item: #1 of 10
          id: A35867
      author: Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.
       title: A dialogue between an East-Indian brackmanny or heathen-philosopher, and a French gentleman concerning the present affairs of Europe
        date: 1683
       words: 6394
      flesch: 64
     summary: For if men considered the weight and cares of Empire , those that are without it would rather fly from than fight for it . Can any thing be more absurd than to turn Earth into a kind of Hell , under pretence of driving men to Heaven ? and to commit Murders and Cruelties for the sake of the God of Life and Love ?
    keywords: blood; flesh; french; god; heathen; man; men; nature; religion; tcp; text; things
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        item: #2 of 10
          id: A44834
      author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662. Answer to a declaration of the people called Anabaptists.
       title: An answer to a declaration put forth by the general consent of the people called Anabaptists in and about the city of London which declaration doth rather seem a begging of pardon of the Caveliers then [sic] a vindication of that truth and cause once contended for : I seeing so much wickedness ... / from a true lover and owner of the people called Quakers ... Richard Hubberthorn.
        date: 1659
       words: 10354
      flesch: 28
     summary: That is false , for they have more contradicted the common Priests of the Nation , as their books and sufferings will witness , although they have according to truth contradicted you , and also have more of your contradictions and confusions to declare concerning you , which is not yet published ; but what do you account their irregular practises ? is it because their yea is yea , and their nay is nay in all their communications ( and yours not so ? ) or is it because they cannot swear at all ? or is it because they cannot have any mans person in admiration because of advantage , or because they cannot respect the person of the rich , nor honour the person of the mighty ? is it because they do unto others as they would have others to do unto them , or because they speak the Truth every one to his neighbour without partialitie or hypocrisie ? or is it any thing relating to these things above named , if not , in your next mention in what , or else the wise in heart will judge you to speak onely from your imaginary conceit ? but what is your end in so secret smiting them ? do you think to excuse your selves by accusing them ? and who is it that doth charge you with countenancing the Quakers in their practises , either Regular or Irregular ? I know none that hath any ground so to charge you , but to men of understanding who can see beyond words , you rather appear to be begging a pardon of the Episcopal and Presbyter , and the wilde Boyes and Apprentices of London , by accusing the Quakers as hereafter will appear , and that fearfulness and unbelieving is entered into your hearts , and so your spirits is betrayed into a slavish fear , but if ever you be accepted or owned of God , you must own that for your strength which the Quakers live in , and if ever any Rule for God in this Nation , they must own that light , life and spirit which they are guided by , and then they will not despise , but have unitie with the Quakers . For whatever composers of any form of worship , may possibly err , it is derogating from God , and his Holy Word , and injurious to men to compel any to the Practise thereof .
    keywords: christ; city; god; lord; men; nation; people; persons; religion; selves; spirit
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        item: #3 of 10
          id: A47927
      author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
       title: Toleration discuss'd by Roger L'Estrange.
        date: 1663
       words: 36936
      flesch: 77
     summary: Bethink your selves ; Ye meant no hurt ( ye say ) to the last King , and yet ye Ruin'd him : Ye may perchance Intend as little harm to This King , and yet do him as much . Visit but your own Acts , and be your own Iudges , ( but take the Crime along with ye ; Obedience to God , to the King , and to the Law )
    keywords: authority; case; church; conf; conformists; conscience; god; good; government; king; law; liberty; magistrate; majesty; man; non; party; people; power; question; reason; religion; right; rule; scrup; self; thing; toleration; way
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        item: #4 of 10
          id: A47928
      author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
       title: Toleration discuss'd, in two dialogues I. betwixt a conformist, and a non-conformist ... II. betwixt a Presbyterian, and an Independent ...
        date: 1670
       words: 68295
      flesch: 70
     summary: C. If this be Conscience , Then Liberty of Conscience is A Liberty of a Man's Iudging of Himself , and his Actions , with reference to the future Iudgment of God. C.
    keywords: act; assembly; authority; betwixt; case; church; churches; conformists; conscience; covenant; discipline; england; general; god; good; government; great; ibid; indep; interest; iudge; king; kingdom; law; laws; liberty; life; magistrate; majesty; man; matter; ministers; n. c.; non; order; parliament; party; peace; people; person; power; presbyterians; principles; publique; question; reason; religion; right; rule; sect; self; shall; state; thing; toleration; way; word; worship
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        item: #5 of 10
          id: A48884
      author: Locke, John, 1632-1704.
       title: A letter concerning toleration humbly submitted, etc.
        date: 1689
       words: 22378
      flesch: 61
     summary: If any one maintain that Men ought to be compelled by Fire and Sword to profess certain Doctrines , and conform to this or that exteriour Worship , without any regard had unto their Morals ; if any one endeavour to convert those that are Erroneous unto the Faith , by forcing them to profess things that they do not believe , and allowing them to practise things that the Gospel does not permit ; it cannot be doubted indeed but such a one is desirous to have a numerous Assembly joyned in the same Profession with himself ; but that he principally intends by those means to compose a truly Christian Church , is altogether incredible . Confiscation of Estate , Imprisonment , Torments , nothing of that nature can have any such Efficacy as to make Men change the inward Judgment that they have framed of things .
    keywords: authority; care; church; civil; commonwealth; faith; god; laws; magistrate; man; manner; men; power; religion; right; salvation; society; souls; things; use; worship
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        item: #6 of 10
          id: A50771
      author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
       title: Religio stoici
        date: 1663
       words: 31314
      flesch: 51
     summary: And albeit it may be answered , that God might have restrained man , but that restraint did not stand with the freedom of mans will which God had bestowed upon him ; yet , this answer stops not the mouth of the difficulty . Another is to perswade us , like to the second Table , to love our neighbour , and to be a mean to settle all these jealousies , and compesce all these animosities which interest might occasion ; and this appears by the Doxology jubilyed by the Angels at our Saviours birth , Glory to God , and peace and good-will towards men .
    keywords: adam; almighty; body; church; conscience; creation; creatures; doth; faith; fall; god; good; hath; heaven; holy; image; knowledge; law; laws; light; likewayes; man; men; nature; opinion; reason; religion; saviour; scripture; seing; self; sense; sin; soul; spirit; state; text; things; world
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        item: #7 of 10
          id: A55926
      author: Proast, Jonas.
       title: A third letter concerning toleration in defense of The argument of the letter concerning toleration, briefly consider'd and answer'd.
        date: 1691
       words: 39384
      flesch: 62
     summary: And that you may do it the more successfully , you represent it ( as you commonly do ) in such a manner , as if I allow'd any Magistrate , of what Religion soever , to lay Penalties upon all that dissent from him : Whereas in my own words it stands thus : When men fly from the means of a right Information , and will not so much as consider how reasonable it is , throughly and impartially to examine a Religion which they embraced upon such Inducements as ought to have no sway at all in the matter , and therefore with little or no examination of the proper Grounds of it : What humane Method can be used , to bring them to act like Men , in an affair of such consequence , and to make a wiser and more rational choice , but that of laying such Penalties upon them , as may balance the weight of those Prejudices which enclined them to preferr a False Way before the True , & c ? But to this you say , If it be a true Consequence , that men must be tolerated , if Magistrates have no Commission or Authority to punish them for Matters of Religion ; then the onely Strength of that Letter lies not in the unfitness of Force to convince Men's Understanding .
    keywords: author; consider; force; god; magistrate; man; means; men; penalties; power; reason; religion; right; salvation; thing; truth; use; way; world
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        item: #8 of 10
          id: A62888
      author: Tomkins, Thomas, 1637?-1675.
       title: The modern pleas for comprehension, toleration, and the taking away the obligation to the renouncing of the covenant considered and discussed.
        date: 1675
       words: 48735
      flesch: 40
     summary: That it must not be loose and in●●herent , but well compacted , that it may attain the ends of Discipline , which are to promote sound Doctrine and Godly Life , and keep out Idolatry , Superstition , and all wicked Errour and Practice that tends to the vanquishing of the power of Christianity : Now these things do not require a constitution of narrower bounds than things necessary to Christian Faith and Life , and godly Order in the Church , Now is it not very plain , that such a Comprehension as is here described , that it shall be enabled to attain all these great and publick ends here provided for , hath left no place for Toleration or Connivance ? and accordingly both those things are hudled together , and in a very few words dispatched , Sect. How may we lament over the present Imposition of the Ceremonies now enjoyn'd among us in England , which are no part of divine Truth , nor any of Christ's Institutions , but things perfectly Humane in their Creation ; and yet are enforced by the Civil Power upon the Practice and Consciences of men .
    keywords: authority; care; case; christ; church; conscience; covenant; doth; england; god; good; government; hath; king; liberty; man; means; men; nation; ought; people; persons; power; present; publick; religion; self; thing; time; toleration; use; way
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        item: #9 of 10
          id: A69913
      author: Penn, William, 1644-1718.
       title: A defence of the Duke of Buckingham, against the answer to his book, and the reply to his letter by the author of the late Considerations.
        date: 1685
       words: 1876
      flesch: 66
     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). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 95998)
    keywords: duke; eebo; english; tcp; text
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        item: #10 of 10
          id: A91792
      author: Richardson, Samuel, fl. 1643-1658.
       title: Fifty questions propounded to the Assembly, to answer by the Scriptures: whether corporall pnnishments [sic] may be inflicted upon such as hold different opinions in religion. By S.R.
        date: 1647
       words: 3481
      flesch: 69
     summary: 28 Whether there be any Scripture that saith , that any mans conscience is to be constrained , and whether the Magistrate can reach mens consciences ; and whether he be fit to make a law to conscience , who cannot know when conscience keeps it , and that cannot reward conscience for keeping it , nor punish the conscience for the breaking of it ? 29 Whether it be not in vain for us to have Bibles in English , if against our souls perswasions from the Scriptures , we must beleeve as the Church beleeves ? 30 Whether the Magistrate be not wronged , to give him the title of Civill Magistrate onely , if his power be spirituall ? 31 Whether laws made meerly concerning spirituall things , be not spirituall also ? 32 Whether if no civill Law be broken , the civill peace be hurt or no ? 33 Whether in compulsion for conscience , not only the guilty , but the innocent suffer also ? And if a Magistrate be in darknesse , and spiritually blind , and dead ; be fit to judge of light , of truth and errour ? and whether such be fit for the place of the Magistracy ? then whether it be not a scruple to a tender conscience to submit to such in civill causes , because not appointed to that place by God ? whereas if the Magistrates power be onely civill , the doubt is resolved , because such as may be fit for Magistrates , and men ought in conscience in civill things to submit unto them .
    keywords: god; magistrate; power; religion; text; truth
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