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scripture_n	apostle_n	church_n	creed_n	2,605	5	10.2206	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57190	Vituli labiorum. Or, A thanksgiving sermon, in commemoration of our great deliverance from the horrid Powder-Plot, 1605 And also of Gods merciful discovery of a bloody conspiracy against His Majesties Person, and the Protestant religion, 1678. Both intended by the papists. Preached at St. Peter's, Exon, Nov. 5. 1678. In prosecution whereof the Churches persecutions, foreign and domestick, by the hands of popish votaries, ever since the Reformation, are briefly recapitulated. Their charge of novelty on our church and religion is retorted. The absurdity of many of their doctrines and principles, and how destructive unto civil government, is detected. By John Reynolds, M.A.	Reynolds, John, d. 1693?	1678 (1678)	Wing R1318; ESTC R219030	19,513	36

VITVLI LABIORVM OR A THANKSGIVING SERMON IN Commemoration of our Great Deliverance From the HORRID Powder-Plot 1605. And also of Gods Merciful Discovery of a Bloody Conspiracy against His Majesties Person and the Protestant Religion 1678. Both intended by the Papists Preached at St. Peter ' s Exon Nov. 5. 1678. In Prosecution whereof the Churches Persecutions Foreign and Domestick by the hands of Popish Votaries ever since the Reformation are briefly recapitulated Their charge of Novelty on our Church and Religion is retorted The absurdity of many of their Doctrines and Principles and how destructive unto Civil Government is detected By IOHN REYNOLDS M. A. London Printed for Tho. Cockeril at the Three Leggs in the Poultry And Walter Dight Bookseller in Exceter 1678. To the Right Worshipful Sir THOMAS CAREW Knight Judg of the Sessions for the County of Devon and Recorder of the City of Exceter Honoured Sir NO sooner could I make my thoughts to comply with the motion of publishing this Sermon which I presume for its seasonableness unto the present juncture of affairs more than from any intrinsick worth therein some that heard it were pleased favourably to estimate but it presently became the matter of a deliberation with my self what could discourage me from hoping but that your worthy Name might prove auspicious unto it by lending it something of a credit to pass out into the world I foresaw nothing that could check my pleasing aims herein but might arise either from the subject treated of in this Discourse or from the person whose it was and doth now present it unto your candid acceptance or from the defectiveness of the management and handling of it As to the first of these I did the more easily perswade my self that it could not offend you to see and read in this Sermon the deformities of a false Religion in any degree exposed who have your self zealously espoused and are so good a friend unto the true and best Religion in the world A Religion never sufficiently to be praised and commended for the certainty of its Rule which are those Books of Canonical Scripture of whose authority there was never any doubt in the Church for the compactedness of her Fundamentals determined and summed up in the Apostles Creed explained in those others which are called the Nicene and Athanasian for the simplicity of her Sacraments and all her Administrations managed in a language and performed with that decent plainness as may be understood by all that are concerned in them for the gravity and soundness of her Ordination and Ministry for the peaceableness of her Tenets in obedience to the Magistrate for her conformity to the Apostolick and Primitive pattern in all things so far as the looseness of this Age will bear for the undoubted assurance of finding Salvation by its Rules and Precepts if we continue in them and do them These and the like are the lineaments of our and your Religion which cannot be displeasing unto you to assert and therefore neither to oppugn the contrary But neither in the second place could I suppose any disrespect unto the person submitting those Papers unto your candor that should be able to create unto you any ill resentment of the Sermon it self In that what never had been I could easily hope must have a greater occasion than this to beget it For indeed it is a pleasure to me to let the world to know that under Him who is the giver of every good and perfect gift next unto the memory of my exeellent and worthy Patron deceased I owe most unto your care and providence for the comfort and bene esse of my being and Ministry in the place where I am whereby you have buoyed me up above the necessity of depending upon the precarious benevolence of a people which I wish no good or honest Minister were ever put to trust to A good part of my Books deservedly bear your honoured name upon them for their Donor The first and the most seasonable News-years gift I could possibly have received for the encouragement and assistance of my first studies in this your own Dwelling-parish You never yet denied me any request which notwithstanding have been very many that in consistency with your Honour and Power I durst move unto you nor ever spared to take any pains which yet have been very great whereof the success in prospect hath promised fairly on my behalf So sure hath been my happy interest in your ever valued respects that I never found it hitherto checked with the least change of countenance or carriage So noble and generous that whereas anothers kindnesses would have necessitated a man to the study of an Answerable Gratification you have always taken my Relation to you as your Minister for so sufficient a Supersedeas to such designs that I have never apprehended any adventure more hazardous of yours than only to attempt it I cannot really admit any diminutive account of your goodness to my self otherwise than by considering you in that larger sphere which God hath placed you in as a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a common good to your Country of which for me to say any thing would be altogether unnecessary forasmuch as there are every day so many mouths open to acknowledg it There being therefore no room for the scruple of a personal prejudice It remains in the third place that only the defectiveness and blemishes of my speaking unto this subject can render it unworthy of your acceptance and as to this I confess the charge and relye upon your known and experienced candor to excuse and lay your finger on the naevi of this Discourse Indeed it is a small and a slight thing in it self to have your Name prefixt unto but yet it is not unusual for Maps in single sheets to carry their Dedication on their forehead And as for the failances in the manner of handling it forasmuch as it is a time for every one of us to shew his zeal for his Religion the fear of smaller miscarriages that are frequently incident to zealous actings will no more dispense with their total neglect than it can warrantably prescind or supercede any other Moral or Religious duty in that we cannot acquit our selves therein with an absolute perfection Hoping therefore that upon the removal of those bars first supposed my way of access unto your favourable reception of these few Pages is plain and open I shall in gratitude for what I presume of your pleasing countenance reflecting on them and all other signal pledges of your kindness think my self now and ever obliged to pray That the father of mercies would still make good the multiplied effects of his infinite love and goodness for your temporal and eternal welfare That the generation rising may by an hundred-fold recompence unto the hopeful branches of your Family all the good that your self have been the instrument of unto the generation shining and that he who is now your humble