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id: A62762
author: Church of Scotland. General Assembly.
date: 1687
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mime: application/xml
words: 1369
sentence: 58
flesch: 61
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title:
  To the King's most excellent Majesty, the humble address of the Presbyterian ministers in His Majesties kingdom of Scotland

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). At head of text:


id: A89692
author: Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.
date: 1659
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words: 1678
sentence: 65
flesch: 67
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title:
  Nineteen cases of conscience. Submissively tendred to Mr. Hugh Peters, and the rest of his fellow commissioners, the triars by sundry weak brethren.

summary:
  VVhether the Devil be not a Malignant , because he is so hot for Monarchy ? and whether ( if the Act of Oblivion will not quit him ) that one Argument be not enough to perswade men to defie him and all his works ? ( XIX ) VVhether , seeing that Liberty of Conscience is now generally granted to all men , it be not the best exercise for poor witty Cavalliers to write Pamphlets , and the best recreation for rich Commonwealth's men to read them ? This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A89692 of text R203061 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E986_16).


id: B06538
author: W. W.
title: Tertullus Christianus, or, Thanks for the Kings indulgence, with a rebuke of ingratitude.
date: 1672
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1833
sentence: 83
flesch: 71
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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: A44133
author: Holdsworth, Richard, 1590-1649.
date: 1649
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mime: application/xml
words: 2418
sentence: 61
flesch: 50
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title:
  An answer without a question, or, The late schismatical petition for a diabolicall toleration of seuerall religions expovnded being presented to the juncto at Westminster, August 16, 1646 by Colonel Pride and Lievtenant Colonel Goffe and others by the appointment of the Lord Fairfax their general : with some observations upon the mistery of their iniquity, and the juncto's answer thereunto / written by that reverend divine, Doctor Holdisworth ...

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A44133 of text R40997 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing H2392). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 109111) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1690:2)


id: A54118
author: Penn, William, 1644-1718.
date: 1674
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mime: application/xml
words: 3011
sentence: 80
flesch: 52
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title:
  Christian liberty as it was soberly desired in a letter to certain forreign states upon occasion of their late severity to several of their inhabitants, meerly for their different perswasion and practice in point of faith and worship towards God / made publick on the behalf of the present suffering dissenters within this kingdom.

summary:
  Remember , that Faith is the Gift of God ; and , that What is not of Faith is Sin : Nothing can be more Unreasonable , then to compel Men to believe against their Belief , or to trouble them for practising what they believe , when it thwarts not the Moral Law of God. Doubtless , Magistracy was both ordained of God , and elected by Men , to be a Terror to Evil-doers , and not to them that do well , though of different Judgments .


id: A25378
author: Andrews, Eusebius, d. 1650.
date: 1650
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words: 3071
sentence: 107
flesch: 68
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title:
  The last speech of Col. Eusebius Andrews, sometimes a lawyer of Lincolns-Inne, at the time of his execution on the scaffold at Tower-hill, Thursday the 22 of August, 1650 with several questions propounded to him by Doctor Swadling, and his answer thereunto.

summary:
  And though truly , if my general known course of life were but inquired into , I may modestly say , there is such a moral honesty upon it , as some may be so sawey as to expostulate why this great judgement is fall'n upon me ; but know I am able to give them and my self an answer , and out of this breast to give a better accompt of my Judgement and Execution then my Judgers themselves or you are able to give ; It is Gods wrath upon me for sins long unrepented , of many judgements withstood and mercies slighted ; therefore God hath whipped me by his severe rod of correction , that he might not loose me ; I pray joyn with me in prayer , that it may not be a fruitless rod , that when by this rod I have laid down my life , by this staffe I may be comforted , and received into glory . It is true , there have been several addresses made for mercy , and I will put the obstruction of it upon nothing more then upon my own sin , and seeing God sees it fit ( I having not glorified him in my life )


id: A43752
author: Higgins, John, 1633-1667.
date: 1661
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mime: application/xml
words: 3788
sentence: 86
flesch: 50
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title:
  From New-Gate, a prisoners just cause pleaded against all his persecutors and let the witnesse of God in all consciences be judge in this matter.

summary:
  Therefore hear , hear and fear the living God of the whole earth , who is a Spirit , and will judge the wicked in their own hearts ; yea , that is he that convinces the Transgressor for the evil of his waies , and he it is that will make himself manifest to be a God near at hand , though men have been looking , and seeking of him as one afar off , yet our God is drawing near unto judgement , and the wicked shall know it , and feel the rod of his wrath , even in their own hearts ; this is the true and living God , whom the Nations , in the ignorance of their minds make mention of , but are estranged from him ; and therefore doth iniquity , transgression , abomination , false worship , and idolatry abound in this Generation ; and this hath grieved the Spirit of the Lord , who is a Spirit , and will be worshipped , reverenced , served , and submitted unto in the Spirit ; and people being out of this , all their outward observations and gatherings of assemblies , and talking of Church and Church-worship is a practice not acceptable with the Lord , whilst man is found out of the subjection to him in the Spirit ; therefore let none deceive themselves , the Lord our God will indeed not be mocked ; but search your selves , and see whom you yeild subjection unto within , whether it be unto him that reprove for sin , or unto him that leads into sin ? and so he unto whom obedience is yeilded , the same is thy God ; and the day is come that people are to be tried and searched within , for the Lord requires obedience there , even in the heart , that so man may be brought by the leading of his eternal power and Spirit , out of the darknesse , out of the spiritual wickednesse , out of the house of bondage , yea , to be quickned and made alive unto God again , and here is the new man brought forth in Gods image , to glorifie his Maker , to live unto him and to serve him , yea to delight in the way of his Commandements : But surely this is made of none effect , for we can plead guiltless , both before God , Angels and men , that we have not forfeited our liberty therein mentioned , by any Act , Plot or agitation against the KING , or any other Person within the Dominion of England ; yet nevertheless let the Goals in England testifie what heaps are cast into them , and what havock is made of the Innocent that make conscience of an oath .


id: A54211
author: Penn, William, 1644-1718.
date: 1687
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mime: application/xml
words: 4884
sentence: 144
flesch: 64
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title:
  A second letter from a gentleman in the country to his friends in London upon the subject of the penal laws and tests.

summary:
  But to be sure they Sting all that won't come to Church , and that every where . And yet after so gratious a Declaration , both to Church and Dissenters , and that has so decent a regard to the concurrance of a Parliament too , Who can be displeased ?


id: A54123
author: Penn, William, 1644-1718.
date: 1685
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mime: application/xml
words: 5752
sentence: 183
flesch: 58
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title:
  Considerations moving to a toleration and liberty of conscience with arguments inducing to a cessation of the penal statues against all dissenters whatever, upon the account of religion : occasioned by an excellent discourse upon that subject publish'd by His Grace the Duke of Buckingham / humbly offered to the Parliament at their next sitting at Westminster.

summary:
  This whole Discourse therefore , being absosolutely free from the least intention of favouring any of those false Pretenders to Religion and Christianity , those wicked Enemies of Magistracy , the Sacred Ordinance of God , is only an Endeavour to evince the Reasonableness of a Christian forbearance to our weak Brother , purely and only as such . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.


id: A40722
author: Fullwood, Francis, d. 1693.
title: Toleration not to be abused by the Independents by a lover of truth and peace.
date: 1672
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mime: application/xml
words: 5725
sentence: 172
flesch: 52
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summary:
  eng Religious tolerance -- Church of England. And in their Institution of Churches ; Persons that are joyned in Church-fellowship , ought not lightly to withdraw themselves from the Communion of the Church , to which they are so joyned .


id: A40302
author: Antoninus Pius, Emperor of Rome, 86-161.
date: 1661
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words: 6325
sentence: 102
flesch: 30
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title:
  To the Pope and all his magistrates and the Protests here they and all Christendom may see the moderation of the heathen emperours to the Christians in the 650 years before there was a Pope, signified by their letters following in the behalf of the Christians liberty which will rise up in judgment against the Popes and their emperours and his magistrates and most of the Protestants, as here you may see in the reading of their declarations and the straitnesse of the orders of those called Christians now, and the largeness of the heathens then, as concerning liberty in the spirit to worship God : and also here you may see the heathen were more moderate to the Christians then the Christians, so called, are to one another : taken out of the ten persecutions.

summary:
  THe thing it self which in the sure and most firm Law of Nature is contained , doth give unto all men ( even as God hath ordained the same ) sufficient perseverance and understanding , both of such things as man ought to foresee , as also what things presently he ought to meditate , neither is there any thing therein to be doubted , of such which have their minds directed to the scope or work of perfect understanding ; so that the perfect comprehending of sound reason , and the perseverance thereof , be compared with the Knowledge of God , being the True and Perfect Virtue ; whereof let no wise man be troubled , although be sees divers men of divers dispositions ; for Wisdom which springeth of Virtue , cannot abide or acquaint her self with fond Idiots , unlesse that ( on the other side ) the malice of perverse litherness prolong her daies , and cause the same Idiocy to survive ; wherefore assuredly the Crown and Price of Virtue lyeth open unto all men , and the most Mighty God ordereth the judgement of the same : I undoubtedly ( as manifestly as possible is ) will endeavour my self to testifie and confess unto you , all the hope which is in me ; I think verily that the Emperours which before this time have lately been , even for their Tiranny had the Empire taken from them , and my Father onely exercising and used all meekness and lenity in his affairs , calling upon God the Father with great devotion and humility , hath been exalted to the same , and all the rest as men wanting their wits , and in comparison as savige Beasts , rather did give themselves to like cruelty , then unto any lenity and gentleness towards their Subjects , in which Tiranny every one for his time being nosuled , utterly subverted the True and Unfallible Doctrine , and so great malice was there kindled in their Breasts , that when all things were in peaceable tranquality , they made and raised most cruel and bloody intestine or civil Warrs ; it is credibly informed us , that in those dayes Apollo gave Answers , but not by any mans Mouth , but out of a certain Cave and dark place , ( saying ) that he was much disquietted by those that were the just men and livers upon the Earth , so that he could or would not for them declare a truth of such things as others demanded , and hereby it came to passe that such false divinations were given from the golden Tables in Apollo's Temple , and in this thing did his Prophetical Priest complain of , when he took up again the hair of his head that others had contemptuously cast down ? In all these things it shall be your part to employ your diligence in the behalf of the foresaid company of Christians , wherby this our commandment may speedily be accomplished , and also in this case by our clemency the common and publick peace may be preserved ; for undoubtedly by this means , as before we have said , the good will and favour of God towards us ( whereof in many cases we have had good experience ) shall alwayes continue with us ; And to the intent that this our Constitution may be notified to all men , it shall be requisite that the copy of these our Letters be set up in all places , that men may read and know the same , least any should be ignorant thereof .


id: A59696
author: Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649.
date: 1668
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mime: application/xml
words: 6133
sentence: 203
flesch: 69
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title:
  Wine for Gospel wantons, or, Cautions against spirituall drunkenness being the brief notes of a sermon preached at Cambridge in New-England, upon a day of publick fasting and prayer throughout the colony / by that reverend servant of the Lord, Mr. Thomas Shepard, deceased.

summary:
  It is a fearfull Judgement of God , when the Lord shall give men their contentment in this way . 3. It manifests it self in a spirit of Rage 〈…〉 against another , especially when there is no reason for it 〈…〉 Lord shall give men up to a spirit of rage , and division , an 〈…〉 , and the Lord leaves men here , even his own dear people that shall one day meet in Heaven , no means , no friends can perswade them to agree , but they are given up of God unto a spirit of wrangling and contention ; this is that which goes before the calamity of a people , Mica . 7.4 .


id: A35867
author: Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.
date: 1683
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6394
sentence: 213
flesch: 64
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title:
  A dialogue between an East-Indian brackmanny or heathen-philosopher, and a French gentleman concerning the present affairs of Europe

summary:
  For if men considered the weight and cares of Empire , those that are without it would rather fly from than fight for it . Can any thing be more absurd than to turn Earth into a kind of Hell , under pretence of driving men to Heaven ? and to commit Murders and Cruelties for the sake of the God of Life and Love ?


id: A80850
author: Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603.
date: 1648
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mime: application/xml
words: 6616
sentence: 190
flesch: 61
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title:
  Helpes for discovery of the truth in point of toleration: being the judgment of that eminent scholler Tho. Cartwright, sometimes Divinity-Professor in the University of Cambridge in the reigne of Queen Elizabeth of happy memory, and then a famous non-conformist, for which through the tyranny of the Bishops he suffered exile. Wherein the power and duty of the magistrate in relation to matters of religion is discussed; as also whether the judiciall lawes given by Moses to the Jewes are abrogate by the coming of Christ. More particularly in relation to some sinnes, viz. blasphemy, adultery, &c. Occasionally handled in a controversie betweene the said publike professor T.C. and Doctor Whitgift. Here also by the way is laid downe his judgment in the case of divorce, and that the party innocent may marrie again.

summary:
  3. although his manner of speech ( in saying that all Moses is abrogated ) be hard , yet it will appeare that D. W. hath wrested this learned mans words from his meaning , and that he is but a snatcher at syllables ; for the meaning of that learned man Musculus was , that these Lawes are abrogate , as given by Moss , and doe notwithstanding remaine as they containe a perpetuall equity ; and that this is his meaning may be proved by comparing him with himselfe , for in the same title of Lawes he writeth thus , There are ( saith he ) that think that Christ did abrogate the punishment prescribed by the Law against Adulterers , when he saith , Neither doe I condemne thee , goe and sinne no more ; these be gay fellowes , they thinke not of this , that our Saviour Christ came into the world , not to judge or punish , but to save sinners : and yet in the meane season not to take away the punishments of the Law , given of God his Father by Moses ; whereupon he said not simply , thon thoughtest not to be condemned , &c. and so sheweth , that if she had been condemned according to the sentence of the Law , that the Lord would not have spoke against it . For if our Saviour hath answered that justice of God in his Law , whereby he hath commanded that such malefactors should be put to death , it should be great injustice to require that again in the life of the offender .


id: A55925
author: Proast, Jonas.
title: The argument of the Letter concerning toleration, briefly consider'd and answer'd
date: 1690
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mime: application/xml
words: 6986
sentence: 209
flesch: 58
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summary:
  For whereas all the use which Force can have for the advancing true Religion , and the Salvation of Souls , is ( as has already been shewed ) by disposing men to submit to Instruction , and to give a fair Hearing to the Reasons which are offer'd , for the enlightning their minds and discovering the Truth to them : These Cruelties have the misfortune to be commonly look't upon as so just a Prejudice against any Religion that uses them , as makes it needless to look any further into it ; and to tempt Men to reject it , as both false and detestable , without ever vouchsafing to consider the Rational Grounds and Motives of it . It may suffice to say , That so much Force , or such Penalties as are ordinarily sufficient to prevail with men of common discretion , and not desperately perverse and obstinate , to weigh matters of Religion carefully and impartially ; and without which ordinarily they will not do this ; so much Force , or such Penalties may fitly and reasonably be used for the promoting true Religion in the World , and the Salvation of Souls .


id: A92777
author: Seaman, Lazarus, d. 1675.
date: 1651
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mime: application/xml
words: 1453
sentence: 60
flesch: 66
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title:
  Reverend and beloved, it hath pleased the Right Honorable the Lord Major of the City of London, once and again to write unto the ministers thereof respectively, in a very pious and pathetical manner. ...

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A92777 of text R211395 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.16[28]). [London : 1651] Title from opening words of text.


id: A54185
author: Penn, William, 1644-1718.
date: 1679
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8211
sentence: 201
flesch: 50
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title:
  One project for the good of England that is, our civil union is our civil safety : humbly dedicated to the great council, the Parliament of England.

summary:
  If Christianity , that most Meek and Self denying Religion , cannot prevail upon them , me thinks the Power of Interest , and that Self interest too , should have some Success for in those cases they use not to be obstinate . Now because the Civil Interest of this Nation is the Preservation of the Free and Legal Government of it from all Subjection to Forreign claim , and that the several sorts of Protestants are united , as in the common Protestancy ( that is , a General Renunciation of Rome ) so in the Maintenance of this Civil Government as a common Security ( for it strikes both at their Rights Civil and Sacred , their Conscience , Religion and Law to admit any Forreign Jurisdiction here ) it must follow , that had these several , as well English as Protestant Parties been timely encourag'd to this united Civil Interest , they had secur'd the Government from this danger by rendering it too formidable for the Attempt .


id: A97108
author: Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.
date: 1646
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mime: application/xml
words: 8253
sentence: 204
flesch: 49
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title:
  Tolleration iustified, and persecution condemn'd. In an answer or examination, of the London-ministers letter whereof, many of them are of the synod, and yet framed this letter at Sion-Colledge; to be sent among others, to themselves at the Assembly: in behalf of reformation and church-government, 2 Corinth. II. vers. 14. 15. And no marvail, for Sathan himself is transformed into an angell of light. Therefore it is no great thing, though his ministers transform themselves, as though they were ministers of righteousnesse; whose end shall be according to their works.

summary:
  I j●dge it ●or my pa●●●●ufficient ground to suspect that for gold that can't abide a triall . I may be helpt in my examination , by other men , but no man o● sort of men ▪ are to examine for me , insomuch that before an opinion can properly be said to be mine , it must concord with my understanding .


id: A85416
author: Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.
date: 1646
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4952
sentence: 109
flesch: 43
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title:
  Some modest and humble queries concerning a printed paper, intituled, An ordinance presented to the Honourable House of Commons, &c. for the preventing of the growing and spreading of heresies, &c.

summary:
  Whether is not the said Ordinance , in the example of it , a direct incouragement and confirmation to Popish Magistrates , to persecute the faithfull servants of God , who live in their territories with fire & sword , for professing the truth of God amongst them ? And whether doe not they , who here seeke to plucke up the tares , by such an Ordinance , plucke up the wheat also there , by the same ? Whether was there ever any such Ordinance , or State act , ever heard of , or knowne , in any the Reformed Churches ? I meane , which was so apparently bent against the faces , if not of the greatest part , yet of so considerable a part of the best and most conscientious men amongst them , as this is ? Whether was there ever any thing done in the Bishops times , or any thing attempted to be done by this generation of men in the day of their greatest interest and power in the Kingdome , of that bloudy consequence to those godly persons , Ministers , or others , whom they most hated , and sought to crush , as this Ordinance , if once established , is like to be , to surre greater numbers of truely pious and conscientious men ? Whether the said Ordinance ministreth not an advantage , of opportunity to the worst and wickedest of men , who commonly hate the best and faithfullest Ministers most , to accuse them unduly of such things , which according to the ordinary course of Law , may touch their lives , or otherwise bring much affliction , and vexation to them ? WHether it be agreeable to the Spirit of Christ , ( who came into the world , as himself saith not to destroy mens lives , but to save them a , ) to make snares of any of his Doctrines for the destruction of the lives of men ? Whether it be agreeable to the mind of Christ , for men to inflict the heavie censure of death upon their Brethren , for holding forth such Doctrines , or opinions in Religion , suppose contrary to admonition , which , for ought the said inflicters know , except they make themselves infallible , may be the sacred Truths of God ?


id: A46343
author: Gentleman of Oxford.
date: 1687
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8999
sentence: 305
flesch: 62
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title:
  The judgment and doctrine of the Church of England concerning one special branch of the King's prerogative, viz. in dispencing with the penall laws / asserted by the most reverend father in God, the lords Arch-Bishops Bancroft, Laud and Usher, the right reverend fathers in God, the lords Bishops Sanderson and Cartwright, the reverend doctors, Sir Thomas Ridley L.L.D., Dr. Hevlin, Dr. Barrow, Dr. Sherlock master of the temple, Dr. Hicks, Dr. Nalson and Dr. Puller ; and by the anonymus, author of The harmony of divinity and law : together with the concurring resolutions of our reverend judges, as most consonant and agreeable thereunto ; in a letter from a gentleman of Oxford, to his friend at London.

summary:
  in dispencing with the penall laws / asserted by the most reverend father in God, the lords Arch-Bishops Bancroft, Laud and Usher, the right reverend fathers in God, the lords Bishops Sanderson and Cartwright, the reverend doctors, Sir Thomas Ridley L.L.D., Dr. Hevlin, Dr. Barrow, Dr. Sherlock master of the temple, Dr. Hicks, Dr. Nalson and Dr. Puller ; and by the anonymus, author of The harmony of divinity and law : together with the concurring resolutions of our reverend judges, as most consonant and agreeable thereunto ; in a letter from a gentleman of Oxford, to his friend at London. in dispencing with the penall laws / asserted by the most reverend father in God, the lords Arch-Bishops Bancroft, Laud and Usher, the right reverend fathers in God, the lords Bishops Sanderson and Cartwright, the reverend doctors, Sir Thomas Ridley L.L.D., Dr. Hevlin, Dr. Barrow, Dr. Sherlock master of the temple, Dr. Hicks, Dr. Nalson and Dr. Puller ; and by the anonymus, author of The harmony of divinity and law : together with the concurring resolutions of our reverend judges, as most consonant and agreeable thereunto ; in a letter from a gentleman of Oxford, to his friend at London.


id: A60294
author: Hanson, Geo. aut
date: 1661
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10473
sentence: 259
flesch: 54
cache: cache/A60294.xml
txt: txt/A60294.txt
title:
  Sions groans for her distressed, or Sober endeavours to prevent innocent blood, and to stablish the nation in the best of settlements Grounded upon scripture, reason, and authority. Proving it the undoubted right of Christian liberty under different perswasions, in matters spiritual, to have equal protection as to their civil peace. Unto which is added the testimony of fifteen antients. Humbly offered to the Kings Majesty, Parliament and people, and left unto their serious view. By Tho. Monck, Joseph Wright, Fran. Stanley, &c.

summary:
  And now I say unto you , refrain from these men , and let them alone , for if this Counsel or Work be of man , it will come to nought , but if it be of God , ye cannot overthrow it , lest haply ye be found to fight against God. This with grief of heart we see too visible , for the Doctrine and Traditions of Rome ( who is mystery Babylon , and since her Apostacy the Mother of Harlots , For the woman which thou sawest , is that great City which reigneth over the Kings of the earth ) have so corrupted the earth , and clouded the understandings of the sons of men , that the great and most important truths of God cannot bee received or beleeved .


id: A25576
author: Charlton, Mr.
title: An Answer to the Bishop of Rochester's second letter to the Earl of Dorset &c. by an English-man.
date: 1689
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mime: application/xml
words: 10485
sentence: 196
flesch: 36
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summary:
  Upon what Terms the Powerful Earl of Dorset admitted your Person , accepted and recommended your Plea , is strange to none , who have the Honour to know that Lord , the Strength of his Unquestionable Judgment gave Way to the Object of his Compassion ; But if his Lordship had vouchsafed me leave to Publish such a Plea , a Thought would have come in my Head , that he put me upon my Country , and the most I could hope from his Indulgence was , that if they found me Guilty of Ignorance , he would not Trouble himself to Charge me with more Understanding , than my Present Circumstances required , and from that Minute should have determined with what regard to move towards his Lordship in a Second ; But that was a good while after you say , such was your Ignorance of the Upright , but Obscure , Lord.


id: A33729
author: Care, George.
date: 1685
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8379
sentence: 310
flesch: 70
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title:
  A reply to the Answer of the man of no name to His Grace the Duke of Buckingham's paper of religion, and liberty of conscience by G. C. ...

summary:
  But to see , how true this person is to himself , within six lines after the Character of many natural and true Notions ; he tells us , without blushing , though not without confusion , That the Consequences which necessarily follow the Duke's Conceptions , are greatly to the disadvantage not only of Religion , but of the politick Frame and Government of the World. The Duke of Buckingham His Grace's Letter , to the unknown Author of a Paper Entituled , A short Answer to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham's Paper , concerning Religion , Toleration , and Liberty of Conscience .


id: A30326
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1688
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6284
sentence: 111
flesch: 36
cache: cache/A30326.xml
txt: txt/A30326.txt
title:
  The case of compulsion in matters of religion stated by G.B. ; addressed to the serious consideration of the members of the Church of England, in this present juncture.

summary:
  Men likewise receive with their impressions of Religion such a respect for them as makes them look on every thought that calls them in question as criminal ; and when Persons are bred up to disquiet themselves with scruples , if they have so much as made a doubt of their Religion , it is not hard to see them adhere so firmly to the Principles of their Education ▪ which stick so fast to the worst sort of men , that even Atheists themselves , after all the pains they take to get rid of them , cannot shake them off so entirely , but that they will be apt to return oft upon them . It is likewise visible , that all severe Proceedings upon the diversity of Opinions how effectual soever they may be on base-minded men , who will always make Shipwrack of a good Conscience when it comes in competition with the Love of this present World , yet work quite contrariwise on Men of awakened Understandings and generous Souls ; instead of gaining on such Persons , these inspire them with horror at a sort of men who go about to ruin companies of people that never did them hurt .


id: A31656
author: Chandler, Henry.
date: 1699
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13350
sentence: 424
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A31656.xml
txt: txt/A31656.txt
title:
  An effort against bigotry, and for Christian catholocism being a discourse on Rom. 14, 17 / delivered at Andover in Hampshire by Henry Chandler.

summary:
  To place the Kingdom of God in such things is the common mischief of our Day ; hence we are broken into Parties , and by the same Spirit are our shameful Divisions fomented and kept up ; and 't is the Cure of this Spirit that alone can effectually heal the Breaches there are amongst us . Nor is this over magnifying our self-devised Religiousness , and confining thereupon the Kingdom of God within the Pale of our Respective Parties , the less pernicious and fatal , for being so exceeding common : May the infinitely great and good God requite with Spiritual and Eternal Blessings the Respect and Kindness you have shewn me .


id: A75812
author: Birchley, William, 1613-1669.
date: 1653
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13240
sentence: 448
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A75812.xml
txt: txt/A75812.txt
title:
  The Christian moderator. Third part. Or, The oath of abjuration arraign'd by the common law and common sence, ancient and modern Acts of Parl. declarations of the Army, law of God and consent of reformed divines. And humbly submitted to receive judgment from this honorable representative.

summary:
  With these agree many other Authorities , all unanimously subscribing to this conclusion , as an undeniable Maxime of Law , that , None can be lawfully examined upon Oath , concerning any thing that sounds to his own prejudice . Upon this ground Sir Thomas Moore ( a person compleatly learned in the Lawes of this Land , and universally famous for courage and resolution , according to his principles ) refused the then new Oath concerning the Kings Supreamacy and Divorce , alleadging for his defence at the Bar , that he never spake or acted any thing against that Statute , and upon this Plea he relyed , as an evident justification in Law , which never ( said he ) was strained so far as to reach our thoughts ; and for his inward judgement , he freely profest that Oath to be against it , offering before the Judges to sweare , that the unsatisfaction of his Conscience therein was the onely cause of his refusall to comply with their Commands .


id: A85411
author: Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.
date: 1647
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 14627
sentence: 501
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A85411.xml
txt: txt/A85411.txt
title:
  A post-script, or appendix to a treatise lately published by authority, intituled, Hagio-Mastix, or the scourge of the saints displaid in his colours of ignorance and blood. Being an explication of the third verse of the thirteenth chapter of the prophecie of Zacharie; (the tenour whereof is this: and it shall come to passe, that when any shall yet prophecie, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, thou shalt not live, for thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother that begat him, shall thrust him through when he prophecieth.) According to the analogie of the Sriptures [sic], the scope and exigency of the context, and the sence of the best expositors upon the place. / By John Goodwin a servant of God and men, in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

summary:
  And that he may [ not , and he shall , as our English yet again mis-translateth , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ] send Jesus Christ , which before was preached unto you , whom the heavens must receive , untill the times of restitution of all things , which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began . So that the Repentance and conversion of this people unto God , when , or how soon soever it shall take place , shall be immediatly , or soon after , rewarded by him , with the sending of his Son Jesus Christ , their long expected Messiah unto them , * {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , i. ( as the word properly imports ) to restore , or , re-constitute all things ,


id: A26901
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1672
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15296
sentence: 574
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A26901.xml
txt: txt/A26901.txt
title:
  The church told of Mr. Ed. Bagshaw's scandals and warned of the dangerous snares of Satan now laid for them in his love-killing principles with a farther proof that it is our common duty to keep up the interest of the Christian religion and Protestant cause in the parish churches, and not to imprison them by a confinement to tolerated meetings alone / by Richard Baxter ...

summary:
  For they that are such serve not the Lord Iesus Christ , but their own belly , and by good words and fair speeches , deceive the hearts of the simple . Act. 20. 30. Also of your own selves shall men arise , speaking perv●rse things , to draw away disciples after them . Nor yet had I such a contempt of them , or a desire to be bitterly censured and reviled , as to invite men to it ( as the Circumcellians importuned men to kill them . )


id: A54130
author: Penn, William, 1644-1718.
date: 1685
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13094
sentence: 393
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A54130.xml
txt: txt/A54130.txt
title:
  A defence of the Duke of Buckingham's book of religion and worship from the exceptions of a nameless author by the Pensilvanian.

summary:
  But is it , in good earnest ▪ a Sin to lead Men out of Errours , because it is a Sin to force Men against their Consciences ? what Man can have a happier Tallent than this : The very guift of Consequences . That so much Wit and Quality , that have made so great a Figure in the world , should give this On-set to Atheism , that had so long stoln the Credit of both , to giver her self Value with Men of Highest Rank , might have escap'd a Reprimand from the Deist or Christian ; And This was enough to send the Atheist a Challenge .


id: A53674
author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
date: 1680
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19976
sentence: 498
flesch: 50
cache: cache/A53674.xml
txt: txt/A53674.txt
title:
  A brief vindication of the non-conformists from the charge of schisme as it was managed against them in a sermon preached before the Lord Mayor by Dr. Stillingfleet, Dean of St. Pauls.

summary:
  But that Church being so compleat , the Apostle appointed other particular Congregational Churches , in the same Province , who had Officers of their own , with a Power of Government ; these he mentions and calls the Churches of Macedonia ; 2 Cor. Until this be disproved , until it be proved , either that they are not Churches , because they are Congregational , or that although they are Churches , yet they have no Power to Govern and Reform themselves , they are free from the guilt of Schism in their so doing .


id: A75811
author: Birchley, William, 1613-1669.
date: 1652
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 18825
sentence: 454
flesch: 47
cache: cache/A75811.xml
txt: txt/A75811.txt
title:
  The Christian moderator: the second part; or, Persecution for religion condemned by the light of nature. Law of God. Evidence of our own principles. With an explanation of the Roman Catholick belief, concerning these four points: their church, worship, justification and civill government. Whereunto there are new additions since the octavo was printed.

summary:
  UPon the news not long since , of some Papists taking the Oath of Abjuration , and frequenting the publique places of meeting , I conceived my self sufficiently furnisht to answer a certain old saying , which a Recusant of my acquaintance used often to repeat in my hearing , that SANGUIS MARTYRUM EST SEMEN ECCLESIAE : This upon all occasions he applyed the sufferings of Papists , both here in England , and ten thousand miles off in Japan , in which two Islands have of late been sharper persecutions , ( said he ) for matter of Religion , then in any other place of the world ; This he continually insisted upon , as a Soveraign remedy for all his sorrows , nor could we ever beat him from his last hold , wherein he fortified himself , SANGUIS MARTYRUM , &c. nay more , he sometimes ventured to affirm with strange assurance , this assertion , that this Church encreased and prospered still , even whilst it was actually under the greatest pressures , that his Church was , as the Palme tree , the heavier weights are laid on , the more it flourisheth . Now I humbly thank the Lord Christ , there was onely one of these Priests whom I mentioned in the first part of this Discourse put to death , since this Nation was established in the present Government , and I wish from my Soul , that his life had also been spared ; since my obligations to this Common-wealth and the present Governors thereof are such , that I am bound every day to offer up my sighs and prayers to the Lord , that no bloud of any peaceable Christian be spilt for the only difference of judgement in Religion : for certainly whosoever shall practice such cruelty , will be called to a strict and rigorous account at the judgment of the great Day . But proceeding to require of my Recusant the performance of his word con - certain the late Converts he so much gloried in , I merrily threatned him , that if he observed not his promise , I would presently not only suspect some secret evasion in him , but cry out against all Papists as juglers and equivocaters , or else , I being an Heretique , no Faith was to be kept with me , and though the present matter be of a trivial consequence , yet we know the Welshman stole Rushes to keep his hand in ure .


id: A75807
author: Birchley, William, 1613-1669.
date: 1651
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17033
sentence: 262
flesch: 23
cache: cache/A75807.xml
txt: txt/A75807.txt
title:
  The Christian moderator: or, Persecution for religion condemned, by the light of nature. Law of God. Evidence of our own principles.

summary:
  This so full and pregnant instance I humbly offer , as most worthy the imitation of our English Senate , that even to Recusants , who ingage to live innocently and quietly amongst us , such reasonable conditions of subsistence may be allowed ( since they are equally with our selves born to the freedome of this Nation ) as their consciences be not violated , their spirits embittered , nor humane infirmity tempted to despair ; let us rather incourage them to come to our meetings , and freely propose their difficulties , which now they dare not , for fear of discovering their judgements , to the ruine of their estates ; let us use the same gentlenesse here in England , that his Excellency the Lord Generall practises in Scotland , towards those that are not only otherwise minded in Religion , but contrary minded in civill concernments , and actually in arms to maintain their opposition : he invites them to conferences , and himself with admirable temper and moderation manages the discourse , allowing free liberty of reply to the adverse party , without passion , bitternesse or threatning , and though he find not the event answerable to his endeavours , remaines at least satisfied in his conscience , by having given a reason of his actions ; and whom can we better imitate , then so great an instrument of the liberty we all enjoy ? or wherein can we follow him with so much praise both of God and man , as in the mildnesse of his spirit , by which he conquers more powerfully , then by the sharpnesse of his Sword ? have not the Papists understandings as well as we , which our Arguments may rectifie ? have they not souls to save , which our charity may gain to heaven ? why do we not erect a Committee to purchase souls , as we have Contracters to sell Lands ? why is there not establisht a Committee of Salvation , as wel as of Indempnity , where the Questions of Religion may be freely discust , and the distresses of tender and innocent consciences impartially relieved ? if men dealt mildly , and only by the Gospell way of perswasion , surely there would in time grow Society , Commerce , and mutuall confidence , and so frequent oportunities of clearer information : when once all jealousies and misunderstandings of one another shall be laid aside , the differences amongst Christians will soon be reconciled , if not to an absolute and precise unity of Faith and Doctrine , yet at least to a blessed union of peace and love . As for the truth and power of Religion , it being a thing intrinsecall between God and the soul , and the matters of Faith in the Gospell being such as no naturall light doth reach unto , we conceive there is no humane power of coertion thereunto , nor to restrain men from believing what God suffers their judgements to be perswaded of .


id: A54578
author: Dury, John, 1596-1680.
date: 1661
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 18310
sentence: 408
flesch: 44
cache: cache/A54578.xml
txt: txt/A54578.txt
title:
  A discourse concerning liberty of conscience In which are contain'd proposalls, about what liberty in this kind is now politically expedient to be given, and severall reasons to shew how much the peace and welfare of the nation is concern'd therein. By R.T.

summary:
  For 't is likely that he would not take away more mens lives then they , but rather be willing that severall generations of men should still succeed one another ; and that he would account the most provoking indignities that could be offer'd God in the World , were only to be shewn by those men who would advance their temporall designes by Religion ; it being a greater affront to a King to be put to servile and ignominious uses in his Kingdom , then to be banish'd from it . But when men are neither by Religion or temper restrain'd from searching into the causes of things , they will not in civility to other mens understandings believe propositions to be true or false .


id: A30098
author: J. B. (John Bulteel), d. 1669.
date: 1645
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24343
sentence: 476
flesch: 42
cache: cache/A30098.xml
txt: txt/A30098.txt
title:
  A relation of the troubles of the three forraign churches in Kent, caused by the injunctions of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, Anno Dom. 1634 &c. written by J.B., Minister of the word of God.

summary:
  Most Reverend Father in God ; We come to your grace tothank you most humbly for the favour you have shewed to our Churches , in giving them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; we 〈◊〉 your Grace to be 〈◊〉 to continue it , and permit them to enjoy those priviledges and 〈◊〉 which they have had hitherto under our most gracious Soveraigne ; 〈◊〉 the which the families will be divided , the poore no , maintained , and the Churches ruined . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and told him , that seeing a Declaration was of 〈◊〉 to be published they intended to have it done , they of Sandwich by their 〈◊〉 , and 〈◊〉 of Canterbury by Master Anthony 〈◊〉 and Scribe to the Politicke 〈◊〉 , seeing it could not be done 〈◊〉 some 〈◊〉 of the Spirituall Court ; and that not on the next Sabbath day being a Comman on day but on the Lords day after : wherewith he was contented .


id: A83501
author: Edwards, Thomas, 1599-1647.
date: 1641
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 23423
sentence: 608
flesch: 54
cache: cache/A83501.xml
txt: txt/A83501.txt
title:
  Reasons against the independant government of particular congregations: as also against the toleration of such churches to be erected in this kingdome. Together with an answer to such reasons as are commonly alledged for such a toleration. Presented in all humility to the Honourable House of Commons, now assembled in Parliament. By Tho. Edvvards, minister of the Gospel.

summary:
  It is asserted by some Divines of Scotland , that in all such things as are alike common to the Church , and to the Common-wealth , and have the same use in both , whatsoever Natures light directeth the one , it cannot but direct the other also ; for as the Church is a company of Christians subject to the Law of God , so is it a company of men and women , who are not the outlawes of Nature , but followers of the same . So others of them will nottolerate , or admit into fellowship the godliest Christians , unlesse they will enter into Covenant , professe their faith , submit to their Church Orders , though they would be of their Church ; so that these men who now would faine have a toleration in this great Kingdome will not allow any in a remote Plantation , nor in one of their small particular Congregations , for feare of disturbing the peace of their Church , and yet would have a toleration in this Kingdome , never caring to disturbe the peace , and good of the three Kingdomes which would be much hazarded by it , but thus partiall men are ( and you may observe it ) t is ordinary for men when they are not in place nor have no power in Church or Common-wealth , and hold also Doctrines and principles contrary to what is held , and established , then to plead for tolerations , when as the same parsons comming to be in place and to have power , wil not tolerate others to set up any way different from theirs .


id: A62252
author: H. S. (Henry Savage), 1604?-1672.
date: 1663
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 36789
sentence: 1368
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A62252.xml
txt: txt/A62252.txt
title:
  Toleration with its principal objections fully confuted, or, An answer to a book intituled, Sions groans for her distressed, &c. offered to the Kings Majesty, Parliament, and people wherein is pretended to be proved by Scripture, reason, and authority of fifteen ancients, that equal protection under different perswasions is the undoubted right of Christian liberty, but, hereby confuted : wherein the power and proceedings of the Kings Majesty and the Church are vindicated / by H.S.

summary:
  It is thus , There are two sorts of evils which may grow up with the good seed of the Law of Nature implanted in man in his first creation , or of the Gospel given for mans renovation . And fifthly , The examples of holy Princes do teach us that Magistrates have the care of Religion committed to them , such were Moses , Joshuab , David , Solomon , Asa , Jehoshaphat , Josiah , Ez●kia● , &c. And albeit these men will ( what never any , but persons sprung from Anabaptists did ) reject all examples and testimonies out of the Old Testament


id: A90288
author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
date: 1649
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 38366
sentence: 1329
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A90288.xml
txt: txt/A90288.txt
title:
  A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons, in Parliament assembled: on January 31. A day of solemne humiliation. With a discourse about toleration, and the duty of the civill magistrate about religion, thereunto annexed. Humbly presented to them, and all peace-loving men of this nation. / By John Owen, pastor of the Church of Christ, which is at Coggeshall in Essex.

summary:
  In that thing which to man is sinfull , God worketh as it is a thing onely , Man as it is a sinfull thing : to their worth and excellency is mans opposition proportioned .


id: A62249
author: H. S. (Henry Savage), 1604?-1672.
date: 1663
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 36741
sentence: 1376
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A62249.xml
txt: txt/A62249.txt
title:
  The dew of Hermon which fell upon the hill of Sion, or, An answer to a book entituled, Sions groans for her distressed, &c. offered to the King's Majesty, Parliament, and people wherein is pretended to be proved by Scripture, reason, and authority of fifteen ancients, that equal protection under different perswasions, is the undoubted right of Christian liberty : but hereby confuted, wherein the power and proceedings of the Kings Majesty and the church are vindicated.

summary:
  If they say that God then may use supernatural means by working transcendently above the wills of men without destroying their Nature or abridging their freedome . Whereunto it is answered that as , had God done the other , he would have destroyed his providence touching the creation of man ; so , should he do this , he would destroy his providence preparatory to the last Judgement , wherein every man shall receive according to that he hath done in the body whether good or evil . It is thus , There are two sorts of evils which may grow up with the good seed of the Law of Nature implanted in man in his first creation , or of the Gospel given for mans renovation .


id: A53575
author: Overbury, Thomas, Sir, d. 1684.
date: 1678
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 48192
sentence: 1100
flesch: 48
cache: cache/A53575.xml
txt: txt/A53575.txt
title:
  Ratiocinium vernaculum, or, A reply to Ataxiae obstaculum being a pretended answer to certain queries dispersed in some parts of Gloucester-shire.

summary:
  And sometimes by Church , is meant only a particular Church , or Society of Christians united for the performance of the worship of God in the same individual Ordinances , according to the Order by Christ prescrib'd . CAvils at expressions , tending only to an unprofitable strife of words , ought no less to be avoided , then foolish and unlearned Questions ; This Answer therefore , who so early , as in his Title Page , caution'd his Reader against the one , should not himself have so soon obtruded on him the other 〈◊〉 What Prerogative preceeding Ages had above the present , to Coyn Phrases in Divinity , we should be glad to be informed ; Or if no expression may be therein us'd , we meet not with in the New-Testament ; we may no longer use Sacrament , nor Trinity , which are not to be there found : And yet a Church constituted and Gover●'d according to the Rule of the Gospel ; may as properly be term'd a Gospel-Church : as a Church Constituted and Govern'd according to the Laws of a Nation , be term'd a National Church ; an expression frequently us'd by this Answerer , though he meet not with it in the New-Testament ; Nor , possibly in Antiquity , at least to express a Christian Church .


id: A70888
author: Parker, Samuel, 1640-1688.
date: 1671
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 71398
sentence: 1439
flesch: 37
cache: cache/A70888.xml
txt: txt/A70888.txt
title:
  A discourse of ecclesiastical politie wherein the authority of the civil magistrate over the consciences of subjects in matters of external religion is asserted : the mischiefs and incoveniences of toleration are represented, and all pretenses pleaded in behalf of liberty of conscience are fully answered.

summary:
  But to speak more expresly to the particular matter in debate , 'T is necessary the world must be govern'd ; govern'd it cannot be without Religion , & Religion , as harmless and peaceable as it is in it self , yet when mixt with the Follies and Passions of men , it does not usually inspire them with overmuch gentleness and goodness of Nature ; and therefore 't is necessary that it submit to the same Authority , that commands over all the other affections of the mind of man. And therefore is it not strange , that when the main Ends and designs of all Religion are avowedly subject to the Supreme Power , that yet men should be so impatient to exempt its means and subordinate Instruments from the same Authority ? What reason can the Wit of man assign to restrain it from one , that will not much more restrain it from both ?


id: A53665
author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
date: 1662
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 86372
sentence: 2111
flesch: 54
cache: cache/A53665.xml
txt: txt/A53665.txt
title:
  Animadversions on a treatise intituled Fiat lux, or, A guide in differences of religion, between papist and Protestant, Presbyterian and independent by a Protestant.

summary:
  COnsidering the condition of Affairs in these Nations , in reference to the late Miscarriages , and present Distempers of men about Religion ; it was no hard Conjecture , that some would improve the Advantage , seeming so fairly to present it self unto them , unto ends of their own : Men of prudence , ability , and leasure , engaged by all bonds imaginable in the persuit of any special Interest , need little minding of the common wayes of wisdom for its promotion . This work , it seems , cannot be effected , unless men are contented to part with Scripture and Reason ; all that whereby they are Christians and Men.


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  improuve & condamne la doctrine contenue en ces propositions , & aux conclusions desdites chapitres comme estant nouvelles


