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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49398	Practical Christianity, or, An account of the holinesse which the Gospel enjoyns with the motives to it and the remedies it proposes against temptations, with a prayer concluding each distinct head.	Lucas, Richard, 1648-1715.	1677 (1677)	Wing L3408; ESTC R26162	116,693	322

Nuns their Frolicks and Entertainments c. several times printed in French and now faithfully done into English Mary Magdalen 's Tears wiped off or the Voice of Peace to an unquiet Conscience A Sermon preached by that eminent Divine Henry Hammond Dr. in Divinity The Golden Remains of that ever memorable Mr. John Hales of Eaton Colledge c. The second Impression with many additions not before published in Quarto Episcopacy as established by Law in England written by the command of the late King Charls by Robort Sanderson late Lord Bishop of Lincoln in Octavio A Collection of Articles Injunctions Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions Ecclesiastical and other publick Records of the Church of England with a Preface by Anthony Sparrow Lord Bishop of Norwich A Rationale on the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England with his Caution to his Diocess against false Doctrines by Anthony Sparrow Lord Bishop of Norwich in Octavio Whole Duty of Man laid down in a plain familiar way for the use of all but especially the meanest Reader Necessary for all Families With private Devotions on several Occasions in Octa. Gentlemans calling written by the Author of the whole Duty of Man Octa. The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety or an impartial Survey of the Ruins of Christian Religion undermined by unchristian Practice by the Author of the whole Duty of Man Octa. A Scholastical History of the Canon of Holy Scripture or the certain and indubitable Books thereof as they are received in the Church of England by Dr. Cosin Lord B. of Durham Quarto An Historical Vindication of the Church of England as it stands separated from the Roman c. by Sir Roger Twisden Baronet Quarto Mr. Chillingsworths Reasons against Popery perswading his Friend to turn to his Mother the Church of England from the Church of Rome The Book of Homilies appointed to be read in Churches Fol. Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical Quarto Divine Breathings or a Pious Soul thirsting after Christ in an hundred excellent Meditations Hugo Grotius de Rebus Belgicis or the Annals and History of the Low Countrie wars in English wherein is manifested that the United Netherlands are indebted for the glory of their Conquests to the valour of the English Octa. A Treatise of English Particles shewing much of the variety of their significations and uses in English and how to render them into Latin according to the propriety and elegancy of that language with a Praxis upon the same by William Walker B. D. School-Master of Grantham The Royal Grammar commonly called Lillies Grammar explained opening the meaning of the Rules with great plainness to the understanding of Children of the meanest capacity with choice observations on the same from the best Authors by William Walker B. D. Author of the Treatise of English Particles A Treatise proving Spirits Witches and Supernatural operations by pregnant instances and Evidences by Meric Causabon Octa. A Catalogue of all the Parliaments or reputed Parliaments from the year 1640. A Narrative of some passages in or relating to the long Parliament by a Person of Honour Nemesius Nature of Man in English by George Withers Gent. Inconveniencies of Tolleration Quarto Tolleration intollerable Quarto A Letter about Comprehension Quarto A Thanksgiving Sermon preached before the King by J. Dolbin D. D. Dean of Westminster B. Brownrigs Sermons on Gunpowder Treason A Narrative of the burning of London 1666. with an Account of the Losses and a most remarkable parallel between it and MOSCO both as to the Plague and Fire Lluellins three Sermons on the Kings murther Iter Lusitanicum or The Portugal Voyage with what memorable passages interven'd at the Shipping and Transportation of her sacred Majesty Katharine Queen of Great Britain from Lisbon to England by Dr. Samuel Hind A Charge given by the most eminent and learned Sir Francis Bacon at a Sessions for the Verge declaring the jurisdiction thereof and the Offender herein inquirable as well by the Common Law as by several Statutes Quarto Mr. Whites learned Tractates of the Laws of England Graphice or the use of Pen and Pencil in designing drawing and painting by Sir William Sanderson Kt. Hippocrates Aphorismes Oct. in English The Communicant instructed for worthy receiving the Lords Supper by Thomas Trot of Barkstone near Grantham Petavius's History of the World Military and Maritine Discipline viz. The exercise of Horse and Foot with Sir Francis Veers directions and a Treatise of Invasion by Capt. Tho. Venn the fortifying Towns with the wayes of defending and offending the same by the learned Mathematician and Tacquet also Sir Samuel Morelands method of delineating all manner of Fortifications together with the art of founding great Ordnance the making Gunpowder taking heights and distances with the manner of Fire-works Sir Francis Moors Reports Baron Savils Reports And All sorts of Law Books FINIS

stupid and senseless not only of their secular but eternal interest the former is utterly false and the latter absurd therefore it is more than probable no such confutation could beform'd That the Wisdome and Majesty the Purity and Holyness the Misteries and Prophesies of it are so many tracks of Divine Glory which bespeak God its Author it being very improbable that e're the Devil should be so set against himself as to promote that Holiness which is so contradictory to his nature and tho he should have blended it with speculative errors that cannot be thought a mischief able to satisfie him for all the good it hath done in the world nor would such a design savour enough of the malice of Hell for surely God will never make a good man eternally miserable for a speculalative Error into which his Humility and Resignation to God and such strong probabilities not to say more betray'd him But suppose against all Reason that it were Fictitious what can any man suffer by the belief of these Principles certainly they tend to make us like God and there is no article which reflects any disparagement upon the Divine Nature but discovers it to the World in the greatest and the loveliest characters and therefore unavoidably if any Religion than this will secure our future Life As to the present if our Life be clouded and o'recast by afflictions these Principles alone can support us under them because these only are substantial grounds of courage or content if our Life be calm and fair no man injoyes it with a more constant and untroubled satisfaction than the Religious for Religion only crowns our outward prosperities with a firm peace and content within And yet all the clamour rais'd against Religion is this that it enviously intrenches upon the pleasures of Nature and wheadles us out of the possession of present pleasures by the deceitful promises of future In answer I would fain know of any the most fortunate Epicure for I confess I have never been lucky enough to discover any such state whether there be any enjoyment rich as Fancy and ravishing as Dotage if there be of what constancy and unmixt purity it is for if it be not fixt and steady then a constant chearful Life as free from uneasie fears desires and troubles and repentances as from the taste of such luscious Meals is surely to be preferr'd before a few fortunate minutes of a Life in the general disorder'd and troubl'd or whether accounts being stated rightly we may not safely conclude that there is no such thing as such an enjoyment much less any permanent state of it and then I may easily defend Religion as to this point for then it is but reasonable that our desires should be calm and temperate and that we should sit down content with such easie and obvious pleasures as suit this state of imperfection and child-hood and if so what harm can Christianity do men as God expostulates with his People Testifie against me wherein have I wronged thee It doth not forbid us to like but dote it doth not forbid us to enjoy the World but it forbids us to equal it with Heaven And when it hath once fixt the limits of worldly happiness aright it is so far from driving us out of the reach of it that it is the onely path to it we sail within those Sea marks which if we slight we dash on Rocks and Sands for Answer me Are the Faculties of our Soul rendred more uncapable of Happiness because cultivated and improv'd imploy'd to useful and ingenious purposes not lost on trifles are our Senses less subtle and judicious because the Body is preserv'd in an entire and vigorous health by temperance and imployment and content of mind As to the Objects of our affections Is a Good Estate less useful or less creditable by being spent temperately and Charitably Is Greatness the less firm or the less glorious because its Basis is Vertue Is a Beauty the less taking because innocent and vertuous of all the pleasures of humane Life I have alwayes thought Friendship the dearest and certainly sense as well as wit true courage and honor and constancy the product of Religion as well as the Accomplishments of Nature and gentile Education must go to make it perfect and delightful when any are endear'd by a generous goodness by an innocent and undefigning passion by a combination of vertues and a confederacy of rational delights and glorious hopes I am confident no debauch'd mind can ever fancy any thing so charming and romantick and if this be the case if this be all that Religion doth that is if it be onely a wise method to happiness fet on foot by the goodness and contriv'd by the Wisdome of God I cannot discover any just ground of quarrel against it I cannot see how the sinner can get clear off from these Arguments remember then 't is a disingenious kind of confidence to return only raillery for answer to Arguments and to think a loud laughter a sufficient confutation of important truths Be not deceived God will not be mocked a day is coming when the secrets of all hearts shall be laid open when God will argue his own cause in a flaming vengeance and then what a miserable Tragedy will thy Mirth and Pleasure the Sinner and his World end in What astonishment and dread will seize upon every Soul which hath hardened it self against the Gospel of Christ how miserably fool'd and cheated will all the gay and jolly Sinners find themselves But glory honour and peace will be the portion of every one who worketh righteousness The Prayer O Thou holy Spirit of God thou divine principle of a divine life remove all blindness hardness and impenitence from off the hearts of all those who read the truths of the Gospel of Christ and grant that they may receive the word of Christ with an entire humility and pure Affections and bring forth the fruit of it in their Conversation that when the winds blow and the rain descends and the floods beat they may be like houses built upon a rock and stand unshaken in the great day of Judgement Amen Amen FINIS A Catalogue of Books printed for and sold by Robert Pawlet at the Sign of the Bible in Chancery Lane near Fleetstreet VIllare Anglicanum or a view of all Towns Villages c. In England and Wales alphabetically composed so that naming any Town or place you may readily find in what Shire Hundred Rape Wapenstake it is in Also the number of Bishopwricks Counties under their several jurisdictions and the Shire Towns Boroughs and Parishes in each County by the appointment of the eminent Sir Henry Spelman Kt. The Nuns Complaint against the Friers being the Charge given in the Court of France by the Nuns of St. Katharines near Province against the Father Fryers their Confessors shewing their abuses in their allowance of undecent Books and Love-letters and marriages of the Fryers and