A collection of miscellanies consisting of poems, essays, discourses, and letters occasionally written / by John Norris ...
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- A collection of miscellanies consisting of poems, essays, discourses, and letters occasionally written / by John Norris ...
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- Norris, John, 1657-1711.
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- Oxford :: Printed at the Theater for John Crosley ...,
- 1687.
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Contents
- title page
- imprimatur
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TO THE HONORABLE LEOPOLD - WILLIAM FINCH WARDEN OFAll-Souls Colledge. - TO THE READER.
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THE CONTENTS OF THE
PROSE-PART. - ERRATA.
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verse
- The Passion of our B. Saviour re∣presented in a Pindarique Ode.
- An Hymn upon the Trans∣figuration.
- The Parting.
- To a Lady, who asked him, What Life was?
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The third Chapter of JobParaphrased. - Seraphic Love.
- The Retirement.
- The Infidel.
- On a Musician, supposed to be mad with Musick.
- The Consolation.
- The Choice.
- The Meditation.
- The Irreconcilable.
- The Advice.
- To himself.
- The Refusal.
- Hymn to Darkness.
- The Invitation.
- Sitting in an Arbour.
- The Complaint.
- A Pastoral
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The tenth Ode of the second Book of
Horace translated. - The Discouragement.
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The 63 Chap. of
Isaiah Para∣phrased to the 6 Verse. - The Elevation.
- The Curiosity.
- The 114 Psalm Paraphrased.
- The 148 Psalm Paraphrased.
- A Pastoral
- Satiety.
- The Reply.
- My Estate.
- The Conquest.
- The Impatient.
- Content.
- Against Knowledge.
- Seeing a great Person lying in State.
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Second Chap. of the
Cant. from the 10. verse, to the 13. - To a Friend in Honour.
- A divine Hymn on the Creation.
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Plato's
two Cupids. - A Wish..
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To Dr. More. - The Passion of the Virgin Mother Beholding the Crucifixion of her divine Son.
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Damon and Pythias. Or,
Friendship in perfection. - The Indifferency.
- The Infirmity.
- The Arrest.
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To the Memory of my dear Neece
M. C. - The Resignation.
- To my guardian Angel.
- The Defiance.
- Superstition.
- The complaint of Adam turn'd out of Paradise.
- To Sleep.
- The Grant.
- The Aspiration.
- The Defence.
- The Retractation.
- The Prospect.
- The Return.
- The 137 Psalm Paraphrased to the 7 Verse.
- The 139 Psalm Paraphrased to the 14 Verse.
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To Dr.
Plot on his Natural History ofStafford-shire. - The Exchange.
- The Refinement.
- To Melancholy.
- The Discontent.
- Beauty.
- Love.
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The Consummation. APindarique Ode. - Freedom.
- To his Muse.
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prose
- Of the advantages of Thinking.
- Of the Care and Improvement of Time.
- Of Solitude.
- Of Courage.
- Of Seriousness.
- Of the slightness of all Secular, and the importance of minding our Eternal, Interest.
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A METAPHYSICAL ESSAY TOWARD THE
Demonstration of a GOD, From the Steddy and Immutable nature of Truth.-
SECT. I. How difficult a thing 'tis to demonstrate a God by any new medium, and how far the present Essay may pretend to do so. -
SECT. II. The various acceptations of Truth, and which that is which is made the ground of the present Demonstration. -
SECT. III. That there are such Relations and Habitudes of things to∣ward one another, and that they are steddy and immutable. -
SECT. IV. That since there are Eternal and immutable Veritys or Ha∣bitudes of things, the simple essences of things must be also, eternal and immutable. -
SECT. V. That the Simple Essences of things being not Eternal in their Natural subsistences, must be so in their Ideal sub∣sistences or realitys. -
SECT. VI. That there is therefore an Eternal Mind or understanding, Omniscient, Immutable and endow'd with all possible Perfection, the same which we call God. - Post-script.
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THE CHRISTIAN LAW
Asserted and Vindicated. OR, A general Apology for the Christian Religion, both as to theObligativeness andReasonableness of the Institution. -
A DISCOURSE CONCERNING
PERSEVERANCE IN HOLINESS. -
A DISCOURSE CONCERNING
HEROIC PIETY, Wherein its Notion is stated and its Practice recommended. -
CONTEMPLATION ANDLOVE. OR, The Methodical Ascent of the Soul to God, by steps of Meditation. -
A
DISCOURSE UPON ROMANS. 12. 3. -
CONSIDERATIONS UPON THE NATURE OF
SIN. Accommodated to the ends both ofSpeculation andPractise. -
SECT. I. Of the division of Sin into Material and Formal, and of the reality and necessity of that Distinction. -
SECT. II. A more particular and explicit consideration of Material sin, and what it adds to the general nature of evil. -
SECT. III. The second part of the Discourse, which briefly treats of Formal sin, with the requisites▪ necessary to its consti∣tution. Where also 'tis enquired, whether the Nature of sin be positive or privative. -
SECT. IV. Corollarys deduced from the whole. The foulness and defor∣mity of sin represented. That it is the greatest of evils. That no Formal sin can be in its self Venial. That in all probability Vindicative Justice is essential to God, hence deduced. A new Hypothesis for the reconciling of eter∣nal Punishments with the Divine Justice. That he who thoroughly understands and actually attends to the Na∣ture of sin cannot possibly commit it. -
THE
PRAYER.
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letters
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An Idea of Happiness,
&c. - A Letter of Resolution concerning some Passages in the foregoing Treatise, to the same Person.
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Another Letter to the same Person, concerning the true Notion of
Pla∣to's Ideas, and ofPlatonic Love. - A Letter concerning Love and Music.
- A Letter concerning Friendship.
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The Copy of a Letter written to my Friend
F. B. concerning the death of my dear NeeceM. C.
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An Idea of Happiness,