This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal. The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford.
EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). The general aim of EEBO-TCP is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic English-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in EEBO.
EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org).
The EEBO-TCP project was divided into two phases. The 25,363 texts created during Phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 January 2015. Anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source.
Users should be aware of the process of creating the TCP texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data.
Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). If an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in NCBEL, then their works are eligible for inclusion. Selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.
Image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. Quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in Oxford and Michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet QA standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. After proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. Any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. Understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of TCP data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.
The texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines.
Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements).
Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site.
ASSES ride with Golden Bridles, when Princes walk on Foot: And thunder out their
ille dixit, (ſo I ſay; and ſo ye ſhall believe) yet the Bible teaches us, to ſet aſſunder
Linſey Woolſey work, mingled Seed, the Plough of an Ox and an Aſſe: Yea, the Old worm
eaten Garment of Biſhop Lightons Accommodation, under the pretext of Indifferency. And if
ſo, Presbytry be Indifferent, what bloody Butchers are you? To ſhed the Blood of 2000 Ina GOD daring, and Heaven provoking Generation. But GODS
Remnant knew better the Word of GODS Patience. You cry Union, why not, but with whom?
with Laymen, or an Organized Church of Miniſters, and People? The Latter you cannot be:
Since you are no lawful Succeſſion of Miniſters: having neither Immediate, Mediate, nor
Mixt Call. The Application of the Authority to the Perſon, being from GOD? and of
the Perſon to the Authority from the Presbytries in Claſtical Appeals. Now your Commiſſion
is only from Saul, and if he may Commiſſionate to Preach and Baptize, ſo may a Souldier,
and he himſelf more Virtually? Thus you are an Hotch Potch, of a Homogenions Civil Body:
over whom the Mediator is neither Head, Lord, nor Saviour. Had you the Spirit of the
XC. Prieſts, who ſhut
Ʋzziah from the Houſe of the Lord, and GOD ſmot him with Leproſie;
but GOD Fetches a FoMic. 5. 5. Thus you are neither true
Miniſters, not truly Miniſters: For the Scribes and Phariſees, be a Lawful Succeſſion, tho'
ſinned the very ſin againſt the Holy Ghoſt. You vainly aſſert the ends of the Covenant: Do
not bind to root out your Herarchy: When the Nation has abjured Popery, Prelacy, Toleration,
betraying the Mediatory Glory of Chriſt into the hands of Tyrrany, and lawleſs Liberty:
Yet are they 44 Miniſters who did not accept it. As to the ſourſe and riſe of your Prelacy
from the Old Pagan Prieſts? The Teſtimony of the Church of Scotland fully relates. Printed in
the 79. And Conveyance of Presbytry for 1600 years in the 81. To what, and how far the
Covenant is Obligatory. Peruſe a Sheet Entituled, Noahs Dove printed in March 1689. If ye
will open your Windows with the viſible Judgement of GOD, on ſix Forraign Kings for
Perjury, but I follow you? Where do you hide your Serpents Eggs? Is it under Jupiters
Wings: GOD is of Purer Eyes then to behold Perjury in Miniſtry and Magiſtracy. Sin is
the Soul ſickneſs, Confeſſion the Souls vomit. Confeſs and forſake your Paganiſm and Arminianiſm.
Had not the Duſt of Defection blown out your Eyes, ye had not denyed the Divine Right of
Presbytry; Tim. 4. 4. And your bloody and ſinful Impoſition of Oaths, and bands occaſionPresbyters to whom of old, the hallowed Bread
was ſent, from the Deanry Churches, its meer Popiſh. And as to the Petitions of the Miniſters of
England? I heard Baxter confeſs his Precipitancy and others alſo. The Conference betwixt
Henderſon and the Royal Martyr confute your vain Conjuncture, of a 1000 years Reformation;
in a Curats Noddle? who worſe than Judas, made a Covenant, and yet betrayed his Lord, and
Maſter. Jer. 15. 19. Let them return unto thee, but return not thou unto them! You boaſt of your
external Priviledges, ſo had the Philiſtinss the Ark and Bible, and all in captivity, 1 Sam. 6.
and the heavy curſe of GOD with them, 5000 died of the Emmerhods: true Faith is quick
ſighted, knows Chriſt lying in a manger; Yea, the object of a Believers faith, tho with poor fiſh