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id: A79955
author: Cleveland, John, 1613-1658.
title: The hue and cry after Sir John Presbyter.
date: 1649.0
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flesch: 72
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summary:
  In verse - With Hair in Characters, and Lugs in text:. Annotations on Thomason copies: (Thomason 669.f.14[25]) may 4. 1649; (Thomason 669.f.14[64] Augus 7th 1649. WIth Hair in Characters , and Lugs in text : With a splay mouth , & a nose circumflext : With a set Ruff of Musket bore , that wears Like Cartrages or linen Bandileers , Exhausted of their sulpherous Contents In Pulpit fire-works , which that Bomball vents : The Negative and Covenanting Oath , Like two Mustachoes , issuing from his mouth : The Bush upon his chin , ( like a carv'd story , In a Box knot ) cut by the Directory : Madams Confession hanging at his eare , Wiredrawn through all the questions , How & Where , Each circumstance , so in the hearing Felt , That when his ears are cropt hee 'le count them gelt : The sweeping Cassock scar'd into a Jump ; A signe the Presbyter's worne to the stump ; The Presbyter , though charm'd against mischance With the Divine right of an Ordinance .


id: A94408
author: England and Wales. Army.
title: To his Excellencie the Lord Charls Fleetwood, and the rest of the officers of the Army
date: 1659.0
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words: 1012
sentence: 45
flesch: 71
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summary:
  To his Excellencie the Lord Charls Fleetwood, and the rest of the officers of the Army This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94408 of text R211163 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.21[24]). The understanding of which ( together with what we have observed by tracing the foot steps of providence in your late transactions ) giveth us ground to believe that you are returning in good earnest ; the thoughts , of which , incourageth us to present unto you , vvhat the Lord hath powerfully put upon our spirits , as the result of our several meetings , wherein we doubt not but we have met with God .


id: A41367
author: Gogor, William, d. 1681.
date: 1681.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 1329
sentence: 53
flesch: 62
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title:
  The late speech and testimony of William Gogor one of the three desperate and incorrigible traytors execute [sic] at the Grass Mercat in Edinburgh, the eleventh day of March, 1681, for disowning His Sacred Majesties authority ...

summary:
  Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 109908) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A80351
author: Carleton, George, 1559-1628.
date: 1642.0
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words: 1606
sentence: 67
flesch: 68
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title:
  Bp Carletons testimonie concerning the Presbyterian discipline in the Low-Countries, and Episcopall government here in England. VVherein is briefly discovered the novelty of the one, and antiquity of the other; with a short taste of the inconveniences that attend the new plat-forme, where that is set up in the roome of the old primitive government. Published for the common good.

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A80351 of text R2006 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E107_18). VVherein i Carleton, George 1642 1210 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 B The rate of 8 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words.


id: A90545
author: Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.
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words: 2010
sentence: 62
flesch: 55
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title:
  Several propositions presented to the members of the Honourable House of Commons, by Mr. Peters, Minister of the Gospell of Jesus Christ; concerning the Presbyterian ministers of this kingdome. With a discovery of two great plots against the Parliament of England: the first, by the Queen, and the English runagadoes in France. The second, by the Lord Hopton, Col. Cartwright, and divers others in the island of Jarsey. Also, a declaration of His Highnesse the Prince of Wales in France.

summary:
  Thus having given you ( in briefe ) the effect and substance of the Propositions or Report of ( the renowned Worthy of our Times ) Mr. PETERS , upon Friday last , concerning the managing of the Affaires for the Kingdom of Ireland ; I will in the next place communicate unto you , the dangerous estate and condition of this our native Kingdom of England ; by reason of the manifold Plots and Conspiracies which are dayly acting and contriving ( by the Enemies of GOD ) against the Worthies of England , the High and Honourable Court of Parliament : Yet all their Machavillian Plots , and horrid conspiracies have been frustrated , and taken no effect ; For when they were in the height of their pride , and ( almost ) upon the finishing of their wicked Conspiracies , it pleased God to discover and bring to light all their barbarous and inhumane intentions : With a discovery of two great plots against the Parliament of England: the first, by the Queen, and the English runagadoes in France.


id: A79481
author: Chidley, Katherine.
date: 1645.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 2430
sentence: 70
flesch: 58
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title:
  Good counsell, to the petitioners for Presbyterian government, that they may declare their faith before they build their church.

summary:
  And therefore my desire is , that the Parliament may submit to God for direction and counsell , even to beware of men , especially of false Prophets , or any evill workers whatever they be ; And that all persons fearing God , in the City of London , or elsewhere , may blesse God , for fulfilling his promises unto them , that their eyes enjoy their Teachers , though in an upper roome , as Christ and his Apostles met . And this power they have from God though with persecution , now , in this time of Parliament .


id: A85421
author: Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.
date: 1651.0
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words: 2721
sentence: 137
flesch: 80
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title:
  Tvvo hyms, or spirituall songs; sung in Mr. Goodwins congregation on Friday last being the 24. of Octob. 1651. Which was a day set apart by authority of Parliament for a solemn thanksgiving unto God by this nation, for that most wonderfull and happy successe of the English army under the conduct of his excellency the Lord General Cromwel over the Scottish forces at Worcester. Also a letter for satisfaction of some Presbyterian ministers, and others, who hold it unlawfull to give thanks for the shedding of blood.

summary:
  Which was a day set apart by authority of Parliament for a solemn thanksgiving unto God by this nation, for that most wonderfull and happy successe of the English army under the conduct of his excellency the Lord General Cromwel over the Scottish forces at Worcester. Which was a day set apart by authority of Parliament for a solemn thanksgiving unto God by this nation, for that most wonderfull and happy successe of the English army under the conduct of his excellency the Lord General Cromwel over the Scottish forces at Worcester.


id: A70865
author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
date: 1644.0
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words: 3376
sentence: 139
flesch: 65
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title:
  Faces about, or, A recrimination charged upon Mr. John Goodvvin in the point of fighting against God, and opposing the way of Christ and a justification of the Presbyterian way in the particulars by him unjustly charged upon it : vvith other short animadversions upon his late book called [Theomachia] or, The grand imprudence of men running the hazard of fighting against God, &c.

summary:
  18 , he wisheth it may be the first-born of religious Advertisements and Cautions to us , That no man , or rank of men whatsoever , do appear , especially in any high handed Opposition or Contestation , nor so much as lift up an hard thought against Doctrine or Way , claiming Origination and Descent from God , till we have Security upon Security , Proof upon Proof , Demonstration upon Demonstration , Evidence upon Evidence , that such Ways or Doctrines onely pretend unto God , as the Authors of them ; and that in truth they are not at all from him . Faces about, or, A recrimination charged upon Mr. John Goodvvin in the point of fighting against God, and opposing the way of Christ and a justification of the Presbyterian way in the particulars by him unjustly charged upon it : vvith other short animadversions upon his late book called [Theomachia] or, The grand imprudence of men running the hazard of fighting against God, &c. Prynne, William, 1600-1669.


id: A91232
author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
date: 1647.0
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words: 4626
sentence: 87
flesch: 33
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title:
  New Presbyterian light springing out of Independent darkness. or VI. important new queries proposed to the Army, and their friends and party of the Houses; concerning the late ordinance for repeal of the new militia of London, setled by an ordinance of both Houses, when full and free, for an whole year, (not yet one quarter expired;) and other late repeals of ordinances and votes; and the high declaration against the intended petition and engagement of the Londoners and others, for the speedy settlement of the kingdomes peace: occasioned by the debates thereof in the Common Councel in the Guildhal on Saturday last, the 24 of this instant Iuly. Discovering the dangerous consequences of repealing ordinances and votes, and the Independents, sectaries, and Armies plots, to blast the honour, justice, and reputation of this Parliament, thereby to dissolve it and all others in it; their false pretences of peace, when they intend nought lesse; and their strange injustice and malice against Presbyterians, which will end in their own dishonour and downfal.

summary:
  important new queries proposed to the Army, and their friends and party of the Houses; concerning the late ordinance for repeal of the new militia of London, setled by an ordinance of both Houses, when full and free, for an whole year, (not yet one quarter expired;) and other late repeals of ordinances and votes; and the high declaration against the intended petition and engagement of the Londoners and others, for the speedy settlement of the kingdomes peace: occasioned by the debates thereof in the Common Councel in the Guildhal on Saturday last, the 24 of this instant Iuly. important new queries proposed to the Army, and their friends and party of the Houses; concerning the late ordinance for repeal of the new militia of London, setled by an ordinance of both Houses, when full and free, for an whole year, (not yet one quarter expired;) and other late repeals of ordinances and votes; and the high declaration against the intended petition and engagement of the Londoners and others, for the speedy settlement of the kingdomes peace: occasioned by the debates thereof in the Common Councel in the Guildhal on Saturday last, the 24 of this instant Iuly.


id: A93581
author: Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.
date: 1646.0
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words: 6086
sentence: 153
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title:
  The divine right of Presbyterie, asserted by the present Assembly, and petitioned for accordingly to the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament. With reasons discussing this pretended divine right; and yet with tendernesse to the brethren of the Presbyterial way. Pleading for a liberty of conscience for them in this their opinion, as for others of their dissenting brethren, and equally for both. With inferences upon their late petition. / By John Saltmarsh, preacher of the gospel.

summary:
  Inference Whence we may inferre , that their whole endeavour is , to raise up the Interest of the Eldership and Presbytery into a distinct , sole , and Independent body and power ; which how conformable , and obedient , and consistent it may prove to and with the power of the State in one and the same Kingdome , would be considered , when such an Interest growes up from its infancy and first Reformation , into a fuller and more perfect man : And whether their petitioning of a power from the State to compleat and make them an Eldership and Presbytery , doth not imply a power in the State more or rather as fully Ecclesiasticall as their Presbytery ; for can the State give them any Ecclesiasticall power , and have none in it selfe ? so as according to these Principles the State is Ecclesiasticall as well as they , and so not to be denyed the power of Commissioning with them : or else t is a meer contradiction to pray for power from those to their Eldership and Presbytery , which they say is a Government and Power entirely Ecclesiasticall and compleat in it selfe ; and so , as they either pray for that which they have of their own already , or else pray for that from the State which they cannot give them . FIrst , They who are the Presbyters in this present Presbytery , pretend to be Presbyters by a power of Ordination from Bishops , as the Bishops were Presbyters : and if so , they are to make it appear , that there is a true personal succession of Ministery from the Apostles , and that they do lineally succeed without interruption ; for in succession unlesse there be a certain , perpetual , and personal derivation of power , there can be no certainty , nor infallibility of the truth of such a power ; and whether the proof of this draws not with it a necessary and perpetual visibility of a Church , ( contrary to the opinion of all the Reformed Divines ; ) and further , a truth of Church-Ministery , and Ordinances of Jesus Christ in the Antichristian State , from whence this Ministery of theirs comes , by which they stand present-Presbyters ; and how any true Ministery can be found in that very Antichristian State , which is called the man of sin , the mystery of iniquity , the Whore of Babylon , the falling away ; and how the same State can be both meerly Antichristian and Christian , a Whore of Babylon and a Spouse of Jesus Christ , a Ministery of God and a mystery of iniquity , a Temple of God and of Idols ; I leave it to be judged .


id: A55680
author: Clark, James, 1660-1723.
date: 1695.0
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words: 5501
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flesch: 54
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title:
  Presbyterial government described, or, A methodical synopsis of it, as it is professed and practized in the Church of Scotland gathered out of the confessions of faith, and other publick records of that church ... / by Britannus Philopresbyter.

summary:
  Ass : 1638 , ss : 25. 19 There 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Censures are also spiritual , and they proceed from Lesser reproofs [ even as the Offender deserves ] ay till they come to the tremenduous censure of Excommunication , which is seldome inflicted and that not till after Leasurely deliberation , and frequent dealing , to bring the obdured delinquent to sensible Repentance , and if a gentle and discreet means are contemned , then with a great deal of solemnitie , as being Summum futuri Judicji prejudicium , they proceed to this Final and whiles Fatal sentence : they also deal with censured Delinquents to induce and prepare them to serious Repentance , that upon the apparent evidences thereof , they may be absolved , and received again into Church Communion , but if such contumacious miscreants will be obstinatly wicked to their own perdition , they grieve at Satans better success then the Churches , and leave them to the last Judgement of GOD Genev : form of Excom : and absol : 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 concerned , hence their grand care and business is to fence against Heresies , Errors , and Schisms , and such heretodox dogmes , or tenets , as are contrar to sound Doctrine and Godlinss , ne quid detrimenti capiat Ecclesia , they also as Censores morum , animadvert that no scandalous or notorious vice and impietie pass without a due check & censure , according to the merit of offences occurrent , so that matters of Faith and Godliness of Conscience and Conversation , are the proper and formal objects of their disquisition and determinations , 2. B. disc : 79 , Ass : dir : 15 , &c. Ass : Cons :


id: A47415
author: Kid, John, d. 1679.
date: 1680.0
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words: 7149
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flesch: 54
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title:
  The last speeches of the two ministers Mr. John King, and Mr. John Kid, [brace] at the place of execution at Edenburgh on the 14th day of August, 1679.

summary:
  Eightly , As for the Fifth Cause in my indictment , upon which my sentence of death is founded , ( viz. ) Personal presence , Twice or thrice , with that party whom they call the Rebels ; for my own part I never Judged them such : I Acknowledge and do believe there were many there that came in the simplicity of their hearts , like those that followed Absolom long ago , and I am as sure on the other hand there were a great party there that had nothing before them but the repairing of the Fallen work , and the restoring the breach , which is wide as the Sea , and I am apt to think that such of these who were most branded with mistake , will be found to be most single : but for Rebellion against his Majesties person or Lawful Authority , the Lord knows my Soul Abhorreth the name and thing ; Loyal I have been , and I wish every Christian to be so , and I was ever of this Judgment , To give to Caesar the things that are Caesars , and to God the things that are Gods. That I preached up Rebellion , and taking up Arms against Authority is untrue , I bless the Lord my Conscience doth not condemn me for that ; this never being my design ; if I could have preached Christ , and Salvation through his name , it was my work ; and herein have I walked according to the Light and Rule of the Word of God , as it did become me , though one of the meanest of the Ministers of the Gospel .


id: A96917
author: Walker, George, 1581?-1651.
date: 1645.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 6812
sentence: 191
flesch: 55
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title:
  A brotherly and friendly censure of the errour of a dear friend and brother in Christian affection, in an answer to his four questions lately sent abroad in print to the view of the world. Published according to order.

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


id: A57861
author: Rule, Gilbert, 1629?-1701.
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8743
sentence: 250
flesch: 56
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title:
  A true representation of Presbyterian government wherein a short and clear account is given of the principles of them that owne it, the common objections against it answered, and some other things opened that concern it in the present circumstances / by a friend to that interest.

summary:
  eng Presbyterian Church. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.


id: A37900
author: Edmonds, Hugh.
date: 1661.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 4421
sentence: 106
flesch: 45
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title:
  The censors censured, in a brief discourse to which is adjoyned the authors letter to an anti-episcopal minister concerning the government of the church : written in the year 1651, but not printed till now.

summary:
  It is time therefore for our Seminary Presbyters , who have been the Protoplastiques of a Rebellious generation , both in Church and State , to make a confession of their past faults , as well as their present faith to the King. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.


id: A54783
author: Phillips, John, 1631-1706.
title: A satyr against hypocrites
date: 1655.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 8670
sentence: 321
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Play with that fear , with that religious awe Which keeps men free , and yet is mans great law : What can they but the worst of Atheists be , Who while they word it 'gainst impiety , Affront the throne of God with their false deeds , Alas , this wonder in the Atheist breeds . TEdious have been our Fasts , and long our Prayers ; To keep the Sabbath such have been our cares , That Cisly durst not milk the gentle Mulls , To the great damage of my Lord Mayors Fooles , Which made the greazie Catchpoles swear and curse The Holy-day for want o'th'second course ; And men have lost their body's new adorning Because their cloathes could not come home that morning The sins of Parlament have long been bawl'd at , The vices of the City have been yawl'd at , Yet no amendment ; Certainly , thought I , This is a Paradox beyond all cry .


id: A41557
author: Gordon, John, M.D.
date: 1689.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 9983
sentence: 183
flesch: 31
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title:
  Plain dealing being a moderate general review of the Scots prelatical clergies proceedings in the latter reigns : with a vindication of the present proceedings in church affairs there.

summary:
  after that King James came to the Imperial Crown of England , when he endeavoured to make an Union between the two Nations , setled an Episcopal Government there , ( though contrary to the Inclinations of the People and Clergy in general ) Expecting thereby to Unite them as well in Trade as in Church Government ; And the hopes of an Union in Trade , and other things beneficial to Scotland , moved many of those who were Presbyterially inclined , to go beyond their Inclinations , and Opinion , alongst with that Settlement for present . yet how violently were they put in Execution against those poor Ministers , their Flocks and Families , for the one's Preaching , and the other's Hearing of the Word of God , without mixture or the least grains of Schism or disloyalty ? Which oppression ( meerly for the difference of Opinion ) tended to so great a Persecution ( which verified that old Saying , That Oppression makes a wise man Mad ) that it put the People in such a terrible consternation , that this Persecution or Oppression ( call it what you will ) forced the People in the Year 1666. to gather together and rise in Arms in defence of their Preacher's , Religion and Liberty , against those persecuting Clergymen ; who not only contrived , but forced the Statesmen and the King's Privy-Council to stretch these Penal and Sanguinary Laws , against both their Religion and Liberty in which they were Educated : and what Devastation , Forfaultures , Cruelties and Bloodshed followed thereupon in that poor Kingdom for several Years is so generally known , that it 's needless to relate it here , and the late King Charles , who had nothing of violence in his Nature , considering the common Evil their Divisions occasioned , ( with the concurrence , and by a representation of some Honest Men then in the Civil Government ) did give a little respite by a Toleration to some Ministers to Preach in several Congregations , but the regular Clergy were so exasperated against this Indulgence , that they themselves made terrible Clamours and Complaints to the King and Clergy of England ( who were not so immoderate , nor so immoral in their Actions against Dissenters , nor so vitious and scandalous in their Lives and Conversations ) and to the Officers of State , and the Privy Council in Scotland , not only against those poor People , but also against any that favour'd or pitied them , alledging it was a Schism in the Church , that the Ministers Preached Rebellion , which the Council found frequently upon Tryal to be false , and that those that gave any dissent to their violence against these People were disloyal .


id: A85550
author: Graunt, John, of Bucklersbury.
date: 1651.0
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mime: application/xml
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sentence: 149
flesch: 30
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title:
  Truths defender, and errors reprover: or A briefe discoverie of feined Presbyterie dilated and unfolded in 3. distinct chapters. The first, shewing what English Presbyterie is. The second declareth what the failings and errings are, in the practise of those that have constitution by Ordinance of Parliament. The third chapter discovereth the conceited fancies, of such as minde not Parliamentary directions, either for their own constitution or execution and yet denominate themselves Presbyterians. And both parties being found guilty of transgression, are admonished to repentance, according to the rule of the word of the Lord, that commandeth his servants, saying, Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sinne upon him, or as it is in the margent, or thou beare not sinne for him Levit. 19. 17. And also Capt. Norwoods declaration, proved an abnegation of Christ. / By J.G. a servant to, and lover of the truth.

summary:
  First , That a mans happinesse and salvation proceeds from something within man , as he is man , and not from some one thing without him , and so becomes happy , by himselfe , or by something of himselfe , which was borne with him , and not by imputation of anothers righteousnesse from without him . so that I know not a more fuller , or willing Congregation in this Common-wealth , for frequenting Gods publique Ordinances , for these to be denyed the Lords Supper , for five yeares together by the same Teacher , that all on a sudden , through imposing a new fancie of his owne devising , neither warranted by the Law of God or man , but destructive to both , yet all that now would follow , and daunce after his pipe , should be admitted to that he had so long time detained , & yet now also publiquely declared that all that would not ob●y his humane invention should not presume to come to the communion , and thus he conceived and brought forth vanity , for being in the pulpit , desiring the people to meet him next morning in the Church , and some fourscore of many hundreds appearing to him , he then taught them a necessity of believing his humane conceiving , to be sound doctrine and then and there , to choose a Minister , and Church-Officers of their own devising .


id: A92974
author: Sadler, John, 1615-1674.
date: 1645.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 8724
sentence: 236
flesch: 55
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title:
  Flagellum flagelli: or Doctor Bastwicks quarters beaten up in two or three Pomeridian exercises, by way of animadversion upon his first booke, intituled, Independency not Gods ordinance. / By J.S. M.A. Published by authoritie.

summary:
  But I count a vast difference between a Minister or Ministers , going abroad of their own heads , and meerly under pretences in a secret clandestine way to get the hearts of men from their sound and orthodox Teachers , for this was the practice of the false * Apostles ; and on the other hand , a Minister or Ministers going forth with the consent and approbation of a Church or churches , when , or where Christ shall make an opportunity , and open a doore for the peaceable , comely and orderly doing thereof , either to vindicate some Truthes under reproach and disgrace through a cloud of ignorance and prejudice hanging over the eyes of men ; or to discover and lay open certain errours or usurpations wherein Christ is injured , and the Saints liberties infringed ; and this in a free ingenuous way of preaching and dispute , offering and commending their Doctrine and Way to the impartiall search and examination of all , both Pastors and people , ( that heare or will heare them ) by the Word , and all this not to such an end to breed any disaffection or alienation between people and their Ministers , but to make them both free by the truth , that they may both of them know and practice their severall duties , and Christ may reap the fruit of it in the honouring of his Name , and themselves in the comfort of their own soules , through obedience and faith . And whereas you say [ the honour of that Church ] you speak very ambiguously , and improperly , not determining where , or who that Church is , whether in England or Scotland , or elsewhere , or every where , whether Catholike or Nationall , tell us , that we may honour it with you .


id: A41707
author: Gould, William, d. 1686.
date: 1682.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 10003
sentence: 238
flesch: 51
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title:
  The primitive Christian justified and Jack Presbyter reproved, or, A scripture demonstration, that to be innocent and persecuted is more eligible than to be prosperously wicked delivered in a sermon in the Abby-Church of Bath by William Goulde.

summary:
  Death is the Child of sin , not of Nature ; Nay , it destroys our Souls as well as our Bodies , The Soul that sinneth shall dye ; the death of Nature and the death of Grace , Sin occasion'd both ; and not only so , but the death that never dies is sins Wages ; 't is Sin keeps in the fire of Hell to all Eternity , that lays on those everlasting torments prepared for the Devil and his Angels ; 't is sin that not only feeds the Worm with our Bodies , but the never-dying worm with our Souls likewise ; it kindles the slames of Lust here in our hearts , and blows the coals in Hell to torment both our bodies and souls to eternal Ages ; and who can dwell with everlasting burnings ? Lastly , Sin is not the object of a rational Man , or good Christians Choice , if put in the ballance with Afflictions , and that is the last Branch of the Thesis , which I laid down at the beginning of my Discourse , occasioned by Elihu's Reprehension of Job , under the notion of chusing wickedness rather than sufferings , and this I shall demonstrate briefly and plainly , and make Application to our selves . Thirdly , Sin is not the object of a rational Mans , or true Christians choice , because every way opposite to all Gods glorious Attributes , and his very Being and Essence : If we consider Gods sovereignty , Sin is Rebellion ; if his Justice , it is Iniquity ; if his Goodness , sin is Unkindness ; If God's holiness and pureness , Sin is defilement : Consider God's holiness as a Rule , Sin is a Transgression ; if as an Excellency , Sin is Deformity : Thus it is contrary to the whole nature of God , and strikes at his Attributes and Essence .


id: A93642
author: Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.
date: 1646.0
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title:
  Groanes for liberty· Presented from the Presbyterian (formerly non-conforming) brethren, reputed the ablest and most learned among them, in some treatises called Smectymnuus, to the high and Honorable Court of Parliament in the yeare 1641, by reason of the prelates tyranny. Now awakened and presented to themselves in the behalf of their now non-conforming brethren. With a beam of light, discovering a way to peace. Also some quæres for the better understanding of Mr Edwards last book called Gangræna. With a parallel betweene the prelacy and presbytery. / By Iohn Saltmarsh preacher of the Gospel.

summary:
  1 Whether are not Divisions and Subdivisions objected now to all that are dissenting Brethren from the present way of Church-government ? and whether are Divisions any more scandall to Religion now then before ? 2 Whether is Independency , Anabaptism , Brownism , Seekers , of more evill report now , then Lutheranism , Calvinism , Zuinglianism formerly ? 3 Whether is an hundred and eighty opinions , as some would reckon them , more to be cast in the face of Religion now , then six hundred in the dayes of Nazianzen ? 4 Whether is this faire dealing for Brethren to make Apologies for divisions and severall opinions , when they are oppressed , and to turne back in accusations upon their Brethren when the oppression is off from themselves ? 2 Stinted formes not to be imposed ▪ The validity of which plea your Honours are best able to judge ; and therefore we leave it at your Barre : Brethren , THese are the sighings of some of your own spirits under Episcopacy , under the Tyranny of that government .


id: A96941
author: Walker, George, 1581?-1651.
date: 1646.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13412
sentence: 455
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A96941.xml
txt: txt/A96941.txt
title:
  A modell of the government of the church under the gospel, by presbyters, proved out of the holy scriptures, to be that one, onely uniform government of the universall visible church, and of all nationall, provinciall, classicall and congregationall churches: which is according to the will and appointment of Jesus Christ. Which may serve to stay such as are doubting, with hope of full satisfaction, and clear demonstration of this truth, shortly to be made by the reverend Assembly of Divines. / Composed by a Presbyterian minister of the city of London, and approved by divers of his learned brethren, and at their request published.

summary:
  Surely no rationall man will so much as dreame , That Ministers of Christ , who are able to teach the supreme Magistrate his duty , how to be just , and to rule over men in the feare of God , are not able to rule their owne flock , over which the holy Ghost made them overseers ; or that Church Government in their hands to whom Christ hath committed it , will prove more arbitrary , irregular , unlimited , and tyrannicall then the Government both of Commonwealth and Church in the hands of Civill Magistrates , seeing Ministers and Church Elders have a certaine and infallible rule , the word of God , to which alone they are limited , and by which the spirit of God is promised to direct them in all Censures , and Church Government . Wherefore , ô London , thou that hast chosen the best part , rejoice in the Lord thy God , who hath made his glory to rise upon thee , and his light to shine upon thy grave Senatours , thy religious Common-Councell , and all thy true hearted Citizens ; and hath led them into those waies which be in Christ , which Saint Paul taught every where , and in every Church , 1 Cor.


id: A02351
author: Guild, William, 1586-1657.
date: 1633.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8242
sentence: 248
flesch: 62
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title:
  The humble addresse both of church and poore, to the sacred maiestie of Great Britaines monarch For a just redresse of the uniting of churches, and the ruine of hospitalls. By William Guild, minister of Aberdene.

summary:
  A strange thing , that mens policie should so meete a Princes pietie , 〈◊〉 where he intended the bettering of the Churches impoverished ●●ate , by some competent provision , at least , to each one : If Patrons can 〈◊〉 evite the necessitie of obedience to that law of his Royall Parlia●ent , and Decreet of his honourable Commission , they shall finde out ●●ch a politicke course , as in effect the same shall be but frustrate , how WHen olde Israel ( most Sacred Soveraigne ) Propheticallie pronounced this Doome concerning his sonne Issach●r , that hee should co●ch downe betweene two burdens , he likened him to a strōg Asse●s needing much strength to beare so great a burden .


id: A47922
author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
date: 1661.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13580
sentence: 641
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A47922.xml
txt: txt/A47922.txt
title:
  State-divinity, or, A supplement to The relaps'd apostate wherein is prosecuted the discovery of the present design against the King, the Parliament, and the publick peace, in notes upon some late Presbyterian pamphlets / by Roger L'Estrange.

summary:
  But Here , a word to all sorts of People that ever took their Covenant . [ D ] Not presuming to meddle with the Consciences of those many of the Nobility and Gentry , and others , that adhered to his late Majesty in the late Unhappy Wars , who at their Composition took this Vow and Covenant .


id: A35430
author: Cunningham, Alexander.
title: Some questions resolved concerning Episcopal and Presbyterian government in Scotland
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10476
sentence: 306
flesch: 50
cache: cache/A35430.xml
txt: txt/A35430.txt
summary:
  Episcopal Church in Scotland. 4. Now since Private Exhortations , and Publick Sermons against Schism , and recommending Union , were all the appearances made by that Inferiour Clergy against Separatists ; and since all the Bishops in Parliament advis'd to no Penal Laws against Separation , but such as were justified to the World by a Threefold Rebellion , to be necessary in Policy as well as Religion , for the common good of the State as well as Church ; I say , after all , the impartial Resolution of the present Question is this , That the Episcopal Clergy in Scotland , from the year 1662 to the year 1686 , shewed nothing of the Spirit of Persecution against Presbyterians .


id: A28206
author: Birkenhead, John, Sir, 1616-1679.
date: 1647.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1262
sentence: 60
flesch: 80
cache: cache/A28206.xml
txt: txt/A28206.txt
title:
  The fovr-legg'd elder, or, A horrible relation of a dog and an elders maid to the tune of The lady's fall.

summary:
  But when he came he was full sorry , for he perceiv'd their strife , That 'cording to the Directory they two were Dog and Wife : This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A28206 of text R210623 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing B2965A).


id: A32888
author: Northbrooke, John. Spiritvs est vicarius Christi in terra.
title: A Christian beleefe concerning bishops
date: 1641.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1132
sentence: 108
flesch: 85
cache: cache/A32888.xml
txt: txt/A32888.txt
summary:
  A Christian beleefe concerning bishops This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A32888 of text R33290 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C3940). 107 F The rate of 107 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words.


id: A33135
author: Fat, pious and learned divine.
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1116
sentence: 43
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A33135.xml
txt: txt/A33135.txt
title:
  The Churches victory in a message from heaven to the saints on early / by a fat, pious and learned divine, immediately before his death, to incourage all those who are now in armes for the defence of Christ and his gospell.

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A33135 of text R33293 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C4274A). 28 C The rate of 28 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words.


id: A61484
author: Stevenson, Matthew, fl. 1654-1685.
date: 1661.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5234
sentence: 254
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A61484.xml
txt: txt/A61484.txt
title:
  Bellum presbyteriale, or, As much said for the presbyter as may be together with their covenants catastrophe : held forth in an heroick poem / by Matth. Stevenson, Gent.

summary:
  HAve ye not seen the Coles that lively burn , Of their own Ashes make themselves an Urn : These are those lights upon the Stage , we see Ye going now to act your Tragedie : Those Heresies I mean , those Schisms and Sects By you directed to those sad effects .


id: A93701
author: Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.
date: 1643.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5349
sentence: 121
flesch: 46
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title:
  A solemn discourse upon the grand covenant, opening the divinity and policy of it: by John Saltmarsh, Master of Arts, and not long since, pastour of Heslerton in Yorkshire.

summary:
  And our confederations now , cannot but be powerfull in the very notion ; Nationall Leagues have brought forth great effects in States and Kingdoms , in the mutuall aydings and assistings ; and therefore Israel sent to Syria , and Iudah to Assyria , and Iudah to Israel , and other Kingdoms have sought to one another for such combinations , in any grand Enterprise ; That famous Designe of Christendom , which was such a universall confederatiō against the Turk , onely it was a Designe in a wrong channell ; Therefore the more spirituall that Leagues are , the more powerfull ; that which made Israel so famous in their conquests to Canaan , was the Association of the Tribes , and the Ark of God amongst them , therefore the Philistims cryed out , Woe unto us , the Ark of God is in the camp of the Hebrews ; and when they marched with the Ark amongst thē , Iordan vvas driven back , and the mountains and little hills were removed , the walls of Iericho fell ; And certainely this grand and blessed Association of the three Kingdoms , is a glorious portent to the destruction of Rome it self , carrying amongst them such an Ark and Gospel ; this is the first time that ever the Sun saw such a Triple Confederation ▪ against the Triple Crown , so many States , so solemnly combined against the Popish Hierarchy ; this is the time the spirit of God hath set up a Standard ; this is a fair rise , and improvement to the prophecy , When the Princes of the earth shall gather themselves together , and shall agree to make her desolate . Now knowing so much of the counsels , and designes , and secrets , and minde of God , we are carried on by the same Spirit to be aiding to that designe : now though the kingdom of Christ be such a name as imports glory and dominion , yet it is not a glory of this world , but a spirituall glory seated in bare and simple administrations ; such as are foolishnesse to the Greek , and to the Jewes a Rock of offence : and this kingdome of Christ like other Monarchies , hath its rise and growth , its ages & improvements , according to the propheticall latitude , being at no fulnesse nor perfection till the rest of the Monarchies be consumed before it : this is that small excrescency advancing out of the Mountaine , and by a power insensible exalting it selfe through all oppositions , working through Atheisms , Paganisms , Idolatries , Superstitions , Persecutions , and all the carnall machinations , into a lustre glorious , in the judgement of those onely , who can spiritually discerne : the advancement of this kingdom is onely attainable by a Reformation to the word of God ; & here we shall take occasion to part with all the Models and Idea's wch are not to be found in holy Scriptures ; it is markt there as a grand transgression to walke after the imagination of our owne hearts : and that was laid to Jeroboam's charge , That his Priests , and Sabbaths , and worship , were such as he devised in his own heart : God will indure no such rivallity nor conjunctures with himselfe : it is an incompleating the worke of God to build his house with our own timber : and as he made this world at first onely after the patterne of his owne counsels , so in this second work of the setting up a spiritualll structure for his glory : God thinks none worthy of coordination , in those things wherein his glory shal be sure to suffer in a distribution with his creatures , and his owne Image hath ever pleased him best , & therefore he made the best piece of his creation according to it .


id: A32107
author: Calder, Robert, 1658-1723.
date: 1677.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6339
sentence: 212
flesch: 60
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title:
  A letter to a non-conformist minister of the kirk shewing the nullity of the Presbyterian mission or authority to preach the Gospel.

summary:
  For grant ( saith Bishop Sanderson ) for the suppression of Idolatry , in case the Church will not do her Office , that it is lawful for any unauthoriz'd Persons ( such as Knox , &c. ) to take upon them to reform what they think amiss ; there can be no sufficient cause given , why by the same reason , and upon the same grounds , they may not take upon them to make Laws , raise Forces , administer Justice , execute Malefactors ( Malignants ) or do any other thing the Magistrate should do , in case the Magistrate slack to do his duty : which if it were once granted , ( as granted it must be , in case your Presbyterian Reformation be justifiable ) every wise man seeth the end can be no other but vast Anarchy , and confusion both in Church and Common-wealth : whereupon must un avoidably follow the speedy subversion both of Religion and State. In the New Testament , our blessed Saviour and his Apostles , beside the internal excellency of their Doctrine , gave the World sufficient external evidence that they were persons sent from God ; and whereas you say , that you Preach no other Doctrine then that of Christ and his Apostles , it is the answer of Socinians , Anabaptists , &c. and will serve every mans turn as well as yours .


id: A61472
author: Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.
date: 1652.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15875
sentence: 733
flesch: 78
cache: cache/A61472.xml
txt: txt/A61472.txt
title:
  England's deliverance from the northern presbytery, compared with its deliverance from the Roman papacy by Peter Sterry, once fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher to the Right Honorable the Councell of State, sitting at White-Hall.

summary:
  If this be the Designe of GOD , to discover Christ in the Spirit ; if all GODS works , and mercies toward the Creature be in order to this Discovery ; if this be the end , and the last of all GODS Wayes ; then it follows naturally from hence , that as this discovery growes , so likewise must all GODS Works and Mercies to his people grow in the same Proportion ; the later discoveries Brighter , the later works Better , and Greater than the former . I profess not at all to speak against the forme of Presbytery , if considered in its simplicity , in its virginity ; as it is meerly a way , and order , in which Saints have Communion with GOD , and each with other , according to their present light ; as it kisseth the golden Scepter of the Spirit , submitting and subordinating it self unto the rule of that Spirit , being desirous of no more , no other power , authority , or esteem , than what that Spirit shall put upon it , by putting forth it self in it .


id: A51157
author: Meldrum, George, 1635?-1709.
date: 1692.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13707
sentence: 390
flesch: 51
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title:
  A letter to a friend giving an account of all the treatises that have been publish'd with relation to the present persecution against the Church of Scotland

summary:
  The next thing that appear'd abroad with relation to our Scotch Affairs , was a short Letter entituled , The present State and Condition of the Clergy and Church of Scotland . With some Animadversions upon a Libel entituled , The present State and Condition of the Clergy and Church of Scotland .


id: A55108
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1699.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 33208
sentence: 1140
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A55108.xml
txt: txt/A55108.txt
title:
  A plea for the late accurate and excellent Mr. Baxter and those that speak of the sufferings of Christ as he does. In answer to Mr. Lobb's insinuated charge of Socinianism against 'em, in his late appeal to the Bishop of Worcester, and Dr. Edwards. With a preface directed to persons of all persuasions, to call 'em from frivolous and over-eager contentions about words, on all sides.

summary:
  Once more , 1 Sam. 6. 3 , 4. If ye send away the Ark of the God of Israel , send it not empty , but in any wise return Him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ( not Sin but ) a Sin-offering — then said they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yet in the very next Verse the Sense of the Word is chang'd , and that very Kid which is offer'd , is call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 — So verse 29.


id: A59415
author: Sage, John, 1652-1711.
date: 1693.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 35614
sentence: 988
flesch: 55
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txt: txt/A59415.txt
title:
  An account of the late establishment of Presbyterian-government by the Parliament of Scotland anno 1690 together with the methods by which it was settled, and the consequences of it : as also several publick acts, speeches, pleadings, and other matters of importance relating to the Church in that kingdom : to which is added a summary of the visitation of the universities there in a fifth letter from a gentleman at Edinburgh, to his friend at London.

summary:
  p. 12 , 13 The Account upon which these Presbyterian Ministers were by Act of Parliament 1662 put from the Churches , which they possest ; was their refusing to give obedience to the Law requiring them to take Presentations to their Churches from their lawful Patrons . He argued from the Prince of Orange's Declaration for the Kingdom of Scotland ; from the great purpose of his coming to Britain , from his Declaration for keeping the Peace in the Kingdom of Scotland dated February 6. 1688 / 9 from the Proclamation of the Estates , April 13. 1689 ; from the nature of the thing , and from many other Topicks , but all to no purpose : for when it came to a Vote , it carried easily , that the Article should stand as you now see it in the Act : Thus were some Hundreds of the Episcopal Persuasion , by Act of Parliament , exposed to the fury of Fifty or Sixty sworn Enemies , without any imaginable necessity : For had it not been easie for the Parliament , if they had had a mind to it , to have setled Presbyterian Government , so , as that all who owned the Civil Government , and were willing to continue in their Charges without Bishops , might have been obliged to live peaceably together , and carry on the Common work of the Ministry ?


id: A51160
author: Monro, Alexander, d. 1715?
date: 1693.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 36498
sentence: 1133
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A51160.xml
txt: txt/A51160.txt
title:
  The spirit of calumny and slander, examin'd, chastis'd, and expos'd, in a letter to a malicious libeller more particularly address'd to Mr. George Ridpath, newsmonger, near St. Martins in the Fields : containing some animadversions on his scurrilous pamphlets, published by him against the kings, Parliaments, laws, nobility and clergy of Scotland : together with a short account of Presbyterian principles and consequential practices.

summary:
  The spirit of calumny and slander, examin'd, chastis'd, and expos'd, in a letter to a malicious libeller more particularly address'd to Mr. George Ridpath, newsmonger, near St. Martins in the Fields : containing some animadversions on his scurrilous pamphlets, published by him against the kings, Parliaments, laws, nobility and clergy of Scotland : together with a short account of Presbyterian principles and consequential practices. The spirit of calumny and slander, examin'd, chastis'd, and expos'd, in a letter to a malicious libeller more particularly address'd to Mr. George Ridpath, newsmonger, near St. Martins in the Fields : containing some animadversions on his scurrilous pamphlets, published by him against the kings, Parliaments, laws, nobility and clergy of Scotland : together with a short account of Presbyterian principles and consequential practices.


id: A47150
author: Jaffray, Alexander, 1614-1673.
date: 1665.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 37833
sentence: 327
flesch: -16
cache: cache/A47150.xml
txt: txt/A47150.txt
title:
  Help in time of need from the God of help to the people of the (so called) Church of Scotland, especially the once more zealous and professing, who have so shamefully degenerated and declined from that which their fathers the primitive Protestants attained unto ... / writ by George Keith, prisoner for the truth in Aberdeen in the latter end of the year 1664.

summary:
  Kirk of Scotland in which I was bred with them , and had my beginning in the way of Godliness ; I know very well , as things now stands with you , yee may think so , of what I have said , as also that it may be , yee would rather have expected some account of the grounds , moving me to , and the advantages that I either looked for , or have found by such a thing : Now to speak shortly a word to this , I trust for it , yea , I am not without hope in it , that the day is coming ( and frequently have I sought it of the Lord on your behalf ) when ye shall so come to see the truth of what I say , and the necessity that ( on your account ) was on me for it , as that ye shall willingly acknowledge , that it was the greatest evidence of my dear and tender love in the Lord to you , which next to his glory led me to it , and that otherwise I should have been wanting of the expression of that true and sincere love which still I have unto you , as to the advantages I have found , which might be also offered , as the reasons whereby I was moved of the Lord , to make that so strange a change as yee account it , in owning these despised people called Quakers : I need say but little , if what is in this and the following Papers be well considered of , and I know it is my place to lie low in the fear of the Lord , and to speak but little as to advantages , or any progress that I have made ; and I acknowledge no man hath more matter so to do , yet in this case I may not be silent , but must in the fear of the Lord , give this my Testimony to the pretious people , and the truths of God asserted by them , that they do truely and really , both profess and practice the new and living way in which holiness ( by mortification and subduing a body of sin and death is attained , and have indeed come to the discovery of these things , even the life and power , which throughout the dark night of Apostacy hath lyen much hid , and hath been but very little felt , or known ; yet such is the goodness of God to that pretious people , count of them , and call them what yee will , the true power and life of holiness is more truly known to them , and eminently holden forth by them , then by any people else that have come forth since the Apostles dayes , and a greater measure do they yet wait for , and as they are faithful , it will be multiplied on them ; for the presence of the Lord is with them , and all their opposers must fall before them . Oh how are yee fallen , and become a hissing and reproach to all round about you , and the enemy hath gotten this advantage over you , saying , ah so would we have it , this is the day we looked for , and it is come , is this the royal and magnificent City which gave her self forth to be the praise of the whole earth , and a dread and terrour to her enemies round about , let our eye look upon her , for she is become defiled , she is become as one of us ; how is the stately City fallen ! how is her glory defaced ! how is her bulwarks and walls broken down , who boasted in the strength of them , as if the gates of Hell could never have prevailed against her : Oh how have yee given occasion to the enemy to revile and reproach you , and the living truth of the living God , by and through you hath suffered also , and the name of God hath been exceedingly dishonoured , and blasphem'd , and many hath been tempted in their hearts by your miscarriage to think all Religion a mockery and delusion : And Oh how have yee quite lost and fallen from that simplicity and honesty that was in your forefathers , and in some of your selves also in the time of your infancy and poverty , but now yee are grown up , and become wise and rich , lacking nothing but having all ; Oh were not your thoughts of your Reformation such as nothing could have been added thereto , but as if the topstone had been put thereupon , and the frame and building had become intire ; but alass , alass , what shall I compare you to , but even to Laodicea , whose thoughts where such of her self , and yet she was poor and miserable , and naked , and wanted the eye salve , which is the light which yee also want , and you are become lukewarm , neither hot nor cold , and are near to be spewed out , as many of you are already ; Oh how is your Gold turned into brass , and your silver become dross , and your wine become water ; how are your Nazarites that were white as snow , and pure as wool become black as Charcoal ; how is your Glory turn'd into shame , your strength into weakness , your zeal into a cold neutrality , concerning the cause and work of God , but in so far as ye are persecuting his witnesses , only because they are more righteous then your selves , and there is scarce one to be found among you all to day , bearing a sutable testimony for God , according to your own very principles , and ye have not the hearts to suffer for that which ye formerly caused others to suffer for by you , who would not go along with you in that which ye called the cause of God , and the interest and concernment of Jesus Christ.


id: A57858
author: Rule, Gilbert, 1629?-1701.
title: A just and modest reproof of a pamphlet called The Scotch Presbyterian eloquence
date: 1693.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 23019
sentence: 609
flesch: 57
cache: cache/A57858.xml
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summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. And it will be little Credit to his party , that the Learned Writters among them , have as absurd Imaginations of Men , and things , as he can impute ( though falsely ) to the most ignorant among us .


id: A29130
author: Bradshaw, Ellis.
date: 1649.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 43132
sentence: 1316
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A29130.xml
txt: txt/A29130.txt
title:
  An husbandmans harrow to pull down the ridges of the presbyteriall government and to smooth, a little, the independent ... containing divers new and unanswerable arguments ... / written by Ellis Bradshavv ...

summary:
  And secondly , a speaking to the heart , and to the souls and consciences of men ; discovring their very thoughts , and councels : And approving themselves , to every mans conscience in the sight of God. All which bondage , is a great infringement to our Christian Liberty , in them that do it , and ought not to be approved nor assented to , by any that desires to keep a good conscience voyd of offence , both to God and man.


id: A57284
author: Ridpath, George, d. 1726.
date: 1693.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 30368
sentence: 712
flesch: 49
cache: cache/A57284.xml
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title:
  A continuation of the answer to the Scots Presbyterian eloquence dedicated to the Parliament of Scotland : being a vindication of the acts of that august assembly from the clamours and aspersions of the Scots prelatical clergy in their libels printed in England : with a confutation of Dr. M-'s postscript in answer to the former ... : as also reflections on Sir Geo. Mackenzy's Defence of Charles the Second's government is Scotland ... together with the acts of the Scots General Assembly and present Parliament compared with the acts of Parliament in the two last reigns against the Presbyterians / Will. Laick.

summary:
  I do not write this , as having any suspicion that their Majesties are so weak as to be prevailed upon to alter the Church-Government in Scotland , but meerly to let the World see , that they who sollicite them to it , are their greatest Enemies , and design to shake their Throne ; and that it is not the Church of England's Interest to countenance our Scots Prelatis●● , nor to importune their Majesties on that Head. The Resolve of your August Assembly , that Prelacy was an insupportable Grievance to that Kingdom , deserves to be engraven in Pillars of Corinthian Brass ; and that all Scotsmen ( as no doubt many thousands will ) should not only whe● their Pens , but their Swords , in defence of it .


id: A39997
author: Forrester, Thomas, 1635?-1706.
date: 1692.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 33260
sentence: 998
flesch: 52
cache: cache/A39997.xml
txt: txt/A39997.txt
title:
  A counter-essay, or, A vindication and assertion of Calvin and Beza's presbyterian judgment and principles drawn from their writings, in answer to the imputations of a late pamphlet, entituled, An essay concerning church-government ... attempting to fasten upon them an episcopal perswasion ... / by a minister of the true Presbyterian Church of Scotland, established by law.

summary:
  This was then of old the Appellation of Bishop● , until he who was in the Assembly ( Caetu ) or Meeting , was set over the rest of the Brethren , whom Justinus calls the Proestos , or President , began to be peculiarly called the Bishop ; from hence the Devil began to lay the first foundations of Tyranny in the Church of GOD , the whole administration and Government of the Church , being as it were with the name trans●erred upon One , then from the Episcopal Tyranny , it came to Me●trapolitants , whom they call Arch-bishops , &c. From Metrapolitants , they advanced to the first four primary Patriarchs , the Christian Republick , being as it were divided unto four men , until the fortuitus occasion of the fifth , because of the Dignity of new Rome ; hence arose perpetual Contests , till the rest ceding , the Contest continued with 〈◊〉 of Rome and Constantinople , a Controversie never decided unto tlis day , sometimes the one , sometimes the other avouching himself the universal Patriarch . S●phisms f●ow●ng from the ignoratio Elenchi .


id: A47908
author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 31255
sentence: 1396
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A47908.xml
txt: txt/A47908.txt
title:
  The relaps'd apostate, or, Notes upon a Presbyterian pamphlet, entituled, A petition for peace, &c. wherein the faction and design are laid as open as heart can wish by Roger L'Estrange.

summary:
  I. VVE have here ( as Bishop Hall says of SMECTYMNUUS ) a Plural adversary : and in good Deed , 't was more then one mans Businesse , to do a thing so excellently amisse . Here 's Duty , Honour , Justice , Gratitude , nay Interest too , and all that is not Brutish in mans nature , concur to fix , and strengthen the Obligation .


id: A35017
author: Calder, Robert, 1658-1723.
date: 1692.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 49505
sentence: 1364
flesch: 60
cache: cache/A35017.xml
txt: txt/A35017.txt
title:
  The Scotch Presbyterian eloquence, or, The foolishness of their teaching discovered from their books, sermons and prayers and some remarks on Mr. Rule's late Vindication of the kirk

summary:
  Then the Wheels are ( says my Text ) lifted up ; even so , Beloved the Bishops and Curates are lifted up ; lifted up upon Coaches with four Wheels , just as Sathan lifted up Christ to the Pinacle of the Temple , but God will take the Hammer of the Covenant in his own Hand , and knock down these proud Prelates , and break all their Coaches and their Wheels to pieces , Beloved , and lay the Curates on their Backs , God's House , Tabernacle , Dwelling place and Sanctuary , his Holy Ark , his chosen Generation , his dear Children , his Kingdom , his Mountain , his Jewels , his Crown , Scepter , and Diadem ; in a word , the most obscure and darkest Prophesies and Revelations were all spoke with an eye to the present Scotch Model , tho' that be so new as never to have been heard of in Scotland , or any other Church before : and the Presbyterians themselves will as soon prove that the High Priesthood of Aaron among the Jews was a Type of Presbyterian Democracy in the Church , as shew any Foot-steps , or the least mention of Presbyterianism in any of the ancient Monuments and Records of the Church , except they will say that Christianity began with Calvin ; and yet if you 'll believe the Sermons of the former Triumvirate , they that oppose the Rigour of Scotch Presbytery are Enemies to God and his Cause , to Christ and to his Gospel , they are worse than Heathens , they are Philistines , which are not to be suffered to live in the Holy Land , * nay they that concur not to advance it to its former height , ( and that is above King and Parliament ) not only their Estates and Lives , but their Souls may go for it : You Members of Parliament who are not forward for this , you shall with Jehoiakim , be buried with the Burial of an Ass : Think but seriously what an Epitaph may be written on your Tomb , and what Discourses may be of you when ye are gone , Here lies a Man that never was a Friend to Christ , or his Interest , now he is dead , but he was an Opposer and Persecutor of Christ of his Truth and People .


id: A38477
author: An English gentleman, a well-willer to the peace of his country.
date: 1656.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 35669
sentence: 504
flesch: 18
cache: cache/A38477.xml
txt: txt/A38477.txt
title:
  The English Presbyterian and Independent reconciled Setting forth the small ground of difference between them both.

summary:
  Scripture is given to all to learne , to teach to interpret only to a few : It is the voice of God confessed by all that the sense is Scripture not the words , it cannot be therefore avoyded but that he that wilfully strives to fasten some sense of his owne other then the nature of the place will beare must needs take upon him the person of God himselfe , and to be an indicter of Scripture : No Scripture is of private interpretation , There can be but two certaine and infallible Interpreters of it , either it selfe or the holy Ghost the Author of it , it selfe doth then expound it encouragement to the Study and Increase thereof by their favour and respect shewn unto the Universities and Colledges where it is most properly to be acquired and had , for which they were instituted at first and are renowned equally to the best Seminaries of Learning throughout all EUROPE , the Parliament having for the c most part exempted them from any Charge or Tax for raising mony towards this War , by giving way unto and placing painful and sober Governours in the severall Societies of the Universities to reduce them to their former temper of acquiring Learning and good Manners , that what the fury and fiercenesse of the War was likely to demolish and destroy , is yet recoverable by the care and industry of their Governours , that whereas there is a Disproportion and Antipathy between Science ( a soft , milde and tender habit ) and a War ( a privative and destroying judgement ) there is yet by Gods blessing left a possibility and meanes of a regresse from a Warre ( and Garrison of Souldiers in * one of them ) to an acquisition of Sciences and Learning : Neither doth the Parliament for ought we see neglect or disesteem the Universities or other Seminaries of Learning , or take away the Endowments of Colledge● ( as their Enemies give out ) in that some of the most learned of the Schollers there are dispossessed of part of their Estates for their disaffection , or because that able men of the Universities and elsewhere are sequestred for a time by reason of their constant prejudice and ill will against the Parliament and their Proceedings , the Parliament knowing such to be Interested and not long since seasoned by the Enemy , ( Garrisoning in one of the Vniversities ) and devising yet to contrive their overthrow to let in the King's Power againe : They could not be ignorant of the discontent and envy borne towards Them by divers of the more ripe and learned of the Clergy to see the Church Preferments and Dignities which they aimed at to be taken away , how apt withall to engage the younger sort of Schollers in this their Cause by seasoning them with the same leaven of Discontent , without consid●ring that what was bestowed and instituted at first by Pious d Founders for the encouragement of Learning , study and good uses many of them did betray to Luxury and Ease , which the Parliament not knowing how otherwise to correct or moderate , and foreseeing such Corruption to be so incorporate into their Prelaticall and Ca●hedrall Calling that amidst these oppositions and distractions threatning the ruine of Three Kingdomes occasioned chiefly by reason of a corrupt and Prelaticall Clergy ( as the e Estates of 2 of the said Kingdoms have observed ) They knew no other remedy to be applyed then to alienate those Endowments , to dispose of them to other uses . So that in this Doubt and Perplexity , whether the Parliament should Submit , Desist , or Act according to their Trust , they thought it neerly and necessarily concerned them to provide for their own & the Kingdoms safety , for the publick welfare , some of their Members being impeached and charged , two Kingdoms provoked and m●na●ed , the p Third also likely to bear a part in the broils of the other Two , the King himselfe jealous and displeased to see the Parliament ( then at distance with him in transaction of matters concerning the three Kingdomes ) Petitioned and Appealed unto , termed in an envious and scornfull way by some of his Party Omnipotent , others murmuringly upbraiding that it was Idolized , himself as it were neglected and left out , none or seldome Addresses made to him , which by the Author of the q {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is with much indignation urged , that some few of the Members of the House were more looked on as greater Protectors of the Laws and Liberties than the King , and so worthier of publique protection .


id: A47873
author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
date: 1661.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 43723
sentence: 1942
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A47873.xml
txt: txt/A47873.txt
title:
  Interest mistaken, or, the Holy cheat proving from the undeniable practises and positions of the Presbyterians, that the design of that party is to enslave both king and people under the masque of religion : by way of observation upon a treatise, intitutled, The interest of England in the matter of religion, &c. / by Roger L'Estrange.

summary:
  Upon which Hinge moves the whole frame of his Design ; and in two Pages , he gives the Presbyter possession of his Claim , Deciding with exceeding ease , the Case of King and Kingdom . Thus. Let every soul in England be subject to King and Parliament , for they are the higher Powers ordained unto you of God ; whosoever therefore resisteth King and Parliament , resisteth the Ordinance of God ; and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation .


id: A70609
author: Monro, Alexander, d. 1715?
date: 1691.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 38554
sentence: 903
flesch: 47
cache: cache/A70609.xml
txt: txt/A70609.txt
title:
  Presbyterian inquisition as it was lately practised against the professors of the Colledge of Edinburgh, August and September, 1690 in which the spirit of Presbytery and their present method of procedure is plainly discovered, matter of fact by undeniable instances cleared, and libels against particular persons discussed.

summary:
  These were the Instructions which the Parliament by their Acts gave to the Visitors ; and a considerable number of them being Presbyterian Ministers , were not wanting in their Diligence to screw up every thing to the greatest height , against the Episcopal Masters , and to make them feel the severe effects of Presbyterian Power and Malice ; as appeared by a Printed Warrant , or rather Proclamation , in their own Names , in which , they Require and Command , Messengers to pass to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh , upon a Mercet day , betwixt Ten and Twelve a Clock in the Forenoon , and immediately thereafter , to the most patent Gate of the University of Edinburgh , and sicklike to pass to the Mercat Crosses of Edinburgh , Hadingtoun , Duns , Green-Law , and Lawder , Jedburgh , Selkirk , Peebles , Linlithgow , and Stirling , and there at after open Proclamation , &c. To Summon , Warn , and Charge , the Principal , Professors , Regents , and all Others , Masters of the University of Edinburgh , and Schoolmasters Teaching Latin in the said Town , &c. — To Compear before the Committee of the said Visitors , &c. — The 20 day of August next to come , at Ten a Clock in the Forenoon , to Answer and Satisfie the said Committee , &c. And likewise the said Commissioners , do hereby Require the said Messengers , at the same time and place , and in the same manner , to Summon , and Warn , all the Leidges , who have any thing to object against the said Principal , Professors , Regents , Masters of the said Universities , and School-Masters — To Compear before the said Committee , the said day and place , to give in Objections against the Principal , Professors , Regents , and others aforesaid — Requiring in like manner , the Messengers , Executors of this present Warrant , not only to Read Publickly the same , and the Citation to be given them , at the said Mercat Crosses and Colledge Gate ; but also to leave Printed Copies thereof , affixt upon the Mercat Crosses of the Head Burghs , and upon the most patent Gates of the said Colledge . When he came to the Colledge of Edinburgh , and found that way not so practicable here , his method was , and is , to spread confidently abroad , that none of the Courses were necessary , which preceeded that which he taught for the time ; so that he never fail'd to have Semies , Bauchelours , and Magistrands , who were never at any Colledge before , and he admitted them to be Scholars , without offering them to be examined by the Principal or Masters .


id: A66352
author: Williams, Daniel, 1643?-1716.
date: 1694.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 71655
sentence: 2459
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A66352.xml
txt: txt/A66352.txt
title:
  Man made righteous by Christ's obedience being two sermons at Pinners-Hall : with enlargements, &c. : also some remarks on Mr. Mather's postscript, &c. / by Daniel Williams.

summary:
  That though we own Christ's Righteousness is truly imputed to us , yet we deny that God esteems us to have done and suffered what Christ did . But if it prove , that Christ never intended his Righteousness to be instead of true Faith and Repentance , Sincere Love to God and Men , and Perseverance in True Holiness and Fruitfulness .


id: A88948
author: Mather, Richard, 1596-1669.
date: 1647.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 74311
sentence: 2290
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A88948.xml
txt: txt/A88948.txt
title:
  A reply to Mr. Rutherfurd, or A defence of the answer to Reverend Mr. Herles booke against the independency of churches. VVherein such objections and answers, as are returned to sundry passages in the said answer by Mr. Samuel Rutherfurd, a godly and learned brother of the Church of Scotland, in his boke entituled The due right of Presbyters, are examined and removed, and the answer justified and cleared. / By Richard Macher [sic] teacher to the church at Dorchester in New England. 1646.

summary:
  doth it follow therefore that Superiors in Church or civill state have no power to command housholders to do their duty herein , but only to give counsell and advise ? Or if housholdere have such right , doth it follow that therefore they are under no command , in Church and Common-wealth ? I suppose it will not follow at all . Or shall we say , that Classes and Provinciall Synods have no right to end their own matters within themselves , if a Nationall Synod have power to command them ? Or if they have such right , shall we therefore say they are not under the command of the Nationall Synod , and that the Nationall Synod hath no power over them but only by way of Counsell and advise ? Wee suppose Master Rutherford will not say so : and yet he might as well say it , as say as hee he doth , that because Antioch hath right to ●nd her own matter if they be able , therefore a Synod hath no power but only by way of Counsell and advise . First , the ordinary power of Iurisdiction because of neerest vicinity and contiguity of members is given by Iesus Christ to one Congregation in an Isle , because that Church is a Church properly so called : It is a little City , and a little Kingdome of Iesus Christ , having within it selfe power of the ●ord and Sacraments and that is a Church and hath the essence of a Church to which agree the essentiall notes of a Church : now Preaching of the word and administration of the Sacraments are essentiall notes of a visible Church :


id: A47197
author: Keith, George, 1639?-1716.
date: 1677.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 59780
sentence: 1605
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A47197.xml
txt: txt/A47197.txt
title:
  The way cast up, and the stumbling-blocks removed from before the feet of those who are seeking the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward containing an answere to a postcript, printed at the end of Sam Rutherford's letters, third edition, by a nameless author, indeed not without cause, considering the many lyes and falshoods therein, against the people, called Quakers, which are here disproved, and refuted / by George Keith ...

summary:
  For Earth●● and Heavenly are not so differing , but that re●aining one in Substance : they may be changed ●e into another , so that as one and the same 〈◊〉 Soul may by the operation of the Mighty Power of God , be changed , so as to be made heavenly and pure ; even so one and the same Earthly body may by the same Power be made Heavenly , and thus in different respects they are one and the same , and yet not the same : one in Substance , and not one , but another , in the manner of being . And though she pretend to be more for a sp●ritual way of preaching , and worship , then eithe● Papists , or these , called the Episcopal ; yet reall● upon the matter , she is not one jot more for th● same , then they are ; but doth fully aggre wit● them , in those principls , that in their very natur●● oppose all spirituall preaching and praying .


id: A34242
author: Church of Scotland. General Assembly.
date: 1671.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 61450
sentence: 4076
flesch: 84
cache: cache/A34242.xml
txt: txt/A34242.txt
title:
  The confession of faith ; and, The larger and shorter catechism first agreed upon by the Westminster Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and now approved by the General Assembly of the kirk of Scotland to be a part of uniformity in religion between the kirks of Christ in the three kingdoms.

summary:
  This God in six days made all things 〈◊〉 nothing very good in their own kind , in special● he made all the Angels holy ; and he mad● our first Parents Adam and Eve , the root 〈◊〉 mankind ▪ both upright and able to keep the Law written in their heart . doth set the apostle and all true believers free from the Covenant of Work● or the Law of sin and death , so that every man may say with him , The Law of the Spirit of life , or the Covenant of Grace , hath freed me from the Law of sin and death , or Covenant of Works .


id: A90688
author: Gunning, Peter, 1614-1684.
date: 1658.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 81093
sentence: 3649
flesch: 75
summary: of Mr. Baxter from Mr. Barlee. of Mr. Baxter from Mr. Barlee.
cache: cache/A90688.xml
txt: txt/A90688.txt
title:
  Heautontimoroumenos, or, The self-revenger exemplified in Mr. William Barlee. By way of rejoynder to the first part of his reply, viz. the unparallel'd variety of discourse in the two first chapters of his pretended vindication. (The second part of the rejoynder to the second part of his reply being purposely designed to follow after by it self, for reasons shortly to be alledged.) Wherein are briefly exhibited, amongst many other things, the rigidly-Presbyterian both principles and practice. A vindication of Grotius from Mr. Baxter. of Mr. Baxter from Mr. Barlee. of Episcopal divines from both together. To which is added an appendage touching the judgement of the right Honourable and right Reverend Father in God, Iames Lord primate of Armagh, and metropolitan of Ireland, irrefragably attested by the certificates of Dr. Walton, Mr. Thorndike, and Mr. Gunning, sent in a letter to Doctor Bernard. By Thomas Pierce Rector of Brington.


id: A36871
author: Basier, Isaac, 1607-1676.
date: 1660.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 88393
sentence: 1929
flesch: 48
cache: cache/A36871.xml
txt: txt/A36871.txt
title:
  The history of the English and Scotch presbytery wherein is discovered their designs and practices for the subversion of government in church and state / written in French, by an eminent divine of the Reformed church, and now Englished.

summary:
  Therefore among so many Reprehensions and Judgments against Idolatrous Kings , whereof the holy History is full , ye shall in no place nor part find that the people are reproved for not depressing or deposing their King ; ordinarily the punishment that God sent upon them , came immediatly from himself , or out of the Kingdome , not by their own Subjects : Before God would employ Jehu , who was a Subject , to destroy the Kings of Israel and Judah , he anointed him King , and besides , gave him a special and extraordinary Command . Moreover this distinction is contradicted by another , which hath been frequent a long time in their mouths , that they resisted not the King , but his Armies , which signifies in effect , that they resisted not the person or King , but his power ; for his power laid in his Armies , and as it is the nature of a lie to enter far , these people who say they are licensed by Saint Paul to oppose the person of the King , and not his power , were marvellously impatient when they were told they fought against the King , and affirmed that they fought for him and defended his person , which doubtless seems to be spoken to move laughter and indignation ; but God cannot be mocked , nor Conscience wholly blinded , by their impatience ; hereupon they testifie that their Conscience makes their process , and dictates to them within , that to bear Arms against the King , is to sin against God and Nature .


