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id: A40412
author: Frederick I, King of Prussia, 1657-1713.
date: 1680
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words: 1192
sentence: 45
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title:
  A letter from the Duke of Brandenburg, to several ministers of state, shewing his firm resolution to defend the Protestant religion

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id: A66221
author: William III, King of England, 1650-1702.
date: 1688
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words: 1220
sentence: 55
flesch: 64
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title:
  The speech of the Prince of Orange, to some principle gentlemen of Somersetshire and Dorsetshire on their coming to joyn His Highness at Exeter the 15th of Nov., 1688.

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id: A62765
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
date: 1680
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1262
sentence: 50
flesch: 60
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title:
  To the Kings most excellent majesty the humble petition and address of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and commons of the city of London.

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id: A80351
author: Carleton, George, 1559-1628.
date: 1642
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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: B04919
author: Partridge, John, 1644-1715.
title: Partridge's advice to the Protestants of England.
date: 1678
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1707
sentence: 100
flesch: 78
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  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B04919) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A58564
author: Scotland.
date: 1681
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2368
sentence: 59
flesch: 44
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title:
  An act for securing of the Protestant religion as it was passed in the Parliament of Scotland, on Saturday, August 13, 1681.

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id: A59859
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
title: A Protestant of the Church of England, no Donatist, or, Some short notes on Lucilla and Elizabeth
date: 1686
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words: 3346
sentence: 151
flesch: 67
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summary:
  The Brittish Churches , for Six hundred Years after Christ , never had any Dependance on Rome ; and what was after this was only Usurpation , and an usurped Authority may be renounced without Schism . C. The Sacraments of Christ , which in the Sacrilege of Schism you [ Donatists ] have to Iudgment , will be profitable and wholsom to you , when you shall have the Head , Christ , in Catholic Peace , where Charity will cover a multitude of Sins .


id: A56021
author: Sandys, Edwin, 1516?-1588.
date: 1679
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3401
sentence: 101
flesch: 58
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title:
  A proposal of union amongst Protestants, from the last-will of the most Reverend Doctor Sands sometime Archbishop of York (as the sentiment of the first reformers) humbly presented to the Parliament.

summary:
  Only this I crave leave with all humility and earnestness to beg , That what God hath not set up in the Church , may be pull'd down ; and those things taken out of the way , which have been , and always will be bones of contention among persons truly learned and godly . Since therefore His most Sacred Majesty , ( being thorowly sensible of the great advantage our common Enemy , the Papist , hath received by the breaches that have not only been made , but hitherto continued among such as profess the same faith ) , hath been graciously pleased to recommend to your special care the concern of the Protestant interest , as well at home as abroad , and hath commanded the Honourable the Lord Chancellor of England to acquaint you , that he judgeth it a thing necessary for you in your great Wisdom , to find out some way for the relief of such Protestants as do wander only from the Church of England , thorow the tenderness of their consciences , being such as would not destroy it , but do build upon the same foundation with your selves ; I take upon me the humble boldness to offer to your Honours serious Consideration , the Sentiments , and very words of one of the very first Reformers of our Church of England ▪ as it remains upon Record , being extracted out of the Last Will and Testament of the most Reverend Father in God , Edward Sands , late Arch-Bishop of York , being the general sense of the said Reformers , of which you may be more fully satisfied from the words themselves .


id: A30375
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1688
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mime: application/xml
words: 3531
sentence: 80
flesch: 54
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title:
  A letter to a lord upon his happy conversion from popery to the Protestant religion by G. Burnett ...

summary:
  This is the true glory , and the sound boasting of Christianity ; for hereby is God's mercy extolled , and mans pride troddon under foot , by which a man trusting too much to himself , rebelleth against God ▪ This glorious boasting makes us humble even in our highest honours , and modest and meek in prosperity , patient and quiet in adversity ; in troubles strong and courageous , gentle towards all men , joyful in hope , fervent in prayer , full of the love of God , but empty of all love of our selves , or ought in the world ▪ yea , it makes us Christs true Beadsmen , and his sworn servants , and make us yield up our selves wholly to imitate and follow Christ , and to esteem all things else as frail and vain , yea dung and dross that we may win Christ. Right Noble Lord , WHen I consider seriously these words of St. Paul ▪ Brethren , you see your calling , that not many noble , not many wise , according to the flesh , not many mighty are called : but hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise , and weak things to confound the mighty , and base things in the world , and things not accounted of , and things that are not , to bring to nought things that are ▪ When , I say , I consider of these words so often , I admire at that rare blessing of God , which he hath vouchsafed to you a Noble and mighty Man ; namely , that he should grace you with that true and incomparable Nobility , which is attained by true Faith in Christ Jesus , and a holy life .


id: A19456
author: Covbridge, Cranmer.
date: 1618
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words: 3649
sentence: 236
flesch: 77
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title:
  The ladder of hell, or, The Protestants libertine doctrine being the broad way which leadeth the followers of it to their eternall ruine and destruction in hell / set foorth in prose and verse.

summary:
  First , I finde that the Papists meane to make this short Ladder serue for an answer of many long discourses made by Protestant Ministers in bookes or Sermons , in which they obiect the ill liues of some Papists ; the which obiections the Papists doe retort more strongly against vs Protestants , who cannot deny , but that since the light of the new Gospell was by Luther brought into the world , men are ( as Luther himselfe coufessed ) more reuengeful , more conetous , more vnmercifull , more vnmodest and vnruly , and much worse then they were in Papistry ; the reason whereof ( say the Papists ) is for that the very doctrine it selfe of the new Gospellers , doth not onely not afford such effectuall restraints and remedies against sinne , as is in the ancient Catholike Religion , but also hath ( as appeareth by the steps of this Ladder ) diuers expresse principles , which doe plainly open the gappe to all licentious libertie of lewde life , far more then can bee imagined to bee done by any principles of the Papists doctrine . Thirdly , By this admirable Ladder , zealous Protestants may be deliuered from all inward remorse of conscience , & may come to that highest perfection of our new Gospell , which consisteth in a neglect of al conscience , the which cannot be attained on a sudden , but must be gained ( as Luther himselfe gained it ) by entering into a terrible conflict , and fighting against ones owne conscience ; the difficulty of which combate ariseth out of three heads .


id: A56099
author: Bull, George, 1634-1710.
title: The Protestants' doom in popish times
date: 1689
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words: 4139
sentence: 193
flesch: 75
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summary:
  Fifthly , To destroy them by Massacre● , is sometim● hel● more adviceable ▪ than to run the hazard of War ; and which ( they s●● ) is both lawful and ●eritorious , for the rooting our a Pestilent Heresi● ●n● the promoting the Roman inte●est . This ●●ta ●oo● the ●●ish Massacre , that inhumane bloody Butchery ▪ not so m●ch from the Savageness and Cruelty of ●hei● N●tures , as the Doctrines and principles which dire●●ed ▪ and encouraged ●t : As also th●t of Paris ; than which nothing w●s more grateful and acceptable to their P●●es , as their (p) Bulls make ma●ifest , and the picturing● it in the Popes Chamber : and for which , 〈◊〉 a most Glorious Action , Triumphs were made , and publick Tha●k●givings were returned to GOD.


id: A32852
author: Chillingworth, William, 1602-1644.
date: 1680
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words: 6120
sentence: 160
flesch: 53
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title:
  Mr. Chillingworth's judgment of the religion of Protestants of Scripture the only rule, of differences among Protestants, of using force in matters of religion &c. : with a preface to the reader giving the reason of publishing these passages.

summary:
  Grant this , and it will presently follow in opposition to your first Conclusion , and the Argument of your first Chapter , That amongst men of different Opinions , touching the obscure and controverted Questions of Religion , such as may with probability be disputed on both sides , ( and such are the disputes of Protestants ) good men and Lovers of Truth of all sides may be saved , because all necessary things being supposed evident concerning them , with men so qualified , there will be no difference ; there being no more certain sign that a point is not evident , than that honest and understanding and indifferent men , and such as give themselves liberty of Judgment , after a mature consideration of the matter , differ about it . 2. N. 11. — To speak properly ( as men should speak when they write of Controversies in Religion ) the Scripture is not a Judge of Controversies , but a Rule only , and the only Rule for Christians to judg them by : Every man is to judge for himself with the judgment of Discretion , and to chuse either his Religion first , and then his Church as we say ; or as you , his Church first , and then his Religion .


id: A30523
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1659
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words: 6532
sentence: 78
flesch: 14
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title:
  A faithful testimony concerning the true worship of God what it is in it self, and who are the true vvorshippers : in opposition to all the false worship in this nation, which is idolatry, which is discovered in its foundation, and in its manifestation, not to be ever commanded of God, or practised by his apostles and saints, but it is declared to consist chiefly of such things and practises as had their first beginning and ordination in the Church of Rome ... and this is written for a general good to all such as are worshipping in temples made with hands / by E.B.

summary:
  A faithful Testimony concerning the true Worship of God , what it is in it self , and who are the true Worshippers , &c. FOrasmuch as there is in the world a great controversie among people concerning the Worship of God , one crying , This is the right Worshp : Another , That is the right Worship ; and People in these Nations are divided about the Worship of God , and divers one from another in their performances and practices of Worship , one sort worshipping after this manner , another after that , and there is great strife through the whole Nation about this matter , and a great dis-satisfaction among people , which is the right Worship , and who are the right Worshippers , and thousands are desiring after the right Worship of God , and to become Worshippers of him as he requires : Therefore now it is upon me to shew unto all the World what the true Worship of God is in it self , and who are his true Worshippers . But however though something there may be altered , and changed , and converted to another use , and something taken away , and other inventions brought in , instead thereof , yet still they are the same Houses which you worship your God in , which Houses were set up by the Authority of the Pope , and there remains yet the Popes sign and symptome of the Romish Church upon them ; and these Houses you call your Churches , and thousand of thousands of blind ignorant people esteeming and respecting in their minds of these places more then of any other , supposing them to be more holy and that other places are not so good to worship in ; alas poor , blind , ignorant people , that deceives your own souls in the traditions & inventions of man , which you live in the practise of , supposing it to be the very Worship of God , which is no other in it self but Idolatry , and you Idolaters ; for doth not all unconverted people , and unrighteous people , such who are not taught of the Lord , nor led by his Spirit , but daylie rushes into iniquity , and into evil , are not such found Worshippers here in Steeplehouses , conforming themselves to these things , and these practises ? And can such worship God ? Or is God worshipped by such ? I tell you nay , the Lord God is pure , and they that worship him , must be sanctified , and led by his Spirit which leadeth into all truth :


id: A62578
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1680
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mime: application/xml
words: 7110
sentence: 211
flesch: 58
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title:
  The Protestant religion vindicated, from the charge of singularity & novelty in a sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, April the 2d 1680 / by John Tillotson ...

summary:
  Laws are a good security to Religion ; but the Example of Governours is a living Law , which secretly over-rules the minds of men , and bends them to a compliance with it , — Non sic inflectere sensus Humanos edicta valent , ut vita Regentis . The temporal felicity of men , and the ends of Government can very hardly , if at all , be attained without Religion . Take away this , and all Obligations of Conscience cease : and where there is no obligation of Conscience , all security of Truth and Justice and mutual confidence among men is at an end .


id: A33886
author: Colledge, Stephen, 1635?-1681, attributed name.
title: Raree show, or, The true Protestant procession a new ballad to the tune of the Northumberland man.
date: 1681
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1427
sentence: 69
flesch: 70
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summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A33886) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 46603) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A93670
author: Spencer, John, 1601-1671.
date: 1657
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8260
sentence: 185
flesch: 40
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title:
  Questions propounded for resolution of unlearned Protestants in matter of religion, to the doctours of the prelaticall pretended reformed church of England.

summary:
  Questions propounded for Resolution of unlearned PROTESTANTS , In matter of Religion , to the Doctours of the Prelaticall pretended , reformed Church of England . Whither the first was not done by the first Authors of Protestant Religion ; and the second done , and still continued by their followers ? or if the first Authours of Protestant Religion received those points of their doctrine from any visible Church in the whole world which existed immediately before their relinquishing the Roman doctrine , let that Church be produced , and named .


id: A37055
author: Dury, John, 1596-1680.
date: 1641
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words: 8740
sentence: 191
flesch: 40
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title:
  A briefe relation of that which hath been lately attempted to procure ecclesiastical peace amongst Protestants published by Samuel Hartlib.

summary:
  Dury, John, 1596-1680. Sometimes attributed to John Dury. Reproduction of original in the Union Theological Seminary Library, New York.


id: A30554
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1658
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words: 10381
sentence: 117
flesch: 9
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title:
  The true Christian religion again discovered after the long and dark night of apostacy, which hath overshadowed the whole world for many ages ... by a friend to all people, especially them that feares God, and loves righteousness.

summary:
  Come forth and plead your cause all ye that are called Presbyterians , and Independents , and all others , stand up , and prove if you can , your practice in religion to be according to Scriptures ; but seing no man is able to prove these things mentioned , which is practised by you for Religion , to wit , Sprinkling of Infants , and singing Davids experiences in rime and meeter , and worshipping God in set-places , as Idol-Temples , and preaching for , and giving great s●ms of money for preaching , with other things practised by you for Religion ; neither were these things ever commanded in Scriptures ; neither is there any example for the practise of these things in Scripture by any of the Lords people , & therefore you cannot justly own a title in the Protectors oath , to be maintained and upheld by vertue thereof in these your practises of Religion ; for it appears he is but bound onely to uphold and maintain that Religion which is according to Scriptures , and not them who practiseth those things for Religion which are not according , but contrary to the Scriptures ; Likewise all ye that are called gathered churches , who holds forth for Doctrine that the Scriptures are the word , ( by which the world was made ) and that the Scriptures are the foundation ; and that the Scriptures are the way to salvation ; & that the Letter and the Spirit are unseparable ; and that the Scriptures are both the writings and the thing signified ; and that except a man be baptized with water , he cannot be saved ; with such like Doctrines which have been held forth by some professing themselves to be of the church of Christ ; all you are manifest not to be of the christian religion , because those doctrines are not according , but rather contrary to the Scriptures : Likewise all ye whose practise in the exercise of Religion is but by imitation from the Scriptures , and you are not led by the spirit of the Father in what you speak , & practise , you are not of the true christian religion wch the Scripture speaks of ; for the sons of God , & who are of the true Religion , are led by the spirit of God , & not by their own thoughts & imaginations , & the traditions of men ; and all that are not led by the spirit of the Father , are not of the true christian Religion as it is held forth in the Scriptures , and not any that are such can justly own to be protected in their Religion , because it is not according to the Scriptures ; likewise all ye that doth profess the things of God and Christ , and that you are members of the church of Christ , and professes righteousness and truth in words , and yet lives in pride and the vanities of this world , and in unrighteousness , and the customs of the heathen , which are vain ; & are not clensed from unrighteousnes , nor freed from the body of sin & death ; neither doth answer your profession wth a conversation , shewing that you are not guided with that spirit whose words you do profess , all you are hypocrites , & lives in hypocrisie , none of you are of the true Christian Religion as it is held forth in the Scriptures ; for the exercise in true Religion sheweth forth in life what is professed in words ; come try your selves , and prove your selves all sorts of people , for now your Religion is to be tryed , what Name soever you go under ; and all you that practise and profess those things for Religion for which there is neither command nor president in Scripture , your Religion is concluded not to be according to Scriptures , and so no title or priviledge can any of you justly own of being upheld or maintained by the Protectors oath ; but as I have said , for sprinkling of Infants , and singing Davids experiences in rime and meeter , &c there is neither command nor president in Scriptures , and therefore you that practise those things which I have mentioned for Religion , are not of the true christian Religion which is according to the Scriptures , which is to be protected . So that all people may see , though the people of the Lord be persecuted , and reviled , and imprisoned , and cruelty done unto them ; and though it be done by the chief Magistrates , and chief Rulers , and the wise men of this age , all this is according to the Scriptures , and that the Scriptures might be fulfilled ; and the same things which are now done unto the people of God , were done unto the people of God in ages past by the same instruments , to wit , the Rulers and Magistrates ; and by the same means , to wit , by the information , and false accusations of the chief Priests and Teachers ; in Jeremiah you may read how the Priests sought to take away his life ; and you may read how the chief Priests consulted against Christ , and how they complained to the Magistrates against him and the Apostles ; and the same things are now come to pass , and we do not strange at it , for it is the chief Priests of England that doth most seek the persecution , and causes the people of God to be persecuted by their complaining and petitioning to the Magistrates ; so that in all these things , not onely what is practised and preached for Doctrine , but also in what is suffered , is perfectly according to the Scriptures , and all people that are not blind , may see that this Religion is in all things agreeable with the Scriptures , both in what they do and in what they suffer , so that this is given forth for the good information of the Protector , and all Magistrates , that they may hear the tryal of all things , and may not falsly conjecture or suppose , and thereupon give judgement without any true knowledge , let them search the Scripture , and try ; I hope the worst of men hath so much conscience , that they will stand in awe of the breach of their own oaths , and that they will perform unto the Lord and unto all men , what they have firmly ( and not compell'd ) sworn to do ; and thus it may be hoped the woful persecution wil cease , which is lamentable to be declared , how the people of the Lord have sufferd in many things , even them whose Religion is proved to be according to the Scriptures , who practice nothing for Religion , neither holds forth any thing for Doctrine but that which is perfectly agreeable to the Scriptures , as all people hereby may understand ; which Religion the Protector hath sworn to maintain and uphold ; then who shall presume to persecute the people whose practise in Religion is proved to be the very same which his oath extends to maintain ? Surely no men will be so impudent , or shew such rebellion to Government , as to endeavour to break down and destroy that people whose Religion is proved to be justly that which he is by oath bound to maintain ; some heretofore before this Oath was taken , might plead ignorance , and say they knew not the mind of the Protector ; but now his mind is fully discovered , and he doth not onely allow , but also hath solemnly sworne to maintain and uphold that Christian Religion which is according to Scriptures ; and it is proved what people it is whose Religion is so ; and I say again , That same people mentioned doth practice nothing , neither holds forth any thing for Doctrine , but it is either commanded , or there is president for it in Scripture , or agreeable thereto ; and therefore that same people is of the true Christian Religion which the Lord Protector hath bound himselfe to maintain , by oath in the face of the whole Nations , so that none of the Magistrates now can plead ignorance ▪ for as he is sworn to uphold the people of God in their Religion , so are they bound to be true to him and the Government , and to fulfil the good Laws , and his oaths and enterprises ; so that I say again , it may be hoped for the time to come , for protection , and to be maintained , and no longer persecuted and destroyed in their persons and estates , as formerly they have been , if men regard their own oaths , or there be any truth or sincerity in the heart of man ; and I say ,


id: A53667
author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
date: 1682
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sentence: 341
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title:
  A brief and impartial account of the nature of the Protestant religion its present state in the world, its strength and weakness, with the wayes and indications of the ruine or continuance of its publick national profession / by a Protestant.

summary:
  However numerous therefore the Christians were in those dayes , they were all absolutely private persons without pretence of Law or Right to defend themselves ; in which state of things it is the undoubted Principle of all Protestants , that where men are persecuted meerly on the account of Religion without Relation unto the Civil Rights and Liberties of Mankind , their duty is patiently to Suffer without the least Resistance . The Protestant Religion may be considered either as it is Religion in General , that is , Christan Religion ; or as it is distinct from and opposite unto another pretended Profession of the same Religion , whereon it is called Protestant .


id: A61101
author: Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641.
date: 1642
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words: 12563
sentence: 255
flesch: 41
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title:
  A Protestants account of his orthodox holding in matters of religion at this present in difference in the church, and for his own and others better confirmation or rectification in the points treated on : humbly submitted to the censure of the Church of England.

summary:
  And St Paul tells us , The Church is the pillar and ground of the truth , and against private singularities and indecencies in the service of God : he obiects , that their Church had no such custome , neither the Churches of God : We are also commanded to submit to all manner of Ordinance of man , for the Lords sake ; And that every soul be subject to the higher power ; that he that resisteth the power , resisteth the Ordinance of God , and receiveth to himself damnation . The Popes ( briefly ) were the Bishops of Rome , of which the formost having both for life and doctrine been glorious members of the Church , that Church grew so renowned , as that for judgement in matters of Religion , they had the priority of repute , were to the Western Church the authors of many good Ordinances in Religion , and the great support thereof ; till abusing their repute , and by little and little degenerating , they grew into so unspeakable corruptions ▪ as no intelligent man may partake in those things with them , without a conscious committing of manifest sin against the Word of God .


id: A41594
author: Gother, John, d. 1704.
date: 1687
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11341
sentence: 325
flesch: 57
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title:
  A discourse of the use of images in relation to the Church of England and the Church of Rome in vindication of Nubes testium against a pamphlet entitled The antiquity of the Protestant religion concerning images, directed against some leaves of that collection.

summary:
  Church of England -- Customs and practices. If a Christian has a Respect and Reverence even for the House of God , or Church , above other Houses , that are not Dedicated to his Service ; may not he shew this Respect , by Vncovering his Head ?


id: A48815
author: Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.
title: A conference between two Protestants and a papist, occasion'd by the late seasonable discourse
date: 1673
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mime: application/xml
words: 14537
sentence: 480
flesch: 66
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txt: txt/A48815.txt
summary:
  But certain 't was no great sign of understanding ; to broach such a story , when all the world knows there n●ither are , nor ever were any F●ya●s at Dunki●k , English I mean , for str●nge●s , I suppose he will not make so concern'd in the affai●s of our Country . However they declare there very plainly that the interposing of the Court of Rome , and this even in presentments to Benefices or at least cogn●●●nce of the Plea , translation of Bishop● , &c. ( which be matters Spiritual enough ) are clearly against the King● Crown and his Regality used and approved of the time of all his Progenitors — That the Crown of England hath been so free at all times , that it hath been in no Earthly Subjection , but immediately subject to God in all things , touching the regality of the same , and to none other — And God defend , say they , it should be submitted to the Pope ( as by the interposing aforesaid they declare it would ) and the Laws and Statutes of the Realm by him defeated and avoided at his will — Besides , that they will stand with the King , his Crown and Regality in the cases aforesaid , and in all other cases attempted against him , his Crown and Regality in all points to live and die .


id: A15697
author: Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610, attributed name.
date: 1605
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12975
sentence: 400
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A15697.xml
txt: txt/A15697.txt
title:
  The fore-runner of Bels dovvnefall wherin, is breifely answered his braggnig [sic] offer of disputation, and insolent late challenge: the particularties [sic] of the confutation of his bookes, shortly by goddes grace to be published, are mentioned: with à breife answere, to his crakinge and calumnious confutinge of papistes by papistes them selues: and lastly à taste. Giuen of his rare pretended sinceritye, with som few examples.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Is disputation vvith him novv out of request , and his minde chaunged , as it may vvell be , seinge he hath made greater mutations then that , and had he rather shevv his valor in an indifferent conference : if so : then vvill I offer him faire playe , and that is , if he please to be the defendand of his ovvne bookes , vvith vvhich he should be best acquainted , and in all reason ought to defend , I vvil be the opponent , and take vpon me notvvithstandinge all his protestation of sinceritie , to conuince him of many coseninge trickes , sundrie notable lies , and diuers grosse corruptions , Let him therefore proue his frendes , and procure that it may be obtained , vvith those equall cōdicions vvhich vvere graunted to the Protestants in the presence of the French kinge .


id: A28581
author: Bold, S. (Samuel), 1649-1737.
date: 1688
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19248
sentence: 568
flesch: 57
cache: cache/A28581.xml
txt: txt/A28581.txt
title:
  A brief account of the first rise of the name Protestant and what Protestantism is ... / by a professed enemy to persecution.

summary:
  But lastly , If the Holy Scriptures we are speaking of , do contain the whole and intire Revelation of the Mind and Will of God , which he hath designed for the constant and perpetual use of his Church and People , and do furnish People with full Instructions and Directions in all Matters of Religion , then Protestants have very good warrant to affirm and stedfastly adhere to this Point , viz. We acknowledge , that were it possible for our Adversaries to produce solid proof , that there is any Divine Revelation distinct from what these Holy Scriptures do contain , which God hath appointed to be of constant , perpetual , binding Use to his Church , they might thereby invalidate our Principle , which doth affirm , that the Holy Scriptures are the Only Rule by which Christians are to govern themselves in all Matters of Religion :


id: A56711
author: H. P.
date: 1650
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19584
sentence: 537
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A56711.xml
txt: txt/A56711.txt
title:
  A manifest touching M.W.F. aversion from the Protestant congregation And his conversion to the Catholique Church presented to the right wor. ll [sic] Sir A.P. his much honoured father, and his other best friends, for their better satisfaction and his owne iustification.

summary:
  ( Note ) The true Church of Christ which is but one , shall in all ages ever inioye à succession of Pastors and Doctors for the administration of the worde , and Sacraments ; Therfore the true Church of Christ hath ever remayned without interruption of such Pastors and Teachers from the Apostles tyme even vntill this daye : But noe Church extant in the world can be assigned to haue remayned without interruption of Pastors for the administration of the worde and Sacraments , saue only the Roman Church Therfore irrefragablie it followeth that the Roman Church only and those which haue Cōmunyon of fayth with her , to be the only true Church of Christ , or else , which is most absurde and Blasphemous , that Christ hath noe Church vpon earth , but that the gates of hell to her destruction hath prevayled against her , contrary to Christ promyse . On the contrarie , by the confession of the Protestants the Romaine Church many hundred yeares was the true Church of Christ , and noe Protestant is able by evidence of any Authenticke Ecclesiasticall historie to shew any Christian Companie or Church In rerum natura more Auncient of different fayth , from whence the Romane Church departed , Therfore as yet she is and ought to be esteemed , and consequentlie must enioye in all ages Pastors and Teachers for the administration of the worde and Sacraments , beinge the true Church cannot fubsist without them .


id: A70985
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662. Following letter containing the substance of the dispute.
date: 1659
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 16652
sentence: 225
flesch: 27
cache: cache/A70985.xml
txt: txt/A70985.txt
title:
  The reign of the whore discovered and her ruine seen her merchants the priests examined, and with the Romish church (their elder sister) compared and found agreeable in many things ... : some queries also for those people that pay tythes, and priests that receive tythes, to consider and answer : and whereas their cry hath been loud against us the people of God called Quakers, that we are Jesuits, and Jesuitical, in tryal they are found false accusers, and of the same stock and generation themselves ... : also the sustance of a dispute which was the 15th day of the 2d month, called April 1659, at the Bridge-house in Southwark, between VVilliam Cooper, VVilliam VVhitaker, Thomas VVoodsworth, VVieles, Watkins, Cradicut, and others who profess themselves ministers of Christ, and some of the people call'd Quakers ... / written in that which gives to see over all the popish train ... W.S.

summary:
  Why do you not leave your Bibles at home ? Do you bring it onely for a cloak , custom & fashion ? and is not this the reason why people cry against us for denyers of the Scriptures , because we do not hold a Bible in our hands when we preach to people , and because we follow not your fashion , and have Notes to tell the people the Chapter and Verse ? Did not they all minister according as they had received from God ? and was not their Work and Ministry for this end , To turn people to Gods gift in them , from the darkness to the light , from the power of Satan to God ? But is your Work so ? Do not you turn people's minds to something without them ? and do not your selves hate the light , and so are you like to turn people from darkness ? and are you not under the power of Satan you selves ? and do you not teach the poor ignorant people , that 't is impossible to be freed from under the power of Satan , and that they must never expect to be freed from committing of sin while living in the Body ? and are not those under the power of the Devil that doth the Works of the Devil , and obeys his Will ? are not those that commit sin the servants of sin , and free from righteousness ?


id: A73011
author: Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.
date: 1623
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22510
sentence: 1006
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A73011.xml
txt: txt/A73011.txt
title:
  Looke beyond Luther: or An ansvvere to that question, so often and so insultingly proposed by our aduersaries, asking vs; where this our religion was before Luthers time? VVhereto are added sound props to beare vp honest-hearted Protestants, that they fall not from their sauing-faith. By Richard Bernard, of Batcombe in Sommersetshire.

summary:
  TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL , Sir WALTER ERLE , Sir CLEMENT COTTEREL , KNIGHTS : And to their vertuous Ladies , euersoundnesse of Faith , with the power of Religion and constancie , in both most heartie wished . Right Worshipfull , I Should maruell to see any once professing the truth , to turne from the light vnto darkenes , from the true Worship and Religion of Christ , to the superstition and idolatrie of Antichrist , but that I read , that our first Parents beleeued Satan before God ; that men loue darkenesse more then the light , and that fornot louing the truth , and delighting in vnrighteousnesse , God giueth such ouer to beleeue lyes , that they may bee damned .


id: A79473
author: Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.
date: 1644
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 23696
sentence: 784
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A79473.xml
txt: txt/A79473.txt
title:
  Chillingworthi novissima. Or, The sicknesse, heresy, death and buriall of William Chillingworth. (In his own phrase) Clerk of Oxford, and in the conceit of his fellow souldiers, the Queens arch-engineer, and grand-intelligencer. Set forth in a letter to his eminent and learned friends, a relation of his apprehension at Arundell, a discovery of his errours in a briefe catechism, and a shorr [sic] oration at the buriall of his hereticall book. By Francis Cheynell, late fellow of Merton Colledge. Published by authority.

summary:
  36. God hath confirmed the doctrine of the Scripture by miracles ; but then he saith , we have nothing to assure us of the truth of those miracles , but Tradition ; and therefore we are not got one steppe nearer faith or Heaven by that shift : and if he flie back to Reason , then consider what he saith , pag. 117. God hath no where commanded men to beleeve all that Reason induceth them to beleeve . But certainly humane prudence and ordinary discretion will teach men to plead these excuses , which he hath framed for them , when any point of faith shall be pressed upon them ; they will say , our opportunities are few , our distractions and hinderances many , our education meane , our abilities weake , our prejudices strong , our passions violent , our inadvertence pardonable , and therefore we will content our selves with a modest humble implicite faith ; we beleeve the whole Scripture to be true , in that sense which God intended , whatsoever it was , but we have not time to search or ability to judge what it was : if we beleeve nothing explicitely , or to disbeleeve a clear revelation , that revelation , though cleare in it selfe , is not cleare to us , our errour ( the corruption of our nature , our prejudices , contrary opinions , with which we are already prepossest , and all other things considered ) is unavoidable , and therefore God will never impute it to us as a sinne .


id: A66243
author: L. Ė.
date: 1687
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19264
sentence: 1124
flesch: 83
cache: cache/A66243.xml
txt: txt/A66243.txt
title:
  A plain defence of the Protestant religion, fitted to the meanest capacity being a full confutation of the net for the fishers of men, published by two gentlemen lately gone over to the Church of Rome. Wherein is evidently made appear, that their departure from the Protestant religion was without cause of reason. Written for publick good by L. E. a son of the Church of England, as by law established.

summary:
  Pro. Christ said so , because he gave the Holy Spirit to his Followers , and a power of working Miracles as long as it was necessary ; but it doth not follow , that it is so always , much less doth it follow , that they are a Mark to know the Holiness of the Church by ; seeing Antichrist is to do miracles , and the Holy Fathers tell us , Hereticks did many , yet their miracles will not prove the Sanctity of their Church . 4. 12. He gave some Apostles , &c. to the Consummation of the Saints ? Pro. The Scripture says so , because under the Gospel the Church was not limited to the Nation of the Jews , but all Nations might be Members of it : and there should be a Church to the end of the World ; but it doth not therefore say this Church should be in all Nations , at all times , much less doth it say that its being so is a Mark that it is the True Church .


id: A61594
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1666
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 25672
sentence: 703
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A61594.xml
txt: txt/A61594.txt
title:
  A reply to Mr. J.S. his 3d. appendix containing some animadversions on the book entituled, A rational account of the grounds of Protestant religion. By Ed. Stillingfleet B.D.

summary:
  And when the● were silenced , all the disputes th● arose in the Church concerning matte● of faith , was about the sense of the books ; as is evident by the procee●ings in the case of Arius and Pelagi● Wherein Tradition was only used a means to clear the sense of the S●ptures , but not at all as that which t● faith of all was to be resolved int● But when any thing was pleaded fr● tradition for which there was ground in Scripture , it was reject with the same ease it was offered ; a● such persons were plainly told , t● was not the Churches way ; if they b● plain Scripture with the concurr● sense of Antiquity , they might produce ●t and rely upon it . In which sense only I shall grant our Protestant Writer● to build on uncertainties , and Mr. White and Mr. Serjeant to be the great Demonstrators of this age .


id: A34966
author: Cressy, Serenus, 1605-1674.
title: Dr. Stillingfleets principles giving an account of the faith of Protestants / considered by N.O.
date: 1671
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24574
sentence: 1067
flesch: 67
cache: cache/A34966.xml
txt: txt/A34966.txt
summary:
  Here , if the Doctor means , That by the same way or means as we come to know the truth of other Divine Revelations , we may come to know the truth also of this , viz : the Infallibility in Necessaries of a Society , or Church ; I consent to it . Seeing ( sayth he ) the Controuersies of Religion ( that is , in things of great consequence , as he says afterwards ) in our times are grown in number so many , and in matter so intricate , that few haue time and leasure , fewer strength of vnderstanding to examine them ; Vvhat remaineth for men desirous of satisfaction in things of such consequence , but diligently to search out which amongst all the Societies of the world is that blessed Company of Holy Ones , that Houshold of Faith ▪ that Spouse of Christ and Church of the liuing God , vvhich is ihe Pillar and ground of Truth , that so he may embrace her Communion , follow her Directions , and rest in her Iudgment ? Thus doctor Field ; who in his last words ( rest in her Iudgment ) speaks home enough , and discouers the only efficacious way of curing Sects .


id: A35885
author: Dalhusius, Johannes H. (Johannes Hermanus)
date: 1689
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 26596
sentence: 843
flesch: 60
cache: cache/A35885.xml
txt: txt/A35885.txt
title:
  The salvation of Protestants asserted and defended in opposition to the rash and uncharitable sentence of their eternal damnation pronounc'd against them by the Romish Church / by J.H. Dalhusius ... ; newly done into English.

summary:
  For these Reasons therefore I thought it necessary to examin by the Rule of Charity and Truth this Judgment so frequently given and inculcated against us ; to the end that if it be found to be rash and prohibited by the Sentence of Christ , not only you , Mr. Prior , may be brought to remit somewhat of your rigor , and blush at what you have so unjustly written , but that we our selves also slighting and contemning this preposterous Judgment , may continue cheerful and constant in the Truth of God , saying to our Prior , and such like supercilious Censurers as He , what St. Paul said to the Corinthians , 1 Cor. And indeed if you would but lay aside your Affections , and give never so little attention to the Word of God , you would there find how unlawful 't is for you to give any such Judgment upon Christians , and to devote them to Maledictions whom Christ has redeemed with his Blood , whose Faith is conformable to the Scripture , and who repose their whole Confidence in the Grace and Mercy of God , and the Merits and Cross of Christ .


id: A47594
author: Kuhlmann, Quirin, 1651-1689.
date: 1679
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20969
sentence: 650
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A47594.xml
txt: txt/A47594.txt
title:
  The general London epistle of Quirinus Kuhlman a Christian, to the Wiclef-Waldenses, Hussites, Zuinglians, Lutherans, and Calvinists being an explication of a vision and prophecy of John Kregel : wherein the reformation from popery is fundamentally asserted, and the union of Protestants convincingly urged : together with a postscript relating to the present popish plot : translated from the Latine copy printed at Rotterdam in May 1679.

summary:
  But there is no Astrologer ( of those I have seen ) whose Conjectures have come nearer the truth , than the Almanack Writer of Staden , who expresly compares the two Comets of 1664 and 65 , to two who give in their Evidence before a Judge , and the third to a publick Herald , proclaiming the Sentence given in upon the fore-going Evidence ; and therefore declares his Opinion , that within 24 months time the work of God will be manifested , by preparing the whole Roman and Turkish Empire for quite another War , then is now believed , which is to last till the next Age , and to run over the greatest part of the whole World , and that the end of it will be , the propagation of the Gospel in the East , and the return of the Christian Church to the place of its first rise . What I have said of you , the same may be said of the Turks , Persians , and Tartars , as well as of Nominal Christians ; because Turks and Persians , with others who are Strangers to the Name of Christ , if they heartily glorifie Christ by a Righteous Life towards God and their Neighbours , though they have no Explicite Knowledge of Christ , are notwithstanding partakers of him , and that in a nearer degree than our Nominal Christians , notwithstanding their Mahometanisme , which in time must be totally done away .


id: A17020
author: Abbot, George, 1562-1633.
title: A treatise of the perpetuall visibilitie, and succession of the true church in all ages
date: 1624
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22060
sentence: 895
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A17020.xml
txt: txt/A17020.txt
summary:
  R●●ion . And ●auing onely for the time of the Babylonish captiuitie , there was one set externall place of Gods eminent seruice , that is , the Temple at Ierusalem , supported with such words , t This is my rest for euer , heere will I dwell ,


id: A34972
author: Cressy, Serenus, 1605-1674.
date: 1686
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 32311
sentence: 1337
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A34972.xml
txt: txt/A34972.txt
title:
  I. Question: Why are you a Catholic? The answer follows. II. Question: But why are you a Protestant? An answer attempted (in vain) / written by the Reverend Father S.C. Monk of the Holy Order of St. Benedict ...

summary:
  Again though it were true , that the English Clergy have received their Ordinations from the Roman Catholic Church , yet sure I am , that Church never released them from their Canonical subjection to their Superiors , particularly to their Patriarch and Supream Pastor of Gods Church : She never gave them power to change the order of administring Sacraments ; to reverse Ordinances of Superior Councils ; to expel Catholic Bishops from their Sees , meerly because they were Catholics ; In a word , she never gave them authority to alter , or rather destroy , the whole Religion , in a manner , professed in England since they were first Christians . Tenenda est nobis Christiana Religio — ) Christian Religion is to be held by us , and the Communion of that Church which is Catholic , and is named Catholic , not only by her children , but also even by her enemies .


id: A27068
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1684
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 38713
sentence: 1333
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A27068.xml
txt: txt/A27068.txt
title:
  Whether parish congregations be true Christian churches and the capable consenting incumbents, be truly their pastors, or bishops over their flocks ... : written by Richard Baxter as an explication of some passages in his former writings, especially his Treatise of episcopacy, misunderstood and misapplied by some, and answering the strongest objections of some of them, especially a book called, Mr. Baxters judgment and reasons against communicating with the parish assemblies, as by law required, and another called, A theological dialogue, or, Catholick communion once more defended, upon mens necessitating importunity / by Richard Baxter.

summary:
  The Reformation finding th●ngs in this case , determined none of the disputes , de nomine , Whether Parish Rectors shall be called ●pis●op●s Gregis , or Pastors , or Rectors , or I●cumb●nts ; but use these names promiscuously . 2005-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-03 John Latta Sampled and proofread 2006-03 John Latta Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion WHET●ER Parish C●●gregations BE TRUE Christian Churches , ●●d the Capable Consenting Incumbents , be truly their Pastors , or Bishops over their Flocks .


id: A26998
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1692
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 41353
sentence: 1690
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A26998.xml
txt: txt/A26998.txt
title:
  The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.

summary:
  And I pray you tell us , whether that be Religion that is not Divine , and whether it be not our own understanding , that must distinguish between God and Man ? Did not Vulgar Folly fit slothful Fools for Hell , they would easily perceive that Popery engaging them to renounce their own understandings , maketh us all Voluntary Brutes , to gratify the ambition of Men , and puts down God from being our Governour , and Man from being a Voluntary Subject , and turns the Kingdom of Christ into the Kingdom of Beasts . ( And I hope , God and Man may be distinguished . )


id: A26620
author: Abercromby, David, d. 1701 or 2.
date: 1669
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 49568
sentence: 1570
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A26620.xml
txt: txt/A26620.txt
title:
  Scolding no scholarship in the abyss, or, Groundless grounds of the Protestant religion as holden out by M. Menzeis in his brawlings against M. Dempster.

summary:
  If any clear testimony were brought out of Scripture against it , he would neither believe Scripture nor Church , for that on the Church her Authority he believed the Scripture . Rests then only to prove that the Church's Authority as an infallible Propounder is necessary , to make all these Divine and infallible Truths in themselves , contained either in Scripture , or delivered by Apostolical Tradition , both solid and infallible Grounds to us .


id: A41441
author: Goodman, John, 1625 or 6-1690.
title: The old religion demonstrated in its principles, and described in the life and practice thereof
date: 1684
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 54835
sentence: 1003
flesch: 38
cache: cache/A41441.xml
txt: txt/A41441.txt
summary:
  But all these men , as they do too palpably betray they have no love to Religion , nor no desire it should be true : so they evidently discover that they neither understand what satisfaction is fit for God to give in these matters , or for man to require ; nor do they consider what the nature of Virtue and Religion will admit of , no nor do they understand themselves so well as to know what motives will work upon men ; nor lastly , have they applied their minds to take a just estimate of the value and efficacy of these motives of hopes and fear which it pleases God to set before them . Forasmuch as it is evident , that the approving a mans self to God , and the taking care of Eternity , are such weighty and important affairs , that they must needs require the greatest composure of thoughts , and the utmost intention of our minds ; and can neither be worthily taken in hand , nor much less pursued as they ought , in such a light and jolly humour as the custom of tipling doth ordinarily put men into ; for that relaxes a mans thoughts , and fills his spirit with froth and levity ; it renders the mind of a man so airy and trifling , that he becomes transported with a jest , and diverted by every impertinence ; it banishes sollicitude , and puts him besides his guard of caution and circumspection ; a mans head in such a case is impatient of weighty considerations , incapable of grave deliberations ; his thoughts are fluctuating and uncertain , he comes to no stable resolution , nor can he make any constant progress ; and surely such a temper cannot make a fit soil for Religion to take root in , or to thrive upon .


id: A04376
author: Barlow, William, d. 1613.
date: 1601
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 47097
sentence: 2431
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A04376.xml
txt: txt/A04376.txt
title:
  A defence of the articles of the Protestants religion in aunsweare to a libell lately cast abroad, intituled Certaine articles, or forcible reasons, discouering the palpable absurdities, and most intricate errours of the Protestantes religion.

summary:
  Assuredly in conference about religion , it is no fit aunsweare for a diuine , which n Archias made to a messenger that came to him , with letters importing earnest matters , & requiring serious consultation , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Serious matters to morrow , let vs now be merry , for a o curse lies vpon him that deales in the Lordes worke negligently , much more in iest : notwithstanding hauing perused this paltry pamphlet , and finding it to bee as p Iosephus said of Apion his writinges 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a very heape and misken of shamelesse vntruethes , rather then scholler like arguments , or true cōtrouersies , & the obiections articulated 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , as q ●stine speaketh , not vpon mature iudgement , but a passionate discontentment , linked with a bad conscience , little caring , as r Naz. saith , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not what hee speakes , but how much he can speake ; I demurred with my selfe , as s that learned Iew did in his grapple with that Granimarian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whether it were woorth the while , to deale seriously or no ? Because t S. Ierome his r●le is , that such open blasphemies procure & deserue magis indignationem scribentis , quam studium , rather an aunsweare with skorne , then in earnest ; or such an one as u Lactantius gaue Aristoxenus , nimirum manu pulsandus hic est , but I trust by that time hee hath read this aunsweare , hee will say there hath bene vsed neither dalliance nor iest ; vnlesse it be such sport as a Abner speakes of , Surgant pueri & ludant , the triall of our weapons at the least . lin , 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , lege 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 .


id: A55374
author: Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679.
date: 1672
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 52628
sentence: 2428
flesch: 78
cache: cache/A55374.xml
txt: txt/A55374.txt
title:
  A dialogue between a popish priest, and an English Protestant. Wherein the principal points and arguments of both religions are truly proposed, and fully examined. / By Matthew Poole, author of Synopsis Criticorum.

summary:
  I hope every alteration of Doctrines of less moment , doth not make the Church new ; if it doth , it is most certain , that your Church is new also ; for nothing can be more plain , than that the Catholick Church , nay even your own Church of Rome , did not antiently , in former ages hold all these Doctrines which now she owns ( as your own greatest Authors confess ) this is sufficient , that the Church of God , in most former ages , hath owned all our Substantial Doctrines . Pop. God forbid I should be so wicked to deny my Mother , and Church , because of her Afflictions .


id: A26931
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1674
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 59970
sentence: 2455
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A26931.xml
txt: txt/A26931.txt
title:
  Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholick Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.

summary:
  Yea , it is to be noted , that though Brutes have no Intellects , yet their Sense and Imagination herein wholly agreeth with the common perception of man : A Dog or a Mouse will eat the bread as common bread , and a Swine will drink the Wine as common Wine : and therefore have the same perception of it as of common bread and wine ; And so their senses must be all deceived as well as mans . But sober men will tell you that sense is in exercise in order of Nature at least before Reason or faith , and that we are Men and Animals before we are Christians :


# ent

id: A15697
sid: 214
eid: 1
type: ORG
entity:
  reperiturtamen martinus quintus dispensasse cum quodam qui contraxerat & consummauerit matrimonium cum quadam eius germana .


