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id: A93266
author: Simmonds, Martha.
title: When the Lord Jesus came to Jerusalem, he beheld the city, and wept over it, ...
date: 1655
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summary:
  Oh that thou wouldst but stand still a little , and turn thy eye inward ; Sit downe a little , and consider thy poore soul that lyes in death : What will become of thee , thou murderest the just in thee , there is a Talent to be improved in thee , how wilt thou give an accompt of it ; the Steward is now come : in the coole of the day , then Adam heard the voyce of God , and then he saw his nakedness , and so may est thou ; If thou wilt turn in thy minde to the light of Christ in thee , the light will discover to thee thy fallen state , and how thou art turned out from the presence of God , and art in the gall of bitternesse , and the earth is cursed for thy sake : Now if thou wilt minde the light , and waite in it , which is the grace of God that hath appeared to thee , there is the first step to pure redemption : And if thou take diligent heed to this light in thee , thou shalt finde it checking thee continually for all thy evill deeds , and it will teach thee to be sober minded and upright in all thy dealings as in the sight of God : and so thou wilt come to see the straight gate and narrow way that leads to life ; but thou wilt say , Christ hath done all this for me , I have nothing to do but believe : but it will be said unto thee , when thou thinkest to sit downe with thy Lord ; Friend , how camest thou hither without a wedding-garment ? then know what thy portion will be . Now Christ Jesus the second Adam , who is God manifest in flesh , condemning sinne in the flesh , if thou live in him in thee , and believe in him in thee , then thou shalt witnesse his power to the cutting down of thy will ; for thy will must come to death , that the will of God may be done , and so that Scripture comes to be fulfilled in thee , which are the words of Christ ; Loe I come , in the volume of thy booke it is written of me to doe thy will O God , which is the book of conscience in thee , there the will of God is to be done : And as thou comest to love the light , and live in it , thou wilt come to see the righteous law of God fulfilled in thee , Death reigns in thee .


id: A65850
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1689
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words: 5861
sentence: 119
flesch: 43
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title:
  A Christian epistle to Friends in general of weighty concern, for their present and future peace and safety from the soul's adversary's subtill devices and snares of death. To be carefully communicated to the children of light, and professors thereof every where. Being faithfully given forth, and recommended from the spirit of Christ; by his servant George Whitehead.

summary:
  You therefore ( my dear Friends ) who have livingly felt , and tasted of the Lord's Power and Goodness , and known his Work in your Hearts , in order to your Deliverance and Redemption out of the Evil World , and the Corruptions thereof , prize his tender Mercies and Goodness , and forget them not : Let the holy fear of the Lord God be your Treasure and true Wisdom , and Understanding , the Stability of your times in Righteousness : Let your sincere Love to the pure Name and Truth of the Lord , and one unto another be continued in that unchangeable Truth and Power of an Endless Life , whereunto the Lord hath called us ; and I pray God increase your Love and Zeal for his Glorious Name and Christian Tenderness , and Brotherly Affection one towards another , that Life for evermore may be your Blessing and Portion , as it will be to all them who dwell in Amity , true Love , and Unity of Spirit in our Lord Jesus Christ , which is a most joyful , comfortable and blessed state , which too many Professors of Truth are short of , for want of keeping near to the Lord , in his holy fear & Love of his blessed Name and Truth , whose negligence and unfaithfulness to Truth in themselves hath caused a decay of Love , & want of Charity towards others ; and then instead of humbly waiting and depending upon the Lord , some have exalted themselves in a Self-will , Self-conceit , & Affection to preheminence in judgment over others , until thereby Divisions and Self-separations have been caused and stirred up by them , to the great grief of the Spirits of the upright , who have kept their Integrity to the Lord , his Truth and People . What Gifts , Openings , Discoveries , Visions , Revelations , Wisdom , Knowledge or Understanding soever any have , yet still 't is the heavenly Root must bear them , they must keep low their Minds and Spirits to that from whence Life and Love springs , or else they fall , wither , dye and become empty , uncharitable and hard-hearted ; and there the Enemy has his Evil Ends upon them , in betraying them , and corrupting their minds from the Truth , from Life , from Love , from the Innocency and Simplicity which is in Christ , the Way , the Truth and the Life ; and there 's a danger in being too early and forward to censure and judge others , and in judging , censuring and undervaluing others Gifts , Ministry and Labour● whom God hath called into his Work and Service ; for some whereby may either lose their own Gifts , Life and Strength , or fall short of those heavenly Gifts , which otherwise they might attain to , if they kept low and tender in Humility , Love & Society with their Brethren , whereby they might also be serviceable with them : For I have seen in my time some who never passed through Judgment in themselves , yet very censorious , judging , detracting and whispering against their Brethren , slighting them , their Ministry and Labours , who themselves have greatly lost by it ; and God in displeasure hath suffered them to discover their own weakness and nakedness , for their own abasement under the righteous Judgment of Truth .


id: A60655
author: Smith, William, d. 1673.
date: 1670
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words: 8649
sentence: 102
flesch: 12
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title:
  A spiritual prospective glass Through which the rulers and people of England, may plainly see those things which concerns their peace. Being a manifestation from the Spirit of God, in love to all people. By one that desires the prosperity of truth, and the peace of the nation. W.Smith.

summary:
  W. S. A Spiritual Prospective Glass , &c. IT is not to be questioned but the Rulers and people of England do acknowledge and confess that Christ Jesus is their Redeemer and Saviour , & that they are Christians through the Faith they have in his death and Resurrection , and therefore to be hoped that the ensuing matter may meet with better respect and entertainment in Relation to Christ an practice , for Christian practice is always an acceptable thing to a Christian Nature and life , because nature is delighted in that which is in agreement with it , and the first being stated as a thing not questioned , the latter may be more fully opened and presented for the harmony will not break where the matter is substantial in its ground and nature , for whatsoever breaketh harmony doth alter the course of Nature by malignity , for Christianity is concurrent in all passages without any malignity in it self to let or hinder , and in this Harmony the Lord God hath his glory , and where it is not so , it is but Christianity professed which wanteth the substantial ground and nature of a Christian Life , and the Title of a spiritual Prospective Glass comprehends the whole matter by allusion for most people know that it is the property of a visible Prospective Glass to discover visible things plainly , which otherwise are obscure and not to be clearly discerned , and by that means many comes to be satisfied concerning a thing by beholding it so fully as to know what it is even so must all people come to know and be satisfied concerning spiritual things , by beholding them in the Light and Spirit of God , for spiritual things are spiritually discerned , and the Light and Spirit of God doth discover spiritual things as they are in nature and Life , and in that discovery there is no deceiveableness by any false presentation or object , but a true discovery of the substance of spiritual things by which the Soul hath great benefit and comfort , and with this blessed Light and Spirit Abraham see Christs day and rejoyced , and with the same light and spirit Moses see to the beginning , and rehearsed the mighty works of God in the beginning and he see Christ the great Prophet who was to be Raised up like unto him , and commanded that he in all things should be heard , and so ●●ses see the beginning and the ending in the light and spirit of God , and all the Prophets and holy men of God , see the Heavenly and spiritual things in the same light and spirit of God , and John see the Lamb of God , and said behold him , and some beheld his glory as the Glory of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth , and so in the light and spirit of God all the Holy men of God discerned spiritual things , and then they did not look at things that were temporall , but at things that were eternal , and this were a true presentation or object which did not deceive the beholders , and by believing in it according to the dispensation of God they came to witness Salvation and Eternal life , and so people must come to the light and spirit of God in themselves if they would see spiritual things , for flesh and blood doth not reveal spiritual things , and they that expect to see spiritual things in that nature they deceive themselves , and this hath been in ages past , and is at this day the ground of error concerning spiritual things , for what man can see spiritual things with a natural eye , there is no testimony given by the holy men of God , that they see the things of God with flesh and blood or a natural eye , but said , The natural Man receives not the things of the spirit of God , because they are spiritually discerned , and no Man knows the things of God but the spirit of God , and here the natural man is to stop and stand still and be quiet , he cannot see spiritual things , nor receive spiritual things , nor judge of spiritual things and so not fit to meddle with such weighty concernments , for seeing by Scripture testimony that no man knows the things of God but by the spirit of God , then all that would know the things of God are to mind the spirit of God in themselves , and as the spirit is minded & obeyed , it teacheth and instructeth in the things of God which it knoweth , and so the things of God are revealed by his spirit and taught by his spirit , and they that receive the Spirit they know the things of God in it , and here is the spiritual mind in which is life and peace , and he that hath a spiritual mind is a spiritual man , and that man is fit to judge of spiritual things , because he sees them in the spirit , and knows them in the spirit , and therefore able to give sound judgement which the natural man cannot do , for the natural man runs into error by believing in false objects , which darkness presenteth to his view , and as he receives it into his beliefs so he holds it in his judgement and opinion as if it was the truth , for error is a mistaking of things as to the truth that is in them , and that was the Sadduces condition concerning the Resurrection , and Christ said unto them , ye do err not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God , for if they had known the Scriptures and the ●ower of God , they would 〈◊〉 understood the truth of the 〈◊〉 , and not erred in 〈◊〉 judgement and opinion , for it was their judgement that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no Resurrection , and that 〈◊〉 their Error or mistake , 〈◊〉 Christ opened the truth unto them , saying , God is not the God of the dead but of the living , so truth is not to be concluded as to what men hold in their judgement and opinion , seeing Christ reproved it 〈◊〉 error in the 〈◊〉 , but that which is revealed in 〈◊〉 and spirit of God , may be safely concluded to be the 〈◊〉 which is no error , for he that is the light and truth did see the Saddu●●● error in what they held in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and opinion concerning the Resurrection , and 〈◊〉 [ mark ] the Lord owns his people that he will spare those that fear him , and keeps his Ordinance , or Observation , and thinks upon his name , they are now his people that he spareth though men spoil them , his Jewels , or special treasures that he maketh up , who are born of the seed that he blesseth for ever , and these are Gods chosen Inheritance that are under his blessing , and he blesseth those that blesseth them , and curseth those that curseth them , for this was his promise to his seed , saying , I will bless them that bless thte , and curse them that curse thee , and in thee shall all Nations of the earth be blessed , and here you may see through the Spiritual prospective glass , who are the Lords people & inheritance which he spareth and blesseth , & if you spoil his people whom he spareth do you not highly offend him , and if you curse by excommunication his inherance whom he blesseth do you not highly provoke him , therefore take heed what ye do in making the Lords people and inheritance to be offendors by your law , and so proceeed against them as Offendors to Spoil them and Curse them , it concerns you to be serious and not to sport with such things , but mind what you desire of the Lord in your own words and perform it on your own parts , and do not spoil his people and curse his inheritance any more , for they are spared and blessed of God , and he will not hold such guiltless as spoileth and curseth those whom he spareth and blesseth , for do ye not absolutely fight against God when ye entreat them evil , and are not such enemies unto God that fight against him , and did ever any fight against God and prosper , surely you generally forget Gamalliels councel , and it would do well if some amongst you would offer it in your great assembly to put you in mind of it , or it may be hoped that all are not like minded in wilful purposes to injure the innocent , and it was a noble spirit in Gamalliel that moved him to stand up in the Councell when they were purposing to slay the Apostles , and there to give his advice to stop the lury of the purposers , & to him they agreed , and so it was seasonable advice which prevented the execution of such a cruel design , and will Christians condemn Gamalliel for betng a friend to the Apostles , when the Jews agreed to him , and by their agreement did manifest that they were not so wilful in their purpose but that a sound and weighty judgment might prevail with them to alter their purpose , and so by experience it is found better for Rulers to let things alone that concerns Faith and Religion for if any thing be of man it will come to naught of it self without laws to suppress it , and if it be of God there is no law of men can destroy the thing though the bodies and estates of such as have faith in it may be exposed to great sufferings for it , and no God men will disapprove of Gamalliels counsel who stood in a good consideration of the matter , and not willing that a wilful purpose should be judge in such a weighty concernment , and will you say the Councel did not do well in agreeing to Gamalliel ? I hope not , and if you conclude they did well then do you agree to him now in your great assembly for if they who at that time did not believe in Christ nor the Apostles doctrine were so easily intreated to let the Apostles alone and not to slay them as was purposed by them , then how much more should such as profess a belief in Christ and the Apostles doctrine be perswaded and intreated to let those alone that now beleive in Christ , and live in the Apostles spirit , life , and Doctrine , ( this reaches the witness of God in you all if you will but bow your ear to the councel of it , for the wisdom from above is pure and peaceable and gentle and easie to be intreated , full of mercy and good fruits , without partiality ( or according to the greek , without wronging ) and without hyppocrisie , Jat .


id: A45586
author: Harley, Edward, Sir, 1624-1700.
date: 1695
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mime: application/xml
words: 17711
sentence: 683
flesch: 62
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title:
  A Scriptural and rational account of the Christian religion particularly concerning justification only by the propitiation and redemption of the Lord Jesus Christ.

summary:
  Therefore because in Sacrifices and Offerings for Sin God could not take Pleasure , as therein receiving any Satisfaction to Justice : When Jesus Christ came into the World , he faith , A Body hast thou prepared me ; Lo I come to do thy Will , O God ; by the which Will we are sanctisied through the offering of the Body of Jesus Christ once : But this Will of God was not induced by any Temporary Consideration , it was from everlasting , God hath chosen us in Christ before the Foundation of the World. The Scripture speaks expresly , that without shedding of Blood there is no Remission of Sin ; yet the Blood of Bulls and Goats could not avail to make the Worshipper perfect : so that the continual Sacrifice daily offered , and all other extraordinary Burnt-offerings occasionally appointed by the Law , were merciful Surrogations of Typical Propitiations with respect to Christ , whose Blood only could take away the Sins of the World : Whose Blood , being the Blood of the everlasting Covenant , could only make the Comers unto God perfect .


id: A67779
author: Younge, Richard.
date: 1664
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21238
sentence: 809
flesch: 76
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title:
  A sovereign antidote, or, A precious mithridate for recovery of souls twice dead in sin, and buried in the grave of long custome, to the life of grace. With hopeful means (God blessing the same) to prevent that three-fold (and worse than Ægyptian) plague of the heart; drunkenness, swearing, and profaneness. Wherein is a sweet composition of severity and mercy: of indignation against sin, of compassion and commiseration to the sinner; with such Christian moderation, as may argue zeal without malice; and a desire to win souls, no will to gall them. By R. Younge of Roxwell in Essex.

summary:
  [ Death ] without once waking to bethink themselves whither they are a going [ to Heaven or Hell. ] Or Ignorant and Formal Hypocrites : who do as they see others do , without either conscience of sin , or guidance of reason : Who do what is morally good , more for fear of the Law , then for love of the Gospel : Who fear the Magistrate more then they fear God or the Devil ; regard more the blasts of mens breath , then the fire of Gods wrath ; will tremble more at the thought of a Bailiff , or a Prison , then of Satan , or Hell , and everlasting perdition : Who will say , they love God and Christ , yet hate all that any way resemble him ; are slint unto God , wax to Satan ; have their ears alwayes open to the Tempter , shut to their Maker and Redeemer ; will chuse rather to disobey God , then displease great Ones ; fear more the Worlds scorns , then His anger ; and rather than abridge themselves of their pleasure , will incur the displeasure of God : Who will do what God forbids , yet confidently hope to escape what He threatens : Who will do the Devils works onely , and yet look for Christs wages ; expect that Heaven will meet them at their last hour , when all their life long they have galloped in the beaten Road towards Hell : Who expect to have Christ their Redeemer and Advocate , vvhen their Consciences tell them , that they seldom remember him , but to blaspheme him ; and more often name him in their oaths and curses , than in their prayers : vvho vvill persecute honest and Orthodox Christians ; and say , they mean base and dissembling hypocrites : Who think they do God good service in killing his servant● , Joh. 16.2 . Surely , If I d●d swear , it was but by Faith and Troth , by our Lady , the Mass , the Light , this Bread , by the Cross of this Silver , or the like ; which is no great matter I hope , so long as I swore not by God , nor by my Saviour .


id: A34879
author: Cradock, Walter, 1606?-1659.
title: Glad tydings, from Heaven to the worst of sinners on earth Walter Cradock ...
date: 1648
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mime: application/xml
words: 22182
sentence: 644
flesch: 67
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summary:
  The Gospel brings us tidings of our deliverance from sin , Satan , death , hell , from wrath , and damnation , it tells us of riches , and glory , and Kingdomes , and Crownes , and what soever may satisfie the capacious soule of man . Now whether you will understand it so , that our Lord Christ meant not men and women only , but that by creature , the poore creatures that are without life , and bruit beasts , and all might understand the precious worth of this Gospel . Or take it more restrained as generally the godly doe , that by creature here is meant the Gentiles , in opposition to the Jewes , for they knew that they were to preach the Gospel to the Jewes , which they also did before the resurrection : but now saith Christ , Goe preach the Gospel to every creature .


id: A65610
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1673
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24193
sentence: 620
flesch: 62
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title:
  The redemption of time, or, A sermon containing very good remedies for them that have mis-spent their time shewing how they should redeem it comfortably / by William Whately ... ; now published for general good by Richard Baxter.

summary:
  Christians are not of their mind , because it is a mercy even under pain to have time of preparation for another world , and because we may serve God in Patience and Heavenly desires and Hope , when we cannot serve him by an active life : But Christians and Heathens will proclaim those persons , to be the shame of Nature , who wilfully make thems●lves unprofitable , and live in their hea●●h a● if they were d●s●bled by sickness ; and are condemned by their se●suality to a prison , or a grave : Suppose then both Ladies and Gentlewomen of the same rank : The one riseth as early as is consistent with her health ; with thoughts of thankfulness and love , her heart a●so awaketh , and rise●h up to him that night and day preserveth her : she quickly dispatcheth the dressing of her body , as intending no more but serviceable warm●h , and modest decency : and then she betaketh her self to her closet , where she poureth out her soul in confession , supplication , thanksgiving and praise to God , her Creator , Redeemer and Sanctifier : And as one that delighteth in the Law of the Lord , she reverently openeth the sacred Scriptures , and readeth over some part of it , with some approved Commenta●y at hand , in which she may see the sense of that , which of her self she could not understand : What is plain , she taketh in , digesteth ▪ and layeth up for practice :


id: A90278
author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
date: 1650
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mime: application/xml
words: 34537
sentence: 1401
flesch: 67
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title:
  Of the death of Christ, the price he paid, and the purchase he made. Or, the satisfaction, and merit of the death of Christ cleered, the universality of redemption thereby oppugned: and the doctrine concerning these things formerly delivered in a treatise against universal redemption vindicated from the exceptions, and objections of Mr Baxter. / By J. Owen, minister of the gospel.

summary:
  Will his words bear any other sense ? 3 Whether tantundem and idem in the way of Satisfaction be equivalent to the obtaining the End ipso facto aimed at , ( which he here asserts , though elsewhere constantly denyes couching in this distinction the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of a great part of his Discourse ) certainly is nothing at all to the Question I there agitated ; maintaining , That it was idem and not tantundum that Christ paid , and so the End of it obtained ipso facto , answerable to the kind of the Efficacy and procurement thereof . And this I place as the Causa {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of the Satisfaction of Christ , and the whole dispensation of making out Love unto us , through various Acts of Mercy .


id: A41644
author: Gouge, Thomas, 1605-1681.
date: 1680
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 37840
sentence: 1583
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A41644.xml
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title:
  God's call to England, for thankfulness after gracious deliverances wherein is shewed, that our deliverances, not answered with reformation, will be followed with sorest destruction / by Thomas Gouge.

summary:
  Come , let us view the sudden and sweet Dispensations of God's heavenly and holy Providence , and fix our thoughts on his surprizing Benefits , till our hearts are enamour'd with the Authour of them , and transform'd into the likeness of that loving God that gives them : let us trace him in his ways of Mercy , till we are sweetly brought into the ways of Duty : Let our Souls be drawn up to the Center of Heaven , by the Golden Chains of Mercies let down from thence unto us . Continuance in son will be so great discouragement to God in ways of Mercies , that we shall have just Cause to despair of future relief from him .


id: A30167
author: Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
date: 1675
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 46797
sentence: 2070
flesch: 80
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title:
  Light for them that sit in darkness, or, A discourse of Jesus Christ, and that he undertook to accomplish by himself the eternal redemption of sinners also, that the Lord Jesus addressed himself to this work, with undeniable demonstrations that he performed the same : objections to the contrary answered / by John Bunyan.

summary:
  Now the Children could not destroy him , because he had already cast them into sin ; defiled their Nature , and laid them under the Wrath of God , Therefore Christ puts himself among the Children , and into the Nature of the Children ; that he might , by means of his Dying in their Flesh , destroy the Devil ; that is , take away Sin , his Work , that he might destroy the Works of the Devil ; for sin is the great Engine of Hell , by which he overthroweth all that perish : God gave the Law , that compleat Righteousness should by that be found upon men , but because sin was got into man's Flesh , therefore this Righteousness , by us , could not be compleated : Now comes Christ the Lord into the World , clothes himself with the Children's Flesh , addresseth himself to the Work of their Redemption , is made under the Law ; and going through every part of the Law without Sin , he becometh the End of the Law for Justifying Righteousness to every one that believeth , Rom. 10. 4. For he obeyed not the Law for himself , he needed no obedience thereto : 'T was we that needed obedience , 't was we that wanted to answer the Law , we wanted it but could not obtain it , because then the Law was weak through the Flesh ; therefore God sent his own Son , and he did our duty for us , even to become the End of the Law to every one that believeth : In this therefore Christ laboured for us , he was made under the Law to redeem .


id: A40356
author: Fox, John, fl. 1676.
date: 1670
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 51407
sentence: 2161
flesch: 78
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txt: txt/A40356.txt
title:
  Time and the end of time, or, Two discourses, the first about redemption of time, the second about consideration of our latter end by John Fox.

summary:
  all the Winter Death is on the Trees , in our Gardens , in every flower ; At your Table every day you feed on the flesh of dead Creatures , to tell you that you must die ; and is not death in your beds every night ? what is sleep but the picture and image of cold Death ? and your beds but the representation of your dark graves ? O careless besotted sinners ! not consider of death ! and have precious souls , that must live or die , be saved or damnted to Heaven or Hell , to bliss or burning , to God or Devils , to Saints or cursed Reprobates , as soon as the breath is gon , which may be the next day or hour ? this pale horse death , hath the red horse Hell following him , Rev. 6. 8. Lastly , what not think of , and prepare for Death ! and called Christians , that profess you beleive the Resurrection of the body , and life everlasting , a happiness beyond the Grave , For in this life only ( saith Paul ) wt have hope in Christ , we are of all men most miserable , 1 Cor. 15. 19. Poor hardned sinners ! that now forget God , and this great and mighty concern of your eternal souls , what will you do in the day of Visitation ? when your iniquities shall compass you about , and no friend in heaven above , or in earth beneath , that can stand you in stead ; and when conscience , like a bold sturdy Sergeant , shall take you by the throat , and summon you in the Name of the great Judge , to come and stand at or before the judgement seat . The man that was found gathering sticks upon the Sabbath , by an immediate command from God , was stoned to death , Numb .


id: A77642
author: Browne, James, 1616-1685.
date: 1653
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 61247
sentence: 1620
flesch: 64
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title:
  Scripture-redemption freed from men's restrictions: being an answer to a book lately published by Mr. William Troughton (who stiles himself a minister of the gospel at Onlep in Leicester-shire) intituled, scripture-redemption restrained and limited: as also the substance of several conferences and disputes had in England, Wales, and Scotland, with Mr. Heath, Mr. Bartley, Mr. Powel, Mr. Sam. Rutherford, and Mr. James Wood, two rectors of the university of S. Andrews, and many others, about the death of our most dear redeemer, and the controversies which are the constant concomitants of it. Together with a brief reply to Mr. Troughton's rayling accusations in his introduction. By J. Brown, sometimes of Orial Coll. in Oxford, afterwards a priest of the Church of England, and vicar of Tenbury in Worcester-shire; but now through mercy a preacher of the faith which once he destroyed.

summary:
  Thus , as by the steps of Jacobs ladder , men ascend to the Lord , attaine to the measure of the stature of Christ , come to have fellowship with the Father , and with his Son Jesus , and to walk with God ; who ( as I hinted but even now ) doth begin the work and every part of the work of the new creation , leaving man to do nothing but what he hath enabled him to do , and so without all excuse in case of neglect : yet many do neglect their duty which God hath left them to do ; which , together with the committing of that which God hath declared to be evil , is counted sin , and shall be the onely cause of mens condemnation in the last day . I answer , Because they believe not , they lay not the blood of Christ to heart ; if they did , it were impossible that they should be so carried away with lust , pride , ignorance , lying , swearing , cheating , drunkenness , gaming , covetousness , formality , lukewarness , ildeness , and all manner of disobedience : for if men did consider the grace of God , if they knew the gift of God , and his kindness which towards man appeared , and thoughts of peace he harbours even towards them that are in rebellion against him ; yea , how he was Reconciled to them who yet are enemies ; they , even they , would harbour sweet thoughts of God , no longer look upon him as an enemy ; But throwing away the weapons of wickedness ( their sins ) would consider him as the chief of friends , and so be reconcil'd to him , as the Apostle speaks , 2 Cor.


id: A47509
author: Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.
date: 1679
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 64118
sentence: 2725
flesch: 82
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title:
  The glorious lover a divine poem upon the adorable mystery of sinners redemption / by B.K., author of War with the Devil.

summary:
  When Sacred Love runs thus with greatest force , What pity is 't ought should disturb its course ? How can the Soul refuse to entertain A Lover , which for her with shame was slain ? But stop again , my Muse , thou must give o're , The Prince is come , lo he is at her door . away , 't is pity thou hast bin Spared so long , when guilty of such Sin. Soul , thou must see to bring him in subjection , With every evil lust , and vile affection .


