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id: A86670
author: Atkinson, Christopher.
title: The testimony of the everlasting gospel witnessed through sufferings.
date: 1654.0
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words: 3631
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flesch: 42
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summary:
  The cause of my coming I did declare before one of your Justices called , and was examined before him ; I told him it was to see a friend in the Castle , who was Prisoner there , and after I had been there with him was moved to go where their Minister of the Law , called , was sitting in a house neer the Castle , who said little unto me , because it was undenyable that a spoke , who own Justice , and reasoned with the people in the same room of the things of God , and so came and was passing out of the City a quarter of a mile , the Word of the Lord came to me , Thou must go back again , and witnesse forth my Name in their Market among the people , and at his command I was obedient , and went and declared forth that was given me to speak amongst them , which made the people astonished , and many did follow me as you call them , rude , in running to hear the Truth declared forth in the Market , as the Apostle of Christ , who reasoned in the Markets dayly , and went from City to City , preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom , and were persecuted from city to city , this is called disturbance now as it was then , and what peace did I break , going on declaring forth the Truth , which none could object against that heard it , and by your Officers called , as he said , he might know the ground why I spoke so , and shewed him I was commanded of the Lord , and being brought by him before one justice called , was examined , and could not find me by his Law a transgressor , and bade him carry me to the Maior , and he did so , and he did examine me upon the grounds of my faith , and of my outward means , where it was , and what quantity it was , and being not ashamed , declared my self at full to him of both , as it will further appear by an examination before the Rulers of this City , and so by the Maior , as aforesaid , am here in their bonds and imprisonments doth abide me in obedience to the commands of the same that Paul was guided , and so by the same generation of Rulers as was in those dayes am I here a sufferer , and to die , if I be called to it , for a testimony of a good conscience , and in the Market I cleared my conscience in witnessing forth the Truth , Christ Jesus the Light of the world , who hath enlightened every one that comes into the world , and cald people to repentance , and said the mighty day of the Lord was coming , let all flesh dread and fear before him , and bade them take heed to the Light of Christ in them , which shewed sin and evill in them , loving it theere was their teacher ; hating it there was their condemnation ; this was the Word of the Lord sent by me , which was no peace to earthly hearts and minds , but a sword , as Christ saith , and this was disturbance of the peace of the City of Norwich called , by the Rulers , who now am in their bonds for this declaring , let all judge what peace it is they live in , when the Word of the Lord disturbs them : And here let the Rulers of Norwich be witnesses against themselves , that they are of that generation that put our Lord Jesus Christ to death , by a law in their own wills , contrary to the will of God : and what would they have said of Christ , who had no habitation in the earth , no not so much as to lay his head , if they had been in his dayes ; by this Law he might have been persecuted and imprisoned , and him they doe persecute and imprison , in so much as they doe it unto the least of his , they doe it unto him , as it is made manifest ; and if they had been in the times of the Apostles , whose words they doe professe , would they not have persecuted them by this law , who said they had no certain dwelling place , 1 Cor. 4. 11. and the world was not worthy of them , and such doe they persecute now as are redeemed from the world , and by it suffer continually .


id: A94360
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1693.0
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words: 10062
sentence: 282
flesch: 58
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title:
  A sermon concerning the sacrifice and satisfaction of Christ. preached before the Queen at Whitehall, April 9., 1693.

summary:
  And if this Sacrifice for Sin , and the Pardon purchased by it , be not effectual to reclaim us from Sin , and to beget in us an eternal dread and detestation of it : If we sin wilfully after so clear a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men , there remains no more sacrifice for sin , but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation to consume the adversaries . For what could God do more to testify his displeasure against sin , and to discountenance the practice of it , than to make his only Son an offering for Sin , and to give him up to be wounded for our transgressions , and bruised for our iniquities ?


id: A29132
author: Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.
date: 1646.0
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words: 11088
sentence: 624
flesch: 84
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title:
  The last conflicts and death of Mr. Thomas Peacock, batchelour of divinity, and fellow of Brasen-nose Colledge in Oxford published by E.B. from the copy of that famous divine Mr Robert Bolton, late minister of Broughton in Northhampton-shire.

summary:
  Others there are , whe though they doe not wholly destroy the law , yet they cast it into a dead sleep , thinking it unlawfull in the children of God to be sorry , or to mourn for sinne , contrary to the Doctoine of the primitive Fathers , teaching this lesson , Semper doleat paeniten● ; & de dolore gaudeat ; Let the penitent person alwaies mourn , and rejoyce in that mourning ; agreeing with the rule of our Saviour , Blessed are they that mourn , for they shall be comforted . God in mercy will yeild you a comfortable rellish : Consider I pray you ; whereas man may object , The Lord is strong and terrible .


id: A28586
author: Bold, S. (Samuel), 1649-1737.
date: 1689.0
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words: 13244
sentence: 434
flesch: 61
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title:
  An exhortation to charity (and a word of comfort) to the Irish Protestants being a sermon preached at Steeple in Dorsetshire, upon occasion of the collection for relief of the poor Protestants in this kingdom lately fled from Ireland / by Samuel Bold.

summary:
  The Protestant Religion is the only true Christian and Scripture-Religion : It takes in and comprehends all that the Word of God doth teach and authorize , and it rejects and renounces every thing from being a part of Religion which the Scriptures do not warrant . This is the Faith and Religion we are commanded by God himself to stand fast in , and to contend earnestly for ; and as it were to enter into an Association to defend and maintain it against all the Attempts of its Adversaries ; for we are required to stand fast in one Spirit , with one Mind , striving together for the Faith of the Gospel ; Phil.


id: A02744
author: Harsnett, Adam, 1579 or 80-1639.
date: 1638.0
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words: 78591
sentence: 3188
flesch: 77
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title:
  A cordiall for the afflicted Touching the necessitie and utilitie of afflictions. Proving unto us the happinesse of those that thankfully receive them: and the misery of all that want them, or profit not by them. By A. Harsnet, B.D. and Minister of Gods word at Cranham in Essex.

summary:
  Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction , Lord , I have called upon thee , I have stretched out my hands ▪ unto thee . Whereupon the Prophet Jeremiah set his eyes towards the Lord , Thou art my force and strength , O Lord , and my refuge in the day of affliction , Jerem. 16.19 .


