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id: A66767
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
date: 1689.0
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title:
  Predictions of the overthrow of popery, and the landing of the Prince of Orange in the west written by George Wither Esquire, in the year 1660 ; and some proposals for perpetual Parliament written by the same author in 1652.

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com).


id: A47830
author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
title: The committee; or popery in masquerade
date: 1681.0
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words: 2369
sentence: 125
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summary:
  Think on 't , my Masters ; and if e're ye see This Game play'd o're again , then Think of Me. Our Design 's This ; to Change the Government ; Set up our Selves ; and do 't by a Parliament .


id: A67501
author: Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.
title: Ecclesia & Factio a dialogue between Bow-Steeple Dragon and the Exchange Grasshopper.
date: 1698.0
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words: 3622
sentence: 147
flesch: 71
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summary:
  These are the Men of merit , they provide , To Row , and Toe , against the Wind and Tide ; Who in Tempestious Discords , they create , Sail quite repugnant to the Church and State : Yet to such outward Godliness seem bent , To Church they 'll come , tho' in their Hearts Dissent : But for no Faith , will either Hang , or Starve , Both God and Mammon , for advancement serve ; Thus seasonably comply , or in fit times can swerve . Religion , like a Prince , tho' ne'er so Pure , By Pow'r to Punish , must be made secure , Or else your Saints , to Reformation given , Would quickly cut Ten Thousand Paths to Heaven .


id: A56207
author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
date: 1659.0
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words: 3816
sentence: 159
flesch: 64
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title:
  A short, legal, medicinal, useful, safe, easie prescription to recover our kingdom, church, nation from their present dangerous, distractive, destructive confusion and worse than Bedlam madnesse seriously recommended to all English freemen who desire peace, safety, liberty, settlement. By William Prynne, Esq; a bencher of Lincolns-Inne.

summary:
  1. on the third Monday of Nov●mber next , under 12 or more of their hands and Seals , for a free and legall Election of Knights , Citizens , Burgesses , Barons , in every City , County , Borough , Port , according to former usage , to appear at the Parl●ament-house in Westminster , the third Monday in January next ●●●suing , at a Parliament then and there to be held , in such manner and form as this Act prescribes ; wherein such Proposalls and Counsells may by common consent be pursued , as may through Gods blessing , soon restore our pristine Peace , Trade , Honour , Wealth , Prosperity , And if this will not satisfi●… , let them b●…ware , lest the earth cleave osunde●… that is under them ; and 〈◊〉 swallow them up 〈◊〉 , with their houses , men , goods , and all appertaining to them , and they perish from among the 〈◊〉 , as Korah , 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 , with their families and adherents ●…id , by this or some other exemplary Judgments , and a universal Insurrection of our three whole discontented , oppressed , rained Nations against them , which they may justly fear and expect , if they believe there is a righteous God that judgeth in the earth , a Lord of hosts able to scatter , puni●…h , execute vengeance on them here , and cast them into hell for ever hereafter , for their manifold unlamented , reiterated , transcendent Reb●…llions : or repute these Texts Canonical , which I shall recommend to their saddest Meditations .


id: A25565
author: Gentlewoman.
date: 1681.0
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words: 4416
sentence: 123
flesch: 56
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title:
  An answer to Pereat Papa, or, A reply by way of letter from a gentlewoman to a person of quality commending to her consideration a paper entituled Pereat Papa, or, Reasons why popery should not inherit the crown.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. SIR , HAD the Paper you sent me , intituled Pereat Papa , or Reasons why Popery should not usurp the Crown , come accidentally to my hands , and had not been seriously recommended to my observation by you , I should have concluded its Author had jocularly intended , or to , use his own phrase , conceived , and that very candidly , such Reason● proper to Burlesque , a late Design for altering the Succession , on account of that so often baffled a Cause called Popery .


id: A26410
author: Adis, Henry.
date: 1661.0
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words: 8033
sentence: 148
flesch: 43
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title:
  A fannaticks addresse humbly presented to the King and his peers, and also to his people in their representative, the Commons House of Parliament ... discovering to them, the innocency of his actings in the midst of the late revolutions of governments in this nation ... / by Henry Adis ...

summary:
  Exalteth it Self against the Knowledge of Jesus Christ ; and to bring every Soul to the Obedience of Christ , in all his Lawes , Statutes , Ordinances , and Appointments : In order whereunto , Sixthly , We look upon it to be agreeble to the pure Will and Mind of God , th●t there be a free Toleration for Men and Women to Worship God , without either Constraint or Restraint ; And that no Acts of Violence be used against them therein , to force the Conscience of any , no not of the meanest of the Sons and Daughters of Men , of what perswasion or Judgement soever they be of ; because Jesus Christ out of that exceeding Love of the Father , was sent to lay down his Life for the Sins of the World , John 1. 29. and to be a Redemption for that first Transgression , Heb. 9. 15. under the guilt of which all the whole Bulk of Mankinde that ever were , are , or ever shall be , by Imputation , do lie under ; and from the punishment of which by Jesus Christ they shall all be released , and restored , Rom. 5. 18. Secondly , As we do own Magistracy to be of God ; so we cannot look upon our selves to be concerned in the affairs of this , or any other Nation , so as to have to do with Government , as to our own particulars , although we were indowed with such Qualications and Estates , as might render us Capable thereof ; because we look upon our selves to be a People chosen out of the World , and such as shall be hated of the World , Joh. 15. 19. and for the sake and Name of Christ shall be Haled before Kings , Rulers , Governonrs , Magistrates , and Councils of this World , as he himself hath foretold us , Mat. 10. 17 , 18.


id: A92209
author: Reading, John, 1588-1667.
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flesch: 60
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title:
  Little Benjamin or truth discovering error: being a clear and full answer unto the letter, subscribed by 47 ministers of the province of London, and presented to his Excellency, January 18. 1648. To inform the ignorant satisfie the desirous of the concurrent proceedings the Parliament and Army. In taking away the life of Charles Stuart, late King of England, together with, &c. / By a reall lover of all those, who love peace and truth. February 17. 1648. Imprimatur Gil. Mabbot.

summary:
  And without that , that his Excellency or the Councell of Warre , are but private persons , in referrence to the power of Magistracy , or have usurped an Authority over King and Parliament , or have medled with affaires which belong not to them ( as is suggested by you ) but have onely performed their duty , to that end for which they were entrusted , and authorized by the Parliament , in defence of this Nation : and therefore they could not have neglected what they have done ; without breach , of publicke trust , reposed in them . First , because the Kings of the Gentiles were alwaies by humane institution , intrusted for the safety of the People , and are no sacred annoynted Types of Christ , King of the Church , as the Kings of Iudah and Israel were , and received their institution to that end from God .


id: A75884
author: Adis, Henry.
date: 1660.0
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flesch: 49
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title:
  A fannaticks letter sent out of the dungeon of the gate-house prison of VVestminster: to all his brethren in the three nations at liberty; and also in the several goales and dungeons therein, that are under all the principles of the doctrines of Christ, Heb. 6. I, 2. By Henry Adis, a baptized believer, undergoing the name of a free-willer; and also most ignomineously by the tongue of infamy, called a fannatick, or a mad man.

summary:
  And whosoever will deny me before men , him will I also deny before my Father which is in Heaven , they were his own Words , Mat. 10. 33. in whose Mouth there was sound no guile ; who also telleth us , That the time will come , that if they kill us , they will think they shall do God good service , John 16. And if we will have one like the Son of God , Comforting and Supporting , Walking with and Refreshing us in that hot Furnace of Affliction that is Heating for us ; let us with Shadrach , Meshach , and Abednego , keep close to our God , and let us not be careful to Answer the desires of men , Dan.


id: A42772
author: Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.
date: 1649.0
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flesch: 70
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title:
  An usefull case of conscience discussed and resolved concerning associations and confederacies with idolaters, infidels, hereticks, or any other known enemies of truth and godlinesse. By Master George Gillespie, late minister at Edinburgh. Whereunto is subjoyned a letter, written by him to the commissioners of the Generall Assembly, in the time of his sicknesse: together with his testimony unto this truth, written two dayes before his death.

summary:
  1. ( which was an Argument of sincerity : ) also , that some of Benjamin ( Sauls own tribe ) adjoyned themselves to David , and the spirit came upon Amasa● , who by a speciall Divine instinct spake to assure David of their sincerity , vers. ●Kings 16. 10 and Asa himself , 2 Chron. 16. 10.


id: A05380
author: Lever, Christopher, fl. 1627.
date: 1608.0
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title:
  Heauen and earth, religion and policy. Or, The maine difference betweene religion and policy. Written by C.L.

summary:
  11 And these prouocations are so powerfull in mans nature , as that euery degree of humane life hath receiued some infection from that poyson : euen the holiest rank of men , whose places are ( and euer haue beene ) of most reuerend estimation , men of religious name and place , who haue abiurde the vanities of this life , and haue dedicate themselues and their indeauours to God , and godly cares onely ; euen many of these men lose their lawfull ayme and shoote at such markes they ought not to leuell at : making Religion but to shaddow Policy , and their good place to countenance their bad practise . 6 And because that prosperous fortune doth seeme to be the vtmost end of euery badde mans practise ; therefore is in of moment to consider the diuers natures of Religion and Policy in men of prosperous Fortune ▪ for it is not of necessarie consequence that because euill m●n affect onely the prosperitie of this life ; therefore prosperous Fortune is altogether to be despised or neglected , and to be altogether out of the cares of good men ; for good men may care for that which euill men care for , but they may not ( like euill men ) care onely for that , but that God may be the main purpose of all their cares ; and that all other things bee onely so farreforth cared for , as may administer to a mans Christian necessity .


id: A47820
author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
title: Citt and Bumpkin in a dialogue over a pot of ale concerning matters of religion and government
date: 1680.0
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summary:
  O , their Landlords and Masters are men of huge Estates ; but 't is the Tenants , and the Stewards that I have to do withall . Why 't is the very making of man a mans Fortune to be Taken .


