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id: A66407
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1696
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title:
  The perfection of the evangelical revelation, a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Nov. 4. 1695 being the eighth and last of the lecture for that year, founded by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  God who at sundry times , and in divers manners spake in time past unto the Fathers by the Prophets , hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son , &c. IN which words ( as I have shewed ) there is . But whatever it was , the sum amounted to this , That God was reconciled to man after his Apostacy ; that he had established an Atonement ; and that in process of time the Son of God should in our Nature actually appear , and become a Saviour to us , and be a Propitiation for our Sins .


id: A71259
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1695
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words: 7938
sentence: 247
flesch: 58
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title:
  The characters of divine revelation a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, March 4. 1694/5 : being the third of the lecture for the ensuing year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  And therefore since Revelation is to make up the Defects of Natural Light , and is as well for the satisfaction of Mankind , as to be worthy of God , we may reasonably expect that these should be the chief Subject of such Revelation . 2. The Matter of Revelation being thus of Divine Inspiration and Authority , must also be worthy of God , and of great Importance , and consequently requires a Proof suitable to the Nature and Importance of it .


id: A66429
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1695
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words: 7785
sentence: 233
flesch: 58
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title:
  The truth of the Holy Scriptures a sermon preached at St. Martin's in the Fields, April 1, 1695 : being the fourth of the lecture for this present year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  So when we have so great reason to believe the Scripture's Relation of things to be true , the Difficulties about it ought not to derogate from its Veracity ; nor give us the confidence any more to question the Truth of Scripture , than the Certainty of Providence . For according as the nature of the thing is , and the ground upon which its Proof and Evidence depends , such is the Certainty : And as in things Mathematical , Demonstration is the Proof ; and in things Natural and Sensible , Sense is the Proof ; and in things Rational and Moral , Reason and Argument are the Proof ; so in Matters of Fact ( where we our selves are not present )


id: A66426
author: Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
date: 1696
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mime: application/xml
words: 8109
sentence: 287
flesch: 64
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title:
  The several ways of revelation a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Octob. 7, 1695 : being the seventh of the lecture for the said year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  Thus far I have treated of the several ways of Revelation recorded in the Holy Scripture , and in which God spake in time past by the prophets . 2. The Certainty of that Revelation , 't is by way of Declaration , God who at sundry times , &c. spake .


id: A66409
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1695
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words: 7355
sentence: 206
flesch: 55
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title:
  The possibility, expediency, and necessity of divine revelation a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Jan. 7. 1694/5 : at the beginning of the lecture for the ensuing year, founded by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...

summary:
  1. There are things of pure and simple Nature , and knowable by the Light of it , without Revelation ; of this kind is the Knowledge of God by the Effects of a Divine Power and Wisdom in the world ( as has been shewed ) of which the Apostle treats , Rom. 1. 20. Now Revelation is a means extraordinary ( as has been shewed ) and consequently such as the means are , such must the case be , extraordinary ; for God , not doing any thing in vain , cannot be supposed to use extraordinary means , where the case is ordinary , and may as well be served by ordinary means .


id: A27438
author: Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742.
date: 1696
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words: 8748
sentence: 271
flesch: 57
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title:
  Of revelation and the Messias a sermon preached at the publick commencement at Cambridge, July 5th, 1696 / by Richard Bentley ...

summary:
  'T is the benefit of Reason alone , under the providence and spirit of God , that we our selves are at this day a Reformed Orthodox Church : that we departed from the errors of Popery , and that we knew too where to stop ; neither running into the extravagancies of Fanaticism , nor sliding into the indifferency of Libertinism . God therefore having so created Man , in every capacity pure and perfect , might justly require of him , that he should maintain and preserve this original rectitude ; that in all his desires , designs and actions , he should constantly adhere to the dictates of Reason and Nature ; so as the least deviation would make him obnoxious to God's displeasure , and nothing less than compleat obedience recommend him to his favour : according to the terms proposed to Cain , If thou dost well , shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou dost not well , sin lies at the door .


id: A30898
author: Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690.
date: 1686
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words: 8808
sentence: 187
flesch: 44
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title:
  The possibility and necessity of the inward immediate revelation of the spirit of God towards the foundation and ground of true faith, proved in a letter write [sic] in Latine, to a person of quality in Holland; and now also put into English. By R.B.

summary:
  Now as to the matteriall part , or the thing and matter revealed ; This is indeed a contingent Truth , and of it self is not manifest to the Mind , but because of the form , that is , because of the Divine mode and supernaturall inward operation , the matter is known to be true : For that Divine and Supernatural Inward Operation , which the Mind doth feel and perceive in it self , is the Voice of GOD speaking unto Man , which by its Nature and specifick Property , is as clearly distinguished and understood to be the Voice of GOD , as the voice of Peter of James is known to be the voice of such Men : for every Beeing as a Beeing is knowable , and that by its own speci●●●k Nature or Property proceeding from its Nature , and hath its proper Idea by which it's distinguishable from every other thing , if so be it's Idea be stirred up in us , and clearly proposed to us . Toformale , The forme or mode , how the Revelation is made , which forme is an Inward , Divine and supernaturall Revelation , which is the voice or speech of GOD , inwardly speaking to the Ear of the inward Man , or Mind of Man ▪ or a Divine writting , supernaturally imprinted therein .


id: A26869
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1655
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words: 22055
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flesch: 68
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title:
  The arrogancy of reason against divine revelations, repressed, or, Proud ignorance the cause of infidelity, and of mens quarrelling with the word of God

summary:
  I do therefore exhort al● that fear the Great Name of God , and love their own Souls , That they take special heed against this da●gerous sin : Think not the Proved-Sealed . And why might not ●●●●● posterity be easily m●le plyed , in all that time to such a number as might build and replenish ● City ,


id: A26887
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1672
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words: 22589
sentence: 1134
flesch: 73
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title:
  The certainty of Christianity without popery, or, Whether the Catholick-Protestant or the papist have the surer faith being an answer to one of the oft canted questions and challenges of the papists, sent to one who desired this : published to direct the unskilful, how to defend their faith against papists and infidels, but especially against the temptations of the Devil, that by saving their faith, they may save their holiness, their comfort and their souls / by Richard Baxter.

summary:
  Seing we have this Ministry , as we have received mercy we faint not : But have renounced the Hidden things of dishonesty , not walking in craftiness , nor handling the word of God deceitfully , But by manifestation of the truth , commending our selves to every mans Conscience in the sight of God. The solution of this is desired to be by fixed and solid principles , and not by tedious discourses ; for the Nature of the thing requires that there be a firm Principle setled among Men , for the final determining of matters of Fact.


id: A44796
author: Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.
date: 1659
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sentence: 476
flesch: 8
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title:
  The invisible things of God brought to light by the revelation of the eternal spirit who was an ey-witness of the wonders of the Lord in the beginning : wherein is declared the felicity of all things in the beginning and the sad estate of all things after the transgression ... / by Francis Howgill.

summary:
  The will was good in it self , as it stood and went out in the lifes motion , but moving or acting contrary to the motion of the life , was not good ; for that was out of Gods order , and appointment , for nothing in man or without man , of all that God had made , was to stir or act without commandments ; now the Son was not honoured by mans faling , but both the Father and the Son was dishonoured , and now the Son or power was not revealed by the fall , but vailed as from men , so the fogy mists of darknesse is scattered , and the blind doctrines of the World layd waste . The work of the Lord declared , which was in the beginning , when the word was with God , and was the Fathers delight , and man made in the Image of God , and lived in the Lambs Power , and he was mans life , and this was before the transgression of these declared , as God hath manifested them by his Spirit .


id: A47136
author: Keith, George, 1639?-1716.
date: 1685
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words: 54105
sentence: 1263
flesch: 48
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title:
  Divine immediate revelation and inspiration, continued in the true church second part. In two treatises: the first being an answer to Jo. W. Bajer Doctor and Professor of Divinity, so called, at Jena in Germany, published first in Latine, and now in English. The second being an answer to George Hicks, stiled Doctor of Divinity, his sermon preached at Oxford, 1681. and printed with the title of, The spirit of enthusiasm exorcised; where this pretended exorcist is detected. Together, with some testimonies of truth, collected out of diverse ancient writers and fathers, so called. By G.K.

summary:
  That he doth acknowledge and plead for the indwelling , and inbeing of the Holy Spirit , to be altogether necessary to Christians it is well , but that he doth absolutely deny the Immediate Operation and Revelation of the indwelling Spirit of God , he doth badly ; for although that this inward teacher and Master doth frequently teach his Disciples , by means of the Scripture , shall he therefore teach them nothing by word of mouth , or his own living voice Immediately ? shall he not expound open to them what they read in the Scriptures , with his living voice ? or shall he sit and remain in them always , as one dumb ( which God forbid that we should so imagine ) speaking or saying nothing , nay not so much , as one small sentence , but what is in express words contained in the Scripture , and borrowed from them ? surely such an assertion is too rash , and without all ground from Scripture , and is most unworthy of God immortal , our most excellent Master and Pastor , yea our Bridegroom and Husband , to fain any such things of him , which no Mortal or Earthly School-Master would do to his Disciples , and if he did so , all would judge him a Fool , and unfit for such an affair ; if ( to wit , ) he should say nothing unto them , but what is contained in the Book , which they became in so many words , and which he takes out of the Book , and should speak nothing to them Immediately by word of mouth . And moreover by reading and hearing these most sweet and excellent Testimonies of Scripture , our outward man is piously and holily employed , the holy Spirit concurring , and when the words pass or extend into outward good works and deeds , then not only the tongue and ears , but the hands and feet , and whole body is duely and fitly exercised in the service of God.


