        item: #1 of 13
          id: A18908
      author: Clapham, Henoch.
       title: Antidoton or a soueraigne remedie against schisme and heresie: gathered to analogie and proportion of faith, from that parable of tares. Matth.13. Aug.ep.3.Nullorum disput.&c. We ought to haue no men their disputations (although men Catholike and praise worthie) in that count as we haue the canonicall scriptures: so that it should be vnlawfull for vs to improue and refuse some things in their writings, if happily we finde that they thought otherwise then the truth hath. Such a one am I in other mens writings, and so would I haue others to vnderstand of my writings.
        date: 1600
       words: 20230
      flesch: 72
     summary: Like to a man which sowed good seed in his field , &c. Not to vrge here the care good householders should haue to see their fields , vineyards , gardens sowen and planted with that which is good ; that so they may not onely returne peeces of siluer to themselues , as the n vineyard of Baal-H●man did vnto Salomon : but also propound hereby good vnto the countrie , as resemblances of God his care to create all good & verie good : passing by that , let me directly come vnto the precise sense of the Parable . Thirdly , then it skilleth not though the Pastor be a man of no learning ( for all the learning to speake of , lieth in a deliuerie of the scriptures naturall sense , with a drawing out of his proper doct●ines ) and to exhort , is so farre inferiour to doctrine , as the application of the medicine ( to a seen sore ) doth vtter no such knowledge , as the prouision and composition of the medicine .
    keywords: christ; church; churches; doctrine; euen; faith; god; good; haruest; hath; haue; holy; iesus; iohn; kingdome; lord; man; men; new; parable; people; place; sinne; tares; time; vnder; vnto; wheat; wicked; word; ● ●
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        item: #2 of 13
          id: A29224
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: Capitall hereticks, or, The evill angels embattel'd against St. Michael being a collection according to the order of time ... of the chief of the antient hereticks, with their tenets, such as were condemned by general councels / by R.B.
        date: 1659
       words: 9740
      flesch: 88
     summary: in the Remish Testament , saith , that this N●chol●s was not onely thought to have taught community of wives , but also that it was lawfu●l to eat of meates offered to Idols . Their heresies began to spred first in the City of T●louse , in N●rbon , in France .
    keywords: aug; bee; cap; christ; evill; father; flesh; ghost; god; good; hee; heretikes; lib; man; men; nature; sin; son; time; world; ● ●
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        item: #3 of 13
          id: A30973
      author: Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.
       title: A discourse concerning the laws ecclesiastical and civil made against hereticks by popes, emperors and kings, provincial and general councils, approved by the church of Rome with a preface against persecuting and destroying hereticks / by a cordial friend to the Protestant religion now by law established in these realms.
        date: 1682
       words: 42078
      flesch: 67
     summary: A discourse concerning the laws ecclesiastical and civil made against hereticks by popes, emperors and kings, provincial and general councils, approved by the church of Rome with a preface against persecuting and destroying hereticks / by a cordial friend to the Protestant religion now by law established in these realms. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 482:24) A discourse concerning the laws ecclesiastical and civil made against hereticks by popes, emperors and kings, provincial and general councils, approved by the church of Rome with a preface against persecuting and destroying hereticks / by a cordial friend to the Protestant religion now by law established in these realms. Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.
    keywords: aut; authority; bin; bishops; bloud; bull; cap; catholick; cause; christ; christian; church; commands; const; constitutions; contrary; council; cum; death; decrees; dignity; doe; dominions; doth; ecclesiae; emperor; esse; est; etiam; favor; favorers; fidei; fifth; fourth; general; god; good; hath; heresie; hereticks; hoc; holy; ibid; inquisitors; king; lateran; laws; lord; magistrate; man; men; nec; non; oath; obedience; omnes; pag; persons; pope; power; princes; principles; pro; promise; punishments; quae; qui; quod; reason; religion; rome; saith; second; sed; sentence; sess; seu; spirit; subjects; sunt; things; truth; vel; words; world
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        item: #4 of 13
          id: A39313
      author: Ellyson, John.
       title: Hereticks, sectaries, and schismaticks, discovered to be the Antichrist yet remaining and the great enemies of the peace of this kingdome the question rightly stated and debated ... : with a hint about ordination and the covenant.
        date: 1647
       words: 13448
      flesch: 43
     summary: They that know there is a King of Kings , by whose will and pleasure Kingdoms stand and fall , they know , that to no King , or State , any thing can be profitable , which is unjust : ( our experiment is too neer us at this day ; The desolations of our State are witnesses hereof , ) and that nothing can be more evidently unjust , then to force weak men by the profession of a Religion , which they beleeve not , to loose their own eternall happinesse , least they loose their temporall Estates and quietnesse , there being no danger to any state from any mans opinion : unlesse such , by which disobedience to authority , or impiety is taught : unlesse this bloody Doctrine be joyned with it , that it is lawfull for the Magistrate by humane violence , to enforce men to his own Religion : Oh let not our Magistrates in this , take part with the scarlet Whore , who for these many Ages hath daily sacrificed thousands of poor innocent Christians , under the name of Hereticks , Sectaries , and Schismaticks : ●… them that call evill good , and good evill , that ●…esse for light , and light for darkenesse , Isay ●… ●…e good , but if the Salt hath left its Savour , where●…e salted , it is good for nothing but to be cas●…●…oden underfoot of men .
    keywords: antichrist; christ; church; day; god; hath; hereticks; lord; men; non; power; saints; schismaticks; spirit; things; truth
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        item: #5 of 13
          id: A43805
      author: Hill, Samuel, 1648-1716.
       title: The necessity of heresies asserted and explained in a sermon and clerum / by the author of the Catholic balance and published as a consolatory to the Church of England in the days of her controversie ...
        date: 1688
       words: 10499
      flesch: 56
     summary: Nay , that , which more astonisheth , is , that the very Mediator of our Peace , the great Henoticon of the whole World , in reconciling all Mankind in one Body unto God , of whose days it was prophesied , that the Lamb should lie down with the Lyon , tells his Apostles , at their first mission , (c) That he came not to give peace , but a sword ; to set a man at variance against his Father , and the Daughter against the Mother , &c. And when we consider the malevolent nature of those Seeds of Discord in matters of Religion against all Societies , either Sacred , or Secular , and the blessed means of Eternal Life also ; that these Mischiefs should become necessary , and the result of Christianity it self , seems a stupifying Riddle , and ( that which fills me with all horror ) gives colour for the publick allowance of all Heresies and Blasphemies whatsoever . Whereupon we must search out for such a necessity of Heresies , as is imputable , not to the operative Determination of God , but the Evils of Men : Since there must be Heresies , they must be ours , not God's ; They must derive from an unclean , and puddled , not from a Divine Fountain , or Original : For , Let God be true , and every man a lyar .
    keywords: church; divine; evil; glory; god; good; heresies; lord; man; men; necessity; religion; tcp; text; truth; wisdom
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        item: #6 of 13
          id: A43990
      author: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
       title: An historical narration concerning heresie and the punishment thereof by Thomas Hobbes.
        date: 1680
       words: 6762
      flesch: 57
     summary: By these words , God has no parts , thus explained , together with the part of the Creed which was at that time agreed on , many of those Heresies which were antecedent to that first General Council , were condemned ; as that of Menes , who appeared about thirty years before the Reign of Constantine , by the first Article , I believe in one God ; though in other words it seems to me to remain still in the Doctrine of the Church of Rome , which so ascribeth a Liberty of the Will to Men , as that their Will and Purpose to commit sin , should not proceed from the Cause of all things , God ; but originally from themselves , or from the Devil . Constantine himself , at the passing of this Creed , took notice of it for a hard word ; but yet approved of it , saying , That in a divine Mystery it was fit to use divina & arcana Verba ; that is , divine words , and hidden from humane understanding ; calling that word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 divine , not because it was in the divine Scripture , ( for it is not there ) but because it was to him Arcanum , that is , not sufficiently understood .
    keywords: christ; church; council; creed; doctrine; god; heresie; man; words
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        item: #7 of 13
          id: A44476
      author: Hales, John, 1584-1656.
       title: A tract concerning schism and schismatiqves wherein is briefly discovered the originall causes of all schisme / written by a learned and judicious divine ; together with certain animadversions upon some passages thereof.
        date: 1642
       words: 11497
      flesch: 55
     summary: To know no more then this , if you take it to be true , had been enough to direct how you are to judge , and what to think of Schisme and Schismatiques , yet because of the Ancients , ( by whom many are more affrighted then hurt ) much is said and many fearefull doomes are pronounced in this case , we will descend a little to consider of Schisme , as it were by way of story , and that partly farther to open that , which we have said in generall by instancing in particulars , and partly to disabuse those , who reverencing Antiquity more then needs , have suffered themselves to be scared with imputation of Schisme above due measure , for what the Ancients speake by way of censure of Schisme in generall is most true , for they saw ( and it is no great matter to see so much ) that unadvised and open fancy to break the knot of union , betwixt man and man ( especially amongst Christians , upon whom above all other kind of men , the tye of love and communion doth most especially rest ) was a crime hardly pardonable , and that nothing absolves men from the guilt of it , but true and unpretended Conscience , yet when they came to pronounce of Schisme in particular , ( whether it was because of their own interest , or that they saw not the truth , or for what other cause God only doth know ) their judgements many times ( to speak most gently ) are justly to be suspected , which that you may see , we will range all Schisme into two rankes . For why might not it be lawfull to goe to Church with the Donatist , or to celebrate Easter with the Quartodeciman , if occasion so require ? since neither Nature , nor Religion , nor Reason doth suggest any thing of moment to the contrary ?
    keywords: authority; bishops; church; doe; fathers; god; hath; man; men; publique; reason; schisme; thing; times; truth
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        item: #8 of 13
          id: A53776
      author: University of Oxford.
       title: At a meeting of the Vice-Chancellor of the heads of colleges and halls of the University of Oxford on the 25. day of November in the year of our Lord 1695
        date: 1695
       words: 1074
      flesch: 63
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: oxford; tcp; text; university
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        item: #9 of 13
          id: A54528
      author: Pagitt, Ephraim, 1574 or 5-1647.
       title: Heresiography, or, A discription of the hereticks and sectaries of these latter times by E. Pagitt.
        date: 1645
       words: 58815
      flesch: 73
     summary: 4. 1. Now the Spirit speaketh expresly , that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith , giving heed to seducing Spirits , and doctrines of Divils : Speaking lyes in hypocrisie , having their conciences seared with a hot Ir●n . For my own part , these sad considerations made me leave my Christianography , and write an He●●siography to describe the Hereticks and Schismaticks of this time , in which I set downe their beginning among us ; their hereticall opinions and errors , confuting them ; and also relate how other Princes and Common● wealths have suppressed them , and how severely some of them have beene punished among us .
    keywords: anabaptists; baptisme; bee; body; brownists; children; christ; christian; church; churches; come; contrary; covenant; day; death; doctrine; doe; doth; england; errors; faith; father; flesh; god; gods; good; grace; hath; heaven; hee; himselfe; hold; holy; iohn; king; law; life; lord; love; man; manner; master; men; ministers; new; opinions; owne; p ●; papists; people; prayer; read; rom; salvation; scripture; sect; sectaries; set; sin; spirit; things; thy; time; use; viz; world; yea; ● d; ● e; ● n; ● s; ● t; ● y; ● ●
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        item: #10 of 13
          id: A57644
      author: Davies, John, 1625-1693.
       title: Apocalypsis, or, The revelation of certain notorious advancers of heresie wherein their visions and private revelations by dreams, are discovered to be most incredible blasphemies, and enthusiastical dotages : together with an account of their lives, actions and ends : whereunto are added the effigies of seventeen (who excelled the rest in rashness, impudence and lying) : done in copper plates / faithfully and impartially translated out of the Latine by J.D.
        date: 1658
       words: 28055
      flesch: 64
     summary: The History of the World , the second part , being a continuation of the famous History of Sir W●… R●●l●igh , Kt. * reduce and bring the whole world under the subjection of their doctrine ? There was also a certain Prophetesse who should prophecy , that , this Hosman was Elias , that Cornelius Polterman was Eno●● , and that Strasburg was the new Jerusalem , and she had also dreamed , that she had been in a great spacious Hall , wherein were many brethren and sisters sitting together , whereinto a certain young man in ●…ing apparel should enter , having in his hand a golden Boul of rich Nectar , which he going about should taste to every one ; to whom having drunk it to the dregs , there was none Pretended to compare with him , but onely Polterman .
    keywords: anabaptists; baptisme; bee; buckhold; christ; christian; city; contents; david; day; death; doctrine; end; father; george; god; hath; hee; holy; house; john; king; man; men; munster; muntzer; non; opinions; people; place; prophet; religion; sect; senate; son; text; things; thou; time; world; year; ● ●
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        item: #11 of 13
          id: A85416
      author: Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.
       title: Some modest and humble queries concerning a printed paper, intituled, An ordinance presented to the Honourable House of Commons, &c. for the preventing of the growing and spreading of heresies, &c.
        date: 1646
       words: 4952
      flesch: 43
     summary: Whether is not the said Ordinance , in the example of it , a direct incouragement and confirmation to Popish Magistrates , to persecute the faithfull servants of God , who live in their territories with fire & sword , for professing the truth of God amongst them ? And whether doe not they , who here seeke to plucke up the tares , by such an Ordinance , plucke up the wheat also there , by the same ? Whether was there ever any such Ordinance , or State act , ever heard of , or knowne , in any the Reformed Churches ? I meane , which was so apparently bent against the faces , if not of the greatest part , yet of so considerable a part of the best and most conscientious men amongst them , as this is ? Whether was there ever any thing done in the Bishops times , or any thing attempted to be done by this generation of men in the day of their greatest interest and power in the Kingdome , of that bloudy consequence to those godly persons , Ministers , or others , whom they most hated , and sought to crush , as this Ordinance , if once established , is like to be , to surre greater numbers of truely pious and conscientious men ? Whether the said Ordinance ministreth not an advantage , of opportunity to the worst and wickedest of men , who commonly hate the best and faithfullest Ministers most , to accuse them unduly of such things , which according to the ordinary course of Law , may touch their lives , or otherwise bring much affliction , and vexation to them ? WHether it be agreeable to the Spirit of Christ , ( who came into the world , as himself saith not to destroy mens lives , but to save them a , ) to make snares of any of his Doctrines for the destruction of the lives of men ? Whether it be agreeable to the mind of Christ , for men to inflict the heavie censure of death upon their Brethren , for holding forth such Doctrines , or opinions in Religion , suppose contrary to admonition , which , for ought the said inflicters know , except they make themselves infallible , may be the sacred Truths of God ?
    keywords: death; doth; god; men; ordinance; reason; text
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        item: #12 of 13
          id: A86667
      author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
       title: The rebukes of a reviler fallen upon his own head, in an answer to a book put forth by one Iohn Stelham, called a minister at Terlin in Essex. Wherein is shewed unto all spiritual men, that he himself is justly proved to be a contradictor of the scriptures, while he falsly accuses others thereof, that are clear, and the saying is fulfilled upon him, he is fallen into the pit, which he digged for others, for even that way which he calls heresie, do we worship the God of our fathers. By R.H.
        date: 1657
       words: 32059
      flesch: 2
     summary: And in the end , he desires his Reader to receive in Love , what in his Book is found agreeable to the Spirit of God in Scripture truth , agreed ; so let it be , and therefore many things in his Book , which is not given forth by the Spirit of God , nor according to the Scripture truth , which the honest Reader may find upon a serious reading and search , with the Spirit of God , and according to the Scripture is to be judged and condemned , and not received ; what shall the honest Reader receive this for truth , That the Light of Christ Jesus is A Preverse Principle , and that Christ blessed Infants Baptism , with very many such like things of the like nature proceeding from the same spirit , which is proved not to be of God ▪ but of the Devil , for every tree is known by its fruit , and every spirit by its works , and words : many other things more devilish , if more devilish can be ; he charges us withal in a most unreasonable manner , that our Religion is the Fort of Babel , and that Jesuitical Plots and Designes are carried on by some of us ; and Quakerism is built upon the fourfold pillar of Papistry , with such like ; the very transcribing of his words shewes his wicked spirit by his unsavory words ; which things we do deny in the presence of the Lord , and are clear in his sight from these divilish accusations ▪ though I. S. play the Devils part , in this Epistle as well as in his whole Book : and is an accuser of the brethren , and is to be cast out and judged , with the life of God , and to give testimony against his lyes and slanders is sufficient Answer , and the next time he enterprises the like Work , we demand of him witness of his words , what these Jesuitical Flots and Designes are , we do carry on ; Which slander is so divelish could he prove what he saith ▪ his words would take away our lives ; but to raise the unclean spirits against us , though the Nations is truly supposed the purpose of his words , and not being content with what he himself can believe us in , his work reaches to raise the rage of whole Nations to execute their fury as well as his own upon us , and so his words gives ground to all the wicked that doth believe h●m ( for none else can ) to persecute the people , and way of the Lord , under the false account of being Plotters , and of having ill Designes , which things we stand witness against , and seeks the peace of all men , though he have bent his tongue for Lyes , and brazen'd his face to utter them without fear or shame , to suggest evil into mens minds that they may harm the upright , but it is known by his words what lodgeth in the heart of such a person , who thus openly and impudently doth slander just men to the taking away of life ▪ if any were so divilish to witness lyes and slanders , as he is in forging of them , and declaring of them , and that to the Protector and his Council too ; but from these things we being clear , are the more ready to bear his Lyes with Patience , and doth not pray for fire to devour him , though he be our enemy and the Lords ; but rather wishes his returning from his ungodliness , than a destruction upon him in his ungodliness ; and whereas the substance of his matter invented in his mind and brought forth into view , is a going about to prove that in twenty two particulars mentioned by him , we do contradict the Scriptures , but his ground is false from whence his whole work proceeds , for not in any particular of what is mentioned do we contradict the Scriptures , though his whole work be founded upon this thing , of our contradiction to Scripture , and while we be approved in the sight of the Lord , we reckon his s●●nders to be rather a testimony to us , that we are of God , than a discouraging of us in the wayes of God : and we do not allow that I. S. be our Interpreter , and the Expositor upon our words : for then no question but he will judge out of his prejudicial mind , false Judgement , and pervert the innocent words into contradiction of Scripture , and of our selves , but to the single mind and witness of God in every man we appeal for judgment , and doth in the sight of God commend our selves to every mans Conscience , and begs not belief of any , but knows all that be in the light of the Son of God witnesseth to us , and feels our Doctrine to be the Doctrine of Godliness , reaching to the witness of God in every one whereby we are a good savour to God in all , and though I. S. judge our doctrine to be Scripture contradictions , yet his judgement is but out of his old lying heart , which can bring forth no better than it self even false judgement , and lying words , which out of it hath plentifully abounded , in his false Rebukes ; therefore let the Reader first search into the ground from whence his work and judgement doth spring , and try if an old Lying heart , and sinful wretch ( as he confesses he is ) can bring forth good fruit ; no , we matter not what his judgement of us be , when as we know the heart is corrupt from whence it doth spring , not in the light of the spirit of God , do we in any one particular insisted upon , by him Contradict the Scriptures , though by his dark minde so he wickedly judgeth of us , even as the Pharisees , his forefathers , did judge of Christ to be a Blasphemer and a Contradictor of Moses , and the Prophets , who did fulfil them , and put them to an end , and not destroy them , nor contradict them not in the sight of his Father , though to their corrupt judgement ; and Christ tells them that they erred not knowing the Scriptures , nor the power of God , who had old lying hearts , & were sinful wretches , even such as John Stelham hath confessed himself to be , and therefore his words and judgment , and theirs is like to be all of one nature ▪ judging truth to be error , and the way of God to be Heresie and Blasphemy , this the Pharisees did of old , and even thus doth John Stelham and his Companions do at this day ; but why should any be troubled hereat , seeing herein Christs words are fulfilled upon us , who said , they shall speak all manner of evil falsly against you for my names sake ; and so hath this man done with his light scornful spirit , and fulfilled Christs words , who because he hath not known the Father , nor the Son , hath spoken evil falsly against them that follow Christ , and this were sufficient answer to his whole Book ; yet let us see what follows , and let the Reader try with all moderation , that he may be edified , and may know the true spirit from the false , and the doctrine of the Gospel from lying visions ; and may cleave to the truth , and escape the error , and let none believe hastily , things uttered without knowledge , out of I. S. deceitful heart . And for E. B. to say , That he came not to them with en●icing words , neither what he had gathered from the Scripture without him , But to declare the Word of the Lord , and not to speak his own conceivings and imaginations ( this is true and no contradiction in it , though I. S. say these cannot both be true , to say , That he neither came with what he had gathered from Scripture , nor his own imaginations ▪ for the Apostles of Christ did not preach what they had gathered from Scripture , neither their own imaginations , but preached the Word and Gospel of God which they had received from God , and not gathered from Scripture , nor in their own imaginations ; and because he saith , both these negatives cannot be true , then it is concluded , that himself preaches either what he hath gathered from Scripture , or his own imaginations , and let him chuse to say whether he will ; and in the next , he will be proved a false Prophet , and that E ▪ B. compiled a Book out of Scripture , Collections , is false , for having the same Spirit which gave forth the Scripture , which brings the Scripture to remembrance , is not compiling a Book out of Scriptures ; and I. S. is found a false accuser , and E. B. neither a self Contradictor , no● self curser , and these are true words to this generation ▪ and owned with the Spirit of God , though I. S. in his scornful spirit abuse them ▪ he that hath the Word of the Lord , from the mouth of the Lord , to declare , he is reviled ▪ and mocked .
    keywords: christ; contradiction; doth; false; god; hath; heart; i. s.; light; lord; man; men; people; saith; scripture; spirit; things; truth; unto; words
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        item: #13 of 13
          id: A90306
      author: University of Oxford.
       title: An account of the decree of the University of Oxford, against some heretical tenets At a meeting of Mr. Vice-Chancellour, and the heads of colledges and halls, in the University of Oxford, the 25th of November, 1695.
        date: 1695
       words: 1150
      flesch: 63
     summary: An account of the decree of the University of Oxford, against some heretical tenets At a meeting of Mr. Vice-Chancellour, and the heads of colledges and halls, in the University of Oxford, the 25th of November, 1695. University of Oxford. 1695 Approx.
    keywords: oxford; tcp; text; university
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