item: #1 of 21 id: A13569 author: Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654. title: The ballance of the sanctuarie shewing hovv vve must behaue our selues when wee see and behold the people of God in miserie and oppression vnder the tyranny of their enemies. Written by William Teelinck, minister of the Word of God at Midlebrough in Zealand. date: 1621.0 words: 28712 flesch: 68 summary: I answere , although instantly by Gods ordinary or extraordinary workes wee cannot conceiue Gods fauour and affection towardes men , nor mans state in regard of God , thereby to take occasion , specially , for the same to prayse the Lord our God , and to seeke after him ; notwithstanding when we once well know & perceiue mans state in regard of God , and our owne or any other mens speciall state in that kind , wee may by the ordinary workes of God here done amongst men , learne and conceiue many good things ; as for example , when we know a man to be one that truely feareth God , and yet see that notwithstanding many crosses and troubles befall him , and happen to him in this life , we may thereby learne , That God the righteous Iudge of all the world , findeth cause & matter enough , when it pleaseth him , To try the best men that liue here on earth , by laying great tribulations vpon them , and by many miseries to proue their patience , When wee see therefore that the wrath of God is reuealed from heauen , against all vngodlinesse and vnrighteousnesse of men , Rom. 1. 18. we may thereupon certainely conclude , That there is something wanting in men , and that for many causes man deserueth punishment for sin , which God disliketh , Rom. 3. 23. and thereby we may further learne , that sinne is the mother of all miseries , and that there is nothing in the world which we should with more care & caution , hate , shun , and abhor , then sinne , as the onely thing that moueth our Creator to dislike of vs , and maketh all vs that are his creatures abhominable in his sight . keywords: bee; cause; children; doe; end; enemies; god; godly; gods; good; great; hath; haue; hee; lord; lord god; man; men; owne; people; prosperitie; shall; things; vnto; vpon; wee; workes; world cache: A13569.xml plain text: A13569.txt item: #2 of 21 id: A17298 author: Burton, Henry, 1578-1648. title: A divine tragedie lately acted, or A collection of sundry memorable examples of Gods judgements upon Sabbath-breakers, and other like libertines, in their unlawfull sports, happening within the realme of England, in the compass only of two yeares last past, since the booke was published worthy to be knowne and considered of all men, especially such, who are guilty of the sinne or arch-patrons thereof. date: 1636.0 words: 17515 flesch: 70 summary: I shall therefore confine my selfe only to such domesticke examples , as have fallen out in sundry corners of this our Realme within these two yeares , of purpose to refute the * madnesse of those Prophets , who in the Presse and Pulpit ; and the profanes of those people , who in their dauncing-greenes , and may-pole arbors , have bene so audacious , as to affirme , the Profanation of the Lords day by Maygames , Daunces , May-poles , Wakes , and common Labour out of time of divine Service , ( especially after evening Prayer ) to be no sin at all against the 4. Commandement , or any other Law of God or man ; but c necessary and commendable point of true Christian Liberty ( they should have sayd of carnall and heathenish licentiousnesse rather ) from which the people must not be debarred ; But let these blinde guides , and libertines learne from these examples , to correct this their erronious judgment , and practise ; for feare the Lord make them the next examples in this kinde , to teach others to keepe his Sabbaths better , and more intirely for the future . THese Examples of Gods judgements hereunder set downe , have fallen out within the space of lesse then two yeares last past , even since the Declaration for sports ( tolerated on the Lords day ) was published , and read by many Ministers in their congregations ; for hereupon ill disposed people ( being as dry fewell , to which fire being put , quickly flameth forth ; or as waters , pent up and restrained being let loose , breake forth more furiously ) were so incouraged , if not inraged , as taking liberty dispensed , thereby so provoked God , that his wrath in sundry places , hath broken out to the destruction of many , would to God to the instruction of any . keywords: booke; church; commandement; dauncing; day; dayes; doe; example; god; gods; hath; himselfe; house; iohn; judgements; lords day; man; men; minister; parish; pastimes; people; sabbath; sabbath day; sports; sunday; time; yeares cache: A17298.xml plain text: A17298.txt item: #3 of 21 id: A33547 author: Cockburn, John, 1652-1729. title: An enquiry into the nature, necessity, and evidence of Christian faith. Part I. Of faith in general, and of the belief of a deity by J.C. date: 1696.0 words: 25954 flesch: 56 summary: 4. All the Actions of every one are to be Approved or Condemned , with a regard to this Faith , and by vertue of it , things , in themselves good and lawful , become evil , and what is evil loseth a part of its malignity . The same reason which makes it Just , and our Duty to act according to our Knowledge , and inward Perswasion , or to do the Good we know , obligeth us to search out the real Good that is , that there may be no Errour in our Perswasion , nor Crookedness in our Practice ; and then only our Thoughts can justifie our Actions , when , by Diligence and due Care , we have endeavoured to make our Thoughts just and true , conform to the Nature of things ; for without this , we cannot be fully perswaded in our Minds , as the Apostle enjoineth ; the assurance of Faith is wanting , which is necessary to dispel all doubts , and to establish our goings . keywords: contrivance; deity; design; doth; existence; faith; god; good; hath; life; light; man; matter; men; nature; parts; power; reason; self; sense; things; tho; wisdom; world cache: A33547.xml plain text: A33547.txt item: #4 of 21 id: A39659 author: Flavel, John, 1630?-1691. title: Divine conduct, or, The mysterie of Providence wherein the being and efficacy of Providence is asserted and vindicated : the methods of Providence as it passes through the several stages of our lives opened : and the proper course of improving all Providences / directed in a treatise upon Psalm 57 ver 2 by John Flavell ... date: 1678.0 words: 81794 flesch: 75 summary: ●here are ●me ●embers ●●at are ●●tical , as 〈◊〉 liver , ●●are and ●rain , in ●●ese are ●laced the ●atural , ●●tal and ●●nimal ●●irits ; ●●ese spi●●ts are ●●rried by 〈◊〉 Veins , TO THE Right Honourable WILLIAM EARL of BEDFORD , Lord RUSSELL of Thorne●●ugh , and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the GARTER . keywords: afflictions; care; case; children; christ; comfort; consider; consideration; david; day; design; doth; duty; evil; faith; gen; god; gods; good; hand; hath; heart; isa; job; life; like; little; lord; love; man; means; men; mercies; mercy; people; performance; place; power; providence; psal; reason; saints; scripture; self; selves; sin; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thoughts; thy; time; troubles; unto; way; wayes; work; world; yea; ● ● cache: A39659.xml plain text: A39659.txt item: #5 of 21 id: A41438 author: Goodman, John, 1625 or 6-1690. title: The interest of divine providence in the government of the world a sermon preached at Guild-Hall-Chappel, before the right honourable the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the city of London, Febr. xi. 1682 / by J. Goodman ... date: 1683.0 words: 9096 flesch: 58 summary: But if it be a publick action he designs , he shall be sure to meet with those will envy and malign him , a second sort will suspect him , and a third will traduce and defame him ; and amongst the rest there will not want those that will find it to be their interest to oppose and hinder him : so that in short , without a special hand of Providence , no man shall have either the heart to undertake , or the power and success to effect any noble action ; but grant this great point , and men are born above envy , opposition , and even above themselves . Sixthly , But Sixthly and lastly , and to speak summarily , Providence is of unspeakable advantage and influence upon the spirits of men , both in prosperity and adversity . keywords: causes; church; god; good; government; hath; lord; man; men; providence; religion; text; things; time; world cache: A41438.xml plain text: A41438.txt item: #6 of 21 id: A42547 author: Gearing, William. title: God's soveraignty displayed from Job 9. 12. : Behold he taketh away, who can hinder him? &c., or, A discourse shewing, that God doth, and may take away from his creatures what hee pleaseth, as to the matter what, the place where, the time when, the means and manner how, and the reasons thereof : with an application of the whole, to the distressed citizens of London, whose houses and goods were lately consumed by the fire : an excitation of them to look to the procuring causes of this fiery tryal, the ends that God aims at in it, with directions how to behave themselves under their losses / by William Gearing ... date: 1667.0 words: 51866 flesch: 67 summary: if he will stop thy breath , and deliver thee up to death , who can hinder him ? as if Job should have said thus : He hath taken away my Children , my Cattel , my substance , my health , my strength , and all my outward comforts , and if he now come and take away my life too , I cannot hinder him . God threatned the old world , Gen. 6.6 , 7. I will destroy man from the face of the earth . The Original word signifies ( as Pareus observeth upon the place ) I will steep him as a man steepeth a piece of earth in water , till it turn to dirt ; man is but clay , a speaking piece of clay , and is apt to forget his Maker , and the matter whereof he is made ; none but God can reduce man to his first principles , and original matter whereof he was made : there is no dust so high , but the great God is able to give it a steeping . keywords: children; christ; church; city; creatures; day; death; doth; earth; end; evil; fire; glory; god; god doth; gods; good; great; hand; hath; heart; heaven; hell; holy; house; jerusalem; job; king; life; lord; losses; love; man; men; people; place; portion; riches; saith; sect; self; set; sin; sins; soul; thee; things; thou; time; vanity; world; years cache: A42547.xml plain text: A42547.txt item: #7 of 21 id: A42818 author: Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680. title: Lux orientalis, or, An enquiry into the opinion of the Eastern sages concerning the praeexistence of souls being a key to unlock the grand mysteries of providence, in relation to mans sin and misery. date: 1662.0 words: 38045 flesch: 54 summary: When therefore we cann● give Accoun● of things either by the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 or concen●able 〈◊〉 , ( as likely some things relating to the States of Spirits , and immaterial beings can be resolv'd by neither ) I say then , we may have recourse to the Arbitrary managements of those invisible Ministers of Equity and Justice , which without doubt the world is plentifully stored with . 〈◊〉 can ●ne thinks searce imagine , that presently upon the quitting on●e , we shall ●e stript of all corporetry , for this would ●e such a jump as is seldome or never made in nature ; since by almost all i●ances that come under our observation his manifest , that she ●seth to act by due ●nd orderly gradations , and takes no precipition leaps from one extream to another . keywords: act; argument; bodies; body; condition; creatures; divine; doctrine; doth; earth; faculties; god; good; goodnesse; hath; hypothesis; infinite; life; matter; nature; opinion; place; praeexistence; reason; scripture; self; souls; state; thing; way; wisdome; world cache: A42818.xml plain text: A42818.txt item: #8 of 21 id: A43676 author: Haggar, Henry. title: No King but Jesus, or, The Walls of tyrannie razed and the foundations of unjust monarchy discovered to the view of all that desire to see it wherein is undeniably proved that no king is the Lords anointed but Jesus ... / by Henry Haggar. date: 1652.0 words: 21829 flesch: 64 summary: Which things having been by me considered in some measure , according to the understanding the Lord hath given me , I finde my self in conscience bound , and by love and pity constrained , to speak what I know and am sure of , to others ; having learnt it chiefly out of the Scriptures , and somewhat by considering the times , and the conditions of men in these days of danger and peril , in which so many make shipwrack of faith and a good conscience : I therefore am bold to present these lines to the view both of friends and enemies ; by which I shall discharge my duty towards God and man in some good measure , and shall be at peace in my self , when I know I have not hid my talent in a napkin , nor kept back any thing that might be profitable to my country-men & acquaintance amongst whom I live . Therefore I exhort you , and every of you ( professing godliness in sincerity ) in the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ , and by the mercies that we have received from him , and by him from God our Father , that we may with all diligence labour and exercise our selves ( as our beloved brother Paul hath given us an example , Act. 24.15 , 16. ) to have always Consciences void of offence , both towards God , and towards man . keywords: christ; days; earth; evil; god; good; hath; king; lord; man; men; nation; people; power; saith; things; words cache: A43676.xml plain text: A43676.txt item: #9 of 21 id: A44523 author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. title: Gods providence in the midst of confusion set out in a sermon preach'd at the Savoy, January the 30, 1681, being the anniversary of the martyrdom of King Charles I / by Anthony Horneck. date: 1682.0 words: 17472 flesch: 47 summary: If God takes care of any thing , thinks the sensual Man , it must be of the true Religion , this we must conceive to be his Darling , and if he hath more tender Affections for one thing than another , this we must suppose is the chief Object of his sollicitude : This makes most for his Honour , and his Glory is advanced by nothing so much as by true , and genuine Worship ; This therefore he must be thought to mind and cherish most , and to look upon with the kindest Aspect : But to see this Jewel scorned , derided , affronted , and its lustre darkened by Clouds of Ignorance and Malice : To see this Pearl broken , shattered , and the dust of it dispersed into the various corners of the Earth : To see its Foes live great , and those that touch this Apple of his Eye , brave it in their pleasures : To see them erect their Throne on the Necks of Gods Servants , and securely trample on these supposed Favourites of Heaven ; what can we conclude , but that either this is not the true Religion , or that Providence is careless , and supine in its Protection ? 5. Such another Disorder is , Base and contemptible mens climbing up to the Thrones of Kings , and displacing the true Owners , and usurping their Authority ; When the vilest of Men are advanced to Royalty , and they that were but Subjects a little before , come to sit in their Lords Tribunal : vvhen Persons of the Dregs of the People get up to the highest Povver , and they that vvere but Scum before , come to svvim like Oyl on the top , and throvv dovvn Gods Anointed ; when a Jeroboam from Surveyor of the Kings Works , rises up to be King himself ; and a Zimri that dvvelt in a Cottage before , comes to possess himself of the Royal Palace . Nay , God himself is concerned to see this Justice maintained in Commonwealths , and it is part of his Prerogative to preserve its Laws inviolable , so that it 's being lost in a Corporation , seems to reflect upon him ; and as it was he alone , that first taught Men to gather into Societies , so to let Oppression come among them , which is the Bane , that kills them , to a sensual Eye seems to be no small disparagement to his Providence . keywords: confusions; day; disorders; doth; fire; god; gods; good; hath; heaven; king; life; lord; man; men; people; power; providence; reason; religion; things; thou; time; way; world cache: A44523.xml plain text: A44523.txt item: #10 of 21 id: A45400 author: Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660. title: Charis kai eirēnē, or, A pacifick discourse of Gods grace and decrees in a letter of full accordance / written to the reverend and most learned Dr. Robert Sanderson by Henry Hammond ... ; to which are annexed the extracts of three letters concerning Gods prescience reconciled with liberty and contingency ; together with two sermons preached before these evil times, the one to the clergy, the other to the citizens of London. date: 1660.0 words: 53653 flesch: 59 summary: On the other side , if our nature being universally corrupted by Adam's fall , all possibility of rising out of that grave of sin be the effect and benefit of the Grace , as that is of the death of Christ , if it be God that worketh in us both to will and to do , of his good pleasure , the first by his preventing , the second by his assisting Grace , and both those bottom'd meerly in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 good pleasure , nothing in us any way meriting the first act , or purpose of Giving Grace , any farther then our wants and miseries rendered us the proper objects of his compassions and reliefs ; and the subsequent aids in like manner challengeable , onely from his promise , and the purport of the parable of the Talents , of Giving to him that hath , rewarding the use of the lower , with the gift of an higher degree of Grace , then still is this , the attributing nothing to our selves , but demerits , and provocations , and giving the whole glory to God. § . 12. And then to put any man in hope , that what is not ordinarily revealed in the Gospel , may yet be laid up for him in the cabinet of Gods secret counsels with this seal upon it , The Lord knoweth those that are his , as if they might be his still in Gods acceptation , which walk most contrarily to him , this may prove a most dangerous snare of souls , and it is strange it should seek shelter in that Text 2. Tim. 2. 19. which was most expresly designed to the contrary , as is evident both by the notation of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the beginning of the verse , which in all probability signifies the Covenant of God , the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stability whereof , there prest , must assure us that there is no salvation to be expected , but according to the contents of that great indenture , once for all sealed in the blood of Christ , of which as that indeed is one part , which is inscribed on one side of the seal [ The Lord knoweth those that are his ] i. e. he will never fail to own those that continue faithfull to him ; so the other , on the other side , is most emphatical , [ Let every man that nameth the name of Christ , depart from iniquity ] which if he do not , he hath forfeited all the Priviledges of his Christianity . keywords: aeterno; answer; christ; decrees; degree; doth; election; fall; free; future; god; gods; gods grace; good; gospel; grace; hath; infinite; man; men; power; prescience; present; question; reason; scripture; second; self; set; things; time; truth; use; way; words; work cache: A45400.xml plain text: A45400.txt item: #11 of 21 id: A50202 author: Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. title: An essay for the recording of illustrious providences wherein an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events which have hapned this last age, especially in New-England / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. date: 1684.0 words: 87249 flesch: 69 summary: This also Po●p●natius does by many Instances confirm . E. G. in Mandels●o's Travels , H●ck●uit , and Linshoten's Voyages ; Wanley's Histo●y ; Causin's Holy Court ; Mr. Burton's Treatises lately printed , and in Mr. Ianeway's Sea-Deliverances . keywords: account; bed; boat; body; cause; child; day; dayes; dead; death; devil; earth; end; england; english; fire; foot; god; good; hand; hath; head; house; hurt; indians; instances; lay; lightning; like; lord; man; master; means; men; nature; new; night; persons; place; prayer; providence; reason; relation; remarkable; room; saith; satan; sea; self; set; ship; spirits; stone; storm; things; thought; thunder; time; vessel; water; way; wife; witches; woman; words; world; year; ● ● cache: A50202.xml plain text: A50202.txt item: #12 of 21 id: A51226 author: Moore, John, 1646-1714. title: Of the vvisdom and goodness of Providence two sermons preached before the Queen, at White-Hall, on August 17, 24, MDCXC / by John Moore ... date: 1690.0 words: 13061 flesch: 54 summary: As the firm Belief of Providence is of vast concernment to our Souls , so the Spirit of God has made many declarations of it , and fully set forth all the parts thereof in Holy Scripture , not only how God is pleased to engage himself in making provision for the Children of men , but how his care does extend to the smallest Creatures , and the meanest parts of the Creation . IT would not be easie for men with little Temptation to be drawn into great Sins , if they were fully perswaded that God was present , did behold the Affronts they were putting upon him , and would call them to a strict account for them : Neither would good Christians be so affrighted with the remote appearances of danger , and sink so quickly under Affliction , had they a firm belief that God was ever nigh them , and ready to deliver and support them . keywords: evil; god; good; goodness; holy; life; lord; love; man; men; power; providence; souls; state; things; wicked; wisdom; world cache: A51226.xml plain text: A51226.txt item: #13 of 21 id: A53283 author: Oakes, Urian, 1631-1681. title: The soveraign efficacy of divine providence ... as delivered in a sermon preached in Cambridge on Sept. 10, 1677, being the day of artillery election there, by Mr. Urian Oakes... date: 1682.0 words: 16976 flesch: 70 summary: By which we are not to understand that the Determination of Events is reduc●d and referred to meer Chance & Fortune , as the Epicurean Philosophers imagined : but that the Counsel and Providence of God disposes and orders out all Successes , or Frustrations of Second Causes , casting in sometimes such unexpected Impediments and Obstructions , as defeat the Labours and hopes of men of greatest Sufficiency ; which though they seem wholly casual and fortuitous Emergencies ( and are so indeed unto men themselves ) Moreover , all the Chances that happen to men , as the Scripture but now mentioned shews , are in the Hand of God. keywords: affairs; causes; chance; events; god; good; hand; hath; lord; man; men; power; providence; success; sufficiency; things; time; undertakings; way; world cache: A53283.xml plain text: A53283.txt item: #14 of 21 id: A57979 author: Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661. title: A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 1644 by Samuel Rutherfurd. date: 1644.0 words: 29050 flesch: 75 summary: 2. Consider the supreame absolute Soveraignty that hee hath over Heaven and Earth ; what created royalty is in the pieces of Clay , who carry diadems of clay on their heads , is eminently in him , Artaxerxes is but King of some Kings ; but God is absolutely the supreame Monarch , Superiour , Landlord and King of Kings , and of all Kings and Lord of Lords , Ahashuerosh sent his royall mandates through an hundred and If God be eternall and Lord of time , we must be carefull that wee say not as the people doth , Jer. 8. 20. keywords: bee; beleeve; christ; church; doe; dominion; doth; earth; eternall; faith; god; gods; good; grace; hath; heart; heaven; hee; king; law; life; light; lord; love; man; men; non; psal; soule; spirit; thee; things; thou; time cache: A57979.xml plain text: A57979.txt item: #15 of 21 id: A60562 author: Smith, Thomas, 1638-1710. title: A discourse concerning divine providence, in relation to national judgments date: 1693.0 words: 7393 flesch: 54 summary: eng Providence and government of God. NOtwithstanding that it is most consonant to reason to believe , that he who made the World doth govern it , and that all things are subject to the Laws of Providence , and that the order and course of nature , ( whereby things act regularly , and make up that beauty and harmony , and proportion , which is visible throughout the World ) is not the effect of chance , but of contrivance and design , and owes its original to the divine will , regulated by an infinite wisdom ; yet such is the pride of some , who yet cannot but be conscious of their own defects , and how little they are able to do either of themselves apart , or in conjunction with others , in comparison of what they see done both in heaven and upon earth , as that they will scarce acknowledge God to be supreme , but set up for themselves as absolute , and think to reverse his decrees by their wit and policies , attributing the success of their counsels to the strength of their parts and wisdom , and never referring their defeats and disappointment to his over-ruling power , but to some cross-accident , which they should have provided against ; and then * they cry out upon the extreme malignity and spightfulness of fortune , as they speak , when all their wicked , and devilish policies have been blasted , and proved to be nothing but elaborate folly . keywords: causes; god; judgments; justice; law; nature; power; providence; reason; sin; tcp; text; things; world cache: A60562.xml plain text: A60562.txt item: #16 of 21 id: A64252 author: Beard, Thomas, d. 1632. Theatre of Gods judgements. title: The second part of the theatre of Gods ivdgments collected out of the writings of sundry ancient and moderne authors / by Thomas Taylor. date: 1642.0 words: 71180 flesch: 45 summary: Some would aggravate the fact , and say , that he caused her breasts to be torne off , ( she being yet alive ) and cast to the dogges to be eaten , but that had been a cruelty beyond nature , for a son to exercise upon a mother ; now whilest these things were in ag●●ation , Aegistus had gathered an Army for the raising of the ●●ege , and reclaiming the City , of which Orestes having intelligence , ambu●hed him in his way , and had such good successe , that having incompassed him in , he set upon his Forces , both before and behinde , routed them , and took Aegistus prisoner , whom after he had put to the greatest tortures that humane apprehension could invent or devise , he commanded his body to be hanged in chaines upon a gibbet without the City , the place where malefactors were executed ; there to remain till it dropped thence limbe from limbe : all this comming to the ear of the adulterate brood Esyone , ( who was said to have been accessary to the death of Agame●nón ) she in extreme sorrow for the disaster happened to her father and mother , despairing , strangled her selfe , and Orestes after he had more considerately pondered his cruelty towards his mother , which ( how soever just ) had better to have come from any mans hand than his own , and further , that in the mouthes of all men he was held no better than a matricide , ( a name hatefull both to God and man ) he upon this grew into a great melancholy , and from melancholy to madnesse , never being able to recover his senses after . But though men make slite of these atheisticall and sacrilegious butcheries , that God who made man after his own Image , and all men of one and the selfesame earth and clay , will not let them escape his fearfull and terrible judgements . keywords: act; answer; army; bed; bee; betwixt; body; brother; cause; children; city; comming; common; daughter; day; dayes; dead; death; earth; emperour; end; envy; estate; evill; examples; father; god; gods; gold; good; hand; hath; having; head; hee; high; himselfe; honour; house; husband; judgements; king; lady; land; left; length; life; lord; love; lust; man; master; meanes; men; money; mother; nature; night; owne; people; place; pride; prince; purpose; rest; riches; saith; second; servants; set; shee; slaine; sonne; table; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; way; wife; wine; woman; words; world; wrath; yeares; ● ● cache: A64252.xml plain text: A64252.txt item: #17 of 21 id: A66060 author: Wilkins, John, 1614-1672. title: Sermons preach'd upon several occasions before the King at White-Hall by the Right Reverend Father in God, John Wilkins ... ; to which is added, A discourse concerning the beauty of providence by the same author. date: 1677.0 words: 30129 flesch: 66 summary: Of all sorts of men , there lies a peculiar Obligation upon them that are in Publick Places , to preserve their Reputations clear , and without blemish : A private Person is not so much concern'd to look after Publick Fame , as that man is , who is ingag'd in Publick Employment . 1. That which is most free , the hearts and affections of men do follow the guidance of his Decrees ; Men may do after their own counsels and inclinations , but they are still suitable to his Providence ; there is nothing more in our thoughts and words ; and yet both the preparation of the heart , and the answer of the tongue , is from the Lord , Prov. 16. 1. 2. That which seems most casual : keywords: business; chief; doth; end; god; good; happiness; hath; honour; kind; life; lord; man; means; men; nature; persons; power; providence; reason; religion; state; things; time; wisdom; work; world; ● ● cache: A66060.xml plain text: A66060.txt item: #18 of 21 id: A67068 author: Walker, George, 1581?-1651. title: God made visible in his workes, or, A treatise of the externall workes of God first, in generall, out of the words of the Psalmist, Psalm 35, 6 : secondly, in particular of the Creation, out of the words of Moses, Genesis, Chap. 1 and 2 : thirdly, of Gods actuall Providence / by George Walker ... date: 1641.0 words: 7133 flesch: 64 summary: THE externall outward workes of God which follow in the next place after his internall workes , are indeed nothing but his actuall execution of his eternall counsell , purpose and decree . If his will or pleasure could be resisted or any thing prevented which he willeth to worke , surely the Divell who is so cunning , watchfull and malitious would in some things have defeated God , or this either by himselfe or some of his instruments : keywords: creation; doth; god; gods; hath; lord; text; things; workes; world cache: A67068.xml plain text: A67068.txt item: #19 of 21 id: A68099 author: Goad, Thomas, 1576-1638. title: The dolefull euen-song, or A true, particular and impartiall narration of that fearefull and sudden calamity, which befell the preacher Mr. Drury a Iesuite, and the greater part of his auditory, by the downefall of the floore at an assembly in the Black-Friers on Sunday the 26. of Octob. last, in the after noone Together with the rehearsall of Master Drurie his text, and the diuision thereof, as also an exact catalogue of the names of such as perished by this lamentable accident: and a briefe application thereupon. date: 1623.0 words: 8477 flesch: 66 summary: In the T.G. version, A catalogue of the names of such persons as were slaine by the fall of the roome, quire K, is largely in the same setting of type as that in William Crashaw's The fatall vesper. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. keywords: church; death; debt; english; euen; floare; foot; god; gods; haue; house; iohn; man; master; mistris; people; seruant; tcp; text; vnto; vpon cache: A68099.xml plain text: A68099.txt item: #20 of 21 id: A70812 author: Palmer, Herbert, 1601-1647. title: The glasse of Gods providence towards his faithfvll ones held forth in a sermon preached to the two Houses of Parliament at Margarets Westminster, Aug. 13, 1644, being an extraordinary day of humiliation : wherein is discovered the great failings that the best are liable unto, upon which God is provoked sometimes to take vengeance : the whole is applyed specially to a more carefull observation of our late covenant, and particularly against the ungodly toleration pleaded for under pretence of liberty of conscience / by Herbert Palmer ... date: 1644.0 words: 32074 flesch: 69 summary: THe Records of Holy Scripture , whether they concerne the Actions of GOD or Men , are not onely Stories of things done in that Age , but Prophesies also of future events in succeeding Generations . BEhold an Apostrophe to GOD , in the midst of an Exhortation to Men ! keywords: againe; covenant; day; doe; doth; faithfull; feare; god; gods; hath; himselfe; humiliation; lord; man; men; moses; people; selves; servants; sins; specially; text; things; thou; vengeance; word cache: A70812.xml plain text: A70812.txt item: #21 of 21 id: A93347 author: Smith, George, 1602 or 3-1658. title: Gods unchangeableness: or Gods continued providence, in preserving, governing, ordering and disposing of all creatures, men, actions, counsels and things, as at the beginning of the world, so to the end of the world, for ever, according to the counsel of his own will. From whence is gatherd six necessary inferences very applicable to the changes, alterations and vicissitude of these our present times. Wherein is clearly demonstrated and proved, that Oliver Cromwell is by the providence of God, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, &c. to whom the people owe obedience, as to him whom God hath set over them. Unto which is added, the causes of discontent, repining and murmurings of men: also, some serious advertisements, and seasonable admonitions to the discontented, and reprehensions to all impetuous, arrogant murmurers. Together with answers to some cheif objections made against the Lord Protector and his present government, endeavouring (if possible) satisfaction to all men. / Therefore written and published for publicke good, by George Smith, Gent. date: 1655.0 words: 42722 flesch: 54 summary: Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake , whether it be to the King as supreme , Or unto Governours , as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers , and for the praise of them that do well , for so is the will of God , &c. LONDON . TO ALL FREE-BORN PEOPLE of England , that are lovers of Peace and Truth , Grace be unto you and Peace from God our Father , and from the Lord JESUS CHRIST , &c. CHRISTIAN READER , THere is not any Doctrine more usefull to the life of man , or more necessary to be known to the comfort of the Saints , then the Doctrine of Providence ; for not to know and beleeve , that God the Creator doth by his secret and wise providence govern all things , is injurious to God , and hurtfull to our selves , and as much as to deny the Soveraignty and high prerogative of the Lord Jehovah over the worlds ; which is indeed the exercise of his Kingly dominion , in ordering the whole universe , which in the following Discourse I offer unto your serious consideration : keywords: actions; cause; christ; church; day; earth; end; evil; god; gods; good; hand; hath; israel; judgements; king; lord; man; means; men; mercy; nation; parliament; people; power; prophet; providence; publike; saith; set; sword; things; time; truth; use; wicked; work; world cache: A93347.xml plain text: A93347.txt