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Serious considerations on plays, games, and other fashionable diversions. Shewing the sinfulness, and dangerous tendency thereof. By John Geere, of Farnham, Surry.
Geere, John.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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The aged Christian's final farewell to the world and its vanities. A pious meditation, composed in the last century, by that truly benevolent patriot, and Compassionate Friend to the Poor Citizens of Bristol, John Whitson, Esq; Alderman of the said City, and a Member in Several Parliaments. Collected from the Author's Manuscripts. To which is prefixed, some account of the author, collected from authentic records, by George Symes Catcott.
Whitson, John, 1555?-1629.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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England's bloody tribunal: or, popish cruelty displayed. Containing a compleat account of the lives, religious principles, cruel persecutions, sufferings, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of the most pious English Protestant martyrs, Who have sealed the Faith of our Holy Religion with their Blood. Exhibiting A full View of Popery, with all its superstitious and horrid Practices; and tending to promote the Protestant Religion, by displaying the Errors of Popish Idolatry, and confirming the true Believer in the Faith of Our Blessed Redeemer, who was crucified for our Sins, and rose again for our Justification, and now sitteth at the Right Hand of God, making Intercession for us. To Which IS Added, A faithful Narrative of the many hortid Cruelties and Persecutions that have been inflicted by the Roman Catholics on the Protestants of Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany. With A particular Description of the various Tortares and Barbarities, that are practiced by the Inquisition in Different Parts of the World. Also The Lives of the Primitive Reformers, whose Effigies are given in the Frontispiece to the Work. Together With A full and plain Refutation of the Errors of the Romish Church, laid down in such a Manner as to enable the unlearned Protestants to confute the chief Arguments of the most artful Popish Priests and their Emissaries. By the Reverend Matthew Taylor, D. D. By the King's Authority.
Taylor, Matthew, D.D.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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Sunday reading. Prayers to be used by a child or young person. - by a grown person - by the master or mistress of a Sunday school - and by the master or mistress of a family.
Date: [1795]- Books
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Sunday reading. Prayers to be used by a child or young person - by a grown person - by the master or mistress of a Sunday school - and by the master or mistress of a family.
Date: [1796]- Books
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An alarm to a careless world. A discourse occasioned by the late earthquakes, preached November 30, 1755, being the First Sunday in advent, at St. Dunstan's in the West. By William Romaine, Lecturer.
Romaine, William, 1714-1795.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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The nature of the Christian covenant considered and fairly submitted to the Judgment of the impartial Public. In a discourse on the following text, Gal. v. v. - vi. Intended as a confutation to the pestilential and novel doctrines propagated and taught by certain itinerant missionaries, called Methodists, Who are now dispersing themselves in the most artful Method through this Kingdom, as the Author is advised of, by his Diocesan, the Bishop of Exeter. By the Rev. H. Land, A. M. late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and Rector of Clare Portion in the Church of Tiverton.
Land, H. (Henry), 1723 or 1724-Date: [1772?]- Books
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The duty and obligation, Of Ministers and People, To endeavour to spread the Gospel, universally, Throughout the Kingdom, Being, peculiarly, the Work of the Day: and, That Missions to Heathen Countries, in the present juncture, are Ill-Judged, And Highly Unseasonable, Demonstrated. Respectfully addressed to the Religious World in general, and to the Readers of the Evangelical Magazine in particular. By A Clergyman.
Clergyman.Date: 1796- Books
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The church-Member's directory; or, a gospel church described: wherein is considered its form, founder, and foundation. As also The Materials with which it is built. - The Work and Service thereof. - The Officers belonging to it, - their Characters, Qualifications, and Duties. - In whom the Right of choosing them, and the Power of admitting Members is vested. - The Method of their Admission, - and the Ground of Church-Authority for Excommunication. To which is added, A brief review of the moral and religious obligations of church-members, and A short address to all who intend entering upon that important character. By Archibald Bell.
Bell, Archibald, -1809.Date: [1776]- Books
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Thoughts on the backslidings of believers, and on the means of recovery.
Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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Theological converse. In a dialogue, between Juventus and Puber. The several Branches of which, may be said to comprehend A Definition Of Adam in Paradise: Singular. Idem ibid: Plural. Idem in Fallen State. The Possibility of Adam's Fall. The Original of Adam's Sin: shewing how God was not the Author of it. What is meant by the Lord's repenting, &c. that he had made Man on the Earth. Gen. 6. 6.) The Scripture Doctrine of Regeneration. - Redemption. Salvation. - Eternal Life. The Work occasionally interspersed with brief Philosophical and Metaphysical Strictures. By Philanthropos. To which is added, a Supplement: Discovering the the Sin unto Death: in its Nature and final Judgment. By the same author.
Philanthropos.Date: [1785?]- Books
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A sermon preached in the cathedral-church of Exeter, on the general fast-day, February 6. 1756. By the Lord Bishop of Exeter. Published at the Request of the Rt. Worshipful the Mayor, and Chamber.
Lavington, George, 1684?-1762.Date: [1756]- Books
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The christians daily walk, in holy security and peace. Being an Answer to these Questions. I. How a Man may do each present Day's Work with Christian Chearfulness? II. How to bear each present Day's Cross with Christian Patience? Containing familiar Directions. Shewing 1. How to walk with God in the whole Course of a Man's Life. 2. How to be upright in the said Walking. 3. How to live without anxious Care or Thought, in any Thing. 4. How to get and keep true Peace with God; wherein are manifold Helps, to prevent and remove damnable Presumption; also to quiet and ease distressed Consciences. By Henry Scudder, Minister of Collingborn-Ducis, in Wiltshire. - Recommended by Dr. Owen, and Mr. Baxter.
Scudder, Henry, -1659?.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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The christians daily walk, in holy security and peace. Being an Answer to these Questions. I. How a Man may do each present Day's Work with Christian Chearfulness? II. How to bear each present Day's Cross with Christian Patience? Containing samiliar Directions. Shewing I. How to walk with God in the whole Course of a Man's Life. 2. How to be upright in the said Walking. 3. How to live without anxious Care or Thought, in any Thing. 4. How to get and keep true Peace with God; wherein are manifold Helps, to prevent and remove damnable Presumption; also to quiet and ease distressed Consciences. By Henry Scudder, Minister of Collingborn ducis, in Wiltshire. - Recommended by Dr. Owen, and Mr. Baxter.
Scudder, Henry, -1659?.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The history of religion: particularly of the principal denominations of Christians, viz. Of the Church of Rome, --- England, --- Scotland, - Nonjurors, - Lutherans, - Presbyterians, Of the Independents, - Baptists in general, - Quakers, -- Antinomians, - Moravians, - Methodists in general. Containing a succinct and genuine account of their original and present constitution, discipline, doctrines, worship, and ceremonies: With a general Account of the various Sectaries of less Note, since the first Establishment of Christianity. Including a general History of the Reformation, and so much of Civil and Ecclesiastical History as is connected with, or necessary to explain and illustrate the Work. To which is added, A Dictionary of the principal Religious Orders, Offices, Days, Rites, Customs, Habits, and Characters; the most important Transactions of Ecclesiastical Councils, Synods, &c. explaining all such ambiguous Words and Phrases as have a proper Connexion with the Subjects of this History. By an impartial hand.
Murray, James, 1732-1782.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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A series of letters, essays, dissertations, and discourses, on various subjects: in two volumes. By Richard Clarke, Late Minister of St. Philip's Charleston, South Carolina; and late Lecturer of Stoke-Newington, and St. James's Aldgate. Volume I. Containing, I. Letters to Dr. Adam Smith, on his Account of the Death of David Hume, Esq; II. Letters to Dr. Priestley, in Defence of Drs. Reid, Oswald, and Beattie; and on Five Topics of his ̀̀appeal to the Serious and Candid Professors of Christianity. III. Letters on the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion, by Soame Jenyns, Esq; IV. A Defence of Milton, against Dr. Johnson. V. A Synopsis, or General View of the Times, from the Prophets, &c. drawing near their Completion. VI. A probable Time assigned for the Conversion of the Jews. Vii. A Discourse on the Third Day, compared with the Seventh Day of the Law. Viii. An Address to the Jews. IX. The Assumption of the Son of Man, the Seed of the Woman, in the Throne of the Ancient of Days. Dan. vii. 13. Revel. xii. 5. X. Lines, to the Memory of the late Reverend William Law; - the late Reverend Thomas Henry Lowth; - on the Death of Infants; - on a Child sleeping in his Cradle.
Clarke, Richard, 1723-approximately 1780.Date: [1792]- Books
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The afflicted man's companion: or, a directory for persons and families, afflicted with sickness, or any other distress. With Directions to the Sick, Both under and after Affliction. Also, Directions to the Friends of the Sick, and others who visit them. And likewise to All, how to prepare both for Sickness and Death; and how to be Exercised at the time of Dying. To which is Added. A Collection of Comfortable Texts of Scripture, very suitable for dying Believers. - The Choice Sayings of many Eminent Dying Saints. - The Author's Last Advice to his Wife and Children: And his Dying Words, written by himself, and found among his Papers after his Death. By the Reverend Mr. John Willison, Late Minister of the Gospel in Dundee. Very Necessary for all Families.
Willison, John, 1680-1750.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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The Christian's warfare and crown. A sermon occasioned by the death of the Rev. John Berridge, who departed this life, Jan. 3, 1793: preached at Bartholomew chapel. On Sunday evening, February 3, 1793. By the Rev. W. Holland, ... Taken in short hand, by Job Sibley.
Holland, William, active 1790-1810.Date: 1793- Books
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The biographical and martyrological dictionary: containing the lives, sufferings, and deaths, of the most eminent martyrs and confessors of Christ, From The Earliest Ages Of At The World To The Present Time. Extracted From The scriptures of the Old and New Test Aments, Acts and Monuments, and the Works of the most eminent Writers in several Languages, both ancient and modern, who have made this important Part of History their Study. Including the Life, Sufferings, and Martyrdom [of] our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, ... the Martyrdoms of the Apostles, Evangelists, and other Primitive Christians; The History of some of the most eminent Martyrs and confessions during The Ten Great Persecutions Under The Roman Emperors; Persecutions in Asia and Europe under the Arians. - ... of the Witnesses under Popery, ... the Persecutions in ... and Flanders; the Martyrdoms of Italy; and the ... Barbarities practised by the Inquisition of Spain and ... The History of the Spanish. Invasion,-of the Gun-Powder Plot,-of the Fire of London,-of the Conspiracy in 1668,-of the barbarous Murder of Sir Edmonbury Godirey, and the Design of Parkins, Friend, and Fenwick, for the Re-Establishment of Popery and the Extirpation of the Protestant Religion,-of the Cruelties committed by Judge Jefferies in the West of England,-And of the Persecution against the People called Quakers:-An accurate Account of the Martyrdoms of Scotland, especially under the inauspicious Reigns of Mary, Charles II. and James VI. - And a distinct Narrative of the bloody Massacre of Ireland with a particular Relation of the Cruelties exercised by the Papists in consequence of that detestable Tragedy. - With many other Articles too numerous to be particularized. Forming At Once Complete Biographical Dictionary of Martyrs and Confessors, Upon a more useful and methodical Plan than any that have hitherto appeared. To the whole is annexed, a general index, A General Index, By the Help of which the Reader may turn up any particular Article at Pleasure. By a clergyman and others.
Clergyman and others.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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A sunday reading. On carrying religion into the common business of life.
More, Hannah, 1745-1833.Date: [1796]- Books
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A godly song, entituled, A farewell to the vvorld, made by a godly Christian, named Thomas Byll, being the parish clerke of West-Felton, as he lay vpon his death-bed shewing the vanitie of the world, and his desire to be dissolued. To the tune of, Fortune my foe.
Byll, ThomasDate: [1630?]- Books
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Upon this moment depends eternity: or, Mr. John Dunton's serious thoughts upon the present and future state, in a fit of sickness that was judg'd mortal, in which many New Opinions are Started and Prov'd; and in particular this, That the sincere Practice of known Duties, or dying daily to this Life and World, would of it self resolve the most ignorant Person in all the abstruse Points of the Christian Religion-Being, A New Directory for Holy Living and Dying; Compos'd of the Author's own Experience in Religion, Politicks, and Morals, from his Childhood to his Sixty Third Year, (but more especially during his dangerous Disease in Ireland, in the Year Ninety Eight, when his Life was despair'd Of)-And Compleated in Twenty Essays upon such Nice and Curious Points in Divinity, as were never handled Before-To which is added, The Sick-Man's Passing-Bell. To remind all Men of that Death and Eternity to which they are hastening. - Containing, (1.) God be Merciful to me a Siuner: Or, Dunton at Confession, in which he discovers the Secret Sins of his whole Life; with his Resolutions in what penitent Manner (by the Help of God) he'll spend the short Time he has yet to live. (2.) Dunton's Legacy to his Native Country: Or, A dying Farewell to the most Remarkable Persons and Things both in Church and State; with his last Prayer (or those very Petitions to Almighty God) with which he hopes to Expire. 3. A Living Man following his own Corpse to the Grave: Or, Dunton Represented as Dead and Buried, in an Essay upon his own Funeral-To which is added (for the Oddness and Singularity of it) A Copy of his last Will and Testament-His living Elegy writ with his own Hand-And the Epitaph design'd for his Tombstone, in the New Burying-Place-Together with (4.) The Real Period of Dunton's Life: Or, A Philosophical Essay upon the Nature of that Grand Climacterick Year Sixty Three, in which (as few Persons out-live that Fatal Time) he expects to be actually Buried with that best of Wives Mrs. Elizabeth Annesley (alias Dunton) with their Reasons for Sleeping together in the same Grave 'till the General Resurrection, as contained in two Letters that pass'd between Mr. Dunton and his Wife, a few Days before she Dyed. The whole Directory and Passing-Bell, submitted to the Impartial Censure of the Right Reverend Father in God William Lord Bishop of Ely. By Mr. John Dunton, a Member of the Athenian Society, and Author of the Essay Intitled-The Hazard of a Death-Bed Repentance.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1723]- Books
Trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography / edited by Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt.
Date: [2021]- Books
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Boletarium: or, a collection of papers, squibs, songs, &c. written on the memorable mushroom contest at Carlisle, April, 1786. Together with complete lists of the legal freemen who voted for John Christian and John Lowther, Esqrs. the candidates. Also a list of the new-mad freemen (commonly called mushrooms) who voted for Mr. Lowther. And an appendix, containing Jacky Louder's address to the freemen of Lancaster:-An authentic account of the death of the celebrated James, Earl of Toadstool, &c. &c. - And a letter to the late High Sheriff.
Date: Printed in the Year 1786- Books
Children of wrath : possession, prophecy and the young in early modern England / by Anna French.
French, AnnaDate: [2015]