item: #1 of 114 id: A01638 author: Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver. title: A golden chaine of divine aphorismes written by John Gerhard Doctor of Divinitie and superintendent of Heldburg. Translated by Ralph Winterton fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge date: 1632.0 words: 58094 flesch: 76 summary: 52 In the tree of Life there was set before man a Preservative against sicknesse and old age , as also a Type of eternall beatitude . 53 The tree of Knowledge was mans Temple and Altar : and the service which he was to have performed unto God was , To abstain from the fruit thereof . But God of his meer Mercie Promised , The Womans Seed should break the Serpents head ▪ He gave his Law , a Glasse for man to see His Spots and Stains , and his Obliquitie : He gave his Law , a Rule for man to be , That he thereby might learn Conformitie . keywords: baptisme; body; bread; cap; christ; church; cor; death; divine; doctrine; doth; end; eternall; faith; fall; father; flesh; ghost; god; god doth; gods; good; gospell; grace; hath; holy; image; law; life; light; man; manner; men; nature; person; place; power; respect; rom; sacraments; salvation; scripture; sinne; spirit; things; time; word; works cache: A01638.xml plain text: A01638.txt item: #2 of 114 id: A03584 author: Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600. title: The ansvvere of Mr. Richard Hooker to a supplication preferred by Mr Walter Travers to the HH. Lords of the Privie Counsell date: 1612.0 words: 10719 flesch: 56 summary: In one of them the question betweene vs was , whether the perswasion of faith concerning remission of sinnes , eternall life , & whatsoever God doth promise vnto man , be as free from doubting as the perswasion which we haue by sence concerning things tasted , selt , and seene . For I know no law of God or man by force whereof they should be as Heathens and Publicans vnto me that are not gracious in the eies of another man perhaps without cause , or if with cause , yet such cause as he is privie vnto and not I. Could he or any reasonable man thinke it a charitable course in me to obserue them that shewe by externall courtesies a favorable inclination towards him , and if I spy out any one amongst them of whom I thinke not well , herevpon to draw such an accusation as this against him and to offer it where hec hath given vp his against me ? Which notwithstanding I will acknowledge to be iust and reasonable if hee or any man liuing shall shew that I vse as much as the bare familiar companie but of one who by word or deede hath euer giuen me cause to suspect or coniecture him such as here they are tearmed with whom complaint is made that I ioine my selfe . keywords: bee; beene; cause; doe; doth; hath; haue; hee; man; matter; men; thing; time; travers; vnto; vpon cache: A03584.xml plain text: A03584.txt item: #3 of 114 id: A04766 author: Keckermann, Bartholomäus, ca. 1571-1608 or 9. title: Ouranognōsia. Heauenly knowledge A manuduction to theologie. Written in Latin by Barthol. Keckerm. done into English by T.V. Mr. of Arts. date: 1622.0 words: 42383 flesch: 74 summary: Yea , but hee taught errou●s of Papistrie before ? I answer : that that fault of Luther made not his vocation voyd ; the same we say of Zwinglius , Caluin , and others , which were created by Bishops ; where notwithstanding it must bee considered , that vnto that ordinarie calling , there was somewhat extraordinary adioined , to wit , in that God set forth , and adorned those first Ministers of the dostrine of the Gospel with a singular vertue to discouer the terrible abominations of Poperie , for the rest of our Ministers , which haue , and yet doe teach in the Reformed Church : they were called ordinarily by them who haue authoritie , and as yet to this day are so called Now I much desire to heare of the proprieties of the Church , & first tel me what kinds be the proprieties of the Church of ? Chrys●●● . keywords: bee; body; bread; cause; christ; church; death; doctrine; doe; doth; est; eternall; euen; euery; faith; father; giuen; god; gods; good; hath; haue; hee; himselfe; holy; iesus; knowledge; life; lords; man; men; nature; non; owne; pag; papists; passion; peter; place; qui; religion; respect; rome; scripture; sed; selfe; selues; sinnes; soule; spirit; supper; themselues; things; thou; thy; time; vnto; vnto god; vpon; vse; wee; wit; word; workes; ● ● cache: A04766.xml plain text: A04766.txt item: #4 of 114 id: A09597 author: Phillips, John, d. 1640. title: The Christians A.B.C., or, A Christian alphabet contayning grounds of knowledge vnto saluation first propounded in alphabeticall forme, each proposition being seconded with some solid reasons : secondly repeated by way of question and answer, with the proofe of euery particular point of doctrine, acquainting the reader with the most select texts of scripture, whereupon our Christian faith is grounded / by I.P. B. of D. date: 1629.0 words: 38913 flesch: 86 summary: L LEarne , that man t hath lost that image of God , wherein hee was created , u by the si●ne of Adam the first man , x in eating the forbidden fruit . We may see it in the example of the Philistims , 4 1 Sam 5.7 . who being smitten with Emrods , acknowledge● , that the hand of God was sore vpon them and vpon D●g●n th●ir God A●●i●e , Act. 28.4 . keywords: apostle; baptisme; bee; body; christ; cor; day; death; doth; euery; faith; father; god; gods; good; grace; hath; haue; hee; holy; iesus; life; lord; man; men; q. proue; shall; sinne; things; thou; vnto; vpon; wee; word; ● ● cache: A09597.xml plain text: A09597.txt item: #5 of 114 id: A10328 author: Rainolds, John, 1549-1607. title: A letter of Dr. Reinolds to his friend, concerning his aduice for the studie of diuinitie date: 1613.0 words: 3215 flesch: 57 summary: Howbeit to satisfie your louing request , I will briefly mention the chiefest points in my iudgement , which are to be regarded : which if you well consider , and earnestly doe follow , as I trust you will , and God grant you may , your labour shall be taken to the aduancement of Gods glory , the profit of his Church , & your own cōfort The chiefest point of all , to begin withis , sith that diuinity , the knowledge of God , is the water of life ; the vessell must be cleane that shall receiue so precious a liquor : the house must be clensed that shal haue Gods holy spirit , not only a guest , but also a continual dweller in it . God forbid you should thinke diuinity consists of words , as wood doth of trees , diuinity without godlinesse doth but condemne consciences against the day of vengeance , and prouoke the wrath of the mighty Lord , and make more inexcusable before the seat of iudgement . keywords: god; good; haue; reading; study; tcp; text cache: A10328.xml plain text: A10328.txt item: #6 of 114 id: A12210 author: Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680. title: Yea and amen: or, pretious promises, and priviledges Spiritually unfolded in their nature and vse. Driving at the assurance and establishing of weak beleevers. By R. Sibbs D.D. master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge, and preacher of Grayes Inne London. Reviewed by himselfe in his life time, and since perused by T.G. and P.N. date: 1638.0 words: 46227 flesch: 69 summary: The second cause why all works together for the best to beleevers ; Is the manner of God working in things , which is by contraries ; he bringeth light out of darknesse , glory out of shame , and life out of death ; Wee fell by pride to hell and destruction , and must be restored by humiliation to life and salvation ; Christ humbled himselfe being God , to become man for us ; and by his death restored us to life ; When our sinnes had brought us to greatest extremities , even then were we nearest to eternal happinesse . And hee keepes himselfe as a Priest unspotted of the world : a true Christian is taught of God , and knowes the meaning of that Law of his which prohibiteth Priests so much as to touch defiled things ; therefore he studies innocency , he runs not after the course of the multitude , neither is carried away with the streames of the times : he will not converse familiarly with those that may staine him , ( but so farre as his calling leads him ) lest he should therby contaminate his spirit . keywords: bee; christ; christian; comfort; doe; doth; evill; faith; god; gods; good; grace; hath; heart; heaven; hee; himselfe; holy; know; life; lord; love; love god; man; men; nature; owne; promises; selves; sinne; soule; spirit; things; thou; thy; wee; work; world cache: A12210.xml plain text: A12210.txt item: #7 of 114 id: A14001 author: Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657. title: Nevv essayes: meditations, and vowes including in them the chiefe duties of a Christian, both for faith, and manners. By Thomas Tuke, minister of Gods Word, at S. Giles in the Fields. date: 1614.0 words: 38296 flesch: 71 summary: Man was created to be a friend to man , but now ( excepting deuils ) men are the greatest enemies that men can haue : There are some serpents , beasts , and fishes , which will not sticke to make their prey on man : Hee must bee man , that Hee might bee able to die : Hee must bee GOD , that his death might bee Meritorious , Hee must bee Man , for man had finned , and Man must therefore suffer : Hee must bee GOD , that in suffering Hee might ouercome , and that dying Hee might raise Himselfe to life . keywords: bee; body; christ; church; death; doe; doth; euen; euill; faith; god; good; hath; haue; heart; hee; hee doth; himselfe; hope; iesvs; law; life; lord; loue; man; mee; men; owne; shall; shee; sinne; soule; thee; things; thou; thy; vnto; vpon; wee; world cache: A14001.xml plain text: A14001.txt item: #8 of 114 id: A14435 author: Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657. aut title: A very Christian, learned, and briefe discourse, concerning the true, ancient, and Catholicke faith, against all wicked vp-start heresies seruing very profitably for a preseruatiue against the profane nouelties of papists, Anabaptists, Arrians, Brownists, and all other sectaries. First composed by Vincentius Lirinensis in Latine, about twelue hundreth yeares ago. And now faithfully translated into English, and illustrated with certaine marginall notes. By Thomas Tuke. date: 1611.0 words: 24543 flesch: 69 summary: But the Catholicke faith doth so say that the Word of God was made Man , that hee tooke vpon him our nature and properties , not deceitfully , and in shew , but truly , and liuely : and that he did not resemble those things , which belong to the nature of man , as not his owne , but that hee did sustaine them rather , as being his owne : and that hee was altogether also the very thing , which hee did resemble . So then , if we will not giue eare vnto Man , but vnto God , if we will not trust vnto our owne wings , but seeke for aide of him , we may boldly expect assistance of him according to his word . keywords: antiquity; bee; catholicke; chap; christ; church; doctrine; doth; euen; faith; flesh; god; hath; haue; hee; holy; let; man; men; nature; nouelties; owne; person; thee; things; thou; time; truth; vnto; wee; wicked; word cache: A14435.xml plain text: A14435.txt item: #9 of 114 id: A17218 author: Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575. title: Looke from Adam, and behold the Protestants faith and religion evidently proued out of the holy Scriptures against all atheists, papists, loose libertines, and carnall gospellers: and that the faith which they professe, hath continued from the beginning of the world, and so is the true and ancient faith. Herein hast thou also a short summe of the whole Bible, and a plaine manifestation, that all holy men who have pleased God, have beene saved through this Christian faith alone. date: 1624.0 words: 33304 flesch: 76 summary: Whereby like as we may learne that it is no new thing to be mocked and stared upon for holding with the doctrine that maketh so much of Christ his death , and the true worshipping of God in the spirit : even so may we see ( to the singular comfort of our conscience ) that no man mocketh us for it , but such as perish and are carnally minded : and that for all their derision and scorning , it is yet the power of God , 1 Cor. 1.18 . and belongeth to his holy spirit , 1 Cor. 2.14 . and is not our owne doctrine , neither of any other mans making . Unto the bodily serpent also ( whom the Devill used as an instrument ) he giveth a sore curse , and saith ; Vpon thy belly shalt thou goe , and earth shalt thou eat all the dayes of thy life : When this was done , it was ordained now first for man , that ( according to the righteousnesse and truth of God ) he should bee punished also with the curse and with eternall death : but for the causes expressed in the beginning of this chapter , the curse was directed unto Christ , who also with cleare words was promised , and so was life in him promised likewise . keywords: christ; christian; david; death; faith; god; gods; good; hath; hee; himselfe; holy; iesus; iesus christ; law; life; lord; man; men; owne; people; prophets; right; seed; set; sonne; things; thou; time; world; yeeres cache: A17218.xml plain text: A17218.txt item: #10 of 114 id: A17400 author: Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622. title: The paterne of wholsome words. Or a collection of such truths as are of necessity to be belieued vnto saluation separated out of the body of all theologie made euident by infallible plaine proofes of Scripture. And withall, the seuerall vses such principles should be put to, are abundantly shevved. A proiect much desired, and of singular vse for all sorts of Christians. By N. Bifeild [sic], preacher of Gods word at Isleworth in Middlesex. date: 1618.0 words: 72055 flesch: 84 summary: For these were the ends of mans creation , no other creatures could reach it ; therefore God made man reasonable . Who so sheadeth mans blood , by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God hath he made man. keywords: bee; body; christ; cor; day; death; earth; euen; faith; giuen; glory; god; gods; good; hath; haue; heauen; hee; holy; iesus; iesus christ; ioh; know; law; life; lord; loue; man; men; nature; owne; principles; rom; selues; sinne; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; vnto; vpon; wee; workes; world cache: A17400.xml plain text: A17400.txt item: #11 of 114 id: A17410 author: Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622. title: The rules of a holy life. Or A treatise containing the holy order of our liues, prescribed in the Scripture concerning our carriage: towards God, towards men, towards our selues. With generall rules of preparation, that concerne either the helps, or the maner of a holy conuersation. By N. Bifield preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex. date: 1619.0 words: 35903 flesch: 83 summary: 9. Wee must study to reioyce in God , which containes in it 4. things : where eight rules to obtaine this ioying in God. Cha. 8. Whē we vse our selues to Soliloquies with God , taking all occasions to speake to God by prayer and priuate meditation of things offered to vs , out of which wee could extract matter for frequent Ciaculations , lifting vp our hearts vpon the very first motions of good vnto God , Psalm . keywords: bee; chap; christ; cor; doe; god; godly; gods; good; hath; haue; heart; hee; life; lord; loue; men; owne; prou; rules; selfe; selues; shew; thee; things; thou; thy; time; vnto; vpon; wee cache: A17410.xml plain text: A17410.txt item: #12 of 114 id: A20679 author: Dove, John, 1560 or 61-1618. title: An aduertisement to the English seminaries, amd [sic] Iesuites shewing their loose kind of writing, and negligent handling the cause of religion, in the whole course of their workes. By Iohn Doue Doctor in Diuinity. date: 1610.0 words: 29156 flesch: 70 summary: And againe , it is not in him that willeth ( meaning mans indeuours ) nor in him that runneth ( meaning the workes of man ) but in God that sheweth mercy . Perditio tua ex te , salus ex me Israël , that thou art damned it proceedeth from thy selfe , that thou art saued it is to be ascribed to me , ô Israël : And therefore inferreth that the cause of predestination is in our selues , & not in God : I answer first to Saint Paul , It is his will that all should be saued , that is his reuealed , but not his secret will , and to Hose , our destruction is of our selues , and yet it is of God that men are predestinated to destruction , for as much as there are two causes of damnation , one principall , which is his will , and that is outward , and not in men : the other subordinate which commeth betweene the decree and the execution of the decree , which is damnation , and that is sinne , matter worthy enough of damnation ; and that is inherent in man. keywords: answer; bellarmine; cap; cause; christ; church; councell; decree; doctrine; doth; est; god; gods; good; hath; haue; hee; himselfe; images; lib; life; lumpe; man; men; non; owne; peter; place; pray; question; religion; rome; saint; saith; selfe; sinne; text; themselues; things; vnto; vpon; words; workes cache: A20679.xml plain text: A20679.txt item: #13 of 114 id: A20802 author: Draxe, Thomas, d. 1618. title: The Christian armorie wherein is contained all manner of spirituall munition, fit for secure Christians to arme themselues withall against Satans assaults, and all other kind of crosses, temptations, troubles, and afflictions : contrived in two bookes, and handled pithily and plainly by way of questions and answers / by Thomas Draxe ... ; hereunto is adioined a table of all the principall heads and branches comprised in each chapter of the whole treatise. date: 1611.0 words: 67278 flesch: 75 summary: For Crosses are ( by Gods gracious disposition ) so many whetstones to sharpen the dul and blunt edge of their affections , so many bellowses to enkindle and encrease in them the gifts and graces of God ; and they are so many A●arams of his iudgements to awaken them out of the sléepe of security , and to prepare them against the spirituall battell . Secondly , though once , or the second time , we bee ouerthrowne in warre , yet wee must not bee daunted and discouraged , but onely repent of sinne , and séeke helpe at Gods hand , and God will goe with vs , and fight for vs. Thirdly , Gods children may ( for their correction and triall ) as well be foiled in fighting in defence of a iust cause and quarrell ; as haue ill successe , and be crossed in other matters . keywords: a. god; bee; body; cause; chap; children; christ; christian; church; comforts; cor; death; doe; doth; duties; euill; faith; feare; fourthly; glory; god; god doth; godly; gods; gods children; good; grace; hath; haue; heauen; heb; hee; hereof; himselfe; holy; life; lord; loue; luk; man; meanes; men; neuer; owne; persons; power; psal; rom; satan; sinne; soules; spirit; themselues; things; thou; time; truth; vnto; vnto god; vpon; vse; wee; wicked; word; yea; ● ● cache: A20802.xml plain text: A20802.txt item: #14 of 114 id: A20940 author: Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658. title: A conference held at Paris betweene Father Gontier a Iesuite, and Doctor Du Moulin seconded by the Lady of Salignac. Together with Doctor Du Moulin his answere to Gontier his letter to the King concerning the subiect of this conference. By Peter Du Moulin Doctor of Diuinitie, and minister of the Word of God in the church of Paris. Translated according to the French copie printed in Paris. date: 1615.0 words: 8576 flesch: 62 summary: A conference held at Paris betweene Father Gontier a Iesuite, and Doctor Du Moulin seconded by the Lady of Salignac. Together with Doctor Du Moulin his answere to Gontier his letter to the King concerning the subiect of this conference. keywords: bloud; christ; church; conference; du moulin; god; gontier; hath; haue; hee; moulin; sacrifice; vnto cache: A20940.xml plain text: A20940.txt item: #15 of 114 id: A22701 author: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. title: Saint Augustine his enchiridion to Laurence, or, The chiefe and principall heads of all Christian religion a most profitable booke to all those which desire to haue a most compendious briefe of Augustines doctrine, out of Augustine himselfe, when he was old, being repurged, by the old manuscript, of many faults and vnusuall wordes, wherewith it formerly flowed. date: 1607.0 words: 42164 flesch: 65 summary: How is it therefore said , Not in him that willeth , nor in him that runneth , but in God that sheweth mercie ; but because that the will it selfe , as it is formerly written , is prepared by God or else perhaps that this saying , Not in him that will 〈…〉 , nor in him that runneth , is so written , because it consisteth of both ; that is to say , of the will of man , and of the mercy of God : to the ende , that we may so vnderstand that saying of Not of him that willeth , nor of him that runneth , but in God that sheweth mercy ; as thogh he said , The will of man is not sufficient of it selfe , and alone , if also Gods mercy doe not accōpany it , & that therfore the mercie of God by it selfe , and alone , doth not suffice , if also mans will goe not with it . THis earthly matter whereof the flesh of man is created , is not lost with God : but , into what soeuer dust or ashes it is resolued , into whatsoeuer vapors or coasts it is carryed , into whatsoeuer substance of other bodies , or the elements themselues it bee turned , into the flesh of whatsoeuer beasts or men it is incorporated and changed ; It returneth again in a moment of time to the same soule of man which at first breathed life into it , whereby it was made man , increased , and liued . keywords: againe; angels; apostle; bee; beeing; chap; christ; church; dead; death; doe; doth; euery; euill; faith; father; flesh; ghost; god; gods; good; grace; hath; haue; hee; hee bee; himselfe; holy; hope; life; loue; man; matter; men; nature; onely; owne; place; reason; saying; shall; sinne; things; time; vnto; vnto god; vpon; wee; world cache: A22701.xml plain text: A22701.txt item: #16 of 114 id: A25294 author: Ames, William, 1576-1633. title: The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian catechisme in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy laborer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ... date: 1659.0 words: 89477 flesch: 69 summary: And that the Lords day , or first of the week , or seventh is now by Divine authority appointed to us , that it be holily kept , appeareth : 1. From the ground and reason of the change , because as God from the beginning , appointed the seventh day of the week , or septenary circuit of dayes for his rest from Creating of things : So Christ appointed the first of the week , or of the seventh days of ordinary recourse , because on that day he rested from his penall and afflictious labours of his humiliation , or emptying himself , whereby he restored and created the world , as it were new again , unto a better condition than it had lost . 2. Because God according to his infinite wisedome hath so ordered things in Christ , that he can with safety to his justice , of his free mercy forgive us our sins . keywords: body; care; cause; christ; day; death; doct; end; faith; father; glory; god; gods; good; grace; hath; holy; law; life; like; lord; man; manner; men; nature; place; power; reas; reason; salvation; self; selves; sin; sins; son; spirit; spiritual; text; things; use; way; wit; words cache: A25294.xml plain text: A25294.txt item: #17 of 114 id: A26212 author: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. title: The meditations, soliloquia and manuall of the glorious doctour S. Augustine translated into English. date: 1655.0 words: 77815 flesch: 76 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 . keywords: behold; chap; creature; death; desire; doe; doth; earth; end; eternall; euen; euer; eyes; face; father; giue; glory; god; good; hart; hath; haue; heauen; holy; hope; ioy; life; lord god; lord thou; loue; man; mee; men; mercy; noe; o god; o lord; o thou; owne; praise; selfe; soe; sonne; soule; thee; thee o; things; thou; thou art; thou didest; thou dost; thou god; thou life; thou light; thou loue; thy; thyne; vpon; wee; whome; world cache: A26212.xml plain text: A26212.txt item: #18 of 114 id: A26345 author: Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653. title: The main principles of Christian religion in a 107 short articles or aphorisms, generally receiv'd as being prov'd from scripture : now further cleared and confirm'd by the consonant doctrine recorded in the articles and homilies of the Church of England ... / by Tho. Adams ... date: 1675.0 words: 60529 flesch: 76 summary: As to keep to the last instance , though it be a mans end ( in going to Church ) to hear a Sermon ; yet that is but a lower end , and that which he does only design in order to his chief end , which is to glorifie God , and to enjoy Communion with God , by hearing his word : This Question therefore ( What is the chief end of man ? ) is ( q. d. ) what is mans chief errand into the world ? or what did God make man for ? or what is the great business that should take up the greatest part of a mans time , thoughts , cares , affections , and endeavours , whilst he lives in the world ? or what is it that a man is principally to drive at in all his words , thoughts , and actions , in all his duties both to God and man , and in all his dealings with the world ? When it is here said , that Christ the Son of God became man , we are not to imagine that Christ did then lay down his Godhead , or that he did cease to be God , when he honoured mans nature so far as to take that upon him : for though he then began to be what he was not before , man ; yet he did not cease to be at his Incarnation what he was before , namely , God ; it being impossible altogether that the Godhead should admit of any change , because of its infinite perfection ; for every change is either for the better or for the worse , but the Godhead was infinitely ( as well as independently ) perfect , and consequently without all variableness or shadow of changing ; so that all the change which was in Christ at his Incarnation , it was in his humane nature only ; and that change was indeed for the better , for it was for the highest advancement , honour , and perfection that our nature was capable of . keywords: body; children; christ; commandment; covenant; day; doth; expl; faith; father; glory; god; gods; good; grace; hath; holy; hom; law; life; lord; love; man; mans; nature; power; prayer; righteousness; selves; sin; son; spirit; things; thou; thy; word; works cache: A26345.xml plain text: A26345.txt item: #19 of 114 id: A26694 author: Alleine, Joseph, 1634-1668. title: Remaines of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection of sundry directions, sermons, sacrament-speeches, and letters, not heretofore published ... date: 1674.0 words: 86123 flesch: 85 summary: He that converteth a sinner from the error of his wayes shall save a Soul from death , and shall hide a multitude of sins , If God requires that thou help thy Neighbours Ox and his Ass , how much more must thou help thy Neighbors Soul from hell ? ( Thirdly , ) Because this is the principal means of bringing glory to Christ. There are many persons ( I conceive ) that are so far convinced of the sinfulness of their duties , that they do not lean to these as their Righteousness before God , that those should obtain Gods favour , and their pardon ; yet they do conclude that this is an evidence that they have an interest in Christ ; and hereby they deceive their own souls - Object . keywords: brethren; christ; christ hath; come; day; dead; death; duties; duty; faith; glory; god; god doth; gods; good; grace; hast; hath; heart; heaven; jesus christ; life; lord; love; man; men; mercy; people; religion; self; selves; set; sin; sins; souls; thee; things; thou; thy; thy god; time; unto; way; work; world cache: A26694.xml plain text: A26694.txt item: #20 of 114 id: A26895 author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. title: The Christian religion expressed I, briefly in the ancient creeds, the Ten commandments, and the Lords prayer, and, II, more largely in a profession taken out of the Holy Scriptures, containing 1, the articles of the Christian belief, 2, our consent to the gospel covenant, 3, the sum of Christian duty, according to the primitive simplicity, purity, and practice, fitted to the right instruction of the ignorant, the promoting of holiness, and the charitable concord of all true believers ... / by Richard Baxter. date: 1660.0 words: 19375 flesch: 67 summary: And in order to these blessed ends , we must beg such necessaries of our life , as the supportation of our natures for the work of God requireth : And the forgiveness of all our sins through Christ ( which yet we cannot expect to receive , if we from our hearts forgive not others : ) And a gratious preservation from temptations , or the power of them , and from Satan and sin the greatest evils : That so the holiness of our hearts and lives may shew that we are the loyal subjects of the Kingdom of our Lord , and that we acknowledge and magnifie his Soveraign power , and live as a people devoted to his glory . The Eucharist or Supper of the Lord is [ a holy Sacrament instituted by Christ , wherein bread and wine being first by consecration made Sacramentally or representatively the Body and Blood of Christ , they are used by breaking and pouring out , to represent and commemorate the sacrifice of Christs Body and Blood upon the Cross , once offered up to God for sin : and are given in the name of Christ unto the Church , to signifie and solemnize the renewal of his holy Covenant with them , and sealing it unto them , and the giving of himself to them to expiate their sins by his sacrifice , and sanctifie them further by his Spirit , and confirm their right to everlasting life : and they are received , eaten and drunk by the Church , to profess that they willingly receive Christ himself to the ends aforesaid , ( their Justification , Sanctification and Glorification ) and to signifie and solemnize the renewal of their Covenant with him , and their holy Communion with him , and with one another . keywords: christ; christian; church; churches; communion; father; ghost; god; holy; lord; love; ministers; pastors; people; son cache: A26895.xml plain text: A26895.txt item: #21 of 114 id: A29649 author: Bromley, Thomas, 1629-1691. title: The way to the Sabbath of rest, or, The souls progress in the work of regeneration being a brief experimental discourse of the new-birth in which many of the serpents wiles are detected, the mysteries of the Cross unvailed, the death of the old man, the life of the new man, the angelical dispensation, with the entrance to the divine / clearly laid open and discovered by Mr. Thomas Bromley. date: 1692.0 words: 20573 flesch: 63 summary: But in the ordinary acceptation amongst Professing Christians , 't is used in the most restrained sense , for the first Change of the Soul , when the bent of the Heart begins to be habitually carried toward God in Christ . Now , as this flows from the lively apprehension of Gods Love in Christ , so likewise from the clear sight of Christ in us , and of that mystical transcendent Union , (p) betwixt him and the inward Man ; the Soul now beholding him in the ground and centre of her own pure humanity ( there thence darting forth the Rays of Love upon her , ) whom before she look'd upon as at a distance , without her , as only sitting at the right hand of God in Heaven . keywords: christ; cross; death; god; hath; heart; life; love; man; nature; new; objects; self; soul; spirit; state; things; way; work; world cache: A29649.xml plain text: A29649.txt item: #22 of 114 id: A30198 author: Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. title: Reprobation asserted, or, The doctrine of eternal election & reprobation promiscuously handled in eleven chapters wherein the most material objections made by the opposers of this doctrine are fully answered, several doubts removed, and sundry cases of conscience resolved / by John Bunyan. date: 1674.0 words: 22838 flesch: 73 summary: 3. Observe again , That whether the Vessel be to honour or to dishonour , yet the Potter makes it good , sound , and fit for service ; his fore-determining to make this a Vessel to dishonour , hath no perswasion at all with him to break or mar the Pot : Which very thing doth well resemble the state of man as under the Act of eternal Reprobation , for God made man upright , Eccles. 7.29 . V. Of the Unchangableness of Eternal Reprobation ? MAny Opinions have passed through the hearts of the Sons of men concerning Reprobation ; most of them endeavouring so to hold it forth , as therewith they might , if not heal their Conscience slightly , yet maintain their own Opinion , in their Judgement , of other things ; still wringing , now the Word this way , and anon again that , for their purpose : also framing within their Soul such an imagination of God and his acts in Eternity , as would suit with such Opinions , and so present all to the world . keywords: act; christ; doth; elect; election; god; good; gospel; grace; hath; man; mercy; reprobate; reprobation; sin; world cache: A30198.xml plain text: A30198.txt item: #23 of 114 id: A30200 author: Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. title: The resurrection of the dead and eternall judgement, or, The truth of the resurrection of the bodies both of good and bad at the last day asserted and proved by Gods word : also, the manner and order of their coming forth of their graves, as also, with what bodies they do arise : together with a discourse of the last judgement, and the finall conclusion of the whole world / by John Bunyan. date: 1665.0 words: 46519 flesch: 77 summary: Man in his Creation , was made in the Image of God , Gen. 1. 26. but man , by reason of his yielding to the tempter , hath made himself the very figure and Image of the Devil . Man by Creation , had all the faculties of his Soul at liberty to study God , his Creator , and his glorious Attributes and Being ; but man by sin , hath so bound up his own senses and reason , and hath given way for blindness and ignorance of God , so to reign in his Soul , that now he is Captivated , and held bound in alienation and estrangedness , both from God , and all things truly spiritually good ; Because , saith he , That when they knew God , they glorified him not as God , but became vain in their imaginations , and their foolish he arts were darkened . keywords: body; book; christ; day; dead; death; doth; fire; glory; god; good; hath; judgement; life; lord; man; men; nature; resurrection; saints; saith; shall; sin; soul; thee; things; thou; thy; world cache: A30200.xml plain text: A30200.txt item: #24 of 114 id: A30400 author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. title: A rational method for proving the truth of the Christian religion, as it is professed in the Church of England in answer to A rational compendious way to convince without dispute all persons whatsoever dissenting from the true religion, by J.K. / by Gilbert Burnet. date: 1675.0 words: 25308 flesch: 48 summary: Therefore whoever would deal with our Hectors in matters of Religion , must know men as well as Noti●n● and Books . Now the generality of that Church being perswaded that if they Confess with a little Attrition , and be Absolved and receive the Sacrament , they stand clear and innocent in the presence of God ▪ whatever their former life have been , or their present temper may be ; Is not here a very sure way to defeat the whole design of Religion and Holiness , when men are taught so ea●ie a way of getting into the favour of God without repenting of and forsaking their sins ? keywords: books; christian; christianity; church; doctrine; error; faith; god; good; hath; i. k.; life; men; miracles; reason; religion; roman; things; truth; way; world; worship cache: A30400.xml plain text: A30400.txt item: #25 of 114 id: A30628 author: Burthogge, Richard, 1638?-ca. 1700. title: An argument for infants baptisme deduced from the analogy of faith, and [of the] harmony of the [Scr]iptures : in which in a method wholly new, and upon grounds not commonly observed bo[th the] doctrine (of infants baptism) is fully asserted, and the objections against it are obviated / by Richard Burthogge. date: 1684.0 words: 42820 flesch: 52 summary: For thus in the Third of Gallatians , the Apostle carries it ; when Verse the 16th , he affirms , That to Abraham , and to his Seed , were the Promises made , and Verse the 18th adds , That if the Inheritance be of the Law , it is no more of the Promise ; but God gave it ( namely the Inheritance ) to Abraham by Promise : And by What Promise , but that ratified Covenant of Promise , I will be a God to thee , and to thy Seed ? As appears by comparing it with Verse the 16th . But your Admiration is More the Object of Mine , after you have Granted , that God commanded Abraham , ( Thou shalt keep my Covenant therefore , thou and thy Seed ) in General terms ; wherein , you say , both Sexes may seem to be comprehended , ( and indeed say I , are so ) for if he did command in General Terms , that Abraham , and all His ( Seed you say ) should keep the Covenant in the Sign and Token of it ; and yet afterward did Institute Circumcision to be that Sign and Token , which was not competent to all : How can the Generality of the Precept , ( Thou shalt put the Sign on all thine ; when Circumcision , that is Not competible to all , is that Sign ) be understood Accommodously and Conveniently , as it must be , but keywords: abraham; baptism; believing; children; christ; circumcision; covenant; doth; god; holy; isaac; law; obligation; promise; seed; sign; spiritual; text; thee; thou; thy; token; verse cache: A30628.xml plain text: A30628.txt item: #26 of 114 id: A30899 author: Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690. title: Quakerism confirmed, or, A vindication of the chief doctrines and principles of the people called Qvakers from the arguments and objections of the students of divinity (so called) of Aberdeen in their book entituled Quakerism convassed [sic] by Robert Barclay and George Keith. date: 1676.0 words: 42621 flesch: 49 summary: For the book of Nature or the meer natures of things being considered can not teach men what is supernaturall , and so it can not teach men that in all their actings they are to have a supernaturall end , nor can it teach them , that they are to love , feare , serve and worship God , from a supernaturall principle of Gods grace , which are the greatest duties required of man , and if it can not teach men , and convince them of their greatest duties , it followeth , that it can not convince them of the great sins , that are contrarie unto those duties . Seing this seed and spiriuall nature of Christ is one , and the same , both in him , and in us , it is most unreasonable to argue , that there are as many Christs as men , as it is unreasonable to argue , that becaus the soul of man is in all his members , that therefore , as many members as many souls . keywords: answer; apostles; argument; christ; church; deny; doe; doth; evidence; god; good; hath; inspiration; inward; life; man; men; nature; outward; pag; reason; scripture; seing; sin; spirit; spirituall; students; things; way; words; yea cache: A30899.xml plain text: A30899.txt item: #27 of 114 id: A30907 author: Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690. title: William Michel unmasqued, or, The staggering instability of the pretended stable Christian discovered his omissions observed, and weakness unvailed : in his late faint and feeble animadversions by way of reply to a book intituled Truth cleared of calumnies : wherein the integrity of the Quakers doctrine is the second time justified and cleared from the reiterate, clamorous but causeless calumnies of this cavilling cetechist [sic] / by Robert Barclay. date: 1672.0 words: 31628 flesch: 49 summary: to God only , aledging this distinction to be founded on Scripture , Luke . His second Section is to prove Salutations by words , which might have been spared until he had proved how and where we deny them , but because he had somthing to say from Scripture for this , which we deny not , but own as much as himself , he would have it in that he might seem with some credit to bring in his Inference , which is that bowing of the Body and expressing our Affection by words , is agreeable to Scripture : the Latter Part of this concerns not us as being not denied , and for the first , of bowing , it signifies nothing , until it be brought in with some more pressing Premisses , in this Section he acknowledges that takeing of the Hat is without any Scripture Warrant , and from Arguments passes here to Entreaties , Begging that it may not be Quarrelled at , but seeing the taking of it off or uncovering of our Heads is that which the Aopstle requires , as a signe of Subjection in our Worship towards God , 1 Cor. 11. 4 , 7. we Resolve to keep it to Him , and not to give it to man wherein if he will solve our Scruple , according to Scripture we may be the more easily Induced to answer his desire ; it is to be Observed that notwith-standing of this , we are not against outward Signification of Honour , though in the end of this Section he fasly would be Insinuating the contrary . keywords: answer; apostle; baptism; christ; day; doth; god; hath; light; man; men; pag; page; proof; quakers; reader; saith; sayes; scripture; sin; spirit; thing; words cache: A30907.xml plain text: A30907.txt item: #28 of 114 id: A30972 author: Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691. title: Autoschediasmata, De studio theologiae, or, Directions for the choice of books in the study of divinity written by ... Dr. Thomas Barlow ... ; publish'd from the original manuscript, by William Offley ... date: 1699.0 words: 21683 flesch: 71 summary: Fides est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , which some render , Persona , Substantia , Expectatio , &c. Now 't is very incongruous to affirm , That Faith is a Person , Substance , or Expectation ; for 't is an Accident , an Assent of the Understanding , and Truth is the sole Object of it : I do not mean Bonum futurum , for that is the proper Object of Expectation , or Hope . Fides est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , i. e. Fides est eorum quae sperantur d Confidentia , & eorum quae non videntur argumentum ; so e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 properly signifies ; and Hierom , and the Vulgar render it , Faith is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , i. e. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , such an Argument , as is the ground of all the Assurance and Confidence we have , or can have of Heaven . keywords: authors; barlow; bishop; books; canon; cap; church; col; concil; contra; councils; cum; discipline; divine; divinity; doctrine; edition; fathers; fol; folio; joh; juris; knowledge; lat; law; lib; lordship; lugd; octavo; original; pag; paris; patrum; publish'd; quarto; roman; rome; scripsit; scripture; seu; study; test; testament; text; theologiae; things; time; tom; use; vid; vide; vol; works; writ; writers cache: A30972.xml plain text: A30972.txt item: #29 of 114 id: A31366 author: Caton, William, 1636-1665. title: The testimony of a cloud of witnesses who in their generation have testified against that horrible evil of forcing of conscience, and persecution about matters of religion ... / composed together, and translated into English, by ... William Caton. date: 1662.0 words: 21588 flesch: 58 summary: It hath ever been my Iudgment , That want of Liberty and free exercise of Conscience in Spiritual matters , and the Contrary Imposed by worldly Power , and it remains still with me , That this is one main Cause of the woful Distractions in Kingdomes , of the unsetledness in States , and of many evil Consequences abounding in the Governments of the World ; and also the Cause wherefore the God of Heaven is angry and provoked against them , and for which Cause he will smite and wound , confound and overturn Kingdomes , Powers , and Authorities , even till he Reign whose Right it is ; who onely and alone , will Rule in the free exercise of Soul , Spirit , and Conscience , through the teachings of his own Spirit : And though much Opposition and great Contention have been made against this in the World , in which men have striven against their own good and welfare , yet there is a day , and it hastens to come in Power , when Imposition upon Conscience by outward worldly force in Cases Divine , will be banished the whole Fabrick of the Creation , and exiled into the pit of never-rising obscurity and darkness , and then shall the Sons of men be delivered from the Violence of it , and from all its miserable and mischievous Consequence ; Then shall the heritage of the Lord rejoyce in Ioy unspeakable , being delivered from the oppression under which she hath long mourned , travelled , and groaned in deep distresse ; Then shall Nations delight in amity one with another ; then shall Neighbours rejoyce in Society one among another ; and then shall Kings and Rulers love their Subjects and People freely , and People shall Obey and serve their Rulers with a willing and chearful heart and mind ; Hereby the God of Heaven should be Glorified , and all People become Blessed , Amity , Love , Unity , and Concord , and the first Creation order and Decree , would be restored between God and his Creatures , and also between man and man , in holy Covenant . The Prince of Orange said , We are not so unexperienced in the Doctrine of the Christian Religion , as that we do not know , that all those tyes of Conscience wreathed or turned of men , are to no purpose to bind man before God : People should not think it strange , nor therefore take up Arms ( said he ) because that many of the Inhabitants of this Country are become of another opinion , and simply declare themselves , yea against the Will of the Magistrates , which thing the Histories do testifie not to be new , but that such differences have been in the World in many Monarchies heretofore . keywords: christ; church; conscience; contrary; death; evil; exercise; faith; god; hath; hereticks; king; lord; man; matters; men; people; power; religion; spirit; spiritual; thee; things; truth; violence; weapons; world cache: A31366.xml plain text: A31366.txt item: #30 of 114 id: A31646 author: Chamberlen, Peter, 1601-1683. title: To the two lights of England, the two universities of this kingdom and to all their most worthy heads and members, truth, wisdom, and honour from God our Father through our Lord Jesus Christ. date: 1682.0 words: 1232 flesch: 68 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A31646.xml plain text: A31646.txt item: #31 of 114 id: A32847 author: Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693. title: A theological discourse of angels and their ministries wherein their existence, nature, number, order and offices are modestly treated of : with the character of those for whose benefit especially they are commissioned, and such practical inferences deduced as are most proper to the premises : also an appendix containing some reflections upon Mr. Webster's displaying supposed witchcraft / by Benjamin Camfield ... date: 1678.0 words: 69261 flesch: 74 summary: The Sadduc●es say [ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ] that th●re is no R●surr●ction , neither Angel n●r Spirit , Act. 23.8 . [ Minores & à summo Deo factos deos ] l●sser and made-Gods , as Plato speaks ; or as Hesiod calls the He●o●s ▪ [ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , S●mid●os ] Demy-gods ; or , as Se●●●● , keywords: angels; apostle; author; beings; bodies; body; call'd; calls; christ; church; dei; divine; doth; earth; est; evil; father; fear; fire; gen; glory; god; gods; good; hath; heaven; hebr; heirs; holy; host; ibid; incorporeal; life; light; like; lord; lord god; luke; man; manner; matter; matth; men; mind; ministers; ministry; nature; number; order; paul; place; power; praise; purpose; read; reason; saint; saith; salvation; saviour; scripture; sect; self; selves; soul; spirits; text; th ●; thee; things; thou; thy; time; way; words; world; ● d; ● o; ● t; ● y; ● ● cache: A32847.xml plain text: A32847.txt item: #32 of 114 id: A33721 author: Cole, Thomas, 1627?-1697. title: A discourse of faith in two points, viz ... / by Thomas Cole ... date: 1689.0 words: 26684 flesch: 55 summary: he purchased this and all other graces for us , by dying for us , he not only obtained pardon of Sin in our Justification , but all inherent Graces in the Saints come from Christ , he procured them for us , he works them in us , his sufferings being not only satisfactory for sin , but meritorious of grace to be bestowed upon us , though the Law can't sanctify a sinner yet Christ can , and 't is an act of special grace towards us when he doth , but he will first satisfie the Law and Justice of God , that being brought under grace by our free Justification , we may answer to the Law of grace in our sanctification , denying all Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts , living soberly and righteously here below as the redeemed of the Lord ought to do ; the Law commands perfect Obedience , but in case of Failure , the Gospel Promises Faith and Repentance , Zach. 12. 10. Our first Faith wrought in us upon the general proposal of Gospel Grace , contains in it a saving Conviction of Sin , 't is impossible to receive grace without it , grace is nothing to us , of no signification to us , but as it gives relief against sin , which we must have some sense of , before we apply our selves to the grace of God for Pardon , we must see something in our selves that wants a pardon , and which we are willing to repent of and forsake in Case of a pardon , Repentance is as true an effect of Faith , as Pardon and Comfort , Faith first brings a sinner to Christ under some hope of Pardon , and then busies it self in working Repentance , in order to a comfortable sense of Pardon . keywords: act; christ; faith; god; good; gospel; grace; hearts; justification; law; man; repentance; righteousness; self; sin; thing; way; word; works cache: A33721.xml plain text: A33721.txt item: #33 of 114 id: A33927 author: Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691. title: A brief discovery of the corruption of the ministrie of the Church of England, or, Three clear and evident grounds from which it will apear that they are no ministers of Christ published for the information of all by Thomas Colyer. date: 1647.0 words: 8500 flesch: 65 summary: Thirdly , This tenth of the spoil was given to Melchisedeck , and not to them ; therefore unlesse they prove themselves to be Melchisedeck , this Scripture will doe them no good at all , which I thinke they will not assume ; for he was an imediate Type of Christ : Hebr. 7. as were the Priests and Levites , to whom Tythes were due , and that by an Ordinance not of man , but of God . A brief discovery of the corruption of the ministrie of the Church of England, or, Three clear and evident grounds from which it will apear that they are no ministers of Christ published for the information of all by Thomas Colyer. keywords: apostles; christ; hath; man; men; priests; sell; spirit; time; tythes cache: A33927.xml plain text: A33927.txt item: #34 of 114 id: A34541 author: Corbet, John, 1620-1680. title: The point of church-unity and schism discuss'd by a nonconformist, with respect to the church-divisions in England. date: 1679.0 words: 16496 flesch: 58 summary: Local , presential Communion in Gods Ordinances , being a main end of erecting particular Churches , they should in all reason consist of Persons , who by their cohabitation in a vicinity are capable of such Communion , and there may not be a greater local distanc● of the Persons than can stand with it . All Christians of the same local Precinct are most conveniently brought into one and the same stated Church , that ●here might be the greatest Union among them , and that the occasion of straggling and running into several Parties might be avoided . keywords: bishop; case; christ; church; churches; communion; faith; god; hath; order; peace; religion; schism; spirit; state; terms; things; unity; ● ● cache: A34541.xml plain text: A34541.txt item: #35 of 114 id: A34597 author: H. C. (Henry Cornwallis), 1654?-1710. title: The country-curate's advice to his parishioners, in four parts I. Directs us, how to serve God on the Lord's day, II. On the week day, III. How to discharge our duty in our several relations, as husband and wife, parents and children, masters and servants, IV. How to prepare for death / by H.C. date: 1693.0 words: 16632 flesch: 71 summary: Before thou betakest thy Self to thy Closet , breath forth thy Soul to God at thy first awaking , in this , or the like , short Ejaculation . The very Heathens when they offered Sacrifice threw the Gall of the Beast away : and wilt thou offer to God the Gall of wrath , bitterness and revenge , with the Sacrifice of Prayer ? keywords: christ; church; day; god; good; heart; holy; house; life; lord; prayer; publick; self; soul; thee; thou; thy; time; worship cache: A34597.xml plain text: A34597.txt item: #36 of 114 id: A34848 author: Cox, Benjamin, fl. 1646. title: Some mistaken scriptvres sincerely explained in answer to one infected with some Pelagian errours / written by Benjamin Cox when he was first prisoner in Coventrie, now published by the author for the clearing of the truth. date: 1646.0 words: 3215 flesch: 84 summary: ●●●ording to the rigor and strictnesse of the Law . The naturall man rcceiveth not the things of the spirit of God , for they are foolishnesse unto him : neither can he know them , because they are spiritually discerned . keywords: doe; god; grace; man; text cache: A34848.xml plain text: A34848.txt item: #37 of 114 id: A35528 author: Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage. title: Of the unity of the church a discourse written a thousand four hundred and thirty years since, in the time of Decius the persecuting emperor / by Cyprian, bishop of Carthage and martyr ; most usefull for allaying the present heats, and reconciling the differences among us. date: 1681.0 words: 10265 flesch: 70 summary: What person therefore can be so impious , so perfidious , so raging mad with discord , as to imagin he can compass , or dare to attemt the rending the unity of the Godhead , the garment of the Lord , or Church of Christ ? WHEREAS our Lord instructing us hath said , You are the salt of the earth ; and commanded us to be simple as to the doing any wrong , and yet withall to join wisdom with our simplicity ; what can be more sit and becoming us , then that with watchfull diligence we should endeavour to understand , both what are the ambushes of our crafty enemy , and how to avoid them ? that we who have put on Christ the Wisdom of God the Father , may not seem destitute of wisdom in securing our salvation : for we are not only to fear that persecution , which by open force attemts the overthrow of the servants of God. keywords: christ; church; faith; god; hath; holy; lord; love; mat; men; peace; saying; text; thy; truth; unity cache: A35528.xml plain text: A35528.txt item: #38 of 114 id: A35833 author: Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688. title: The discovery of mans return to his first estate by the operation of the power of God in the great work of regeneration with a word to all saints who set their faces towards Sion to seek the Lord their God ... : a word to the back-slider who hath tasted of the good word of God ... : with a discovery of mystery-Babylon and her merchants .... / written by one whom the people of this world calls a Quaker, whose name in the flesh is William Deusbury, but hath a new name the world knows not written in the book of life. date: 1655.0 words: 12661 flesch: 50 summary: So every one see what you can witness of your return again unto God from whence you are separated by the disobedience and evill of your hearts , and see what is the ground of the hope of your callings , and by what power you are acted in your obedience unto God , whether by the power of the first Adam , or by the power of the second , for if thou upon the convincement of the evill of thy waies , doe not wait in the light , which is in thy conscience , that convinceth thee of the evill of thy doings , for power from the Lord to guide thee forth of the evill , which the light discovers , which would guide thee into the Kingdome of God , but thou runnest out into the wisdom of the first Adam , to seek the Kingdome of God in outward formes and observations according as thou comprehendest of the Saints practices , and thou imitatest their practices in thy wisdome , and though thou walk never so strictly in these outward formes , thou art alive in the first Adam , sewing fig-leaves together to cover thy nakedness , a peece of new cloth in an old garment , thou art putting new wine into old bottles , and art building up a tower to get up to God , in thy heathenish and Babylonish wisdom , and confusion will come upon thee : in the day when the Lord comes to look for fruit , thou wilt be found a fruitlesse tree that cumbers the ground : Cain , with his offering up sacrifice unto God in thy first nature , Esau seeking the birth-right with teares , who shall never find it , and all the fruit that is raised in thee is from Hagar the Bond-woman , and thou hast thy end for thy self in all that thou dost which is thy hire , which thou expectest in the end , life , for thy labour , and obedience , and thou regards not the glory of the Lord , and his fear is not before thine eyes ; therefore every man and woman , deal justly with your own hearts , under what name or title soever thou be , whether thou be a Teacher of others , or a Professor of what thou comprehendest to be truth from the Testimony the Saints gave forth , from the life and power of Christ that was in them , and thou expectest life in thy outward formes and observations , and mindest not to be guided by the light which is of Christ in thy own conscience , which light guided the Saints that gave forth the Scriptures , and while thou disobeyest that light , profess what thou wilt , thou art in the fall , first Adam is yet alive in thee , Cain is not yet banished , nor Esau reprobated , nor the bond-woman and her son cast out ; which are all figures and types of the first nature , which is yet alive in thee , and thy will is thy guide , and thy heart is in the earth , notwithstanding all thy profession , and thou art a painted beast , made drunk with the wine of the wrath of the Whore , which is thy wisdom , which comprehends ▪ that which thou never didst know manifest in it self , and sits deckt a well-favoured harlot , above the Crosse of Christ , thou wilt be found a Thief and Robber , who comes not in by the door Jesus Christ , but climbs up some other way ; and thus far went the Scribes and Pharisees , and the young man , who had kept the Commandements from his youth , but when he should have sold all for Christ , he went away sorrowful : And thus far went Paul when he persecuted Jesus Christ , according to the Law he walked blameless , and all thy strict walking to get life in observations according to the Letter , is striving again to get the tree of life by thy own power , who art fenced out with Cherubims , and a flaming sword which turns every way to keep the way of the tree of life : And if thou never ●…awest thy self senced out from the presence of God , notwithstanding all thy righteousness in observations , thou art not come so near God as to see the flaming sword , which is placed to meet thee in every way thou turnest to get life in thy own power , and to cut thee down and kill thee , ●…hat Christ may be thy life , thou art alive in the first Adam , and art in the death , for death reignes over all from Adam to Moses , and Moses is until the Prophets , and the Prophets till John , and John untill Christ , and if thou canst not witnesse that thou art come to Moses , profess what thou wilt thou hast not set thy face towards God , no●… one step in the strait and narrow way to eternal life , but art going the broad way to destruction , whatever thou be , whether a Teacher of others , or a Professor of what thou comprehendest to be truth from the Le●…ter of the Scripture , under what form , name , or title soever thou be , thou art a dead man , and a dead woman , and the wrath of God abides on thee , though thou see it not ▪ Rom. 7. 9. there Paul witnesseth , I was alive without the Law once , but when the Commandement came , sin revived , and I dyed . Friends , every one in particular , deal justly with your hearts , see what you can witness of your death with Christ by the powerful word of truth which enlightens the conscience , and condemns sin in the flesh , for every one would ascend with Christ to be partakers of the life and glory with him , but he becomes a stumbling stone to be baptized with him into his sufferings and death , to ascend with him into hell , and this thou must witness before ever thou come to sit with him in heavenly places ; for it is they , and they alone that shall reign with him , who suffer with him , and they that are dead with him shall live with him ; it is the dead that hears the voice of the Son of God , and they that hear shall live : Arise thou that sleepest in the dust of the earth , securely in thy earthly and Serpentine wisdom , thy mind feeding upon the dust of the earth , created objects which will perish ; arise , stand up to Judgement that Christ may give thee life : This is required of thee , O man ▪ to doe justly , love mercy , and to walk humbly with thy God ; examine thy heart , and deal justly with thy own soul ; there is a light in thy conscience , which light is of Christ , minding it will let thee see the mystery of iniquity that lodgeth in thy heart , which is deceitful and desperately wicked ; and this light in thy conscience which discovers unto thee the evil of thy heart , is of the etarnal Word of God , and was from the beginning , according as it is written in the outward testimony of the truth . keywords: christ; god; heart; law; life; light; lord; power; thee; thou; thy; word cache: A35833.xml plain text: A35833.txt item: #39 of 114 id: A36258 author: Dodwell, Henry, 1641-1711. title: Two letters of advice I. For the susception of Holy Orders, II. For studies theological, especially such as are rational : at the end of the former is inserted a catalogue of the Christian writers, and genuine works that are extant of the first three centuries. date: 1672.0 words: 57875 flesch: 55 summary: Then in both parts it were well ( in imitation of Origen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . ) to premise First what Propositions in every Article were to be taken for unquestionable , as being evident from Reason or Revelation as explained by Tradition ; and it would be more useful if it were distinctly shewn what kind of evidence agreed to every Proposition particularly . 11. ) perfect in teaching , in reproving , in correcting , in discipline ( so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies ) acts also peculiarly belonging to the Clerical Calling . keywords: account; actions; authority; authors; calling; cent; church; clergie; design; divine; divinity; duty; edit; end; general; god; good; holy; iii; life; means; men; nature; necessity; needs; new; order; persons; philosophers; practice; present; principles; publick; reason; self; sense; things; think; time; true; understanding; use; way; works; ● ● cache: A36258.xml plain text: A36258.txt item: #40 of 114 id: A36933 author: Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662. title: Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration. date: 1683.0 words: 21871 flesch: 71 summary: 4. That this Duty of external Reverence doth not then necessarily oblige , when the Soul being suddenly and inwardly moved to lift it self up by Prayer , the outward man is as it were surprized in some other posture : as walking , standing , sitting , or lying down ; in which case , God will rather look to the inward Motions and Raptures of the Mind , than to the outward Form and Composure of the Body . That Set Forms of Prayer are altogether necessary in Publick , cannot be denied , and needs not now be represented : They are abundantly useful even for private Christians also ; since it is not every one that can pray extempore in his Closet , and he that can , may notwithstanding be defective enough in the matter or manner of his Petitions : For though God principally respects the Heart and Affections of his Servants , and the Spirit helps our Infirmities with sighs and groans , yet we ought even in private to have an awful orderly regard of the Great God , to whom we address our selves ; and the Holy Spirit teaches us to pray , as with ardent Affections ; so with reverend humble minds , and not with disorderly , confused or unprepared approaches , and a rude confidence , without just ground or foundation : This is not to help or diminish our infirmities , but to augment them more . keywords: amen; body; day; father; god; grace; hast; hath; heart; holy; life; lord; prayer; reverence; self; sins; soul; spirit; thee; thou; time cache: A36933.xml plain text: A36933.txt item: #41 of 114 id: A37493 author: Dell, William, d. 1664. title: Baptismōn didachē, or, The doctrine of baptisms reduced from its ancient and modern corruptions and restored to its primitive soundness and integrity, according to the word of truth, the substance of faith & the nature of Christ's kingdom / by William Dell ... date: 1697.0 words: 12580 flesch: 50 summary: Baptismōn didachē, or, The doctrine of baptisms reduced from its ancient and modern corruptions and restored to its primitive soundness and integrity, according to the word of truth, the substance of faith & the nature of Christ's kingdom / by William Dell ... Baptismōn didachē, or, The doctrine of baptisms reduced from its ancient and modern corruptions and restored to its primitive soundness and integrity, according to the word of truth, the substance of faith & the nature of Christ's kingdom / by William Dell ... keywords: baptism; christ; god; iohn; kingdom; men; new; spirit; testament; water; word cache: A37493.xml plain text: A37493.txt item: #42 of 114 id: A38580 author: Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665. title: Nor truth, nor error, nor day, nor night, but in the evening there shall be light, Zach. 14. 6, 7 being the relation of a publike discourse in Maries Church at Oxford between Mr. Cheynel and Mr. Erbery January 11, 1646. date: None words: 10128 flesch: 77 summary: So the apostatized Churches ; that is , the Synagogues of Satan ; for Peter himself was called so , when he savored the flesh , the things of man , more then of God : So the Jews , that is , legal Church members , who have belied themselves into a liberty they have not , boasting because of their fleshly forms , and fellowships , that they are above other Saints ; these false Churches shall come down and worship at the feet of scattered Saints , who are gathered up into Christ , and with Christ into God ; they shall worship not them , but God in them , and confess that God is in them of a truth . But sure 't is cleer , That every man is brutish in his knowledge ; and though vain man would be wise , yet man is born but a wilde Asses colt ; yea , Man in honor understandeth not , but is like a beast that perisheth : So that man is the Beast , who counts himself wise , or to have the knowledge of a man , which the wisest man , even Agur the Prophet would not own , when he was to speak of Ithiel , and Ucal ; that is , of Christ , and God in Christ ; for Ithiel is the same with Immanuel , God with us ; and Ucal is a name , signifying power , as Christ is the wisdom of God , and power of God : So then , when man sees onely of the humanity in himself , the wisdom of man or power of man , and sees not God all in all , and the Godhead in him ; This is the Beast , this the number of his name , the number of a man ; when we shall overcome this , this manhood , this self , and submit to the Godhead in us ; when we shall see God onely manifest in our flesh , and the flesh nothing , profiting nothing , having no power , nor wisdom ; when thus we deny our selves , follow me , saith Christ ; follow him who is our forerunner , and gone before into the holiest , into the fulness of the Godhead with him ; then we are said to overcome and inherit all things . keywords: christ; father; flesh; glory; god; man; mystery; saints; son; spirit cache: A38580.xml plain text: A38580.txt item: #43 of 114 id: A39297 author: Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713. title: An account of tythes in general date: 1700.0 words: 5328 flesch: 61 summary: That Conclusion could not have been drawn , from the paying of Tythes to a wrong Ministry , or for a wrong Use only , though such Payment be evil : Nor could any thing justify that Inference , but the Consideration that Tythes , depending on the Ceremonial Law of Moses , which must of Necessity and in Course fall , and cease when Christ suffered ; the paying of Tythes , carries in it a Supposal , that that Law is not yet ceased , but is still in Force : And consequently that Christ , whose Death must needs have ended it , is not yet come , nor has yet suffered in his Flesh for Mankind . 4. As Tythes were set up here on the Authority of the Levitic Law , and in Imitation of the Iewish Practice , consonant to that Law : keywords: christ; church; head; king; law; levites; statute; tythes cache: A39297.xml plain text: A39297.txt item: #44 of 114 id: A39754 author: Fleming, Robert, 1630-1694. title: A discourse of earthquakes as they are supernatural and premonitory signs to a nation with a respect to what hath occurred in this year 1692, and some special reflections thereon : as also on that security and assurance of mind which is attainable in the light and power by the author of The fulfilling of the Scriptures. date: 1693.0 words: 30954 flesch: 31 summary: 4. It is also in this respect that the making a short work in the close of time , may be judged , that after such extraordinary Discoveries of God , and Methods of Grace , the final Opposition then made thereto by the World , will to the furthest , make way for the last decision of Judgment , when the Harvest of the Earth is thus ripened and made White , under such prodigious measures of Guilt , more than in all Ages past ; as the Righteous God will then be Interested in Vindication of his Glory , to shut up for ever , that long Period of his Patience and Long-sufferings . But as such a Reflection must be bounded with a Becoming Silent and Humble Admiration , as being too wonderful for us to think on ; so is it Matter for the highest Joy and Exultation of Spirit , that we should have this day such a Being as admits us to see and enquire upon the Glory of that Work , which he hath brought forth within time , so infinitely becoming the Perfections of the Deity ; and to have so clear a Discovery of the same , not only in the whole Dispensation of Nature and Providence , but as it 's more nearly relative to us in the Dispensation of Grace , and in the Speciality of that Work that he hath about each of his People in this Militant State ; yea , thus to see on what Security we are fixed against the greatest Hazards , and fear of future Events : It was on this account that the Psalmist here , bears so great and wonderful a Testimony for God , and to the sureness of their State , who have him to be their alone Refuge , and trust in the most extream Case . keywords: day; earth; evidence; faith; god; hath; judgment; light; lord; manner; nature; power; providence; respect; sense; spirit; things; time; way; work; world; yea cache: A39754.xml plain text: A39754.txt item: #45 of 114 id: A39932 author: Ford, Thomas, 1598-1674. title: Aytokatakritos or, the sinner condemned of himself being a plea for God, against all the ungodly, proving them alone guilty of their own destruction; and that they shall be condemned in the great day of account, not for that they lacked, but only because they neglected the means of their salvation. And also, shewing, how fallacious and frivolous a pretence it is in any, to say, they would do better, if they could; when indeed all men could, and might do better, if they would. By one, that wisheth better to all, than most do to themselves. date: 1668.0 words: 78306 flesch: 75 summary: Qu. 25. † Decret●m non tol●it lib●●tatem . As if they wanted nothing but Light , to see , whether he was the Messias indee● . keywords: account; answer; case; christ; day; death; doth; faith; god; gods; good; grace; hath; heart; heaven; hope; life; light; little; lord; love; man; means; men; nature; need; question; reason; religion; salvation; scripture; self; selves; shew; sin; souls; thee; thing; thou; thy; viz; way; wayes; work; world; yea; ● ● cache: A39932.xml plain text: A39932.txt item: #46 of 114 id: A41513 author: Gailhard, J. (Jean) title: A just and sober vindication of the observations upon the thirtieth of January, and twenty ninth of May by J.G.G. date: 1694.0 words: 27198 flesch: 48 summary: Now this Rubbish and Dung being laid out of the way , we must come to something else ; all his Spirits he hath spent in Ranting , Huffing and Hectoring , bare words , nothing besides , but we are not afraid of words ; when he Reviles he speaks his own Language , but we have not learned it ; he sometimes speaks in such a Strain as none but himself can understand , and I much doubt whether he understands every thing he saith : I expected such a Man would fairly have refuted my Arguments , and opposed my Reasons , which are still in force , his rough Wind could not blow them off : As to the Solid Part he hath given his Cause for lost : I thought in things of this nature , he would have made use of Scripture , the only Judge in such Matters , to have shewed I am in a Mistake and in an Error ; but I perceive the Word of God is to him an unknown Land which he hath not travelled into , except upon Mount Ebal to learn to thunder Curses ; he draws nothing out of Scripture , but instead of it borroweth much out of Fables and Stories , but with us upon such an account that 's no currant Money ; and doth he think we are so Credulous , as to take his bare word with a Magister dixit ; if once we give over Rambling , and come to close in the Solid part , he is no Dangerous Adversary , Periculum fiat , we shall soon try by the Grace of God ; but he , instead of answering any Reasons , flies off , and starts aside like a broken Bow ; he falls upon a general Accusation of Reformers and Reformation ; he ought first to have answered my Charge , and then brought in his ; his manner of Proceeding makes me call it Charge , though I intended nothing else , but in the Spirit of Meekness , to represent the Necessity of laying aside those things that prove a Stumbling-block and hinder Union and Reconciliation In the Land. Another thing , and that is very Important , we must speak of , He hath not been satisfied to abuse us in relation to things already mentioned , he hath , as it were to defie God himself , reviled our Holy Faith ; I am apt to believe , one word which drop'd from my Pen , and that is Arminianism , hath hit him to the quick , for now and then he is Spewing out his Venom concerning those Points against Grace , about those Matters which I look upon to be so Fundamental to true Christian Religion , if there was an occasion he should find me very Severe , but that is a large Field not to be entred upon at this time : The place wherein he chiefly foams out his Rage is Page 11. keywords: act; altar; answer; cause; church; day; doth; god; good; hath; king; language; leave; man; men; mind; observations; page; paul; place; reason; reformation; saith; things; time; way; word; worship cache: A41513.xml plain text: A41513.txt item: #47 of 114 id: A41780 author: Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692. title: Hear the church, or, An appeal to the mother of us all to all the baptized believers in England, exhorting them to stedfastness in the truth, according to the scriptures : together with some farther considerations of seven queries, sent to the baptized believers in Lincolnshire, concerning the judge of contriversies in matters of religion : in three parts / by Thomas Grantham. date: 1687.0 words: 22048 flesch: 61 summary: Sometimes the Church at Alexandria , sometimes the Church at Constantinople , and especially the Church at Rome , pressing very hard for Precedence of Honour , and Preheminence of Power ; few minding the poor afflicted Church at Jerusalem , the true Mother of all true Christian Churches ; when yet the Holy Ghost hath left a high Commendation upon those who do follow Her , both in the effectual Reception of the Gospel , not as the Word of such or such a man , ( though preached by Apostles ) but as it is in truth the Word of God , 1 Thess . And whether the first clear mention of it be not from Tertullian ? and whether the Learned do not confess that he opposed it in the third Century as an irrational and unwarrantable Custom ? Also , whether that Church , whose manner of admitting Persons into her Communion , her Constitution and Government , are according to the Scriptures , Mat. 28. 19 , 20. Heb. 6. 1 , 2 , &c. be not the true Church of Christ ? keywords: baptism; bread; christ; christian; church; churches; doctrine; faith; god; hath; holy; lord; man; men; scriptures; things; truth; word cache: A41780.xml plain text: A41780.txt item: #48 of 114 id: A42231 author: Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687. title: Hugo Grotius, Of the government and rites of the ancient church, conciliation of grace and free will, certainty and assurance of salvation, government of the highest powers in church affairs in a letter to the states embassador. date: 1675.0 words: 11649 flesch: 66 summary: Indeed , Cornelius was already endued with the spirit of the Law delivered by Moses : But 't is confest , the Law written in the hearts of men , and the Law of Moses , differ only in the manner of delivery , and the degree of clearness , not in substance : wherefore also this Law the spirit is ready to assist , calling to repentance : and I see not how he may be refelled , who believes God will cumulate the use of this gift with greater , according to that general sentence , Whosoever hath , i. makes use of former gifts , to him shall be given , i greater gifts shall be granted . The Question is , whether to the Conversion of man , any previous action of God be necessarily required ( I say previous , for of the concomitant there 's another reason ) besides the concession of sufficient strength . keywords: austin; church; divine; god; good; grace; hath; judge; judgment; king; man; molinaeus; right; saith; things cache: A42231.xml plain text: A42231.txt item: #49 of 114 id: A43754 author: Fox, George, 1624-1691. Sauls errand to Damascus. title: A brief relation of the irreligion of the northern Quakers wherein their horrid principles and practices, doctrines and manners ... are plainly exposed to the view of every intelligent reader : together with a (brief reply) to some part of a very scurilous and lying pamphlet called. date: 1653.0 words: 39103 flesch: 66 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. And for your Speakers , if ever there did arise false Prophets & Seducers , since Christs time , and since the Apostles fell asleep , as they have told us in their Sacred Writings , that there should , especially in the last Ages of the World ; I do as verily believe , and know them to be such , as if they were marked in the Forehead ; so exactly do they answer the Characters and Predictions of holy Scripture concerning this sort of men . keywords: answer; christ; coale; day; fox; god; good; hath; holy; house; iames; jesus; light; lord; man; master; men; ministers; nayler; parts; peace; people; priests; reader; relation; religion; saith; scripture; spirit; thing; thou; time; truth; way; word cache: A43754.xml plain text: A43754.txt item: #50 of 114 id: A44701 author: Howe, John, 1630-1705. title: A view of that part of the late considerations addrest to H.H. about the Trinity which concerns the sober enquiry, on that subject : in a letter to the former friend. date: 1695.0 words: 17229 flesch: 68 summary: For tho it will require more time than I now intend to bestow , to give a distinct account of every Passage throughout that Discourse of his , yet his Expression of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 must not be so taken , as if it were to be torn away from its coherence , and from it self . When therefore he says the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , the being unbegotten , begotten , and having proceeded , are not Names of the Essence , but ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) Modes of Subsistence ; he must mean they are not immediately Names of the Essence , but mediately they cannot but be so . keywords: body; distinct; divine; doth; enquirer; father; god; hath; infinite; man; self; son; thing; union; united cache: A44701.xml plain text: A44701.txt item: #51 of 114 id: A44985 author: Hall, John, 1627-1656. title: An answer to some queries propos'd by W.C., or, A refutation of Helmont's pernicious error (that every man is often born, and hath twelve ages of tryal allow'd him in the world by God) warmly contended for, in and about Lambourn in Wiltshire : in a letter to a friend. date: 1694.0 words: 6222 flesch: 60 summary: In all which time the Soul is absent from the Body 333⅓ Years ; and if these 12 times of Absence are computed one with another , the distance between every parting and meeting again of the Soul and Body , will be 27 Years , 10 Months and 2 Days . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. keywords: body; god; inquirer; man; men; tcp; text; time; world; years cache: A44985.xml plain text: A44985.txt item: #52 of 114 id: A45280 author: Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. 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. date: 1659.0 words: 36656 flesch: 52 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● . keywords: angels; body; condition; death; divine; earth; end; evill; eyes; faith; glory; god; good; hands; hath; heaven; hell; holy; infinite; joy; knowledge; lesse; life; light; lord; love; man; men; nature; order; place; power; presence; saints; sect; self; sin; soul; spirits; spirituall; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; time; way; whiles; world; ● ● cache: A45280.xml plain text: A45280.txt item: #53 of 114 id: A45313 author: Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. title: Satans fiery darts quenched, or, Temptations repelled in three decades : for the help, comfort, and preservation of weak Christians in these dangerous times of errour and seduction / by I.H. ... date: 1647.0 words: 44222 flesch: 67 summary: He , that when he was to encounter with the proud Giant , could before-hand arme himselfe with the proof of Gods former deliverances and victories , ( Thy servant slew both the lyon and the bear ; and this uncircumcised Philistim shall be as one of them ; ) now animates himself after the temptation against the spirituall Goliah , with the like remembrance of Gods ancient mercies , and indearments to his soule ; as well knowing that , what ever we are , God cannot but be himself ; God is not as a man , that he should lie , neither the son of man , that he should repent ; Having loved his own , which were in the world , he loved them unto the end : Hast thou therefore formerly found the sure testimonies of Gods favour to thee , in the reall pledges of his holy Graces ; live thou still , whiles thou art thus besieged with temptations , upon the old store ; know , that thou hast to do with a God , that can no more change , then not be : Satan cannot be more constant to his malice then thy God is to his everlasting mercies . Hath he not told us , that this mis-construed slacknesse is in mans vaine opinion , not in Gods performance ? He is slack to man that coms not when he is lookt for , he is really slack that comes not when he hath appointed to come ; Had the Lord broken the day which he hath set in his everlasting counsel , thou mightst have some pretence to cavill at his delay ; but now that he onely overstayes the time of our misgrounded expectation , ●he doth not slacken his pace , but correct our errour : It is true , that Christians began to look for their Saviour betimes ; insomuch , as the blessed Apostles were fayne to perswade their eyes not to make such haste ; putting them in mind of those great occurrences of remarkable change , that must befall the Church of God ( in a generall apostasie , & the revelation of the great Antichrist ) before that great day of his appearance . keywords: christ; death; doth; earth; evill; faith; god; gods; good; grace; hast; hath; heart; heaven; hell; holy; life; lord; love; man; men; mercy; owne; power; reason; saviour; selfe; sin; soule; spirit; temptation; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; time; truth; way; whiles; wicked; world cache: A45313.xml plain text: A45313.txt item: #54 of 114 id: A45462 author: Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660. title: A second defence of the learned Hugo Grotius, or, A vindication of the digression concerning him from some fresh exceptions / by H. Hammond. date: 1655.0 words: 7318 flesch: 52 summary: There having by way of Preface observed , that S. John did more expressely , then any other of the Evangelists and more early in the very first words of his writing , set down the divine nature of Christ , ipso initio Dei nomen ei assignandum — existimans , in the very beginning of his Gospel assigning him the name of God , accordingly , in his explication of the first verse , he makes the [ {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} In the beginning was ] an expression of Christ's eternity , applying to it the place in the Proverbs concerning wisedome c. 8. 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26. 1. and by so doing manifestly defines that eternal wisdome to be Christ ) and on this occasion he brings the most expresse affirmations of the antients Justine and Athenagoras , the former affirming Christ's praeexistence before the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , and p. 851. keywords: annotations; christ; god; grotius; hath; man; non; place; purpose; socinian; text; things; way; words cache: A45462.xml plain text: A45462.txt item: #55 of 114 id: A45472 author: Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660. title: A view of some exceptions to the practical catechisme from the censures affixt on them by the ministers of London, in a book entituled A testimony to the truth of Jesus Christ, &c. / by H. Hammond. date: 1650.0 words: 4595 flesch: 52 summary: 15. to lift up the soul to vanity , is to swear by the soul or life falsly , as it there followes , nor sworn to deceive his neighbour , and beside my own judgment in this matter , back'd with the consent of as learned as this age hath , or the Antient Church had any , I conceived that I had a most authentick warrant from Christ himself , who renders it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , thou shalt not forswear thy self : For so we read Mat. 5. Ye have heard that it was said to them of old , thou shalt not kill , and again in the same manner , thou shalt not commit adultery , that is , that of the ten Commandments delivered in Sinai , and brought down by Scripture , to them his present auditors , one Commandment was , thou shalt not kill , another , thou shalt not commit adultery , and so again in the very same form of words , another , Thou shalt not forswear thy self , from which I did assure my self ( and so still doe ) that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , is as directly the interpretation ( in Christs judgment ) of the first part of the third Commandment , as {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of the seventh and sixth , and so that it is undoubtedly no more the one then the other . 15. and it is this . That neither Paul nor James exclude or separate faithfull actions or acts of faith from faith , or the condition of justification , but absolutely require them , as the only things by which the man is justified . keywords: actions; christ; condition; faith; god; non cache: A45472.xml plain text: A45472.txt item: #56 of 114 id: A45530 author: Hardcastle, Thomas, d. 1678? title: Christian geography and arithmetick, or, A true survey of the world together with the right art of numbering our dayes therein being the substance of some sermons preached in Bristol / by Thomas Hardcastle. date: 1674.0 words: 45254 flesch: 47 summary: The Lord did spare thee , and continued thy life to thee , day after day : thou hadst much time , and many advantage , and thou didst not consider for what end God did this to thee : he laid out time for thee , and thou shouldest have laid out work for that time , have filled the vessel of time with good actions , the fruits of Righteousness that thou mightest have said with the Spouse , Here are all manner of pleasant Fruits new & old , which I have laid up for thee ! 2. Beg of God this blessed skill and art of numbring your daies aright ; do not think it a needless Petition , thou does not know that thou shalt die , unless God reveal it to thee , thou does not know that time will end , that there is an Eternity ; thou lives in this World very forgetful how transitory the state of all these things are ; the vulgar Proverb bears witness to vulgar practice , I thought as much of it as of my Death , as of the day of doom as of the worlds end . keywords: art; christ; condition; day; dayes; death; earth; end; eternity; faith; god; good; hast; hath; heart; life; lord; love; man; men; number; place; right; self; soul; thee; things; thou; thought; time; trouble; way; work; world; years cache: A45530.xml plain text: A45530.txt item: #57 of 114 id: A47055 author: Jones, John, d. 1660. title: Christvs dei, or, A theologicall discourse wherein is proved that regall or monarchicall power is not of humane but of divine right and that God is the sole efficient cause thereof and not the people : also, that every monarch is above the whole common-wealth and is not onely major singislis, but major vniversis : written in answer to a late printed pamphlet intituled Observations upon some of His Majesties late answers and expresses. date: 1642.0 words: 5384 flesch: 65 summary: And as for man in particular , God created him to his owne image and likenesse , endowing him with an understanding and a will , that he might know how to honour and love his Creator , and by such love and honour might finally become happy in the fruition of his eternall , unspeakable and inestimable Glory in Heaven : for means whereto , first God dictated certaine divine Precepts and Principles unto man , and imprinted them with his very Creation upon his naturall reason ( for which cause they are called divine naturall Lawes written in every mans heart , saith Saint Paul Rom. 2. 15. ) That every man might be equally Capable to know them , and equally obliged to obey them . But most certaine it is , that men , living divided and scattered over the face of the world without the instruction and assistance one of another , cannot possibly performe this for every particular mans behoofe , as is requisite . And therfore from this finall cause arose primarily a necessity amongst men to unite and combine themselves into civill Societies and Common-wealths . keywords: cause; civill; end; finall; god; king; man; men; people; power; regall cache: A47055.xml plain text: A47055.txt item: #58 of 114 id: A47199 author: Keith, George, 1639?-1716. title: The way to the city of God described, or, A plain declaration how any man may, within the day of visitation given him of God, pass out of the unrighteous into the righteous state as also how he may go forward in the way of holiness and righteousness, and so be fitted for the kingdom of God, and the beholding and enjoying thereof : wherein divers things, which occur to them, that enter into this way with respect to their inward trials, temptations, and difficulties are pointed at, and directions intimated, how to carry themselves therein ... / written by George Keith in the year 1669 ... : whereunto is added the way to discern the convictions, motions, &c of the spirit of God, and divine principle in us, from those of a man's own natural reason, &c. date: 1678.0 words: 56575 flesch: 50 summary: But this proceedeth from a great mistake in them , for that they do not judge aright of the divers manifestations and workings of God in the Souls of Men , according to their different states and conditions , for though the Presence of God be one , yet it hath its manifestations , after different manners , in the unholy and unclean , and in the holy and clean souls , as is somewhat above declared , for in the holy , he revealeth himself immediately , in great love , peace , joy , meekness , sweetness , and beauty , and suffereth the Soul to approach so near unto him ▪ as even to join in an union with him ; after a ma●ner unconceiveable to unholy Souls . And so , in relation to Men , this I say , that the Sufferings of Christ , and his Obedience , Life and Righteousness , both inwardly and outwardly , hath a very blessed influence upon Men , both to remove the Wrath , and also to remove Sin the cause of it , and to bring in everlasting Righteousness , to cover the Soul with , by a real participation of it , over and beyond all imaginary reckonings and imputation of man , ( though the imputation of God unto man , ●we own . ) keywords: body; christ; divine; doth; faith; fire; god; hath; heart; holiness; holy; inward; life; light; lord; man; measure; men; nature; outward; power; price; principle; seed; self; sin; soul; spirit; sufferings; thee; things; thou; thy; time; unto; way; work; yea cache: A47199.xml plain text: A47199.txt item: #59 of 114 id: A47200 author: Keith, George, 1639?-1716. title: The woman-preacher of Samaria a better preacher, and more sufficiently qualified to preach than any of the men-preachers of the man-made-ministry in these three nations / by George Keith. date: 1674.0 words: 11005 flesch: 50 summary: He who telleth a man or woman all that ever they have done , must be Christ : but this man has told all that ever I have done , therefore this is the Christ , or is not this the Christ ? And also before this time , the Lord made use of women , to witness , speak , or declare , and that unto the eleven Apostles , that Christ was risen from the dead , Luke 24.9 , 10. And was not this Convention a Church ? keywords: christ; church; god; hath; heard; lord; men; preacher; speak; spirit; woman; words; yea cache: A47200.xml plain text: A47200.txt item: #60 of 114 id: A49252 author: Love, Christopher, 1618-1651. title: The naturall mans case stated, or, An exact map of the little world man considered in both his capacities, either in the state of nature or grace / as is laid down in XVII sermons by that late truely orthodox divine, Mr. Christopher Love ... ; whereunto is annexed The saints triumph over death, being his funeral sermon, by that painful labourer in the Lords vineyard, Mr. Tho. Manton ... date: 1652.0 words: 76608 flesch: 65 summary: 1 If you respect the eternall decree and determination of God , so they were in Christ , for God did purpose to make Jesus Christ a Mediatour between God and man , by whose bloud they should be saved . so Christ he is our Sun of righteousnesse , take away Christ from a man , and there wil no blossomes of grace bud forth in that mans heart : Adams stock is a barren root , upon which no branch of grace will spring forth ; you can never bring forth any fruit unto God , unlesse you be graffed not upon Adams Stock , but upon the Stock of the root of Jesse ; a man during his unconverted estate , he is the Devils slave , and he never brings forth fruit , till he come to be in Christ ; only in and through Christ , we are enabled to bring forth acceptable fruit unto God. keywords: apostle; body; christ; christ hath; church; covenant; day; death; doe; doth; god; good; grace; hath; heart; heaven; hope; interest; jesus christ; law; life; lord; love; man; men; misery; people; promise; sayes christ; sayes god; sin; sins; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; time; way; world cache: A49252.xml plain text: A49252.txt item: #61 of 114 id: A50172 author: Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. title: The way to prosperity a sermon / preached to the honourable convention of the governour, council, and representatives of the Massachuset-Colony in New-England on May 23, 1690 by Cotton Mather. date: 1690.0 words: 11613 flesch: 74 summary: We find them in the Sacred Book of Chronicles , which Chronicles are not the Civil Records , in other parts of the Bible refer'd unto ; but an Inspired History of things that concerned the Line of Christ and the Church of God for five hundred more than Three Thousand years . 6. The Lord is on my side , I will not fear ; what can man do unto me ? We may then defie , even the Gates of Hell it self , for , Cur metuat hominem homo in sinu Dei positus ? and tho' abroad at this day , The earth is removing , and the Waters roar , and are troubled , and the mountains are shaking , splitting , tumbling , with the swelling thereof ; Tho' the great and the terrible God be at this Day , coming out of His place , to make all Europe a stage of blood and fire , and make the Nations everywhere drink deep of the Cup that shall make them giddy with all manner of Confusion & Astonishment ; Yet WE shall be helped right early , for God is in the midst of us . keywords: countrey; day; england; english; god; lord; man; new; peace; people; presence; tcp; text; things; world cache: A50172.xml plain text: A50172.txt item: #62 of 114 id: A50402 author: Maynard, John, 1600-1665. title: The law of God ratified by the gospel of Christ, or, The harmony of the doctrine of faith with the law of righteousness wherein many of the types and rites of the ceremonial law are unfolded, and the moral law adjusted a rule of holy living to all, though justified by faith / as it was delivered in several sermons preacht to the parochial congregation of Mayfield in Sussex by Mr. Mainard late rector thereof, publisht since his death. date: 1674.0 words: 80535 flesch: 69 summary: That which we have , Psal. 40. is applied to Christ by the Apostle , Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire , mine ears hast thou opened : burnt offering and sin-offering hast thou not required : then said I , Lo I come , in the volumn of the Book it is written of me , I delight to do thy will O my God , yea thy Law is within my heart : his heart was filled with the love of God , and full of the Law of God , he was freely ready to do or suffer any thing for his Fathers glory . 1 Joh. 3. 8. at large unfolded , Christ God imprest on our nature in himself , the absolute perfection of that holiness the Law required of mans nature , Christ hath fully satisfied the Law , and accomplisht the Prophecies concerning him , which was God , the coessential word , who made all , supports all in heaven and earth , and doth it as primary efficient cause and final for his own glory , so was without robbery equal with God , yet became man , uniting the humane nature to the Godhead , which supported the humane nature , gave value to the sufferings of it , in which nature , he made under the Law , was in capacity of suffering the Curse , which the Godhead , fountain of life and blessedness was not liable to : Who come not to Christ , are expos'd to all that their sins deserve , and the Law threatens : Sin then is bitter , and will be the shame of Sinners . keywords: apostle; believers; blood; christ; church; death; doctrine; faith; god; gospel; grace; hath; heart; holiness; holy; israel; jesus christ; justification; law; light; lord christ; love; man; men; nature; offering; people; righteousness; sacrifice; sin; sins; son; spirit; things; thou; thy; truth; way; works; world cache: A50402.xml plain text: A50402.txt item: #63 of 114 id: A50868 author: Milner, John, 1628-1702. title: A brief examination of some passages in the chronological part of a letter, written to Dr. Sherlock in his vindication in a letter to a friend. date: 1700.0 words: 4783 flesch: 62 summary: 1. I cannot see the coherence , particularly of that last passage , if Nehemiah were born 470 years before Christ , and writ in the 347 th year before Christ , then he was about 104 years old ; for from the year 470 before Christ , to the year 347 before him are 123 years ; so that this Gentleman had express'd himself more coherently , if he had said , Then he was about 124 years old . This Gentleman tells us , pag. 9. that Jaddus might have been born any year before his Father Johanan came to be High-Priest , and that he suppos'd him born 30 years before in compliance with the most Learned Primate : Which Primates Judgment , he notwithstanding this , departs from in other particulars of this view , ( as to omit other instances ) when the Primate re●ers Nehemiah's coming from Sasa to Jerusalem , to the 454th year before Christ , this Gentleman refers it to the 445th year before him . keywords: darius; gentleman; nehemiah; pag; sanballat; time; years cache: A50868.xml plain text: A50868.txt item: #64 of 114 id: A50917 author: Milton, John, 1608-1674. title: Of true religion, hæresie, schism, toleration, and what best means may be us'd against the growth of popery the author J.M. date: 1673.0 words: 5180 flesch: 61 summary: Heresie therefore is a Religion taken up and believ'd from the traditions of men and additions to the word of God. If any man shall add , &c. If any man shall take away from the Words , &c. With good and Religious Reason therefore all Protestant Churches with one consent , and particularly the Church of England in Her thirty nine Articles , Artic. 6th , 19th , 20th , 21st , and elsewhere , maintain these two points , as the main Principles of true Religion : that the Rule of true Religion is the Word of God only : and that their Faith ought not to be an implicit faith , that is , to believe , though as the Church believes , against or without express authority of Scripture . keywords: church; faith; god; men; popery; religion; scripture; tcp; text; word cache: A50917.xml plain text: A50917.txt item: #65 of 114 id: A53723 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: The principles of the doctrine of Christ: unfolded in two short catechismes, wherein those principles of religion are explained, the knowledge whereof is required by the late ordinance of Parliament, before any person bee admitted to the sacrament of the Lords Supper. For the use of the congregation at Fordham, in the county of Essex. By John Owen pastor there. date: 1645.0 words: 12971 flesch: 90 summary: What is the intercession of Christ ? A. His continuall soliciting (10) of God on our behalf , begun here in fervent prayers , continued in Heaven , by appearing as our advocate at the Throne of Grace , Psal. 2.8 . Q. 4. How know you them to bee the word of God ? A. keywords: bee; chap; christ; cor; ephes; god; heb; hee; ioh; joh; rom; wee cache: A53723.xml plain text: A53723.txt item: #66 of 114 id: A53727 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: A short and plain answer to two questions: I. Where was your religion before Luther? II. How know you the Scriuptures to be the word of God? By a Protestant. date: 1682.0 words: 7085 flesch: 63 summary: As , Who gave you Authority to call in question the Scriptures ? How dare you insinuate doubts into any Christians mind concerning the Truth and Authority of that Book , which is the Rule of our Duty both to God and Man ? In this manner I presume , they would answer my Queries , nor do I know any better way : And just thus it is in the Case before us ; for , from these very grounds it will appear , that the Scriptures have proceeded from God. keywords: answer; god; good; man; men; question; scriptures; tcp; text; things; truth; world cache: A53727.xml plain text: A53727.txt item: #67 of 114 id: A53932 author: Hobson, Paul. title: Sound doctrine, or, The doctrine of the Gospel about the extent of the death of Christ being a reply to Mr. Paul Hobson's pretended answer to the author's Fourteen queries and ten absurdities : with a brief and methodicall compendium of the doctrine of the Holy Scriptures ... : also of election and reprobation ... : whereunto is added the fourteen queries and ten absurdities pretended to be answered by Mr. Paul Hobson, but are wholly omitted in his book. date: 1657.0 words: 23365 flesch: 66 summary: And for as much as God hath tied himself that he will not work Physically upon man , nor irresistibly , but by gentle perswasions upon hopes of glory , and feares of punishment , and the devil hath not power to work otherwise then by alurements , and promises , and threatnings , which he is not able to perform : I say , because God will not , and the devil cannot work upon man , otherwise then by perswasions , therefore it comes to passe that all men are neither saved nor damned , but onely those saved that are willing to let the Lord work on them , and also are willing to work with him , in purifying and cleansing themselves from sin ; and onely those damned , that refusing Gods work , do yield themselves to the working and works of Satan . And for the other places , they prove no more , but that God loves man before he loves God ; but they do not prove that God doth not love him more after he loves God , then before . keywords: answer; christ; doth; election; faith; god; gods; good; gospel; grace; hath; man; men; sin; spirit; truth; word; work cache: A53932.xml plain text: A53932.txt item: #68 of 114 id: A54059 author: Fox, George, 1624-1691. title: Some principles of the elect people of God in scorn called Quakers date: 1671.0 words: 49245 flesch: 63 summary: And such act out of his Life in the Reprobation , out of his Power and Wisdom , and out of the Election , Christ , the Seed , the second Birth , who was before the Carnal Birth was , and remains when he will be gone , unto which the Love of God is for ever , and unto whom is the Promise , which goeth over the outward Birth , and destroyes the Devil and his works , who went from Truth , and led man from God , by which the Curse , Wrath and Woe came upon Man , which Christ the Seed , brings the Blessing , and gives man to see the blessed state of all things , how they were in the beginning , and how they were blessed in the beginning ; and through Christ , Man comes up into the power , which is his Throne , where there 's Blessing and no Curse at all . Man was perfect without sin before the Fall , or else he could not have been the Image of God ; for God is pure and perfect , and he made man after his own Image pure and perfect without sin , but when he sinned he defaced his Image , and lost his pure estate , and was drove out of Paradice , and became the Image of the Devil , for sin is the Image of the Devil , and here all sin is in the Fall , and who are in the Fall are in the Devils kingdome , which is impure and impefect , and unclean ; but God promised the seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpents head , Gen. 3.15 . and Christ the seed said , he was come to preach deliverance to the captive , and to heal the broken hearted , and to seek that which was lost , and to bring again that which was driven away , and this was his work ▪ to redeem to man that which man had lost . keywords: apostles; christ; church; death; father; flesh; god; hath; heart; holy; law; life; light; lord; man; men; people; power; prophets; saith; scriptures; seed; sin; spirit; state; things; time; truth; way; witness; word cache: A54059.xml plain text: A54059.txt item: #69 of 114 id: A54064 author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679. title: Some sensible, weighty queries, concerning some things very sweet and necessary to be experienced in the truly-Christian state whereunto is added A postscript, containing some queries on Isa. 50. 10, 11. A scripture of deep counsel & concern to the darkned and distressed states, of some among those that fear & obey the Lord. Written by one, who hath been sorely darkned and distressed, for a long season, but at length mercifnlly [sic] enlightned & comforted by the hand which afflicted & distressed him, Isaac Penington. date: 1677.0 words: 4605 flesch: 77 summary: Is it a Fear taught by the Precepts of men , or a Fear springing from the Root of Life within ? Can any who receive this Fear from God , and who are preserved in the sense of it ( and in the holy Awe and Reverence which it produceth ) depart from the holy , tender , living God and Father ? O how Happy is he , who hath received the true Understanding from God , which cannot be deceived ; wherein he hath the Evidence and Demonstration of God's Spirit concerning them , and knoweth the Truth as it is in Jesus ; as it is in his Life , in his Spirit , in his Power , who ministers after the Power of an Endless Life unto all his Sheep , wo are returned to the Shepherd and Bishop of the Soul , who hear his Voice and follow him , wherever he goes or leads , who is an eternal Shepherd and eternal Door of Life to his , and leads to precious Pastures , and sweet still Sreams of Life , and is giving the sweet Food , Rest and pure Pleasure of Eternal Life unto his abundantly , even as it is his Will , that after their many sore Trials , Exercises and Travels ( & Faithfulness to him therein ) they should abundantly possess and enjoy it . keywords: god; isa; life; lord; spirit; thou cache: A54064.xml plain text: A54064.txt item: #70 of 114 id: A54072 author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679. title: To the Jews natural, and to the Jews spiritual with a few words ro [sic] England my native country, &c. : some sensible, weighty queries, concerning some things very sweet and necessary to be experienced in the truly-Christian state : whereunto is added a postscript, containing some queries on Isa. 50, 10, 11 ... / by Isaac Penington. date: 1677.0 words: 15508 flesch: 69 summary: Now if this be the new Covenant , the Covenant of the Gospel-Church , then they are the Gospel-Church , who are the People o● God according to this Covenant ; who have the law put by God into their inward parts and writ in their hearts ; and so according to this law and covenant , have God to b● their God , and are his People , and are taugh● by him to know him ( as it is written , All th● Children shall be taught of the Lord , Isa . 54.13 & John 6 45. ) and whose unrighteousnes● God hath been merciful to , and whose sins and iniquities he remembereth no more , being washed away from their Consciences by the Blood of the everlasting Covenant , which th● Blood of Bulls and Goats could never do . WHat a day of distress , and revelation of the righteous Judgment of God , is to come upon the wicked and ungodly World ( even upon man , who was created in the Image of God , but is now fallen from it , and found out of it , and in another Image very unlike it ) the eye which the God of this world hath blinded , and the heart which he hath hardened by sin and transgression , hath no sense of . keywords: church; covenant; day; god; hath; heart; holy; inward; life; lord; outward; people; power; spirit cache: A54072.xml plain text: A54072.txt item: #71 of 114 id: A54206 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The sandy foundation shaken, or, Those so generally believed and applauded doctrines ... refuted from the authority of Scripture testimonies, and right reason / by W.P. ... date: 1668.0 words: 13076 flesch: 55 summary: This is the right state of the Controversie that is maintained by us ( contemptibly called Quakers ) against the World , and the undoubted reason of our severe Treatment at its hands , the end of God Almighties raising us , being for no other purpose than to declare that which our eyes have seen , our ears heard , and which our hands have handled of the Eternal Word , in opposition to the private Opinions , Conjectures , and Interpretations of men concerning God and Religion , that all people might thereby be reduced to Faith in , and obedience of the Universal Grace which brings Salvation ; which as it onely can restore sound Judgment concerning God , and effect Redemption from Iniquity , so its being relinquish'd by men , was the very ground both of their division in Judgment , and corruption in Manners . 1. If there be three distinct and separate Persons , then three distinct and separate Substances , because every person is inseparable from its own Substance ; and as there is no person that 's not a Substance in common acceptation among men , so do the Scriptures plentifully agree herein ; and since the Father is God , the Son is God , and the Spirit is God ( which their Opinion necessitates them to confess ) then unless the Father , Son , and Spirit , are three distinct Nothings , they must be three distinct Substances , and consequently three distinct Gods. keywords: christ; doctrine; father; god; holy; love; man; persons; reason; righteousness; satisfaction; scripture; son; spirit cache: A54206.xml plain text: A54206.txt item: #72 of 114 id: A54381 author: Nicols, Thomas. title: An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of that ever-famous and reverend divine, Mr. William Perkins / by Tho. Nicols. date: 1654.0 words: 33692 flesch: 86 summary: 1. It causeth Man to excuse sin , or cloak it , as when a Man by his outward service of God doth excuse his inward impiety ; Mark . The fifth difference of sin of Commission is , Sinning upon knowledge , and out of self malice against God . keywords: act; christ; commandment; doth; eph; evil; faith; fall; god; gods; good; heart; holy; joh; life; man; matth; pag; psal; rom; sin; sins; spirit; things; use; word cache: A54381.xml plain text: A54381.txt item: #73 of 114 id: A54833 author: Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691. title: A correct copy of some notes concerning Gods decrees especially of reprobation / written for the private use of a friend in Northamptonshire ; and now published to prevent calumny. date: 1655.0 words: 33263 flesch: 75 summary: So that here is no matter for man to boast on ; he having nothing which he hath not received , no not so much as his {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} It is God that makes the difference , as well as God that chooseth . For the very same Letter which threatens the publishing of papers falsly bearing my Name , cals me the Grandchilde of Pelagius , the Enemy of God , of Christ , and of his Church , with more such {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , then I will ever repay in kinde . keywords: absolute; adam; austin; beleeve; betwixt; cause; christ; death; decree; deus; doth; election; end; est; fall; god; god doth; gods; good; grace; hath; lesse; man; men; nature; necessity; non; power; praescience; punishment; reason; reprobation; respect; rom; scripture; second; sed; self; sin; sins; thing; way; word cache: A54833.xml plain text: A54833.txt item: #74 of 114 id: A55108 author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. title: A plea for the late accurate and excellent Mr. Baxter and those that speak of the sufferings of Christ as he does. In answer to Mr. Lobb's insinuated charge of Socinianism against 'em, in his late appeal to the Bishop of Worcester, and Dr. Edwards. With a preface directed to persons of all persuasions, to call 'em from frivolous and over-eager contentions about words, on all sides. date: 1699.0 words: 33208 flesch: 64 summary: Once more , 1 Sam. 6. 3 , 4. If ye send away the Ark of the God of Israel , send it not empty , but in any wise return Him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ( not Sin but ) a Sin-offering — then said they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yet in the very next Verse the Sense of the Word is chang'd , and that very Kid which is offer'd , is call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 — So verse 29. keywords: accuser; baxter; betwixt; cause; christ; christ suffer'd; cou'd; god; justice; law; man; mediator; oblig'd; person; punishment; sense; shou'd; sin; sinners; sins; suffer'd; sufferings; thing; vertue; way; words; wou'd cache: A55108.xml plain text: A55108.txt item: #75 of 114 id: A55386 author: Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679. title: A model for the maintaining of students of choice abilities at the university, and principally in order to the ministry with epistles & recommendations, and an account of the settlement and practise of it in the universities from the doctors there : as also with answers to such objections as are most plausible, which may be made against it : and with the names of the trustees. date: None words: 9375 flesch: 60 summary: 3. That the Trustees proceed in all things without partiality , as they shall judge best for the publick good , and suffer not themselves to be byassed from it by any favours or recommendations whatsoever : And particularly that in the election of Schollars , or Trustees , when there are any vacancies , the Trustees declare themselves , that they will according to their Trust proceed therein with all fidelity and integrity : And that the Clerk put the Chairman in mind of it . 2. That those Doctors of the University , &c. who are Trustees , be desired ( so far as they can ) to take special notice of the Exhibitioners , and to enquire into their proficiency in their studies , and the godlinesse of their conversations , and admonish or advise them , as they see cause , and give notice to the Trustees at London , when occasion shall require : Also that they be entreated to direct them in the course of their studies , and resolve them in difficulties , as need requires . keywords: church; divers; god; good; hath; men; ministry; parts; persons; trustees; university; way; work cache: A55386.xml plain text: A55386.txt item: #76 of 114 id: A57248 author: Richardson, Samuel, fl. 1643-1658. title: The saints desire, or, A cordiall for a fainting soule declaring that in Christs righteousnesse onely ... there is life, happiness, peace ... also the happy estate of a man in Christ ... / by Samuel Richardson. date: 1647.0 words: 83492 flesch: 87 summary: Christ lives in our hearts by faith , by it wee obey God : faith makes Christs yoke easie and sweet ; the fruition of God is all the soule can desire ; faith helps the soule to this , it puts the soule into possession of heaven while the body is on earth ; by it we view the glory of heaven , to know its worth , to enjoy the purchaser and purchase it selfe , by faith we know our selves to be happie , even then when to a carnall eye we seeme most miserable ; by faith we can part with the sweetest outward comforts , and welcome death , because wee know we leave the worst place and things , and goe to better ; they that live by faith , live upon God himselfe , and are feasted in our Lord Jesus banquetting house , where there is all the desirable dainties , and enough . Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ? Shall tribulation , or distresse , or persecution , or famine , or nakednesse , or perill , or sword ? I am perswaded that neither death , nor life , nor Angels , nor principalities , nor powers , nor things present , nor things to come , nor height , nor depth , nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God , which is in Christ Jesus our Lord , Rom. 8. 35. 38 , 39. keywords: beleeve; christ; come; cor; doe; faith; god; gods; good; grace; great; hath; heart; heb; isa; joh; life; lord; love; man; mat; men; mercy; psal; rom; selfe; sin; sinne; soule; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; time; wee; word; yee cache: A57248.xml plain text: A57248.txt item: #77 of 114 id: A57386 author: Roberts, Francis, 1609-1675. title: The true way to the tree of life, or, The natural man directed unto Christ by Fran. Roberts ... date: 1673.0 words: 40334 flesch: 85 summary: 2. Hence , you may evidently See , and must needs conclude ; That there is so great a necessity of a Supernatural Remedy , against this your Natural State of Sin and Misery , and against all the Sinfulness of your Natural Conversation , by the Application of Jesus Christ unto your Souls , and the Effectual operation of his Spirit to that End upon your hearts : That without such applying of Christ by Faith unto you h , and the operation of his Spirit in and upon you , by Effectual Calling , Conversion , Regeneration , Renovation and Sanctification , you can never Enter into the kingdom of God , and be Eternally Saved i . If thou art without this spiritual breathing , this Spirit of Prayer , thou art without the Spirit of Life from Christ , and remainest dead in Sin. ( 4 ) Art thou not without all vital Heat and Spirit , warmth of heart , desire , love , and all good affections towards God , Christ , his people , and his wayes : and even stone-cold as to all matters of Religion , Devotion , divine Worship , as carnal men use to be ? Rev. 3. 15 , 16 Then thou art not only mortally ●ick ; but quite dead in Sin , stretched-out , and ready to be buried in the infernal pit . keywords: act; art; christ; cor; day; death; eph; faith; god; gods; grace; hath; heart; heb; ioh; life; luk; man; mat; nature; psal; rom; self; sin; sins; soul; spirit; state; thee; thine; thou; thy; time; world cache: A57386.xml plain text: A57386.txt item: #78 of 114 id: A57960 author: Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680. Way of happiness and salvation rescued from vulgar errours. title: Two discourses; viz. A discourse of truth. By the late Reverend Dr. Rust, Lord Bishop of Dromore in the Kingdom of Ireland. The way of happiness and salvation. By Joseph Glanvil, chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty date: 1677.0 words: 30470 flesch: 58 summary: Now that Things are what they are , and that there are mutual Respects and Relations Eternal , and Immutable , and in order of Nature antecedent to any Understanding either created or uncreated , is a thing very plain and evident ; for it 's clearer than the Meridian Light , that such Propositions as these , Homo est animal rationale , Triangulum est quod habet tres angulos , are not arbitrarious dependancies upon the Will , Decree , or Understanding of God , but are Necessary and Eternal Truths ; and wherein 't is as impossible to divide the Subject , and what is spoken of it , as it is for a thing not to be what it is , which is no less than a Contradiction ; and as indispensible are the mutual respects and relations of things both in Speculatives and Morals . And this is another branch of this second Absurdity , from the deniall of the intrinsecal and eternal respects and relations of things , that a man would not have any assurance of future Happiness ; for though it be true indeed , or at least we fancy to our selves that God hath sent Jesus Christ into the world , & by him hath made very large and ample promises , that whosoever believes in him and conforms his life unto his Precepts , shall be made heir of the same Inheritance and Glory which Christ is now possessed of and invested with in the Kingdom of his Father , yet what ground have we to believe that God does not intend onely to play with and abuse our Faculties , and in conclusion to damn all those that believe and live as is above expressed ; and to take them only into the Injoyments of Heaven and Happiness , who have been the great Opposers of the Truth , and Gospel , and Life and Nature of Jesus Christ in the world : for if there be no eternal and indispensible Relation of Things , then there 's no intrinsecal Evil in Deceiving and Falsifying , in the damning the Good , or saving obstinate and contumacious Sinners ( whilst such ) notwithstanding any promises or threatnings to the contrary : and if the things be in themselves indifferent , it is an unadvised Confidence to pronounce determinately on either side . keywords: difficulties; discourse; divine; doth; endeavour; evil; faith; god; good; grace; happiness; hath; love; man; meer; men; nature; perfection; religion; self; selves; sin; state; things; truth; understanding; way; world cache: A57960.xml plain text: A57960.txt item: #79 of 114 id: A59692 author: Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649. title: Subjection to Christ in all his ordinances and appointments the best means to preserve our liberty : together with a treatise of ineffectual hearing the word ... : with some remarkable passages of His life / by Thomas Shepard ... date: 1657.0 words: 54124 flesch: 77 summary: 1. Every one professing his name is made for God , for Christ , as Lord of Lords , unto whom every knee must bow , and inwardly subject . saith David ; I have kept the wayes of the Lord , and have not wickedly departed from my God : and though it hath had many quarrellings against the truth of God , yet now it hath not , nor dares not , but sayes , Lord , teach me ; the Lord gives them hearts to lye down at the feet of any man that shall shew them any thing that is amisse in them , and they say with David , Lord , search me , and try me : I have many crooked wayes , and therefore , good Lord , find them out , and therefore come to the Lord for that end ; and though there be something in them that is desperately contrary to the good wil of God , yet there is an inward man that does delight in the law of God , and when the Lord is pleased to give them an heart to submit to the will of God ; keywords: bondage; christ; church; day; doth; god; gods; good; government; hath; heart; kingdome; law; liberty; life; lord; lord jesus; love; man; means; men; ordinances; peace; people; power; sin; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; time; word; ● ● cache: A59692.xml plain text: A59692.txt item: #80 of 114 id: A59840 author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707. title: A practical discourse concerning death by William Sherlock ... date: 1689.0 words: 75152 flesch: 38 summary: There are two or three places of Scripture , which are urged in favour of the contrary opinion , 14 Job 5. Seeing his days are determined , the number of his months are with thee , thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass . 7 Job 1. Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth ? are not his days also like the days of an hireling ? Which refer not to the particular period of every Man's life , but as I observed before , to the general period of humane Life , which is fixt and determined , which is therefore called the days or the years of Man , because God has appointed this the ordinary time of Man's life ; as when God threatens , that the Wicked shall not live out half their days , that is , half that time which is allotted for men to live on Earth ; for they have no other interest in these days , but that they are the days of a man , and therefore might be their days too . Man , who is so long a Child , and by such slow steps arrives to the use of Reason , and by that time he has got a little Knowledge , and is earnestly seeking after more ; by that time he knows , what it is to be a Man , and to what purpose he ought to live , what God is , and how much he is bound to Love and Worship him ; while he is ennobling his Soul with all Heavenly Qualities and Vertues , and Coppying out the Divine Image ; when the Glories of Humane Nature begin to appear , and to shine in him , that is , when he is most fit to live , to serve God and Men ; then I say , either this mortal Nature decays , and dust returns to its dust again , or some violent distemper or evil accident cuts him off in a vigorous age , and when with great labour and industry he is become fit to live , he must live no longer . keywords: baptism; bodies; body; christ; day; death; dying; faith; fear; god; good; grace; happiness; heaven; life; lives; man; men; nature; pleasures; present; reason; repentance; sin; sins; soul; state; things; time; world; years cache: A59840.xml plain text: A59840.txt item: #81 of 114 id: A60952 author: South, Robert, 1634-1716. title: A table of the additions and alterations made in the second edition of the Animadversions upon Dr. Sherlock's book of the Trinity date: 1693.0 words: 5425 flesch: 68 summary: And I refer him to all the Greek Lexicographers ( not one of them excepted ) whether they do not render 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by in Tartarum detrudo , dejicio , or praecipito ; and if so , how can 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 possibly here agree with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; for if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be the Term ad quem of the Act , how can 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be so too ; since one single Act can have but one Ultimate Term ad quem ? And even this Man himself does not allow 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be one and the same thing . And besides this , I must tell him further , That if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 imported the Term , Thing , or Place , into which God cast down the Apostate Angels , it ought not to have been 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , forasmuch as the motion of casting down , importing a Local descent to something , the Dative Case cannot in true Grammar answer it . keywords: author; book; edition; english; pag; tcp; text cache: A60952.xml plain text: A60952.txt item: #82 of 114 id: A61014 author: Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647. title: The fountaine of free grace opened by questions and answers proving the foundation of faith to consist only in Gods free love, in giving Christ to dye for the sins of all, and objections to the contrary answered by the congregation of Christ in London, constituted by baptisme upon the profession of faith, falsly called Anabaptists : wherein they vindicate themselves from the scandalous aspersions of holding free-will, and denying a free election by grace. date: 1648.0 words: 7752 flesch: 82 summary: Q. VVhat are those glad tydings ? A. Peace and remission of sins by Christ , Rom : 10 15. Ephes. Luke 2. 10. 14. & 10. 5. 24. 47. Acts 13. 38. Q. Ought al men to believe remission of sins in Christ ? A. Yea surely , in as much as Christ hath required remission of sins to be preached to all in his name , and nothing is required of any to be made partakers of that remission but only faith to believe it , Rom. 3. 28. Gal. 2. 16. Q. Are all mens sins then remitted in Christ , as a truth to be preached to , and to be observed by al though men be not yet believers . keywords: christ; faith; god; rom; sins cache: A61014.xml plain text: A61014.txt item: #83 of 114 id: A61396 author: Steele, Richard, 1629-1692. title: A plain discourse upon uprightness shewing the properties and priviledges of an upright man / by Richard Steele ... date: 1672.0 words: 39351 flesch: 81 summary: Surely where the Mind is sound , and the Heart sincere in the Main , grains of allowance should be granted for some Errors of the understanding and Failings in the Conversation ; lest we deal with others , as we would be loath to be dealt with , either by God or Men. 1. From Allegations of Satan . 168 2. From the Censures of men . keywords: christ; conscience; day; doth; fear; god; gods; good; grace; hath; heart; heaven; holy; hypocrite; integrity; life; lord; love; man; men; plain; psal; religion; sect; self; shew; sin; soul; thee; thing; thou; thy; truth; upright; uprightness; way; word cache: A61396.xml plain text: A61396.txt item: #84 of 114 id: A63577 author: Bissel, Mr. title: A true narrative of the Portsmouth disputation, between some ministers of the Presbyterian, and others of the Baptist, persuasion, concerning the subjects and manner of baptism held in Mr. Williams's meeting-place there on Wednesday, Feb. 22. 1698/9. The managers for the Presbyterians were, Mr. Samuel Chandler of Fareham. Mr. Leigh of Newport in the Isle of Wight. Mr. Robinson of Hungerford in Berks, moderator. For the Baptists were, Dr. William Russel of London. Mr. John Williams of East Knoyle in Wiltshire. Mr. John Sharp of Froome in Somersetshire, moderator. Transcribed from two copies taken at the dispute; the one by Mr. Bissel Town-Clerk of Portsmouth, and the other by Mr. Samuel Ring. Revis'd and publish'd by Dr. William Russel. date: 1699.0 words: 34755 flesch: 77 summary: You Argue thus , because 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Them , is of the Masculine Gender , it must agree with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Disciples , being of the same Gender : And not with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , all Nations . If 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath no other Antecedent agreeing therewith but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , then none are to be Baptized but such as are first made Disciples by the Ministry of Men , which Infants are not capable of . keywords: argument; baptism; baptizing; chandler; christ; church; commission; dipping; disciples; god; hath; infants; instance; john; know; leigh; russel; subjects; water; way; williams; word cache: A63577.xml plain text: A63577.txt item: #85 of 114 id: A63706 author: Rust, George, d. 1670. Funeral sermon preached at the obsequies of the Right Reverend Father in God Jeremy Lord Bishop of Down. title: Clerus Domini, or, A discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness, and separation of the office ministerial together with the nature and manner of its power and operation : written by the special command of King Charles the First / by Jer. Taylor. date: 1672.0 words: 45418 flesch: 50 summary: We know , who sacrific'd a Hecatomb for one Mathematical Demonstration ; and another that upon the like occasion cry'd out , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , in a kind of Rapture . In execution of this power and pursuance of this commission , for which the power was given ; the Apostles went forth , and all they upon whom this signature passed , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , executed this power in appropriation and distinct ministery : it was the sword of their proper ministery ; and S. Paul does almost exhibite his Commission and reads the words , when he puts it in execution , and does highly verifie the parts and the consequence of this argument ; God hath reconciled us to himself by Christ Iesus , and hath given to us the ministery of reconciliation ; and it follows , now then we are Embassadors for Christ. keywords: apostles; authority; body; christ; christian; church; clergy; duty; ghost; god; good; gospel; grace; hath; heaven; holy; honour; institution; lib; life; lord; love; man; men; ministery; nature; necessity; office; order; ordination; paul; people; persons; power; prayer; priest; priesthood; publick; reason; religion; sacrifice; solemn; souls; spirit; things; way; words; work; world cache: A63706.xml plain text: A63706.txt item: #86 of 114 id: A64198 author: R. T. title: The opinion of witchcraft vindicated in an answer to a book intituled The question of witchcraft debated : being a letter to a friend / by R.T. date: 1670.0 words: 12713 flesch: 39 summary: Here he tells you that the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is taken in Scripture sometimes for the gift of Oracling , sometimes for the person that has such a gift : this is as much , and no more , than if he had told you that he is pleas'd to understand it so ; I confess as an Oracler may be understood , that is , for one that takes and gives answers from the Devil , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , may have that signification ; for ob properly signifies a Daemon , or an evil Spirit , and so the best Hebricians expound it : now this being the true sence of the word ob , I see no reason for blaming our Translatours , who have not at all erred from the Original in this place . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 having a Spirit of Divination ( as our Translation renders it ) and in the eighteenth verse , Paul turning himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , he said to the Spirit , I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her , and it came out that same hour . keywords: answer; argument; art; devil; god; men; opinion; reason; sayes; scripture; things; time; witchcraft; witches cache: A64198.xml plain text: A64198.txt item: #87 of 114 id: A64258 author: Taylor, Thomas, 1618-1682. title: A loving exhortation to all kings, princes, potentates, bishops and people in the whole Christendom wherein is a distinction betwixt the true and false teachers ... / written by Thomas Taylor. date: 1666.0 words: 5498 flesch: 61 summary: So there are two Spirits , the Spirit of Christ , and the spirit of the evil World : and two sorts of Teachers accordingly ; the one hears the voice of God in Christ , and in the strength of this Spirit , goes forth with the Word of God , and Gospel of Truth in their heart and mouth , in obedience to God , and pure love to the Soul of man , and not for filthy lucre , nor any worldly end whatsoever ; and these the true Seed , Gods Little Ones , Lambs and Sheep hear , love and are one with , meerly for the Truths sake , which is one , and endures for ever . A Loving Exhortation , TO All Kings , Princes , Potentates , Bishops and People in the whole Christendom , &c. O Ye Kings , Princes , Potentates , and Rulers of the Earth , we desire not your Thrones , Honours , Places or Dignities , neither do we envy you for them : for we have enough in God our Reconciled Father , who hath made us Kings and Priests to himself by Jesus Christ , spiritually to reign over the evil in the World , and to offer up our selves in righteousness to his Glory ; and this is our Crown , and that which we strive after in a pure Conscience ; for we are not of those that fight with flesh and blood , and with carnal weapons , for an earthly Crown , but such as in the strength of Almighty God are taught with spiritual weapons to war only against that Mystery of Iniquity and Power of darkness that captivates the pretious Soul of Man , and keeps it short of the Glory of God ; desiring from the truth of our hearts , that neither the Soul nor Body of any may perish , but that this Wicked one , which is the Enemy of both , may be destroyed out of the Earth , in this day of Christ , by the Spirit of his mouth and brightness of his appearing ; that so the whole Creation of God may be delivered from Bondage , to stand in its holy Order , to the glory of the Creator , as in the beginning ; that so he may take delight in the Children of Men , and make his abode with them , as at that time , when the Morning Stars sung for joy , and all was full of beauty and sweetness , and no Death in them . keywords: christ; god; light; lord; man; people; saith; spirit; world cache: A64258.xml plain text: A64258.txt item: #88 of 114 id: A64661 author: Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661. title: The judgement of the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland 1. Of the extent of Christs death and satisfaction &c, 2. Of the Sabbath, and observation of the Lords day, 3. Of the ordination in other reformed churches : with a vindication of him from a pretended change of opinion in the first, some advertisements upon the latter, and in prevention of further injuries, a declaration of his judgement in several other subjects / by N. Bernard. date: 1658.0 words: 27420 flesch: 56 summary: And that this gradus is both derived from the pattern prescribed by God in the Old Testament ( where that distinction is found in the Title of the Chief Priest , who had the rule of the rest , called by the LXX 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) and from the imitation thereof brought in by the Apostles , and confirmed by Christ in the time of the New ; The Primate hath so fully confirmed in that learned Tractate of his , of the Originall of Bishops , which he hath deduced from the Apostolicall times ; that I know not what can be added ; And even for that higher gradus of a Metropolitan , or Arch-Bishop , to have been also Apostolicall , he hath , from the superscription of John , to the seven Churches , ( each of which Cities being Metropolitical , and the rest of the Cities of Asia daughters under them ) given very strong probabilities , hard to be gain-said ; unto which ( as an excellent comment upon this Letter ) I shall refer the Reader . Of the ordination in other reformed churches : with a vindication of him from a pretended change of opinion in the first, some advertisements upon the latter, and in prevention of further injuries, a declaration of his judgement in several other subjects / by N. Bernard. keywords: answer; arch; armagh; articles; bishop; book; cap; christ; church; churches; day; death; doctor; doctrine; doth; england; est; god; gods; good; grace; hath; ireland; judgement; letter; lords; man; mercy; non; opinion; ordination; person; primate; sabbath; saith; satisfaction; time; truth; use; viz; way; word cache: A64661.xml plain text: A64661.txt item: #89 of 114 id: A64998 author: Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678. title: The wells of salvation opened, or, Words whereby we may be saved by Thomas Vincent. date: 1668.0 words: 50888 flesch: 59 summary: First he telleth them of his Trance at Ioppa , and the Vision which himself had of the Vessel descending from Heaven with unclean Beasts in it ; and the command from Heaven to eat , not calling that common and unclean which God had cleansed ; the Lord hereby giving him to understand , That like as under the Law , though there were divers kinds of meats forbidden , and therefore unclean , and unlawfull to be eaten ; yet under the Gospel , that prohibition being taken off , and the meats sanctified by the word of Gods command or allowance , believers might freely eat of them without sin : So also , though under the Law , before the coming of Christ , the people of God in the Nation of the Iewes , where only the Church of God was to be found , were to separate themselves from all heathen Nations as unclean , and it was unlawfull for them to go in and eat with Heathen or Gentile persons , lest they should be defiled and enticed by such familiar converse with them , unto their Superstitions and Idolatries ▪ yet God having before foretold and promised the accession of the Gentiles unto the Church ; and under the Gospel having sent his Son , who brake down the middle wall of partition between the Iewes and the Gentiles ; and having sanctified the Gentiles by his Spirit and Faith ; they were no longer to be accounted unclean , and therefore it was as lawfull for the believing Iewes to eat and converse with them as one with another . In regard of purity , they have not the least tincture of sin ; the most holy persons on earth are not without some remainders of defilement : In regard of neerness unto God , they dwell with God in Heaven , and behold his face continually ; we are on earth , and see but his back-parts , and what we see it is but darkly and thorow a glass : keywords: angels; christ; death; doth; faith; god; gods; gospel; grace; hath; heart; heaven; law; life; lord; man; men; ministers; peace; people; power; preaching; salvation; selves; sin; sinners; sins; souls; spirit; things; unto; use; way; word; work; ● ● cache: A64998.xml plain text: A64998.txt item: #90 of 114 id: A65303 author: Watson, Thomas, d. 1686. title: The mischief of sinne it brings a person low / published by Thomas Watson ... date: 1671.0 words: 18478 flesch: 87 summary: 4. Sin must needs bring a person low , because sin is the only thing God hath an antipathy against . Sin conjures up all the winds ; * all the crosses which befall us , all the storms in conscience , sin raiseth them . keywords: affliction; christ; day; death; devil; doth; est; fear; fire; god; gods; good; grace; hath; heart; heaven; hell; iniquity; isa; lord; love; low; man; men; people; person; pride; psal; saith; sin; sinner; sins; soul; text; thee; thou; wicked; world cache: A65303.xml plain text: A65303.txt item: #91 of 114 id: A65309 author: Watson, Thomas, d. 1686. title: Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ... date: 1682.0 words: 46086 flesch: 88 summary: Christs blood is not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 : not only a Sacrifice to appease God , but a Propitiation to ingratiate us into Gods favour , † and make him look upon us with a smiling aspect . Indeed such as have no Fear of God do sometimes hope , but it is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Good hope through Grace , 2 Thessa. 2.16 . keywords: away; book; branch; children; christ; day; death; doth; doth god; father; fear; fear god; god; god saith; godly; gods; good; grace; hath; heart; heaven; hell; holy; jewels; life; lord; love; man; men; people; psalm; religion; saints; set; sin; sins; son; soul; things; think; thoughts; thy; time; vse; wicked; world cache: A65309.xml plain text: A65309.txt item: #92 of 114 id: A65465 author: Wesley, Samuel, 1662-1735. title: The pious communicant rightly prepar'd, or, A discourse concerning the Blessed Sacrament wherein the nature of it is described, our obligation to frequent communion enforced, and directions given for due preparation for it, behaviour at, and after it, and profiting by it : with prayers and hymns, suited to the several parts of that holy office : to which is added, a short discourse of baptism / by Samuel Wesley ... date: None words: 61171 flesch: 65 summary: The general Nature of Repentance , consists in a thorough Change of Heart and Life , so as to hate all Sin , and turn to God ; to love God more than the World , or our Lusts , or even , than our own Lives , in the prevailing bent , the settled Choice of our Minds , and to evidence this by keeping his Commandments : To live in the course of no greater Sin , such as Drunkenness , Swearing , Uncleanness , neglect of Publick Worship , or the like ; which waste the Conscience , and are a perfect Contradiction to true Repentance , and must be left immediately , as we would avoid eternal Misery : not to indulge so much as Sins of Infirmity , nor to say , is it not a little one ? such as sloth , passion , forgetfulness of our Duty in some Instances , wandring Thoughts , or the like : for a Christian is to fight against all Sin , and such as are at first comparatively little , yet do all deserve God's Anger , and eternal Punishments , and will if they are neglected , grow bigger , and at last perhaps , irresistible . I say , true Repentance is a thorough Change , of the whole Man , the Principles , Inclinations and Desires , as well as outward Actions ; and hence it 's call'd in Scripture , the New-Man , the New-Heart , the New-Creature , because we are all by Nature the Children of Wrath , and guilty of Original Sin * ; nor is there any who has lived to years of Discretion , but what has made that sad use of his Reason , to sin against his Maker , and to commit many actual Transgressions , if not to fall into grosser habits of wickedness ; from which God knows , very few can say they are wholly innocent in this degenerate Age : Now there is no way to recover from this , and to escape God's Anger , but by forsaking Sin , with the greatest abhorrence and detestation . keywords: baptism; blood; body; bread; children; christ; christian; church; communion; covenant; death; end; faith; god; good; grace; great; heaven; holy; life; lord; love; man; nature; persons; preparation; repentance; sacrament; saviour; sins; thee; things; tho; thou; thy; time; world cache: A65465.xml plain text: A65465.txt item: #93 of 114 id: A65809 author: White, Thomas, d. 1682. title: The practice of Christian perfection wherein several considerations, cautions, and advices are set down, for the perfecting of the saints, and completing them in the knowledge of Christ Jesus / by Thomas White ... date: 1651.0 words: 24076 flesch: 50 summary: I answer to that , that there are two kinds of perfections in God , communicable and incommunicable : incommunicable are called those , not which the creature cannot have , but which the creature ought not to have , as to do all things for its own glory ; for a creature may do all things for its own glory , but ought it not so to do ; not onely because it is folly in the creature to do so ; for glory is a thing of ornament , & man is a poor creature that wants things necessary ; and it is folly for man to buy Jewels to adorn him , while he is ready to starve for want of garments to cloath him ; but it is because it is incommunicable to the creature ; that is , God and the creature cannot do things for their own glory without thwarting one another ; for if man do things for his own glory , then it must needs follow that he doth it not for the glory of God , and so thwarts the end that God proposeth to himselfe , and to all creatures , viz. For none will unbosome himselfe unto an Enemy , nor mayst thou think to master God by thy Learning , and know him whether he will or no ; for God must manifest himselfe , or else thou canst never know him , and he will not manifest himselfe to thee except thou love him , though thou beest never so learned or great a Politician , keywords: christ; day; doth; enemies; god; good; hath; heaven; holy; lord; love; man; men; set; spirituall; thee; things; thou; thoughts; thy; wee; word cache: A65809.xml plain text: A65809.txt item: #94 of 114 id: A65874 author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723. title: The nature of Christianity in the true light asserted in opposition to antichristianism, darkness, confusion, & sin-pleasing doctrines : being a looking glass for sin-pleasing professors of all sorts / written upon particular occasion herein signified, by a servant of Christ, G. Whitehead. date: 1671.0 words: 28844 flesch: 59 summary: AN Epistle Explanatory To the Unprejudiced READER· COntention , especially with perverse spirits , that desire it , and seek occasion for it , is not a thing desireable to me ; howbeit , for the living and precious Truth 's sake , and that living effectual faith which was once deliver'd to the Saints , I am one necessitated earnestly to contend , being brought forth and rais'd up by the Power of the Living God for that end , against perverse Gainsayers and peevish Opposers : One of whom I find one ROBERT GORDON , in a second piece of Antichristianism , stuft with Confusion , Perversion of Scriptures , Abusing and Belying the People call'd Quakers ; though he hath given it the Title of Christianity Vindicated , but therein hath discover'd a great deal of his own , and of his Tutor's Ignorance of the very Nature of Christianity , as concerning those weighty matters of Salvation ; to wit , Reconciliation , Justification , and Redemption ; which in the true nature and sense thereof are in this Treatise unfolded , according to the holy Scriptures ; although this man hath grosly wronged divers of us , by accusing us , as if we did oppose and seek to overthrow the plain Testimonies and Voices of all the Prophets and Apostles , concerning the True Saviour , or the Man Christ Jesus , whom we have frequently confessed , both as to his Divinity , and as to his taking upon him the Body , prepar'd for him to do the Will of God in , according to the Scriptures of Truth ; yea , both his outward and inward Appearance , his Suffering Nature , and Glorified State , and his Divinity in both we have always truly believ'd and confess'd ; even his Dignity , Spiritual Out-goings from of old , from everlasting ; as also his outward Birth , and coming in the fulness of time in that Body , wherein he shew'd forth Innocency , Preacht Righteousness , wrought Miracles , suffered Contradictions , Crucifying , and Death , by wicked hands ; together with his Glory , Dignity , Resurrection , and glorious Triumph ; as a Captain , as a Conqueror , Leader , and Example through all : These things have a Spiritual and Divine Impression upon us , and a place in our hearts ; through that eternal Spirit , by which Christ offered up himself a Lamb without Spot , and a Sacrifice of a sweet smelling Savour to God ; which things being so openly and frequently own'd by us , according to the Scriptures of Truth : We cannot but look upon it as a wilful Perversion and wicked Abuse in this R. G. or any others , contrariwise to represent us , when ( as to him ) we have only oppos'd his confus'd dark Testimony , which is without Life , and much of it without Sense or Reason ; although pervertedly he hath interwoven some Scriptures , abus'd by him in it : Howbeit , he saith , He hath testified to what he received of the Lord , and witnessed through and under the Ministry of those I ca●l Presbyterians and I●dependants . Here is still thy old Story , with thy additional Excuse of purchasing and payment to lessen the dignity and worth of the Spirit of God , and its Qualification and Work within ●s ; as if God did not value the same Spirit of his , and its work in his People now , as formerly in Christ and his Followers ; whenas it is the same Spirit by which Jesus Christ offered up himself a Lamb without Spot to God , and that rais'd him up from the dead , which also quickeneth true Believers : But thou preferest the Suffering of the Body before the Spirit , and layest all the stress upon it , as the only cause of Redemption , Justification , &c. and the Works of the Spirit but as the Effect thereof : How darkly hast thou herein consulted ( and set the Flesh above that Spirit , which is the cause of Spiritual Effects ) for without the eternal Spirit , his Body could not be offer'd nor rais'd , nor the Saints quickened . keywords: body; christ; death; faith; god; hath; jesus; jesus christ; law; life; light; man; man christ; pag; power; redemption; sin; son; spirit; thee; thou; works cache: A65874.xml plain text: A65874.txt item: #95 of 114 id: A66039 author: Wilkins, John, 1614-1672. title: Ecclesiastes, or, A discourse concerning the gift of preaching as it fals under the rules of art shewing the most proper rules and directions, for method, invention, books, expression, whereby a minister may be furnished with such abilities as may make him a workman that needs not to be ashamed : very seasonable for these times, wherein the harvest is great, and the skilful labourers but few / by John Wilkins ... date: 1651.0 words: 23759 flesch: 76 summary: M. Perkins :   D. Saunderson : on Rom● 14. About the 18 yeer of this began Haggai and Ze●hariah , and not long after Malachi . keywords: aquinas; authors; books; brentius; calvinus; chief; cor; divinity; english; generall; god; good; heads; hen; hieron; john; lapide; lumbard; lutherus; man; matter; men; new; non; pag; parts; perkins; pet; places; preaching; psal; rob; rom; sam; scripture; subject; text; things; tho; tim; times; treatise; use; way; words cache: A66039.xml plain text: A66039.txt item: #96 of 114 id: A66345 author: Williams, Daniel, 1643?-1716. title: An end to discord wherein is demonstrated that no doctrinal controversy remains between the Presbyterian and Congregational ministers fit to justify longer divisions : with a true account of Socinianism as to the satisfaction of Christ / by Daniel Williams. date: 1699.0 words: 34135 flesch: 62 summary: The very Act of God's laying Sins on Christ upon the Cross , is the very actual discharge of all the Elect from all their Sins . The God testified his threatned Indignation against Sin , in the awful Sufferings of Christ's Soul and Body in his Agony , and suspended those delightful Communications of the Divine Nature to the Human Nature of Christ , as to their wonted Degrees ; yet God was never separated from Christ , much less during his Body's lying in the Grave ; neither was the Father ever displeased with Christ , and far less did he abhor him , because of the Filthiness of Sin upon him . keywords: christ; covenant; death; error; faith; god; gospel; justification; law; life; obedience; pardon; righteousness; salvation; satisfaction; sinner; sins; tho; truth; works cache: A66345.xml plain text: A66345.txt item: #97 of 114 id: A66347 author: Williams, Daniel, 1643?-1716. title: Gospel-truth stated and vindicated wherein some of Dr. Crisp's opinions are considered, and the opposite truths are plainly stated and confirmed / by Daniel Williams. date: 1692.0 words: 69934 flesch: 74 summary: Of God's laying Sins on Christ. Nor are we so compleatly sinful , but Christ , being made Sin , was as compleatly sinful as we , &c. and God himself did account him among the number of Transgressors . keywords: believe; benefits; christ; covenant; doctor; doth; elect; faith; god; good; gospel; grace; hath; holiness; life; man; men; obedience; pardon; person; righteousness; sin; sinners; sins; spirit; things; truth cache: A66347.xml plain text: A66347.txt item: #98 of 114 id: A66477 author: Sikes, George. title: A wakening call, or, An alarm from heaven to the wise and foolish virgins wherein the vices of this age is laid open and bewail'd, the sublety of Satan discover'd in his temptations in several particulars ... : likewise there is discovered the nature of regeneration or the new birth, in several particulars ... / from a minister in the country to a minister in the city for the publication. date: 1698.0 words: 38438 flesch: 64 summary: By God's new building them , and putting his incorruptible Life into them , they become particular Trees of Life , under and with Christ , working all their Works in God , and bringing forth right Fruits to him , Iohn 3. 21. Rom. 7. 4. So became he the living Word of God , ( the Book of Life of the Lamb slain and exalted ) in which were written ( by the super-wonderful mysterious Way of Divine Writing or Engraving ) the Names of all God's Elect , predestinated to be conform'd to Christ their Head , in a like Passive Obedience to the Divine Will , by the Death of their natural Spirit or living Soul of the First Adam , and Resurrection into the quickning Spirit of the Second , the Life of their Creator , Rom. 8. 29. & 6. 3-6 . keywords: angels; christ; covenant; creation; creature; death; god; gospel; heavenly; life; man; men; nature; righteousness; saints; satan; second; spirit; things; wisdom; world cache: A66477.xml plain text: A66477.txt item: #99 of 114 id: A67085 author: Walker, George, 1581?-1651. title: The key of saving knovvledge, opening out of the holy Scriptures, the right way, and straight passage to eternall life, or, A dialogue wherein the chiefe principles of the Christian religion are unfolded for the enabling of Christian people, to understand the Word of God ... composed by Geo. Walker ... date: 1641.0 words: 22192 flesch: 69 summary: But after mans fall , and the promise of Christ , God through Christ inlarged mans dominion over the creatures , and appointed the killing and sacrificing of birds , and beasts to foreshew Christs death for mans redemption from sin , and withall gave the flesh of them to man for meat , and their skins to cloath him ; and hereby wee see that wee gaine more by Christ , than we lost in Adam . Quest . All creatures in the world can yield him no help . God only of his infinit mercy , free grace , love and kindnesse to man-kind hath from all eternity , ordeined an all-sufficient Saviour , and Redeemer , even his only begotten son , who immediatly after mans sin and fall , did undertake for man , staid the execution of the sentence and punishment of death , and was promised to become the seed of the woman , and by suffering death and all the punishments due to sin in our nature , to redeeme man-kind from sin , and death , and to destroy the Devill , who had the power of death , and to dissolve all his workes . Quest . keywords: answ; bee; christ; doth; elect; faith; god; gods; good; grace; hath; hee; holy; life; man; men; quest; sin; spirit; things; word cache: A67085.xml plain text: A67085.txt item: #100 of 114 id: A67104 author: Worthington, John, 1618-1671. title: Charitas evangelica, a discourse of Christian love by the late pious and learned John Worthington ... date: 1691.0 words: 22190 flesch: 65 summary: And if ye salute ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) your Brethren onely ; ( Some Greek Copies have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 your Friends onely ; ) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What do ye more then others ? And so Irenaeus saith , they call'd themselves , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , the seed of election , and ( as Clem. keywords: charity; christ; christian; evil; god; good; heart; life; love; man; men; neighbour; self; spirit; thee; thou; thy; ver; words; world cache: A67104.xml plain text: A67104.txt item: #101 of 114 id: A67119 author: Wortley, Francis, Sir, 1591-1652. title: Eleutherosis tēs aletheias, truth asserted by the doctrine and practice of the apostles, seconded by the testimony of synods, fathers, and doctors, from the apostles to this day viz. that episcopacie is jure divino / by Sir Francis Wortley ... date: 1641.0 words: 9696 flesch: 61 summary: Saint Ignatius the next Bishop to Evodius : Hee received Episcopall charge from the Apostles : and writing to them at Antioch , when hee was carried prisoner to Rome , useth these words to the Laity , Obsequium praebete Presbyteris & diaconis , Be yee obedient to your Presbyters and Deacons , and addeth to the Presbyters , pascite gregem apud vos , done● Deus ostendit {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , feed the flock under you , untill God shew who shall bee your governour : and hereby establisheth superiority to Bishops , and enjoyneth the Presbyters obedience . Therefore , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , by law of things opposite , eminent superiority and Lordly authority over the Clergie & the people of God is that which Bishops ought not to challeng or practice Iure Divino . keywords: apostles; bee; bishops; church; clergie; episcopacie; fathers; god; government; hath; non; place; power; practice; presbyters; saint; successors; text; things; timothy; titus cache: A67119.xml plain text: A67119.txt item: #102 of 114 id: A67237 author: Wyvill, Christopher, Sir, 1614-1672? title: The pretensions of the triple crown examined in thrice three familiar letters ... / written some years ago by Sir Christopher Wyvill ... date: 1672.0 words: 45262 flesch: 65 summary: Now for those strange Apparitions and Cures , said to be made at the places of their Sepulture , or otherwhere ; whether it was so and so , or how it was , I am content with St. Augustin ( knowing the way of God , in permitting such Events to be inscrutable , and the wisdom of man , in making application thereof to be often meer foolishness ) they should remain the Objects of my Admiration , rather than the Subjects of my Scrutinie ; and I hold them , in some sort , able ( especially in the eyes of young Believers ) to confirm a point which is consonant to the Word of God ; but no proofs of any thing without or against it . In Reprobation ( the reverend Davenant choseth rather to term it Non-election ) none of the sacred and undivided Trinity are interessed farther , than that God contracts his hand , and suffers man to remain overwhelmed under the ruine he hath brought upon himself . keywords: bishop; body; cap; christ; church; council; day; doctrine; end; faith; god; good; grace; hath; heaven; hierom; hold; holy; john; justice; justification; law; life; lord; man; manner; means; men; merit; nature; place; pope; power; righteousness; rome; self; sin; soul; things; thou; time; truth; use; way; word; works cache: A67237.xml plain text: A67237.txt item: #103 of 114 id: A67386 author: Wallis, John, 1616-1703. title: An eighth letter concerning the Sacred Trinity occasioned by some letters to him on that subject / by John Wallis ... date: 1692.0 words: 9437 flesch: 67 summary: Again ; If I should express it thus , That God considered as the Original or Fountain of Being ( who himself Is and gives Being to all things else ) may be called God the Father , ( or The God and Father of all : ) And the same God , as the Fountain of Wisdom or Knowledge ; be called God the Son , ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , the Word , Wisdom or Reason ; The true Light , that lighteth every Man that cometh into the World , ) Then , say they , God that is the great Author and Cause of all things , must be so in a more eminent and high Degree . keywords: deity; doth; father; god; hath; man; men; persons; things; word cache: A67386.xml plain text: A67386.txt item: #104 of 114 id: A67388 author: Wallis, John, 1616-1703. title: An explication and vindication of the Athanasian Creed in a third letter, pursuant of two former, concerning the Sacred Trinity : together with a postscript, in answer to another letter / by John Wallis ... date: 1691.0 words: 15976 flesch: 70 summary: That Clause of descending into Hell , or Hades , ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , ) which we meet with here , and in the Apostles Creed , as it is now read , is not in the Nicene Creed ; nor was it anciently ( as learned Men seem to be agreed ) in what we call the Apostles Creed . So likewise the Father is Lord , ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , the word by which the Greeks do express the Hebrew Name Iehovah , the proper incommunicable Name of God , ) the Son Lord , and the Holy Ghost Lord ; and yet not Three Lords , but One Lord. keywords: christ; creed; doctrine; doth; faith; father; god; lord; man; persons; reason; sence; son; things; trinity; words cache: A67388.xml plain text: A67388.txt item: #105 of 114 id: A67390 author: Wallis, John, 1616-1703. title: A fourth letter concerning the sacred Trinity in reply to what is entituled An answer to Dr. Wallis's three letters / by John Wallis ... date: 1691.0 words: 11278 flesch: 75 summary: In the beginning was the Word ; and the Word was with God ; and the Word was God ; and the Word was made flesh , and dwelt amongst us . If by Word be meant a Person , ( pre-existent to Christs Incarnation by the Virgin Mary ; ) and , by God , be meant the True God , or God Almighty ; then this place is to our purpose ; for else ( he tells us ) St. John writes Nonsense . keywords: christ; doth; father; god; gods; man; reason; word cache: A67390.xml plain text: A67390.txt item: #106 of 114 id: A67569 author: Ward, Seth, 1617-1689. title: A philosophicall essay towards an eviction of the being and attributes of God. Immortality of the souls of men. Truth and authority of Scripture. together with an index of the heads of every particular part. date: 1652.0 words: 26836 flesch: 38 summary: Men usually consider whether or no the things be such as may be certainly and evidently known , and whether these parties had sufficient means to come to the certain knowledge of them , and whether they contain themselves in their relations within the bounds of things liable to certain knowledge : thus then those things which may be certainly known they are the outward events of things , whereas the secret causes may lie concealed , the former are such as are the objects of common sence , and come within the cognizance of all : the later are such as are indiscoverable by any man , they being oftentimes made up of a complexion of actions and dispositions of multitudes of men ; or things perfectly to be known , onely of him that sees all things in speculo aeternitatis . But if this were so , beside that no reason could be given why with both our eyes and two images of it , we see but one thing : it would necessarily follow that we could not see any quantity bigger then our eye in its naturall scituation , for if Images were seen in the eye , they would be seen as they are in the eye , but in the bottom of the eye the images of things are inverted , and consequently the things themselves would seem to be inverted , men would seem to us with their heads below and their feet above , that which is on the right hand would seem to be on the left . keywords: authority; beleeve; books; doe; doth; god; hath; holy; infinite; man; men; necessity; power; reason; religion; sect; self; souls; testament; things; time; truth; way; world cache: A67569.xml plain text: A67569.txt item: #107 of 114 id: A69762 author: Clagett, Nicholas, 1654-1727. title: A perswasive to an ingenuous tryal of opinions in religion date: 1685.0 words: 19748 flesch: 59 summary: And we see by experience that hatred and ill will , and looseness of life , gains ground more by the Schisms that are amongst Christians , than by any thing else ; and no wonder , since men that are of different and opposite Communions do not use to love one another ; and vicious persons do not value the Communion of a true Church , nor care if for their ill manners they be turned out of it , when they can take Sanctuary in a pretended Church of another Communion , that makes as loud a claim to all the Priviledges of a Chruch-Society as that Church can do from which they have divided themselves . And there are three sorts of men who fail of knowing the truth , for want of due endeavours to find it out . keywords: church; communion; god; good; man; men; opinions; plain; reason; religion; scripture; sence; things; truth; use; way cache: A69762.xml plain text: A69762.txt item: #108 of 114 id: A70688 author: Nye, Stephen, 1648?-1719. title: The exceptions of Mr. Edwards in his Causes of atheism against the Reasonableness of Christianity, as deliver'd in the Scriptures, examin'd and found unreasonable, unscriptural, and injurious also it's clearly proved by many testimonies of Holy Scripture, that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is the only God and Father of Christians. date: 1695.0 words: 22268 flesch: 69 summary: Now if this be a clear Text to build an Article necessary to Salvation , and the Worship of another Almighty and only wise Person upon , besides the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ ; let all that have any reverence for God or his Gospel judg ! He uses Terms in such a Sense as they are never us'd in Scripture , for Divine Nature is never put there for God ; nor does the word GOD , or one God , ever signify Father , Son and H. Ghost , but always one singular Person ; and throughout the Holy Scriptures from the Beginning to the End , God is spoken of , and spoken to , as one only Person , and by Terms and Pronouns that signify singularly , and never otherwise . keywords: author; christ; edw; father; god; holy; jesus; john; lord; man; person; scripture; sense; son; text cache: A70688.xml plain text: A70688.txt item: #109 of 114 id: A85548 author: Graunt, John, of Bucklersbury. title: The shipwrack of all false churches: and the immutable safety and stability of the true Church of Christ. Occasioned: by Doctour Chamberlen his mistake of her, and the holy scriptures also, by syllogising words, to find out spirituall meanings, when in such cases it is the definition, not the name, by which things are truly knowne. date: 1652.0 words: 15011 flesch: 53 summary: And Gods Church fears not to speak , although she cares not to be known , she being indewed with the spirit of life from God ; and in her reading the Scriptures you shall find her full of consideration , and understanding , as our Lord directs her , Let him that readeth consider : Now in common reason , if in this Nation the publike Ministry , for those are they they mean by Clergy , although no man can prove it by Scripture , be the Church , then the State Magistracy , and the rest of the people are not the Church or Congregation of England , which seems to crosse the Scriptures denomination , for the whole Nation of the Jewes , Priests and People , are often called the Congregation , or Church , and the Reason is beyond exception , because they were a people professing and communicating in the externall Ordinances of God , and but a small remnant of the multitude faithfull to communicate spiritually ▪ Now as spirituall and heavenly Christians are Gods peculiar , little house , vineyard , or Church , so outward Christians , may bear the name of his Vineyard , Church , or great House also , as an outward Jew or Christian bears the name , although not the nature of a Jew or Christian inwardly . keywords: carnall; christ; church; churches; doctour; doe; faith; god; gods; hath; holy; lord; man; meaning; men; scriptures; spirituall; things; truth; word cache: A85548.xml plain text: A85548.txt item: #110 of 114 id: A85988 author: Gilbert, Claudius, d. 1696? title: A soveraign antidote against sinful errors, the epidemical plague of these latter dayes. Extracted out of divine records, the dispensatory of Christianity: for the prevention and cure of our spiritual distempers. By Claudius Gilbert, B.D. and minister of the Gospel at Limrick in Ireland. date: 1658.0 words: 71022 flesch: 81 summary: 1. WIcked Ones are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Lawless , or boundless ; ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Privative , & adversative , & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lex , Law. Iohn 15. 2 , 3 , &c. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inter vos , among you , as the same phrase imports , 1 Pet. keywords: act; best; christ; christians; cor; divine; doth; eph; error; evil; father; glory; god; gods; good; grace; hand; hath; heart; heaven; heb; iohn; knowledge; law; life; light; lord; love; man; mans; matth; men; nature; new; parts; people; person; pet; power; psal; reason; rom; scripture; self; sin; soul; spirit; stil; thee; things; thou; thy; tim; truth; use; way; word; work cache: A85988.xml plain text: A85988.txt item: #111 of 114 id: A87010 author: Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660. title: A brief vindication of three passages in the Practical catechisme, from the censures affixt on them by the ministers of London, in a book entitled, A testimony to the truth of Jesus Christ, &c. / By H. Hammond D.D. date: 1648.0 words: 4634 flesch: 54 summary: [ the only things by which the man is justified ] as if by that speech should be understood , either that the faithful actions or acts of faith without faith it self , were the only things by which we are justified , or else that all the things there spoken of , Faith , and faithful actions , or acts of faith are the only CAUSE , and so some CAUSE of our justification , or by which , as by a CAUSE , we are justified ; either of these I confesse might passe for an error , but both these doctrines I have sufficiently disclaim'd ; and indeed in this very proposition 't is affirm'd that the faithful actions or acts of Faith are not excluded or separated from Faith ( which they must be if they justifie without Faith ) or the condition of justification ( i. e. from that faith which is considered as , and affirm'd to be the condition of our justification ) but by those two Apostles absolutely required , to what ? why to faith , or the condition of our justication , as the only things together with it by which as by a condition , and only so ( as 't is clearly set down all over that part of the Catechisme , which handles faith or justification ) the man is justified . That S. James doth not exclude or separate faithful actions , or acts of Faith , from Faith , or the condition of justification , but require them , ( i.e. Faith , and faithful actions , or acts of faith ) as the only things by which , as by a condition , the man is justified , will be clear by the definition of a condition in Logick , and the plain words of S. James ; A Condition is a qualification of the s●bject required to make him capable , or a causa sine quâ non ; and so a condition of justification is no more , then that without which a man cannot be justified ; and that as the direct affirmation of S. James , c. 2.24 . keywords: christ; condition; faith; faithful; god; non; roman cache: A87010.xml plain text: A87010.txt item: #112 of 114 id: A90323 author: University of Oxford. title: Quæstiones in sacra theologia discutiendæ Oxonii in vesperiis, octavo die mensis Julii, Anno Dom. 1671 date: 1671.0 words: 1219 flesch: 64 summary: An Liceat praescriptâ formulâ orare ? Aff. An Sacra celebranda sint sermone vernaculo ? Aff. keywords: aff; eebo; neg; quaestiones; sit; tcp; text cache: A90323.xml plain text: A90323.txt item: #113 of 114 id: A90402 author: Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679. title: A voyce out of the thick darkness: containing in it a few words to Christians, about the late and present posture of spiritual affairs among them. Together with a post-script about darkening the counsel of God. As also, certain Scripture-prophecies concerning some transactions in the latter times. / By Isaac Penington, (junior) Esq;. date: 1650.0 words: 21021 flesch: 72 summary: 2. It may shew us what the wisest undertakings in this kind are ; what our wise openings of Scriptures and Counsells of God , without the light of God are : if any man can truely and groundedly say , n●t I but the Spirit of God in me , opens this or that Scripture , thus and thus unto me ; that is another matter , I have nothing to say against that , but I speak concerning our own opening , though by our most ingenuous and industrious search , by the fairest debating things i● our own understanding ; yea , of our wise opening , when we seem to give out the full intent , the very life and heart of a Scripture , and fence it about with strong Argumen's , making that interpretation safe from all reasonings of all contrary judgements whatsoever , what is this ? but a peece of folly , of madness ; a setting up the wisdome of man , an idolizing the pleasant conceptions of mans working brain ; but a darkening of God : So God said of Job and so Job confesseth his to be , chap. Thus Job lifts up himself in this high peece of knowledg ( wherein he went far beyond the reach of his Friends ) till God here comes to take him to do ; Who is this that darkeneth Counsel by words without knowledg ? Counsel is the intent of a person concerning things , what he drives at in the things he does . keywords: god; hath; knowledg; life; light; lord; man; people; power; self; spirit; spiritual; state; thee; things; thou; way cache: A90402.xml plain text: A90402.txt item: #114 of 114 id: A93608 author: Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647. title: The fountaine of free grace opened by questions and answers: proving the foundation of faith to consist only in Gods free love in giving Christ to dye for the sins of all, and objections to the contrary answered by the Congregation of Christ in London, constituted by baptisme upon the profession of faith, falsly called Anabaptists. Wherein they vindicate themselves from the scandalous aspersions of holding free-will, and denying a free election by grace. date: 1645.0 words: 7484 flesch: 83 summary: A●s 13. 38. Q. Ought all men to beleive remission of sins in Christ ? A. Yea surely , in as much as Christ hath required remission of sins to be preached to all in his name , and nothing is required of any to be made partakers of that remission but only faith to beleive it , Rom. A. It doth not follow , for though our sins are punished in Christ , yet they are not pardoned in us unlesse we beleeve : hence it is that we are justified by faith in Christ , nor without : for he that beleeveth not shall be damned Mar. 16. and the reason is because else Christ hath not the Honour of Mediatourship as means of pardon of sins , and secondly , he that trusts not in Christ trusts in himselfe , and must be tried according to his t●n● whereon he leaneth . keywords: christ; faith; god; sins cache: A93608.xml plain text: A93608.txt