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A96078 A dialogue betw[een] life and death Very requisite for the conte[m]plation of all transitory pilgrims, and pious minded Christians. Wates, Richard. 1657 (1657) Wing W1059; ESTC R232341 7,311 37 View Text
B02221 Memento mori, or, A word in season to the healthful, sick, and dying, fit for this calamitous time. Wherein sicknesses, rage, and deaths, are frequent. In which is discoursed, 1. That the present life of man is short. 2. That death is most certain. 3. That the time and way of death is uncertain. 4. Motives to prepare for death. 5. Some things to be done in preparation for death. 6. Some antidots [sic] against the fears of death. / By a minister of the gospel. Clark, James, 1660-1723. 1699 (1699) Wing C4464; ESTC R171374 12,777 19 View Text
A19515 The life and death of the Reuerend Father, and faithfull seruant of God, Mr. William Cowper, Bishop of Galloway who departed this life at Edenburgh, the 15. of February. 1619. Whereunto is added a resolution penned by himselfe, some few dayes before his death, touching the Articles concluded in the late generall Assembly holden at Perth. 1618. Cowper, William, 1568-1619. 1619 (1619) STC 5945; ESTC S109006 14,789 34 View Text
A19481 Poetical blossomes by A.C. Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver. 1633 (1633) STC 5906; ESTC S108970 17,550 62 View Text
A10516 The old mans staffe two sermons shewing the onely way to a comfortable old age, preached in Saint Maries in Douer by Iohn Reading. Reading, John, 1588-1667. 1621 (1621) STC 20792; ESTC S115679 21,817 38 View Text
A07052 A new and pleasaunt enterlude intituled the mariage of witte and science Marbury, Francis, d. 1611, attributed name. 1570 (1570) STC 17466; ESTC S120743 23,266 44 View Text
A14917 Faunus and Melliflora or, The original of our English satyres. Iohn Weeuer Weever, John, 1576-1632.; Horace. Satires. 1. English.; Persius. Works. Satire 1. English.; Juvenal. Satura 1. English. 1600 (1600) STC 25225; ESTC S111634 29,966 72 View Text
A95596 Common-good: or, The improvement of commons, forrests, and chases, by inclosure. Wherein the advantage of the poor, the common plenty of all, and the increase and preservation of timber, with other things of common concernment, are considered. / By S.T. S. T. (Silvanus Taylor) 1652 (1652) Wing T552; Thomason E663_6; ESTC R203768 31,192 59 View Text
A11912 The seuenth tragedie of Seneca, entituled Medea: translated out of Latin into English, by Iohn Studley, student in Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge; Medea. English Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.; Studley, John, 1545?-1590? 1566 (1566) STC 22224; ESTC S110871 33,623 103 View Text
A69343 A report and discourse written by Roger Ascham, of the affaires and state of Germany and the Emperour Charles his court, duryng certaine yeares while the sayd Roger was there Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568. 1570 (1570) STC 830; ESTC S100282 38,134 76 View Text
A02110 Greenes mourning garment giuen him by repentance at the funerals of loue, which he presentes for a fauour to all young gentlemen that wish to weane themselues from wanton desires. R. Greene. Vtriusq[ue] academia in artibus magister. Sero sed serio. Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592. 1590 (1590) STC 12251; ESTC S118388 40,320 59 View Text
A14430 The golden treatise of the auncient and learned father Vincentius Lirinensis. For the antiquitie, and vniuersalitie, of the Catholicke religion: against the prophane nouelties of all heresies: newly translated into English by A.P. Verie profitable for all such as desire in these dangerous times, to imbrace the true Gospell of Iesus Christ, and to remaine free from all infectio[n] of false doctrine as in the preface more at large is declared; Pro catholicae fidei antiquitate libellus. English Vincent, of Lérins, Saint, d. ca. 450.; A. P., fl. 1596. 1596 (1596) STC 24748; ESTC S119131 43,517 126 View Text
A80028 Divine blossomes. A prospect or looking-glass for youth: wherein and whereby he may plainly behold and see a supereminency and super-excellency of grace and religion, beyond the worlds honor, glory, fame, repute, pleasure, joy, delight, love,. [sic] And all other lower accomodations whatsoever. Laid down to youth by exciting parallel between [brace] earths honor carnal pleasure inordinate love [brace] and [brace] heavens glory and spiritual pleasure divine love. Under every of which particulars, the author exemplarily expresseth himself in a varied verse. / Composed by a hearty wel-wisher to the youthful generation, Francis Cockin, alias Cokayne. Cockin, Francis. 1657 (1657) Wing C4873; Thomason E1652_1; ESTC R209121 43,716 131 View Text
A02473 Diuine meditations, and elegies. By Iohn Hagthorpe Gentleman Hagthorpe, John. 1622 (1622) STC 12602; ESTC S105949 44,249 126 View Text
B09529 The young man's remembrancer, and Youth's best choice: being an exhortation to conversion, in two anniversary discourses from Eccl. xii. I. Mead, Matthew, 1630?-1699. 1700 (1700) Wing M1563A; ESTC R180504 46,254 164 View Text
A20408 Greene in conceipt New raised from his graue to write the tragique historie of faire Valeria of London. Wherein is truly discouered the rare and lamentable issue of a husbands dotage, a wiues leudnesse, & children of disobedience. Receiued and reported by I.D. Dickenson, John, romance writer.; Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592. 1598 (1598) STC 6819; ESTC S105352 46,384 71 View Text
A79559 The Christians daily monitor to the performance of personal and relative duties With a resolution of some cases of conscience. Published for the benefit of young persons; By Joseph Church. Together with so much of Mr. Samuel Hierons catechisme, as concerns second table duties. Church, Josiah. 1669 (1669) Wing C3986B; ESTC R230947 48,548 166 View Text
A09553 The philosopher of the court, written by Philbert of Vienne in Champaigne, and Englished by George North, gentlema[n].; Philosophe de court. English Philibert, de Vienne, 16th cent.; North, George, gentleman. 1575 (1575) STC 19832; ESTC S114638 55,136 134 View Text
A04608 Certaine sermons preached of late at Ciceter, in the countie of Glocester vpon a portion of the first chapter of the Epistle of Iames: wherein the two seueral states, of the riche and poore man are compared and examined, the differences in quality, and duety betwixt them shewed, both directed to such Christian parts and offices, as the sufficiencie of the one may, and ought to performe, and the wants of the other do necessarily require. Penned at the earnest requests of diuers well affected inhabitantes of the place: and now published as wel for the vse of others, as for the further profit of that particular congregation. By Philip Iones, preacher of the word of God in the same towne. Allowed by authoritie. Jones, Philip, fl. 1589. 1588 (1588) STC 14728; ESTC S119440 57,767 138 View Text
A06166 The famous, true and historicall life of Robert second Duke of Normandy, surnamed for his monstrous birth and behauiour, Robin the Diuell VVherein is contained his dissolute life in his youth, his deuout reconcilement and vertues in his age: interlaced with many straunge and miraculous aduentures. VVherein are both causes of profite, and manie conceits of pleasure. By T.L. G. Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625. 1591 (1591) STC 16657; ESTC S109566 59,414 92 View Text
A65256 Flamma sine fumo, or, Poems without fictions hereunto are annexed the causes, symptoms, or signes of several diseases with their cures, and also the diversity of urines, with their causes in poeticl measures / by R.W. R. W. (Rowland Watkins) 1662 (1662) Wing W1076; ESTC R9085 61,985 160 View Text
A02453 Castara the third edition. Corrected and augmented. Habington, William, 1605-1654.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver. 1640 (1640) STC 12585; ESTC S103611 65,258 262 View Text
A07523 The wisdome of Solomon paraphrased. Written by Thomas Middleton Middleton, Thomas, d. 1627. 1597 (1597) STC 17906; ESTC S110004 68,372 186 View Text
A81815 The fulness and freeness of Gods grace in Jesus Christ, declared in two general points: first, that personal election is no ground of the saints perseverance in the grace of God by Jesus Christ. Secondly, in what sense the scriptures speake the saints perseverance in that grace. The third part. / By Francis Duke.; Fulnesse and freenesse of Gods grace in Jesus Christ. Part 3 Duke, Francis. 1656 (1656) Wing D2503; Thomason E892_9; ESTC R205568 71,363 121 View Text
B00888 The Christian manuell, or of the life and maners of true Christians. A treatise, wherein is plentifully declared, how needefull it is for the seruaunts of God to manifest and declare to the world: their faith by their deedes, their words by their works, and their profession by their conuersation. VVritten by Ihon VVoolton minister of the Gospel, in the Cathedral church of Excetor. Woolton, John, 1535?-1594. 1576 (1576) STC 25976; Interim Tract Supplement Guide G.1999[2] 81,916 210 View Text
A50403 A memento to young and old: or, The young man's remembrancer, and the old man's monitor. By that eminent and judicious divine, Mr. John Maynard, late of Mayfield in Sussex. Published by William Gearing, minister of the Gospel Maynard, John, 1600-1665.; Gearing, William. 1669 (1669) Wing M1451; ESTC R216831 88,644 216 View Text
A02817 The historie of graunde Amoure and la bell Pucel, called the Pastime of plesure co[n]teining the knowledge of the seue[n] sciences, [and] the course of mans life in this worlde. Iuuented [sic] by Stephen Hawes, grome of kyng Henry the seuenth his chamber.; Pastime of pleasure Hawes, Stephen, d. 1523? 1554 (1554) STC 12950; ESTC S106025 88,700 218 View Text
A18995 The flower of phisicke VVherein is perfectlie comprehended a true introduction and method for mans assured health: with three bookes of philosophie for the due temperature of mans life. In which easily may be perceiued the high & wonderfull workes of God in the gouernance of all thinges. Written by W.C. as a glasse of true knowledge for the better direction of al willing [et] vertuous practitioners. Clever, William, writer on physic. 1590 (1590) STC 5412; ESTC S105107 90,568 134 View Text
A49388 Humane life: or, A second part of the enquiry after happiness. By the author of Practical Christianity; Enquiry after happiness. Part 2 Lucas, Richard, 1648-1715. 1690 (1690) Wing L3398; ESTC R212935 101,152 265 View Text
A70642 The Russian imposter, or, The history of Muskovie, under the usurpation of Boris and the imposture of Demetrius, late emperors of Muskovy Manley, Roger, Sir, 1626?-1688. 1674 (1674) Wing M440A; ESTC R22560 101,264 264 View Text
B00614 The second tome of the trauailes and aduentures of Don Simonides enterlaced with/ varietie of historie, wherein the curteous and not curious reader, maie finde matters so leueled, as maie suffice to please all humours. For malancholie men, they shall not neede to saile to Anticera, for here they shall finde pleasaunt expulsiues. For merrie myndes, sober discourses to preuent excesse. For deuoute, wholesome lessons to confirme their contemplatio[n]. For al sortes, such delightes as neither alow of daliaunce, nor discommende honest pleasure / Written by Barnabe Riche, Gentleman. Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617. 1584 (1584) STC 21002A; ESTC S115926 101,846 156 View Text
B11307 The essayes or counsels, ciuill and morall, of Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban; Essays Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. 1625 (1625) STC 1148; ESTC S100362 104,580 356 View Text
A18047 The fountaine of ancient fiction Wherein is liuely depictured the images and statues of the gods of the ancients, with their proper and perticular expositions. Done out of Italian into English, by Richard Linche Gent. Linche, Richard.; Cartari, Vincenzo, b. ca. 1500. Imagini de i dei de gli antichi. 1599 (1599) STC 4691; ESTC S107896 106,455 205 View Text
A41733 The courtiers manual oracle, or, The art of prudence written originally in Spanish by Baltazar Gracian, and now done into English.; Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia. English Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658. 1685 (1685) Wing G1468; ESTC R6724 108,245 306 View Text
A04556 The second part of the famous history of the seauen champions of Christendome Likevvise shevving the princely provvesse of Saint Georges three sonnes, the liuely sparke of nobilitie. VVith many other memorial atchiuements worthy the golden spurres of knighthood.; Most famous history of the seven champions of Christendome. Part 2 Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659? 1597 (1597) STC 14678; ESTC S101376 113,461 208 View Text
A41668 The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan shewing him how to carry himself Christian-like in the whole course of his life / by Tho. Gouge ... Gouge, Thomas, 1605-1681. 1676 (1676) Wing G1387; ESTC R32454 122,357 176 View Text
A04136 A perfite looking glasse for all estates most excellently and eloquently set forth by the famous and learned oratour Isocrates, as contained in three orations of morall instructions, written by the authour himselfe at the first in the Greeke tongue, of late yeeres translated into Lataine by that learned clearke Hieronimus Wolfius. And nowe Englished to the behalfe of the reader, with sundrie examples and pithy sentences both of princes and philosophers gathered and collected out of diuers writers, coted in the margent approbating the authors intent, no lesse delectable then profitable.; To Demonicus. English Isocrates.; Isocrates. To Nicocles. English. aut; Isocrates. Nicocles. English. aut 1580 (1580) STC 14275; ESTC S107436 124,103 118 View Text
A96727 The vertuous wife: or, the holy life of Mrs. Elizabth Walker, late wife of A. Walker, D.D. sometime Rector of Fyfield in Essex Giving a modest and short account of her exemplary piety and charity. Published for the glory of God, and provoking others to the like graces and vertues. With some useful papers and letters writ by her on several occasions. Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.; Walker, Elizabeth, 1623-1690. 1694 (1694) Wing W311A; ESTC R229717 136,489 315 View Text
A49980 The temple of vvisdom for the little world in two parts. The first philosophically divine, treating of the being of all beeings, and whence everything hath its origins as heaven, hell, angels, men and devils, earth, stars and elements. And particularly of all mysteries concerning the soul, and of Adam before and after the fall. Also, a treatise of the four complexions, and the causes of spiritual sadness, &c. To which is added, a postscript to all students in arts and sciences. Second part, morally divine, containing abuses stript and whipt, by Geo. Wither, with his description of fair virtue. Secondly. A collection of divine poems from ... Essayes and religious meditations of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight. Collected, published and intended for a general good. By D.L. Leeds, Daniel, 1652-1720.; Wither, George, 1588-1667. Abuses stript, and whipt.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. 1688 (1688) Wing L915; ESTC R224149 138,032 220 View Text
B02470 Several letters; containing the amours of 1. The unfortunate dutchess; or, The lucky gamester. 2. Love after enjoyment; or, Fatal constancy. 3. The unhappy mistake; or, The fate of cross'd loves. Written by Mr. Cr----rd, gent. Craufurd, David, 1665-1726. 1700 (1700) Wing C6863A; ESTC R174381 142,956 264 View Text
A73861 The battaile of Agincourt Fought by Henry the fift of that name, King of England, against the whole power of the French: vnder the raigne of their Charles the sixt, anno Dom. 1415. The miseries of Queene Margarite, the infortunate wife, of that most infortunate King Henry the sixt. Nimphidia, the court of Fayrie. The quest of Cinthia. The shepheards Sirena. The moone-calfe. Elegies vpon sundry occasions. By Michaell Drayton, Esquire. Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631. 1631 (1631) STC 7191; ESTC S109888 153,591 328 View Text
A03695 Life and death Foure sermons. The first two, of our preparation to death; and expectation of death. The last two, of place, and the iudgement after death. Also points of instruction for the ignorant, with an examination before our comming to the Lords table, and a short direction for spending of time well. By Robert Horne. Auspice Christo. Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.; Horne, Robert, 1565-1640. Points of instruction for the ignorant. aut 1613 (1613) STC 13822.5; ESTC S118515 156,767 464 View Text
A88437 The civil wars of France, during the bloody reign of Charls the Ninth: wherein is shewed, the sad and bloody murthers of many thousand Protestants, dying the streets and rivers with their blood for thirty daies together, whose innocent blood cries to God for vengeance. And may stand as a beacon tired to warn, and a land-mark to pilot all Protestant princes and states to a more secure harbour than peace with Papists. / Faithfully collected out of the most antient and modern authors, by a true Protestant, and friend to the Common-wealth of England. London, William, fl. 1658. 1655 (1655) Wing L2851; Thomason E1696_1; ESTC R209434 160,389 298 View Text
A29837 A compleat treatise of preternatural tumours both general and particular as they appear in the human body from head to foot : to which also are added many excellent and modern historical observations concluding most chapters in the whole discourse / collected from the learned labours both of ancient and modern physicians and chirurgions, composed and digested into this new method by the care and industry of John Brown. Browne, John, 1642-ca. 1700. 1678 (1678) Wing B5125; ESTC R231817 164,435 436 View Text
A04384 Certaine selected epistles of S. Hierome as also the liues of Saint Paul the first hermite, of Saint Hilarion the first monke of Syria, and of S. Malchus: vvritten by the same Saint. Translated into English; Selections. English Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20.; Hawkins, Henry, 1571?-1646. 1630 (1630) STC 14502; ESTC S107704 168,063 216 View Text
A20143 The three orations of Demosthenes chiefe orator among the Grecians, in fauour of the Olynthians, a people in Thracia, now called Romania with those his fower orations titled expressely & by name against king Philip of Macedonie: most nedefull to be redde in these daungerous dayes, of all them that loue their countries libertie, and desire to take warning for their better auayle, by example of others. Englished out of the Greeke by Thomas Wylson doctor of the ciuill lawes. After these orations ended, Demosthenes lyfe is set foorth, and gathered out of Plutarch, Lucian, Suidas, and others, with a large table, declaring all the principall matters conteyned in euerye part of this booke. Seene and allowed according to the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions.; Selections. English Demosthenes.; Wilson, Thomas, 1525?-1581. 1570 (1570) STC 6578; ESTC S109558 171,123 198 View Text
A57129 Annotations on the book of Ecclesiastes Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676. 1669 (1669) Wing R1238; ESTC R26989 179,441 418 View Text
A17081 A discourse of ciuill life containing the ethike part of morall philosophie. Fit for the instructing of a gentleman in the course of a vertuous life. By Lod: Br. Bryskett, Lodowick.; Giraldi, Giambattista Cinzio, 1504-1573. Ecatommiti. VIII.5. 1606 (1606) STC 3958; ESTC S116574 181,677 286 View Text
A71096 The verity of Christian faith written by Hierome Savanorola [sic] of Ferrara.; Triumphus crucis Liber 2. English Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498. 1651 (1651) Wing S781; ESTC R6206 184,563 686 View Text
A16255 Amorous Fiammetta VVherein is sette downe a catologue [sic] of all an singuler passions of loue and iealosie, incident to an enamored yong gentlewoman, with a notable caueat for all women to eschewe deceitfull and wicked loue, by an apparant example of a Neapolitan lady, her approued & long miseries, and wyth many sounde dehortations from the same. First wrytten in Italian by Master Iohn Boccace, the learned Florentine, and poet laureat. And now done into English by B. Giouano del M. Temp. With notes in the margine, and with a table in the ende of the cheefest matters contayned in it.; Fiammetta. English Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.; Yong, Bartholomew, 1560-1621? 1587 (1587) STC 3179; ESTC S102851 186,424 264 View Text
A70917 The history of Don Fenise a new romance / written in Spanish by Francisco de las-Coveras ; and now Englished by a person of honour. Quintana, Francisco de, d. 1658.; Person of honour. 1651 (1651) Wing Q220; ESTC R22454 188,336 336 View Text
A60739 Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying, and perfuming in four books : exemplifyed in the drawing of men, women, landskips, countries and figures of various forms, the way of engraving, etching, and limning, with all their requisites and ornaments, the depicting of the most eminent pieces of antiquities, the paintings of the antients, washing of maps, globes or pictures, the dying of cloth, silk, horns, bones, wood, glass, stones and metals, the varnishing, colouring and gilding thereof according to any purpose or intent, the painting, colouring and beautifying of the face, skin and hair, the whole doctrine of perfumes, never published till now, together with the original, advancement and perfection of the art of painting / by William Salmon ... Salmon, William, 1644-1713. 1673 (1673) Wing S445; ESTC R16620 189,914 371 View Text
A53065 The worlds olio written by the Right Honorable, the Lady Margaret Newcastle. Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674. 1655 (1655) Wing N873; ESTC R17513 193,895 242 View Text
A28200 The essays, or councils, civil and moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban with a table of the colours of good and evil, and a discourse of The wisdom of the ancients : to this edition is added The character of Queen Elizabeth, never before printed in English.; Essays. Selections Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Gorges, Arthur, Sir, 1557?-1625.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Of the colours of good and evil.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Character of Queen Elizabeth.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. De sapientia veterum. English. 1696 (1696) Wing B296; ESTC R15973 195,963 328 View Text
A10839 Oberuations diuine and morall For the furthering of knowledg, and vertue. By Iohn Robbinson. Robinson, John, 1575?-1625. 1625 (1625) STC 21112; ESTC S110698 206,536 336 View Text
A68283 Foure bookes of offices enabling privat persons for the speciall seruice of all good princes and policies. Made and deuised by Barnabe Barnes. Barnes, Barnabe, 1569?-1609. 1606 (1606) STC 1468; ESTC S106957 238,357 234 View Text
A80530 Experience, historie, and divinitie Divided into five books. Written by Richard Carpenter, vicar of Poling, a small and obscure village by the sea-side, neere to Arundel in Sussex. Who being, first a scholar of Eaton Colledge, and afterwards, a student in Cambridge, forsooke the Vniversity, and immediatly travelled, in his raw, green, and ignorant yeares, beyond the seas; ... and is now at last, by the speciall favour of God, reconciled to the faire Church of Christ in England? Printed by order from the House of Commons. Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670? 1641 (1641) Wing C620B; ESTC R229510 263,238 607 View Text
A34505 The downfal of Anti-Christ, or, A treatise by R.C. Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670? 1644 (1644) Wing C620; ESTC R23897 263,376 604 View Text
A13830 The Spanish Mandeuile of miracles. Or The garden of curious flowers VVherin are handled sundry points of humanity, philosophy, diuinitie, and geography, beautified with many strange and pleasant histories. First written in Spanish, by Anthonio De Torquemeda, and out of that tongue translated into English. It was dedicated by the author, to the right honourable and reuerent prelate, Don Diego Sarmento de soto Maior, Bishop of Astorga. &c. It is deuided into sixe treatises, composed in manner of a dialogue, as in the next page shall appeare.; Jardin de flores curiosas. English Torquemada, Antonio de, fl. 1553-1570.; Lewkenor, Lewis, Sir, d. 1626.; Walker, Ferdinand. 1600 (1600) STC 24135; ESTC S118471 275,568 332 View Text
A01883 The fall of man, or the corruption of nature, proued by the light of our naturall reason Which being the first ground and occasion of our Christian faith and religion, may likewise serue for the first step and degree of the naturall mans conuersion. First preached in a sermon, since enlarged, reduced to the forme of a treatise, and dedicated to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie. By Godfrey Goodman ... Goodman, Godfrey, 1583-1656. 1616 (1616) STC 12023; ESTC S103235 311,341 486 View Text
A53048 Natures picture drawn by fancies pencil to the life being several feigned stories, comical, tragical, tragi-comical, poetical, romanicical, philosophical, historical, and moral : some in verse, some in prose, some mixt, and some by dialogues / written by ... the Duchess of Newcastle. Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674. 1671 (1671) Wing N856; ESTC R11999 321,583 731 View Text
A47643 A practical commentary upon the first epistle general of St. Peter. Vol. II containing the third, fourth and fifth chapters / by the most Reverend Robert Leighton ... ; published after his death at the request of his friends. Leighton, Robert, 1611-1684.; Fall, James, 1646 or 7-1711. 1694 (1694) Wing L1029; ESTC R36245 321,962 503 View Text
A55357 The English Parnassus, or, A helpe to English poesie containing a collection of all rhyming monosyllables, the choicest epithets, and phrases : with some general forms upon all occasions, subjects, and theams, alphabeticaly digested : together with a short institution to English poesie, by way of a preface / by Joshua Poole. Poole, Josua, fl. 1632-1646. 1657 (1657) Wing P2814; ESTC R1537 330,677 678 View Text
A19065 Christian offices crystall glasse In three bookes. First written in Latine, by that famous and renowned Father, Saint Ambrose Bishop of Millane. Whereunto is added his conuiction of Symmachus the Gentile. A worke tending to the advancement of vertue, and of holinesse: and to shew how much the morality of the Gentiles, is exceeded by the doctrine of Christianity. Translated into English by Richard Humfrey ...; De officiis. English Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397.; Humfrey, Richard. 1637 (1637) STC 548; ESTC S100171 335,831 469 View Text
A48269 The famous romance of Tarsis and Zelie. Digested into ten books. / VVritten originally in French, by the acute pen of a person of honour. ; Done into English by Charles Williams, Gent.; Tarsis et Zelie. English. 1685 Le Vayer de Boutigny, M. (Roland), 1627-1685.; Williams, Charles, 17th cent. 1685 (1685) Wing L1797; ESTC R25799 390,801 342 View Text
A46926 The famous history of the seven champions of Christendom St. George of England, St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, St. Anthony of Italy, St. Andrew of Scotland, St. Patrick of Ireland, and St. David of Wales. Shewing their honourable battels by sea and land: their tilts, justs, turnaments, for ladies: their combats with gyants, monsters and dragons: their adventures in foreign nations: their enchantments in the Holy Land: their knighthoods, prowess, and chivalry, in Europe, Africa, and Asia; with their victories against the enemies of Christ. Also the true manner and places of their deaths, being seven tragedies: and how they came to be called, the seven saints of Christendom. The first part.; Most famous history of the seven champions of Christendome. Part 1 Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659? 1696 (1696) Wing J800; ESTC R202613 400,947 510 View Text
A44287 The primitive origination of mankind, considered and examined according to the light of nature written by the Honourable Sir Matthew Hale, Knight ... Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676. 1677 (1677) Wing H258; ESTC R17451 427,614 449 View Text
A03432 Certaine tragicall discourses written out of Frenche and Latin, by Geffraie Fenton, no lesse profitable then pleasaunt, and of like necessitye to al degrees that take pleasure in antiquityes or forreine reapportes; Novelle. English. Selections Bandello, Matteo, 1485-1561.; Fenton, Geoffrey, Sir, 1539?-1608. 1567 (1567) STC 1356.1; ESTC S101952 453,531 632 View Text
A47663 The secret miracles of nature in four books : learnedly and moderately treating of generation, and the parts thereof, the soul, and its immortality, of plants and living creatures, of diseases, their symptoms and cures, and many other rarities ... : whereunto is added one book containing philosophical and prudential rules how man shall become excellent in all conditions, whether high or low, and lead his life with health of body and mind ... / written by that famous physitian, Levinus Lemnius.; De miraculis occultis naturae. English Lemnius, Levinus, 1505-1568. 1658 (1658) Wing L1044; ESTC R8382 466,452 422 View Text
A57689 Astrologia restaurata, or, Astrologie restored being an introduction to the general and chief part of the language of the stars : in four books ... / by VVilliam Ramesey, Gent. ... Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6.; Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6. Introduction to the iudgement of the stars.; Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6. Introduction to elections.; Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6. Astrologia munda. 1653 (1653) Wing R201; ESTC R20735 479,753 423 View Text
A07662 Honours academie. Or The famous pastorall, of the faire shepheardesse, Iulietta A worke admirable, and rare, sententious and graue: and no lesse profitable, then pleasant to pervse. VVherein are many notable discourses, as well philosophicall, as diuine: most part of the seuen liberall sciences, being comprebended [sic] therein: with diuers comicall, and tragicall histories, in prose, and verse, of all sorts. Done into English, by R.T. Gentleman.; Bergeries de Juliette. English Montreux, Nicolas de, b. ca. 1561.; Tofte, Robert, 1561-1620. 1610 (1610) STC 18053; ESTC S114999 543,552 396 View Text
A68107 Of domesticall duties eight treatises. I. An exposition of that part of Scripture out of which domesticall duties are raised. ... VIII. Duties of masters. By William Gouge. Gouge, William, 1578-1653. 1622 (1622) STC 12119; ESTC S103290 610,068 716 View Text
A52617 The history of the affairs of Europe in this present age, but more particularly of the republick of Venice written in Italian by Battista Nani ... ; Englished by Sir Robert Honywood, Knight.; Historia della republica Veneta. English Nani, Battista, 1616-1678.; Honywood, Robert, Sir, 1601-1686. 1673 (1673) Wing N151; ESTC R5493 641,123 610 View Text
A30247 A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is, by pregnant texts of Scripture vindicated from false glosses / by Anthony Burgess. Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664. 1658 (1658) Wing B5660; ESTC R36046 726,398 610 View Text
A10668 The triumphs of Gods revenge against the crying and execrable sinne of (willfull and premeditated) murther VVith his miraculous discoveries, and severe punishments thereof. In thirtie severall tragicall histories (digested into sixe bookes) committed in divers countries beyond the seas, never published, or imprinted in any other language. Histories which containe great varietie of mournfull and memorable accidents ... With a table of all the severall letters and challenges, contained in the whole sixe bookes. Written by Iohn Reynolds.; God's revenge against murder Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650.; Payne, John, d. 1647?, engraver. 1635 (1635) STC 20944; ESTC S116165 822,529 714 View Text
A69777 The intercourses of divine love betwixt Christ and his Church, or, The particular believing soul metaphorically expressed by Solomon in the first chapter of the Canticles, or song of songs : opened and applied in several sermons, upon that whole chapter : in which the excellencies of Christ, the yernings of his gospels towards believers, under various circumstances, the workings of their hearts towards, and in, communion with him, with many other gospel propositions of great import to souls, are handles / by John Collinges ... Collinges, John, 1623-1690. 1683 (1683) Wing C5324; ESTC R16693 839,627 984 View Text
A32734 Of wisdom three books / written originally in French by the Sieur de Charron ; with an account of the author, made English by George Stanhope ...; De la sagesse. English Charron, Pierre, 1541-1603.; Stanhope, George, 1660-1728. 1697 (1697) Wing C3720; ESTC R2811 887,440 1,314 View Text
A63937 A compleat history of the most remarkable providences both of judgment and mercy, which have hapned in this present age extracted from the best writers, the author's own observations, and the numerous relations sent him from divers parts of the three kingdoms : to which is added, whatever is curious in the works of nature and art / the whole digested into one volume, under proper heads, being a work set on foot thirty years ago, by the Reverend Mr. Pool, author of the Synopsis criticorum ; and since undertaken and finish'd, by William Turner... Turner, William, 1653-1701. 1697 (1697) Wing T3345; ESTC R38921 1,324,643 657 View Text
A14721 Theologicall questions, dogmaticall observations, and evangelicall essays, vpon the Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to St. Matthew Wherein, about two thousand six hundred and fifty necessary, and profitable questions are discussed; and five hundred and eighty speciall points of doctrine noted; and five hundred and fifty errours confuted, or objections answered: together with divers arguments, whereby divers truths, and true tenents are confirmed. By Richard VVard, sometimes student in the famous vniversities of Cambridge in England: St. Andrews in Scotland: and Master of Arts of both the kingdoms; and now a preacher in the famous city of London. Ward, Richard, 1601 or 2-1684. 1640 (1640) STC 25024; ESTC S118017 1,792,298 907 View Text
A09802 The lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes compared together by that graue learned philosopher and historiographer, Plutarke of Chæronea ; translated out of Greeke into French by Iames Amyot ... ; and out of French into Englishe, by Thomas North.; Lives. English. 1579 Plutarch.; North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?; Amyot, Jacques, 1513-1593.; Acciaiuoli, Donato, 1429-1478.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628. 1579 (1579) STC 20066; ESTC S1644 2,087,933 1,206 View Text
A51842 One hundred and ninety sermons on the hundred and nineteenth Psalm preached by the late reverend and learned Thomas Manton, D.D. ; with a perfect alphabetical table directing to the principal matters contained therein. Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.; White, Robert, 1645-1703.; Bates, William, 1625-1699. 1681 (1681) Wing M526A; ESTC R225740 2,212,336 1,308 View Text
A68202 The first and second volumes of Chronicles. [vol. 3 (i.e. The Third Volume of Chronicles)] comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland: first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586. by Iohn Hooker aliàs Vowell Gent and others. With conuenient tables at the end of these volumes.; Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. vol. 3 Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?; Stanyhurst, Richard, 1547-1618.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.; Stow, John, 1525?-1605.; Thynne, Francis, 1545?-1608.; Hooker, John, 1526?-1601.; Harrison, William, 1534-1593.; Boece, Hector, 1465?-1536.; Giraldus, Cambrensis, 1146?-1223? 1587 (1587) STC 13569_pt3; ESTC S122178 4,305,113 1,536 View Text
A03448 The firste [laste] volume of the chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande conteyning the description and chronicles of England, from the first inhabiting vnto the conquest : the description and chronicles of Scotland, from the first original of the Scottes nation till the yeare of our Lorde 1571 : the description and chronicles of Yrelande, likewise from the first originall of that nation untill the yeare 1571 / faithfully gathered and set forth by Raphaell Holinshed. Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580? 1577 (1577) STC 13568B; ESTC S3985 4,747,313 2,664 View Text
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