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• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: Comforts against the fear of death. Being some short meditations, composed by that precious gentlewoman Mrs. Anne Skelton, late of Norwich. Wherein are several evidences of the work of grace in her own soul, which were the stay of her heart, against the fear of death; from which may be discerned the name of a true Christian spirit. To which is added some short notes of a sermon preached at the burial of that choyce servant of God in St. Andrews in Norwich. By John Collings M.A. and one of the most unworthy embassadors of Jesus Christ for the preaching of the gospel in the late city. (London : printed for J. M. for Nathaniel Brooks, and are to be sold at his shop at the Angel in Cornhil, 1649), also by Anne Skelton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: A cordiall for a fainting soule, or, Some essayes for the satisfaction of wounded spirits labouring under severall burthens in which severall cases of conscience most ordinary to Christians, especially in the beginning of their conversion, are resolved : being the summe of fourteen sermons, delivered in so many lectures in a private chappell belonging to Chappell-Field-House in Norwich : with a table annexed, conteining the severall cases of conscience which in the following treatise are spoken to directly or collaterally / preached and now published ... by John Collings. (London : Printed for Richard Tomlins, 1649) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: Defensative armour, against four of Sathan's most fiery darts viz. temptations to atheistical and blasphemous impressions and thoughts, self-murther, despair, and presumption : wherein is discoursed the nature of these temptations, the several tempters to these sins, the arguments ordinarily used by the tempters in the inforcing of them, and some proper advice is offered to those who are exercised with them / by J.C. D.D. ... (London : Printed for Benjamin Alsop ... and Ewdard [sic] Giles ..., 1680) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: English Presbytery, or, An account of the main opinions of those ministers and people in England, who go under the name of Presbyterians published for the vindication of divers noble and worthy persons, who by papists, and their adherents are without any ground aspersed with that name : and also of those who indeed do hold those principles, appealing to the judgement of all sober Christians, what there is of falshood or unpeaceableness in them. (London printed : [s.n.], 1680) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: Faith & experience:, or, A short narration of the holy life and death of Mary Simpson, late of Gregories Parish in the city of Norvvich: who dyed, anno 1647 in or about the thirtieth yeare of her age after 3 yeares sicknesse and upwards. Containing a confession of her faith and relation of her experience, taken from her owne mouth. To which is added a sermon preached at her funerall, upon Rom. 14. 6,7. / by John Collings. (London : Printed for Richard Tomlins and are to be sold at his house at the Signe of the Sun and Bible in Pye-Corner, 1649) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: Five lessons for a Christian to learne, or, The summe of severall sermons setting out 1. the state of the elect by nature, 2. the way of their restauration and redemption by Jesus Christ, 3. the great duty of the saints, to leane upon Christ by faith in every condition, 4. the saints duty of self-denyall, or the way to desirable beauty, 5. the right way to true peace, discovering where the troubled Christian may find peace, and the nature of true peace / by John Collings ... (London : Printed for Rich. Tomlins ..., 1650) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: The happiness of brethrens dwelling together in unity discoursed upon Psalm 133, vers. 1, on occasion of the late thanksgiving, Feb. 14, 1688/9 / by John Collinges. (London : Printed by T.S. for Edward Giles, 1689) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: The history of conformity, or, A proof of the mischief of impositions from the experience of more than 100 years (London : Printed by A. Maxwell and R. Roberts, 1681) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: The improvableness of water-baptism, or, A discourse concerning the gravity and seriousness of the action and the usefulness of the sacred institution of baptism instructing all parents how great a thing they do when they bring their children to that holy ordinance, and all persons, whether young or old, what obligations their baptism hath brought them under, what wrath it hath exposed wicked and impenitent persons to, and what use they may make of their baptism for confirmation of their faith, and quickening them to repentance and an holy life : discoursed from Rom. 6:3,4, by way of sermon / by John Collinges ... (London : Printed by A. Maxwell and R. Roberts, 1681) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: 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 ... (London : Printed by T. Snowden, for Edward Giles ..., 1683) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: A lesson of self-deniall, or, The true way to desirable beauty by John Collings ... ([London] : Printed for Rich: Tomlins, 1649) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: A modest plea for the Lords Day or rather the summe of the plea made by divines for the Lords Day as the Christian Sabbath, against those who contend for the old Sabbath of the seventh day, in order from the creation / by J.C., D.D. (London : [s.n.], Printed in the year, 1669) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: Par nobile two treatises, the one concerning the excellent woman, evincing a person fearing the Lord to be the most excellent person, discoursed more privately upon occasion of the death of the Right Honourable the Lady Frances Hobart late of Norwich, from Pro. 31, 29, 30, 31 : the other discovering a fountain of comfort and satisfaction to persons walking with God, yet living and dying without sensible consolations , discovered from Psal. 17, 15 at the funerals of the Right Honourable the Lady Katherine Courten, preached at Blicklin in the county of Norfolk, March 27, 1652 : with the narratives of the holy lives and deaths of those two noble sisters / by J.C. (London : [s.n.], 1669) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: Provocator provocatus. Or, An answer made to an open challenge made by one M. Boatman in Peters Parish in Norwich, the 13th of December, 1654. in a sermon preached there at a fast, in which answer these questions are spoke to. 1. Whether juridicall suspension of some persons from the Lords Supper be deducible from Scripture; the affirmative is proved. : 2. Whether ministeriall or privative suspension be justifiable; the affirmative also is maintained. : 3. Whether the suspension of the ignorant and scandalous be a pharisaicall invention; a thing which wiser ages never thought of, as Mr Boatman falsly affirmed. In opposition to which is proved, that it hath been the judgment and practice of the eminent saints and servants of Christ, in all ages, of all other reformed churches in all times ... / By John Collings ... (London, : Printed for William Francklyng, bookseller in Norwich., 1654), also by Mr Boatman (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: A reasonable account why some pious, nonconforming ministers in England judge it sinful for them to perform their ministerial acts, in publick, solemn prayer by the prescribed forms of others wherein several of their arguments are modestly propounded, opended and justified against pretended answers given to them, either by Ireneus Freeman, or Mr. Falconer, in his book entituled Liberitas ecclesiastica, or others : the strength also of the several arguments brought by them, for the lawfulness of forms to be used universally by ministers, in their publick ministrations, is fairly tried. ([London? : s.n.], 1679), also by Ireneus Freeman and William Falkner (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: Responsoria ad erratica pastoris, sive, vindiciæ vindiciarum. Id est, the Shepherds wandrings discovered, in a revindication of the great ordinance of god: Gospel-preachers, and preaching. By way of reply and answer to a late booke, called, The peoples priviledges, and duty guarded against the pulpit and preachers encroachment. And their sober justification and defence of their free and open exposition of scriptures. Published by William Sheppard, Esq. Wherein Mr Sheppards pretended guard, consisting of ten propositions and ten arguments, is examined, and found to wear nothing by wooden swords. And all his replyes to Mr Tho. Halls arguments, and Mr Collinges arguments in his Vindiciæ ministerii, brought against not ordained persons ordinary preaching, are found but cavils and too light. And the truth still maintained, ... in that, preaching and expounding scripture publiquely, are proper acts to gospel officers; not common to all. Wherein also the great question, how far the spirit of God ... dothïnable them to understand scripture is opened, ... / By John Collings, M.A. and preacher of the Gospel in Norwich. (London : Printed for R. Tomlins at the Sun and Bible near Pie-corner, 1652) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: Responsoria bipartita, sive vindiciæ suspensionis ecclesiasticæ ut et presbyterii evangelici. A double reply, containing a vindication of the antient practice of the Church (according to the rule of the word) suspending the ignorant and scandalous from the Lords Supper. As also of ecclesiastical presbyteries ... The first in answer to one M. Boatmans challenge of all the ministers on earth to make suspension of any but Turks, Jews, pagans and excommunicate persons from the Lords Supper, appear from Scriptures. In answer to whom the said censure is justified by several arguments from Scripture, and the universal practice of the Church, the magisterial vanity also of his sermon, Decem. 13. and March 28. in Peters Church in Norwich is discovered, ... In which answer also some objections of Erastus, Mr. Prin, and Mr. Humfry, are coilaterally considered, and answered. The second part in answer to Theophilus Brabourn, who hath talked something in a little pamphlet against the Lord Jesus Christ ... / By John Collings, B.D. and pastor of the church of Christ in Stephens parish in Norwich. (London, : Printed by H. Hills for Richard Tomilins, and are to be sold at his house at the sign of the Sun and Bible neer Py-Corner., [1655]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: Sermons. Selections (London : Printed by T.S. for Edward Giles ..., 1684) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: Several discourses concerning the actual providence of God. Divided into three parts. (Printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1678) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: Several discourses concerning the actual Providence of God. Divided into three parts. The first, treating concerning the notion of it, establshing the doctrine of it, opening the principal acts of it, preservation and government of created beings. With the particular acts, by which it so preserveth and governeth them. The second, concerning the specialities of it, the unseachable things of it, and several observable things in its motions. The third, concerning the dysnoēta, or hard chapters of it, in which an attempt is made to solve several appearances of difficulty in the motions of Providence, and to vindicate the justice, wisdom, and holiness of God, with the reasonableness of his dealing in such motions. / By John Collinges ... (London: : Printed for Tho. Parkhurst, and are to be sold by Edward Giles ..., 1678) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: A sober and temperate discourse, concerning the interest of words in prayer. : the just antiquity and pedigree of liturgies, or forms of prayer in churches, with a view of the state of the church, when they were first composed, or imposed : together with a discovery of the weakness of the grounds upon which they were first brought in, or upon which Bishop Gawden hath lately discoursed, the necessity of a liturgy, or the inconveniency of altering the English liturgie, the utility of church musick, and the lawfulness of ceremonies : in which are mixed reasons justifying those godly ministers, who forbear the use of the common-prayer, against the late out-cries of the said bishop. (Printed for W.A. ..., 1661), also by H. D. (Henry Dawbeny) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: The spouse raised from under the apple-tree, or, The way by which children of wrath come to be made the children of grace opening the doctrine of our redemption by the Lord Jesus Christ, both in respect to the purchase and application / by John Collings ... (London : Printed for Rich. Tomlins ..., 1649) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: The spouses carriage in the wildernesse, in her leaning upon her welbeloved, opening the temper of the beleeving-soule in her severall wildernesses ... in a sermon formerly preacht in Andrewes Parish in Norwich, now reprinted, being corrected by the author / by John Collings ... (London : Printed for Rich. Tomlins ..., 1649) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: The spouses hidden glory, and faithfull leaning upon her wellbeloved. Wherein is laid down the soules glory in Christ, and the way by which the soule comes to Christ. Delivered in two lecture sermons in St. Andrewes church in Norwich. / By Iohn Collings Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word in Saviours parish in Norwich. (London : Printed for William Franckling, and are to bee sold at his shop near the signe of the George in Norwich, 1646) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: A supplement to a little book entituled, A reasonable account why some pious nonconforming ministers cannot judg it lawful for them to perform their ministerial acts in publick solemn prayer, ordinarily, by the prescribed forms of others : wherein is examined whatsoever Mr. Falconer in his book called, Libertas ecclesiastica, and Mr. Pelling in a book called, The good old way, have said to prove the ancient use of forms of prayers by ministers : and it is proved, that neither of the two aforementioned authors have said anything that proveth the general use, or imposition of such forms of prayer in any considerable part of the church, till Pope Gregories time, which was six hundred years after Christ, nor in any church since the reformation, except that of England, and (which is uncertain) some in Saxony. (London : [s.n.], 1680), also by William Falkner and Edward Pelling (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: The vindication of liturgies, lately published by Dr. Falkner, proved no vindication of the lawfulness, usefulness, and antiquity of set-forms of publick ministerial prayer to be generally used by, or imposed on all ministers, and consequently an answer to a book, intituled, A reasonable account why some pious nonconformists judge it sinful, for them to perform their ministerial acts in by the prescribed forms of others : wherein with an answer to what Dr. Falkner hath said in the book aforesaid, the original principles are discovered, from whence the different apprehensions of men in this point arise / by the author of the Reasonable account, and Supplement to it. (London : Printed for Benjamin Alsop ..., 1681) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: Vindication of the great Ordinance of Goz (London : [publisher not identified], 1651., 1651), also by Thomas F. Torrance Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) and Sprague Collection of Early American Religious Pamphlets (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: Vindiciæ ministerii evangelici revindicatæ: or The preacher (pretendedly) sent, sent back again, to bring a better account who sent him, and learn his errand: by way of reply, to a late book (in the defence of gifted brethrens preaching) published by Mr. John Martin of Edgefield in Norfolk, Mr. Samuel Petto of Sandcroft in Suffolk, Mr. Frederick Woodale of Woodbridge in Suffolk: so far as any thing in their book pretends to answer a book published, 1651. called Vindiciæ ministerii evangelici; with a reply also to the epistle prefixed to the said book, called, The preacher sent. By John Collinges B.D. and pastor of the church in Stephens parish in Norwich. (London : printed by S.G. for Richard Tomlins, at the sign of the Sun and Bible neer Pye-Corner, 1658) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Collinges, John, 1623-1690: The weavers pocket-book, or, Weaving spiritualized in a discourse wherein men employed in that occupation are instructed how to raise heavenly meditations from the several parts of their work : to which also are added some few moral and spiritual observations relating both to that and other trades / by J.C. ([S.l. : s.n.], 1695) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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