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id: A45301
author: E. I.
date: 1641.0
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title:
  A letter sent to an honourable gentleman in way of satisfaction concerning some slanderous reports lately raised against the bishops and the rest of the clergie of this kingdome.

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A45301 of text R14131 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing H392). no A letter sent to an honourable gentleman, in way of satisfaction, concerning some slanderous reports lately raised against the bishops, and Hall, Joseph 1641 1069 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 B The rate of 9 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words.


id: A39341
author: Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.
date: 1688.0
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words: 1687
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title:
  A clergy-man of the Church of England his vindication of himself for reading His Majesties late declaration. With allowance.

summary:
  Ego quidem Jussioni Subjectus , eandem Legem per diversas terrarum pa●… transmitti feci , & quia Lex ipsa Omnipotenti Deo minime concordat , ecce per 〈◊〉 gestionis meae paginam serenissimis Dominis nunciavi Utrobique ergo quae d●… exolui , qui & Imperatori Obedientiam praebui , & pro Deo quod sensi minime t●… 〈◊〉 towards Men , I resolv'd to submit to this Order , upon these , and the 〈◊〉 Considerations , That Our Sovereign Lord the King , has a Right to Declare or make known his Mind as to any Matter whatsoever , to every ●…e of his Subjects : And Consequently that he has a Right to Constrain ●…l Priests and Deacons to be his Instruments to make his Mind known by ●…eading any DECLARATION , &c. I was prompted to these thoughts my Remembrance of those words of St. Gregory , which I took special 〈◊〉 of Twenty years since .


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
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words: 1817
sentence: 61
flesch: 59
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id: A39631
author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
date: 1642.0
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words: 2366
sentence: 229
flesch: 77
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title:
  Five remarkable passages which have very lately happened betweene His Maiestie and the high court of Parliament ...

summary:
  Master de Lasser . Five remarkable passages which have very lately happened betweene His Maiestie and the high court of Parliament ...


id: A36096
author: E. D.
date: 1699.0
extension: .xml
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words: 4345
sentence: 104
flesch: 52
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title:
  A Letter to the late Lord Bishop of L. and C. upon his translation to W. shewing the ill consequences of such removes.

summary:
  A Letter to the late Lord Bishop of L. and C. upon his translation to W. shewing the ill consequences of such removes. A Letter to the late Lord Bishop of L. and C. upon his translation to W. shewing the ill consequences of such removes.


id: A79888
author: Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.
date: 1659.0
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words: 4337
sentence: 167
flesch: 70
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title:
  A caution against sacriledge: or Sundry queries concerning tithes. Wherein is held forth the propriety, and title that ministers have to them, the mischiefs which would ensue if tithes were brought into a common treasury, and ministers reduced to stipends. The danger of gratifying the petitioners against tithes, and all imposed maintenance. And something of the spirit and end of their actings. Collected, and composed by the one that hath no propriety in tithes, and humbly tendred to this present Parliament.

summary:
  A caution against sacriledge: or Sundry queries concerning tithes. Wherein is held forth the propriety, and title that ministers have to them, the mischiefs which would ensue if tithes were brought into a common treasury, and ministers reduced to stipends.


id: A95889
author: Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.
date: 1647.0
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words: 4925
sentence: 174
flesch: 48
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title:
  A just correction and inlargement of a scandalous bill of the mortality of the malignant clergie of London, and other parts of the kingdome, which have been justly sequestred from their pastorall-charges, and since that (some of them) defunct, by reason of the contageous infection of the prelaticall pride and malignancie of their owne spirits; since the yeare 1641. to this present year 1647. Together with the severall pernicious casualties of the same. Or, A succinct traiterologie, in answer to a lying martyrologie, and catalogue of the gracelesse, and godlesse, lazy Levites, and proud prelaticall priests of the City of London, and beyond the liberties thereof, who have been justly imprisoned and deprived of their estates ... Serving for London, especially, and the liberties thereof, with the out-parishes; together with most parts of the whole kingdome, both city and country. / By J:V.

summary:
  I Dr. Isaacson , of Andrews-Wardrobe , Lon : sequestred for being a popish innovator , a hater of frequent preaching , and a desperate malignant against the Parliament . Mr. Leech , of Mary Le-Bow , Lon. sequestred for his peevish and perverse malignancie against the Parliament .


id: A26052
author: Griffin, Lewis.
date: 1661.0
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words: 1324
sentence: 59
flesch: 66
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title:
  The asses complaint against Balaam; or, The cry of the country against ignorant and scandalous ministers.

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id: A40035
author: Foster, T.
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sentence: 130
flesch: 55
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title:
  A winding-sheet for England's ministry which hath a name to live, but is dead sent to John Owen, called Dr. in that ministry, and late vice-chancellor of Oxford, and is in answer to his printed paper concerning tythes : or, an examination of those scriptures by which he seems to prove, that the publike maintenance for preachers of the Gospel by way of tythes, is a gospel-maintenance, but upon examination thereof by the scriptures, he is found to be a subverter of them, and, that tythes is no lawful maintenance for gospel-ministers.

summary:
  1. I shall first speak to the Question propounded , and in answer thereunto , do positively affirm , and say contrarily , That the present way of maintenance for Ministers by Tithes , is not onely a great oppression , and intollerable in a Christian Common-wealth , or amongst men professing Christ Jesus to be their King , Priest , and Prophet , but also Antichristian , and contrary to the maintenance and practice of Gospel-ministers : And that not to remove such an oppression , were little less , in plain English , then direct robbery , or to uphold wickedness by a Law , God having appointed no such maintenance for Gospel-preachers , but is a maintenance , as you may read , set up by Pope Gregory the tenth , in the year 1211. and not by Christ , nor was it ever practised by the Apostles or Disciples of Christ in the primitive times : And Cook in the third part of his Institutes also testifies , that Tenths and First-fruits are but a late Innovation , and claimed by the Pope as Successor to the Jewish High-priest : and Doctor Seamor , one of your own Divines confessed before the Committee of Parliament , in the year 1653. 9 14. which saith , they that preach the Gospel , should live of the Gospel , hath been largely spoken to already ; and therefore I shall conclude , and tell thee , that thou hast proved nothing by Scripture , that tythes is a Gospel-maintenance , or that the dispensers thereof are to be afforded tythes by way of maintenance for preaching the Gospel .


id: A44839
author: Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.
date: 1659.0
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title:
  The difference of that call of God to the ministry which is by the power of his own gift and measure of life, revealed, and of that, which is received of man, and taught by man, as is manifest by these two severall calls, herein declared, with several principals relating to this second call, answered / by Richard Hubberthorn.

summary:
  But they which gather Scriptures together in their earthly wisdom , and from that which they have gathered , minister unto others ; this ministery doth not perfect the Saints , nor edifie the body of Christ , nor bring to the unity of the Faith ( but into strife and divisions ) not to the knowledge of the Son of God , but leads from his knowledge ; not unto a perfect man , but pleads against perfection ; not into the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ ; ( no ) not unto the measure of the least Saint , so that Ministery is to be ceased from , which proceeds not from the measure of the Fathers gift ; & that onely continued unto the end of the World which his gift calleth into , and carrieth on in ; So I , by the measure of his free Spirit , being called and made a Minister of it unto others ( ●ot of the Letter , but of the Spirit ) in which in all ages the true Ministery stood ; having not received it of man , neither was I taught it , but by the revelation and manifestation of the life of Christ in me . Which Spirit in me according to its measure is as true and as infallible as it was in them , which by it were made Apostles , Evangelists , Prophets and Teachers formerly , being the same in power , vertue and operation as it was , as able to reveal and make manifest , to teach , edifie and perfect as it was , and to beget people out of the World into the Covenant of Light and Life ; and all who are Ministers of Christ , for the gathering of his seed from the ends of the earth , into the Kingdom of his dear Son , must from the same Spirit witness their Call and separation to that work ; and all other calls , are false , and their ministery profits not , which doth not singly proceed from the measure of that gift : but all , who do abide in the measure of his gift , and from it minister , by it , they are manifest to be of God ; and in that Ministery they commend themselves unto every mans Conscience in the sight of God , and this is the calling and Ministery , in which as every one abide , they glorifie God . There he hath belyed the Ministers of the Gospel , for they could discern the elect from the world , as it is written , ye shall discern between him that serveth God , and him that serveth him not ; and Paul and Peter wrote to the elect ; so these teachers who know not the elect , and yet exhorts , all their hearers to believe , and lay hold on Christ , their preaching is in vain ; for if God have but intended a certain number to be saved , and the rest to be condemned , then they set their hearers a work in vain , and many to expect that which they are never like to have ; so these people are in a miserable state ; and note that these Priests though they take sums of mony , and tithes of their hearers in many parishes in this Nation , yet they know not who are elected among them according to this mans words .


id: A87180
author: Hartley, William, of Stony-Stratford.
date: 1651.0
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words: 6382
sentence: 223
flesch: 61
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title:
  The prerogative priests passing-bell. Or Amen to the rigid clergy. Shewing the usefulness, equity, lawfulness, and necessity, of private persons to take upon them preaching or expounding of the scriptures, having a call thereto by the word of God, and agreeable to the practise of the best reformed churches of Christ, and judgment of judicious divines both forraign and domestick. Being a brief reply to that discourse intituled The pulpit guarded with 17 arguments, and owned by Tho. Hall. Calculated on purpose for the metropolis of Northamptonshire, and may serve indifferently for those parts that are in conjunction with the northern climate. / By William Hartley.

summary:
  JEsus Christ ( God manifested in the flesh ) gave his Disciples to understand , that men did not light a candle , and then presently put it under a bushel , but set it upon a candlestick , that it might give light to the room : The way to bring men to the knowledg of God is Christ Jesus , who in the mystery of the Gospel is Love , Meekness , Humility , &c. in the Creature , and all true Messengers put on Jesus Christ in this method : But now seeing many ( who appropriate to themselves the stile of Ministers of the Gospel ) barren in this nature , and fruits of rankor from a root of bitterness is so grown to maturity , that the Tree is easily distinguished , and notwithstanding the sheep-skin , the rapine of the Wolf is discovered , which cruelty is that contrary nature , or pure Antichrist , who must be destroyed not by outward violence , but by the Word of God :


id: A59876
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1686.0
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sentence: 247
flesch: 60
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title:
  A sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Benj. Calamy, D.D. and late minister of St. Lawrence Jewry, London, Jan. 7th, 1686 by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  Now to Feed , signifies to instruct men in the Knowledge of Christ , for Knowledge is the proper food and nourishment of the Soul , by which it grows in Spiritual Wisdom , and all Vertue and Goodness ; and is as necessary to our Spiritual Life , as natural food is to the Life of our Bodies . Christ is the Head of the Church , the Husband , the Shepherd , the Lord , which are all names of Authority and Power ; and the Church is his Body , his Spouse , his Flock , his Houshold , and Family , which are names of Subjection , and denote a regular and orderly Society ; but Christ has now left this World , and does not visibly appear among us , to direct and govern the Affairs of his Church ; he is ascended into Heaven , where he sits at the right hand of God , and exerciseth an invisible Power and Providence for the defence and preservation of his Church on Earth : He governs us by his Laws , and by his Spirit , and by his Ministers : for when he ascended on high , he led captivity captive , and gave gifts to men .


id: A33914
author: Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.
title: The office of a chaplain enquir'd into and vindicated from servility and contempt
date: 1688.0
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sentence: 191
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summary:
  2. He does not receive this Commission from the Master of the Family , or from any humane Authority , but from God himself , whose Deputy he is in things pertaining to Religion : He is not entertain'd upon any secular account , or to manage any other business but what relates to another world ; and is Consecrated to this Function by the Divine Warrant and appointment , and consequently he is Gods Minister not mans . 3. However pride , ignorance , or inconsideration may sometimes byass mens minds , yet if they would but attend to their own practice , they would see that the concern of a Priest in a Family is no servile employment ; because in the absence of a Priest the Master of the Family supplies his place , as far as lawfully he may , that is , in praying and giving thanks at meat ; which is a plain confession that men are satisfied that 't is very improper to employ any of their servants in the performance of Holy Offices ; the doing of which would be dishonourable to God , and weaken the force and Majesty of Religion ; and therefore when one Consecrated to Holy Ministrations is not present , God ought to be addressed to by a person of the greatest consideration in the Family ; which implicit confession of theirs , is both agreeable to the reason of mankind in general , and the practice of the first Ages of the world , when the Civil and Ecclesiastical Authority were united , the same Person being both Priest and Prince in his Family ; as appears from Abraham , Isaac , Iacob , and Iob's erecting Altars , and offering sacrifices : and before the Institution of the Mosaick Law ( in which God chose a distinct Tribe to serve him in Holy Offices ) the First-born , among other considerable priviledges , had the Priesthood annext to his Birth-right .


id: A39249
author: Ellis, Clement, 1630-1700.
date: 1694.0
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words: 10313
sentence: 340
flesch: 68
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title:
  The Christian hearer's first lesson a sermon preached at St. Mary's Church in Nottingham on Thursday, Octob. the 4th, 1694 : the first day of a lecture preached there weekly by the ministers of that town and country : publish'd to satisfie the desire of some of the auditors / by Clem Elis ...

summary:
  One will be of Paul , another of Apollos , a third of Cephas , and a fourth is too wise or too good in his own conceit to be taught of Man , and will therefore confine Christ to his own Party , that he may be taught of God only . Well then , if we believe St. Paul , The whole vertue and efficacy of Man's Ministry in the Church of Christ , for the conversion and salvation of Sinners , is from the blessing of God.


id: A67768
author: Younge, Richard.
date: 1661.0
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words: 10539
sentence: 417
flesch: 75
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title:
  The proofe of a good preacher the right art of hearing : that good counsel is seldom well taken : that wilful offenders are as witlesse as wicked : with an apologie for wholesome truth, how distasteful soever / by J.F.

summary:
  And the like touching a mans wisdome and humility . But for one that is so wise , there is a thousand of those fools I am to decipher , who with Balaam will grutch to be hindered in their way to Hell , and fly upon those that oppose their perdition : even such as think it better to fry everlastingly in a furnace of fire and brimstone in Hell-flames , than to inherit a celestial and eternal Kingdome , and weight of superabundant Glory in Heaven , to enjoy a Paradise of pleasure , where are such joyes , as eye hath not seen , nor ear heard , nor can ever enter into the heart of man to conceive , 1 Cor.


id: A54794
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1682.0
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words: 11967
sentence: 398
flesch: 67
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title:
  Speculum crape-gownorum, or, An old looking-glass for the young academicks, new foyl'd with reflections on some of the late high-flown sermons : to which is added, An essay towards a sermon of the newest fashion / by a guide to the inferiour clergy.

summary:
  Another sort there are ●hat stuff their Sermons with frightful metaphors ; flie to both the Indies , ransack Heaven and Earth ; down to the bottom of the Sea ; romage all the Shops and Ware●houses , spare neither Camp nor City , but they will have them . Judging , that should the Ministers words be such as comes to the common Ma●ket , plain and practical , he might pass probably for an honest and well meaning man , but by no●means for that thing which he would be thought to be , a Scholar ▪ Whereas if he give a spring now● and then in high Raptures towards the uppermost Heavens , dashing here and there an All● amazing word if he soars aloft in bombasti●●● Huffs , preaches Points de●p and mystical , and delivers the● as dark and Phantastical ; This is the way to be admired , and accounted a most able and profound ●nstructer .


id: A41425
author: Goodaire, Thomas, d. 1693.
date: 1691.0
extension: .xml
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words: 14371
sentence: 227
flesch: 39
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title:
  A plain testimony to the antient truth and work of God and against the corruption of the clergy, and their upholders. By T. G.

summary:
  First , I do affirm , that neither the Popish Clergy , nor the Protestant Clergy , nor their Hearers that are Members of their Churches , neither can , nor never shall know Jesus Christ experimentally to be their Saviour and Redeemer from their Sins and Iniquities , as the true Ministers and People of God did know him formerly , and as the true Ministers and People of God know him now in this our Age and Generation , to their and our Souls true peace , joy , comfort and satisfaction in God ; neither can they ever know the Mystery of Godliness by experience revealed in them , nor they cannot have a true belief in Christ , as the Ministers and People of God had , and have now , so long as they live and act in Sin , and take pleasure and delight therein , and plead for a continuance in Sin so long as they live upon the Earth . And it is the Doctrine and Belief of the Clergy-Men , before mentioned , and the People that are their Hearers , and Members of their Churches , That none can be set free from Sin , nor be made perfect from it in this Life ; and so they preach against Perfection from Sin , which God and Christ commanded that People should be perfect and holy ; and are God and Christ such hard Masters as to command that of People for them to do , which cannot be done nor attained unto in this Life ?


id: A67593
author: Browne, George, d. 1556.
date: 1681.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 8868
sentence: 198
flesch: 49
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title:
  Historical collections of the church in Ireland during the reigns of K. Henry VIII, Edward VI and Q. Mary wherein are several material passages omitted by other historians concerning the manner how that kingdom was first converted to the Protestant religion and how by the special providence of God, Dr. Cole, a bloody agent of Q. Mary was prevented in his designs against the Protestants there : set forth in the life and death of George Browne, sometime Archbishop of Dublin, who was the first of the Romish clergy in Ireland that threw off the Popes supremacy and forsook the idolatrous worship of of [sic] Rome : with a sermon of his on that subject.

summary:
  Historical collections of the church in Ireland during the reigns of K. Henry VIII, Edward VI and Q. Mary wherein are several material passages omitted by other historians concerning the manner how that kingdom was first converted to the Protestant religion and how by the special providence of God, Dr. Cole, a bloody agent of Q. Mary was prevented in his designs against the Protestants there : set forth in the life and death of George Browne, sometime Archbishop of Dublin, who was the first of the Romish clergy in Ireland that threw off the Popes supremacy and forsook the idolatrous worship of of [sic] Rome : with a sermon of his on that subject. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 804:15) Historical collections of the church in Ireland during the reigns of K. Henry VIII, Edward VI and Q. Mary wherein are several material passages omitted by other historians concerning the manner how that kingdom was first converted to the Protestant religion and how by the special providence of God, Dr. Cole, a bloody agent of Q. Mary was prevented in his designs against the Protestants there : set forth in the life and death of George Browne, sometime Archbishop of Dublin, who was the first of the Romish clergy in Ireland that threw off the Popes supremacy and forsook the idolatrous worship of of [sic] Rome : with a sermon of his on that subject.


id: A77950
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1657.0
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flesch: -30
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title:
  A measure of the times: and a full & clear description of the signes of the times, and of the changing of the times; and of the reign of Antichrist, who hath long reigned, and of his down-fall, which is at hand; and of the kingdom of Christ which is now setting up in the earth. Shewing unto all people in all nations, what the state of things hath been in ages past, and what the state of things are at this present day. ... And also, here it is manifest, concerning the teachers of this age, and the root from whence they sprang, who are manifest to be of that stock of false prophets, which Christ prophesied of should come, and which the Apostles saw was coming in their dayes, and how that the night of darknesse hath been upon all, for many generations: ... And also, the restauration is described, which shortly cometh, wherein Christ shall reign, whose right it is, and shall change laws and decrees, and the lamb shall be the light of all nations, ... and their King shall possesse the uttermost parts of the earth. By one who hath measured the times, who is come to the day that hath made all things manifest. Edw: Burrough.

summary:
  The shadow of death hath been the lodging place of all people , and the vaile of ignorance hath been a covering , and the darknesse of heart hath been followed for a Law , and a blind understanding have been the guide , for ordinances and statutes : and Death in the beastly power hath ruled as King , in all the dominions of the earth , and in all mens hearts ; and men hath been without the wisdome of God , even every eye blind , and every eare deafe , and every tongue dumb , and every heart corrupt , and void of understanding , and every foot lame , and all men have been altogether imperfect ; for the living God hath been as a stranger unto the children of men , lesse known by men then the owner to the Ox , and lesse perceived then the crib by the asse , and all flesh hath corrupted its way before the Lord . And the church of the Laodiceans were luke warme , and neither hot , nor cold , and the Lord would spew her out of his mouth , for she was wretched , and miserable , and poore , and blinde , and naked , and the shame of her nakednesse did appeare ; and if any had an eare to heare , they might heare ; these things were spoken by him that lives for ever , the first , and the last , the beginning , and the Amen ; so that hereby the Lords soul was vexed , and his spirit grieved , and his wrath was suddenly kindled against them , who were revolters , and backsliders from his way of salvation , which he had made manifest to them , through the mouth of his servants ; so that his fury went out against them to overthrow them , and to break them to pieces ; and they being turned from his Law , and from his statutes , he gave them up unto their own hearts desire , and brought in the heathen upon them , to confound them , who broke them asunder , and trod down many of their Cities , and gained great Ports of their dominions , and made them slaves by multitudes , and overthrew their worship , and subjected their power ; even the Turks , and base uncircumcised people made a prey upon them , and possessed their habitations , and set up abominable Idolatries in the place where Gods honour had dwelt ; and their dominions , and treasures without , became spoyle to the teeth of devourers ; for they having lost the terrour , of the Lord , he brought up the heathen to be a terrour unto them , whose power was mightier then they , and overcame them , they being without the power of God ; and this justly came upon them , according to the purpose of the Lord , because of their backslidings ; And others of them , who was not so given up to the will of an outward enemy , yet were they given up to strange Idolatries and subversion , and setting up images , and worshiped that which is not God , but abomination to him , to this day ; so that the holy City , which had been full of glory , was given to the Gentiles to be troden downe ; and under their poluted feet hath it been stamped , and to their mouth hath it been a prey , for such a time , even since these things came to passe , unto this day ; as you may read , and the Beast and false Prophet , hath ruled in oppression , and the great whore hath made all Nations drunke with the wine of her fornication ; All the great men , and Princes , and nobles , and all the people upon earth have been made drunke by her , and touched her uncleannesse , and ever since the day wherein the backsliding entered , she hath fit upon nations , and kindreds , and tongues , and people , and hath been decked in divers colours , to deceive the hearts of all people , and all Nations have been deceived by her , and the beast and his power , whose dominion hath been great , hath upheld wickednesse by a Law , and established Idolatry by decrees , and all have been out of the way , and wandring in blindnesse , and darknesse , even the whole world have worshiped the Beast , and gone after the false Prophet , which sits upon the Beast , and his power protects him , till they be both overthrowne into perdition , and cast alive into the Lake , which now the Lord is comeing to doe in power , and dominion : and great Babylon is coming into remembrance before the Lord , and as she hath done , so shall it be done to her , her children is dashing against the stones , and her offspring is withering away , and the darknesse is vanishing , and the Sun is appearing , and the beastly power shall be subdued , and the false Prophet confounded , even the old Dragon shall be bound , and chained , never more to deceive ; for the Beast hath had a long reigne with his false Prophet , who have prophesied lies , and false divinations , and led away the minds of all people .


id: A47678
author: Church of England. Diocese of London. Bishop (1675-1713 : Compton)
date: 1686.0
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title:
  Lent-preachers appointed by the Lord Bishop of London to preach on Wednesdays and Fridays for the year 1685/6 at St. Michael's Cornhill. St. Lawrence's St. Dunstan's in the West. St. James's.

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). Dean of Canterbury , D r Tillotson .


id: A26686
author: Alleine, Joseph, 1634-1668.
date: 1664.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10881
sentence: 502
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A26686.xml
txt: txt/A26686.txt
title:
  A call to Archippus, or, An humble and earnest motion to some ejected ministers (by way of letter) to take heed to their ministry that they fulfil it.

summary:
  We cannot inform you , but have only writ to * stir you up by way of remembrance , and humbly to put you in mind , that you † stir up the gift of God that is in you , and suffer not your worthy * Talents to be buried in the Napkin , now the sinking Church and dying Religion hath such pressing need for their utmost improvement . Should not the * Pillars of the Lord's House stand upright under their weight ? shall the † Jachin and Boaz of the Temple be as a man without strength ? You are the Champions of the Lord ; and shall not you be * valiant for the Truth upon Earth ? and confess your Lord in the face of danger , though in † midst of a wicked and adulterous generation ? Are not you the Shepherds of the Flocks ? And shall the true Shepherds flee , as * soon as they see the Wolves , and leave the Sheep ? When should they shew their care and diligence , their solicitude and watchfulness , if not when the beasts of prey come to tear , and to destroy ? You are the † Stewards and Dispensers of the Mysteries of God , that are to give to all the Family their portion , every one in their season ; and blessed is that servant ( only ) whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing : And how will the Master look on you at his return , if you suffer the Family to starve , when he hath left with you for their supply till he come ? And hath not God charged , that you † trade with your Talents ? and as you have received the gift ,


id: A27034
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1657.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9838
sentence: 451
flesch: 75
cache: cache/A27034.xml
txt: txt/A27034.txt
title:
  A second sheet for the ministry iustifying our calling against Quakers, seekers, and papists and all that deny us to be the ministers of Christ by Richard Baxter.

summary:
  But besides these , there is a second sort of true Ministers , whose Office is not to receive from God any new Doctrine , Law , or Message ; but to proclaim the Laws already delivered , and teach men the doctrine already revealed , and to Oversee and govern the Churches of Christ according to his Laws , and to go before the people in the worship of God : The Prophets and Apostles did both these ; both Reveal the doctrine which they received from Christ , and teach and guide the Church by it when they had done : but the latter sort of Ministers do but ▪ the later sort of the work . And Christ himself sends the cleansed to the Priest , and commandeth them to hear the Pharises that sat in Moses Chair , though they were no Prophets : so that besides the Prophets that had their message immediately from God , there were Priests that were called the Ministers of the Lord , Joel 1.9.2.17 .


id: A54793
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1682.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13825
sentence: 720
flesch: 78
cache: cache/A54793.xml
txt: txt/A54793.txt
title:
  Speculum crape-gownorum, the second part, or, A continuation of observations and reflections upon the late sermons of some that would be thought Goliah's for the Church of England by the same author.

summary:
  I only speak this to shew , that men are not to urge upon the Conscience so severely , that were so nice of it themselves . Priest. Oh Sir , upon extraordinary occasions , and in extraordinary places , men come to shew their Parts and their Learning , not their Divinity .


id: A28368
author: Blaxton, John.
date: 1642.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17092
sentence: 662
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A28368.xml
txt: txt/A28368.txt
title:
  A remonstrance against the non-residents of Great Brittaine, or, Non-residency condemned by Scripture, by strength of arguments, by fathers, councels, canon-law, by the iudgement of reverend and learned divines

summary:
  The Locust is given to spoile and devoure green things , it was one of the plagues of Aegip● ; Non-Residents devoure the tithes of many Parishes in this Kingdome , and they are not to bee numbred amongst the least of those plagues that God inflicts upon us for our sins . What is the cause so few subject themselves to Christs Scepter ? Is it not because Non-Residents draw not out the sword of the Spirit , ( the Word ) but the sword of the Magistrate , for which they never had any Commission from Christ ? Some of our carelesse Non-Residents have a cure of soules in one place , and live in another like fugitive Captaines forsake their Ensigne and Company at Barwick , and flee to Dover : who being with Jonah commanded for Nineveh , flee to Tarshish , being placed in the Countrey , they run to the Cathedrals , they leave their charge , as the Ostrich doth her eggs in the earth and sands , forgetting that either the foot may crush them , or that the wild beast may breake them , or at the best they leave their Congregations , as the Cu●kow doth her egs to be hatched of a Sparrow or some other bird : Is their unnecessary absence excused because their places are supplied ? What then is the election of Ministers , but a scorn and mockerie ( as Dominicus Soto speaketh , writing hereof at large ) if a man may take a Benefice , and discharge it by another man ? and seeing Christ sendeth them as labour●rs , teachers , not ordainers of labourers and teachers in their places , what is it as Parisiensis speaketh , writing much to this purpose , but as if a man should mar●y a woman , under hope to obtaine issue of her , but by another man ? What is this but a crosse practise of the Samaritan , and of Christ : of whom the former , did not commit the care of the wounded man to his Inne-keeper , till he was to depart himself ; the Lord did not commit his sheep to Peter , nor his mother to John , till he was now ready to commit his soule to God , and his body to the ground , as Alphonsus de Castro discoursing hereof at large speaketh .


id: A26854
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1662.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21252
sentence: 473
flesch: 50
cache: cache/A26854.xml
txt: txt/A26854.txt
title:
  Richard Baxter his account to his dearly beloved, the inhabitants of Kidderminster, of the causes of his being forbidden by the Bishop of Worcester to preach within his diocess with the Bishop of Worcester's letter in answer thereunto : and some short animadversions upon the said bishops letter.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. if they doe , why then do they deny it to so many that hunger and thirst after it , whensoever either by reason of Age , or Lameness , or sicknesse , or some other bodily infirmity they cannot come to Church for it ? especially when the Catholick Church in the Twelfth Canon of the first General Council commands it be given even to those that are Excommunicate , if they desire it when they are in Extremis , or going out of the world .


id: A55386
author: Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679.
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9375
sentence: 291
flesch: 60
cache: cache/A55386.xml
txt: txt/A55386.txt
title:
  A model for the maintaining of students of choice abilities at the university, and principally in order to the ministry with epistles & recommendations, and an account of the settlement and practise of it in the universities from the doctors there : as also with answers to such objections as are most plausible, which may be made against it : and with the names of the trustees.

summary:
  3. That the Trustees proceed in all things without partiality , as they shall judge best for the publick good , and suffer not themselves to be byassed from it by any favours or recommendations whatsoever : And particularly that in the election of Schollars , or Trustees , when there are any vacancies , the Trustees declare themselves , that they will according to their Trust proceed therein with all fidelity and integrity : And that the Clerk put the Chairman in mind of it . 2. That those Doctors of the University , &c. who are Trustees , be desired ( so far as they can ) to take special notice of the Exhibitioners , and to enquire into their proficiency in their studies , and the godlinesse of their conversations , and admonish or advise them , as they see cause , and give notice to the Trustees at London , when occasion shall require : Also that they be entreated to direct them in the course of their studies , and resolve them in difficulties , as need requires .


id: A35355
author: Culmer, Richard, 17th cent.
date: 1657.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20112
sentence: 416
flesch: 49
cache: cache/A35355.xml
txt: txt/A35355.txt
title:
  A parish looking-glasse for persecutors of ministers ... or, The persecuted ministers apologie published by Richard Culmer ... in defence of his father, Richard Culmer ...

summary:
  A parish looking-glasse for persecutors of ministers ... or, The persecuted ministers apologie published by Richard Culmer ... in defence of his father, Richard Culmer ... A parish looking-glasse for persecutors of ministers ... or, The persecuted ministers apologie published by Richard Culmer ... in defence of his father, Richard Culmer ... Culmer, Richard, 17th cent.


id: A66449
author: Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.
date: 1652.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 14437
sentence: 382
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A66449.xml
txt: txt/A66449.txt
title:
  The hirelings ministry none of Christs, or, A discourse touching the propagating the Gospel of Christ Jesus humbly presented to such pious and honourable hands whom the present debate thereof concerns by Roger Williams.

summary:
  As also against their sacrilegious and superstitious Degrees ( as they call them ) in the profession of Divinity , as if they only knew Divinity , Godlinesse , Holinesse , and by such skill in godlinesse , and by such Degrees might succeed the ancient Scribes and Pharisees , in the uppermost seats in Synagogues and Feasts , in Reverend titles and salutations , as the only Masters and Teachers of Religion and godlinesse , and all this in the way of the Hireling , dividing ( Dan. 11. ) the whole Land for gaine : so that there hath not been roome ( without some speciall and extraordinary priviledge and license ) for the poorest Cottager to live in England , out of the Bishops Diocesse and the Priests Parish , and Payments : therefore , Thirdly , In all humble reverence and due submission to the Higher Powers , I affirme , there was never meerly Civill State in the World ( for that of the Iewes was mixt and Ceremoniall ) that ever did or ever shall make good work of it , with a civill sword in spirituall matters , and therefore have but builded & pluckt down , planted and pluckt up , Churches , Ministries , Disciplines , &c. I acknowledge with thankfulnes , that many heavenly Spirits , in K : Edwards , Q : Elizabeths days , and since that , have been forming and reforming the states and nations , Religion , Worship , Ministry , &c. Doubtlesse Intentions were holy ( as Davids ) labours great , & Gods mercy , and pity and patience infinite : yet experience long and ever hath told us That there was never a Nation yet born in a day to God , That the bodies of all Nations is a part of the world , and although the holy Spirit of God , in every Nation where the Word comes , washeth white some Blackamores , and changeth some Leopards spots , yet the bodies and bulks of Nations , cannot by all the Acts and Statutes under heaven , put off the Blackamores skin , the Leopard spots , &c. O why then should the wisedome of so many Ages , still each after other , be preacht ( by the prevailing Hirelings of each time , againe and again ) into the selfe-same delusion of washing the Blackamore , & c ? There is not a Towne , nor a Parish , nor a person in England , but judge themselves christian , and to that end challenge the right and use of ( a Minister , in sacris some ( as in all Religions in the world it is ) to serve the Dietie they worship , ex officio , as Sacerdotes , or holy persons for and with them , in prayers and holy Rites . The World divided ( say our ablest Cosmographers ) into thirty parts , as yet but five of thirty have heard of the sweet name of Iesus a Saviour : His Messengers must yet goe forth into the other twenty five , after the downfall of the Papacie , when also at the Fullnesse of the Gentiles , or Nations comming in , shall be the joyful Raising us from the Dead of the ( Accursed , and yet Beloved Nation of the )


id: A64264
author: Taylor, Thomas, 1618-1682.
date: 1679.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3163
sentence: 82
flesch: 60
cache: cache/A64264.xml
txt: txt/A64264.txt
title:
  To the people at and about Stafford a testimony for God and his truth and against deceit and deceivers, especially the hireling priests ... / by ... Thomas Taylor.

summary:
  Hear , O People , and Fear ; for the LORD hath spoken : THE false Teacher , the Hireling , who hath run and God never sent him , but preaches for Hire and divines for Money , can never profit your Souls , O people , at all ; but with their false Dreams , and lying Divinations , and empty Sounds , they deceive your poor Souls : For what can the dead words of a dead man ( dead in Sins ) raise up your dead Souls from Death to Life : No , they cannot ; they have no Life in them ; and such who have no spiritual Health for Soundness ( by their own Confession ) in them , but are miserable Offenders , can they minister any healthful or sound Doctrine to your Souls ; nay , those cannot ; for , what is their Chaff to the Wheat , their frothy Words to the powerful Word of God ; for , sow a Field with Chaff , and what a Crop can you expect ; but as the Prophet saith , They sow the Wind , and reap the Whirlewind : So cease from them , you that love God and your own Souls , and turn to God : for I testifie for God , That the True Ministry , the Soul-saving Ministry of Christ Jesus is not with the Parish-Hirelings of these dayes ; for neither their long black Robes , nor long white Surplices , nor their humane Learning , nor the Ordination of Man , men of like nature with themselves , doth any more conduce to the making of them able Ministers of the new Covenant , the Gospel of Christ , the Everlasting Covenant of God , than the grey or brown Coat of the Plowman , or Artificer , or the Skill of the Husbandman in Husbandry , or the Cunning of the cunning Worker in Wood , Brass or Iron doth furnish them for Gospel-service ; for the Vision of Gods Kingdom to all the world this day , both wise and foolish , is like a Book sealed , as the Prophet saith , which is given to the worldly wise to read , and he cannot read it , because it s seal'd ; and to the foolish , and he cannot read it , because he is unlearned , Isa. 29. 10 , 11 , 12. And as in former days he gave some Apostles , some Prophets , some Evangelists , and some Pastors and Teachers , for the perfecting of the Saints , for the Work of the Ministry , for the edifying of the Body of Christ , till we all ( saith the Apos●le ) to wit , the Heavenly Body not the Body of Sinful Earthly Flesh ) come in the Unity of the Faith , and the Knowledge of the Son of God , to a perfect Man , unto the Measure of the Stature and fulness of Christ , Ephes. 4. 11 , 12 , 13.


id: A78013
author: Burt, Nathaniel, fl. 1644-1655.
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4185
sentence: 154
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A78013.xml
txt: txt/A78013.txt
title:
  An individuall letter to every man that calls himselfe a minister of Jesus Christ. Penned more particularly for Mr. Christopher Love, upon some observations from his sermon, preached Jan. 29. 1644. at Windsor, and re-preached at Uxbridge, Jan. 30. 1644. upon Jer. 33. 6. Whereby the author doth examine and enquire, whether Master Love were ever called by God, and Jesus Christ, or directed by the spirit of truth to preach the said sermon: or ever sent forth by Jesus Christ to be his minister. Being also for a caveat or memento to all others who call themselves Christs ministers, to examine whether ever they had a mission or commission from Jesus Christ so to doe, the having embroyled the land of our nativity in an unnaturall warre formerly one with another, contrary to any command, precept, or practises of Christ and his apostles, or word of truth: by whose evill practises they have caused the gospel of truth and peace to be evill spoken of, and have opened a torrent of blood, which none but the heavenly physitian can stop and cure; to whom the author intreateth the people to looke, and pray, and waite for help, for vain is the help of man. Written by an English man, Christs servant, for Englands remembrance.

summary:
  Neither flood my preaching in the enticing speech of mans wisdome , that your faith should not be in the wisdome of men , but in the power of God : And wee speake wisdome among them that are perfect ; Not the wisdome of this world , neither , of the Princes , of this world , which come to nought , 1 Cor. 2.2.4 , 5 , 6. Being also for a caveat or memento to all others who call themselves Christs ministers, to examine whether ever they had a mission or commission from Jesus Christ so to doe, the having embroyled the land of our nativity in an unnaturall warre formerly one with another, contrary to any command, precept, or practises of Christ and his apostles, or word of truth: by whose evill practises they have caused the gospel of truth and peace to be evill spoken of, and have opened a torrent of blood, which none but the heavenly physitian can stop and cure; to whom the author intreateth the people to looke, and pray, and waite for help, for vain is the help of man.


id: A90265
author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
date: 1644.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 23775
sentence: 565
flesch: 51
cache: cache/A90265.xml
txt: txt/A90265.txt
title:
  The duty of pastors and people distingushed [sic]. Or A briefe discourse, touching the administration of things commanded in religion. Especially concerning the means to be used by the people of God (distinct from church-officers) for the increasing of divine knowledge in themselves and others. Wherein bounds are prescribed to their peformances, their liberty is enlarged to the utmost extent of the dictates of nature and rules of charity: their duty laid downe in directions, drawn from Scripture-precepts, and the practise of Gods people in all ages. Together with the severall wayes of extraordinary calling to the office of publike teaching, with what assurance such teachers may have of their calling, and what evidence they can give of it, unto others. / By John Ovven, M.A. of Q. Col. O.

summary:
  For all prelacy , at least , untill Nimrod hunted for preferment , was dejure divino : I finde then , that before the giving of the Law , the chief men among the servants of the true God , did every one in their owne families with their neighbors adjoyning , of the same perswasion , performe those things which they knew to be required , by the Law of nature , tradition , or speciall revelation ( the unwritten word of those times ) in the service of God , instructing their childeren and servants in the knowledge of their creed concerning the nature and goodnesse of God , the fall and sin of man , the use of sacrifices , and the promised seede , ( the summe of their religion ) and moreover performing {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} things appertaining unto God . that of Priest , which to the takers seemed to import a more mysterious imployment , a greater advancement above the rest of their brethren , a neerer approach unto God , in the performances of their office , then that of Ministers : wherefore they embraced it , either voluntarily , alluding to the service of God and the administration thereof amongst his antient people the Jewes , or thought that they ought necessarily to undergoe it , as belonging properly to them , who are to celebrate those mysteries , and offer those sacrifices , which they imagined , were to them prescribed : the imposers on the contrary , pretend divers reasons why now that name can signifie none but men rejected from Gods work , and given up to superstitious vanities ; attending in their minds , the old Priests of Baal , and the now shavelings of Antichrist : it was a new Etimologie of this name , which that learned man cleaved unto , who unhappily was ingaged into the defence of such errours , as he could not but see , and did often confesse : To which also he , he had an entrance made by an Arch-bishop ; to wit , that it was but an abbreviation of Presbyters , knowing full well , not only that the signification of these words , is divers amongst them , to whom belongs jus & norma loquendi , but also , that they are widely different in holy writ .


id: A39199
author: Eachard, John, 1636?-1697.
date: 1673.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 26415
sentence: 680
flesch: 56
cache: cache/A39199.xml
txt: txt/A39199.txt
title:
  A Free and impartial inquiry into the causes of that very great esteem and honour that the non-conforming preachers are generally in with their followers in a letter to his honoured friend H.M. / by a lover of the Church of England and unfeigned piety ; to which is added a discourse on 1 Tim. 4:7 to some of the clergy at a publick meeting.

summary:
  Fear God and keep his Commandments , for this is the whole duty of man , and the endeavouring to bring men to do this , is the whole duty of the spiritual Man. So though perhaps some things pertinent may fall from men on the sudden , yet doubtless those that consider well before-hand have much the advantage ..


id: A39232
author: Eachard, John, 1636?-1697.
date: 1672.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 28717
sentence: 729
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A39232.xml
txt: txt/A39232.txt
title:
  The grounds & occasions of the contempt of the clergy and religion enquired into in a letter written to R.L.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. And I will ask them ; can there be any greater in the world than doing general good ? To omit future reward : Was it not always esteemed of old , that correcting evil practices , reducing people that lived amiss , was much better than making a high rant about a Shittle-cock , and talking Tara-Tantaro about a Feather ? Or if they would be only admired , then would I gladly have them consider , what a thin and delicate kind of admiration is likely to be produced , by that which is not at all understood ? Certainly that man that has a design of building up to himself real Fame in good earnest , by things well laid and spoken , his way to affect it , is not by talking staringly , and casting a mist before the peoples eyes , but by offering such things by which he may be esteemed with knowledge and understanding .


id: A26980
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
title: One sheet for the ministry against the malignants of all sorts by Richard Baxter.
date: 1657.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7860
sentence: 353
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A26980.xml
txt: txt/A26980.txt
summary:
  Have you forgotten what God hath done here against the Papal enemies of the Gospel and Ministry , in 88. and the Powder-plot , and many other times ? Have you already forgotten how the persecutots of a godly Ministry have sped within these sixteen years in England and Ireland ? And dare you now stand up in their room and make your selves the heirs of their sin , and punishment , and justifie them in all their Malignity ? What do you but justifie them , when you rave against , and revile the same sort of Ministers , and many of the same persons , whom the former Malignants persecuted ? and oppose the same sort of Ministers that the Papists burned ? And would not you do the like by them if you had power in your hands ? Can any wise man doubt of it , Whether Papists , and Quakers , and Drunkards , that now make it their work to make the Ministry odious , would not soon dispatch them if they could ? Blessed be the great Protector of the Church ; for were it not for him , our lives would soon be a prey to your cruelty . And as long as the Gospel and Ministry remains , salvation is offered them : the Voyce of mercy is calling after them , Repent and live .


id: A41038
author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.
title: The life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond written by John Fell ...
date: 1662.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 30182
sentence: 560
flesch: 34
cache: cache/A41038.xml
txt: txt/A41038.txt
summary:
  For the little good I am now able to doe , I can doe it with deliberation and advice : but if it please God I should live and be call'd to any higher Office in the Church , I must then doe many things in a hurry , and shall not have time to consult with others , and I sufficiently apprehend the danger of relying on my own Judgement . In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.


id: A85548
author: Graunt, John, of Bucklersbury.
date: 1652.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15011
sentence: 355
flesch: 53
cache: cache/A85548.xml
txt: txt/A85548.txt
title:
  The shipwrack of all false churches: and the immutable safety and stability of the true Church of Christ. Occasioned: by Doctour Chamberlen his mistake of her, and the holy scriptures also, by syllogising words, to find out spirituall meanings, when in such cases it is the definition, not the name, by which things are truly knowne.

summary:
  And Gods Church fears not to speak , although she cares not to be known , she being indewed with the spirit of life from God ; and in her reading the Scriptures you shall find her full of consideration , and understanding , as our Lord directs her , Let him that readeth consider : Now in common reason , if in this Nation the publike Ministry , for those are they they mean by Clergy , although no man can prove it by Scripture , be the Church , then the State Magistracy , and the rest of the people are not the Church or Congregation of England , which seems to crosse the Scriptures denomination , for the whole Nation of the Jewes , Priests and People , are often called the Congregation , or Church , and the Reason is beyond exception , because they were a people professing and communicating in the externall Ordinances of God , and but a small remnant of the multitude faithfull to communicate spiritually ▪ Now as spirituall and heavenly Christians are Gods peculiar , little house , vineyard , or Church , so outward Christians , may bear the name of his Vineyard , Church , or great House also , as an outward Jew or Christian bears the name , although not the nature of a Jew or Christian inwardly .


id: A93926
author: Stokes, Edward, Esq.
date: 1652.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 36660
sentence: 877
flesch: 56
cache: cache/A93926.xml
txt: txt/A93926.txt
title:
  The VViltshire rant; or A narrative wherein the most unparallel'd prophane actings, counterfeit repentings, and evil speakings of Thomas Webbe late pretended minister of Langley Buriall, are discovered; the particulars whereof are set down in the following page. Also the proceedings of those in authority against him. With a catalogue of his untruths in his Masse of malice, and replies to sundry of them. by Edw. Stokes Esq;

summary:
  For the first that ever manifested those principles publiquely to M. Stokes , was the said W. L. and F. B. Whereupon the said parties were received with greater love amongst the fellow-creatures at Langley , and the said W. L. entertained , and who but he with the Parson and his , &c. And so they continue great friends for a good space ; but when the differences first arose between Webbe and his Mistress , this Lewis and his wife assist Mistress W. and chargeth the Parson , as you may see formerly expressed ; wherefore the Parson resolves to call them to an accompt for taking parties with the weaker vessell against the mighty male Ranter . Yet M. Stokes confesseth that about four years since he heard the said Parson preach in the Parish Church of Largley a very unprofitable Sermon , without any life , power , or appearance of the spirit of God , shewing the Auditory how much and how often they should eat and drink ; when he ought rather to shew that that which enters into the body defileth not , but that from the heart proceeds murthers , adulteries and the like , and to have indeavoured to have made clean the inside of the cup and platter , for till the heart be cleansed and purified through the presence of the Spirit of Christ , there can be no Christian watchfulnesse , nor imitation of a divine life : These with all observations of meats and drinks perish with the using , and are bodily exercises which profit little ; and this way of preaching by Tho. Webb was friendly reproved by M. Stokes , who then seemed to take it well , and a little after confest to M. Stokes that he had not the assistance of the Spirit of God in his preaching , as formerly , but now this reproof is become a crime to make up the Masse of Malice .


id: A09911
author: Fletcher, Giles, 1588?-1623.
date: 1612.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 18761
sentence: 448
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A09911.xml
txt: txt/A09911.txt
title:
  The young divines apologie for his continuance in the Vniuersitie with certaine meditations, ritten by Nathaniel Povvnoll, late student of Christ-Church in Oxford.

summary:
  Nor weart thou content , O Lord , to repaie mee good for euill , that rendered thee euill for good , but after thou hadst pardoned me thou wouldst not pardon mine enemies , as though thou hatest thy childrens enemies more then thine owne , and louest them better then thy selfe : giuing thy selfe for them when they were thine enemies , and when we , for want of spirituall senses , had no sence of our spirituall wants , then redeeming vs : but confounding , and sore vexing , and suddainly turning backe , and putting to a perpetuall shame those that hate vs , and not vs , that hated thee . For I knowe , Lord , they which will preach in thy name , if thou send them not , and assist them , are but like those , who , without authority from thee , would cast out deuils in thy name , which prevailed against them : yea euen those whom thou hast called , and set apart to thy ministerie , if they do not wel , and abide in thee , and thou in them , the deuill will enter into them , as he did into Iudas , and make them the sonnes of perdition tenne times worse thē before .


id: A45336
author: Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.
date: 1651.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 40917
sentence: 2253
flesch: 78
cache: cache/A45336.xml
txt: txt/A45336.txt
title:
  The pulpit guarded with XVII arguments proving the unlawfulness, sinfulness and danger of suffering private persons to take upon them publike preaching, and expounding the Scriptures without a call ... : occasioned by a dispute at Henly in Arden in Warwick-shire, Aug. 20, 1650 ... : in the close are added six arguments, to prove our ministers free from antichristianism / composed and compiled by a friend to truth and peace.

summary:
  A●s● : You doe w●ll to rank your selves amongst Scribes and Pharises ▪ l●ke Lettice , like Lips ; R●m acu tetigistis ; you have hit the nayl on the head : since you can have no help from true Apostles , now you flee to false ones . Ad te haec scripsi , non propterte : lege hâc ad te haec veniunt , ut castigentur , ut emerdentur , ut er●●torum poenas & ungue & oboliscis luant : quisquis mihi ho● crimini dederi● , ipse crimine inscitiae non carebit .


id: A48069
author: G. P.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 26205
sentence: 579
flesch: 50
cache: cache/A48069.xml
txt: txt/A48069.txt
title:
  The life and death of Monsieur Claude, the famous minister of Charenton in France done out of French by G.P.

summary:
  The life and death of Monsieur Claude, the famous minister of Charenton in France done out of French by G.P. Abrégé de la vie de Mr. Claude. The life and death of Monsieur Claude, the famous minister of Charenton in France done out of French by G.P. Abrégé de la vie de Mr. Claude.


id: A14003
author: Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.
date: 1609.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 45251
sentence: 2205
flesch: 80
cache: cache/A14003.xml
txt: txt/A14003.txt
title:
  The picture of a true protestant: or, Gods house and husbandry wherein is declared the duty and dignitie of all Gods children, both minister and people. Written by Thomas Tuke.

summary:
  Or else it is because they run on , and neither looke backe , nor minde their way ( but onely labour to ridde ground ) nor ●hew their cadde , nor call on God for ●is benigne assistance ; which of all ●en ought in all holy enterprises to be desired with earnest suite vpon the ●●nces of their soules . So what can that man do , that hath the word of God , which is as a plow , a net , an angle , a salue , and an axe , if he haue no abilit● , no actiuenesse and skill to vse and handle it ?


id: A09445
author: Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.
date: 1605.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 38969
sentence: 963
flesch: 57
cache: cache/A09445.xml
txt: txt/A09445.txt
title:
  Of the calling of the ministerie two treatises, discribing the duties and dignities of that calling. Delivered publickly in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, by Maister Perkins. Taken then from his mouth, and now dilligently perused and published, by a preacher of the word with a preface prefixed touching the publishing of Maister Perkins his workes, & a catalogue of all such particulars thereof, as are to bee expected.

summary:
  Secondly , with diuine knowledge , as farre as it may by outward meanes bee taught from man to man : but besides these , hee that will speake this tongue aright , must 〈◊〉 inwardly learned , and taught by the spirit of God : the two first he must learne from men , but the third from God , a true Minister must be inwardly taught by the spirituall scholler , and the holy Ghost : Saint Iohn in Reuelation must take the booke , that is the Scripture , and eate it , and when he hath eaten it , then ( saith the Angell ) hee must goe preach to nations , tongues , people , and to Kings : which was done not that Saint Iohn had not eaten that booke , in the comming downe of the holy Ghost , the very end of whose comming was to teach them spiritually : but that in him Christ might teach his Church for euer , that no minister is fit to preach , to nations and to Kings , vntill they ●a●e eaten the booke of God : that is , till after and besides all the learning that man can teach them , they be also ●●ught by the spirit of God himselfe , and this teaching is it that makes a man a tr●● interpreter , and without this he cannot be , for 〈◊〉 can a man be Gods interpreter to his people ▪ vnlesse he kn●we the minde of God himselfe , and how can he knowe the minde of God , but by the teaching , of the spirit of God : Therefore though their place be great , & they be Gods vpon earth , yet must they withall acknowledge , that in iustifying a sinner , in interpretation , in declaring vnto man his righteousnes ; in binding & loosing , their power also is immediate from God , & aboue theirs , and they themselues , as they are men , must submit themselues to this powerfull word of the Ministers , to be taught by it , and to be reconciled by meanes of it , and highly must they receiue it , for though a man speake it , yet is it the word of God : this is to licke the dust of Christs feete , which the Porphet speaketh of : not as the Pope would haue it , to hold the stirrop , and lead the horse , and hold the water to the Pope , to kisse his toes , to hold their kingdoms of him , as tenants at will , or by curtesie , but reuerently to acknowledge the ordinance to be Gods , the function and duty to be high and excellent , to acknowledge the power of their keyes & censures ( being rightly applied ) their promises & their threatnings to be as from God , and to submit to them accordingly .


id: A60933
author: Ridpath, George, d. 1726.
date: 1698.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 42399
sentence: 759
flesch: 39
cache: cache/A60933.xml
txt: txt/A60933.txt
title:
  The political mischiefs of popery, or, Arguments demonstrating I. that the romish religion ruines all those countries where 'tis establish'd II. that it occasions the loss of above 200 millions of livres ... to France in particular, III. that if popery were abolished in France, that kingdom would become incomparably more rich and populous ..., IV. that it is impossible that France should ever be re-established whilst popery is their national religion / by a person of quality.

summary:
  That Popery occasions the loss of 200 Millions per An. to France ; which to them seem'd a Paradox , I thought my self obliged to sa●…isfie their desire . To this end I publish'd what I had writ upon that Subject sometime ago in French , that by the Iudgment which others gave upon it , I might be the better enabled to conjecture what was proper to be Added or Corrected in the English Edition , which I n●…w present to the Publick , with several Additions ; and had done it sooner , but for some Reasons not fit to be here related .


id: A45328
author: Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.
date: 1660.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 47307
sentence: 2182
flesch: 76
cache: cache/A45328.xml
txt: txt/A45328.txt
title:
  An apologie for the ministry and its maintenance wherein is set forth the necessity, dignity and efficacy of a gospel-ministry against the Socinians, Swenckfieldians, Weigelians, Anabaptists, Enthusiasts, Familists, Seekers, Quakers, Levellers, Libertines and the rest of that rout ... / by Tho. Hall.

summary:
  Christ Iesus seems to bespeak us as ●lexander bespoke Alexander ▪ either fig●t or change thy name : Either carry on thy Ministry couragiously , and fulfill it constantly , or cease to be a Minister . Sacriledge is not a simple theft , but a stealing of sacred things , which is the highest degree of Theft : Now that is sacred which is given to holy uses , either by the express command of ●od ▪ or by the voluntary devotion of men : whether it be given ( saith learned Mr : Cartwright upon P●●v .


id: A41233
author: Ferriby, John, b. 1613 or 14.
date: 1653.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 34431
sentence: 1252
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A41233.xml
txt: txt/A41233.txt
title:
  The lawfull preacher, or, A short discourse proving that they only ought to preach who are ordained ministers occasionally delivered in some lectures at Epping by John Ferriby, minister of Thoydon-Garnon in Essex ; now printed upon the anti-preaching of some against it in the same pulpit about the latter end of November last : as also the pulpit-guard-relieved, in a short appendix in answer to a late book called the pulpit-guard-relieved / written by Tho. Collier.

summary:
  To the same purpose Beza observeth a difference between the Praepositi {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , of men , and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , by man ; the one intimates the Authority we receive from him in whose power it is to make Ministers , ( which Perkins before cals the Author of our Call ; ) the other a Ministerial setting apart for the Office . He , as he was man , did not put himself into the Office , but was called to it by the Everlasting Father , who said , Thou art my Son , yea , he was made a Priest after the Order of Melchisedech : The Apostle there answers an Objection that might be made against Christs Priesthood , because he was not of the Tribe of Levi ; therefore he tells you what Call he had , he was of the Order of Melchisedech : For no man taketh this honour ; it is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , which is often used to used take by violence , as Iob. 19. 1.


id: A55393
author: Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679.
date: 1659.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 56221
sentence: 1707
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A55393.xml
txt: txt/A55393.txt
title:
  Quo warranto, or, A moderate enquiry into the warrantablenesse of the preaching of gifted and unordained persons where also some other questions are discussed : viz. concerning [brace] ministerial relation, election, ordination : being a vindication of the late Jus divinum ministerii evangeliei ... from the exceptions of Mr. John Martin, Mr. Sam. Pette, Mr. Frederick Woodal ... in their late book, intituled The preacher sent / by Matthew Poole ...

summary:
  This I shall solemnly promise , that I will not willingly decline any thing , which is either strong , or plausible , or considerable , but only such passages , as , the foundations being shaken , do fall of themselves : And under this promise I hope I may be excused from following our Brethren 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ▪ ( which commonly occasions personal reflections , and heterogeneous excursions . ) Where I desire it may be observed , that the Assembly did not say , The Office of the Ministry is better defined by relation to the Work , than to the Church in generall , but than to a particular Church : It was not the design of the Assembly to deny the Ministry to be a relation to the Church , nor yet was it their businesse accurately to insist upon the notions of relate and correlate ; they never called the Work of the Ministry , the correlate , but only obiter and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , they asserted the Office of the Ministry to be better defined by relation to the Work , than to a particular Church , which our Brethren have not here disproved ; but only endeavoured to prove that the Office of the Ministry rather consisteth in relation to the Church in general , than to the Work ; so that all their labour , as to that particular , might have been spared .


id: A59425
author: Sage, John, 1652-1711.
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 41342
sentence: 855
flesch: 44
cache: cache/A59425.xml
txt: txt/A59425.txt
title:
  The case of the present afflicted clergy in Scotland truly represented to which is added for probation the attestation of many unexceptionable witnesses to every particular, and all the publick acts and proclamations of the convention and Parliament relating to the clergy / by a lover of the church and his country.

summary:
  And Their Majesties , with Advice and Consent of the saids Estates of Parliament , R●●●inds and Annuls the first Act of the 15 Parl. As the Sessions are subject to the Presbyteries , so are the Presbyteries to the Synod ; which meets always at set times twice every Year , there the Bishop himself pre●ides , or in case of his necessary absence , one commissionated by him , and all things are carried by the Pl●rality of Votes , and the Acts made that way , are the only Canons or Rules we use for Discipline :


id: A39266
author: Eachard, John, 1636?-1697.
date: 1672.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 51300
sentence: 1730
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A39266.xml
txt: txt/A39266.txt
title:
  Mr. Hobbs's state of nature considered in a dialogue between Philautus and Timothy to which are added five letters / from the author of the Grounds and occasions of the contempt of the clergy.

summary:
  That his Disciples did not understand the Parable of the Sower ; and not understanding , desired the meaning ; and ( as the Learned D r Hammond notes ) Christ answered , that he did it on purpose , as a punishment to those that had had clear means and perspicuous expressions and manifestations ; that seeing they might not see ; that is , clear means was n●w denied unto them , and none but parables was allowed , as ● punishment of their former obduraion against hi● means : As also , upon what occasion it was that our Sa●iour said , St. Matth. 13. 14. And seeing they shall see , and not perceive , i. e. ( as the same Doctor observes ) being an obstinate people they shall not receive so much profit as otherwise they ●ight : things shall be so aenigma●ically and darkly represented to them , 〈◊〉 that they ( having before shut their eyes ) shall now discern but little ; and what follows , v. 15. And then after you had abused one in Greek , calling me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , your malice must hold out to Latin too , Qui nescit simulare nescit vivere .


id: A37498
author: Dell, William, d. 1664.
date: 1660.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 59565
sentence: 1735
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A37498.xml
txt: txt/A37498.txt
title:
  The tryal of spirits both in teachers & hearers wherein is held forth the clear discovery and certain downfal of the carnal and antichristian clergie of these nations / testified from the Word of God to the university-congregation in Cambridge by William Dell ; whereunto is added A plain and necessary confutation of divers gross errors delivered by Mr. Sydrach Simpson in a sermon preached to the same congregation at the commencement, Anno 1653 ; wherein (among other things) is declared, that the vniversities (according to their present statutes and practices) are not (as he affirmed) answerable to the schools of the prophets in the time of the law, but rather to the idolatrous high places ...

summary:
  Yea , we have seen how the World and worldly Church , not being able to try the Spirits and Doctrines , have contradicted and crucified the Son of God himself , and have reproached and persecuted all his People , who are baptized into one Spirit with him ; and doing this , they have thought they have done God good service too ; and all because they were not able to judge of the Spirit and Truth of Christ in Himself and his Members , but have followed the Judgment and Councel of the chief Guides in the outward Church , who have caused them to erre , and to mistake Truth for Error , and Error for Truth , Christ for Antichrist , and Antichrist for Christ. And thus you may perceive that seeing many false Prophets are gone out into the World , it concerns the faithful , as they tender their own everlasting Salvation , not to believe every Spirit that speaks of Christ , and his Kingdom , and his Things , but to Try the Spirits whether they be of God. Object .


id: A36258
author: Dodwell, Henry, 1641-1711.
date: 1672.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 57875
sentence: 1917
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A36258.xml
txt: txt/A36258.txt
title:
  Two letters of advice I. For the susception of Holy Orders, II. For studies theological, especially such as are rational : at the end of the former is inserted a catalogue of the Christian writers, and genuine works that are extant of the first three centuries.

summary:
  Then in both parts it were well ( in imitation of Origen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . ) to premise First what Propositions in every Article were to be taken for unquestionable , as being evident from Reason or Revelation as explained by Tradition ; and it would be more useful if it were distinctly shewn what kind of evidence agreed to every Proposition particularly . 11. ) perfect in teaching , in reproving , in correcting , in discipline ( so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies ) acts also peculiarly belonging to the Clerical Calling .


id: A45342
author: Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.
date: 1655.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 53600
sentence: 3275
flesch: 77
cache: cache/A45342.xml
txt: txt/A45342.txt
title:
  Vindiciæ literarum, the schools guarded, or, The excellency and vsefulnesse of humane learning in subordination to divinity, and preparation to the ministry as also, rules for the expounding of the Holy Scriptures : with a synopsis of the most materiall tropes and figures contained in the sacred scriptures : whereunto is added, an examination of John Websters delusive Examen of academies / by Thomas Hall ... ; in the end is annexed an elaborate defence of logick by a learned pen.

summary:
  In Philosophiae indagatione ●●m●um tempo●is ne insumatur , nec speculationibus ●●u●malibus aetas ▪ quae se●i●s impendi deb●t , te●atur . Nec dubitamus , ●aeteris paribus , maj●rem & ple●●rem mensuram communi●ari publicis ●ccl●siae administris , ●ive in una aliqua particulari , Ecclesi●a munn● suum ●heant ; sive in caet is aliquo leg●time , & in Christi nomine congregato , de ve●● Scripturae sensu inter se c●●serant , quam singulis & privat●s , qui neque tot don●s instructi sunt , neque ●ot ocul ●v●dent ,


id: A30336
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
title: A discourse of the pastoral care written by Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.
date: 1692.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 59109
sentence: 1283
flesch: 51
cache: cache/A30336.xml
txt: txt/A30336.txt
summary:
  Written By the Right Reverend Father in God , GILBERT , Lord Bishop of SARUM . To serve God by promoting this Great and Glorious Design , which is so truly worthy of Your MAJESTY'S best care and endeavours , I have purposely written this Treatise , which I do with all humility Dedicate and present to Your Sacred MAJESTY .


id: A73023
author: Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.
date: 1605.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 62242
sentence: 1798
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A73023.xml
txt: txt/A73023.txt
title:
  M. Perkins, his Exhortation to repentance, out of Zephaniah preached in 2. sermons in Sturbridge Faire. Together with two treatises of the duties and dignitie of the ministrie: deliuered publiquely in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge. With a preface præfixed touching the publishing of all such workes of his as are to be expected: with a catalogue of all the perticulers [sic] of them, diligently perused and published, by a preacher of the word.

summary:
  And if God did not thus moderate & restraine the natures of men , but suffer them to breake out to the full : there would then be no order , but all confusion in the world : therefore , ( as especially for his Churches quietnesse , so also for the preseruatiō of publike peace , and the vpholding of societie in the world betweene man and man ) the Lord holdes a hand ouer euery mans nature , and keepes euery one in a certaine compasse limitted by the wisdom of his power , which restraining hand of his , if the Lord should take away : all societies and common wealths would be turned vpside downe , because euery man by the vniuersall corruption of his nature , would breake out into euery sinne : I ende this point with appealing to the testimonie of the consciences of all men , and especially of the best and holiest men , of whom I would aske this question , whether they find not in their natures an inclination , euen to the foulest sinnes in the world ; if shame , or feare , or else the grace of God restrained them not ? A common sinne euery where , and yet so great a sinne , that where it raignes , in that Country , congregation , family , man or woman , there is noe feare of God , nor any true grace in them : for the keeping of the saboath , is the maintaining , increasing , and publishing of religion .


id: A21107
author: Eburne, Richard.
date: 1609.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 80547
sentence: 2585
flesch: 67
cache: cache/A21107.xml
txt: txt/A21107.txt
title:
  The maintenance of the ministery VVherein is plainely declared how the ministers of the Gospell ought to be maintayned: and the true and ancient practise of our Church in this case, shewed to be agreeable to the word of God, and all antiquity. Necessary in these times to be read and considered of all sorts of Christians, but specially of such as liue in townes and citties. By Richard Eburne, minister of the word.

summary:
  Besides this , whereas there are in tithes two things to be considered , that is , the Institution and Assignation , Gods proper and immediate right , and mans mediate and subordinate possession , the one respecting God himselfe as Lord of all , the other man , Gods ministers for the time being : can any man shew , nay wil any Diuine say , that God hath no longer any proper right & interest vnto the temporall goods of men on earth , but hath remitted vnto man that holy rent , that sacred tribute , which once , before the law , and in the law , in signe , and for an acknowledgement of his vniuersall Soueraigntie , he imposed vpon the wolrd ? But no noble mans seruant , no officer of any king or potentate , can haue greater right or better interest vnto any lands , reuenues , pension , or other incomme giuen him by his Maister , then the minister hath to that with is his due , because hee hath it not from man but from God , and holds in right of the truest and highest owner , the Lord of all .


id: A27046
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1681.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 82914
sentence: 3462
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A27046.xml
txt: txt/A27046.txt
title:
  A third defence of the cause of peace proving 1. the need of our concord, 2. the impossibility of it, on the terms of the present impositions against the accusations and storms of, viz., Mr. John Hinckley, a nameless impleader, a nameless reflector, or Speculum, &c., Mr. John Cheny's second accusation, Mr. Roger L'Strange, justice, &c., the Dialogue between the Pope and a fanatic, J. Varney's phanatic Prophesie / by Richard Baxter.

summary:
  Ask the People of Kederminster , whether in that time they received any good by the Gospel : Know you not , that when some such did but preach to them at the rates you now talk , it so alienated their minds from Prelacy and Conformity , who before were not so averse thereto , as that they have put it past my power to reconcile them so far to them as I am reconciled my self ; and were not my interest very great in them , and their Preacher very honest , I should not get them to come to Church : Such good the Spirit of Envy and Faction doth in the World , while it pretendeth to heal the hurt that others do . I profess to you resolvedly , that if I must needs judge that Church or Party to have the soundest Principles and Discipline , who have the best lives ; I should far and very far prefer the Presbyterians , Independents , and much more the Conciliators , before the Prelatists , and yet not extenuate any of their Faults .


id: A86287
author: Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.
date: 1656.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 73112
sentence: 1996
flesch: 56
cache: cache/A86287.xml
txt: txt/A86287.txt
title:
  Extraneus vapulans: or The observator rescued from the violent but vaine assaults of Hamon L'Estrange, Esq. and the back-blows of Dr. Bernard, an Irish-deane. By a well willer to the author of the Observations on the history of the reign of King Charles.

summary:
  For finding him to be stiffly principled in the Puritane Tenets , a Semi Presbyterian at the least , in the forme of Gouernment , a Non con●ormist in matter of Ceremony , & a rigid Sabbatarian in the point of Doctrine , as ill a looking a Fellow as he makes me , I could easily see , that my known Contrariety in Opinion , had raised this Storme : it being the humour of too many of the Stoicall Sect , neither to treat their Opposites , with that Civility which belongs to them , as men , nor with that Charity and meeknesse which becomes them as Christians . The Strangenesse of the Present , and the more than ordinary disrespect in the Superscription , put me upon a sudden perusall of it ; which having done ( and indeed before it was half done ) I was both sorry and ashamed , to see so much of the Coat , and so little of the Gentleman in it ▪ intituling me unto the Observations in your Superscripti●n , and 〈…〉 from it in your Pamphlet ▪ ( where you call it a groundless suspition , by me professedly disavowed ) fol. 25. you make your self an Adversary of you know not whom , & then proceed in handling him you care not how .


id: A26780
author: Henry, Matthew, 1662-1714.
date: 1698.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 89800
sentence: 2790
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A26780.xml
txt: txt/A26780.txt
title:
  An account of the life and death of Mr. Philip Henry, minister of the gospel near Whitechurch in Shropshire, who dy'd June 24, 1696, in the sixty fifth year of his age

summary:
  When his Work was sometimes more than ordinary , and bore hard upon him , he thus appealed to God ; Thou knowest , Lord , how well contented I am to spend and to be spent in thy Service ; and if the outward Man decay , O , let the inward Man be renewed . Soon after the Return of the King , he notes , how industrious some were to remove him from Worthenbury , on which he writes this as the Breathing of his Soul towards God ; Lord , if it please thee , fasten me here as a Nail in a sure place ; if otherwise , I will take nothing ill which thou dost with me : and when press'd by his Friends more earnestly than before to accept of some other place ; Lord , ( saith he ) Mine Eye is up unto thee , I am wholly at thy disposal , make my way plain before my Face , because of mine Enemies ; my Resolution is , to deny my self if thou callest me .


