item: #1 of 5 id: 15251 author: Bonar, Andrew A. (Andrew Alexander) title: The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne date: None words: 73918 flesch: 79 summary: Perhaps there are many souls that would never have been saved under my ministry, who may be touched under yours; and God has taken this method of bringing you into my place. Many things lost somewhat of their importance in our view, when examined amid the undistracted reflections of the long desert journey, where for many days we had quiet, like the quiet of death, around us all night long, and even during the bright day. keywords: bible; brother; christ; church; day; days; death; deep; dundee; evening; father; fear; flock; friend; god; good; grace; hand; heart; holy; jesus; life; little; lord; love; m'cheyne; man; meeting; men; mind; ministers; ministry; morning; night; people; place; prayer; preaching; sabbath; sin; sins; soul; spirit; things; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; way; word; work; years cache: 15251.txt plain text: 15251.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 16892 author: Whyte, Alexander title: Samuel Rutherford and Some of His Correspondents date: None words: 61314 flesch: 71 summary: We find such men as Robert Bruce, Robert Blair, John Livingstone, and Samuel Rutherford continually referring to her in the loftiest terms. Here, too, are old men with hard tasks between them and their salvation--a past life to read, to repent of, to redress, to reform, to weep deliberate and bitter tears over. keywords: anwoth; book; cardoness; children; christ; church; come; day; days; death; find; god; good; gordon; grace; guthrie; hand; heart; heaven; house; john; lady; letters; life; lord; love; man; men; mind; minister; new; night; people; poor; rutherford; samuel rutherford; scotland; sin; son; soul; things; time; way; william; work; young cache: 16892.txt plain text: 16892.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 21938 author: Knox, John title: The Works of John Knox, Volume 1 (of 6) date: None words: 227591 flesch: 72 summary: That confessioun gave that hole nomber, during the tyme of thare bondage: in the which, wald God thei had continewed in thare fredome; for then had nott Maister James Balfour bein Officiall,[579] neyther yitt borne a cope[580] for pleasur of the Bischope. The day appointed to thare crueltie approched, the two poore sanctis of God war presented befoir those bloody bowcheouris: grevouse war the crymes that war layed to thare charge. keywords: abbot; account; agane; alexander; andrews; ane; ane man; answer; appendix; appointment; april; archbishop; articles; august; authoritie; awin; balfour; beaton; becaus; befoir; befoir god; begane; bein; beleve; bene; betuix; bischope; bischoppis; bishop; body; boith; book; borne; bot; brethren; brother; buchanan; butt; cardinall; castell; castle; cause; certane; charge; charter; christ; church; college; command; commandiment; commoun; conforte; congregatioun; conscience; consent; copy; council; counsall; court; cuming; cumpany; danger; date; daughter; david; day; dayis; death; december; declair; defence; deid; desyre; diverse; doctrin; doubt; duke; earl; edinburgh; edit; edition; efter; ellis; end; england; english; erle; eternall; evangell; everie; evill; eyther; faith; fals; family; father; fear; february; fifth; foirsaid; following; force; foxe; france; freindis; french; frome; furth; fyre; gentilmen; george; geve; gevin; gif; glasgow; glorie; god; god j^m; goddis; godly; good; governour; grace; gray; great; haif; haill; hamilton; hand; handis; hath; haue; having; head; hear; heir; henry; hie; hir; history; hole; holy; honour; house; hym; i. p.; idolatrie; item; james; jesus; john; johnestoun; johnne; judgement; july; june; justice; king; kingis; kirk; knowledge; knox; lady; lands; lard; law; lay; left; leith; lesley; letter; letteris; libertie; life; london; lord; lord god; lord james; lordis; maid; maik; maister; mak; man; maner; march; marginal; mary; men; men war; mercy; monsieur; mss; mycht; mynd; near; nether; new; nobilitie; nocht; nomber; note; notice; nott; november; obedience; october; offended; office; onlie; ony; order; ordinance; ordour; otheris; oure; page; papers; parish; parliament; parte; patrick; people; persons; perth; place; power; preaching; preastis; presence; present; prince; publict; purpose; putt; queen; quene; quenis; quhat; quhilk; realme; receaved; regent; religioun; rest; robert; sanct; sanctandrois; sayd; saying; sche; schir; scotland; second; seing; self; selfis; send; sentence; september; servand; service; sett; shalbe; sick; sir; small; son; sone; space; state; strangearis; suffer; sum; tackin; text; thair; thairfoir; thairof; thame; thame selfis; thare war; thay; thay war; thee; thei; thingis; thomas; thought; thow; thy; time; title; toune; town; treasurer; trew; truble; tyme; understand; upoun; uther; vautr; verray; vol; volume; wald; walter; war; weall; wealth; werkis; whare; whiche; whill; whome; wicked; william; wishart; wold; word; work; year; yitt; yow cache: 21938.txt plain text: 21938.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 28272 author: Howie, John title: Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies date: None words: 304118 flesch: 60 summary: CONTENTS Biographia Scoticana The Preface The Introduction The Lives and Characters of the Scots Worthies Contents Errata Footnotes to Biographia Scoticana The Judgment and Justice of God Exemplified, &c. Footnotes to The Judgment and Justice of God Exemplified The Subscribers Transcriber's Notes _Biographia Scoticana:_ or, a BRIEF HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of the LIVES, CHARACTERS, and MEMORABLE TRANSACTIONS of the most eminent SCOTS WORTHIES, Noblemen, Gentlemen, Ministers, and others: From Mr. _Patrick Hamilton_, who was born about the year of our Lord 1503, and suffered martyrdom at _St. Andrews_, Feb. 1527, to _Mr. James Renwick_, who was executed in the Grass-market of _Edinburgh_ Feb. 17, 1688. I tell you Mr. John, said the bishop of St. Andrews, that the king is pope, and shall be so now; He replied, That is an evil style you give him: And then gave in his reasons in write, which they read at leisure. keywords: account; act; alexander; andrews; answer; arch; argyle; army; assembly; authority; bed; betwixt; bishop; blair; blood; body; bothwel; brethren; brother; c. mr; captain; cast; cause; charge; children; christ; christian; church; coming; commission; conscience; council; country; court; covenant; david; day; days; death; desire; duty; earl; edinburgh; end; enemies; enemy; england; english; exercise; faithful; family; father; following; friends; general; gentleman; george; glasgow; glory; god; good; gospel; government; grace; great; guthrie; hamilton; hand; hath; having; head; heart; heaven; high; history; holy; home; house; interest; james; jesus; john; judgment; king; kingdom; know; law; leave; left; let; letter; liberty; life; like; little; long; lord; love; majesty; man; man mr; manner; master; mean; meeting; men; mind; minister; ministry; morning; mr john; near; new; night; old; order; page; parish; parliament; party; people; place; poor; power; prayer; preaching; prelacy; present; public; purpose; queen; read; reformation; religion; rest; return; robert; saying; scotland; scots; sentence; sermon; servant; set; short; sir; son; soul; spirit; state; testimony; things; thought; thy; time; time mr; town; truth; way; weaver; welch; wicked; wife; william; word; work; year; young cache: 28272.txt plain text: 28272.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 37137 author: Shields, Alexander title: A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods date: None words: 291678 flesch: 57 summary: O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thy self; lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth, render a reward to the proud. And indeed, if we consider it right, if the impression of any majesty God hath put upon princes, should bind up our hands from any resistance, it will restrain from prayer resistance: for, if that impression have any force at any time, it must be when a man is most solemnly stated before God, and speaking to God as a Christian, rather than when he is acting as a man with a man like himself: and as prayer resistance is the more formidable and forcible resistance than any other (as this Saul and many other kings, have found by their woful experience) so it is more restricted than other resistance; for we may defend ourselves against many whom we must not pray against, to wit, our private enemies, for whom we are commanded to pray: yet nobody will deny but we may resist their violence: and likewise, we are commanded to pray for kings, when invested with God's authority; but when their degeneration looses us from that obligation to pray for them, and allows us to pray against them when they turn enemies to God (as we see in the prayers of the psalmist) then also we may more warrantably resist them by defensive arms. keywords: absolute; acts; authority; blood; brethren; case; christ; church; command; conscience; consent; contrary; country; covenant; day; death; declaration; doth; duty; end; enemies; evil; faithful; father; force; general; god; good; gospel; government; hands; hath; having; head; interest; israel; judgment; justice; king; kingdom; land; law; laws; let; liberties; liberty; like; lord; lord god; magistrates; man; manner; matter; meetings; men; ministers; ministry; moral; nature; necessity; oath; order; people; persons; place; power; pray; present; public; reason; reformation; religion; resistance; right; rulers; scotland; scripture; sense; set; sin; state; subjection; subjects; testimony; things; time; truth; tyranny; tyrants; war; way; wicked; word; work; yea cache: 37137.txt plain text: 37137.txt