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id: A91138
author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
title: The antidote animadverted, by P.
date: 1645
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summary:
  Next the Answerer concludes , ( I professe ) like himselfe , as w●nt , he bestows , on his adversary , Antagonist , Pride ; Antechristianisme d●●g●●ous opposition &c. Which I thus understand , Christ shall not make himselfe known , he sh●ll not strive , neither like a champion with a shout rush on , and overco●…e vide I●…sh .


id: A38584
author: Ernulf, Bishop of Rochester, 1040-1124.
date: 1681
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words: 1773
sentence: 80
flesch: 72
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title:
  The popes dreadfull curse being the form of an excommunication of the Church of Rome : taken out of the leger-book of the Church of Rochester now in the custody of the dean and chapter there / writ by Ernulfus the Bishop.

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. A38584) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 51865)


id: A56165
author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
date: 1644
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words: 2502
sentence: 103
flesch: 61
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title:
  Foure serious questions of grand importance, concerning excommunication and suspension from the Sacrament propounded to the Reverend Assembly and all moderate Christians to prevent schismes, and settle unity among us in these divided times / by a lover both of peace and truth.

summary:
  Foure serious questions of grand importance, concerning excommunication and suspension from the Sacrament propounded to the Reverend Assembly and all moderate Christians to prevent schismes, and settle unity among us in these divided times / by a lover both of peace and truth. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 222:23 or 2176:13) Foure serious questions of grand importance, concerning excommunication and suspension from the Sacrament propounded to the Reverend Assembly and all moderate Christians to prevent schismes, and settle unity among us in these divided times / by a lover both of peace and truth.


id: A47967
author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
title: A letter concerning the matter of the present excommunications
date: 1683
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words: 6825
sentence: 161
flesch: 45
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summary:
  Providential dispensations are various , and no certain Judgment can be made on them , as unto the final and eternal determination of things and causes ; No man knoweth love or hatred by the things of that nature that are before him ; But this is ordained by the Law of Christ to be a just Representation of his future Judgment , with a Recognition of the causes which he will proceed upon : Therefore it is divinely instructive , in what he himself will do in the great day ; it is futuri judicii praejudicium : But he will scarcely be thought well advised , who shall send men to Doctors-Commons , to learn the way and manner of Christs Judgment of his Church , with the causes which he will proceed upon . But that , I found , which did principally affect the minds of men , was the event which these proceedings do tend unto , and will produce ; and they generally concluded , that they would be highly prejudicial , if not ruinous unto all Trust and Trade , among the peaceable Subjects of the Kingdom .


id: A96917
author: Walker, George, 1581?-1651.
date: 1645
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mime: application/xml
words: 6812
sentence: 191
flesch: 55
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title:
  A brotherly and friendly censure of the errour of a dear friend and brother in Christian affection, in an answer to his four questions lately sent abroad in print to the view of the world. Published according to order.

summary:
  If he hath but once in all his life stumbled upon a bad cause , and pleaded for it , ( which is a common , and in some sort a necessary evil , hardly to be avoided by men of his vocation : ) let not this blemish his great learning , nor his judgement , sound in all other points , and least of all his approved piety and zeale for true religion . Secondly , I hope it will be made to appeare by this , and other Answers of more able brethren , that here is no matter of grand importance in these questions , except encouragement of men to live in scandalous sins , without feare of suspension from the Lords table , and to intrude boldly thereunto , which is a power of grand tyranny , and oppression of the Consciences of Ministers , may in any but an evil sense , be called a matter of grand importance .


id: A61546
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1662
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words: 13166
sentence: 351
flesch: 50
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title:
  A discourse concerning the power of excommunication in a Christian church, by way of appendix to the Irenicum by Edward Stillingfleet ...

summary:
  Power then in its general and abstracted notion , doth not necessarily import either meer authority , or proper coaction , for these to any impartial judgement , will appear to bee rather the severall modes whereby power is exercised , then any proper ingredients of the specifick nature of it ; which in generall , imports no more then a right to Govern a constituted Society , but how that right shall bee exercised , must bee resolved not from the notion of Power , but from the nature and constitution of that particular Society in which it is lodged and inherent . The want of understanding the right notion of power in the sense here set down , is certainiy the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Erastianisme , and that which hath given occasion to so many to question any such thing as Power in the Church , especially , when the more zealous then judicious defenders of it have rather chosen to hang it upon some doubtful places of Scripture , then on the very nature and constitution of the Christian Church , as a Society instituted by Jesus Christ.


id: A42764
author: Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.
date: 1644
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words: 14307
sentence: 595
flesch: 69
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title:
  A late dialogue betwixt a civilian and a divine concerning the present condition of the Church of England in which, among other particulars, these following are especially spoken of ...

summary:
  And here by the way , I must tell you , that if the Jewish Sanedrim were here mean● ( as it is not ) you could not thence conclude that a civill Court is meant , for there was an Ecclesiastical Sanedrim , distinct from the civill , as beside many other great Authors is proved by Constantinus , l' Emp. Annot. in C●● . Doe but prove the Lord now herewith , and see if he will not appoint salvation for walls and b●●●marks , if he will not honour those that honour him , if he will not be zealous for those that are zealous for him .


id: A01221
author: Fraser, John, d. 1605.
date: 1605
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words: 23863
sentence: 535
flesch: 53
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title:
  A lerned epistle of M. Iohn Fraser: Bachler of Diuinitie to the ministers of Great Britanie Wherin he sheweth that no man ought to subscribe to their confession of faith. And that their presumed authorite to excommunicate anie man, especially Catholiques, is vaine and foolish.

summary:
  No truely , although in some sense , I might most iustly so conclude : for ●here is great difference now betwix you , as ye professe your selues to be but ordinatie pastours ( if perchance ye content your selfes with so humble and simple a stile ) and Caluin o● any other , whome ye acknowledge to b● sent ext●●ordinariely by God him self : fo● howbeit your power ( if ye haue any ▪ I vnderstand ) be diuine , as comming of God , ye● your iudgement is but humaine ▪ so that it i● no meruaill if ye go sometymes wronge i● high maters which should be called re●he an e●●ou● , then a lie , because ye w●r● dec●●ue● in your opinion as men . Moreouer there was never yet any Pape receaued by ●he Iewes for their true M●ssias , because the Pape doeth teach that the true Messias is alreddie come : the Antichrist should be receaued , Si alius venertt in nomine suo ●um recipietis . of contrarie there is no man they hate so meikill as they hate the Pape , because he is the greatest obstacle thes 1600.


id: A38575
author: Erastus, Thomas, 1524-1583.
date: 1682
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words: 31797
sentence: 892
flesch: 59
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title:
  A treatise of excommunication wherein 'tis fully, learnedly, and modestly demonstrated that there is no warrant ... for excommunicating any persons ... whilst they make an outward profession of the true Christian faith / written originally in Latine by ... Thomas Erastus ... about the year 1568.

summary:
  From what has been said , Excommunication is apparently nothing but a publick and solemn Interdiction , as was said before , or Exclusion ▪ from the Sacraments , and more particularly the Lords Supper ( which the Apostle calls peculiarly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Communion ) to the end that the Sinners may repent , and be again readmitted to receive the Sacraments . By comparing these places , 't is most plainly demonstrable , that the Evangelists , or rather Christ , did not ( by the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Council and Synagogue ) understand or mean any thing more than the Jewish Judicatures which were held before several persons who sate as Judges , though generally one had the Chair , and something of Superiority ; or if more did act , they did it in the name of one of them .


id: A91314
author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
date: 1645
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title:
  A vindication of foure serious questions of grand importance, concerning excommunication and suspention from the sacrament of the Lords Supper, from some misprisions and unjust exceptions lately taken against them; both in the pulpit, by a reverend brother of Scotland, in a sermon at Margarets Church in Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at a publike fast there held for Scotland, on the 5th of September last: and in the presse, by three new-printed pamphlets, by way of answer to, and censure of them. Wherein some scripture texts, (commonly reproduced for excommunication, and bare suspention from the Lords Supper onely,) are cleared from false glosses, inferences, conclusions wrested from them; ... / By William Prynne of Lincolns Inne, Esquire.

summary:
  First , there is an externall conversion of men from Pag●●is●e or Gentilisme , to the externall profession of the P●ith of Christ ; which is ordinarily wrought by the preaching of the Word ; or extraordinarily , by miracles without the Word preached , in reference to those without the Church ; but ordinarily effected by the Sacrament of Baptisme , in reference to infants of Christian Parents borne within the Church , which Sacrament both admits and makes them members of the visible Church ( without the preaching of the Word of which infants are not capable , ) I plead not this as a meer Lawyer , for any private ends or l●cre ( as some scandalously report ) since I value not my calling ( to which true Church-discipline will be no prejudice ) nor any thing in the world in comparison of Gods glory and the truth ; Nor yet as an Advocate for licentio●● , scandalous sinners , to extenuate their offences , punishment , or any way to encourage them in their impentiency & prophanations ; nor out of any disaffectiō to the Presbyterian Government , for which I have earnestly pleaded , and suffered much reproach from Sectari●s and Independents , and in which I may expect as great a share of Presbyteriall power and honour as any other ; but meerly out of consci●nce , of love unto the truth , and tender compassions to ▪ the souls of other● , from whom without any punctuall Scripture warrant , I would have no meanes of grace , or ordinances of Christ with-held , wherein they have ● right , a property , which may conduce to their reformation or conversion .


