item: #1 of 215 id: A17912 author: Canne, John, d. 1667? title: A necessitie of separation from the Church of England, prooved by the nonconformists principles Specially opposed vnto Dr. Ames, his Fresh suit against humane ceremonies, in the point of separation only. Also Dr. Laiton, Mr. Dayrel, and Mr. Bradshaw, are here answered, wherein they have written against us. With a table in the later end, of the principal occurrents in this treatise. By Iohn Canne, pastor of the ancient English church, in Amsterdam. date: 1634.0 words: 84968 flesch: 78 summary: His former reasons were not more false and foolish , than this is wicked and profane , for first , wherefore serves it , but in truth to teach men to cast off all care in seeking Gods glorie , by an even walking , and to doe so much of his will as is sufficient to bring them to heaven , and no more ▪ thus he counselleth people to be lovers of themselves more than lovers of God : yea to love God for themselves , and to serve him for a reward onely ; but let all persons , in all places take heede , that they follow not this mans advice , for if they resolve to doe no more , but what they think will serve their turne to be saved , they will surely misse of that , and for their self love suffer wrath and vengeance eternally . 5. The saintes are taught of God , not to be servants of men , but to live by their owne faith , & to presse forward toward the mark . and therefore hee sheweth litle skill in the course of religion , to sette downe this , or that mans practise for a rule to walke by , unlesse he had professed himselfe to be a Familist or perfectist , and so would make the world beleeve , that none could erre which took such for example whom he prescribed to them . keywords: ames; antichristian; assemblies; bishops; booke; calling; cause; ceremonies; christ; church; churches; come; doe; doth; england; english; god; gods; good; government; hath; himselfe; holy; king; lawfull; like; lord; man; manner; matter; meanes; men; ministers; nonconformists; office; order; owne; pag; people; place; point; pope; popish; power; practise; prelates; read; reader; reasons; religion; rest; saith; scriptures; seeing; service; speake; thing; thinke; time; true; truth; unlawfull; vnto; vpon; way; word; worship; yea cache: A17912.xml plain text: A17912.txt item: #2 of 215 id: A25208 author: Alsop, Vincent, 1629 or 30-1703. title: A faithful rebuke to a false report lately dispersed in a letter to a friend in the country Concerning certain differences in doctrinals, between some dissenting ministers in London. date: 1697.0 words: 21634 flesch: 61 summary: 3. I would ask this modest Question : Where has this Doctrine of Justification been setled all this while , since the Reformation ? since the purest Primo-Primitive Times ? What! has it hung , like Mahomet's Tomb , in ●he Air ? or floated , like the Ark , upon the Water ? No! It has stood firm and unmoveable upon Scriptural Foun●ations , against all the Assaults of Papists , Socinians , Ar●inians , and Antinomians : It has stood visible in the Ar●icles of the Church of England ; in the Confessions of the Assembly at Westminster ; in that of the Savoy , in the Ca●echisms shorter and larger , and yet this uncouth Phrase never yet heard of : It is strange to me , that Councils General , and Provincial Synods , Assemblies of Holy Learned Men , should so often , so strenuously assert , and confirm by the Word of God , this great Truth , and yet never once dream of Dr. Crisp's Commutation of Persons , ●pon which to superstruct the Doctrine of Justification . In complyance with the Humour , I have given mine ● same Inscription : But you shall excuse me if I imi●e not the Disingenuity , the Prevarication , the Parti●ty of the Reporter , though I comply with the Fashion general . keywords: articles; brethren; change; christ; faith; god; gospel; law; life; men; ministers; new; paper; person; place; report; satisfaction; self; sense; sinners; stead; terms; truth; union; united; williams; words; ● ● cache: A25208.xml plain text: A25208.txt item: #3 of 215 id: A25216 author: Alsop, Vincent, 1629 or 30-1703. title: A reply to the Reverend Dean of St. Pauls's reflections on the Rector of Sutton, &c. wherein the principles and practices of the non-conformists are not only vindicated by Scripture, but by Dr. Stillingsfleet's Rational account, as well as his Irenicum : as also by the writings of the Lord Faulkland, Mr. Hales, Mr. Chillingworth, &c. / by the same hand ; to which is added, St. Paul's work promoted, or, Proper materials drawn from The true and only way of concord, and, Pleas for peace and other late writings of Mr. Richard Baxter ... date: 1681.0 words: 64794 flesch: 68 summary: While such Passages ( so greatly befriending Dissenters , that would gladly close with you upon Cath●●ick Term● ) drop from you at unawares , wh●n you s●arce think of them , wh●t an excellent 〈◊〉 ●●ould they have of you , it indeed you was minded to undertake their Cause ? And I hope you would not set up the Power of any Church-Governour above the King 's here , and ab●ve Christ●● . keywords: bishops; c. p.; cause; ceremonies; christ; christians; church; churches; communion; conformists; england; god; good; governours; hath; ibid; judgment; lawful; laws; man; men; ministers; ministry; new; non; order; p. p.; pag; peace; people; power; rule; separation; sin; terms; things; think; use; way; word; worship; ● ● cache: A25216.xml plain text: A25216.txt item: #4 of 215 id: A25219 author: Alsop, Vincent, 1629 or 30-1703. title: Mr. Alsop's speech to King James the II. at the presenting the Presbyterians address, in April, 1687. See London Gazette, no. 2238. Humbly inscribed to B.B.B.--- as a specimen of sincerity. date: 1687.0 words: 1313 flesch: 65 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: alsop; eebo; tcp; text cache: A25219.xml plain text: A25219.txt item: #5 of 215 id: A26142 author: Atkyns, Robert, Sir, 1621-1709. title: An enquiry into the power of dispensing with penal statutes together with some animadversions upon a book writ by Sir Edw. Herbert ... entituled, A short account of the authorities in law, upon which judgment was given in Sir Edward Hales's case / by Sir Robert Atkyns ... date: 1689.0 words: 35389 flesch: 64 summary: David was made King by God's immediate appointment , yet he himself call'd all Israel together to Hebron , and there they made a Covenant with him : † This is that I am now speaking of , ( the Law of the Nation ) made by general consent ; or a Scheme for the Government , as a late Lord Chancelor terms it in his Survey of the Leviathan . It is true that the Lord Hobart , in his Reports , Fol. 146. mentioning this Act of Dispensations , and taking Notice that by the express words of the Act , all Dispensations , &c. shall be granted in Manner and Form as is prescribed by that Act , and not otherwise ; yet he holds that the King is not thereby restrained , but that his Power remains full and perfect as before , and that he may still grant Dispensations as King : for ( says he ) all Acts of Justice and Grace flow from him . keywords: act; action; acts; authority; case; chief; contrary; dispensation; dispensing; edward; fol; good; hath; judges; judgment; justice; king; king henry; law; laws; lord; non; obstante; office; parliament; people; person; pope; power; prerogative; realm; sir; statute; time; words; year cache: A26142.xml plain text: A26142.txt item: #6 of 215 id: A26174 author: Atwood, William, d. 1705? title: The Lord Chief Justice Herbert's account examin'd by W.A., Barrister at Law, ... ; wherein it is shewn that those authorities in law, whereby he would excuse his judgment in Sir Edward Hales his case, are very unfairly cited and as ill applied. date: 1689.0 words: 19430 flesch: 69 summary: 6. 2. A Power to grant Non obstantes to Statutes could not have been a right in the Crown at Common Law ; for we have clear Proofs of its odious and condemn'd beginning , from the sulpureous Fountain of Rome , as an honest Popish Lawyer confest with a deep sigh . 35 Hen. 3. this Non obstante Matthew Paris calls a detestable addition , against all Reason and Justice ; and when the year after King Henry urg'd the example of the Pope for Non obstantes : The Prior of Jerusalem says , God forbid you should use this unpleasant , and absurd word ; as long as you observe Justice you may be King , and as soon as you violate it , you will cease to be King. For , admit the Resolution of the Judges , 2 H. 7. were as he contends , yet he , who makes so much of a Concession of the Commons of England assembled in Parliament , when he thinks it of his Side , ought surely to yield that the Judgment of King , Lords , and Commons , is of uncontrollable Authority . keywords: account; act; case; dispense; edward; good; judges; king; law; laws; lord; non; parliament; person; power; prerogative; sir; statute; tho; vid cache: A26174.xml plain text: A26174.txt item: #7 of 215 id: A26410 author: Adis, Henry. title: A fannaticks addresse humbly presented to the King and his peers, and also to his people in their representative, the Commons House of Parliament ... discovering to them, the innocency of his actings in the midst of the late revolutions of governments in this nation ... / by Henry Adis ... date: 1661.0 words: 8033 flesch: 43 summary: Exalteth it Self against the Knowledge of Jesus Christ ; and to bring every Soul to the Obedience of Christ , in all his Lawes , Statutes , Ordinances , and Appointments : In order whereunto , Sixthly , We look upon it to be agreeble to the pure Will and Mind of God , th●t there be a free Toleration for Men and Women to Worship God , without either Constraint or Restraint ; And that no Acts of Violence be used against them therein , to force the Conscience of any , no not of the meanest of the Sons and Daughters of Men , of what perswasion or Judgement soever they be of ; because Jesus Christ out of that exceeding Love of the Father , was sent to lay down his Life for the Sins of the World , John 1. 29. and to be a Redemption for that first Transgression , Heb. 9. 15. under the guilt of which all the whole Bulk of Mankinde that ever were , are , or ever shall be , by Imputation , do lie under ; and from the punishment of which by Jesus Christ they shall all be released , and restored , Rom. 5. 18. Secondly , As we do own Magistracy to be of God ; so we cannot look upon our selves to be concerned in the affairs of this , or any other Nation , so as to have to do with Government , as to our own particulars , although we were indowed with such Qualications and Estates , as might render us Capable thereof ; because we look upon our selves to be a People chosen out of the World , and such as shall be hated of the World , Joh. 15. 19. and for the sake and Name of Christ shall be Haled before Kings , Rulers , Governonrs , Magistrates , and Councils of this World , as he himself hath foretold us , Mat. 10. 17 , 18. keywords: acts; christ; evil; god; good; jesus; king; nation; people; tcp; violence cache: A26410.xml plain text: A26410.txt item: #8 of 215 id: A26412 author: Adis, Henry. title: A fannaticks mite cast into the Kings treasury being a sermon printed to the King because not preach'd before the King / by Henry Adis. date: 1660.0 words: 35738 flesch: 64 summary: To this I Answer , A person may then be said to make suitable Returns , or duely to render to God , when in the Relation he standeth in , he shall as much as in him lieth , Act faithfully both to God and man , according to the mind of God , whether they be Men or Women , as they stand in the Relations of Servants or Masters , Children or Parents , Wives or Husbands , Subjects or Princes : And because the subject matter of my Text is concerning Prince and People , I shall not stand to particularize the duty of the other Relations , but shall as briefly as I may , come to a discovery of what I know from the Scriptures , to be the Mind of God in those Relations that concern my Text . Let us hear the Conclusion of the whole matter , Fear God , and keep his commandments ; for this ( saith he ) is the whole duty of Man : and so saith the Prophet , Micah 6. 8. He that shewed thee , O man , what is good . keywords: apostle; christ; father; god; gods; good; hath; heart; hezekiah; house; israel; king; lord; man; men; people; prophet; saith; spirit; text; thee; things; thou; thy; time; way; work cache: A26412.xml plain text: A26412.txt item: #9 of 215 id: A26859 author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. title: Richard Baxters answer to Dr. Edward Stillingfleet's charge of separation containing, I. some queries necessary for the understanding of his accusation, II. a reply to his letter which denyeth a solution, III. an answer to his printed sermon : humbly tendred, I. to himself, II. to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the court of aldermen, III. to the readers of his accusation, the forum where we are accused. date: 1680.0 words: 48082 flesch: 70 summary: Nay what Church is there to be named , that doth not assume this power to it self , without the least suspition of Sacriledge ? 2. Whether Christian Magistrates may not justly restrain those Ministers from Preaching , who after the experience of former Troubles , do refuse to renounce those Principles which they judge do naturally tend to involve 〈◊〉 again in the like Troubles ? 3. To what purpose any such Authority is either in Church or State , if those who are legally silenced may go on to preach publickly in opposition to the established Laws ; only in supposition that they were wrongfully ejected ? keywords: ans; answer; bishops; case; christian; church; churches; communion; doth; form; god; good; government; hath; judge; king; laws; like; man; mean; men; ministers; national; parish; peace; people; power; publick; rule; self; separation; separatists; sin; things; word; worship; yea cache: A26859.xml plain text: A26859.txt item: #10 of 215 id: A26911 author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. title: The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter of their nonconformity against Mr. J. Cheney's answer called The conforming nonconformist, and The nonconforming conformist : to which is added the second part in answer to Mr. Cheney's Five undertakings / by Richard Baxter. date: 1680.0 words: 50656 flesch: 72 summary: Whether a minister may put from the Sacrament those of his parish who be Christned People , and come to Church , and joyn in the publick worship , and tender themselves to receive , being under no sentence of Excommunication ? 4 Quest. 3. Our question is of the Churches sense herein : And it is the same Church the made the Canons ; and still owneth them : Therefore in the Canon the Church expoundeth her sense , more obligingly than you , or any Bishop can expound it . keywords: act; ans; answer; assent; baptism; bishop; book; canon; chap; child; christ; church; churches; conformists; consent; covenant; doth; god; good; hath; king; law; liturgy; man; minister; non; parish; pastor; power; sacrament; saith; self; sense; sin; thing; use; words cache: A26911.xml plain text: A26911.txt item: #11 of 215 id: A26943 author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. title: Mr. Baxter's judgment and reasons against communicating with the parish-assemblies, as by law required, impartially stated and proposed date: 1684.0 words: 10903 flesch: 56 summary: If any Prince would turn his Kingdom , or a whole Province , Diocess or Country , into one onely Church , and thereby overthrow all the first Order of Churches , of Christs Institution , which are associated for personal present Communion , allowing them no Pastors , that have the power of the Keys , and all essential to their Office , though he should allow parochial Oratories or Chappels , which should be no true Churches , but parts of a Church , it were no Schism to gather Churches , within such a Church , against the Laws of such a Prince ; see Nonconformists first plea for peace . It has very much grieved the Author to see how many have been led from their Principles by some men , who though otherwise Dissenters , have since the late vigorous Execution of the paenal Laws , not only gone themselves to Church , but done their best to engage Others to do so too ; and to that end have observed the Rule of the Polititian , To press the Examples and Practices of some Eminent Men , as a good means to draw on the rest . keywords: assemblies; baxter; church; churches; communion; constitution; diocesane; discipline; england; law; parish; parish assemblies cache: A26943.xml plain text: A26943.txt item: #12 of 215 id: A26945 author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. title: The judgment of Mr. Baxter concerning ceremonies and conformity with a short reflection upon a scandalous pamphlet intituled, A proposition for the safety and happiness of the king and kingdom : in a letter to a gentleman of the House of Commons. date: 1667.0 words: 3509 flesch: 72 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: ceremonies; church; god; tcp; text; use cache: A26945.xml plain text: A26945.txt item: #13 of 215 id: A26946 author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. title: The judgment of non-conformists of the interest of reason in matters of religion in which it is proved against make-bates, that both conformists, and non-conformists, and all parties of true Protestants are herein really agreed, though unskilful speakers differ in words. date: 1676.0 words: 8473 flesch: 59 summary: So say all , but not by that alone : Reason must discern the Divinity of Scripture partly by the evident Impulses of Divinity which are in it , which are its proper Light ; and partly by extrinsick attestations , in the due use of the means which God hath appointed Reason to make use of , II. There are evident unimitable effects of the Christian Faith , which prove it to be of God ; even the Spirits sanctifying Work , on Man ; which may , by those that have it not , be partly discerned in the holy Lives of Believers ; especially in the Sanctity of the Church , that it should be holy , in Comparison of the unholy World , ( that is , all sound Believers which are the real spiritual living Church ; ) for , if one Letter might be made without Reason by chance , yet so cannot a Learned Book : And if an individual Christian might by chance be holier than Infidels , yet so could not all true Believers . keywords: conformists; evidence; faith; god; gods; hath; light; men; non; protestants; reason; religion; word cache: A26946.xml plain text: A26946.txt item: #14 of 215 id: A26958 author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. title: A moral prognostication I. what shall befall the churches on Earth, till their concord, by the restitution of their primitive purity, simplicity, and charity, II. how that restitution is like to be made, (if ever) and what shall befall them thence-forth unto the end, in that golden-age of love / written by Richard Baxter ... date: 1680.0 words: 19573 flesch: 62 summary: A WORLDLY , Covetous , Proud , Domineering , Malignant , Lazy Clergy , will in most Christian Nations , be the great Plague of the World , and troublers of Princes , and Dividers of Churches ; who , for the Interest of their Grandure , and their Wills , will not give the Sober , and Peaceable , and Godly Ministers , or People , Leave to serve God quietly , and live in Peace . For when they observe that it is the same party of Men , who are thus Reproached , that are the strictest reprovers of their Lewdness , their Fornicatious , Tipling , Gaming , Luxuries , and Ungodliness : they will think that it 's no great matter , what such a defamed giddy sort of People say , and that really they are worse themselves . keywords: christian; church; churches; clergy; communion; god; good; honour; interest; love; man; men; ministers; pastors; peace; people; power; religion; things; work; world; worldly cache: A26958.xml plain text: A26958.txt item: #15 of 215 id: A26964 author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. title: The nonconformists advocate, or, A farther account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written principally in vindication of A letter from a minister to a person of quality, shewing some reasons for his nonconformity, modesty answering the exceptions of two violent opposers of the said reasons. date: 1680.0 words: 36944 flesch: 56 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. The nonconformists advocate, or, A farther account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written principally in vindication of A letter from a minister to a person of quality, shewing some reasons for his nonconformity, modesty answering the exceptions of two violent opposers of the said reasons. keywords: answer; assent; baptism; book; children; christ; church; consent; cross; faith; god; godfathers; good; hath; man; matter; mind; minister; prayer; reason; self; sign; thing; time; truth; unto; use; way; word; yea cache: A26964.xml plain text: A26964.txt item: #16 of 215 id: A26983 author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. title: A petition for peace with the reformation of the liturgy, as it was presented to the right reverend bishops, by the divines appointed by His Majesties commission to treat with them about the alteration of it. date: 1661.0 words: 46894 flesch: 84 summary: Most Reverend Fathers , and Reverend Brethren , THe special Providence of God , and His Majesties tender regard of the Peace and Consciences of His Subjects , and his desire of their concord in the things of God , hath put into our hands this opportunity of speaking to you as humble Petitioners , as well as Commissioners , on the behalf of these yet troubled and unhealed Churches , and of many thousand souls that are dear to Christ ; on whose behalf , wee are pressed in spirit in the sense of our duty , most earnestly to beseech you , as you tender the peace and prosperity of these Churches , the comfort of His Majesty in the union of his Subjects , and the peace of your souls in the great day of your accounts , that laying by all former and present exasperating and alienating differences , you will not now deny us your consent and assistance to those means that shall bee proved honest and cheap , and needful to those great , desirable ends , for which wee all profess to have our offices , and our lives . Should not the love of Christ command us to bee tender of those that are so tender of his honour , and to take heed what wee do to men for taking heed of sin , and being afraid to offend the Lord ; and should not the special love of Christians , and the common love of men , command us , to bee loath to drive men by penalties , upon that which they judge doth tend to their everlasting damnation , and which indeed doth tend to it , because they judge it so to do ; For hee that will do that which hee thinks to bee so great a sin as is before described , to please men , or to escape their punishment , no doubt deserveth the wrath of God , and should wee not bee loath to drive men upon sin and condemnation : though wee were sure that their own infirmity is the occasion . keywords: bee; bée; christ; church; cor; glory; god; hast; hath; hee; holy; life; lord; love; mat; psal; rom; sin; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; thée; tim; wee; world; wée cache: A26983.xml plain text: A26983.txt item: #17 of 215 id: A27046 author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. 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. date: 1681.0 words: 82914 flesch: 71 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 . keywords: answ; answer; believe; bishop; book; case; christ; christian; church; church universal; churches; communion; conformists; consent; covenant; discipline; doth; england; god; good; government; hath; head; judge; judgment; king; kingdom; law; lay; leave; man; men; ministers; non; oath; parish; parliament; parts; pastor; people; power; present; principles; question; read; religion; rest; saith; self; sense; sin; thing; thought; time; true; truth; universal; use; way; words; work; world; yea cache: A27046.xml plain text: A27046.txt item: #18 of 215 id: A27493 author: Bernard, Nath. (Nathaniel) title: Esoptron tes antimachias, or, A looking-glasse for rebellion being a sermon preached upon Sunday the 16 of Iune 1644, in Saint Maries Oxford, before the members of the two Houses of Parliament / by Nath. Bernard. date: 1644.0 words: 9618 flesch: 79 summary: Therefore no sacrificing , nor intentions of Religion , can excuse Rebellion or make it pleasing to God . For to say , that all disobedience , even to God , is Rebellion against God , is neither universally true , nor Logically inferred from this Text . keywords: doe; god; king; man; men; non; rebellion; rebells; religion; saith; sicut; sinne; text; time; way; witch; witchcraft; witches cache: A27493.xml plain text: A27493.txt item: #19 of 215 id: A28590 author: Bold, S. (Samuel), 1649-1737. title: A plea for moderation towards dissenters occasioned by the grand-juries presenting the Sermon against persecution at the last assizes holden at Sherburn in Dorset-shire : to which is added An answer to the objections commonly made aganst that sermon / by Samuel Bolde ... date: 1682.0 words: 17468 flesch: 58 summary: But that Church is undoubtedly under very unhappy Circumstances , which cannot have any owned for her Children , who will not imitate the worst of men in their groundless zeal , their inhumane barbarity , and their detestable and most enormous Immoralities . But it is a great unhappiness , we have so many who pretend to the Church of England , who are her greatest disgrace , and who will not allow we make any Proselytes to the Church , unless we do prevail with them to sit , ordinarily ten times as long in a Tavern or Alehouse , as the longest Service appointed for any day in the year , and a Sermon of near an hour long at the end of it , will oblige them to stay at Church . keywords: ceremonies; church; dissenters; doth; england; god; man; men; moderation; people; power; present; religion; things; use; way; world cache: A28590.xml plain text: A28590.txt item: #20 of 215 id: A29526 author: Brinsley, John, fl. 1581-1624. title: The spirituall vertigo, or, Turning sickensse of soul-unsettlednesse in matters of religious concernment the nature of it opened, the causes assigned, the danger discovered, and remedy prescribed ... / by John Brinsley. date: 1655.0 words: 50910 flesch: 76 summary: Both which are looked upon as implyed in that word , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , which being of the Passive voice , layeth the fault primarily upon those false teachers , by whose means they were perverted : 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , ( saith the Original ) ; which some Manuscripts ( as both Beza and Grotius take notice of it ) read , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Be not carried away . keywords: apostle; children; christ; christians; church; day; divers; doctrines; doth; god; gods; good; gospel; grace; hath; heart; heed; light; like; man; men; ministers; new; paul; peter; place; reason; saith; scriptures; selves; soules; speaketh; spirit; teachers; text; things; times; truth; turning; use; verse; way; wind; word cache: A29526.xml plain text: A29526.txt item: #21 of 215 id: A29790 author: Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704. title: The reasons of the new converts taking the oaths to the present government in a dialogue / by the author of the Reasons of Mr. Bay's conversion. date: 1691.0 words: 12258 flesch: 68 summary: Now then Tim , since I was so bold as to make the Dr ▪ s Conversion no miracle at all , you are not to expect that I should assign any miraculous Reasons for it but onely such as are frequent and common in the World ; so I will begin with that which ever since the Creation of the World has had a mighty influence upon men of all Countries , and Degrees , and Religions . Why then I must tell thee Tim ▪ in plain downright English , that I wonder full as much , as the Dutchman did at 〈◊〉 above mentioned Passage , that thou should'st ever have the assurance to 〈◊〉 the Dr's Conversion , as thou callest it , upon 〈◊〉 for such a strange piece of News : For to give you my Sen●●●●●● 〈◊〉 for all ●pon this occasion , I rather wonder that it was so late before he reconciled himself to the Government , than that he was prevailed with to do it at all . keywords: conscience; freem; government; man; oaths; people; present; question; reasons; sir; taking; thing; tim; time; town; world cache: A29790.xml plain text: A29790.txt item: #22 of 215 id: A30212 author: Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. title: A true and impartial narrative of some illegal and arbitrary proceedings by certain justices of the peace and others, against several innocent and peaceable nonconformists in and near the town of Bedford, upon pretence of putting in execution the late Act against conventicles together with a brief account of the late sudden and strange death of the Grand Informer, and one of the most violent malicious prosecutors against these poor people. date: 1670.0 words: 6944 flesch: 41 summary: The next day , being Lords-Day , Fines were doubled upon the Meeters , before the first could be levied ; for they assembling again at the same House , according to their custom ; Battison with the two Apparitors , by another Warrant from Mr. Foster , entred the Meeting-place about nine of the clock in the morning : but the Mèeters refusing to depart before their Exercise was ended ( unless forced ) Battison sends word of it to Mr. Foster , who returns a verbal Order , that Battison should charge certain Gentlemen of the Town ( whose names he had sent by the messenger ) to assist him ; which Battison accordingly did , going to their Houses to call them , though there were near a hundred common people spectators in the streets , and none of them then charged to assist , and also Trained-Band Souldiers ready in Town for this service , partly at the charge of these Gentlemen whom Battison had so warned to assist , and who were so warned ( as is supposed ) upon design , to have them incur the penalties of five pounds for their refusing . Mr. Foster having done his Work at the Pipemakers , proceeds in the Parish to one Robert Browns a Gardener , distreyning all his Houshold Goods , for a Fine supposed to be three pounds : making haste to the chiefest place they aimed at , for their turn , they passed into Peters Parish , to the House of Mris. keywords: battison; foster; goods; house; john; justices; officers; people; pounds; shillings; text cache: A30212.xml plain text: A30212.txt item: #23 of 215 id: A30390 author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. title: A modest and free conference betwixt a conformist and a non-conformist about the present distempers of Scotland now in seven dialogues / by a lover of peace. date: 1669.0 words: 36904 flesch: 67 summary: You had in●volved the Nations in blood ; and not satisfie● with this , after you got all the security yo● could demand , you engaged with his enemie● in England , against him ; you opposed the de●sign of delivering his Father , But we need not seek to rifle the Ca●binets of the King , and his Councellors , ther● being many apparent cogent reasons , to have en●forced the change . keywords: bishops; christ; christian; church; dayes; doth; god; good; gospel; great; hath; holy; judge; king; love; man; matters; men; party; people; persons; power; prayer; reason; religion; scripture; self; spirit; things; use; way; words; world; worship; ● ● cache: A30390.xml plain text: A30390.txt item: #24 of 215 id: A30624 author: Burscough, Robert, 1651-1709. title: A discourse of schism address'd to those dissenters who conform'd before the toleration, and have since withdrawn themselves from the communion of the Church of England / by Robert Burscough ... date: 1699.0 words: 47258 flesch: 73 summary: c. 1. b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , &c. c. 47. Col. 83 , 84. a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . b Chr. keywords: apostles; body; christ; christian; church; churches; come; communion; cor; divisions; god; good; hath; holy; lord; love; man; members; men; new; paul; peace; persons; schism; scripture; separation; things; vid; way; work; world; ● ● cache: A30624.xml plain text: A30624.txt item: #25 of 215 id: A30635 author: Burthogge, Richard, 1638?-ca. 1700. title: Prudential reasons for repealing the penal laws against all recusants and for a general toleration penn'd by a Protestant person of quality. date: 1687.0 words: 4979 flesch: 53 summary: eng Dissenters, Religious -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- Early works to 1800. Queen Elizabeth on several Occasions , in several Parliaments , gave Life and Birth to Laws of extream severity , not only against the Roman Catholic , but also the Puritan Recusant ; but against both to little effect ; for notwithstanding all that severity , Popery was not extirpated , and Nonconformity grew and spread ; it is true , the less observedly , but not the less dangerously for that it grew in secret , and that it was not observed . keywords: interest; king; laws; men; religion; roman; state; tcp; text cache: A30635.xml plain text: A30635.txt item: #26 of 215 id: A31025 author: Baron, William, b. 1636. title: The Dutch way of toleration, most proper for our English dissenters date: 1698.0 words: 11266 flesch: 29 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. keywords: church; dissenters; dutch; english; good; government; liberty; people; publick; religion; sir; tcp; text; thing; tho; time; toleration cache: A31025.xml plain text: A31025.txt item: #27 of 215 id: A31425 author: Cave, William, 1637-1713. title: A serious exhortation, with some important advices, relating to the late cases about conformity recommended to the present dissenters from the Church of England. date: 1683.0 words: 14671 flesch: 57 summary: I am very sure , neither the Ancient Christians , would have passed through the Fiery-Tryal every Day , nor the Holy Martyrs in Queen Mary's Days , have thought themselves obliged to Forfeit their Estates , much less their Lives , had no more been required of them then there is of us , to come to Church , or to Kneel at the Sacrament ; but would rather have Blessed God , and thankfully owned the Favour of the Governours , under which they lived , might they have enjoyed both upon the same Terms as we do . Let them bethink themselves what a mighty Evil Schism is , and will be so found before God at the last Day , and whether any thing can be meet to be put in the Ballance with the Peace and Unity of the Church , and those Vastly-important Consequences , that depend upon it . keywords: christ; church; communion; dissenters; england; god; good; men; prayer; publick; reason; religion; separation; text; things; time; way; years cache: A31425.xml plain text: A31425.txt item: #28 of 215 id: A31873 author: Calamy, Benjamin, 1642-1686. title: Some considerations about the case of scandal, or, Giving offence to weak brethren date: 1683.0 words: 19468 flesch: 41 summary: Whatever Scandal may follow is wholly accidental , and the fault and mistake of those only , who are Offended , and to provide always against such Scandals is an impossible undertaking ; for they may follow the most innocent actions , nay the most necessary duties , and this Argument concludes as strongly against obedience to any other Command of God , if by it my Brother may stumble , or be offended , or be made weak , as it doth against submission to our Superiours in things lawful . They that make these Objections do not sufficiently consider , that by Gods Law we are bound to obey the Lawful Commands of our Superiours ; and it is not only the Law or Ordinance of Man , of which they seem to make so little account , but it is the Law of God also , that is violated by our disobedience to our Governours in things Lawful : The Comparison therefore ought not to be only , as they make it , between an human Authority determining some indifferent things , and the divine Law of charity to the Soul of our Brother , but between the divine Command of obedience to our Superiours , and the avoiding of Scandal : Here we affirm , that we cannot be bound to transgress a plain Law of God , or which is all one in this Question , a lawful command of our Superiours for fear of some evil that may by chance happen to some others through their own fault ; and we prove it by this reason , which our Dissenting Brethren must own for true and good , because every one is bound to have a greater care of his own than others Salvation , and consequently rather to avoid sin in himself , than to prevent it in his Brethren . keywords: brethren; brother; christians; church; giving; god; good; hath; law; men; offence; paul; scandal; sin; things; tho; way cache: A31873.xml plain text: A31873.txt item: #29 of 215 id: A32107 author: Calder, Robert, 1658-1723. title: A letter to a non-conformist minister of the kirk shewing the nullity of the Presbyterian mission or authority to preach the Gospel. date: 1677.0 words: 6339 flesch: 60 summary: For grant ( saith Bishop Sanderson ) for the suppression of Idolatry , in case the Church will not do her Office , that it is lawful for any unauthoriz'd Persons ( such as Knox , &c. ) to take upon them to reform what they think amiss ; there can be no sufficient cause given , why by the same reason , and upon the same grounds , they may not take upon them to make Laws , raise Forces , administer Justice , execute Malefactors ( Malignants ) or do any other thing the Magistrate should do , in case the Magistrate slack to do his duty : which if it were once granted , ( as granted it must be , in case your Presbyterian Reformation be justifiable ) every wise man seeth the end can be no other but vast Anarchy , and confusion both in Church and Common-wealth : whereupon must un avoidably follow the speedy subversion both of Religion and State. In the New Testament , our blessed Saviour and his Apostles , beside the internal excellency of their Doctrine , gave the World sufficient external evidence that they were persons sent from God ; and whereas you say , that you Preach no other Doctrine then that of Christ and his Apostles , it is the answer of Socinians , Anabaptists , &c. and will serve every mans turn as well as yours . keywords: authority; church; god; gospel; mission; people; presbyterian; scripture; spirit; tcp; text; words cache: A32107.xml plain text: A32107.txt item: #30 of 215 id: A32359 author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. title: A proclamation against the resetting of tenents or servants without testificats date: 1678.0 words: 1949 flesch: 52 summary: CHARLES , by the Grace of GOD , King of Great Britain , France , and Ireland , Defender of the Faith ; To Our Lyon King at Arms , his Brethren Heraulds , Macers of Council , Pursevants , or Messengers of Arms , Our Sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constute , Greetings Forasmuch , as We have for the preservation of the Protestant Religion , as it is now established by the Laws of thi● Our ancient Kingdom , taken care that all unlawfull Meetings , upon pretence of Religion , may be restrained , by which many of the Commons of that Our Kingdom , have been for several years withdrawen from their Paroch Churches , and been thereby deprived of the appointed means for their establishment in the true Fear of God , and the Duty they ow to Us , and Our Government , and have b●n seduced to keep seditious Field-Conventicles in a tumultuous way , and other Disorderly Meetings , where they may and do actually hear , declared T●●●●nours , Intercommuned and Vagrant Preachers , and any who without licence or authority , do impiously asume the holy Orders of the Church , and ●ake it their business to diffuse amongst the unwarry and credulous multitude seditious and false doctrines , and pernicious principles , which are destructiv● to all Order and Constitution of Societies , by which these who frequent those Meetings , are observed to be corrupted and poysoned with an open and o●stinate contempt of all authority Civil or Ecclesiastick , and to be led into most irregular prastices , which are inconsistent with , all Order and Government , ●●d are not to be allowed in any Protestant or Christian Church : For remeding of which growing evils , and vindicating Our Authority and Laws fr●● such gross violations and affronts , We have commanded a Band to be subscribed , whereby Heretors , Life●enters , and Masters are obliged for their ●enents , Servants , and others living upon their Lands and they for themselves , for obeying such Laws as may secure against schisme and separation ; and 〈…〉 the same be eluded , and the Heretors , Liferenters , and Masters prejudged by the Tenents , Servants , and others foresaids , deserting such as t●ke the said Band , nor least the saids Tenents Servants or others , may be encouraged not to take the same upon expectation that after they are removed by their Masters , or run away from their Masters , for not taking the Band or for going to Conventicles , withd●awing from publick Ordinances , or upon any other account provided against by the Masters Band , they may or will be sheltered others : (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A32359) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 43364) keywords: eebo; servants; tcp; tenents; text cache: A32359.xml plain text: A32359.txt item: #31 of 215 id: A32441 author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. title: By the King, a proclamation for inforcing the laws against conventicles and for preservation of the publick peace against unlawful assemblies of papists and non-conformists date: None words: 1270 flesch: 58 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A32441.xml plain text: A32441.txt item: #32 of 215 id: A32511 author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. title: By the King, a proclamation for suppression of popery date: 1673.0 words: 1240 flesch: 60 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 103850) keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A32511.xml plain text: A32511.txt item: #33 of 215 id: A32596 author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. title: A proclamation of grace, for the inlargement of prisoners called Quakers date: 1661.0 words: 1635 flesch: 57 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A32596) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 58053) keywords: eebo; king; proclamation; tcp; text cache: A32596.xml plain text: A32596.txt item: #34 of 215 id: A32683 author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. title: By the King, a proclamation date: None words: 1708 flesch: 58 summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A32683) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 102749) Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. keywords: eebo; english; laws; tcp; text cache: A32683.xml plain text: A32683.txt item: #35 of 215 id: A32880 author: Chorlton, John, 1666-1705. title: Notes upon the Lord Bishop of Salisbury's four late discourses to the clergy of his diocess particularly upon the last, relating to the dissenters, in a letter to a friend. date: 1695.0 words: 7715 flesch: 49 summary: From all this it is undenyably evident , that the Faith , Humility and Self-denyal of the Nonconformists , in parting with their Livings , and casting themselves entirely upon Providence , their stedfastness in refusing the Oaths and Subscriptions by them judg'd unlawful , their Sobriety , and endeavouring to practice what they have preacht to others , hath been a standing ( not to say the only ) Witness to this Generation , That there is a GOD , and that the Convictions of his Being and Government lye at the bottom of some Mens Actions . In this Sense the Church of England is neither one Sect of Christians nor another among us , but every Man that hath given up himself to God in Christ by Baptism , or hath been warrantably devoted by others in his Infancy , and leads a Christian Life , is truly a Member of it : From the Church of England in this sense , we neither do nor can separate , but upon such Grounds as would Separate us from the Body of Christ . keywords: church; communion; dissenters; england; god; government; hath; men; separation; sort; tcp; text; worship cache: A32880.xml plain text: A32880.txt item: #36 of 215 id: A33206 author: Clagett, William, 1646-1688. title: The Difference of the case, between the separation of Protestants from the Church of Rome, and the separation of Dissenters from the Church of England date: 1683.0 words: 23592 flesch: 52 summary: And since it is not in the Power of any Man or Church , to dispense with our Obligations to the Laws of God , we could not be obliged to preserve Communion with the Bishop of Rome and his Adherents , upon those Terms . It is a plain case that they who Separate from our Church upon the account of Unommanded Rites and Practices in Gods Worship , are something more obliged by this principle to avoid Communion with all Foreign Churches ; if Rules for Customs concerning things Indifferent are to be found amongst them all , as most certainly such Rules more or fewer all of them have : For in the former case our Separatists are disobedient to their proper Governours and Pastors , whose Authority over them is some thing more clear and indisputable , than that of the Governours of other Churches where they might happen to go . keywords: authority; case; church; communion; dissenters; england; god; hath; man; reason; rome; separation; things; worship cache: A33206.xml plain text: A33206.txt item: #37 of 215 id: A33237 author: Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674. title: Second thoughts, or, The case of a limited toleration, stated according to the present exigence of affairs in church and state date: 1660.0 words: 4112 flesch: 42 summary: And since our want of Union , & Intestine Animositys chiefly Result from our different Judgements in Religion , and from the several Consequences thereof , I hope , I shall not mistake my duty in offering my thoughts to those , who are the Proper Judges , concerning that so much debated Question of Punishing or Tolerating Non-Conformists . In the first Place , it must be allow'd , that cold it be effected , nothing were more to be desi●ed , in order to the lasting Happiness of this Nation , than a Conformity of all Minds , under the same Doctrine , and Worship in Religion ; That so , as our Bodys , and outward Actions are govern'd by the same Temporal Laws , our Souls and our Opinions ( though in Matters relating to the World ) might also be united under one , and the same Ecclesiasticall Discipline , and were England at present under that happy Condition of Spiritual Vnion , I should think it rational and seasonable by the Rigour of Law● , to preserve it in such a State of Tranquillity , by suppressing all Upstart Innovators , & frighting the People from the dangerous affectation of Novelty . keywords: church; conscience; dissenters; interest; law; present; religion; text cache: A33237.xml plain text: A33237.txt item: #38 of 215 id: A33374 author: Claude, Jean, 1619-1687. title: An account of the persecutions and oppressions of the Protestants in France date: 1686.0 words: 24216 flesch: 53 summary: The Kingdom having been only for some short Intervals altogether free from troubles , it was not possible to do any other thing for the advantage of Religion , save only to diminish the number of places permitted for the Exercise of the Pretended Reformed Religion , as well by the Interdiction of those which were found erected in prejudice to the disposal made in the said Edict , as by suppressing the mix'd Chambers of Judicature , which were composed of an equal number of Papists and Protestants , the erecting of which was only done by Provision , and to serve the present Exigency . Whereas therefore at length it hath pleased God to grant , that Our Subjects enjoying a perfect Peace , and We Our selves being no longer taken up with the cares of protecting them against our Enemies , are now in a condition to make good use of the said Truce , which we have on purpose facilitated , in order to the applying our selves entirely in the searching out of means , which might successfully effect and accomplish the design of the Kings , our said Grandfather and Father , and which also have been our intention ever since we came to the Crown ; we see at present ( not without a just acknowledgment of what we owe to God on that account ) that our endeavours have attain'd the end we proposed to Our selves , forasmuch as the greater and better part of our Subjects of the said Pretended Reformed Religion have already embraced the Catholick , and sice by means thereof , the Execution of the Edict of Nantes , and of all other Ordinances in favour of the said Pretended Reformed Religion is made useless , we judge that we can do nothing better towards the entire effacing of the Memory of those Troubles , Confusion and Mischief , which the Progress of that false Religion , hath been the cause of in Our Kingdom , and which have given occasion to the said Edict , and to so many other Edicts and Declarations which went before it , or were made since with reference thereto , than by a total Revocation of the said Edict of Nantes , and the perticular Articles and Concessions granted therein , and whatsoever else hath been Enacted since in favour of the said Religion . keywords: catholick; change; children; church; design; dragoons; edict; france; general; great; kingdom; kings; men; ministers; new; people; persons; places; protestants; reformed; religion; roman; subjects; things; time cache: A33374.xml plain text: A33374.txt item: #39 of 215 id: A33725 author: Cole, Thomas, 1627?-1697. title: The old apostolical way of preaching, or, Peters last legacy to all his true successors in the ministry and faith of the Gospel being an awakening word from a dying-preacher to his dying-hearers in a sermon preached on the death of Mr. Edward West, late minister of the gospel in London / by Thomas Cole ... date: 1676.0 words: 6335 flesch: 59 summary: Logick alone may speak Natural Reason , but seldom good Divinity : Therefore after all Disputes about the Polemical part of Divinity , give me the sincere unlearned Mans Religion , who hath no more in his Head , than he hath in his Heart ; whose Reason doth not out-run his Faith and Experience ; he lives in what he believes , and knows more of the Nature of Faith by one Act of Faith , than others do by reading of an hundred Books , and Discourses of Men about it : A down-right plain-hearted Christian who hath but one Notion of things , ( I mean of any one Truth ) but that is a right one , he keeps to it without any variation in his Conceptions about it , and walks evenly and uprightly with God all his days according to his Light : What a great place in Heaven will such a one have , who is faithful over a little , and is what he is by the Grace of God ? And therefore , if in the former part of my Discourse , I say something of the Nature of Preaching of the old Apostolick Way , which God did so wonderfully own in the Primitive Times , and unto which we must certainly return , before we can expect the like Success in our Ministry . keywords: faith; god; gospel; remembrance; text; things; truths; way; word cache: A33725.xml plain text: A33725.txt item: #40 of 215 id: A33738 author: Care, Henry, 1646-1688. title: Animadversions on a late paper entituled, A letter to a dissenter upon occasion of His Majesties late gracious declaration of indulgence by H.C. date: 1687.0 words: 13139 flesch: 37 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. He imagines some criminal Alliance between the Roman Catholicks and Dissenters , when there is nothing more than a joint Concurrence ( prompted by their Common Interest , and justified by the first Principles of Religion , Reason , and Policy ) to remove unwarrantable and oppressive Shackles upon Conscience , and withal at the same time advance such a Legal Establishment as may secure , not only themselves , but all others too , in their Rights , both as Men and Christians . keywords: author; church; conscience; dissenters; england; interest; king; laws; liberty; majesty; men; party; people; principles; religion; right; tcp; text; world cache: A33738.xml plain text: A33738.txt item: #41 of 215 id: A33892 author: J. C. (John Collens), d. 1682. title: A message from the spirit of the Lord to the people called Anabaptists and to the rest of the sects who are scattered up and down these nations and in the Army, that they may read and consider why the Lords controversie is against them, and that they may understand what the Lords purpose is concerning them. date: 1660.0 words: 3701 flesch: 36 summary: These things have not been done in a corner , but in the sight of the Sun , before your eyes , and you have not laid it to heart , but ready to add affliction to their Bonds , and to join your hands with their persecutors in your Bookes and Pamphlets , in your preachings and pretended prayers , and in your places of Justice ; and you have strengthened the hands of the Wicked , and persecuted , slandered & reproached my Servants . But as for your parts , you have had a day , and a price put into your hands , but had not hearts to use it , you forgot me saith the Lord , and did not remember the cause of the innocent , but every one sought his own honor and his own advantage , and forgot me and the cause of my people : Therefore did I cause your Sun to set at noon , even in the midst of your day , and did deliver you up into the hands of your enemies , even without a Sword or a Spear ; but by my own might and power , that you might know that I am God , and that I can do whatsoever I will in the Kingdoms of men . keywords: day; enemies; hath; lord; people; text cache: A33892.xml plain text: A33892.txt item: #42 of 215 id: A33894 author: Anderdon, John, 1624?-1685. title: A word in season to all in authority with weighty considerations what persons, practices, and things doth chiefly cause division and contention, rending of kingdoms, and distresse of nations : as also a plain discovery of those things and that ministry that will bring blessings and unity, with deliverance from bondage into liberty, and instead of strife, wars, and fighting, righteousnesse, reconciliation and peace in the land of our nativity / published by J.C. date: 1660.0 words: 11225 flesch: -2 summary: For now consider , that before the Wars , when Idolatry and Superstition grew amongst people under Episcopacy , ( so call'd ) and prophaneness , and licenciousness became tollerated by that generation , and all the conscientious zealous people for God became persecuted , and hated and made a prey , so that it were a hard matter for any man to live without suspicion of 〈◊〉 dangerous , who made Conscience of any thing , especially in the worship of God ; But they who were Lovers of Pr●de and wantonness , letters up of May-poles , Bull-baitings , Revels . And if the Spirit of the Lord was grieved in any to see these things committed , and a Testimony borne against it by any ) How were such made a reproach , their goods spoyled by the Officers of the then called Spiritual Courts ? and that kind of Ministery that tollerated and partaked in such wickedness , they were the men set up , countenanced and intrusted , and bore all the Rule amongst people every where ; and many years was the Spirit of the Lord grieved , and his righteous Soul vexed with these abominations , and often called them to return , but they would not hear ; but hardned their hearts in their wickedness , and went on in their Rebellion against God , until his w●ath waxed hot against them , and the Contest began between the King and the Parliament , and increased until a great War began , as is well and b● woful experience unto many to this day remembred ; and the Bishops being near unto the KING , and well discerning that if by force they were not able to uphold their Office they must fail , and their great yearly Revenue , which depended upon their Office would be lost , and they not doubting their strength , because of the KING , and the greatness of their number , forgot God , who saveth , not by many , nor by few ; and then they preached up the KING , and their Office , their Form of their Service , upon 〈◊〉 of Damnation to all that should resist them , calling them Rebels , and Traytors , and Heriteks that should oppose . keywords: god; government; hath; king; lord; maintenance; men; peace; people; things; time cache: A33894.xml plain text: A33894.txt item: #43 of 215 id: A33959 author: Care, Henry, 1646-1688. title: A perfect guide for Protestant dissenters in case of prosecution upon any of the penal statutes made against them together with the statutes of 35 Eliz. and 22 Car. 2 at large : to which is added a post-script about ecclesiastical courts and prosecution in them. date: 1682.0 words: 24383 flesch: 48 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Although I cannot think but that most men are satisfied , that the Act of the 35 of Eliz. is expired , yet I thought it might not be amiss to subjoin hereunto the said Act at large , with all other Statutes made since that Act that have any Reference to it ; there have been so many solid Arguments given , by men understanding in the Law , to prove the expiration of it , that I shall not adventure to say any thing after them . keywords: act; authority; chief; church; day; dissenters; eliz; justices; king; law; magistrate; majesties; manner; offence; offender; parliament; peace; persons; realm; session; statutes; time cache: A33959.xml plain text: A33959.txt item: #44 of 215 id: A33964 author: Collinges, John, 1623-1690. title: The history of conformity, or, A proof of the mischief of impositions from the experience of more than 100 years date: 1681.0 words: 16272 flesch: 62 summary: Besides that the people in times of Popery were much strangers to any thing of Religion but Ceremonies , and hearing Mass ; hence ( as may be seen in the first Edition of the Common Prayer ) many things were put in , which were left out by the Bishops in the 2d Edn. of it in K. Edw. time . EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). keywords: archbishop; articles; bishop; book; ceremonies; church; england; god; good; hath; men; ministers; people; prayer; queen; subscription; things; time; years cache: A33964.xml plain text: A33964.txt item: #45 of 215 id: A33987 author: Collins, Anthony, 1676-1729. title: An answer to Dr. Scot's cases against dissenters concerning forms of prayer and the fallacy of the story of Commin, plainly discovered. date: 1700.0 words: 34002 flesch: 64 summary: But then Secondly , As for Diabolical Inspirations , of Matter and Words in Prayer , we have sundry very probable Instances ; such as Major Weier ( who is said to have received his Inspirations through a Staff ) Hacket , David George , and that Monster of Wickedness Iohn Basilides Duke of Russia , who were all of them possessed with such a wonderful Gift of Prayer , as did not only charm , and ravish those that heard them , but seemed in the Opinion of the most wise and impartial to exceed the Power of Nature , which renders it very probable , that the Matter of their Prayers was for the most part agreeable to Scripture ; otherwise it is hardly conceivable , how they could have procured to themselves so many Admirers , and abused so many honest Minds into a belief , that they were immediately inspired by God. Now , if it be the Will of God that we should sometimes pray only mentally , whilst one only useth Words in Prayer , and if it be lawful here to shut out the Spirit 's Influence upon our Words , when we are to use no Words , but only to join our Amen to him that useth them ; it will not therefore follow , that we may do it , when we are our selves to use Words , as to which the Holy Spirit may influence us . keywords: affections; author; case; casuist; church; doth; forms; gift; god; good; hath; holy; matter; means; men; people; prayer; publick; saith; spirit; thing; use; wants; words cache: A33987.xml plain text: A33987.txt item: #46 of 215 id: A34532 author: Corbet, John, 1620-1680. title: An account given of the principles & practices of several nonconformists wherein it appears that their religion is no other than what is profest in the Church of England in vindication of themselves and others of their perswasion, against the misrepresentation made of them, and in hearty desire of unity in the Church, and of peace and concord among all true Protestants, for the strengthening of their common interest, in this time of their common danger / written by Mr. John Corbet ... date: 1682.0 words: 12639 flesch: 54 summary: It is none of our perswasion that men are bound under pain of damnation to labour to establish God's publique worship in the greatest perfection by hazarding the Church's peace , and unsetling a good establishment , though less perfect . An account given of the principles & practices of several nonconformists wherein it appears that their religion is no other than what is profest in the Church of England in vindication of themselves and others of their perswasion, against the misrepresentation made of them, and in hearty desire of unity in the Church, and of peace and concord among all true Protestants, for the strengthening of their common interest, in this time of their common danger / written by Mr. John Corbet ... Corbet, John, 1620-1680. 1682 Approx. keywords: authority; church; doctrine; england; god; government; hath; men; non; peace; power; principles; religion; state; things; vve; way cache: A34532.xml plain text: A34532.txt item: #47 of 215 id: A34533 author: Corbet, John, 1620-1680. title: A discourse of the religion of England asserting, that reformed Christianity setled in its due latitude, is the stability and advancement of this kingdom. date: 1667.0 words: 15676 flesch: 60 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Church and state -- England. keywords: church; england; english; good; government; hath; interest; king; kingdom; men; nation; order; people; popish; power; religion; rome; sect; state; things; times cache: A34533.xml plain text: A34533.txt item: #48 of 215 id: A34538 author: Corbet, John, 1620-1680. title: The kingdom of God among men a tract of the sound state of religion, or that Christianity which is described in the holy Scriptures and of the things that make for the security and increase thereof in the world, designing its more ample diffusion among the professed Christians of all sorts and its surer propagation to future ages : with The point of church-unity and schism discuss'd / by John Corbet. date: 1679.0 words: 64050 flesch: 54 summary: Things of divine right may be corruptly managed and perverted to wrong ends ; And things of mans appointment are sometimes not only ill managed , but ill ordained , as being wholly incongruous and perhaps pernicious to the right ends of goverment . To worship God in the Spirit after the simplicity that is in Christ , according to the Gospel dispensation , as it is most agreeable to the nature of the divine Majesty , which is Worshipped , and best fitted to glorifie him as God indeed ; so it is also most efficacious to make the Worshippers more knowing in religion , more holy and heavenly in Spirit and conversation , and every way more perfect in things pertaining to life and godliness . keywords: chap; christ; christian; christianity; church; churches; common; communion; divine; doctrine; doth; faith; god; godliness; gods; good; government; hath; holy; interest; life; love; men; nature; order; peace; people; persons; power; publick; reason; religion; right; schism; scripture; self; sound; spirit; state; things; truth; unity; way; wisdom; world; worship cache: A34538.xml plain text: A34538.txt item: #49 of 215 id: A34539 author: Corbet, John, 1620-1680. title: The nonconformist's plea for lay-communion with the Church of England together with a modest defence of ministerial nonconformity, and the exercise of their ministry / by Mr. John Corbet ... date: 1683.0 words: 11164 flesch: 56 summary: Church-Unity is not to be built upon the doctrines and ordinances of men , but upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets , Jesus Christ being the chief corner stone ; and none are to be shut out from the Communlon of the Church , or the work of the Ministry , whom Christ hath not excluded , but qualified and called thereunto according to the Scriptures which are the rule of admission and exclusion from the said priviledges . And this is not to set up Church against Church , or according to an ancient manner of speaking , Altar against Altar , but only either occasional and temporary Assemblies , or at the most but divers Churches distinguished by their several places of Assembling , as one Parish-church from another ; and by diversity of External Order , as the allowed Congregations of Foreigners in London from the Parish churches . keywords: authority; bishop; christ; church; churches; god; hath; ministry; office; pastor; power; right; word cache: A34539.xml plain text: A34539.txt item: #50 of 215 id: A34543 author: Corbet, John, 1620-1680. title: A second discourse of the religion of England further asserting, that reformed Christianity, setled [sic] in its due latitude, is the stability and advancement of this kingdom : wherein is included, an answer to a late book, entitled, A discourse of toleration. date: 1668.0 words: 15902 flesch: 56 summary: Church of England -- Customs and practices. Church and state -- Great Britain. keywords: ceremonies; church; conscience; england; god; good; government; hath; men; order; party; peace; publike; religion; sect; state; things cache: A34543.xml plain text: A34543.txt item: #51 of 215 id: A34754 author: Countrey minister. title: The countrey-minister's reflections on the city-ministers letter to his friend shewing the reasons why we cannot read the King's declaration in our churches. date: 1688.0 words: 5901 flesch: 55 summary: Why may not People have your leave , as well as their KING 's , to go , not only to Conventicles , but to the Mass , till they are convinc'd , that they do ill in going thither ? It is much better becoming a Minister of Religion , to Convince such by Scripture and Reason , that their Worship is false , then to Contend to have them cast into Prison , and by Fines and Confiscations , to Compel them against their Conscience to come to Church ; for their Presence there , is no more pleasing to God , nor Beneficial to their own Souls , whilst their Minds are elsewhere , than it would be , if they were at a Conventicle , or at Mass . eng Church and state -- England. keywords: church; clergy; declaration; king; laws; people; reading; thing cache: A34754.xml plain text: A34754.txt item: #52 of 215 id: A34912 author: R. C. (Richard Crane) title: An appeal for judgement unto the righteous principle of God in every conscience, against the persecutors of the innocent. date: 1664.0 words: 2123 flesch: 57 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). An appeal for judgement unto the righteous principle of God in every conscience, against the persecutors of the innocent. keywords: english; god; tcp; text cache: A34912.xml plain text: A34912.txt item: #53 of 215 id: A34916 author: R. C. (Richard Crane) title: A hue and cry after bloodshed, or, A short relation of that inhuman, barbarous, cruel, and bloody tragedy acted upon the innocent people of God called Quakers at their meeting at Bull and Mouth within Aldersgate, upon the 31 and the 6th month, 1662, by some of the trained bands of the city of London date: 1662.0 words: 3131 flesch: 53 summary: Oh vain man , what art thou doing ! wilt thou that comes forth of time , and ends in time , go about to comprehend eternitie in thy vain imaginations ? thou pot-sheard , thou heap of dust , thou Attome of dust , not seen but in the Suns ray , for littleness ; hast thou not read , that the Nations of the earth are as grashoppers about his Throne ? how darest thou then go about to limit and set bounds to his holy Spirit , in any appearance whatsoever in his People ? Now consider these things in the pure fear of God , for they are wonderful weighty , and if you can , stop those bloody incursions and inroads that are daily made upon Gods innocent people in their Meetings , it may be well for you ; but if you persist and persevere in these Tragical works , know this , and be it known unto you from the Lord God , that as you thirst after blood , blood shall be given you to drink , with which you shall be choaked , and you shall be spewed out of every mind , as nautious , unsavoury , indigested meat is cast out of the stomack , when it is burdened with it . A hue and cry after bloodshed, or, A short relation of that inhuman, barbarous, cruel, and bloody tragedy acted upon the innocent people of God called Quakers at their meeting at Bull and Mouth within Aldersgate, upon the 31 and the 6th month, 1662, by some of the trained bands of the city of London R. C. (Richard Crane) 1662 Approx. keywords: blood; god; hath; people; tcp; text cache: A34916.xml plain text: A34916.txt item: #54 of 215 id: A34955 author: Creighton, Robert, 1593-1672. title: The vanity of the dissenters plea for their separation from the Church of England a sermon preached before the King at Windsor, September the 10th. 1682 / by Robert Creyghton ... date: 1682.0 words: 5624 flesch: 61 summary: When I am satisfied in Conscience that the Church maintains the Faith , sound in all the Doctrines she professes ( which to say truth are the proper Objects about which Conscience acts ) Now then if the Schismatick tell us , his Conscience will not suffer him to submit ; where then is his Liberty of Conscience ? who put those Fetters upon his Conscience , but himself ; what Cyclops made those Fetters ? where were they forged ? in what Vulcans Shop ? in what Aetna ; but in his own zealous over-heated brain ? Does the Scripture fetter his Conscience ? shew where ? if it be truly Conscience he pretends , he is bound to shew , either that to obey or not to obey , is made by some positive Rule of Scripture indifferent , as Marrying , or not Marrying is ; or that the thing he boggles at , is either morally ill , or ill because forbidden by a Law. keywords: church; churches; conscience; government; law; liberty; men; tcp; text; thing cache: A34955.xml plain text: A34955.txt item: #55 of 215 id: A35057 author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. title: The judgment of M. Cartwright and M. Baxter concerning separation and the ceremonies date: 1673.0 words: 7674 flesch: 68 summary: And if any man say , that it is of the substance of a , Church-Minister , to be able to teach ; and therefore that he is no Minister , that hath not that ability : It may be answered , that it is of the substance of a good and lawful Minister of God , but not simply of a Minister ; whereunto it is sufficient to have the Churches calling : They which have performed unto them the special Covenant which the Lord hath made with his Churches , by pouring his Spirit upon them , and his word in their mouths , are the Churches of God. keywords: assemblies; christ; church; churches; england; god; hath; lord; man; ministery cache: A35057.xml plain text: A35057.txt item: #56 of 215 id: A36241 author: Dodwell, Henry, 1641-1711. title: A defence of the vindication of the deprived bishops wherein the case of Abiathar is particularly considered, and the invalidity of lay-deprivations is further proved, from the doctrine received under the Old Testament, continued in the first ages of christianity, and from our own fundamental laws, in a reply to Dr. Hody and another author : to which is annexed, the doctrine of the church of England, concerning the independency of the clergy on the lay-power, as to those rights of theirs which are purely spiritual, reconciled with our oath of supremancy, and the lay-deprivations of the popish bishops in the beginning of the reformation / by the author of the Vindication of the deprived bishops. date: 1695.0 words: 57466 flesch: 64 summary: How is this reconcilable with what he says elsewhere , that the Posterity of Phineas did * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , were private Persons till this restitution of the Priesthood by Solomon , to the Family of Phineas , at the Expulsion of Abiathar ? where he compares our drinking the Cup of the LORD , with drinking the Cup of Devils ; and our Partaking of the LORDS Table with partaking of the Tables of Devils v. 21. and our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with Christ v. 16. with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with Devils , v. 20. keywords: abiathar; account; authority; bishops; case; church; conscience; doctor; duty; god; good; hood; lay; magistrate; office; particular; persons; power; present; priest; principles; publick; reason; religion; right; self; society; state; subjects; time; way cache: A36241.xml plain text: A36241.txt item: #57 of 215 id: A36831 author: Du Moulin, Lewis, 1606-1680. title: An appeal of all the non-conformists in England to God and all the Protestants of Europe in order to manifest their sincerity in point of obedience to God and the King to which is added a sober and unpassionate reply to the author of The lively picture of Lewis du Moulin / by Dr. Lewis Du Moulin ... date: 1681.0 words: 8341 flesch: 38 summary: Pag. 20. line 5 read Conformist for Non-Conformist . An appeal of all the non-conformists in England to God and all the Protestants of Europe in order to manifest their sincerity in point of obedience to God and the King to which is added a sober and unpassionate reply to the author of The lively picture of Lewis du Moulin / by Dr. Lewis Du Moulin ... Du Moulin, Lewis, 1606-1680. 1681 Approx. keywords: church; conformists; doctors; england; god; good; government; king; non; party; reformation; tcp; text cache: A36831.xml plain text: A36831.txt item: #58 of 215 id: A36832 author: Du Moulin, Lewis, 1606-1680. title: The conformity of the discipline and government of those who are commonly called independants to that of the ancient primitive Christians by Lewis Du Moulin. date: 1680.0 words: 28088 flesch: 40 summary: THE Gospel it self is not more true than this perswasion of Independants , and that Bishop could not approve of one more reasonable , to wit , that a particular person , or Church , ought not to submit their Faith , their Religion , nor the guidance of their manners to an Authority which is subject to errour , but only to the Word of God , which is an infallible Authority . 2. 'T IS not Schism when a number of Hereticks separate from the Orthodox party of a particular Church ▪ to make a Congregation apart , to the end they may profess their heresie with greater liberty , but it is an Apostasie , and an abandoning and forsaking of the Orthodox faith , or Church of Jesus Christ , which is Catholick and visible : and upon this ground the Church of Rome is not a Schismatical , but an Apostate Church ; although it be one for the first reason , because that what ingagement or tye soever all its Members have to one head , however they are not all agreed together . keywords: authority; bishop; chap; christ; christians; church; churches; civil; congregational; discipline; doctrine; faith; god; good; government; hath; independant; jesus; magistrate; manner; pastors; people; persons; power; religion; rome; synods; way; world cache: A36832.xml plain text: A36832.txt item: #59 of 215 id: A37428 author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. title: An enquiry into the occasional conformity of dissenters in cases of preferment with a preface to the lord mayor, occasioned by his carrying the sword to a conventicle. date: 1698.0 words: 7707 flesch: 51 summary: But our Eyes are at last open'd , and the Name of Protestant is now the common Title of an Englishman , and the Church of England extends her Protection to the Tender Consciences of her Weaker Brethren , knowing that all may be Christians , tho' not alike inform'd ; and the Dissenter extends his Charity to the Church of England , believing that in his due time God shall reveal even this unto them . I neither press Your Lordship to go to Church or Meeting , but to use the Authority Man has given you to procure Your self the freedom of using the Judgment God has given You ; That honest Mr. Sword-bearer may have his Liberty , and Your Lordship Your own . keywords: act; church; dissenters; england; god; lordship; man; religion; thing; time cache: A37428.xml plain text: A37428.txt item: #60 of 215 id: A37899 author: England and Wales. title: An ordinance made and agreed by the Lords and Commons of Parliament the 28th day of August 1641 for the speedie disarming of popish recusants, and other dangerous persons. date: 1641.0 words: 2632 flesch: 63 summary: Sir Alexander Denton Knight , Sir John Parsons . For the Countie of Berk Sir George Stonehouse , Master John Parker , Sir John Backhouse , Roger Knight . keywords: countie; county; esquire; john; ordinance; persons; sir; thomas; william cache: A37899.xml plain text: A37899.txt item: #61 of 215 id: A38683 author: Estwick, Nicolas. title: A dialogue betwixt a conformist and a non-conformist concerning the lawfulness of private meetings in the time of the publick ordinances, and of going to them ... published by N.E., for common benefit. date: 1668.0 words: 9313 flesch: 62 summary: C. Is our Minister bound to preach ? if so , sure some body is bound to hear him ; and I know none more bound to hear him than you and I , for God by his providence hath set him over us , and you know we were ready and glad to receive him . N. C. No! why , I pray is it lawful for us to do any thing in the Worship of God that we have not Scripture for ? C. keywords: god; good; man; minister; n. c.; prayer; profit; publick; spirit cache: A38683.xml plain text: A38683.txt item: #62 of 215 id: A39313 author: Ellyson, John. title: Hereticks, sectaries, and schismaticks, discovered to be the Antichrist yet remaining and the great enemies of the peace of this kingdome the question rightly stated and debated ... : with a hint about ordination and the covenant. date: 1647.0 words: 13448 flesch: 43 summary: They that know there is a King of Kings , by whose will and pleasure Kingdoms stand and fall , they know , that to no King , or State , any thing can be profitable , which is unjust : ( our experiment is too neer us at this day ; The desolations of our State are witnesses hereof , ) and that nothing can be more evidently unjust , then to force weak men by the profession of a Religion , which they beleeve not , to loose their own eternall happinesse , least they loose their temporall Estates and quietnesse , there being no danger to any state from any mans opinion : unlesse such , by which disobedience to authority , or impiety is taught : unlesse this bloody Doctrine be joyned with it , that it is lawfull for the Magistrate by humane violence , to enforce men to his own Religion : Oh let not our Magistrates in this , take part with the scarlet Whore , who for these many Ages hath daily sacrificed thousands of poor innocent Christians , under the name of Hereticks , Sectaries , and Schismaticks : ●… them that call evill good , and good evill , that ●…esse for light , and light for darkenesse , Isay ●… ●…e good , but if the Salt hath left its Savour , where●…e salted , it is good for nothing but to be cas●…●…oden underfoot of men . keywords: antichrist; christ; church; day; god; hath; hereticks; lord; men; non; power; saints; schismaticks; spirit; things; truth cache: A39313.xml plain text: A39313.txt item: #63 of 215 id: A39570 author: Fisher, Samuel, 1605-1665. title: The bishop busied beside the business, or, That eminent overseer, Dr. John Gauden, Bishop of Exeter, so eminently overseen as to wound his own cause well nigh to death with his own weapon in his late so super-eminently-applauded appearance for the [brace] liberty of tender consciences, legitimacy of solemn swearings, entituled, A discourse concerning publick oaths, and the lawfulness of swearing in judicial proceedings, in order to answer the scruples of the Quakers ... / by Samuel Fisher ... date: 1662.0 words: 76692 flesch: 27 summary: ( but on his own head , or by hear say onely , for it 's not so ) the Quakers so much affect to use , as if they would fancy themselves literally or verbally tyed to these monosyllables , and those to be repeated in all their assertions or prom●…ses , nor scrupling to use such Paraphrases or Enlargements of speech as the matter , or the parties understanding or diffidence may require ) unless there be a punctual observation of well-nigh every tittle of those other trifling impertinencies , we are not excus'd , ●… swearing , but punisht , as not swearing satisfactorily to them , even by them , who yet tell us that to say , I call God to witness , or such a thing , is Swearing ; Which is enough to make any sober men think that the Acts for imposing and taking of Oaths ( though perhaps not so intended to be by such as made them , are yet ( being once m●…de ) made use of sometimes by many of those that pretend to execute them on the Quakers , more as an Engine to ●…nsnare and entra●… such innocent , honest and tender-hearted p●…rsons , as envious-minded men have a mind to be aveng'd on , than out of any such honest and good intents , as either to secure the King , or remove the obstructions from Iudicial Proceedings , which , for ought we ye●… s●…e , might go on better than they do without that needless use of 〈◊〉 ▪ unless there were care taken by those that requir●… Oaths , to 〈◊〉 less Prophane Swearing than there is , notwithstanding all the good Acts and Proclamations that are out against it ; since the Bishop himself confesses with us at large the utter uselesness of Oaths ▪ whilst he intimates , that honest mens Oaths are as needless , as wicked 〈◊〉 Oaths are creditless ; And we would that all should take notice how he little less than gives us the whole Cause thereby , How he will draw out that Crooked Serpent , Lev●… with a hook ? yea how the least of that little stock of his Shee●… 〈◊〉 hear his voice , which the learned Scribes had not heard at a●…ime , though they pretended to great skill in searching the Scriptures , should draw him out ? how , out of the mouths of Babes and sucklings he will perfect his own praise , and ordain strength against the Persecutors , to still the Enemy and the Avenger ? Psal. 8. keywords: act; bishop; book; case; charity; christ; christians; church; conscience; contrary; dissenters; end; evil; god; gods; good; gospel; great; hath; law; laws; liberty; light; like; lord; man; matter; men; mens; nay; need; non; oaths; order; ought; pag; peace; penalties; people; point; power; publick; quakers; reason; religion; saith; sayes; self; sin; solemn; spirit; stand; strife; swearing; things; time; truth; use; viz; way; witness; words; world; yea cache: A39570.xml plain text: A39570.txt item: #64 of 215 id: A39623 author: Walker, Henry, Ironmonger. title: Five lookes over the professors of the English Bible wherein is shewed the infinite indiscreet invention, of inconsiderate, inveterate dissention about the exaltation of the propagation of that gospel which we all say, wee doe professe to beleeve : whereunto is added the English Protestants resolution / published by Levek Hunarry. date: None words: 2694 flesch: 67 summary: In the view whereof , whosoever pleaseth to 〈◊〉 their eyes on the Bible ; as it there stands opened ( which is verb●…m Dei , Gods o●… world revealed unto us , to teach us , for the salvation of our soule ) to be veiled with so blacke a mist , that there is now great difficultie found in the true reading thereof ; even as there was many difficulties under the Law , till the 〈◊〉 was taken away , so is there now so great a veile , or rather vanity , of humerous ●…nventions under the Gospell at this day in the Church of England , that ( whi●… they remaine ) t●…e true Protestant Religion , is exceeding diffic●… to be ●…uly pro●…essed . thou that hast called the wi●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ever ●…ate ; art tho●…●…ed ? keywords: church; england; english; god; text cache: A39623.xml plain text: A39623.txt item: #65 of 215 id: A40399 author: Francklin, John, d. 1689. title: A resolution of two cases of conscience in two discourses : the first, Of the lawfulness of compliance with all the ceremonies of the Church of England : the second, Of the necessity of the use of common-prayer in publick. date: 1683.0 words: 12029 flesch: 53 summary: Secondly , It might seem to be a mocking of God , and abusing his Institution , to use Ceremonies signifying Christ to come , who was then ascended into Heaven , and which represented his merits as future , when they were already consummated . And yet most people through their ignorance have placed the spiritual performance of this duty in invention of new matter and words ; which is quite otherwise , and consists in the sanctification of the whole man , as to body , soul , and spirit : in the sanctification of the understanding , memory , will , and affections by the Spirit of God. keywords: affections; apostle; ceremonies; christ; church; god; jews; law; prayer; spirit; things; understanding; use; words cache: A40399.xml plain text: A40399.txt item: #66 of 215 id: A40722 author: Fullwood, Francis, d. 1693. title: Toleration not to be abused by the Independents by a lover of truth and peace. date: 1672.0 words: 5725 flesch: 52 summary: eng Religious tolerance -- Church of England. And in their Institution of Churches ; Persons that are joyned in Church-fellowship , ought not lightly to withdraw themselves from the Communion of the Church , to which they are so joyned . keywords: church; churches; communion; england; god; independents; men; separation; way; worship cache: A40722.xml plain text: A40722.txt item: #67 of 215 id: A41042 author: Fell, John, 1625-1686. title: Seasonable advice to Protestants shewing the necessity of maintaining the established religion in opposition to popery / by Dr. Fell ... date: 1688.0 words: 11132 flesch: 66 summary: Aquin , Ledesma , Malderius , to pass by innumerable others , all whose Works were publisht by Authority , and so own'd as consonant to the Doctrines of the Church , to which may be added the Pope's definition , who makes it authentic Law in these words We say and define and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary to Salvation for every human Creature to be subject to the Bishop of Rome , and this Law of Pope n Boniface the Eighth's making , he effectually commented on himself , of whom o Platina says , That he made it his busines to gave and take away Kingdoms , to expel men and restore them at his pleasure . In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. keywords: church; concil; england; english; faith; god; king; kingdom; men; pope; popery; religion; roman; rome; tcp; text; time; world cache: A41042.xml plain text: A41042.txt item: #68 of 215 id: A41295 author: Fagel, Gaspar, 1634-1688. title: A letter writ by Mijn Heer Fagel, pensioner of Holland, to Mr. James Stewart, advocate giving an account of the Prince and Princess of Orange's thoughts concerning the repeal of the Test, and penal laws. date: 1688.0 words: 4116 flesch: 43 summary: I must then first of all assure you very positively , that Their Highnesses have often declared , as They did it more particularly to the Marquis of Albeville , His Majesties Envoy Extraordinary to the States , that it is Their Opinion , that no Christian ought to be persecuted for his Conscience , or be ill used because he differs from the publick and established Religion ; And therefore , They can consent , that the Papists in England , Scotland and Ireland be suffered to continue in their Religion , with as much Liberty as is allowed them by the States in these Provinces ; in which it cannot be denied , that they enjoy a full Liberty of Conscience . But since the matter that is now in hand , relates not to the making of new Laws , but to the 〈…〉 those already made both by King and Parliament ; they do not see how it can be expected of them , that they should consent to such a Repeal , to which they have so just an aversion , as being a thing that is contrary to the Laws and Customs of all Christian States , whether Protestants , or Papists , who receive none to a share in the Governments , or to publick Employments , but those who profess the publick and established Religion , and that take care to secure it against all attempts whatsoever . keywords: catholicks; highnesses; laws; protestant; publick; religion cache: A41295.xml plain text: A41295.txt item: #69 of 215 id: A41313 author: Fagel, Gaspar, 1634-1688. title: Some remarkable passages out of the excellent letter of Mijn Heer Fagal, in the name of Their Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Orange date: 1689.0 words: 1593 flesch: 57 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). 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A41313) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 63790) keywords: eebo; english; highnesses; tcp; text cache: A41313.xml plain text: A41313.txt item: #70 of 215 id: A41363 author: Godwyn, Thomas. title: Phanatical tenderness, or, The charity of the non-conformists exemplified in the practices of many of them in Bristol and others their favourers and accomplices in that city, in London and Pembrokeshire against Thomas Godwyn, sometime Vicar of St. Philips and Jacobs Church in Bristol, and now Rector of Poulchrohan in Pembrokeshire : humbly offered to His Most Sacred Majesty, to His Royal Highness James Duke of York &c. and the lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council. date: 1684.0 words: 29659 flesch: 51 summary: These Justices , and most men inhabiting the County had known this Henry David to have been divers times accused of Rapes , indicted and convicted of making arrests and seizures without Warrant or Cause , of arresting two Widows , and not allowing them time to procure Bayl , but carrying them into uncooth places , and there proposing to compound the pretended differences , and release them upon receiving satisfaction of his Lust. EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). keywords: bishop; bristol; cary; cause; chamber; church; city; coming; court; day; door; execution; godwyn; good; hath; house; iohn; lord; lordship; man; mayor; men; morgan; persons; place; pounds; prison; self; sir; skirm; thomas; time; tithes; way; words cache: A41363.xml plain text: A41363.txt item: #71 of 215 id: A41388 author: Good, Thomas, 1609-1678. title: Firmianus and Dubitantius, or, Certain dialogues concerning atheism, infidelity, popery, and other heresies and schisme's that trouble the peace of the church and are destructive of primitive piety written in a plain and easie method for the satisfaction of doubting Christians / by Tho. Good. date: 1674.0 words: 44057 flesch: 58 summary: Thine in the truth that is i● Christ Jesus . I have so long s●ept out of one opinion into another , that at length I am become a very Sceptick in Religion , doubting of all , and fixing upon none . keywords: beginning; body; book; cause; christ; christian; church; churches; common; discourse; dub; earth; eternity; fathers; firm; god; good; heathens; holy; infinite; law; light; lord; man; men; nature; non; o ●; people; persons; power; practise; prayer; present; reason; religion; rome; scripture; service; set; spirit; sun; th ●; things; times; truth; use; world; worship; years; ● d; ● e; ● n; ● s; ● t; ● y; ● ● cache: A41388.xml plain text: A41388.txt item: #72 of 215 id: A41450 author: Goodman, John, 1625 or 6-1690. title: A serious and compassionate inquiry into the causes of the present neglect and contempt of the Protestant religion and Church of England with several seasonable considerations offer'd to all English Protestants, tending to perswade them to a complyance with and conformity to the religion and government of this church as it is established by the laws of the Kingdom. date: 1674.0 words: 54172 flesch: 52 summary: But most strange of all , that Enemies abroad should make men quarrel with their Friends at home ; that Iron and Steel , Wounds and Blows should make men tender-conscienced ; that those who can find in their hearts to shed the blood of Men , of Christians , and of their Brethren without remorse , should be so queasie stomached as to scruple every punctilio and nicety in Ecclesiastick matters . All therefore that can be allowed in the case is , That by reason of such a mans unhappy circumstances , his disobedience will then be only a sin of infirmity , which is pittyable amongst men upon consideration of common humanity , and is pardonable with God as other errors are upon a general repentance . keywords: body; case; causes; chap; charity; christian; christianity; church; conscience; danger; doctrine; england; english; general; god; good; government; hath; jews; laws; liberty; magistrate; man; men; mens; mind; nature; opinion; peace; people; persons; publick; reason; religion; rome; self; sin; society; things; time; truth; use; way; world cache: A41450.xml plain text: A41450.txt item: #73 of 215 id: A41771 author: Grant, Patrick, 17th/18th cent. title: The nonconformists vindication, or, A testimony given against the indulged assembly of separatists wherein the false calumnies and aspersions cast upon the suffering Presbyterians, are answered and confuted : also, the heads and causes of separation are opened and explained, together with an illustration of the Erastian state of the present church. date: 1700.0 words: 27613 flesch: 58 summary: Mock Verses put forth ( in Room of Confutation ) against the Au●● . For every one that doth evil hateth the light ; and so cannot endure that there should be any light or witness against themselves or Sins ; which witness makes them ready to cast foul aspersions and Accusations on the Faithful , who will not go on with them in their sins ; Like to Josephs Mistris who did falslie accuse him of her sin , by raising the hue and cry after him , as in Gen. 38 , 14. even so is the case this day with the Faithful of the Land , who will not , neither dare go on , in defection and separation ( from the princ●pals and practises of the Church of Scotland ) with the Erastian , indulged in their Backsliding courses of Perjurie by unity & concord . keywords: answer; christ; church; contrair; covenant; discipline; doth; duty; exercise; faithful; god; good; government; hath; king; land; laws; lord; man; people; power; practise; present; reason; sin; sins; time; word; ● ● cache: A41771.xml plain text: A41771.txt item: #74 of 215 id: A41782 author: Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692. title: The loyal Baptist, or, An apology for the baptized believers ... occasioned by the great and long continued sufferings of the baptized believers in this nation / by Thomas Grantham ... date: 1684.0 words: 43765 flesch: 71 summary: And because due Qualifications , and Election , is as necessary to a true Minister of Christ , as Ordination , seeing it 's most certain , that unless God do first make Men Ministers , it 's impossible for the Church ( rightly ) to make them Ministers . To avoid this damning Iniquity , we are willed to consider our new Birth , and as new-born Babes to evidence our delight to be in the sincere Milk of the Word of God , not in the Vanities of this World , where we are but Pilgrims and Strangers ; assuring us , that as Christ is the sure Foundation to support his Church : keywords: baptism; children; christ; christians; church; covenant; faith; fear; god; good; hath; honour; infants; king; lord; love; man; men; religion; things; tho; word cache: A41782.xml plain text: A41782.txt item: #75 of 215 id: A42359 author: Guthrie, James, 1612?-1661. title: The true and perfect speech of Mr. James Guthrey, late minister of Sterling as it was delivered by himself immediately before his execution on June 1, 1661 at Edinbrough. date: 1661.0 words: 3819 flesch: 49 summary: I do also bless the Lord that I do not dye as one not desired , I know that of not a few I have never been nor am desired : It hath been my lot to have been a man of contention and sorrow : but it is my comfort that for my own things I have not contended , but for the things of Jesus Christ , and for what relates to his Interest and Work , and well being of his people , in order to the preserving and promoting of these I did protest against , and stood in opposition to those Assemblies at St. Andrews , and Dundee , and Edenburg , and the publique resolution of bringing the Malignant party to judicature , and Armies of this Kingdom , as conceiving the same contrary to the Word of God , and to our Solemn Covenant , and Ingagement , and to be an inlet to defection , and to the ruine and destruction of the Work of God , as it is now manifest to this day to mens Consciences . And you that repent for all the abominations that are done in the City , and in the Land , and that take pleasure in the stones and dust of Zion , cast not away your confidence , but be comforted and encouraged in the Lord , he will yet appear for your joy ; God hath not cast away his people and work in Britain and Ireland ; I hope it shall once appear and revive by the power of his Spirit , and take root downward , and bring forth plentiful fruit upward ; there is yet a holy Seed , a Root whom God will preserve , and bring forth ; but how long and dark our night may be , I do not know ; The Lord shorten it for the sake of his Chosen . keywords: christ; god; hath; lord; people; tcp; text; work cache: A42359.xml plain text: A42359.txt item: #76 of 215 id: A42456 author: Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654. title: An answer to Mr. George Walkers vindication, or rather, fresh accusation wherein he chargeth Mr. Wotton, besides his former foul aspersions of heresie and blasphemy, with Arianism, Mr. Gataker with Socinianism, Dr. Gouge and Mr. Downham with a fase attestation, Dr. Baylie and Mr. Stock with self-condemnation, all the eight ministers employed in the busines between himself and Mr. Wotton with partiality and unjust judgement : upon occasion of a relation concerning that busines / written by the said Thomas Gataker and by him now again avowed, wherein the said M. Walkers vindication is in many things shewed to be an untrue relation. date: 1642.0 words: 49088 flesch: 76 summary: True it is , that I do indeed directly and expresly charge him with g unequall dealing ; and h want of candor in his carriage toward M. Wotton . But that that followeth , is yet more ridiculous , that herein he did M. Wotton a singular favour . keywords: answer; beleeve; blasphemy; cause; censure; charge; christ; concerning; condition; doth; doth m.; error; est; faith; free; god; gods; good; hands; hath; heresie; himselfe; hold; ibid; justification; letter; like; m. bradshaw; m. gataker; m. richardson; m. stock; m. vvalker; m. vvotton; m. walker; m. wotton; man; matter; meeting; men; non; obedience; ought; pag; point; question; quod; relat; relation; righteousnes; shew; socinus; things; tho; time; truth; walkers; way; wel; wil; words; wottons; writings; yea; ● ● cache: A42456.xml plain text: A42456.txt item: #77 of 215 id: A42476 author: Gauden, John, 1605-1662. title: Charis kai eirēnē, or, Some considerations upon the Act of uniformity with an expedient for the satisfaction of the clergy within the province of Canterbury / by a servant of the God of peace. date: 1662.0 words: 15178 flesch: 54 summary: The Church in all probability was likely to recover her ancient life , vigour , beauty and glory ; 1. by the Spirit of God , allaying animosities , and softning the hearts of men to a peaceable and quiet frame : 2. by the Prudence of man reconciling interests , closing differences , and filling up distances ; 3. by severe Laws , rooting up those principles , testraining and condemning those practiles that ruined us , those Abominations that made desolate : 4. by that cheerfull submission for Conscience sake , which all men promised to his Majesties Government , upon his miraculous Restauration , with that Generall Applause and Joy ( when the Providence and hand of God restored Him , whom they thought by the Providence and Hand of God excluded ) what could we have answered the Messengers of the Nations , but that the Lord hath founded Sion , and that the poor of his People should trust therein ? SECT . II. True liberty is to guide us privately and publickly alone , and with others to guide our thoughts , opinions , judgement , conscience , speech and action , as sober men , by the ingenuous restraints of Reason and Religion , of modesty , humanity , honor , civility , charity and society : and as sober Christians , by the Law of God , the established Order , good Laws , just Power and Government in things civil and sacred : Its fa● from Christian liberty to think , speak , act , write , and dispute what he pleases privately and publickly , according as his private perswasions , his prevailing lust , interest and temptations , which other mens importunities may guide him , without regard to right , reason , common order , publick peace , reverence of men , or fear of God , as if they had no yoke of Christ upon them , no care of the duties of patience , self denyal , mortification , meekness , charity , modesty , sobriety , together with that comeliness that beseems Religion and a Christian spirit ; as if it were Christian liberty to be led captive to all impudencies and violences , by the devil at his will : and to have that sad misery of doing what we will , by following vain , erroneous , and blasphemous thoughts , raw , undigested and rash fancies and opinions , with irregular , disorderly and unwarrantable ways , whereby men are servants to their lusts , 2 Pet. 2. 17 and are in danger of making it a cloak of maliciousness , to the dissolution of humane societies , with the mutual relations of superiors and inferiors that uphold them , whereas true Liberty , that glorious Liberty of the Sons of God is , 1. To do such things constantly , cheerfully , and without sinful impediment , which are most proper , and advantageous to the excellent nature of man towards God , in devout piety . keywords: charity; christian; church; conscience; god; good; government; holy; laws; liberty; lord; men; order; peace; people; power; prop; publick; religion; things cache: A42476.xml plain text: A42476.txt item: #78 of 215 id: A42709 author: Gibson, Thomas, Quaker. title: Something offered to the consideration of all those who have had a hand in putting the late made Act, (entituled, An Act to prevent and suppress seditious conventicles) in execution For the sake of such who have any tenderness towards the innocent; and also for the information of all others, who have had, shall or may have, a hand in putting in execution the said Act, I shall offer something to shew, whom and what exercises of religion are concerned in and by the said Act, and what not, according to the most true natural genuine litteral sense and meaning thereof, and no other wise. date: 1665.0 words: 4753 flesch: 51 summary: Such Exercises of Religion as have prescript forms or manners for the exercise thereof , and no other forms or manners are allowed of ; Such Exercises of Religion , if not performed in the same form or manner as is prescribed , are in other manner than is allowed , &c. But all such Exercises of Religion as have no prescript forms nor manners but the practice of the Church of England , is , to leave all persons to use their own forms or manners , such Exercises of Religion cannot be performed , in other manner than is allowed , &c. Those Exercises of Religion used in private families which have prescript forms , are Baptism , the Visitation of the Sick , and Administration of the Communion ( as they call it ) to the sick person , and others with him . keywords: act; exercise; manner; persons; pretence; religion cache: A42709.xml plain text: A42709.txt item: #79 of 215 id: A42786 author: Gipps, Thomas, d. 1709. title: Remarks on remarks, or, The Rector of Bury's sermon vindicated his charge exhibited against the dissenters for endeavouring to corrupt the word of God justified and farther confirmed : also the absurdities and notorious falsities of Mr. Owen and other pretended ministers of the Gospel are detected and expos'd / by Thomas Gipps, Rector of Bury. date: 1698.0 words: 29848 flesch: 71 summary: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ( which is less than that between Y and W ) and the Epenthesis of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , which is common among 'em in other Cases . St. Paul does so , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , whose mouth ( Plural ) but in the Hebrew 't is his mouth , Psal . keywords: church; corruption; dissenters; english; god; good; hebrew; jews; man; men; minister; owen; people; place; psalms; reason; rector; remarker; scripture; seventy; text; thing; tho; time; titles; words cache: A42786.xml plain text: A42786.txt item: #80 of 215 id: A43089 author: Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667. title: A satyre against seperatists, or, The conviction of chamber-preachers and other chismatickes contrary to the discipline of this our Protestant profession by A. C. Generosus. date: 1642.0 words: 2526 flesch: 79 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A43089 of text R21706 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing H1157). 34 C The rate of 34 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: bishops; church; men; text cache: A43089.xml plain text: A43089.txt item: #81 of 215 id: A43621 author: Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708. title: Gregory, Father-Greybeard, with his vizard off, or, News from the Cabal in some reflexions upon a late pamphlet entituled, The rehearsal transpros'd (after the fashion that now obtains) in a letter to our old friend, R.L. from E.H. date: 1673.0 words: 74613 flesch: 54 summary: The truth is , I have no great skill in Divinity , ( my Education not designing me that way ) yet as the times are , in a mans own defence of his Christianity ( for to be sure now if he walk but out as far as a Club or a Coffee-house he shall be sure to be assaulted on that side ) so much Divinity to defend it always in readiness , becomes as necessary for a Gentleman , as the little Tool behind to save reputation , and much more honourable ; and without any great accoutrement , I may soon have Divinity enough , to try it out with Father Grey-beard , I. O. and the rest of his friends ; and can easily prove that the worship of God , so much prated of , and contain'd in the first Table , the four first Commandments , is in order , and made for the very nonce , and for no other thing or end but that men might obey the second Table , and six last Commandments . If Subjects would never have been disobedient to their Prince and Governours , nor children disobedient to their Parents , nor servants to their Masters ; if men would never have coveted their neighbours goods , nor their neighbours wife , nor servant , nor have rob'd , and murdered one another , but would have liv'd soberly , righteously , and therefore godlily in this present world , the Allelujahs of Angels had been the great worship of men : But since it is otherwise , and that the wickedness of man is great in the earth , and the imagination of the thoughts of his heart so bent to evil , and that continually , therefore God establish'd his Laws , in the first Table by worship , sacrifices , &c. Typically , in the Old Testament , for expiation of the guilt of sin , and justification ; and sent his Son , who was made a sacrifice for us antitypically in the New Testament for expiation of the guilt of sin and justification , as our Priest ; and to show us how to live well , as our Prophet ; and to exact our obedience , as our King. keywords: apostles; arch; away; beard; bishop; blood; body; book; cause; ceremonies; charles; christ; church; clergy; day; days; england; english; evil; father; fear; friends; gentleman; god; gods; good; greg; hand; head; heart; hebrew; holy; honour; house; king; late; law; liberty; life; lord; love; majesty; man; men; modern; new; orthodox; parliament; people; reign; religion; right; saviour; self; sermons; speak; text; things; think; thou; time; tongue; truth; way; words; world; worship cache: A43621.xml plain text: A43621.txt item: #82 of 215 id: A43659 author: Hickes, George, 1642-1715. title: The judgment of an anonymous writer concerning ... I. a law for disabling a papist to inherit the crown, II. the execution of penal laws against Protestant dissenters, III. a bill of comprehension : all briefly discussed in a letter sent from beyond the seas to a dissenter ten years ago. date: 1684.0 words: 9983 flesch: 49 summary: With respect to the First ; a man is persecuted either on a negative account , for not worshiping a False God , as the three Children in Daniel ; or for not worshipping the True in a False way : as St. Paul and the other Apostles were persecuted by the Pharisees , for not worshipping the True God according to the Jewish manner after it was abrogated : Or as our Fore fathers in England , For not worshiping God and our Saviour after the Romish Rites . Or Secondly , on a positive account , For worshipping the true God in a way that is true ; or to express it yet more clearly and absolutely in your own terms , For serving of God : as Daniel was cast into the Lyons Den , for praying to God against the King's Decree . For first , the Laws , whose Execution you mis-call Persecution , do not punish you for not worshiping God after our way ; or if they did to prove their Execution to be Persecution , you must First prove that the Church of England ( whose Doctrine is down right against Idolatry and Superstition ) does worship God in an Idolatrous and Superstitious manner ; which , good Cousin , you know can never be proved . keywords: church; crown; england; english; god; great; king; laws; men; people; priests; religion; self; time cache: A43659.xml plain text: A43659.txt item: #83 of 215 id: A43660 author: Hickes, George, 1642-1715. title: A letter from a person of quality to an eminent dissenter to rectifie his mistakes concerning the succession, the nature of persecution and a comprehension. date: 1685.0 words: 9616 flesch: 46 summary: But this , as often as it happens , is the misery of the Church of England , which all true Church men lament though the men of the short Cloke take all such occasions to expose her to the scorn of the common people who judge by Sense , and not by Reason and who are taught by you , to make no distinction between the Bishops and the Church . With respect to the First ; a man is persecuted either on a negative account , for not worshiping a False God , as the three Children in Daniel ; or for not worshipping the True in a False way : as St. Paul and the other Apostles were persecuted by the Pharisees , for not worshipping the True God according to the Jewish manner after it was abrogated : Or as our Fore fathers in England , For not worshiping God and our Saviour after the Romish Rites . Or Secondly , on a positive account , For worshipping the true God in a way that is true ; or to express it yet more clearly and absolutely in your own terms , For serving of God : as Daniel was cast into the Lyons Den , for praying to God against the King's Decree . keywords: church; england; english; god; great; king; men; people; persecution; religion; self; tcp; text; time cache: A43660.xml plain text: A43660.txt item: #84 of 215 id: A44093 author: Hody, Humphrey, 1659-1707. title: A short examination of A Discourse concerning edification, by Dr. Hascard where it is inquired, how well the author of the said discourse hath proved that it is not lawful for a man to go from his parish church to meetings, that he might be better edifie [sic] / in a letter to a friend. date: 1700.0 words: 9211 flesch: 62 summary: Suppose Sir , People meet together in the Church of St. Andrews in Holborn , and another Congregation meet at St. Giles in the Fields , a Third in Cheapside , and that none of these People ever go to any but their own Church , are they therefore Separate Meetings , when they all hear the same Scriptures Read , Sing the same Psalms , hear the same Doctrine ( though in other Words ) and Worship God by the same Acts of Worship , Prayer , Praise , Preaching and Hearing , Administring and Receiving the same Sacraments ; how are they Separate Meetings ? Did ever any call the Dutch , and French Churches meeting oft-times in the Parish of Broad-street , Separate Meetings , because they go not to hear the Minister in Broadstreet ? 2. Let us consider that , as signifying the whole Body of Christians wherein we live ( upon which Account we sometimes speak of a National Church ) how can a Person more separate from that , than from the Catholick Church ( Sir ) who adhereth to the Doctrine of Faith owned in it , and serveth God in any Part , or corner of it by the same specifical Acts of Worship , that whole Body of People serveth God by , and in ? keywords: author; church; communion; edification; faith; god; knowledge; man; parish; sir cache: A44093.xml plain text: A44093.txt item: #85 of 215 id: A44308 author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Holy commonwealth. title: The non-conformists champion, his challenge accepted, or, An answer to Mr. Baxter's Petition for peace written long since, but now first published upon his repeated provocations and importune clamors, that it was never answered : whereunto is prefixed an epistle to Mr. Baxter with some remarks upon his Holy Common-wealth, upon his Sermon to the House of Commons, upon his Non-conformists plea for peace and upon his Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet. / by Ri. Hooke. date: 1682.0 words: 32422 flesch: 56 summary: If your Sincerity be no more than your Sufferings , you have as little cause to boast of that as to complain of the other , Non cruciatus , sed Causa — Let it not displease you , if I lay before you and the World a true and just account of your Sufferings and Calamities : 'T is shortly this ; You and your Party had by Arms and Violence , against all Law , Conscience , Justice and Charity , seised and possessed your selves of the Estates of your King , divers of the Nobility and Gentry , the Bishops , Deans and Chapters , the Dignities and Livings of the Loyal Clergy , all the honourable and wealthy Offices ecclesiastical and civil by Sea and Land ; these you held and enjoyed until God turned our Captivity , and the King and the Church was happily restored , and then their Estates and Rights were restored , and you enforced to quit them without the demand of Arrears or Restitution for the time you enjoyed them , which was so long and the Revenues so large , that abundance of you , being good Husbands and great Improvers , have provided well against a Storm and got out of your Sequestrations and Purchases plentifull Estates ; so that of the Calamity of our suffering Brethren , and the Cruelty of the restored King , Church and Laws , this is the most deplored and lamentable account ; The King , the Church and the Suffering Loyal Party will needs have their Rights again ; and so the Godly Party who invaded them must no longer injoy them ; The Prey is plucked out of their Teeth , and they must vomit up the sweet morsell . Suppose the Quakers mistaken in denying Magistrates and Ministers , and all Authority in Church and State , yet , in that they think they should displease God in owning those Powers , 't is in them commendable to disown them . keywords: answer; bishops; brethren; ceremonies; christ; church; churches; form; god; good; government; hath; holy; judgment; king; laws; majesty; men; ministers; non; order; parliament; party; peace; people; petition; power; prayer; religion; things cache: A44308.xml plain text: A44308.txt item: #86 of 215 id: A44672 author: Howe, John, 1630-1705. title: The Case of the Protestant dissenters represented and argued date: 1689.0 words: 4526 flesch: 60 summary: THE Names of Mr. Hale of Eaton College , and of a later most renowned Bishop of the Church of England , who asserted this Principle [ That if things be impos'd under the notion of indifferent , which many think sinful , and a Schism follow thereupon , the Imposers are the Schismaticks . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. keywords: church; england; god; laws; tcp; text; thing; worship cache: A44672.xml plain text: A44672.txt item: #87 of 215 id: A44764 author: Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695. title: A letter to a dissenter, upon occasion of His Majesties late gracious declaration of indulgence date: 1687.0 words: 5890 flesch: 55 summary: When to men under Sufterings it ossereth Ease , the present Pain will hardly allow time to examine the Remedies ; and the strongest Reason can hardly gain a fair Audience from our Mind , whilst so possessed , till the smart is a little allayed . The desire of enjoying a Liberty from which men have been so long restrained , may be a Temptation that their Reason is not at all times able to resist . keywords: church; england; liberty; men; new; power; reason; tcp; text; time cache: A44764.xml plain text: A44764.txt item: #88 of 215 id: A44807 author: Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695. title: Remarks upon a pamphlet stiled, A letter to a dissenter, &c. in another letter to the same dissenter. date: 1687.0 words: 5020 flesch: 58 summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A44807) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 63375) But , Should the Fanatick ( to avoid wrangling with the Church of England ) agree to make an equal Partition with her , of the mentioned Crimes , and their deserved shame ? keywords: church; dissenter; england; english; gentleman; letter; new; tcp; text; time cache: A44807.xml plain text: A44807.txt item: #89 of 215 id: A45122 author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Of national churches. title: An answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's book of The unreasonableness of separation so far as it concerns The peaceable designe : with some animadversions upon the debate between him and Mr. Baxter concerning the national church and the head of it. date: 1682.0 words: 9783 flesch: 60 summary: A Consent that goes to the Making a Society or Church ; and a Consent for coming into the same , when it is Made . I cannot say for my part , that to go to Church , and hear Common-Prayer , is against my Conscience ; keywords: baxter; book; catholick; christ; church; consent; doctor; hath; head; man cache: A45122.xml plain text: A45122.txt item: #90 of 215 id: A45328 author: Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665. 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. date: 1660.0 words: 47307 flesch: 76 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 . keywords: act; apostle; care; christ; church; cor; doctrine; doth; earth; faithfull; glory; god; gods; good; gospell; hand; hath; holy; honour; king; law; life; lord; love; maintenance; man; means; men; ministers; ministry; nature; nay; necessity; new; paul; people; preaching; prophets; right; salt; salvation; self; servants; spirit; text; things; tim; tythes; way; word; work; ● e; ● y; ● ● cache: A45328.xml plain text: A45328.txt item: #91 of 215 id: A45472 author: Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660. title: A view of some exceptions to the practical catechisme from the censures affixt on them by the ministers of London, in a book entituled A testimony to the truth of Jesus Christ, &c. / by H. Hammond. date: 1650.0 words: 4595 flesch: 52 summary: 15. to lift up the soul to vanity , is to swear by the soul or life falsly , as it there followes , nor sworn to deceive his neighbour , and beside my own judgment in this matter , back'd with the consent of as learned as this age hath , or the Antient Church had any , I conceived that I had a most authentick warrant from Christ himself , who renders it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , thou shalt not forswear thy self : For so we read Mat. 5. Ye have heard that it was said to them of old , thou shalt not kill , and again in the same manner , thou shalt not commit adultery , that is , that of the ten Commandments delivered in Sinai , and brought down by Scripture , to them his present auditors , one Commandment was , thou shalt not kill , another , thou shalt not commit adultery , and so again in the very same form of words , another , Thou shalt not forswear thy self , from which I did assure my self ( and so still doe ) that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , is as directly the interpretation ( in Christs judgment ) of the first part of the third Commandment , as {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of the seventh and sixth , and so that it is undoubtedly no more the one then the other . 15. and it is this . That neither Paul nor James exclude or separate faithfull actions or acts of faith from faith , or the condition of justification , but absolutely require them , as the only things by which the man is justified . keywords: actions; christ; condition; faith; god; non cache: A45472.xml plain text: A45472.txt item: #92 of 215 id: A45675 author: Harrison, Joseph. title: The Minster of Cirencester's address to the dissenters of his parish occasion'd by the death of their preacher : together with the answer that was made thereto and his reply to that answer : to which is prefixed a letter relating thereto from the Right Reverend Father in God Edward Lord Bishop of Gloucester. date: 1698.0 words: 23679 flesch: 55 summary: Sir , As to your Life and Doctrine against which you hope no just Exception can be made , it is best known to God and your Conscience how you have lived , and what Doctrine you have preached and believed : Only I shall say this , that if you can make it appear you have lived and preached according to the Rule Christ hath set us , you may expect Peace and Comfort at the last day , but till then you may never expect us to embrace the Exhortation , altho' we tender the Peace of Church and State and the eternal Happyness of our own Souls above all earthly things , and do hope through Grace stedfastly to hold Communion with that Church whereof Jesus Christ is the Head , against which the Gates of Hell shall never prevail . But let him be as cautious as he will , not to transgress that particular Law , he must not pretend that he observes all the Laws of God and Man , if he sets up Altar against Altar , Church against Church , and Heads a Separation from the external Communion of the true Church of Christ ; and be he who he will , and let his Pretence be what it will , if he sets himself here in Opposition to me , and that true Church of which I am a lawful Minister , I must say of him that he does exceedingly trouble our City ; and that too by Teaching Customs which are not lawful for us to Receive neither to observe , being Members of the Church of England ; for if any Man seem to be contentious , we have no such Custom , nor the Churches of God : from whence we may ( by the way ) observe , that the Apostle disputing , concerning an Ecclesiastick Ceremony , with the Corinthian Church , appeals to the Custom of the Churches of God , as sufficient to confute even the most contentious , without any express Determination of the word of God , in matters of that Nature . keywords: answer; christ; church; communion; god; good; hath; liberty; lord; man; men; reply; schism; selves; separation; things; use; word; worship cache: A45675.xml plain text: A45675.txt item: #93 of 215 id: A46150 author: Eustace, Maurice, Sir, ca. 1590-1661. title: Whereas in expectation of conformity to the laws of the land, concerning uniformity of common-prayer and service in the church and the administration of the sacraments ... by the Lords Justices and Council, Mau. Eustace canc., Orrery. date: 1662.0 words: 1250 flesch: 66 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Title from first 3 lines of text. keywords: council; eebo; tcp; text cache: A46150.xml plain text: A46150.txt item: #94 of 215 id: A47798 author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. title: An answer to a letter to a dissenter upon occasion of His Majesties late gracious declaration of indulgence / by Sir Roger L'Estrange. date: 1687.0 words: 26173 flesch: 63 summary: It made a Heavy Noise for One While , since the Coming of His Sacred Majesty to the Crown , that I should hold forth in an Observator , That [ All Subjects were Bound to be of their Princes Religion ] which I never Wrote , Said , or Thought , since I was Born : Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. keywords: answer; author; case; church; dissenters; england; good; king; law; letter; liberty; man; matter; men; papists; people; power; reason; religion; right; set; subjects; thing; time; way cache: A47798.xml plain text: A47798.txt item: #95 of 215 id: A47813 author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. title: The casuist uncas'd, in a dialogue betwixt Richard and Baxter, with a moderator between them, for quietnesse sake by Roger L'Estrange. date: 1680.0 words: 36670 flesch: 77 summary: Was it not enough for you to Adjure the Commons into an Opposition o● That Order in the Church , which ( as he t●lls you ) is as Antient as the Monarchy of This Island ? An Order , that you and your Confederates most Undu●ifully destroy'd ? But could you now have the Confidence to demand the spoyls again , which you first ravish'd from the Church , and the Independents afterward took from you , as the Reward of your Sedition , and Schism ? And could you yet have the greater Confidence , in case of a Disappointment , to break out into this most Unchristian Excl●mation , on the behalf of the People ? And if D●cla●ations , Professions , Commissions , and National Oaths and Covenants will not tell us , what the cause of the War was , th●n there is no Discovery . Ibid. keywords: b ●; ba ●; baxter; bishops; cause; church; commons; god; good; government; holy; houses; ibid; king; law; lords; man; non; o ●; order; parliament; party; people; person; plea; power; religion; richard; right; self; subjects; th ●; thing; war; way; wealth; ● d; ● e; ● n; ● r; ● s; ● t; ● y; ● ● cache: A47813.xml plain text: A47813.txt item: #96 of 215 id: A47829 author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. title: The committee, or, popery in masquerade date: 1680.0 words: 939 flesch: 65 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A47829) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 66484) keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A47829.xml plain text: A47829.txt item: #97 of 215 id: A47830 author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. title: The committee; or popery in masquerade date: 1681.0 words: 2369 flesch: 77 summary: Think on 't , my Masters ; and if e're ye see This Game play'd o're again , then Think of Me. Our Design 's This ; to Change the Government ; Set up our Selves ; and do 't by a Parliament . keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text; works cache: A47830.xml plain text: A47830.txt item: #98 of 215 id: A47846 author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. title: The dissenter's sayings, in requital for L'Estrange's sayings published in their own words for the information of the people / by Roger L'Estrange. date: 1681.0 words: 17574 flesch: 73 summary: For to the Multitude a Portion of the Sword of Justice is committed : From the which no Person , King , Queen , or Emperor , being an Idolater , is excepted ; they must Dye the Death , &c. — God will send to the People which are willing to do their Duty , but are not able , some Moses , or Othoniel . ( E ) O let the Ministers therefore Oppose Toleration ( as being that by which the Devil would at once lay a Foundation of his Kingdom to all Generations ) witnesse against it in all places ; possesse the Magistrate of the Evil of it ; yea , and the People too ; shewing them how , if a Toleration were granted , they should never have Peace in their Families more ; or ever after , have Command of Wives , Children , Servants , &c. Let 's therefore fill all Presses , cause all Pulpits to ring , and so possess Parliament , City , and the whole Kingdom against the Sects , and of the Evil of Schism and Toleration ; that we may no more hear of a Toleration , nor of Separated Churches , being Hateful Names in the Church of God. keywords: authority; blood; cause; christ; church; commons; covenant; england; god; government; ibid; king; kingdom; law; laws; lord; man; ministers; pag; page; parliament; people; power; religion; serm; toleration cache: A47846.xml plain text: A47846.txt item: #99 of 215 id: A47851 author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. title: Dissenters sayings the second part : published in their own words, for the information of the people : and dedicated to the Grand-jury of London, August 29, 1681 / by Roger L'Estrange. date: 1681.0 words: 31630 flesch: 75 summary: ( 6 ) From all these Errors , Here syes , Blasphemyes , and Practises of the Sectaryes , you may see what a great Evil and Sin , Separation is , from the Communion of the Reformed Churches ; and how highly displeasing to God , for men to make a Schism and Rent in the Church of God in a time of Reformation : God punishing the Schism & Separation of our Times with so many Heresyes , Blasphemyes , Wicked Practises , &c. Edwards further Discovery . P. 25. ( 11 ) A Brick-layer , of Hack●…ey affirm'd that he for his part understood the Mystery of God in Christ better th●…n St. Paul ; and he sayd of the Scriptures , they were as other writings of men . keywords: anti; authority; blood; cause; christ; church; commons; conscience; covenant; england; god; gods; good; government; hand; hath; holy; ibid; justice; king; liberty; lord; man; ministers; parliament; people; person; power; religion; set; thing; toleration; war; way; work cache: A47851.xml plain text: A47851.txt item: #100 of 215 id: A47888 author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. title: Lestrange's narrative of the plot set forth for the edification of His Majesties liege-people. date: 1680.0 words: 12932 flesch: 57 summary: But without any m●●e Des●anting upon the Good or the Evill the Grounds or Cons●quences of Matters ; we shall now deliver some few Instances to our present purpose . ; every Authour hang up a Table at 's Door , and say , Here you may have a very good Narrative , for Three-pence , a Groat , or Sixpence , or H●gher if you pl●ase ●or we have 'em of all Sorts and Sizes : The only Danger is , the Popping of Catt and Dogs Flesh upon us , for Cony , and Venison . keywords: church; faction; good; government; king; man; narrative; papists; people; plot; popish; protestant; shall; tcp; text; thing; time; truth; way; work cache: A47888.xml plain text: A47888.txt item: #101 of 215 id: A47904 author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. title: The reformation reform'd, or, A short history of new-fashion'd Christians occasioned by Franck Smith's Yesterdays paper of votes, September, 2. 1681. date: 1681.0 words: 10656 flesch: 78 summary: And in case any person ▪ or persons refuse to obey and remove , the Soldiers of this Garrison are by Order of the Lords and Commons aforesaid , desir'd to cause the said Orders to be put in Execution . An Ordinance for the speedy Execution of the said Ordinance . keywords: assessment; col; commons; england; excise; fol; highness; king; order; ordinance; pag; parliament; person; raising cache: A47904.xml plain text: A47904.txt item: #102 of 215 id: A47911 author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. title: Remarks on the growth and progress of non-conformity date: 1682.0 words: 17023 flesch: 59 summary: And Mason tells it as a serious thing , Appellant Episcopum Cantuariensem Pseudo-episcopum , Principem Daemoniorum , Caiapham , Esaum , Monstrosum , &c. Alios autem Episcopos Angliae , degeneres , perniciosos , Usurpatores , Lupos , Episcopos Diaboli , &c. Now upon these considerations , judge who will , what reason these men have to charge the Church or Church-men of England as fautoring of Popery , to amuse the People with fears and jealousies concerning it , and to arrogate to themselves the reputation of the most zealous opposers of it , and yet by exerting their zeal these three ways they have strengthened their Faction and promoted their interest in Church and State. What reason then have they so to curse a Church which the Lord hath blessed ? Her Sisters ( the Reformed Churches ) all calling her blessed , and joying to behold her order and stedfastness in Christ ; so to stigmatize with the brand of Popish , all that are not peevish and turbulent like themselves . II. keywords: baxter; christ; church; conformists; england; god; government; hath; king; laws; men; non; papists; parljam; party; people; popery; presbytery; pretence; reformation; religion; things; time; zeal cache: A47911.xml plain text: A47911.txt item: #103 of 215 id: A47927 author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. title: Toleration discuss'd by Roger L'Estrange. date: 1663.0 words: 36936 flesch: 77 summary: Bethink your selves ; Ye meant no hurt ( ye say ) to the last King , and yet ye Ruin'd him : Ye may perchance Intend as little harm to This King , and yet do him as much . Visit but your own Acts , and be your own Iudges , ( but take the Crime along with ye ; Obedience to God , to the King , and to the Law ) keywords: authority; case; church; conf; conformists; conscience; god; good; government; king; law; liberty; magistrate; majesty; man; non; party; people; power; question; reason; religion; right; rule; scrup; self; thing; toleration; way cache: A47927.xml plain text: A47927.txt item: #104 of 215 id: A47928 author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. title: Toleration discuss'd, in two dialogues I. betwixt a conformist, and a non-conformist ... II. betwixt a Presbyterian, and an Independent ... date: 1670.0 words: 68295 flesch: 70 summary: C. If this be Conscience , Then Liberty of Conscience is A Liberty of a Man's Iudging of Himself , and his Actions , with reference to the future Iudgment of God. C. keywords: act; assembly; authority; betwixt; case; church; churches; conformists; conscience; covenant; discipline; england; general; god; good; government; great; ibid; indep; interest; iudge; king; kingdom; law; laws; liberty; life; magistrate; majesty; man; matter; ministers; n. c.; non; order; parliament; party; peace; people; person; power; presbyterians; principles; publique; question; reason; religion; right; rule; sect; self; shall; state; thing; toleration; way; word; worship cache: A47928.xml plain text: A47928.txt item: #105 of 215 id: A48122 author: Curate of the same county. title: A letter of religion to the Protestant-dissenters from the Church of England, of what denomination soever in the county of Kent wherein is reported the ground of their dissent, their worship, way of instruction, and behaviour towards laws and government : to which is added a perswasive to conformity, at least an acquiescence in the religion established / by a curate of the same county. date: 1675.0 words: 8666 flesch: 48 summary: Now , how can any labouring with this designe of a re-investiture to such Lands , more properly bestow himself and his ways , than in a diligent attendence on your Conventicles , wherein Bishops have been so often declar'd your utter Enemies , and the rooting them out both your aims and prayers ? There is little in such Designers Consciences , to byass them more to you than to Rome ; but dreading that Church is not their friend in this particular , they continue with others , but on worse Principles , to cry out against her . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. keywords: church; doctrine; england; god; good; hath; men; obedience; religion; selves; tcp; text; worship cache: A48122.xml plain text: A48122.txt item: #106 of 215 id: A48123 author: Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713. title: A letter of several French ministers fled into Germany upon the account of the persecution in France to such of their brethren in England as approved the Kings declaration touching liberty of conscience : translated from the original in French. date: 1688.0 words: 5892 flesch: 60 summary: And Popery has been banished out of England by Laws made by King and Parliament , and which cannot be repealed but by the Authority of King and Parliament together ; so that therefore there is just cause to complain , that the King should go about to overthrow them himself alone by his Declaration . And the King of England , as well as his Subjects , ought to observe the Laws which have been established by King and Parliament together . keywords: conscience; dissenters; england; king; laws; liberty; parliament; religion cache: A48123.xml plain text: A48123.txt item: #107 of 215 id: A48232 author: Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683. title: A letter to the Earl of Shaftsbury this 9th of July, 1680 from Tom Tell-Troth, a downright Englishman. date: 1680.0 words: 3512 flesch: 50 summary: eng Church and state -- England. to the happy Restoration of the King , by it I shall be able to satisfie your Lordship , that what was then designed and effected upon the Person of the late King , Church of England , and Government , were the results of such pernicious Counsels and Designs , as are now hatching by these Sons of Belial , to the present disturbance , if not ruine of our flourishing Church and Kingdoms . keywords: church; english; kingdom; lord; lordship; men; tcp; text cache: A48232.xml plain text: A48232.txt item: #108 of 215 id: A48755 author: Daillé, Jean, 1594-1670. title: A lively picture of Lewis du Moulin drawn by the incomparable hand of Monsieur Daille, late minister of Charenton. date: 1680.0 words: 10518 flesch: 59 summary: Whose praise is so great not only in the Reformed Churches of France , but in this and other parts of the World , that I have some hopes you may suffer your selves to be disabused , by a Man of such Credit and Authority for learning and piercing observation ; for goodness and humility ; for modesty , humanity , and all sort of Vertues : and no longer give any belief to what LEWIS du MOULIN hath written , or shall hereafter write against this Church , or any member of it ; when you see , by the help of such a glorious light as M. DAILLE was , what kind of man this L. du MOULIN is ; of how small judgment , fidelity , or care about what he says ; and of how great vanity , rashness and passion ; or rather rage and fury . A most deplorable thing this is , and never to be enough lamented , that men should have so little sense , as after all the confusions and calamities they have brought upon themselves and us , they should again put us in the same dangers ; by joyning at this time , in their fierce oppositions and calumnies , with those who endeavour to pull down this truly Reformed Church . keywords: baxter; church; daillé; divines; hath; lewis; man; men; moulin cache: A48755.xml plain text: A48755.txt item: #109 of 215 id: A48787 author: Lloyd, David, 1635-1692. title: Cabala, or, The mystery of conventicles unvail'd in an historical account of the principles and practices of the nonconformists, against church and state : from the first reformation under King Edward the VI. anno 1558. to this present year, 1664 : with an appendix of an CXX. plots against the present govenment, that have been defeated / by Oliver Foulis ... date: 1664.0 words: 36715 flesch: 64 summary: Cabala, or, The mystery of conventicles unvail'd in an historical account of the principles and practices of the nonconformists, against church and state : from the first reformation under King Edward the VI. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 464:4) Cabala, or, The mystery of conventicles unvail'd in an historical account of the principles and practices of the nonconformists, against church and state : from the first reformation under King Edward the VI. keywords: bishop; church; conscience; court; duke; earle; england; god; good; government; great; house; king; kingdome; law; liberty; london; lord; majesty; man; men; ministers; new; nonconformists; order; parliament; party; peace; people; persons; queen; reformation; religion; set; sir; things; time; way; world cache: A48787.xml plain text: A48787.txt item: #110 of 215 id: A48867 author: Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695, attributed name. title: A second letter to a dissenter, upon occasion of His Majesties late gracious Declaration of indulgence date: 1687.0 words: 6674 flesch: 41 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. 3. 'T is Incumbent on you also as men and Christians , to use your utmost Endeavours by all Lawful Ways and Means to Extirpate all those Laws and Tests , that deprieve you of this Freedom , or lay any Restraint on Conscience in matters of Religion , you accounted it your duty ( as Daniel did ) to break these Laws , when their keenest edge was turned against you , judging it better to obey God then Men ; and shall there now be the least hesitation in your minds , as to the vacating of them ? Can you desire again to be in bondage , even whilst your Wounds are bleeding fresh , and your Backs soar with the Lashes you received from them ? Will not all men brand your folly , that when you have an opportunity to be free , and nothing but your own remiss Inadvertancy can continue or renew your bondage , you should be wanting to your selves herein ? keywords: church; conscience; declaration; god; hath; laws; liberty; majesty; men; tests; word cache: A48867.xml plain text: A48867.txt item: #111 of 215 id: A50491 author: Mead, Matthew, 1630?-1699. title: Solomon's prescription for the removal of the pestilence, or, The discovery of the plague of our hearts, in order to the healing of that in our flesh by M.M. date: 1665.0 words: 50020 flesch: 60 summary: What have I to do with thee , Oh man , whoever thou art ? I come not against thee this day , but against Sin , wherewith I have war ; for God commanded me to this work . Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the Heavens . keywords: cause; christ; church; come; day; death; god; gods; good; hand; hath; heart; hell; judgments; leave; life; lord; love; man; men; peace; people; plague; reason; religion; self; selves; sin; sins; souls; thee; things; thou; thy; time; way; wilt; work; world; wrath cache: A50491.xml plain text: A50491.txt item: #112 of 215 id: A50875 author: Milner, Richard, fl. 1675. title: A few words to the King and both Houses of Parliament vvorthy their consideration in a weighty concern; to wit, the effect of the execution of the late act, made against meetings and conventicles, so called; through which very many of the innocent people of God have, and do deeply suffer. date: 1675.0 words: 1739 flesch: 61 summary: AND this is very certain and observable ( as one deeply concerned in suffering by the aforesaid Act , my mind became exercised in a consideration of the effects thereof ) that it saddens the hearts of many , yea indeed the generality of all people , to see those they know to be honest Neighbours , and good Common-wealths people in their Countrey , to have their known truly gotten Goods and Estates driven away and spoyled , and that for nothing but the tenderness of their Consciences towards God , and for worshipping him in Spiri● and Truth ; it being so much contrary to the principle of Justice in all people , even those that have but morality and civility in any measure concludes is to be , and indeed cryes it out to be a sad thing ; that men and ●eople the● live peaceably and harmlesly amongst their Neighbours , and under the Government , should be so pilledged and rob●●● their Estates , even to the Impoverishing many , both Widdows and Fatherless ; that how can you think 〈◊〉 to be a wo●k for God , or any thing like him or his service ? or how can you think it to be a likely way to convince or bring people out of Errors or Heresie● , if you conclude us to be such ? or how can it be like to bring people from a false Church , if so , to a true ? In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. keywords: act; eebo; people; tcp; text cache: A50875.xml plain text: A50875.txt item: #113 of 215 id: A50967 author: Dissenter. title: The minister's reasons for his not reading the kings declaration, friendly debated by a dissenter. date: 1688.0 words: 13684 flesch: 31 summary: Orders that none should be relieved that fell under Poverty , if they came not to Church and Conformed to your Ceremonies , if they were able of Body so to do ; and many others of like nature : Have all these in your private Judgment been warranted by the Law of God ? Do you Esteem it a light thing to Cast , or Publish any Mans being cast out of all Christian Society , and delivered over to Sathan for such matters as are no crimes against any Divine Law ? I take it ( for ought that ever I saw manifested to the contrary ) that a Subjection to the command of your Superiours , as being onely in such things Ministerial Offices , has been at least your tacite Plea , for not stirring up or troubling your Consciences , to make a Dis●retive Judgment ; whether the Act of your Superiour which you are commanded to Publish , were Lawful , or Unlawful , by the Law either of God , or of the Land ; and to tell you the truth , I do not think you are in the Eye of the Law such Criminals as on this particular occasion you would render your selves to be , in case you should Read the Kings Declaration in Obedience to his Command , though you did not approve the matter of it in your private Judgment ; it not being your Province , positively to determine concerning it in point of Law : You might with better pretence of Conscience , ( if pressed to it in your own mind , as an Act necessary to avoid a Sin against God ) after the Reading of the Declaration , have taken your Exceptions to it in your particular Station , then to have followed the course you have taken , as it were by common consent , one in the name of all the Rest , thus openly to Declaim against it , for that had been an Exercising of such an Act of Judgment , and Reason , if the cause Required it , as a Minister of the Gospel might have done in reference to God , whatever had been the consequence of it in respect to Men : His Majesty , after the suspention of all Penal Laws in matters Ecclesiastical , for not coming to Church , or not Receiving the Sacrament , or for any other Nonconformity to the Religion Established , or for , or by reason of the Exercise of Religion in any manner whatsoever , is pleased to Declare upon what Terms , and in what Manner All His Loving Subjects have Free leave to Meet , and Serve God after their own Way , and Manner . keywords: church; conscience; contrary; declaration; dissenters; god; king; law; laws; matter; parliament; people; reading cache: A50967.xml plain text: A50967.txt item: #114 of 215 id: A51052 author: McWard, Robert, 1633?-1687. title: The case of the accommodation lately proposed by the Bishop of Dumblane to the non-conforming ministers examined wherein also the antient Prostasia, or, Episcopus Præses is considered, and the Solemne League and Covenant occasionally vindicat : together with a copy of the two letters herein reviewed : vvhereunto also is subjoined an appendix in ansvver to a narrative of the issue of the treaty anent accommodation. date: 1671.0 words: 56859 flesch: 30 summary: 2. I observe , that the Origen and warrant of a Moderator in Church-meetings , is not from any particular positive Scripture-precept or rule given anent●● ; but being a thing by clear evidence , necessary for the concerne of order , and the right expeding of affaires , its immedi●t rise , comes to be referred to the common providence of reason , and is only reductivè , and in s● far of divine institution , as the Courts whereunto the office belongeth , are founded upon that Authoritie , and do require this moderation , as an expedie●● needful to the right management of your business ; which ground being in it self manifest , and such as may be examplified in many other instances● and also fortified by apostolick practice , doth abundantly make out my assertion , and yet confirme the institution , with a sufficient impress of Gods appointment . Is it not a wonder , that thence concluding that the extirpation of that frame only could then be meant & intended , his logick should so pitifully fail him as not to adde , and from that Church alone where it was seated , which would have so clearly restricted the subject of that Article , that I am certain● at on glance , he had discovered all his applications of it unto Scotland as its primarie object to be impertinent . keywords: act; article; author; bishops; case; christ; church; churches; contrary; covenant; discipline; doth; ecclesiastick; effect; england; episcopacy; general; god; good; government; hath; king; lord; man; manner; matter; meetings; ministers; oath; office; order; persons; place; power; praeses; prelacie; presbyteries; present; presidencie; reason; right; rule; scotland; scripture; seing; self; synods; t ●; thing; time; truth; viz; word; ● e; ● ● cache: A51052.xml plain text: A51052.txt item: #115 of 215 id: A51680 author: Birkenhead, John, Sir, 1616-1679. title: A Mystery of godlinesse and no cabala, or, A sincere account of the non-conformists conversation ... occasioned by a bitter and malitions [sic] paper called the Cabala. date: 1663.0 words: 14320 flesch: 42 summary: We mourn , but not as men without hope ; that our gracious God will find out a way to have mercy upon us , and to chear up his countenance towards all his Chosen Ones , wiping ( as that holy Bishop said ) all tears from their eyes , and all spots from their faces , and answering the holy desires of their hearts , in shewing them Sion in perfect beauty , and that not by overturning any part of the Government , but by opening our hearts to see our errours , and close one with another , by turning the heart of the Father towards the Child , and of the Child towards the Father , least God come and smite the earth with dicurse . Amongst all the stratagems of Satan , whereby he would undermine Religion , and pervert the souls of men , though there cannot be any more unreasonable , yet there was never any more unhappily successful then the raising and cherishing fears and jealousies in the world , that Religion in the height and exaltation of it , is an Enemy to Government ; and that to be a through-paced , a sincere and zealous Christian , is to be dangerous to the State : We therefore , as Ministers of this Religion , are bold in the evidence & truth of the Gospel , to say that ( whatever the men of the world judge of us ) we profess Christian Religion in so harmless and innocent a way , that we have studied and endeavoured to state the Rights of Civil Government upon the clearest and firmest principles , to secure them by the most powerful obligation , and to urge them upon men by the most efficacious motives of rewards and punishments in the world : And we profess sincerely , that we look upon our late miscarriages as most unhappy scandals to our Religion , and those ingaged in them so for us , to persist still as Enemies to the Cross of Christ , and men born to bring our holy Christian profession into jealousie , suspition , and disgrace with the powers of the earth , and to stir up the Kings of the earth to stand up , and the Rulers to take counsel together against the Lord , and against his Christ , that they should break their bonds in sunder , and cast their cords from them : We are so sensible of the original and institution of Government , of the end and use of it , in respect of good and evil men , and thereof the necessity of subjection for Conscience sake , and of the sin and danger of resisting an Ordinance of God , considering that they who resist privately or openly by word or deed , resist to their own damnation ; that we cannot allow any person upon any pretence whatsoever , in any manner whatsoever , to vilifie , despise , murmure against , disparage , undermine , or oppose lawful Authority that is set over him , we say upon any pretence whatsoever , either 1. keywords: christian; church; desire; god; good; government; hearts; holy; lord; men; peace; people; publick; religion; selves; things; time; world cache: A51680.xml plain text: A51680.txt item: #116 of 215 id: A52130 author: Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678. Rehearsal transpros'd. title: A Common-place-book out of The rehearsal transpros'd digested under these several heads, viz. his logick, chronology, wit, geography, anatomy, history, loyalty : with useful notes. date: 1673.0 words: 7792 flesch: 65 summary: As for Geneva , had it not been that Democracie both in Church and State had made some amends , you had been told ere now that it tumbled into the Lemane Lake , or that it had been destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah . The Reason upon which they proceed so , is this ; Religion , which is an imitation of Him whom they profess to worship , requires that they should make their Decrees against men in such a manner as the Dominicans and they do ( much what alike , ) believe that God enacts in the Case of Absolute Reprobation : which Sanction is so farr from any Tenderness or Indulgence , that Calvin himself calls his own Doctrine in this Article , The Horrid Decree . keywords: author; book; cause; church; english; hath; history; man; men; page; rehearsal; sign; tcp; text; wit cache: A52130.xml plain text: A52130.txt item: #117 of 215 id: A52139 author: Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678. title: The rehearsal transpros'd, or, Animadversions upon a late book intituled, A preface, shewing what grounds there are of fears and jealousies of popery date: 1672.0 words: 61228 flesch: 61 summary: I could not ( though I do not make it my work after 〈◊〉 great example , to look over Epis●…les De●…icators ) but observe by chance the Title page of a Book ' to●…herday , as an E●…bleme how much some of the●… do neglect the Scripture in respect to their darling Ceremonies . But you have a peculiar delight and selicity , ( which no man 〈◊〉 you ) in Scripture-Drollery , ●…othing less 〈◊〉 taste to your Palat wherea●… otherwise you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so far in Italy , that you could not escape the Ti●…les of some Books which would have served your turn as well , Ca●…dinalism , N●…potism , Putanism , if you were in a Parox 〈◊〉 of the Ism's . keywords: answerer; author; authority; bayes; bishop; book; cause; ceremonies; church; clergy; conscience; day; discourse; divine; england; fit; god; good; government; hath; honour; king; late; law; lest; let; love; majesty; man; matter; men; mind; nature; nay; new; nonconformists; occasion; people; person; place; policy; popery; power; preface; princes; publick; purpose; read; reason; religion; right; s ●; saith; second; self; speak; state; subject; t ●; th ●; things; thought; time; use; way; words; world; ● ● cache: A52139.xml plain text: A52139.txt item: #118 of 215 id: A52414 author: Norris, John, 1657-1711. title: The charge of schism continued being a justification of the author of Christian blessedness for his charging the separatists with schism, not withstanding the toleration : in a letter to a city-friend. date: 1691.0 words: 19620 flesch: 59 summary: And though this be clear and plain enough by the Evidence of its own Light ; yet , I confess , 't is some satisfaction to me , and it may be more so to others who set a greater value upon Authorities than I do , to find so great and so well-approv'd a Judge of the Abstract and general Reason of Law as the Celebrated Suarez to be of the same Judgment with me in this matter . That it is not a bare Supine Neglect to animadvert , a kind of Drowise fit , or Nodding of the Government , no , nor a design'd and deliberate Connivance only , nor yet a Private act of Indulgence declared by the Will and in the Name of the Prince alone ; But that 't is an Indulgence granted and setled by an Act of the whole Legislative , by the joint Concurrence of King and Parliament , that 't is a Toleration by Law , by the same Law upon which keywords: authority; church; effect; god; law; laws; liberty; obligation; penalty; sanction; schism; separation; state; thing; toleration; unity; way cache: A52414.xml plain text: A52414.txt item: #119 of 215 id: A52421 author: Norris, John, 1657-1711. title: A discourse concerning the pretended religious assembling in private conventicles wherein the unlawfullness and unreasonableness of it is fully evinced by several arguments / by John Norris ... date: 1685.0 words: 63767 flesch: 72 summary: All 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Will-worship is abominable to God. Yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , for order and peace sake , it pleased God that their persons and labours should be appointed for several distinct parts of the World , as in his infinite Wisedom he saw was most convenient , for the better propagation of the Gospel of Christ , in all the World. keywords: act; apostle; assemblies; authority; body; case; christ; christian; church; churches; come; command; congregation; contrary; cor; divine; doctrine; doe; doth; est; evil; god; good; gospel; hath; holy; house; judgment; king; lawfull; laws; like; lord; man; means; meetings; men; ministers; ministry; non; order; ought; paul; people; persons; place; power; preach; preaching; publick; question; religion; saith; saviour; scripture; service; set; sin; souls; temple; things; time; truth; way; word; worship cache: A52421.xml plain text: A52421.txt item: #120 of 215 id: A53021 author: Honest trimmer. title: A new-years-gift to the Tories, or, A few sober queries concerning them by an honest trimmer. date: 1683.0 words: 1536 flesch: 68 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: english; religion; tcp; text; tories cache: A53021.xml plain text: A53021.txt item: #121 of 215 id: A53674 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A brief vindication of the non-conformists from the charge of schisme as it was managed against them in a sermon preached before the Lord Mayor by Dr. Stillingfleet, Dean of St. Pauls. date: 1680.0 words: 19976 flesch: 50 summary: But that Church being so compleat , the Apostle appointed other particular Congregational Churches , in the same Province , who had Officers of their own , with a Power of Government ; these he mentions and calls the Churches of Macedonia ; 2 Cor. Until this be disproved , until it be proved , either that they are not Churches , because they are Congregational , or that although they are Churches , yet they have no Power to Govern and Reform themselves , they are free from the guilt of Schism in their so doing . keywords: apostles; author; charge; christ; churches; communion; congregations; god; government; men; nonconformists; power; religion; rule; state; things; way; worship cache: A53674.xml plain text: A53674.txt item: #122 of 215 id: A54101 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Advice to freeholders and other electors of members to serve in Parliament in relation to the penal laws and the tests : in a letter to a friend in the conntry [sic]. date: 1687.0 words: 6285 flesch: 50 summary: She will not pretend to deny his Majesty Liberty of Conscience ; If she doth not , can she expect by his Permission and Authority to cudgel her fellow Subjects into a Communion which he doth not approve , and that after he hath so solemnly declared his Royal Judgment to be against all Persecution for Conscience sake ? He intends not to deprive the Church of England of such Laws as are defensive of her Religion and Possessions , but only to abrogate such Statutes , as the Iniquity or short-sightedness of past Ages hath armed her with to annoy and offend her Neighbours ; Laws wicked in themselves , and which she hath too long , very wickedly executed , and therefore very fit to be yielded up . Church and state -- England. keywords: church; conscience; hath; king; laws; liberty; man; men; people; religion; work cache: A54101.xml plain text: A54101.txt item: #123 of 215 id: A54102 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Annimadversions on the apology of the clamorous squire against the Duke of Buckinghams seconds, as men of no conscience date: 1685.0 words: 4390 flesch: 69 summary: However , his Grace may happen to ask this Gentleman once in his Life , if he be the man that charges him with leading the Dance to men of no Honour , no Conscience , no Honesty , and that advocates a Cause of so much Treason and Impiety , as is laid to the charge of Liberty of Conscience . For in all the late Pamphlets against Liberty of Conscience , there 's not one word of winning one poor Dissenter to the Church , no more than of Tolerating them out of the Church . keywords: church; conscience; dissenters; england; liberty; men; tcp; text cache: A54102.xml plain text: A54102.txt item: #124 of 215 id: A54128 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718, attributed name. title: A declaration or test to distinguish Protestant-dissenters from papists and popish recusants as it was given to the Parliament in the year 1680. by the people called Quakers, and now re-printed. date: None words: 1323 flesch: 59 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 38107) keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A54128.xml plain text: A54128.txt item: #125 of 215 id: A54142 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Good advice to the Church of England, Roman Catholick and Protestant dissenter, in which it is endeavoured to be made appear that it is their duty, principle & interest to abolish the penal laws and tests date: 1687.0 words: 22221 flesch: 62 summary: One can easily imagin this to be Reformation Language , and then it is not hard to think how low that Church must be fallen , that from so free and excellent a Principle , is come to make , execute and uphold Penal Laws for Religion , against her Conscientious Neighbours ; but it is to be hoped , that like Nebuchadnezzar's Image , whose Feet was a mixture of Iron and Clay , and therefore could not stand for ever ; Persecution will not be able to mix so with the Seed of Men but that Humanity will overcome it , and Mankind one day be delivered from that Iron hard and fierce Nature . I do heartily pray to God that he would enlighten the Eyes of her Leaders , and give them good Hearts too , that Faction may not prevail against Charity , in the name of Religion : And above all , that she would not be proud of her Numbers , or stand off upon that Reflection ; for that alone will quickly lessen them in a Nation loving Freedom as much as this we live in ; And what appears in the Town is an ill Glass to take a prospect of the Country by : There are Parishes that have Fifteen Thousand Souls in them and if two come to Church it is matter of Brag , tho half the rest be sown among the several dissenting Congregations of their Judgment . keywords: christian; church; conscience; england; god; good; ibid; interest; king; kingdom; laws; liberty; man; men; pag; popery; power; reason; religion; self; tho; time; world cache: A54142.xml plain text: A54142.txt item: #126 of 215 id: A54166 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A letter form [sic] a gentleman in the country to his friends in London upon the subject of the penal laws and tests date: 1687.0 words: 3202 flesch: 60 summary: But you unfold the Riddle to me , when you tell me , 't is for fear of Popery , tho I own to you , I cannot comprehend it , any more then you do Transubstantiation : For that we should be afraid of Popery for the sake of Liberty , and then afraid of it because of Persecution , seems to me absurd , as it is , that Liberty should be thought the high way to Persecution . keywords: church; laws; liberty; popery; tcp; text cache: A54166.xml plain text: A54166.txt item: #127 of 215 id: A54191 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A perswasive to moderation to dissenting Christians in prudence and conscience humbly submitted to the King and his great council by one of the humblest and most dutiful of his dissenting subjects. date: 1685.0 words: 18769 flesch: 59 summary: The change of Religion then , does not necessarily change the Government , or alter the State ; and if so , a fortiori , Indulgence of Church-Dissenters , does not necessarily hazard a change of the State , where the present State-Religion or Church remains the same ; for That I premise . Some may say , That it were more facile to change from one National Religion to another , than to maintain the Monarchy and Church , against the Ambition and Faction of divers dissenting Parties . keywords: church; conscience; dissenters; england; god; government; hand; indulgence; interest; king; kingdom; let; man; monarchy; people; power; prince; religion; roman; state; thing; time; toleration; way cache: A54191.xml plain text: A54191.txt item: #128 of 215 id: A54198 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The Protestants remonstrance against Pope and Presbyter in an impartial essay upon the times or plea for moderation / by Philanglus. date: 1681.0 words: 15485 flesch: 39 summary: Men of heat are men of Faction , , therefore avoid all such Zealots , of any kind ; and whe● His Maj●sty shall summon your Picture again to sit in the Parliament-house , be sure it be drawn by a good Hand : The Government by King , Lords and Commons is the best of all others , therefore endeavour to support it , by following every man his own Vocation , resigning State-affairs to the Conduct of King and Parliament , to whom they more properly belong ; As for my self , I was ever before of a different opinion , and blush not to own that my Principles are changed , since 't is not out of any Preferment , Interest or expectation at Court , ( which as I never wanted , so I never sought after ) but purely upon the merits of the Cause . Neither for such a factious age as this is ▪ can any Loyal Subject discharge his Duty bo●h to King and Countrey , without endeavouring ( as much as in him lies ) to silence those mutineers , who having first endeavoured to exasperate the Houses one against another , and both against the Kingdo , afterwards in the Lobby lye waiting the event of each warm debate with the same Repacious hope , as herenofore did , Birds of Prey upon a Roman Army , when the Signal to Battel was given ; for the enflaming the two Houses one against another , they make use of the Rights and priviledges of Conferences , asserting it the undoubted Rights of the Commons , ( as in Fitz-Harris ▪ s Case they did at Oxford ) to confer with the Lords when they please , without any denyal ; Which whether it be so or no , I shall not presume to determine , any farther then to acquaint you with a Remarkable passage that occurred in the Reign of Henry the fourths When the House of Commons Petition'd the King that they might have advice and Communication with certain Lords about matters of business in Parliament for the Common good of the Kingdom , which Prayer ( as the Record hath it ) our Lord the King most graciously granted , but with this Protestation , That he did it not of Duty , nor of Custom , but of his special Grace and Favour : keywords: church; commons; death; enemies; good; government; house; king; life; lords; majesty; man; nay; parliament; party; people; plot; popery; reason; sir; tcp; text; thing; time; war; ● ● cache: A54198.xml plain text: A54198.txt item: #129 of 215 id: A54211 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A second letter from a gentleman in the country to his friends in London upon the subject of the penal laws and tests. date: 1687.0 words: 4884 flesch: 64 summary: But to be sure they Sting all that won't come to Church , and that every where . And yet after so gratious a Declaration , both to Church and Dissenters , and that has so decent a regard to the concurrance of a Parliament too , Who can be displeased ? keywords: church; england; government; king; laws; snake; tcp; text cache: A54211.xml plain text: A54211.txt item: #130 of 215 id: A54215 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Som free reflections upon occasion of the public discourse about liberty of conscience and the consequences thereof in this present conjuncture in a letter to a friend / by one who cordially imbraces whatsoever there is of tru religion in al professions, and hates every thing which makes any of them hate or hurt one another. date: 1687.0 words: 7116 flesch: 57 summary: They have al been straitned , persecuted and oppressed ; and therfore nothing can be more natural than for them to desire Liberty and Ease . But it would be very superfluous in me to insist upon them unto you , who have seen and heard them repeated of late Years in a thousand Forms , and who I know ar your self ▪ convinced of the natural equitableness of the thing , not withstanding al the inconveniencys that you have represented to me in its practice . keywords: conscience; interest; liberty; man; men; religion; som; test; thing; wil cache: A54215.xml plain text: A54215.txt item: #131 of 215 id: A54221 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Some sober and weighty reasons against prosecuting Protestant dissenters for difference of opinion in matters of religion humbly offered to the consideration of all in authority. date: 1682.0 words: 2471 flesch: 50 summary: 10. Reason , Because Persecution for matters of Conscience is a Breach of the good Rules of Humanity , and common Civility among all sorts of men , which is carefully observed in smaller matters : as for instance , among the many Creatures of God that are Food for mens Bodies , some things that are very pleasing and comfortable Food for some men , the same things are very Destructive to the health of other men ; now in this Case there is such Civility among all sorts of men that they hate and scorn to force one anothers Stomacks , looking upon it to be an inhumane practise ; and therefore do friendly , say to each other , Pray eat that which will best go down , and agree with your Stomack . Some sober and weighty reasons against prosecuting Protestant dissenters for difference of opinion in matters of religion humbly offered to the consideration of all in authority. keywords: god; matters; protestant; reason; tcp; text cache: A54221.xml plain text: A54221.txt item: #132 of 215 id: A54229 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A third letter from a gentleman in the country, to his friends in London, upon the subject of the penal laws and tests date: 1687.0 words: 6611 flesch: 54 summary: Church and state -- England. And I do swear that I will not at any time endeavour the Alteration of the Government , either in Church or State , so help me God. keywords: church; dissenters; england; government; king; laws; parliament; tcp; tests; text; way cache: A54229.xml plain text: A54229.txt item: #133 of 215 id: A54230 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Three letters tending to demonstrate how the security of this nation against al future persecution for religion lys in the abolishment of the present penal laws and tests, and in the establishment of a new law for universal liberty of conscience date: 1688.0 words: 5687 flesch: 61 summary: And after al this , and what more the Wisest Heads may invent , let The King himself be humbly beseeched to suffer in it a Clause , by which , reserving al other Rights of his Prerogative inviolated , he may solemnly renounce the onely Right of Dispensing with this Law , or of Pardoning any Transgressor of it in any case whatsoever . But where I see ground to fear that the granting of this Liberty should serv onely to put a Power into their Hands that now demand it , wherby they may be able hereafter to take it away from others , truly in that case I am apt to hesitate upon the Point ; or to say better , I confess that I hesitate not at al. keywords: law; laws; liberty; nation; persecution; security; tests; wil cache: A54230.xml plain text: A54230.txt item: #134 of 215 id: A54578 author: Dury, John, 1596-1680. title: A discourse concerning liberty of conscience In which are contain'd proposalls, about what liberty in this kind is now politically expedient to be given, and severall reasons to shew how much the peace and welfare of the nation is concern'd therein. By R.T. date: 1661.0 words: 18310 flesch: 44 summary: For 't is likely that he would not take away more mens lives then they , but rather be willing that severall generations of men should still succeed one another ; and that he would account the most provoking indignities that could be offer'd God in the World , were only to be shewn by those men who would advance their temporall designes by Religion ; it being a greater affront to a King to be put to servile and ignominious uses in his Kingdom , then to be banish'd from it . But when men are neither by Religion or temper restrain'd from searching into the causes of things , they will not in civility to other mens understandings believe propositions to be true or false . keywords: bishops; ceremonies; church; civil; conscience; divines; doth; exercise; government; hath; interest; liberty; matters; men; nation; papists; parties; party; people; persons; places; power; protestants; religion; right; things; way cache: A54578.xml plain text: A54578.txt item: #135 of 215 id: A55112 author: Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695. A letter to a dissenter. title: The Plea of the harmless oppressed, against the cruel oppressor date: 1688.0 words: 8431 flesch: 50 summary: Now that the Church of England do so account them their Sentiments in the Devonshire Orders do manifest , and their Resolves to prosecute them accordingly , and what else can be expected should hinder ●h●m , for they will have their Sa●rifice , tho without Mercy to the poor Widdows and Fatherless ; for if they will not come to Church and stay their all the tim● of their Divine Service , they must have no Relief by thei● Devonshire Law , and so here 's li●●le hope of the Conversion of the Church of E●gland from this P●inciple , and therefore its good that thos● Laws may be taken away that gives th●m p●wer to put them in Practice . THis Kingdom having suffered great Miseries and Calamities for several Ages and Generations past , and of late have been in a shaking unstable State and Condition , by reason of the great Animosities and Divisions amongst the Inhabitants ●hereof , and especially touching matters meerly concerning the Worship of God , which alone belongs to the Great God to appoint and order , whose Prerogative alone it is to rule in the Consciences of Men ; for whatsoever is not of Faith is Sin , and the Scriptures ●a●th , Let every one be fully perswaded in his own mind : And now such is the dark depraved state of Man-kind , that tho his understanding be so darkned , and his mind thus blinded by the Prince of Darkness , who rules in the Hearts of the Children of Men , that he is always aspiring , and meddling with those matters that God hath reserved alone to himself , viz. to prescribe Rules , and make Orders for the Worship of God ; tho the Lord hath threatned , that because their fear to him is taught by Mens Precepts , he will proceed to do a marvellous work , and a wonder , for the wisdom of their wise men shall Perish , &c. Jer. 29.13 , 14. keywords: church; conscience; dissenters; england; god; good; king; laws; letter; liberty; lord; men; order; people; text; ● ● cache: A55112.xml plain text: A55112.txt item: #136 of 215 id: A55819 author: Kidder, Richard, 1633-1703. title: A letter to a friend relating to the present convocation at Westminster date: 1690.0 words: 10022 flesch: 37 summary: For when our divisions ran so high , and our animosities against each other so far increased as that Dissenters were driven by them to take shelter from us in the Camp of our common Enemy , and join with the Papists against us to the endangering both of Church and State to utter ruin . For what are those things which we differ about , that we must for ever sacrifice to them the peace both of Church and State without abating the least tittle for so great a good as that of the common union of Christians among us ? are a few excepted passages in our Liturgy , and two or three ceremonies in our Worship things of so great value that we must for the sake of them still maintain those discords and divisions both in Church and State which have so long harassed both almost to utter ruine ? Is it not enough that we have had already a twenty years War about them ? and , is it not enough , that ever since our deliverance from that , for the sake of those trifles , we have for these thirty years last past driven up our divisions and animosities against each other to that height as that we had almost totally given up our Church to Popery and our Government to Tyranny thereby ? Certainly , after all this , it 's time to sit down and consider whether those things are of such great value for the sake of which we bring so much mischief to this poor distressed Church and Nation , that nothing must be abated of that unreasonable rigor whereby we have hitherto maintained them . keywords: alterations; church; convocation; doe; god; good; hath; present; reason; things; time cache: A55819.xml plain text: A55819.txt item: #137 of 215 id: A56578 author: Paterson, Ninian, d. 1688. title: The fanatick indulgence granted anno 1679. By Mr. Ninian Paterson. date: 1683.0 words: 4750 flesch: 79 summary: But as of faith , and manhood , they are outted , Their learning too it mightily is doubted ; Their Logick's out of date , for they do know No Syllogisme , but in Fer●o . And still like Caesars may intrancing blisse Crown your desires , or else prevent your wis●● And be it registrate in after storie , Your presence , was our happiness , and glory . keywords: charles; eebo; english; fanatick; good; heavens; indulgence; james; king; ninian; oxford; paterson; sir; tcp; text; wee; works cache: A56578.xml plain text: A56578.txt item: #138 of 215 id: A56738 author: P. N. title: A view of the world, being a poem of the times containing the root of rebellion, the tree of sedition, the leaves of contention, and the fruit of treason : [a]dvising every good Christian to obey governours and superiors, and not to kick at every occasion, nor to make a schism and rent in the church at every scruple, criticism, and mistake, but to live in peace and unity, lest (being found imposters before God and rebels to their King) their heads be mounted on a pole as a fruit of their treachery and rebellion. date: 1685.0 words: 1987 flesch: 73 summary: Wi●●● And all th● Aposiles Words were but like ●lakling , To vex the World so much with Baby Spr●●●●● , Ti●h-taking P●●●t is but an H. retick , Tho' Ab●●●● pay●● s●thes to Melthesedick . U●tin a semper exp●cta● da dies , ●omi●● d●●ique bea●us ante obitem nemo Supremaque Funera debet . keywords: eebo; rebellion; tcp; text; ● ● cache: A56738.xml plain text: A56738.txt item: #139 of 215 id: A56826 author: Mead, William, 1628-1713. title: The Quakers address to the House of Commons declaring their suffering case, relating to oathes and swearing, as it was pesented by George Whitehead, Capt. William Mead, and other eminent Quakers on Friday last, the 12th instant. date: 1689.0 words: 1297 flesch: 60 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 42273) keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A56826.xml plain text: A56826.txt item: #140 of 215 id: A57579 author: Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728. title: Practical discourses on sickness & recovery in several sermons, as they were lately preached in a congregation in London / by Timothy Rogers, M.A. ; after his recovery from a sickness of near two years continuance. date: 1691.0 words: 58627 flesch: 67 summary: 2. 13. Life is the most excellent Gift of God , but Death is an Enemy to Nature and cannot be lov'd for it self ; 't is the fruit of Sin , Rom. 5. 12. Jam. 5. 14 , 15. He is to use this course as a means for the recovery of his Health , for though we cannot with any Modesty pretend to the prayer of Faith here mentioned , that is , of a certain perswasion that the person for whom we pray shall be raised up ; yet we ought to pray in this Faith , that it is pleasing to God when we express our dependance upon him by asking those things which we need ; that every good thing comes from him , and therefore health and deliverance from death ; that though he does not alwayes , give that particular thing which we ask , yet 't is sometimes denied because we do not ask , and that as he never gives the greatest Blessings of all , which are those of a good mind , but in answer to prayers . keywords: body; day; death; glory; god; good; goodness; grave; hearts; heaven; holy; hope; let; life; lord; love; man; men; mercies; mercy; pain; people; power; praise; prayers; psal; self; selves; sickness; sins; soul; things; thou; thoughts; thy; time; way; world cache: A57579.xml plain text: A57579.txt item: #141 of 215 id: A58720 author: E. S., D.D. title: The case stated between the Church of England and the dissenters wherein the first is prov'd to be the onely true church, and the latter plainly demonstrated from their own writings and those of all the reformed churches to be downright schismaticks / collected from the best authors on either side ... by E.S. date: 1700.0 words: 33439 flesch: 63 summary: But , say they , If these Ceremonies do not bind the Consciences of Men , Why does the Discipline and Censures of the Church , force Men to use them ? I answer , The Church does not oblige Men to the observance of these Ceremonies , as things that bind the Conscience , or which are necessary to be done or not done in themselves ; but the Reason why Men are forced to observe them , and punish'd if they refuse , is because they are appointed by the Church , and disobedience to the Laws of Church or State , made not contrary to the Law of God , is sinful , Rom. 13. 5. and 2. Tho' I think under favour , we of ▪ England have no more reason to follow the pattern of other Nations as to the Reforming and Governing of our Church , than we have to do so in Matters of State , since we have as absolute and independent Power of Reforming our selves as any of them ; and God be thank'd , as able and godly ▪ Ministers both in Church and State to direct us therein . keywords: apostles; bishop; book; christ; church; churches; dissenters; england; god; government; man; men; ministers; people; power; prayer; separation; things; time; use; way cache: A58720.xml plain text: A58720.txt item: #142 of 215 id: A58746 author: Scotland. Privy Council. title: A proclamation for citing ministers vvho have not prayed for Their Majesties date: 1689.0 words: 1297 flesch: 61 summary: Privy Council. Privy Council. keywords: council; ministers; tcp; text cache: A58746.xml plain text: A58746.txt item: #143 of 215 id: A59544 author: Sharp, John, 1645-1714. title: A discourse concerning conscience wherein an account is given of the nature and rule and obligation of it : and the case of those who separate from the communion of the Church of England as by law established, upon this pretence, that it is against their conscience to join in it, is stated and discussed. date: 1684.0 words: 20094 flesch: 54 summary: Now the will of God is declared to Men two ways ; either by Nature , or by Revelation ; so that the just , and , adequate Rule of Conscience is made up of two parts the Law of Nature , and Gods Revealed Law. Now as to this , our Answer is , that though the Laws of God be the great , and indeed the only Rule of Conscience , yet the Laws of Men , generally speaking , do also bind the Conscience , and are a part of its Rule in a Secondary Sense , that is , by Vertue of , and in Subordination to the Laws of God. keywords: actions; case; church; communion; conscience; duty; god; hath; law; laws; man; sin; things cache: A59544.xml plain text: A59544.txt item: #144 of 215 id: A59823 author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707. title: Humble and modest proposals tender'd to the consideration of both houses of Parliament, for uniting the Protestant interest in the nation for the present age, and preventing our divisions for future date: 1680.0 words: 3864 flesch: 41 summary: Church and state -- England. The Advantages which must necessarily attend the making of such a Law , would be very great both to our interest in Church and State ; amongst which I beg leave to name the following . keywords: church; eebo; england; english; nation; present; tcp; text cache: A59823.xml plain text: A59823.txt item: #145 of 215 id: A60405 author: Coleman, Samuel. title: The Presbyterians remonstrance & declaration to the people of this nation, and their desires concerning the Parliament, His Excellency the Lord Gen. Cromwell, and the rest of the officers of the Army with a wonderfull prophecy presented to M. Love in the Tower of London the same day that he was brought to the place of execution by Mr. Smith, the minister, who on Munday night last, being the 22 of this instant moneth, was buried in Saint Giles Cripplegate Church London. date: 1651.0 words: 2838 flesch: 69 summary: The work and labour of love , which he hath here performed , is a labour for Love that 's the subject-matter of his discourse ; a lovely argument worthy the handling , a precious grace most worthy the possessing ; so much as we have of it , so much we have of God ; so much as we expresse of it , so much we expresse of God ; for God is Love . A wordmore , and the part●stall speake , We all professe to be for heaven , Love must be our way to bring us thither , Love must be our businesse , when we come there , the work in heaven to all eternity shall be to be reciprocally acting and expressing love . keywords: christ; god; love; text; way cache: A60405.xml plain text: A60405.txt item: #146 of 215 id: A60631 author: Smith, William, d. 1673. title: A few plain words concerning conformity in matter of religion and worship and also concerning evidence and judgment in cases of conscience : published to all magistrates, juror's and people, within the nation of England. date: 1664.0 words: 4581 flesch: 47 summary: Now it may be in such Cases , you may have some Evidence that will prove a Meeting above the number of five besides the Family , but then consider whether such Evidence be sufficient to prove any people offenders against the said Act , except it be also proved , that there was discord and strife , or any ill things practised in such a Meeting , which is the very signification of the words upon which the said Act is grounded ; now if no such thing can be proved unto you , then there is not any Meeting that doth amount to transgression against the said Act , though there be a Meeting to the number of five hundred or more ; for it is the thing done that makes the Fact , but if no such thing as before-mentioned be done in the Assemblies of people in the way wherein they worship , then the Act is not transgressed , and if not transgressed , then such as meets together are not to be punished as offendors : therefore consider well your places , for your service stands in judging the Fact according to your Evidence ; but wherein any case of Conscience is brought before you , there can no Evidence prove the matter truly to you , and therefore you are to leave it unto God , and to his Witness in the Conscience , and by your Verdict to acquit all People in things relating to their Conscience , and let them account unto God before whom they must stand or fall . And now if any should have it in their mindes to inform and give Evidence in the case aforesaid , I ask you , what you will inform touching the Quakers Meetings , will you Inform that there was a Meeting of five besides the Family ; and will you say that you will give Evidence of it , you shall not need for we confesse it ; but will you inform that there was strife and discord amongst them , or any ill thing in action , or any apperance of rising in armes , and so a Seditious Conventicle , according to the Act ? if you say nay , we cannot give such Information in the truth , nor we dare not give Evidence to any such thing ; it may be that some may be thus honest , and it may be some again , that will not fear to inform , and evidence the matter by the Act intended , though they neither see not know that so it is amongst such against whom they Inform ; and therefore , as to the first , that honestly confesseth the truth , there needs not any thing be said , being their own confession clears us ; but unto such as wilfully and obstinately resolve to do us harm , if it be in their power ; unto such we say , that your Information and evidence is not to be regarded by sober Magistrates or Jurors ; for our practice is so generally known , that it will be apparently manifest to be envy and malice , where any such Iuformation of Evidence is given against us . keywords: church; evidence; god; religion; service; worship cache: A60631.xml plain text: A60631.txt item: #147 of 215 id: A60652 author: Smith, William, d. 1673. title: Some clear truths particularly demonstrated unto the King and council, and both houses of Parliament with all judges, justices, merchants, and shipmasters, why the innocent and peaceable people, called Quakers, ought not to be banished out of their native land, or any other way exposed to sufferings : also, the law described in its nature and end : with a postscript to all honest, sober, and impartial jurors / by W.S. date: 1664.0 words: 5218 flesch: 40 summary: Now as the Lord God of Heaven and Earth created all things in good Order , and every individual stood in its place and service without Offence in that day , but through the Fall is gone into Disorder , which remaineth unto this day ; so the highest degree wherein men are concerned in the Institution of any Act , is but to reduce into that comely outward Order again , that so no man may be grieved of offended by the wrong that another may do unto him , but that he may walk safely in his Person , Liberty and Estate ; and this is the furthest End which the Law serveth unto , and that which is enacted in such a service uniteth with the Body of the Law , and is in it self properly Law , because it operateth upon a proper Object , and reacheth with Power and Force to suppress it ; and by this Rule he that doth wrong suffers for it , and he that is wrongnd comes to be righted ; and so good Order is kept amongst men , by the Power and Force of the Law ; and that is a reasonable thing , unto which the Law only serveth ; and so the Law is merciful , just and equitable in every point , forasmuch as the Institution of it tendeth to the preservation and well-being of Men ; for that which is ordained and instituted for the preservation of Man , is merciful towards him , it standeth as an outward Defence to his Life , Liberty and Estate : For the Law would not that any man should suffer wrong , and therefore it sheweth Mercy to the grieved , by doing Justice and Right , and that is properly the nature of Law ; forasmuch as it is unreasonable in such as do the wrong , and reasonable to right such as are wronged : And Reason being the Mother of Law , it strengtheneth the Law to operate upon all unreasonable things , as the proper object which it is to take notice of , and thereby the end of the Law is answered in Mercy , Justice and Equity , which is agreeable to its nature . For we are not a willful , stuborn People , neither do we any way seek the subversion of the Government , or the harm of any mans person upon the Earth ; these are only suppositions by our Judges and Accusers ; and no supposition is a good ground to proceed against us in a matter of such high concernment : for our not submitting to the Requirings of men in cases of Conscience , is onely in obedience to the Doctrine and Command or Christ Jesus ; And our Testimony is in Meekness and Fear , and not in willfulness and stubornness ; and we are wronged when such Reproaches are cast upon us , though such as fit to be our Judges , have their liberty to speak , and to interrupt our answers : keywords: act; body; end; god; law; man; people cache: A60652.xml plain text: A60652.txt item: #148 of 215 id: A60665 author: Smith, William, d. 1673. title: The wisdom of the earthly wife confounded, or, A manifestation of the spirits of some envious professors who are ready to prefer the hireling priests works of darkness, whose works are against the revelation and coming of Christ in spirit, as their fore-fathers works of cruelty and murder were against him in the dayes of his flesh, as may be seen at large in the scriptures of truth ... this was chiefly occasioned by some nonconformists promoting the works of darkness of a conformist (or chief priest of Warsick-shire, called, Thomas Willson, in his book, ... who slanderously charges the people called Quakers to be false interpreters of the Holy Scriptures) wherein is something of answer to such as have any true tenderness left in them, and would receive the truth if they knew it, but its like to the hard-hearted, stubborn and rebellious (like those, Matth. 27.25. who said, his blood be upon us and upon our children) it will be foolishness, as is the preaching of the cross to them that perish ... / by William Smith. date: 1679.0 words: 6567 flesch: 66 summary: So you who deny Immediate Revelation , and deny and hate the Universal , Infallible Spirit of God and Christ , you have nothing to Interpret the Scriptures with or by , but your own fallible private Spirits , and the wicked Spirit , The Prince of the Power of the Air , which works in the Hearts of the Children of Disobedience , as saith the Apostle , and with these joynt workers in Wickedness you cannot rightly Interpret the holy Scriptures ; but by the help of this dark Spirit you are taught to wrest them to your own Destruction : The Lord in mercy deliver you from this false Teacher . And who dare say , That the Maker is not Greater , and more to be looked at and esteemed , than the Thing made ? How now Porfessors ( that in your Natural Reasons set your selves as Judges , both of Scriptures and the Spirit that gave them forth ) and in setting the Scriptures above the Spirit of God , your Darkness is largely Manifest : And may you not be justly compared to those that built the Tombs of the Prophets , and garnished the Sepulchers of the Righteous , and were the Children of them that killed them ? The Scripture saith , Believe not every Spirit , but try the Spirits whether they be of God ; because many false Prophets are gone out into the World , 1 John 4. 1. I say , the Infallible Spirit of God must Try all Spirits , and without that none can try them : Come Professors , what say you , have you that Infallible Spirit to try the Fallible with ? keywords: christ; darkness; god; light; people; scriptures; spirit; truth cache: A60665.xml plain text: A60665.txt item: #149 of 215 id: A61505 author: Stewart, James, Sir, 1635-1713. title: James Stewart's answer to a letter writ by Mijn Heer Fagel, pensioner to the states of Holland & Wes Friesland concerning the repeal of the penal laws and tests. date: 1688.0 words: 10118 flesch: 32 summary: But that they were fairly made according to the Custom of all Christian States , and the very Natural Right of all Politick Bodies , who have ever made Laws for securing the publick established Religion , and their own Safety , by excluding the Enemies thereof from all Publick Employments . That these Exclusive Laws are the chief Security of the Protestant Religion , and that the taking them away would expose the Protestant Religion , and the People of these Kingdoms , to Danger and Ruin , I shall now proceed to examin more closely what you are pleased to say upon it : Not doubting , in the mean while , but we are fully agreed that the true and principal Security of the Protestant Religion consists in its being the immovable Truth of God , which if well laid to Heart would contribute more to its Preservation than all the Tests and Penal Laws in the World ; And in treating you still to remember that it is not a bare Repeal of Penal Laws and Tests that his Majesty designs , but the sure and firm Establishment of Liberty , ( the only secular Advantage , as I have often said , that Gods Truth requires ) Which if rightly understood , and if a just distinction were made between the free Enjoyment of Civil Rights ( the proper Object and End of Government ) and that Liberty of Conscience in matters of Religion over which God has reserved to himself the incommunicable Right , would quickly bring the World to the happiest State that it can ever attain to . keywords: catholicks; laws; letter; liberty; majesties; majesty; men; protestant; publick; religion; repeal; tests cache: A61505.xml plain text: A61505.txt item: #150 of 215 id: A61547 author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699. title: A discourse concerning the unreasonableness of a new separation, on account of the oaths with an answer to the History of passive obedience, so far as relates to them. date: 1689.0 words: 16334 flesch: 70 summary: Here we have then a plain Instance of one who was in the Possession of Power without Colour of Right , and yet Oaths of Allegiance were taken to him , both by the Senate and People . 2. Submissive Allegiance ; where no more is required than is contained in the Duke of York ' s Oath , and yet he declared this was no Prejudice to his Right . keywords: allegiance; case; doth; duke; good; government; king; law; oaths; obligation; people; power; publick; right; saith; succession; time cache: A61547.xml plain text: A61547.txt item: #151 of 215 id: A61586 author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. title: Proposals tender'd to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament for uniting the Protestant interest for the present, and preventing divisions for the future together with the declaration of K. Charles II, concerning ecclesiastical affairs, and some proposals of terms of union between the Church of England and dissenters / long since published by the Reverend Dean of S. Pauls. date: 1689.0 words: 14008 flesch: 32 summary: The Archbishop of Canterbury was to earnest to promote this so Christian Design , that among those admirable Articles recommended by his Grace to all the Bishops within his Province , ( which were to be more fully insisted upon in their Addresses to the Clergy and People of their respective Diocesses ) this was one : That they also walk in Wisdom towards those that are not of our Communion : And if there be in their Parishes any such , that they neglect not frequently to confer with them in the Spirit of Meekness , seeking by all good Ways and Means to gain and win them over to our Communion : More especially that they have a very tender Regard to our Brethren the Protestant Dissenters ; that upon occasion offered , they visit them at their Houses , and receive them kindly at their own , and treat them fairly wherever they meet them ; perswading them ( if it may be ) to a full compliance with our Church , or at least , that whereunto we have already attained , we may all walk by the same Rule and mind the same thing . The Advantages which must necessarily attend the making of such a Law , would be very great both to our interest in Church and State ; amongst which I beg leave to name the following . keywords: church; churches; england; god; government; hath; law; men; peace; persons; present; religion; things; time; use cache: A61586.xml plain text: A61586.txt item: #152 of 215 id: A61693 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A word to the well-inclin'd of all perswasions together with a coppy of a letter from William Penn to George Keith, upon his arbitrary summons and unjust proceedings, at Turners-Hall, against the people called Quakers. date: 1698.0 words: 3082 flesch: 60 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: eebo; english; man; meeting; tcp; text; thou cache: A61693.xml plain text: A61693.txt item: #153 of 215 id: A61876 author: Stubbes, Henry, 1606?-1678. title: A disswasive from conformity to the world as also God's severity against impenitent sinners : with a farewel sermon lately preached to a congregation in London / by Henry Stubs. date: 1675.0 words: 43677 flesch: 94 summary: This is a taking of Gods name i● vain , which God will not suffer to go unpunished , Exod. A lot is a Religious ordinance of God , because it is an ap●ealing to Divine providence , what ever the matter be about which 't is conversant , Prov. 16. 33. keywords: beseech; c. god; christ; conform; cor; god; gods; good; hath; isa; jer; joh; lord; people; pet; presence; prov; psal; rom; sin; thee; things; thou; thy; wicked; world cache: A61876.xml plain text: A61876.txt item: #154 of 215 id: A62675 author: Tindal, Matthew, 1653?-1733. title: An essay concerning the power of the magistrate, and the rights of mankind in matters of religion with some reasons in particular for the dissenters not being obliged to take the Sacramental Test but in their own churches, and for a general naturalization : together with a postscript in answer to the Letter to a convocation-man. date: 1697.0 words: 48924 flesch: 42 summary: And if in Civil Matters the Magistrate never does , and it would be look'd on as an Injustice if he should any farther than relates to the good of the Publick , enjoin Men the Care of their Private Concerns , or force them to a prosecution of their Private Interest , but only protect them from being invaded , ( which is much the same as Toleration ) there is the same reason he should no farther use Force in Matters of Religion , than the Publick Good is concerned , and only protect Men from being injured by others in their Private Concerns between God and themselves . By what has been said , I think it 's evident that Men , tho they are answerable to God for every Breach of his Laws , yet are accountable to one another , for those things only that relate to their mutual Security and Welfare ; because every Man has so much Interest ( and no more ) in another's Conduct ; and therefore Government is no further concerned in Matters of Religion , than as the Principles or Practices of the different Professors tend to make them more or less fit for the Duties of the Society . keywords: act; christians; church; clergy; conscience; contrary; force; god; good; judg; king; law; laws; liberty; magistrate; man; matters; men; nature; opinions; people; persecution; power; reason; religion; right; things; tho; truth; use cache: A62675.xml plain text: A62675.txt item: #155 of 215 id: A62888 author: Tomkins, Thomas, 1637?-1675. title: The modern pleas for comprehension, toleration, and the taking away the obligation to the renouncing of the covenant considered and discussed. date: 1675.0 words: 48735 flesch: 40 summary: That it must not be loose and in●●herent , but well compacted , that it may attain the ends of Discipline , which are to promote sound Doctrine and Godly Life , and keep out Idolatry , Superstition , and all wicked Errour and Practice that tends to the vanquishing of the power of Christianity : Now these things do not require a constitution of narrower bounds than things necessary to Christian Faith and Life , and godly Order in the Church , Now is it not very plain , that such a Comprehension as is here described , that it shall be enabled to attain all these great and publick ends here provided for , hath left no place for Toleration or Connivance ? and accordingly both those things are hudled together , and in a very few words dispatched , Sect. How may we lament over the present Imposition of the Ceremonies now enjoyn'd among us in England , which are no part of divine Truth , nor any of Christ's Institutions , but things perfectly Humane in their Creation ; and yet are enforced by the Civil Power upon the Practice and Consciences of men . keywords: authority; care; case; christ; church; conscience; covenant; doth; england; god; good; government; hath; king; liberty; man; means; men; nation; ought; people; persons; power; present; publick; religion; self; thing; time; toleration; use; way cache: A62888.xml plain text: A62888.txt item: #156 of 215 id: A64020 author: Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667. title: Bishop Taylor's judgment concerning the power of parents over their children in his Ductor dubitantium, &c., edit. IV, 1696 date: None words: 1280 flesch: 64 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). keywords: children; power; tcp; text cache: A64020.xml plain text: A64020.txt item: #157 of 215 id: A64152 author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653. title: The anatomy of the separatists, alias, Brownists the factious brethren in these times, wherein this seditious sect is fairely dissected, and perspicuously discovered to the view of world : with the strange hub-bub, and formerly unheard of hurly-burly, which those phanatick and fantastick schismatiks made on Sunday ... the 8 of May ... at the sermon of the Right Rev. Father in God, Henry, Bishop of Chichester ... date: 1642.0 words: 3726 flesch: 57 summary: These and their holy sisters ( for they may wel be linkt together ) are they , who by their unreverent gestures in the Church disesteeme of Church-Prayers ; These are they who contemn the publike service of God , and cry down the Lyturgie of the Church of England ; that solemne Lyturgie , celebrous by the piety of Bishops , and Martyres , hallowed with the blond of some of them who composed it , established by the Lawes of this Land , by severall Acts of Parliament in this Kingdome , attested and approved by the best of all forraigne Divines , confirmed by the subscription of all the Clergie , accepted of by the most and best of all the Laity , and hath continued since in the raignes of Queene Elizabeth , King Iames , and our gracious King Charles , in the Church of England , for the service of God these 90. yeares ; that this holy exercise of Religion should be by them vilified , interrupted , and depraved , what doth it tend to , but the advancing of Heresie , Schisme , Profanenesse , Libertinisme , Anabaptisme , and Atheisme ? We acknowledge , that some parts of our publike Liturgy , may be very well corrected , ( and thankes be to God the great Counsell of the King , and the Kingdome have consulted and determined about it ) but the clamours now go very high : Impudence or Ignorance is at this time grown so frontlesse , that it is confidently expected by many , that all formes of publike worship should be utterly abrogated , and that our booke of Common-Prayer should bee quite abolished , as they would have Episcopacy everlastingly extirpated . Religion it selfe is now crucified , as Christ was between two thieves , viz , Superstition and Irreverence , which is a spice of Atheisme , and of the two extreames is worse peccant in the defect , than in the excesse . keywords: brethren; brownists; church; god; men; religion; sect; separatists; text cache: A64152.xml plain text: A64152.txt item: #158 of 215 id: A64154 author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653. title: An apology for private preaching in which those formes are warranted or rather justified, which the maligannt sect contemne and daily by prophane pamphlets make ridiculous : viz. preaching in a tub : teaching against the backe of a chaire : instructing at a tables end : revealing in a basket : exhorting over a buttery hatch : reforming on a bad side or, indeed, any place according to inspiration, since it is knowne, the spirit moves in sundry places : whereunto is annexed, or rather conjoyned or furthermore united, or moreover knit the spirituall postures, alluding to that of musket and pike / by T.J. date: None words: 2324 flesch: 62 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A64154 of text R20694 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T429). In which those formes are warranted, or rather justified, which the maligannt sect contemne, and daily by Taylor, John 1642 1975 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 B The rate of 5 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: doctrine; man; text; tub; zeale cache: A64154.xml plain text: A64154.txt item: #159 of 215 id: A64159 author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653. title: The Brownists conventicle, or, An assemble of Brownists, separatists, and non-conformists as they met together at a private house to heare a sermon of a brother of theirs neere Algate, being a learned felt-maker contayning the whole discourse of his exposition with the manner and forme of his preaching, praying, giving thankes before and after dinner and supper : as it was lately heard and now date: 1641.0 words: 4248 flesch: 52 summary: This is that cruell Herod , but more bloudy hearted : he onely slew the Babes and Sucklings but this Dragon woul● make slaughters of all of you , deare brothers and sisters , for which hee shall bee eaten up with the wormes of his owne Conscience . The rate of 21 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: brethren; brownists; church; deare; dragon; house; maker; saints; sisters; text cache: A64159.xml plain text: A64159.txt item: #160 of 215 id: A64161 author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653. title: A cluster of coxcombes, or, Cinquepace of five sorts of knaves and fooles namely, the domatists, publicans, disciplinarians, anabaptists, and brownists, their originals, opinions, confutations, and, in a word, their heads roundly jolted together : also shewing how in the raignes of sundry kings, and in the late Q. Elizabeths raign the Anabaptists have bin burnt as hereticks, and otherwayes punished : and that the sect of the brownists is so new, that many are alive who knew the beginning of it : with other sects displayed / by John Taylor. date: None words: 2842 flesch: 56 summary: And it is to be wondered at the many unlicenced licentious Pamphlets that have been scattered about the Kingdome within these 23. months , wherein neither Religion , Church , King , Peeres , Priest , or people have escaped Railing , Libelling , and transcendent traducing , so that it may be supposed , that the paper that hath beene wasted by those pestiferous pamphleteeres , would goe neere ( if it were laid sheet by sheet ) to cover the whole Kingdome ; and this is certaine , that they have drawne many thousands of poore idle people from all parts of England to London , where without serving any Apprentiship , they take a freedom to sell Bookes , so that the Book-sellers are encreased ten fold in number within these two yeares : And what stuffe doe they sell ( for sooth ) things New Lye come forth and things either of no worth , or else Speeches fathered upon men that never knew of them , or Newes out of Scotland or Ireland , made over night in an Ale-house , and printed in the morning Cum privilegio , 1642. A cluster of coxcombes, or, Cinquepace of five sorts of knaves and fooles namely, the domatists, publicans, disciplinarians, anabaptists, and brownists, their originals, opinions, confutations, and, in a word, their heads roundly jolted together : also shewing how in the raignes of sundry kings, and in the late Q. Elizabeths raign the Anabaptists have bin burnt as hereticks, and otherwayes punished : and that the sect of the brownists is so new, that many are alive who knew the beginning of it : with other sects displayed / by John Taylor. Taylor, John, 1580-1653. keywords: anabaptists; brownists; christian; church; sect; text; yeare cache: A64161.xml plain text: A64161.txt item: #161 of 215 id: A64173 author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653. title: An honest ansvver to the late published apologie for private preaching wherein is justly refuted their mad forms of doctrine, as, preaching in a tub, teaching against the backe of a chaire, instructing at a tables end, revealing in a basket, exhorting over a buttery hatch, reforming on a bed side : with an objection to their common plea of divine inspiration, directly, without passion, proving there is but nice distinction betwixt the brownists and papists who have bin equall disturbers of the state yet in continuall controversie one against the other : with an argument against Round-heads / by T. J. date: None words: 2529 flesch: 63 summary: First , I will prove you Mad men ; I shall make Fooles of you hereafter : ( and that you 'l say is impossible . ) in the first place ( according to my observation of the times ; let a fellow come amongst you with some humourous Pamphlet , wherein Round-heads are mentioned , though there be neither Name nor Trade specified , nor no mans private Reputation wrong'd , without Law or Reason by a crew of men he knowes not , he must be beaten or kicked ( as the spirit moves you ) from the place ; and if such unlawfull violence have any relation to Religion I am an Heretick , all actions that tend to the maintenance of true piety are performed by Order ; the Elements observe their Centers ; the Sunne , Moon , and Starres keepe their direct motions , ( Creatures onely by Nature instructed ) but Zeale in a Round-head is like fire given to a Granado , the strange Materials in disordered Flight , hazzard both Friend and Foe . Such Zeale is theirs , I 'le not beleeve every man that dyes in the confirmation of his profession departeth truly Religious , because I see men daily more violent in the maintenance of unjust actions , then men Religious , whose patience is sufficient Fortitude , and can gaine a conquest without fury . keywords: apologie; head; man; men; preaching; text cache: A64173.xml plain text: A64173.txt item: #162 of 215 id: A64178 author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653. title: Love one another: a tub lecture, preached at Watford in Hartfordshire at a conventicle on the 25. of December last, being Christmas day, by John Alexander, a joyner. His text was taken out of the epistle of Saint Iohn, and himselfe was taken by Captaine Bird, Lieutenant Rock, and other officers, from whom he received such usage as his doctrine did deserve; for which the said officers were commended by the Parliament. date: 1643.0 words: 3231 flesch: 58 summary: of December last, being Christmas day, by Taylor, John 1643 3019 7 0 0 0 0 0 23 C The rate of 23 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A64178 of text R6037 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T476). keywords: beloved; day; doe; haste; love; speed; text cache: A64178.xml plain text: A64178.txt item: #163 of 215 id: A64179 author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653. title: Lvcifers lacky, or The devils new creature being the true character of a dissembling Brownist whose life is hypocriticall, instructions schismaticall thoughts dangerous, actions malicious and opinions impious : with the relation of their repulse from the Parliament house upon Thursday the 4 of December : and the reason why constables had warrants in the city and liberties of London to take up men to guard the Parliament-House upon Friday the 12 of December, 1641. date: 1641.0 words: 1430 flesch: 62 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A64179 of text R7096 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T477). Being the true character of a dissembling Brownist, whose life is hypocriticall, instructions s Taylor, John 1641 999 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 C The rate of 10 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: december; house; parliament; text cache: A64179.xml plain text: A64179.txt item: #164 of 215 id: A64350 author: Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715. title: An argument for union taken from the true interest of those dissenters in England who profess and call themselves Protestants. date: 1683.0 words: 14628 flesch: 72 summary: First , Such a Party not maintaining Episcopal Government , which hath obtained here from the Times of the Britaine 's ( who in the Apostolical Age , received the Christian Religion ) and which is so agreeable to the Scheme of the Monarchy ; It is not probable that they shall easily procure an exchange of it for a newer Model , by the general consent of Church or State. They saw ( what all Men may see in all times ) abuses in Church and State ; and the very name of Reformation was sweet to them . keywords: body; christ; church; communion; dissenters; end; england; god; good; hath; means; men; parties; power; publick; religion; state; time; way cache: A64350.xml plain text: A64350.txt item: #165 of 215 id: A64560 author: Thomas, William, 1613-1689. title: An apology for the Church of England in point of separation from it by ... William Lord Bishop of St. Davids. date: 1679.0 words: 41565 flesch: 66 summary: But recollecting that the Grecians enacted severe Sanctions against 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , such as rejected , quitted their Shields and Targets , though they tolerated 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , such as abandoned their Swords and Spears . The Apostle decyphers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , making the word of Truth a passport for Falshood , and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , that deal with Scriptures as Hucksters do with Wares to corrupt , or as Vintners do with Wine to sophisticate them , that make earthly Merchandise of Heavenly Oracles . keywords: answer; apostles; censure; charge; charity; christ; christian; church; churches; communion; cor; corinth; cum; doctrine; doth; england; est; excommunication; god; gods; good; hath; heaven; holy; jews; judgement; letter; lord; man; matth; members; men; nation; non; people; persons; piety; present; profession; religion; sacred; saints; saith; scripture; sed; self; selves; separation; sin; spirit; testimony; text; things; time; verse; wicked; word; worship cache: A64560.xml plain text: A64560.txt item: #166 of 215 id: A65301 author: Watson, Thomas, d. 1686. title: Light in darkness, or, Deliverance proclaimed unto the church in the midst of all her despondencies and discouragements in a sermon / preached by Thomas Watson. date: 1679.0 words: 7076 flesch: 83 summary: When 't is Darkest , when there 's Midnight , God will cause Light some way or other , to break forth to the Upright in Heart . Before I come to the Application , here 's a Question arises , — Why does God make Light to arise to his People , in an hour of Darkness ? I answer : for three Reasons , — 1. That God may hereby fulfil his Promise : He has said it , that he will enlighten his People In Isa. 42. keywords: cause; darkness; god; heaven; light; lord; mercy; people; text; upright cache: A65301.xml plain text: A65301.txt item: #167 of 215 id: A65836 author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723. title: The apostate incendiary rebuked, and the people called Quakers vindicated from Romish hirarchy and imposition in a serious examination of VVilliam Mucklows Liberty of conscience asserted against imposition, but proved a liberty which is in Christ Jesus, and against unity and order in his church / by one whose rejoycing is the testimony of a good conscience toward God and man, G. Whitehead. date: 1673.0 words: 11120 flesch: 43 summary: Dear Friends , WHo have received and do retain the Love of the precious Truth ; it was for your Sakes and the Truth 's , that I was pressed in Spirit in a godly Zeal , thus to appear against this deceitful Worker and treacherous Spirit , which at length hath shewn it self in open Enmity against the Truth , and us the Church of Christ and elect People of God called Quakers ; otherwise we were unwilling these Controversies should have been brought into the World , being occasioned by some that have walked among us , who should have been reclaimed by the Strivings of God's holy Spirit with them , and the Churches Admonition therein to them , but they had kickt against the Lord , and spurned at his People , hating to be reformed , and therefore open Rebuke is just upon such treacherous Betrayers and deceitful Workers ; one of whom this W. M. hath shewn himself to be , even an Engine of Sathan and Member of Anti-christ , not only in his being an Informer of Truth 's Adversaries against us , but also in publishing and delivering ( near our Meeting Door to the People ) his malitious , lying and confused Papers , striking at Elders and ancient Friends among us in this City of London ; whereby he hath gratified Scorners , and afforded a Theam and Text to that insolent Scoffer , and irreligious Agent of Hypocrites Fra. Chadwel , that old disturber of our Assemblies , who frequently abuseth the Name of Christ , and whom the Truth , hath often confounded and discovered his Wickedness and Lyes : * This is the Fruit of W. M. his Work to animate Scornes and Blaphemers ; the Lord will reward him and all such perfidious Apostates who crucifie to themselves the Lord of Life afresh , and put him to open Shame ; who most unworthily have eaten and drunk among , and been convinced of the Power and Presence of the Lord being with us in our Assemblies , and that thereby he hath chosen us to be his People and Church ; but they went out from us , because they were not of us , and now are become open Enemies in their self-Separation , Conceit and whimsical Motions , opposing the Power of God in his People , rendring his Church fallible , subject to err , and under an Apostacy , and setting up themselves as the infallible Judges over the Church , even over the antient Friends and Elders , who have kept their Integrity to the Lord , and such as therein are grown in that divine Understanding , Wisdom and Power ( as many are among us ) 2dly , Is it so dangerous , that this Church ( or universal Body of Christ ) cannot err ? Whenas the Church signifies the Elect , and Christ implies an Impossibility that the very Elect should be deceived , Mat. 24. 24 Or that the Gates of Hell should prevail against his Church , and promiseth his Presence to the End of the World : Were it either reasonable or just to conclude , the whole Body or Church of Christ is liable to err , because some particular Members may ? Observe the Darkness and perverse Spirit of this Apostate and Accuser of ( not only the Brethren , but ) the whole Church ; for he states not this Charge against a false Application made of the said Positions by the Church of Rome , but against the Positions themselves , as being destructive and dangerous , and as asserted concerning the Church , not this nor that particular Church , Congregation or Assembly , but it s the Church his Quarrel lies against . keywords: body; christ; church; conscience; god; hath; liberty; lord; man; order; people; power; spirit cache: A65836.xml plain text: A65836.txt item: #168 of 215 id: A65867 author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723. title: The glory of Christ's light within expelling darkness being the sum of the controversie between the people called Quakers, and some of the non-conformist priests, as manifest at two publick disputes in Essex : between George Whitehead (called a Quaker) and Stephen Scandret (Presbyter) being at the latter dispute assisted with five more of his brethren, the priests, to wit, Nathaniel Barnard, Henry Havers, Henry Coleman, Nath. Ball, and Robert Billoes : wherein are several. date: 1669.0 words: 18799 flesch: 48 summary: Whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood , to declare his Righteousness for the Remission of Sins that are past , through the forbearance of God : It is not said , for the remission of sins past , present , and to come ; nor yet of all our sins from the beginning of our Lives to the end ; neither is the guilt of sin taken away , while men remain in the act of sin , as falsly was affirmed by S. S. contrary to Job 10. 14. Again , When he stated a Question , or read an Argument ( for he had his Arguments patch'd up aforehand in papers ) which was not capable of a direct answer , by affirming or denying presently , he would not admit of an explanation of it , but would cry , affirm or deny ; and if at any time , in the first place , any thing was affirmed or denied , he would not suffer us further to render a reason , but make a noise to stop the Truth ; and when any of us granted to a question , according to Truth , he would turn up his eyes and thank God , as if he had wrought some great conviction upon us ; whereas , what we either affirmed or granted , we did not learn of him , but spoke the naked truth , as we had it of the Lord before ; as for instance , after this S. S. had affirmed the Scriptures , which are the Writings , to be our only Rule of Life , which being denied by us , that the Writings abstractivly can be the only Rule , because the Spirit of Truth is said to guide into all Truth ; hereupon he confest that it was not the Scriptures abstractively that he meant to be the only Rule , but the Will of God contained , or declared of in the Scriptures ; where , though he manifestly contradicted himself , yet , when we granted , that the Will of God declared of in the Scriptures is the Rule , which Will is , that we should follow the Light within ; hereupon this S. S. would again turn up the white of his eyes , and thank God that we granted to this Truth , though it was so apparently contradictory to his error , who went about to set up the Scriptures as the only Rule , and to cause people to turn their Backs upon the Light within , telling them , You must follow the Scriptures , for they will lead you to Heaven and Happiness , but you must turn your backs upon the Light within as not sufficient ; and yet at another time , again was necessitated to confess , That it is by the spiritual enlightning of the understanding that the Scriptures are understood ; so that here the spiritual Light in the understanding was the Rule to know the Scriptures , so by his own confession they could not be the only Rule , but the Spirit or Light that gave them forth , and gives the understanding of them , hath the preserment and preheminence of them . keywords: christ; darkness; dispute; god; hath; life; light; man; men; righteousness; rule; s. s.; scriptures; spirit; truth cache: A65867.xml plain text: A65867.txt item: #169 of 215 id: A65872 author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723. title: The law and light within the most sure rule or light, which sheweth the right use and end of the Scripture, manifested in opposition to several false principles inserted in a book intitled Scripture light the most sure light, by William Bridge, the great pastor and Reverend Father, so accounted, of the Church at Yarmouth in Norfolk / confuted by George Whitehead. date: 1662.0 words: 4588 flesch: 65 summary: The law and light within the most sure rule or light, which sheweth the right use and end of the Scripture, manifested in opposition to several false principles inserted in a book intitled Scripture light the most sure light, by William Bridge, the great pastor and Reverend Father, so accounted, of the Church at Yarmouth in Norfolk / confuted by George Whitehead. The law and light within the most sure rule or light, which sheweth the right use and end of the Scripture, manifested in opposition to several false principles inserted in a book intitled Scripture light the most sure light, by William Bridge, the great pastor and Reverend Father, so accounted, of the Church at Yarmouth in Norfolk / confuted by George Whitehead. keywords: ans; bridge; christ; god; light; scripture cache: A65872.xml plain text: A65872.txt item: #170 of 215 id: A65876 author: Harwood, John. To all you rulers, gentry, priests, and people. title: The path of the just cleared, and cruelty and tyranny laid open, or, A few words to you priests, and magistrates of this nation, (who say we deny the Scriptures, and that we are antichrists and deceivers, and that we deny the Word of God) wherein your oppression and tyranny is laid open, which by you is unjustly acted against the servants of the Living God, who by the world which hate the light of Christ, are in derision called Quakers : wherein also is something declared both to judges and justices ... : also the ground and cause of the imprisonment of George Whitehead and John Harwood ... / from the spirit of the Living God in me, whose name in the flesh is George Whitehead ... ; also a paper against the sin of idleness ... date: 1655.0 words: 9256 flesch: 50 summary: But these were not the world , for the world was persecuters and revilers , and haled them out of the Synagogues ; and such as Christ sent we owne , and the Scriptures we own , and Christ come in the flesh we owne and witnesse ; but you Magistrates and you Priests of this nation who are upholden by such as persecute and hale out of the Synagogues , and imprison , and whip , & despitefully now use such as are sent freely to witnes forth the truth , and for that Christ , and against Antichrist , and deceivers , such as Christ cryed wo against : here , you priests of this nation , who are found in their steps which Christ cryed woe against , even the steps of the Scribes & Pharises , & you Magistrates , Justices , Judges , & Rulers , who uphold such , and persecute , imprison & cause to be whipped : and fine such as are sent to bear witness against them that are found in Scribes and Pharises steps ; who lay heavy burthens upon the people , and are called of men masters , stands praying in the synagogues , and have the cheifest places in the assemblies : you are filling up the measure of their iniquities , who persecuted Christ , & upheld them which Christ cryed wo unto , and them who persecuted the true prophets , who was sent to cry out against the false prophets , these cryed against such as sought for their gain from their quarters , & such as were hirlings , & such as bare rule by their means , and taught lyes , who said they were sent of God ; when God never sent them but man , before they were sent : and these were the prophets who cryed against the false , who said ; thus said the Lord , and Heare the Word of the Lord . But Jeremiah was mocked , & they were stoned & some killed , and Jeremy was set in the stocks for witnessing forth the truth against the false prophets ; and put into adungeon and here we are witnessed by the true prophets , Christ , & his Apostles , who ever witnessed against deceivers , and such as lived in pride and coveteousness : and Amos who was a true witness for God , witnessed against the abomination of rulers , and people ; he was not made a Minister by the will of man , nor upheld by a carnal weapon , nor an outward Law ▪ but when he prophesied against the house of Jeraboam , then Amaziah , the priest of Bethel complained to Jeroboam the King against Amos ; and said , the Land was not able to bear his words , and bad him flee away into the Land of Judah , and prophesie no more at Bethel ; for he said It was the Kings Chappel , and the Kings Court , as you may read , Amos 7 , 10 , and ●o you priests of England complain : moreover many of you do swear to the Magistrates against us , who are witnessed by Christ , the true Prophets , and Apostles : both in our sufferings , and testimony w●ich is against all deceit and deceivers ; keywords: act; christ; contrary; cruelty; god; law; light; lord; people; priests; set cache: A65876.xml plain text: A65876.txt item: #171 of 215 id: A66383 author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709. title: The case of lay-communion with the Church of England considered and the lawfulness of it shew'd from the testimony of above an hundred eminent non-conformists of several perswasions. date: 1683.0 words: 28262 flesch: 73 summary: We enjoy and joyn together in the use of those outward means , which God hath ordained in his Word for the gathering of a visible Church , and have been effectual to the unfeigned conversion of many , as may appear both by the other fruits of Faith , and by the Martyrdom which sundry have endured that were Members of our Church , &c. 2. Our whole Church maketh profession of the true Faith. This is sufficiently proved by many a , that Christ did communicate with the Jewish Church , and is granted as well by those of the Congregational as b Presbyterial way : And yet Doctrine , Discipline , and Worship were much corrupted , of which M r Hildersham doth give a specimen c , but especially D r Bryan d ; There were many great corruptions in the Church of the Jews in Christ's time , the Priests and Teachers were ignorant and wicked , and had a corrupt and unlawful entrance into their calling ; and the People were like to the Priest , generally notoriously and obstinately ungodly ; and the Worship used in that Church was wofully corrupt , many superstitious Ceremonies , the observation whereof were more strictly urged , than the Commandments and Ordinances of God , the Temple made a Den of Thieves , the Discipline and censures shamefully abused , the Doctrine was corrupt in many points ; yet the word tells you , Christ ( whose example it binds you to follow , and you profess your selves followers of him in all imitable things ) made no separation from this Church , professed himself a Member of it , was by Circumcision incorporated a Member , received Baptism in a Congregation of that People , was a hearer of their common Service and their Teachers , allowing and commanding his Disciples to hear them , communicated in the Passover with the People and the Priest ; no more did his Apostles make separation from this Church after his Ascension , till their day had its Period , &c. keywords: c. p.; case; christ; church; churches; communion; conformists; doth; england; god; hath; m r; ministers; non; saith; separation; things; worship cache: A66383.xml plain text: A66383.txt item: #172 of 215 id: A66417 author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709. title: A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and aldermen of the city of London, at the Guild-hall chappel, October 12. 1679 by John Williams ... date: 1679.0 words: 8963 flesch: 61 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. 1. By shewing that the preservation of a Church and Religion , is mainly depending upon a setled Order and Constitution . keywords: body; church; constitution; doth; hath; present; religion; security; self; text cache: A66417.xml plain text: A66417.txt item: #173 of 215 id: A66431 author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709. title: A vindication of A discourse concerning the unreasonableness of a new separation on account of the oaths from the exceptions made against it in a tract called, A brief answer to a late discourse, &c. date: 1691.0 words: 14187 flesch: 62 summary: All that the Civil Power here pretends to , is to secure it felf against the practices of Dissatisfied Persons , and to try who are such , it requires an Oath of Allegiance to be taken to their Majesties , by all in Office , Ecclesiastical , Civil or Military : And in case of Refusal , by Deprivation to disable such , as far as they can , from endangering the Publick Safety . For the Christian World has hitherto been persuaded , that in sitting Cases both Bishops might be deprived , and both Clergy and People discharged of any Obedience owing to them , by a secular Authority : ( as has been shewed ) keywords: author; bishops; case; church; communion; discourse; good; oaths; obligation; publick; reason; saith cache: A66431.xml plain text: A66431.txt item: #174 of 215 id: A67472 author: Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683. title: Love and truth in two modest and peaceable letters concerning the distempers of the present times / written from a quiet and conformable citizen of London to two busie and factious shop-keepers in Coventry. date: 1680.0 words: 14095 flesch: 54 summary: And by degrees came to such a confidence that they only were so ; that they made God to be as cruel and ill natured a God as they were men : Not allowing him to save any , but themselves , and their Party . Before I make my Application of what I have told you , give me leave to tell you , the Papists would obtrude upon all Christians a belief that all those doubtful Books , which the Church of England calls Apocryphal , were certainly writ by Divine Inspiration , and ought to be of equal Authority with those which we call Canonical Scripture ; and that the foundation for our faith and manners to God and man may , and must be laid equally upon both . keywords: christian; church; clergy; conscience; father; god; good; grace; king; man; men; nation; party; publick; tcp; time; truth cache: A67472.xml plain text: A67472.txt item: #175 of 215 id: A67481 author: J. W. title: Some remarks upon a speech made to the grand jury for the county of Middlesex concerning the execution of penalties upon the churches of Christ, which worship God in meeting-houses, for their so doing : and may serve for an answer to part of the order of the justices, Jan. 13 to the same purpose : in a letter to Sir W.S. their speaker. date: 1682.0 words: 7001 flesch: 54 summary: I hope Sir , you are no skilful State Physician : God forbid you should in this Diagnostick . Some remarks upon a speech made to the grand jury for the county of Middlesex concerning the execution of penalties upon the churches of Christ, which worship God in meeting-houses, for their so doing : and may serve for an answer to part of the order of the justices, Jan. 13 to the same purpose : in a letter to Sir W.S. their speaker. keywords: church; england; god; government; justices; king; law; parliament; people; publick; religion; sir cache: A67481.xml plain text: A67481.txt item: #176 of 215 id: A67878 author: Boswell, William, Sir, d. 1649. title: A true narrative of the Popish-plot against King Charles I and the Protestant religion as it was discovered by Andreas ab Habernfeld to Sir William Boswel Ambassador at the Hague, and by him transmitted to Archbishop Laud, who communicated it to the King : the whole discoovery being found amongst the Archbishops papers, when a prisoner in the Tower, by Mr. Prynn (who was ordered to search them by a committee of the then Parliament) on Wednesday, May 31, 1643 : with some historical remarks on the Jesuits, and A vindication of the Protestant dissenters from disloyalty : also, A compleat history of the Papists late Presbyterian plot discovered by Mr. Dangerfield, wherein an account is given of some late transactions of Sir Robert Peyton. date: 1680.0 words: 20034 flesch: 58 summary: eng Charles -- I, -- King of England, 1600-1649. First then it is a Maxim most true and undoubted , That a Vacuum in Nature may be as soon allow'd , as that there is any Court of King of Prince where these Jesuits do not swarm and abound , if they can but creep in at the least Creviss . keywords: arch; bishop; business; cellier; dangerfield; design; grace; hand; house; jesuits; king; kingdom; lady; letters; lord; majesty; mrs; papists; plot; popish; powis; religion; sir; things; time; william cache: A67878.xml plain text: A67878.txt item: #177 of 215 id: A68984 author: Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626? title: A murmurer date: 1607.0 words: 12322 flesch: 34 summary: If thou more valiant , hee more vvealthie : If thou more vvealthy , hee more honest ; If thou hast a good face , hee may haue a better body ; if thou a good body , he a better face ; if thou a good face and body , he a better vvit ; if thou a better vvit , he a better heart ; if thou an honest heart , yet hee a more gracious Soule : and therefore , if another be aduaunced , and thou displaced , haue patience , and murmure not ; for , vvhat knowest thou vvhether God vvill blesse his humilitie , and correct thy pride , or make him swell till hee burst , and make a triall of thy loue in the truth of thy patience ▪ But let me see vvith thy murmuring , vvhat manner of man hee should be , vvhom thou wouldest haue moulded to thy minde ; if thou be tall of stature , then lesse then thou , are dwarfes ; if low of stature , thē tall men are Cyants ; if of a meane stature , then that is the best proportion : So that except all bee as thou art , thou vvilt find fault vvith God in his Creation , or Nature in her Generation , or ( through lacke of vvit ) vvith Fortune , in her Indiscretion , in preferring such before thee , as thou fondly thinkest should come behind thee : when , if thou haddest thine owne eyes , thou shouldest see in the glasse of Truth so many imperfections in thy selfe , as in the conceit of vnworthinesse , might make thee rather come behind many , then goe before any , and rather grieue at thy selfe , then murmure at an other : art thou finical & fantasticall ? and wouldst haue a man to thine owne mind ? what manner of man shall he be ? shaped like a picture ? countenanced like a Bride ? and talke like a Player ? If thou be a man , and murmurest against God , thou art a Deuill ; if thou bee a Subiect , and murmure against thy King , thou art a Rebell ; if thou bee a Sonne and murmure against thy father , thou shewest a bastards nature ▪ If thou murmure against thy Brother , an vnkind nature ; if against thy friend , an vnthankfull nature ; if against an honest man , an vnhonest nature ; if against a foole , an vnwise nature ; if against a Christian , a hethenish nature ; if against a man , a dogged nature . keywords: art; bee; god; good; hath; haue; heart; king; loue; man; men; murmure; murmuring; nature; peace; selfe; thee; thine; thou; thy; vnto; vvhat; vvill; vvith cache: A68984.xml plain text: A68984.txt item: #178 of 215 id: A69536 author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. title: The judgment of non-conformists about the difference between grace and morality date: 1676.0 words: 34826 flesch: 59 summary: Lastly , Some , yet more unaptly , confine the sense to the Duties of our common Conversation towards man , as distinct from Holiness or our Duty to God : And so they distinguish a meer moral honest man , from a godly or religious man. 2. This Love to God and Man before described is true Holiness ; that is , The Soul's separation and devotedness to God. keywords: accident; authority; christ; church; churches; command; conformists; doth; duty; evil; god; good; grace; hath; hold; law; laws; love; man; men; non; power; sin; thing; time; use; words; world cache: A69536.xml plain text: A69536.txt item: #179 of 215 id: A69802 author: Carrington, John, d. 1701. title: The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, A farther vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance and knavery unjustly charged on them by Mr. Zachary Taylor in his two books about the Surey demoniak in a letter to himself. date: 1698.0 words: 16270 flesch: 78 summary: Unless they suppose him there , when there is no reason to believe it , this indeed is Superstition with a Witness . 2. Dissenters Prayers were not only to a Lawful Object , but for a Lawful Thing ; that God would release an afflicted Man , and one they thought a Demoniack , from the power of Satan . Therefore , if you will , call it a Humane Appointment ; and then , Is it lawful for any body to command things in the Worship of God , of the same nature ? &c. Obj. 1. And now Dissenters say , the Cross is such a Humane Appointment ; and how do you answer this ? Sol. I might have found the Cross in Baptism to be no Humane Sacrament , if I would have consulted Can. 30. keywords: book; charge; christ; dissenters; friend; god; man; men; self; thing; tho; words; worship cache: A69802.xml plain text: A69802.txt item: #180 of 215 id: A69915 author: Danson, Thomas, d. 1694. title: A plea for the Non-Conformists giving the true state of the dissenters case, and how far the Conformists separation from the Church of Rome, for their Popish superstitions and traditions introduced into the service of God, justifies the Non-Conformists separation from them for the same : in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Calamy, upon his sermon, called, Scrupulous conscience, inviting hereto : to which is added, A parallel scheme of the pagan, papal and Christian rites and ceremonies : with a narrative of the sufferings underwent for writing, printing and publishing hereof / by Thomas De Laune. date: 1684.0 words: 47862 flesch: 65 summary: The Queen [ Who held it for a Maxim , that she ought not to be more Remiss in Ecclesiastical Affairs ] advancing Whitgift from the Sea of Worcester to that of Canterbury ; above all Commanded him to Re-establish the Discipline of the Church of England , that as then lay Dismembred by the connivency of Prelates , The Obstinacy of Innovators , and by the Power of some Great Ones , whilst some Ministers using to their own fancy , new Rites of Services in their private houses , utterly Condemning the Liturgy , and the Appointed Manner of Administring the Sacrament , as being in many things contrary to the Scripture , and therefore many refused to go to Church , to Abolish which things , and to reduce them in unity , Whitgift propounded three Articles to the Ministers by them to be Subscribed , but [ adds Cambden ] 'T is ●●credible what Controversies and Disputations arose upon this , what Troubles Whitgift suffered of certain Noble Men , &c. How the said Whitgift vexed the poor Dissenters , what Letters were writ to him from the Counsel and Treasurer Cicil upon their complaints , and his Answers , you have at large in a late piece called the Harmony between the old and present Nonconformists , some small abridgment thereof take as followeth , not unworthy of your notice , viz. p. 468 says thus ▪ For undoubtedly our Her●ieal Reformers did not , as is the use of some act , out of peevishnes● and spight , and please their own humour and impetuosity of Spirit , as being part of the chaste Spouse of Christ , the true Apostolick Church , the Mother of us all , deals as a Mother with all those that profess themselves in any sense Children of Christ's Church , and therefore would not have them , divided more than needs ; whence it is , that out of a spirit of Charity and tender Kindness , she has in some things in themselves Indifferent , ( & what Indifferent things they are you have heard ) humbly condescended to symbolize with that lapsed Lady of Rome , to bring off her abused Paramours to the pure Worship of God ; which Condescension , as is well known , took good effect for some space of Years , and the Catholicks joyned in publick prayer and service with us [ and well they might , being as our three Kings have granted so much their own , only in the English tongue ] till that Harlot that makes nothing of having her Children divided , forcibly rent off the English Roman Catholick from so reasonable and Christian a Communion ; and yet , saith he , does not our Church cease to use this charitable Courtship and sweet Condescension towards them still , keywords: answer; antiquity; bishop; book; ceremonies; christ; christian; church; churches; conscience; days; dissenters; england; english; form; god; gods; good; great; hath; holy; king; law; liturgy; lord; man; mass; men; new; papists; people; place; pope; popish; prayer; priests; publick; religion; rites; rome; saith; scripture; service; things; thomas; times; viz; words; worship; ● ● cache: A69915.xml plain text: A69915.txt item: #181 of 215 id: A71139 author: Cargill, Donald, 1619?-1681. title: A true and exact copy of a treasonable and bloody-paper called the Fanaticks new-covenant which was taken from Mr. Donald Cargill at Queens-Ferry the third day of June, anno Dom. 1680 one of their field-preachers, a declared rebel and traitor ; together with their execrable declaration published at the Cross of Sanquhair upon the twenty two day of the said month of June after a solemn procession and singing of Psalms by Cameron the notorious ring-leader of and preacher at their field-conventicles, accompanied with twenty of that wretched crew. date: 1680.0 words: 5521 flesch: 33 summary: IV. Seriously considering , that the hand of our Kings has been against the Throne of the Lord , and that now for a long time , the succession of our Kings , and the most part of our Rulers with him , hath been against the purity and power of Religion and Godliness , and freedom of the Church of God , and hath degenerate from the vertue and good Government of their Predecessors into Tyranny , and hath of late so manifestly rejected God , His Service and Reformation , as a Slavery , as they themselves call it in their publick Papers , ( especially in these last Letters to the King , and Duke of Lauderdale ) disclaiming their Covenant with God , and blasphemously inacting it to be burnt by the hand of a Hang-man , governed contrary to all right Laws divine and humane , exercised such tyranny and arbitrary Government , opprest men in their Consciences and Civil Rights , used free Subjects ( christian and reasonable men ) with less discretion and justice then their beasts ; and so not only frustrate the great end of Government , ( which is , that men may live godly , holily and peaceably under them , and might be maintained in their Rights and Liberties from injury and wrong ) but hath also walked contrary to it , So that it can no more be called a Government , but a lustful Rage , exercised with as little right reason , and with more cruelty then in Beasts , and they themselves can be no more called Governours , but publick Grassators , and publick Judgments , which all Men ought as earnestly to labour to be free of , as of Sword , Famine , or Pestilence raging amongst us ; and besides , hath stopped ( instead of punishing ) the course of Law and Justice against Idolaters , Blasphemers , Atheists , Murderers , Incestuous and Adulterous , and other Malefactors ; and instead of rewarding the Good , hath made Butcheries and Murthers on the Lords People , sold them as Slaves , Imprisoned , Forfaulted , Banished and Fined them , upon no other account , but for maintaining the Lords Right to rule Consciences , against the usurpations of Men , for fulfilling their Vows , and repelling unjust Violence , which innocent Nature allows to all ; of all which , and moe particulars , we can give ( we speak as before God ) innumerable and sure Instances : Neither can it be thought that there is hope of their returning from these Courses , having so often shewed their Natures and Enmities against God and all Righteousness , and so often declared and renewed their Purposes and Promises of persevering in these Courses . And seing , that the Ministers of the Church of Scotland , ( at least the greatest part of them before ) not only were defective in preaching and testifying against the Acts of these Rulers , for overthrowing Religion and Reformation , abjuring our Covenant made with God , establishing a Government in the Church , which that King calls His own Government , ( and so not Gods , ) contrair to our Covenant ; Against inacting of that blaspemous ( so Calvin calls that Supremacy of Henry the Eight , upon which this Prerogative is founded , and from which it is derived , and is no less , if not more injurious to Christ , and inslaving to His Church , ) and sacrilegious Prerogative given to a King over the Church of God , and against the other Acts and Incroachments of His Church , and hindered others also who were willing , and would have testified against them , and censured some that did it , ( for which , together with the other Causes in their trust and administration , we may say , God hath left them to do worse things ; ) but also hath voted in keywords: church; covenant; god; government; hath; men; ministers; power; tcp; text cache: A71139.xml plain text: A71139.txt item: #182 of 215 id: A71273 author: Diodati, Giovanni, 1576-1649. Answer sent to the ecclesiastical assembly at London by the reverend, noble, and learned man, John Deodate. title: The verdict upon the dissenters plea, occasioned by their Melius inquirendum to which is added A letter from Geneva, to the Assembly of Divines, printed by His late Majesties special command, with some notes upon the margent under his own royal and sacred hand : also a postscript touching the union of Protestants. date: 1681.0 words: 75928 flesch: 67 summary: -- Serious and compassionate inquiry into the causes of the present neglect and contempt of the Protestant religion and Church of England. But To clear the Article , it will not be amiss to declare what we mean by Church , and what is intended by Rites and Ceremonies , which we assert the Church hath power to Decree and establish . keywords: account; answer; apostle; authority; calvin; ceremonies; charity; children; christ; christian; church; churches; communion; conscience; cor; cross; dissenters; divine; doctrine; duty; edification; effect; end; england; est; general; gentiles; god; good; gospel; government; grace; hath; holy; justification; king; law; laws; liberty; lord; man; matter; means; men; nature; necessity; new; non; order; paul; peace; people; persons; piety; power; practice; publick; purpose; qui; reason; religion; right; rites; rom; rule; sacrament; saith; scandal; self; set; sign; sin; spirit; superstition; things; time; truth; use; way; word; worship; yoak cache: A71273.xml plain text: A71273.txt item: #183 of 215 id: A75478 author: Younge, Richard. title: Anti-Quakerism, or, A character of the Quakers spirit, from its original and first cause. / Written by a pious gentleman that hath been thirteen years amongst the Separatists to make observations, and is now returned home with a full intent to lay open the whole mystery of iniquity, in unvailing the whore, that men may no longer drink of the wine of her fornications; he hath vowed a single life, and given himself up wholly to the exercises of the mind. And here he hath described the spirit of Quakerism. 1. Being a precise Puritan. 2. An Anabaptist. 3. A Seeker. 4. A Ranter. 5. A Quaker, and indeed what not, all things, and nothing. By which character every man may in some measure see the deceitfulness of his own imagination and be careful, and watch himself accordinly [sic]. date: None words: 2317 flesch: 78 summary: Thither alass you sent in haste , And thus you did some treasure w●ste , But wh●n your mess●ngers came there , They were deceiv'd as we are here . Then did they with a joynt consent Do that o● which you now repent , Authorize one them to bap●iz● , Thus this fine cheat they did devise . keywords: character; men; quakerism; spirit; text cache: A75478.xml plain text: A75478.txt item: #184 of 215 id: A75884 author: Adis, Henry. title: A fannaticks letter sent out of the dungeon of the gate-house prison of VVestminster: to all his brethren in the three nations at liberty; and also in the several goales and dungeons therein, that are under all the principles of the doctrines of Christ, Heb. 6. I, 2. By Henry Adis, a baptized believer, undergoing the name of a free-willer; and also most ignomineously by the tongue of infamy, called a fannatick, or a mad man. date: 1660.0 words: 11576 flesch: 49 summary: And whosoever will deny me before men , him will I also deny before my Father which is in Heaven , they were his own Words , Mat. 10. 33. in whose Mouth there was sound no guile ; who also telleth us , That the time will come , that if they kill us , they will think they shall do God good service , John 16. And if we will have one like the Son of God , Comforting and Supporting , Walking with and Refreshing us in that hot Furnace of Affliction that is Heating for us ; let us with Shadrach , Meshach , and Abednego , keep close to our God , and let us not be careful to Answer the desires of men , Dan. keywords: brethren; christ; day; god; good; hath; house; kingdom; lord; man; men; things; time; world cache: A75884.xml plain text: A75884.txt item: #185 of 215 id: A76059 author: R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681. title: The godly mans portion and sanctuary opened, in two sermons, preached August 17. 1662 / by R.A. date: 1662.0 words: 53064 flesch: 78 summary: This is my great fear , that though God g●ves , yet I shall break my peace ; The God of peace with me ? 10. 6 , 7. God sent him forth upon a Design of his own , to execute his Counsel , in the punishing o● Hypocrities ; to purge out the Chaff from the Wheat● nevertheless , he meaneth not so , nor doth his heart thi●● so : the Assyrian minds not what God's Design is 〈◊〉 but follows his own Design ; fights for himself , an● spoils for himself ; but God's Design is still carrye● on by him , though he think not of it . keywords: christ; christians; come; day; faith; fear; glory; god; god hath; good; gospel; grace; hath; heart; hope; life; light; lord; lord god; love; man; men; patience; peace; power; promise; saints; self; sin; soul; thee; things; thou; thy; way; work; world; ● ● cache: A76059.xml plain text: A76059.txt item: #186 of 215 id: A77642 author: Browne, James, 1616-1685. title: Scripture-redemption freed from men's restrictions: being an answer to a book lately published by Mr. William Troughton (who stiles himself a minister of the gospel at Onlep in Leicester-shire) intituled, scripture-redemption restrained and limited: as also the substance of several conferences and disputes had in England, Wales, and Scotland, with Mr. Heath, Mr. Bartley, Mr. Powel, Mr. Sam. Rutherford, and Mr. James Wood, two rectors of the university of S. Andrews, and many others, about the death of our most dear redeemer, and the controversies which are the constant concomitants of it. Together with a brief reply to Mr. Troughton's rayling accusations in his introduction. By J. Brown, sometimes of Orial Coll. in Oxford, afterwards a priest of the Church of England, and vicar of Tenbury in Worcester-shire; but now through mercy a preacher of the faith which once he destroyed. date: 1653.0 words: 61247 flesch: 64 summary: Thus , as by the steps of Jacobs ladder , men ascend to the Lord , attaine to the measure of the stature of Christ , come to have fellowship with the Father , and with his Son Jesus , and to walk with God ; who ( as I hinted but even now ) doth begin the work and every part of the work of the new creation , leaving man to do nothing but what he hath enabled him to do , and so without all excuse in case of neglect : yet many do neglect their duty which God hath left them to do ; which , together with the committing of that which God hath declared to be evil , is counted sin , and shall be the onely cause of mens condemnation in the last day . I answer , Because they believe not , they lay not the blood of Christ to heart ; if they did , it were impossible that they should be so carried away with lust , pride , ignorance , lying , swearing , cheating , drunkenness , gaming , covetousness , formality , lukewarness , ildeness , and all manner of disobedience : for if men did consider the grace of God , if they knew the gift of God , and his kindness which towards man appeared , and thoughts of peace he harbours even towards them that are in rebellion against him ; yea , how he was Reconciled to them who yet are enemies ; they , even they , would harbour sweet thoughts of God , no longer look upon him as an enemy ; But throwing away the weapons of wickedness ( their sins ) would consider him as the chief of friends , and so be reconcil'd to him , as the Apostle speaks , 2 Cor. keywords: adam; answer; believe; blood; christ; come; death; doctrine; doth; faith; god; good; grace; hath; hold; jesus christ; life; light; live; lord; love; man; men; salvation; scriptures; sin; sins; soul; spirit; things; truth; word cache: A77642.xml plain text: A77642.txt item: #187 of 215 id: A77751 author: Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1628-1687. title: His Grace the Duke of Buckingham's speech for liberty of conscience in M.DC.LXXII date: 1689.0 words: 1427 flesch: 64 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A77751) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 152229) keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A77751.xml plain text: A77751.txt item: #188 of 215 id: A78034 author: Burton, Henry, 1578-1648. title: Vindiciæ veritatis: truth vindicated against calumny. In a briefe answer to Dr. Bastwicks two late books, entituled, Independency not Gods ordinance, with the second part, styled the postscript, &c. / By Henry Burton, one of his quondam-fellow-sufferers. date: 1645.0 words: 15063 flesch: 66 summary: For in your promised , or rather menaced Postscript , which ( to forestall your Readers with a prejudicate opinion of us ; and old piece of Rhetoricke , as that of Tertullus before Felix , telling him of Paul ; Wee have found this man a pestilent fellow , and a mover of sedition , &c. which he was not able to prove , his best rhetoricall argument being Calumnidre audacter , aliquid haerebit , Calumniate boldly , some thing will sticke ) you both prefix , and for surenesse , affix to your Booke ; you fasten upon us uncharitable dealing , fraud and jugglings of many of our Pastors and Ministers , as misleaders and troublers of Church and State , &c. all which * ( {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ) hard and harsh termes , wee can no lesse then spread before the Lord the righteous Judge . First , Concerning the Government of the Church , whether it be Presbyterian Dependent , or Presbyterian Independent : Secondly , Concerning gathering of Churches . keywords: brother; christ; christian; church; churches; doe; god; government; independent; kingdome; ministers; non; pag; people; power; set; wee; words; world cache: A78034.xml plain text: A78034.txt item: #189 of 215 id: A79279 author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. title: By the King. A proclamation. Charles R. Charles the Second, by the grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all and sundry our good subjects whom these presents do or may concern, greeting: we having, with the advice and consent of our Parliaments, past so many Acts in favour of the Protestant religion, against field-conventicles,... date: 1679.0 words: 1866 flesch: 59 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: charles; eebo; king; tcp; text cache: A79279.xml plain text: A79279.txt item: #190 of 215 id: A80297 author: Church of England. Diocese of London. Bishop (1675-1713 : Compton) title: The lord bishop of London's fourth letter to the clergy of his diocess. date: 1683.0 words: 3105 flesch: 71 summary: Reproduction of original in: Christ Church (University of Oxford). Church of England. keywords: body; church; eebo; god; london; tcp; text cache: A80297.xml plain text: A80297.txt item: #191 of 215 id: A85415 author: Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665. title: Sion-Colledg visited. Or, Some briefe animadversions upon a pamphlet lately published, under the title of, A testimonie to the truth of Jesus Christ, and to our Solemne League and Covenant, &c. Subscribed (as is pretended) by the ministers of Christ within the province of London. Calculated more especially for the vindication of certaine passages cited out of the writings of J.G. in the said pamphlet, with the black brand of infamous and pernicious errors, and which the said ministers pretend (amongst other errors so called) more particularly to abhominate. Wherein the indirect and most un-Christian dealings of the said ministers, in charging & calling manifest and cleere truths, yea such as are consonant to their own principles, by the name of infamous and pernicious errours, are detected and laid open to the kingdome, and the whole world. / By the said John Goodwin, a servant of God and men, in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. date: 1648.0 words: 14119 flesch: 54 summary: By the said John Goodwin, a servant of God and men, in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. By the said John Goodwin, a servant of God and men, in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. keywords: christ; christian; covenant; doe; errors; errour; god; hath; heresies; jesus; man; men; ministers; non; province; religion; selfe; testimony; title; truth; words; yea cache: A85415.xml plain text: A85415.txt item: #192 of 215 id: A85699 author: Griffith, George, 1601-1666. title: A Welsh narrative, corrected, and taught to speak true English, and some Latine. Or, Animadversions on an imperfect relation in the perfect diurnall, Numb. 138. Aug.2. 1652. Containing a narration of the disputation between Dr Griffith and Mr Vavasor Powell, neer New-Chappell in Mountgomery-shire, July 23. 1652. date: None words: 10740 flesch: 69 summary: The Gentleman beleeving M. Powell by his uncivill scoffe , unwilling to receive an answer , offered none afterward directly to that Question : But conceiving himself to have a fair right to retaliate in the way of questioning , specially considering his first condescention to M. Powell , he asked him ( the fittest way to answer such a Questionist ) and that very pertinently to the argument in hand , Whether there were no scandalous persons amongst them ? M. Powell answered , none . I was told indeed , I cannot say how truly , that a young man of Master Powel's company drew some people after him to the side of the Common ; and there inveighed against Learning and all such as professe it , Doctors and others . keywords: animad; answer; church; doctor; god; m. powell; moderator; narrat; powell; question; syllogisme; text; way; word cache: A85699.xml plain text: A85699.txt item: #193 of 215 id: A86190 author: Henchman, Richard, d. 1672. title: A peace-offering in the Temple; or, A seasonable plea for unity among dissenting brethren: in a sermon at St. Paul's Church, London, before the Right Honouable the Lord Mayor, &c. on the 14th of October, 1660. By Richard Henchman, Rectour of St. James-Garlick-Hyth. date: None words: 11263 flesch: 75 summary: So I am sure it is that , which God requires of Christians , that they should not have divided hearts : but that they should be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , having one , and the same soul , dwelling in several bodies . And the God of Consolation , because sound Comfort is from God alone : and therefore the Holy Ghost is called by his proper Name , when he is called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} . keywords: apostle; brethren; christ; christian; church; concord; consolation; divisions; god; lord; love; men; non; patience; paul; peace; spirit; text; thing; truth; unity; way cache: A86190.xml plain text: A86190.txt item: #194 of 215 id: A87141 author: Harris, Edward, 17th cent. title: A true relation of a company of Brownists, separatists, and nonconformists, in Monmouthshire in Wales. With the manner of their doctrine, christnings, vveddings, and burialls. Together vvith a relation of the knavery that some of their teachers practised to enrich themselves withall. The truth whereof will be justified by sundry people of good quality inhabiting in the said county. / By Edward Harris. date: 1641.0 words: 2349 flesch: 60 summary: And first of Christenings ; Which is that the Father shall bring his child to such of that sect as shall professe himselfe to be a minister , who shall take the child into his hands and wish the Father to name him , and being named , the Minister useth to cut the child in the eare untill it shall bleed , and then after ( delivering the child to the Father ) saith , by such a name thou child shall be called ; in which action they use neither the sprinkling of water , signe of the crosse , God fathers nor God mothers , nor any of the prayers in the Common prayer booke appointed to be used for that purpose ; and they will allow of no churching of women by any meanes . The manner of their Mariages Is , that he that taketh upon him the place of a Minister , shall aske the man that is to be married , if he wil have such a maide or woman to be his wedded wife , who saying that he will , hee also usually asketh the woman that is to bee married if that she will have that man to be her husband , who saying that she will ; then their Minister will usuall say , goe together and multiply ; in which action they never use the plighting of troth , ring , praiers , or ceremonies whatsoever . keywords: pavier; relation; sinnes; text; women cache: A87141.xml plain text: A87141.txt item: #195 of 215 id: A87251 author: Bridge, William, 1600?-1670. title: The Independants declaration delivered in to the Assembly. By Thomas Goodwin, William Greenhill, William Bridge, Philip Nie, Sydrach Simpson, and William Carter. Declaring their grounds and full resolutions concerning church-government. date: 1647.0 words: 2306 flesch: 56 summary: The Independants declaration delivered in to the Assembly. The Independants declaration delivered in to the Assembly. keywords: assembly; government; text; william cache: A87251.xml plain text: A87251.txt item: #196 of 215 id: A88100 author: Ley, John, 1583-1662, attributed name. title: A discourse concerning Puritans. A vindication of those, who uniustly suffer by the mistake, abuse, and misapplication of that name. A tract necessary and usefull for these times. date: 1641.0 words: 20869 flesch: 45 summary: And thus it does mischiefe to men , not commonly noted for Puritans , but if a man be so noted , though perhaps irregularly , then it is farther otherwise abused : for all such a mans evill shall be charged upon his Puritanisme , and all his good defaced for his Puritanisme . In Samaria , from an unkindly mixture of Israelites and Syrians , a strange heterogeneous of-spring different in Religion from both did arise ; and the like is now in England , nay , it may be said here ( as it was in Constantines dayes ) There are almost as many Religions as Opinions , and as many Opinions as Men . keywords: bee; bishops; church; doe; ecclesiasticall; god; good; hath; hee; honour; king; law; like; man; men; owne; power; princes; puritanisme; puritans; religion; selfe; spirituall; state; temporall; things; times; world cache: A88100.xml plain text: A88100.txt item: #197 of 215 id: A90603 author: Pagitt, Ephraim, 1574 or 5-1647. title: The mysticall vvolfe. Set forth in a sermon preached in the Church of Edmond the King, in Lombard-street. / By E.P. date: 1645.0 words: 12410 flesch: 75 summary: Tobias Dixon , Mr. Iohn Niclas , Mr. Iaspar Clayton , Mr. Andrew H●de , Mr. George Denham , Mr. Iohn Rogers , Mr. Spencer Vincent , Mr. ●ohn Smith , Mr. Richard Kimble , Mr. Francis Pat●s , Mr. Peter Worster , Mr. William Dev●nsh●re , and to all his other loving parishioners , and to his loving friends , and fellow labourers , Mr. Iohn Hopkins , and Mr. Iohn Davis . To the Right VVorshipfull Sir NICHOLAS RAYNTON , Knight , and Alderman of London : and to Mr. WILLIAM GIBBS , Alderman , and Sher●ffe of the said City , and to all his loving friends who have been Church wardens assisting him . keywords: christ; church; devill; god; gods; hath; himselfe; holy; king; lib; lord; man; men; non; paul; prophets; saith; sheep; soules; spirit; text; time; truth; wolves; word; ● ● cache: A90603.xml plain text: A90603.txt item: #198 of 215 id: A91790 author: Richardson, Samuel, fl. 1643-1658. title: Certain questions propounded to the assembly, to answer by the Scriptures whether corporall punishments may be inflicted upon such as hold errours in religion. / By S.R. date: 1646.0 words: 3780 flesch: 70 summary: 27 If the Magistrate must punish errors in religion , whether it doth not impose a necessity that the Magistrate is to have a certainty of knowledge in all intricate cases ? and whether God calls such to that place , whom he hath not furnished with abilities for that place ? And if a Magistrate bee in darknesse , and spiritually blind , and dead ; bee fit to judge of light , of truth and error ? and whether such be fit for the place of the Magistracy ? then whether it be not a scruple to a tender conscience to submit to such in civill causes , because not appointed to that place by God ? See Rev. 14. 8 , 9 , 10. 2 , Ye are bought with a price ; be not the servants of men , 1 Cor. 7. 23. keywords: christ; god; magistrate; power; religion; text; truth cache: A91790.xml plain text: A91790.txt item: #199 of 215 id: A92658 author: James II, King of England, 1633-1701. aut. title: A proclamation, anent field conventicles and house-meetings date: 1687.0 words: 1660 flesch: 59 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A92658) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 153558) keywords: eebo; english; proclamation; tcp; text cache: A92658.xml plain text: A92658.txt item: #200 of 215 id: A93279 author: Simpson, William, 1627?-1671. title: Going naked a signe [by] William Simpson. date: 1660.0 words: 1043 flesch: 70 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A93279 of text R184180 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S3845). The rate of 14 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: lord; text; thee cache: A93279.xml plain text: A93279.txt item: #201 of 215 id: A93281 author: Simpson, William, 1627?-1671. title: Going naked a signe date: 1666.0 words: 1458 flesch: 65 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 151718) keywords: lord; tcp; text; thee cache: A93281.xml plain text: A93281.txt item: #202 of 215 id: A96485 author: Wild, Robert, 1609-1679. title: The loyal nonconformist; or, An account what he dare swear, and vvhat not. date: 1666.0 words: 1531 flesch: 72 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A96485.xml plain text: A96485.txt item: #203 of 215 id: A96992 author: Walker, Henry, Ironmonger. title: The modest vindication of Henry VValker. In answer to certaine scandalous pamphlets, forged and vented abroad in his name (withou[t]: his privity.) Against which, as also the authours thereof, together with the popular aspersions of many other turbulent spirits, he doth protest; and before almighty God, clear himselfe to all the world. date: None words: 3227 flesch: 63 summary: ●hil iniquius ●●am ut ode●●t homines ●●●os ignorant ●●omsi res me●●ur odium , ●●ertull . And thou my Sovereigne , Charles , all Europs splendor , Thine enemies terrour and true Faith's Defend●r , Thy love preserv'd my life , not heathenish fate , In thy Majestick face , true Princely state : When malice plotted mischief everie houre , Thy clemency prevented all their power : That God which grac'd thee with a Royall Crowne , Crown thee with grace , thy Honours with renown . keywords: eebo; god; henry; tcp; text; world; ● ● cache: A96992.xml plain text: A96992.txt item: #204 of 215 id: B02055 author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. title: His Majesties declaration to all his loving subjects, March 15. 1672. Published by the advice of his Privy Council. date: 1672.0 words: 1747 flesch: 59 summary: Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179347) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: eebo; english; subjects; tcp; text cache: B02055.xml plain text: B02055.txt item: #205 of 215 id: B02102 author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. title: By the King. A proclamation. Charles R. ... We having, with the advice and consent of Our Parliaments, past so many acts in favors of the Protestant religion, against field-conventicles ... date: 1679.0 words: 1802 flesch: 60 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. B02102) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179364) keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: B02102.xml plain text: B02102.txt item: #206 of 215 id: B02997 author: Edinburgh (Scotland). Town Council. title: Act anent suppressing conventicles, &c. date: 1684.0 words: 1501 flesch: 53 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Royal arms at head of text; initial letter. keywords: conventicles; eebo; english; tcp; text cache: B02997.xml plain text: B02997.txt item: #207 of 215 id: B03989 author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. title: The committee, or, Popery in masquerade date: 1681.0 words: 942 flesch: 67 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179892) keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: B03989.xml plain text: B03989.txt item: #208 of 215 id: B04307 author: Tom of Lincoln. title: The lavvyers plea, in the behalf of young Tom of Lincoln. Being an answer to a late scandalous ballad, entituled, Merry news from Lincolns-Inn. Adrest to the author of the said ballad, by Tom of Lincoln. To the tune of, Help lords and commons, &c. date: 1665.0 words: 1700 flesch: 71 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182780) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A4:2[112]) keywords: lincoln; tcp; text; tom cache: B04307.xml plain text: B04307.txt item: #209 of 215 id: B05453 author: Scotland. Privy Council. title: A proclamation, against field-conventicles date: 1681.0 words: 1823 flesch: 58 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05453) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179586) keywords: conventicles; eebo; field; tcp; text cache: B05453.xml plain text: B05453.txt item: #210 of 215 id: B05459 author: Gibson, Alexander, Sir, d. 1693. title: A proclamation, against keeping of conventicles. Edinburgh, the third day of August, one thousand six hundred and sixty nine. date: 1669.0 words: 1306 flesch: 64 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179589) keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: B05459.xml plain text: B05459.txt item: #211 of 215 id: B05721 author: Scotland. Privy Council. title: A proclamation prorogating the Acts of Parliament against conventicles, and separation from the publick meetings of divine worship. date: 1675.0 words: 1304 flesch: 62 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Royal arms at head of text; initial letter. keywords: eebo; parliament; tcp; text cache: B05721.xml plain text: B05721.txt item: #212 of 215 id: B06074 author: Scotland. Committee of the West. title: A proclamation, anent tenents and others who shall be removed for not taking, the band to live orderly. date: 1678.0 words: 1658 flesch: 57 summary: Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179534) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: band; eebo; english; heretors; tcp; text cache: B06074.xml plain text: B06074.txt item: #213 of 215 id: B06583 author: Wild, Robert, 1609-1679. title: Dr Wild's humble thanks for His Majesties gracious declaration for liberty of conscience, March 15. 1672. date: 1672.0 words: 2067 flesch: 77 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: eebo; english; great; tcp; text; thou; works cache: B06583.xml plain text: B06583.txt item: #214 of 215 id: B06739 author: Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680. title: An ingenious contention, by way of letter, between Mr. Wanly, a son of the Church; & Dr. Wild, a nonconformist. date: 1668.0 words: 3601 flesch: 81 summary: But I 'm thy Son , and must corrected be ; But why then dost thou turn thy bum to me ? What though thou ownst me for thy sanguine Child , Yet I have not so much my Sire of Wild. keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text; thou; thy; wanley; wild cache: B06739.xml plain text: B06739.txt item: #215 of 215 id: B06802 author: Y. Z. title: An ansvver to the author of Humble thanks for His Majesties gracious declaration for liberty of conscience. date: 1672.0 words: 1356 flesch: 67 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06802) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182677) keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text; thee cache: B06802.xml plain text: B06802.txt