        item: #1 of 12
          id: A26111
      author: Astry, Thomas.
       title: A true relation of a young man, about seventeen years of age, who was struck dumb for the space of twenty four hours because he would not believe what was said unto him by Thomas Astry.
        date: 1671
       words: 4925
      flesch: 62
     summary: Let not Truth be slighted , although they come to you in a very plain Dress ; embrace them , and the Lord work it powerfully upon thy heart , as it hath been upon mine ; and if thou shalt receive any good by it , give God the Praise and Glory of it , and I have my end and aim in it ; And I fearing that I shall neither have time nor strength to give every one a particular account by word of mouth , I have thoughts to have it Printed , whereby I might give every one satisfaction ; that may come to make enquiry into the truth of it . Thou hast ascended on high , thou hast led Captivity Captive , thou hast received guifts for men ; Yea , for the rebellious also that the Lord God may dwell among them .
    keywords: hand; hath; lord; man; saith; tcp; text
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        item: #2 of 12
          id: A26794
      author: Bates, William, 1625-1699.
       title: The great duty of resignation to the divine will in afflictions enforced from the example of our suffering Saviour / by William Bates ...
        date: 1684
       words: 29183
      flesch: 62
     summary: But the Decree of God is not the Rule of our Duty , and Secret , till manifested by the event of things . Some are discouraged and over-born by Afflictions as insupportable : others are stubborn and careless , and never lay them to heart : they never look upward to the original efficient Cause , an Offended God ; nor inward to the impulsive deserving Cause , their Sins ; but esteem them fortuitous Events that happen in this mutable state , without a design to correct and reform Sinners ; or to proceed from a blind necessity , things of course ; or meerly regard the second Causes and Instruments of their Troubles : accordingly , when they meet with Calamities , all their care is by a perverse shift to seek for relief onely in Temporal Comforts ; without serious applying themselves to God , whose end in sending Troubles , is to reclaim us from Sin to Holiness , from Earth to Heavens , from the Creatures to himself .
    keywords: afflictions; christ; comforts; duty; evils; glory; god; good; heaven; holy; joy; life; lord; love; man; mind; nature; passions; patience; power; providence; saints; saviour; sin; soul; spirit; state; sufferings; things; thou; troubles; wisdom; world
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        item: #3 of 12
          id: A39114
      author: Eyre, Elizabeth.
       title: A letter from a person of quality in the north to a friend in London, concerning Bishop Lake's late declaration of his dying in the belief of the doctrine of passive obedience as the distinguishing character of the Church of England
        date: 1689
       words: 3940
      flesch: 53
     summary: Church of England -- Doctrines. For 't is so far from being necessary on the Bishop's account , that 't was really impertinent :
    keywords: bishop; character; church; doctrine; england; tcp; text
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        item: #4 of 12
          id: A39119
      author: Eyre, William, 1612 or 13-1670.
       title: A vindication of the letter out of the north concerning Bishop Lake's declaration of his dying in the belief of the doctrine of passive obedience, &c. : in answer to a late pamphlet, called, The defence of the profession, &c. of the said Bishop : as far as it concerns the person of quality.
        date: 1690
       words: 14811
      flesch: 54
     summary: Therefore I think the House of Commons have proposed very well to lay a Brand on them who did voluntarily deliver up their Charters , and thereby betray those Liberties they were sworn to maintain : for , for my part I cannot understand why I am not as much obliged by the Oath that I take for the Defence of my Country , and the maintaining of the Rights and Franchises of such a Town , as I am by the Oaths of Allegiance to the King ; for if the King break his Oath , and infringe those Liberties he has sworn to protect , yet I do not see how he can absolve or dispence with mine , unless we make him Pope as well as King. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors.
    keywords: answer; author; bishop; church; doctrine; england; god; good; king; men; person; quality; subjects; thing; thought
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        item: #5 of 12
          id: A39268
      author: Ellis, Clement, 1630-1700.
       title: The right foundation of quietness, obedience, and concord discovered in two seasonable discourses ... / by Clem. Elis ...
        date: 1684
       words: 38274
      flesch: 68
     summary: Now how is it possible for peace and due subjection to Government to be preserved in Kingdoms and States , so long as men are not able to make peace at home in their own hearts , nor know how to command or quiet their own thoughts and disorderly affections , but are continually by their own devices raising and fomenting an endless Civil War in their own Breasts ; downright Rebels to themselves , and Enemies to the Monarchy that God himself hath founded in man ? Having thus seen what we are to understand by man , these four things we may now learn from the Text. 2. 13. ) To every Ordinance of man for the Lord's sake ; whether it be to the King as Supreme , or unto Governors , as unto them that are sent by him , for the punishment of Evil-doers , and for the praise of them that do well ? Will men always be so absurd , as to think they best secure the Liberty of their Consciences , by rebelling against those whom they must needs be subject to , not only for wrath , but Conscience sake ?
    keywords: christ; church; counsel; devices; glory; god; good; hath; heart; honour; humility; lord; love; man; men; mind; peace; self; selves; stand; strife; thing; tho; thoughts; vain; way; wisdom; work; world
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        item: #6 of 12
          id: A40717
      author: Fullwood, Francis, d. 1693.
       title: Obedience due to the present King, notwithstanding our oaths to the former written by a divine of the Church of England.
        date: 1689
       words: 3382
      flesch: 58
     summary: Obedience due to the present King, notwithstanding our oaths to the former written by a divine of the Church of England. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 938:37) Obedience due to the present King, notwithstanding our oaths to the former written by a divine of the Church of England.
    keywords: allegiance; crown; king; law; oath; possession; tcp; text
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        item: #7 of 12
          id: A53738
      author: Owen, John, chaplain to Lord Grey of Ruthin.
       title: The true way to loyalty a sermon preached by John Owen, chaplain to the Right Honourable Henry, Lord Grey of Ruthin.
        date: 1684
       words: 10762
      flesch: 46
     summary: But we think it , as the Apostle did , meet and necessary , to put People in Mind of Loyalty and Obedience , for the same reason that we put 'em in mind of all other Duties ; viz. He there runs through all those Bonds and Relations wherein we stand ingaged to one another , either as Husband and Wife , Master and Servant , or Father and Children ; and shews , how that the Gospel Liberty , and Priviledges , do not consist in bursting these Bonds asunder , or in untying the Knot of Government and Obedience , whereby we are knit together in mutual Relations and Dependencies .
    keywords: authority; duty; good; government; loyalty; obedience; people; prince; principles; religion; superiours; thing; way; world
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        item: #8 of 12
          id: A59571
      author: Sharp, John, 1645-1714.
       title: A sermon preached before the Lords spiritual and temporal in Parliament assembled in the abbey-church at Westminster, on the thirtieth of January, 1699/700 / by the Most Reverend Father in God, John, Lord Arch-bishop of York.
        date: 1700
       words: 5934
      flesch: 64
     summary: Obedience -- Religious aspects. For by the design of keeping it , the business that the Preacher hath to do , is to press Obedience and Subjection to the Government we live under , and to Preach against Faction and Rebellion .
    keywords: authority; god; government; laws; man; obedience; subject; text; thing
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        item: #9 of 12
          id: A59833
      author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
       title: Observations upon Mr. Johnson's remarks, upon Dr. Sherlock's book of non-resistance
        date: 1689
       words: 8281
      flesch: 28
     summary: Thus by laying the Scene under another Reign , we may take a just Estimate of the unaccountable Partiality we are guilty of in our own Cause , whereas there ought to be legitima personarum mutatio in order to the true understanding and practising the greatest and the most comprehensive Rule of Righteousness , Whatsoever you would that men should do unto you , do you even so unto them : Now if all the Priests in the Church of Rome were just such Casuists as you are , and all the People of that Communion could believe them , and would be directed by them , you might as well shackle the Hellespont , and commit the Sea to the Gate-House , or make any other Gotham-Act to hedge in these Cuckows ; for they upon this principle bid the same defence to any Law , Oaths or Tests that the power or wit of man can make , that you have done ( with less reason ) to Cambridge , and the Church Julia shall spead the rest ; the Heathen Poet corrects the Christian Priest. You say ( Page the sixth of your Preface ) that if King James had been a rightful King when he took Possession of the Crown ( as he was not but a publick Enemy ) he has since that time broken the Fundamental Contract : In these words there is one of the boldest and most notorious Falshoods that ever was broach'd , for he was certainly rightful King after the Death of his Brother , even though your malicious insinuation from his outliving him , had ( which it has not ) either weight or truth in it : The very Votes of both Houses of Convention acknowledge so much when they insisted upon the Abdication , without ever calling his Title into question ; besides if he had no right to succeed in the Throne , your Lord and the other Gentlemen of the Exclusion were much in the wrong ; had you made as much appear then , as you confidently assert now , you had sav'd the two Houses a great many angry debates , and the important Fortress of Tangier had been still in our hands , and undemolished ; and the lower House knew the importance of that place very well when they set the Bill of Exclusion upon it's head as the price of its Relief or Redemption rather ; and what necessity there was to shut out by Law , one that by Law had no right to come in , surpasses my discerning : yet farther , you prayed for him as King as oft as you did your duty in reading Common-Prayer ; now Men of mettle are seldom Hypocrites , and I cannot persuade my self you could in your Prayers to God acknowledge him to be King , whom in your Conscience you did not think rightfully and lawfully to be King : All prevarication is disengenuous and cannot become a Christian , much less one that waits at the Altar , and still less in the Service of God ; so that this consequence is self-evident , either you were a Hypocrite then , or worse now : As for what you say of his being excluded by three successive Houses of Commons , you might as well have told us that he was excluded by the Diet at Ratisbone , or the Swiss Cantons , for their Power was as great to exclude him as that of the Commons of England alone without the consent of the King and Lords : you have made as much of it as the case will bear , when you tell us it was a Caveat , and I suppose you know the Nature of a Caveat so well as not to stand in need of information what manner of treatment they commonly meet with in all places where they are entred .
    keywords: allegiance; church; english; good; king; law; man; men; oath; religion; tcp; text; tyrant
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        item: #10 of 12
          id: A60614
      author: Smith, William, b. 1615 or 16.
       title: The unjust mans doom as examined by the several kinds of Christian justice, and their obligation : with a particular representation of the injustice & danger of partial conformity / by William Smyth.
        date: 1670
       words: 16666
      flesch: 41
     summary: Now if by Gods blessing I may in any measure attain both my Designs ; If by the first I may fully instruct Souls to live ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) Now because that every one of these should do right in his place , a civil account ( at best ) can advance to no other obligation , but that it is fit and worthy to be done ; ( too weak an Argument , to resist a Temptation from Profit , or Passion , to do the contrary ; ) therefore they are to be religiously instructed , ( which makes this present exercise reasonable above all Apologies and Answers for the practice of former times among us , when Divines sate upon the principal Seats of Justice ) I say , men are to be further instructed , that to do Civil Right , is , now , of Divine Obligation , and a necessary condition of every mans Salvation ; under Encouragements of infallible Rewards , which no man shall lose , that brings but ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) the least refreshment or assistance to a just procedure ; and under the terrour of dreadful threatnings , which none shall escape , that pervert Judgment , do wrong , and shall any way be instrumental to the violation of anothers
    keywords: christian; church; churches; conformity; design; god; hath; justice; man; men; obedience; order; people; persons; religion; right; text; universal; unjust; ● ●
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        item: #11 of 12
          id: A62670
      author: Tindal, Matthew, 1653?-1733.
       title: An essay concerning obedience to the supreme powers, and the duty of subjects in all revolutions with some considerations touching the present juncture of affairs.
        date: 1694
       words: 26504
      flesch: 47
     summary: The former King is so far then from being their Legal King , that he is no King at all , nor has any manner of Right to their Allegiance . They being once free from Government , and by consequence in the state of Nature , nothing can give the Conqueror right to their Allegiance , but their own Consent .
    keywords: allegiance; god; good; government; king; law; laws; nation; nature; obedience; people; person; power; protection; publick; reason; right; society
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        item: #12 of 12
          id: A86672
      author: Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.
       title: A true testimony of obedience to the heavenly call, for which I suffer the loss of all things, that I may be found in obedience to him who hath called me.
        date: 1654
       words: 3002
      flesch: 36
     summary: A Servant of the Lord , and a Prisoner for the Testimony of Jesus , whom he hath called by his grace to deny the world , and am made partaker of his sufferings , being in outward bonds ( by the deceit ) in West-Chester , and of his free-will hath given me not only to beleeve , but to suffer for his Name sake , who hath called me out of my own Country , and from my fathers house , and to go in obedience to his Command whithersoever he shall call me : while I was young I girded my self , and went whither I would , and then I yielded obedience to my own will and to the will of man , and was a man-pleaser , but the Will of God I knew not , neither was obedient to his Commands ; but when the Lord was pleased to reveal his Son in me , and make known his Will unto me , to enlighten me with his true Light which hath enlightened every one that cometh into the world , and by it let me see my self to be a strrnger to him , and knew him not , though I was grown mighty in the Egyptians wisdom , and was in love with the world , and in the favour of men , and in a profession and words of mans wisdom exceeded others , being in a form of godliness , but was ignorant of his Power and his Word ; but when his Power was made manifest , and his Word spoken within me , which Word was in my heart , and was as a fire or a hammer , and this Word being made manifest within me , and my Conscience being awakened by the light of God , which did convince me of sin , and did testifie against all my words and actions , and that just Judgments of God were revealed from Heaven against that nature I lived in , and the Trumpet of the Lord was sounded within me , and the Earth did tremble , and the vials of the wrath of the Almighty was poured down upon me , and the powers of the Earth were terribly shaken , the foundation of wisdom and earthly knowledg was shaken , and the Judgments of God were upon the outward man till my flesh was wasted off my bones , and the bones smote one against another , and I knew the Lord to be terrible , and his Word powerful , in burning up and hammering down the lustful nature I lived in , in pleasure and wantonness , in pride and fulness , which the Word of the Lord was declared against , and this Word I witness spoken from the Lords own Power within me , which made my flesh and bones to tremble exceedingly , and did cause pain in all my loyns , and paleness of face , my comliness was turned into corruption , and my joy into lamentation , and I was brought to the bed of sorrows , where I cryed out in the bitterness of my spirit , and I had no ease nor rest , day nor night , for the hearing of the ear which I did hear , and the sight of mine eyes which I did see ; I heard the sound of the Trumpet , the Alarum of War within me , terrors , wo , misery and destruction was upon me , in my trouble I cryed in the evening would God it were morning , and in the morning would God it were evening ; and the terrors of the Almighty being upon me , my Acquaintance and familiars stood afar off me , for they knew not the power of the Lord , nor the Judgments of my God , which I do witness to be revealed and made manifest in me ; and the Lord raised up in me a love to his Word , by which all the powers of the Earth did tremble , and the Earth it self was shaken by it , and by this Word was I called to go and declare it , as I had received it from the Lord ; to those who lived in the same heathenish nature , without the knowledge of God , and to declare the Judgments of God against sin and ungodliness , as they were made manifest in me : and by this Word was I called to forsake father and mother , lands and living to go in obedience to the Lord , who commanded me not to take thought what I should eat , or what I should drink , or wherewith I should be cloathed ; but cast my care upon him , and this I witness the Lords care , and those whom the Lord calls into his Work and who labor in his Vineyard need not to complain to the wold for want , and for yeilding obedience to the Lord and his Commands , and not giving obedience to the corrupt will of man : who commands me contrary to what the Lord hath commanded : do I suffer under the persecution of those who are set in the place of Rulers , and Magistrates professing themselves to be Ministers of the Law of England and to act Justice according to that Law , and do bear the names of Major Justices of peace , and Magistrates , and say they act according to the Law of the Nation and present Goverment , but they are seen to be in the generation of those who were ever persecutors of the righteous Seed , where ever it is brought forth : and the Servants of the Lord in all ages were ever persecuted by that generation , professing to be Ministers of Justice ; but that which is acted is cruelty persecution and Injustice , and the Righteous suffer , which the Law was not for ; but for the Lawless and disobedient , and was added because of transgression : The Righteous Law of God was made to be afflicted upon Transgressors and breakers of the Law ; but the unrighteous Law of men is afflicted upon the Righteous who walk blameless , and are proved no Transgressors : but in Obedience to the Lord , do witness a good conversation towards God and towards men , our consciences bearing us witness in the sight of God , and those who are Rulers of the City and rulers of the sinogogue under which I suffer imprisonment , Say , this is their law that if I will go home into my own country and to my fathers house , and stay there , and depart this City , I may be free upon this accompt , else I shall remain in prison , and this is contrary to the command of the Lord , for he hath commanded me out of my own country and from my fathers house , but my own country , dwelling and fathers house , the world knows not , that which I am called from they know the natural man knows that which is natural , and this is contrary to the law of the nation , for the law of the nation doth not confine any to stay at one place , nor to be kept from any one city , being proved no transgressor , nor breaker of the law , but I seek a countrey and a City whose builder and maker is God , and truly if I had been mindfull of the country I came forth ▪ and did love the pleasures , delights and flesh pots of Egyp● which I am called from I might have had opportunitie to have returned thither but in obedience to the Lord I had rather suffer affliction with the people of God , then enjoy the pleasures of Egypt , and you who say I have no lawfull calling , I doe witnesse the same Word of God the true prophets of the Lord was commanded by to declare against all sin and ungodlinesse , by the same Word doe I declare against it where I am commanded of the Lord and am called out of the same calling that they were , into the same work of the Lord which they were , and so I do witnesse the testimony of my bretheren the prophets that went before me , who hath left an example in record of suffering affliction and of patience , and we count them happie which endure . Amos was commanded not to prophecy any more in the Kings Chappel , Amos 7. 13. and the Apostles were imprisoned , beaten , scourged and persecuted from City to City , and straitly commanded to speak no more in that Name ; and for declaring this Word of the Lord did all the Prophets , Apostles , and holy men of God suffer ; and the Word of the Lord is the same now , and the Persecutors the same ; and those who are sent of the Lord now , and called out of their own Country , as they were then , to declare his Word against your sin and ungodliness which you live in , Magistrates , Priests and people , you call them wanderers and vagrant persons , who have no lawful Calling : What would you say by him who said , The Foxes have holes , and the birds of the ayre have nests , but the Son of man hath no where to lay his head , Luke 9. 58. and the Jews sayd , This fellow we know not from whence he is , Ioh. 9. 29.
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