open to the sore temptation of Man-pleasing ; besides the probability of the suffering of their children , when they are dead : And if the Ministers of this Age be never so resolved to continue their work through all necessities , yet in the next Age the Church is like to be destitute and desolate , because men will set their sons to other studies and imployments : We therefore humbly crave , that this Honorable Assembly will not take down the present Maintenance by Tythes ( though we have ●s much reason to be sensible of those inconveniences that it is charged with , as others ) or at least , not till they , instead of it , establish as sure , and full , and fit a Maintenance . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A29382 of text R15906 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing B4477).
    keywords: able; behalf; bridges; christ; church; common; county; england; english; faithful; free; gentlemen; godly; gospel; hath; holders; humble; jesus; lord; maintenance; ministers; ministrie; ministry; nation; parliament; petition; pleased; souls; text; thomas; wealth; worcester; work; world
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        item: #28 of 261
          id: A29451
      author: Friend to the truth.
       title: A brief examination and consideration of the unsound princples upon which the armies plea (lately committed to publick view) is grounded wherein the repentance of those army-men and the conversion of all other persons from the error of their ways who have (in what capacity so-ever) acted by the said principles is most earnestly desired and specially aimed at / by a friend to the truth.
        date: 1660.0
       words: 10924
      flesch: 54
     summary: If these were never known in any former age to be in any other hands , but have ever been in the actual possession of the Supreme Magistrate time out of minde , and beyond the mention of any certain History , who is able to say they were ever by the people vested in them ? If the Supreme Magistrate be entrusted of God , whose peculiar all Government is , and not of man , or men , whose it is not ; as the power of Government , so the sinews of that power , ( the Treasuries and the Militia ) must needs also be invested in Him , not of the people , or any other , but of God alone . And whereas they that really and truly good , may be had in abomination among men , as that which is highly esteemed among men , is abomination in the sight of God ; by this Government thus limited , the good people of God , whose life is hid with Christ in God , may be liable to all the injuries and mischiefs which they that Saint themselves , and ( contrary to the Apostles rule ) esteem themselves better than others , and act their hypocrisie in the fairest colours of zeal and sanctimonie , can put upon them .
    keywords: act; allegiance; ancient; authority; binding; body; bondage; capacity; case; church; civil; common; contrary; customes; destructive; doth; duty; end; faith; fundamental; god; good; government; governours; hath; impossible; justice; king; kingdom; known; land; law; lawful; laws; legal; lesse; life; like; magistrate; matter; nation; needs; new; oath; people; performance; persons; power; present; principles; private; promise; proper; publick; real; reason; representative; right; safety; self; soever; special; supreme; text; thing; time; true; truth; universal; whatsoever; wit; words; world
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        item: #29 of 261
          id: A29535
      author: Bainbrigg, Thomas, 1636-1703.
       title: Seasonable reflections on a late pamphlet entituled A history of passive obedience since the Reformation wherein the true notion of passive obedience is settled and secured from the malicious interpretations of ill-designing men.
        date: None
       words: 23333
      flesch: 57
     summary: But after all the praises and commendations of the generality of Mankind , and those coming freely and sincerely upon the supposition of true Interest , without design of daubing or flattering the great and the proud : must ( I say ) this Man after all this be thrown into Hell , and damned as one of the worst of Miscreants ? Such judgments as these will confound the genuine and most delightful Idea's that Men have of God's Goodness , and Wisdom ; they may serve perhaps to adorn a Discourse for absolute Reprobation , or upon the excellency of damning for damnings sake , without regard to Sin ; but they can have little other use for glory to God , or Man ; for good of King or People . If then men will have us to say , that Power comes from God , and only from God , we may well allow it ; because we know that Nature , and an inclination to sociable living , and Order come from God , and only from him ; all these are good , and God is the Giver of all good things ; and besides , we find so much of goodness both for King and People in this National Constitution , that we may well think that God , himself , by his Providence ▪ did influence our Fore-Fathers to agree , and fix upon it .
    keywords: account; actions; active; affairs; answer; author; base; bellarmine; best; better; blame; books; care; case; certain; christian; chron; church; clear; command; conscience; constitution; contrary; damnation; david; deliverance; design; divines; doctrine; duties; duty; eebo; effects; enemies; england; english; evil; excellent; exercise; fault; fear; free; god; good; goodness; government; grant; great; grounds; hard; hell; historian; history; hope; human; ill; interests; james; justice; king; late; late king; law; laws; like; likely; little; lives; long; man; means; men; methods; nation; national; nature; new; non; obedience; opinion; particular; passive; passive obedience; paul; people; persons; point; pope; possible; power; preachers; preface; prince; proper; punishment; reason; reformation; religion; resistance; right; righteousness; rom; rule; sake; sam; saul; secure; self; sense; sin; slaves; stop; subjects; submission; suffering; tcp; text; thee; things; thought; time; true; use; vertue; way; ways; willing; wisdom; words; world; wrong
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        item: #30 of 261
          id: A29572
      author: Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677.
       title: Two speeches of George, Earl of Bristol, with some observations upon them by which it may appear whether or no the said Earl and others of the same principles, deserve to be involved in the common calamity brought upon Roman Catholicks, by the folly and presumption of some few factious papists.
        date: 1674.0
       words: 6955
      flesch: 46
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. They considered well that wealth and power from publique charges and imployments do range the generality of men to opinions , and parties more strongly farr , then all other arguments , according to the saying of Eneas Silvius ( himself a Pope ) That the Popes superiority over general Counsels would ever find most Doctors for it , because the Pope had so many Bishop-ricks to give , the Counsells none .
    keywords: affairs; appear; bill; books; bristol; catholicks; characters; church; commons; court; duty; earl; eebo; english; fears; fit; gentlemen; george; good; great; happy; hath; heart; honour; honourable; house; king; lords; majesties; majesty; matter; message; occasion; opinion; papists; parliament; place; power; present; protestant; religion; right; roman; rome; said; self; sentiments; service; sir; soveraign; speaker; speeches; state; subject; tcp; tei; text; time; true; undertaking; way; world
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        item: #31 of 261
          id: A30325
      author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
       title: An apology for the Church of England, with relation to the spirit of persecution for which she is accused
        date: 1688.0
       words: 6688
      flesch: 43
     summary: As for the security which is offe●ed us in this repeating of the Kings promise● , we must crave leave to remember , that the King of France , even after he had resolved to break the Edict of Nantes , yet repeated in above an hundred Edicts , that were real and visible violations of that Edict , a clause con●irmatory of the Edict of Nantes , declaring that he would never Violate it : and in that we may see what account is to be had of all promises made to Hereticks , in matter● of Religion , by any Prince of the Roman Commu●ion , but more particularly by a Prince who has put the conduct of his Consciince in the hands of a Iesuite . Another Buffo●n , 〈…〉 to pl●gue the Nation with three or four P●pers a week , whi●h to the Reproach o● t●e Age in which we live , had but too g●eat and too general an effect , for poysoning the spirits of the Clergy .
    keywords: act; angry; apology; books; characters; church; clergy; conscience; court; design; dissenters; early; eebo; encoding; england; english; god; good; government; great; ill; images; king; late; law; laws; liberty; little; man; matter; nation; new; online; oxford; parliament; partnership; party; persecution; phase; popery; power; present; principles; project; promises; reason; relation; religion; rome; self; set; spirit; state; tcp; tei; text; things; tho; time; title; true; trust; war; word; work; xml; year; ● e; ● t; ● ●
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        item: #32 of 261
          id: A30329
      author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
       title: A collection of papers against popery and arbitrary government written by G. Burnet.
        date: 1689.0
       words: 29724
      flesch: 36
     summary: Upon the whole Matter , it can never enter into my mind , that God , who has made Man a Creature , that naturally enquires and reasons , and that feels as sensible a pleasure when he can give himself a good account of his actions , as one that sees , does perceive in comparison to a blind man that is led about ; and that this God , that has also made Religion on design to perfect this humane Nature , and to raise it to the utmost height to which it can arrive , has contrived it to be dark , and to be so much beyond the penetration of our Faculties , that we cannot find out his mind in those things that are necessary for our Salvation : and that the Scriptures , that were writ by plain men , in a very familiar stile , and addrest without any discrimination to the Vulgar , should become such an unintelligible Book in these Ages , that we must have an Infallible Iudge to expound it : and when I see not only Popes , but even some Bodies that pass for General Councils , have so expounded many passages of it , and have wrested them so visibly , that none of the Modern Writers of that Church pretend to excuse it , I say I must freely own to you , that when I find I need a Commentary on dark passages , these will be the last persons to whom I will address my self for it . Church and state -- England.
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        item: #33 of 261
          id: A30357
      author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
       title: The ill effects of animosities among Protestants in England detected and the necessity of love unto, and confidence in one another, in order to withstand the designs of their common enemies, laid open and enforced.
        date: 1688.0
       words: 14893
      flesch: 24
     summary: Hereupon the last King not only refused to consent to such Bills as diverse late Parliaments had prepared for indulging Dissenters , & of bringing them into an union of Counsels , & conjunction of interest , with those of the Church of England , for resisting the conspiracies of the Papists against our legal Government & established Religion ; but he rejected an address for suspending the execution of the penal Laws against Fanaticks , which was offered & presented unto him by that very Parliament which had framed & enacted those cruel & villanous Laws . Posterity will hardly believe that so many of the prelatical Clergy , and so great a number of members of the Church of England , should from an enmity unto , and pretended jealousie of the Panaticks , have become Tools under the late King for justifying the Dissolution of so many Parliaments , the invasion made upon their priviledges , the ridiculing and stifling of the Popish plot , the shamming of forged Conspiracies upon Protestants , the condemning several to death for high Treason who could be rendred guilty by the Transgression of no known Law , and finally for advancing a Gentleman to the Throne , who had been engaged in a conjuration against Religion and the legal Government , and whom three several Parliaments would have therefore excluded from the Right of Succession .
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        item: #34 of 261
          id: A30362
      author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
       title: An enquiry into the measures of submission to the supream [sic] authority and of the grounds upon which it may be lawful or necessary for subjects to defend their religion.
        date: 1688.0
       words: 6934
      flesch: 46
     summary: And these Laws have been put in the form of an Oath , which all that have born any Imployment either in Church or State ●ave sworn ; And ther●fore ●h●se Laws , ●or the assu●eing ●ur Liberties , do indeed bind the Kings conscience , and may af●●ct his Ministers ; y●t since it is a M●x●m of our Law , t●at the King can do no wrong , these cannot be carried so far as to justifie our taking Arms against him , be the trans●r●ssions of Law e●er so many and so manifest : And since this has be●n the consta●t Doctrine of the Church of England , it will be a very h●avy Imputation on us , if it appears , that tho we held these opinions , as long as the Court and the Crown have favoured us , ●et as soon as the Court turns against us , we change o●r Principles . 1. It is certain that the Law of Nature has put no difference nor subordina●ion among Men , except it be that of Children to Parents , or of Wives to their Husbands ; So that with Relation to the Law of Nature , all Men a●e born free ; And this Libert● must still be supposed Entire , unless so far as it is limited by Contracts , Provisions and Laws ; For a Man can ei●her bind himsel● to be a Servant , or sell himself to be a Slave , by which he becomes in the power of another , only so far as it was provided by the Contract :
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        item: #35 of 261
          id: A30395
      author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
       title: News from France in a letter giving a relation of the present state of the difference between the French king and the court of Rome : to which is added the Popes brief to the assembly of the clergy, and the protestation made by them in Latin : together with an English translation of them.
        date: 1682.0
       words: 12228
      flesch: 45
     summary: You aggravate the danger of a breach between the Priesthood and the Civil Power , and the ill effects that may follow from thence , both in Church and State : And inferr that therefore you thought it became you to find out a mean for removing the difference that was encreasing , and that no mean appeared more convenient than those remedies proposed by the Fathers of the Church for tempering the Canons by a prudent condescention according to the necessity of the times , in such things as might no way endanger either the truth of Religion , or the Rules of Morality : and that you thought your Order and the whole Gallicane and indeed the Universal Church owed so much to a King that had merited so eminently of the Catholick Religion , and who was daily desiring to merit further of it , and that therefore you passed from your Rights , and resigned them to the King. or any other that have followed since that time , or any thing that has been acted or done by vertue of those , shall be no wayes hurtful or prejudicial to the Rights of the Gallicane Church , and shall turn to no Precedent or Warrant for doing the like in any other time or place ; and that none may thereupon presume to oppose the ancient Canons of the Church , or the established Customs of this Kingdom , or the received practices of the Gallicane Church , or think that he may lawfully do any thing , pursuant thereunto ; and let none be ignorant , that these things notwithstanding the Canons , Customs , Rights , and Liberties of the said Church , shall still remain and preserve their ancient Force and Authority entire :
    keywords: account; affair; ancient; apud; arch; assembly; authority; best; bishops; books; brief; burnet; canons; canonum; care; causam; cause; characters; christ; christian; church; churches; city; clergy; common; confess; contra; councils; court; crown; cum; customs; cùm; danger; date; day; days; defence; deo; difference; dignity; discipline; discourse; duty; early; ecclesiae; ecclesiarum; edict; eebo; effects; empire; encoding; england; english; episcopal; episcopos; esse; est; etiam; examples; faith; fit; france; freedom; french; galliae; gallicane; gallicane church; general; gilbert; god; good; government; great; greatest; hard; heresie; hereticks; holy; honour; illud; images; infallibility; infallible; innocent; intention; interests; ipsi; jura; king; kingdom; known; latin; letter; liberty; like; literis; little; lives; long; love; man; matter; melancholy; men; mind; necessity; neque; new; news; non; nos; nostra; obedience; occasion; officii; omnibus; online; order; oxford; paris; parliament; particular; partnership; party; people; persons; peter; phase; piety; points; popes; power; present; pro; probable; protestation; quae; qui; quidem; quis; quo; quod; ready; reason; regale; regaliae; regem; relation; religion; rights; rome; sacrament; scarce; sed; selves; set; sine; sint; sit; sorbonne; state; suis; sunt; tam; tcp; tei; temper; text; things; time; translation; true; truth; ubi; universal; vel; vestris; vestro; vobis; vos; woman; words; work; world; xml; zeal
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        item: #36 of 261
          id: A30530
      author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
       title: A just and lawful tryal of the teachers and professed ministers of his age and generation by a perfect proceeding against them, and hereby they are righteously examined ... : whereunto is added, A short description of the true ministry of Christ ... justified by the people of God called Quakers, in England / by ... Edward Burrough.
        date: 1660.0
       words: 13655
      flesch: 30
     summary: 5. Again the shepherds of Is●del , idle Pastors , and Deceivers , they eat the fat , and they cloath themselves with the wool , and they killed them that were fed , but they feed not the flock , the diseased they did not strengthen , neither healed they the sick , neither bound they up the broken , neither brought they again that which was driven away , neither did they seek again that which was lost , but with force , and cruelty , they ruled the flock , and was scattered , and become meat to all the beasts of the field , and the sheep wandred throughout all the Mountains ; and the flock was scattered , and none of the Shepheards did search or seek after them ; and they eat and drank up the good of the Pasture , and trod down the residue with their feet ; and they thrust with side and with shoulder , and they pushed all the diseased with their horn , till they scattered them abooad ; Now this is a fit comparison with the practice of the teachers of this age ; for they eat the fat , and lives in pleasures , and fuln●ss most of any , and they cloath with the wool , for they claim the tenth part of every mans wool ; and if any be fed by the true shepheard , they seek to kill them , and to devour their lives by causing them to be imprisoned , and cruelty done unto them ; and they feed not the flock , neither do they strengthen the diseased , nor healeth the sick , neither bind they up the broken ; for if any be wounded and cries out because of the burden of sinne , and be sick , and broken , and trembles at the word of the Lord ; such they cry out is deceived and mocketh at them ; and the Image of God which hath been driven away and lost , they have not sought in people , but with cruelty have they ruled among people , by running to Magistrates , and causing such to be put into prison that would not help to maintain them , and thus with cruelty do they rule among people , as it is witnessed by many testimonies in England ; and the people are scattered , and wandered into many sects , and false judgements , and false opinions , and they are not sought after by the Teachers of this age to regain them to the truth by sound doctrine , but they persecute them ; and the shepherds feed themselves , and feeds not the flock , and even eats up the good pasture , and treads down the residue ; and drinks of the deep waters , and fouls the residue with their feet , so that none that follows them can drink of the pure waters , nor eat of the bread of life ; and they thrust with side , and with shoulder , and push all the diseased which are wounded , because of their sin , who is ready to die for want of the Bread of life , which denies , & are weary of their abominations ; these they push at with their horns , and causeth to be persecuted : and thus they fitly agree with the false shepherds of Israel , and are no whit wanting in any thing wherein they were guilty , but rather abounding ; which sheweth that they follow the same spirit , and are of the same stock , and seed , and the Lord is against these , as he was against them in old time , and no more are these Ministers of Christ that acts these things , then they were which acted the same things by the same spirit ; and this is plain to all that shuts not their eye and stops not their ear . 4. Again , the Ministers of Christ preached to bring people into fellowship with God by preaching of the Gospel through converting sinners unto the knowledge of the truth , and by no other way did they make Christians , nor counted any so but such as had repented and were changed by the spirit .
    keywords: acts; age; apostles; christ; contrary; deceivers; doctrine; doth; england; evil; false; false prophets; flock; free; fruits; generation; gift; god; gospel; great; grievous; hath; high; hire; israel; law; life; light; like; lord; love; magistrates; maintenance; man; manifest; men; ministers; ministry; money; peace; people; perfect; power; preaching; priests; prison; professed; prophets; rule; saints; saith; scripture; shew; sin; spirit; teachers; text; things; true; truth; way; wicked; words; work; world; year
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        item: #37 of 261
          id: A30531
      author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
       title: A just and righteous plea presented unto the King of England, and his council, &c. being the true state of the present case of the people, called Quakers, truly demonstrated, and justly pleaded, on their behalf : and this is laid down in six particulars ... / by ... Edw. Burroughs.
        date: 1661.0
       words: 16315
      flesch: 21
     summary: It is his great Enemy , because it is contrary to the Trust which God hath reposed in him , in promoting him to be King over these People ; for God hath not committed Power to him , to judge in the Cases of Mens Consciences , and to persecute any because of the exercise thereof , whether they be of this Profession and Practice in Religion , or the other , yet living peaceably and uprightly as Men , he ought not to persecute any , nor to suffer them to be persecuted by , nor under his Authority ; but he ought to defend and preserve all mens Persons and Estates in their Just Rights , from the violence each of others , without respect to what their Profession and Practice of Religion is ; but if the contrary be brought forth , it is contrary , and not answerable to the end of God's Restoring Him to these Kingdoms ; and if He do not what God hath justly called him unto , but otherwise , this is his Enemy ; and such is Persecution for Conscience sake , it is contrary to the end of Just Government , and wherefore God hath Restored him ; and therefore this Persecution is an utter Enemy both to the King's Person and Authority . 4. Nor is it manifest , but that we are ready to acknowledge so to continue , in all good Conscience and Righteousness : And therefore we do appeal to the God of Heaven , and to King Charles , and to all People whatsoever , That our present Sufferings by Imprisonment , and whatsoever else we may suffer in this Case , for Refusing to take the Oath of Alleagiance , it is not for Plotting against the King , nor for refusing to acknowledge Iust Authority to the King , nor for denying Iust Obedience to him and the Good Laws of the Land , nor for denying to live peaceably in the Kingdom under the King's Authority ; Because to all this we acknowledge solemnly in Yea and Nay : Neither are our Sufferings in this case , for any Evil-doing towards God nor Men ; but our Sufferings are for keeping the Commands of Christ , which to us is matter of Conscience to perform , more than to save our own Lives or Estates ; and our Sufferings are , because we cannot Swear at all , and not because we are Rebellious , or that we deny Iust Allegiance to the King : and such our Sufferings are not as Evil-doers , nor justly and righteously as Offenders ; because we are not guilty of Evil in this case , towards God nor Man , and our Sufferings are Cruel Persecution for our Tender Conscience sake , and for the Name of Christ Iesus : And we call God and Just Men to witnesse between Us and our Prosecutors , that as Saints and Servants of God we suffer in this Case , and for our Faithfulnesse and Obedience to the King of Heaven , and not for Evil-doing or Disobedience to King Charles and his Authority : And if any be persecuted in this case , for Refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance , to the Ruine of Persons , Wives and Families in this World ; then we shall have cause to say , Occasion is wrongfully taken against us , to destroy us , and we are proceeded against , contrary to the End of Iust Government , which is , to preserve the Peaceable , and not to destroy them ; and contrary to the King 's former Promises , who hath said , VVe should not suffer for matters of our Religion and Conscience , living peaceably in the Land ; And if we suffer , because we cannot swear at all , such our Suffering is for our Conscience sake , and we are therein persecuted unrighteously , as Innocent People , and without just cause ; And we must commit this our Cause to God , who regardeth the Oppressions of his People , and will avenge their Cause in his season .
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        item: #38 of 261
          id: A30533
      author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
       title: A message for instruction to all the rulers, judges, and magistrates to whom the law is committed shewing what just government is, and how far the magisrates power reacheth, and what the sword of justice is to cut down, and what it is to defend ... / E.B.
        date: 1658.0
       words: 11415
      flesch: -98
     summary: Now such as handle the Law , and are executors thereof , who are ordained of God to iudg and govern the people ; ought to be iust men ; fearing God , and walking in his Law , and hating and denying every false way , that people may receive examples of righteousness , and holy and lawfull walking from their Conversations ; and they that are set to govern the people ought to have the spirit of true and sound Iudgment to try into the root of all causes , whereby they may be able to discerne of different causes ; and to give iust Iudgement in all things ; and such will iudge by equall measure for God , and not for man , but without respect of persons ; and such will be a terror to transgressors , and will strengthen and encourage them that doe well ; and then the execution of the Law will answer the end wherefore it was added ; for because of transgression was the law added to slay transgression , and to bind under the transgressor , and to make him stand in awe and be afraid ; for the just law , reacheth to the just witness of God , and answereth it in every man , and he that walkes in the law of God , and hath his heart therein exercised , the law of man hath no power over him , to condemne him , but it justifies him , and defends him , and preserves him from all wrong ; but who doth not walk in the law of God , but is excercised in evill , and transgresseth the light and pure law of God in his conscience by doing evill & by wrong & unjust dealing ; then the law of man takes hold upon him , and binds him , & judges him , & Condemns him ; for the evil done by him , contrary to the light in his own conscience , which answereth to the just execution of the law in condemning of him : And this is the work of the law in the hand of faithfull executors , who justly executeth the just law , in defending and preserving the iust and Innocent men from wrong doing , and in condemning and iudging the ungodly and evill men , for wrong doing ; whereby the witness of God in them both may answer to the Iust government in defending the one , and in condemning the other ; and this is a good savor to God where the iust lawes are iustly executed , by ius● men , But where unrighteous men are in power , and the execution of the law in their hands , that are themselves transgressors , such will not iudg for God , but the good lawes will be subverted unto wrong ends , from their proper vertue ; and the hands of the wicked will be strengthened , and the evill doers will escape unpunished , and the Innocent will suffer , and Iustice and true Iudgment will be turned backward , for when the wicked beares rule , the people cannot rejoyce , nor Iustice and true Iudgment cannot be received from men , who are themselves unjust and unrighteous ; for though the lawes may be good and iust ; yet the executioners thereof being evil , and themselves transgressors , worthy of condemnation by the law ; the transgression of the law in others cannot iustly be Iudged by such , who are themselves guilty of Iudgment , and therefore the lawes will be subverted , and iustice and true iudgment neglected , because such as handle the law knowes not God , but are in the transgression of the righteous law , and of the iudgment thereof are themselves guilty ; Soe therefore they that handle the law should be men iustified according to the law , and free from the transgression ; that they may the more iustly punish , reprove and condemn it in others ; and may minister Iustice and true Iudgment through the law to all people under them ; and no man ought to be respected in Iudgment , but every mans cause ought to be heard , the poor as well as the rich ; and their matters diligently sought into , and all ought to receive iust iudgment from Iust men by the iust law ; for the law is a defence about all the righteous , to defend and preserve them ; in peace and freedome , from all their enemies , who are to be limited by the law , as I have said : And they that are reconciled to God , whose consciences are excercised towards God in all things , they are not under the law , nor the law hath no power over them , for the law is fullfilled in them , by Christ who teacheth them in all things to walk without offence towards God and all men , in truth and in righteousness , to God and all men ; and such the law of man is to defend and not to Iudg them ; to iustifie them , and not to condemn them ; and to be a praise to them , and not a terror , and such setteth to seal that the law is iust and good and holy ; who walketh in iustness , in goodness and holiness ; and doth not transgress the good lawes of any nation , but walk void of offence towards all , for they walk not in the flesh , but in the spirit , and are doers of the law , and not breakers of it ; and so comes not under the guilt of condemnation , in any thing , but are iustified in all things ; for the light of Christ leadeth them into all truth ; and so out of all condemnation ; their wayes are righteous and pure , and their workes are iust and equall towards God and all men ▪ and they seek not the wrong of any mans person or estate , but seekes the good of all , forgiving their enemies , and praying for them , and seekes not vengeance upon their adversaries , but they bear all things patiently , and such are the servants of God , and not transgressors of his law , nor the iust lawes of man ; And if such doe suffer by a law , that law is uniust , and so is that Magistrate that executes that law ; and that suffering is not for evill doing , but for a good conscience sake , and the Innocent can rejoyce in such suffering , but the executioners thereof shall howle and weep ; So that in all ages there was such suffering , which was not for evill doing , but for the exercise of a pure conscience ; and such sufferings there are at this day ; and this is because the unrighteous and the uniust beares rule which subverts the law , and turnes true Iudgment backward , and oppresseth the seed of God , and rules over it in Tyrany ; and this is where darkness rules in the heart , and Ignorance in the mind ; and true Iudgment is wanting , for light is called darkness , and darkness light ; and good is put for evill , and evill for good ; and truth is called heresy , and error is called truth ; and because of this the righteous are Iudged uniustly , and falsly condemned ; and the guilty are set free , and thus is Iudgment turned quite backward ; where the seed of enmity ruleth above the seed of God ; and such a government is not blessed , but made a curse unto that dominion ; where it is seated , and this is because such are set to rule and govern ; who are not ruled and governed by the Lord , but are in the transgression of the Iust and righteous law ; and are uniust men , and not reconciled unto God ; upon whose shoulders the government lyes , and the execution of the law in their power ; who cannot minister true Iudgment , nor discerne of different causes among men . And also it is a very shame to the people of this Nation for whom such ministers do labour , who cannot maintain their own ministers themselves , who labours for them , and of whose labours they do partake , but others are compelled by iniustice , to maintain them , who doth not partake of any of their labours , nor set them to labour , but denies them and their labour on that account , and yet are forced to pay them wages ; and this is uniust and unreasonable , that men should be constrained by force to pay other mens servants , which works and labours for other and not for them ; and what man in the world having reason in him , would do it or be forced to do it , without complaining of heavy iniustice as to maintain another mans servant with wages , who works for others , and not for him , neither was hired by him , nor set on work nor receives any benefite by him , but another hires him and partakes of his labours , and yet he is compelled against all reason , and equity to give him his wages ; all will conclude this were uniust and not according to God but against him ; and this is the very cause between the people of God , who cannot pay to maintain false teachers and the people of the Nation , who hires such teachers and receives of their labours and teaching and yet compells others to give them wages , contrary to good reason and Iustice , and against the excercise of a pure conscience , And above all the magistrates blindness and Ignorance , and the uniustness and wickedness of some of them doth appear , to their shame , by whose authority these things are done , reaching out their power in those things , further than they have received power from God , and abusing the law and iust government , and subverting it to another end than wherefore God hath ordained it ; for the magistrates power and authority , is not to be laid on mens consciences to oppress and Imbondage the tender consciences of the lords people ; in forcing things to be done contrary to good reason and against a good conscience ; and by these things is the land filled with violence and oppression , and the Innocent and iust doth deeply groan ; till the Lord arise to plead their cause , and to bring deliverance unto them , through the destruction of all their enemies ; and he will break down all the bonds of cruelty and oppression , and will take away every yoak that doth burden and oppress the upright , that his people may be a free people , from all uniust men , and the people of the Lord doth claime this as their priviledge , belonging to them by the iust Laws of God and men , to worship God in spirit and in truth , and to uphold and maintaine that worship onely , without being compelled by force to maintaine any other whatsoever , and they claime as right unto them to maintaine what Ministers , and uphold what ministry , as they know is sent of God , by which people are profited , and which they have received the knowledge of God through by his spirit , and to be free to maintaine how and as the Lord leads them unto , without being forced by any Law , or unequall authority , to maintaine the false Prophets and hirelings , and deceivers , who lives in pride and excess , through the oppression of the poor and innocent , and such ( as Ministers of the Gospel of Christ , ) the people of the Lord cannot maintaine , but rather gives themselves to suffer heavy and cruel things by unjust and wicked men , who violates the just Laws of God and man ; and the suffering is for a good conscience sake , & for righteousness sake , and not for any wrong or evill doing , and for a testimony that they are of God , and for a witness against their enemies , that they are of the Devill ; who doth his works , and these makes war against the Saints and the Lamb , and the Beast seeks to kill all that will not worship him , for he hath been great in the earth , and his seat upon Nations , and who hath been able to make war against him , for many generations : againe there is another suffering great and grievous which is unjustly laid upon the people of God , which suffering is not for evill doing , but for a good conscience sake as is manifest ; as because many are moved of the Lord by his spirit , to goe into the Steeple-houses and meeting places , or other places to reprove sin , and among people , or to exhort them unto good , and to follow Christ , and to deny the wickedness of this world , or such like , as they are moved , some are moved to reprove a hireling teacher , who deceives the people , and walks in the steps of the false Prophets , and lives in pride and vanity and evill , contrary to the doctrine and practise of Christ and the Apostles , and this practise of the servants of the Lord in reproving evill and exhorting to good , is called a disturbance of the peace , and an unlawful practise , and such like ; it is falsly judged by unjust men ▪ who knows not the spirit of the Lord , nor the moving thereof , and because of this , many innocent men are caused deeply to suffer , contrary to a good conscience , and some are sent to the house of Correction , there suffering cruell things from hard-hearted men , and some are put in the Stocks and whipped , and others fined and cast into prison , and such like sufferings are unjustly imposed upon them , and not for evill doing , as I have said , for though they reprove sin in teachers or in people , or exhorts them to good , whether in Steeple-houses , Markets or other places , yet they do not hereby wrong any mans person or estate ; neither is this any matter of wilfull wrong , or to such an intent , neither doth it disturb the peace , nor is any unlawfull practise ; but onely out of a good conscience to God and man , is it done ; and it is a matter of conscience to the servants of the Lord , to do so , and they cannot leave it undone least they should transgress the law of God in their own consciences ; because they are commanded of God so to do , that people may be Instructed in the right way to God , and be converted out of every false way ; and this is the very end , of their work and their intent in doing it ; and they ought not in justice to suffer for it , for it is according to the law of God , and in reason and a good conscience , and the Lord justifies them in it , then that law and Iudgment must needs be corrupt and unjust , which condemnes the people and servants of the Lord , as for evill doers , for obeying the commands of God and for the exercise of their pure consciences , and no mans person or estate being wronged or Injured but onely sin and wickedness reproved and exhorted from ; And hereby thus is the law perverted , and true Iudgment turned backward , and the guiltless is condemned guilty , and the guilty is set free ; and the obeying the commands of God and the excercise of a good conscience is unjustly iudged a transgression ; and this is a shame , and will be great condemnation to such , in the day of the Lord by whose Authority this is done ; even that the excercise of a good conscience , even reproving of sin and exhorting unto that which is good ▪ to follow that and to forsake all evill ; should be iudged and punished as a hanious transgression in a nation and Common-wealth professing Christianity and pure Religion ; and this makes the sin much more great and unpardonable , because the practise and faithfull excercise in Christianity , and in the pure and true Religion , is adiudged transgression & condemned by such who professes the same thing in words , and yet persecutes and punisheth the excercise of it in others ; and this shews them uniust iudges and hypocrits ; who causes the Servants of the Lord to suffer ; for the practise of that which themselves profess in words , to wit Religion and Christianity , for I affirme against all opposers whatsoever , that it is , a practise in Religion according to the Scriptures , to goe into the Steeple-houses , meeting places , Markets , Highways , or other places , and reprove sin and wickedness , and cry against evill in Priests and people , and exhort to good and to forsake evill , and therefore it ought not to be prosecuted and punished , but defended and maintained , by the just Government of a Common-wealth , and by just Laws and Magistrates ; for this the Lord requireth that justice and truth , and true iudgement be exalted , and the innocent and upright defended , in all their ways of a good conscience , and that evill doers and sinners and transgressors , be condemned and righteously iudged .
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        item: #39 of 261
          id: A30550
      author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
       title: To the Parliament of the common-wealth of England who are in place of authority to do justice, and in present power to ease the oppressed nation from its bonds : councel and advice unto you / from a friend that seeks after truth and righteousness from you ...
        date: 1659.0
       words: 3653
      flesch: 9
     summary: Wherefore I am moved in Spirit , and in love to you and to this Nation , to lay it before you , and to desire it of you ( in whose hands the Liberties of this Nation yet remaineth ) that you will so prepare and allow the Foundation of Government in this Nation , that the Lord may be the chooser of our Rulers , to give and to execute righteous Laws for us , and that men that fears God and hates covetousness and every evil way , that Just men and Righteous men , men of Truth and uprightness , men of humility and soberness , men that are Constant to good Principles , and such whom the Lord hath blessed with the Spirit of sound Judgement , and with understanding , who may truly discern of Causes and equally Judge thereof , men that are for the Just freedom of all , and for the General good of all , and men that in all things will seek the glory of the Lord , be they rich or poor , high or low in birth or breeding ; yet let such be Rulers among us , and Judge this Nation , that all that do well may have praise and be justified , and all that do evil may be afraid , and punished ; and hereby shall the whole Nation be refreshed and comforted with the Mercies of the Lord , and his Name shall be the greatest among us , and Truth and Righteousness should run down , when Justice sits in the Throne ; And not men for greatness sake , in Titles or Birth , or otherwise , Chosen in Tradition , and not by Appointment of God , but men for Vertues sake , and not for earthly honour which perisheth , not Covetous nor Ambitious men , not proud and vain-glorious men , not such as seeks the honour from below , that respects vain titles & flatteries of men , not such as will seek themselves , and be perverted by gifts , not such as are Persecutors for a good Conscience sake , that are Zealous , but not according to knowledge , not wilful and heady men , not unconstant and changeable men , not Traitors that have turned for self-advantage , and will change with the times to any way of Government for earthly honour , for such will Judge for man and not for God , not ignorant men that wants the Spirit of sound Judgement , nor such as are prophane and without the fear of God ; nor such as these , be they rich or great , let not such be our Governours nor Judge over us , to make Laws and execute them for us in our Nation ; let all such men be cast out from among you , and disenabled by certain Just restrictions from ever receiving Trust or Authority over us ; for while such men have been in power and sate in the Throne , Justice and true Judgement have been perverted , and our Land hath groaned under oppre●sions , and the Inhabitants mourned for very grief of heart , because of the abounding of injustice and cruelty through their Rulers ; and the Lord hath been vexed with them , while ini●uity hath sate upon the Throne , and wilfulness Judged the people , and mercy been wanting , and just Judgement neglected , and the whole Land hath laid desolate because hereof ; And therefore I call unto you on the Lords behalf , make way and prepare for Righteousness to sit as Judge , & that men alone , that fears God , and are ordained of him thereunto , of what Profession or Birth soever they be , men of truth and justness , that have the Spirit of a good understanding , and are called of God , may have Authority in our Nation , to give Laws and execute them for us , such being brought into a capacity by you to be chosen , for to such men appointed of God , and fitted for that end , and truly called of him , being qualified as aforesaid , do we give the Authority and Power in our Nation , to Judge and to Govern in the things pertaining to this World , and over us as we are Members of this Nation , and over the outward man , and in the things between man and man , even to be a terrour to such as are without the fear of God , and to punish such by Just Laws without ; as breaks the Law of God within , though to the Lord God alone , we give the Authority and Power over us to Rule us and to Judge us in that Relation , as we are Members of his Kingdom , and over our inward man , and in the things pertaining to our Consciences in all things related to his worship , and service , and faith , and practices in Religion . And while thus it hath been in our Nation that our Kings have attained to the Throne of Government hereditarily , and by succession of Birth , and our Parliaments and Rulers have attained to the place of Judgement over us , by such a way of traditional choise , as hath been the custom in our forefathers dayes ( that knew no better , being in the dayes of Apostacy & great ignorance themselves ) and thus it hath continued for many Ages , whereby the Inhabitants have been alwayes suffering under , and lyable to great oppressions & vexations , being subjected under such a Government , falling as aforesaid , from Parents to Children , after the manner of the Heathen Nations , and being subjected to such Laws , made and executed by men , not truly called and ordained of God thereunto , insomuch that nothing hath been perceived nor intended by men of the hand of the Lord , and of his good Spirit in the calling of our Kings , and choosing of our Rulers ; but these things have com'd to pass and been after the Traditions of men , and not after the Order and Councel of the Lord God ; And our Nation hath been under the bonds of slavery in this respect , even because men have governed that ought not : and while the great and rich men hath been set to rule over the poor , and while men for earthly honour , and for riches sake in birth and breeding , have claimed to be Princes over us successively , and to be chosen our Rulers according to custom , without respect to their vertue and goodness , and without true calling from the Lord , or any certain Testimony from him , and thus it hath continued for many ages ; because of which the free born people hath deeply suffered the cruel oppressions of proud and ambitious and self-seeking men , who hath long ruled for themselves , and not for the Lord , and have com'd into the place of Authority over us , otherwise then by appointment and right calling from the Lord , as I have said ; and thus the Government of our Nation hath been out of course , and not as the Lord requireth it , even until this day , while great darkness hath remained upon the hearts of the people , which hath so blinded them , that they have not known their own bondage , nor yet how to be redeemed into perfect liberty , while they have subjected themselves ( through ignorance ) to be ruled by such men as had no right from God to that place of Rule and Government .
    keywords: authority; consciences; end; exercise; faith; god; good; government; great; hath; judge; judgement; laws; lord; man; men; nation; oppressed; people; place; power; right; righteousness; rule; spirit; text; things; truth; way; worship
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        item: #40 of 261
          id: A30552
      author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
       title: To the rulers and to such as are in authority a true and faithful testimony concerning religion, and the establishment thereof, and how it may be established in persons and in nations / by Edward Burrough.
        date: 1659.0
       words: 4575
      flesch: 0
     summary: Oh blind and ignorant men ! this is a shame unto you , how manie thousands of thousand pounds have the Priests had out of this Nation for teaching religion , & preaching to people , & yet the nation remains unsetled in religion and they are beging to the powers of the Earth , to constrain & compel a settlement of Religion , and this shames them , and shews that they are they that Paul speakes of , and that the people of this nation are them that are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth , though you have been long learning , you are unsetled , and are not come to the knowledge of the truth : but had these Priests been such that were sent of the Lord , through their ministry would the nations long since have been setled in Religion , for they have been teachers long enough , and put the Nation to charge great enough , that people might have known ere this day the holy annointing to dwell in them , and to teach them , and to settle them in Religion , but it is manifest that they have ran and not been sent , but left peoples and nations unsetled as the waters , notwithstanding , all their preaching , and ministry for so many years , yet it seemes there wants still a settlement in Religion , and seeing their preaching hath had no effect to doe it , but their Ministry hath been all in vain , and people are not learned in Religion , nor yet established therein , whereby their Ministry is proved not to be Christs Ministry ( for the Apostles did setle people , and the Churches in Religion , which theirs hath done no such thing ) & therefore it is that the powers of the Earth are called to , that they may force by violence and by violent Laws , that by that means a worship and Religion may be setled as they say ; and their Ministry hath not drawn people by love , and therefore would they have people forced and compelled to be of such or such Religion but this is not Christs way , nor the way that his Apostles and true Churches were in ; for the spirit of the Father led each one of them , to be Religious , and that same spirit setled and established them in it , and not external Laws nor powers of the Earth , but that was Antichrists way , and the beasts and the false Prophets way , for when they had killed the Saints , and slain true Religion , then the beast and false prophets they established a Religion or worship by outward Lawes ; and it s written , that he caused and compelled all , both small and great , bond and free , to worship the beast and his image ; and here was a setled people in a Religion and worship by an outward compelling power . And thus it was then and is now the same , false Churches and false Religions are setled by an outward Authority ; and it was Nebuchadnezzar and his wicked Princes that setled a Religion or worship by an outward power & by an earthly authority , but that was not the worship of true Religion , but was the worship of Antichrist , and so it hath been for ages ; that worship that is setled , and that Religion which is established by an outward external power and the Lawes of men , is but the worship of Antichrist , and not the true Religion , nor the worship of the living God , which is in spirit and in truth , but it must all be overthrown and brought to nought , both that Religion and worship that is out of the spirit , and that power that upholds it , and now the Lord God is risen to confound the thoughts of mens hearts , and he alone will setle and establish Religion by his own power and by his own Law , and through his own Ministry , and as people comes to that of God in them , to feel the Spirit and power of the Lord God to change them ; hereby will every one particularly be setled in Religion , and by no other way nor means ; and this I know from the Lord .
    keywords: authority; beast; earth; edward; establishment; false; god; hath; lawes; lord; man; men; ministry; nations; outward; people; persons; power; religion; religious; rulers; sect; set; spirit; text; true; true religion; truth; way; worship
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        item: #41 of 261
          id: A30556
      author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
       title: The true state of Christianity, truly discribed, and also discovered unto all people what it was in its beginning and purity, and what it now is in its apostacy and degeneration ... / written by ... Edward Burrough.
        date: 1658.0
       words: 15518
      flesch: 14
     summary: I say look back to your Original , and see how you are Apostatized from them in your entrance into your profession of Christianity ; fo●… though you have the name of Christians , yet you were no●… made so ▪ nor received that name by being first converted and changed , and translated from death to life , and 〈◊〉 being the children of disobedience , to be the children of God , through the work and operation of the spirit of God in you , for hereof are thousands and ten thousands of Christians now wholly ignorant , and altogether without the feeling of the spirit of God , to change them , to convert them , and to translate them , but are accounted Christians b●… tradition , or natural education , and because of being sprinkled with a little water upon the face , being Infant●… , or by a bare confession and profession of the name of Christ in words , and professing of a bare belief in the Scriptures , by this way and means were you made ( and received you the name of ) Christians without any real change from darkness to light , and from Satan to God , as I have said . 〈◊〉 in this all ye Christians generally how you are fallen ; then in the beginning of Christianity , no lack nor want was amongst them ; they that had much , sold it , and gave to them that had none ; but now thousands are oppressed through want , while others have too much ; some are feeding and cloathing excessively with their multitude of dishes , and changes of rayment , while others hath scarce whereon to feed , or to cover their nakedness ; and this manifesteth that you are not members of the body of Christ , neither is he head in you , nor amongst you , but you are members of an harlot , and joyned to a h●…rlot , and one with a harlot , for you profess many faiths ; some say they believe Christ is given to all , others believes not so ; some say they believe he died for all , others they say , they believe contrary to that ; and thus the one faith which the Apostles had , the Christians of this generation have lost , and they have lost the one head Christ , and hath many heads , every Sect hath their head , many heads among the Protestants , many heads among the Papists , but thus it was not in the beginning of Christianity ; therefore you Christians are subverted from the true life of Christ ; the Christians then were of one faith , but now of many ; the Christians then had one head Christ , but now the Christians ( so called ) hath many heads ; the Christians then could lay down their life one for another , and were written in the hearts of one another by the spirit of the living God ; but the Christians now , are in envy one towards another , and in strife one with another ; the great men doth oppress the poor , and they go to Law one with another for earthly things , and one stealing from another , and one hanging another , and murdering one another , and making slaves one of another , and robbing one another , and seeking utterly to destroy one another , and yet such hath the name of Christians , amongst whom all this is acted ; but consider how woful is your fall , and how wicked is your degeneration from the life of God , and from the true Christian life and unity , which was amongst them in their beginning , then they were of one heart , and of one way , but now divided , and in strife and contention about Religion , and the worship of God , and also about earthly things , for which they destroy one 〈◊〉 ▪ and seek so to do ; then they could lay down their life one for another , but now they are taking the life one from another , through wickedness , a woful Apostacy , and great night of darkness is upon you ; then none amongst them had lack of any thing , nor none destroyed through wasting any thing upon their lusts , but now thousands perisheth for want , while others hath too much , and are destroying it upon their lusts ; then had the Christians one head Christ , but now the b●…ast reigns that hath many heads ; then they were of one faith ▪ but now the Christians profess many faiths ; then the Christians handled , saw , heard and felt , of the Word of life in the●… , and they had fellowship with the Father and with the Son , but now thousands of thousands of Christians are without the sence , and feeling , and knowledge of the Word of life in them , and walks in darkness and in ignorance , and hath no fellowship with the Father nor with the Son .
    keywords: acts; apostacy; apostles; beast; beginning; christianity; christians; contrary; conversation; dayes; death; degeneration; doth; earth; faith; fall; fellowship; followers; ghost; gift; god; good; great; hath; hearts; holy; learning; life; light; lord; lusts; man; manifest; manner; men; ministers; ministry; nations; people; power; practice; preaching; present; purity; read; respect; set; singing; spirit; state; text; things; thousands; true; truth; unity; vain; way; woful; works; world; worship; ye christians
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        item: #42 of 261
          id: A30606
      author: Baltimore, George Calvert, Baron, 1580?-1632.
       title: The answer to Tom-Tell-Troth the practise of princes and the lamentations of the kirke / written by the Lord Baltismore, late secretary of state.
        date: None
       words: 17388
      flesch: 55
     summary: And , which argueth a spirit of Frenzie , he spareth no King ; for of King Iam●s himselfe he delivereth such a character as is both disloyall , and most intollerable . Moreover Carolus the fourth was both Emperour and King of Bohemia , and from him and his issue the Crown descended to Vladislaus , since whose time the kingdom hath ever remained by succession in that familie without discontinuance o● interruption , except when Podilradius a Hussite , by practise , sedition and forcible entrie usurped the Crown .
    keywords: action; aide; amity; ancient; answer; argument; armes; austria; authority; bee; better; betweene; bishops; blood; bohemia; books; breake; cap; carolus; catholiques; cause; certaine; chap; charles; cheif; children; church; claime; commission; conscience; consent; contempt; contrary; councell; count; country; crown; custome; dangerous; day; death; decree; defence; denmark; directors; doe; doth; doubt; duke; early; edw; election; electors; emperour; empire; end; enemies; england; english; est; evill; excuse; exercise; familie; father; ferdinand; forces; fourth; france; frederick; free; friends; gabor; generall; germany; god; gods; good; government; great; guide; hath; hazard; head; hee; hen; henry; highnesse; himselfe; hollanders; honour; house; hungaria; ill; imperiall; imperij; indies; inheritance; iohn; judgement; jure; justice; king; kingdom; kirke; late; law; lawfull; league; letters; life; like; long; lord; magistrats; majestie; majesty; man; march; mathias; men; merchants; nay; new; non; notwithstanding; oath; object; officers; old; opinion; order; owne; pag; palatine; palsgrave; parliament; peace; persons; possession; power; practise; prague; president; prince; proceedings; proscription; protestant; quarrell; queene; question; quis; quod; realme; reason; records; regni; regnum; religion; respect; revenge; rich; right; rodolphus; safety; saith; second; secretary; sed; seeke; set; shew; sibi; solemnly; sonne; spaine; speake; state; subjects; succession; surelie; tell; text; things; time; title; tom; treaties; troth; true; turke; union; war; way; wife; wise; words; ● ●
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        item: #43 of 261
          id: A30974
      author: Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.
       title: Discourse of the peerage & jurisdiction of the Lords spirituall in Parliament proving from the fundamental laws of the land, the testimony of the most renowned authors, and the practice of all ages : that have no right in claiming any jurisdiction in capital matters.
        date: 1679.0
       words: 23868
      flesch: 47
     summary: yet they do generally Vote , because that the Prohibition of the Law doth not extend to Voting in Bills of Attainder , seeing that is not Agitare judicium , but onely Legis lationem , what they do in that Case is not Judicially , but onely the exercise of their Legislative Power ; otherwise the House of Commons would make themselves Judges , and would challenge a Judicial Power in the Tryal of any Lord , seeing in passing Bills of Attainder they do every whit as much as the Bishops ; for they Vote that he is Guilty , &c. and that he shall be adjudged a Traytor , &c. And the Act of Parliament runs , Be it Enacted by the King , the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , and Commons in Parliament assembled . In the Parliament at Winchester , Die Lunepost Festum Sancti Gregorii , The Earl of Kent was brought before the Counts , Barons & autres Grandees & Nobles , in mesme le Parliament , &c. for Treason , ders .
    keywords: absence; account; act; advantage; ages; ancient; anno; answer; archbishop; assent; attainder; authority; authors; barons; benefit; bill; bishop; blood; book; business; c. 2; canons; capital; cases; cause; certain; charta; church; clarendon; clergy; clerk; co.; common; common law; consent; consideration; constitution; conviction; coram; counts; court; custom; day; death; demand; departure; deprivation; discourse; divers; doth; doubt; earl; ecclesiastical; edw; eebo; end; england; english; episcopus; evident; exercise; felony; fol; force; fundamental; general; good; government; great; ground; guilty; hath; high; holy; honour; house; interesse; john; judges; judgment; judicature; judice; judicial; judicium; jure; jurisdiction; jury; justice; king; kingdom; law; laws; lay; leave; les; lib; life; little; long; lords; lords spiritual; lords temporal; magna; making; man; manner; mans; matter; method; nation; nature; nec; necessary; new; nobility; obedience; onely; orders; ordinary; parliament; particular; patent; peerage; peers; people; personal; persons; petition; place; point; pope; power; practice; praedict; precedents; prelates; present; priviledge; proceedings; process; protestation; proxy; purgation; purpose; question; quod; ratione; realm; reasons; record; rege; regni; religion; respect; right; roll; rome; said; saith; sanguinis; secular; self; sir; soit; special; spiritual; statute; subject; sufficient; summons; super; tcp; temporal; text; thing; thomas; time; treason; true; tryal; tryed; vel; viz; vote; voting; whatsoever; writ; year; ● ●
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        item: #44 of 261
          id: A31684
      author: Heraclitus his ghost.
       title: The character of a church-trimmer by Heraclitus his ghost.
        date: 1683.0
       words: 2411
      flesch: 57
     summary: It was not long before he began to set up a new Church within the old , to cry up Comprehension or Toleration for all Sects , lest he at last should be found intolerable : He insinuated into the great Ministers of Church and State , and presumed to make lists too , of Worthy men and men Worthy ; to blacken and defame all Loyal Clericks , and recommend those of his own stamp as the only men of Merit ; to cry down the one as men of hot heads , and Popishly inclined , and magnifie the other as great Masters of Prudence , Conduct and Moderation ; so that the most useful , honest , and able Church-man that will not lick up his Spittle , must stay for his Reward till the Great day . He esteems all our Church-usages indifferent little Trifles , not to be contended for ; prefers one Pipe in the Vestry , before a whole Organ-full at the Bellfry : He seldom reads the publick Prayers , but Preaches World without end : He hates a Cross in his Heart , and values not the sign thereof in Baptism at a brass Farthing ; two Guineys will purchase him to leave it out : He allows no more of a real Presence in the Sacrament , than at his own Table , when ( by chance ) he eats at home ; his Sermons are wisely composed , to treat men of all Religions , only they seem to be more particularly calculated for Turks and Pagans , than professed Christians .
    keywords: available; books; characters; church; creation; data; early; edition; eebo; elements; encoding; england; english; general; ghost; great; heraclitus; images; king; man; men; new; old; online; oxford; page; partnership; phase; project; tcp; tei; text; time; transcribed; trimmer; true; work; xml
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        item: #45 of 261
          id: A32039
      author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.
       title: Master Edmund Calamies leading case
        date: 1663.0
       words: 4886
      flesch: 76
     summary: B.S. To him th●● thinketh a thing unlawful , and is at liberty , whether he doth it or no , to ●im it is unlawful : but to him that thinketh a thing unlawful , bu● yet is enjoyned by lawful authority to do , to him if he hath not a clear rule to the contrary , it is l●wful . Wh●tsoever it co●●●●ded us by those whom God hath felt over us 〈◊〉 in Chur● , Common-wealth , or Family , which is not evidently contrary to the Law and will of God , ought to be receivved and obeyed no otherwise , then as if God himself had commanded it ; because God himself hath commanded us to obey the Higher Powers , and to submit our selves to their Ordinances , Rom. 13. 1. 1 Pet. 2.13 .
    keywords: a.b; act; authority; books; calamy; case; characters; church; conscience; day; difference; early; edmund; eebo; english; evil; god; good; gospel; hath; hope; jesus; king; law; london; lord; majestie; majesty; man; men; parliament; people; power; publick; reason; sad; said; self; selves; sin; tcp; tei; text; things; time; unlawful; word; ● ●
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        item: #46 of 261
          id: A32788
      author: Chestlin.
       title: Persecutio undecima, or, The churches eleventh persecution being a brief of the fanatick persecution of the Protestant clergy of the Church of England, more particularly within the city of London : begun in Parliament, Anno Dom. 1641, and printed in the year 1648.
        date: 1681.0
       words: 28179
      flesch: 45
     summary: HOW old the Fanatick grudge is against the Church of England , the Discourse of the Troubles of Frankford can tell the World ; and truly since Sacriledge hath been cryed up for Reformation , hath that same Spirit of Darkness been tampering in Parliaments , to make them their Engine for the work of destroying the Church , under colour of Reformation , that Archbishop Whitgift ( that holy meek man ) in Queen Elizabeth's days , lying very sick , and being told of a Parliament called , ( out of his pious care for the Church ) prayed God , that he might not live to see that Parliament , as near as it was , and God heard his Prayer ; and although ( as Lord Verulam confesseth ) the Parliament of England oweth some satisfaction for the many injuries , and unjust oppressions formerly done by them to the Church ; yet since the first breach ( so thirsty were the Members after the remnant of the Church Lands ) few Parliaments , but have rather sought to increase that debt , till the Church be quite undone ; to this purpose , how have the Fanaticks ( who for these many years have had the vogue of the people , opening their mouths wide after any Game , to which one of their Beagles should lead the trace ) superstitiously longed for Parliaments , because their Plots and hopes were to pack them for their design against the King and Church , as now they have done , which made the Presbyterian Sectaries , and all other sorts of Fanaticks , so idolize this Parliament , calling it the Perliament of their Prayers , and a frequent Pulpit Title for the House of Commons was , the House of Gods , and the House of mortal Gods , and truly they were an House of Gods , like the Heathenish Roman 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , an House of Gods of all Countries , the Images of English Sectaries ; for they do but represent , and it 's but fitting that new Gods should have new Priests , heaping up to themselves Teachers after their own hearts lusts ; no marvel then if the Ministers of Christ grow out of request , and all the malice , and slanders , and cruelty of these new Gods be racked on those , who would teach the people to serve the true God , rather than men : But these Speeches so applauded , and other men imitating them , made a fair way for a second Story of the same Scaffolding for this new Building , by Remonstrances and Declarations published in the name of the House of Commons , which usually ranked the Papists and the Clergy together , as Enemies to the Kingdom , and in that mid-night Remonstrance , in the name of the House of Commons Assembled in Parliament , was it in terminis laid down , That none of the Clergy were preferred , but those who preached wickedness and profaneness ; yet was no particular person named , nor truly could be named guilty of so heavy a charge ; but Audacter Calumniari , haerebit aliquid was their Plot , and all the miseries and Grivances of the Kingdom were laid on the Bishops and the Prelatical Party ( as the new phrase was ) when the Authors of that Black Remonstrance knew that the Clergy of the Church of England had not , nor could have any Vote or hand in those matters , they being such of which the Clergy did equally complain ; which ( besides the House of Commons voting the Clergy in Convocation ) guilty of a Praemunire , accusing also twelve Bishops of High Treason , committed to the Tower , on purpose only to stop their Mouths from claiming their Priviledges , which as part of the Parliament belong unto them ) was enough to have raised hatred to a second 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , considering the Religious Faith the people then had of the Reports of their new Gods , as Pulpits call'd the House of Commons , which so far possessed a Gentlewoman used to their Lectures , that she durst not in Conscience take Phystek-without an Order of Parliament from the House of Commons ; such a Brother we read of in Dodona's Grove , who would not believe his Creed , because there was no Act of Parliament for it : And at the beginning of this blessed Parliament , did the Fanatick Faction in the House of Commons , Print and publish a foisted Order , ( carefully dispersing the Copies throughout the Kingdom ) in the Name of the House of Commons assembled in Parliament , to stir up , indeed to invite all active men , ( as they phrased the men of their Tribe ) to accuse Ministers , making this one crime and scandal to be complained of , That a Clergy-man had two Livings , though according to the Laws of the Land : Which Order ( though disclaimed within the Walls of the House of Commons , yet not countermanded by any publick Act of the House , so willing were all sorts of men in the House to see the Clergy abused , notwithstanding that high affront and dishonour of their House )
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        item: #47 of 261
          id: A33237
      author: Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.
       title: Second thoughts, or, The case of a limited toleration, stated according to the present exigence of affairs in church and state
        date: 1660.0
       words: 4112
      flesch: 42
     summary: And since our want of Union , & Intestine Animositys chiefly Result from our different Judgements in Religion , and from the several Consequences thereof , I hope , I shall not mistake my duty in offering my thoughts to those , who are the Proper Judges , concerning that so much debated Question of Punishing or Tolerating Non-Conformists . In the first Place , it must be allow'd , that cold it be effected , nothing were more to be desi●ed , in order to the lasting Happiness of this Nation , than a Conformity of all Minds , under the same Doctrine , and Worship in Religion ; That so , as our Bodys , and outward Actions are govern'd by the same Temporal Laws , our Souls and our Opinions ( though in Matters relating to the World ) might also be united under one , and the same Ecclesiasticall Discipline , and were England at present under that happy Condition of Spiritual Vnion , I should think it rational and seasonable by the Rigour of Law● , to preserve it in such a State of Tranquillity , by suppressing all Upstart Innovators , & frighting the People from the dangerous affectation of Novelty .
    keywords: a33237; affairs; books; case; church; common; condition; conformists; conscience; dissenters; early; england; english; example; exigence; fear; force; good; government; great; interest; law; liberty; limited; matters; men; minds; nation; nature; non; people; power; present; publick; religion; religious; second; self; state; text; thoughts; toleration; true; way; world; worship
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        item: #48 of 261
          id: A33356
      author: Clarkson, David, 1622-1686.
       title: The case of Protestants in England under a popish prince if any shall happen to wear the imperial crown.
        date: 1681.0
       words: 13363
      flesch: 70
     summary: Hereupon n Zanardus takes it for granted , that all Laws will have every Heretick put to Death ; and their Angelical Doctor o is positive , that Hereticks , though they do not pervert others , may be justly killed by Secular Judges , and bereaved of all they have , rather than such as are guilty of High-Treason . The Society is particularly under the Conduct of that Spirit ; for the Provincial Garnet , Tesmond , Gerard , and other Jesuits did teach the Conspirators this Catholick Doctrine n That the King , Nobility , Clergy and whole Commonalty of the Realm of England ( Papists excepted ) were Hereticks , and that all Hereticks were accursed and excommunicate , and that no Heretick could be a King ; but that it was lawful and meritorious to kill the King , and all other Hereticks within this Realm of England ; for the Advancing and enlargement of the Authority and Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome , and for the restoring of the Romish Religion .
    keywords: 4th; account; act; authority; authors; better; canon; cap; case; catholick; children; church; civil; common; concerned; conspirators; constitutions; council; crime; crown; death; decreed; design; disp; doctors; doctrine; ecclesiastical; eebo; england; english; estate; execution; faith; far; favour; france; general; goods; greater; greatest; hath; heresie; hereticks; holy; ibid; innocent; interest; jesuits; judgment; kings; law; lawful; laws; life; little; meritorious; nations; nay; necessary; oath; pag; page; papal; papists; parents; parliaments; penalties; penalty; people; popes; popish; possession; power; prince; principles; process; protestants; publick; religion; right; roman; ruine; sanchez; sect; secular; security; sentence; sin; soever; suarez; tcp; text; thing; time; title; treason; true; war; way; work; worthy; years
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        item: #49 of 261
          id: A33727
      author: Cole, William.
       title: Noah's dove with her olive-branch, or, The happy tidings of the abatement of the flood of England's civil discords as it was delivered in a sermon preached at Preston in the county-palatine of Lancaster on the 24th of May, 1660, being the publick day of thanksgiving for the restoring of His Sacred and Most Excellent Majesty, Charles the Second / by William Cole ...
        date: 1661.0
       words: 17336
      flesch: 56
     summary: 〈◊〉 are mercies which it is the method of God to give a 〈◊〉 , when by his p●●ging away the dross of their iniq●●●y 〈◊〉 are prepared and fitted for it . Usurpation which for these twelve year● past without dispute hath invaded the Throne , broken and ●hiver'd into pieces in a moment , and the 〈◊〉 head of him l●●●●d up by God , whose known ●eportment under his de●pest ●●yals , and whose 〈…〉 report and fa●● 〈◊〉 him to us as another Titus , d●●icia humani generi● ▪ another C●sar , of whom Cicero said , Oblivis●i nihil solet nisi injur● ▪ and as another 〈◊〉 , whose zeal for the truth , and strenuous interposings of his Authority for the peace and settlement of the discompo●●d Church ma●e 〈◊〉 the Mir●our of Monarch● , the Pat●●n 〈…〉 the glory of Christian Princes to this day .
    keywords: administration; advantage; affliction; allegiance; authorities; authority; beginning; better; blessed; blessing; body; books; branch; captivity; cause; characters; christ; christian; church; city; civil; cole; common; counsellors; county; crown; david; day; days; death; deliverance; doth; dross; duty; early; eebo; end; english; evil; excellency; face; faithful; fatal; fidelity; fixed; force; form; glorious; glory; god; godliness; gods; good; gospel; government; grace; greatest; hand; happiness; happy; hath; hearts; holiness; holy; honour; hope; house; ieroboam; influence; interest; ioshua; isa; israel; issue; jesus; joy; judges; judgment; justice; king; kingdom; land; lawful; legal; liberty; lie; life; light; long; lord; magistracy; majesty; man; mercie; mercy; ministers; moses; nation; natural; need; non; observation; peace; people; persons; point; possession; power; prayers; precious; present; princes; principles; promise; prophaness; prophet; publick; real; reason; religion; remarkable; restitution; restoring; righteousness; rightful; royal; sacred; sad; saith; sam; satisfaction; scepter; second; self; set; settlement; sir; small; solomon; soul; speaks; spirit; state; strange; supreme; tcp; tei; text; thee; thine; things; thou; throne; thy; time; title; true; truth; understanding; usurpation; usurped; violence; way; ways; wickedness; william; words; work; worship; ● ●
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        item: #50 of 261
          id: A33745
      author: Care, Henry, 1646-1688.
       title: An answer to a paper importing a petition of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and six other bishops, to His Majesty, touching their not distributing and publishing the late declaration for liberty of conscience
        date: 1688.0
       words: 9772
      flesch: 60
     summary: And what greater Assay to it can there be , than Disobedience ? inasmuch as he that thinks his Prince ought not to be obey'd , will from one thing to another , come at last to think him not fit to be King. Now when all Clergy-men have subscribed , That the Book of Common-Prayer , containeth nothing in it , contrary to the Word of God ; and that the King has enjoyned , That his Declaration be read in all Churches , during the time of Divine Service ; these Subscriptions of theirs ( besides the Authority of King and Parliament ) conclude themselves , from offering any thing against the Lawfulness of reading it , as it had been enjoyn'd to them , and the Rubrick , requir'd of them .
    keywords: answer; archbishop; authority; bishops; book; canterbury; case; church; churches; clergy; common; conscience; contrary; declar'd; declaration; disobedience; dispensing; distributing; divine; duty; eebo; england; english; example; fit; god; good; government; great; henry; honor; house; illegal; king; kingdom; late; law; laws; liberty; majesty; man; matter; nation; obedience; obey'd; occasion; ordinary; pag; paper; parliament; peace; people; petition; power; prayer; prerogative; present; prince; prudence; reading; realm; reason; reign; religion; saith; second; service; state; statute; subjects; supreme; tcp; text; thing; thro; time; true; want; way; word; works
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        item: #51 of 261
          id: A33899
      author: Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.
       title: A brief essay concerning the independency of church-power
        date: 1692.0
       words: 5867
      flesch: 56
     summary: eng Church and state -- England. 'T is true , all Power , both Sacred and Civil , came originally from God ; yet under the Jewish , and especially under the Christian Institution , the Crown and Mitre have been divided : And tho' the same Persons are capable of both ; yet the Claim must be made upon a different Account , and conveyed by Titles perfectly distinct .
    keywords: act; advantage; apostles; authority; best; bishops; books; case; character; christian; church; civil; clergy; commission; communion; deprived; early; ecclesiastical; eebo; english; function; god; good; government; independency; instances; jurisdiction; lay; learned; magistrate; manuscript; notion; original; oxford; people; persons; power; princes; principles; privilege; publick; reason; religion; right; sacraments; saviour; schism; secular; society; spiritual; state; tcp; tei; text; time; vindicator; world
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        item: #52 of 261
          id: A33908
      author: Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.
       title: Dr. Sherlock's Case of allegiance considered with some remarks upon his vindication.
        date: 1691.0
       words: 64709
      flesch: 69
     summary: Now I have made it appear , that King is the Name of Right , not of meer Force ; that Authority and Power are things vastly different ; that Usurpers have no Authority from God , neither soveraign nor unsoveraign ; and that their actual Administration of Government is no more an Evidence of a Commission from Heaven , than any other Success of private Injustice : Therefore , unless he can disprove what I have urged upon these Heads , there is no danger of his making Passive-Obedience dependent upon his new Scheme . I hope the Doctor does not believe Antiochus could make himself King of Iudea whether God would or no :
    keywords: able; account; act; administration; advantage; affirms; alexander; allegiance; almighty; answer; apostle; appears; argument; army; assistance; authority; babylon; bad; better; bishop; body; book; break; business; canon; case; certain; character; church; circumstances; civil; claim; clear; command; common; condition; conscience; consent; consequence; constitution; contradiction; contrary; convocation; country; cromwel; crown; danger; darius; david; death; defence; design; desire; different; direction; dispute; distinction; divine; divine authority; divine right; doctor; doctrine; dominion; doubt; duty; empire; end; england; english; entail; estates; events; evil; express; family; farther; fear; follow; force; foreign; general; god; good; government; governors; grants; great; greater; ground; hands; hard; having; heaven; hebrews; heirs; hereditary; high; higher; history; honour; human; iaddus; ibid; iews; illegal; immediate; impossible; injustice; instance; interest; interpretation; iosephus; israel; israelites; iudea; jews; judges; jurisdiction; justice; king; kingdom; know; lawful; lawfully; laws; leave; legal; legal right; liberty; little; lives; long; lord; loyalty; majesty; making; man; mankind; manner; matter; meaning; means; meer; mind; ministers; monarchies; nation; national; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; new; oath; obedience; objection; obligation; occasion; old; opinion; orders; original; ought; pag; parliament; particular; party; paul; pay; people; permission; person; place; plain; pleased; point; possession; power; present; preservation; pretend; prince; principles; private; privilege; property; proposition; providence; publick; purpose; question; reader; reason; reasoning; rebellion; religion; respect; revelation; right; rightful; romans; royal; rule; said; sam; satisfaction; saviour; scheme; scripture; second; security; self; sense; settlement; short; sign; society; soveraign; state; subjects; submission; success; succession; sufficient; support; sure; tcp; text; thing; throne; time; title; true; truth; unjust; unlawful; unquestionable; usurpation; usurper; vind; violence; viz; way; wickedness; wonder; words; world; wrong; years
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        item: #53 of 261
          id: A33923
      author: Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.
       title: Vindiciæ juris regii, or Remarques upon a paper, entitled, An enquiry into the measures of submission to the supream authority
        date: 1689.0
       words: 22838
      flesch: 60
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Now it is generally acknowledged , that Adam was her King , as well as her Husband .
    keywords: act; acts; add; advantage; allegiance; answer; appears; argument; arms; authority; barons; best; body; book; case; charter; children; church; civil; common; conqueror; conquest; conscience; consent; consequence; considerable; consideration; constitution; contract; contrary; country; crown; dangerous; design; doctrine; duty; edward; eebo; end; england; english; enquirer; evident; express; farther; favour; fit; fol; force; fourth; free; general; god; good; government; grant; great; greater; grievances; hard; henry; hold; honour; ibid; imaginable; instance; interest; judges; justice; king; kingdom; large; law; lawful; laws; legislative; liberties; liberty; little; long; majesty; man; mankind; manner; matter; means; measures; militia; nation; natural; nature; non; oath; obedience; occasion; original; ought; parliament; people; person; place; plain; pleasure; point; possible; power; prerogative; present; preservation; pretence; prince; principles; private; priviledge; property; publick; purpose; rate; reason; reign; religion; resistance; right; roman; said; second; sect; section; security; self; selves; short; society; soveraign; state; subjects; submission; succession; sufficient; supream; taking; tcp; text; things; thought; till; time; title; true; trust; unlawful; use; viz; war; way; william; words; world
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        item: #54 of 261
          id: A34089
      author: Comber, Thomas, 1645-1699.
       title: Three considerations proposed to Mr. William Pen concerning the validity and security of his new magna charta for liberty of conscience by a Baptist ; which may be worthy the consideration of all the Quakers and of all my dissenting brethren also that have votes in the choice of Parliament-men.
        date: 1688.0
       words: 2558
      flesch: 63
     summary: Three considerations proposed to Mr. William Pen concerning the validity and security of his new magna charta for liberty of conscience by a Baptist ; which may be worthy the consideration of all the Quakers and of all my dissenting brethren also that have votes in the choice of Parliament-men. Comber, Thomas, 1645-1699. 1688 Approx. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1438:20) Three considerations proposed to Mr. William Pen concerning the validity and security of his new magna charta for liberty of conscience by a Baptist ; which may be worthy the consideration of all the Quakers and of all my dissenting brethren also that have votes in the choice of Parliament-men.
    keywords: books; brethren; characters; charter; conscience; consideration; early; eebo; english; king; laws; liberty; mind; new; online; oxford; parliament; partnership; pen; phase; power; right; royal; security; tcp; tei; text; validity; william
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        item: #55 of 261
          id: A34188
      author: Compton, Henry, 1632-1713.
       title: The Bishop of London's seventh letter, of the conference with his clergy held in the year 1686, upon the King's letter, dated 1685 : and directed to the two arch-bishops, with directions concerning preachers.
        date: 1690.0
       words: 5443
      flesch: 66
     summary: Worldly People stay at home on that Day and attend their secular Affairs : The Loose and Debauched lye at the Alehouse ; and every one that fears not God , takes occasion to be an Offence to those that do . 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.
    keywords: apostles; articles; behaviour; best; bishop; books; characters; christ; christian; church; conference; day; directions; discipline; doctrine; early; eebo; english; foundation; general; god; good; gospel; great; king; letter; like; london; men; necessary; occasion; order; ordinary; people; power; preachers; preaching; prince; proper; reason; religion; selves; sort; state; style; tcp; tei; text; things; time; true; use; way; work; world
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        item: #56 of 261
          id: A34533
      author: Corbet, John, 1620-1680.
       title: A discourse of the religion of England asserting, that reformed Christianity setled in its due latitude, is the stability and advancement of this kingdom.
        date: 1667.0
       words: 15676
      flesch: 60
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Church and state -- England.
    keywords: active; advancement; advantage; affairs; ages; ancient; authority; better; bishops; books; catholicks; cause; charity; chief; christendom; christianity; church; citizens; civil; clergy; common; comprehensive; condition; conformists; connivence; conscience; court; devotion; different; discipline; discourse; dissenters; divine; doctrine; doth; ecclesiastical; eebo; ends; england; english; established; establishment; extent; faith; fit; foreign; free; general; gentry; god; good; government; great; greater; hath; high; honour; humane; important; influence; interest; jesuits; judgment; king; kingdom; known; later; latitude; law; liberty; life; like; little; liturgy; majesty; matter; men; mind; ministers; moderation; narrow; nation; nature; necessary; new; non; number; obedience; opinions; order; papists; parliament; parties; party; peace; people; persons; polity; popery; popes; popish; power; practice; present; priests; princes; principles; protestant; publick; queen; reach; reason; rebellion; reformation; religion; roman; rome; safety; sect; security; set; sort; sound; spirit; stability; state; subjects; sway; tcp; text; things; times; title; true; uniformity; way; work; world; worship; zeal
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        item: #57 of 261
          id: A34543
      author: Corbet, John, 1620-1680.
       title: A second discourse of the religion of England further asserting, that reformed Christianity, setled [sic] in its due latitude, is the stability and advancement of this kingdom : wherein is included, an answer to a late book, entitled, A discourse of toleration.
        date: 1668.0
       words: 15902
      flesch: 56
     summary: Church of England -- Customs and practices. Church and state -- Great Britain.
    keywords: able; affairs; answerer; best; better; cause; ceremonies; charity; christianity; church; churches; commands; common; comprehended; comprehension; conformity; conscience; differences; discourse; dissenters; dissentions; divine; doctrine; doth; ecclesiastical; eebo; england; english; episcopacy; established; establishment; factions; faith; far; favour; general; god; good; government; great; greater; greatest; hath; high; hold; human; indifferent; indulgence; injunctions; interest; judgment; kingdom; known; late; latitude; laws; liberty; little; liturgy; main; majesty; man; matter; means; men; minds; ministers; nation; nature; necessary; nonconformists; open; opinion; order; papists; particular; parties; party; peace; people; persons; perswasions; popery; popish; power; practice; presbytery; present; principles; profession; protestants; publike; question; reason; reformation; reformed; religion; reproach; rule; safety; sect; self; set; sort; sound; state; subjects; superiors; tcp; text; things; time; toleration; true; truth; unity; way; wisdom; work; world; worship; yea
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        item: #58 of 261
          id: A34754
      author: Countrey minister.
       title: The countrey-minister's reflections on the city-ministers letter to his friend shewing the reasons why we cannot read the King's declaration in our churches.
        date: 1688.0
       words: 5901
      flesch: 55
     summary: Why may not People have your leave , as well as their KING 's , to go , not only to Conventicles , but to the Mass , till they are convinc'd , that they do ill in going thither ? It is much better becoming a Minister of Religion , to Convince such by Scripture and Reason , that their Worship is false , then to Contend to have them cast into Prison , and by Fines and Confiscations , to Compel them against their Conscience to come to Church ; for their Presence there , is no more pleasing to God , nor Beneficial to their own Souls , whilst their Minds are elsewhere , than it would be , if they were at a Conventicle , or at Mass . eng Church and state -- England.
    keywords: authority; books; care; characters; church; churches; clergy; command; conscience; consent; countrey; declaration; dissenters; early; eebo; england; english; friend; god; good; great; king; laws; like; majesty; matter; men; ministers; nobility; opinion; orders; penal; people; persons; power; prince; reading; reason; religion; right; sinful; subjects; tcp; tei; text; thing; time; true; way
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        item: #59 of 261
          id: A34790
      author: Coventry, William, Sir, 1628?-1686.
       title: A letter written to Dr. Burnet, giving an account of Cardinal Pool's secret powers from which it appears, that it was never intended to confirm the alienation that was made of abbeylands : to which are added, two breves that Card. Pool brought over, and some other of his letters, that were never before printed.
        date: 1685.0
       words: 9750
      flesch: 30
     summary: il Nuncio al hora voltatosi a me disse , che in effetto era bisogno venire a questi particolari : e cosi al sine restammo che ogniuno ci penssasse sopra . Io risposi che volendo aspettare che tutti da se si disponessero , e che cessasse ogni impedimento , saria un non venir mai a fine , perchioche , gli interessati massimamente , altro non vorriano se non che si continuasse nel presente stato , con tenere et godere esse , tutto quello che hanno .
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        item: #60 of 261
          id: A35015
      author: A. B.
       title: An answer of a minister of the Church of England to a seasonable and important question, proposed to him by a ... member of the present House of Commons viz. what respect ought the true sons of the Church of England ... to bear to the religion of that church, whereof the King is a member?
        date: 1687.0
       words: 26092
      flesch: 44
     summary: It is by the Tyes of Religion , and not of Power , that he is bound to keep the Churches Laws , ; and the very Con●●ssions and Privileges made to them by him and his Royal Predecessors , are as revocable as their Duty is alterable ; for Princes are so far from being oblig'd to perpetuate such Rights that themselves have indulg'd , that 't is a rul'd Case among the Greek Fathers , That a King may recal his Gift , in case the Beneficiary prove ungrateful . that Power which is inseparably annext to his Royal Diadem , and without which he would be no King , but a Royal Slave in Golden Chains ; for the King 's , the Church's , and our own , if not for the Cause's sake , let us not grudge Men of his own Perswasion in Religion , the free enjoyment of any Favours which he is graciously pleased to afford them ; and that especially considering that the occasion upon which such Privileges were formerly denied them , viz.
    keywords: account; act; affections; answer; articles; authority; bad; best; better; blood; care; case; catholick; charity; christian; christian religion; christianity; church; churches; civil; commands; commission; common; communion; conscience; consent; contrary; council; country; course; crown; danger; death; differences; different; doctrines; duty; early; eebo; emperor; enemies; england; english; errors; esteem; evil; exercise; expedient; external; eyes; faith; father; fear; fellow; free; general; glory; god; good; goodness; government; gracious; great; greatest; guilty; hath; hearts; heaven; high; highest; holy; honest; honour; house; ill; imperial; interest; judge; judgment; justice; kindness; king; kingdom; known; late; lawful; laws; lay; liberty; life; like; little; lives; long; lord; love; loyalty; magistrate; majesty; man; means; members; men; mind; ministers; necessary; need; new; non; obedience; oblig'd; old; open; opinion; papists; parliament; paul; peace; peaceable; people; persons; perswasion; piety; pleas'd; point; popery; power; prayers; preachers; prerogative; present; pretend; primitive; prince; principles; private; privileges; prudence; prudent; publick; quality; question; qui; ready; reason; rebellion; rebels; religion; resolution; respect; right; roman; rome; romish; royal; rule; safety; satisfied; saving; seasonable; security; self; selves; service; sin; sincere; sons; souls; sovereign; spirit; state; subjects; supreme; sure; tcp; tender; terms; tertullian; text; thing; time; true; true church; true religion; trust; truth; turn; viz; way; wisdom; wise; wit; world; worse; worship; years; zeal; ● ●
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        item: #61 of 261
          id: A35558
      author: Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671.
       title: A King and his subjects unhappily fallen out, and happily reconciled being the substance of a sermon with very little alteration fitted for the present time : preached in the sermon-house belonging to the cathedral of Christ-Church Canterbury Jan. 15, 1643, upon Hos. 3,4,5 / by Meric Casaubon ...
        date: 1660.0
       words: 6566
      flesch: 66
     summary: Aftewards shall the Children of Israel returne and seek after the Lord their God , and David there King : that is , they shall turn unto God , repent of their incredulity , and seek after Christ the Messias , stiled in the Scripture , not the Son of David , only ; but also David , absolutely : as by Jeremie , and Ezechiel , in divers places . It cannot be denyed indeed , that at the return of the Jewes from the Babylonish Captivity , they were restored to a government of their own , under some Princes , first ; and then Priests ; enjoyed their first Fundamentall Lawes ▪ And that at the same time , the worship of God also was restored .
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        item: #62 of 261
          id: A36846
      author: Du Moulin, Lewis, 1606-1680.
       title: Vox populi, expressed in XXXV motions to the present Parliament being the generall voyce and the humble and earnest request of the people of God in England to that most honorable and religious assembly, for reforming the present corrupt state of the church / published by Irenæus Philadelphus.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 3267
      flesch: 54
     summary: That above all the holy doctrine of Iustification by Faith only , which is the maine hinge of salvation , bee strongly established by an especial Canon according to the tenets of all Protestant Churches , which Canon be sworne and subscribed unto , by all that have taken , and hereafter shall take orders or Ecclesiasticall promotions . Since then such places have beene a stumbling blocke to weake ones , and have given faire opportunity of erring to malicious spirits , that in the task expected of reforming the English Liturgie , they be corrected and amended . IX . That bowing before of the Communion Table , or toward the East , bee forbidden under the punishment of deprivation of benificed men and expulsion of Schollers out of the Colleges , and the Communion Table be kept in the Vestery and removed from the eyes of the people but in the time of the Communion , to avoid the creeping idolatry .
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        item: #63 of 261
          id: A36871
      author: Basier, Isaac, 1607-1676.
       title: The history of the English and Scotch presbytery wherein is discovered their designs and practices for the subversion of government in church and state / written in French, by an eminent divine of the Reformed church, and now Englished.
        date: 1660.0
       words: 88393
      flesch: 48
     summary: Therefore among so many Reprehensions and Judgments against Idolatrous Kings , whereof the holy History is full , ye shall in no place nor part find that the people are reproved for not depressing or deposing their King ; ordinarily the punishment that God sent upon them , came immediatly from himself , or out of the Kingdome , not by their own Subjects : Before God would employ Jehu , who was a Subject , to destroy the Kings of Israel and Judah , he anointed him King , and besides , gave him a special and extraordinary Command . Moreover this distinction is contradicted by another , which hath been frequent a long time in their mouths , that they resisted not the King , but his Armies , which signifies in effect , that they resisted not the person or King , but his power ; for his power laid in his Armies , and as it is the nature of a lie to enter far , these people who say they are licensed by Saint Paul to oppose the person of the King , and not his power , were marvellously impatient when they were told they fought against the King , and affirmed that they fought for him and defended his person , which doubtless seems to be spoken to move laughter and indignation ; but God cannot be mocked , nor Conscience wholly blinded , by their impatience ; hereupon they testifie that their Conscience makes their process , and dictates to them within , that to bear Arms against the King , is to sin against God and Nature .
    keywords: a36871; absolute; accord; account; actions; acts; affairs; ages; agreement; alledge; allegiance; ambition; ancient; answer; antichrist; apostles; appear; armies; arms; army; article; assembly; astonishment; authority; authors; barbarous; barons; beginning; behold; benefices; beseech; best; better; bishops; blessed; blood; body; book; brethren; buchanan; capable; care; cases; cause; ceremonies; certain; change; chap; charity; chief; children; christ; christian; church; churches; civil; clergy; coming; command; commandments; commons; company; complain; condition; confession; conscience; consent; consequence; consideration; constitution; contrary; corruption; councel; countries; country; court; covenanters; crimes; crown; cruel; cry; curse; custome; daies; damnation; dangerous; david; day; deal; death; declaration; defence; degree; deposing; design; desire; destruction; devotion; different; dignity; discipline; discourse; divers; divine; divinity; doctrine; doth; doubt; duty; earth; easie; ecclesiastical; edward; effect; election; end; enemies; england; english; episcopal; epistle; equal; equality; estates; evil; example; excellent; execution; exercise; experience; eyes; faction; factious; faith; faithful; fall; false; fast; father; faults; favour; fear; fidelity; fire; following; force; forms; forreign; foundation; fourth; france; free; french; fundamental; general; gentlemen; ghost; glorious; glory; god; gods; good; good king; gospel; government; grace; grant; great; greater; greatest; guilty; hands; happy; hath; hatred; head; hear; hearts; heaven; help; henry; higher; holiness; holy; honour; hope; horrible; house; humane; hypocrisie; ignorance; ill; imployed; infamous; injustice; instruments; intention; ireland; irish; israel; jesus; joyn; judge; judgment; justice; king; kingdom; kingdomes; knowledge; known; labour; late; latine; lawful; laws; lay; league; let; liberty; life; like; little; liturgy; lives; london; long; lord god; lords; love; magistrate; maintain; majesty; man; manifest; manner; mark; masters; matter; maxime; means; members; memory; militia; ministers; miserable; monarchy; multitude; nations; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; neighbours; new; noise; notes; nous; number; oath; obedience; observe; occasion; onely; open; opinion; order; ordinance; ordinary; outward; overthrow; page; parliament; particulars; parties; party; pastors; patience; paul; pay; peace; people; pernicious; perpetual; persons; peter; pieces; piety; places; pleased; pleasure; point; poor; possible; power; practise; prayers; present; priests; prince; principal; priviledges; proceeding; profession; promise; proper; protestants; providence; prudence; publick; publike; purpose; quarrel; question; ready; reason; rebellion; rebels; received; reformation; reformers; regard; religion; remedy; resistance; resisting; respect; rest; return; revenues; right; rise; roman; rome; royal; ruine; rule; sacraments; sad; safety; saint; sake; salvation; sam; saul; saying; scotch; scotland; scots; scripture; second; seditious; self; selves; sense; servants; service; set; shame; shew; sinne; sins; sitting; small; sorts; souldiers; souls; sound; soveraign; speak; speaking; spirit; state; statutes; stead; strange; strangers; strength; strong; subjection; subjects; substance; superstition; supper; supream; supreme; sword; synod; taking; tcp; teach; terms; text; thing; thou; thought; time; title; touch; true; trust; truth; unjust; unworthy; use; vain; violence; violent; war; wars; way; weak; weakness; westminster; whereof; whosoever; wicked; wisdome; wise; witness; wonder; work; world; worse; worthy; wrath; writings; wrong; yea; years; yoke; zeal; ● ●
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        item: #64 of 261
          id: A37480
      author: De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685.
       title: Compulsion of conscience condemned wherein is plainly demonstrated how inconsistent it is with Scripture, the fundamental laws of England, and common equity &c. / by Tho. De-Laune ...
        date: 1683.0
       words: 18686
      flesch: 61
     summary: — But he is not content Dogmatically to make so Diminutive a Reduction of Christianity , but will also ensure your Soul for you , in these words , — The which [ meaning the said particulars ] whosoever shall humbly and carefully observe , constantly and Conscientiously perform , we [ that we is himself , as if he had been the Representative of the Church of England ] will assure them Salvation , and undertake to Answer to God for them , and be content to stand chargeable with their Blood , if they do miscarry , &c. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.
    keywords: act; apostle; author; authority; best; better; blessed; body; brethren; brother; called; care; certain; charge; charity; children; christian; christianity; church; clear; common; compulsion; conscience; cor; discourse; dissenters; divine; divinity; doubtful; duty; eebo; eminent; ends; england; english; equity; evident; excellent; execution; experience; eyes; faith; father; force; form; general; god; good; gospel; government; grace; great; greatest; hand; hath; heart; house; humane; innocent; jesus; john; judge; judgment; king; kingdom; language; law; laws; learning; leave; light; like; little; lives; long; lord; love; majesties; majesty; man; mark; matters; matth; means; meer; men; mind; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; needs; new; opinion; order; pamphlet; parliament; peace; peaceable; penal; people; persons; pious; plain; poor; popery; power; preachers; preaching; present; primitive; principles; profess; profession; protestant; publick; reader; reason; religion; respect; royal; sacred; saies; salvation; school; scripture; second; sect; sectaries; self; sober; soul; soveraign; spiritual; state; subjects; suitable; sure; tcp; text; thing; thou; time; true; truth; use; utmost; viz; way; weak; words; work; world; worth; yea
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        item: #65 of 261
          id: A37912
      author: England and Wales.
       title: An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament concerning the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury who by reason of many great and weighty businesses cannot as yet be brought to his tryall.
        date: 1643.0
       words: 977
      flesch: 60
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A37912 of text R43148 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E1815). Concerning the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, who by reason of many great and wei England and Wales 1643 549 2 0 0 0 0 0 36 D The rate of 36 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words.
    keywords: archbishop; businesses; canterbury; commons; english; great; lords; ordinance; parliament; persons; reason; said; text; tryall; weighty
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        item: #66 of 261
          id: A39300
      author: Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713.
       title: A caution to constables and other inferiour officers, concerned in the execution of the Conventicle-Act with some observations thereupon, humbly offered, by way of advice, to such well-meaning and moderate justices of the peace, as would not willingly ruine their peaceable neighbours, but act (in relation to that act) rather by constraint, than by choice / by Thomas Ellwood.
        date: 1683.0
       words: 8539
      flesch: 60
     summary: And when he hath so done , and taken such Distress into his custody , he is not bound to drive or carry , the Goods so distrained , to any Fair or Market , out of the Limits of his Constableship , to fell ; for he is not to act any thing in relation to his Office , further than those limits extend ( save only in some especial cases , where he is particularly necessitated , or impowered by Act of Parliament to go further , which in this Case he is not . ) Nor may he imbezil any of the Goods , for he is accomptable for every particular of what he hath so distrained . Nor is he bound to sell such Goods at under rates , and below the real worth or Market-price of such Commodities ; but having offered them to publick Sale , and tried the Markets , Fairs and Chapmen , within his Liberty , if none will give a reasonable price for them , he is not bound forth with to sell them , but may keep them in hopes of a better Market . It was a true saying , though spoken by an Heathen , Qui statuit aliquid parte inaudita altera , Aequum licet sta●uerit , haud aequus fuit , Sen. in Medea , Act. 2. Which may bear this English.
    keywords: act; advantage; aforesaid; case; constables; conventicle; conviction; credible; distress; doth; duty; eebo; english; evidence; exercise; fine; goods; hath; house; information; informers; justice; knowledg; law; lawyers; liturgy; man; manner; meeting; neighbours; oath; offence; officers; parish; parties; party; peace; performance; persons; present; proof; reason; reasonable; religion; said; subject; tcp; text; warrant; way; witnesses; words
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        item: #67 of 261
          id: A39350
      author: Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.
       title: An epistle to the truly religious and loyal gentry of the Church of England written by Edmund Ellis ...
        date: 1687.0
       words: 2027
      flesch: 63
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 106917)
    keywords: books; characters; church; early; edmund; eebo; encoding; england; english; epistle; gentry; god; great; images; laws; loyal; men; online; oxford; papists; partnership; phase; religious; tcp; tei; text; xml
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        item: #68 of 261
          id: A40101
      author: Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.
       title: A vindication of the divines of the Church of England who have sworn allegiance to K. William & Q. Mary, from the imputations of apostasy and perjury, which are cast upon them upon that account, in the now publish'd History of passive obedience / by one of those divines.
        date: 1689.0
       words: 4274
      flesch: 54
     summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A40101) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 55746) 'T was such a Conquest in all its Circumstances , as hath ever been acknowledged to give an unquestionably Just Title as far as concerns the Conquered Prince .
    keywords: allegiance; apostasy; books; characters; church; community; conquered; conquest; consent; crown; divines; doctrine; early; eebo; england; english; fare; god; government; great; hath; history; iames; king; kingdoms; mary; means; nation; oaths; obedience; passive; people; prince; religion; right; tcp; tei; text; time; title; vindication; william; world
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        item: #69 of 261
          id: A41189
      author: Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.
       title: A second dialogue between the Pope and a phanatick, concerning affairs in England by the author of the first, who is a hearty lover of his prince and country.
        date: 1681.0
       words: 4923
      flesch: 66
     summary: I would have you declare in all the High Courts of Shops and Coffee-houses , that a Parliament is as necessary to raise Money in England , as a Purgatory at Rome : A second dialogue between the Pope and a phanatick, concerning affairs in England by the author of the first, who is a hearty lover of his prince and country.
    keywords: advantage; affairs; affront; afraid; arbitrary; author; blood; books; brother; characters; church; comet; commons; country; crown; declaration; dialogue; duke; early; eebo; encoding; england; english; frequent; good; government; great; hearty; hopes; house; image; king; little; lover; members; money; old; online; opinion; oxford; parliament; partnership; people; phan; phanatick; phase; place; pope; precedent; prince; proceedings; project; religion; rome; second; sir; tcp; tei; text; votes; work; xml
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        item: #70 of 261
          id: A41194
      author: Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.
       title: Whether the preserving the Protestant religion was the motive unto, or the end that was designed in the late revolution in a letter to a country gentleman as an answer to his first query.
        date: 1695.0
       words: 21189
      flesch: 25
     summary: And that may serve sufficiently to shew , that they acted not in these Mat●●rs upon Motives of Religion ; because the very Things they did , plainly interfered with the whole Religion which they professed and owned . And though I should be thankful unto God , and joyful in my self , to see my Country-men perswaded and gained to relieve themselves , and to save the Kingdom and their Posterity , by returning to their Fealty , and by claiming and asserting the old English Constitution in all its Parts and Branches , and to all the Useful , Honourable , and Legitimate Ends and Purposes of it ; yet should I have the Misfortune to see my self disappointed , and to find all my Loyal , Charitable , and Well meant Endeavours frustrated , through the Stupidness of some , and the Bigottry of others , as well as because too many of all Ranks are Copartners with the Usurper in the Spoil and Plunder of the Nation , and in that several have their own Ambitions satisfied by him , whose haughty , boundless , and unnatural Aspirings they have gratified with a Scepter and a Crown , though at the Expence of their own Loyalty , Honour , Conscience , and Religion ; yet I shall neither be discouraged , dejected , nor murmur , much less be withdrawn from my Duty , but shall take up with the Peace , Contentment and Pleasure , which the being conscious to my own Integrity will give me , of having done what ▪ became an honest Man , and a good Subject .
    keywords: act; ambition; arms; army; authority; belief; better; bible; blood; books; care; catholick; cause; church; civil; common; communion; condition; conscience; constitution; country; courage; crown; danger; design; dethroning; disloyalty; dissenters; distance; divine; dominions; dutch; duty; earl; eebo; effect; end; ends; england; english; evidence; false; forces; france; french; gentleman; glory; god; good; government; grant; great; greatest; guilty; hague; hath; honour; inconsistent; inducement; innocent; intentions; interest; justice; kindness; king; kingdom; late; lawful; laws; legal; liberties; liberty; little; loyalty; majesty; man; matters; mean; mind; monarch; motive; nations; natural; nature; obedience; oblige; orange; order; parts; pay; people; persons; place; politicks; power; prejudice; prepared; preserving; pretence; prince; principles; protestant religion; protestants; publick; purpose; quality; real; reason; relative; religion; revolution; right; roman; royal; rules; safety; scripture; second; self; sense; service; set; ships; sir; sovereign; strength; subjects; tacitus; taking; tcp; text; thing; thought; throne; time; title; troops; true; truth; use; usurpation; usurper; vertue; war; way; wise; world; worship; years; zeal; ● ●
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        item: #71 of 261
          id: A41285
      author: Fiennes, Nathaniel, 1607 or 8-1669.
       title: A second speech of the Honovrable Nathanael Fiennes, second son to the right honourable the Lord Say, in the Commons House of Parliament touching the subjects liberty against the late canons and the new oath.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 5742
      flesch: 46
     summary: J know I am upon a great and high point , but J speake by as great and as high a warrant , if Saint Peters chaire cannot erre ( as Saint Peters Epistles cannot ) thus he teacheth us , Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake , whether it be to the King as supreame , or to the Governour , as to him that is sent by him &c. ( Sir ) it is worthy noting , that they are Ordinances of men , but that they are to be submitted unto for the Lords sake , and truely their power is as just , and their subjects alleageance as due unto them , though we suppose them to be first ordinances of men , and then confirmed , and established by Gods Ordinance , as if wee suppose them to be immediate ordinances of God , and so received by men . They say , to set up any coactive independent power is treasonable both against God and the King , the question is not whether it be true they say or noe , but whether they have power to say what is Treason , and what not ?
    keywords: arch; bee; bishops; canon; church; commons; consent; contrary; divine; doctrine; doe; england; fiennes; god; government; great; hath; hee; high; honourable; judgement; kingdome; kings; know; law; lawes; lay; liberty; man; matter; mee; nature; new; oath; parliament; people; power; propriety; right; second; sir; subjects; text; thing; wee
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        item: #72 of 261
          id: A41287
      author: Fiennes, Nathaniel, 1607 or 8-1669.
       title: A speech of the Honourable Nathanael Fiennes, second son to the right honourable the Lord Say, in answere to the third speech of the Lord George Digby concerning bishops and the city of Londons petition : both which were made the 9th of Feb. 1640 in the honourable House of Commons : in which is plainely cleared the severall objections that are made against the Londoners petition and also the great and transcendent evills of episcopal government, are demonstrated and plainly laid open.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 8253
      flesch: 34
     summary: A third ground not so well observed generally , as in one part thereof , is this , that Ministers of the Gospell , being sent especially to gaine the soules of men , they are to gaine as great interest as possible may bee , in their minds and affections : now wee know that the nature of all men is such , that they are apt to thinke hardly of those that are any authors of their paine and punishment , although it bee in a way of justice , & therefore as it is well knowne , that Clergy men are not to be present in judicio sanguinis , so the same reason extends it selfe to the administration of all civill jurisdiction , and therefore wee may observe that our Saviour Christ , as he alwayes rejected all civill judicature , so on the other side , he went up and downe healing mens bodies , and otherwise doing good to their outward estate , that his doctrine might have a freer , and fairer passage into their soules . Now Sir , for the ends for which this censure is executed , they are ordinarily to fetch in fees , or at the best to bring men under Canonicall obedience , which is the Ordinaries will and pleasure , and I have sometimes seen a Minister pronounce an excommunication , which hee held in one hand , and presently after the absolution , which hee held in the other , so the end of the excommunication was the absolution , and the end of that was fees : ( Sir ) for the honour of God , for the honour of our nationall Church , and for the honour of the Christian Religion , let the high and great censure of the Church no longer lackey after fees , let not Christians any longer be cast to Sathan , in the name of Iesus Christ , for the non-payment of a groat .
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        item: #73 of 261
          id: A41557
      author: Gordon, John, M.D.
       title: Plain dealing being a moderate general review of the Scots prelatical clergies proceedings in the latter reigns : with a vindication of the present proceedings in church affairs there.
        date: 1689.0
       words: 9983
      flesch: 31
     summary: after that King James came to the Imperial Crown of England , when he endeavoured to make an Union between the two Nations , setled an Episcopal Government there , ( though contrary to the Inclinations of the People and Clergy in general ) Expecting thereby to Unite them as well in Trade as in Church Government ; And the hopes of an Union in Trade , and other things beneficial to Scotland , moved many of those who were Presbyterially inclined , to go beyond their Inclinations , and Opinion , alongst with that Settlement for present . yet how violently were they put in Execution against those poor Ministers , their Flocks and Families , for the one's Preaching , and the other's Hearing of the Word of God , without mixture or the least grains of Schism or disloyalty ? Which oppression ( meerly for the difference of Opinion ) tended to so great a Persecution ( which verified that old Saying , That Oppression makes a wise man Mad ) that it put the People in such a terrible consternation , that this Persecution or Oppression ( call it what you will ) forced the People in the Year 1666. to gather together and rise in Arms in defence of their Preacher's , Religion and Liberty , against those persecuting Clergymen ; who not only contrived , but forced the Statesmen and the King's Privy-Council to stretch these Penal and Sanguinary Laws , against both their Religion and Liberty in which they were Educated : and what Devastation , Forfaultures , Cruelties and Bloodshed followed thereupon in that poor Kingdom for several Years is so generally known , that it 's needless to relate it here , and the late King Charles , who had nothing of violence in his Nature , considering the common Evil their Divisions occasioned , ( with the concurrence , and by a representation of some Honest Men then in the Civil Government ) did give a little respite by a Toleration to some Ministers to Preach in several Congregations , but the regular Clergy were so exasperated against this Indulgence , that they themselves made terrible Clamours and Complaints to the King and Clergy of England ( who were not so immoderate , nor so immoral in their Actions against Dissenters , nor so vitious and scandalous in their Lives and Conversations ) and to the Officers of State , and the Privy Council in Scotland , not only against those poor People , but also against any that favour'd or pitied them , alledging it was a Schism in the Church , that the Ministers Preached Rebellion , which the Council found frequently upon Tryal to be false , and that those that gave any dissent to their violence against these People were disloyal .
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        item: #74 of 261
          id: A42139
      author: Griffith, Evan, A.M., Minister of Alderly.
       title: Pax vobis, or Ghospell and libertie against ancient and modern papists. By E.G. preacher of the word. Dedicated to the right honble the Lord Halyfax
        date: 1679.0
       words: 35592
      flesch: 58
     summary: You can never settle any but rhis , That every man may without le● or hinderance believe what he please : and why should not this be a good Religion ? if Scripture as each one vnderstands it be not our Rule of faith ; if we must be constrained to believe Scripture not as wee vnderstand it ; but as it is vnderstood by this or that Congregation ; wh● difference betwixt vs and Papists ▪ They must believe Scripture as interpreted by the Pope , and Council● have ever so much light from God be ever so wise and witty , This Evangelical libertie of believin● any thing , which we judge to be the sen● of scripture , tho all the rest of the worl● should judge it to be a blasphemie , the most distinctive sign of the Refo●mation from Popery ; for Papists are th● Children of Agar the slave ; they liv● in bondage and constraint to believe at Doctrin , which the Pope and Church pr●poses to them ; and if a learned man ● vniversity should judge it to be contra● to Scripture ; he must submit his judgment to that of the Pope , or be co●demn'd as an Heretic : in our Reform●tion , wee are the Children of Sara t● Free ; our Rule of faith is Scripture ● each Person of sound judgment in th● Church vnderstands it ; if wee do n● like the Doctrin of the Pope , Church ● Council , wee may gainsay them all , an● hold our own sense of Scripture : ● enjoy the Prerogative of Rational cre●tures , we are lead by our own reason , which God has given vs for our conduct , and are not like Beasts , constrained to follow that of others .
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        item: #75 of 261
          id: A42142
      author: Brown, S. J.
       title: Pax vobis, or, Gospel and liberty against ancient and modern papists / by a preacher of the word.
        date: 1687.0
       words: 35144
      flesch: 61
     summary: But if Luther and the others cited , judge in their Conscience these Tenets to be the Doctrine of Scriptures , and if Peter , John or James , like their Interpretation , I say they may according to the Principles of our Reformation believe them , and be as truly Reformed Children as you ; for our Rule of Faith is Scripture , as each Person of sound Judgment understands it ; and in believing those Tenets , because they judge them to be the Doctrine of Scripture they stick fast to , and follow our Rule of Faith : Why is Figurative Presence and the Kings Supremacy , the Doctrine of the Reformation , tho' denied by Papists , Lutherans , and Presbyterians ; but because the Protestants judg it's the Doctrine of Scripture : If therefore those great Authors I quoted , and any other with them , judge those Tenets to be the Doctrine of Scripture , they can be justly called the Doctrine of the Reformation : Must Protestants be forced against their Judgments to deny real Presence , and Supremacy , because Lutherans say it's wicked Doctrine . This therefore is the scope and end of my following Treatise ; that , whereas our Rule of Faith , as I will prove by the unanimous Consent of our whole reformed Church , is Scripture or Gods Written Word , as interpreted by each Person of sound Judgment ; that whereas by the Principles of our Reformation , no Man is to be constrained to believe any Doctrine against his Judgment and Conscience : ( otherwise why were not we left in Popery ) it is impious , tyrannical , and quite against the Spirit of the Reformation , to force us by Acts of Parliament , Decrees of Synods , Invectives , and Persecutions of indiscreet Brethren , to embrace this or that Religion ; that every one ought to be permitted to believe what he pleases ; if you think Bigamy to be the Doctrine of Scripture : If you think by Scripture there is one Nature , and four Persons in God ; if you think Transubstantiation to be true ; if you judge by God's Words there 's neither Purgatory nor Hell ; finally whatever you think to be the true Sense of Scripture , you are bound as a true Reformed Child , to believe it ; that it is quite against the Spirit of Reformation to Censure , oppose or blame the Doctrine or Tenets of any Congregation , or of any Doctor of the Reformed Church ; because that any Doctrine professed by any Christian-Congregation , whatever ( the Popish excepted ) or that ever was delivered by any Man of good Judgment of the Reformation , since the beginning of it , until this Day , is as truly and really the Doctrine of the Reformation , as the Figurative Presence or Kings Supremacy is .
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        item: #76 of 261
          id: A42491
      author: Gauden, John, 1605-1662.
       title: A pillar of gratitude humbly dedicated to the glory of God the honour of His Majesty, the renown of this present legal, loyal, full, and free Parliament : upon their restoring the church of England to the primitive government of episcopacy : and re-investing bishops into their pristine honour and authority.
        date: 1661.0
       words: 25186
      flesch: -1
     summary: An high honor indeed , yet , withal , a very heavy burden , put upon us Bishops ; not onely , as to the great Service and publique Duty , which is on all hands expected from us ; And for that great account , which will be required of us , according to the Talents , Advantages , and Opportunities given us , to serve God , the King , and the Church : ( to which nothing can sufficiently enable us , but the same Grace and Favor , both divine and humane , which hath thus prevented us : ) But also , as to that envy , which must necessarily by this eminency be contracted , from all those evil men , who have evil eyes , and evil wills and evil hearts , not onely against Bishops and Episcopacy , but also against the Peace and Prosperity of this Kingdom , no less than against the pristine Renown and Flourishing of this Reformed Church of England ; which was famous heretofore in all the Christian World abroad , and no less reverenced at home , by People , Peers , and sovereign Princes , while its Diocesan Bishops were dignified with this publique and Parliamentary honor ; Which is not like that sad OTHER HOUSE , a mushroom or gourd of Yesterday , springing out of O. P. and withering with R. C. but it began with the first Originals of Parliaments ; and for many hundred of years continued , without any violent interruption , until these late Antimonarchical and Antiepiscopal Chasms and Concussions , which shook Heaven and Earth ; yea , and Hell it self , to destroy both Kings and Bishops , the Kingdom and Church of ENGLAND . It is most certain that we cannot be without a King ( as the Cappadocians pleaded to the Romanes when they offered them their popular liberty ) in England , and not be very miserable ; which we have lately felt : Nor can our Kings want wise Counsellours of State , any more than Pilots can their Card or Compass ; Nor can these well want the counsel and assistance of learned and religious Church-men , grave and reverend Bishops , any more than the Mariners Compass can be without the Magnetick Needle or Director ; and this upon a double reason : First , worthy Bishops are the fittest persons , not only to repress the falsity , scandal , and immorality of Ministers evil doctrines and lives , ( which are as stinking carrion or dead horses in the high way , the poyson and abhorrence of all passengers ; publicae pestes Ecclesiae & Reipublicae , the most infecting and killing plagues to Church and Countrey : ) But also they serve to restrain and bridle the vulgar petulancy and popular rudeness of some factions Preachers tongues ; which are sometimes , as the hearts and censors of Korah , Dathan , and Abiram , full of strange fire ; or as Sheba's trumpet founding faction and sedition ; then most of all when they would seem most zealous in their Sermons and Prayers ; infusing poyson into wine , the better to diffuse the venome of I know not what novell and fanciful Inventions of their own ; festring those scratches which they first make , and then would seem to lick them whole ; sometimes venoming even sound parts by their very fasting spittle : So over - clamouring for truth and holiness , ( which all good Bishops and Presbyters desire more soberly than themselves , ) that they are deaf to peace and order , to obedience and subjection , to law and government , which none but fools or knaves will oppose : Certainly no men are so sit to encounter the fraud and folly of these deceitful workers , and to confute the popular Sophistry of these crafty and crazy Ministers , as grave , learned , wise , and godly Bishops , who , past the froth of juvenile fancies and popular flashes , know what best besits solid preaching , sober praying , holy living , and discreet governing .
    keywords: account; actions; age; ancient; apostles; authority; bear; best; better; bishops; blessed; blessing; blood; books; brethren; burthen; care; catholick; cause; ceremonies; charity; chief; christian; christs; church; churches; civil; clergy; committed; commons; conformity; confusion; conscience; constitutions; counsels; country; courage; crown; cruel; day; decency; deserved; designs; desire; divine; doth; doubt; duties; duty; ecclesiastical; eebo; eminent; enemies; england; english; envy; episcopacy; estates; evil; examples; excellent; faction; faith; famous; fancies; fathers; favour; fear; fire; flourishing; free; friends; fury; general; gentlemen; glory; god; godly; gods; good; good men; goodness; government; grace; gracious; gratitude; great; greater; greatest; hands; happy; hath; having; head; hearts; help; high; holiness; holy; honest; honorable; honors; honour; house; humble; humility; industry; instances; jurisdiction; justice; king; kingdom; known; late; lawful; laws; learning; leave; legal; liberty; like; little; liturgy; living; long; lordships; love; loyal; loyalty; main; majesties; majesty; man; men; mens; mercy; ministers; munificence; national; nature; necessary; new; noble; non; obedience; old; onely; order; outward; parliament; particular; patience; peace; peers; people; persons; piety; pious; places; point; politie; poor; popular; power; prayers; praying; preachers; preaching; presbyterian; presbyters; present; primitive; princes; pristine; private; proper; prudence; prudent; publick; publique; rare; reason; rebellion; reformation; reformed; religion; religious; respect; return; reverend; right; sacred; sacriledge; sanctity; schism; self; selves; sense; service; set; shame; sin; small; sober; solemnity; souls; spirits; spiritual; state; subjects; superstition; tcp; temple; temporal; tender; text; things; thought; time; true; truth; uniformity; venerable; want; way; weak; welfare; wisdom; wise; words; work; world; worship; worthy; yea; years
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        item: #77 of 261
          id: A42790
      author: Gipps, Thomas, d. 1709.
       title: Three sermons preached in Lent and summer assizes last at Lancaster, and on one of the Lords days in the late Guild of Preston : wherein the nature of subjection to the civil magistrate is explained, the duty proved, and the clergy justified in pressing the same upon their fellow-subjects / by Thomas Gipps.
        date: 1683.0
       words: 26784
      flesch: 56
     summary: yet the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , the Animal Life , all Temporal Civil Affairs being by God committed to the Supream Magistrate , we ought in all those respects to be Subject to the Will and Governance of the Prince . 4. For he is the Minister of God ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) he beareth not the Sword in vain : He is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Revenger .
    keywords: account; active; acts; answer; apostles; arbitrary; argument; authority; best; better; breach; care; case; christ; christians; church; civil; clergy; common; conscience; contrary; day; days; defence; design; discourse; divine; doctrine; dominion; duty; eebo; end; english; evil; execution; exercise; faith; fellow; fit; force; general; glory; god; good; goodness; gospel; government; governours; great; greatest; hands; head; hearts; higher; holiness; holy; honour; house; ill; image; impossible; injury; interest; jews; judgment; justice; king; known; land; late; law; lawful; laws; leave; legal; liberty; life; like; limited; little; lives; long; lord; love; magistrate; man; masters; meaning; means; measure; mind; ministers; murder; nation; natural; nature; nebuchadnezzar; necessity; nero; non; oath; obedience; oblig'd; opinion; order; ordinance; pass; paul; peace; peaceable; people; person; peter; point; political; power; practice; preachers; present; preservation; pretence; prince; principalities; principle; private; properties; property; protection; providence; publick; question; reason; reasonable; rebellion; religion; resistance; revelation; reverence; right; righteousness; roman; rule; rulers; said; scripture; security; self; selves; sense; sermons; set; sort; soul; spirit; spiritual; state; subject; subjection; submission; subordinate; supream; sword; tcp; temporal; text; thee; things; thou; thy; time; title; titus; true; truth; use; usurper; way; wealth; wisdom; wise; words; work; world; yea
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        item: #78 of 261
          id: A43547
      author: Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.
       title: Parliaments power in lawes for religion, or, An ansvvere to that old and groundles [sic] calumny of the papists, nick-naming the religion of the Church of England, by the name of a parliamentary-religion sent to a friend who was troubled at it, and earnestly desired satisfaction in it.
        date: 1645.0
       words: 15891
      flesch: 50
     summary: But this , although indeed it be the sicknesse and disease of the present times , and little to the honour of the Court of Parliament , can be no prejudice at all to the Cause of Religion , or to the way and meanes of the Reformation , amongst sober and discerning men : the Doctrine of the Church being setled , the Liturgie published and confirmed , the Canons authorized and executed , when no such humor was predominant , nor no such Power pretended to , by both or eyther of the Houses of the High Court of Parliament . And , to say truth , neither the King nor Clergy did account it necessary , but thought their owne authority sufficient to goe through with it , though certainly it was more necessary at that time then in any since , the power and reputation of the Clergy being under foot , the King scarce setled in the Supremacy so lately recognized unto him , and therfore the authority of the Parliament of more use than afterward , in times well ballanced and established .
    keywords: act; acts; archbishops; articles; assent; authority; best; bible; bishops; book; bookes; canons; canterbury; cap; care; christian; church; churches; clergy; common; confirmation; constitutions; convocation; court; daies; day; doctrine; doe; doth; ecclesiasticall; end; england; english; eyther; fol; following; formes; god; godly; good; great; ground; hands; hath; head; holy; houses; injunctions; king; kingdome; lawes; lawfully; like; little; majesty; making; matters; new; observed; old; order; papists; parliament; people; points; pope; power; prayer; prelates; present; publique; realm; reformation; reigne; religion; rome; royall; sacraments; said; scriptures; selfe; service; set; severall; statute; subjects; supremacy; supreme; text; thing; times; tongue; translation; true; use; way; word; worke; worship; yeare
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        item: #79 of 261
          id: A43621
      author: Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.
       title: Gregory, Father-Greybeard, with his vizard off, or, News from the Cabal in some reflexions upon a late pamphlet entituled, The rehearsal transpros'd (after the fashion that now obtains) in a letter to our old friend, R.L. from E.H.
        date: 1673.0
       words: 74613
      flesch: 54
     summary: The truth is , I have no great skill in Divinity , ( my Education not designing me that way ) yet as the times are , in a mans own defence of his Christianity ( for to be sure now if he walk but out as far as a Club or a Coffee-house he shall be sure to be assaulted on that side ) so much Divinity to defend it always in readiness , becomes as necessary for a Gentleman , as the little Tool behind to save reputation , and much more honourable ; and without any great accoutrement , I may soon have Divinity enough , to try it out with Father Grey-beard , I. O. and the rest of his friends ; and can easily prove that the worship of God , so much prated of , and contain'd in the first Table , the four first Commandments , is in order , and made for the very nonce , and for no other thing or end but that men might obey the second Table , and six last Commandments . If Subjects would never have been disobedient to their Prince and Governours , nor children disobedient to their Parents , nor servants to their Masters ; if men would never have coveted their neighbours goods , nor their neighbours wife , nor servant , nor have rob'd , and murdered one another , but would have liv'd soberly , righteously , and therefore godlily in this present world , the Allelujahs of Angels had been the great worship of men : But since it is otherwise , and that the wickedness of man is great in the earth , and the imagination of the thoughts of his heart so bent to evil , and that continually , therefore God establish'd his Laws , in the first Table by worship , sacrifices , &c. Typically , in the Old Testament , for expiation of the guilt of sin , and justification ; and sent his Son , who was made a sacrifice for us antitypically in the New Testament for expiation of the guilt of sin and justification , as our Priest ; and to show us how to live well , as our Prophet ; and to exact our obedience , as our King.
    keywords: abbot; absolute; account; acts; almighty; answer; apostles; arch; arminianisme; arms; army; ass; augustus; author; away; bad; baptism; bare; bayes; beard; begun; best; better; bible; bid; bishop; black; blessed; blind; blood; bodies; body; bold; book; bramhall; break; breda; brother; butt; caesar; call'd; calling; calvin; canting; cap; care; cat; cause; ceremonies; certain; charge; charity; charles; chief; children; christ; christians; church; churches; clergy; cloak; coat; commandments; common; company; conformists; conscience; contempt; contrary; cost; councellors; council; court; covenant; credit; cross; crown; cry; curse; darkness; day; days; dead; dear; death; deform'd; design; disciples; discourse; disobedient; divine; divinity; drink; droll; duties; duty; earth; ecclesiastical; enemy; england; english; envy; evil; example; eyes; face; fair; fall; false; family; far; fashion; fast; fatal; father; fear; fellow; fit; folly; fools; france; free; french; friends; gentleman; ghost; glorious; god; godliness; godly; gods; good; good men; good old; gospel; government; governours; grace; gray; great; greater; greatest; greek; greg; gregory; grey; ground; hair; half; hand; happy; hard; harm; hath; head; heart; heaven; hebrew; hell; help; hen; high; hold; holla; holy; home; honest; honour; hope; hot; hour; house; hugh; hypocritical; incomparable; indulgence; innocence; instances; jack; james; jewish; jews; judge; juglers; justice; king; kingdom; kneeling; knock'd; lands; language; late; latine; laud; laugh; law; lawful; laws; lead; learning; leave; lectures; left; liberty; lie; lies; life; like; little; liturgy; live; living; long; lord; love; lovers; lye; lying; mad; majesty; making; malice; man; mankind; mans; manwaring; mat; matter; meaning; meat; meet; members; memory; men; mens; mercy; meroz; mind; ministers; modern; modern orthodox; money; moses; mother; mouth; murther'd; nations; nature; nay; near; need; new; non; obedience; occasion; old; oliverian; open; opinion; order; orthodox; page; pains; parliament; particular; parts; pass; paul; pen; people; peters; pharisees; pity; place; plain; play; pocket; policy; politician; politick; poor; posture; power; practice; prayers; praying; preachers; preaching; precious; present; pretty; priest; primitive; princes; print; prophane; prophets; proverb; publick; pulpit; purpose; railing; ready; reason; rebellion; rebels; reformation; reign; religion; religious; repartee; rest; ridiculous; right; rob'd; room; royal; ruine; rule; run; sabbath; sacraments; sacred; sacrifice; sad; saints; saith; sake; saviour; scarce; schism; scorn; scotland; scriptures; sea; second; self; selves; sence; sermons; servant; service; set; shame; signifies; silly; silver; simplicity; sin; sir; small; soever; souls; sound; speak; speaking; spirit; spiritual; sport; stand; state; story; subject; superstition; sure; sword; syriack; table; tcp; teeth; tender; testament; text; thanks; things; think; thou; thought; thy; time; title; tongue; translation; transpros'd; trinkle; true; truth; turn; understand; unto; useful; verses; vertue; vile; villains; virtuoso; viz; want; way; ways; weary; whereof; white; whoop; wicked; wife; wills; wise; wish; wit; wits; women; words; work; world; worse; worship; worth; writ; years
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        item: #80 of 261
          id: A44094
      author: Hody, Humphrey, 1659-1707.
       title: Some thoughts on a convocation and the notion of its divine right with some occasional reflections on the defence of the vindication of the deprived bishops.
        date: 1699.0
       words: 16045
      flesch: 60
     summary: Church of England -- Clergy. Be it therefore now enacted by Authority of this present Parliament , according to the said Submission and Petition of the said Clergy , That they , ne any of them , from henceforth shall presume to attempt , alledge , claim , or put in ure , any Constitutions or Ordinances Provincial , or Synodal , or any other Canons : Nor shall enact , promulge , or execute any such Canons , Constitutions , or Ordinances Provincial , by whatsoever Name or Names they may be called , in their Convocations in time coming ( which always shall be assembled by Authority of the King 's Writ ) unless the same Clergy may have the King 's most Royal Assent and Licence , to make , promulge , and execute such Canons , Constitutions , and Ordinances Provincial , or Synodal , upon pain of every one of the said Clergy , doing contrary to this Act , and being thereof convict , to suffer Imprisonment , and make Fine at the King 's Will.
    keywords: act; affairs; answer; apostles; argument; authority; bishops; canons; cases; cause; certain; christian; church; civil; clergy; committed; common; consent; constitutions; contrary; controversie; convocation; defence; deprived; divine; divine right; ecclesiastical; eebo; england; english; exercise; force; god; good; government; great; grotius; hath; hooker; human; judge; judgment; king; laws; learned; leave; liberty; like; making; matters; meeting; men; nature; necessary; new; notions; office; opinion; orders; parliament; persons; power; practice; present; prince; proper; reason; religion; right; said; scripture; sense; set; sovereign; spiritual; state; subject; supream; supream power; supremacy; synods; tcp; text; things; thoughts; time; true; vindication; way; words
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        item: #81 of 261
          id: A44304
      author: Honyman, Andrew, 1619-1676.
       title: The seasonable case of submission to the church-government as now re-established by law, briefly stated and determined by a lover of the peace of this church and kingdom.
        date: 1662.0
       words: 18393
      flesch: 44
     summary: For clearing of which , it would be considered , first , that at the time of the taking of that solemn League and Covenant , there were no such Church-offices in Scotland , as are mentioned in that Article ; there needed not , as to Scotland , a swearing to extirpat Offices that were not in it at that time ; and some Offices there mentioned , never were in it . If it be said , that every one of the particular Offices , mentioned under the name of Prelacy in the Covenant , are abjured ; and therefore Bishops are abjured : Mr. Vines , in his Considerations upon the Kings Concessions at the Isle of Wight , will ( for loosing this ) tell us of a sense of the Covenant , which he inclines to , viz. that , as to that Article , the Covenant is not to be understood in sensu divisô , but compositô , ( which sureth to Mr. Baxters complex frame ) And therefore asserts , that continuing of Bishops with a negative voice in Ordination and ministerial Meetings , might be permitted without breach of Covenant .
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        item: #82 of 261
          id: A44723
      author: Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695.
       title: A letter from a clergy-man in the city, to his friend in the country, containing his reasons for not reading the declaration
        date: 1688.0
       words: 4813
      flesch: 42
     summary: Church of England. Church and state -- England.
    keywords: church; churches; city; clergy; conscience; consent; consequences; contrary; declaration; eebo; england; english; excuse; gentry; god; good; great; king; laws; man; matter; men; ministers; nation; nature; nobility; obedience; penal; people; reading; reason; religion; ruine; selves; tcp; test; text; thing; time; way
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        item: #83 of 261
          id: A44838
      author: Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.
       title: The Common-wealtsh's [sic] remembrancer for discovery of the disturbers of her peace with a loving reproof to such offendors and a caveat to others to beware of them / by a friend to peace with truth and true liberty, R.H.
        date: 1659.0
       words: 13827
      flesch: -11
     summary: 1. Whether the said men are taught by , and come to you in the Wisdom , Will , Power and Authority of God , or of man ? 2. From whence , and by whose Ordination , Concurrence and Agreement ( in the late Kings reign ) were the then Altars ? and by whose Practice , Example , and Commands , the frequent bowings thereto , and at such distinct distances and differnt manners , with other the Inventions and Actions then and there performed with so great zeal for their new high places , Rails , Garments , and other Innovations ? And who were they that in those performances , and in visiting Crosses , Wells , and other places , in Preambulations , singing the Letany , &c. were adorned with Canonical Coats , Girdles , Surplices , Rockets , Tippits , Hoods , and the like , besides the great reverence said to be due to their persons , Office and Ministry , which ( their Followers ) were directed to manifest by distinct Bowings , standings up , and kneelings down before them , when , and as they pleased to teach , order , and command to be performed in their Meeting-Houses and elsewhere ? 4. Who were they that ( as the aforesaid services were increased ) flockt to London , Westminster , and Lambeth , to have their Wages also increased to ten Groats ▪ or at least eight Groats out of each pound of every mans Lands , Stock , and Labours , and a part of poor servants Wages , not then esteeming Tythes , G●ebe-Land , and other their Offerings , Incombs , and several plurallities , a competent or sufficient maintenance ; but they ( being over hasty therein , and the time not judged seasonable ) failed in that particular , and then what frequent Counsels and Consultations held those men in the several Count●es and corners of the Land ( under colour of Lectures , Em●er-Week-●asts , and otherwise ) to consider of , consult , and find out s●nse other way for Augmentation to their Authority and Maintenance ? 4. Who were they that began and continued such , and so many vexations Suits in Law with their Patrons , Parishioners , and others , wherewith the Courts at Westminster , the Great Assizes in Counties , and other Inferior Courts were even pestered ( as Records may manifest ) besides their frequent Suits and Summons before , and in the then Bishope Courts , sometimes for small Tythes , working upon some Popish Holy Days , ( though but in repairing a Fence to save Corn , and preserve peace amongst Neighbours ) for not g●ving them timely notice when Tythes were to be set forth to them ; for going from some of them to hear in other Parishes ; for Meetings ( by them called Conventicles ) or for not allowing Servants to join in the before mentioned sports and pastimes , and oft times obtaining Excommunications therefore , and speedily turning them into Writs , and thereby causing mens bodies to be attached and imprisoned , whereby many consciencious persons were ( in a manner necessitated to leave their dwellings , and this Land , to seek peaceable Habitations elsewhere , which divers of the said active persons made use of as an encouragement to their then design , some boasting thereof , and that they hoped to have another Authority before it were long , wherein their labours have not been lacking , neither at their then High Commission Court , nor other places , as hath notably appeared to all that have been willing to see it . Who served , assisted , and encouraged the late Bishops in making the Cannons , Liturgy , and Service-Book , ( little differing from the Mass-Book ) to be imposed upon Scotland , and preached against the Scots , ( when that Book was refused by them , endeavouring to make them , their Religion and practise seem odious , & their own ( new-invented ) Altar Worships , forms and bown● , acceptable services to God , thereby then obtaining a Declaration against the Scots , whereby ( with great zeal ) they proclaimed them Rebels ; and after that a Form of Prayer against them , which divers of the said men as zealously read and seemed to pray in their said Meeting-houses .
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        item: #84 of 261
          id: A44840
      author: Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.
       title: The good old cause briefly demonstrated with advertisements to authority concerning it, to the end, all persons may see the cause of their bondage, and way of deliverance.
        date: 1659.0
       words: 5988
      flesch: 28
     summary: But since men have invented forms of words in their own wills , they have departed from the light , and lost the substance and power of godliness , and become strangers to the life of God , through the ignorance in them , because of the blindness of their minds , the great things of his law seeming to them a strange thing ; The true light of Christ in the conscience , in the soul , that whereby ( being ascended up on high ) he draws all men unto him , is despised and evil spoken of by such as satisfie themselves with reports , and a sound of words without life ; As for instance , let every man consider seriously in that called Baptism , It hath been oft said and repeated , That therein you make a solemn Vow , Promise , and Profession , That you will forsake the Devil and all his works , the vain pomps and glory of the world , with all covetous desires of the same , and the carnal desires of the flesh , that you will not follow nor be led by them ; and that you will not be ashamed to confess the Faith of Christ crucified ; But manfully fight under his Banner against Sin , the World , and the Devil , and so continue Christs faithful Souldiers and Servants , to your lives end , dying unto sin , and living unto righteousness , daily mortifying all evil and corrupt affections , following the example of Christ , to be made like unto him , &c. and yet how most live in their lusts , pride , filth , and all manner of abominations , ( like the fool that said in his heart , There is no God ) using the true words of Christ , That unless a man be born again , he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God ; praying also , That God would grant that which by nature you cannot have , &c. When will you deal truly with God and your own souls , that your own and your Teachers hypocrisie may be ( by you ) clearly seen , and the great , Athiests of this age made manifest , that can , or dare so to handle holy things without feeling ? And lastly , take this for a Maxim , that wheresoever any earthly King , Prince , Monarch , Potentate , Power or Authority ( be he , or they never so wise , learned , or religious ) shall establish any Religion , ( so called ) Worship , or Discipline , or be extolled , stiled , deemed , esteemed , or taken to be Head of the Church , Defender of the Faith ; or shall take upon him , or them , to give Commands or Directions concerning the Worship and Service of God , ( according to his , or their best Wit , Skil and Cunning ) that is an Usurpation upon the Prerogative and Authority of Christ Jesus , the Head of his Body the Church , King of Saints , and the one Law-giver , able to save and to destroy ; and such Religion and Faith ( thereby acquired ) stands in the Wisdom and Authority of man , and not in the power of God , being Antichristian , deceitful , and vain , whereby the people become vicious and wickedly hypocritical , and that Religion and Church-Government ( with the Commands , Doctrines , and Opinions so established ) serve for Political ends , silenceth the Voice of Christ in peoples souls and consciences , and causeth them to become formal , frequent and unruly talkers of God , Christ , and the Saints conditions ; ( as they have read , or heard say ) contenders about words and questions , boasting themselves in things they never saw , &c. and is dangerous to civil Society and Government , the occasion of so great strife , contention , and bloodshed in all Nations and Ages of Antichrist , and no certain assurance of peace or safety can be there either to Magistrate or people ; but confusion of minds , and each in continual fear of other ; This hath caused so great distances between men , so much wicked State-policy on the one hand , and Treachery against men in Authority on the other hand , Distractions and heart-burning one against another , as also such deceit , that men ( for outward peace sake are even necessitated to teach their tongues to flatter , lye , and dissemble each with other ; and it opens a door unto any person that gets into Authority ( by means of the Teachers of such a Religion ) to put the people into discontents against others , and exalt himself to rule alone by his own will in a tyrannical way over them , or to set the people ( one party against another ) to shed each others blood by Wars about such Religion or Religions , when that may serve to usher in some like design , upon which account of design ( for the most part ) is the impressing of men for forreign Wars . Hearken unto us , that God may hearken unto you when you shall most need his help ; and trust the Lord Jesus Christ with his own work in our souls and consciences ; for they that dare take the charge of other mens souls upon them , neither know their own souls , nor yet their duties to God or man ; it 's out of your Sphere , beyond your reach , a work which neither God nor man hath committed to your Trusts ; not found in all your Records ( of the most Antichristian Idolatrous Ages ) onely you have several Constitutions and corrupted forms concerning Church-Governments , Worship and Discipline , which , ( in the long and dark night of Apostacy ) have been ushered in by Popish Prelates and Priests , and so craftily twisted and interwoven together with , rooted in , and depending upon the Civil Authority , and the Civil Authority in , with , and upon them , that many wise men think it a kind of Sacriledge , or rather madness to sever them each from other , and that the doing thereof may break both , and drive all into confusion ; and be sure that sort of men ( most concerned therein ) will not fail to tell you so , and withall tell you , that you are to maintain a Gospel-Ministry ; that otherwise the people will become heathens ; that they are the men to be so maintained ; that you must defend them from being reproved in the presence of their hearers , whatsoever they say there ; and much more of that kind , if you hearken to them , and have but such a faith ( as stands in their Wisdom ) to believe them , while it is evident to the children of light , and other unbyassed men , That hereby was the rise , and this the root and foundation of all Antichristian Tyranny ; and that when man by his Wisdom and Authority meddles , ( in like manner ) he onely builds Babel higher and higher , until it fall about his ears as ( hath been seen ; ) The depths of Satans pollicies , and deceits herein , are such as few men are yet aware of , but run on , and are punished ; onely the children of light see him in his transformings and likenesses , though adorn'd with never so curious a dress .
    keywords: account; authority; bondage; called; cause; children; christ; church; civil; conscience; divers; end; faith; fear; god; good; government; great; hath; jesus; law; liberties; liberty; life; light; like; lives; lord; love; man; men; mens; old; peace; people; persons; power; religion; righteousness; rights; said; saints; servants; souls; text; things; times; true; way; words; work; worship
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        item: #85 of 261
          id: A45405
      author: Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.
       title: Considerations of present use, concerning the danger resulting from the change of our church-government
        date: 1682.0
       words: 5806
      flesch: 35
     summary: Church and state -- Church of England. And if this might be thus designed , I should then resolve , that the direct contrary to the fore-mentioned suggestions would be truth , that the setling and continuing of this present Government would prove the common interest of all , and only the burthen of those few that have those painfull offices assigned them ; and least any may think this word a boast ( which I can safely venture with the world at this time , and not have reason to fear a surprisal , or being taken at my word ) I shall venture another offer in the name of my brethern of the Clergy ? ( not that I have took their particular Votes , but that I perswade my self so far of their Piety . ) That rather than the Glory should thus depart from Israel , by the Philistines taking the Ark of the Lord , laying wast this flourishing Church of ours , or transforming it into a new guise , every one single of us , that have any possessions or titles worthy any mans envy or rapine , and so are thought now by our own interests to have been bribed or fee'd Advocates in this cause , may forthwith be deprived of all that part of the Revenues of the Church wherein we are legally invested ; and he that shall not cheerfully resigne his part in the present prosperity of the Church , on the meer contemplation and intuition of the benefit that may now , and after his life redound to others , let him have the guilt of Achans wedge laid on him , and the charge of being disturber of the State.
    keywords: apostles; bishops; books; burthen; change; characters; christ; christian; church; common; considerable; considerations; contrary; danger; day; doctrine; early; eebo; encoding; english; episcopacy; god; gods; government; great; hath; images; institution; interests; life; like; lords; man; means; necessary; online; order; oxford; partnership; persons; phase; power; present; reason; religion; scripture; second; set; sin; state; tcp; tei; text; time; use; want
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        item: #86 of 261
          id: A45421
      author: Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.
       title: Of resisting the lavvfull magistrate under colour of religion and appendant to it, of the word keima, rendred damnation, Rom. 13, reprinted : also, [brace] of zelots among the Jewes, of taking up the crosse, a vindication of Christs reprehending St. Peter, from the exceptions of Mr. Marshall.
        date: 1644.0
       words: 36448
      flesch: 47
     summary: Notes for div A45421e-5570 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} . Here , say they , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} judgement , is that that befalls the house of God , the godly ; therefore but temporall judgements .
    keywords: able; acknowledged; act; adde; againe; answer; antichrist; apostle; appeare; argument; armes; authority; beare; beleeve; better; bloud; body; book; businesse; case; christ; christianity; christians; church; cleare; colour; command; common; conclusion; confesse; conscience; contrary; crime; crosse; damnation; dayes; death; defence; defensive; desire; destruction; disciples; divine; doctrine; doe; doth; doubt; earth; elias; end; enemies; eternall; evill; example; fact; farre; father; fire; followes; force; gladium; god; gods; good; gospel; government; great; greater; grotius; ground; guilty; hand; hath; heaven; hee; help; high; himselfe; hope; humane; inferiour; interpretation; jewes; john; judgement; jure; king; kingdome; know; land; lawes; lawfull; legall; lesse; liberty; life; like; little; long; lord; luk; luke; magistrate; making; manner; marshall; master; mat; meanes; meaning; meeknesse; men; mens; nature; nay; necessary; new; non; obedience; objecter; observation; occasion; old; onely; opinion; ordinary; origen; owne; particular; patience; paul; people; persons; pertinent; peter; phrase; place; plaine; point; possible; power; practice; present; private; probable; profession; proofe; protestant; providence; punishment; purpose; question; qui non; reader; reason; religion; resistance; resisting; resolve; revel; revenge; roman; roman empire; roman sword; rule; saint; saith; scripture; second; sed; sed non; selves; sense; set; signifies; sinne; spirit; state; strength; subjects; suffering; sufficient; superiour; supreme; sure; temporall; tertullian; testament; text; theophylact; thing; thought; time; title; true; truth; unlawfull; unlesse; use; vers; violence; want; way; wee; words; world; wrath; writers; yea; zeale; zealots
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        item: #87 of 261
          id: A45461
      author: Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.
       title: The Scriptures plea for magistrates vvherein is shewed the unlawfulnesse of resisting the lawfull magistrate, under colour of religion.
        date: 1643.0
       words: 20699
      flesch: 44
     summary: 2 ▪ 6. and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , v. 7. that hindred , or let Antichrist , and was like to do so still , till he were taken out of the way , was by the Fathers commonly resolved to be the Roman empire or imperiall Soveraignty of Rome , see Tert. And ● Of Christianity , which as it differs from the Lawes both of Moses and Nature , so it constantly reformes and perfects those ( dissolves not any thing that was morall in them , nor promises impunity for non-performance , but upon repentance and reformation ) elevates and raises them to an higher pitch , at least th●● Jew● or naturall men had conceived or understood themselves obliged to , which the ancient ●athers generally resolve to be the meaning of his {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , Mat. 5.17 .
    keywords: able; act; answer; antichrist; argument; armes; authority; body; book; case; christ; christianity; christians; church; colour; command; conclusion; confesse; conscience; contrary; damnation; death; desire; doctrine; doth; earth; end; english; eternall; evill; exercise; forcible; god; gods; good; government; great; greater; ground; hand; hath; himselfe; hope; inferiour; judgement; king; kingdome; land; lawfull; legall; lesse; liberty; life; light; like; little; magistrate; making; master; meanes; meeknesse; nature; nay; necessary; new; non; non resistance; obedience; objecter; old; onely; opinion; ordinary; particular; patience; people; persons; peter; phrase; place; point; possible; posterity; power; present; primitive; probable; professe; profession; protestant; punishment; purpose; reason; religion; resistance; resisting; resolve; revelation; roman; roman empire; saint; saith; scripture; second; section; sence; set; signifies; sin; spirit; state; strength; subjects; sufficient; superiour; sure; temporall; tertullian; testament; text; thing; thought; time; title; true; truth; turne; unlawfull; unlesse; use; vers; want; war; way; wit; word; wrath; ● ●
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        item: #88 of 261
          id: A46008
      author: Confederate Catholics. Supreme Council.
       title: By the Supreame Councell of the Confederat Catholicks of Ireland although wee find our selves much afflicted for the expressions wee are forced to make, of the Lord Nuncio his violent proceedings against the gouerment of the kingdome ...
        date: 1648.0
       words: 1455
      flesch: 56
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A46008 of text R178590 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing I334). Other title information taken from first lines of text.
    keywords: a46008; authority; books; catholicks; confederat; early; english; expressions; haue; hee; ireland; kingdome; lord; meeting; men; nuncio; proceedings; richard; synod; text; towne; vpon; wee
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        item: #89 of 261
          id: A46009
      author: Confederate Catholics.
       title: By the Councell and congregation whereas such of the Roman Catholiques as reside within the English quarters feare to be plundered ...
        date: 1646.0
       words: 874
      flesch: 71
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A46009 of text R43280 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing I342). Other title information taken from first lines of text.
    keywords: a46009; armies; books; catholiques; confederate; congregation; early; english; kilkenny; plunket; quarters; roman; said; text
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        item: #90 of 261
          id: A46024
      author: Ireland. Parliament.
       title: A declaration of the Lords spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament of Ireland assembled, concerning ecclesiastical government and the Book of common-prayer
        date: 1661.0
       words: 1275
      flesch: 57
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 104812)
    keywords: book; characters; common; declaration; early; ecclesiastical; eebo; english; government; ireland; lords; online; parliament; partnership; phase; prayer; said; spiritual; tcp; tei; temporal; text
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        item: #91 of 261
          id: A46111
      author: Confederate Catholics. Supreme Council.
       title: By the Supreame Councell of the Confederate Catholicks of Ireland whereas by our late proclamation we have assured all and everie the inhabitants of the province of Ulster ...
        date: 1648.0
       words: 718
      flesch: 65
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A46111 of text R43294 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing I735). by Thomas Bourke ..., Printed at Kilkenny : [1648] Other title information taken from first lines of text.
    keywords: a46111; books; catholicks; confederate; councell; council; early; english; everie; inhabitants; ireland; late; proclamation; supreme; text
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        item: #92 of 261
          id: A46169
      author: Ireland. Lords Justices and Council.
       title: Whereas several persons of wicked and restless spirits have industriously gone about to spread false news, and to promote malicious slanders and calumnies with an intention to raise divisions amongst His Majesties good and loyal subjects of this kingdom ... by the Lord Deputy and Council, Tyrconnell.
        date: 1688.0
       words: 1750
      flesch: 56
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 100996)
    keywords: books; characters; council; deputy; dublin; early; eebo; english; false; good; intention; kingdom; lord; majesties; malicious; news; online; oxford; partnership; persons; phase; restless; spirits; subjects; tcp; tei; text; time
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        item: #93 of 261
          id: A46343
      author: Gentleman of Oxford.
       title: The judgment and doctrine of the Church of England concerning one special branch of the King's prerogative, viz. in dispencing with the penall laws / asserted by the most reverend father in God, the lords Arch-Bishops Bancroft, Laud and Usher, the right reverend fathers in God, the lords Bishops Sanderson and Cartwright, the reverend doctors, Sir Thomas Ridley L.L.D., Dr. Hevlin, Dr. Barrow, Dr. Sherlock master of the temple, Dr. Hicks, Dr. Nalson and Dr. Puller ; and by the anonymus, author of The harmony of divinity and law : together with the concurring resolutions of our reverend judges, as most consonant and agreeable thereunto ; in a letter from a gentleman of Oxford, to his friend at London.
        date: 1687.0
       words: 8999
      flesch: 62
     summary: in dispencing with the penall laws / asserted by the most reverend father in God, the lords Arch-Bishops Bancroft, Laud and Usher, the right reverend fathers in God, the lords Bishops Sanderson and Cartwright, the reverend doctors, Sir Thomas Ridley L.L.D., Dr. Hevlin, Dr. Barrow, Dr. Sherlock master of the temple, Dr. Hicks, Dr. Nalson and Dr. Puller ; and by the anonymus, author of The harmony of divinity and law : together with the concurring resolutions of our reverend judges, as most consonant and agreeable thereunto ; in a letter from a gentleman of Oxford, to his friend at London. in dispencing with the penall laws / asserted by the most reverend father in God, the lords Arch-Bishops Bancroft, Laud and Usher, the right reverend fathers in God, the lords Bishops Sanderson and Cartwright, the reverend doctors, Sir Thomas Ridley L.L.D., Dr. Hevlin, Dr. Barrow, Dr. Sherlock master of the temple, Dr. Hicks, Dr. Nalson and Dr. Puller ; and by the anonymus, author of The harmony of divinity and law : together with the concurring resolutions of our reverend judges, as most consonant and agreeable thereunto ; in a letter from a gentleman of Oxford, to his friend at London.
    keywords: according; acts; arch; authority; bancroft; bishop; books; cases; chap; church; civil; common; conscience; crown; dispence; divinity; doctrine; doth; eebo; england; english; equity; god; good; government; grant; great; hath; honour; imperial; judges; judgment; jurisdiction; justice; king; kingdom; laws; learned; letter; liberty; life; london; lord; man; master; moderation; non; obstante; oxford; parliament; particular; penal; people; person; place; point; power; prerogative; prince; publick; puller; reason; religion; reverend; right; rigour; royal; safety; saith; security; sir; soveraign; state; subjects; supream; tcp; text; thereunto; thing; thomas; use; viz; words; world
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        item: #94 of 261
          id: A46515
      author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II)
       title: A proclamation ... whereas by our royal proclamation of the date the 12 day of February 1686/7 James R.
        date: 1687.0
       words: 1845
      flesch: 65
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: books; characters; command; council; day; earl; eebo; encoding; england; english; god; image; james; king; majesties; online; oxford; partnership; phase; privy; proclamation; religion; royal; seal; subjects; tcp; tei; text; xml
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        item: #95 of 261
          id: A46956
      author: Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.
       title: A letter from a freeholder, to the rest of the freeholders of England, and all others, who have votes in the choice of Parliament-men
        date: 1689.0
       words: 5569
      flesch: 59
     summary: But while they have taken the liberty to say their Pleasure of these Laws , which are now in as full Force as the day they were made , I shall take leave , according to the Duty of a Loyal Subject , ( with whom the Laws of the Land are a Principle , and who must always own the Majesty and Authority of them , till such time as they are lawfully Repealed ) to offer a few words in their behalf , which shall be dictated by nothing but Law , Truth , and Justice ; and if every word that I say , do not appear to be such , I am content to have this whole Paper go for nothing , and be as if it had never been written . Will you , for the sake of your little Conveniencies , do the greatest Evils , which you know to be such ? You know in your very Hearts , that the Worship of Images , Crosses , and of a Wafer , is abominable Idolatry ; that the half Communion is Sacriledge ; and that many other Points of Popery are Blasphemous Fables : And will you set up this for one of your Religions , as by Law established ? Will you do all that hands can do , to entail Idolatry upon the Nation , not only Removendo prohibens , as Divines destinguish , by pulling down the Laws which hinder it , but also Promovendo adjuvans , and by making a perpetual Magna Charta for it ? The Laws and Constitution of a Country do denominate that Country ; if Atheism were here Authorized by Law , this would be an Atheistical Nation ; and if Idolatry be set up by Law , it is an Idolatrous Nation ; and all that have any hand in it , make it the Sin of the Nation , as well as their own .
    keywords: books; characters; choice; church; conscience; country; dispensing; dissenters; early; eebo; england; english; equity; god; good; great; hands; high; house; idolatry; images; king; kingdom; laws; letter; man; nation; necessary; oath; online; oxford; papists; parliament; partnership; penal; phase; popery; power; protestants; realm; religion; religious; repeal; repealing; rex; service; set; tcp; tei; text; time; way; words; ● ●
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        item: #96 of 261
          id: A46958
      author: Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.
       title: The opinion is this, that resistance may be vsed, in case our religion and rights should be invaded
        date: 1689.0
       words: 6268
      flesch: 56
     summary: Com. Lib. 8. Prius quàm foedus iniretur , in Concilium adhibiti fuerunt non Iureconsulti modo , sed Theologi quoque● Lutherus semper docuerat Magistratui non esse resistendum , & extabat ejus h●● de re libellus : cùm autem in hâc deliberatione periti juris docerent Legibus esse permissum , resistere nonnunquam , & nunc in eum Casum , de quo Leges inter alia mentionem faciant , rem esse deductam ostenderent , Lutherus ingenuè prositetur , se Nescivisse hoc licere : Et quia Leges Politicas Evangelium non impugnet aut aboleat , uti semper docuerit , deinde , quoniam hoc tempore tam dubio tamque formidoloso multa possint accidere , sic ut non modo jus ipsum sed Conscientiae quoque vis atque necessitas arma nobis porrigat , Defensionis cau●à foedus iniri posse dicit , sive Caesar ipse , sive quis alius fortè bellum ejus nomine faciat . The Saxon and the Lan●grave in their Declaration , 2 September , which was in answer to the Emperours , from his Camp at Ingolstadt , have these words : Sleid.
    keywords: arguments; arms; association; atque; autem; authority; bellarmine; bellum; bishop; books; caesar; cap; case; characters; church; clergy; conscience; contra; contrary; country; cum; defence; dei; doth; dutch; early; eebo; emperour; encoding; english; esse; est; established; etiam; evangelium; france; french; general; god; gospel; government; great; hoc; images; ipse; juris; king; kingdom; lawful; laws; leges; legibus; liberty; luther; means; men; michigan; nobis; nobles; non; online; opinion; oppression; ordinance; oxford; papists; partnership; people; persecution; phase; place; power; princes; protestants; publick; quam; queen; qui; quia; quibus; quo; quod; quoque; ratione; realm; reason; rebellion; religion; resistance; rights; sed; set; sibi; state; subject; subsidy; sword; tcp; tei; text; theoph; things; time; title; true; unjust; use; vero; vim; violence; war; words; xml
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        item: #97 of 261
          id: A46961
      author: Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.
       title: Remarks upon Dr. Sherlock's book intituled The case of resistance of the supreme powers stated and resolved, according to the doctrine of the Holy Scriptures written in the year 1683, by Samuel Johnson.
        date: 1689.0
       words: 13517
      flesch: 54
     summary: His Reasons why the King is Irresistible in all Cases , are such as these : 1. That the King has a Personal Authority , antecedent to all the Laws of the Land , independent on them , and superiour to them . Which is not true ; for the King is King by Law , and Irresistible by Law , and has his Authority from the Law. He proves , that the King is under the Law , and ought to govern by Law , because he is made King by the Law , and receives his Power and Authority from the Law ; and then adds what this Author is pleased to cite , Non est enim Rex , ubi dominatur Voluntas , & non Lex : He is no King who governs by Arbitrary Will , and not by Law ; that is , no lawful English King , Bracton must mean ; for still he may be a good outlandish and Assyrian King , and no Tyrant , though his Arbitrary Will does all .
    keywords: able; absolute; act; acts; arbitrary; arms; authority; best; blood; book; bracton; case; civil; command; commission; contrary; counties; countrey; court; death; defence; doctrine; eebo; england; english; execution; exercise; false; forces; god; good; government; great; hands; houses; illegal; instance; invasion; irresistible; king; kingdom; late; law; lawful; laws; lieutenants; like; lives; lord; magistrates; majesty; man; men; militia; nation; nature; new; non; oath; obedience; pag; page; parliament; passive; peace; people; personal; persons; places; popish; power; prince; publick; realm; reasons; rebellion; resistance; right; said; sovereign; subjection; subjects; supreme; tcp; text; thing; time; true; violence; void; war; way; wicked; words; years
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        item: #98 of 261
          id: A47635
      author: Leigh, Richard 1649 or 50-1728.
       title: The transproser rehears'd, or, The fifth act of Mr. Bayes's play being a postscript to the animadversions on the preface to Bishop Bramhall's vindication, &c. : shewing what grounds there are of fears and jealousies of popery.
        date: 1673.0
       words: 31786
      flesch: 56
     summary: But to go on with our Prologue , ( so the A imadverter will warrant me now to ●●ll the Preface ) our Critick hath found a 〈◊〉 in it , and what 's that ? It has no Plot. 〈◊〉 , ● P●●logue without a Plot ! It is impossible , ti● a cross-graind objection this , 〈◊〉 not easily evaded , had not our Cri●●laid Mock-Apologist and answered 〈◊〉 , P. 11.
    keywords: abbot; acts; adversary; affairs; ancient; animadversions; animadverter; answer; arch; argument; armies; arms; army; art; author; bath; bayes; best; better; betwixt; bishop; bishop bramhall; bishop laud; bodies; body; bold; book; boys; bramhall; breeding; business; call'd; calling; calvin; capacity; case; cast; cattle; causes; characters; charge; church; churches; civil; civility; clergy; coffee; command; common; conceive; condition; conscience; consent; contempt; country; court; cross; crown; day; dead; defence; desire; different; divines; doctor; doubt; draw; dress; duke; dutch; early; ecclesiastical; edition; eebo; empire; end; enemy; england; english; execution; fall; fathers; favour; fear; fine; fire; fit; foot; force; fortune; free; gad; gazett; general; geneva; gentleman; germany; glorious; god; good; government; great; greater; greatest; ground; hand; hard; hath; head; high; higher; honour; horses; house; ill; images; innocence; innocent; instructions; interest; ioan; iohn; kind; king; known; lake; language; large; late; latin; laud; laws; leave; left; let; letters; liberty; life; like; little; loan; long; lords; love; low; lye; magistrate; majesties; majesty; making; man; mark; master; matters; means; meet; melancholy; men; milton; mind; monarchy; names; nations; natural; nature; nay; necessary; necessity; need; new; non; nonconformists; obedience; occasion; office; old; open; order; original; ought; oxford; pag; page; parliament; passage; past; people; persons; picture; place; play; players; plot; poet; point; policy; politician; popery; power; preaching; preface; prelate; present; pretty; prince; private; profession; prologue; proof; publick; purpose; quality; question; reason; red; rehearsal; religion; remarkable; respect; rest; right; roman; rome; royal; saith; sake; school; scripture; scurvy; sea; second; self; sermon; service; set; short; sign; single; sir; soveraign; speech; state; stile; story; street; subjects; sufficient; supreme; sure; tcp; tei; tender; text; things; time; title; took; transpros'd; transproser; true; truth; turn'd; us'd; verse; vertues; vindication; violence; volscius; war; water; way; white; wise; wit; women; wonder; word; work; writer; writing; years; ● ●
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        item: #99 of 261
          id: A47684
      author: Lenthall, William, 1591-1662.
       title: A copy of the speakers letter to the vice-chancellour and the heads of houses of the Vniversity of Oxford together with the protestation and declaration with it.
        date: 1642.0
       words: 3286
      flesch: 45
     summary: WHEREAS the Chambers , Studies , and Trunks , of Master Denzill Hollis , Sir Arthur Haslerigg , Master Iohn Pym , Master Iohn Hampden , and Master William Strode Esquires , Members of the House of Commons , upon Munday the 3. of this instant Ianuary , by colour of His Majesties warrant have been sealed up by Sir William Killigrew , and Sir William Flemen , and others , which is not only against the Priviledge of Parliament , but the Common liberty of every Subject : Which said Members afterwards , the same day were under the like colour , by Serjeant Francis , one of His Majesties Serjeants at Arms , contrary to all former Presidents demanded of the Speaker , sitting in the House of Commons , to be delivered unto him , that he might Arrest them of high Treason . That the Priviledges of Parliament , and the Liberties of the Subject so violated and broken , cannot be fully and sufficiently Vindicated , unlesse His Majesty will be gratiously pleased , to discover the names of those Persons , who advised His Majesty to issue out Warrants , for the sealing of the Chambers , and Studies of the said Members , to send a Serjeant at Arms to the House of Commons , to demand their said Members , to issue out severall Warrants under His Majesties own hand , to apprehend the said Members .
    keywords: breach; church; commons; day; declaration; declare; doe; door; england; english; good; great; heads; house; kingdome; liberties; majesties; majesty; manner; members; oxford; parliament; person; priviledges; protestation; said; sir; subject; text; vice; vniversity; william
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        item: #100 of 261
          id: A47813
      author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
       title: The casuist uncas'd, in a dialogue betwixt Richard and Baxter, with a moderator between them, for quietnesse sake by Roger L'Estrange.
        date: 1680.0
       words: 36670
      flesch: 77
     summary: Was it not enough for you to Adjure the Commons into an Opposition o● That Order in the Church , which ( as he t●lls you ) is as Antient as the Monarchy of This Island ? An Order , that you and your Confederates most Undu●ifully destroy'd ? But could you now have the Confidence to demand the spoyls again , which you first ravish'd from the Church , and the Independents afterward took from you , as the Reward of your Sedition , and Schism ? And could you yet have the greater Confidence , in case of a Disappointment , to break out into this most Unchristian Excl●mation , on the behalf of the People ? And if D●cla●ations , Professions , Commissions , and National Oaths and Covenants will not tell us , what the cause of the War was , th●n there is no Discovery . Ibid.
    keywords: account; act; acts; arms; army; assembly; authority; b ●; ba ●; baxt ●; baxter; beseech; best; better; bishops; bloud; body; book; calling; cases; cause; ceremonies; certain; change; christ; christian; church; churches; civil; clergy; command; common; con ●; conformists; conscience; consent; constitution; contrary; controversy; covenant; crown; day; dec; defence; desire; destroy'd; destruction; devil; discipline; disobedience; disp; divines; divis; divisions; doctrine; doth; duty; ecclesiastical; eebo; end; england; english; episcopal; errour; evill; faction; faithful; false; fast; father; favour; fear; fo ●; fol; friends; gentlemen; god; godly; gods; good; government; governours; great; greater; guilty; hands; hath; head; higher; highest; holy; holynesse; honour; houses; humble; ibid; ignorant; ill; images; judge; judgment; justice; killing; kind; king; kingdome; known; late; law; lawfull; laws; leave; liberties; liberty; life; like; little; liturgy; lives; living; london; long; lords; love; loyal; loyalty; m ●; majesties; majesty; man; manner; matter; means; members; militia; ministers; moderator; multitude; nation; nature; nay; necessary; new; non; o ●; oath; obedience; obedient; old; opinion; opposition; order; ordinance; pag; par ●; parliament; particular; party; peace; penalty; people; persecution; person; petition; places; plea; pleased; point; positions; power; pr ●; practice; practises; pray'e; prayer; pref; preface; prelacy; presbyterians; presbytery; present; pretense; prince; principles; priviledges; proceedings; providence; publick; question; reason; rebellion; reformation; religion; religious; repentance; rest; reverend; richard; right; ruine; rule; rulers; safety; saints; sake; schisme; scots; scripture; scruple; second; sect; self; selves; sermon; set; sin; sins; sir; sovereign; spirit; state; subjects; superiours; tcp; text; th ●; thanks; thes; thing; thought; thousands; time; toleration; true; trust; truth; uniformity; violence; votes; vow; w ●; war; way; ways; wealth; wh ●; wi ●; word; work; worse; worship; writings; wrong; years; yo ●; zeal; ● al; ● ch; ● d; ● e; ● f; ● g; ● h; ● ion; ● l; ● ll; ● n; ● nd; ● r; ● s; ● st; ● t; ● ters; ● y; ● ●
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        item: #101 of 261
          id: A47854
      author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
       title: The free-born subject, or, The Englishmans birthright asserted against all tyrannical vsurpations either in church or state
        date: 1679.0
       words: 12467
      flesch: 61
     summary: When I say Determinable and Relievable by Law , my meaning is , that the Law hath competently provided for the Freedom and Security both of King and People : And the Remedy seldom fails , where it is Seasonably applied , and Vigorously pursued . If by Law ; This clamour is an Arraignment of King , Lords , and Commons .
    keywords: act; answer; authority; best; better; betwixt; birthright; bishops; body; books; case; certain; characters; charge; church; churches; civil; common; conscience; court; crown; dangerous; day; direct; doctrine; early; ecclesiastical; eebo; end; england; english; englishmans; estates; false; free; general; god; good; government; great; hand; hath; history; honour; houses; ill; iustice; king; late; law; lawful; legal; liberties; liberty; like; lords; majesties; majesty; man; matter; means; mercy; ministers; multitude; nation; nature; nay; obedience; officers; onely; oppression; order; oxford; pag; page; parliament; people; persons; place; point; popery; popular; power; prince; privileges; question; reason; rebellion; reformation; reformed; religion; right; second; self; selves; set; sets; speech; state; stead; subject; tcp; tei; text; things; time; title; true; truth; tyrannical; tyranny; vsurpation; way; work; world; year
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        item: #102 of 261
          id: A47873
      author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
       title: Interest mistaken, or, the Holy cheat proving from the undeniable practises and positions of the Presbyterians, that the design of that party is to enslave both king and people under the masque of religion : by way of observation upon a treatise, intitutled, The interest of England in the matter of religion, &c. / by Roger L'Estrange.
        date: 1661.0
       words: 43723
      flesch: 68
     summary: Upon which Hinge moves the whole frame of his Design ; and in two Pages , he gives the Presbyter possession of his Claim , Deciding with exceeding ease , the Case of King and Kingdom . Thus. Let every soul in England be subject to King and Parliament , for they are the higher Powers ordained unto you of God ; whosoever therefore resisteth King and Parliament , resisteth the Ordinance of God ; and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation .
    keywords: absolute; actions; affections; agreeable; answer; antient; argument; army; authority; baptism; bear; best; better; betwixt; bishops; blessed; blood; bold; book; business; care; cases; cause; ceremonies; certain; change; charity; choice; christian; church; churches; civil; claim; clear; clergy; coalition; commission; common; confusion; conscience; consent; contest; contrary; controversie; counsel; covenant; cross; crown; cry; dangerous; days; declaration; design; desire; difference; discipline; discourse; discretion; dispute; divided; divine; doctrine; doth; doubt; duty; early; ecclesiastical; eebo; effect; end; england; english; episcopal; equal; equity; establish'd; experience; faction; fair; father; favour; fear; fellow; fine; fit; force; forms; forsooth; frame; free; freedom; friends; general; geneva; gentleman; god; godly; good; gospel; government; gracious; grant; great; greater; ground; hand; hath; hierarchy; holy; honest; honor; hope; houses; humane; ibid; ill; institution; interest; judge; judgment; justice; justifie; kind; king; kingdom; l'estrange; late; late king; law; lawful; laws; learned; leave; legal; legislative; let; liberties; liberty; lies; like; little; london; long; lord; love; loyalty; main; majesties; majesty; man; manner; mark; matter; meaning; means; members; mercy; method; middle; mind; ministers; monarchy; mutual; mystical; nation; nature; necessity; needs; new; non; number; oath; obedience; observation; onely; opinion; opposition; order; page; pardon; parliament; particular; parties; party; peace; people; person; piety; point; popery; popular; positions; possible; power; practises; prayer; prelacy; presbyterian; presbyterian party; presbytery; present; press; prince; principles; private; protestant; publick; pulpit; purpose; quality; quarrel; queen; question; quiet; reason; rebellion; reformation; religion; religious; respect; return; reverence; right; rites; royal; rule; sacred; safety; sake; scandal; scandalous; scotland; second; security; seditious; self; sense; service; set; severity; shew; short; single; sober; soul; soveraign; spirit; spiritual; state; story; subject; subversion; supreme; sure; tcp; temper; tenderness; terms; text; thing; thought; thousands; time; title; toleration; touching; treatise; true; truth; tumult; unlawful; violence; viz; vote; war; way; wisdom; wise; words; work; world; worship; worthy; years; yoke
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        item: #103 of 261
          id: A47888
      author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
       title: Lestrange's narrative of the plot set forth for the edification of His Majesties liege-people.
        date: 1680.0
       words: 12932
      flesch: 57
     summary: But without any m●●e Des●anting upon the Good or the Evill the Grounds or Cons●quences of Matters ; we shall now deliver some few Instances to our present purpose . ; every Authour hang up a Table at 's Door , and say , Here you may have a very good Narrative , for Three-pence , a Groat , or Sixpence , or H●gher if you pl●ase ●or we have 'em of all Sorts and Sizes : The only Danger is , the Popping of Catt and Dogs Flesh upon us , for Cony , and Venison .
    keywords: account; affected; authority; authour; bear; better; betwixt; body; books; booksellers; business; carry'd; case; characters; church; clear; common; consent; conspiracy; credit; dangerous; day; design; dissenters; dugdale; early; eebo; end; england; english; evidence; faction; foundations; good; government; great; hand; house; ill; instances; interest; jesuits; justice; king; known; late; law; lay; like; london; long; magistrate; majesties; major; man; manner; matter; multitude; narrative; nation; new; non; oates; old; order; original; page; papists; people; persons; place; plot; popery; popish; popish plot; power; poynt; practices; present; priests; prince; project; protestant; publique; purpose; quality; question; rabble; religion; right; rome; ruine; said; schism; schismatiques; seditious; self; shall; state; story; subject; support; tcp; tei; text; thing; thought; time; title; treason; true; truth; want; way; witnesses; work; world; zeal; ● ●
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        item: #104 of 261
          id: A47908
      author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
       title: The relaps'd apostate, or, Notes upon a Presbyterian pamphlet, entituled, A petition for peace, &c. wherein the faction and design are laid as open as heart can wish by Roger L'Estrange.
        date: None
       words: 31255
      flesch: 71
     summary: I. VVE have here ( as Bishop Hall says of SMECTYMNUUS ) a Plural adversary : and in good Deed , 't was more then one mans Businesse , to do a thing so excellently amisse . Here 's Duty , Honour , Justice , Gratitude , nay Interest too , and all that is not Brutish in mans nature , concur to fix , and strengthen the Obligation .
    keywords: a47908; able; actions; agreement; answer; argument; authority; best; better; betwixt; bishops; blessed; book; bread; brethren; care; case; cast; ceremonies; change; charity; christian; church; churches; come; command; commission; common; concord; conformity; conscience; covenant; credit; dangerous; day; declaration; design; desire; difference; discipline; discretion; disobedience; div; divines; doctrine; duty; earnest; eebo; enemies; english; episcopacy; faction; factious; fair; faith; faithful; false; father; favour; fear; fine; forms; forsooth; freedome; friends; general; gentlemen; god; godly; gods; good; gospel; government; grant; great; hand; hath; heart; holy; honest; humane; humour; ibid; ill; impositions; indifferent; instance; joy; judge; judgement; justice; king; kingdom; laborious; late; law; lawful; laws; lay; leave; liberty; life; like; little; liturgy; long; lord; majesties; majesty; man; manner; marque; matter; meaning; men; mercy; ministers; moderate; multitude; nature; nay; necessary; necessity; new; non; notes; notorious; number; oath; obedience; offer; office; old; onely; open; opinion; order; ordination; ought; pag; page; pamphlet; particular; party; peace; peaceable; people; persons; petition; point; power; practice; prayer; preachers; presbyterian; presbytery; pretense; primitive; prince; private; publick; publique; pulpit; quality; question; reason; rebellion; reformation; reformers; religion; rest; reverence; reverend; right; royal; rule; salvation; saviour; schisme; scripture; scruple; self; selves; sense; set; short; sin; souls; state; subjects; submission; sure; tcp; tender; text; thing; thought; thousands; time; title; true; truth; unity; universal; unlawful; use; want; war; way; weak; words; work; world; worship
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        item: #105 of 261
          id: A47922
      author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
       title: State-divinity, or, A supplement to The relaps'd apostate wherein is prosecuted the discovery of the present design against the King, the Parliament, and the publick peace, in notes upon some late Presbyterian pamphlets / by Roger L'Estrange.
        date: 1661.0
       words: 13580
      flesch: 72
     summary: But Here , a word to all sorts of People that ever took their Covenant . [ D ] Not presuming to meddle with the Consciences of those many of the Nobility and Gentry , and others , that adhered to his late Majesty in the late Unhappy Wars , who at their Composition took this Vow and Covenant .
    keywords: answer; apostate; arguments; authority; best; bishops; business; case; church; churches; common; conscience; consent; covenant; david; design; divine; divinity; divisions; doctrine; eebo; english; evil; faction; fire; general; god; gods; good; government; great; hand; hath; holy; honest; honour; house; institution; ionathan; israel; iustice; king; l'estrange; late; law; league; liberty; life; liturgy; long; lord; love; majesties; majesty; man; marque; matter; mean; mercy; ministers; murther; nation; nature; nay; note; oath; obligation; onely; opportunity; order; pag; page; parliament; party; peace; people; places; point; power; presbyterian; presbytery; proposals; publick; publique; pulpit; question; reason; rebellion; reformation; reformers; relaps'd; repentance; return; right; roger; saul; sectaries; seditious; self; sense; sir; solemn; souls; state; subjects; sure; tcp; text; thee; thing; time; truth; vow; war; way; wee; words; work; zedekiah
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        item: #106 of 261
          id: A47971
      author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
       title: A Letter formerly sent to Dr. Tillotson, and for want of an answer made publick, and now reprinted with the said doctor's letter to the Lord Russel a little before his execution.
        date: None
       words: 4445
      flesch: 49
     summary: THE Author of the following Letter sent the Original to Mrs. Tillotson for her Husband , and a Copy of it to my Lady Derby , for the Princess of Orange , several Months ago ; and when he writ it , he hoped the Members of Parliament would have been , against the Sessions , awakened by their Disappointments and Taxes , to consider aright , what is the present State of this miserable Nation , and how much worse is our future prospect ; and had he found them in that Temper , and acting steddily for their Countrey , he had thoughts to have presented with his own hands , his Reasons , why he thinks they have wronged King James , over-rated their Disease , and mistaken their Cure ; and he would also have given in Proposals , how the King may be restored , without hazard , either to our Religion or Property ; and this the Author would have done , because he thinks , that if either Reason or Religion would prevail , such an Offer must have had some weight ; but whilst the Whigs as much Sacrifice their Understandings to support this Change , as the Tories did their Consciences to make it , a Man would be reckoned mad that attempted in such a manner to reclaim such a Sett of Men , as have no more publick Spirit , than what lies in wrangling for their particular Parties ; or common sense , than what is p●oper to get into Pensions , and Places , that , at the witty Sir Charles Sidley once said in the House , They may charge in Armor . The excessive Value I have for you , for your Knowledge , your Judgment , y●ur largeness of Spirit , your Moderation , and many other great Qualities that ●ave signaliz●d your Name , once made you one of the greatest Ornaments of the Christian Church , one of the greatest Exemplars of sound Morality , and all that Philosophers call Virtue , make what seems to me an Apostacy from what you Preached and Writ , pretended to believe , and would have others to belive , shake me so violently in the first Credenda of Religion , that I beseech you , if you think it necessary upon no other account , that you will publish such a Discourse , at least , for the Satisfaction of mine , and the Consciences of many others , who I can assure you of my own knowledge , lie under the same Scruples with my self , have the same Scruples in relation to the Government , and the same Temptations to question Religion it self upon your account : It is the interest of the Government to satisfie such Men ; and if you think that we ought particularly and privately to apply our selves to you , our Number is so great that it would be too constant a trouble for any one Man to undergo ; nor can we safely debate a point of this Nature ; nor can you expect Men should trust themselves under the Protection of your Honour , whilst they think you have in the Face of the World , so grosly Prevaricated both from that and what ought to be a Principle of a higher Nature , the dictates of your own Conscience .
    keywords: author; books; characters; early; eebo; england; english; execution; general; god; good; government; great; images; james; king; law; letter; little; lord; lordship; man; nature; online; orange; oxford; particular; partnership; people; phase; present; protestant; publick; religion; russel; sake; self; sir; subjects; tcp; tei; text; things; tillotson; time; title; want; world; writ
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        item: #107 of 261
          id: A47973
      author: Clergy-man in the country.
       title: A letter from a clergy-man in the country, to a minister in the city, concerning ministers intermedling with state-affairs in their sermons & discourse
        date: 1689.0
       words: 6431
      flesch: 53
     summary: For Christ being intreated to employ his Authority , to cause one Brother to divide the inheritance with the other , did refuse to do it , upon this ground , because God had not appointed him a Judge , or a Divider over men in temporal matters : the Disciple is not above the Master ; and if the Master had no right to meddle in small matters between man and man , what right have I to meddle in the greatest between State and State , or Rulers and Subjects ? Thus in cases of Idolatry and Oppression , the Prophets did address themselves directly to the Rulers of the people ? they shewed them the undoubted Commandment of God , and their undeniable Practice opposite unto it , and in a case which evidently doth pervert the truth of Religion , and endanger the safety of the State ; the Fact it self , and the unrighteousness thereof , is to be laid open before all , from the Word of God , and all are to be warned of the dangerous consequences thereof , which may be done in Thesi , leaving the Hpothesis and particular application to every mans judgment , to discharge his Conscience towards God therein ; but now we have seen men that accuse those whom they would discredit before the Multitude , not to meddle with the matter in Thesi , but with the Hypothesis of their own coyning , upon conjectural appearances , charging Faults suspiciously , and by way of insinuation , whereupon a strict examination none were to be found .
    keywords: affairs; aim; authority; books; cases; cause; characters; christ; church; clergy; conscience; country; doth; duty; early; eebo; english; god; gods; good; gospel; interest; intermedling; judge; kingdom; lawful; like; magistrate; man; mans; master; matters; men; minister; nation; party; people; power; practice; preaching; private; proceedings; publick; pulpit; religion; self; sermons; servant; state; tcp; text; thing; truth; way; wisdom; world
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        item: #108 of 261
          id: A47977
      author: Care, Henry, 1646-1688, recipient.
       title: A letter from a country curate to Mr. Henry Care, in defence of the seven bishops Licensed July 18. 1688.
        date: 1688.0
       words: 2081
      flesch: 61
     summary: A letter from a country curate to Mr. Henry Care, in defence of the seven bishops Licensed July 18. 1688. A letter from a country curate to Mr. Henry Care, in defence of the seven bishops Licensed July 18. 1688.
    keywords: bishops; books; care; characters; church; country; early; eebo; encoding; english; good; henry; images; july; king; letter; man; online; oxford; paper; partnership; phase; tcp; tei; text; tho; time; works; xml
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        item: #109 of 261
          id: A48232
      author: Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683.
       title: A letter to the Earl of Shaftsbury this 9th of July, 1680 from Tom Tell-Troth, a downright Englishman.
        date: 1680.0
       words: 3512
      flesch: 50
     summary: eng Church and state -- England. to the happy Restoration of the King , by it I shall be able to satisfie your Lordship , that what was then designed and effected upon the Person of the late King , Church of England , and Government , were the results of such pernicious Counsels and Designs , as are now hatching by these Sons of Belial , to the present disturbance , if not ruine of our flourishing Church and Kingdoms .
    keywords: 9th; bishops; books; characters; church; designs; early; eebo; encoding; england; english; god; government; great; images; interest; july; kingdom; laws; lord; lordship; man; men; online; oxford; papist; partnership; peace; phase; popery; present; protestant; religion; state; tcp; tei; tell; text; time; tom; troth; true; work
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        item: #110 of 261
          id: A48489
      author: H. L.
       title: A Circular letter to the clergy of Essex to stir them up to double-diligence for the choice of members of their party for the ensuing parliament ; with some queries offered to the consideration of the honest free-holders.
        date: 1690.0
       words: 2658
      flesch: 57
     summary: eng Church and state -- England. The LETTER ▪ SIR , THere is a Trial of Skil to be , it seems , between Coll Mildmay's Interest and the Church Party in Essex : How much is behoves you at this time to use your utmost endeavour to send good Men to the Parliament , you cannot but be very sensible ; let me therefore intreat you , earnestly to persuade the Clergy of your Deanry , to use their utmost endeavours to bring in as many Voices as they can for Sir Anthony Abdy and Sir Eliab Harvey , and not to fail b●ing themselves at the Election ▪ if their health will permit .
    keywords: books; characters; choice; church; circular; clergy; early; eebo; england; english; essex; good; great; honest; images; interest; king; late; lay; letter; members; online; original; oxford; parliament; partnership; party; phase; sir; tcp; tei; text; time
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        item: #111 of 261
          id: A48818
      author: Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.
       title: A discourse of God's ways of disposing of kingdoms. Part 1 by the Bishop of S. Asaph, Lord Almoner to Their Majesties.
        date: 1691.0
       words: 18108
      flesch: 80
     summary: 1. War is an Appeal to God. 2 In the way of Justice , God acts as a Judge between two Soveraign Powers , when they bring their Causes before him ; that is , when they make War upon one another .
    keywords: account; act; appeal; authority; belli; better; bishop; cause; certain; christian; church; common; conquest; consent; constantine; country; danger; david; deliverance; discourse; disposing; dominions; doth; doubt; duty; eebo; effect; empire; english; family; following; foreign; general; gent; god; good; government; great; grot; hands; hath; hereditary; hist; injury; judge; judgment; jure; justice; king; kingdom; law; lawful; laws; like; lord; majesties; making; man; mankind; nations; necessary; original; pag; people; plain; possession; power; prince; private; promotion; psal; queen; reason; religion; right; saith; self; set; sets; shewn; sovereign; states; stead; subjects; sufficient; superior; sword; tcp; text; things; think; time; title; true; unjust; vii; war; way; ways; words; work; world; xiii
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        item: #112 of 261
          id: A48829
      author: Fell, John, 1625-1686.
       title: A seasonable discourse shewing the necessity of maintaining the established religion, in opposition to popery
        date: 1673.0
       words: 11038
      flesch: 66
     summary: Catholic Church -- Controversial literature. Church and state -- England.
    keywords: account; acts; anno; answer; apostolic; art; authority; bell; benefit; better; books; case; catholic; characters; christian; church; common; communion; concil; confession; conscience; crown; days; doctrines; early; eebo; england; english; errors; faith; farther; france; general; god; good; great; greater; heathen; henry; hist; holiness; holy; images; interest; john; king; kingdom; known; lands; large; late; law; laws; little; long; lord; majesty; mean; men; nation; nay; necessary; new; numbers; obedience; online; opposition; order; oxford; pag; papists; paris; parliament; partnership; peace; people; persons; peter; phase; pope; popery; power; present; priests; prince; queen; reason; religion; religious; roman; rome; scripture; seasonable; second; sect; self; sess; short; sin; state; subjects; tcp; tei; terms; text; thing; time; tom; trident; true; truth; tyranny; universal; use; war; wealth; words; work; world; worship; years
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        item: #113 of 261
          id: A49360
      author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
       title: The loyal Protestants vindication, fairly offered to all those sober minds who have the art of using reason, and the power of suppressing passion by a Queen Elizabeth Protestant.
        date: 1680.0
       words: 4001
      flesch: 59
     summary: For such hath been the imprudence of some Hot-headed men that carried this Petition about for Subscriptions , that they told the un-thinking vulgar , it was the Shibboleth to discern between the Protestants and Papists in England . This , This is the Test and Shiboleth to distinguish Protestants from Papists , and not your Form of Petition which lately went in Procession ; and should your boasted multitudes of Subscribers be brought to this Touchstone , we know that three parts of five would run a great danger of being convicted for Recusants by Law ; for many of you who proudly call your selves the True Protestants , will as stifly deny the doing of these things as the Rankest Papist in England .
    keywords: art; books; cause; characters; church; early; eebo; elizabeth; encoding; england; english; god; good; government; half; hath; images; interest; kingdom; love; loyal; masquerade; men; minds; online; oxford; papists; partnership; phase; plot; popish; prince; project; protestants; queen; reason; religion; selves; set; sober; tcp; tei; text; time; true; vindication; work; xml
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        item: #114 of 261
          id: A50410
      author: Mayne, Jasper, 1604-1672.
       title: Certain sermons and letters of defence and resolution to some of the late controversies of our times by Jas. Mayne.
        date: 1653.0
       words: 82135
      flesch: 55
     summary: Which unnecessary separation upon weake , slight grounds , is that which Saint Paul here in this Text , by way of difference and distinction from lighter Rents , calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Schismes . For there mention is made of certaine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , or Princes , or chiefe men , who are there said to be like Wolves ravening the prey ; Yet there wanted not some Prophets ( as you may gather from my Text ) who presented these Wolves to the people in Sheeps cloathing .
    keywords: able; abuse; actions; acts; adde; adversary; agreement; alwayes; ancient; angel; answer; antichrist; apollos; apostles; appeare; arguments; armes; army; assembly; authority; ayre; babylon; bad; banisht; bee; beleeve; beseech; best; bishops; blind; bloud; body; bold; book; borne; breake; brethren; broken; brother; building; calling; carriage; cast; cause; certaine; challenge; chamber; chapter; charge; charity; cheynell; children; christ; christian; church; churches; city; civill; cleare; colours; commission; common; communion; confesse; confident; confusion; confuted; congregation; conscience; consent; contrary; controversies; conversation; copes; corinthians; countrey; course; court; creation; creature; crime; danger; dangerous; dark; day; deale; defence; description; designe; desire; devotion; difference; disciples; discipline; discourse; disguise; dispute; distinction; divers; divided; divine; divinity; divisions; doctor; doctrine; doe; doth; doubt; earth; endeavour; england; english; epistle; equall; errour; evident; evill; examine; example; exercise; expresse; expression; eyes; faction; faith; fall; false; famous; fancies; fancy; farther; fathers; feare; field; figure; fire; fit; flame; flesh; followers; force; formes; fourth; free; friend; function; generall; ghost; gifted; god; gods; goe; good; gospell; government; great; greater; greatest; ground; guide; guilty; hands; hard; hath; hatred; head; hearers; heart; heathen; heaven; hee; high; higher; himselfe; hold; holinesse; holy; honour; hope; house; humane; idolatry; idols; iesus; images; impartiall; imposition; infallible; infidels; injustice; inspired; interpretation; invaded; iohn; iudge; iustice; judgement; kinde; king; kingdome; knowledge; knowne; language; late; latine; law; lawes; lay; learned; learning; length; letter; libell; liberty; life; like; little; logick; long; longer; lookt; loose; lord; love; lyes; maintaine; making; man; mans; maries; marke; master; mayne; meane; meaning; measure; meeting; men; mens; minds; miracles; mistake; morter; mother; mouth; names; nations; naturall; nature; nay; necessary; need; new; non; notes; number; o ●; office; onely; opinion; order; originall; ornaments; outward; owne; oxford; papists; paragraph; pardon; parliament; particular; parts; passe; past; paul; pen; people; perfect; persons; perswasion; peter; picture; piece; piety; place; plaine; pleased; poet; point; popery; possible; power; practice; prayer; preach; preacher; preaching; prelacy; prelates; presence; present; priests; primitive; prince; principles; private; proceedings; professe; promise; prophets; protestant; providence; publick; publique; pulpit; punishment; pure; quarrell; question; read; reason; received; reformation; religion; religious; reply; report; reproach; rest; revelation; right; rome; root; ruine; rule; sacred; sacrifice; sad; saint; sake; salvation; saw; sayes; saying; scarce; schisme; school; scripture; scruple; second; secret; sedition; seene; selfe; selves; sense; sentence; separate; separation; sermon; set; severall; shall; shape; short; sides; simple; sinne; sir; society; soever; soules; speake; speech; spirit; spirituall; spring; state; stile; strange; strength; strife; strong; studies; study; subject; sufficient; sun; superstitious; supream; sure; surplices; sword; tcp; teachers; temple; termes; text; theirs; things; thinke; thought; time; tongues; tradition; true; truth; turne; uncleane; understanding; understood; unity; university; unlawfull; unlearned; unlesse; unreasonable; untempered; urge; use; vaine; vanities; vanity; verse; visible; vulgar; want; warre; way; weake; wicked; wil; wise; wish; withall; women; wonder; words; world; worship; worst; writings; wrong; yeares; yee; zealous
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        item: #115 of 261
          id: A50897
      author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
       title: A vindication of His Majesties government and judicatures in Scotland from some aspersions thrown on them by scandalous pamphlets and news-books, and especially with relation to the late Earl of Argiles Process.
        date: 1683.0
       words: 15603
      flesch: 60
     summary: A Vindication of His Majesties Government , and Judicatures , in SCOTLAND , &c. ALL wise and sober Men in Scotland , do with a just mixture of pity , and contempt , Read those infamous Pamphlets , wherein this Kingdom is so maliciously traduced by some in our Neighbour-Nation ; and when they consider that the Licentiousness of the Press , does so much weaken all Government , corrupt all Intelligence , and blast so unavoidably the Reputation of the best , and most Innocent : They conclude justly , that to deny their King the necessary priviledge and prerogative of restraining the Press , were to refuse to the Master of a Ship , the power to prevent its Leaking : To deny the Magistrat the power of punishing these , who corrupt the Springs and Fountains of a City : And to refuse to the Master of a Family , the Power of Chastising his Servants when they rail at one another . And how dare men be so dissingenuous , as to own themselves the only Protestants , and yet to inveigh against Statutes made to hinder Jesuites , Socinians , and others to pervert the people ; as we certainly know , they did for many years together , at those meetings , and how could this be prevented , since the poor commens know not what is Orthodox .
    keywords: 2ly; 3ly; act; acts; adjecting; advantage; alteration; arms; authority; authors; books; case; church; clear; common; conscience; consistent; contradictory; contrary; council; countrey; covenant; cryme; defense; design; design'd; duty; earl; eebo; effect; endeavour; enemies; england; english; episcopacy; explanation; express; expression; false; general; genuine; god; good; government; great; greater; greatest; highness; honest; inferences; judges; king; kingdom; known; late; law; lawful; laws; legislator; loyalty; majesties; making; man; ministers; monarchy; nation; nature; oath; obedience; pamphlets; paper; parliament; people; person; power; pretence; pretended; principles; privat; process; protestant; protestant religion; quality; rebellion; reforming; religion; reserves; right; royal; said; scotland; secure; security; self; sense; state; statute; subjects; sure; taker; tcp; text; thing; time; treason; true; viz; way; words
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        item: #116 of 261
          id: A50949
      author: Milton, John, 1608-1674.
       title: The reason of church-government urg'd against prelaty by Mr. John Milton ; in two books.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 30304
      flesch: 46
     summary: And yet in the midst of rigor I would beseech ye to think of mercy ; and such a mercy , I feare I shal overshoot with a desire to save this falling Prelaty , such a mercy ( if I may venture to say ● Word● ) a● may exceed that which for only ten righteous persons would have sav'd Sodom . He on the contrary beginning at the prime causes and roo● of the disease sends in those two divine ingredients of most cleansing power to the soul , Admonition & Reproof , besides which two there is no drug or antidote that can reach to purge the mind , and without which all other experiments are but vain , unlesse by ●dent .
    keywords: aaron; able; acts; againe; age; ages; ancient; anough; apostles; argument; art; asse; autority; beginning; best; better; betweene; bin; bishop; blood; bodies; body; book; brethren; care; carnall; cause; censure; ceremonies; certain; changes; chap; charge; christ; christian; church; churches; city; civill; clergy; command; commandement; comming; common; conscience; contrary; counsell; course; crosse; cure; custome; dangerous; day; deacons; deeds; delight; dignity; diligence; discipline; divine; doctrine; doe; doth; doubtlesse; durst; duty; early; end; enemies; england; english; episcopacy; epistle; equall; evil; example; excellence; eyes; fair; false; falshood; family; farre; father; fear; finde; fire; flesh; fleshly; force; frame; free; friends; generall; glorious; glory; god; gods; good; gospell; government; grave; great; greatest; hand; happy; hard; hath; head; healing; hearts; heavenly; help; heresie; high; higher; himselfe; hold; holy; home; honour; hope; house; houshold; image; imitation; institution; instruction; inward; iohn; jewes; john; judgement; jurisdiction; keepe; kind; king; knowledge; labour; land; law; lawes; lay; learning; left; lesse; lest; levites; liberty; life; like; little; lives; long; lord; love; magistrat; man; manner; mans; matters; mean; measure; men; mercy; mighty; milton; mind; ministery; morall; moses; names; nation; nature; necessity; need; needfull; new; noble; o ●; obedience; office; old; open; opinion; order; ordinance; outward; owne; p ●; parts; pattern; paul; peace; people; perfect; persons; pious; places; plea; points; pope; power; prelates; prelaticall; prelaty; presbyters; present; pride; priest; priesthood; priestly; primat; principles; profane; prudence; publick; pure; purpose; reason; reformation; reforming; regard; religion; remedy; reverence; right; roman; rome; rude; sabbath; sacred; said; saints; saith; saviour; schismaticks; schisme; scripture; second; sects; seemes; self; selves; service; set; shame; shew; small; soone; soul; speedy; spirituall; state; strength; strong; subject; tell; temple; testament; text; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; timothy; touch; tradition; true; trust; truth; type; tyranny; unlesse; urg'd; us'd; utmost; vertue; want; way; wealth; whatsoever; wherin; wisdom; wise; work; world; worldly; worship; worthy; yea; yeares; ● d; ● e; ● ●
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        item: #117 of 261
          id: A50959
      author: Milton, John, 1608-1674.
       title: A treatise of civil power in ecclesiastical causes shewing that it is not lawfull for any power on earth to compell in matters of religion / the author, J.M.
        date: 1659.0
       words: 12178
      flesch: 48
     summary: And if the governors of this common-wealth since the rooting out of prelats have made least use of force in religion , and most have favord Christian liberty of any in this Iland before them since the first preaching of the gospel , for which we are not to forget our thanks to God , and their due praise , they may , I doubt not , in this treatise finde that which not only will confirm them to defend still the Christian liberty which we enjoy , but will incite them also to enlarge it , if in aught they yet straiten it . It will require no great labor of exposition to unfold what is here meant by matters of religion ; being as soon apprehended as defin'd , such things as belong chiefly to the knowledge and service of God : and are either above the reach and light of nature without revelation from above , and therfore liable to be variously understood by humane reason , or such things as are enjoind or forbidden by divine precept , which els by the light of reason would seem indifferent to be don or not don ; and so likewise must needs appeer to everie man as the precept is understood .
    keywords: able; answer; apostle; autoritie; beleef; beleeve; bin; calld; causes; christian; church; civil; common; commonwealth; compell; conscience; discipline; divine; doctrine; doth; duties; ecclesiastical; end; evil; faith; forc'd; force; free; freedom; gal; god; gods; good; gospel; grace; hath; heresie; heretic; holy; inward; judge; kingdom; law; libertie; liberty; licentious; little; lord; magistrate; man; matters; means; men; ministers; outward; papist; paul; performance; perswasion; place; power; practise; prophane; protestant; punishment; reason; religion; religious; right; rom; rule; scripture; self; spiritual; state; text; therfore; therof; things; thir; thou; time; treatise; true; truth; way; weak; wherin; work; world; worse
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        item: #118 of 261
          id: A50967
      author: Dissenter.
       title: The minister's reasons for his not reading the kings declaration, friendly debated by a dissenter.
        date: 1688.0
       words: 13684
      flesch: 31
     summary: Orders that none should be relieved that fell under Poverty , if they came not to Church and Conformed to your Ceremonies , if they were able of Body so to do ; and many others of like nature : Have all these in your private Judgment been warranted by the Law of God ? Do you Esteem it a light thing to Cast , or Publish any Mans being cast out of all Christian Society , and delivered over to Sathan for such matters as are no crimes against any Divine Law ? I take it ( for ought that ever I saw manifested to the contrary ) that a Subjection to the command of your Superiours , as being onely in such things Ministerial Offices , has been at least your tacite Plea , for not stirring up or troubling your Consciences , to make a Dis●retive Judgment ; whether the Act of your Superiour which you are commanded to Publish , were Lawful , or Unlawful , by the Law either of God , or of the Land ; and to tell you the truth , I do not think you are in the Eye of the Law such Criminals as on this particular occasion you would render your selves to be , in case you should Read the Kings Declaration in Obedience to his Command , though you did not approve the matter of it in your private Judgment ; it not being your Province , positively to determine concerning it in point of Law : You might with better pretence of Conscience , ( if pressed to it in your own mind , as an Act necessary to avoid a Sin against God ) after the Reading of the Declaration , have taken your Exceptions to it in your particular Station , then to have followed the course you have taken , as it were by common consent , one in the name of all the Rest , thus openly to Declaim against it , for that had been an Exercising of such an Act of Judgment , and Reason , if the cause Required it , as a Minister of the Gospel might have done in reference to God , whatever had been the consequence of it in respect to Men : His Majesty , after the suspention of all Penal Laws in matters Ecclesiastical , for not coming to Church , or not Receiving the Sacrament , or for any other Nonconformity to the Religion Established , or for , or by reason of the Exercise of Religion in any manner whatsoever , is pleased to Declare upon what Terms , and in what Manner All His Loving Subjects have Free leave to Meet , and Serve God after their own Way , and Manner .
    keywords: act; ages; approve; authority; cause; christian; church; churches; civil; clemency; command; common; conscience; consent; constitution; contrary; declaration; dispensing; dissenters; doctrine; eebo; england; english; exercise; fall; fault; free; general; gentry; god; good; great; interest; judgment; king; kings declaration; law; laws; leave; liberty; like; majesty; manner; matter; mention; mind; minister; nature; nobility; onely; order; parliament; particular; penal; penal laws; penalties; people; point; popery; power; prerogative; prince; protestant; question; reading; reason; religion; repeal; royal; self; selves; state; subjects; superiours; tcp; temporal; test; text; thing; time; toleration; true; way; worship
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        item: #119 of 261
          id: A51160
      author: Monro, Alexander, d. 1715?
       title: The spirit of calumny and slander, examin'd, chastis'd, and expos'd, in a letter to a malicious libeller more particularly address'd to Mr. George Ridpath, newsmonger, near St. Martins in the Fields : containing some animadversions on his scurrilous pamphlets, published by him against the kings, Parliaments, laws, nobility and clergy of Scotland : together with a short account of Presbyterian principles and consequential practices.
        date: 1693.0
       words: 36498
      flesch: 58
     summary: The spirit of calumny and slander, examin'd, chastis'd, and expos'd, in a letter to a malicious libeller more particularly address'd to Mr. George Ridpath, newsmonger, near St. Martins in the Fields : containing some animadversions on his scurrilous pamphlets, published by him against the kings, Parliaments, laws, nobility and clergy of Scotland : together with a short account of Presbyterian principles and consequential practices. The spirit of calumny and slander, examin'd, chastis'd, and expos'd, in a letter to a malicious libeller more particularly address'd to Mr. George Ridpath, newsmonger, near St. Martins in the Fields : containing some animadversions on his scurrilous pamphlets, published by him against the kings, Parliaments, laws, nobility and clergy of Scotland : together with a short account of Presbyterian principles and consequential practices.
    keywords: account; accusation; act; acts; advocate; affairs; affirmative; andrews; answer; arbitrary; archbishop; argument; arms; assembly; author; authority; beginning; best; bishops; bloody; book; calumny; cause; censure; certain; character; charge; charles; chastis'd; children; christ; christian; church; clear; clergy; common; conscience; consequence; constitution; contradiction; contrary; council; country; court; covenant; covenanters; crimes; cruelty; days; death; declare; defence; devil; divine; doctor; doctrine; doubt; dumbarton; duty; earth; ecclesiastical; edinburgh; eebo; end; enemies; england; english; episcopacy; estates; evidences; examin'd; exercise; expos'd; extraordinary; fact; false; family; following; forms; friends; general; gentleman; george; glasgow; god; good; government; great; greater; guilty; hands; hath; head; hist; history; holy; honest; honour; ibid; ignorance; impertinent; impudence; inconsistent; innocence; instance; interest; james; john; justice; king; kirk; knowledge; known; late; lawful; laws; leave; letter; lex; libels; liberty; lies; life; like; little; london; long; lord; mackenzie; malice; malicious; man; matter; mean; meaning; meeting; men; mind; ministers; monro; murder; naph; nation; natural; nature; nay; near; necessary; negative; new; nobility; noise; non; oath; obedience; obliged; occasion; offer; office; old; opinion; order; original; pag; page; pamphlet; parliament; particular; party; passive; people; persons; place; plain; plots; poor; possible; postscript; power; practices; prelacy; prelates; presbyterians; presbytery; present; principles; probable; proposition; prov'd; publick; quality; rate; reader; reason; rebellion; rebels; records; reformation; regiment; religion; reputation; rex; ridpath; right; royal; rule; rutherford; sad; said; scotch; scotland; scurrilous; second; sed; self; sense; set; sharp; short; sir; solemn; spirit; state; stories; subjects; supreme; tcp; text; thing; thought; time; title; true; truth; university; use; vanity; viz; vol; way; west; williamson; witnesses; words; work; world; worship; writings; year
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        item: #120 of 261
          id: A52048
      author: Firmin, Giles, 1614-1697.
       title: The power of the civil magistrate in matters of religion vindicated the extent of his power determined in a sermon preached before the first Parliament on a monthly fast day / by ... Mr. Stephen Marshall ... / published by G. Firmin ... with notes upon the sermon.
        date: 1657.0
       words: 18834
      flesch: 69
     summary: True , If any will be Godly , the Magistrate must provide that they may live peaceably and quietly , as if men be married , Learned , &c. the Magistrate must provide , that such may live quietly : this is the meaning and no more . That which was once a Church-ordinance , remained ever so , unless God himself removed it ; but where men will prove the Translation of this Ordinance from the Church to the Civil Bench in case the Magistrate prove Christian , I cannot tell , One of our Magistrates did attempt to prove such a thing once to me by way of argument ; because there is no thing which falls under the Churches Cognizance as being an object for Church-Discipline , but falls under the Magistrates also .
    keywords: acts; answer; author; authority; bear; book; care; cause; children; christ; christian; church; churches; civil; civil magistrate; classical; clear; commonwealth; communion; compel; conceive; congregational; conscience; corrupt; day; death; desire; discipline; divines; doctrine; doe; doth; doubt; duty; end; england; english; errors; excommunication; fast; god; godliness; godly; gods; good; gospel; government; great; hath; head; heathen; heresies; hereticks; hold; honesty; institution; judgement; kingdome; kings; law; learned; like; little; lord; love; magistrate; matters; means; members; men; ministers; nation; nature; need; new; non; notes; nursing; objection; old; opinion; order; ordinance; peace; people; persons; power; practise; question; reader; reason; religion; repentance; right; roman; rule; saints; saith; scripture; second; sermon; set; sin; solemn; state; strong; subject; sure; synod; table; testament; text; things; times; toleration; true; truth; way; weaknesses; word; work; worship; yea
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        item: #121 of 261
          id: A52125
      author: Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.
       title: An account of the growth of popery and arbitrary government in England more particularly, from the long prorogation of November, 1675, ending the 15th of February, 1676, till the last meeting of Parliament, the 16th of July, 1677.
        date: 1677.0
       words: 51067
      flesch: 45
     summary: That business having occasioned many weighty Debates in their House , and frequent Addresses to his Majesty , deserves a more particular account , Nor hath it been difficult to recever it , most of them being unwilling to forget any thing they have said to the purpose , but rather seeking to divulge what they think was bravely spoken ; and that they may be thought some-body , often arrogating where they cannot be disproved , another mans Conception to their own honour . This Addresse was presented to his Majesty the 16. of March , and his Majesties Answer was Reported to the House of Commons , by Mr. Speaker , the 17 , of March , which was thus .
    keywords: 16th; account; act; address; addresses; adjournment; advantage; advice; affaires; affection; aforesaid; alliances; answer; april; arbitrary; arch; army; assistance; authority; best; better; betwixt; bill; bishop; body; book; buckingham; building; business; capable; care; case; certain; christendom; christianity; church; clergy; commerce; commission; committee; commons; concerned; condition; confederates; consent; consequence; considerable; consideration; conspirators; contrary; counsells; country; court; crimes; crown; dangerous; day; dayes; debate; declaration; defensive; demand; design; desire; discourse; divine; duke; dutch; duty; earl; easter; ecclesiastical; eebo; effect; end; ends; enemies; england; english; estates; extraordinary; faith; fall; farre; fear; february; fit; flanders; fleet; following; force; fortune; forward; france; free; french; french king; frequent; future; general; gentlemen; giving; god; good; government; grant; great; greater; greatest; growth; hall; hand; happy; hath; high; hitherto; hold; holland; hollanders; home; honest; honour; hopes; house; humane; humble; instance; intended; interest; june; justice; keeper; king; kingdom; known; lands; late; law; laws; league; leave; lesse; let; liberty; like; little; long; longer; lords; majesties; majesty; making; man; manner; marriage; matter; means; meeting; members; message; mind; ministers; money; nation; natural; nature; navy; near; necessary; necessity; neglect; neighbours; new; notice; number; oath; obedience; occasion; offensive; offer; office; old; onely; opinion; opportunity; order; papists; parliament; parliamentary; particular; party; pay; peace; peers; people; person; pleased; pleasure; point; popery; popish; possession; possible; power; preparations; present; preservation; prince; private; privy; proclamation; project; proper; prorogation; protestant; provinces; publick; purpose; pursuance; quarrel; queen; question; ready; reason; reasonable; regnant; religion; respect; return; revenue; right; rome; royal; safety; said; satisfaction; sea; second; secretary; secure; security; self; selves; service; session; set; severall; shaftsbury; ships; short; sir; sitting; small; spanish; speaker; speech; speedy; state; subjects; suffer; sufficient; sum; summe; supply; tcp; tender; terms; text; thing; thorow; time; trade; treaty; tripple; true; united; unlesse; uses; vve; vvhich; vvill; vvith; vvould; want; war; way; weight; word; work; worse; year
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        item: #122 of 261
          id: A52130
      author: Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678. Rehearsal transpros'd.
       title: A Common-place-book out of The rehearsal transpros'd digested under these several heads, viz. his logick, chronology, wit, geography, anatomy, history, loyalty : with useful notes.
        date: 1673.0
       words: 7792
      flesch: 65
     summary: As for Geneva , had it not been that Democracie both in Church and State had made some amends , you had been told ere now that it tumbled into the Lemane Lake , or that it had been destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah . The Reason upon which they proceed so , is this ; Religion , which is an imitation of Him whom they profess to worship , requires that they should make their Decrees against men in such a manner as the Dominicans and they do ( much what alike , ) believe that God enacts in the Case of Absolute Reprobation : which Sanction is so farr from any Tenderness or Indulgence , that Calvin himself calls his own Doctrine in this Article , The Horrid Decree .
    keywords: anatomy; arms; author; best; better; book; bramble; calvin; cause; cerebellum; characters; chronology; church; common; early; eebo; encoding; end; english; geneva; god; good; government; great; hath; head; history; images; indulgence; iulian; king; lake; left; lemane; liberty; like; little; logick; loyalty; man; men; muscles; new; notes; old; online; oxford; page; partnership; phase; piece; place; press; princes; project; reason; reformation; rehearsal; religion; set; sign; south; state; sure; tcp; tei; text; time; title; town; transpros'd; true; useful; war; wise; wit; words; work; world; xml
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        item: #123 of 261
          id: A52139
      author: Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.
       title: The rehearsal transpros'd, or, Animadversions upon a late book intituled, A preface, shewing what grounds there are of fears and jealousies of popery
        date: 1672.0
       words: 61228
      flesch: 61
     summary: I could not ( though I do not make it my work after 〈◊〉 great example , to look over Epis●…les De●…icators ) but observe by chance the Title page of a Book ' to●…herday , as an E●…bleme how much some of the●… do neglect the Scripture in respect to their darling Ceremonies . But you have a peculiar delight and selicity , ( which no man 〈◊〉 you ) in Scripture-Drollery , ●…othing less 〈◊〉 taste to your Palat wherea●… otherwise you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so far in Italy , that you could not escape the Ti●…les of some Books which would have served your turn as well , Ca●…dinalism , N●…potism , Putanism , if you were in a Parox 〈◊〉 of the Ism's .
    keywords: able; accident; account; act; action; advantage; affairs; afraid; ages; alwayes; ambition; answerer; arch; argument; atheists; author; authority; bayes; bear; beginning; best; better; betwixt; bible; bishop; blood; body; book; bookseller; bramble; bramhal; bu ●; business; caesar; calvin; capable; care; cause; ceremonies; ceremony; chance; character; charge; christians; church; churches; city; civil; civility; clear; clergy; comfortable; coming; command; commendation; common; communion; company; con ●; conclude; condition; confident; conscience; consequence; consideration; content; contrary; council; country; courage; court; crown; dangerous; day; days; dead; declaration; defence; deity; deserved; design; desire; discipline; discourse; disturbance; divine; divinity; doctor; doctrine; doth; duty; e ●; early; earth; ecclesiastical; edition; eebo; empire; end; enemy; england; english; error; evil; example; excellent; excuse; execution; exercise; expression; f ●; fall; false; fanaticks; fancy; far; fast; fate; father; favour; fear; fire; fit; flower; force; fortune; france; friendly; future; g ●; gain; general; geneva; gentleman; glorious; god; good; government; grace; gracious; great; greater; greatest; grounds; hand; happy; hard; hath; head; heart; heaven; hi ●; high; highest; history; hold; holy; home; honest; honour; hope; house; humour; ill; impertinent; importance; indifferent; indulgence; innocent; institution; intention; interest; jealousies; john; judge; judgment; juncture; jurisdiction; justice; kind; king; kingdom; labour; lake; language; large; late; law; laws; lead; learning; leave; left; lest; let; letters; liberty; life; like; little; liturgy; live; lo ●; london; long; loss; love; loyalty; lye; m ●; ma ●; magistrate; main; majesties; majesty; making; man; mankind; manner; mans; material; matter; mean; meaning; memory; men; mens; merry; mind; mischief; money; moral; morality; mr bayes; names; nation; natural; nature; nay; near; necessary; necessity; need; new; nonconformists; notice; number; obedience; obligation; obliged; occasion; office; old; onely; open; opinion; order; oxford; page; pains; pardon; parliament; particular; party; pass; passage; past; pay; peculiar; people; person; pieces; place; play; pleased; pleasure; point; policy; poor; popery; popish; possible; power; practice; prayer; preface; present; pretence; pretty; princes; principles; private; priviledge; probability; proper; protestant; prudence; publick; purpose; quality; quarrel; queen; question; quiet; r ●; railing; read; reader; reading; reason; rebellion; reformation; rehearsal; religion; religious; reputation; rest; return; reverence; right; roman; rome; s ●; sacraments; saint; saith; sake; satisfaction; satisfied; scarce; schism; school; scripture; second; secure; security; seditious; self; sermons; service; set; severe; severity; short; significant; signification; simplicity; single; sir; sober; soever; sor; south; speak; spirit; state; stile; story; strange; subject; sufficient; sure; sweet; sword; symbolical; t ●; talk; tcp; temper; tender; terms; terrible; text; th ●; tha ●; things; thought; time; title; town; treatise; true; truth; turn; uncontroulable; understanding; undertaking; universal; unlawful; unlimited; use; utmost; value; virtue; want; war; way; weak; white; wisdom; wise; wit; wits; wonder; words; work; world; worse; worship; worthy; writ; writing; years; young; ● ●
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        item: #124 of 261
          id: A52301
      author: D. P.
       title: A letter from a Jesuit at Paris, to his correspondent in London; shewing the most effectual way to ruine the government and Protestant religion.
        date: 1679.0
       words: 3824
      flesch: 46
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: affairs; army; books; catholicks; characters; church; correspondent; crown; design; early; eebo; english; general; government; great; hopes; jesuit; john; king; letter; london; money; nation; necessity; new; online; paris; parliament; partnership; party; people; persons; phase; plot; power; sure; tcp; tei; text; time; way
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        item: #125 of 261
          id: A52970
      author: Caryll, John, 1625-1711.
       title: New propositions propounded at the Kings royall court at Holmby, betwixt the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and Mr. Marshall and Mr. Caryll concerning the presbyteriall government, the Booke of Common-Prayer, and the directory : also His Majesties severall reasons, concerning episcopacy, and Mr. Marshalls reply for the cleering His Majesties objections : together with divers remarkable passages of the Commissioners of the kingdome of Scotland, propounded to His Majesty for his royall assent to the propositions, and signing the Covenant : with another message from His Majesty at Holmby, to both Houses of Parliament.
        date: None
       words: 1633
      flesch: 63
     summary: New propositions propounded at the Kings royall court at Holmby, betwixt the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and Mr. Marshall and Mr. Caryll concerning the presbyteriall government, the Booke of Common-Prayer, and the directory : also His Majesties severall reasons, concerning episcopacy, and Mr. Marshalls reply for the cleering His Majesties objections : together with divers remarkable passages of the Commissioners of the kingdome of Scotland, propounded to His Majesty for his royall assent to the propositions, and signing the Covenant : with another message from His Majesty at Holmby, to both Houses of Parliament. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 643:22) New propositions propounded at the Kings royall court at Holmby, betwixt the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and Mr. Marshall and Mr. Caryll concerning the presbyteriall government, the Booke of Common-Prayer, and the directory : also His Majesties severall reasons, concerning episcopacy, and Mr. Marshalls reply for the cleering His Majesties objections : together with divers remarkable passages of the Commissioners of the kingdome of Scotland, propounded to His Majesty for his royall assent to the propositions, and signing the Covenant : with another message from His Majesty at Holmby, to both Houses of Parliament.
    keywords: assent; caryll; court; covenant; england; english; excellent; government; great; holmby; houses; kings; majesties; majesty; marshall; parliament; propositions; royall; scotland; signing; text
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        item: #126 of 261
          id: A53703
      author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
       title: Indulgence and toleration considered in a letter unto a person of honour.
        date: 1667.0
       words: 11697
      flesch: 48
     summary: But to affirm that he hath Authorized men to proceed in the way before mentioned , is to say , that he hath set up an Authority against himself , and that which may give controule to His. These things being so , seeing Men are bound Indispensibly not to Worship God so as they are convinced and perswaded , that he will not be Worshiped ; and to Worship him as he hath Appointed and Commanded , upon the Penalty of Answering their Neglect and Contempt her●of with their everlasting Condition at the last day ; And seeing God hath not Warranted or Authorized any man to inforce them to Act contrary to their Light , and that perswasion of his Mind and Will which he hath given them in their own Consciences ; nor to punish them for yeilding Obedience in Spiritual things unto the Command of God as his mind is by them apprehended , if the things themselves , though mistaken , are such as no way interfere with the common Light of Nature or Reason of Man-kind , the Fundamental Articles of Christian Religion , Moral Honesty , Civil Society , and Publike Tranquility : especially if in the things wherein men acting , as is supposed , according to their own Light and Conscience in difference from others , are of small Importance , and such as they probably plead are unduly and ungroundedly imposed on their Practice , or Prohibited unto them , it remains to be considered whether the grounds and ends proposed in Exercise of the Severity pleaded for , be agreeable to common Rules of Prudence , or the state and condition of things in this Nation . But neither is this all that these Authors contend for : Men are not only denied by them an admission into their Societies to preach the Gospel , unless it be on such terms as they cannot in conscience admit of , and which others are no way obliged in conscience to imposs upon them ; but all forbearance of , or indulgence unto them who cannot conform unto the present establishment , is decried , and pleaded against : What though men are peaceable , and useful in the Common-wealth ? What though they are every way sound in the Faith , and cordialy imbrace all the doctrine taught formerly in the Church of England ? What though those in this condition are many , and such as in whose peace and industry , the welfare of the Nation is exceedingly concerned ? What if they offer to be instructed by any who will take that work upon them , in the things about which their differences are ? What if they plead conscience towards God , and that alone , in their dissent ; it being evidently against their whole temporal interest ? What if they have given evidence of their readiness in the ways of Christ and the Gospel , to oppose every errour that is either pernicious to the souls of men , or any way of an evil aspect to publique peace and tranquility ?
    keywords: actions; assent; christian; church; churches; civil; common; concerned; condition; conscience; consideration; contrary; course; day; desire; differences; dissent; doth; eebo; end; england; english; evidence; force; foundation; future; god; good; gospel; government; great; hath; inclination; indulgence; interest; judge; judgement; kingdom; known; law; laws; liberty; light; like; little; man; matter; men; minds; multitudes; nation; nature; peace; persons; power; practise; present; pretended; principle; publique; reason; reference; religion; ruine; self; severity; state; tcp; text; things; thoughts; time; toleration; tranquility; true; truth; uniformity; use; utmost; way; ways; work; world; worship; years
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        item: #127 of 261
          id: A53728
      author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
       title: Some considerations about union among Protestants, and the preservation of the interest of the Protestant religion in this nation
        date: 1680.0
       words: 4725
      flesch: 42
     summary: This Right of Kings , and this Liberty of Subjects also , are so sacred , as that they ought not to be entrenched on by any pretence of Church or Religion . Church and state -- England.
    keywords: authoritative; body; care; christian; church; church state; constitution; divisions; eebo; england; english; faith; form; general; government; interest; king; law; laws; legal; liberties; liberty; means; nation; national; parliament; people; persons; places; popery; power; present; preservation; protestant; protestant religion; publick; religion; state; subjects; tcp; text; things; union; way; whil'st
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        item: #128 of 261
          id: A53733
      author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
       title: Truth and innocence vindicated in a survey of a discourse concerning ecclesiastical polity, and the authority of the civil magistrate over the consciences of subjects in matters of religion.
        date: 1669.0
       words: 87492
      flesch: 47
     summary: Now concerning these one Rule may be observed ; namely , that they cannot be of one kind , and signifie things of another , by vertue of any command , and consent of men , unless they have an absolute Authority both over the sign , and thing signified , and can change their Natures , or Create a new Relation between them . 2. The Question being only about Religious Duties , or things pertaining to , or required in or about the Worship of God ; no exception against the general thesis ca●● take place , but such as consists in thing● directly of that nature .
    keywords: absolute; account; acknowledged; actings; actions; acts; actual; administration; advantage; adversaries; affairs; affections; ages; ancient; answer; antecedent; apostle; appear; appearance; apprehensions; argument; assertion; atheism; author; authority; best; better; blessed; book; capable; care; case; ceremonies; certain; chapter; charge; christ; christian; christian religion; christianity; church; churches; circumstances; civil; cognizance; command; common; conceptions; concerned; concernment; concerns; condition; conduct; confessions; confirmation; conformists; confusion; consciences; consent; consideration; contempt; contrary; controversie; conversation; countenance; court; creation; crime; day; debate; declaration; declared; defence; deity; design; desire; determination; determine; dialogues; dictates; difference; direct; direction; discourse; disgrace; dissent; distinction; disturbance; divine; divine worship; doctrine; doth; doubt; duties; duty; earth; easie; ecclesiastical; effects; efficacy; end; endeavour; ends; england; english; enquiry; ensue; entrance; especial; established; esteemed; eternal; evidence; evident; evil; exemption; exercise; experience; expressions; faith; fall; false; farther; fear; follow; forbidden; foundation; free; fury; general; giving; glory; god; god doth; godliness; gods; good; goodness; gospel; government; grace; grant; great; greater; greatest; guilt; hand; hath; hath power; head; hearts; heaven; highest; hitherto; holy; honour; hope; house; humane; idolatrous; ignorance; importance; inconsistent; indifferent; indignation; infinite; instances; institutions; interest; inward; jesus; jews; judgement; jurisdiction; kingdom; kings; known; late; law; lawful; laws; lay; learned; left; let; liberty; life; light; like; little; live; long; lord; love; lyes; magistrate; magistrate hath; making; man; management; manifest; mankind; manner; matter; mean; measure; meer; meet; men; mens; mind; mistakes; moral; morality; moses; nation; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; new; non; obedience; obligation; obliged; observance; observation; occasion; old; open; opinions; order; ordinary; original; ought; outward; outward worship; pag; particular; parts; past; paul; peace; peaceable; peculiar; penalties; people; performance; persons; perswasions; places; pleads; pleased; pleasure; political; pope; power; practice; precepts; prescribed; present; pretence; pretended; priesthood; princes; principal; principles; private; priviledge; profess; profession; proper; publick; purpose; pursuit; question; rational; real; reason; reference; reflections; reformation; regard; relief; religion; religious; religious worship; representation; reproaches; require; respect; return; revelation; ridiculous; righteousness; rule; rulers; sacred; sacrifices; satisfaction; satisfied; saviour; scarce; scheme; scorn; scripture; second; security; seditious; self; selves; sense; sentiments; severity; significant; signification; sin; sinners; sins; small; sober; society; sorts; souls; soveraign; spirit; spiritual; state; subjection; subjects; substance; sufficient; suited; sundry; superiour; superstition; supposition; supream; sure; survey; tcp; temporal; tendency; terms; testament; text; thereunto; things; thoughts; time; trade; tranquility; true; trust; truth; understanding; universal; unto; use; useful; vain; vertue; vertuous; vice; way; wayes; weak; whereof; wherewith; whilest; wisdom; withal; words; work; world; worship; wrath; writing; yea; years; zeal; ● ●
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        item: #129 of 261
          id: A54101
      author: Penn, William, 1644-1718.
       title: Advice to freeholders and other electors of members to serve in Parliament in relation to the penal laws and the tests : in a letter to a friend in the conntry [sic].
        date: 1687.0
       words: 6285
      flesch: 50
     summary: She will not pretend to deny his Majesty Liberty of Conscience ; If she doth not , can she expect by his Permission and Authority to cudgel her fellow Subjects into a Communion which he doth not approve , and that after he hath so solemnly declared his Royal Judgment to be against all Persecution for Conscience sake ? He intends not to deprive the Church of England of such Laws as are defensive of her Religion and Possessions , but only to abrogate such Statutes , as the Iniquity or short-sightedness of past Ages hath armed her with to annoy and offend her Neighbours ; Laws wicked in themselves , and which she hath too long , very wickedly executed , and therefore very fit to be yielded up . Church and state -- England.
    keywords: better; books; characters; church; clergy; common; compulsion; conscience; day; declaration; dissenters; early; eebo; england; english; force; gentlemen; god; good; gospel; gracious; great; hath; indulgence; interest; jews; king; kingdom; late; laws; liberty; love; majesties; majesty; man; members; men; nehemiah; opinion; parliament; peace; penal; people; persecution; point; power; present; religion; religious; sanballat; self; subjects; tcp; tei; tests; text; things; tho; time; tobiah; trade; unreasonable; work
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        item: #130 of 261
          id: A54150
      author: Penn, William, 1644-1718.
       title: The great question to be considered by the King and this approaching Parliament, briefly proposed, and modestly discussed, (to wit); how far religion is concerned in policy or civil government and policy in religion? ... / by one who desires to give unto Cæsar the things that are Gods.
        date: 1679.0
       words: 8156
      flesch: 25
     summary: If it be said , What shall become of the Magistrate or Magistrates , things being thus settled ? Where were the hazard ? for were it not unreasonable that the Magistrate or Magistrates should be in worse case then the People ? who are to be left to their absolute liberty as to the matter of Religion , without being lyable to any Civil inconveniency , or abridg'd of any priviledge upon the account of this or that form of Religion , meerly as such ; then why not the Magistrate ? It being fundamentally settled , as it would be , and is needful it should be , that except in his or their Family as Chap●ain , and that in a temporary way , it should not be in the power of the Magistrate or Magistrates , to make any standing Maintenance , or settlement upon any sort of men in Orders , or to set them up or countenance them , further then by his or their being of their perswasion , or allowing them on such account entertainment as Chaplain● ; and that for clearing the people of these Nations of the aforementioned Seeds of Jealousie , it be fundamentally settled as a Magna Charta for ever , that whosoever in the Magistracy , or any other from the least to the greatest , shall be found to alter or innovate this Fundamental settlement , shall be lyable to be judged by this Law , as guilty of Tre●son against the Fundamentals of the Government , for the Law only is , and is to be declared Supreme ; and that whoever either separately or in conjunction , shall go against this Basis or Fundamental settlement , were it a single person , or the Parliament , shall ceas● to be Magistrate or a Parliament , and their Decrees become void and null : for the ●●ndame●tals are never to be altered , viz. that the Magistrate , as Magistrate , is to be wholly ▪ shu● but , as to all meddling in matters of Religion , but every man as to the Magistrates interposition 〈◊〉 ▪ be left free ; and that all men , as men born freemen , not having fo●f●i●ed their Liberty by doing those things which makes them obnoxious , shall be secure in their Persons and Now during these times , although the number of those that truly feared God , and retained any 〈◊〉 of pure Religion , were very few and for most part ( at least ▪ so far as is conveyed to us in the Family and Success●●● of Abraham ; yet that inward and Universal Testimony of a Deity , implanted in the hearts of all men , ( as all sorts of Christians acknowledge ) did so far influence men , as to set their thoughts about Religion ; for as Cicero says Nulla Gens tam Barbara quae Deum aliquem non agnoscat ▪ since it is most certain , that Justice will gain a Testimony in the hearts of the most barbarous , the ancient Veneration and esteem to the great Justice and Equity of those Primitive Rulers , being fixed in 〈…〉 and heighned by the depravation of their Successors ; and this compared with daily ▪ 〈◊〉 afforded to men in the course of Providence , begot a belief that these things were the Gifts of these Good Kings 〈◊〉 in Heaven , from whence they came to be prayed unto , and reputed Gods 〈◊〉 And thus those things th●t did seem immediately to convey those 〈…〉 the Sun , Moon , and Stars , came 〈◊〉 to be adored , from whence sprung the Religion or divers ▪ Nations ▪ and thus 〈◊〉 any 〈◊〉 came to receive Power and Domination over others , 〈…〉 became more universally to be received .
    keywords: account; authority; cause; christian; christianity; church; civil; civil government; clergy; concerned; considerable; destructive; distinct; eebo; english; family; far; foot; form; god; gods; good; government; great; hath; interest; jews; justice; kings; law; laws; like; long; lyable; magistrate; maintenance; man; matter; monarchy; nations; necessity; opinion; outward; parliament; people; place; policy; power; principles; publick; reason; religion; rest; set; society; sort; spiritual; state; tcp; text; things; time; true; way; world; ● ●
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        item: #131 of 261
          id: A54204
      author: Penn, William, 1644-1718.
       title: Reasons why the oaths should not be made a part of the test to Protestant dissenters
        date: 1683.0
       words: 2948
      flesch: 58
     summary: 1. WE do humbly conceive , that because these Oaths were Antiently made upon Occasion of the Conspiracies of Papists against the Government , and are now reviv'd upon the score of the late Discovery of their Horrid Plot ; and that since they only ought at any time to be administred in Case of Just Jealousie or Suspition had of any Person or Persons : We , who are no Papists , but by our Faith and Doctrine Repugnant to all Popery ; And We , who have never shown the least Disallegiance or Vnfaithfulness , but on the Contrary have been patient and peaceable under all that Excess of Severity , that in several parts of this Nation hath been inflicted upon us , ought not to be brought under the same Jealousies with the Papists : It is suspecting an Integrity , that was never Tainted .
    keywords: books; characters; church; declaration; dissenters; early; eebo; elements; encoding; english; good; government; images; laws; oaths; online; oxford; papists; partnership; peaceable; people; persons; phase; protestant; reason; religion; supremacy; tcp; tei; text; xml
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        item: #132 of 261
          id: A54229
      author: Penn, William, 1644-1718.
       title: A third letter from a gentleman in the country, to his friends in London, upon the subject of the penal laws and tests
        date: 1687.0
       words: 6611
      flesch: 54
     summary: Church and state -- England. And I do swear that I will not at any time endeavour the Alteration of the Government , either in Church or State , so help me God.
    keywords: answer; authority; body; books; case; certain; characters; church; commons; conscience; constitution; country; dissenters; early; easie; eebo; england; english; friends; general; god; good; government; house; ill; king; kingdom; laws; letter; liberty; like; london; man; nature; objection; opinion; parliament; penal; people; persons; point; power; present; publick; reason; religion; repeal; right; security; self; state; subject; tcp; tei; tests; text; thing; tho; thought; time; turn; way
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        item: #133 of 261
          id: A54230
      author: Penn, William, 1644-1718.
       title: Three letters tending to demonstrate how the security of this nation against al future persecution for religion lys in the abolishment of the present penal laws and tests, and in the establishment of a new law for universal liberty of conscience
        date: 1688.0
       words: 5687
      flesch: 61
     summary: And after al this , and what more the Wisest Heads may invent , let The King himself be humbly beseeched to suffer in it a Clause , by which , reserving al other Rights of his Prerogative inviolated , he may solemnly renounce the onely Right of Dispensing with this Law , or of Pardoning any Transgressor of it in any case whatsoever . But where I see ground to fear that the granting of this Liberty should serv onely to put a Power into their Hands that now demand it , wherby they may be able hereafter to take it away from others , truly in that case I am apt to hesitate upon the Point ; or to say better , I confess that I hesitate not at al.
    keywords: catholics; church; conscience; desire; duty; eebo; effect; english; establishment; exclusion; expedients; future; general; good; government; great; hazard; hope; imployments; interest; law; laws; letter; liberty; little; manner; men; nation; nature; new; onely; parliament; partys; penal; persecution; present; public; religion; roman; secure; security; self; tcp; tests; text; thing; time; wel; wil; work
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        item: #134 of 261
          id: A54249
      author: D. P.
       title: The true primitive state of civill and ecclesiasticall government discussed and cleared also a vvay briefly propounded to reconcile the saints, by what names (now) soever distinguished, in unity of doctrine and discipline, according to our covenant in a government neerest to the word of God.
        date: 1649.0
       words: 11309
      flesch: 45
     summary: A first Testament and Covenant once in the power of man to keepe most perfectly , which since through weakenesse of the flesh , fruits and effects of the fall , is now impossible , precisely to be performed : All men in nature thereupon by a just sentence , as under the first breach of this Law , becomming children of the curse , wrath , and death : wee need not wonder then at the revolutions and changes of Government , since every thing else now is restlesse , untill it returne to its primitive and supreme center , from whence there was suddainely so great an Apostacy , that the whole earth was filled with violence , insomuch , immediately after , mans commecall scheane of Terestiall glory , became dissolved into a watery Tragedy , a few inconsiderate persons for number , only excepted , preserved from being overwhelmed in that universall deluge , which no sooner by multiplying had againe filled the surplase of the earth , but the like universall corruption appeared : All fixed principles for pure Nature , Reason , and Morallity , was by it eaten out , and became obliterate ; which doubtlesse was the cause why God in the next Age did againe minde the same through the figure of circumcision , as also , not long after in that terrible manner upon Mount Synaia in Iudea , the Hemispheare of Nations , give out his Law , to shew man once more , not onely from whence he was fallen , but to stirre him up thereby to his former duty , the matter whereof was engraven in Tables of stone , evidently to be seene and read of all men . that Forme since , as a Government for us more practically imitable : It was evident then according to Scripture , when the full time appoynted of the Father , for the spirituall liberty and age of the Church was come : He sent forth his Sonne into the world , cloathing him with humane flesh , and in the substance and shape of man put him under the Law : That in his pure flesh , in mans stead , and for his benefit , he might actively and passively performe , what God or man , by any Law could possibly require ; and though he knew no sinne , neither was a transgressor of any Law ; yet he being instrumentall in the Creation of man , the first , and supreme * head of man , by relation a * brother to man , and by a peculiar right had an interest in man ; it was both just and reasonable , that he onely as the fittest person should principally transact the affaires of man , and for that end , he was by God in the behalfe of all fallen man , imputed a sinner , numbred amongst transgressors , made a curse by suffering upon the Crosse , as a Thiefe and Murtherer , that so thorough this , Gods peculiar ordinance and acceptance , he might no more remember or punish eternally the transgressions committed against the first Testament ; as also to give a sure ground of future hope , that the bodies of the faithfull one day , shall be perfectly redeemed from the power of sinne , death , and the Devill , unto which by a righteous sentence , they became with others most miserably captivated , with all to give good assurance to all such , by the death and sealing bloodshed of this Sonne of God , which was appoynted to be both the testator and Mediator of the new Covenant t eternally stablished upon sure promises , their spirits once cleansed from the filth and guilt of the old :
    keywords: againe; age; apostle; baptisme; bee; blood; body; briefly; christ; church; circumcision; civill; common; considerable; contrary; covenant; day; dead; death; deliverance; discipline; distinguished; doctrine; doth; earth; ecclesiasticall; end; experience; extraordinary; faith; faithfull; flesh; forme; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; government; great; ground; hand; hath; head; holy; honourable; humane; institution; interest; inward; law; life; like; long; lord; love; man; mans; matter; names; nations; nature; need; onely; outward; particular; people; persons; place; power; present; primitive; publike; reason; reference; right; saints; scripture; second; sentence; shewing; sin; spirit; spirituall; state; substance; supream; text; things; time; true; truth; union; visible; way; wee; word
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        item: #135 of 261
          id: A54505
      author: Paget, Thomas, d. 1660.
       title: A religious scrutiny concerning unequall marriage to be represented to the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland : together with a postscript to the Commissioners of the Kirk : whereunto is subjoyned an appendix humbly tendred to the Parliament of England in reference to the late transactions of state, and now lastly is added a faithfull and conscientious account for subscribing the engagement / by Thomas Paget ...
        date: 1650.0
       words: 16861
      flesch: 59
     summary: Nor yet to say nothing of Church Government , by Presbyteries and Synods , in any Common-wealth , as being directed unto , in the Word of God ; and is therefore unchangeable ( de jure ) in the substantials of it , in all ages and times of the Church . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.
    keywords: act; acts; affairs; approved; army; articles; assembly; authority; best; blood; brethren; capital; captivity; case; chief; children; christ; church; churches; commissioners; common; concessions; course; covenant; david; days; death; degree; delinquents; divine; doctrine; doth; eebo; effectual; england; english; estates; extream; ezra; faithful; fasting; fasts; general; god; gods; good; gospel; government; great; hand; hath; high; holy; humiliation; ireland; israel; jews; john; judgment; justice; kinde; king; kirk; late; law; lawful; london; long; lord; mal; man; marriages; master; means; members; ministers; mixt; monethly; nation; nehe; new; non; note; occasion; old; opportunity; parliament; peace; people; persons; pleased; power; present; pretended; psal; punishment; question; reason; reformation; religion; religious; rom; sacred; said; sam; samuel; saul; scotland; scripture; second; set; sin; sith; special; state; supream; taking; tcp; testament; testimony; text; thereunto; things; time; toleration; true; truth; use; vers; viz; voyd; way; ways; word; worthy; yea; yeers; zealous
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        item: #136 of 261
          id: A54696
      author: Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.
       title: Ursa major & minor, or, A sober and impartial enquiry into those pretended fears and jealousies of popery and arbitrary power with some things offered to consideration touching His Majestie's league made with the King of France upon occasion of his wars with Holland and the United Provinces : in a letter written to a learned friend.
        date: 1681.0
       words: 35853
      flesch: 20
     summary: They are to consider that it will be as hard as unequal for their King and Common Parent , as well as ours to allow a Liberty and Connivance to those that are of worse Principles , or at least as dangerous as the Papists , fought and were active in our last Wars and Miseries against His Majesty , and His Royal Father , and all that were their Loyal and Obedient Subjects , and deny it to those that fought , were Sequestred , Plundered , and Suffered for them ; that all the Protestants in the World are not in England , and that amongst those in England , there are too many ( the more is the pity ) who have so rent and divided themselves from the Church of England , and do so much and so often vary in their Judgments , Practice , and Opinions , as they appear rather to be no Protestants , or very little embracing the Profession and Interest thereof ; that our Incomparable and Prudent Queen Elizabeth , could never have maintained and supported so much as she did the Protestant Religion , as well Lutheran as Calvinist , in the Parts beyond the Seas , and that of the purer and better reformed Religion of the English Church at home by her Aids , Embassies , Leagues , and Intercessions , if she had not requited the Catholick Princes with the like Indulgence and usage to any of her Subjects that were of the Romish Religion , and that neither the Rebellions of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland , for the advance of Popery , many several Attempts to take away her Life , and Plots to Dethrone her , could ever perswade her , or her Learned Successor , notwithstanding the Horrid design of the Gunpowder Treason , against him and his Posterity , and the wiser as they should be and better part of his Subjects Assembled in Parliament , to be more than prudentially rigorous to that Party , whose Friends in other Countries might retalliate any Severity used to theirs ; And although she made some fierce and smart Laws to affright those that called themselves Catholicks , for principles inconsistent with the Safety of her Soveraignty , and its Government , which in all these Acts of Parliament appeared to be more against the Emissaries from Rome , which came to Seduce and lead them into such dangerous Errors , than to forbid any thing that was Innocent in the private Devotions , religious and practical part of it ; that Great Queen and King well understanding that they could not by any Rules of State , Justice , or Modesty , of which Princes when there is not so great Inequality , as to give them an absolute Dominion over one another , are usually very tender , require any Ease or Liberties for Protestants living under other Princes , and their Laws , when they can neither promise or perform Mutualities or Reciprocations . By an Act of Parliament made in the Reign of the said King , No Tallage or Aids shall be taken or levyed by the King , or his Heirs within the Realm , without the good will and assent of the Arch-Bishops , Bishops , Earls , Barons , Knights , Burgesses , and other Freemen of the Land.
    keywords: able; act; actions; acts; advice; affairs; aforesaid; aforesaid king; aids; ale; allegiance; annum; answer; arbitrary; arbitrary power; army; assistance; authority; bankers; barons; bench; better; bishops; body; books; care; cause; chancellor; chancery; charges; charta; charter; children; church; churches; cities; city; clergy; common; complaints; concerned; consent; contrary; council; county; court; crown; customs; daily; dangerous; dangers; day; debts; divers; duke; dutch; duty; earls; eebo; elizabeth; end; england; english; estates; exchequer; father; fears; fire; force; foreign; fourth; france; free; french; friend; god; good; government; great; greater; greatest; grievances; half; happy; hath; help; high; hold; home; honour; house; ill; increase; intended; interest; ireland; jealousies; john; judges; judgment; justices; kind; king; king edward; king henry; king james; king richard; kingdom; lands; late; lawful; laws; league; learned; letters; liberties; liberty; life; like; little; london; long; lord; love; magna; majestie; majesty; major; making; man; manner; matters; means; members; minds; miseries; money; nation; near; necessary; necessities; new; nobility; number; oaths; occasions; officers; oliver; order; owners; parish; parliament; party; pay; payment; peace; peers; people; person; petition; places; pleas; poor; popery; popish; possession; pounds; power; prejudice; prerogative; preservation; prince; prisoner; privy; protector; protestant; provinces; publick; quantity; queen; quiet; rate; ready; reason; reasonable; rebellion; reign; religion; religious; revenue; richard; right; rome; royal; rules; safety; said; saving; scotland; seal; seas; second; security; self; servants; set; sheriffs; shillings; short; sir; small; soveraign; speech; state; statute; sterling; subjects; subsidies; subsidy; sums; support; tcp; tenements; tenths; text; th year; thing; time; title; trade; truth; unhappy; value; want; wars; way; westminster; willing; wisdom; world; writs; year; yearly
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        item: #137 of 261
          id: A56021
      author: Sandys, Edwin, 1516?-1588.
       title: A proposal of union amongst Protestants, from the last-will of the most Reverend Doctor Sands sometime Archbishop of York (as the sentiment of the first reformers) humbly presented to the Parliament.
        date: 1679.0
       words: 3401
      flesch: 58
     summary: Only this I crave leave with all humility and earnestness to beg , That what God hath not set up in the Church , may be pull'd down ; and those things taken out of the way , which have been , and always will be bones of contention among persons truly learned and godly . Since therefore His most Sacred Majesty , ( being thorowly sensible of the great advantage our common Enemy , the Papist , hath received by the breaches that have not only been made , but hitherto continued among such as profess the same faith ) , hath been graciously pleased to recommend to your special care the concern of the Protestant interest , as well at home as abroad , and hath commanded the Honourable the Lord Chancellor of England to acquaint you , that he judgeth it a thing necessary for you in your great Wisdom , to find out some way for the relief of such Protestants as do wander only from the Church of England , thorow the tenderness of their consciences , being such as would not destroy it , but do build upon the same foundation with your selves ; I take upon me the humble boldness to offer to your Honours serious Consideration , the Sentiments , and very words of one of the very first Reformers of our Church of England ▪ as it remains upon Record , being extracted out of the Last Will and Testament of the most Reverend Father in God , Edward Sands , late Arch-Bishop of York , being the general sense of the said Reformers , of which you may be more fully satisfied from the words themselves .
    keywords: books; brethren; characters; church; conscience; day; dissenters; divine; early; eebo; encoding; england; english; god; good; great; hand; hath; healing; honourable; honours; images; like; majesty; online; oxford; parliament; partnership; peace; phase; protestants; reformers; reverend; right; sands; spirit; tcp; tei; terms; text; things; time; way; work; xml; york
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        item: #138 of 261
          id: A56155
      author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
       title: Diotrephes catechised, or, Sixteen important questions touching the ecclesiastical jurisdiction and censures (contradistinct to civill) now eagerly pretended to and challenged by a divine right, by some over-rigid Presbyterians and Independents propounded to both these dissenting parties for the further discovery of truth, the preservation of the civil Christian magistrates interest, and speedier comprimising [sic] of our present unhappy controversies touching church-government ... / proposed, published by W. Prynne ...
        date: 1646.0
       words: 9209
      flesch: 62
     summary: Church and state -- Presbyterian Church. THe serious consideration of the importunate Claimes of a new kinde of Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction , by a pretended Divine Right , by those very men who of late so eagerly declaymed against the Old , as Antichristian and Papall , when challenged by our Prelats upon the selfe-same grounds and Title , hath induced me to propound these few Important Questions to the over-●…asger prosecutors of this supposed Divine Authority , at leastwise to moderate , if not extomgio●… those unseasonable deplorable late kindled flames of Contention , which if not timely prevented may prove more fatall to our Churches Kingdomes , then all the former Dissentions , and break forth into a new Civill Warre , betweene our selves , when we have totally vanquished the Common Enemy .
    keywords: a56155; acts; authority; bee; cases; censures; christian; chron; church; churches; civill; classes; cleare; congregations; contradistinct; contrary; controversies; cor; death; distinct; divine; ecclesiasticall; english; excommunication; exercise; exod; ezra; god; gods; gospell; government; hath; high; himselfe; important; independents; institution; iohn; iudges; jurisdiction; king; law; levit; levites; lord; majestrates; matters; meere; men; ministers; new; oath; offences; officers; old; ordinances; particular; parties; people; persons; power; presbyteries; present; pretended; priests; princes; private; prynne; publike; punishments; questions; read; right; sacrament; scandalous; scripture; sinnes; suppresse; suspention; tcp; temporall; testament; text; tit; title; touching; way; words; yea
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        item: #139 of 261
          id: A56167
      author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
       title: A fvll reply to Certaine briefe observations and anti-queries on Master Prynnes twelve questions about church-government wherein the frivolousnesse, falseness, and grosse mistakes of this anonymous answerer (ashamed of his name) and his weak grounds for independency, and separation, are modestly discovered, reselled : together with certaine briefe animadversions on Mr. Iohn Goodwins Theomachia, in justification of independency examined, and of the ecclesisticall jurisdiction and rights of Parliament, which he fights against / by William Prynne ...
        date: 1644.0
       words: 17244
      flesch: 59
     summary: Will any Parliament , State , or Nation , ( think you ) suffer such a Government to take root among them , which will un-King , un-Parliament , un-church , un-Nation them altogether , and make each severall congregation an absolute Monarchy , Church , Republick , Nation , within it selfe , depending on , subordinate wholly to it selfe , as if it and they were no part or members of the publike ? 1. To the first Question the Respondent gives no Answer at all to the things demanded , but only misrecites the Question , without my limitations ; and then seemes to refute , what himselfe propounds , not I : He should have demonstrated by direct Scriptures , That Christ hath prescribed one set immutable forme of Government to all Christian Nations , Churches in the World , from which none must vary in the least degree , without sinne , schisme , or being no true Churches of Christ , with whom good Christians may with safe conscience communicat ; and that nothing herein is , or can be left free to humane prudence , ( though themselves most stifly plead , that Christ hath prescribed no * set form of praying or preaching to Ministers , people , but left all men free to use their liberty and severall gifts in both ; on which grounds they condemne all set forms of publike ( if not private ) prayers , ( and some of them the use of the Lords owne prayer ) together with there ading of set Homilies ; upon which very grounds they must also deny all set formes of church-government , as well as of Prayer and Preaching : ) And then have positively delineated , exactly proved the modell of this pretended Government , Discipline , in every particle thereof , by Gospel-Texts , so far as to satisfie mens erronious judgments , consciences herein , that so they might either submit thereto without dispute , or propound their objections against the same .
    keywords: acts; advice; agreeable; answer; anti; apostles; argument; assemblies; assembly; authority; best; better; bishops; brethren; briefe; c. c.; certaine; christ; christian; church; churches; civill; common; congregations; conscience; consonant; contrary; conventicles; cor; covenant; direct; discipline; divine; doe; ecclesiasticall; english; ergo; expresse; faith; false; forme; generall; god; gods; good; goodwins; gospel; government; grounds; hath; heaven; hee; himselfe; independent; john; judgment; jurisdiction; kings; law; lawes; lawfull; lordly; magistrates; man; master; matters; meere; members; ministers; modell; moses; nationall; nations; new; non; obedience; observations; old; onely; opinions; order; owne; parliament; particular; pattern; peace; people; persons; pet; point; power; present; private; publike; quere; queries; question; reason; religion; reply; rev; right; rom; rule; saints; schismes; scripture; second; selves; separation; set; severall; spirituall; state; subject; synods; tabernacle; temple; temporall; testament; text; things; tim; times; title; true; truth; way; word; worship; yea
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        item: #140 of 261
          id: A56188
      author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
       title: Philanax Protestant, or, Papists discovered to the King as guilty of those traiterous positions and practises which they first insinuated into the worst Protestants and now charge upon all to which is added, Philolaus, or, Popery discovered to all Christian people in a serious diswasive from it, for further justification of our gracious King and his honourable Parliaments proceedings for the maintenance of the Act of Uniformity.
        date: 1663.0
       words: 13885
      flesch: 65
     summary: so that under you by the influence of that Religion we might lead peaceable and quiet lives in all godliness and honesty : but alas ! temporal Princes saith Suarez must meddle with temporal matters : they must let men be of what principles they please though never so dangerous , they must look on their Subjects divided with different religions which lead to different conversation and to confusion and every evil work : for why should they saith Costerus the Jesuit meddle with the affaires of the Church of God. 2. We your Loyal Protestant Subjects were really perswaded that there was none above you , to whom you should give account of your selves but God : and that there were no Christians that durst say that any men or estates of men were above you in your Dominion , ha poor we !
    keywords: anno; authority; bellarmine; bishop; blood; book; care; catholicks; characters; christian; church; colledges; comfort; confession; conscience; day; death; desire; doctrine; doth; early; eebo; elizabeth; england; english; erre; evil; excellent; fear; france; general; god; godliness; gods; good; government; grace; gracious; great; hand; hath; hearts; heaven; hell; hist; holy; honour; honourable; hope; images; infallible; james; jesuites; jesus; judge; judgement; justice; king; kingdom; knowledge; late; lawful; lay; life; light; lives; lord; man; men; mens; new; non; oath; obedience; order; papists; paris; parliament; people; place; plain; pleasure; poor; pope; popery; popish; positions; potest; power; priests; prince; principles; private; protestants; publick; reason; religion; rome; sad; said; saith; salvation; scotland; scripture; sed; self; selves; set; sin; society; souls; soveraign; strength; subjects; sure; tcp; tei; text; things; true; truth; vain; wars; way; wise; words; work; world; worship; yea; years; ● ●
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        item: #141 of 261
          id: A56221
      author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
       title: Twelve considerable serious questions touching chvrch government sadly propounded (out of a reall desire of vnitie and tranquillity in church and state) to all sober-minded Christians, cordially affecting a speedy setled reformation, and brotherly Christian vnion in all our churches and denominations, now miserably wasted with civill unnatuall warres, and deplorably lacerated with ecclesiasticall dissentions / by William Prynne ...
        date: 1644.0
       words: 5343
      flesch: 68
     summary: Whether the National League & Covenant we have taken doth not in sundry respects strongly ingage us against Independency ? and whether the root from which it originally springs ( if really searched to the very bottom & stript of all disguised pretences ) be not a Pharesaical (a) dangerous spiritual Prid , vainglorious Singularitie , or selfe-conceitednes of mens owne superlative holines ( as they deeme it ) which makes them , contrary to the Apostles rule (b) to est●●●● others better then themselves : to deeme themselvs so transendently holy , sanctified , and Religious above others , that they esteeme them altogether unworthy of yea wholy exclude them from their Communion & Church-society , as (c) Publicans , Hethens , or prophane persons ( though perchance as good , or better Christians then themselves ) unlesse they will submitt to their Church-covenants , & Goverment , refusing all true brotherly familiarity , society with them , & passing oft times most uncharitable censures on their very hearts and spirituall estates ( of which God never made them Judges & (d) Forbids them for to judge , because he (e) only knowes mens hearts : Which hath lately ingendred an extraordinary strangnes unsociablenesse and coldnesse of brotherly affection , if not great disunion , disaffection , and many dissentions among Professors themselves , yea , carelesnesse and neglect of one anothers wel●●●●●● Our mutuall Christian dependency on and Relations one to another as Christian Brethren . Whether the concession of one Catholike Church throughout the world , denied by none : the (k) Nationall Assembly , and Church of the Israelites under the Law , ( who had yet their distinct Synagogues and Parochiall Assemblies ) Instituted , approved by God himselfe ; the Synodall Assemblie of the Apostles , Elders , and Brethren at Ierusalem , Acts 15. who (l) made and sent binding De●rees to the Churches of the Gentiles in Antioch , Syria , Cylicia , and other Churches ; compared with the severall generall (m) Injunctions of Paul in his Epistles to Timothy , Titus , the Corinthians , and other Churches hee wrote to , touching Church discipline , Order , Government ; seconded with all Oecumenicall , Nationall , Provinciall , Councells , Synods , and the Church Government exercised throughout the world , in all Christian Realmes , States , from their first generall reception of the Gospell till this present ; compared with Acts 7.38 .
    keywords: acts; apostles; better; brethren; brotherly; c. 1; christian; christs; church; churches; civill; common; considerable; cor; dayes; desire; discipline; dissentions; divisions; ecclesiasticall; english; ergo; faith; family; forme; generall; god; gospell; government; independent; kingdome; lawes; love; man; manners; master; minded; nationall; nations; new; owne; parochiall; particular; peace; persons; prynne; publike; questions; reall; reason; religion; rom; selfe; severall; state; subordinate; synods; text; things; tim; true; truth; vnitie; william; yea; ● ●
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        item: #142 of 261
          id: A56409
      author: Captain of Horse.
       title: A dialogue between a divine of the Church of England, and a captain of horse concerning Dr. Sherlock's late pamphlet, entituled The case of allegiance due to sovereign powers stated, &c.
        date: 1690.0
       words: 4406
      flesch: 70
     summary: I think he should not , at this 〈◊〉 of the day , have published a Book , which , whatever 〈◊〉 Design of it was , can have no better Effect , than to ren●●r all those who ( if I may so say ) lent an early Assistance to ●●ovidence in its first Motions towards the thorough Settlement 〈◊〉 talks of , to be no better than a Company of — One ●●rd in your Ear. Capt. True , however we have an Act of Grace , which , 〈◊〉 I remember , pardons us all to the Sixteenth of May last . If the generality 〈◊〉 the Nation submit to such a Prince ( i. e. a Prince , accord●●● to his supposition , wanting a Legal Right , ) and place 〈◊〉 on the Throne , and put the whole Power of the Kingdom 〈◊〉 his hands ; tho it may be , we cannot yet think the Provi●●●ce of God has settled him in the Throne ,
    keywords: allegiance; better; books; capt; captain; case; div; doctor; early; eebo; england; english; fit; god; hall; honest; judges; king; late; law; lawyers; legal; like; men; ordinance; pag; powers; prince; principles; right; sense; tcp; text; thorough; time; true; westminster; ● ●
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        item: #143 of 261
          id: A57732
      author: Row, Peter, fl. 1662.
       title: The magistrates power vindicated, and the abominablenesse of resisting their power discovered by Peter Row.
        date: 1661.0
       words: 6342
      flesch: 74
     summary: But that God intends such as come illegally , they are not Powers set up by God. That it is the duty of every soul , or man , by commandement from God , to be subject to , and not to resist such as are in highest power or rule over them .
    keywords: ans; apostles; bee; chap; christ; clear; commanded; commands; contrary; david; eebo; english; evil; finde; god; gods; good; hath; hee; higher; israel; king; like; lord; magistrates; mat; obj; people; peter; power; praise; reason; rom; sam; saul; scripture; set; soul; subject; subjection; tcp; text; things; thou; wee; works; yea
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        item: #144 of 261
          id: A57854
      author: Rule, Gilbert, 1629?-1701.
       title: An answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's Irenicum by a learned pen.
        date: 1680.0
       words: 63437
      flesch: 61
     summary: 272 , &c. for in both he confesseth abomination to have been done in common by those in Power ; and afterward without divine Warrant restrained to one : if Christ hath given power to all Presbyters to do it ; we must have some warrant to restrain this Power ere we dare do it ; but of this enough before . Church and state.
    keywords: able; account; acting; acts; actu; affairs; ancient; answer; apostles; apostolick; appointment; argument; asserteth; assertion; author; authority; best; better; bishop; cap; case; ceremonies; chap; charge; christ; christ hath; christian; church; church government; church officers; church power; churches; circumstances; city; civil; clear; cometh; command; commanded; common; company; concern; concernment; congregations; conscience; consequence; consideration; contrary; controversie; customes; deacons; design; determined; determining; difference; discipline; discourse; distinction; divers; divine; doth; duty; ecclesiastical; elders; end; ephesus; episcopacy; equal; ergo; evident; example; exercise; express; external; extraordinary; faithfulness; false; far; fit; follow; followeth; force; form; foundation; general; giveth; god; gods; good; gospel; gospel church; governing; government; grant; great; greater; ground; hand; hath; having; hold; hope; house; hypothesis; imparity; indifferent; injuries; institution; internal; jerusalem; jewish; jewish church; jews; judge; judgment; jurisdiction; jus; kingdom; known; law; lawful; laws; lay; learned; leave; left; liberty; like; little; lord; magistrate; man; managing; mans; matter; mean; meaneth; meaning; mens; mind; ministers; moral; moses; names; nature; necessary; necessity; needful; new; non; notice; notion; obligation; offender; officers; opinion; order; ordinary; ordination; outward; pains; parity; particular; particular form; parts; pastors; pattern; paul; peculiar; people; perfection; persons; place; point; power; practice; preaching; presbyters; primitive; primitive church; private; probability; proof; proposition; proveth; prudence; publick; purpose; question; reason; received; religion; reply; requireth; respect; rest; revealed; right; rule; rulers; ruling; sacraments; saith; salvation; scandal; scripture; second; sect; seeing; self; sense; servants; set; setting; shew; sheweth; sin; society; speak; speaketh; spirit; spiritual; standing; state; stilling; stillingfleet; strange; strength; subject; sufficient; superiority; sure; synagogue; taking; tcp; terms; testimony; text; things; think; time; true; truth; unlawful; use; visible; viz; want; warrant; way; weight; wise; wonder; word; work; worship; yea
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        item: #145 of 261
          id: A58564
      author: Scotland.
       title: An act for securing of the Protestant religion as it was passed in the Parliament of Scotland, on Saturday, August 13, 1681.
        date: 1681.0
       words: 2368
      flesch: 44
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 101463)
    keywords: act; books; characters; church; confession; consent; council; diligence; early; eebo; english; foresaid; kingdom; laws; majesty; oath; online; ordains; papists; parliament; phase; protestant; religion; scotland; statutes; subjects; tcp; tei; text; trust
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        item: #146 of 261
          id: A58674
      author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
       title: Two cases submitted to consideration
        date: 1687.0
       words: 4721
      flesch: 62
     summary: Now taking for Granted , the Imperfections of the One , and the Ample Sufficiency of the Other , to All Intents and Purposes ; That Government is of God ; and Humane Society the Work of Providence ; That God's Vicegerents are Answerable to their Principal for the Care and Protection of the People Committed to their Charge ; That it is Impossible for them to Acquit Themselves of their Trust , Duty , and Commission , purely by the Force of Laws of Man's Making , without some Higher Power to Resort to for Relief ; And that it is the Office , as well as the Prerogative of the Sovereign to Interpose with his Authority , for the Well-Beeing , and Safety of the Publique : Man's Contrivance against God's : Laws that leave us at a Loss , a Thousand Ways , for want of Power , Direction , Due Application , and the like , against Laws that Provide for us in All Instances whatsoever .
    keywords: abuse; act; authority; books; case; characters; command; commission; divine; duty; early; eebo; english; equity; general; god; government; humane; impossible; law; laws; nature; necessity; online; oxford; parliament; people; phase; power; prerogative; prince; providence; publique; reason; right; self; sovereign; state; subjects; tcp; tei; text; time; true; trust; use; want; way; work
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        item: #147 of 261
          id: A58746
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: A proclamation for citing ministers vvho have not prayed for Their Majesties
        date: 1689.0
       words: 1297
      flesch: 61
     summary: Privy Council. Privy Council.
    keywords: act; books; characters; council; early; eebo; english; estates; majesties; meeting; ministers; online; oxford; partnership; phase; privy; proclamation; said; tcp; tei; text; works
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        item: #148 of 261
          id: A58927
      author: Learned pen.
       title: A Seasonable discourse shewing the unreasonableness and mischeifs [sic] of impositions in matters of religion recommended to serious consideration / by a learned pen.
        date: 1687.0
       words: 21682
      flesch: 51
     summary: But alas , Bishops were already grown another Name and Thing , than at the Apostles Institution ; and had so altered the property , that Paul would have had much difficulty by all the marks in the 1 Tim. 3. to have known them . For ( not to go deeper ) if we consider but that which is reckoned the Tenth Persecution under Dioclesian , so incorrigible were they after nine preceding , what other could be expected when , as Eusebius l. 3. c. 1. sadly laments , having related how before that the Christians lived in great trust and reputation in Court , the Bishops of each Church were beloved esteemed and reverenced by all mankind , and by the Presidents of the Provinees , the Meetings in all the Cities were so many and numerous , that it was necessary and allowed them to erect in every one spacious and godly Churches ; all things went on prosperousty with them , and to such an height , that no envious Man could disturb them , no Devil could hurt them , as long as walking yet worthy of those Mercies they were under the Almighty's care and Protection : after that our Affairs by that too much Liberty , degenerated into Luxury and Laziness , and some prosecuted others with Hatred and Contumely , and almost all of us wounded our selves with the Weapons of the Tongue in ill Language , when Bishops set upon Bishops , and the People that belonged to one of them , stirred Sedition against the People of another ; then horrible Hypocrisie and Dissimulation sprung up to the utmost extremity of Malice , and the Iudgment of God , while yet there was liberty to meet in Congregations , did sensibly and by stops being to visit us , the Persecution at first discharging it self upon our Brethren that were in the Army .
    keywords: acts; advantage; ages; agreement; alexander; alexandria; ambition; apostles; arrians; arrius; athanasius; authority; best; better; betwixt; bishoprick; bishops; books; business; care; case; characters; chief; christian; christianity; church; churches; city; clergy; conscience; constantine; constantinople; contention; contrary; council; creed; danger; day; death; discourse; divine; doctrine; early; earth; ecclesiastical; eebo; emperor; empire; end; english; faith; free; general; ghost; god; gods; good; government; great; greater; greatest; hand; heathen; hereticks; high; history; holy; iews; ill; imposition; iulian; judg; judgment; justice; law; laws; lay; learned; liberty; life; like; little; long; lord; magistrate; man; manner; matter; means; measure; men; mind; natural; nature; nay; necessary; new; nice; number; occasion; opinion; order; orthodox; particular; party; paul; peace; pen; people; persecution; persons; piety; places; point; possible; power; practice; present; priests; profession; publick; purpose; question; reading; reason; religion; right; roman; rome; saviour; scarce; scripture; second; sect; self; set; short; socr; spirit; state; tcp; text; things; thorow; time; true; truth; use; usual; valens; way; whatsoever; words; work; world; worship; worthy
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        item: #149 of 261
          id: A59095
      author: Selden, John, 1584-1654.
       title: Table-talk, being discourses of John Seldon, Esq or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence, relating especially to religion and state.
        date: 1696.0
       words: 38567
      flesch: 74
     summary: 4. Missing Preferment makes the Presbyters fall foul upon the Bishops : Men that are in hopes and in the way of rising , keep in the Channel , but they that have none , seek new ways : 'T is so amongst the Lawyers ; he that hath the Judges Ear , will be very observant of the way of the Court ; but he that hath no regard will be flying out . But upon this grosly mistaken ; a Bastard at this Day in the Church of Rome , without a Dispensation , cannot take Orders ; the thing haply well enough where 't is so settled ; but 't is upon a Mistake , ( the Place having no reference to the Church ) appears plainly by what follows at the third Verse [ An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord , even to the tenth Generation .
    keywords: act; answer; articles; beginning; best; better; betwixt; bible; bishops; blood; body; books; boy; business; call'd; canons; care; case; cast; chancellor; child; children; christ; christians; church; churches; civil; clergy; common; company; conscience; contract; country; court; days; deal; devil; difference; divines; doubt; end; england; english; example; excellent; excommunication; faith; fathers; fellow; fine; france; fryers; gentleman; god; good; govern'd; great; greater; ground; half; hall; hand; hath; head; hell; high; hold; holy; honour; house; ill; images; intention; jews; john; judge; juggling; jurisdiction; justice; king; kingdom; lady; laity; lands; language; law; laws; lay; learning; left; life; like; little; long; lord; love; man; master; matters; meaning; means; measure; men; mind; minister; money; mother; new; oath; old; opinion; oxford; papists; parish; parliament; pence; people; person; physician; piece; place; play; pleasure; poor; pope; pounds; power; prayer; preaching; presbyters; present; priest; prince; private; queen; question; read; reason; religion; rest; right; rome; school; scripture; self; selves; sense; service; set; spirit; spiritual; state; study; subject; sure; synod; table; taking; talk; tcp; temporal; text; thing; tho; thought; time; troubled; true; truth; turn; tythes; us'd; viz; way; wife; wise; woman; words; work; world; writ; years; young
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        item: #150 of 261
          id: A59254
      author: Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.
       title: A Serious and faithfull representation of the judgments of ministers of the Gospel within the the province of London contained in a letter from the to the general and his councell of war / delivered to His Excellence by some of the subscribers, Ian. 18, 1649.
        date: 1649.0
       words: 6094
      flesch: 65
     summary: Yea , you know , that it is one of the greatest Judgements , when God suffers men to prosper in sinfull courses . But , because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily , shall therefore the heart of the sonnes of men be fully set in them to do evil ? God forbid . And therfore the Providence of God ( which is so often pleaded in justification of your wayes ) is no safe rule to walk by , especially in such acts as the Word of God condems .
    keywords: army; authority; case; consent; councell; covenant; david; defence; duty; english; evil; faithfull; fear; god; gods; good; gospel; government; hand; hearts; house; iohn; judgements; kingdom; late; laws; letter; london; lord; man; members; minister; nature; necessity; non; oath; parliament; pastor; persons; pet; power; preservation; private; priviledges; province; religion; representation; roman; rule; saith; selves; subscribers; text; things; thomas; thou; war; wayes; wicked; word; work
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        item: #151 of 261
          id: A59475
      author: Locke, John, 1632-1704.
       title: A letter from a person of quality to his friend in the country
        date: 1675.0
       words: 16485
      flesch: 24
     summary: He humbly conceived the Liturgie was not so sacred , being made by Men the other day ; and thought to be more differing from the dissenting Protestants , and less easy to be complyd with , upon the advantage of a pretense well known unto us all , of making alterations as might the better unite us ; in stead whereof , there is scarce one altera●ion , but widens the breach , and no ordination allow●d by it here , ( as it now stands last reformed in the Act of Vniformity ) but what is Episcopall ; in so much that a Popish Priest is capable , when converted , of any Church preferment without Reordination ; but no Protestant Minister not Episcopally ordain'd , but is required to be reordain'd , as much as in us lies unchurching all the forreign Protestants , that have not Bishops , though the contrary was both allow●d , and practis'd from the beginning of the Reformation till the time of that Act , and several Bishops made of such , as were never ordain'd Priests by Bishops . It was first hatch't ( as almost all the Mischiefs of the World have hitherto been ) amongst the Great Church Men , and is a Project of several Years standing , but found not Ministers bold enough to go through with it , un●il these new ones , who wanting a better Bottom to support them , be●ook themselves wholly to this , which is no small Undertaking if you consider it in its whole Extent .
    keywords: absolute; act; addition; advantage; affairs; alteration; armes; army; authority; best; better; bill; bishops; books; business; case; church; clergy; commission; committee; consideration; contrary; country; court; crown; dangerous; day; debate; declaration; declare; design; divine; earl; eebo; england; english; execution; force; freedom; god; good; government; great; greatest; hath; having; honor; house; instance; interest; keeper; king; law; lawful; laws; liberties; liberty; like; lord; major; man; matter; members; nation; nature; nay; necessary; new; oath; officers; old; opinion; orders; oxford; papists; parliament; partie; parts; peers; penalty; people; person; place; position; power; previous; prince; principles; priviledges; protestant; protestation; proviso; quality; question; reason; religion; right; said; second; self; sense; session; set; shaftsbury; state; tcp; text; thing; time; treasurer; true; vote; wharton; words; world
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        item: #152 of 261
          id: A59624
      author: Sheldon, Gilbert, 1598-1677.
       title: The Act of Parliament against religious meetings, proved to be the bishops act, or, A letter of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury to his fellow-bishops, to promote the persecution intended by it printed, to save the trouble of copying it out : with some Animadversions thereupon.
        date: 1670.0
       words: 4100
      flesch: 50
     summary: Church and state -- Great Britain. For the Right Reverend Father in God , my very good Lord and Brother , the Lord Bishop of — Right Reverend and my very good Lord , IT hath pleased his Majesty and the two Houses of Parliament , out of their pious care for the welfare of this Church and Kingdom , by making and publishing the late Act for the preventing and suppressing Conventicles , to lay a hopeful way for the peace and settlement of the Church , and the Uniformity of Gods Service in the same ; It becomes VS the Bishops [ as more particularly sensible of the good providence of God ] to endeavour as much as in us lies , the promoting so blessed a work ▪ And therefore , having well considered what will be fit for me to do in my particular Diocess , I thought fit to recommend the same Counsel and Method ( which I intend , God willing , to pursue my self ) to your Lordship , and the rest of my Brethren the Bishops of my Province , being thereunto encouraged by his Majesties Approbation and express Direction in this affair .
    keywords: act; animadversions; arch; bishops; books; canterbury; care; characters; christ; church; diocess; early; ecclesiastical; eebo; encoding; english; fellow; gilbert; god; good; hath; images; letter; lincoln; lord; lordship; men; online; oxford; par; parliament; partnership; people; persons; phase; religious; self; set; tcp; teachers; tei; text; time; work; worship; xml
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        item: #153 of 261
          id: A59823
      author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
       title: Humble and modest proposals tender'd to the consideration of both houses of Parliament, for uniting the Protestant interest in the nation for the present age, and preventing our divisions for future
        date: 1680.0
       words: 3864
      flesch: 41
     summary: Church and state -- England. The Advantages which must necessarily attend the making of such a Law , would be very great both to our interest in Church and State ; amongst which I beg leave to name the following .
    keywords: books; ceremonies; characters; church; civil; differences; discipline; divisions; early; eebo; england; english; future; general; god; great; interest; law; means; modest; nation; onely; online; papists; parliament; peace; phase; pious; present; proposals; protestant; reason; reformation; reformers; reverend; tcp; tei; text; things; time; universities; victory; war
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        item: #154 of 261
          id: A60651
      author: Smith, William, d. 1673.
       title: A short testimony on the behalf of truths innocency declared in plainesse and simplicity : being done at the command of the Lord God that all out of the truth may see their way and proceed no further : vvith a discovery of the national ministry, whose time now is, and is no more / by one who loves truth and rightousnesse and desires the nations peace, and the good of all people, who amongst many brethren is called a Quaker, but known by the name of William Smith.
        date: 1660.0
       words: 6780
      flesch: -34
     summary: Behold and see ye Despisers , what a work is this , how can you believe when it is declared , that God should plead the Cause of his Chosen People , and make bare his Arm for his innocent Lambs , and by his invisible Power to over-turn the mighty Councels of men , when neither Sword nor Spear hath been on our side , nor any thing without us hath appeared for us , then hath our God been neer at hand , and a present help he hath been unto us , and with his out-stretched Arm he hath from time to time delivered us from the wrath of unreasonable men ; and thus we have experienced his everlasting loving kindness , and his wonderful Works we are made to declare amongst the Children of Men , that all may know there is no God like unto our God , unto whom alone we look , and our eye is towards him , and we cannot joyn with weapons of War , nor with any Party who is striving with them , but we set all men aside in the Work of our God , and cannot meddle with other mens matters , but looks unto the Lord and cries unto the God of our strength , and our eye is single to him , and our expectation is from him alone , and he hath never failed us , but hath appeared to deliver us , and in the strength of his own life hath wrought our Works for us , and with the Arm of his Salvation he hath saved us , unto whom be Glory , Dominion and Praise for evermore . Let this warning reach unto you and take place in you all ( people ) that you may dread before the Lord , and he that hath done wickedly do so no more , and who doth intend any evil towards us , let it not abide within you , but cast out your evil thoughts , and entertain them no longer , and let not your Tongues be so perverse , but know the bridle for them that you may not speak unadvisedly as many have done , who have called light darknesse and Truth delusion , and so have reviled and scorned us who are by the light guided and in the truth walk , and let your moderation appear to all men that you may do unto others as you would have others to do unto you , for you make such measure as you would not have measured unto you again , so you are not come to the Law and the Prophets , therefore your way is not good nor to be proceeded in any further , but it is to be denied , and cast off and departed from ; So be stayed in time , and all mind the things that belong to your places , and let him that Rules mind his place & rule with diligence , and make sweet & wholsom Laws for the government of Nations , that people therein may be protected from injury , violence , or any wrong , and be ordered in peace , and dwell in safty every man in his place , and that sin may be cut down which does so much abound , and all evil doers restrained from their evil wayes , and the well doers encouraged in their holy walking , that so true Judgement and Equity may abound in the Nations , and Truth and Righteousnesse may Run among the people as a mighty stream , and let him that serves serve with carefulnesse , and mind his place , that he run not beyond his Power , and so pervert the issuing forth of wholsome Laws in their right course , and turn them into a corrupted chanel ; Therefore let him that serves be careful that he stretch not himself beyond his line as many in the Servants place do at this day , who act both beyond Law , and contrary to the Law , and so neither regards God nor man ; Let this be all denied , and mind your-places in singlenesse , that you may perform them with carefulnesse as unto God , that both He that Rules , and he that serves may be subject to the Higher Power which is of God , and know that to be over all Powers , that none may enter into his work or meddle with those things that are too high for you , as many have done , who have busied themselves and spent much time but never could perfect any thing , but have been over turned and over-whelmed and none could be found to uphold them , and this is the Work of the Lord , and the out-stretched Arm of his Power that does all these things , who appears to be the Salvation of a People that trust in him , and to over-turn all those that conspire against them .
    keywords: arm; christ; day; doth; evil; fear; glory; god; good; hath; hearts; holy; innocency; known; life; light; lord; lord god; man; manifest; men; mighty; minds; nations; offence; peace; people; power; rest; salvation; set; spirit; text; thee; things; thou; time; truth; way; work; world; wrath
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        item: #155 of 261
          id: A61083
      author: Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.
       title: A nevv quære at this time seasonably to be considered as we tender the advancement of trvth & peace : viz. whether it be fit, according to the principles of true religion, and state, to settle any church-government over the kingdome hastily, or not : and with the power commonly desired, in the hands of the ministers / by Iohn Saltmarsh ...
        date: 1646.0
       words: 2316
      flesch: 68
     summary: We find the hottest Controversie is now moved about Church-government ; and there hath been most written and spoken this way , and in most violence : Now when the contention for power is so much , and the Controversie streames most in Government , we may soon discerne dispositions . The rate of 20 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words.
    keywords: a61083; books; building; christ; church; civill; early; english; fit; gospell; government; hands; iohn; ministers; new; peace; people; power; principles; religion; saltmarsh; state; temple; text; things; time; true; word
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        item: #156 of 261
          id: A61839
      author: Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663.
       title: Episcopacy (as established by law in England) not prejudicial to regal power a treatise written in the time of the Long Parliament, by the special command of the late King / and now published by ... Robert Sanderson ...
        date: 1661.0
       words: 20254
      flesch: 45
     summary: 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. And I suppose it would be a very hard matter for any man to find out a clear and satisfactory reason of difference between the Ecclesiastical power and the Oeconomical ; why the one , because it claimeth to be of Divine Right should be therefore thought to be injurious to Regal power , and the other ( though claiming in the same manner ) not to be injurious .
    keywords: acknowledged; act; acts; advantage; aforesaid; ancient; answer; authority; best; better; bishops; books; cause; censures; christ; christian; church; citations; clear; clergy; command; commission; common; consideration; contrary; coram; courts; crown; custome; day; derogatory; difference; divine; divinum; doth; ecclesiastical; ecclesiastical courts; ecclesiastical power; edward; eebo; elizabeth; england; english; episcopacy; established; exercise; god; good; government; great; hands; hath; high; hold; honour; immediate; iudges; iurisdiction; ius; judgement; king edward; kings; kings supremacy; late; law; laws; like; little; long; majesties; majesty; manner; matters; means; men; ministers; names; nature; necessity; new; oath; objection; objectors; office; onely; opinion; order; original; ought; papists; parliament; particular; party; persons; point; popes; power; prejudice; prejudicial; prerogative; present; princes; proceedings; processes; protestant; queen; raign; realm; reason; reformation; regal; regal power; religion; repeal; respect; right; rome; royal; said; seal; self; shew; sixth; sort; spiritual; state; statute; style; subject; summons; sundry; supremacy; tcp; text; thereunto; thing; time; title; true; truth; use; usurped; viz; way; whatsoever; world
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        item: #157 of 261
          id: A61870
      author: Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.
       title: A censure upon certaine passages contained in the history of the Royal Society as being destructive to the established religion and Church of England
        date: 1670.0
       words: 21422
      flesch: 53
     summary: I am sure I am by the tenor of that Letter justified , if I dare not joyn with a Church service , wherein Transubstantiation , and the sacrifice of the Masse , and prayers for the dead , and to the Saints ( not to mention the mutilation of the Communion , and Image-worships must be owned , or hypocritically complyed with , to the dishonour of God , 1 Cor. 10.20 , 21 , 22. the detriment and offense of the weak Christians , 1 Cor. 8.10 , 11 , 12. and the strengthning of the party communicated with in those errors and Blasphemies . For although it be granted that even those Articles , the Homilies , and our Writers ( and I my self ) do bestow vulgarly the appellation of a Church , yet is that an impropriety of speech , and not to be justified otherwise then by professing , that when the name of Church is attributed to Rome , and England , the predication is equivocal ; since that the definition of a true Christian Church , which makes up the Ninteenth Article , cannot be accommodated to the Romanists : viz The visible Church of Christ is a Congregation of faithful men , in the which the pure word of God is preached , and the Sacraments be duely ministred , according to Christ's ordinance , in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same .
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        item: #158 of 261
          id: A61987
      author: Abbot, George, 1562-1633.
       title: The svpplication of all the papists of England to King James at his first comming to the crowne for a tolleration of their religion wherein, with much impudence, they professe and protest themselves to be the onely obedient one's unto the soveraigne Princes, under whom they live, out of conscience to avoid sin : when not long after they fell upon that un-exampled piece of villany, the Gun-pouder treason : whereunto is added, A letter sent from Bishop Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury to the King : against toleration of the popish religion.
        date: 1642.0
       words: 2169
      flesch: 50
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A61987 of text R12076 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S6189). Great Britain -- Religion -- 17th century.
    keywords: a61987; abbot; archbishop; bishop; blessed; books; canterbury; catholiques; comming; conscience; crowne; early; england; english; favour; god; hath; highnesse; james; king; letter; long; majesties; majesty; papists; popish; princes; professe; protest; religion; sin; soveraigne; subjects; text; tolleration
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        item: #159 of 261
          id: A62806
      author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.
       title: To the Right Honourable the House of Peers assembled in Parliament, the humble petition of the knights, gentlemen, ministers, freeholders, and other inhabitants of the county of Kent
        date: 1641.0
       words: 798
      flesch: 64
     summary: To the Right Honourable the House of Peers assembled in Parliament, the humble petition of the knights, gentlemen, ministers, freeholders, and other inhabitants of the county of Kent This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A62806 of text R11645 Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 853:5) To the Right Honourable the House of Peers assembled in Parliament, the humble petition of the knights, gentlemen, ministers, freeholders, and other inhabitants of the county of Kent England and Wales.
    keywords: books; early; english; freeholders; gentlemen; honourable; house; humble; kent; ministers; parliament; peers; petitioners; right; text
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        item: #160 of 261
          id: A63169
      author: Bromwich, Andrew, defendant.
       title: The trial, conviction and condemnation of Andrew Brommich and William Atkins, for being Romish priests, before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs, at summer assizes last at Stafford held there for the county of Stafford, where they received sentence of death accordingly together with the tryal of Charles Kern, at Hereford assizes last for being a Romish priest.
        date: 1679.0
       words: 10007
      flesch: 85
     summary: Ch. J. Do you believe this to be the man ? J. Then Gentlemen of the Jury , the question you are to try , is whether ●●drew Brommich be a Popish Priest or not : To prove that he is , here is a woman , one Anne Robinson , that swears she received the Sacrament of him in a Wafer once at Christmas last , and twice at Mr. Birch's , and twice at Mr. Pursals , and that he gave it to several others at the same time .
    keywords: aforesaid; andrew; arr; atkins; brommich; charles; church; come; county; cryer; day; edwards; england; evidence; gentlemen; guilty; hath; high; jones; jury; justice; kerne; king; l. ch; look; lord; mass; monington; mrs; person; priest; pris; prisoner; rob; robinson; rome; sacrament; said; stafford; swear; tcp; text; time; treason; truth; tryal; wife; william; witnesses; woman; year
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        item: #161 of 261
          id: A64342
      author: Protestant that is for liberty of conscience to all perswasions.
       title: Ten seasonable queries proposed by a Protestant that is for liberty of conscience to all perswasions.
        date: 1688.0
       words: 1297
      flesch: 61
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 101729)
    keywords: books; characters; conscience; early; eebo; english; image; laws; liberty; online; oxford; partnership; penal; perswasions; phase; protestant; queries; tcp; tei; text; works
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        item: #162 of 261
          id: A64568
      author: Thomas, William, Sir, d. 1653?
       title: Master VVilliam Thomas esquire his speech in Parliament Iune 1641 concerning deanes and their office : what it was originally and what it is at this present : and being proved to be for little use yes of great abuse therefore declared not only unnecessary but ought rather to be utterly abolished.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 2970
      flesch: 53
     summary: As to their originall , it is not to be denyed but themselves and office are of great antiquity , St. Augustine declaring both ; but I doe not say that it is an ancient office in the church , but what Officers Deanes then were , be pleased to heare from Saint Augustines owne delivery in his booke 〈◊〉 M●ribus Ecclesi● Gatholica , if that booke , as also that of Monachoru● be his , which Erasmus and others have doubted : The Monks ( saith he ) for their more retirednesse and better contemplation , appointed Officers which they called De●●●● , the office of them , and why they were so called , how delivereth in these words as 〈◊〉 as I remember , Opus a●tem 〈◊〉 quas Decanos vocant , e● quad sunt denis pr●pos●●● 〈…〉 〈◊〉 suicorpor is tangat , neque in 〈◊〉 in vestimento , neque so quid ●luid vel qu●tidiane necessitate vel mutate ( nt asso●e●● ) vale●●dini , hi 〈◊〉 Decani magna solicitu dine , omnia dispo●enses & presto facientes quicquid illa vita propter imbecilitatem corpor is postulot . agantur , 〈◊〉 ●rehidiaconi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 domi hoc est in Ecclesia Cashedrali & ejus Ca●nicis & Clericis Episcopo sint adjumento quast duo 〈◊〉 membr.
    keywords: a64568; abuse; antiquity; bee; bishops; books; church; common; deanes; declare; early; ecclesia; english; finde; god; great; hath; iune; king; life; like; little; lord; master; office; officers; old; online; parliament; people; piety; present; saint; saith; service; singing; sir; speech; t983; templa; text; thomas; time; unnecessary; use; vvilliam; william; wing; words; ● ●
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        item: #163 of 261
          id: A64569
      author: Thomas, William, Sir, d. 1653?
       title: A speech of VVilliam Thomas, esquire Ianurary, 1641 concerning the right of Bishops sitting and voting in Parliament : wherein hee humbly delivereth his opinion that their sitting and voting there is not onely inconvenient and unlawfull
        date: 1641.0
       words: 4756
      flesch: 73
     summary: A speech of VVilliam Thomas, esquire Ianurary, 1641 concerning the right of Bishops sitting and voting in Parliament : wherein hee humbly delivereth his opinion that their sitting and voting there is not onely inconvenient and unlawfull Thomas, William, Sir, d. 1653? Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 259:E200, no 1) A speech of VVilliam Thomas, esquire Ianurary, 1641 concerning the right of Bishops sitting and voting in Parliament : wherein hee humbly delivereth his opinion that their sitting and voting there is not onely inconvenient and unlawfull Thomas, William, Sir, d. 1653?
    keywords: a64569; ancient; appeare; bee; bishops; books; calisthenes; church; clero; commons; conceive; delivereth; divino; doe; doth; early; edw; english; excluso; fol; good; hath; hee; henry; house; images; inconvenient; john; kings; lawes; lay; like; london; lords; non; opinion; owne; parliament; popes; possession; power; princes; reason; returne; right; roman; rome; saith; selfe; sir; sitting; speech; spirituall; temporall; text; things; thomas; time; unlawfull; verdicts; vvilliam; wee; william; worthy
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        item: #164 of 261
          id: A65348
      author: D. W., Sir.
       title: Some reflections on the oaths & declaration appointed in an act past in the first year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary in reference to the Roman Catholicks of England / by Sir D.W. Baronet, of the church of Rome.
        date: 1695.0
       words: 6046
      flesch: 51
     summary: So help me God , &c. The Oath of Supremacy , framed in the Act , 1 Eliz. c. 1. which Oath is now abrogated . Sixty of the Doctors of the Sorbon subscribed to the said Oath , these following Words , We underwritten , Divines and Doctors of the Sacred Faculty of Paris , do judg the Oath , as it is on the other side , ( i. e. the Oath of Allegiance ) may with Safety of Faith and Conscience be taken by English Catholicks , &c. But Pope Paul the Fifth sent a Breve into England , directed to the English Catholicks , wherein , reciting the said Oath at large , he declares , that this Oath contains many things plainly repugnant to Faith and Salvation , and admonisheth and requireth them not to take that Oath .
    keywords: act; allegiance; authority; cap; catholicks; crown; declaration; ecclesiastical; eebo; eliz; england; english; faith; foreign; god; hath; heirs; henry; jurisdictions; king; kingdom; majesty; oath; parliament; past; person; pope; power; princes; queen; realm; reflections; reign; right; sir; spiritual; subjects; successors; supremacy; tcp; temporal; text; things; time; true; world; year
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        item: #165 of 261
          id: A66143
      author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary)
       title: A letter, &c. gentlemen and friends, we have given you so full, and so true an account of our intentions ...
        date: 1688.0
       words: 1341
      flesch: 62
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 37734) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 770:4 and 951:36 or 2163:2) A letter, &c. gentlemen and friends, we have given you so full, and so true an account of our intentions ... England and Wales.
    keywords: books; characters; early; eebo; england; english; image; letter; online; oxford; partnership; phase; religion; selves; tcp; tei; text; true; william; wing; xml
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        item: #166 of 261
          id: A66221
      author: William III, King of England, 1650-1702.
       title: The speech of the Prince of Orange, to some principle gentlemen of Somersetshire and Dorsetshire on their coming to joyn His Highness at Exeter the 15th of Nov., 1688.
        date: 1688.0
       words: 1220
      flesch: 64
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: books; characters; early; eebo; encoding; england; english; exeter; gentlemen; good; image; online; oxford; partnership; phase; principle; tcp; tei; text; works; xml
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        item: #167 of 261
          id: A67115
      author: Walker, George, 1581?-1651.
       title: A sermon preached in London by a faithfvll minister of Christ, and perfected by him and now set forth to the publike view of all for the ivstification of the truth and clearing the innocencie of his long suffering for it.
        date: 1642.0
       words: 7608
      flesch: 36
     summary: That no affection or respect to any man , no word , command , or threatning of greatest Kings and Potentates , no perswasion of them that are most neere and deare , no importunity of them to whom men are most obliged in love and duty for many great favours , can excuse any act which thereby they are drawne to doe against the commandement of God , from the foule staine of sinne , nor the doers of such an act , from the guilt of sinfull transgression : or to expresse it in fewer words briefly , No affection of one man to another , whether feare or dread of Superiours , or reverence of Benefactors , or love of them that are most neer and deare , can excuse any person from the guilt of sinne before God , when by them he is moved and drawne to doe a thing which God hath forbidden in his word and Law . Whereby it is manifest that no power or authority of any man how fairely soever it is pretended to be from God can excuse any act done against any knowne Commandement of God , though it be a Commandement of a small indifferent thing , given onely to try mans obedience , but whosoever upon any respect to any creature , or by any perswasion doth transgresse any Precept or word of God , he is guilty of sinne and worthy of death before Gods just Tribunall : Sauls letters from the High-priests which gave him a Commission and authority to persecute Christians did not excuse him from sin though he did it in ignorance and blind zeale for he calls himselfe the greatest of sinners for that act of persecution , 1 Tim. 1. 15.
    keywords: act; adams; affection; ahab; authority; benefactors; chiefe; children; christ; commandement; contrary; creature; cruell; death; doctrine; doe; drawne; english; excuse; father; feare; forbidden; god; gods; great; guilty; hee; heinous; himselfe; holy; honour; images; innocent; ionathan; israel; king; law; life; london; lord; love; men; parents; people; perswasion; potentates; power; prophets; respect; reverence; rule; saith; set; sinne; soule; state; superiours; text; things; threatnings; true; truth; wicked; wife; wise; word; worship; worthy
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        item: #168 of 261
          id: A67146
      author: Wren, Matthew, 1585-1667.
       title: An abandoning of the Scottish Covenant by Matthew the Lord Bishop of Ely.
        date: 1662.0
       words: 14406
      flesch: 80
     summary: For , in competition with the Covenant of God , every thing that is not it , is Baal ; Let them call it the Covenant , as much as they will , An Ingagement , or what they will nick-name it ; yet 't is an Idol ; and all the Worship they give it , is flat Idolatry ; no better then the Worshipping of Baal : This for First , That from the first to the last , there 's nothing Covenanted for in Scripture , but what was ordain'd for them from the beginning ; From the beginning of their Law , which God gave them in Horeb , That was for his Worship , and all relating thereunto ; and from the beginning of their Kingdom , unto which God had after brought them , That was for the whole Civil Government ; But 't was one and the same Covenant still ; None but the first , No new tricks , foisted in at pleasure with the very Ordinance of God , upon any specious pretences whatsoever .
    keywords: able; baal; berith; better; blessings; books; carriage; christ; church; clear; contrary; covenant; david; deputy; eebo; end; english; esay; false; frowardness; god; gods; gods covenant; good; great; hand; hath; high; holy; idol; image; judg; king; law; league; lie; little; lord; lying; man; matter; matthew; mean; men; moses; need; new; old; onely; people; persons; perverse; plain; point; power; priest; prophet; psalm; reason; religion; right; rule; saith; sayes; scripture; second; self; selves; set; solemn; spirit; sure; tcp; text; thing; thou; thought; time; true; truth; use; ver; vers; way; word; work; worship
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        item: #169 of 261
          id: A67176
      author: Walker, Henry, Ironmonger.
       title: Corda Angliæ, or, The generall expressions of the land moving XXV. particulars to the honourable assembly in the high court of Parliament : that the church of England may become a glorious church of God.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 5184
      flesch: 86
     summary: Church and state -- Great Britain. 2. c. 2 ▪ as Salomon and as Constantine were settled in peace and glory , in Church and State , so did they enjoy happy governments in both .
    keywords: ambrose; arles; assembly; austin; bee; bookes; canon; cap; christ; church; congregation; councell; court; day; doe; england; english; epistle; expressions; generall; glorious; god; good; hath; high; hom; honourable; hosea; iohn; king; lib; like; love; luke; matth; minister; pag; parliament; particulars; people; pet; psal; rom; sabbath; sacrament; saint; saith; scriptures; text; tim; time; trent; vaine; word
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        item: #170 of 261
          id: A67333
      author: Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.
       title: An honorable and learned speech made by Mr. Waller in Parliament against the prelates innovations, false doctrin and discipline, reproveing the perswation of some clergie-men to His Majestie of inconveniencies : vvho themselves instead of tilling the ground are become sowers of tares : vvith a motion for the fundamentall and vitall liberties of this nation which it was wont to have.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 1412
      flesch: 63
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        item: #171 of 261
          id: A67481
      author: J. W.
       title: Some remarks upon a speech made to the grand jury for the county of Middlesex concerning the execution of penalties upon the churches of Christ, which worship God in meeting-houses, for their so doing : and may serve for an answer to part of the order of the justices, Jan. 13 to the same purpose : in a letter to Sir W.S. their speaker.
        date: 1682.0
       words: 7001
      flesch: 54
     summary: I hope Sir , you are no skilful State Physician : God forbid you should in this Diagnostick . Some remarks upon a speech made to the grand jury for the county of Middlesex concerning the execution of penalties upon the churches of Christ, which worship God in meeting-houses, for their so doing : and may serve for an answer to part of the order of the justices, Jan. 13 to the same purpose : in a letter to Sir W.S. their speaker.
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        item: #172 of 261
          id: A67871
      author: Bagshaw, Edward, d. 1662.
       title: A just vindication of the questioned part of the reading of Edward Bagshaw, Esq; an apprentice of the common law. Had in the Middle Temple Hall the 24th day of February, being Munday, anno Dom. 1639. upon the statute of 25 E.3. called, Statutum pro clero, from all scandalous aspersions whatsoever. With a true narrative of the cause of silencing the reader by the then Archbishop of Canterbury: with the arguments at large of those points in his reading, for which he was questioned at the Council-Board.
        date: 1660.0
       words: 16400
      flesch: 65
     summary: The pulling off this mask from the face of Truth , and the vindication of it from obloquy and reproach , and of my owne name and reputation from scandal and detraction ; and to the intent no stayns of that nature might cleave to my Winding-sheet when I am dead ; are become the only Motives why I now yield , after so long tract of time since my Reading , to those strong importunities which I formerly neglected , by publishing , to the common view , my Arguments upon foure Points of my Reading , for the last of which only I was suspended and silenced , by the means of the then Archbishop of Canterbury , of whom , being dead , and suffering as he did , I shall speak no ill ; and shall not so much blame him as that Accusator fratrum , who , to curry favour , misreported my Reading to him , and made me to speak things which I never thought , and him to do things that were never done before , as to silence a Reader of Law before he had committed an offence , or was heard to speak for himself : This trouble he brought upon himself in medling with things wherein he had no skill , and with persons over whom he had no Jurisdiction : for Reading of Law in the Inns of Court and Chancery ( in both which I have been Reader ) are , as they speak in Schools , rather Problematae then
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        item: #173 of 261
          id: A67904
      author: Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.
       title: The life of William now Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, examined. Wherein his principall actions, or deviations in matters of doctrine and discipline (since he came to that sea of Canturbury) are traced, and set downe, as they were taken from good hands, by Mr. Robert Bayley, a learned pastor of the Kirk of Scotland, and one of the late commissioners sent from that Nation. Very fitting for all judicious men to reade, and examine, that they may be the better able to censure him for those thing [sic] wherein he hath done amisse. Reade and judge.
        date: 1643.0
       words: 59653
      flesch: 64
     summary: It is one of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the World , how many of the English Divines can at this time be so dumbe , who could well , if they pleased , paint out before your eyes with a Sun-beame all the crimes Ispeake of 〈◊〉 that head and members . 〈◊〉 , cui tot per occidentem , ubi fides universalis , at 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in rebus ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & quicquid 〈◊〉 suo 〈◊〉 confirmaret , 〈◊〉 ratum 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 legis vim & essicaciam per 〈◊〉 un versal mobtincret .
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        item: #174 of 261
          id: A69769
      author: Cockburn, John, 1652-1729.
       title: An historical relation of the late General Assembly held at Edinburgh from Octob. 16, to Nov. 13 in the year 1690 in a letter from a person in Edinburgh to his friend in London.
        date: 1691.0
       words: 33383
      flesch: 40
     summary: Into this Assembly also were received all these younger Brethren , who had been admitted to the Ministry clandestinely in the time of the last Reign , or avowedly and openly since the receiving their Indulgence from King James . The King you know ought to have a Commissioner at every Assembly , to see that Affairs of State be not medled with by the Brethren , who indeed still retain the strong Inclinations , which they as well as the Church of Rome have always shewed to meddle with them , pretending they only do this in ordine ad spiritualia .
    keywords: aberdeen; account; act; acts; affair; agreeable; alexander; anderson; andrew; answer; appeal; articles; assemblies; assembly; authority; bishop; books; brethren; business; calling; campbel; care; cause; censure; certain; charge; children; christ; church; churches; civil; clergy; commissioner; committee; competent; considerable; continued; contrary; copy; council; country; crawford; dalkeith; day; deponed; deposition; design; edinburgh; eebo; elders; england; english; episcopal; exercise; false; fast; favour; fear; fit; following; friends; gabriel; general; general assembly; george; gilbert; god; good; gospel; government; grace; great; greater; hand; hath; heriot; heritors; house; humiliation; ignorance; inclinations; information; interest; james; jesus; john; judges; justice; king; kingdom; kirk; kirkton; know; land; late; law; learned; learning; letter; libel; like; little; london; long; lord; majesties; man; manner; matter; means; meeting; meldrum; members; ministers; ministry; mitchell; moderator; nation; nature; necessary; notice; number; occasion; old; order; paper; parish; parliament; particular; party; pass; peebles; people; persons; petition; place; power; prayer; preaching; prejudice; presbyterians; presbytery; present; pretended; principles; privy; proceedings; publick; reason; regard; relation; religion; return; right; robert; rule; ruling; said; scotland; self; sentence; sermon; set; setting; sins; solemn; spirit; state; sunday; synod; taking; tcp; text; thing; tho; time; title; true; truth; vacant; veatch; viz; vote; want; way; ways; william; witnesses; word; work; years; zeal
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        item: #175 of 261
          id: A70049
      author: Fleetwood, James, 1603-1683.
       title: The Bishop of Worcester's letter to his reverend clergy within the county and diocess of Worcester with some short and genuine animadversions upon it.
        date: 1681.0
       words: 3046
      flesch: 47
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        item: #176 of 261
          id: A70113
      author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
       title: Their highness the Prince & Princess of Orange's opinion about a general liberty of conscience, &c. being a collection of four select papers.
        date: 1689.0
       words: 15146
      flesch: 49
     summary: My first Reason is the certainest of all Reasons , That it will be His Highnesses interest to settle matters at Home , which only can be done by a Legal Toleration or Comprehension in Matters of Religion ; and by restoring the Civil Liberties of the Nation , so much invaded of late . I. Mijn Heer Fagel's first letter to Mr. Stewart -- II.
    keywords: account; albeville; answer; best; book; catholicks; certain; church; conscience; consent; designs; desire; dissenters; doubt; earl; eebo; employments; england; english; fagel; god; good; government; great; greater; hague; hath; heer; highnesses; holland; honour; hope; interest; king; laws; leave; letter; liberty; london; long; majesties; majesty; matter; men; mijn; mind; monsieur; nation; occasion; opinion; orange; order; penal; pensioner; persons; places; present; prince; princess; protestant; protestant religion; publick; reason; reformed; religion; repeal; return; roman; security; self; share; sir; states; stewart; subjects; successors; sunderland; tcp; text; things; thoughts; time; true; truth; use; way; world; writ
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        item: #177 of 261
          id: A70226
      author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
       title: A word to the wavering, or, An answer to the enquiry into the present state of affairs whether we owe allegiance to the King in these circumstances? &c. : with a postscript of subjection to the higher powers / by G.B.
        date: 1689.0
       words: 4705
      flesch: 60
     summary: The King never ceases to be a King till he ceases to be a Man ; and it is a contradiction in terminis , that the next Heir , should be at the same time King : For if he be actually King , he is no Heir ; and while he is an Heir , he is no King. Besides , considering the distance of time between Richard II. and Edward IV. which was 60 Yeras probably erasing them would not quit Cost , nor be tanti , in comparison of the Smoak and Puther those Agitations might raise , between King and People ; to prevent which , the Wisdom of those latter Definitions ( you speak of ) is Conspicuous , and has been Successfull to the Peace and Welfare of the Kingdom .
    keywords: allegiance; answer; authority; books; characters; church; circumstances; david; duty; early; edward; eebo; english; enquiry; father; god; good; great; higher; king; kingdom; law; lord; loyalty; magistrate; man; obedience; online; pag; parliament; partnership; people; person; phase; power; prince; religion; richard; right; set; state; subject; tcp; tei; text; wavering; wing; word
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        item: #178 of 261
          id: A70777
      author: Penn, William, 1644-1718.
       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.
        date: 1688.0
       words: 5310
      flesch: 56
     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 .
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        item: #179 of 261
          id: A70888
      author: Parker, Samuel, 1640-1688.
       title: A discourse of ecclesiastical politie wherein the authority of the civil magistrate over the consciences of subjects in matters of external religion is asserted : the mischiefs and incoveniences of toleration are represented, and all pretenses pleaded in behalf of liberty of conscience are fully answered.
        date: 1671.0
       words: 71398
      flesch: 37
     summary: But to speak more expresly to the particular matter in debate , 'T is necessary the world must be govern'd ; govern'd it cannot be without Religion , & Religion , as harmless and peaceable as it is in it self , yet when mixt with the Follies and Passions of men , it does not usually inspire them with overmuch gentleness and goodness of Nature ; and therefore 't is necessary that it submit to the same Authority , that commands over all the other affections of the mind of man. And therefore is it not strange , that when the main Ends and designs of all Religion are avowedly subject to the Supreme Power , that yet men should be so impatient to exempt its means and subordinate Instruments from the same Authority ? What reason can the Wit of man assign to restrain it from one , that will not much more restrain it from both ?
    keywords: able; absolute; absurd; abused; account; actions; affairs; ages; anarchy; antecedent; apostles; apparent; apprehensions; argument; authority; best; better; brief; capable; care; cases; cause; ceremonies; certain; charity; christian; christianity; church; churches; circumstances; civil; civil power; commands; common; compliance; conceits; concern'd; concerns; condition; conduct; confidence; confusions; conscience; consequence; constitutions; contrary; controversie; criminal; customs; dangerous; decency; design; determinations; determined; devotion; dictates; discipline; discourse; discretion; disobedience; disobey; disturbance; divers; divine; doubtful; doubts; duties; duty; easie; ecclesiastical; effectual; ends; enemies; england; equal; essential; establish'd; established; eternal; evidence; evident; evil; exceptions; excuse; execution; exercise; experience; expressions; faction; faith; fall; false; follies; folly; fond; forbidden; force; forms; foundation; free; freedom; fundamental; general; god; godliness; godly; good; goodness; gospel; government; governours; grace; gratitude; great; greater; greatest; grounds; guilty; happiness; holy; honest; honour; humane; humane laws; humane power; humour; hypothesis; ignorance; ignorant; ill; impossible; indifferent; indispensable; influence; innocent; insolence; instances; institution; interest; judge; judgment; jurisdiction; justice; kingdoms; kings; labour; lawful; laws; lay; leave; liable; liberty; life; like; little; long; love; magistrate; main; malice; man; mankind; manner; mans; material; matters; meaning; meekness; meer; men; mens; minds; mischiefs; mischievous; morality; mutual; nation; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; needs; new; nice; obedience; objections; obligation; oblige; observe; office; old; opinion; order; original; outward; particular; parties; party; passions; paul; peace; peaceable; peevish; peevishness; penalties; people; person; perswasions; piece; places; policy; positive; power; practice; prescribed; present; preservation; pretences; pride; princes; principles; private; proper; proud; providence; prudence; publick; publick authority; publick laws; publick peace; publick worship; punishments; purpose; quarrels; quiet; real; reason; rebellion; reformation; religion; religious; restraints; right; rites; ruine; rules; run; saviour; scandal; scarce; schism; scripture; scruples; sect; secure; security; seditious; self; sense; service; set; settlement; severe; severity; significant; sin; sinful; small; sober; societies; society; sort; sovereign; spight; spirit; spiritual; stand; state; stubborn; subjection; subjects; sufficient; superiours; superstition; supreme; supreme power; tcp; temper; tender; tenderness; text; things; thought; time; toleration; true; truth; tyranny; unlawful; unreasonable; use; useful; vain; variety; vices; virtue; viz; want; way; weak; weakness; wealth; whatsoever; wild; wisdom; wise; wit; words; work; world; worship; wrong; zeal
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        item: #180 of 261
          id: A70973
      author: Friend of the Commonwealth. Answer to a paper intituled Some reasons why the ministers of Christ in Scotland ought not to be troubled for praying for the King.
       title: A declaration of the Commissioners for Visitation of Universities and for placing and displacing of ministers in Scotland, against praying or preaching for the pretended King of Scotland with some reasons given by some of the ministers of Edinburgh why they cannot in conscience omit to pray for him : together with an ansvver to the said reasons ... / by a friend to the Commonwealth.
        date: 1653.0
       words: 7284
      flesch: 63
     summary: And indeed , it is a matter of conscience with us , not to betray , nor to wrong , or weaken that Cause through over much indulgence , to which God himself hath born witness . Thirdly , As it is a great sin in any , to countermand that which God hath commanded , And to give order that a precept , which God hath appointed to oblige us alwaies ( though not to all times ) shall never oblige , And that we shall never give obedience thereto ; So when such a command is given out , it is then casus confessionis :
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        item: #181 of 261
          id: A74207
      author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.
       title: The humble petition, of the peacefull, obedient, religious, and honest Protestants of this Kingdome presented unto the honourable House of Commons, by Doctor Hynton, in their behalf the 7. day of January, 1641.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 903
      flesch: 59
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A74207 of text in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.4[38]). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A74207) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160660)
    keywords: commons; english; honest; honourable; house; humble; john; kingdome; obedient; peacefull; petition; pleased; protestants; religious; text; thomason
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        item: #182 of 261
          id: A74212
      author: Aston, Thomas, Sir, 1600-1645.
       title: A petition delivered in to the lords sprituall and temporall, by Sir Thomas Aston, Baronet, from the County Palatine of Chester concerning Episcopacy To the high and honourable court of Parliament. / The nobilitie, knights, gentry, ministers, freeholders, and inhabitants of the County Palatine of Chester, whose names are subscribed in the severall schedules hereunto annexed.
        date: None
       words: 1510
      flesch: 60
     summary: Humbly shew ; THat whereas divers Petitions have lately beene carryed about this Countie , against the present forme of Church government , ( and the hands of many persons of ordinary quality sollicited to the same , with pretence to be presented to this Honourable Assembly ) which wee conceiving not so much to ayme at reformation as absolute innovation of government , and such as must give a great advantage to the adversaries of our Religion , wee held it our dutie to disavow them all . But on the contrary , when wee consider the tenor of such writings , as in the name of Petitions , are spread amongst the common people ; the tenents preached publiquely in Pulpits , and the contents of many printed Pamphlers , swarming amongst us ; all of them dangerously exciting a disobedience to the established forme of government , and their severall intimations of the desire of the power of the keyes , and that their Congregations may execute Ecclesiasticall censures within themselves , wee cannot but expresse our just feares , that their desire is to introduce an absolute innovation of Presbyterall Government , whereby wee who are now governed by the Canon and Civill Lawes , dispensed by twenty-six Ordinaries ( easily responsall to Parliaments for any deviation from the rule of Law ) conceive wee should become exposed to the meere arbitrary government of a numerous Presbytery , who together with their ruling Elders , will arise to neere forty thousand Church Governours , and with their adherents , must needs beare so great a sway in the Common-wealth , that if future inconvenience shall be found in that government , wee humbly offer to consideration , how these shall be reducible by Parliaments , how consistent with a Monarchy , and how dangerously conducible to an Anarchy , which wee have just cause to pray against , as fearing the consequences would prove the utter losse of learning and Lawes , which must necessarily produce an extirmination of Nobilitie , Gentry , and order , if not of Religion .
    keywords: aston; baronet; chester; church; common; county; english; government; great; honourable; inhabitants; knights; lords; nobilitie; odde; palatine; parliament; petition; sir; temporall; text; thomas; wee
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        item: #183 of 261
          id: A76181
      author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
       title: The humble petition of many thousands, gentlemen, free-holders, and others, of the county of Worcester, to the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England. In behalf of the able, faithful, godly ministry of this nation. Delivered by Colonel Jeff Bridges, and Mr. Thomas Foly, December 22. 1652. VVith the Parliaments answer thereunto.
        date: 1652.0
       words: 3089
      flesch: 49
     summary: Secondly , that you will be pleased to this end , to take special care of their competent maintenance , that we may not have an ignorant Ministry , while they are forced to be labouring for food and raiment , while they should be in their studies , or watching over their flocks ; and that through disability or unpreparedness , they disgrace not the work of Christ , nor make it and their office contemptible , thereby rejoycing the enemy , and hindring the saving of souls ; specially seeing it is expected that they credit their Doctrine with works of Charity : And seeing that a dependant and beggarly Ministry will lose so much of their Authority with the souls that most need them , and themselves will be laid open to the sore temptation of Man-pleasing ; besides the probability of the suffering of their children , when they are dead : And if the Ministers of this Age be never so resolved to continue their work through all necessities , yet in the next Age the Church is like to be destitute and desolate , because men will set their sons to other studies and imployments : We therefore humbly crave , that this Honorable Assembly will not take down the present Maintenance by Tythes ( though we have as much reason to be sensible of those inconveniences that it is charged with , as others ) or at least , not till they , instead of it , establish as sure , and full , and fit a Maintenance . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A76181 of text R15906 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E684_13).
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        item: #184 of 261
          id: A76316
      author: Bedford, Thomas, d. 1653.
       title: An examination of the chief points of Antinomianism, collected out of some lectures lately preached in the church of Antholines parish, London: and now drawn together into a body, and published for the benefit of all that love the holy truth of God, / by Thomas Bedford B. D. Vnto which is annexed, an examination of a pamphlet lately published, intituled The compassionate Samaritan, handling the power of the magistrate in the compulsion of conscience: by the same author.
        date: 1647.0
       words: 35019
      flesch: 65
     summary: What then ? Is this Law of Moses all of it altogether abolished ? Is it of no use and service to the Church of God , to Believers now in the Constitution of the Church of Christ ? Some there be that would have it so , whose main endeavor is to cast the Doctrine of it out of the Church , and the care thereof out of the Conscience of the Christian ; neither the Precepts thereof alowed to binde men , nor the Motives thereof to draw men to the Duties of Holiness : See their Arguments examined , Chap. By the Ordinance of God , in whose hand ( as say our Divines ) Christ hath left the disposing of his Merit , it is appointed , That the Merit of Christ shall not be dispensed to mankinde , but under a condition ; and without the performance of that condition it is not bestowed upon any : Now mankinde left to themselves are negligent and careless to look to that condition , and so through their own ill-deserts are excluded from the benefit of Christs Death and Passion .
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        item: #185 of 261
          id: A78891
      author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
       title: His Majesties message to both Houses of Parliament, die Lunæ 14. Febr. 1641
        date: 1642.0
       words: 1011
      flesch: 69
     summary: 1 sheet ([1] p.) by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Majestie: and by the assignes of John Bill, Imprinted at London : [1642] Dates given according to Lady Day dating. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A78891 of text R230942 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C2451A).
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        item: #186 of 261
          id: A78994
      author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)
       title: By the King. A proclamation for obedience to the lawes ordained for establishing of the true religion in this Kingdom of England.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 904
      flesch: 65
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A78994 of text R209714 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.3[24]). Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) 1 sheet ([1] p.) by Robert Barker printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie: and by the assignes of John Bill, Imprinted at London : 1641.
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        item: #187 of 261
          id: A79118
      author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
       title: His Majesties late protestation Before his receiving of the Sacrament.
        date: 1648.0
       words: 1066
      flesch: 68
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A79118 of text R210843 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.12[48]). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162841) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f12[48])
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        item: #188 of 261
          id: A79213
      author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
       title: His Majesties gracious letter, directed to the presbytery of Edinburgh and by them to be communicated to the rest of the presbyteries of this kirk. Received the third of September, 1660.
        date: 1660.0
       words: 1120
      flesch: 67
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A79213 of text R231317 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C3017). The rate of 14 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words.
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        item: #189 of 261
          id: A79262
      author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
       title: The Kings Majesties most gracious letter and declaration to the bishops, deans and prebends &c.
        date: 1660.0
       words: 1817
      flesch: 59
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A79262) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 171054)
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        item: #190 of 261
          id: A79710
      author: Church of Scotland.
       title: The confession of faith of the Kirk of Scotland; with the bond or covenant subscribed unto by the whole kingdome.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 2877
      flesch: 27
     summary: To the which Confession and forme of religion we willingly agree in our consciences , in all points as unto Gods undoubted truth and verity , grounded only upon his written word : and therefore we abhorre and detest all contrary religion and doctrine : but chiefely all kinde of Papistry , in generall and particular heads , even as they are now damned and confuted by the word of God , and Kirk of Scotland : but in especiall , we detest and refuse the usurped authority of that Romane Antichrist , upon the Scriptures of God , upon the Kirk , the civill Magistrate , and consciences of men , all his tyrannous lawes made upon indifferent things against our Christian liberty ; his erroneous doctrine against the sufficiency of the written word , and the perfection of the Law , the office of Christ & his blessed Evangel . We therefore willing to take away all suspition of hypocrisie , and of such double dealing with God and his Kirk , protest , and call the scearcher of all hearts for witnesse , that our mindes and hearts do fully agree with this our Confession , Promise , Oath , and Subscription ; so that we are not moved for any worldly respect ; but are perswaded only in our consciences through the knowledge and love of Gods true Religion printed in our hearts by the holy Spirit , as we shall answer to him , in the day when the secrets of all hearts shall bee disclosed : and because we perceive that the quietnesse and stability of our Religion and Kirk , doth depend upon the safety and good behaviour of the Kings Majesty , as upon a comfortable instrument of Gods mercy granted to this Countrey , for the maintaining of his Kirk , and ministration of justice amongst us ; we protest and promise with our hearts under the same oath , handwrit , and paines , that we shall defend his royall person and authority , with our goods , bodies , and lives , in the defence of Christ his Evangel , Liberties of our Countrey , ministration of justice , and punishment of iniquity , against all enimies within this Realme or without , as we desire our God to be a strong and mercifull defender to us in the day of our death , and comming of our Lord Jesus Christ , to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory eternally .
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        item: #191 of 261
          id: A82314
      author: Dell, William, d. 1664.
       title: The city-ministers unmasked, or The hypocrisie and iniquity of fifty nine of the most eminent of the clergy in and about the city of London. Cleerly discovered out of two of their own pamphlets, one intituled, A serious and faithful representation; the other A vindication of the Ministers of the Gospel, in and about the City of London. Together vvith a prophesie of John Hus, touching the choosing of a new ministry; and an ancient prophetical farewel of Hildegards, to the old corrupt ministry. Both very useful for the knowledg of the long deceived nations. / By a friend of the Armies, in its ways to justice and righteousnes.
        date: 1649.0
       words: 12999
      flesch: 61
     summary: And when God said , He that sheds mans blood , by man shall his blood be shed ; that is , he that sheds mans blood unjustly , by man shall his blood be shed justly : 1. That they be not too confident of former successes , seeing God in his great judgment suffers men to prosper sometimes in sinfull courses , &c.
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        item: #192 of 261
          id: A82517
      author: England and Wales. Parliament.
       title: The address of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, to the King's most excellent Majesty, for maintaining the Church of England, as by law established with His Majesty's most gracious answer thereunto, Die Martis 16. Aprilis, 1689.
        date: 1689.0
       words: 1420
      flesch: 60
     summary: The address of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, to the King's most excellent Majesty, for maintaining the Church of England, as by law established with His Majesty's most gracious answer thereunto, Die Martis 16. The address of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, to the King's most excellent Majesty, for maintaining the Church of England, as by law established with His Majesty's most gracious answer thereunto, Die Martis 16.
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        item: #193 of 261
          id: A82874
      author: England and Wales. Parliament.
       title: Die Sabbatie 9. April. 1642. The Lords and commons do declare, that they intend a due and necessary reformation of the government and liturgie of the church, ...
        date: 1642.0
       words: 640
      flesch: 70
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        item: #194 of 261
          id: A82881
      author: England and Wales. Parliament.
       title: Die Mercurii, 19. July, 1643. The Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, out of the deep sense of Gods heavy wrath now upon this kingdome, ...
        date: 1643.0
       words: 675
      flesch: 75
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82881 of text R211961 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.7[30]). [London : 1643] Title from caption and first lines of text.
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        item: #195 of 261
          id: A83023
      author: England and Wales. Parliament.
       title: An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. Being an exhortation to all His Majesties good subjects in the kingdome of England, and Dominion of Wales, to the duty of repentance and humiliation, with an earnest confession of particular and nationall sinnes For the obtaining a firme and happy peace, now in agitation. To be used privately in families, but especially publikely in congregations.
        date: None
       words: 1602
      flesch: 57
     summary: That of Idolatry , as it was the Sin of our Ancestors , so it is the spreading Sin of these latter times , while by a generall connivence , and almost Tolleration , it hath beene severall wayes Fomented and encouraged : The grievous Effects whereof this Kingdome of England now begins to feele , from multitudes of Armed Papists and their Abettors , and the Kingdome of Ireland far more heavily hath felt , being brought almost to utter Ruine , by the Intestine Warres of Romish Idolaters . Neither ought this confession to sleight or light , when there is so heavy a weight of Sins , infinite in number , and hainous in nature , that lies upon this Nation .
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        item: #196 of 261
          id: A83261
      author: Browne, John, ca. 1608-1691.
       title: An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. For the selling of the lands of all the bishops in the kingdome of England, and dominion of Wales, for the service of the common-wealth. : With the instructions and names of all the contractors and trustees for the speedy execution of the same. : Corrected according to the originall. / Die Lunæ, Novemb. 16. 1646. Ordered by the Lords assembled in Parliament that this ordinance with the instructions be forthwith printed and published. ; John Brown, cler. Parliamentorum.
        date: None
       words: 9689
      flesch: 27
     summary: WHereas by an Ordinance of the Lords and Commons made the ninth of October one thousand six hundred forty six , the name , title , stile , and dignity of Archbishop of Canterbury , Archbishop of Yorke , Bishop of Winchester , Bishop of Duresme , and of all other Bishops of any Bishopricks within the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales , from the fifth of September one thousand six hundred forty six is wholy abolished and taken away , and all and every person and persons are disabled to hold the place , function , or stile of Archbishop or Bishop of any Church , See , or Diocesse within the Kingdome of England , and Dominion of Wales , by any Authority whatsoever ; And all Counties Palatine , Honours , Mannors , Lands , Tenements , and Hereditaments , and other the premises in the said Ordinance mentioned , were and are vested , and setled , adjudged & deemed to be in the reall and actuall possession and seisin of Thomas Adams Alderman , then Lord Major of the City of London , Sir John Wollastone Knight , Sir George Clerke Knight , John Langham Alderman , John Fowke Alderman , James Bunce Alderman , William Gibs Alderman , Samuel Avery Alderman , Thomas Noell , Christopher Packe , John Bellamy , Edward Hooker , Thomas Arnold , Richard Glyde , William Hobson , Francis Ashe , John Babington , Laurence Brumfield , Alexander Jones , John Jones , Richard Venner , Stephen Estwicke , Robert Mead , and James Story , their heires and assignes , upon trust and confidence that the said persons before named , their heires and assignes should have and hold the premisses , and every of them , subject to such trust and confidence as both Houses of Parliament should appoint , declare , and dispose of the same , and the rents and profits thereof , as the said Houses should order and appoint . And of all Suites and Questions that may arise or be moved upon pretence of sale at under values , or upon pretence that the sums by this Ordinance intended to be payed , were satisfied before such sale made , and all other claimes and demands whatsoever , saving the Rents and Interests saved by the said recited Ordinance , and of all incumbrances made by the said Trustees , or by any clayming under them , or any of them ; And for the discharge of the Trustees and contractors , It is further declared and ordained by the authority aforesaid , That all and every the said Trustees , and contractors shall be , and are hereby discharged and saved harmelesse for whatsoever they or any one or more of them shall doe in pursuance of this Ordinance ; And that if any action shall be brought against them or any of them , for any Act done by them or any of them in execution of this Ordinance or Instructions herein mentioned , then they are hereby inabled to plead the generall issue , and to give this Ordinance in evidence , and if a judgement passe for them , they shall recover double costs ; And it is further ordained and declared that the said Lordships , Mannors , Lands , Tenements and Hereditaments vested in the said Trustees by the said Ordinance of Parliament , intituled ( An Ordinance of Parliament for the abolishing of Archbishops , and Bishops within the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales , and for setling of their Lands and Possessions upon Trustees , for the use of the Common-Wealth ) shall not be lyable unto but stand and shall bee free and discharged of and from all and all manner of Statutes , Judgements , Recognizances , Dowers , Joyntures , And other Acts and Incumbrances whatsoever had , made , done or suffered , or to be had , made , done , or suffered by from or under the said Trustees , other then such conveyances and assurances as shall be by them had , made , done , or suffered in performance , or pursuance of the sales , and contracts by them to be respectively made according to the intent of this present Ordinance , and saving unto all and every person and persons , bodies politique and Corporate , their Heires , Successors , Executors and Administrators , all such Right , Title , and Interest as by the said Ordinance intituled ( An Ordinance of Parliament for the abolishing of Archbishops , and Bishops , within the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales , and for setling of their Lands , and Possessions upon Trustees for the use of the Common-Wealth ) is or are thereby saved .
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        item: #197 of 261
          id: A83435
      author: England and Wales. Parliament.
       title: Die Veneris, 20. Feb. 1645. Resolved by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled; that there bee forthwith a choice made of elders throughout the kingdome of England, and dominion of Wales, ...
        date: None
       words: 697
      flesch: 70
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        item: #198 of 261
          id: A83459
      author: England and Wales. Parliament.
       title: Die Mercurii, 9. May 1660. Resolved upon the question by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that all and every the ministers throughout the kingdoms of England and Ireland, dominion of Wales and town of Bewick upon Twede, do and are hereby required, and enjoyned, in their publick prayers, to pray for the Kings most Excellent Majesty, ...
        date: 1660.0
       words: 1014
      flesch: 72
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        item: #199 of 261
          id: A83735
      author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.
       title: Die Mercurii: 5⁰ 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, ...
        date: 1641.0
       words: 1190
      flesch: 62
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83735 of text R209673 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.3[5]). The rate of 13 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words.
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        item: #200 of 261
          id: A83737
      author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.
       title: Die Mercurii: 5⁰ 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, ...
        date: 1641.0
       words: 1338
      flesch: 60
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        item: #201 of 261
          id: A83803
      author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.
       title: A preamble with the protestation made by the whole House of Commons the 3. of May, 1641 and assented vnto by the Lords of the Vpper House the 4. of May.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 1001
      flesch: 64
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        item: #202 of 261
          id: A83813
      author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.
       title: Reasons of the House of Commons why Bishops ought not to have votes in Parliament.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 814
      flesch: 68
     summary: Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f3[3]) Reasons of the House of Commons why Bishops ought not to have votes in Parliament. England and Wales. Reasons of the House of Commons why Bishops ought not to have votes in Parliament.
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        item: #203 of 261
          id: A83836
      author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.
       title: Die Veneris 30 Julii. 1641. Resolved upon the question. That this House doth conceive that the Protestation made by them, is fit to be taken by every person that is well affected in religion, ...
        date: 1641.0
       words: 578
      flesch: 73
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        item: #204 of 261
          id: A83837
      author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.
       title: Resolves of the Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning such ministers as shall preach or pray against the present government established by Parliament.
        date: None
       words: 759
      flesch: 59
     summary: Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163043) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f14[55]) Resolves of the Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning such ministers as shall preach or pray against the present government established by Parliament. England and Wales. Resolves of the Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning such ministers as shall preach or pray against the present government established by Parliament.
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        item: #205 of 261
          id: A83870
      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
       words: 940
      flesch: 64
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83870 of text R209692 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.3[14]). 1 sheet ([1] p.) by Robert Barker printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie: and by the assignes of John Bill, Imprinted at London : 1641.
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        item: #206 of 261
          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
       words: 983
      flesch: 68
     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.
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        item: #207 of 261
          id: A83883
      author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.
       title: After debate about the printing and publishing of the orders of the 16th of January last, which followeth in these words, viz. It is this day ordered by the Lords spirtiuall and temporall, in the High Court of Parliament: that the divine service be performed, ...
        date: 1641.0
       words: 894
      flesch: 76
     summary: L. Newport : L. Whorton . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83883 of text R209707 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.3[18]).
    keywords: 16th; commons; debate; followeth; house; january; lords; order; parliament; printing; publishing; text; thomason; viz
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        item: #208 of 261
          id: A83899
      author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.
       title: Die Sabbati 16. Januarii. 1640. It is this day ordered by the Lords spirituall and temporall in the High Court of Parliament assembled, that the divine service be performed as it is appointed by the acts of Parliament of this realm: ...
        date: 1641.0
       words: 654
      flesch: 74
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83899 of text R209695 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.3[17]). It is this day ordered by the Lords spirituall and temporall in the High Court of Parliament assembled, that the divine service be performed as it is appointed by the acts of Parliament of this realm: ... England and Wales.
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        item: #209 of 261
          id: A85375
      author: Goodman, Godfrey, 1583-1656.
       title: Bishop Goodman his proposition in discharge of his own dutie and conscience both to God and man.
        date: 1650.0
       words: 6217
      flesch: 49
     summary: Bishop Goodman his proposition in discharge of his own dutie and conscience both to God and man. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2642:4) Bishop Goodman his proposition in discharge of his own dutie and conscience both to God and man.
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        item: #210 of 261
          id: A85382
      author: Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.
       title: The apologist condemned: or, A vindication of the Thirty queries (together with their author) concerning the power of the civil magistrate in matters of religion. By way of answer to a scurrilous pamphlet, published (as it seems) by some poposalist, under the mock-title of An apologie for Mr John Goodwin. Together with a brief touch upon another pamphlet, intituled, Mr J. Goodwin's queries questioned. By the author of the said Thirty queries.
        date: 1653.0
       words: 11255
      flesch: 54
     summary: If the Magistrate be impowered , or enjoyned , by the Commandment before us , to compel ( either by fines , imprisonment , or the like ) strangers or others , to the external Worship of God , then in case that Worship , whereunto he is supposed to be impowered or enjoyned to compel them , be , in the Judgment and Conscience of him that is compelled , superstitious , idolatrous , or unlawful , then the Magistrate hath not simply a Power , but a Command layd upon him by God , to force men , and particularly strangers , to pollute their Consciences , or at best to play the hypocrites by drawing near unto God with their lips , whilest their hearts are far from him . For , 1. Is it not a branch of the Faith of many in the Nation , and these not of the worst , nor worst-conscienced men , that they shall sin against God in paying Tythes , yea in allowing any maintenance at all to such Ministers , whom they judg Antichristian in their Office , and Call ? 2. What doth it ease or advantage me , that the Magistrate should force me to allow , or part with , such or such a proportion of my Estate , for the maintenance of such or such a Minister , more then it would , in case he should compel me to pay a fine of like value for holding such or such an Opinion , or for joyning in such or such a way of worshipping God ?
    keywords: apologist; author; book; case; cattel; children; christian; civil; commandment; day; doth; false; far; force; gentleman; god; goodwin; great; greatest; hand; hath; idolatry; jews; john; jurisdiction; kind; labour; laws; light; like; little; magistrate; maintenance; making; manner; master; matters; mean; men; ministers; nation; nature; non; occasion; offenders; pag; pamphlet; parents; particular; persons; pleaseth; power; practise; proposals; publique; queries; querist; query; reason; religion; rest; revenue; roman; sabbath; said; saith; sence; servants; spirit; stranger; text; things; thou; thy; time; true; truth; viz; way; wise; words; work; worship; yea
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        item: #211 of 261
          id: A85414
      author: Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.
       title: A short ansvver to A. S. alias Adam Stewart's second part of his overgrown duply to the two brethren. Together with certaine difficult questions easily answered; all which A. Stewart is desired to consider of, without replying, unlesse it be to purpose. A. Steuart [sic] in his second part of his duply to the two brethren. page 166. The civill magistrate cannot bee orthodox, and tollerate a new sect, (hee meanes independencie, and may as well say Presbytery) unles hee tollerate us to beleeve that hee is either corrupted by moneys, or some other waye, so to doe.
        date: 1644.0
       words: 16262
      flesch: 55
     summary: But , I dare say , you●●● stagger , & deny the words , beeing laid unto your charge ; the truth is , I find by this discourse , that you haue a trecherous memory , which hath led you into such a company of unreconcileable contradictions , far worse than many theeves and harlots , but if your heart or understanding had been better than your memory , this doctrin had never issued : Turn then to p● . If the Presbytery shall think good to excommunicate King or Parliament ; the Civil Magistrate , the people in whom the Soveraign power resid●s originally , pag. 167. is absolved from all obedience , and bound to put them out of the Civil State .
    keywords: able; act; adam; alias; amisse; answer; apostles; assemblies; authority; bee; beleeve; better; blood; brethren; case; christians; church; churches; civil; civil magistrate; command; conscience; contrary; corrupted; death; decrees; deut; different; disciplin; doctrin; doe; duply; ecclesiastical; england; english; execution; faith; farther; ghost; god; gods; good; gospel; government; great; greater; heaven; hee; heresie; hereticks; himselfe; holy; independents; judge; judgements; king; kingdome; law; lawes; like; little; long; lord; magistrate; man; manner; matters; men; ministers; nation; nay; new; obedience; officers; old; opinions; orthodox; owne; page; papists; parliament; passe; people; perticular; popish; power; presbyterian; present; priests; protestants; reason; religion; saying; second; seeme; selfe; selves; sentence; set; spiritual; state; stewart; subject; synod; text; thing; thou; time; true; truth; understanding; unlesse; verse; way; wee; whatsoever; world; worse; yea; yeeld; ● ●
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        item: #212 of 261
          id: A85419
      author: Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.
       title: Thirty queries, modestly propounded in order to a discovery of the truth, and mind of God, in that question, or case of conscience; whether the civil magistrate stands bound by way of duty to interpose his power or authority in matters of religion, or worship of God. By John Goodvvin, minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
        date: 1653.0
       words: 5749
      flesch: 48
     summary: ] And doth not the reason which he immediately subjoyneth , plainly shew this to have been his meaning ; For the Son of man is not come to destroy mens lives , but to save them ; as if he had said , The end ( or , one great end ) of my coming into the world , was not that any mans life should be destroyed , or taken from him for my sake , or for any injury done unto me b ; but that I might mediate , perswade , and prevail with those , who otherwise are severe against offenders , as you are , to exercise all lenity and patience towards them , and to be tender over their lives , in order to the Salvation of their Souls ? IX . Whether doth it appertain to the Civil Magistrate , as such , to provide by Civil penalties , as by disgracing , fining , imprisonment , death , &c. for the observation of any other Law in his Territories , but of the Law of Nature only ; and of this so far only , as either it clearly dictateth or prescribeth the doing of such things , which have a rational connexion with the welfare , honor , and prosperity of that community of men , which is under his inspection and government ; or as it , with like clearness , restraineth the doing of such other things , which are in the eye of Reason contrary hereunto ; considering that matters of a more spiritual nature , and such which relate either by way of sympathy , or opposition , only to an holy and humble walking with God , and not properly or directly to the Civil Interest , are of another cognisance , and committed by God to the care and faithfulness of Ecclesiastical Magistrates , in conjunction with the Common Councel of such Christian Churches , which are under their inspection , respectively ? III.
    keywords: abilities; account; authority; case; christian; church; civil; civil magistrate; conscience; doth; duty; earth; english; exercise; faith; father; god; gospel; great; hand; harvest; hath; jesus; john; judg; law; like; lord; magistrate; man; matters; men; mind; nature; non; opinions; order; people; persons; power; preaching; reason; religion; right; said; self; spiritual; state; text; things; truth; way; ways; words; work; world; worship; yea
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        item: #213 of 261
          id: A85688
      author: Grey, Enoch.
       title: Vox cœli, containing maxims of pious policy: wherein severall cases of conscience are briefly discussed; as I. In what subject the supream power of a nation doth reside. II. What is the extent of that power, and in what causes it doth appear, with the due restrictions and limitations thereof according to the Gospell. III. What obedience is due unto that power from all persons, superiour and inferiour, with other cases of great weight, very necessary to reconcile our late differences judiciously stated and impartially ballanced in the scale of the sanctuary. / By Enoch Grey minist
        date: 1649.0
       words: 25984
      flesch: 64
     summary: Also such who would perswade the Magistrate to part with his restrictive power in matters of religion , invite him to give that sword given him by God , into the hands of furious men , who would destroy all government , violate all bands ▪ both sacred and civill , and with as much right , ( and some will plead reason too , who are against magistratical authority , and would levell all into an equality , ) these may desire his restrictive power in naturall and in civill acts , yea with as much reason , and right also , they may abridge parents and masters of their restrictive authority over children and servants ( H●●●esco referens ) as they may deprive the Magistrate of his . If 〈◊〉 be tyrannicall , the Souldier shall do that justice for an oppressed people , which they could never obtain from Sycophantical Royallists : if States abuse their power , betray their trust , the same God hath ordained the same nod for 〈…〉 which renders the persons , the actions of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 honourable , in the hearts , in the eyes of God , of good 〈…〉 procures a Nation mercy , and peace , ● sp●●dy , a 〈◊〉 establishment to the greatest prosperity thereof to all 〈◊〉 .
    keywords: absolute; actions; acts; affairs; affections; argument; army; authority; bee; best; blessing; bloud; body; breach; case; causes; censure; christ; chron; churches; city; civill; command; common; conscience; contrary; counsell; courage; covenant; day; death; design; deut; divine; doe; doth; duty; end; enemies; england; esay; establishment; eternall; evill; exercise; eyes; faithfull; families; family; father; favour; fear; fire; force; friends; future; generall; glory; god; godlinesse; good; gospell; government; great; greatest; grey; ground; hands; hath; hearts; heaven; hee; highest; honour; honourable; house; humane; ier; ireland; israel; j ●; jeb ●; jer; jesus; job; judge; judgment; justice; king; kingdoms; late; law; lawes; li ●; liberties; liberty; life; like; lives; lord; love; m ●; magistrate; man; matters; means; member; men; mercy; mighty; morning; nation; naturall; nature; necessary; necessities; necessity; needy; non; oath; obedience; order; owne; parliament; parts; peace; people; persons; pious; policy; poor; power; prejudice; presence; present; preservation; princes; private; prov; prudence; psal; publick; punishment; qui; reason; reformation; religion; resolution; respect; right; roman; rome; rule; sacred; safety; saints; saith; sam; security; self; selves; sense; servants; service; set; sin; sinfull; sinne; solomon; spirit; stand; state; strength; subject; supream; text; th ●; things; thou; time; truth; tyranny; w ●; want; way; wealth; wee; wickednesse; wil; wise; word; works; worship; wrath; yea; years; ▪ ●; ● d; ● e; ● h; ● k; ● n; ● o; ● s; ● t; ● ▪; ● ●
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        item: #214 of 261
          id: A85746
      author: Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687, translator.
       title: Of the authority of the highest powers about sacred things. Or, The right of the state in the Church. Wherein are contained many judicious discourses, pertinent to our times, and of speciall use for the order and peace of all Christian churches. / Put into English by C.B. M.A. The method of every chapter is added in the margent, and collected at the end.
        date: 1651.0
       words: 77355
      flesch: 69
     summary: His law of ●onowing the God of Israel was ●o●●osso●adid , than that other of worshipping the Idol vain Cyrus and his Successors , as Histories relate , were given to the worship of false Gods ; yet , without their leave , might ( not the ) Hebrewes rebuild the Temple , for the service of the true . ●●init .
    keywords: absolute; actions; acts; adde; affairs; age; alleged; alwaies; ambrose; angels; answer; answer'd; antient; antient church; antioch; apostles; apostolicall; appeal; argument; aristotle; assemblies; assembly; assessors; austin; authority; authors; autore; bee; beginning; best; better; beza; bishops; body; books; brethren; businesse; cals; canons; cap; care; catholick; cause; certain; chalcedon; change; chap; chief; children; christ; christian; church; churches; cities; city; civill; clear; clergy; collation; command; committed; common; communion; company; confesse; congregation; consent; constantine; constitution; contrary; controversies; cor; councill; counsell; courts; custome; cyprian; david; day; deacons; death; decrees; degree; deputies; determined; deut; difference; dignity; directive; discourse; distinct; distinction; divers; divine; divine authority; divine law; divine right; divinity; doctor; doctrine; doe; doth; doubt; duty; ecclesiasticall; effect; elders; election; eminence; emperours; empire; end; enemies; england; english; enquire; ephesus; episcopacy; epistle; equall; errour; evill; examples; excellent; excommunication; exercise; expedient; extant; externall; faithfull; false; family; farre; fathers; fault; favour; finall; fit; flock; folio; following; force; france; free; french; function; generall; gift; god; gods; good; gospell; government; governour; grace; grant; great; greater; greatest; greek; h. power; hands; hath; hearing; heart; hebrew; hee; help; henry; higher; highest; highest authority; highest power; himselfe; histories; history; hold; holland; holy; honour; hope; humane; humane law; humane power; immutable; imperative; imperiall; inferiour; internall; israel; jerom; jerusalem; jewes; john; judgement; judges; jurisdiction; justinian; keys; kind; kingdome; kings; knowledge; known; labour; later; latin; law; lawes; lawfull; lawyers; lay; learned; learning; leave; left; legislation; lesser; letters; liberty; life; like; little; long; lord; love; luke; magistrates; majesty; major; making; man; manifest; manner; masters; matter; meaning; means; meer; men; mind; ministers; ministry; moses; multitude; names; nations; naturall; nature; necessary; necessity; need; neverthelesse; new; nicene; noted; nov; number; obedience; objection; obligation; observed; octavo; office; oft; old; opinion; ordained; order; ordinary; ordination; originall; pagan; pains; parliament; particular; parties; parts; pastorall; pastors; patrons; paul; peculiar; people; perpetuall; person; persuasion; peter; philo; physician; piety; pious; place; pleasure; point; pope; popular; positive; power; power hath; praise; prayer; preaching; precept; presbyters; present; presidents; priesthood; priests; princes; principall; private; profitable; proper; prophecy; prophets; proved; providence; publick; punishment; purpose; quarto; question; reason; regall; religion; respect; rest; right; roman; rome; royall; rule; rulers; sacraments; sacred; sacred things; said; saith; saying; scripture; second; sect; secular; self; senate; seniors; sense; sentence; service; set; severall; shewed; single; sir; sort; speciall; speech; spirit; spirituall; spoken; state; subject; sufficient; suffrages; superiour; supreme; synagogue; synedry; synod; tcp; temple; testament; testimony; text; theodosius; things; think; thought; time; timothy; title; true; truth; twelves; twixt; understanding; unity; universall; unjust; unlawfull; unlesse; unto; use; valentinian; vertue; vicars; way; wayes; wealth; wee; whereof; whosoever; wise; witnesse; women; word; work; worship; worthy; writers; yea; year; ● ●
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        item: #215 of 261
          id: A85986
      author: Gilbert, Claudius, d. 1696?
       title: The libertine school'd, or A vindication of the magistrates power in religious matters. In ansvver to some fallacious quæries scattered about the city of Limrick, by a nameless author, about the 15th of December, 1656. And for detection of those mysterious designs so vigorously fomented, if not begun among us, by romish engineers, and Jesuitick emissaries, under notionall disguises ... (politicæ uti & ecclesiasticæ. axiom. Arabic.) Published, by Claudus Gilbert, B.D. and minister of the Gospel at Limrick in Ireland.
        date: 1657.0
       words: 30809
      flesch: 75
     summary: None therefore should plead for a generall Toleration of conscience , because most mens consciences being wholly corrupt , Tit. 1. 15 , 16 , 17. and the best retaining much corruption , this were to plead for sinne , yea to give publique allowance to sinne , it were to proclaim rebellion against God , to set up a Traitor in Christs seat , to set up mans fallible conscience for an infallible supream Judge ; this were to invite the worst of men and spirits to settle among us , under pretence of conscience : What mischief so horrid in opinion , affection or practise , that such a Toleration would not countenance ? What if Moses by Gods command , did tolerate Divorce , for the hardness of their heart ? Christ tels us , it was their sinne occasioned it ; the supream Law-giver may dispense therewith at his pleasure , so may not any inferiour person . Peace with God ( by Christ conjugally embraced ) produces peace of conscience in man , and civil peace among men .
    keywords: abuse; account; act; ages; angels; anno; ans; answer; antichrist; apostles; authority; best; better; body; books; care; case; censures; charge; chief; christ; christian; chron; church; churches; city; civil; clear; close; command; common; compulsion; conscience; conversion; cor; corruption; course; cure; daies; daily; darkness; david; death; deut; devils; disciples; disguises; divers; divine; doth; duty; ecclesiasticall; effect; end; engineers; england; english; eph; errours; eternal; evil; execution; experience; externall; eyes; ezra; faith; faithfull; fallacious; famous; farre; fathers; fire; force; freedom; friends; gal; germany; gilbert; glory; god; godly; gods; good; gospel; grace; great; greatest; ground; hand; hath; heart; heaven; heb; hell; help; histor; holy; honour; house; infallible; interest; ireland; isa; israel; italy; jewish; jews; joh; john; judgement; justice; king; kingdom; late; law; laws; let; liberty; life; light; like; limrick; list; little; long; lord; magistrates; magistraticall; manner; mans; matters; matth; members; men; mens; mind; ministers; ministry; mistake; nations; nature; need; needfull; neglect; new; noble; non; obedience; observe; office; old; ordinances; parts; paul; peace; people; perfect; persons; pet; places; power; practise; pretended; princes; prophets; protestants; prov; providence; psal; punishment; purpose; quakers; quaking; queries; querist; reason; reformation; religion; religious; reply; rev; roman; romish; rule; rulers; sad; said; satan; scope; scripture; seat; second; seducers; self; sense; servants; set; severall; sheep; sin; sinfull; sinne; sorts; souls; spain; spirit; spirituall; state; strangers; subjects; supream; table; tares; text; thereto; thess; things; tim; time; tit; toleration; truth; unclean; use; vindication; way; wheat; wicked; wisdom; wise; witness; wolves; word; work; worship; yea; years; zeal; zealous; zech
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        item: #216 of 261
          id: A86192
      author: Henderson, Alexander, 1583?-1646.
       title: The declaration of Mr. Alexander Henderson, principall minister of the word of God at Edenbrough, and chiefe commissioner from the Kirk of Scotland to the Parliament and Synod of England: made upon his death-bed.
        date: 1648.0
       words: 4237
      flesch: 43
     summary: I conceived it the duty of a good Christian , especially one of my profession , and in the condition that I lie , expecting God Almighty ' s-call , not only to acknowledge to the All-mercifull God , with a humble sincere remorse of Conscience , the greatnesse of this offence ; which being done in simplicity of Spirit , I hope with the Apostle Paul to obteine Mercy , because I did it through Ignorance : But also , for the better satisfaction of all others , to publish this Declaration to the view of the World ; to the intent , that all those ( especially of the Ministery ) who have beene deluded with mee , may by God's Grace , and my example ( though a weake and meane Instrument ) not only bee undeceived themselves , but also stirred up to undeceive others , with more alacritie and facilitie ; that the scandall may bee removed from our Religion and Profession , and the good King restored to his just Rights , and truly honoured and obeyed as God's-Annoynted and Vice-gerent upon earth ; and the poore distressed Subjects freed from those intollerable Burdens and Oppressions which they lye groaning under , piercing Heaven with their teares and cries ; and a solid Peace setled both in Kirke and Commonwealth , throughout all his Majesties Dominions , to the glory of God , and of our blessed Mediator and Saviour the Lord Christ . Therefore I exhort and conjure you , again and again , in the bowells of our Lord Christ , and words of a dying man , especially my brethren of the Ministry ; as you expect a blessing from God upon this distressed , distracted Kirke and Kingdome , upon you and your posterity ; as you desire to remove Gods heavie Judgements from this miserable Land , the Sword and Pestilence , and what else may follow , which I tremble to thinke of ; to stand fast and firme to this poynt of your Covenant , which you were bound to before by the Law of God and of this Land , and never suffer your selves by all the gilded allurement of this world , which will prove bitter and deceitfull at last , to relinquish it : Stand fast to your Native King most gracious to this Land farre beyond all his predecessors ; none owes greater obligation to him then the Ministry and Gentry , let not an indelible charracter of Ingratitude lye upon us that may turne to our ruine .
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        item: #217 of 261
          id: A86986
      author: Hall, William, d. 1662.
       title: A sermon preached at St. Bartholomevvs the lesse in London, on the xxvii. day of March 1642; being the day of the inauguration of our soveraigne lord King Charles. By William Hall. Minister of that parish, and now thought fit to be published.
        date: 1642.0
       words: 8460
      flesch: 56
     summary: It is not the idolization by mens vaine opinion , that defies Judges and Rulers nor such an {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , or ridiculous deification as the Romans used to their dead Emperours , nor their own arrogant assuming the title of God to themselves ( as did Alexander , and also many of the Romane Tyrants ) that makes them to be called Gods ; but Gods own appellation in his Word , he honours some of the sons of men with that title which is his owne , and calls them Gods who are but mortall men . Nutricij , Nurses by the Prophet Esay , because they are to tender , and educate the Church of God ; in Ezekiels language they are {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Shepheards , to feed and rule over the people ; in S. Pauls {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Ministers of God , Rom. 13.6 but this in my Text transcends them all , they are Elohim , Gods themselves .
    keywords: actions; authority; bee; best; church; civill; command; common; cursing; david; day; dii; duty; evill; fit; generall; glory; god; gods; government; gracious; great; hall; high; highest; himselfe; images; inauguration; israel; judgement; judiciall; king; law; lawes; lawfull; lesse; liberty; london; lord; lordship; magistracy; magistrates; march; men; morall; moses; negative; non; ordeined; ordinance; owne; paul; people; persons; power; precept; priest; princes; private; railing; reason; resistance; revile; reviling; roman; rulers; saint; saith; saviour; scripture; sermon; set; soveraigne; supreame; text; thou; thought; thy; time; title; way; wee; william; words; world
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        item: #218 of 261
          id: A87355
      author: Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685?
       title: The anarchie or the blest reformation since 1640. Being a new song, wherein the people expresse their thankes and pray for the reformers. To be said or sung of all the well affected of the kingdome of England, and dominion of Wales, before the breaking up of this unhappy Parliament. To a rare new tune.
        date: 1648.0
       words: 1416
      flesch: 80
     summary: And thus it shall goe sayes Alice , Nay thus it shall goe sayes Amy ; Nay thus it shall goe sayes Taffie I trow , Nay thus it shall goe sayes Iamy . Well let the Truth be where it will , We 're sure all else is ours , Yet these divisions in our Religions , May chance abate our powers ; Then let 's agree on some one way , It skills not much how true , Take Pryn and his Clubs , or Say and his Tubs , Or any Sect old or new ; The Devils i th' Pack , if choyce you can lack , We 're fourescore Religions strong , Take your choyce , the major voyce Shall carry it right or wrong : Then wee le be of this sayes Megg , Nay wee le be of that sayes Tibb , Nay wee le be of all sayes pitifull Paul , Nay wee le be of none sayes Gibb .
    keywords: a87355; anarchie; blest; britain; doe; english; jordan; nay; new; parliament; people; reformation; reformers; sayes; song; text; thankes; thomason; truth; tune; wee
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        item: #219 of 261
          id: A88587
      author: Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.
       title: A modest and clear vindication of the serious representation, and late vindication of the ministers of London, from the scandalous aspersions of John Price, in a pamphlet of his, entituled, Clerico-classicum or, The clergies alarum to a third war. Wherein his king-killing doctrine is confuted. The authors by him alledged, as defending it, cleared. The ministers of London vindicated. The follies, and falsities of Iohn Price discovered. The protestation, vow, and the Covenant explained. / By a friend to a regulated monarchy, a free Parliament, an obedient army, and a godly ministry; but an enemy to tyranny, malignity, anarchy and heresie.
        date: 1649.0
       words: 32082
      flesch: 63
     summary: Where as you mention the ▪ Vow and Covenant you might have indeed shewed your ingenuity and candor becoming Ministers of the Gospe●● , to have taken notice of that which was the maine end of that Vow and Covenant contained in those words , that I will according to my power and vocation assist the forces raised and continued by both houses of Parliament against the force raised by the King without their conse●t ; have you performed this vow ? Answ. ● The Ministers have not been wanting in that ingenuity which becomes Ministers of the Gospell even in the main end of the Vow and Covenant , for they have according to their power and vocation , assisted the forces raised and continued by both Houses of Parliament , against the Forces raised by the King , without their consent . Whereas you say , they did at another time declare against the Army for S●izing on the Members of the Commons House : I grant they did so , and had they not cause to do it ? considering that the Parliament had long before declared , that if any person should offer to arrest or detain any member of Parliament , that it was against the libe●ties of the Subject , and a breach of the Priviledges of Parliament , and such a person is declared a publick enemy of the Common-wealth .
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        item: #220 of 261
          id: A89577
      author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
       title: A sacred panegyrick, or A sermon of thanks-giving, preached to the two Houses of Parliament, His Excellency the Earl of Essex, the Lord Major, court of alderman, and common councell of the city of London, the reverend Assembly of Divines, and commissioners from the Church of Scotland. Vpon occasion of their solemn feasting, to testifie their thankfullnes to God, and union and concord one with another, after so many designes to divide them, and thereby ruine the Kingdome, Ianuary 18. 1643. By Stephen Marshall, B.D. minister of Gods Word at Finching-field in Essex. Published by order of the Lords and Commons.
        date: 1644.0
       words: 16428
      flesch: 59
     summary: So that if Gold , or Silver , or Wealth , or ease . or pleasure , or liberty , or any of these things bee good for them the Subjects of Christ must needs injoy it from their beloved King : but these are scarce worth the naming ; The Glory of Christs Government to his People stands in this , that the maketh their souls their best part , their Spirituall-part , their Eternall part ; he maketh their soules I say , infinitly happy in being a King over them , which no other Government reacheth to , no not in any degree , further then it is in subordination to Christ , and endeth in him ; but now where Christ is set up to be King , he giveth his Subjects such things as these : The pardon and forgivenesse of all their sinnes ; the blood of Jesus Christ their King , wherein they are all washed cleanseth them from all their sinnes , so that not a man of them shall ever be called to an account before God for any thing they have done against him , He maketh all of them righteous , the Lord saith to him , thy people shall be all righteous He doth adopt them all to be His children ; all His subjects are His children , yea coheires ; yea they are all His brethren , they may all enjoy communion with his Father , and with himselfe , and with his holy Spirit ; all his Kingdome is his Court , all his subjects his Courtiers , they may all as his Favourites stand before him , and see his face , they may all present their supplications to him for themselves and others , with assurance to be heard and answered in all things according to his will : in one word , he is such a King who maketh all his Subjects to be Kings ; there is not one of all those where he is set up to be Lord and King over ; but he maketh them all to be Kings and Priests to God his Father : It is in fiers , in beginning and degree here in this world , but afterwards shall to all eternity bee manifested and made good of them all in the highest heavens ; where when they have overcome , they shall fit down with him on his throne , as hee hath sat down upon his Fathers Throne . oh the times are miserable ! what glorious times had we three or four yeares , or five or seaven yeares agoe , for then they had trading , plenty , and ease , and every one could sit vnder his owne vine , and his figge tree , no adversary nor evill occurrent , and now they heare of nothing but warres , and blood , and exhausting of treasure , and losse of their children and kinred , and plundering their goods every where , so that there is nothing but complaining amongst a world of people , as if our dayes were most miserable : Now Beloved , give me leave to speake my thoughts freely , I will set aside my Text , and the matter I am in hand with , and yet I will cofidently affirme , that our dayes now are better then they were seaven yeares agoe : Because it is better to see the Lord executing Judgment , then to see men working wickednesse , and to behold a people lye wallowing in their blood , rather then apostating from God , and embracing of Idolatry , and superstition , and banishing of the Lord Christ from amongst them : Set the worke of this Text aside , and the dayes are not so miserable now , as they were then , but take this in , which I am handling , and I will here ( in the wisest and greatest Auditory that any man in this Age hath preached unto ) not feare to say , that since England was England , since any Booke was written concerning England , never was their that cause of joy and rejoyceing as there is this very day in England : Was there ever a Parliament in England knowne , which laid the cause of Christ and Religion so to heart as this Parliament hath done ; Did ever any Parliament till now with David , sware as in the 132. Psalm , That they will never give rest to their eyes , nor slumber to their eye-lids , till they have found out a place to set the Ark of Christ upon , to set up Christ for their King , Did ever Parliament call such an Assembly of Divines and make them by solemne Vow , or Oath ingage themselves to present nothing to them , but what should be ( to their best understanding ) the very will of the Lord God ; was there ever Parliament and Nobilitie , and Ministers , and Citizens , and so many ten thousands of all sorts in England till now , who did joyne in such a Covenant , yea , the two Nations together , that they will to their uttermost , indeavour the Reformation of Religion , in the purity of it , and preservation of it according to Gods Word ; Did ever ( when heretofore England hath been engaged in warre and blood ) the City of London , the rest of the Tribes , the Godly Party throughout England , so willingly exhaust themselves , only that Christ might be set up , and willingly , saying every day to the Lord God , Lord take all , so Christ may be but King ; Did ever any of you reade it to be thus with England till now ?
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        item: #221 of 261
          id: A91248
      author: Hunton, Philip, 1604?-1682,
       title: Jus regum. Or, a vindication of the regall povver: against all spirituall authority exercised under any form of ecclesiasticall government. In a brief discourse occasioned by the observation of some passages in the Archbishop of Canterburies last speech. Published by authority.
        date: 1645.0
       words: 15738
      flesch: -14
     summary: yet may it be recalled again , but never at the Ministers will and pleasure ( which at sometimes is incident to authority ) but by the contrition and repentance of the obstinate party publikely promising , and vowing his amendment , upon which evidence the Minister may pronounce his absolution receiving him again into the bosome of the Church , and admitt him againe into the Communion of Saints , and this sentance is likewise ratifyed in Heaven , If the parties repentance be unfained and sincere , which notwithstanding may be hypocriticall and dissembled in him , albeit he doth refraine and forbeare from the performance of that wherein he gave the offence and scandall , and doth moreover proceede to amendment of his life , not onely in that particular , but doth walke unblameably and without any deserved reproofe from the judgment of men in all other , howsoever upon a visible purpose of amendment , the Minister not onely may , but must receive him againe into the bosome of the Church , and admit him againe into the holy Communion with others , so that nothing is left to the will of the Minister , nor to the finall judgement of the Minister , but all is referred to the will and knowledge of God , and where will and knowledge are excluded , their Authority is wanting , and though much may be effected and brought to passe by them , yet whatsoever is effected deserves not the name as differing from the nature of Authority : and the Ministers of Christ having no Authority in those things wherein they cannot ere so long as they follow the cleare light revealed in Scripture , they can much lesse have any Authority for such things which flow from their owne Invention , nor can they inforce obedience by any spirituall meanes or censures of the Church , unto any thing whereof they themselves are Authors , when no spirituall meanes are compulsive in regard of the Instrument that must apply them , and whatsoever efficacy or vertue they have , yet may they never be applyed for the inforcing of any thing whereof man is Author , for then it would follow that the will of man or something proceeding from the will of man would be a rule to the Justice of God , when one man must be as a Publican , or Heathen and consequently uncapable of the fruits of Christs death , for disobeying onely the will , or something depending upon the will of another , which no man dares to affirme , and having no compulsive meanes to inforce obedience , they can have no legislative power of making of cannons and constitutions binding to the conscience , for a law without a penalty or power sufficient to inforce it , is no law , nor neede they have any such power , for such a power is not conducible at all to that end of Religion which is committed to them , & to their care and paines , but is destructive to the end of government ; for Religion hath a two fold end , the one respecteth God , the other man , the end of religion in respect of God is to glorify God , that man who was therefore created to glorify his Maker should by a true knowledge of the true God glorify him aright , and the end of religion in respect of man , is to bring a man from all confidence in himselfe or the creature , to rely upon the Providence and goodnesse of God who is the Creator , to the end he may renounce his own righteousnesse to be made partaker of the merits and Righteousnesse of the Sonne of God , the Redeemer of Mankinde , that by faith in him he may obtaine grace and some measure of sanctification in this life , for the remission of sinnes , and fruition of Glory hereafter : and for this end of religion no humane lawes do contribute any thing at all , for unto this the Scriptures are sufficient being compleate in themselves , and the chiefe duty of the Ministers of the Gospell is to explaine and expound the true meaning of scripture to others , for doing whereof they should be learned in all necessary learning and skilfull , as also have a lawfull Calling by a lawfull Ordination , and for which it is very fit that they be set apart from all other imployment , and have a sufficient maintenance that they may the better attend that to which they are called ; but for the other end to glorify God , humane lawes doe contribute much , but they are required of Christian Kings and Magistrates , and not of Christian Ministers , for God did from the begining put Authority into the hands of the Magistrate , and endowed them with effectuall meanes for inforcing of obedience to what should be commanded by them , so did he never in the hands of the Priests and Levites under the Law , nor of the Apostles under the Gospell , and by consequence into the hands of no Ministers whatsoever succeeding them , and God doth require of the Magistrate to improve his Authority ( which is the talent that God hath given him ) for the gaining of others by force and compulsion , ( when no other meanes will prevaile ) to the performance of those dutyes that are required of them , as he requires of all who are called to labour in the Ministeriall function and office , to imploy their gifts and graces ( which are the talents bestowed upon them ) painfully and dilligently for the enlightning of the understanding of others , whereby every exalted thought and imagination may be brought downe , which the Magistrates Power and Authority can never reach , for the Power of the Magistrate reacheth no further then to the outward life & conversation , when the operation of the Ministry subdueth the will , and therefore the principall care of the Magistrate is and ought to be to enforce men to live uprightly and justly as they ought to doe , for by so doing men glorify God , but this is not all , the glory that is to be performed by man to God , for besides there must be a ready submission to the Will of God , springing from a perfect love to God , and grounded upon an assured confidence of Gods love to us , which may be begotten and kindled in a man , but can never be inforced , and to this duty tendeth the Ministers paines and labour , but it is and ought to be the Christian Magistrates care to provide for all that can onely be introduced by force and compulsion in the Service of God , wherefore the severall ends of Magistracy and of the Ministry are different but not contrary , but the severall meanes by which they attaine their ends are not onely different but contrary , and those meanes which are effectuall to the one , are not only ineffectuall but uselesse to the other , for the Magistrate can never attaine that end to which his Authority conduceth by no perswation nor information onely , nor can the Minister subdue the will nor informe the understanding by any Authority from or in himselfe , and both of them have their Commission immediately from God , and each of them are subject to the other without any subordination of offices from the one to the other , for the Magistrate is no lesse subject to the operation of the word from the mouth of the Minister then any other man whatsoever , and the Minister againe is as much subject to the Authority of the Magistrate as any other Subject whatsoever , and therefore though there be no subordination of offices , yet is there of Persons , the Person of the Minister remaining a Subject , but not the function of the Ministry , but there needes not two Tribunalls nor Independent Courts be erected to provide for their severall ends and dutyes required of them , for the Minister can never attaine the end of his labours , by no Judiciall processe nor legall proceedings whatsoever , and therefore all Judiciall courts are needelesse and uselesse to his ends , yet are they not so to himselfe having other ends then what are required of him for the discharge of his duty and function , but it is essentiall to the Magistrate to have a tribunall and judiciall Courts , for the attaining of his ends and duties required of him , without which he can never discharge his dutie as he ought , but whensoever the like Tribunall is erected in the Church as is necessary in the State , they must be Independent one of another in regard the severall offices governing Church and State are so , but all that is to be got by Independant Tribunalls , is either dissention and discord , which is the usuall fruite that devision of Authority beareth , or by compliance to provide for one anothers Interests , or particular ends differing from their publick dutyes , with the manifest losse of true religion on both sides , which many times drawes downe the Judgment of God upon one or both , as being a third person no lesse interressed in Justice and Honour then either , and many times the Justice of God is most greeveous when least apprehended , as suffering men to wallow in their sins to dye in security , nor is it a small Judgment to leave men to the necessary effects , which division of Authority produceth : for the end of all government is the preservation of humane society , the meanes of doing whereof is by union and unity , and Authority is the effectuall meanes of producing and propagating unity ? and therefore whensoever Authority is divided , Vnitie may alwaies , and sometimes must admit of division which destroyes it , for unity and division are destructive one of another , and when two Tribunalls are erected for the determining of severall and different causes and crimes , both armed with a forcible Authority , weilding swords of a different nature , agreable to their different constitutions , and without any dependency and subordination the one to the other , what lasting concord and agreement can there be beweene these two , they that mannage them must be juster then men are knowne to be , or advantages will be taken when given by the one , ( as no sublunary substances which are subject to change can remaine long in an equall ballance ) for subjecting the other ; and therefore it was , when the Christian world did by a generall consent beleeve that the Church having a sword though invisible , for the cutting off of all schismaticall and refractory Members , no lesse really and truly then the State hath a visible materiall sword , which for the preservation of union and unity , was esteemed necessary to be put into the hands of one , and therefore willingly submitted their necks , under the Imaginary stroake thereof , from the sentence of Popes , or Bishops of Rome ; How easie was it for them by reason therof to subject all Christian Princes and Magistrates unto a dependency and subordination unto them and their Authority , and how did they trouble the Christian world , by transferring of rights and stirring up of rebellion whensoever any of those Princes did oppose them , or contradict their wills by a supposed Intrenching upon their pretended Prerogatives though usurped ▪ but when the Popes right began to be questioned by some , whereby his reputation did decline , even amongst those who adhearing still to the doctrine of the Church of Rome as to that in which they had beene educated and bred , yet did not beleeve his censures to be so dreadfull as before they apprehended them to be ; but the edge of his sword being thereby blunted , and the edge of the temporall sword being not onely visible but sharpe , the advantage returned to Princes , whereby those Princes who continued in union with the Church of Rome , professing subjection and obedience to the spirituall Authority thereof , doe notwithstanding now reduce that power and Authority to which they professe subjection , unto a subordination of them and their Authority to be directed by them , which will be of no longer permanency , then that Church can insnare the world againe to an apprehension and beleife of the reality of their power , to beget which they continually indeavour and aspire , and have no small hopes from the differences and divisions amongst Protestants , for the increasing and fomenting whereof it is not to be imagined that they are idle ; but whatsoever their hopes and practises are , their greatest strength remaineth in this , that it is generally beleeved that the Church hath a spirituall Authority for the cutting off of all schismaticall Members , and that this Authority is to be preserved in some one forme or other without any derivation thereof from any humane power , for then it cleerely and undoubtedly followeth , that whosoever by such principles of reason taken from the end of government doth incline to Monarchy , and that this spirituall Authority can best be preserved by the Supremacy of one man , then the Bishops of Rome , having had for a long time , and for a long succession , and still having the possession , besides other advantages of greatnesse and power which begetteth strength and reputation , must and will be acknowledged by all those to be the onely spirituall Monarch in the Church armed with spirituall Authority ; and whosoever out of prejudice against the Church of Rome , taken against her by reason of either her errours or abuses , or both , doth seperate themselves from the Communion of that Church , and by consequence onely free themselves from her subjection , but doe notwithstand adheare to and retaine the grounds of those errours and abuses , by acknowledging and beleeving that the same spirituall Authority ( which was presupposed to have beene abused by the Popes and Bishops of Rome as Vsurpers onely over the rest of the Clergy , or too great a power and consequently dangerous in the hands of any one man ) is not onely lawfull but necessary as being Inherent in the function , and essentiall for the preservation of union and unity , to be preserved in some other forme which they agree upon and like better then the incontrollable Supremacie of one man , then this doth necessarily follow , that albeit they free themselves from all the errours and abuses which were introduced by the Supreamicie of one man , yet so long as they acknowledge that the same power and Authority is resident in others , they can never free themselves of all errours and abuses which are introducible by Authority , but that the property and condition of things in themselves indifferent will be changed from being indifferent and converted into the nature and necessity of absolute duties , which ever begets bondage and subjection , and sense of bondage doth ever beget desire of liberty , which can never be obtained so long as the opinion of a necessity of Authority in some forme or other is retained ; and experience hath now taught us , what could not be foreseene by reason alone , without some additionall helpe from divine illumination , that in the Church of England which did not onely shake off the Supreamicie of the Pope , but had purged her selfe of all those errours which had either crept in , or were introduced by the power of that Supreamicie , by retaining of Bishops , and giving them a part onely of that spirituall Authority , which formerly was acknowledged to Popes , and though quallifying that part by restraining it from all legislative power , or a power to inact any thing , but allowing it a Power of Iudicature , the effectuall operation and proper working of that part of spirituall Authority , hath now fully manifested it selfe to tend to propogate superstition and errour ▪ rather then the sincerity and truth of Religion ; and as the naturall motions of different bodies , differing in quality and substance tend to different centers , the naturall motion of Episcopacy , hath now discovered it selfe to indeavour continually to unite it selfe to such a head to which it is capable to aspire , rather then to be in subjection under such a head to which it hath no capacity to aspyre , and that received principle of State , that Episcopacy , is a support to Monarchy , is now likewise discovered to be fraudulent and deceitefull , for it is true that it is a support to a spirituall Monarchy or Monarchy in the Church , as being the basis and foundation thereof , but doth undermine and destroy Monarchy in the State , especially in that State which doth trust unto it as to a supporter , and the reason is cleere , for all supporters which have no solid foundation , doe ruinate those buildings , which are erected upon them being of greater weight and substance then the foundation can beare , and the foundation of Episcopacy being layed in the engrossing of spirituall Authority or Ecclesiasticall censures ; Spirituall Authority it selfe hath no other existence nor being , but what it hath in the Imagination and beleefe , which is too slippery a ground to support a solid substance , such as temporall Monarchy is , but may be sufficient to support an aery and imaginary bulk , such as spirituall Monarchy is , which Episcopacy not only supports , but continually tends towards as to its proper center , and my Lord of Cant. By which means , an equall allegiance should have been payed to them as to the King and his Successors for ever : And all this was presented to the blinded world , and abused King , as a remedy to secure men against any suspicion of revolt to Popery , which was nothing else but a publick setting up of Popery , though not yet of the Popes supremacy , which was to follow ; and imploying the help and assistance of the Magistrates Sword , and the force and power of the Laws of the Land to that very use and end ; For Popery consisteth neither in this or that superstition nor Idolatry , nor in this or that erroneous Doctrine , nor in all-together , principally and chiefly ; but in the absolutenesse of spirituall authority commanding Implicite obedience , to whatsoever Doctrine or Superstition shall be invented by man , as necessary and essentiall to the true worship of God , under the threatned pain and penalty of Excommunication and Interdiction , and promising the kingdome of heaven to whomsoever it pleaseth , as a gift or reward within the power of man : and the assumption of which so divine and incompetent a power to any man or mankind united together , and the deriving thereof from one solely to others , as inherent in the person or function of one onely , doth necessarily inferre and presuppose the gift of Infallibility in him who doth so assume it , that he may become an unappealable Judge , which doth exalt him , in the sight and esteeme of those men who do beleeve in him , and willingly submit unto him , to the nature and dignity of the incommunicable prerogative of God , and makes him undeniably the revealed Antichrist to others , by usurping and possessing the throne of Christ upon earth , for whom onely , such dominion and authority is reserved in heaven .
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        item: #222 of 261
          id: A92445
      author: Scotland. Parliament.
       title: From the commissioners of Scotland, 24 February, 1640.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 1046
      flesch: 66
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A92445 of text R6419 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.3[4]). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160562) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f3[4]) From the commissioners of Scotland, 24 February, 1640. Scotland.
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        item: #223 of 261
          id: A92479
      author: Scotland. Parliament. Committee of Estates.
       title: Act asserting His Majesties supremacy over all persons and in all causes ecclesiastical At Edinburgh, the 16th of November, 1669. The Estates of Parliament having seriously considered, how necessar [sic] it is for the good and peace of the Church and State; that His Majesties power and authority, in relation to matters and persons ecclesiastical, be more clearly asserted by an act of Parliament;...
        date: 1669.0
       words: 1287
      flesch: 57
     summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A92479) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 137278)
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        item: #224 of 261
          id: A92581
      author: Scotland. Parliament.
       title: A letter sent from the Parliament of Scotland to the severall Presbyteries within the kingdome.
        date: 1648.0
       words: 1162
      flesch: 59
     summary: It is a subject for the dispute of Church Judicatories , whether his Majesty hath a negative voice in Parliament or not ? These certainly cannot be pretended to by any Kirk-man , without a great usurpation over the Civill Magistrate , whereof We are confident the Church of Scotland , nor any Judicatory thereof will never be guilty , nor fall into the Episcopall disease of medling with Civill affaires : This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A92581 of text R210769 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.12[23]).
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        item: #225 of 261
          id: A93888
      author: J. T.
       title: An ansvver to a letter vvritten at Oxford, and superscribed to Dr. Samuel Turner, concerning the Church, and the revenues thereof. Wherein is shewed, how impossible it is for the King with a good conscience to yeeld to the change of church-government by bishops, or to the alienating the lands of the Church.
        date: 1647.0
       words: 17872
      flesch: 57
     summary: These last words make me suspect some passion in the Writer , as being in scorne heretofore taken up by men , who for a long time were Schismatiques , in their hearts , and are now Rebels in their actions : And though I was not desired to reforme this Epistlers errour , yet in charity I shall tell him , that he is out , when he affirmes that this opinion was but of late countenanced in this Church , as I could shew him out of Archbishop Whitgift , and Bishop Bilson and others : and since perhaps he may thinke these to be but men of the more Lordly Clergy , I shall name one more who may stand for many , and who wrote forty yeares since , that most excellent man M. Hooker , ( a person of most incomparable learning , and of as much modesty , who I dare be bold to say , did not once dreame of a Rotchet ) he averres in cleare tearmes , There are at this day in the Church of England , no other then the same degrees of Ecclesiasticall order , namely Bishops , Presbyters , and Deacons , which had their beginning from Christ and his blessed Apostles themselves , or as he expounds himselfe , Bishops and Presbyters , ordained by Christ himselfe in the Apostles and the seventy , and then Deacons by his Apostles ; I may adde Bucer too , no man I am sure of the Lordly Clergy , who though he were not English born , yet he was professor here in King Edwards time , and he wrote and dyed in this Kingdome ,
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        item: #226 of 261
          id: A94192
      author: Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663.
       title: Two cases of conscience: resolved by the Right Reverend Father in God Robert Sanderson Late Lord Bishop of Lincoln.
        date: 1668.0
       words: 10473
      flesch: 52
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. For if such latitude of construction , should be admitted in Promises , and other Obligations of that nature , intended for the preservation of faith amongst mankind , there would not remain any possible means , whereby for men to have assurance of one another meanings .
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        item: #227 of 261
          id: A94456
      author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.
       title: To the honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament the humble petition of the ministers of the county of Hertford, concerning church-government.
        date: None
       words: 662
      flesch: 65
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94456 of text R212194 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.9[12]). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A94456) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 161110)
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        item: #228 of 261
          id: A96686
      author: Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677.
       title: Hypocrisie unmasked: by a true relation of the proceedings of the Governour and company of the Massachusets against Samuel Gorton (and his accomplices) a notorious disturber of the peace and quiet of the severall governments wherein he lived : with the grounds and reasons thereof, examined and allowed by their Generall Court holden at Boston in New-England in November last, 1646. Together with a particular answer to the manifold slanders, and abominable falshoods which are contained in a book written by the said Gorton, and entituled, Simplicities defence against seven-headed policy, &c. Discovering to the view of all whose eyes are open, his manifold blasphemies; as also the dangerous agreement which he and his accomplices made with ambitious and treacherous Indians, who at the same time were deeply engaged in a desperate conspiracy to cut off all the rest of the English in the other plantations. VVhereunto is added a briefe narration (occasioned by certain aspersions) of the true grounds or cause of the first planting of New-England; the president of their churches in the way and worship of God; their communion with the Reformed Churches; and their practise towards those that dissent from them in matters of religion and Church-government. / By Edw. Winslow. Published by authority.
        date: None
       words: 47235
      flesch: 43
     summary: so the lesse of this Image by man was the death of Christ , and therefore 't is no wonder if they deny Christ to dye actually onely when crucified under Pontius Pilate because man sinned actually ( which they make to be Christs death ) long before ; meane while the reader may take notice with a holy astonishment and horrour of the heavy curse of God in blinding these bold men with such a palpable and grosse spirit of delusion and mad phrensies , who will make mans sinne and fall , which is the cause of perdition of men , to be the cause of the Salvation of man , for so Christs death is which they blasphemously make mans sinne to bee . But wee profess right held , according to no such interest , but upon the ground of Covenant onely , knowne in its nature ; In the parties 'twixt whom it is plight , In the possesser , and the possessed , with the nature of all fruit arising from their accord and concurrencie , together with their Distinct , Harmonicall , Reciprocall , and Joint properties , and operations of them both : Such is the tenure wee hould , and maintain , before men and Angels , and oppose it against man and Divell , Not in taking up unto our selves , certaine offices and officers which wee can teach children to bee , and to perform , and from thence presently to conclude , the possession of the Kingdome , Crying out our peace offerings are upon us , this Day we have payd our vowes .
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        item: #229 of 261
          id: A96824
      author: Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.
       title: To the inhabitants of London, this is, a message, in the name of the Lord.
        date: 1663.0
       words: 1349
      flesch: 66
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
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        item: #230 of 261
          id: A97095
      author: Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665, attributed name.
       title: The compassionate Samaritane unbinding the conscience, and powring oyle into the wounds which have beene made upon the separation, recommending their future welfare to the serious thoughts and carefull endeavours of all who love the peace and unity of Commonwealths men, or desire the unanimous prosecution of the common enemy, or who follow our Saviours rule, to doe unto others what they would have others doe unto them.
        date: 1644.0
       words: 2287
      flesch: 48
     summary: The compassionate Samaritane unbinding the conscience, and powring oyle into the wounds which have beene made upon the separation, recommending their future welfare to the serious thoughts and carefull endeavours of all who love the peace and unity of Commonwealths men, or desire the unanimous prosecution of the common enemy, or who follow our Saviours rule, to doe unto others what they would have others doe unto them. The compassionate Samaritane unbinding the conscience, and powring oyle into the wounds which have beene made upon the separation, recommending their future welfare to the serious thoughts and carefull endeavours of all who love the peace and unity of Commonwealths men, or desire the unanimous prosecution of the common enemy, or who follow our Saviours rule, to doe unto others what they would have others doe unto them.
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        item: #231 of 261
          id: B02055
      author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
       title: His Majesties declaration to all his loving subjects, March 15. 1672. Published by the advice of his Privy Council.
        date: 1672.0
       words: 1747
      flesch: 59
     summary: Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179347) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
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        item: #232 of 261
          id: B02102
      author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
       title: By the King. A proclamation. Charles R. ... We having, with the advice and consent of Our Parliaments, past so many acts in favors of the Protestant religion, against field-conventicles ...
        date: 1679.0
       words: 1802
      flesch: 60
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. B02102) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179364)
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        item: #233 of 261
          id: B02110
      author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
       title: By the King. A proclamation, for a publick general fast, throughout the realm of Scotland.
        date: 1665.0
       words: 1275
      flesch: 63
     summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B02110) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179366) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
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        item: #234 of 261
          id: B02111
      author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
       title: By the King. A proclamation, for a publick general thanksgiving, throughout the realm of Scotland.
        date: 1665.0
       words: 1242
      flesch: 64
     summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B02111) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179367) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
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        item: #235 of 261
          id: B03079
      author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.
       title: The humble address of the right honourable the Lords spiritual and temporal in Parliament assembled. Presented to his Majesty. On Tuesday the eighteenth day of February, 1700. And his Maiesties most gracious answer thereunto.
        date: 1701.0
       words: 1336
      flesch: 64
     summary: Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 178793) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2770:32) Presented to his Majesty.
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        item: #236 of 261
          id: B05302
      author: Gibson, Alexander, Sir, d. 1693.
       title: An act appointing a fast throughout the whole kingdom of Scotland
        date: 1675.0
       words: 1602
      flesch: 60
     summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179547)
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        item: #237 of 261
          id: B05535
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: A proclamation, appointing a national thanksgiving.
        date: 1694.0
       words: 1516
      flesch: 61
     summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Intentional blank spaces in text.
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        item: #238 of 261
          id: B05536
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: A proclamation, appointing a solemn and publick thanksgiving.
        date: 1692.0
       words: 1570
      flesch: 60
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05536) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179004)
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        item: #239 of 261
          id: B05595
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: A proclamation, for a general fast. At Edinburgh, the twenty fourth day of August, one thousand six hundred eighty nine years.
        date: 1689.0
       words: 1951
      flesch: 59
     summary: FOrasmuch as the great and long abounding of Sins of all sorts amongst all Ranks of Persons , with the continued Impenitency under them , and not Reforming therefrom ; The falling from their first Love ; and great Faintings and Failings of Ministers , and others of all Ranks , in the hour of Temptation , in their Zeal for God and his Work ; and that although there be much cause to Bless God for the Comfortable Unity and Harmony amongst the Ministers , and Body of Christian Professors in this Church ; Yet that there are such Sad , and Continuing Divisions amongst some , is also matter of Lamentation before God ; The great Ingratitude for his begun Deliverance of this Nation from Popery and Slavery , and unsuitable Walking thereunto ; The Contempt of the Gospel , not Mourning for former , and present Iniquities , nor turning to the Lord by such Reformation and Holiness , as so great Work calls for ; The many Sad and long continued Tokens of Gods Wrath , in the hiding of his Face , and more especially in his Restraining the Power and Presence of his Spirit , with the Preached Gospel , in the Conversion of Souls , and Edifying the Converted ; and the Lord 's Threatning the Sword of a Cruel and Barbarous Enemy , in the present great Distress of Ireland , by the prevailing of an Anti-Christian Party there ; and Threatning the Sword of the same Enemy at home , and the great and imminent Danger of the Reformed Protestant Religion , not only from an open Declared Party of Papists , Enemies to the same , but from many other professed Protestants , who joyn Issue with them in the same Design , befides the Sad Sufferings , and Scatterings of Reformed Churches Abroad ; Having Seriously , and Religiously moved the Presbyterian Ministers , Elders and Professors of the Church of Scotland , Humbly to Address themselves to the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council , for a General Fast and Day of Humiliation , to be kept throughout the whole Kingdom , The saids Lords , Do out of a Pious and Religious Disposition , approve of the said Motion , as Dutiful and Necessary at the time ; and therefore in His Majesties Name and Authority , Do Command a Solemn and Publick Fast , and Day of Humiliation , to be Religiously and Sincerely Observed throughout this Kingdom , both in Churches and Meeting-Houses , as they would avert Wrath , and procure and continue Blessings to this Kingdom ; and that all persons whatsomever may send up their Fervent Prayers and Supplications to Almighty God , that he would pour out upon all Ranks , a Spirit of Grace and Supplication , that they may Mourn for all their Iniquities , and more especially , that God would pour forth upon King WILLIAM , and Queen MARY , and upon all inferior Magistrats , and Counsellors , a Spirit of Wisdom for Government , and Zeal for God , his Church , and Work in this Land , as the present case of both do Call for , and that God may preserve Them for Carrying on that great Work , which he hath so Gloriously and Seasonably begun by them ; and that God would Countenance , and Bless with Success , the Armies by Sea and Land , raised for the Defence of the Protestant Religion ; and more especially , that God would pour forth a Spirit of Holiness upon them , lest their Sins , and ours may provock God against them in the Day of Battel ; and that he would Bless all Means for the Settlement of Church and State : That God would Bless the Season of the Year , and give Seasonable Weather for Cutting Down , and Gathering in the Fruits of the Earth , that the Stroke of Famine , which God hath frequently Threatned the Nation with , may be averted . And to the End that this part of Divine Worship , so pious and necessary , may be punctually kept upon the respective Dayes above-mentioned , They Ordain Sir William Lockhart Sollicitor , in the most convenient and proper way , to Dispatch , and send Copies hereof to the Sheriffs , their Deputs , and Clerks of the several Shires of this Kingdom , to be by them Published at the Mercat-Crosses of the Head-Burghs , upon Receipt thereof , and immediatly sent to the several Ministers , both of Churches and Meeting-Houses , that upon the Lords Day immediatly preceeding the Fast , and upon the respective Dayes of the publick Fast , and Humiliation , the Ministers may Read , and Intimat this Proclamation from the Pulpit , in every Paroch-Church , and Meeting-House ; and that they exhort all Persons to a Serious and Devout Performance of the saids Prayers , Fasting and Humiliation , as they regard the Favour of Almighty God , and the Safety and Preservation of the Protestant Religion , and expect a blessed success to the Carrying on of that Great and Glorious Work of this Nations being Delivered from Popery and Slavery , so seasonably begun , and as they would avoid the Wrath and Indignation of God against this Kingdom , and procure , and continue manifold Blessings to the same : Certifying all these who shall contemn , or neglect such a religious and necessary Duty , they shall be proceeded against , and punished as Contemners of his Majesties Authority , Neglecters of Religious services , and as persons disaffected to the Protestant Religion , as well as to their Majesties Royal Persons and Government . And Ordains these Presents to be Printed , and Published by Macers , or Messengers at Arms , at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh , and other places above-mentioned , that none may pretend ignorance .
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        item: #240 of 261
          id: B05597
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: A proclamation, for a national fast.
        date: 1698.0
       words: 1598
      flesch: 60
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        item: #241 of 261
          id: B05598
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: A proclamation for a national humiliation upon the account of the Queens death.
        date: 1695.0
       words: 1484
      flesch: 62
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        item: #242 of 261
          id: B05601
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: A proclamation, for a publick solemn thanksgiving.
        date: 1691.0
       words: 1589
      flesch: 61
     summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Royal arms at head of text; initial letter.
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        item: #243 of 261
          id: B05603
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: A proclamation, for a solemn and publick thanksgiving.
        date: 1690.0
       words: 1266
      flesch: 63
     summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05603) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179041) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2776:30) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
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        item: #244 of 261
          id: B05604
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: A proclamation for a solemn day of humiliation.
        date: 1696.0
       words: 1477
      flesch: 62
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        item: #245 of 261
          id: B05605
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: Proclamation for a solemn fast and humiliation
        date: 1696.0
       words: 1874
      flesch: 57
     summary: Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180014) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
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        item: #246 of 261
          id: B05606
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: A proclamation, for a solemn national fast to be keeped monethly.
        date: 1691.0
       words: 1426
      flesch: 62
     summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Royal arms at head of text; initial letter.
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        item: #247 of 261
          id: B05607
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: A proclamation for a solemn national fast and humiliation.
        date: 1696.0
       words: 1750
      flesch: 60
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        item: #248 of 261
          id: B05608
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: A proclamation, for a solemn national fast and humiliation.
        date: 1696.0
       words: 1463
      flesch: 59
     summary: Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179045) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2776:34) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: books; characters; council; day; early; edinburgh; eebo; english; fast; general; god; humiliation; image; national; online; oxford; partnership; phase; privy; scotland; solemn; tcp; tei; text; works
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        item: #249 of 261
          id: B05609
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: Proclamation for a solemn national fast.
        date: None
       words: 1458
      flesch: 61
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        item: #250 of 261
          id: B05612
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: Proclamation for a solemn national monthly fast
        date: 1692.0
       words: 1382
      flesch: 61
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05612) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180015)
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        item: #251 of 261
          id: B05613
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: A proclamation for a solemn national thanksgiving.
        date: 1692.0
       words: 1564
      flesch: 60
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        item: #252 of 261
          id: B05614
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: Proclamation for a solemn national thanksgiving
        date: 1695.0
       words: 1318
      flesch: 61
     summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05614) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180016) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: books; characters; council; day; early; edinburgh; eebo; encoding; english; image; national; online; oxford; partnership; phase; privy; scotland; solemn; tcp; tei; text; thanksgiving; works; xml
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        item: #253 of 261
          id: B05616
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: Proclamation for a solemn national thanksgiving and publick prayers.
        date: 1699.0
       words: 1677
      flesch: 61
     summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Royal arms at head of text; initial letter.
    keywords: books; characters; council; day; early; edinburgh; eebo; english; god; image; kingdom; national; november; online; oxford; partnership; phase; prayers; privy; proclamation; publick; scotland; solemn; tcp; tei; text; thanksgiving; works
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        item: #254 of 261
          id: B05617
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: A proclamation for a solemn thanksgiving.
        date: 1693.0
       words: 1529
      flesch: 62
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179052)
    keywords: books; characters; council; day; early; edinburgh; eebo; encoding; english; god; image; kingdom; online; oxford; partnership; phase; privy; scotland; shires; solemn; tcp; tei; text; thanksgiving; works; xml
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        item: #255 of 261
          id: B05620
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: A proclamation for adjourning the General Assembly of this church, to the seventeenth of December next, 1695.
        date: 1695.0
       words: 1222
      flesch: 64
     summary: Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179054) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
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        item: #256 of 261
          id: B05703
      author: Scotland. Sovereign (1649-1685 : Charles II)
       title: A proclamation for the security of ministers. At Edinburgh, the thirteenth day of June, one thousand six hundred and sixty seven.
        date: None
       words: 1897
      flesch: 51
     summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179638)
    keywords: books; characters; church; early; edinburgh; eebo; encoding; english; goods; heretors; image; ministers; online; oxford; parochioners; partnership; persons; phase; proclamation; scotland; security; tcp; tei; tennents; text; works; xml
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        item: #257 of 261
          id: B05710
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: A proclamation indicting a General Assembly.
        date: 1693.0
       words: 1203
      flesch: 63
     summary: Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179105) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
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        item: #258 of 261
          id: B05721
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: A proclamation prorogating the Acts of Parliament against conventicles, and separation from the publick meetings of divine worship.
        date: 1675.0
       words: 1304
      flesch: 62
     summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Royal arms at head of text; initial letter.
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        item: #259 of 261
          id: B05737
      author: Scotland. Privy Council.
       title: A proclamation, superceding the monthly fast after September, 1693.
        date: 1693.0
       words: 1186
      flesch: 66
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        item: #260 of 261
          id: B05746
      author: Eliot, Gilbert, Sir, 1651-1718.
       title: Proclamation anent production of the tacks of the teinds of the bishopricks
        date: 1694.0
       words: 1177
      flesch: 64
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05746) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180032)
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        item: #261 of 261
          id: B06605
      author: Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Convocation.
       title: His Majesties gracious message to the Convocation, sent by the Earl of Nottingham.
        date: 1689.0
       words: 1416
      flesch: 60
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06605) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179249)
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