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id: A36390
author: Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652.
title: Apocalyps, chap. 11 its accomplishment shewed from the Lady Eleanor.
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sentence: 50
flesch: 62
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summary:
  from his leaving the High Court , &c. unto Nazebies blow given him , just three years and a half , even from Jan. 1641. And thus as the heavens one contained in another , under that great victory obtained , shadowed out the general day of Iudgement not far off ; whereat the holy prophets and Elders not more rejoycing , then the ireful Nations inraged ; like those so many thousand prisoners brought up , &c. filling every place like Hell , likened to that great Earthquake 1645.


id: A41958
author: Greatrakes, Valentine, 1629-1683.
date: 1666.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1885
sentence: 60
flesch: 61
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txt: txt/A41958.txt
title:
  The great cures and strange miracles performed by Mr. Valentine Gertrux who restoreth the blind to sight, the deaf to hearing, the lame to strength, and cripples to walk without crutches : as also, he cureth all manner of diseases, with a stroak of his hand and prayer ...

summary:
  The great cures and strange miracles performed by Mr. Valentine Gertrux who restoreth the blind to sight, the deaf to hearing, the lame to strength, and cripples to walk without crutches : as also, he cureth all manner of diseases, with a stroak of his hand and prayer ... The great cures and strange miracles performed by Mr. Valentine Gertrux who restoreth the blind to sight, the deaf to hearing, the lame to strength, and cripples to walk without crutches : as also, he cureth all manner of diseases, with a stroak of his hand and prayer ...


id: A36402
author: Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652.
date: 1649.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 1858
sentence: 61
flesch: 62
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txt: txt/A36402.txt
title:
  The everlasting gospel Apocalyps 14 : and they sung a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts and the elders, ver. 24 and no man could learn that song, but the 144, &c.

summary:
  Awakened by which alarm early in the morning , whereof thus , signed with Divisions character , the years being divided , this magnified morning Star , story of Jerusalem of the Gentiles , Great Britains blow foreshewing , Anno 44. accomplished : The same though come to pass , who nevertheles in stead of their acknowledged error , like those Priests and Elders , first who setting a Watch , then underhand by such large Doctrine endeavor to stop the peoples mouths , that do as they are taught , promised to be saved harmless , the old Serpents policy , &c. And with this Revolution thus going on , in the first of his Reign , the beginning in of the year , when a Star within the Horns of the New Moon enclosed , of some judgement at hand , the ominous Forerunner : And so pursuing the Prophetical History in the next place , That it might be fulfilled out of the Low Countreys , &c. as the Virgin when undertook her voyage , she fleeing for the Babes preservation thither ; also constrained for printing the same , to go into Holland , those plain swathing-bands for wrapping it in , pretending in her husbands behalf the Spaw obtained a License , since none for printing to be had here , inquisition and hold such , among them imprisoned about it formerly , till afterward all as free , Cum Privilegio out of date become .


id: A36396
author: Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652.
date: 1652.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1823
sentence: 60
flesch: 61
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title:
  Bethlehem signifying the house of bread, or, VVar whereof informs, whoso takes a small roul to taste cures forthwith distraction in the supreamest nature, with such vertue indu'd : by those tormenters firy serpents as they when stung, were heal'd a view by taken of the brazen one.

summary:
  By whom the golden Wedge or Tongue hid , wch trespass until discovered of his , thus and thus , &c. no peace or presence of the Lord any more . So whence as follows , Cause the city to know , &c. for recovery of health , to have knowledge of the disease since the first step thereto .


id: A26941
author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
date: 1681.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4662
sentence: 103
flesch: 50
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title:
  The invaluable price of an immortal soul shewing the vanity of most people in taking care for the body, but neglect their duty as to the preservation of their never-dying souls : with advice to secure sinners to examine themselves before it be too late, that when death shall come to separate their souls from their bodies, they may be in a condition to welcome death for that happy change which all prepared Christians will ever rejoyce in : very necessary for all people to read and consider who would willingly be accounted true Christians : with large admonition to prayer as a duty most incumbant upon all who desire to obtain everlasting life through Christ Jesus.

summary:
  Oh wretched state that Man knows not his own heart , but hath a Thousand times more sin in him unknown , then the greatest self-conceited person in the world can see perfection in himself : few there are that are not too strongly and too well opinionated of themselves , and some have high esteem of others , and will say , that such a one is a good natur'd Man , he hath no deceit in him , he would not wrong a VVorm : when alas , these Excellencies are nothing in comparison of that Ocean of Sin , deformed Corruption , which lurks in his heart , and cannot be rooted out but by that Heavenly Antidote which alone can expell the Poyson of sin out of our corrupted Hearts , carnal Men do not consider that their wilful minds are not nor cannot be subject to the Law of God , which is absolutely pure without spot or blemish , whilst the best of our actions , the supream of our thoughts , are vain , sinful and Rebellious . Sin is absolutely contrary to the will of God , therefore should it be absolutely detestable to the Heart of Man , sin would pull down what Gods holy Laws would set up , and Establish Gods prescribed Laws for the salvation of souls , and the Devil deviseth sins for the Destruction of souls , yet will not poor sinners see that impurity which in sin it is clearly contrary to the very Nature of God.


id: A76058
author: R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681.
date: 1680.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7244
sentence: 268
flesch: 73
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title:
  A companion for prayer, or, Directions for improvement in grace and practical Godliness in time of extraordinary danger by Richard Alleine, author of Vinditiae Pietatis.

summary:
  A Supplement to the Morning-●xercise at Cripplegate , or several ●ore Cases of Conscience practical●●● resolved by sundry Ministers , 〈◊〉 4to . Dost thou ●ear and fly from temptation , and ●o what thou canst to keep thy self out of harms way ? and when th● fallest into temptation , when th●● art actually tempted to Pride 〈◊〉 Covetousness , when thou art pr●voked to passion or impatience , ho●● goes it with thee then ? how stan●est thou in the day of temptation●● How is it with thee in regard 〈◊〉 thy wonted evils in thy conver●●tion ?


id: A86479
author: Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676.
date: 1684.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8647
sentence: 173
flesch: 42
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txt: txt/A86479.txt
title:
  A letter from Sr Matthew Hale, Kt. sometime Lord Chief Justice of England: to one of his sons, after his recovery from the small-pox

summary:
  God Almighty hath brought you to the very Gates of Death , and shewed you the Terrour , and Danger of it ; and after that he had shewn you this Spectacle of your own Mortality , he hath marvellously rescued and delivered you from that danger , and given you life , even from the dead , so that you are as a man new Born into the World , or returned to Life again , which now you seem as it were to begin : You have passed through those two great Dispensations of the Divine Providence , those two great Experiments , that God is pleased sometimes to use towards the Children of men , namely , Correction and Deliverance , his Rod and his Staff : And therefore in all reasonable conjecture , this is the most seasonable time to give you a Lecture upon both , and those admonitions which may be , render the one , and the other profitable unto you : And if a man hear this voice , God hath his end of mercy and goodness , and man hath the fruit , benefit , and advantage of his Affliction , and commonly a Comfortable issue of it : Read often and attentively the 33th .


id: A19522
author: Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.
date: 1629.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9193
sentence: 582
flesch: 85
cache: cache/A19522.xml
txt: txt/A19522.txt
title:
  The conuerted mans new birth describing the direct way to go to heauen: wherein all men may clearely see, whether they shall be saued or damned. Shewing the principall care, and vehement desire, which euery one ought to take, in seeking their saluation. With the spirituall battle betweene the regenerate man and Sathan. Heere is also layd open the true estate of the regenerate man, with the certainty of his saluation: with an excellent marke, to know the childe of God, which hath truely repented; and concluding with a right zealous and godly prayer, out of the pure fountaine of the holy Scripture. Dedicated vnto all the elect children of God, which truely repent. Newly published by Iohn Andrewes Preacher of Gods Word. Being first seene and allowed.

summary:
  Ro●a●s ● 4. Gal●● 16. Heere is also layd open the true estate ●f the Regenerate Man , with the certainty ●● his Salu●●ion : With an excellent marke , to know the Childe of God , which hath truely repented ; And concluding with a right zealous and godly Prayer , out of the pure Fountaine of the holy Scripture .


id: A31092
author: Barrow, John, 17th cent.
date: 1664.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9891
sentence: 211
flesch: 58
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txt: txt/A31092.txt
title:
  The Lord's arm stretched ovt in an answer of prayer, or, A true relation of the wonderful deliverance of James Barrow, the son of John Barrow of Olaves Southwark, who was possessed with evil spirits near two years the diversity of means used, with the way in which he was delivered / published by me, John Barrow.

summary:
  EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). But answer was made , that we had set our selves to fasting and prayer to plead with God against him , and would not eat till the Sun went down : and then he would perswade us , that it was night and dark , and time to go home .


id: A51986
author: Lloyd, David, 16315-1692.
date: 1665.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11108
sentence: 289
flesch: 55
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title:
  Fair warnings to a careless world in the pious letter written by the Right Honourable James Earl of Marleburgh, a little before his death, to the Right Honourable Sir Hugh Pollard, comptroller of his Maties houshold. With the last words of CXL and upwards, of the most learned and honourable persons of England, and other parts of the world.

summary:
  Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter : Fear God , and keep his commandments ; for this is the whole duty of man. Is there nothing more graceful and pleasing in the sweetness , candour , and ingenuity of a truly Christian temper and disposition , then in the revengeful implacable spirit of such whose Honour lives and is fed by the bloud of their enemies ? Is it not more truly honourable and glorious , to serve that God who commandeth the world , then to be a slave to those Passions and Lusts which put men upon continual hard service , and torment them for it when they have done it ? Were there nothing else to commend Religion to the mindes of men , besides that tranquillity and calmness of spirit , that serene and peaceable temper which follows a good Conscience , wheresoever it dwells , it were enough to make men welcome that guest which brings such good entertainment with it .


id: A34544
author: Corbet, John, 1620-1680.
date: 1681.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12328
sentence: 511
flesch: 72
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txt: txt/A34544.txt
title:
  Self-imployment in secret ... left under the hand-writing of that learned & reverend divine, Mr. John Corbet ...; with a prefatory epistle of Mr. John Howe.

summary:
  I have an Inclination to seek Self , particularly in vain applause , and that in Religious services ; and herein I have been highly guilty , but I shame my self for it before God , and I am willing to be satisfied in the Praise , that comes from him alone ; and I trust through his Grace , that I can deny my self in matter of Reputation to do his Will. I labour to be unbottomed of Self , to dye to Self-advancement , to Self-gloriation , and to all selfish joys , and to live wholly in , and to God , and to have Self swallowed up in the Love of Him.


id: A70039
author: Fisher, Samuel, 1605-1665.
date: 1661.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 12731
sentence: 274
flesch: 53
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title:
  Apokrypta apokalypta velata quædam revelata : some certain, hidden, or vailed spiritual verities revealed : upon occasion of various very prying and critical queries concerning God, the devil, and man, as to his body, soul, and spirit, Heaven, Hell, Judgement &c : propounded to George Fox, John Perrot, Samuel Fisher : and after that (with a complaint for want of, and stricter urgency for an answer) re-propounded to Edward Burroughs : by two persons, choosing to notifie themselves to us no other way then by these two unwonted (if not self-assumed) titles, viz. Livinus Theodorus, and Sabina Neriah : which truths (as there inspired by the spirit of God) are here expired in love to the souls of men / from ... Samuel Fisher.

summary:
  As to the spirit of man , which is the best , highest , and most noble of the three aforesaid , which concurs to the constituting of man in his primitive perfection , it is That breath of life , which God breathed into his soul after he had formed him ( as to his body ) of the dust of the earth , whereby he came to be a living soul ; a soul that did partake of something of God's own life ; whereby it did live in his sight ; this is that living Principle of the Divine Nature , which man did before his degeneration , and shall again after his regeneration , partake of ; in respect of which , he was , and shall be again ( as he takes heed to come into Union with it , and thereby to recover to his first estate ) called the Son of God , as Adam was before he fell ; and in respect of which he is said ( principally ) to be made after God's own Image , and to be the very Image and glory of God ; this is that incorruptible , immortal seed of God , which whoever comes to witness himself brought forth into the likeness of , is said to be born of God , to be of God , to be the child of God , that doth righteousness , and sinneth not , which who so doth is of the Devil : This is that breath of Gods own immediate breathing into man , that spark of life from him , who is the eternal Word , which was with God , and was God , in whom was the life , and his life was the light of men , which shineth in the darkness , in the dark places of their earthly hearts , who by the Fall are gone out from it into the lust , but the dark soul comprehends it not : This is that heavenly part , or spirit of man infused into him from above , which lusteth against the corrupt flesh , and against that evil spirit that hath entred into him , that lusteth to envy : This is that which mounts upward , and strengthens such souls as stay by it to mount upward with wings as Eagles , towards him from whom it comes , while the earthly part both tends and draws the soul downward , so that in respect of that spirit of man it may be most truly said of God in his first making of Man , Os homini sublime dedit , coelumque videre . And as for the Great Day , and the Judgement thereof , It is the Light of the Lord , ( for the Light he called Day , and the Darkness he called Night ) and the Judgement that the said Light layeth to the Line , and to the Plummet , in every Creature that hates and rebels against the Light , which ministers condemnation on the Transgressor , and reveals from God nothing but Vengeance , Tribulation , Wrath , and Anguish , Perplexity and Disappointment , Wo , Cursing , and vexation of spirit on every evil spirit , and on every soul of man that is found in evil doing ; the Eternal Judgement of which day of the Lord , is over all the Oaks of Bashan , and Cedars of Lebanon , and pleasant Pictures , and fenced Towers , and high Walls , and all mans glory and pomp , which Hell now opens her mouth wide to receive & over every one , and every thing that is high and lifted up ; and there can be no declining the Judgement of it so , but that ( to versifie to you back again in your own way of Latine Rime , wherein ye conclude your Queries , and


id: A27365
author: Bellers, John, 1654-1725.
date: 1699.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13032
sentence: 519
flesch: 72
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title:
  Essays about the poor, manufactures, trade, plantations, & immorality and of the excellency and divinity of inward light, demonstrated from the attributes of God and the nature of mans soul, as well as from the testimony of the Holy Scriptures / by John Bellers.

summary:
  And as God only ( who is Light ) can penetrate Men's Souls , and beholds the most inward Thoughts and Desires thereof , so he only is able , and doth shew them to Men , whether they are good or evil : And as Men's Wills and Affections comes to be subdued to the Will of God , he discovers to the Souls of Men. And it may be said of visible Bodies , as of Darkness it self , that tho God shines in them , they comprehend or apprehend him not , for indeed they want all Sence of Apprehension , as the greatest Light is unknown to the blind , and the greatest Sounds to the deaf , so also the Souls of Men , which are given up unto the Delights of sensual Objects ( until they are born a new ) they do want their Faculties to be sufficiently spiritualized to behold the immaterial Glory of God , tho his Light doth shew them their evil State , and his Spirit reproves them , they do not see him : That Degree or Manifestation of Light which only discovers a Man's unhappy State to him , appears far less glorious ( tho' it is divine ) than that which gives Peace , and discovers the Glory of God , as Man obeys it :


id: A90395
author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.
date: 1650.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20161
sentence: 695
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A90395.xml
txt: txt/A90395.txt
title:
  Severall fresh inward openings, (concerning severall things) which the day will declare of what nature they are, to which judgment they appeal for justice, being contented either to stand or fall by it: and being likewise ready to kiss that condemnation, which they are likely to meet with in the mean time, from all sorts of men, whom they finde ready to deal hardly with them. / Through Isaac Penington, (junior) Esq;

summary:
  And in the inward state , things remain the same also : Sin is the same , Christ the same , Heaven , Hell ; Happiness , Misery ; God , Devil ; all the same they were , and vary not as we vary , thinking them one while to be thus , and another while thus . Things so refracted , as appearing all to be good and in God , what excellency is there in this , what certainty is there in this ?


id: A66688
author: Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.
date: 1649.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19958
sentence: 701
flesch: 74
cache: cache/A66688.xml
txt: txt/A66688.txt
title:
  Truth lifting up its head above scandals Wherein is declared what God Christ Father Son Holy Ghost Scriptures Gospel Prayer Ordinances of God are. By Gerrard Winstanly.

summary:
  He dwels in every creature , according to the nature and being of the creature but supreamely in man Therefore man i● called a Rationall creature , and the well-beloved son of the Father , because by hi● creation , he is to live in the light of Reason But when he acts unrighteously , he lives without Reason ; and so contrary to his creation as a man . That which you call meanes doth harden your hearts , and blind your eyes , i● shuts you out from sweet enjoyment ; tha● is , to run after men for teachings , I speak● not rashly , I speak what I know , and yo● shall finde before your soules taste of tru● peace , that whosoever takes those Scriptures ▪ and makes exposition upon them , from thei● imagination , and ●els you that is the wor● of God , and hath seen nothing : That they are the false Christs and false Prophets , an● their way of teaching is meer deceit both to your soules , and to your purses ; for now in this day of Christ which is begun , and which will have a greater appearance ere long in the great world ; Men must speak their own experienced words , and must not speake thoughts .


id: A07786
author: Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.
date: 1602.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 25123
sentence: 932
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A07786.xml
txt: txt/A07786.txt
title:
  The true knowledge of a mans owne selfe. Written in French by Monsieur du Plessis, Lord of Plessie Marly. *And truly translated into English by A.M..

summary:
  Euery one ought to know thys , & reuerence these gifts of God in nature , vsing them lawfully , and to the benefit of humaine societie : We should consider and acknowledge God in nature reuerently , we should esteeme the actions of nourishing , giuing increase , and supplying by generation , as diuine gifts and graces , the abuse whereof is punished by most horrible paines .


id: A96698
author: Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.
date: 1648.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 30462
sentence: 706
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A96698.xml
txt: txt/A96698.txt
title:
  The saints paradise or, the Fathers teaching the only satisfaction to waiting souls. Wherein many experiences are recorded, for the comfort of such as are under spirituall burning. The inward testimony is the souls strength. / By Jerrard Winstanley.

summary:
  WEE see in these dayes the bottomlesse pit is opened , and the mysterie of iniquity is begun to be made manifest to men ; That is , corrupt flesh is laid open to the view of such as God manifests his wisdom and power in ; and the secret workings of this wise , but corrupt flesh appears very plentifully by the spreading forth of unbelief , hypocrisie , envy , cruelty , slavish fear of men , and in shame to own God and his wayes , and by violent and subtil endeavouring to wear out the appearance of God in man , and to destroy the mighty and the holy people ; first by slanders , lies , and bad names , and then threatening , and likewise endeavouring to destroy them all by the sword . Well , all these troubles , and such like , proceed from the shinings forth of the righteous law upon the proud heart , and he cannot bear it , because he seeks himselfe more then God ; the unbelief of the heart lives by sence upon the creature ; the law of God tels the heart , he must trust God , and not man , and though all sence fayl him from men and creatures , yet to waite upon God , but this troubles him , he cannot wait , and if he do wait , he questions whether he shall have such things he is bid to wait for ; and the poor heart lies under great tossings .


id: A31368
author: Cats, Jacob, 1577-1660.
date: 1680.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 31808
sentence: 1378
flesch: 81
cache: cache/A31368.xml
txt: txt/A31368.txt
title:
  Self-conflict, or, The powerful motions between the flesh & spirit represented in the person and upon the occasion of Joseph when by Potiphar's wife he was enticed to adultery : a divine poem / written originally in low-Dutch by Jacob Catts ... ; and from thence translated.

summary:
  ●t bears no fruit , nor eat ▪ we it as food ; Nor likewise was it for the plough design'd , ●t must be therefore but a shade or wind . But these things in your thoughts are fond , you sh●w , And I in your conce●t for simple go .


id: A02762
author: Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639, attributed name.
date: 1616.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 31303
sentence: 2154
flesch: 86
cache: cache/A02762.xml
txt: txt/A02762.txt
title:
  The burning bush not consumed wherein (either vnder all deepe sense of wrath; or hardnesse of heart, one may iudge, whether he be the childe of God, or not, &c. Chiefly receyuing satisfaction concerning the sinne against the Holy Ghost. Perused by I.D. and diuers other diuines.

summary:
  It may bee you thinke mee a miserable comforter , thus rather to crosse you , then powre balme into your wounds , or bewaile your hardnesse of Heart : but would to God you were not more iniurious then I , in robbing your selues of the strong Tower of your saluation : I meane , of the way to lay holde on Christ for your life : For indeede so doe I pittie all of you , that if my soule were able , and could dissolue it selfe in teares for you , your sorrowes would haue an ende : since I know , such and so great is the insupportable terrour of Gods wrath , chiefly , if hee ( leading the maine battell of his forces ) fight against you , as Ieremie speaketh ) in anger , in wrath , and in great indignation , that there is no creature but must sinke vnder the same : but it is the conclusions some of you draw from thence , which I ayme at , and would willingly cut downe by the roote : viz : I feele no faith , therefore I haue none : I neuer had faith , therefore I shall neuer haue any : My former actions haue bene hypocriticall , therefore I am damned : my Feeling is lost , therefore I shall neuer haue it againe : I neuer had feeling or sense of Gods loue , therefore I shall neuer haue any : God is angry , therefore hee will neuer be appeased : the Sunne shineth not , therefore it will neuer shine : It is night , therefore it will neuer bee day : the heart was neuer moued , therefore it shall , and neuer can bee mooued : I haue thus , and thus long heard the word , and it hath not renued nor moued mee no more then a stone , therefore it shall and cannot , for such a heart is immoueable : I am dead in sinne , therefore I can neuer be aliue : God is gone , therefore hee will neuer come againe : Min. By reason of the Anger or Wrath of God against all manner of sinne , in all manner of persons .


id: A50162
author: Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 34633
sentence: 1986
flesch: 85
cache: cache/A50162.xml
txt: txt/A50162.txt
title:
  Small offers towards the service of the tabernacle in the wilderness four discourses accommodated unto the designs of practical godliness : preached partly at Boston, partly at Charleston / by Cotton Mather ; published by a gentleman lately restored from threatening sickness as a humble essay to serve the interest of religion, in gratitude unto God for his recovery.

summary:
  God will not save you , if you do not serve Him. You that now grind for the Phili●●ines of Hell every day , must one day be requited with only Coals and Wounds , for all your fatal Dr●dgeries ; and though you then roar , Lord , pitty me ! Master , Thou ●e●chest the way of God in Truth .


id: A48788
author: Lloyd, David, 1635-1692.
title: Dying and dead mens living words published by Da. Lloyd.
date: 1668.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 34920
sentence: 1001
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A48788.xml
txt: txt/A48788.txt
summary:
  Who being the most e●●perienced for enquiry , the mo●● wise for contrivance , the mo●● wealthy for compassing all the s●●tisfaction that can be had in t●● things of this world , after man● years sifting ( for saith he in Eccl●● that his Book of repentance , Cha●● 2. vers . It s an observation common and useful , that as there is no ma● of quality hardly goeth out of th● world now , without the instructi●on , prayers , and ministry of a Chap●lain ; however they have lived i● it owning the comforts of Religion● though they disowned the practise of it .


id: A45280
author: Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.
date: 1659.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 36656
sentence: 872
flesch: 52
cache: cache/A45280.xml
txt: txt/A45280.txt
title:
  The invisible world discovered to spirituall eyes and reduced to usefull meditation : in three books : also, the great mystery of godliness laid forth by way of affectuous and feeling meditation : with the apostolicall institution of imposition of hands for confirmation of children, setting forth the divine ground, end, and use of that too much neglected institution, and now published as an excellent expedient to truth and peace / by Jos. Hall.

summary:
  NExt to these Angelicall Essences , the souls of men , whether in the body , or severed ●rom it , are those spirits which people the invisible world ●ex● to them , I say ▪ not the s●me with them , not bett●r Those of the ancient which have thought that the ruine of Angels is to be supplyed by ●lessed souls , spake doubtless without the book ; for he that is the truth it self hath said , they be ( {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ) like , not the same : And justly are those ●xploded , whether Pythago●eans , or Stoicks , or Gnost ●her●si● .


id: A28633
author: Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624. Correspondence. English. Epistle 23.
date: 1659.0
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sentence: 1202
flesch: 57
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title:
  Paracelsus his Aurora, & treasure of the philosophers· As also the water-stone of the wise men; describing the matter of, and manner how to attain the universal tincture. Faithfully Englished· And published by J. H. Oxon.

summary:
  But the Cabal , by a subtile understanding of the Scriptures seems to trace out the way for men to God , how to act with him , and prophecy from him ; for the Cabal is full of Divine Mysteries , even as the Magick is full of natural secrets ; for it teacheth presages and foretellings of or from the nature of things to come and things present ; for its opparation consisteth in the knowing of the intrinsecality of all Creatures as well Celestial as Terrestial bodies , [ viz. Therein is concluded all the occult wisdom of things , the which [ wisdom ] God hath made openly manifest to men , both by his word , and the Creatures , of his hands , that so they might have a true knowledge of them , the which shall be declared more at large in another place .


id: A65794
author: White, Thomas, Minister of Gods Word in London.
date: 1672.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 50982
sentence: 1052
flesch: 53
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txt: txt/A65794.txt
title:
  A method and instructions for the art of divine meditation with instances of the several kindes of solemne meditation / by Thomas White.

summary:
  Lord , my design in this Duty of Meditation is not to be an hour sequestred from Worldly Employments , for that were to be idle an Hour , and to encrease my Sinnes not my Graces , but my Business at this time is to be so convinced and affected with those spiritual Truths revealed in thy Word , that I may fully resolve by thy strenghth and power to reform my Life , because I can neither understand the things that belong to my peace , nor understanding them , be convinced of the certainty and truth of them ; Nay Lord , though my understanding be enlightned , yet without thee mine affections cannot be enflamed ; I can neither know , resolve , nor perform what is good without thee , for from thee comes both the will and the deed of thy good pleasure , I beseech thee Lord that thou wouldest give me thy grace to make conscience of performing this duty with my whole strength , and not carelesly and perfunctorily ; And Lord do thou enlighten me with and convince me of thy Truths , and so affect my heart with the love of holiness and hatred of sin , &c. that I may thereby be enabled fully , firmly ( notwithstanding all the opposition that the flesh , world , or devil can make ) to run the wayes of thy Commandements with joy and with speed , and when thou hast wrought in me the will so to do , give me also the deed and that I may not trust to the strength of my resolutions , but to the continual gracious assistance of thy Spirit for the performance of those things that through thee I shall resolve to do : Holy and blessed God , Christ hath sent me , wishing me to come to thee in his Name for any mercies I stand in need of ; grant these things which I have begged for the Lord Jesus sake , Amen . Well , God doth send his holy Spirit to helpt his poor Soul , in the Ministery of the Word tells us what we should do to overcome these enemies , and sending many motions of the Spirit to bring into our souls grace to strengthen us ; we will not do what he adviseth us to do , nay , but we take part with our corruptions , and resist and fight against the power of ●he world to come ; O thy patience is not to be understood , I am weary , to think before I go to prayer , how little fruit I expect from them , I pray , and pray , and weep , and hear , and sigh , and confess these as well as other of my sins , and yet as a Ship in the Sea they do divide my corruptions for the present ; but they presently return to their former course ; Lord do not the bowels of thy compassion yern within thee to see me thy poor Servant in such a miserable condition as I am in ? Dost not thou see how sin and corruption do as it were lye gnawing upon me , and eating up my very flesh , and destroying my soul , and I have neither hand nor foot to move against them ?


id: A01550
author: Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.
date: 1619.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 53931
sentence: 3840
flesch: 86
summary: i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 .
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title:
  The spirituall vvatch, or Christs generall watch-word A meditation on Mark. 13. 37. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.


id: A26212
author: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
date: 1655.0
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words: 77815
sentence: 2924
flesch: 76
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title:
  The meditations, soliloquia and manuall of the glorious doctour S. Augustine translated into English.

summary:
  O Lord my God , my life , and the entire glory of my soule ; I confesse to thee O Lord , my God , that when thou didest create me capable of reason , thou didest , in some respect , make me equall to the Angells , because I may be perfected by thy word , soe farre , as that I may arriue to an equality with the Angells : and that I may haue the adoption of thy sonnes , by thy onely begotten Word ▪ O Lord , by that beloued Sonne of thyne in whom thou art well pleased ; by that onely heyre , who is coeternall and consubstantiall with thee , which is Iesus Christ , our onely Lord , and Redeemer , our Illuminator , & Comforter , our Aduocat with thee , and the light of our eyes ; who is our life , our Sauiour , & our onely hope , who loued vs more then himselfe ; by whome we haue confidence , layd vp for vs with thee , & a firme hope , and accesse in comeing to thee , because he gaue power to such as would beleiue in his Name , that they might become the sonnes of God. Of the twofolde nature of Christe our Lord , who pittieth , and prayeth for vs. I Giue thee thankes O Lord our God , with my lipps , and with my hart , and with the whole power I haue , for thy infinite goodnesse ; and for all those mercyes , by which thou didst vouchsafe , to succour vs poore creatures , after an admirable manner , by thy Sonne our Sauiour , and Redeemer , who dyed for our sinns , and rose for our iustification , and now liueinge in eternity , doth sitt at thy right hand , and interceedeth for vs. And together with thee , he taketh pitty of vs , because he is God , of thee , his Father , coeternall , and consubstantiall with thee in all things , wherby he may for euer saue vs. But for as much as he is man , in those respects wherein he is lesse then thou , all power is giuen him , both in Heauen and in earth , that at the name of Iesus , euery knee may bowe , celestial , terrestrial and infernall ; and euery tongue my confesse , that our Lord Iesus Christe is in thy glory , Omnipotent God the Father .


id: A51280
author: Baker, Augustine, 1575-1641.
date: 1658.0
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words: 90192
sentence: 2455
flesch: 66
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title:
  The spiritval exercises of the most vertvovs and religious D. Gertrvde More of the holy order of S. Bennet and English congregation of Our Ladies of Comfort in Cambray she called them Amor ordinem nescit and Ideots deuotions, her only spiritual father and director the ven. Fa. Baker stiled them Confessiones amantis, A lovers confessions.

summary:
  We must learn therefor this vertue of him , that true Humility and Obedience may be out stay in al ; vvhich tvvo vertues together vvith the diuine vertue of Disc●e●ion , he vvil teach vs , if vve labour to become more and more humble : for seeing that it is his wil vve should obey , and become truly humble Hovv can vve doub● but he vvil giue vs the Gracé , if vve ●umbly , and pe●seuerantly beg it of him , and practise them vpon occasion as vvel as vve can ? for he him-self saith ; VVhen we aske our father bread he doth not giue vs a stone , nor if we asko him a fi●h he doth not giue vs a serpent : much les wil he deny vs vvhat is necessary to make vs pleasing to him ; if we seek● or desire nothing but by true loue to be faithful to him . For , for the most part 〈◊〉 questions do but tend to the winding o●● selues out of some Cross or Mortificatio● or easing our mind of some di●ficult● which wil if we yeeld thereto but put o● our eyes , & consequently put vs out of 〈◊〉 right way .


