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id: A75478
author: Younge, Richard.
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title:
  Anti-Quakerism, or, A character of the Quakers spirit, from its original and first cause. / Written by a pious gentleman that hath been thirteen years amongst the Separatists to make observations, and is now returned home with a full intent to lay open the whole mystery of iniquity, in unvailing the whore, that men may no longer drink of the wine of her fornications; he hath vowed a single life, and given himself up wholly to the exercises of the mind. And here he hath described the spirit of Quakerism. 1. Being a precise Puritan. 2. An Anabaptist. 3. A Seeker. 4. A Ranter. 5. A Quaker, and indeed what not, all things, and nothing. By which character every man may in some measure see the deceitfulness of his own imagination and be careful, and watch himself accordinly [sic].

summary:
  Thither alass you sent in haste , And thus you did some treasure w●ste , But wh●n your mess●ngers came there , They were deceiv'd as we are here . Then did they with a joynt consent Do that o● which you now repent , Authorize one them to bap●iz● , Thus this fine cheat they did devise .


id: A34831
author: Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.
title: The Puritan and the papist by a scholler in Oxford.
date: 1643.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 2837
sentence: 155
flesch: 83
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summary:
  Nay , though Oaths by you be so much abhorr'd , Ye allow God damne me in the Puritan Lord . They keepe the Bible from Lay-men , but ye ▪ Avoid this , for ye have no Laytie ▪ They in a forraigne , and unknowne tongue pray .


id: A45648
author: Harris, John, Gent.
date: 1641.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 3308
sentence: 69
flesch: 49
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txt: txt/A45648.txt
title:
  The Pvritanes impvritie, or, The anatomie of a Puritane of Separatist by name and profession wherein is declared the differences betwixt a true Protestant and a Pvritane, made manifest by the sincerity of the one and hypocrisie of the other : likewise the comelinesse and necessity of reverence used in the performing of the service of God, especially at the receiving of the sacrament / by John Harris Gent.

summary:
  Did they reverence him , did they run to meet him , because they had received temporall Blessings of him , because he had cured their lame and given sight unto the blind , and shall not we reverence him , shall not we earnestly run to meet him that heald our leprous soules , that gave eyes of understanding to our blind judgements , that dyed to redeeme us from eternall death , surely beloved if we shall neglect this gratefull duty , these Jewes , these people of Hierusalem shall rise up in judgement against us , but to my former discourse , our Precisians thinke it to much labour , it savors of superstition to come up to the Communion Table , therefore if the bread and wine which is ye signe of our substantiall Savior be not brought to them , they will rather choose to disturbe the whole Congregation to make a mutenie in the presence of God then be perswaded from their diabolicall opinions , the next point we are to examine is what sort of men they be that are of this opinion , to wit Mechanick persons , for the most part unlectured grooms , Coachmen , Feltmakers , Coblers , Weavers , Glovers , hauking Ironmongers walking after the imaginations of their owne hearts , whose consciences are in a consumption , and wits as rusty as a peece of old Iron which has been broken and throwne on the dunghill , these rusty companions are knowne well enough , in every street their abominations breake forth , and like to spreading Vlcers infect poore innocent soules , this beguiler sells his pils very cheape , you may buy one for a peny , but take heed , taste it not for if you doe , it will spoyle your Common prayer ; but to proceed , that they are ignorant soules , may appeare in this , that they preferre the Discipline of ignorant men of their owne Society , before the Discipline of learned men , they prefer the drosse before the treasure , they prefer a dunce that will flatter and wrest his text according to the fancies of his Auditors , before a learned Divine , that teaches Orthodox Doctrine , that will open with the Key of knowledge , the Cabinet of the Scriptures , alas , Orthodox Doctrine is to cold of disgestion for their queazy stomacks , it is to deepe for them , oh no , it is the language of the beast , and they will not heare it , they will rather forsake the Church , and get under a hedge then endure to be told of their iniquities , so much concerning what sorts of people , they are that think themselves pure , next I come to the effects of their purity , they are proud , they are envious , they are enemies to the Church , they are enemies to learning , they are selfe-wild , selfe-conceited , they are hearers but not doers , they are covetous , they are lyers , they are persecutors of the poore , oppressors of the needy . The Pvritanes impvritie, or, The anatomie of a Puritane of Separatist by name and profession wherein is declared the differences betwixt a true Protestant and a Pvritane, made manifest by the sincerity of the one and hypocrisie of the other : likewise the comelinesse and necessity of reverence used in the performing of the service of God, especially at the receiving of the sacrament / by John Harris Gent.


id: A65872
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1662.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 4588
sentence: 140
flesch: 65
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txt: txt/A65872.txt
title:
  The law and light within the most sure rule or light, which sheweth the right use and end of the Scripture, manifested in opposition to several false principles inserted in a book intitled Scripture light the most sure light, by William Bridge, the great pastor and Reverend Father, so accounted, of the Church at Yarmouth in Norfolk / confuted by George Whitehead.

summary:
  The law and light within the most sure rule or light, which sheweth the right use and end of the Scripture, manifested in opposition to several false principles inserted in a book intitled Scripture light the most sure light, by William Bridge, the great pastor and Reverend Father, so accounted, of the Church at Yarmouth in Norfolk / confuted by George Whitehead. The law and light within the most sure rule or light, which sheweth the right use and end of the Scripture, manifested in opposition to several false principles inserted in a book intitled Scripture light the most sure light, by William Bridge, the great pastor and Reverend Father, so accounted, of the Church at Yarmouth in Norfolk / confuted by George Whitehead.


id: A95901
author: Taylor, Daniel, ca. 1614-1655.
title: To his reverend and much respected good friend, Mr. John Goodwin: be these I pray presented.
date: 1645.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 4248
sentence: 120
flesch: 59
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summary:
  To his reverend and much respected good friend, Mr. John Goodwin: be these I pray presented. Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 44:E259[3]) To his reverend and much respected good friend, Mr. John Goodwin: be these I pray presented.


id: A32039
author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.
title: Master Edmund Calamies leading case
date: 1663.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 4886
sentence: 221
flesch: 76
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summary:
  B.S. To him th●● thinketh a thing unlawful , and is at liberty , whether he doth it or no , to ●im it is unlawful : but to him that thinketh a thing unlawful , bu● yet is enjoyned by lawful authority to do , to him if he hath not a clear rule to the contrary , it is l●wful . Wh●tsoever it co●●●●ded us by those whom God hath felt over us 〈◊〉 in Chur● , Common-wealth , or Family , which is not evidently contrary to the Law and will of God , ought to be receivved and obeyed no otherwise , then as if God himself had commanded it ; because God himself hath commanded us to obey the Higher Powers , and to submit our selves to their Ordinances , Rom. 13. 1. 1 Pet. 2.13 .


id: A32786
author: Cheshire, Thomas, b. 1600 or 1601.
date: 1641.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 5207
sentence: 189
flesch: 73
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title:
  A sermon preached in Saint Pavles chvrch the tenth of October, 1641 by Mr. Thomas Chisheare ... ; vvherein are many memorable passages most worthy of serious observations in these times.

summary:
  You that desire strange , and rare sights , O come hither , and view the whole troope of Gods creatures , a Chorus that is led by Angells , followed by men , and directed by God himselfe , and yet stay not too long in contemplating of them , for thou they selfe also of what degree soever , have a part to act , as well as the rest . First that we may know that this Masque is worth our labour , and not unbeseeming so glorious a creature as man is , our Prophet shewes us that it befits the Angels in Heaven , yea it is the height of their felicity , to comfort themselves in Anthems of praise to Almighty God .


id: A69622
author: Ames, William, 1576-1633.
date: 1641.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 6099
sentence: 146
flesch: 45
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title:
  English Puritanisme containing the maine opinions of the rigidest sort of those that are called Puritans in the realme of England / written by William Ames ...

summary:
  3 They hold , that all outward meanes instituted and set apart to expresse and set forth the inward worship of God , are parts of Divine worship and that not onely all morall actions , but all typicall Rites and Figures , ordained to shadow forth in the solemne worship and service of God , any Spirituall or religious Act or habit in the minde of man , are speciall parts of the same , and therefore that every such Act ought evidently to be prescribed by the Word of God , or else ought not to be done ? it being a sinne to performe any other worship to God , whether Externall or Internall , Morall or Ceremoniall , in whole or in part , then that which God himselfe requires in his Word . 1 THey hold , that the spirituall keies of the Church are by Christ , committed to the aforesaid spirituall Officers and Governours , and unto none other : which keyes they hold that they are not to be put to this use , to locke up the crownes , swotds , or scepters of Princes and civill States , or the civill rights , prerogatives , and immunities of civill subjects in the things of this life , or to use them as picklocks to open withall , mens treasuries & coffers , or as keys of prisons , to shut up the bodies of men ; for they thinke that such a power and authority Ecclesiasticall is fit onely for the Antechrist of Rome , and the consecrated governours of his Synagogues , who having no Word of God which is the sword of the Spirit , to defend his and their usurped jurisdiction over the Christian world , doth unlawfully usurpe the lawfull civill sword and power of the Monarches and Princes of the earth , thereby forcing men to subject themselves to his spirituall vassaladge and service , and abusing thereby the spiritull keyes and jurisdiction of the Church .


id: A67115
author: Walker, George, 1581?-1651.
date: 1642.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 7608
sentence: 127
flesch: 36
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title:
  A sermon preached in London by a faithfvll minister of Christ, and perfected by him and now set forth to the publike view of all for the ivstification of the truth and clearing the innocencie of his long suffering for it.

summary:
  That no affection or respect to any man , no word , command , or threatning of greatest Kings and Potentates , no perswasion of them that are most neere and deare , no importunity of them to whom men are most obliged in love and duty for many great favours , can excuse any act which thereby they are drawne to doe against the commandement of God , from the foule staine of sinne , nor the doers of such an act , from the guilt of sinfull transgression : or to expresse it in fewer words briefly , No affection of one man to another , whether feare or dread of Superiours , or reverence of Benefactors , or love of them that are most neer and deare , can excuse any person from the guilt of sinne before God , when by them he is moved and drawne to doe a thing which God hath forbidden in his word and Law . Whereby it is manifest that no power or authority of any man how fairely soever it is pretended to be from God can excuse any act done against any knowne Commandement of God , though it be a Commandement of a small indifferent thing , given onely to try mans obedience , but whosoever upon any respect to any creature , or by any perswasion doth transgresse any Precept or word of God , he is guilty of sinne and worthy of death before Gods just Tribunall : Sauls letters from the High-priests which gave him a Commission and authority to persecute Christians did not excuse him from sin though he did it in ignorance and blind zeale for he calls himselfe the greatest of sinners for that act of persecution , 1 Tim. 1. 15.


id: A54774
author: Phillips, John, 1631-1706.
title: The religion of the hypocritical presbyterians, in meeter
date: 1661.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 7694
sentence: 301
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Play with that fear , with that religious awe Which keeps men free , and yet is mans great law : What can they but the worst of Atheists be , Who while they word it 'gainst impiety , Affront the throne of God with their false deeds , Alas , this wonder in the Atheist breeds . But 't was no Fable , or if then it were , Behold a sort of bolder mortals here , Those undermining shifts of knavish folly , Using alike to God and men most holy ; Infidels who now seem to have found out A suttler way to bring their ends about Against the Deity then op'nly to fight By smooth insinuation and by slight : They close with God , seem to obey his Lawes , They cry alowd for him and for his cause .


id: A28513
author: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
date: 1662.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9453
sentence: 275
flesch: 55
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title:
  True peace, or, A moderate discourse to compose the unsettled consciences and greatest differences in ecclesiastical affaires written long since by the no less famous then learned Sir Francis Bacon ...

summary:
  Indeed bitter and earnest writing is not hastily to be condemned : for men cannot contend coldly and without affection about things they hold deare and pretious . As the former sort of men have lesse reason to make themselves musicke in our cord : so I have good hope that nothing shall displease our selves which shall bee sincerely and modestly propounded for the appeasing of these dissentions .


id: A05581
author: Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.
date: 1638.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 11861
sentence: 384
flesch: 70
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title:
  A briefe relation of certaine speciall and most materiall passages, and speeches in the Starre-Chamber occasioned and delivered the 14th. day of Iune, 1637. At the censure of those three famous and worthy gentlemen, Dr. Bastwicke, Mr. Burton, and Mr. Prynne. Even so as it hath beene truely and faithfully gathered from their owne mouthes, by one present at the said censure.

summary:
  At the censure of those three famous and worthy gentlemen, Dr. Bastwicke, Mr. Burton, and Mr. Prynne. At the censure of those three famous and worthy gentlemen, Dr. Bastwicke, Mr. Burton, and Mr. Prynne.


id: A44689
author: Howe, John, 1630-1705.
date: 1682.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 17847
sentence: 644
flesch: 68
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title:
  The right use of that argument in prayer from the name of God on behalf of a people that profess it by John Howe.

summary:
  And hereupon , because he was so entirely devoted to the honour , and service of Gods great name ( father glorifie thy name summ'd up his desires ) therefore God highly exalted him , and gave him a name above every name , That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow , &c. verse 9. 10. Though that be spoken of God but allusively , and after the manner of men , who by slow degrees , and by much deliberation arrive to the ( very imperfect ) knowledge of things , which at one view he perfectly beholds from all Eternity .


id: A65867
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1669.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 18799
sentence: 383
flesch: 48
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title:
  The glory of Christ's light within expelling darkness being the sum of the controversie between the people called Quakers, and some of the non-conformist priests, as manifest at two publick disputes in Essex : between George Whitehead (called a Quaker) and Stephen Scandret (Presbyter) being at the latter dispute assisted with five more of his brethren, the priests, to wit, Nathaniel Barnard, Henry Havers, Henry Coleman, Nath. Ball, and Robert Billoes : wherein are several.

summary:
  Whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood , to declare his Righteousness for the Remission of Sins that are past , through the forbearance of God : It is not said , for the remission of sins past , present , and to come ; nor yet of all our sins from the beginning of our Lives to the end ; neither is the guilt of sin taken away , while men remain in the act of sin , as falsly was affirmed by S. S. contrary to Job 10. 14. Again , When he stated a Question , or read an Argument ( for he had his Arguments patch'd up aforehand in papers ) which was not capable of a direct answer , by affirming or denying presently , he would not admit of an explanation of it , but would cry , affirm or deny ; and if at any time , in the first place , any thing was affirmed or denied , he would not suffer us further to render a reason , but make a noise to stop the Truth ; and when any of us granted to a question , according to Truth , he would turn up his eyes and thank God , as if he had wrought some great conviction upon us ; whereas , what we either affirmed or granted , we did not learn of him , but spoke the naked truth , as we had it of the Lord before ; as for instance , after this S. S. had affirmed the Scriptures , which are the Writings , to be our only Rule of Life , which being denied by us , that the Writings abstractivly can be the only Rule , because the Spirit of Truth is said to guide into all Truth ; hereupon he confest that it was not the Scriptures abstractively that he meant to be the only Rule , but the Will of God contained , or declared of in the Scriptures ; where , though he manifestly contradicted himself , yet , when we granted , that the Will of God declared of in the Scriptures is the Rule , which Will is , that we should follow the Light within ; hereupon this S. S. would again turn up the white of his eyes , and thank God that we granted to this Truth , though it was so apparently contradictory to his error , who went about to set up the Scriptures as the only Rule , and to cause people to turn their Backs upon the Light within , telling them , You must follow the Scriptures , for they will lead you to Heaven and Happiness , but you must turn your backs upon the Light within as not sufficient ; and yet at another time , again was necessitated to confess , That it is by the spiritual enlightning of the understanding that the Scriptures are understood ; so that here the spiritual Light in the understanding was the Rule to know the Scriptures , so by his own confession they could not be the only Rule , but the Spirit or Light that gave them forth , and gives the understanding of them , hath the preserment and preheminence of them .


id: A88100
author: Ley, John, 1583-1662, attributed name.
date: 1641.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20869
sentence: 481
flesch: 45
cache: cache/A88100.xml
txt: txt/A88100.txt
title:
  A discourse concerning Puritans. A vindication of those, who uniustly suffer by the mistake, abuse, and misapplication of that name. A tract necessary and usefull for these times.

summary:
  And thus it does mischiefe to men , not commonly noted for Puritans , but if a man be so noted , though perhaps irregularly , then it is farther otherwise abused : for all such a mans evill shall be charged upon his Puritanisme , and all his good defaced for his Puritanisme . In Samaria , from an unkindly mixture of Israelites and Syrians , a strange heterogeneous of-spring different in Religion from both did arise ; and the like is now in England , nay , it may be said here ( as it was in Constantines dayes ) There are almost as many Religions as Opinions , and as many Opinions as Men .


id: A67085
author: Walker, George, 1581?-1651.
date: 1641.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22192
sentence: 760
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A67085.xml
txt: txt/A67085.txt
title:
  The key of saving knovvledge, opening out of the holy Scriptures, the right way, and straight passage to eternall life, or, A dialogue wherein the chiefe principles of the Christian religion are unfolded for the enabling of Christian people, to understand the Word of God ... composed by Geo. Walker ...

summary:
  But after mans fall , and the promise of Christ , God through Christ inlarged mans dominion over the creatures , and appointed the killing and sacrificing of birds , and beasts to foreshew Christs death for mans redemption from sin , and withall gave the flesh of them to man for meat , and their skins to cloath him ; and hereby wee see that wee gaine more by Christ , than we lost in Adam . Quest . All creatures in the world can yield him no help . God only of his infinit mercy , free grace , love and kindnesse to man-kind hath from all eternity , ordeined an all-sufficient Saviour , and Redeemer , even his only begotten son , who immediatly after mans sin and fall , did undertake for man , staid the execution of the sentence and punishment of death , and was promised to become the seed of the woman , and by suffering death and all the punishments due to sin in our nature , to redeeme man-kind from sin , and death , and to destroy the Devill , who had the power of death , and to dissolve all his workes . Quest .


id: A85389
author: Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.
date: 1646.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 23768
sentence: 631
flesch: 57
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title:
  Cretensis: or A briefe answer to an ulcerous treatise, lately published by Mr Thomas Edvvards, intituled Gangræna: calculated for the meridian of such passages in the said treatise, which relate to Mr. John Goodwin; but may without any sensible error indifferently serve for the whole tract. Wherein some of the best means for the cure of the said dangerous ulcer, called gangræna, and to prevent the spreading of it to the danger of the precious soules of men, are clearly opened, and effectually applied; / by the said John Goodvvin, a well-willer to the saints, in the work and patience of Jesus Christ. Published according to order.

summary:
  Wherein some of the best means for the cure of the said dangerous ulcer, called gangræna, and to prevent the spreading of it to the danger of the precious soules of men, are clearly opened, and effectually applied; / by the said John Goodvvin, a well-willer to the saints, in the work and patience of Jesus Christ. Wherein some of the best means for the cure of the said dangerous ulcer, called gangræna, and to prevent the spreading of it to the danger of the precious soules of men, are clearly opened, and effectually applied; / by the said John Goodvvin, a well-willer to the saints, in the work and patience of Jesus Christ.


id: A48309
author: Ley, John, 1583-1662.
date: 1641.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24378
sentence: 533
flesch: 42
cache: cache/A48309.xml
txt: txt/A48309.txt
title:
  A discovrse concerning Puritans tending to a vindication of those, who unjustly suffer by the mistake, abuse, and misapplication of that name.

summary:
  And thus it does mischiefe to men , not commonly noted for Puritans , but if a man be so noted , though perhaps irregularly , then it is farther otherwise abused : for all such a mans evill shall be charged upon his Puritanisme , and all his good defaced for his Puritanisme . Charitie urges me not to censure any man in particular for an hypocrite , yet wisdome teaches me not to free all men in generall from being hypocrites : such charity may well stand and agree together with such wisdome , and such wisdome with such charitie ; but if I doe not at all scruple any mans integrity , this necessitates me not therefore to ascribe an infallibilitie : for if I can easily yeeld to hope and think well of all Puritans , yet it ought not to be expected that I should yeeld my consent to all Puritans in all things .


id: A85386
author: Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.
date: 1645.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 26054
sentence: 681
flesch: 53
cache: cache/A85386.xml
txt: txt/A85386.txt
title:
  Calumny arraign'd and cast. Or A briefe answer to some extravagant and rank passages, lately fallen from the pen of William Prynne, Esquire, in a late discourse, entituled, Truth triumphing over falshood, &c. against Mr John Goodwin, Minister of the Gospel. Wherein the loyall, unfeigned and unstained affection of the said John Goodwin to the Parliament, and civill magistracie, is irrefragably and fully vindicated and asserted against those broad and unchristian imputations, most untruly suggested in the said discourse against him. By the said John Goodvvin. Licensed entered and printed according to order.

summary:
  But because the great Guerdon and Crown for which Mr. Prynne runnes in this and other his lucubrations against me , is to transform me into a man of a ranc●●ous and disaffected heart against Parliaments g , and to couple me with the worst Malignants , Royalists , Cavaliers , yea with the Arch-Prelate himself a ; before I leave the point in hand , I shall briefly specifie , both what , in what degree I have done , and continue yet doing from opportunitie to opportunitie , to the utmost of my power , for the Parliament : and withall solemnly professe in the sight of God and men , that if either Mr. Prynne , or any other man , can direct or say unto me , how , or what , when , or wherein I may yet doe more for them , or shew and expresse more love or affectionatenesse unto them , then I have already done , and still doe ( upon occasion ) daily ; provided onely that I may see and understand , that what shall be required of me in this kind , doth really and indeed , not in shew and pretence onely , tend to the benefit , honour and safetie of the Parliament ; I am ready and willing , and doe by these presents obliege and bind my self , Testibus Coelo & Terrâ , to performe . Whereas he tells me I had no warrant from Gods Word , or our Lawes to handle the Jurisdictions or rights of Parliament in my Pulpit , &c. I first demand what warrant from Gods Word or our Lawes hath he , thus to calumniate a Minister of the Gospel , onely for his faithfulnesse to God and men ; to wring , wrest , and wier-draw his words and sayings , as he hath done these ten times ( at least ) in this and his other writings ? I shall have my warrant , and that Authentique enough , to shew for what I have done , when his will be to seek for what he hath done , and ( that which is worse ) will no where be found .


id: A85400
author: Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.
date: 1645.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 45830
sentence: 1177
flesch: 50
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title:
  Innocency and truth triumphing together; or, The latter part of an answer to the back-part of a discourse, lately published by William Prynne Esquire, called, A full reply, &c. Beginning at the foot of p. 17. of the said discourse, with this title or superscription, Certain brief animadversions on Mr. John Goodwins Theomachia. Wherein the argumentative part of the said animadversions is examined; together with some few animadversions upon some former passages in the said reply. Licensed and printed according to order.

summary:
  And because I desire faire and Christian quarter with him for the future , I doe here promise and protest in the sight of God , Angels , and men , that if Mr. Prynne shall at any time ( God preserving my life and understanding ) plainly and substantially demonstrate and prove , either that the generalitie , and promiscuous multitude of the Land , have a power greater then ever the Lord Christ himself had , or exercised as man , or Mediator ; or , that a power to nominate and appoint whom they please amongst men , to order the affaires of Christs Kingdome , and institute the Government of his Churches , is not a power greater then ever Christ had , or at least exercised , as either man , or Mediator ; I promise and protest againe , as before , that if Mr. Prynne , or any other , shall at any time clearly and fairly prove , either the one or the other of these propositions , I will pull downe with both mine hands , what I have built up but with one , and without any more adoe joyn judgement with Mr. Prynne touching the power of the Civill Magistrate in matters of Religion : but till this be done , I neither see how Mr. Prynne can with a good conscience persist in his , nor require me to desist from mine . The reason whereof seems to be this : Errors and misprisions are many times very indulgent and bountifull to the flesh ; and he that incounters men under such injoyments , with the truth , seems to them rather to strike at these injoyments , then at the error or opinion , by whose consent they have first taken , and still keep possession of them .


id: A19460
author: Covell, William, d. 1614?
date: 1603.0
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title:
  A iust and temperate defence of the fiue books of ecclesiastical policie: written by M. Richard Hooker against an vncharitable letter of certain English Protestants (as they tearme themselues) crauing resolution, in some matters of doctrine, which seeme to ouerthrow the foundation of religion, and the Church amongst vs. Written by William Covel Doctor in Diuinitie, and published by authority. The contents whereof are in the page following.

summary:
  For this , as it maketh vs without excuse , so it serueth euen to leade vs , to a better knowledge : and ( vntill it be perfect ) to vtter out of the light of nature , those voices , which may argue vs , though not to be sonnes ( for by this we cannot crie Abba Father ) yet to be reasonable creatures , of that power which we do adore ; this made * Euripides in Troas , and manie of the heathen , to vtter those prayers , which had they beene offered vp in Christ , had not bin vnbeseeming a good Christian : so that though the Scriptures containe all things , which are necessarie to saluation ; and that our chiefest direction , is from them ; yet we are not affraid to confesse , that there is besides a light of nature , not altogether vnprofitable ; the insufficiencie whereof , is by the light of Scripture , fully and perfectly supplied : and that both these together , as Master a Hooker affirmeth , which you mislike , doe serue in such full sort , that they both iointly & not seuerally , either of them , be so compleat , that vnto euerlasting felicity , we need not the knowledge of any thing more then of these two ; I cannot but maruaile , that men indued with reason should finde anie thing , in this assertion , which in the hardest construction , might be wrested as detracting frō the sufficiency of the holy scripture : And only for this cause , by reason that we reade darkly , by the light of nature those first elements , out of a naturall knowledge , which by the accesse of a better teacher , serue afterward for the full perfecting of that knowledge , which is requisite to mans saluation . Thirdly , there is a grace of regeneration , or the grace of Christ , without which , there can bee nothing performed of man truly good ; for saith f our Sauiour , Without me , you can doe nothing ; and Saint g Paule , Not I but the grace of God which is with me ; so that this must be the perfection of the other two , which is powerfull to mans saluation , not rasing out , that which before was , but finishing that which before was imperfect .


id: A19461
author: Covell, William, d. 1614?
date: 1604.0
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title:
  A modest and reasonable examination, of some things in vse in the Church of England, sundrie times heretofore misliked and now lately, in a booke called the (Plea of the innocent:) and an assertion for true and Christian church policy, made for a full satisfaction to all those, that are of iudgement, and not possessed with a preiudice against this present church gouernment, wherein the principall poynts are fully, and peaceably aunswered, which seeme to bee offensiue in the ecclesiasticall state of this kingdome. The contentes whereof are set downe in the page following.

summary:
  Wee are sorie that their weakenesse taketh offence at that which wee hold as an honour , and a vertue in the Church of England ; namely that wee haue so sparingly and as it were vnwillingly disented , from the Church of Rome ( for surely by Antichrist they meane her ) with whom if the corruptions of that Church would haue giuen vs leaue , we would haue willingly consented in their whole seruice : which being vnsafe and vnlawfull , wee follow them notwithstanding in all , wherin they follow those holie , and auncient fathers which first planted the truth amongst them ; And as we acknowledge them our fathers in the Faith , so wee are willing euen to borrow that from them , which vertuouslie was vsed in that Church , when it was worthie to bee called our mother● and if now the holie Citie bee become an harlot , yet we ( as most Churches ) haue receiued light from them , for there was a time , that their Faith was published ouer all the world , and if now they bee at enmitie with God , and vs , yet wee had rather follow the perfections of whom wee like not , then the defects and Imperfections of those wee loue , nay the spoiles of the heathe● taken from the Deuill , are deuided to the furniture and ornament of the Church of God. Other ends ( for which the world hath censured him hardly ) I dare not acc●●● him of , for a who am I that I should condemne an o●her mans seruant ?


