An Act of content.
I am fully, and absolutely contented, O Lord, with thy glory. And it is the head
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.
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- 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.
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- Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?
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- London :: printed by I.N. for John Stafford, and are to be sold at his shop in Chancery lane, over against the Rolls,
- 1641.
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- Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
- Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A80530.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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of all my comforts, that thou art God, and doest raign over us. And I am very wel con∣tented with the sweete condition, in which thy wisdome hath placed me. Thou art wis∣dom it self, & other wisdome, is not wisdom, but as conformable to thy wisedome. And I doe most humbly yeeld up my selse, to comply with the ranke and quality in which I am by thy royall appointment. And I remaine indifferent, to have or to want, to be sicke, or in health, to dye, or to live. As thou pleasest, so be it. And if I could learne thy farther and utmost plea∣sure, I would goe through the world to ef∣fect it; though I should labour to death, in the performance.