Controversial literature

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"Liberty" ...
"The holy lance" : an episode of the crusades, and other monographs
"The nations shall know that I am Jehovah" - how?
"Then is finished the mystery of God."
"What, then, does Dr. Newman mean?" : a reply to a pamphlet lately published by Dr. Newman
'No fetters in the Bay state!' : speech of Wm. Lloyd Garrison before the Committee on Federal Relations, in support of the petitions asking for a law to prevent the recapture of fugitive slaves, Thursday, Feb. 24, 1859
(The following address was intended to have been published before the twentieth of the last month, : but as it was omitted, it is hoped that the good end intended may not be altogether lost by its now being printed.) Eighth month 4th. : A short address to the English colonies in North-America
,The detection of a popish cheat, or, A true account of the invention and discovery of the story of a boys conversing with the devil, : which has lately occasioned so much noise and so many reports
... A picture of the times, : to be continued weekly, in a series of letters, addressed to the people of England, by a lover of the peace
A Baptist church, the Christian's home
A Bermudas preacher proved a persecutor : being a just tryal of Sampson Bond's book, entituled, A publick tryal of the Quakers, &c. : Fraught with fallacies, false doctrine, slanders, railings, aspersions, perversions, and other abuses herein detected, disproved and wiped off. : And that the True Christ is owned by the people called Quakers, plainly made manifest
A Breife description or character of the religion and manners of the phanatiques in generall. : Scil. [brace] Anabaptists, Independents, Brovvnists, Enthusiasts, Levellers, Quakers, Seekers, Fift-Monarchy-Men, & Dippers. Shewing and refuting theur absurdities by due application, reflecting much also on Sir Iohn Præcisian and other novelists. Non seria semper
A Brief abstract of the great oppresions and injuries which the late managers of the East-India-Company have acted on the lives, liberties and estates of their fellow-subjects : with a short account of their unjust dealings with the natives in sundry parts of India, which has so much expos'd the honour and interest of the nation, and hazarded the loss of that advantageous trade, humbly presented to the consideration of the honourable, the knights, citizens and burgesses, in Parliament assembled
A Brief account of the several plots, conspiracies, and hellish attempts of the bloody-minded papists against the princes and kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the Reformation to this present year, 1678 : as also their cruel practices in France against the Protestants in the massacre of Paris, &c., with a more particular account of their plots in relation to the late Civil War and their contrivances of the death of King Charles the First, of blessed memory
A Brief and true account of the sufferings of the Church of Scotland occasioned by the Episcopalians since the year 1660 : being a vindication of Their Majesties government in that kingdom, relating to the proceedings against the bishops and clergy there : with some animadversions upon a libel intituled, The present state and condition of the clergy and Church of Scotland
A Brief survey of the old religion : which may serve as a guide to all passengers, yet members of the militant church desirous to know & keep, among divers wayes, the old-good-way to Heaven .
A Bull sent by Pope Pius to encourage the traytors in England : pronounced against Queen Elizabeth of ever glorious memory, shewing the wicked designs of popery
A Bull sent by Pope Pius to encourage the traytors in England, : pronounced against Queen Elizabeth, of ever glorious memory; shewing the wicked designs of popery
A Canterbury tale, translated out of Chaucers old English into our now usuall language. : Whereunto is added the Scots pedler. Newly enlarged by A.B
A Carrier to a king, or, Doctour Carrier (chamberlayne to King Iames of happy memory) his motives for renouncing the Protestant religion and persuading to re-union with the Cath. Roman
A Catalogue of the names of those holy martyrs who were burned in Queen Maries reign : as also the particular places where, with the years and months and several of the days, when they suffered
A Catholick catechism : shewing the impossibility the Catholick religion should be varied to the degree of a thought, from the measures left sealed by the apostles, without the loss of truth, and therefore the impossibility popery, or whatever else is not found in Scripture, should be Catholick : composed to the capacity of the meanest that will but consider, that they may know and be ready upon unmovable reasons, to give an apologie or defensive answer for the Catholick religion, if they are indeed of it, and be secured from temptation in times of danger
A Catholick pill to purge popery : with a preparatory preface, obviating the growing malignity of popery against Catholick Christianity
A Catholicke apologie against the libels, declarations, aduices, and consultations made, written, and published by those of the League, perturbers of the quiet estate of the realme of France : Who are risen since the decease of the late Monsier, the Kings onely brother. By E.D.L.I.C
A Catholicke conference betvveene Syr Tady Mac. Mareall a popish priest of VVaterforde, and Patricke Plaine a young student in Trinity Colledge by Dublin in Ireland : VVherein is deliuered the certayne maner of execution that was vsed vpon a popish bishop, and a popish priest, that for seueral matters of treason were executed at Dublin the first of February, now last past. 16ll. Strange to be related, credible to be beleeued, and pleasant to bee perused. By Barnabe Rych, Gent. seruant to the Kinges most excellent Maiestie
A Catholike confutation of M. Iohn Riders clayme of antiquitie : and a caulming comfort against his caueat. In which is demonstrated, by assurances, euen of protestants, that al antiquitie, for al pointes of religion in controuersie, is repugnant to protestancie. Secondly, that protestancie is repugnant particularlie to al articles of beleefe. Thirdly, that puritan plots are pernitious to religion, and state. And lastly, a replye to M. Riders Rescript; with a discouerie of puritan partialitie in his behalfe. By Henry Fitzimon of Dublin in Irland, of the Societie of Iesus, priest
A Caution to Protestants not to forsake the communion of the Church of England
A Caveat for the Protestant clergy, or, A true account of the sufferings of the English clergy upon restitution of popery in the days of Queen Mary
A Chris[t]ian caveat to the old and new sabbatarians, or, A vindication of our gospel-festivals : wherein is held forth, I. That the feast of Christs nativity is grounded upon the scriptures, was observed in the pure, ancient, apostolique times, and is approved by all reformed churches, II. That Christ was borne on the 25. day of December, and all objections to the contrary refuted, III. That the keeping holy the Lords Day was appointed by the Christian church, and that the morality, and divine institution of the Lords Day are meer fictions, IV. That the day of Christs nativity, the day of His passion, and the like, have equall authority, equall antiquity, equall right to be observed as the Lords Day, and that to work on those dayes is equally sinfull, V. That the observation of the Sabbath Day is abolished in Christ, and that to call the Lords Day the Sabbath is senseless, Jewish, unchristian, unwarrantable ...
A Christian and modest offer of a most indifferent conference, or disputation, about the maine and principall controversies betwixt the prelats, and the late silenced and deprived ministers in England : tendered by some of the said ministers to the archbishops, and bishops, and all their adherents
A Christian and wholesom admonition : directed to the Frenchmen, which are reuolted from true religion, and haue polluted themselues with the superstition and idolatrie of poperie
A Christian caveat to the old and new sabbatarians, or, A vindication of our Gospel-festivals : wherein is held forth, I. That the feast of Christs nativity is grounded upon the Scriptures, was observed in the pure, antient, apostolique times, and is approved by all reformed churches, II. That Christ was borne on the 25th day of December, and all objections to the contrary refuted, III. That the keeping holy the Lords Day was appointed by the Christian Church, and that the morality, and devine institution of the Lords Day are mere fictions, IV. That the day of Christs nativity, the day of His passion, and the like, have equall authority, equall antiquity, equall right to be observed as the Lords Day, and that to work on those dayes is equally sinfull, V. That the observation of the Sabbath Day is abolished in Christ, and that to call the Lords Day the Sabbath is senslesse, Jewish, unchristian, inwarrantable
A Christian dialogue, betweene Theophilus a deformed Catholike in Rome, and Remigius a reformed Catholike in the Church of England : Conteining. a plaine and succinct resolution, of sundry very intricate and important points of religion, which doe mightily assaile the weake consciences of the vulgar sort of people; penned ... for the vtter confusion of all seditious Iesuites and Iesuited popelings in England .
A Christian directorie : guiding men to their saluation Deuided into three boores [sic]. The first vvhereof apperteining to resolution, is only conteyned in this volume, deuided into tvvo partes, and set forth novv again vvith many corrections, and additions by th'athour [sic] him self, vvith reprofe of the corrupt and falsified edition of the same booke lately published by M. Edmu. Buny. Ther is added also a methode for the vse of al; with tvvo tables, and a preface to the reader, vvhich is necessarie to be reade
A Christian directorie : guiding men to their saluation. Deuided into three bookes. The first vvherof apperteining to resolution, is only conteined in this volume, deuided into tvvo partes, and set forth novv againe vvith many corrections, and additions by th'authour him self, vvith reprofe of the corrupt and falsified edition of the same booke lately published by M. Edm. Buny. Ther is added also a methode for the vse of al; with two tables, and a preface to the reader, which is necessarie to be reade
A Christian directory : guiding men to eternall saluation: commonly called the resolution. Deuided into three bookes. The first wherof, teacheth how to make a good resolution. The second, how to begin well. The third, how to perseuere, and end happily. Written by the R. Father Robert Persons, priest of the Society of Iesus
A Christian directory : guiding men to their eternal salvation devided into three books. The first whereof apperteining to resolution, is only conteyned in this volume, devided into two partes, and set forth now again with many corrections, and additions. There is added also a method for the use of all; with two tables. By the R.F. Robert Persons priest of the Society of Iesus
A Christian directory : guiding men to their eternal salvation. Divided into three books: the first whereof appertaining to resolution, is only contained in this volume, divided into two parts, and set forth now again with many corrections and additions. There is added also, a method for the use of all: with two tables.
A Christian letter of certaine English protestants, vnfained fauourers of the present state of religion, authorised and professed in England: vnto that reverend and learned man, Mr R. Hoo : requiring resolution in certaine matters of doctrine (which seeme to ouerthrow the foundation of Christian religion, and of the church among vs) expreslie contained in his fiue books of Ecclesiasticall pollicie
A Christian letter, containing a graue and godly admonition to such as make separation from the church assemblies in England and elsewhere.
A Christian loue-letter : sent particularly to K.T. a gentlewoman mis-styled a Catholicke, but generallie intended to all of the Romish religion, to labour their conuersion to the true faith of Christ Iesus. By Iohn Swynnerton, Gent:
A Christian plea : conteyning three treatises. I. The first, touching the Anabaptists, & others mainteyning some like errours with them. II. The second, touching such Christians, as now are here, commonly called Remonstrants or Arminians. III. The third, touching the Reformed Churches, with vvhom my self agree in the faith of the Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ. Made by Francis Iohnson, pastour of the auncient English Church, now sojourning at Amsterdam in the Low Countreyes
A Christian warning-piece for all true Protestants : by way of Christian counsel and advice to the King's most excellent Majesty, and all his good Protestant subjects, founded forth out of the written word of God : wherein is clearly shewed ...
A Collection of discourses lately written by some divines of the Church of England against the errours and corruptions of the church of Rome : to which is prefix'd a catalogue of the several discourses
A Collection of religious tracts : [Twelve lines from Swedenborg]
A Collection of religious tracts, from different authors. : Republished for the information and serious perusal of all sober enquirers
A Compendious view and brief defence of the peculiar and leading doctrines of the New Jerusalem Church
A Conference between a parish-priest, and a Quaker. : Published for the preventing (if possible) the vile deceits of priestcraft in America
A Continuation from the first book, by the author of the explanation of the vision to Ezekiel: including Solomon's song
A Coole conference between the cleared Reformation and the Apologeticall narration
A Declaration of the Congregational ministers in and about London against Antinomian errours and ignorant and scandalous persons intruding themselves into the ministry
A Defence of true Protestants abused for the service of popery under the name of Presbyterians : in a dialogue between A. and L., two sons of the church : where it is debated whether Presbyterians be as bad or worse than Papists and other Popish assertions are detected
A Description o[f] the multitude of Christians in the world
A Dialogue between a papist and a Quaker
A Dialogue between two Jesuits, Father Antony and Father Ignatius at Amsterdam : the one coming from England and the other going thither
A Dialogue between two Jesuits, Father Antony and Father Ignatius, at Amsterdam, : the one coming from England, and the other going thither
A Dialogue betwixt three travellers as acidentally they did meet on the High-way : Crvey Cringe, a papist Accepted Weigh-all, a professor of the Church of England and Factiovs Wrest-Writ a brownist : wherein the errours of the papists and the brownists are discussed and themselves reconciled to the Church of England
A Direct road to peace and happiness in church and state
A Discourse concerning a guide in matters of faith : with respect especially to the Romish pretence of the necessity of such a one as is infallible
A Discourse of schism for the benefit of humble Christians
A Discourse shewing that the Protestant religion is the surest way to heaven : together with A discourse against transubstantiation
A Farther account of the great divisions among the Quakers in Pensilvania, &c. : as appears by another of their books lately come over from thence, intituled, Some reasons and causes of the late separation, that hath come to pass at Philadelphia, betwixt us, called by some of the seperate meeting, and others that meet apart from us : more particularly opened, to vindicate and clear us and our testimony in that repsect, viz. : that the seperation lieth at their door, and they, and not we, are justly chargeable with it : with an apology for the present publication of these things
A Fish caught in his own net : An examination of nine sermons, from Matt. 16. 18. published last year, by Mr Joseph Fish of Stonington; wherein he labours to prove, that those called standing churches in New-England, are built upon the rock, and upon the same principles with the first fathers of this country: and that Separates and Baptists are joining with the gates of hell against them. In answer to which; many of his mistakes are corrected; the constitution of those churches opened; the testimonies of prophets and apostles, and also of many of those fathers ar produced, which as plainly condemn his plan, as any Separate or Baptist can do. By Isaac Backus. Pastor of a church of Christ in Middleborough. [Six lines of quotations]
A Fish caught in his own net. : An examination of nine sermons, from Matt. 16. 18. published last year, by Mr Joseph Fish of Stonington; wherein he labours to prove, that those called standing churches in New-England, are built upon the rock, and upon the same principles with the first fathers of this country: and that Separates and Baptists are joining with the gates of hell against them. : In answer to which; many of his mistakes are corrected; the constitution of those churches opened; the testimonies of prophets and apostles, and also of many of those fathers are produced, which as plainly condemn his plan, as any Separate or Baptist can do.
A Friend's discourse, delivered at an yearly meeting of the Quakers, in Boston, on Friday the 30th of August, 1728.
A Full and true narrative of one Elizabeth Middleton, a Roman-Catholick living in Gardners-Lane, Westminster : who endeavouring to turn the late hellish-plot on the non-conformists, thereby to vindicate her own sect, the papists, was before several witnesses heard to wish that she might never see the light .
A Full and true relation of two very remarkable tryals at the quarter-sessions of the peace for the city and liberty of Westminster : held in the great hall, on Monday the third of October, and ending the eleventh of the same : the one, for scandalous words, by one Shippon : the other, of a priest in the gate-house, for spoiling a girl of nine years old
A Fuller and truer state of the case of the parish of Old-Machar. The appellants case
A Further discovery of the mystery of Jesuitisme. : In a collection of severall pieces, representing the humours, designs and practises of those who call themselves the Society of Jesus
A Godly dyalogue & dysputacyon betwene Pyers Plowman, and a popysh preest concernyng the supper of the Lorde : no lesse frutefell then necessarye to be noted of al Christen men specyally considering the great controuerses & varyaunces had therin now in your tyme
A Godlye sermon preached before the Queens Most Excellent Maiestie vpon the 17, 18, 19 verses of the 16 chapter of S. Mathew : vvherein is contained the conclusion of a dialogue betweene Christ and his disciples, shewing breefely that the authoritie which the Pope of Rome doth challenge to himselfe is vnlawfully vsurped : very necessarie for these perilous times wherein the simple may perceiue their intollerable impietie, vsurping that office and action which euer appertayned vnto Christ only : published at the request of sundry godly and well disposed persons
A Jesuitical designe discovered: : in a piece called, The Quakers pedigree;, or, A dialogue between a Quaker and a Jesuit, &c
A Just censure of the answer to Vox cleri : in a letter to a friend
A Legacie left to Protestants, : containing eighteen controversies, viz. 1. Of the Holy Scriptures. 2. Of Christs Catholick Church, &c. 3. Of the Bishop and Church of Rome, 4. Of traditions needfull, &c
A Letter concerning an American bishop, &c. : to Dr. Bradbury Chandler, ruler of St. John's Church, in Elizabeth-Town. : In answer to the appendix of his Appeal to the public, &c
A Letter from Colchester to the disperst bretheren of the late intended Whig feast : proving that Presbytery is inconsistent with monarchy
A Letter from a clergy-man in the country, to a clergy-man in the city, : containing free thoughts about the controversie, between some ministers of the Church of England, and the Quakers: : with seasonable advice to his brethren, to study peace and moderation
A Letter from a dissenter to the divines of the Church of England in order to a union
A Letter from one of the Society of Friends, relative to the conscientious scrupulousness of its members to bear arms
A Letter from some aged nonconforming ministers, to their Christian friends, touching the reasons of their practice. August 24. 1701
A Letter from some aged nonconforming ministers, to their Christian friends, touching the reasons of their practice. August 24. 1701
A Letter from some aged nonconforming ministers, to their Christian friends, touching the reasons of their practice. August 24. 1701
A Letter from the Devil to the pope
A Letter from the pope to his distresed [sic] sons the Catholicks in England : as it was intercepted, and now published by S.V
A Letter on George Keith's advertisement of an intended meeting at Turners-Hall, the 29th of April 1697
A Letter out of the countrey to a friend in the city concerning a late book entituled Tritheism charged upon Dr. Sherlock's new notion of the Trinity, and the charge made good in an answer &c.
A Letter to a friend in the country touching the present fears and jealousies of the nation and how they arise
A Letter to the Reverend Mr. Gilbert Kennedy : Occasion'd by some personal Reflections, contain'd in his answer to Mr. Haliday's Reasons against the Imposition of Subscription to the Westminster-Confession, or any such Human Tests of Orthodoxy: By Samuel Haliday. M. A. Minister of the Gospel
A Letter vvritten to a friend declaring his opinion : being such tenents as are contrary to the doctrine of the Church of England and of all the reformed churches : yea, and the universall church in all ages : which opinions are worthy of learned mens consideration and confutation
A Letter written by a minister for the satisfaction of a person doubting in religion : shewn to be unsatisfactory
A Magical vision, or, A perfect discovery of the fallacies of witchcraft : as it was lately represented in a pleasant sweet dream
A Manifest and breife discovery of some of the errours contained in a dialogue called the Marrow of moderne divinity : wherein is shewen, especially the authors errour in the manner of the justification of a sinner, and the truth cleared from all the falshoods contained in that booke concerning the same, with some other of his errours
A Memorial to the Congress of the United States : on the subject of restraining the increase of slavery in the new states to be admitted into the union
A Method of gaining the whole Christian world to be converts to the Church of England, by satisfying one doubt : occasion'd by a request lately made to Roman-Catholics and directed to the requester
A Modest apology for Parson Alberoni, : governour to King Philip, a minor; and universal Curate of the whole Spanish monarchy: the whole being a short, but unanswerable defence of priestcraft, and a new confutation of the Bishop of Bangor. [Five lines of Latin verse from Buchan]
A Modest apology for Parson Alberoni, governour to King Philip, a minor; and universal Curate of the whole Spanish monarchy: : the whole being a short, but unanswerable defence of priestcraft, and a new confutation of the Bishop of Bangor. : [Five lines of Latin verse from Buchan]
A Modest examination of the resolution of this case of conscience : whether the Church of England's symbolizing in some things so far as it doth with the confessedly idolatrous Church of Rome makes it unlawful to hold communion with the Church of England in those things which are not by the divine law necessary and by those churches used : in a letter to a friend
A Muslim theologian's response to Christianity : Ibn Taymiyya's al-Jawab al-sahih
A Narrative of the religious controversy in Fitchburg : with comments on a pamphlet, entitled "Facts and documents," &c., published by the church under the late care of the Rev. Samuel Worcester, and general remarks : the work is designed to defend the rights of private Christians, to advance the order, and strengthen the connexion [sic] of the churches
A New test of the Church of England's loyalty
A New-England-fire-brand quenched : being something in answer unto a lying, slanderous book, entituled, George Fox digged out of his burrows, &c. printed at Boston in the year 1676, of one Roger Williams of Providence in New-England ... : of a dispute upon XIV, of his proposals held and debated betwixt him, the said Roger Williams, on the one part, and John Stubs, William Edmundson, and John Burnyeat on the other at Providence and Newport in Rode-Island, in the year 1672 where his proposals are turn'd upon his own head, and there and here he was and is sufficiently confuted : in two parts : as also, something in answer to R.W.'s Appendix, &c. with a post-script confuting his blasphemous assertions ... : also, the letters of W. Coddington of Rode-Island, and R. Scot of Providence in New-England concerning R.W. and lastly, some testimonies of ancient & modern authors concerning the light, Scriptures, rule & the soul of men
A New-Year's gift, or A brief account of the sacrament, of the Lord's Supper. : Address'd, to our less-learn'd reader, to which are added. A meditation, prayer, &c. Suitable to the subject taken from, A. Bp. Tillotson, Bp. Beveridge, Dr. Hicks, Dr. Hornick and others. : [One line epigram in Latin]
A New-Years-gift for the Antinomians : particularly Mr. Malebranch Crisp, or, as he foolishly, and yet often (but truly stiles himself the unworthy branch of Dr. Crisp who hath wickedly attempted to underprop a rotten cause of his father, by notorious forgeries, concerning Mr. Baxter, Mr. How, and Dr. Bates, as justifiers of Dr. Crisp as an orthodox man, and no Antinomian: in a rhapsody, intituled, Christ exalted, and Dr. Crisp defended; against the reverend Mr. Alsop, with whom he rudely, and ignorantly plays under the name of his dear Kratiste. By Calvin Anti-Crispian
A Paper of condemnation past at York : together with a paper written by way of answer thereunto, whereby, in part, may be seen the difference between the conforming and discenting parties, recomended to the monthly meetings, desireing they will impartially consider the same
A Petition given by some ministers to the general assembly, met at Edinburgh : The 29th. of March 1705, with an account of what followed thereupon; together with an account of the opposition made to the new synodical acts, by Mr. Alexander Orrok minister at Hawick, from the time that the synod of Merss and Teviotdale began to move in them, until the meeting of the said assembly
A Presbyterian clergyman looking for the church
A Protestant antidote against popery : with a brief discourse of the great atheisticalness and vain amours now in fashion
A Protestant antidote against the poyson of popery : clearly proving the religion of the Church of Rome to be 1. superstitious, 2. idolatrous, 3. damnable, 4. bloody, 5. novel, 6. inconsistent with the publick peace, 7. irreconciliable to true Christianity ...
A Protestant catechism for little children or, Plain scripture against popery
A Protestant catechisme for little children, or Plain scripture against popery
A Protestant's resolution: shewing his reasons why he will not be a papist. : Digested into so plain a method of question and answer, that an ordinary capacity may be able to defend the Protestant religion against the most cunning Jesuit, or popish priest. : [Two lines from I. Peter]
A Protestants resolution showing his reasons why he will not be a papist : digested into so plain a method of question and answer that an ordinary capacity may be able to defend the Protestant religion against the most cunning Jesuit or popish priest
A Protestants resolution: shewing his reasons why he will not be a Papist : Digested into so plain a method of question and answer, that an ordinary capacity may be able to defend the Protestant religion, against the most cunning Jesuit or Popish priest. Useful for these times
A Quakers sermon: preached at the Bull-and-Mouth Metting-House : in St. Martins-Le-Grand, London. On Sunday the 16th. of Nov. 1674. Taken from his mouth in short-hand by an indifferent person
A Relation of the two pretended apostles that came invisibly into the great city of Tholouse in France, from Damascus in Galilea, aged above a thousand years
A Report of the committee of the charge against Mathew Wren, Bishop of Ely, to the House of Commons, July 5th, 1641 : with the vote of the House taken hereupon
A Request to Protestants : to produce plain scriptures directly authorizing these their tenets
A Roman Catholick's reasons why he cannot conform to the Protestant religion
A Sad caveat to all Quakers. : Not to boast any more that they have God Almighty by the hand, when they have the devil by the toe. Containing a true narration of one William Pool an apprentice, & a known Quaker neer Worcester, who on Friday, in last Febr. the 20. boasting that he had that day Christ by the hand, and must according to appointment go to him again, did on that evening by the temptation and impulsion of the devil drown himself in the river. Together with the judgement of the coroner and jury, who found him guilty of self-murder. As also the most barbarous usage of some Quakers who digged him out of his grave. And the most unparaleled presumption of one Mrs. Susan Peirson, who undertook to raise him again to life, with the whole manner of it, and the words that at that time she uttered; the like whereof never heard in Christendome
A Scotch antidote against the English infection of Arminianism : Which little book may be (through Gods blessing) very useful to preserve those that are yet found in the faith, from the infection of Mr John Goodwin's great book. By Robert Bailie, minister of the Gospel at Glasgow
A Scriptural enquiry, concerning what the Friends call spiritual baptism; : being an answer to a publication of a Friend in Rhode-Island, by the name of Moses Brown.
A Second collection of tracts : proving the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ the only true God, and Jesus Christ the son of God, him whom the father sanctified and sent, raised from the dead and exalted, and disproving the doctrine of three almighty and equal persons, spirits, modes, subsistences, or somewhats in God, and of the incarnation .
A Second remonstrance by way of address from the Church of England to both Houses of Parliament
A Short reply to Mr. Whitefield's letter which he wrote in answer to the Querists : wherein the said Querists testify their satisfaction with some of the amendments Mr. Whitefield proposes to make of some of the exceptionable expressions in his writings. Together with som farther remarks upon what seems exceptionable in the present letter; which seem to occur to the Querists. [Six lines of Scripture quotations]
A Short surveigh of the grand case of the present ministry : whether they may lawfully subscribe and declare as by the late Act of uniformity is required, and the several cases thence arising, especially about the covenant
A Shrove-Tvesday banqvet sent to the bishops in the tovver : first, a London pancake to the bishop of Canterbury, presented by the apprentices of London, with the water mens attendance. Then, a Lincolnshire pudding, and a Yorkshire friter to the bishop of Yorke, a Norfolk dumplin and a Suffolke caveshead to bishop Wren. An old cudgel-beaten cocke to the b. of Gloucester. A rusty piece of bacon to the b. of Rochester. And lastly, a dish of collops and egges to the b. of Bath and Wells. VVith the cause of the souldiers training, and their manner of their drinking a health to the said bishops
A Sovereign remedy for the cure of hypocrisy and blind zeal, : extracted from the salutary precepts of Jesus Christ, And addressed to the serious Consideration of The People called Methodists. By an Enemy to Pious Fraud
A Summary view of Professor Simson's errors, : Prov'd against him in the double process before the General Assembly; with some thoughts upon the whole: in a letter to a friend. To which is added, an answer to the said letter
A Synopsis of Quakerism, or, A collection of the fundamental errors of the Quakers : collected out of their printed books : with a brief refutation of their most material arguments (and particularly W. Pens in his late Sandy foundation shaken), and an essay towards the establishment of private Christians in the truths opposed by those errors
A Test and protest against popery from the conscientious Christian Protestants called Quakers
A Testimony against John Fenwick, concerning his proceeding about New-Cesaria or New-Jersey in the province of America.
A Testimony against John Pennyman's lyes, slanders, and false accusation of blasphemy &c.
A Testimony from the people of God called Quakers : against many lying and slanderous books and a ballad lately published in envy and malice to render the said people odious, and accusing them of things they are clear of
A Touch of the times, or, Two letters casually intercepted : the first, from the author of a late pamplet intituled, Day-fatality, to the supposed author of the Weekly packet of advice from Rome, 1679 : the second, the answer thereunto
A Touch of the times, or, Two letters casually intercepted. : The first, from the author of a late pamplet intituled, Day-fatality: to the supposed author of the Weekly packet of advice from Rome. The second, the answer thereunto
A Treatise of the principles of Christ his doctrine, and the principles of Antichristes doctrine : with a comparison betweene these two gouernments
A Triall of the English lyturgie : wherein all the materiall objections raised in defence hereof are fully cleared and answered
A True copy of a genuine letter, sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury, by eighteen Presbyterian ministers, in America: : with some remarks thereon; in another letter to the congregations of the said ministers. By an old covenanting, and true Presbyterian layman. : [Four lines of Scripture texts]
A True copy of three judgments given forth by a party of men, called Quakers at Philadelphia, against George Keith and his friends. : With two answers to the said judgments
A True history of the lives of the Popes of Rome : with a description of their particular vices and misdemeanors ... : with a full discovery of the cursed tenents of the Church of Rome : concerning the Popes power, authority in ecclesiasticals and temporals over emperours, kings, princes and potentates, whom they may excommunicate, depose, murther, poison, or make away by any unlawful means whatsoever, even by their own subjects, and notwithstanding all oaths of allegiance and supremacy, for which they can give dispensation : with a relation of their many execrable and bloody designs and massacres, not only in England and Ireland, but also in France, Spain, and other places
A True relation from Rome, of a bloody and cruel monster, that for many years hath destroyed an infinite number of men, women and children, devoured the growth of that country, and reduced other nations to want : vvith a description of its prodigious shape, terrifying aspect, and fox-like craftiness, the like never yet seen in any other part of the world
A True view of popish cruelties : setting forth the beginning of papal tyrannies, bloody persecutions, plots, and inhumane butcheries, exercised on the professors of the Gospel in England dissenting from the Church of Rome : with an account of all, or most of the martyrs that were put to death by the cruel papists in this kingdom, until the Reformation in the reign of King Edw. 6 and Queen Elizabeth : also the first rise of the Writ de Heretico Comburendo, for burning of hereticks : well worth all Protestants perusal, that they may unite as one man against the hierarchy of the blood-thirsty See of Rome
A Truth known to very few, viz. that the Jesuites are down-right compleat atheists : proved such, and condemned for it by two sentences of the famous faculty of Sorbonne ... : throughout this work you have, 1. The Jesuits Propositions, 2. The faculties censures .
A View of the articles of the Protestant and popish faith
A View of the articles of the Protestant and popish faith. : To which is added, an address to the laity
A Vindication of Anti-Cotton, againsts the cavils of his answerers
A Vindication of Lord Taaffe's civil principles, in a letter, to the author of a Pamphlet, intitled : "Lord Taaffe's observations upon the affairs of Ireland, examined and confuted."
A Vindication of Nevv-England, from the vile aspersions cast upon that country by a late address of a faction there, who denominate themselves of the Church of England in Boston
A Vindication of a sheet : concerning the orders of the Church of England, against some reasons, &c. printed at Oxford
A Vindication of an association from the charge of countenancing heresy in doctrine, and of partiality in conduct : shewing that the proposition, which only they affirmed, viz. That the work of redemption, properly and strictly so called, as to price, purchase, ransom, wa finished by the death of Christ, is neither heretical nor false; and that their conduct has been in all things just, in most things necessary, with respect to the things alledged [sic] against them. Written at the desire of the association, by one of their number
A Vindication of an association from the charge of countenancing heresy in doctrine, and of partiality in conduct: : shewing that the proposition, which only they affirmed, viz. That the work of redemption, properly and strictly so called, as to price, purchase, ransom, was finished by the death of Christ, is neither heretical nor false; and that their conduct has been in all things just, in most things necessary, with respect to the things alledged [sic] against them.
A Vindication of the Protestant dissenters, from the aspersions cast upon them in a late pamphlet, intitled, The presbyterians plea of merit, in order to take off the test, impartially examined. : To which are added, some remarks upon a paper, call'd, the correspondent
A Vindication of the proceedings at University College, in the late election of Mr. Cockman to be master of that college. : In answer to a pamphlet, entituled, the proceedings of the visitors, &c. vindicated
A Warning to Europe: or, The predictions of that eminent, pious & learned prelate, James Usher, arch-bishop of Armagh, and lord primate of Ireland. : Fore-telling, that the sharpest stroak of papal persecution is yet to come, on all the Reformed Churches; perswading, also, to an universal reformation and repentance, as the only means of diverting this terrible judgment, and of preventing our utter ruin and destruction
A Whip to the back of a backsliding Brovvnist,
A Wonderful relation of a strange appearance of the devil in the shape of a lion, to a popish novice, not far from Redborn in Hertfordshire
A Word to discontented dissenters, especially the Worcester Association
A Word to purpose, or, A Parthian dart shot back to 1642, and from thence shot back again to 1659 : swiftly glancing upon some remarkable occurrences of the times, and now sticks fast in two substantial queries, I. concerning the legality of the second meeting of some of the long-Parliament-members, also, a fools bolt shot into Wallingford House, by as good a friend to England, as any is there, concerning a free-state

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