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Christ's nativity the good tidings of great joy to all people. A sermon preached on Christmas-Day, in the parish-church of Collingtree. By John Clarke, rector of Collingtree in Northamptonshire. Published at request.
Clarke, John, 1723 or 1724-1811.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
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The great evil of sin, as it is committed against God. A sermon preached in Goshen, at a meeting of the Consociation of Litchfield-County, in the said town, May 30th. 1753. By Joseph Bellamy, A.M. Pastor of the church in Bethlem [i.e., Bethlehem, Conn.]. [Four lines of Scripture texts]
Bellamy, Joseph, 1719-1790.Date: 1753- Books
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A speech made May 28, 1717. It being the anniversary-day of His Majesty's happy nativity. Before the Loyal Society, in Church-Street, St. Ann's. By George Waldron. Late of Queen's College, Oxon; and printed at the request of the said society.
Waldron, George, 1690-1730?.Date: Printed in the year 1717- Books
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Herbert, speculum anni ab incarnatione verbi, 1652, or, An almanack and prognostication for this present year, which according to the computation of the Church of England, is from the nativity and birth of Jesus Christ, 1652 : it being bissextile, or leap-year : calculated and composed for the meridian of Leighton Bussard ... / by Thomas Herbert.
Herbert, Thomas, Philo-mathematicus.Date: [1652]- Books
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The nativity and humiliation of Jesus Christ practically consider'd. A sermon preached on Christmas-Day in the Parish Church of Olney, in the county of Bucks. By the Revd. Mr. Moses Browne, vicar of Olney, and author of Sunday-thoughts.
Browne, Moses, 1704-1787.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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A true copy of the last will and testament of that famous free-thinker Matthew Tindall, LL.D. author of The rights of the church, Christianity as old as the creation, &c. With a clculation of his nativity in the year 1711, by Mr. Parker; and a particular account of his death.
Tindal, Matthew, 1653?-1733.Date: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]- Books
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Homilia sanctiss. domini nostri Clementis XI. pont. max. habita in die natali Christi domini inter missarum solemnia in basilica principis apostolorum anno MDCCII. = A homily spoken by His Holiness Pope Clement XI. At the festival of the nativity of our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ, at the solemnization of the Mass, in the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, in the year 1702.
Clement XI, Pope, 1649-1721.Date: [1703]- Books
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A brief account of Stratford-Upon-Avon, with a particular description and survey, of the collegiate church, the mausoleum of Shakspeare; containing all the armorial bearings, and monumental inscriptions therein: To which is added, by way of Appendix, Some Account of the Lives of the Three Eminent Prelates, who Derive their Sirnames from Stratford, the Place of their Nativity.
Date: [1800]- Digital Images
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Nativity, by Gaddi, showing swadding and bathing, 14thC
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Culpeper's school of physick: Or The experimental practice of the whole art : Wherein are contained all inward diseases from the head to the foot, with their proper and effectuall cures; such diet set down as ought to be observed in sickness or in health. With other safe waies for preserving of life, in excellent aphorisms, and approved medicines, so plainly and easily treated of, that the free-born student rightly understanding this method, may judg of the practice of physick, so far as it concerns himself, or the cure of others, &c. A work never before publisht, very necessary for all that desire to be rightly informed in physick, chyrurgery, chymistry, &c. By Nich. Culpeper, late student in physick and astrology. The narrative of the authors life is prefixed, with his nativity calculated; together with the testimony of his late wife, Mrs. Alice Culpeper, and others. The general contents of this work are in the next page. With two perfect tables very useful to the reader.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1678- Books
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Herbert, speculum anni ab incarnatione verbi 1653, or, An almanack and prognostication for this present year, which according to the computation of the Church of England, is from the nativity and birth of Jesus Christ 1653 : being the first after bissextile or leap-year : calculated and composed for the north latitude of 52 degrees : furnished and replenished with astronomical calculations and astrological predictions ... / by Thomas Herbert.
Herbert, Thomas, Philo-mathematicus.Date: [1653]- Books
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A brief answer to six syllogistical arguments brought by Mr. Clark, minister of Bennet-Finck, London: against astrologers, and astrologie.
Date: 1660- Books
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A vindication of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, from the misrepresentations of Mr. Thomas Chubb, in a book lately published in his Name, Falsely called, The true Gospel of Jesus Christ asserted in which is Demonstrated, that what he asserts to be the Gospel of Jesus Christ, is not that Gospel, and that what he denys to be the Gospel of Jesus Christ, is strictly and properly that Gospel. To which is added, An hymn on the nativity. By Joseph Horler, A.B. Master of the Free-School at Wilton, and Presbyter of the Church of England.
Horler, Joseph, 1700 or 1701-Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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Esoptron Astrologikon. Astrological opticks : Wherein are represented the faces of every signe, with the images of each degree in the zodiack: thereby describing, 1. The nature and quality of every person, according to the degree ascending in the east at his nativity. 2. The virtue and signification of every planet through the 12. signes. 3. A most excellent description of the more hidden and abstruse influence of [symbol for Mercury] in his [symbol for conjunction] with all other the planets. 4. A clear explanation of the signification of the horoscope in any signe of the zodiack. / Compiled at Venice, by those famous mathematicians, Johann. Regiomontanus and Johannes Angelus.
Angelus, Johannes, 1463-1512Date: [1655]- Books
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Esoptron astrologikon. Astrologicall opticks. : Wherein are represented the faces of every signe, with the images of each degree in the zodiack: thereby describing, 1. The nature and quality of every person, according to the degree ascending in the east at his nativity. 2. The virtue and signification of every planet through the 12. signes. 3. A most excellent description of the more hidden and abstruse influence of [symbol for Mercury] in his [symbol for conjunction] with all other the planets. 4. A clear explanation of the signification of the horoscope in any signe of the zodiack. / Compiled at Venice, by those famous mathematicians, Johann. Regiomontanus and Johannes Angelus.
Angelus, Johannes, 1463-1512.Date: [1655]- Pictures
The adoration of the shepherds at the birth of Christ: two shepherdesses bring their babies to the Christ Child, while a shepherd boy celebrates Christ's nativity by playing his pipe. Engraving by E. Fessard after C.J. Natoire.
Natoire, Charles Joseph, 1700-1777.Date: [1752]Reference: 3049674i- Books
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A sermon preached before the Grateful Society, in All-Saints-Church, Bristol, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 1783, being the anniversary of the nativity of the late Edward Colston, Esq; Published at the Particular Request of the Society. To which is added, a catalogue of his public benefactions. By William Embury Edwards, B. A. Of Oriel College, Oxford, and Lecturer of All-Saints, Bristol.
Edwards, William Embury, 1759 or 1760-Date: [1783?]- Books
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The faithful ministers of Jesus Christ rewarded. A sermon, delivered at the ordination of the Rev. Azel Backus to the pastoral care of the church in Bethlem, April 6, 1791. By Charles Backus, A.M. Pastor of the church in Somers.
Backus, Charles, 1749-1803.Date: [1791]- Books
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Benefits of affliction A funeral sermon: occasioned by the death of Mrs. Elizabeth White, consort of Mr. William P. White; who departed this life in London, on Friday the 2d. day of Feb. 1798, and delivered at Pittsfield, the place of her nativity April 22d. in commemoration of that event the next Lords Day after the receipt of the melancholy tidings. By Thomas Allen, A.M. Pastor of the church in Pittsfield. To which are added two letters from a respectable gentleman, in London, relating to her sickness and death. [One line from Ecclesiastes]
Allen, Thomas, 1743-1810.Date: MDCCXCVIII. [1798]- Books
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Hezekiah's charge to the congregation of Judah. 2 Chron. xxix. 31. A sermon preached before the Grateful Society, in All Saints'-Church, Bristol, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 1800, being the anniversary of the nativity of the late Edward Colston, Esq. By Thomas T. Biddulph, A. M. Minister of St. James's, Bristol, and of Bengworth, in Worcestershire; and late of Queen's College, Oxford. For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shall open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy in thy land. Deut. xv. 11. published at the particular request of the society.
Biddulph, Thomas Tregenna, 1763-1838.Date: [1800]- Books
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New church melody: being a set of anthems, psalms, hymns, &c. on various occasions. In four parts with a great variety of other anthems, psalms, hymns, &c. composed after a Method entirely new, and never printed before. By William Knapp, Author of the first Book of Psalm Tunes and Anthems on various Occasions. With An Anthem on Psalm cxxvii. by one of the greatest Masters in Europe. Together with four excellent Hymns, and an Anthem for the Nativity. To which is added, An Imploration to the King of Kings. Wrote by King Charles I. during his Captivity in Carisbrook-Castle, in the Isle of Wight, Anno Domini, 1648. Together with An Anthem for the Martyrdom of that blessed Prince.
Date: [1764]- Books
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The British chronologer: containing yearly, from the beginning of our Saviour's nativity, down to this present time, the most remarkable matters which have happen'd in Great Britain; as to Apparitions, Witches, Battles, Victories, Comets, Edifices, Customs, Duels, Taxes, Synods, Tempests, Earthquakes, Tumults, Storms, Eclipses, Famines, Executions, Reliques, Plots, Frosts, Pestilences, Gifts, Persecutions, Murrains, Prodigies, Hurricanes, Idols, Inundations, Plagues, and Judgments: With the Beginning and End of the Roman Emperors, whilst this Island was in Subjection to them: The British, Saxon, Danish, Norman, Scottish, and Pictish Kings. Also shewing all those in the Time of the Heptarchy, as well as the sole Monarchs, from William the Conqueror, to his present Majesty, King George; and the most remarkable Occurrences, both in Church and State, from our first embracing Christianity. By I. P. Esq;
I. P., Esq.Date: 1720- Books
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A new historical catechism; containing witty answers to several questions, of many wonderful matters in ancient history. 1. Shewing the light of the heathen world. 2. The confession and decease of Oracles. 3 The miracles that happened at our Saviour's birth. 4. The usurpation of Herod to the Kingdom of Judea. 5. The many great and cruel murders committed by him; together with the manner and number of children slain in Bethlehem, by his order. 6. An account of his miserable death, with the miserable deaths of his successors. 7. The death of Herodias, and her dancing daughter. 8. The death of Pontius Pilate, and Nero the Roman emperor. 9. The destruction of Jerusalem, with the number of those that died in the siege; as likewise the number of them that were sent to Rome to be put to death as the emperor pleased for his own diversion. 10. Josephus and the Roman account of our Saviour. 11. The remarkable life and death of Simon Magnus. 12. A remarkable history of the Great Mogul and a divining ape; with a wonderful apparition that happened at Mahomet's tomb. 13. A full and particular account of the wise men of the east, who came to visit our Saviour at his nativity. 14. A beautiful description of the building of the tower of Babel. 15. Also several questions about Sodom and Gomorrah.
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The adoration of the shepherds at the birth of Christ. Engraving by J. Witdoek after P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 493563i- Books
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On the nature of the most ingenious arts, and the benefits of indulgence to the most curious things. A poem.
Date: [1747]