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id: A30623
author: Burrowes, Samuel, 17th cent.
date: 1642.0
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title:
  Good instrvctions for all youngmen and maids being the substance of an excellent sermon preached at St. Stevens Colmanstreet the 8 day of March 1641 : at the earnest request of divers youngmen and apprentices at a solemne thanksgiving and celebration of a fast / by Samuel Burrowes.

summary:
  And besides , I conceive that it is matter of great prayse to see so many yong ones to desire a day of praise , and to set it apart to God alone . From hence learne this choice point : Doct. 1. That in the consorts of all Creatures praysing God , young men praising him doe make sweet melody in his eares , and God taketh most delight in it . Reason 1.


id: A52042
author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
date: 1641.0
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sentence: 134
flesch: 74
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title:
  Meroz curse for not helping the Lord against the mightie being the substance of a sermon, preached on a day of humiliation, at St. Sepulchers, London, Decemb. 2. 1641 / by that powerfull and Godly divine, Mr. Stephen Marshall ; published in one sheet of paper, (not by the author) but by a lover of the truth, for their good especially, that are not able to buy bigger bookes ; being a very seasonable subject, wherein all that either out of policie or sloth, rfuse to helpe the Lord, may see their danger, and they that are willing are called, and directions given to them both what manner of persons they ought to be, and what they ought to doe to help the Lord ; wherein also every true Christian may see, that though they be never so weake or poore, yet they may, and ought to helpe the Lord, and by what meanes.

summary:
  Now , there is one talent which I am sure every childe of God that is effectually called hath , though they be never so poore , and that is the talent of prayer ; for indeed , it is the surest evidence to witnesse unto them , that the spirit of Christ is in them , when they can cry Abba Father : according to the lawes of our Kingdome , a child cannot be proved to be borne alive , except there be witnesse that it was heard to cry ; even so we say in Divinity , that every one that hath the new birth can cry to God his Father in prayer ; so that I say , every child of God hath this talent of prayer . 8. Salomon reckoneth up all the hard conditions that the Church of God can fall into , and alwayes concludes , then heare thou in heaven , &c. and then God answers , I have heard thy prayers and supplications that thou hast made before me ; with this talent of prayer the servants of God have overcome God , and held his hands , in so much that the Lord , if I may so speake , hath been glad to intreat them and command them to hold their tongues , and let him alone .


id: A40686
author: Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
date: 1643.0
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words: 6432
sentence: 263
flesch: 69
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title:
  A sermon of reformation preached at the Church of the Savoy, last fast day, July 27, 1643 / by Thomas Fuller ...

summary:
  To conclude , let us all provide for that perfect Reformation in the world to come ; when Christ shall present the Church his Spouse to God his Father , Without spot , comming from mans corruption , or wrincle , caused by times continuance . God neither mistakes , nor confounds the good Deeds , or Rewards of men ; but set the due praises on the true persons ; the person that doth well shall be praised : the Prince shall not be commended for the good Deeds of the people , not the people commended for the good Deeds of the Prince ; indeed Gods threatens the common people of Israel , Leviticus 26.23 .


id: A64366
author: Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715.
date: 1689.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 7074
sentence: 266
flesch: 66
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title:
  A sermon against self-love, &c. preached before the Honourable House of Commons on the 5th of June, 1689 : being the fast-day appointed to implore the blessing of almighty God upon Their Majesties forces by sea and land, and success in the war now declared against the French-king / by Thomas Tenison ...

summary:
  Hence Publick Fastings and Humiliations , being open Testimonies of our Fear of God and our dependence upon him , have been unfrequent , notwithstanding so great and Pressing a Load of Guilt has laid upon us . All Friends at distance of Place would be in perpetual Pain for one another , if they did not , under God , place some part of their Security in this Thought , that , having a Principle of Self-Preservation in their Natures , they would take some competent Care of themselves .


id: A66421
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1695.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 8027
sentence: 231
flesch: 58
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title:
  A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, on Wednesday the 11th of December, 1695 being a solemn day of fasting and humiliation, appointed by His Majesty, for imploring the blessing of Almighty God upon the consultations of this present Parliament / by John Williams ...

summary:
  Before I proceed to which , give me leave to observe , That though it is in the power of every man , more or less , as well as it is his Duty , to honour God by his Words and Actions , by the Obedience he gives to his Laws , and the Acknowledgments he makes of his Providence , by the regard he pays to the Sacred Offices and Institutions of Religion ; yet that this more especially belongs to those that are in a more eminent Station , and have greater advantages and opportunities for doing Good , than others , by their Authority , Power , and Example . And howsoever the Providence of God may vary in its motions , now turning it self this way , and then another ; yet there are immoveable Reasons upon which it always proceeds , and that is Religion , and the Blessing of God ; our honouring of him , and his honouring of us , in conjunction and co-operation .


id: A71209
author: Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.
date: 1643.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 7402
sentence: 299
flesch: 72
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title:
  The opinion of the Roman jvdges touching imprisonment and the liberty of the subject, or, A sermon preached at the Abby at Westminster, at a late publique fast, Jan. 25, 1642 by J.V. Prisoner.

summary:
  J. V. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} A Sermon preached at the Abby at Westminster , on the last publick Fast , January 25. Our Father , &c. FINIS . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A71209e-140 * Acts 24. 1. Notes for div A71209e-270 a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} .


id: A62604
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8604
sentence: 236
flesch: 59
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title:
  A sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons, on Wednesday the 16th of April, a day appointed by Their Majesties, for a solemn monthly fast by John Tillotson ...

summary:
  But then , lest men should cast off Religion , and deny the God that is above ; lest they should trust in their sword and their bowe , and say , the Lord hath not done this ; lest men should look upon themselves as the Creators and framers of their own fortune , and when they do but a little outstrip others in wisdom or power , in the skill and conduct of humane affairs , they should grow proud and presumptuous , God is pleased sometimes more remarkably to interpose , to hide pride from man , as the expression is in Job ; to check the haughtiness and insolence of mens spirits , and to keep them within the bounds of modesty and humility ; to make us to know that we are but men , and that the reins of the World are not in our hands , but that there is One above who sways and governs all things here below . For if there be a God and a Providence , it is reasonable that things should be thus : Because a Providence does suppose all things to have been at first wisely fram'd , and with a fi●ness to attain their end ; but yet it does also suppose that God hath reserved to himself a power and liberty to interpose , and to cross as he pleases , the usual course of things ; to awaken men to the consideration of him , and a continual dependance upon him ; and to teach us to ascribe those things to his wise disposal , which , if we never saw any change , we should be apt to impute to blind necessity .


id: A61115
author: Spencer, John, Groom.
date: 1642.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 8427
sentence: 267
flesch: 73
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title:
  The spirituall vvarfare a sermon preched in the parish church of St. Michael Crookedland in London : on the 30 of March being a fast day / by Mr. John Spencer sometime groom to a nobleman.

summary:
  You must be Gods Remembrancers , put God in minde , and say , Lord thou hast made such a promise , that my heart which is dark , shall be enlightened ; my eyes which are shut up , shall be opened ; and that thou wilt pluck down the proud enemies from their seats , and set up the humble and meek , Lord when wilt thou perform them ? Thus must you encounter with God , when you come before him in such a day as this , you must say , Lord , what shall I do with this hard heart , this ignorant , this unbeleeving heart of mine ; Lord , if thou shouldst pluck away my wife , my husband , my childe , my friend , I shall not know what to do ; but Lord , however thou dealest with me , vouchsafe me thy gracious presence : Happily I may live friendlesse , hopelesse , be cast into darknesse , where I shall see no light ; Lord , let me have thy presence where ever I go ; if he goeth not with you for to preach , to pray , to hear , what will ye do ?


id: A85013
author: Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
title: A fast sermon preached on innocents day by Thomas Fuller, B.D. Minister of the Savoy.
date: 1642.0
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words: 8852
sentence: 306
flesch: 70
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summary:
  So this one day will be a comfort to the consciences of godly minded men , that they may appeale to the God of heaven , how they have prayed heartily for peace , have petitioned humbly for Peace , have been contented to pay deerly for peace , and to their powers have endevoured to refraine themselves from sinnes , the breakers of peace ; and therefore they trust that Christian English Protestant blood , which shall be shed , which hath beene and hereafter may be shed in these wofull warres , shall never be visited on their score or laid to their charge . If any object that peace also hath her mischiefes which attend thereupon ; for it brings plenty , and plenty brings pride , and pride brings plagues upon it : peace makes men pampered , and with Jessurun to kick against God . War indeed brings cleannesse of teeth , whilest peace brings fulnesse of bread , which is as bad and worse , making men presumptuously to rebell against God .


id: A57156
author: Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.
date: 1666.0
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words: 10721
sentence: 283
flesch: 54
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title:
  A sermon preached before the peers in the Abby Church at Westminster, November 7, 1666 being a day of solemn humiliation for the continuing pestilence / by Edward Lord Bishop of Norwich.

summary:
  Of this sort was that unhappy Controversie in the dayes of Pope Victor , between the Roman and Asiatick Churches , touching the time of Easter , who though former Bishops of Rome had , notwithstanding the different observations in that Case , held intimate fellowship with the Asian Bishops , did out of excess of Passion , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , as Socrates expresseth it , Excommunicate all the Asian Churches , and made a dolefull disturbance in the Church of Christ ; upon which occasion , the forenamed Historian hath a grave Discourse , to shew how several Churches did differ from one another in Matters Ritual , and yet retained firm Unity and Communion still . 3. The Conspicuousness thereof , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , let it be really upon all occasions manifested , for the Honour of Christ , and Credit of Religion .


id: A30434
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1690.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 11339
sentence: 274
flesch: 54
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title:
  A sermon preached before the Queen, at White-Hall, on the 16th day of July, 1690, being the monthly-fast by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  Would to God it were but a Secret , and not too notorious and publick ! Where is the ancient gravity and composure of Behaviour that made a large part of the Character of this Nation ? Where is the Truth and Fidelity which was formerly one of the distinctions of Englishmen ? Where is the Good-nature and Generosity that was the Ornament of those that were nobly born ? Where are even the Decencies of Religion , or of the Worship of God ? What is become of the Love of our Country , and of its ancient Government and Liberty ? What can cure all those Diseases under which we languish , but the possessing mens minds with inward principles of Religion , which will make them to become a Law and a Rule to themselves ? What can raise in men a generous love to their Country , which is the root of all Political Virtues , to so high a degree as the Principles of Christian Love and Charity , the sense of an Account to be given to God for all we do , and that noblest Principle of all Religion , the raising up our Natures to become as like the Divine Being as possibly we can ; which will give us a Zeal of doing all the good we can to Mankind , and of being publick Blessings to the Age and Place we live in .


id: A45500
author: Hannott, James.
date: 1692.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 12622
sentence: 447
flesch: 70
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title:
  The right way of seeking God a sermon preach'd at Great Yarmouth on the 11th of May, 1692, being the day of the monthly fast / by James Hannott ...

summary:
  And these , to do justly , to love mercy , and to walk humbly with God , are all of them things that have a real and transcendent worth in them ; such things as do approve themselves to be Good and excellent to an enlightened mind , and a well-disposed heart . They are such things , wherein the Perfection of our Nature , as it lies in a conformity to God , and subjection to him , does consist ; They are also Lovely in the Eyes of others , and things of good Report , that cause Religion to be well spoken of .


id: A43318
author: Henderson, Alexander, 1583?-1646.
date: 1644.0
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sentence: 389
flesch: 66
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title:
  A sermon preached to the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, Wednesday, December 27, 1643 by Alexander Henderson ...

summary:
  The lawes of men may doe some hurt for repressing outrages , but how shall the floods be dried up unlesse the fountaines be obstructed ? There is great difference betwixt outward restraint from man , and inward mortification from God : Where Religion taketh place , men neither dare nor will commit sinne ; and doth not the wrath of God for these things come upon the Children of disobedience ? Men need not in searching out the periods and fatalities of Kingdomes and States , trouble themselves with the intricat numbers of Plato , Predictions of Astrologers or particular Prophesies , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , impiety , iniquity , luxury , which must needs have place where true Religion hath nor place , & are causes for which the Lord bringeth alterations upon Kingdomes . Againe , the Lord can renue the hearts of his Enemies , and make such a Persecutor , as Paul sometime was , to be a beleever and Zealous Preacher f : He can restraine the impetuous violence of the heart of man ; thus dealt he with Laban , that he durst not speake to Jacob either good or bad g ; he can also and doth indeed overrule the hearts and wayes of his most Malignant and desperate Enemies , whom he neither renueth nor restraineth , and contrary to their Counsels and intentions , bring them mervelously about to his owne ends , as he dealt with Judas , Herod , Pilate , and the people of the Jewes , who devised and did mischiefe against Christ , but God meant it for good , to save his people from their sinnes h .


id: A43817
author: Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.
date: 1643.0
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words: 12227
sentence: 596
flesch: 75
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title:
  The militant chvrch trivmphant over the dragon and his angels presented in a sermon preached to both Houses of Parliament assembled on Friday the 21. of July, 1643 : being an extraordinary day of publikhumiliation appointed by them throughout London and Westminster : that every one might bitterly bewaile his own sins and cry mightily unto God for Christ his sake to remove his wrath and heale the land / By Tho. Hill...

summary:
  The militant chvrch trivmphant over the dragon and his angels presented in a sermon preached to both Houses of Parliament assembled on Friday the 21. of July, 1643 : being an extraordinary day of publikhumiliation appointed by them throughout London and Westminster : that every one might bitterly bewaile his own sins and cry mightily unto God for Christ his sake to remove his wrath and heale the land / By Tho. The militant chvrch trivmphant over the dragon and his angels presented in a sermon preached to both Houses of Parliament assembled on Friday the 21. of July, 1643 : being an extraordinary day of publikhumiliation appointed by them throughout London and Westminster : that every one might bitterly bewaile his own sins and cry mightily unto God for Christ his sake to remove his wrath and heale the land / By Tho.


id: A42091
author: Grenfield, Thomas.
date: 1661.0
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words: 12400
sentence: 310
flesch: 61
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title:
  The fast: As it was delivered in a sermon at St. Margarets in Westminster, before the honorable House of Commons upon Wednesday the 12th. of June 1661. being the day appointed by His Majesty and the Parliament, for a solemn humiliation upon the late abundance of rain, and the danger of famine, and pestilence likely to ensue thereby. / By Tho: Grenfield A.M. Preacher to the Honorable Society of Lincoln's-Inne.

summary:
  For we think , that God hath set forth us last , as it were men appointed to death ; for we are made a spectacle unto the world , and to angels , and to men : we are fools , but ye are wise ; we are weak , but ye are strong ; ye are honourable , but we are despised : even unto this present hour we both hunger , and thirst , and are naked , and are buffeted , and have no certain dwelling place : And labour , working with our own hands ; being reviled , we blesse ; being persecured , we suffer it ; being defamed , we intreat : we are made as the filth of the world , and are the off-scouring of all things unto this day . We are required to walk after the Lord in his dispensations , and when he shal roar like a Lyon , then ought we ( like good children ) to tremble ; 'T is a piece of most intolerable insolence , for men to laugh and sport themselves when God frownes : this in Israel was so offensive , that , Isai .


id: A88148
author: Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
date: 1645.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 13400
sentence: 339
flesch: 59
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title:
  A sermon preached before the Honorable House of Commons: at Margarets Westminster, upon the 26. day of August 1645. being the day of their solemne monethly fast. / By John Lightfoot, a member of the Assembly of Divines.

summary:
  Secondly , by the Angels binding the Devill in the Text , is to bee understood Christs overthrowing the power of the Devill among the Heathen , ( for I suppose it needlesse to prove that the Angell is Christ ) his casting down those strong holds of Satan , Ignorance , Idolatry and lying Oracles , by the light and power of the Gospel preached among the Gentiles , his bringing them home to the knowledge of the truth , and his curbing of Satan , that he should no more cousen the world with those delusions and heathenisme as hee had done . 4. And lastly , as he carries power in these respects , so hee sheweth power in his works and actings , in so much that his power hath beene mistaken for the mighty power of God , Act. 8.


id: A41582
author: Gosnold, Paul.
date: 1644.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 7239
sentence: 207
flesch: 60
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title:
  A sermon preached at the publique fast the ninth day of Aug. 1644 at St. Maries, Oxford, before the honorable members of the two Houses of Parliament there assembled by Paul Gosnold ... ; and published by authority.

summary:
  What is more wished , or would be more welcome then peace ? What is better or sweeter then peace ? What is more splendid and beautifull then peace ? Peace is that faire Astraea that linketh men together in the golden fetters of mutuall amitie , and maketh them to live , as if , their persons being many , their soules were but one . If there were no positive pleasure in peace , yet as it is the greatest torment to be depriv'd of Heaven , so it is not the least of pleasures to be freed from Hell : {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , saith the grand Philosopher : 't is a pleasure to be rid of that which displeaseth us ; to be freed from this hell of ●●rre , the fire and brimstone , stormes and tempests , plagues and vexations of it ; if for no other reason then this , how pleasant a thing is peace ? 3. Peace is profitable ; for in that encomiastick Psalme of Peace , it is not onely compared to the fragrant oyntment of Aaron , but also to the prolifique dew of Hermon , fructifying the fields of Sion ; Pacis alumna Ceres , peace and abundance go together : therefore she is emblem'd in a faire woman holding a Copia-Cornu , a horne full of flowers and fruits in one hand , and leading Plutos the good of riches in the other , to paint out unto us , that riches and plenty are the inseperable companions of peace O what a blessed Trinity conspire in this Vnity !


id: A27042
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1660.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 13993
sentence: 432
flesch: 65
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title:
  A sermon of repentance preached before the honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament at Westminster, at their late solemn fast for the setling of these nations, April 30, 1660 / by Richard Baxter.

summary:
  For pride of apparel , it was wont to be taken for a childish or a womanish kind of vice , below a man ; but it s now observed among the gallants , that ( except in spots ) the notes of vanity are more legibly written on the hair and dress of a multitude of effeminate males , then on the females ; proclaiming to the world that pride , which one would think even pride it self should have concealed ; and calling by these signs to the beholders to observe the emptyness of their minds , and how void they are of that inward worth , which is the honour of a Christian , and of a man : It being a marvel to see a man of Learning , gravity , wisdom , and the fear of God , appear in such an antick dress . Their captivity was but the fruit of their voluntary captivity to sin ; and their grief of heart , was but the fruit of their hardness of heart ; and their sharpest sufferings , of their foul pollutions ; and therefore God promiseth a methodicall cure ; even to take away their old and stony heart , and cleanse them from their filthiness , and so to ease them by the removing of the cause .


id: A89583
author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
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mime: application/xml
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sentence: 262
flesch: 42
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title:
  A sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: at their late solemne fast, Januar. 26. 1647. at Margarets Westminster. / By Steven Marshall, B.D.

summary:
  First , Who ever are instrumentall in advancing , and building up , and furthering the Kingdome of Heaven , the Lord gives them to partake with himself , in that which is his own greatest glory , and the greatest glory of his Son , the Lord Jesus Christ , when Satan had ruin'd mankind , and himself become the God upon earth , and drawn all men off from God to worship Devils , the great designe of God was to set up another Kingdome , that should bee called the Kingdome of God the Kingdome of his Christ , the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus , the Kingdome of Heaven ; and for the erecting of this , Christ did all his work , came from Heaven , became a man , died , rose again , sent out his Spirit , it is the great designe of Heaven , that this Kingdome should bee erected and advanced ; Now when any are found to help forward this , they are associated with the Lord Jesus , in this great Work ; and therefore you shall read in the Prophesie of Obadiah , the last verse of it , where the Lord speakes of winning both the Jews and other Nations home to Christ , Saviours shall come upon Mount Zion , Saviours shall be there ; Who are they ? the Jewish Interpreters say , that the Saviours there meant are , Rex Messias , & ejus socii ; these Saviours are , King Messiah and his Companions that should work with him ; and most interpreters do agree , that the Saviours are the Apostles , and the Apostolicall men , and others , that should bring the people homeagain to God , and help to convert the Nations , the Lord calls them by the name of Saviours , and many are said to be fellow-workers with Christ , and the Apostle saith of Timothy , See that Timoty bee without any molestation with you , ( in the ● . of the Cor. 16 ) for he works the Worke of God , as I doe ; and of Epaphroditus , it is said of him , that for the Work of Iesus Christ , hee was sick unto death ; the work then that they are imployed in , to build up the Kingdome of Heaven , is the same work that God and the Lord Iesus Christ work : and can there be a greater glory communicated unto any creature , then to bee tooke into association with God , in a service that is for his highest glory ? This Lesson is of excellent use , especially to two sorts of men , that are or may be publikely instrumentall in it , I mean Magistrates and Ministers , I am called at the present to speak onely to the first , therefore I 'le say nothing of the latter , but for you Honourable and beloved , that are the Patriots of the Kingdome , is it not in your heart , to do all the good that is possible to poor England ? I dare say you are deeply affected with the distresses of it , and would not count your lives deare , so you might but promote the good of it ; shall I tell you what that thing is , which above all things in the world , will be advantagious to England , and glorious to your selves , lay the cause of the Kingdome of Heaven to your hearts , more then ever you have done , endeavour to be instrumentall to make Religion thrive and prosper , that the Kingdome of Heaven may suffer violence under your service ; so shall your names bee ingraven with the name of God , and numbred among the Saviours of this Land : Let me speak freely to you , you have contended long and vehemently for rescuing the Kingdome of England from the bondage and pressures that it lay under , and that England might be a free people , herein you have wrought in the fire , and because the cure hath been hard & costly woe and alas ( I must speak it ) the Patients are weary of it , and could rather wish to bee under their old Soares , then under such Physitians , and are ready to say with the murmuring Israelites , Let us make us a Captain and return againe unto Egypt , would be againe at their flesh pots and onyons though under bondage : your selves doe know how much ingratitude is shewed , and all because there is not that event and successe that hath been hoped for , but would the Lord make you instrumentall to advance the Kingdome of Heaven really , there should never bee found one among those that should partake the benefit of it , that would be weary of you , but would for ever blesse the Lord for you .


id: A58817
author: Scott, John, 1639-1695.
date: 1686.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 7467
sentence: 243
flesch: 62
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title:
  A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and citizens of London at the church of St. Mary le Bow, September the second, 1686 : being the anniversary fast for the dreadful fire in the year 1666 / by John Scott ...

summary:
  So that though those Evils which God inflicts upon us , are not always intended for Punishments of our Sin , but sometimes for Preservatives against it : yet in this case as well as the other , 't is Sin that is the cause of it ; 't is this that makes the evil necessary , and obliges God in mercy to inflict it upon us . But now , while the Judgments of God are upon men , they feel the dire effects of their Sin ; and therefore if notwithstanding this , they still persist in it , they sin against their Sense , as well as their Reason : which is , in effect , a plain defiance of God , and a daring him to do his worst with us .


id: A90290
author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
date: 1652.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 15034
sentence: 435
flesch: 63
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txt: txt/A90290.txt
title:
  A sermon preached to the Parliament, Octob. 13. 1652. A day of solemne humiliation. Concerning the kingdome of Christ, and the power of the civile magistrate about the things of the worship of God. / By John Owen.

summary:
  This I say is the frame and temper he describes himselfe to be in : a man under sad Apprehensions of the Issues and events of things , and the dispensations of God , as many are at this day : and upon that account closly , and neerly perplexed . Gen. 10. 10. & when the great Shepheard sets up his Kingdome , the beginning of it shall be Syon : so farther it is at large expressed , Mich. 5. 7 , 8. Nothing is more cleare to any , who , being not carryed away with weake , carnall apprehensions of things present , have once seriously weighed the promises of God to this purpose : what the Lord Christ will doe with them , and by them , is not so cleare , this is certain , that their returne shall be marvelous , glorious , as life from the dead .


id: A89586
author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
date: 1643.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15799
sentence: 414
flesch: 60
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title:
  The song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lambe: opened in a sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons, at their late solemne day of thanksgiving, Iune 15. 1643. for the discovery of a dangerous, desperate, and bloudy designe, tending to the utter subversion of the Parliament, and of the famous city of London. / By Stephen Marshall, B.D. and Pastor of Finchingfield in Essex. Published by order of that House.

summary:
  First , The behaviour of the true Church of Christ , during this time of the pouring out of the vialls , ver. 2 , 3 , 4. Secondly , The description of the seven Angels , the instruments who were to pour out these vialls , their apparatus , qualifications , and furniture , they come out of the temple , clothed in pure and white linnen , and having their breasts girded with golden girdles ; Habitu & cluctu sacerdotali ornati , like the Priests of God , Ezek. As first , that all which is done in the pouring out of the seven vialls , is the wrath of God upon the Antichristian faction ; so that however in the pouring out of every viall there is something which is grievous to the reformed Churches , to humble , purge , and quicken them , yet there is no wrath upon anywhere ever it is poured , but onely as there is something of Antichrist among them , which Christ will search for , find , and destroy , where-ever he finds it : Consider the whole work of the vialls , and you shall finde noysome and grievous sores upon them onely that have the mark of the Beast , the drinking of bloud , the scorching with heat , the gnawing of their tongues for paine , the being destroyed with hailstones , &c.


id: A62605
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8748
sentence: 260
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A62605.xml
txt: txt/A62605.txt
title:
  A sermon preached at St Mary le Bow before the Lord Mayor, Court of Aldermen, & citizens of London, on Wednesday the 18th of June, a day appointed by Their Majesties, for a solemn monthly fast by John Tillotson ...

summary:
  Let us therefore consider a little the astonishing patience of God towards that perverse People . And here in the Text , after God had threaten'd destruction to Jerusalem , because of the over-flowing of all manner of wickedness and oppression in the midst of her , he gives her a merciful warning to prevent this ruine and desolation by repentance , vers .


id: B01848
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1725
sentence: 110
flesch: 78
cache: cache/B01848.xml
txt: txt/B01848.txt
title:
  The declaration of almighty God, in some few texts of scripture, recommended to the reverend conforming divines: / by G.B. B. of S----b---y ... being the publick fast appointed to implore God's assistance for the reduction of Ireland, and the overthrow of the late King James, and his rebellious forces.

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).


id: A43819
author: Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.
date: 1644.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 16910
sentence: 722
flesch: 74
cache: cache/A43819.xml
txt: txt/A43819.txt
title:
  The season for Englands selfe-reflection and advancing temple-vvork discovered in a sermon preached to the two Houses of Parliament at Margarets Westminster, Aug. 13, 1644, being an extraordinary day of humiliation / by Thomas Hill ...

summary:
  As it was in Judah , in H●zekiahs dayes , The hand of God was upon them to give them one he● , 2 Chron. 30. 12. Who would not then , night and day lift up their hearts and hands , making use of their interest in the Lord of Hosts , in the behalfe of his conflicting people ? How did Jacob overcome inraged Esau , but by overcomming with his Prayers , the Great God of heaven , who hath a Throne in all mens spirits ? God was pleased , as appeares in Gen. 32. 24. to con●iescend to wrastle with Jacob , both for his instruction , and his consolation , hee would teach him hereby that hee must be content to bee a wrastler , and that therein hee should bee victorious .


id: A52049
author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
date: 1642.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17964
sentence: 607
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A52049.xml
txt: txt/A52049.txt
title:
  Reformation and desolation, or, A sermon tending to the discovery of the symptomes of a people to whom God will by no meanes be reconciled preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, Decemb. 22, 1641 / by Stephen Marshall ...

summary:
  Now what more effectuall motive , what Furies whip would more restraine from the practise of sin , or more drive to seek a shelter under the wing of Christ , and to get into the safe condition of the servants of God , than the beholding of this devouring fire , these everlasting burnings , which sinfull men will never be able to abide ? I know such is the depravation of mans nature , that if there were any possibility of avoiding Gods wrath without leaving their sinnes , many men would resolve with that wicked Cardinall not to leave their part in Paris , for their part in Paradise : And with that noble man ( which Luther speaks of ) who professed , that if this life of going from whore-house to whore-house might last ever , hee would not envie any mans going to heaven . As it stands in relation to the former description made of Iosiah , and the high praises which God there bestowes upon him , I thence observe , That when God raises up any excellent instruments to appear in his cause , they are most graciously accepted with him , though their endeavours should come to nothing : There shall be glory and honour , and immortality , and eternall life to themselves , though there be indignation , and wrath , tribulation , anguish and woe , upon the people whom they would willingly doe good unto .


id: A31933
author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.
date: 1642.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 18178
sentence: 924
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A31933.xml
txt: txt/A31933.txt
title:
  Englands looking-glasse presented in a sermon preached before the Honorable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, December 22, 1641 / by Edmund Calamy ...

summary:
  1. That God hath an absolute power over all Kingdoms and Nations , to pluck them up , pull them down , and destroy them as he pleaseth . 2. That though God hath this absolute Prerogative over Kingdoms and Nations , yet he seldome useth this power , but first he gives warning .


id: A93880
author: Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.
date: 1648.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19288
sentence: 1103
flesch: 84
cache: cache/A93880.xml
txt: txt/A93880.txt
title:
  The teachings of Christ in the soule. Opened in a sermon before the Right Honble House of Peers, in Covent-garden-Church, upon the solemne day of their monthly fast, March 29. 1648. / By Peter Sterry, M.A. sometimes fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge: and now preacher of the Gospel in London. Published by order of that House.

summary:
  If any one among us would take an impartiall account of those Principles , which his head hath taken in , or those paths , in which his feet have trod ; and would set , as sheepe at his right hand , those , which he hath had commended to him by the life of Christ bringing them forth from his Word in his Spirit , and confirmed to him by the cleere light of Christ shining in them upon his soule : and then set as Goats on his left hand , those , which have manifestly , or insensibly prevailed with him , because they have the Inscription of Man's power , or Image of Man's Glory upon them : how few would the Sheep be with the most of us in comparison of our Goats ? But hath God the Father sealed any man with the Brightnesse of his owne Glory , to be an Author of Truth to us ; as he hath done Jesus Christ ? Him hath the Father Sealed , John 6. 27. There is then no testimony , on which we can build our Religion , our Beliefe in Divine things ; save onely that Testimony of that most high Spirit , which is God , and Christ shining in our Spirits .


id: A45558
author: Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.
date: 1658.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 18293
sentence: 770
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A45558.xml
txt: txt/A45558.txt
title:
  The olive-branch presented to the native citizens of London in a sermon preached at S. Paul's Church, May 27, being the day of their yearly feast / by Nath. Hardy ...

summary:
  1. Peace is honest , as being that which results from the dictates of the divine law and right reason ; Peace is the daughter of truth , the effect of righteousness , and the fruit of the Spirit ; indeed this is not true of all kind of peace , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , saith the Greek Father , There is as a commendable dissention , so an execrable union ; such was that of Herod and Pilat against Christ ; such are all combinations for the opposing of good , or the accomplishing evil : but otherwise a friendly agreement with one another in all things that are not absolutely sinfull , is that which is most just and honest . 2. This peace with men is either extera or civilis , without or within , with forraign countries or domestick Citizens : the former is that which is called rest round about , which God gave the Jews from the Heathens invasion ; the later which her is desired , is peace within Jerusalem , that which is called civil peace , and is according to S. Austin , Ordinata imperando & obediendo concordia civium , an orderly concord among the citizens by commanding and obeying : Civitas , saith one , is quasi civium unitas , a city is a peaceable cohabitation of Citizens ; it is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , saith Aristotle , a communion with one another in regular living ; so that without peace and order , it is not populus but turba , a civil society , but a giddy multi ude .


id: A89500
author: Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.
date: 1647.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19012
sentence: 539
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A89500.xml
txt: txt/A89500.txt
title:
  Meate out of the eater, or, Hopes of unity in and by divided and distracted times. Discovered in a sermon preached before the Honourable house of Commons at Margarets Westminster on their solemne day of fast, June 30. 1647. / By Tho: Manton Minister of Stoke-Newington.

summary:
  But ( I thank God ) I am learning to passe through a good report and evil report , and to disvalue censure , when it seizeth upon me in the way of duty , I have dealt freely and impartially against the miscarriages of both parties , & happily my liberty may displease some , others may look upon the things offered here as too low and trivial , & not weighty enough to reach the end of the design ; let them remember , the intent of these proposalls is only to ingage to a further consultation about the matter , the entire discourse were fitter for a Treatise then a Sermon ; and yet something is offered , which by the blessing of God may be serviceable to reduce men from their violences & extremities to some better temper and moderation . I know that as 't is hard to be moderate without danger , so also without sin , men of middle interests do alwayes displeasemen , and they should be carefull they do not displease God , there are many counterfeits of Christian moderation , a cold or at best a tepid indifferency ; lukewarm Christians may easily middle it ; Carnally-wise neutrality , it 's no wonder to see men that observe the times , neither hot nor cold .


id: A64567
author: Thomas, William, 1613-1689.
date: 1678.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9208
sentence: 439
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A64567.xml
txt: txt/A64567.txt
title:
  A sermon preached before the Right Honourable, the Lords assembled in Parliament, in the abbey church of St. Peters, Westminster upon the fast-day appointed April 10, 1678 by William, Lord Bishop of St. Davids.

summary:
  5. I tell you , Nay ; but except ye repent , ye shall all likewise perish . OUr blessed Saviour having , in the close of the former Chapter , treated of the disconsolate close of life , of the dismal state of Man dying unreconciled to God , in security , impenitency ; ( it being a symptom of the most irrecoverable misery , not to commiserate ones self ; to be upon the brink of the greatest peril , and not to dread the least . ) Some Passengers that accidentally intervened , boulted out the fresh Tragical Intelligence of the destruction of the Galileans . It is more credibly and generally asserted , that some of Christs set Auditors here , took the hint , and mentioned the Galileans , whose blood Pilate had mingled with their Sacrifices ; as if a singular impiety had rendred them liable to this singular cruelty ; as if God had cull'd them out for vessels of his indignation to be poured into ; as if he had set them for Brands of an unparallel'd unremitted guilt .


id: A86360
author: Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.
date: 1642.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 18551
sentence: 927
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A86360.xml
txt: txt/A86360.txt
title:
  The trade of truth advanced. In a sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons, at their solemne fast, Iuly 27. 1642. By Thomas Hill, B.D. Pastor of the Church at Tychmersh in the countie of Northampton. Published by order of that House.

summary:
  Not a pillar to uphold , but to hold forth Truth , not so much {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , the seate of Truth ; every pure Church being a depository of Truth , where it is to be found , as the candle in the Candlesticke . First , That you will not sell Truth out of carnall feares ; you have a good 〈…〉 it , Rev. 21. 7 , 8. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , he that is over-comming , not he that hath overcome , shall inherit all things , and I will be his God , and he shall be my sonne , But the fearefull and unbeleeving shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone .


id: A65297
author: Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.
date: 1654.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9644
sentence: 513
flesch: 83
cache: cache/A65297.xml
txt: txt/A65297.txt
title:
  Gods anatomy upon mans heart. Or, A sermon preached by order of the Honorable House of Commons, at Margarets Westminster, Decemb. 27. Being a day of publick humiliation By Thomas Watson, pastor of Stephens Walbrooke, London.

summary:
  It could not be that God was ignorant ; because there is mention made of a cry , but it is spoken {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , after the manner of a Judge ; who will first examine the cause before he wil pass the sentence . Thus , turne which way you will , fall in love with any sin ; still God looks upon you , He hath an eye in your heart , He is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} .


id: A64750
author: Vaughan, Henry, 1617 or 18-1661.
date: 1644.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13589
sentence: 633
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A64750.xml
txt: txt/A64750.txt
title:
  A sermon preached at the publiquf [sic] fast, March the eight in the afternoon, at St. Maries Oxford, before the members of the Honourable House of Commons there assembled by Henry Vaughan ... ; and printed by their order.

summary:
  17. that 〈◊〉 , saith the ●haldes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Messiahs righte●ousn●sse . A Ship hastening towards Heaven was an excellent Emblem of a Christian , who must not lye hulling in the harbour of some 〈◊〉 sinne fixed upon an Anchor of security , but in St. Pauls expression ( drawne hence as 't is conceived ) must {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} be carried with full expansive saile to the 〈◊〉 where he would be .


id: A66099
author: Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707.
date: 1682.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8422
sentence: 228
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A66099.xml
txt: txt/A66099.txt
title:
  The fiery tryal no strange thing delivered in a sermon preached at Charlestown February 15, 1681, being a day of humiliation / by Samuel Willard teacher of a church in Boston in New-England.

summary:
  1. What is meant by fiery Tryals ? A. Tryals in propriety of speech , are such experiments as are made , for the finding out of the nature , qualities , and operation of things , when they are applied , in our speech , to rational agents , they then intend , either an Essay or Endeavour to draw , and by Arguments to perswade men to any thing which we have a design to make use of them in , and so they are called temptations , and in which sence mainly , the Devil is called the Tempter , because he useth all endeavours to insinuate into , and gain men to follow his suggestions : or else a proof which we are minded to make of the fidelity , sincerity , and constancy which is in a person , that we may know him the better , and so they are more peculiarly called Tryals : in this sence it is said , A wise man will try before he will trust ; thus God put Abrahams faith and obedience to the tryal , Gen. 22. beginning . A. We look upon such things to be strange , which are , 1. Things unusual , and with which we have no acquaintance : such things as rarely happen , as scarce come once in an age , are esteemed to be strange things : a man whom we never or seldome saw before , and with whom we have not taken up any familiarity or friendship , is usually counted and called a stranger : familiarity and strangeness are opposed each to other : so that then we count the fiery tryal a strange thing , when we look upon it as a thing unusual , a thing not wont to befal the people of God , a rare thing ; so the phrase is used , Luk.


id: A30235
author: Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.
date: 1643.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13319
sentence: 319
flesch: 56
cache: cache/A30235.xml
txt: txt/A30235.txt
title:
  The difficulty of and the encouragements to a reformation a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at the publick fast, Septem. 27, 1643 / by Mr. Anthony Burges ...

summary:
  All truth is sweet , even naturall truth ; therefore the Heathens in their Sacrifice to Minerva ( their Goddesse of Arts ) offered honey , crying out , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , truth is sweet ; but spirituall truths are sweeter then the honey and the honey comb ; And this is the truth , even that about Doctrine , Discipline , and the Worship of God , which the godly desire above all their outward advantages , And above all those works of Reformation you have in hand ; especially provide against the generall ignorance in people by a solide and serious Catachizing ; and against the prophanenesse of people by powerfull Discipline , that so the Sacraments may bee dispensed comfortably . I Will not begin my Sermon , as commonly Printers doe their Books with some flourish or gaudy pictures on the first leafe , but fall immediately upon that speciall matter which is contained in my Text , & that cannot be handled rightly , unlesse I take in the former words , The beginning of the Gospel of Iesus Christ the Sonne of God : for in the whole contexture of these words , you have a proposition to be confirmed , and the argument confirming it : I call it a proposition , and not a Title or preface , such as that is , the Revelation of Iohn , and in doing thus I borrow gold of the Egyptian , ( I mean ) fetch my interpretation from a Popish Commentator , who had much learning , and more malice ; and that this is more probable , consider the use of the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} .


id: A85371
author: Goode, William, b. 1599 or 1600.
date: 1647.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 14347
sentence: 723
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A85371.xml
txt: txt/A85371.txt
title:
  Jacob raised: or, The means of making a nation happy both in spiritual and temporal priviledges. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honorable House of Peeres in the Abby Church at Westminster, at the late solemne monthly fast, Decemb. 30. 1646. / By Willam [sic] Goode, B.D. and Pastor of Denton in Norfolk. Published by order of the House of Peeres.

summary:
  Fourthly , Improve your opportunities : God hath now made you so great , and brought your adversaries so low , as there is nothing to be done for the House of God but you may do it . 1. Let God arise , and let his enemies be scattered .


id: A90296
author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
date: 1646.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24364
sentence: 883
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A90296.xml
txt: txt/A90296.txt
title:
  A vision of vnchangeable free mercy, in sending the means of grace to undeserved sinners: wherein Gods uncontrollable eternall purpose, in sending, and continuing the gospel unto this nation, in the middest of oppositions and contingencies, is discovered: his distinguishing mercy, in this great work, exalted, asserted, against opposers, repiners: in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, April. 29. being the day of publike humiliation. Whereunto is annexed, a short defensative about church-government, (with a countrey essay for the practice of church-government there) toleration and petitions about these things. / By Iohn Owen, minister of the gospel at Coggeshall in Essex.

summary:
  If a man in those daies had gone about to perswade us , that all our pressures were good omens , that they all wrought together for our good , we could have been ready to cry with the woman , who when she had recount●d her griefs ●o the Physicians and he still replied , they were good signes , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , good signes have undone me , these good signes will be our ruin ; yet behold ( we hope ) the contrary . Now truly after my best search , and inquiry , into the first Churches and their constitution , framing an Idea and exemplar of them , this poor heap following , seems to me , as like one of them , as any thing that yet I have seen : nothing at all doubting , but that if a more skilfull hand had the limning of it , the proportions , features and lines , would be very exact , equall and paralell : yea , did not extream haste , now call it from me , so that I have no leisure , so much as to transcribe the first draught , I doubt not but , by Gods assistance , it might be so set forth , as not to be thought altogether undesirable ; if men would but a little lay aside beloved preconceptions : but the Printer staies for every line : only I must intreat every one that shall cast a candid eye , on this unwillingly exposed Embryo , and rude abortion , that he would assume in his minde , any particular Church mentioned in the Scripture , as of H●erusalem , Corinth , Ephesus , or the like , consider the way and state they were th●n , and some ages after , in respect of outward immunities and enjoyments , and tell me , whether any rationall man can suppose , that either there were in those places , sundry particular Churches , with their distinct peculiar officers , acting in most pastorall duties severally in them , as distinguished and divided into entire societies , but ruling them in respect of some particulars loyally in combination , considered as distinct bodies ; or else , that they were such single Congregations , as that all that power and authority which was in them , may seem fitly and conveniently to be entrusted , with a small handfull of men , combined under one single Pastour , with one , two , or perhaps no associated Elders .


id: A85505
author: Gower, Stanley.
date: 1644.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12055
sentence: 600
flesch: 81
cache: cache/A85505.xml
txt: txt/A85505.txt
title:
  Things now-a-doing: or, The chvrches travaile of the child of reformation now-a-bearing. In a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, at their solemne fast, Iuly 31. 1644. By Stanley Gower, sometimes Rector of Brompton-Brian in the County of Hereford, now Preacher of Gods Word at Martins Ludgate, London: and one of the Reverend Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the said House.

summary:
  Their project was by oppression to keepe them downe , the oppressours now are oppressed ; they would keepe off Parliaments , or breake them if they could not serve themselves of them ; there is now a standing Parliament to plague them , they would bring in first Rebels to helpe them , and imploy bloudy Papists , now three Kingdomes are in one Covenant , and their ships are broken at Ezi●●-G●ber ; the Lord hath every where said to them ; Associate your selves , and ye shall be broken in pieces : and give eare , O ye of farre Countries : gird your selves , and ye shall be broken in pieces : gird your selves , and ye shall be broken in pieces , Take counsell together , and it shall come to nought : speake the word , and it shall not stand . And this our Daniel , eminent with men , whose wisedome grew into a proverbe : — Thou art wiser then Daniel : ) powerfull for men , and greatly beloved of God , writes the history of the Iewish Church ( then the only people of God , and as yet beloved for their fathers sa●e ) in the six first Chapters , and their prophesie in the six latter Chapters , as some have made the distribution of this Booke : or ( as others , ) their troubles under the foure great Monarchies , to this twelfth Chapter ; and their deliverance under the fifth perpetuall Monarchy which the stone cut out without hands shall set up ( as Christ is called in this booke ) in this twelfth Chapter .


id: A86356
author: Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.
date: 1644.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 26493
sentence: 975
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A86356.xml
txt: txt/A86356.txt
title:
  The good old vvay, Gods vvay, to sovle-refreshing rest: discovered in a sermon preached to the Right Honorable the Lord Maior and court of aldermen of the citie of London, at their anniversary meeting on Wednesday in Easter weeke at Christ-Church, Apr. 24. 1644 being the day of the monethly publike fast. By Thomas Hill B.D. Pastor of Tychmersh in Northampton shire. Imprimatur, Charles Herle.

summary:
  We in England are now engaged in counsels of Reformation , that w●e may remove further from Babylon towards Jerusalem . In the second generall part , Judahs uncivill rejecting of Gods wholesome counse●l ; you may perceive the rebellious humour of self-will ( the worst of Tyrants ) working very strongly .


id: A85443
author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.
date: 1642.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17774
sentence: 638
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A85443.xml
txt: txt/A85443.txt
title:
  Zerubbabels encouragement to finish the temple. A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, at their late solemne fast, Apr. 27. 1642. By Tho. Goodwin, B.D. Published by order from that House.

summary:
  And thus in the New Testament , in the representation of the Church on earth as worshipping him , Rev. 4. 8 , 9 , and 10. verses : This Church hath a Throne in the midst of it , and God sits thereon , ver. 5 , 6 , 7. Yet neverthelesse , We ( sayes he ) made our prayer to God , and set a watch day and night ; they doubled their care and paines , and wrought both night and day , and did not put off their clothes , ver. 21.


id: A77856
author: Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.
date: 1641.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 28672
sentence: 1174
flesch: 74
cache: cache/A77856.xml
txt: txt/A77856.txt
title:
  The first sermon, preached to the Honourable House of Commons now assembled in Parliament at their publique fast. Novemb. 17. 1640. / By Cornelius Burges Doctor of Divinitie. Published by order of that House.

summary:
  To strike a Covenant , is not , in a private or publique prayer only , to goe to God and say , Lord I will be thine , I here enter into a Covenant with thee , be thou a witnesse of it , &c. but it is , to stand and make it publiquely before the Lord , by some speciall solemnitie that may witnesse it to all the world , as Iosiah * , Asa , and all the Godly ever did ; ( even as in ●n entring into bonds , or as in solemnizing of matrimony , men use to doe ) Whether by the Sacrament of the Lords Supper , by fasting , or by ought else , whereby they may become so firmely and arctly joyned to the Lord , that they may not only be no longer sui jurls , to depart away from the Living God ; but , not so much as to sit loose from God , or to stand in any terme● of indifferency , which might leave them at libertie to serve , or not to serve God in any dutie , how difficult , or dangerous soever . As they soone forgot his workes , so it was not long ere they forgot God their Saviour himselfe too ; and then no marvaile , if , at the next bo●t , they forgot his Covenant also , Psal. 106.


id: A87086
author: Hardwick, Humphrey, b. 1601 or 2.
date: 1644.0
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title:
  The difficvlty of sions deliverance and reformation: together with the activitie which her friends should manifest during the time that her cause is in agitation. Delivered in a sermon at Margarets Westminster, before the honourable House of Commons on Wednesday morning, the twenty-sixt day of Iune. 1644. / By Humphrey Hardwick, Minister of the Word at Hadam Magna in the County of Hertfard, and one of the Assembly of Divines.

summary:
  C●● I Appoint CHRISTOPHER MERIDITH to print my Sermon . HUMPHRHY HARDVVICK . If Israel talk of going out of Egypt to serve God better , Pharaoh will be stirre , himself and his instruments , to sink them into a deeper degree of bondage . That Pharaoh lives still in the Prince of darknesse , and when ever there 's any speech of weakning his Kingdom , by reducing a people from superstitions vanities , corrupt and polluted courses , he playes the Devill indeed , summons all the Furies musters his black Forces , sets on his Instruments quickens their activitie , sharpens their wi● , whets their inventions ,


id: A85529
author: Grant, John, d. 1653.
date: 1642.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 9293
sentence: 293
flesch: 64
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title:
  Gods deliverance of man by prayer. And mans thankefulnesse to God in prayses. In a sermon by reason of the lecturers absence in the Church of Saint Bartholmewes Exchange, on Ash-Wendesday [sic], at the generall fast, proposed. But at that time by a company of church intruders very rudely opposed. And now at this time, for the publike satisfaction of all men faithfully in print exposed. by I. G. D.D. Rector there.

summary:
  That prayer is a most important part of our Religious service to God ward , appeares in this most clearely , that the sacred booke of God under those appellations of prayer , and Invocation comprehendeth even the whole service of God : Let that among the rest be deepely weighed , and pondred in our hearts , Whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be saved , Acts 2. 21. Gods whole worship is contained under this one phrase , to call upon God , no duty of godlinesse is to him more acceptable , no sacrifice in better part taken , then is that : the calling on the name of the Lord is , the open profession of him without dantednesse , Gen. 4. 26. Where ever Abraham , the Father , and patterne of the faithfull , where ever he came , there erected he an Altar , and called upon the Name of the Lord , Gen. 12. 7 , 8. The house of prayer is the name of Gods house , and God gave it that name by his Prophet Isaiah , and our blessed Iesus ratifies it ; Preaching we have here , and Sacraments we have here ; but prayer gives it the denomination , as the major service of God , and both implying , and including all the rest , needs must we all if there bee any ingenuity of Christianity in us , needs must wee acknowledge prayer to bee a matter of the greatest consequence even upon this consideration deeply volved , and revolved in our hearts , that every soule to heaven-ward setled makes the recommendation of his spirit into the hands of God , his practice uncessant , as being in no hands late but his ; that of Davids is by frequency made his . Of prayers effectualnesse memorable are the examples we have in the booke of God , and recorded they are for our close imitation and encouragement to that weighty and most usefull duty .


id: A66124
author: Wake, William, 1657-1737.
date: 1699.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 8624
sentence: 386
flesch: 71
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title:
  The case of the exiled Vaudois and French Protestants stated, and their relief recommended to all good Christians, especially to those of the reformed religion in a sermon preach'd at St. James Westminster, April 5, 1699, being the day of the publick fast / by William Wake ...

summary:
  We are all Members of the same Common , Catholic , Church of Christ. Yet still that Church preserved its Liberty for near 1100 d. years after Christ ; and then by Artifice , and Faction , was either forced , or perswaded to part with it .


id: A88994
author: Maynard, John, 1600-1665.
date: 1646.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12003
sentence: 433
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A88994.xml
txt: txt/A88994.txt
title:
  A shadovv of the victory of Christ, represented to the Honourable House of Commons, in a sermon preached at Margarets Westminster on the day of the publick fast, Octob. 28. 1646. / By John Maynard, Minister of the Gospel at Mayfield in Sussex.

summary:
  Meditations on the Law , and on the wrath of God may be of great use to prepare the way of Christ : but it is the presence and power of Christ possessing the heart , which doth the work . If herein the Lord hath honoured You above many thousands of your brethren , it concerneth You much to imitate Joshua ▪ First , as he questioned the Son of God whom he knew not in that apparition at the first sight ; so ye knowing Christ to be that Captain of the Lords host , who will subdue all things to Himself , ought in an holy jealousie to search your own hearts , and to examine all your counsels and proceedings : Are we in these things for Christ , or for His adversaries , for Him or against Him ?


id: A59556
author: Sharp, John, 1645-1714.
date: 1679.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10067
sentence: 315
flesch: 63
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title:
  A sermon preached on the day of the public fast, April the 11th, 1679, at St. Margarets Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons by John Sharp ...

summary:
  If the prevailing of Atheism in a Land , and the contempt of God and Religion : If open Lewdness and Debauchery , and Immorality of all kinds : If the turning Religion into a mere piece of Formality , and outward profession : If Schisms and Divisions and Factions in a Church : And lastly , if our general Unthankfulness for and Unprofitableness under the means of Grace , and the many mercies and privileges that have been vouchsafed us . However I give it a particular consideration , because it is a thing that God has set a Mark upon , and has so far declared his displeasure against it , that he has determined it a just cause to Un-people or Un-Church a Nation .


id: A57979
author: Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.
date: 1644.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 29050
sentence: 1083
flesch: 75
cache: cache/A57979.xml
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title:
  A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 1644 by Samuel Rutherfurd.

summary:
  2. Consider the supreame absolute Soveraignty that hee hath over Heaven and Earth ; what created royalty is in the pieces of Clay , who carry diadems of clay on their heads , is eminently in him , Artaxerxes is but King of some Kings ; but God is absolutely the supreame Monarch , Superiour , Landlord and King of Kings , and of all Kings and Lord of Lords , Ahashuerosh sent his royall mandates through an hundred and If God be eternall and Lord of time , we must be carefull that wee say not as the people doth , Jer. 8. 20.


id: A86358
author: Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.
date: 1645.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15696
sentence: 769
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A86358.xml
txt: txt/A86358.txt
title:
  The right separation incouraged; in a sermon preached to the Right Honorable the House of Lords, in the Abbey-Church at Westminster, on Wednesday, Novem. 27. 1644. being the day of the monethly publick fast. By Thomas Hill, B.D. pastor of Tychmersh in Northamptonshire, and one of the members of the Assembly of Divines.

summary:
  This State were not in so much danger to bee broken by enemies , if wee did not give them advantage by breaches amongst our selves : And this makes our present Church differences the more sad , because many of them are amongst Brethren ; who are indeed going from Aegypt to Canaan , from Babylon to Hierusalem , but they forget their Relation to God and one another , and most unhappily fall out and quarrell in the way . It is noblenesse indeed to have an heroicall spirit for God : It is true high-mindednesse to bee heavenly minded , to have pure mindes .


id: A59878
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1691.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8155
sentence: 193
flesch: 53
cache: cache/A59878.xml
txt: txt/A59878.txt
title:
  A sermon preached at White-Hall, before the Queen, on the 17th of June, 1691 being the fast-day / by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  Now in proportion to God's dealing with the Jewish Church , we have reason to hope , That though a Church and Nation which professes the true Faith and Worship of Christ , may be severely punished for their other Sins , yet while they preserve themselves clean from Spiritual Fornication , from all Antichristian Idolatries , God will not Un-Church them , nor deliver them finally up into the Power of Idolatrous Oppressors : I am sure we of this Nation , ever since the Reformation of Religion among us , though God has made us smart severely for our other Sins , have yet always found a watchful Providence defending us from all Attempts , though contrived with Art and Skill , and backed with Power , to reduce us again under the Roman Yoke . But in my Text he recollects himself , confesses his Wickedness and Sin in giving the least entertainment to such unworthy Thoughts of God , as if he could forget his Promise and Covenant , which he had made to their Fathers Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob , This is my infirmity ; want of Faith and Trust in God's Promises : and to cure this Diffidence , to revive his dying Hopes , and to confirm his Faith in God , he calls to mind those glorious Deliverances which God had wrought for his Church , and his People Israel in former Ages : I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High ; those days when God did so visibly deliver Israel with his own right hand ; as it follows 14 , 15 Verses , Thou art the God that doest wonders ; thou hast declared thy strength among the people .


id: A90291
author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
date: 1650.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 16854
sentence: 592
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A90291.xml
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title:
  The stedfastness of promises, and the sinfulness of staggering: opened in a sermon preached at Margarets in Westminster before the Parliament Febr. 28. 1649. Being a day set apart for solemn humiliation throughout the nation. By John Owen minister of the Gospel.

summary:
  When God made Promises to Abraham , because he could swear by no greater , he sware by himself . Even this way also hath the Lord taken to confirm and establish his Truths and Promises , that all doubtings and staggerings may be excluded , he hath wrapped them all up in a Covenant , and brought himself into a faederal Ingagement , that upon every Occasion , and at every Temptation , we may draw out his Hand and Seal , and say to Satan and our own false hearts ; see here , behold God ingaged in Covenant , to make good the word , wherein he hath caused me to put my Trust : and this is his property , That he is a God keeping Covenant : So that having his Promise redoubled , and that confirmed by an Oath , all Sealed and made sure by an unchangeable Covenant , what can we require more , to assure us of the Truth of these things :


id: A85485
author: Gouge, William, 1578-1653.
date: 1645.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15021
sentence: 809
flesch: 76
cache: cache/A85485.xml
txt: txt/A85485.txt
title:
  The progresse of divine providence, set out in a sermon preached in the Abbey Church of Westminster before the house of Peers, on the 24th of September, 1645. being the day of their monethly fast. / By William Gouge, one of the members of the Assembly.

summary:
  3. God put off his best things to the last times , because in his unsearchable wisdom he ordained , that his Sonne should be sent into the world in the later age thereof ; that thereby he might be known to be the best of Gods gifts , and to excell all other gifts , that were before conferred upon the Church . Hereby therefore it i● intended , that we who live in these later times , and enjoy the better things which God hath provided for his Church , should more abound in knowledge , be more strengthened in faith , be more established in hope , be more enlarged in our hearts with a zeal of Gods glory , be more conformable in our lives to his holy will , be more charitable to such as stand in need , be more diligent and faithfull in imploying and improving our talent , more patient under crosses , more ready and forward to suffer for the name of Christ , and to seale up our holy profession , even with our blood , if we be called thereunto .


id: A77506
author: Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.
date: 1643.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10831
sentence: 519
flesch: 82
cache: cache/A77506.xml
txt: txt/A77506.txt
title:
  A parlie with the sword about a cessation, as it was delivered in a sermon at a publick fast in the church of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, Decemb. 28. 1642. / By Iohn Brinsley, minister of the Word, and pastour of an adjacent congregation. Published for common use.

summary:
  It is the Sword of the Lord ▪ O then , let us feare and tremble before this Sword ; knowing that it is no carnall way or means , w●●ther Power or Policie , that shall divert , or hinder this Sword from doing that execution , which God hath given it in charge . Hee is the chiefe of the wayes of God , ( the chiefest amongst the Bruit Creatures ) yet , Hee that made him can make his Sword approach unto him .


id: A44938
author: Hall, George, 1612?-1668.
date: 1666.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8241
sentence: 243
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A44938.xml
txt: txt/A44938.txt
title:
  A fast-sermon, preached to the Lords in the High-Court of Parliament assembled on the day of solemn humiliation for the continuing pestilence, Octob. 3, 1666 and by their order published by George, Lord Bishop of Chester.

summary:
  The Alternations of the success of VVar , have been every Ages Experiences ; Homer's — 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , and his — 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , was not more elegant than certain . And suppose the best , I cannot but sadly think , what a lost labour , what a damp we may put upon all those most hazardous and valiant Engagements of our Friends at Sea , if while they do their work to the heighth of our wishes and prayers , making themselves formidable to the flying Enemy , we being at such an unhappy distance from God by our unrepented wickedness , do seem to enter prohibitions in heaven against our enjoyment of our Successes , Alas ! what is it to prosper and prevail at Sea , where the Righteousness of our Cause ( in the hands of our just God to whom we appealed ) makes us Victors , Now you see the Text is proper , natural , and right to our purpose ; God make my sudden thoughts upon it as kindly operative upon all our hearts , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , healing , sound , wholsom words should be spoken by us at all times , but at such a time especially , that they may be medicinal and preservative to drive away , to keep off infection , to restore health to the daughter of Gods people , the cure is much in our selves , as the cause of the disease is altogether in us .


id: A89591
author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
date: 1646.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 14907
sentence: 351
flesch: 60
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title:
  A tvvo-edged svvord out of the mouth of babes, to execute vengeance upon the enemy and avenger. Presented in a sermon to the Right Honourable the House of Lords assembled in Parliament, in the Abbey-Church at Westminster, Octob. 28. 1646. the solemn day of their monthly fast. / By Stephen Marshall B.D. minister of Gods Word at Finchingfield in Essex.

summary:
  And it fully manifests , that the whole scope of this Psalme is to glorifie God for the singular dignity that God hath put upon Man above all other Creatures ; and this dignity or glory of man is exemplified in Two particulars . The other Branch is , That God hath chosen this creature Man to be his Viceroy , his Deputy , to rule and govern all the workes of his hands : God hath trusted him so farre , as to put all that hee hath made under Mans feet ; and having done these two things for him , made him his Champion to conquer his enemies , and the Master of his house for the governing of his friends ; what remaines more to bee done for him , this is to bee a little inferiour to God himselfe ; Lord , what is man , that thou art thus mindfull of him ? or the sonne of man , that thou shouldest thus visit him ?


id: A86310
author: Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.
date: 1646.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11764
sentence: 254
flesch: 52
cache: cache/A86310.xml
txt: txt/A86310.txt
title:
  Queen Esthers resolves: or, A princely pattern of heaven-born resolution, for all the lovers of God and their country: opened in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at the monethly fast, May 27, 1646. / By Richard Heyricke, Warden of Christs Colledge in Manchester in Lancashire, and one of the Assembly of Divines.

summary:
  After a short silence , one arose from his seat and said , Lord wilt thou destroy England , England for whom thou hast done so great things , amongst whom thou hast magnified thy Name , hast done Wonders , What Nation is there so great , who hath God so nigh unto them , as the Lord their God is , in all things they have called upon him for ? and what Nation is there so great , that have Statutes and judgements so righteous ? 2ly , From the circumstances which accompany it , they are Religious , Honest , and Seasonable ; the means proclaims her Piety to God , the circumstances her policy to man .


id: A66335
author: Wake, William, 1657-1737.
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8911
sentence: 348
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A66335.xml
txt: txt/A66335.txt
title:
  A sermon preach'd before the honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster June 5th. 1689 being the fast day appointed by the King and Queen's proclamation, to implore the blessing of Almighty God upon Their Majesties forces by sea and land, and success in the war, now declared, against the French King / by William Wake ...

summary:
  I will not dispute of what use some of these External Performances may be to assist our Repentance , and render our Sorrow for Sin the more solemn , and so in some Cases , as I have before observed , the more pleasing to God. Whatever be the Import of these Phrases ; whether by the mighty and terrible Host here spoken of , we are only to understand that swarm of a Locusts , and other Insects , that we are b before told were utterly to devour all the Fruits of the Land : Or whether under the Character of these , we shall c with most Interpreters , comprehend the numerous and mighty Armies of the Chaldaeans and Babylonians , which at divers times brought such Desolations , as we read of , upon the Jews : This is plain , that we have here the denunciation of some Judgment worthy of God , and great as the sins and incorrigibleness that occasion'd it .


id: A30417
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1680.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11918
sentence: 319
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A30417.xml
txt: txt/A30417.txt
title:
  A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the city of London, at Bow-Church, September 2, 1680 being the anniversary fast for the burning of London / by Gilbert Burnet.

summary:
  It would very ill become one that saw it not , to spend much Discourse about it to those that saw it , and as it is to be presumed , will never forget it , but will tell it to the succeeding Age ; as God commanded the Israelites to convey down to Posterity , the remembrance of the Captivity they had groaned under in Egypt , with the signal Deliverance out of it : for things of so extraordinary a nature ought never to be forgotten . These are things to which men must be long and well prepared , before they can think they believe them : for it may be justly made a Question , whether they do , or indeed can believe them ? This Religion must of necessity , for its own support , extinguish the Light of the Scriptures : in which , the part that came more immediately , than any other , from God himself , has not escaped their Expurgation : I mean , the ten Commandments ; of which , the Second , one of the fullest and most copious of them is left out of their Catechismes : because it must have cleansed the Churches of Images , and the many other Monuments of Idolatry , with which they had defiled it .


id: A71286
author: Walker, George, 1581?-1651.
date: 1645.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20634
sentence: 510
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A71286.xml
txt: txt/A71286.txt
title:
  A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne monethly fast Januarie 29th, 1644 wherein these foure necessary considerations are plainly proved and demonstrated out of the holy Scriptures, viz ... / by George Walker ...

summary:
  The Law which God gave to Noah and his sons , that whosoever sheds mans bloud , by man shall his bloud be shed , is also a proofe of this assertion ; besides many examples in Scripture . And first , in that here the Band of wicked Counsellours , unjust Iudges , corrupt Officers , and violent oppressors , and persecutors of Gods Church and people , is resembled to a Bramble , and is by the Spirit of God , which spake by David , called by the name of the Dog-bramble , which is the worst , and most hurtfull of all Briars and Thornes , which God layd as a curse upon the earth for mans sinne , Gen. 3.18 .


id: A86311
author: Hackluyt, John.
date: 1647.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2183
sentence: 81
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A86311.xml
txt: txt/A86311.txt
title:
  An alarm for London partly delivered in a sermon the last fast, neer by Bishopsgate in London. / By Iohn Hackluyt, a well-wisher to the peace of Englands Israel.

summary:
  and because thy wantonnesse is so exceeding great , as to act thy shame in publike , with such brazen impudency ; instead of sweet savour , there shall be a stinck , and instead of a girdle , a rent ; instead of dressing ( frizlig podering ) the hare baldnes instead of a stomack , sackcloth , & burning instead of beauty ; yea thy men shall fall by the sword , and thy strength in the battel ; then shall thy gates mourne , and thou being desolate shall sit upon the ground . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A86311 of text R201717 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E399_15).


id: A59562
author: Sharp, John, 1645-1714.
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9462
sentence: 348
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A59562.xml
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title:
  A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at St. Margaret's Westminster, on Wednesday the 21th of May, 1690, being the day of the monthly-fast by John Sharpe ...

summary:
  First , That God is seriously concerned for the good and happiness of Nations and Kingdoms , as well as that of particular Persons ; and more especially of those Nations that profess his true Religion . Secondly , That the Happiness and Prosperity of Nations is to be attained the same way that any particular Man's happiness is , that is to say , by fearing God and keeping his Commandments .


id: A88993
author: Maynard, John, 1600-1665.
date: 1645.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17689
sentence: 608
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A88993.xml
txt: txt/A88993.txt
title:
  A sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons, at their late solemne fast, Wednesday, Feb. 26. 1644. / By John Maynard, minister of the Word of God at Mayfield in Sussex, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.

summary:
  Secondly , There is Veritas scientiae , or veritas in cognoscendo , Truth of knowledge , and that in the creature is twofold , 1. Speculative , which is a conformity of the understanding to the nature of things , when the understanding of man so judgeth of things as they are , and the notions or conceptions of his minde are the very images of those things , this Conformity of his understanding to the nature of things apprehended by him , is truth . 2. Then yee must buy truth though it cost yee never so much of your treasures , either to procure the meanes , or to maintaine the cause , or to retaine the profession and practice of Truth .


id: A86730
author: Hall, Henry, B.D.
date: 1644.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 35904
sentence: 1016
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A86730.xml
txt: txt/A86730.txt
title:
  Heaven ravished: or A glorious prize, atchieved by an heroicall enterprize: as it was lately presented in a sermon to the honourable House of Commons, at their solemn fast, May 29. 1644. By Henry Hall, B.D. late fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge. Printed by order of the said House.

summary:
  2. It s yet more to be lamented , that we are clogged and cumbred with others , who in stead of promoting and carrying on , do indeed retard and set back the proceedings of the Gospell and Kingdom of Christ {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , as the saying of Byas was , their very help is a disadvantage and an hinderance , rather , there be no small numbers imployed in the Service of the house of God , whom a man would disdaine to set with the dogs of his flock , as Job hath it , Chap. 30.1 . If a man be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as the Philosopher spake , a Citizen and inhabitant of this world , his desires grovell on the earth , he pants after riches , honours , pleasures , relisheth nothing else ; but now on the other side , if a man be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , a Citizen and inhabitant of another world , then the currant and full streame of his desires is still rising and working up towards heaven , He will pant after God , as the chased Hart doth for the water brookes , Psal. 42. And thirst for him as the dry and parched ground doth for showres of raine , Psal 63 1.


id: A31927
author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.
date: 1652.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21383
sentence: 945
flesch: 76
cache: cache/A31927.xml
txt: txt/A31927.txt
title:
  Englands antidote against the plague of civill warre presented in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons on their late extraordinary solemn fast, October 22, 1644 / by Edmund Calamy ...

summary:
  THe subject matter presented unto you in this Sermon , is Repentance : A Theam that concerns you not only as you are Parliament men , betrusted by the people with the happinesse of the Kingdom , but as you are Gentlemen betrusted by God with immortall souls . AMong all the Texts that are in the Bible , there is no one Text more suteable to these times , then this that I have read unto you ; But now God commands all men every where to repent : God hath been preaching repentance to England by the Ministry of his word almost these hundred years ; but England hath turned a deaf ear to Gods preaching , and God is now preaching repentance , not only by his Word , but by the sword ; ( for the sword hath a voice as well as the word , Mic. 6. 9.


id: A41043
author: Fell, John, 1625-1686.
date: 1680.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7803
sentence: 230
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A41043.xml
txt: txt/A41043.txt
title:
  A sermon preached before the House of Peers on December 22 1680 being the day of solemn humiliation / by the Right Reverend Father in God John, Lord Bishop of Oxford.

summary:
  God in the frame of man so built him for society , that no depravation of his nature or his manners , can blot out the impression . Nay more , it obtains in all Societies of men , for it is added ; that every City or House divided against it self shall not stand .


id: A89580
author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
date: 1641.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 16278
sentence: 632
flesch: 77
cache: cache/A89580.xml
txt: txt/A89580.txt
title:
  A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, now assembled in Parliament, at their publike fast, November 17. 1640. Upon 2 Chron. 15. 2. The Lord is with you, while yee bee with him: and if yee seek him, he will be found of you: but if yee forsake him, he will forsake you. / By Stephen Marshall, Batchelour in Divinity, minister of Finchingfield in Essex. Published by order of the said House.

summary:
  A worke wherein not onely all mans happinesse lyes , and whence it flowes ; but wherein all Gods Attributes are glorified to the highest ; and for which the Church Triumphant shall thinke Eternity short enough to prayse God . Now this is the greatest happinesse , nothing can exceed it : It hath bin often questioned , what was the greatest favour that ever Almighty God did for man ? Some preferre Creation wherein man received his being , and excellent endowments : some Redemption , wherein man is recovered to a better and surer estate than hee injoyed in Creation : but out of question to be a Iedediah , beloved of God , to be neare to God as his Children , as his Spouse , is the comprehension of all that can be said or thought of the happinesse of a people .


id: A61600
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1666.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11307
sentence: 321
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A61600.xml
txt: txt/A61600.txt
title:
  A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at St. Margarets Westminster, Octob. 10, 1666 being the fast-day appointed for the late dreadfull fire in the city of London / by Edward Stillingfleet ...

summary:
  For whatever arguments or reasons we can imagine , that should compose the minds of men to a sense of their own or others calamities , or excite them to an apprehension of the wrath of God as the cause of them , or quicken them to an earnest supplication to him for mercy , they do all eminently concurr in the sad occasion of this dayes solemnity . Till at last it may be in the Prophets expression for their covetousness , the stone cry out of the wall , and the beam out of the timber answer it ; i. e. provoke God to give a severe check to the exorbitant and boundless desires of men , as he hath done by this dayes calamity .


id: A87607
author: Johnson, Robert, d. 1670.
date: 1647.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19484
sentence: 810
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A87607.xml
txt: txt/A87607.txt
title:
  Lux & lex, or The light and the lavv of Jacobs house: held forth in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons at St Margarets Westminster March 31. 1647. being the day of publike humiliation. / By Robert Johnson, Eboraicus, one of the Assembly of Divines.

summary:
  in Synt. & in Dan 5. 4 , 5. Isa. 50. 4. Qui causam 〈◊〉 ipsum dam●●n d●●isse vid●●ur Io●●ph●● . de beno ●u●aic●o Gen 47. 2● , Pu●●herri ●us igitur his tex●s est ed nos non sequ●mur nec a ●●ittim●s in Germania , &c Phara b Rex aegypti conju●get in judicio prox i●o & contra priacipes & magistra●us Germanie , propterea quod ille suos sacerdo●es coluit alu●t & abstieu it a ho●is 〈…〉 ea ●u●●ssino contracta in su 19 ● . Peculium Abules in locu●● , as the .


id: A61475
author: Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.
date: 1645.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10976
sentence: 635
flesch: 83
cache: cache/A61475.xml
txt: txt/A61475.txt
title:
  The spirit convincing of sinne opened in a sermon before the Honorable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament upon the solemne day of their monethly fast, Novemb. 26, 1645 / by Peter Sterry ...

summary:
  David was a Statesman , Wiser then his Teachers : David was a Souldier ; His fingers were skil'd in fighting , his hands train'd up to Victory over Wild Beasts , Giants , Armies of Men . was not the Spirit the Lamp of God which shone thus gloriously on David's Court and Camp , which made his Throne so great ? Thy Word , saith he , was a Light to my Feet . For this also will serve my purpose ; which is , to set before you the Spirit of the Lord Jesus ; that Spirit , by which we know those things , which Reason cannot reach ; and live , not a as Men , ( {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ) but as b Partakers of the Divine Nature .


id: A64688
author: Ussher, James, 1581-1656.
date: 1642.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6176
sentence: 197
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A64688.xml
txt: txt/A64688.txt
title:
  Vox hibernæ, or, Rather the voyce of the Lord from Ireland a sermon preached in Saint Peters Church at Westminster before divers of the right honourable the lords of the upper House in the high court of Parliament : on the last publike fast day, being Wednesday the 22th of December 1641 : wherein the miserable estate of the kingdome of Ireland at this present is laid open and the people and kingdome of England earnestlie exhorted to turne to Almight God by true repentance least the same iudgements or worse fall upon us / by the laborious and reverend Doctor Iames Vsher ...

summary:
  Hee was guilty of murther , and adultery yet for all this hee saith , he was borne in sinne , and doe you not thinke he did it to extenuate his sin and iniquity , that he was borne in sinne , and concelved in it , as if a man should doe me harme , because it was naturall unto him , hee could not abide me , should not I thinke him the more wicked , so the sins against God are very haynous ; the root from whence this adulterie proceeded , and this murther came , it came from the corruption of his ill nature . If God will doe this for the first sinne , Death went over them that did not sinne after the similitude of the transgression of Adam .


id: A43126
author: Hayley, William, 1657-1715.
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6518
sentence: 147
flesch: 47
cache: cache/A43126.xml
txt: txt/A43126.txt
title:
  A sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons at St. Margarets Westminster, upon December the 11th, 1695 being the solemn day of fasting and humiliation for imploring the blessing of Almighty God upon the consultations of this present Parliament / by William Hayley.

summary:
  And therefore we find that it has been the constant Practice ; not only of the Churches of God , but even of the Heathens themselves , to use solemn Fasts upon extraordinary Applications to Heaven ; and that so Universally , that it may justly enough be reckoned a part of Worship , which the common Sense of Men , and Nature it self has prescribed . But it having pleased God , after some years Chastisement , to turn their Captivity , and to put it into the Heart of Cyrus , to grant , and of Darius to confirm , the Restauration of their Temple , a part of that unfortunate People were now resettled in Ierusalem and the Cities of Iudah .


id: A82859
author: England and Wales. Parliament.
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 716
sentence: 45
flesch: 67
cache: cache/A82859.xml
txt: txt/A82859.txt
title:
  It is this day ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, that all ministers in their severall churches on Wednesday next at the publike fast, and at all other times afterwards in their prayers before their sermons, shall earnestly and particularly pray for the special assistance and blessing of God upon the assembly of divines and others, appointed to meet at Westminster on Saterday[sic] the first day of July next to be consulted with by both houses of Parliament in matters concerning religion. And that this order be forthwith printed and sent to all parish churches. Jo. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82859 of text in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E62_2). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A82859) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 155354)


id: A45545
author: Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.
date: 1660.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9883
sentence: 322
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A45545.xml
txt: txt/A45545.txt
title:
  The choicest fruit of peace gathered from the tree of life presented to the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in a sermon preached before them at the Abbey church of Westminster, on April 30, 1660, being the day of their solemn humiliation / by Nath. Hardy ...

summary:
  If you cast your eyes backward in this Book , you shall finde God assuring tranquility to the Jews when returned to Jerusalem ; My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation , and in sure dwellings , and in quiet resting places ; and again a little after , Look upon Zion the City of our solemnity , thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation , a tabernacle that shall not be taken down , not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed , neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken ; And were not Peace a common theam , and had not the miseries of our late wars abundantly taught us , it were easie here to enlarge upon the excellency of this mercy , for every man to sit under his own Vine in quiet , and enjoy his rights with peace ; Our Prophet in the close of this verse sets it forth by the metaphor of health , and indeed what health is to the body , that is peace to a people , health is the peace and agreement of the humours in the body , and peace is the health and welfare of a Nation , and as it is health without which there can be no contentment in any outward advantages whatsoever , so it is the peaceable enjoyment of our possessions which renders them truly comfortable , and this was the mercy here promised , and not only so but 2. Peace and righteousnesse ; for so this Prophet assureth us , the work of righteousnesse shall be peace ; Righteousnesse I say , which giveth to every one those rights which are due to him by the laws of God and of the Realm ; and though a full reparation of all injuries is not to be expected , yet a restitution of every man to his just right ought to be endeavoured .


id: A48853
author: Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9024
sentence: 338
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A48853.xml
txt: txt/A48853.txt
title:
  A sermon preached before the King & Queen at White-Hall, March the twelfth, 1689/90, being the fast-day by the Bishop of St. Asaph, Lord Almoner to Their Majesties.

summary:
  They confest upon abundant Conviction , the great Patience and Long-suffering of God , before he brought things to the extremity : and they confess'd the Wickedness of their Nations , that run on in known Sins , till they even forc't God to these Extremities . On these , and all other Instances of this kind , I have only this to observe , ( it is in some of those Writers before mentioned ) That when their Nations saw themselves gone , when they were gone past recovery , when they saw things come to extremity , when they found themselves as it were in the Talons of their Enemies : then they could reflect upon what pass't before ; then they knew that heretofore they had Warnings ; they remembred they had such and such Warnings from God : then they called themselves Mad men , that would not take warning when it was given them .


id: A42766
author: Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.
date: 1644.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20662
sentence: 1127
flesch: 82
cache: cache/A42766.xml
txt: txt/A42766.txt
title:
  A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast Wednesday, March 27, 1644 by George Gillespie.

summary:
  There is a third application , which I intend for the Ministerie , who ought to goe before the people of God in the example of Repe●…tance and humiliation . Put since now by the blessing of God they are thus farre ad●…nced that they have found in the Word of God a pattern for Presbyreriall Government over many particular Congregations ; and have found also from the Word that Ordination is an Act belonging to such a Presbytery : I beseech you improve that , c whereto we have already att●… ; till other A ●…s of a Presbytery be agreed on afterward Your selves ●…know better then I doe that much d people is perishing because there is no Vision ; e the harvest is great and the Labourers are few .


id: A85979
author: Gibson, Samuel.
date: 1645.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12139
sentence: 441
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A85979.xml
txt: txt/A85979.txt
title:
  The ruine of the authors and fomentors of civill vvarres. As it was deliver'd in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons in Margarets-Church Westminster, Sept. 24. being the monethly fast day, set apart for publick humiliation. / By Sam: Gibson, pastor of Burleigh in Rutland; now minister of Gods Word at Margarets Westminster, pro tempore; and one of the Assembly of Divines.

summary:
  The other error touching free will , tendeth to lift up nature and the vain heart of man , as if it were in the power of men to repent , and beleeve , and speake and doe as they see good , pro libero arbitrie , whereas Paul may plant and Apollo water , but it is God that giveth the increase : this is the work of God , saith Christ , that yee beleeve ; the thought is the least part of the worke , and yet the Apostle saith , that wee are not sufficient of our selves to think ; and , God giveth both the well and the deed . And the King of Aegypt said , Come on , let us deale wisely with them , lest they multiply , but the more they afflicted them , the more they multiplied and grew ; and that Daniels enemies plotted against him , proved against themselves , and for him ; and no marvell , for the wisdome of God is infinitely beyond the wit of man , and it is for his glory , to defeat the counsell of the wisest of men , and to establish his owne : and the rather , because though they have nothing but what they have received from him , and that they have is little in comparison of that which he hath , and they have not , yet cōmonly they are proud of that little , and trust to it ; specially if they prosper , they are puffed up , and assume to themselves the glory that properly belongeth to God , and they seek themselves , and not him , and many times worke against God and his servants and people , and therefore they are infatuated and confounded by the hand of Heaven . Which first may serve for admonition to all that are destitute of the feare of God , and yet are wise in their own eyes , and superciliously disdain others ; Let not the wise man glory in his wisdome ; and let him that thinketh he standeth , take heed lest he fall .


id: A40093
author: Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11074
sentence: 338
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A40093.xml
txt: txt/A40093.txt
title:
  A sermon preached at Bow-Church, April the Xvith. 1690 before the Lord Maior, and Court of Aldermen, and citizens of London, being the fast-day by Edward Fowler.

summary:
  I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger , I will not return to destroy Ephraim ; or I will not do it yet ; for I am God and not man ( my Compassion is inconceivably beyond what a Mortal man is capable of ) the Holy one in the midst of thee ; and I will not Enter into the City ; or into the Head City Samaria ; I will not Enter into it in an Hostile manner , to make a ruinous Heap of it . Were it not that I feared the Wrath of the Enemy : This is one of those many Examples we find in Scripture , of God's speaking to Men after the manner of Men.


id: A89585
author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
date: 1648.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 14961
sentence: 314
flesch: 56
cache: cache/A89585.xml
txt: txt/A89585.txt
title:
  The sinne of hardnesse of heart: the nature, danger, and remedy of it. Opened in a sermon, preached to the Honorable House of Commons, July 28. 1648. being the day of their solemne monethly fast. By Stephen Marshall, B.D. minister of Gods Word at Finchingfield in Essex. Published by order of that House.

summary:
  What by hardnesse , or hardning ; Hardning in the naturall signification of it , is nothing but the withdrawing of moysture form any substance , whereby the parts come to bee condensed and made stiffe , so as not to yeeld to the touch ; Durum est quod non cedit tactui , that that will not receive any impression that is hard : this in a naturall sense ; but in a morall and spirituall sense , to harden the heart is nothing but to have the will resolutely and unchangeably set upon any purpose , not to be taken off from their enterprise by any meanes that can bee used to change them , that is to harden the heart ; and in the Scripture it is sometimes taken in a good sense , a mans heart may be harden'd in a very gratious manner , so Ezekiels was , when the Lord told him , the house of Israel will not hearken to thee , for they are impudent and hard hearted , but ( saith God ) I have made thy face strong against their faces , and thy forehead strong against their foreheads , thou shalt bee as impudent as they , as an Adamant , harder then flint , &c. thou shalt bee as much hardned in good as they in evill , I have given thee that grace ; that shall make thee resolute as they : Paul was , when they came , and wept , and prayed him hee would not goe to Ierusalem , ( saith he ) you weep in vaine I 'le goe though I die for it ; his heart was hardned : and so Luther ; when his friends would have perswaded him not to have gone to Wormes ; to the disputation there , If all the tiles of the houses in Wormes were Devils , I would goe ; that is to have a heart harden'd in a good cause ; but ordinarily in the Scripture , to harden the heart , or to have hardnesse of heart , is ordinarily meant in an evill sense ; hardening in sin , hardning against God : and so my Text hath it plainely , they made their heart as an Adamant stone , that they might not heare the word that God had sent to them : their heart was resolutely , and unchangeably bent to goe on in their wayes , say or doe what God would , or could to the contrary ; that is the sin that is here mentioned ; now from hence I shall take up this Lesson ; and it is the onely Lesson , which I shall by the Lords assistance handle this day ; and in it take in both the sinne , and the judgement together . Madam , YOu have been long taught of God , and therefore are not ignorant that spirituall sicknesses differ many wayes from bodily , this one is notable , The more any spirituall disease increaseth , the lesse it 's felt , and the more any soule is sensible of it , the lesse power it hath over him ; This is found most true of the greatest of spirituall plagues , the sinne of hardnesse of heart , none more confident of the goodnesse of their heart , then the most obstinate and rebellious sinner , where as the most tender-hearted Christian complaines most of hardnesse , the spirit that is most flexible to God , most laments its obstinacy ;


id: A30433
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12335
sentence: 325
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A30433.xml
txt: txt/A30433.txt
title:
  A sermon preached at Bow-Church, before the court of aldermen, on March 12, 1689/90 being the fast-day appointed by Their Majesties / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  Great Zeal has appeared against the Idolatry of the Church of Rome , with a constancy in the Matters of Religion , that has amazed all the World : the steps made towards that , alarmed the Nation , and this City in particular : and it appeared that you could not bear those who called themselves the Church of God , but that are the Synagogue of Satan . We cannot make any Reflections on our Condition with relation to God , without observing that he has been offended in a most eminent manner ; while Religion has been so visibly neglected by those who have pretended the most to it ; while not only Vices of all Sorts have abounded among us , and have been acted with so high a Hand , as if the Actors had equally despised the Judgments of God and the Reproaches of Men ; but what do I say , Reproaches !


id: A79477
author: Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.
date: 1643.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24939
sentence: 913
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A79477.xml
txt: txt/A79477.txt
title:
  Sions memento, and Gods alarum. In a sermon at VVestminster, before the Honorable House of Commons, on the 31. of May 1643. the solemne day of their monethly fast. By Francis Cheynell late Fellow of Merton College in Oxford. Printed and published by order of the House of Commons.

summary:
  ●t super ●…nes qu● in ●uti swit vestibus alients — ●…mplentes templu●● e●us impietate & dolo-induite Christum , induite viscera misericordia — pro mise●●cordi●●ndui●…ur ●…ta●e , pro v●●tutibus vit●u , ( i. ) pro Christo Anti-christo . Archbishop of C●●● .


id: A30438
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1691.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8529
sentence: 198
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A30438.xml
txt: txt/A30438.txt
title:
  A sermon preached at White-Hall before the King and Queen on the 29th of April, 1691, being the fast-day by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  And alas there is but too much reason to add , and the faithful faileth from among the children of men : and that the whole Charge of the Prophet belongs too truly to us , that there is no mercy , no truth , nor knowledge of God in the land , while every Man is ready to cheat and deceive his Neighbour , to flatter him with the Shews and Professions ; and perhaps the Oaths and Protestations of Kindness ; while in his Heart he hates him , and endeavours to undermine him ; while Calumny and Slander are the most common Heads of Discourses ; while no trust can be given to what is said , and almost as little regard to what is sworn ; while it is one of the Arts of Conversation to affirm things which are known to be false , and to promise things which are not intended to be observed ; while all these things are so common among us , Where is that Truth in the inward Parts which God loves ? Where is the Probity and Fidelity that is practised among many Heathen Nations , with so Religious a Simplicity , that the very Name of Christianity is blasphemed among them ? But the poor , while thus oppressed , sighed and cried to God , who as David believed , would at last arise , and set them at safety from 〈◊〉 that puffed at them ; and in conclusion , he was neither terrified with the strength of his Enemies , nor with the weakness of his own Party ; he trusted to the Promises of God , which he knew had not that allay of dross , that was in the words of men ; they were pure words , free from all mixture , exactly true ; ●●ke Silver after it has passed through the severest refinings ; and therefore since God had promised to ●aise him up to reign over his People , he was confident this would be performed ; and sure the Promise was made to him , and to his Posterity ; he was persuaded he should not only be preserved from that generation of his enemies , but that his Posterity should be preserved for ever .


id: A88149
author: Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
date: 1647.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 14294
sentence: 405
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A88149.xml
txt: txt/A88149.txt
title:
  A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons: at their publique fast, holden in Margarets Westminster. Febr. 24. 1646./47. / By John Lightfoot, Staffordiens. a Member of the Assembly of Divines.

summary:
  Secondly , propose this question to every one of your hearts ; heart what wilt thou do ? or , Heart what dost think wil become of thee and me ? It is not every speaking in the heart that the Psalmist here ingageth to ; For the Foole speaks in heart , and saith in his heart , there is no God , Psalme 14. 1.


id: A34527
author: Corbet, Edward, d. 1658.
date: 1642.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13303
sentence: 572
flesch: 74
cache: cache/A34527.xml
txt: txt/A34527.txt
title:
  Gods providence, a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, Decemb. 28, 1642, in S. Margarets Church at Westminster by Ed. Corbett ...

summary:
  And that which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God , Luke 16.15 How doth the face and outward splendor of the Romish Church prevai●e with carnall minds ? How many owe their Religion more to education then to the Scripture● , and are rather born in good opinions then chuse them ? veritas & veritas was never out of the mouth of the Manichees , when they spak those things which were most false ▪ and their many and great books were full of the Name of Truth when their hearts were emptie of the Nature . In vita Anse●mi : Modò veritatis antiti●●ta & ve●● Religionis corona jam sentina & confluges omnium haeresium .


id: A61609
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1678.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 14423
sentence: 473
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A61609.xml
txt: txt/A61609.txt
title:
  A sermon preached on the fast-day, November 13, 1678, at St. Margarets Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons by Edward Stillingfleet ...

summary:
  For since mankinds entring into society is both necessary and advantageous to them ; and God doth not barely permit and approve , but dispose and incline men to it ; and hath given them Laws to govern themselves by , with respect to society ; it is but reasonable to suppose that God should call men to an account in that capacity ; and to distribute rewards and punishments according to the nature of their actions : which must either be done in this world , or it cannot be done at all ; for all those bonds are dissolved by death , and men shall not answer for their sins by Kingdoms and Nations in another world , but every man shall give account of himself unto God. When men daily and insolently break the Laws of God , and bid as it were defiance both to them and to the Laws of men ; when wickedness spreads like a leprosie , and infects the whole body ; when vices become so notorious that they are a reproach and a by-word to Neighbour Nations ; these are the signs and tokens of National guilt .


id: A79475
author: Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.
date: 1646.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22583
sentence: 726
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A79475.xml
txt: txt/A79475.txt
title:
  A plot for the good of posterity. Communicated in a sermon to the Honorable House of Commons for the sanctifying of the monthly fast. March 25. 1646. / By Francis Cheynell.

summary:
  Poeniend●s peccatis tres esse debere causas ●aist : matumest , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , cùm dignitas au●●ori●● asque , ejus in quem est peccatum tuenda est . Secondly , If you looke upon the matter of the Text : it is in one word , Abrahams Testimoniall subscribed by God himselfe ; a Divine Testimoni●ll indeed , which did not onely certifie what Abraham was for the present , but what he should be for the future : This is the Testimoniall of a God .


id: A61470
author: Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.
date: 1648.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 16958
sentence: 965
flesch: 83
cache: cache/A61470.xml
txt: txt/A61470.txt
title:
  The clouds in which Christ comes opened in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament, upon the solemne day of their monthly fast, Octob. 27, 1647 / by Peter Sterry ...

summary:
  1. That God gave to Christ the Revelation of Things by a Light of Glory , in His own Person ; to this end , that He might shew to His Servants , what will quickly Be . Christ at his First Comming was a God in the forme of an Earthly Man , of a Worme , the Lowest of Men : at his Second Comming He is a Man , a Worme , the lowest of Men in the Forme of God .


id: A78979
author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.
date: 1645.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19904
sentence: 1005
flesch: 77
cache: cache/A78979.xml
txt: txt/A78979.txt
title:
  An indictment against England because of her selfe-murdering divisions: together vvith an exhortation to an England-preserving vnity and concord. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords in the Abby church at Westminster; at the late solemne fast, December 25. 1644. By Edmund Calamy, B.D. and pastour of Aldermanbury in London.

summary:
  Secondly , Divisions open a doore to let in a foraine enemie : and it is a free and miraculous mercy that God hath kept out the French , and the Spaniard , and the Danes from invading England in these times of our divisions . As God caused the Midianites to destroy one another : so these Divisions set a Kingdome against it selfe ; they set a man against himselfe ; a Citie against it selfe , to destroy it selfe , : In a word , that I may expresse all misery in one phrase : Divisions bring in Civill warres , which of all warres are most uncivill .


id: A91855
author: Roberts, Francis, 1609-1675.
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mime: application/xml
words: 19876
sentence: 1052
flesch: 76
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title:
  A broken spirit, God's sacrifices. Or, The gratefulnesse of a broken spirit unto God. Represented in a sermon, before the right Honourable House of Peeres, in K. Henry the Seventh's chappell in the Abbey Westminster, upon Wednesday Decemb. 9. 1646. Being a day of publike humiliation for removing of the great judgment of rain and waters then upon the kingdome, &c. / By Fran. Roberts M. A. Minister of Christ, at Austins, London.

summary:
  Mocking and mi●-using the messengers of God , and despising Gods word by them , 2 Chro. Petition for himself who by Murder and Adultery had off●…ed , Verse 1. to 18. And Supplication for the Church of God , which by his fal might be scandalized and endangered , V●●se 18 , 19.


id: A52043
author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
date: 1641.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17612
sentence: 643
flesch: 75
cache: cache/A52043.xml
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title:
  Meroz cursed, or, A sermon preached to the honourable House of Commons, at their late solemn fast, Febr. 23, 1641 by Stephen Marshall ...

summary:
  So theirs , Looke upon mee , and learne your owne duty , Looke upon me , and take heed of disserting the cause and Church of God , when they stand in neede of you . The Church is our Mother , and all the Saints are our Brethren , a Relation which all Lawes of God and man do fasten duty upon .


id: A55028
author: Palmer, Herbert, 1601-1647.
date: 1643.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 33194
sentence: 1481
flesch: 74
cache: cache/A55028.xml
txt: txt/A55028.txt
title:
  The necessity and encouragement, of utmost venturing for the churches help together with the sin, folly, and mischief of self-idolizing applyed by a representation of 1. some of the most notorious nationall sins endangering us, 2. the heavy weight of wrath manifested in our present calamities, yet withall, grounds of 3. confidence, that our church shall obtain deliverance in the issue, 4. hopes that the present Parliament shall be still imployed in the working of it : all set forth in a sermon, preached to the honorable House of Commons, on the day of the monethly solemn fast, 28. June, 1643 / by Herbert Palmer ...

summary:
  Let me then take them , and all others , at their own words in this , and judge them out of their own mouths ( God will be sure to doe so one day , ) that they have acknowledged our Land and Church to be not only a greatly endangered , but a deeply guilty people ; and so in both respects needing abundance of help , even the utmost that can possibly be afforded , by any , by all of us . God saw more evill in their wayes and heart , then man could , he saw upon the same principles urged by stronger temptations , they would have proved enemies , though now they were only Neuters , or false and hollow hearted , left handed friends : It is I say , but the same principle of wicked selfe-love , wrought upon by Satan , and men , with other opportunities that makes some men Neuters , and others desperate enemies , which God seeing ( though men doe not , or will not , or cannot , ) counts all such a generation of vipers and a brood of Serpents , and devotes them to destruction .


id: A52050
author: Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.
date: 1647.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17115
sentence: 366
flesch: 53
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txt: txt/A52050.txt
title:
  The right vnderstanding of the times opened in a sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons, December 30, 1646, at Margaret Westminster, being the day of their solemne monethly fast / by Stephen Marshall ...

summary:
  Fourthly , Severall times , I meane the severall compositions of times , or Scenes , or Junctures of times , have their severall and peculiar duties laid out for every man by God himselfe : my meaning is this , there is a time of youth , a time of age , a time of prosperitie , a time of adversitie , a time of comfort , a time of trouble ▪ a time of warre , a time of peace , and a hundred other severall frames , and compositions , and junctures of time . Secondly , God hath joyned time and dutie inseparably one to another ; so that there is no dutie , but it hath an appointed time for it , and there is no time , but it , hath an appointed dutie for it ; it 's disputable whether there bee a vacuum in nature or no , it is most certaine there is no vacuum in time : No man ever lives to see that minute of time , nor that ragge or cranny of time , of which hee may truely say at this time , I have nothing at all to doe ; but the Lord hath measured out to all times some dutie or other : this our Saviour saith expresly , Matth. 6.34 .


id: A30419
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1681.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13659
sentence: 367
flesch: 60
cache: cache/A30419.xml
txt: txt/A30419.txt
title:
  A sermon preached on the fast-day, Decemb. 22, 1680 at St. Margarets Westminster before the Honourable House of Commons / by Gilbert Burnet.

summary:
  Sardis had a great Name among the other Churches , as being one of those planted by the Apostles : It had a Name that it lived , yet was dead : the Power and Life of Religion was under a great decay , the remainders of it in some few Persons , that had not defiled their Garments , were even ready to die : they were all that left of those who had at first sincerely embraced the Christian Religion ; they were but a Remnant of what had been , and they were like to drop off soon : but for the rest , though they retained the outward Profession of their Religion , yet Christ knew their Works : and though in some things they might be praise-worthy , yet they were not full Weight and Measure ; they were not such as became their Circumstances , their Light , the Advantages they had , nor the Age they lived in , in which they ought not only to have been blameless and harmless , but to have lookt like the Sons of God , and to shine as Lights in the World , holding forth the Word of Life . If we have thus abused the earthly blessings of Peace and Plenty , and have much to answer for on that account : Oh what can we say to excuse our selves who have not only brought no fruit to perfection , notwithstanding all that seed of the Gospel that has been so plentifully sown among us , but have done what we could to defie God himself , and to drive him out of our Country , being weary of that very dead Form of Religion yet remaining .


id: A88141
author: Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
date: 1643.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 16960
sentence: 585
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A88141.xml
txt: txt/A88141.txt
title:
  Elias redivivus: a sermon preached before the honorable House of Commons, in the parish of Saint Margarets West minster, at the publike fast, March 29, 1643. By John Lightfoote, preacher of the Gospel at Bartholomew Exchange, London.

summary:
  And as it is ingratitude in any degrees of men not to serve you , who strive so much to preserve the State , so especially is it in the Ministers of the Temple , since you labour so much also to serve the Temple . And a mans enemies are they of his owne houshold .


id: A66597
author: Wilson, Thomas, 1601-1653.
date: 1643.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 16227
sentence: 745
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A66597.xml
txt: txt/A66597.txt
title:
  Jerichoes dovvn-fall as it was presented in a sermon preached in St. Margarets Westminster before the honourable House of Commons at the late solemne fast, Septemb. 28, 1642 / by Thomas Wilson ...

summary:
  Ier●● . 4. These are lying words , they trusted to that could not profit , vers. Ecclesia D●i est q●asi oculus : n●m u● in oculum etiamsi parva sordes in●idit , t●tum l●men ob●aeca● ; sic in Ecclesiastico corpore , etiamsi pa●ci sordida faciant , propè ●otum Ecclesiastici splendoris lumen obscurant .


id: A45542
author: Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.
date: 1647.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17794
sentence: 605
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A45542.xml
txt: txt/A45542.txt
title:
  The arraignment of licentious liberty, and oppressing tyranny in a sermon preached before the right honourable House of Peers, in the Abbey-church at Westminster, on the the day of their solemn monethly fast, Febr. 24. 1646 / by Nathanaell Hardy ...

summary:
  That Epithete that was given to Bacon of Doctor resolu●us , in this case well becomes every Christian ; it was a just resolve of Luther in divine matters , cedo nulli , a remarkable speech of Socrates though an Heathen {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} not much unlike that of the Apostle . Bees are many times drowned in honey , ships cast away on the soft sands , birds caught in twig-lime , and people strangled by prosperity ; too many of the worlds dar●●●g● ma● cry out as the sick woman in the fable , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Woe to us , the good things we enjoy wound ●s by their embraces : It was Judahs prosperous state occasioned her forgetting God . Agur seemeth , in this respect , to make riches worse then poverty , since this causeth to steale from man , but that to deny God .


id: A50772
author: Mewe, William, ca. 1603-1669.
date: 1643.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19423
sentence: 644
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A50772.xml
txt: txt/A50772.txt
title:
  The robbing and spoiling of Jacob and Israel considered and bewailed, in a sermon preached at Westminster before the Honourable House of Commons, at the late solemn fast, Nov. 29, 1643 / by William Mevve ...

summary:
  Si ●rateres , compater● fratri pro te patienti ; si membrum , commorere capiti pro te ●●orienti●si ●on , doles , luge● , pla●gis ; deliras , desipis , belluam sapis . YOur reverend attention during the length of this service , together with a deportment suitable to the duty of the day , and matter in hand , gave me to conceive that your hearts were kindly warmed by a better spirit then yours or mine ; and because you command a farther impression of this work , I ●●amfther instructed to conceive ; 1. that besides the hearing ear , there is ( you know ) to be imployed A seeing eye , both which are the gift of the Lord ; 2. that having bought the truth as tryed gold , the filings are not to be be lost ; 3. that upon your tryall ( what ever some say ) you are willing the wise should judge whether you are taken with sounding brasse , or any thing rather then Crown gold .


id: A78965
author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.
date: 1646.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19404
sentence: 915
flesch: 76
cache: cache/A78965.xml
txt: txt/A78965.txt
title:
  The great danger of covenant-refusing, and covenant-breaking. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Thomas Adams Lord Mayor, and the Right Worshipfull the sheriffes, and the aldermen his brethren, and the rest of the Common-councell of the famous City of London, Jan. 14. 1645. Upon which day the solemne League and Covenant was renued by them and their officers with prayer and fasting at Michael Basinshaw, London. / By Edmund Calamy, B.D. and pastor of Aldermanbury London.

summary:
  But then God accounts us according to his Gospel to break covenant , when we do not only sin , but commit sin against the Covenant , when we do not only sin out of weaknesse , but out of wickednesse ; when we do not only faile , but fall into sin : when we forsake & renounce the Covenant , when we deale treacherously in the Covenant , and enter into league and covenant with those sins which we have sworn against . And if you keep Covenant with God , the great God will keep Covenant with you , and all the blessings of the Covenant which are mentioned in the book of God , which is the book of the Covenant , shall be your portion for ever and ever . Which is the prayer of Your much obliged Spirituall Servant EDM. CALAMY .


id: A30262
author: Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.
date: 1641.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 28075
sentence: 1040
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A30262.xml
txt: txt/A30262.txt
title:
  Two sermons preached to the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament at their pvbliqve fast, Novem. 17, 1640 by Cornelius Burges ... and Stephen Marshall ...

summary:
  This honourable Assembly having designed me to beare so great a share in this weightie Worke , I hold it my dutie to consider , that , how weake and unworthy so ever I my selfe be , yet I am now to speake to Wise Men , who need not so much to be Catechised touching the Nature , as to be incited and quickned to the principall Use of a Religious Fast , which consisteth not solely in such drawing neere to God by extraordinary Prayer and Humiliation as may produce a totall divorce from our deerest Lusts , but also ( and that more principally ) in a particular , formall , solemne , entire engaging and binding of our selves , by an indissoluble Covenant , to that God whose face and favour we seeke , and implore . And the restoring of the Church should produce a Covenant with God .


id: A85664
author: Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.
date: 1643.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20900
sentence: 801
flesch: 76
cache: cache/A85664.xml
txt: txt/A85664.txt
title:
  Axinē pros tēn rhizan. = The axe at the root, a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their publike fast, April 26. 1643. By William Greenhill.

summary:
  Ier. 5● . 20 ▪ 〈…〉 called Gods battell Axe , and that you know 〈◊〉 a terrible Instrument ; God by Babylon did break , and terrifie Kingdomes , he dealt sharply , and roundly with them , and his Judgements executed by Babylon were very dreadfull , Psal. 119. 120. At the entrance of the law Mount S●na did smoak , and when God shall avenge the breach of the Law , Mount Sion will burne , Lament .


id: A90288
author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
date: 1649.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 38366
sentence: 1329
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A90288.xml
txt: txt/A90288.txt
title:
  A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons, in Parliament assembled: on January 31. A day of solemne humiliation. With a discourse about toleration, and the duty of the civill magistrate about religion, thereunto annexed. Humbly presented to them, and all peace-loving men of this nation. / By John Owen, pastor of the Church of Christ, which is at Coggeshall in Essex.

summary:
  In that thing which to man is sinfull , God worketh as it is a thing onely , Man as it is a sinfull thing : to their worth and excellency is mans opposition proportioned .


id: A60350
author: Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.
date: 1659.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20138
sentence: 578
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A60350.xml
txt: txt/A60350.txt
title:
  The protectors protection, or, The pious prince guarded by a praying people a sermon preached at St. Edmundsbury in Suffolk, upon the 13 Octob. 1658, being a day set apart for solemn fasting and humiliation and seeking a blessing upon His Highness the Lord Protector / by Sam. Slater ...

summary:
  Men who were made for the enjoyment of , and communion with God , and if they be strangers to it , the more to be pitied and prayed for . Ionah preacht , yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown , here was great ground of fear ; that judgement being denounced by the Prophet upon the commandment of the Lord , but , saith the King , let man and beast be covered with sackcloth , and cry mightily unto God , &c. but why so ? the sentence is gone out , hath the Lord said it , and shall he not do it ?


id: A32016
author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.
date: 1642.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24095
sentence: 944
flesch: 77
cache: cache/A32016.xml
txt: txt/A32016.txt
title:
  Gods free mercy to England presented as a pretious and powerfull motive to humiliation : in a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, Feb. 23, 1641 / by Edmvnd Calamy ...

summary:
  When God sends judgements upon a Nation , then must we preach judgements to that Nation ; But when he sends mercies , then must we preach mercy : Now God hath brought England into the schoole of mercy , and hath placed it in the highest forme , and hath made it Captaine of the schoole . If you looke backe into the Chapter you shall find , that God promises many rare and great mercies to the house of Israel , Mercies in Folio , Mercies unspeakable : God promises to gather them out of all Countries : And to bring them backe to their owne land ; To cleanse them from Idols : And from all filthinesse : To sprinkle cleane water upon them : To give them a new heart , and a new spirit : And to take away their hearts of stone , and to give them a heart of flesh : And to multiply all outward blessings upon them , &c. Observe from hence ; That God doth sometimes shew mercy to a Nation when it least deserves it , and least expects it .


id: A92145
author: Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.
date: 1645.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 31247
sentence: 1040
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A92145.xml
txt: txt/A92145.txt
title:
  A sermon preached before the Right Honorable House of Lords, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, Wednesday the 25. day of Iune, 1645. Being the day appointed for a solemne and publique humiliation. / By Samuel Rutherfurd Professor of Divinitie at St. Andrews.

summary:
  Luke 9. 21. or it is to rebuke with threatning and authoritie , 2 Tim. 4. 2. not because Sea and winds can stirre without speciall commission from God , as the Poets fancied that their Aeolus could boast and chide the winds and cast them in fetters , but this is to expresse the absolute and invincible dominion of Christ over Sea and winds , they being his Apparitors and Pursevants , so that thirdly , Christ ( as Marke saith ) uttered angry words of authoritie and commanded the Sea , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} bee quiet , peace , and be still , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} bee muzled , it is borrowed from wild beasts or dogs that are muzled up that they cannot devoure , so is the word , 1 Cor. Sense of Christ is an excellent Preacher of Christ , Now beleeve wee ( say the Samaritans , Ioh. 4. 42. ) not because of thy saying , for wee have heard him our selves ; every faithfull pastor is not onely a messenger to speake tydings , but a witnesse who saw and heard the visions of God .


id: A70812
author: Palmer, Herbert, 1601-1647.
date: 1644.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 32074
sentence: 1091
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A70812.xml
txt: txt/A70812.txt
title:
  The glasse of Gods providence towards his faithfvll ones held forth in a sermon preached to the two Houses of Parliament at Margarets Westminster, Aug. 13, 1644, being an extraordinary day of humiliation : wherein is discovered the great failings that the best are liable unto, upon which God is provoked sometimes to take vengeance : the whole is applyed specially to a more carefull observation of our late covenant, and particularly against the ungodly toleration pleaded for under pretence of liberty of conscience / by Herbert Palmer ...

summary:
  THe Records of Holy Scripture , whether they concerne the Actions of GOD or Men , are not onely Stories of things done in that Age , but Prophesies also of future events in succeeding Generations . BEhold an Apostrophe to GOD , in the midst of an Exhortation to Men !


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  caenam institue rit & suis discipulis administraverit sub utraque specie panis et vini hoc venerabile sacramentum


