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id: A67513
author: Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.
title: Modern religion and ancient loyalty a dialogue.
date: 1699.0
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summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. My spurning Foes on ev'ry side Aspire : I Lose my Pow'r , They Gain what they Desire .


id: A86671
author: Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.
date: 1654.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 4725
sentence: 52
flesch: 12
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title:
  A true separation between the power of the spirit, and the imitation of Antichrist. The difference between the pretious and the vile, between the saints and professors, between the power and the form, between the wise virgins who are so indeed, and them who have gotten the name, but want the power.

summary:
  Therefore I say unto you who through your vain Imaginations , separate between man and woman , and say that there should be no begetting nor bringing forth after the flesh , and so looks without being turned from the light into the Imaginations , and evill thoughts Judgeth , to you , I say , have you not read that he which made both Man and Woman at the beginning , made them male and female , and they were no more twain but one flesh , what therefore God hath joyned together let no man put a sunder : now to the light of Christ in all your Consciences , I speak , which lightshines in darknes but the darknes comprehends it not , but all who do love the light to be taught and guided by it will lead you out of your Comprehensions and out of your own wills from which your Imitations are formed , and will let you see that you are out of the Virgin estate for your Lamps are not trimed , neither are you obedient to the light in your Conscience which leads unto Christ and gives enterance to the bridegroom , but you whose light is gone out and have not been obedient to it , which hath shined within you and you are they who are slumbering and dreaming in your Notions , thoughts and Imaginations , you filthy dreamers who hath defiled the flesh , and the night is upon you and now is the Cry in the night , he that hath an Ear to hear let him hear , for now is the bridegroom coming , and they who wait in the light do hear the voice of Christ , and they come to witness his presence and do enter into the bride chamber , but you , whose minds is turned from the light you are shut out as the foolish Virgins though you would be owned by them who walk in the light , but can have no fellowship with you who hate the light and walk in darkness , for light hath no fellowship with darkness , and here you are shut out from the children of light and from Virgins , for Virgins are chast and sober minded , but you who have the name but not the power you are rude and wild and live in lightnes , and wantones , and folly which the saints was redeemed from , and so you are without in the world among the dogs and swine wallowing in the mire minding earthly things , and are enemies to the Crosse of Christ and live without the fear of God . Therefore to you I say , turn your minds within , to the light of Christ , to wait in it , that you may know the things fulfilled within you : for the comming of Christ is within , and that which convinceth of sin is within , the light of Christ , in the conscience , and this being hearkned unto and obeyed , it gives power against sin , and this power we witness made manifest within us , and this power we have received from Christ which doth convince the world of sin , and by this power the gainsayers are convinced , and this is the same power as ever was , and the same Christ as ever was ; and the same eternal words of God we do witness which was in the beginning , which word is Christ ; and we do speak it forth in his own power , as we have received it ; and this word of power we have , which makes the Devils to tremble , and makes the Heathens to rage , and by it marveilous works are wrought ; for now do the blind see , the deaf hear , and the lame walk ; and they who many years have walked in darkness and trouble of mind , and terrour of conscience , and under many infirmities , who have spent their time and money upon Physitians and Parish Priests , and have not been healed or cured , are now restored and healed freely , without money and without price ; and the Lepers are cured , and the Leprosie is taken away , and the poor receive the Gospel ▪ and this we witness to be fulfilled in us , and in the world where this Gospel is , and where it hath been preached ; and this is the everlasting Gospel which is now preached , which we are witnesses of , and Ministers of according to our measure ; and this Gospel is not the Letter , for many poor souls who have been many years in trouble , and found no peace nor satisfaction , have had the Letter and it hath administred no comfort unto them though they have applyed the promises to that which was wounded yet they have not been eased , but are still in trouble til Jesus Christs glad tidings did appear , who is the Gospel , and the glad tidings ; and they who witness him come and made manifest , they do witness a freedome and deliverance out of this condition , which they could not doe while their minds was without , looking for a Christ without , and for a power without ; and to find life from the Letter without , and this we witness to be but a dead Letter , and did give us no life at all , but we were kept in darkness and blindness while we called the Letter the light , and the Letter the word , and the letter the rule , but now the true light hath appeared , which lets us see that Christ is the light which lighteth every one that cometh into the world ; and in this light we see that God is the word and not the Letter , for the word was in the beginning , but the letter was not in the beginning , and in this light we see that the Letter without us is not the rule , but the spirit which gave it forth , and this spirit is within which is our rule , and brings us to walk according to the Letter which was spoken forth from the Spirit , which was their guide & rule which spake it forth , for the prophesie came not in old time by the will of man , but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost ; and the same speaks now in Sons and Daughters as they are moved , and do witnesse the Scriptures to be fulfilled in us , and Christ to be in us which you look for without you , and this power which doth convince of sin within , and the word is within in the heart ; by which word we are sanctified and made clean , and we do witness the Virgin state , and are Virgins , and do follow the Lamb , and are redeemed from the earth ; but you we deny to be Virgins , and whose minds are without , turned from the light of Christ which is within , and shines in the conscience , which should exercise your conscience , but your minds being without in the earth is defiled with the earth , and your experiences are defiled being adulterate from the Lord , and are no saints nor Virgins .


id: A90284
author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
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sentence: 362
flesch: 82
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title:
  Proposals for the furtherance and propagation of the gospel in this nation. As the same were hubly presented to the Honourable Committee of Parliament by divers ministers of the gospell, and others. As also, some principles of Christian religion, without the beliefe of which, the Scriptures doe plainly and clearly affirme, salvation is not to be obtained. Which were also presented in explanation of one of the said proposals.

summary:
  That the Ministers so sent forth and established be enjoyned , and required to attend the solemne Worship of God in Prayer , Reading , and Preaching the Word , Catechising , expounding the Scriptures , and ( as occasion shall require ) visiting the Sicke , and instructing from house to house , residing amongst the People to whom they are sent , and using all care and diligence by all wayes and meanes to win soules unto Christ . Whosoever transgresseth , and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ , hath not God , he that abideth in the doctrine of Christ , he hath both the Father , and the Sonne .


id: A77638
author: Brown, David, fl. 1650-1652.
date: 1652.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 9885
sentence: 110
flesch: 3
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title:
  The naked vvoman, or a rare epistle sent to Mr. Peter Sterry minister at Whitehall; desiring him to shew the causes or reasons of his silence, in that he neither by his ministeriall office, charged the magistrates that were present to redresse, nor so much as shewd any sign of grief or detestation, as became a sincere Christian; against that most strange ans shamefull late act of an impudent woman, in the midst of his sermon on a Lords day at Whitehall chapell, concerning the resurrection, before the chief states of this nation. A satisfactory answer he returned; which with a lving acceptance thereof, are here also printed; very worthy the observation of all, both sexes and degrees of people in these nations.

summary:
  Moreover , by the way , it will be no lesse needfull than seasonable , to shew an Example very worthy ( I suppose ) both of your , mine own , and all mens observation , not for a day , a week , a month , a year , but whiles we are in this mortality ; I knew a man about 30 years ago , that being an older teacher ( I think ) than you are in years , who being all his time untill the last year of his life ( to my best remembrance ) in so high esteem for the excellency of his gifts , and gravity of his conversation too , ( so far as man could discern ) that King James often hearing him , and his name being Master John Hall , did call him Master Iohn All ( sine aspiratione ) meaning , that the true copy of all the knowledge , memory , learning , expression , and diversity of gifts requisite in a preacher of the word , which were respectively in all others of that nation at least , were fully registred and found in him alone , saving only the shortnesse of his tongue , whereby the ripenesse of hs memory , and speedinesse of his delivery did precipitate and out-run many people who were of dull or slow apprehension ; but he proving at last , when persecution began to arise for the Gospell ( never being acquainted with the feeling , but only with the hearing and reading thereof before ) to be such an open hypocrite and hireling , that he quite left those his simple sheep , by whose yeerly Fleeces he was very richly and constantly maintained with all his family , as their Pastor above forty years space , even when both the great Woolf himself , and all his hungry followers , came to tear and devoure them to peeces Yet a little while afterwards , when his Conscience began to be wakened for his most hainous sins , and receiving ( I hope ) a little blink of Christ's joyfull countenance , as Peter who also denyed him in another case had in the hall of Caiphas , and he being ashamed to be seen any more in the streets , if he had been an universal Monarch , he would have given the whole world for licence onely to have preached one Sermon more on a first day in that most eminent City of the Nation , and chief high-place thereof , unto which he was externally advanced , and that ( as may in regard of his great earnestness afterward appear to be wel conjectured ) to have asked forgiveness publickly both of God and all his Flock , for his so sinful , undutifull , and ingratefull both offending his infinite Majesty , and them , and that merely for fear to incur the indignation , or ( at worst ) the persecution of a finite and perishing Majesty , even by leaving and exposing them to the arbitrary will and lust of that implacable enemy , that he might impose upon them all the gross Popery both transacted between him and the Pope long before that time , and intended to have been begun there , and then , both by the military and all other witty aid of that nature , after they had embraced the same , even to have brought it with a high hand here , they being alwayes ( by their travels abroad ) expert in wars , and this Nation in long peace , and out of use untill of late years ; which business because he was not able to effect in his own dayes , therefore , even as King David gave his Sonne Solomon charge to deal with Joab and Shimei after his death , so he left his Sonne to prosecute that Romish design to his utmost power after he was gone ; and in reference thereunto , upon his and the Bishops of both Nations urging that grosse Service-Book in that Nation , untill the rest of that poysonable stuff should have followed , all the cruell Wars throughout all the three Nations , which have been almost ever since , have proceeded . Furthermore , it may be upon good grounds imagined , that this antient Preacher not only intended to have given his best advice to his Flock , as his last Will and Testament , even to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made them free , and not to be entangled again with the yoke of bondage : but likewise as touching his own grievous failings , to have intreated them , That they would be pleased ( out of their tender compassion towards his everlasting weal ) to adde their fervent prayers to his , for mercy and reconciliation to him , through a lively faith laying hold on the all-sufficient merits of Iesus Christ , before he should goe hence and be seen no more , and to have besought them , that as they hoped to be saved at the great day of Retribution , never to make his nor any other mens wanderings their examples to reiterate and follow , but altogether as so many terrors ( like Sea-marks or Beacons set on Rocks ) for ships to avoid and eschew : And concerning the event of what great diligence his friends and acquaintances ( howsoever very numerous and powerfull ) did use , to have obtained the Licence before mentioned , both of superiour and inferiour powers , they being often reproved for so high an attempt , which then was so hot in prosecution ; after they were long delayed , at last , they were absolutely refused : whereupon in great grief , but I hope with such godly sorrow as through Christ he found mercy , God himself favourably accepting the will for the deed , and private repentance , when publick is hindered by man , he finished his course .


id: A35983
author: Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.
title: Observations vpon Religio medici occasionally written by Sir Kenelme Digby, Knight.
date: 1643.0
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words: 12956
sentence: 305
flesch: 49
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summary:
  What should I say of his making so particular a narration of personall things , and private thoughts of his owne ; the knowledge whereof cannot much conduce to any mans betterment ? ( which I make account is the chiefe end of his writing this discourse ) As where he speaketh of the soundnesse of his body , of the course of his dyet , of the coolenesse of his blood at the Summer Solstice of his age , of his neglect of an Epitaph : how long he hath lived or may live what Popes , Emperours , Kings , Grand-Seigniors , he hath beene contemporary unto , and the like : would it not be thought that hee hath a speciall good opinion of himselfe , ( and indeed hee hath reason ) when he maketh such great Princes the Land-markes in the Chronology of himselfe ? Surely if hee were to write by retaile the particulars of his owne Story and life , it would bee a notable Romanze ; since he telleth us in one totall summe , it is a continued miracle of thirty yeares . But if it had , I beleeve his naturall parts are such as he might have kept the chaire from most men I know : for even where hee roveth widest , it is with so much wit and sharpenesse , as putteth me in mind of a great mans censure upon Ioseph Scaligers Cyclometrica ( a matter he was not well versed in ) that hee had rather erre so ingeniously as he did , then hit upon Truth in that heavy manner as the Iesuite , his antagonist stuffeth his Bookes .


id: A85548
author: Graunt, John, of Bucklersbury.
date: 1652.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 15011
sentence: 355
flesch: 53
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title:
  The shipwrack of all false churches: and the immutable safety and stability of the true Church of Christ. Occasioned: by Doctour Chamberlen his mistake of her, and the holy scriptures also, by syllogising words, to find out spirituall meanings, when in such cases it is the definition, not the name, by which things are truly knowne.

summary:
  And Gods Church fears not to speak , although she cares not to be known , she being indewed with the spirit of life from God ; and in her reading the Scriptures you shall find her full of consideration , and understanding , as our Lord directs her , Let him that readeth consider : Now in common reason , if in this Nation the publike Ministry , for those are they they mean by Clergy , although no man can prove it by Scripture , be the Church , then the State Magistracy , and the rest of the people are not the Church or Congregation of England , which seems to crosse the Scriptures denomination , for the whole Nation of the Jewes , Priests and People , are often called the Congregation , or Church , and the Reason is beyond exception , because they were a people professing and communicating in the externall Ordinances of God , and but a small remnant of the multitude faithfull to communicate spiritually ▪ Now as spirituall and heavenly Christians are Gods peculiar , little house , vineyard , or Church , so outward Christians , may bear the name of his Vineyard , Church , or great House also , as an outward Jew or Christian bears the name , although not the nature of a Jew or Christian inwardly .


id: A69762
author: Clagett, Nicholas, 1654-1727.
title: A perswasive to an ingenuous tryal of opinions in religion
date: 1685.0
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words: 19748
sentence: 571
flesch: 59
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summary:
  And we see by experience that hatred and ill will , and looseness of life , gains ground more by the Schisms that are amongst Christians , than by any thing else ; and no wonder , since men that are of different and opposite Communions do not use to love one another ; and vicious persons do not value the Communion of a true Church , nor care if for their ill manners they be turned out of it , when they can take Sanctuary in a pretended Church of another Communion , that makes as loud a claim to all the Priviledges of a Chruch-Society as that Church can do from which they have divided themselves . And there are three sorts of men who fail of knowing the truth , for want of due endeavours to find it out .


id: A44651
author: Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698.
title: The history of religion written by a person of quality.
date: 1694.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 21792
sentence: 538
flesch: 49
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summary:
  Persecution therefore can be used out of no respect to the Service of God ; but is a Defiance of him , and only a Service to Priest-craft and Priests , who like other Plunderers preserve ill-got Goods by Force . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.


id: A57656
author: Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.
date: 1645.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 23629
sentence: 836
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A57656.xml
txt: txt/A57656.txt
title:
  Medicus medicatus, or, The physicians religion cured by a lenitive or gentle potion with some animadversions upon Sir Kenelme Digbie's observations on Religio medici / by Alexander Ross.

summary:
  And how specious soever their lives and actions were in the eyes of men , yet without Christ ●hey were nothing else but splendida pecca●a , glorious enormities : onely in this I can ●lace them , that it will be easier for them , as it will be for Sodome and Gomorrha , for ●yre and Sidon ) in the last day , then for ●ewes and Christians , who have knowne ●heir Masters will , and have not done it : ●ewer stripes remaine for Socrates a Hea●hen , then for Iulian a Christian. ] Affections , saith Aristotle , are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in that unreasonable part of the soul● or rather , of the whole compositum ; for th● soule hath no parts : and though whilst i● the body it receiveth , by meanes of its immediate union with the spirits , some impressions , which we call affections ; yet , being separated , is free from such , and carrie● nothing with it , but the reasonableand inorganicall faculties of the Intellect and Will And , to speak properly , affections are motions of the heart , stirred up by the knowledge and apprehension of the object , goo● or bad ; the one by prosecution , the othe● by avoiding : so that where the heart i● not , nor the externall senses to conveig● the object to the phantasie , nor the animal● spirits to carry the species of the object from the phantasie to the heart , there ca● be no affection ; but such is the estate of ●he soule separated ; it hath no commerce 〈◊〉 all with the body , or bodily affections .


id: A48887
author: Locke, John, 1632-1704.
date: 1694.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 26285
sentence: 923
flesch: 61
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title:
  Reason and religion in some useful reflections on the most eminent hypotheses concerning the first principles, and nature of things : with advice suitable to the subject, and seasonable for these times.

summary:
  You , therefore , whom the Supposal of this World's Eternity makes unmindful of God , look unto the Rock from whence it was hewn , and hear what the first of your Race profess concerning the Divine Nature . 5. All the Religious Principles , by natural Light form'd in the Mind , concerning God , are indifferently well consistent with the World's Eternity : Which you cannot but be satisfied in , considering , 1. Many Christian Philosophers , believing the Beginning spoken of by Moses , think it not impossible ( if God had so pleased ) for the World to have been made before , even from Eternity .


id: A59472
author: Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671-1713.
date: 1699.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 43911
sentence: 781
flesch: 33
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title:
  An inquiry concerning virtue in two discourses, viz., I. of virtue and the belief of a deity, II. of the obligations to virtue.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.


id: A65800
author: White, Thomas, 1593-1676.
date: 1660.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 44174
sentence: 1256
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A65800.xml
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title:
  Religion and reason mutually corresponding and assisting each other first essay : a reply to the vindicative answer lately publisht against a letter, in which the sence of a bull and council concerning the duration of purgatory was discust / by Thomas White, Gent.

summary:
  Whereas , that loose way of preaching and affecttaion of words the Doctor uses , shews more vanity than substance in his Discourses . My conceit of matters of Faith is that the Scriptures and Creeds and sometimes also our Doctors deliver them in words well known , but whose vulgar sence Divines see impossible to bee true .


id: A41441
author: Goodman, John, 1625 or 6-1690.
title: The old religion demonstrated in its principles, and described in the life and practice thereof
date: 1684.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 54835
sentence: 1003
flesch: 38
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summary:
  But all these men , as they do too palpably betray they have no love to Religion , nor no desire it should be true : so they evidently discover that they neither understand what satisfaction is fit for God to give in these matters , or for man to require ; nor do they consider what the nature of Virtue and Religion will admit of , no nor do they understand themselves so well as to know what motives will work upon men ; nor lastly , have they applied their minds to take a just estimate of the value and efficacy of these motives of hopes and fear which it pleases God to set before them . Forasmuch as it is evident , that the approving a mans self to God , and the taking care of Eternity , are such weighty and important affairs , that they must needs require the greatest composure of thoughts , and the utmost intention of our minds ; and can neither be worthily taken in hand , nor much less pursued as they ought , in such a light and jolly humour as the custom of tipling doth ordinarily put men into ; for that relaxes a mans thoughts , and fills his spirit with froth and levity ; it renders the mind of a man so airy and trifling , that he becomes transported with a jest , and diverted by every impertinence ; it banishes sollicitude , and puts him besides his guard of caution and circumspection ; a mans head in such a case is impatient of weighty considerations , incapable of grave deliberations ; his thoughts are fluctuating and uncertain , he comes to no stable resolution , nor can he make any constant progress ; and surely such a temper cannot make a fit soil for Religion to take root in , or to thrive upon .


id: A41099
date: 1698.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 51936
sentence: 1726
flesch: 59
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author:
  Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704. Instruction sur les estats d'oraison, où sont exposées les erreurs des faux mystiques de nos jours.

title:
  The maxims of the saints explained, concerning the interiour life by the Lord Arch-bishop of Cambray &c. ; to which are added, Thirty-four articles by the Lord Arch-Bishop of Paris, the Bishops of Meaux and Chartres, (that occasioned this book), also their declaration upon it ; together with the French-King's and the Arch-Bishop of Cambray's letters to the Pope upon the same subject.

summary:
  The absolute determination to will nothing would be no longer a disinterest , but the extinction of love which is a desire and true will : it would be no longer holy indifference ; for indifference is the state of a Soul , equally ready to will or will not , to will for God all that he wills , and never to will for ones self , what God does not declare that he wills : He that makes this Love to be speculative , would fret himself to a Skeleton , if God should put him to prove how this Love doth purifie and realize it self in the Soul.


id: A16718
author: Brerewood, Edward, 1565?-1613.
date: 1614.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 62896
sentence: 3822
flesch: 75
cache: cache/A16718.xml
txt: txt/A16718.txt
title:
  Enquiries touching the diuersity of languages, and religions through the cheife parts of the world. Written by Edw. Brerewood lately professor of astronomy in Gresham Colledge in London

summary:
  ●●rte . & in ep ●d V. ●ert●e ad Tomson . But hence Eastward in the kingdom of Bohemia consisting of 32. thousand parishes , ( now become in a manner hereditary to the house of Austria , as likewise the kingdome of Hungary ) and its appurtenances , the Marchesates of Lusatia , Morauia , the Dukedome of Silesia , all which iointly in circuit containe 770. miles , the Protestants are esteemed two third parts ; & in Austria it selfe , and the countries of Goritia , Tirolis , Cilia , the principalities of Sueuia , Alsatia , Brisgoia , Constans , now annexed thereunto , the most part of the people , and especially of the a a Nobiles fere omnes ( qui in subditos su●s , et clientes iudicia exercēt , eorumque nonnulli vitae , et necis ●●●ent pot●sta●e ●●●mouarum opininum veneno inflecti sunt .


id: A29880
author: Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.
title: Religio medici
date: 1682.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 67963
sentence: 1876
flesch: 56
cache: cache/A29880.xml
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summary:
  34 These are certainly the Magisterial and master pieces of the Creator , the Flower or ( as we may say ) the best part of nothing , actually existing , what we are but in hopes , and probability ; we are onely that amphibious piece between a corporal and spiritual Essence , that middle form that links those two together , and makes good the Method of God and Nature , that jumps not from extreams , but unites the incompatible distances by some middle and participating natures : that we are the breath and similitude of God , it is indisputable , and upon record of holy Scripture ; but to call our selves a Microcosm , or little World , I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick , till my neer judgement and second thoughts told me there was a real truth therein : for first we are a rude mass , and in the rank of creatures , which onely are , and have a dull kind of being not yet priviledged with life , or preferred to sense or reason ; next we live the life of Plants , the life of Animals , the life of Men , and at last the life of Spirits , running on in one mysterious nature those five kinds of existences , which comprehend the creatures not onely of the World , but of the Universe : thus is man that great and true Amphibium , whose nature is disposed to live not onely like other creatures in divers elements , but in divided and distinguished worlds : for though there be but one to sense , there are two to reason ; the one visible , the other invisible , whereof Moses seems to have left description , and of the other so obscurely , that some parts thereof are yet in controversie . Men that look no farther than their outsides , think health an appurtenance unto life , and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick ; but I that have examined the parts of man , and know upon what tender filaments that Fabrick hangs , do wonder that we are not always so ; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death , do thank my God that we can die but once .


id: A35959
author: Dickson, David, 1583?-1663.
date: 1684.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 78674
sentence: 4212
flesch: 78
cache: cache/A35959.xml
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title:
  Truths victory over error, or, An abridgement of the chief controversies in religion which since the apostles days to this time, have been, and are in agitation, between those of the Orthodox faith, and all adversaries whatsoever, a list of whose names are set down after the epistle to the reader : wherein, by going through all the chapters of The confession of faith, one by one, and propounding out of them, by way of question, all the controverted assertions, and answering by yes, or no, there is a clear confirmation of the truth, and an evident confutation of what tenets and opinions, are maintain'd by the adversaries : a treatise, most useful for all persons, who desire to be instructed in the true Protestant religion, who would shun in these last days, and perillous times, the infection of errors and heresies, and all dangerous tenets and opinions, contrary to the word of God.

summary:
  Because , what Christ calls the commandement of GOD , He calls the Word of GOD , Mar. 7. 9 , 10. compared with v : 13. ( 4. ) Because , the Apostle calls the sword of the Spirit , the Word of God. By what Reasons are they confuted ? ( 1. ) Because , the Disciples of Christ , were not able to understand the Scripture , before he opened their eyes , Luke 24. 45. ( 2. ) Because , the Iews to this day , cannot understand the Scriptures of the Old Testament , until the Vail by the spirit of GOD be taken away , 2 Cor. 3. 14 , 15 , 16 , 18. ( 3. ) Because , the Psalmist David seeketh from God , the opening of his eyes , that he may behold wondrous things out of his Law , Psal. 119. 18. Quest. XI .


id: A93091
author: Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649.
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  A treatise of liturgies, power of the keyes, and of matter of the visible church. In answer to the reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Ball. By Thomas Shephard, sometimes fellow of Emanuel-Colledge in Cambridge, and late pastour of Cambridge in New-England.

summary:
  A new edition of the old Church-way of godly Reformers , in some things perhaps corrected and amended , is no new Church-way ; or if it be thought the mending of some crooks in the old way make a new way , wee answer with Junius in a case not unlike ; Vteunque novam esse videatur , attamen quaecunque sunt vetera , fuerunt nova , ac non propterea novitati● nomine vitiosa , nisi forte novam pro renovatâ & restitutâ accipitis ; quo sensu novam esse hanc viam agnoscimus . A Church falsly constituted , is not accepted of God , neither are their actions ecclesiasticall , as prayer , preaching , &c. acceptable in the sight of God.


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  & aux hommes la liberte que le droit des gens leur laisse à fait tant de progres depuis trois cens & quelques annees qu'il


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  ne puisse perir que par la corruption de dedans , & par la dissolution de parties qui composent un corps si


