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id: A16998
author: Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.
date: 1605
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title:
  Positions of the vvord Hades that it is the generall place of soules: and holdeth as vvell the godly vvhich are in paradise, as the vvicked that are in Tartarus. With a catalogue of our heresies, from which one word handled by a right Grecian would haue saued vs. To the BB. of England. By Hugh Broughton 1605.

summary:
  Positions of the vvord Hades that it is the generall place of soules: and holdeth as vvell the godly vvhich are in paradise, as the vvicked that are in Tartarus. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1340:26) Positions of the vvord Hades that it is the generall place of soules: and holdeth as vvell the godly vvhich are in paradise, as the vvicked that are in Tartarus.


id: A30416
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1678
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mime: application/xml
words: 6937
sentence: 220
flesch: 64
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title:
  A sermon preached at St. Dunstans in the West at the funeral of Mrs. Anne Seile, the 18th of July, 1678 by Gilbert Burnet.

summary:
  It is not only to be so far good as to live without scandal in the world , nor to quiet the clamours of Conscience which may rise upon us after some more notorious sins ; but it imports somewhat beyond all these : That a man should dedicate himself to Religion , making it his business ▪ and as the bloud circulates over the whole body , in greater vessels thorough the nobler parts , and in smaller ones even thorough the remotest members ; so the true spirit of Christianity runs through a mans whole life , with a due proportion of care and application : Not putting his whole strength to lesser matters , and doing the greatest slightly and carelesly , but applying his greatest Industry to things of chief concernment , yet so as not to be too remiss in the smallest matters . If men therefore do so carefully manage their fortunes , that they set off large portions of their time either daily , weekly , or yearly , to examine their accounts : How can it be imagined that a thing of that importance , upon which all the hopes of our eternal state depends , should be so easily transacted ?


id: A33907
author: Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.
date: 1686
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mime: application/xml
words: 7646
sentence: 169
flesch: 44
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title:
  The difference between the present and future state of our bodies considered in a sermon / by Jeremy Collier.

summary:
  A man that makes himself a Beggar by ill Menage , and Luxury , is in the true estimation of things a much more despicable person than he that is born to that low condition , and fixed in it by those impotencies and defects of body or mind which were irresistably forced upon him . For we are apt either to place them upon wrong Objects , to fly them to too high a pitch , or to continue them upon us when they ought to be discharged , which makes us hasty in our Resolutions ; injurious and careless in our words and actions ; they make us dote almost to Frensy upon trifles , and by being too kindly entertained by us , improve a sudden disgust against our Neighbour into a setled and habitual malice ; infinite almost are the indecencies and sins which the ill Government of our Passions betrays us to ; they discompose the whole frame of mind and body , disquieting the one , and disordering the other ; the effects of them are different according to their nature , and the power they have gotten over our reason ; sometimes they make men languish and pine away with envy or desire ; sometimes through an excess of fear they betray them into worse inconveniencies than those they were afraid of : Some are said to have absolutely lost their wits in their anger , and raved themselves into Bedlam ; and others we may observe are over-joyed to perfect folly and ridiculousness .


id: A27575
author: Beveridge, William, 1637-1708.
title: A sermon preached before the Queen at White-hall, October 12. 1690 by William Beveridge ...
date: 1690
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mime: application/xml
words: 8380
sentence: 315
flesch: 73
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summary:
  In short , All the Animals , and Plants , and Earths , and Stones , and Metals , and Minerals , and whatsoever else God ever made , either in Heaven or Earth , afford them a clear and perfect view of his divine perfections , which cannot but affect their hearts with the highest transports of joy and wonder . But how can these things be ? How is it possible for the Saints in Heaven to see God ?


id: A65802
author: White, Thomas, 1593-1676.
title: The state of the future life, and the present's order to it consider'd by Tho. White, Gent.
date: 1654
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words: 9273
sentence: 323
flesch: 65
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summary:
  All other objects of delight may be cōprehended by our Understanding , may be contemn'd by our Will , as less than our Soul and not able to satisfie it : only Almighty God so fills and oversatisfies , that , entirely possessing our Affections , He , as it were , forces the Soul to love and delight , more than , of its own nature , it possibly could ; nor can it ever be weary of the good it enjoys , but still , with its whole and more eager desire , will hug and cling to its beloved Object ; so that , a Soul which sees God seeks nothing else , but rests fully satisfied & , as it were , lull'd into a dear contentment , wherein it remains so absorpt and wholy ravisht , that it sweetly languishes and dissolves into Spirits and flames of love , the better to inessence and incorporate it self into God ▪ Thus , then , thou feest clearly demonstrated this great-concerning Truth , that No delight can be comparable to thy Beatitude ; and that , 't is no wonder to hear our Blessed Lord and Master , in a manner , labour to express it , when He said , Mensuram plenam , & confertam , & coagitatam , & supereffluentem dabunt in sinus vestros , You shall be paid with good measure , heap'd up , and press'd down , and thrust together , and yet running over into your Bosoms . For , if thou lov'st not thy Neighbour , 't is evident thou lov'st something else , that hinders thee from loving him ; which ( because it cannot be God ) must needs be some created good , as Honour , Riches , Pleasure , &c. which thou lovest inordinately , that is , for it self , and not in order to God ; and so , clearly , as long as thou lov'st not thy Neighbour , thou hast not God for thy last end , nor lov'st him above all things , as is thy duty ; for , as much as thou lovest God , so much more , doubtless , thou lovest those things he loves ; amongst which , the chiefest ( if not the only thing , we know ) is our Neighbour : whose love , even by Nature , is so recommended to us , that , without friendship and conversation with one another , our very lives would be tedious and miserable .


id: A43816
author: Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.
date: 1648
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mime: application/xml
words: 14976
sentence: 464
flesch: 65
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title:
  God's eternal preparations for his dying saints discovered in a sermon at Paul's, May the 7th 1648 / by Thomas Hill ...

summary:
  Were it my portion onely to bee thus injured , I should suspect my self ; but my reverend Brethren , who deserve much better then I can , fare as ill from som , when one of them lately was forced by a violet fit of an ague , being preaching at the Universitie-Church , to break off not long after hee began ; it would make one tremble to hear what language was spoken thereupon aaginst him , for the holy hand of God upon him , which might have befallen an Apostle ; and against others of us engaged as Masters of Colledges with him . O never let it bee forgotten how God snatched Cambridge out of the fire , in staying the plague these two last years ; should not you now provoke your Magistrates more to minde the sanctifying the Lord's day , to restrain by their power those profane pollutions which cry for another more sweeping plague ?


id: A26807
author: Bates, William, 1625-1699.
date: 1687
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17390
sentence: 647
flesch: 64
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title:
  A short description of the blessed place and state of the saints above in a discourse upon the words of Our Blessed Saviour, John XIV, 2, in my father's house are many mansions, if it were not so, I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you / by William Bates.

summary:
  But in Heaven , those most divine and amiable Titles , that God is Light , and that God is Love , are most fully exhibited , and experimentally understood by the Saints . But how distant is the greatest Monarch in the World from the Eternal Son of God , the Prince of the Kings of the Earth ? Love brought him down from his Throne in Heaven , where he was ador'd by the Angels , and united him to our nature in our lowly state , in order to the raising us to his Kingdom , and uniting us to himself in Glory .


id: A29306
author: Brent, William, d. 1691.
date: 1655
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mime: application/xml
words: 17074
sentence: 239
flesch: 17
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title:
  A discourse upon the nature of eternitie, and the condition of a separated soule, according to the grounds of reason, and principles of Christian religion by William Brent, of Grayes Inne, Esquire ...

summary:
  So that if wee examine the true cause of things , wee must conclude , that the ill conduct of our lives , and all the miseries , vices , and disorders , that flow from thence ; are an effect of the continuall motion of time , which representing unto us these exteriour objects , under severall disguises , keeps us from penetrating into the true Nature of them , and suggesting to our deluded mindes vaine hopes , and feares , doth by those false alarmes disturbe our reason , and brings upon us a forgetfullnesse of what is past , a mistake of what is present , and a grosse negligence , in not providing of our selves for what 's to come . And yet when our inlarged soules shall have the power to circle earth , sound hell , and measure all the vast extent of Heaven , how little or rather nothing at all will that appeare , being compared unto infinity ? if wee were able to number all the droppes of water in the Sea , and count the sands upon the shore , and if for every one of them wee were to live an age before wee died , yet were this terme as nothing being compared unto Eternity , since time would at last consume all that large stocke of our subsistance , and Eternity when that were past would still continue constant in the full possession of all its being .


id: A60590
author: Smith, Thomas, 1638-1710.
date: 1699
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20527
sentence: 403
flesch: 39
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title:
  Two compendious discourses the one concerning the power of God, the other about the certainty and evidence of a future state : published in opposition to the growing atheism and deism of the age.

summary:
  Things relating to God are above the level of our understanding ; most of our little knowledge being derived from sense , which cannot reach those objects , that are altogether abstracted from it : whereas this falls under the examination of our senses and reason : they are things we every day converse with : things we may safely pretend to judge of , as being every way proportionable to our faculties . For want of this rightful method and just principle in examining the truth of things , many are very apt and very willing to cheat themselves , and out of a lazy kind of ignorance , and a foolish belief , that all things are , and must be , as they phansie , take up idle and false opinions , and that not only concerning things of nature , ( of which be our perceptions true or false , it matters not much in things purely speculative , if they have no influence upon life , manners , or government ; and a latitude of opinion is justly allowable in such things also , as are not capable of a clear and satisfactory decision , either by sense , experiment , or demonstration ) but also concerning religion : opinions , which contradict its holy designs , and directions , and commands : such too , as are derogatory to the nature and attributes of God ; such , as are altogether dishonourable and unworthy of him , and inconsistent with his divine perfections .


id: A46952
author: Jackson, John.
date: 1661
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19902
sentence: 1033
flesch: 80
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txt: txt/A46952.txt
title:
  A treatise concerning mans future eternity wherein the great doctrine of the eternity of all mankind in the world to come, either in happiness or misery is proved, explained, and applyed / by John Jackson.

summary:
  2. Though all the Saints shall be members and fellow-Citizens of the Heavenly ●●rusalem , and shall be fully and everlastingly happy in their holy and glorious conformity unto Christ , and in their blessed enjoyment of God in Christ : The souls of all those who die in the * Lord , in a believing and regenerate estate , are by the mercy of God absolved and made perfect in holiness , and are carried by good Angels into heaven , there to live in a happy estate of joy and rest , with their ever blessed God and Saviour , and with all the holy Angels , and with all those perfect and blessed souls who went to heaven before them : waiting for the full redemption of their bodies , which even in death , and after they are returned to dust , continue still united to Christ , and rest in their graves , as in their beds , till at the last day , they be again united to their souls .


id: A27162
author: Beare, Nicholas.
date: 1700
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mime: application/xml
words: 30073
sentence: 876
flesch: 58
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title:
  The Resurrection founded on justice, or, A vindication of this great standing reason assigned by the ancients and modern wherein the objections of the learned Dr. Hody against it, are answered : some opinions of Tertullian about it, examined : the learned doctor's three reasons of the Resurrection, inquired into : and some considerations from reason and Scriptures, laid down for the establishment of it / by N.B. ...

summary:
  he prays , that their Spirit , Soul , and Body be preserved blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ : Where Both the Objections of the Learned Author are put to silence , and quashed by one word , Blameless ; which clearly supposes our Bodies capable of doing well , or evil , of Rewards and Punishments ; otherwise there can be no Congruity in the Discourse of the great Doctor of the Gentiles ( who was brought up at the feet of Gamaliel , was so Accomplish'd an Orator , as that 't was one of the three celebrated Wishes of the great St. Austin , That he might have seen him in the Pulpit ; nay , what is more , was inspir'd from above ) : This also is the professed Doctrine of our Church , as she has Taught and Injoyned us in her Liturgy to Pray , — Beseeching God of his Gracious Goodness , shortly to accomplish the Number of his Elect ; and to hasten his Kingdom ; that we , with all those departed in the true Faith of his Holy Name , may have our perfect Consummation and Bliss both in Body and Soul in thy Eternal and Everlasting Kingdom .


id: A69449
author: Ambrose, Isaac, 1604-1664.
date: 1650
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mime: application/xml
words: 31584
sentence: 852
flesch: 67
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title:
  The doctrine & directions but more especially the practice and behavior of a man in the act of the nevv birth A treatise by way of appendix to the former. By Isaac Ambrose, minister of Christ at Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire.

summary:
  The Adulterer confesseth the danger and filthiness of that Sin in gross , but he will not apply it to himself : The Rule therefore is , Arrest thy soul ( whosoever thou art ) of those sins particularly whereof thou standest guilty ; To this purpose , say , Is Murther , and Pride , and Drunkenness , and Vncleanness such horrible sins ? O Lord , it was my Heart that was proud , and vain ; it was my Tongue that did speak filthily , and blasphemously ; my Hand that wrought wickedness ; my Eye that was wanton , and my Heart that was unclean and filthy ; Lord , here they are : Thus bring thy Heart before God . He that truly entertains Christ , rejoyceth in the good and glory of Christ : When Mephibosheth had been wrongfully accused to David , and when David who had taken away all the inheritance from him , was returned in safety ; Then said David to comfort him , Thou and Ziba divide the land : nay , said Mephibosheth , Let him take all , forasmuch as my Lord the King is come again in peace , it matters not for inheritance , and for my self and my life , I pass not , sith the King is returned in peace ; it is enough that I enjoy thy presence , which is better to me then goods , life or liberty : So it is with a kinde loving heart , which cannot endure to see Christs honor and glory layed in the dust , but if his praise be advanced , then is he glad , Lord , I have enough ( saith the soul ) that Christ is mine , and that his honor and glory is magnified , whatsoever becomes of me it matters not ; let the world take all , if I may have Christ , and see him praised and magnified : Let this try any mans spirit under heaven , and labor to bring the soul to this pitch : A Minister in his place , and a Master in his place , and every Christian in his place ; let it be our care to honor God , not our selves ; and let it be our comfort , if God may be better honored by others , then by our selves : This is our baseness of spirit , we can be content to lift up Christ upon our shoulders , that we may lift up our selves by it ; but we should be content to lie in the dust , that the Lord may be praised ; and if any of Gods people thrive and prosper more then thou , let that be thy joy .


id: A37289
author: Day, Robert.
date: 1700
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mime: application/xml
words: 35204
sentence: 798
flesch: 48
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title:
  Free thoughts in defence of a future state, as discoverable by natural reason, and stript of all superstitious appendages ... with occasional remarks on a book intituled, An inquiry concerning virtue, and a refutation of the reviv'd Hylozoicism of Democritus and Leucippus.

summary:
  But I must confess I am perswaded that several of the most speciously said things which are behind , are so unhappily worded and dispos'd , that they tempt , or at least leave room for Opinions inconsistent with the universal necessity of Virtue ; I therefore think it meet not to pass them over altogether without animadversion : it looks well what he says , P. 106. Plato , by means of a quick and piercing Genius , seeing thro the nature and reason of things , perceiv'd that all his Discourse concerning Government was to no purpose , unless the Minds of Men were possess'd with a love of Virtue ; without which , not only a great Commonwealth , but every lesser Society , and indeed every private House is obnoxious to the most destructive Disorders .


id: A44673
author: Howe, John, 1630-1705.
date: 1699
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 35944
sentence: 1199
flesch: 66
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title:
  A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto by death some part whereof was preached on occasion of the death of John Hoghton Esq, eldest son of Sir Charles Hoghton of Hoghton-Tower in the county of Lancaster, Baronet / by John Howe ...

summary:
  Whence therefore , nothing is more obvious , than to conceive , that whosoever is adjoyned to them , ascending out of our Wo●ld , presently hath his Station assigned him , is made to know his post ▪ and how he is to be employed , in the se●vice and adoration of the Sovereign Lord of all , and in paying the most regular homage , to the Th●one of God and the Lamb. He praises the young Person , deceased , for his Comliness , Sobriety , Piety , dutifulness towards Parents , obligingness towards Friends , acknowledges that Sorrow in the case of losing such a Son , hath ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) a principle in Nature , and is of the things that are ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) not in our Power , or which we cannot help ; That to be destitute of it is neither possible , nor fit .


id: A87158
author: Harrison, Henry, 1610 or 11-1690.
date: 1681
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 41056
sentence: 808
flesch: 45
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title:
  The weary traveller his eternal rest being a discourse of that blessed rest here, which leads to endless rest hereafter. By H. H. D. D. Rector of Snaylwell, and Canon of Ely.

summary:
  Shall we therefore have the patience , the justice and piety , yea , the wisdom and faithfulness to our selves , to resist a while these strong prejudices , to rescue the sacred object of faith from such misprisions , to set up the promises of Christ henceforth in such a posture , as may have the safest and kindest influence ; the powerfullest and most benign aspect on our Hearts and Lives , not to swell and puff up our phansies any longer , with an opinion that we are the special favourites of Heaven , to whom the promises of Rest are consign'd unconditionally , or without possibility of being forfeited ; but to engage and oblige our Souls to that universal constant righteousness , holiness , obedience , as well as faith , which may really instate us in those promises , that may , like the Angel to St. Peter in Prison , awake us out of our sleep and dream , and shake off those gyves and manacles , which keep our feet from walking in the ways which God hath prescribed , and thereby even confine and fetter God himself , if I may so speak , from making good his promises effectually , to such indisposed unqualified persons . Let us awake then , and excite our selves and one another ; by all the arguments of hope and fear , love and gratitude , that so God may have the honour of all his favours bestowed upon us , and we the everlasting comfort , of being thankful , and hearing that beatifical voice : Well done good and faithful Servant ; enter thy Masters Joy and Rest .


