This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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A44509 | Hath God ever engaged his Word to the contrary? |
A44542 | But in what doth the stirring up of the gift of God consist? |
A44542 | If ye being evil, can give good gifts unto your Children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give his Holy Spirit to them that ask him? |
A44542 | It was not without very great Reason, that our Saviour ask''d St. Peter thrice, Lovest thou me? |
A44542 | Reading What? |
A44542 | Who can act or do any thing of Moment without the assistance of this Spiritual Engine? |
A44542 | Who can live without it? |
A44542 | and, Lovest thou me more than these? |
A44537 | And can any Man think, Christ was very serious in saying so, without being concerned, how to prevent, and escape that fatal Exit? |
A44537 | But have not You seen some counterfeit Pearls, so Artificiously contrived, that the ignorant Spectator hath taken them for truly Oriental? |
A44537 | Certainly, nothing would seem hard then, and why should it seem so now, when it is evident and apparent, you are in danger of those Flames? |
A44537 | Do you believe the Apostles? |
A44537 | Do you believe the Son of God, that came into the World to save Sinners? |
A44537 | Either it will be fulfilled, or not: If it will not be fulfilled, where is Christ''s Veracity? |
A44537 | Have not you seen some curious Limner, draw Infects and Butterflies, with that Life, that one would take them for Living Animals? |
A44537 | If it be, where is Your Security? |
A44537 | Men, Fathers and Brethren, Do you believe the Prophets? |
A44537 | Would you think them so, if you lay Howling in Eternal Flames? |
A44523 | Can a Fountain at the same place send forth both bitter and sweet Water? |
A44523 | Constans the Grecian Emperour, dispatches his Brother Theodosius, soon after he can not sleep; What''s the reason, was it Sickness? |
A44523 | Do Men gather Grapes of Thorns, you will say, or Figs of Thistles? |
A44523 | If you believe him to be jealous of his Glory, Will not be vindicate these Injuries? |
A44523 | Is there any evil, i. e. any evil of confusion in the City, and the Lord hath not done it? |
A44523 | Nero kills his Mother Agrippina, sets Rome on Fire, Persecutes the Christians, but what ails him? |
A44523 | Shall he only have the name of our Ruler, while we are resolved to be guided by the Flesh, and by the World? |
A44523 | Shall we call him our King, and follow our own Imaginations? |
A44523 | The Lord reigneth: Let''s chearfully submit therefore to his Government; Shall we pretend to be his ● ubjects, and not be Ruled by him? |
A44523 | Theodorick King of the Goths uses Symmachus very barbarously, and falls Sick upon it; Was it any disorder of the Blood? |
A44523 | Was it a Fever that discomposed him? |
A44523 | Was it a Surfeit? |
A44523 | Was it a fit of the Gout, or Stone, or Collick that troubled him? |
A44523 | When ever Gods Indignation breaks forth, how violent will the Torrent be? |
A44523 | Will you turn his Grace into wantonness, and believe, you shall be applauded at last, with a well done good and faithful Servant? |
A44523 | where I am conscientious to the Creator, and unjust and perfidious to the Creature? |
A44523 | where I offer Sacrifice, and envy my Brother in my heart? |
A44512 | 6. and is not God the Father of all mankind? |
A44512 | All Peace- makers? |
A44512 | And do you feel no desire to be so? |
A44512 | And hath not this been the temper, and is not this the complexion of many of you? |
A44512 | And is it not high time to make peace with him? |
A44512 | Blessed are the Peace- makers; what? |
A44512 | But what shall we say? |
A44512 | Children of God? |
A44512 | Did you ever seriously examine the privileges which attend the Children of God, and are these no motives to you to come into the number? |
A44512 | Do all these come into the society of the blessed? |
A44512 | Do not the wickedest of Men do so, and is that an Argument that God is their Friend? |
A44512 | Do you believe he is kind to you, and shall his kindness provoke you to be his Enemies? |
A44512 | Do you think you are at peace with God, because you thrive and prosper in the World? |
A44512 | He hath declared so much, and will not you believe him? |
A44512 | How many years have some of you born Arms against God? |
A44512 | How? |
A44512 | If you do thrive and prosper in the World, can not those Blessings move you to be at peace with him? |
A44512 | Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? |
A44512 | Is there not a life to come, which shall manifest their Dignity, and their Glory? |
A44512 | Or is that Peace so inconsiderable, that it deserves no consideration? |
A44512 | Suppose the Children of God are not much regarded here, but is there not a time coming, when they shall be honoured before the whole World? |
A44512 | The Peace of Heaven shall fall to their share: Do not you reflect sometimes on that Peace, which the Children of the everlasting Kingdom shall enjoy? |
A44512 | What great blessedness is there in this title, beyond what other men enjoy? |
A44512 | What is the future felicity, but perfect Peace, everlasting Peace, uninterrupted Peace? |
A44512 | What peace while the Whoredoms of thy Mother Jezabel, and her Witchcrafts are so many? |
A44512 | What? |
A44512 | Why? |
A44512 | Will you give no credit to his word, till with Dives you lift up your Eyes in Hell, and see that God is not your friend? |
A44512 | Will you make his patience a sign of his being reconciled to you, when it is only a motive to a reconciliation? |
A44516 | And can I shew forth thy glory, if my tongue be not cautious of offending thee? |
A44516 | And shall I be afraid of encountring with Enemies, that would keep me from seeing these wonderful objects? |
A44516 | And what is all this but Wind? |
A44516 | Can any Order or Precept proceed from thee, but what is the product of eternal deliberation? |
A44516 | Can any thing be needless which thou set''st thy Hand& Seal to? |
A44516 | Can it look like glorifying thee, if that Member, which of all the Organs of this mortal Frame, is most fitted for thy glory, fails in its duty? |
A44516 | If I search not, how shall those Tares be rooted up? |
A44516 | If I see thee, I shall not dare to offend thee: Who would offend so dear a friend, if he look upon him? |
A44516 | If they which running in a Race, strive for the mastery, are temperate in all things, shall not I be so? |
A44516 | If thou Lord shouldest mark Iniquities, who shall stand? |
A44516 | Shall I say, a little sleep, a little more slumber, till my Poverty come on like an armed man? |
A44516 | Shall I tremble at the work thou settest me? |
A44516 | Shall not I blush after such Mercy to offend that Friend, who died for me? |
A44516 | Should not this make me desirous to be gone? |
A44516 | Thou bid''st me curb my vain Desires, and shall I cherish them in my Bosom? |
A44516 | Thou bid''st me rule my Lusts, and shall I give them vent? |
A44516 | Thou bid''st me subdue my worldly inclinations, and shall I give them entertainment? |
A44516 | Thou bid''st me triumph over my Flesh, and shall I set it on the Throne? |
A44516 | Thou hast given me thine onely Son to die for my sins, and can I after this mercy, think much of denying my self in mine ease for thy service? |
A44516 | What have I, that I have not received? |
A44516 | What if I must curb my Passions, and break through my sinful Inclinations? |
A44516 | What if I must withdraw mine affections from the Creature, and mortifie my Body? |
A44516 | What is it but Smoak, and Air, and Vanity? |
A44516 | What should make me so deeply enamour''d with this Life? |
A44516 | Who can be so arrogant, or proud, as not to be humbled with the sight? |
A44516 | Who can be so irreligiour as not to be pricked at the heart with the thoughts of thy Passion? |
A44516 | Why should I fear, when my Great Master hath overcome this King of Terrours? |
A44516 | Why shouldest thou prohibit it? |
A44516 | Why then should I glory as if I had not received it? |
A44516 | and shall I be afraid to serve thee? |
A44516 | and shall I deprive my self of them out of love to Slavery and Bondage? |
A44516 | can I love my self and not endeavour to prevent this miserable condition? |
A44516 | is not the promised Recompence encouragement enough? |
A44516 | who is a strong Lord like unto thee, or to thy faithfulness round about thee? |
A44516 | who is like unto thee? |
A44516 | who so cholerick, as not to be melted into meekness with the contemplation? |
A44516 | will not thy Wages be infinitely beyond my Labour? |
A44540 | And doest thou talk like a man of reason, Sinner? |
A44540 | And doth the clearest manifestation of Heaven add no weight to your guilt and stubborness? |
A44540 | Are these o ● ● ward Goods indeed the things thou chusest for thy treasure? |
A44540 | Are you within reach of the Crown, and will you lay down your weapons? |
A44540 | Are you within sight of the Haven, and will you suffer shipwrack? |
A44540 | Can you see Philosophers contemn this Vanity, and dare you be in love with it? |
A44540 | Doth the whole Creation hope to be deliver''d from her bondage? |
A44540 | Hast thou a soul capable of grasping a God, and dost thou run into the embraces of an Idol? |
A44540 | Hath God given thee no higher faculties? |
A44540 | Hath not he endow''d thee with nobler desires? |
A44540 | Have not you read of whited Sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead mens bones, and of all uncleanness? |
A44540 | Have you fought the good fight so long, and will you give over now? |
A44540 | How should he continue sound long that hath so many enemies within, and without him, to shatter his earthly Tabernacle into dust and atoms? |
A44540 | If a Beast could speak, would not this be his language? |
A44540 | If unwillingness to endure pain were a sufficient bar to justice, what Malefactor would be put to death? |
A44540 | If you turn the grace of God into wantonness, will God play with it, do you think, as you do? |
A44540 | Shall I leave a certain satisfaction for I know not what? |
A44540 | Shall a Pagan look on these outward glories as unworthy of his affections, and will you suffer yours to be entangled with them? |
A44540 | Thy Soul must have an Anchor that can give it rest, and will these thorns and bryars do it? |
A44540 | Thy Soul must have an individual companion that will never leave it nor forsake it, and will these deceitful props stand by it at the great Tribunal? |
A44540 | Thy soul wants an Everlasting object; and are these the things that will endure for ever? |
A44540 | Where are the mighty Honorable men, who have made whole Nations tremble, and shook the habitable World into subjection? |
A44540 | Who can express the innumerable disasters, discontents, and vexations life is subject and expos''d unto? |
A44540 | Will God let your unprofitableness under the richest means of grace go unpunish''d? |
A44540 | Will not their temperance and abstinence condemn your greediness after these perishable objects? |
A44540 | Will not they be your Judges one day? |
A44540 | Will not they shame you, that did more by the strength of nature, than you with all the encouragements of the Holy Ghost? |
A44540 | Will not this aggravate your neglect, and change your Rods into Scorpions? |
A44540 | Will not this fill your faces with greater confusion? |
A44540 | Will not this make your furnace hotter? |
A44540 | Will you do less than Pagans? |
A44540 | Will you fall short of Men that never heard the Gospel? |
A44540 | Will you sink beneath those that never had any other light but what the glimmering Candle of Nature gave them? |
A44540 | and are these Butterflies, that perish in the handling, fit to ingross thy affections? |
A44540 | for a thing uncertain and out of sight? |
A44540 | what are they all but vanity in grain? |
A63913 | Are they able to demonstrate that there is no God? |
A63913 | Because you ca n''t perceive how it can be made out of Nothing: Why do you not also think your self Eternal? |
A63913 | But is the Chair of Scorners at last prov''d the only Chair of Infallibility? |
A63913 | But what puts the Senses in the way and method to correct themselves? |
A63913 | But whether the will to write, or the will to forbear, come upon him according to his will, or according to any thing else in his own power? |
A63913 | But you will say, I ● it not impossible to admit of the making any Thing out of Nothing, since we can not possibly conceive it? |
A63913 | Do not those in Bedlam think themselves wiser than others? |
A63913 | Do they hope to slip beyond the Bounds of his Power, by falling into Nothing when they dye? |
A63913 | Do they think that we are all become such Fools to take Scoffs for Arguments, and Railery for Demonstration? |
A63913 | First, I would ask them, whether they imagine that all Matter, every Particle of Matter thinks? |
A63913 | For example, My right hand writes, whilst my left hand is still, what causes Rest in one, and Motion in the other? |
A63913 | I asked the Gentleman how he would come to know their proper Places and Insertions? |
A63913 | If he had, or had not a full Conviction of the Soul''s Immortality? |
A63913 | If these Men were capable of Counsel, I would ask them whether they are absolutely sure that they are in the right? |
A63913 | If this Answer satisfies not,''t is plain the meaning of the Question, what determines the Will? |
A63913 | Let Mechanism here make an Experiment of its Power, and produce a spiral and turbinated Motion of the whole moved Body without an External Director? |
A63913 | Let therefore the Imagination be never so strong, the Confidence never so great, the Intent never so good, the Question is, whence is this? |
A63913 | Matter must be allowed Eternal: Why? |
A63913 | Must those be the Standard of Mankind, who seem to have little lest of Humane Nature, but laughter and the shape of Men? |
A63913 | Now as it not more reasonable to ascribe the constant observance of these Rules, to an Intelligent Being, than to Chance or no Cause? |
A63913 | Now what can be more expressive of two several perceptive Souls in Man, whose Natures and whose Laws are contrary to each other? |
A63913 | Quae Religio? |
A63913 | Secondly, If all Matter do not think, I next ask, Whether it be only one Atom that does so? |
A63913 | Should a Jest or a foolish Witticism be of more weight than the Dictates of common Sense and sound Reason? |
A63913 | Si vult& potest, quod solum Deo convenit, unde ergo Mala? |
A63913 | The Question therefore is not, Whether a Man be not a free Agent? |
A63913 | To the Question, what is it determines the Will? |
A63913 | What he thought of the Christian Religion? |
A63913 | When did Imagination give Life to a Fly, or do the least act out of it self? |
A63913 | Whether he conceived his Mind to be now as clear, as active, and as vigorous as it had been some few days before his Ilness? |
A63913 | Who knoweth the Spirit of Man that goeth upward, and the Spirit of the Beast that goeth downward to the Earth? |
A63913 | Why former Heroes fell without a Name? |
A63913 | Why not their Battles told by lasting Fame? |
A63913 | aut cur illa non tollit? |
A63913 | aut ea quae vix summâ Ingenij ratione comprehendat, nulla ratione moveri putet? |
A63913 | if they thought of these things, without being told, why may not others do so too? |
A63913 | into what is it resolved? |
A63913 | or on what account do we frequent any Places, either of Publick or Private Worship? |
A63913 | or to sue out Prohibitions in the Court of Heaven to hinder the Effects of Justice there? |
A63913 | that is to say, whether he can write or forbear, speak or be silent, according to his will? |
A63913 | upon what doth it rest? |
A63913 | what Evidence doth the Person bring of his Mission from God? |
A63913 | what doth he produce more than what may be the fruit of Imagination? |
A44538 | Ah how shall I do something acceptable and grateful unto thee? |
A44538 | Ah how shall I subsist without my Life, or live without my Love? |
A44538 | Ah my Soul, where is thy Redeemer gone? |
A44538 | Ah where shall I find thee, my dear Lord? |
A44538 | Ah, Soldiers, where are you hailing Jesus? |
A44538 | Ah, cruel Pilate, who hast thou Condemned? |
A44538 | Ah, dear Love, where art thou? |
A44538 | And now, O blessed Jesus, what Eye can endure to see or behold thee? |
A44538 | And now, my Soul, hark, what are they going to do? |
A44538 | And, after they had abused him, and put many Indignities upon him, they led him towards Golgotha to crucify him? |
A44538 | Aye, and are ye sure they said so? |
A44538 | Behold his Arms stretcht out along time to embrace Sinners, and now he bows his Head to kiss''em? |
A44538 | But my dear Lord, where are we now? |
A44538 | But stay, O blessed Jesus, what is it I perceive and see in this black and dismal Hour? |
A44538 | Ca n''t ye find in, ● our Hearts to take him down bef ● re ● is last Breath expires? |
A44538 | Can''st thou believe? |
A44538 | Can''st thou look after him, Pilate, and see all this, and thy Heart and Soul not faint and bleed? |
A44538 | Do they affirm thou raised Lazarus from the Grave? |
A44538 | Do you begin to have some Remorse? |
A44538 | Do you think I am past saving you? |
A44538 | Eli, Eli, Lameaesabac ● hani: My God, my God, why hast thou f ● rsak ● n me? |
A44538 | Gentlemen, Who do ye want? |
A44538 | How shall I be able to requite thy woful Pain and Death for me? |
A44538 | How, Lord canst forbear? |
A44538 | If the Son of God cries our so bitterly, what must a poor, vile, wretched, miserable Sinner do? |
A44538 | If thou cry''st out so, what then can I do? |
A44538 | Is it not finish''d yet? |
A44538 | Is there no Ground of Hope left to cast the Anchor of thy Faith upon? |
A44538 | Look, Sirs, Behold the Hour is come, wherein I must be betrayed? |
A44538 | Lord, is it thee, in thine Agony and bloody Sweat? |
A44538 | My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A44538 | My Name''s Jesus of Nazareth; D''ye seek me? |
A44538 | O Lord, who is able to behold thee longer? |
A44538 | O covetous Judas, for the lucre of Money, thou hadst sold thy ever blessed Jesus, and thy own Salvation too? |
A44538 | O dear Lord God, precious Jesus, what will nothing appease the Tumult, but thy Death? |
A44538 | O holy Jesus, is it not thee? |
A44538 | O my dear God, what shall I do? |
A44538 | O my dear Lord, What is it they witness against thee? |
A44538 | Peter wilt thou not go along with thy Master? |
A44538 | The Love of a dying SAVIOUR WHAT makes this dreadful Sound, Eli, Eli, Lamasabachthani? |
A44538 | Then the Chief Priests and Elders with the Scribes and Pharisees, farther consulted and said, What do we? |
A44538 | Thou art the Comfort of my Heart, the Sola ● e of my Mind, the true Content and Joy of my Afflicted Soul, where art thou to be found? |
A44538 | What Heart can not but Mourn, and Lament bitterly, as not being able to behold thee? |
A44538 | What Judge could be so cruel to put him to it? |
A44538 | What Man could have so butcherly a Mind as to deal so outragiously with him? |
A44538 | What Sin am I guilty of that is not atton''d yet; that God is so incensed at, that he will not yet pardon? |
A44538 | What dost ● ook? |
A44538 | What from the sixth till almo ● t the ninth Hour, is my dear Saviour in the heighth of this vehement Agony, and not over yet? |
A44538 | What is it makes the Earth to shake? |
A44538 | What say''st thou Lord, to a poor fainting, dying Soul? |
A44538 | What so henious a Fault could he do to deserve it? |
A44538 | What stand off, to deny him; O come, and let us follow hard after him? |
A44538 | What then, ye faithless and perverse Generation, is it not lawful to do good rather than Evil? |
A44538 | When shall I requite thy Labour? |
A44538 | Where is that Grace of thy Lips? |
A44538 | Wherefore when I came, there was no Man to h ● lp: When I called there was none to hear? |
A44538 | Who has injured my Love; What no comfort yet? |
A44538 | Who is it makes the Earth to quake? |
A44538 | Wilt thou speak, Lord, and my Soul shall hear? |
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A44538 | what is''t? |
A44538 | what''s that which sounds thus in my Ear? |
A44538 | — Father, thy Will be done, Forsak''st thou, Why thine only Son? |
A44521 | A temporal Prince will not suffer himself to to be baffled thus, and canst thou imagine that a jealous God will connive at it? |
A44521 | All other Creatures betimes prosecute the end for which they are created, and wilt thou alone forget the end for which thou camest into the world? |
A44521 | And have you no ambition to live as long as Angels live? |
A44521 | And shall so noble a Creature be undone for want of a little care? |
A44521 | And while God is not in all their thoughts, how should they fear, how should they stand in awe, how should they be restrained from doing ill? |
A44521 | And will ye refuse so great a Mercy, and a Pearl of that inestimable value? |
A44521 | Are you so low- spirited that you have no desire to live eternally? |
A44521 | Art thou afraid of remembring thy Creator, when everlasting Treasures depend upon the choice? |
A44521 | But doth any wise man therefore judge that Prisons are not for the common good, or that they are needless in a Common- wealth? |
A44521 | But what do we talk of another life? |
A44521 | Can God see thee thus refractory, and forbear preparing his Arrows upon the Bow against thee? |
A44521 | Can the eyes of men make thee afraid, and is the revenging Eye of God no disswasive from thy wickedness? |
A44521 | Canst thou imagine that a God bent so much upon thy good, would prescribe any thing prejudicial to thy interest? |
A44521 | Did any of the damned see you loth and unwilling to embrace this offer, what strange Creatures would they take you to be? |
A44521 | Do these men believe another life do you think? |
A44521 | Do''st thou believe Salvation is the confluence of all Felicity, and dost thou dread an early consideration how thou shalt arrive to it? |
A44521 | Do''st thou contemn God, and hope to escape? |
A44521 | Do''st thou know what Salvation means? |
A44521 | Do''st thou make nothing of his Promises, and Threatnings, and think to go unpunished? |
A44521 | Doth he take care of thy Soul and Body with all his strength, and shall such a crawling Worm refuse to offer him that which is found and whole? |
A44521 | Fancy you hear him say, O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn your glory into shame, how long will ye love Vanity and seek after leasing? |
A44521 | Go and offer it to thy Governour, and see whether he will accept of such weak endeavours? |
A44521 | Hast thou any spark of Reason left, and dost not thou blush at these doings? |
A44521 | Hath not that need of nourishment, as well as thy corruptible Flesh? |
A44521 | Hath thy God deserved so little at thy hand, that thou canst serve him so? |
A44521 | How can we look upon the Sun, and not behold him by whose order he shines, and warms this Nether- world? |
A44521 | How can we view the Moon and Stars, and not see him that calls them all by their names? |
A44521 | How many years have I spent in the world without any serious thoughts of the great mystery of Godliness? |
A44521 | How should he know them when they have lost the Character of his Sheep, the mark whereby the Flock must be distinguished, which is to hear his Voice? |
A44521 | I have looked upon my remembring thee as a thing indifferent, which I might observe or neglect at my pleasure? |
A44521 | I never knew you? |
A44521 | If thou allowest God to be a greater Prince than thy King, will he sit silent dost thou think while thou tramplest his Authority under thy feet? |
A44521 | If thou wouldest not cheat thy Body in this manner, what hurt hath thy Soul done thee that thou wilt wrong it thus? |
A44521 | In death there is no remembrance of thee, and who will give thee thanks in the Grave? |
A44521 | Is being happy for ever nothing? |
A44521 | Is it any advantage to him when thou workest in his Vineyard? |
A44521 | Is it not thy profit he seeks? |
A44521 | Is it so light a thing that thou needest deliberate, whether thou shalt prepare for it? |
A44521 | Is it the Mercy that ever was Mankind, and dost not thou think it worth accepting upon any terms? |
A44521 | Is this the return thou makest him for the thousand Mercies he bestows upon thee? |
A44521 | It''s true, God is merciful, but art thou a fit Object of Mercy, that despisest the riches of his goodness? |
A44521 | Mightest not thou as well say, that thou wilt forbear wholesom Food some years, and eat and drink hereafter? |
A44521 | Must thy Body feed, and thy Soul be starved? |
A44521 | Nay, art thou so fond of weak services, that thou wouldest expect none from thy Servant but when his strength fails him? |
A44521 | Need he court his Servant to do his work, who hath Flames enough to force him to it? |
A44521 | Onely of his Death it may be said as David said of a far greater man: Did the Lad die as a fool dieth? |
A44521 | Or do''st thou think that thy Soul will be contented with the trash thou feedest thy Body with? |
A44521 | Or what apologies can Mercy make for a person that had rather have the wrath of God than that Mercy for his portion? |
A44521 | Shall thy shallow brain pretend to know better than he who made thy frame, or considers and ponders things in the Ballance of his eternal Wisdom? |
A44521 | Thy Soul stands in need of the love of God, as much as thy Body doth of meat and drink; That''s her food as much as Bread is of the ignobler part? |
A44521 | To this, St. Ephrem: Art thou asham''d to be seen by men, and dost thou not blush to venture upon this villany in the sight of God? |
A44521 | Was it purchased by the Bloud of God, and shalt thou think any thing too dear for it? |
A44521 | What a contempt dost thou put upon God in valuing that so little which he prizes at the highest rate? |
A44521 | What insolence, what rudeness is this? |
A44521 | What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? |
A44521 | What mighty purchase doth he get by thy remembring of him? |
A44521 | What should men do who have lost much time, but husband the remainder to the best advantage? |
A44521 | What time would''st thou set apart for this necessary work? |
A44521 | What vanity, or what frenzy rather hath possessed thy mind, that thou talkest of being serious hereafter? |
A44521 | Who redeem''d you? |
A44521 | Who sanctifies you? |
A44521 | Who should know it so well what time is fittest for this work as the all- wise God? |
A44521 | Why Sirs? |
A44521 | Why should he shew mercy to a person that thinks his mercy a buthen, and his kindness troublesome? |
A44521 | Why the strict observance of these two Lessons is particularly necessary in the days of our youth? |
A44521 | Why? |
A44521 | Wilt thou deal so basely with him who hath acted so generously for thy good? |
A44521 | Wilt thou give that to God, which Man would scorn, and thy self do''st not care for? |
A44521 | Wilt thou make Bargains with him, as Pharaoh did with the Children of Israel, and limit him how much he shall take at thy hands? |
A44521 | You may laugh at these Terrours now, but when they come to pass, what wise man would be under your circumstances? |
A44521 | Youth( thus pleads the Age) must have its swing; and what should the sprightly Lad do, but follow his Amours and Vanities? |
A44521 | and if it were no sin, can any thing be more contrary to good manners? |
A44521 | and shall he after all be scorned and under- valued for his pains? |
A44521 | is Vengeance asleep, or is his Justice, do''st thou think, sunk into a fatal slumber? |
A44521 | the age of infirmity, of sickness, or of dotage? |
A44521 | wilt thou be worse than other Creatures? |
A44535 | ? |
A44535 | And are you sure Madam, that the peace and satisfaction, you found in that Church was not delusion? |
A44535 | And are you sure the Men you have lately believed have not deceived you, as you fancy we have done? |
A44535 | And can you consent to so great a Sacriledge? |
A44535 | And do you blame Us for not being so impudent as the Church of ROME? |
A44535 | And how unlike the Worship of the true GOD is that Veneration you express to the Images and Pictures of Saints, and to Relicks? |
A44535 | And is this the Worship, Madam, which Christ and his Apostles have injoyned the World? |
A44535 | And pray Madam, wherein have you bettered your self in going over to the Roman Church? |
A44535 | And when you receive the Sacrament but in one kind, contrary to Christs command, do not you Sin and allow of the Sin of that Church you are in? |
A44535 | Are not you afraid of doing things, that do so nearly border upon robbing God of his honour and glory? |
A44535 | Are the words is and is transubstantiated all one? |
A44535 | Ay, but we believe it to be GOD; why, Madam, doth your belief, that such a thing is God, or Christ, excuse you from Idolatry? |
A44535 | But suppose the word is in these words, This is my body, must be understood literally, how doth this make for transubstantiation? |
A44535 | But where shall we find him? |
A44535 | Can they annull what God would have Established, and continue to the Worlds end? |
A44535 | Did they see the Christian Religion like to be swallowed up by darkness and Ignorance, and was it not time to rouze the slumbering world? |
A44535 | Did you change it without reason and without ground? |
A44535 | Did you want strictness of Life in our Church? |
A44535 | Did you want that which the Apostles and the Primitive Christians never wanted? |
A44535 | Do you think, we do not understand the Scriptures, and Fathers, and Antiquity, as well as they? |
A44535 | Hath the Church of ROME another Gospel to teach, you than we did instruct you in? |
A44535 | How can Men dispense with an express Law of God? |
A44535 | How can you answer it to GOD, that you did not improve your reason more? |
A44535 | How dare you act thus against your Reason and Conscience? |
A44535 | I am perswaded you did never tast it, nor see it, nor feel it, nor Smell it, and how do you know it? |
A44535 | If GOD be a GOD jealous of his Glory, how can he like and approve of such doings? |
A44535 | If that Church be infallible why do not their own Divines agree in Interpretation of Scripture? |
A44535 | If you say, that you could not judge of Arguments having never been bred a Schollar, I would but ask you how you durst change your Religion then? |
A44535 | Is it because we will not believe a Purgatory fire, which cleanseth little, but peoples Purses of their money? |
A44535 | Is it because we will not deceive the People of the Cup in the Blessed Sacrament, which Christ intended as a mighty comfort to them? |
A44535 | Is it because we will not receive things which the Church of Rome hath since added to the Catholick Faith? |
A44535 | Is not your disobedience to Christs Command a Sin, or can you imagine that you are more obliged to Obey men than Christ himself? |
A44535 | Is the Spirit divided? |
A44535 | Madam, AND are you indeed got into the onely Catholick Church? |
A44535 | Madam, who so blind as those that will not see? |
A44535 | Or doth not he exert his power upon all occasions? |
A44535 | Or is he not alwaies the same? |
A44535 | These must certainly be the reasons, why we can not now passe with the Church of ROME for members of the Catholick Church? |
A44535 | View the Stream of the Gospel, and search whether there be any thing like these Doctrines in it? |
A44535 | What can be our interest in deceiving you? |
A44535 | What have you your reason for, but to judge what is agreeable to the Word of GOD, and what is not? |
A44535 | What was it Madam, that you wanted in our Church to carry you to Heaven? |
A44535 | Who is it that God hath imparted this Honour to? |
A44535 | Why, Madam, did any of our Ministers deny you absolution, when you could assure them that your Repentance was sincere? |
A44535 | You confess you dare not live in any one Sin; But how dare you live in this Sin? |
A44535 | and if you are not able to Weigh the strength of Arguments, how can you be sure that you are in the true Church at this time? |
A44535 | and what have we done, that we must not be counted a Catholick Church? |
A44535 | because the Priests of that Church do tell you so? |
A44535 | can there be any thing more contrary to it than their denying the Cup to the Laity? |
A44535 | did you ever ask absolution, and were you refused? |
A44535 | do we not stand up at it to express our readiness to defend it? |
A44535 | may be you wanted a Voice from heaven to confirm the promise of the Gospel, but have you since heard such a Voice from heaven in the Church of ROME? |
A44535 | must they never reform when they have done amiss? |
A44535 | our''s that keeps to the truly antient Catholick Faith, or their''s that hath added things contrary to Scripture and reason and antiquity? |
A44535 | should you believe a Stone to be GOD, and adore it, might not you justly be charged with Idolatry? |
A44535 | what if it should not be God, as you have all the demonstration that sense or reason can give you, that it is not changed into another substance? |
A44535 | what if it should remain as very a Wafer, as it was before consecration? |
A44535 | what monstrous Idolatry would this be? |
A44535 | what? |
A44535 | when the House is on fire, would you have no body awake to alarm the Neighbours to look to themselves? |
A44535 | who should prescribe the way how God is to be worshipped, but God himself? |
A44535 | why will you make your reason a Slave to your Priests magisterial Sentences? |
A44536 | ? |
A44536 | And are you sure Madam, that the peace and satisfaction, you found in that Church was not delusion? |
A44536 | And are you sure the Men you have lately believed have not deceived you, as you fancy we have done? |
A44536 | And can you consent to so great a Sacriledge? |
A44536 | And do you blame Us for not being so impudent as the Church of ROME? |
A44536 | And how unlike the Worship of the true GOD is that Veneration you express to the Images and Pictures of Saints, and to Relicks? |
A44536 | And is this the Worship, Madam, which Christ and his Apostles have injoyned the World? |
A44536 | And pray Madam, wherein have you bettered your self in going over to the Roman Church? |
A44536 | And when you receive the Sacrament but in one kind, contrary to Christs command, do not you Sin and allow of the Sin of that Church you are in? |
A44536 | Are not you afraid of doing things, that do so nearly border upon robbing God of his honour and glory? |
A44536 | Are the words is and is transubstantiated all one? |
A44536 | Ay, but we believe it to be GOD; why, Madam, doth your belief, that such a thing is God, or Christ, excuse you from Idolatry? |
A44536 | But suppose the word is in these words, This is my body, must be understood literally, how doth this make for transubstantiation? |
A44536 | But where shall we find him? |
A44536 | Can they annull what God would have Established, and continue to the Worlds end? |
A44536 | Did they see the Christian Religion like to be swallowed up by darkness and Ignorance, and was it not time to rouze the slumbering world? |
A44536 | Did you change it without reason and without ground? |
A44536 | Did you want strictness of Life in our Church? |
A44536 | Did you want that which the Apostles and the Primitive Christians never wanted? |
A44536 | Do you think, we do not understand the Scriptures, and Fathers, and Antiquity, as well as they? |
A44536 | Hath the Church of ROME another Gospel to teach you than we did instruct you in? |
A44536 | How can Men dispense with an express Law of God? |
A44536 | How can you answer it to GOD, that you did not improve your reason more? |
A44536 | How dare you act thus against your Reason and Conscience? |
A44536 | I am perswaded you did never tast it, nor see it, nor feel it, nor Smell it, and how do you know it? |
A44536 | I ● it because we will not believe a Purgatory fire, which cleanseth little, but peoples Purses of their money? |
A44536 | If GOD be a GOD jealous of his Glory, how can he like and approve of such doings? |
A44536 | If that Churc ● be infallible why do not thei ● own Divines agree in Interpretation of Scripture? |
A44536 | If you say, that you could not judge of Arguments having never been bred a Schollar, I would but ask you how you durst change your Religion then? |
A44536 | Is it because we will not deceive the People of the Cup in the Blessed Sacrament, which Christ intended as a mighty comfort to them? |
A44536 | Is it because we will not receive things which the Church of Rome hath since added to the Catholick Faith? |
A44536 | Is not your disobedience to Christs Command a Sin, or can you imagine that you are more obliged to Obey men than Christ himself? |
A44536 | Is the Spirit divided? |
A44536 | Madam, AND are you indeed got into the onely Catholick Church? |
A44536 | Madam, who so blind as those that will not see? |
A44536 | Or doth not he exert his power upon all occasions? |
A44536 | Or is he not alwaies the same? |
A44536 | These must certainly be the reasons, why we can not now passe with the Church of ROME for members of the Catholick Church? |
A44536 | View the Stream of the Gospel, and search whether there be any thing like these Doctrines in it? |
A44536 | What can be our interest in deceiving you? |
A44536 | What have you your reason for, but to judge what is agreeable to the Word of GOD, and what is not? |
A44536 | What was it Madam, that you wanted in our Church to carry you to Heaven? |
A44536 | Who is it that God hath imparted this Honour to? |
A44536 | Why, Madam, did any of our Ministers deny you absolution, when you could assure them that your Repentance was sincere? |
A44536 | You confess you dare not live in any one Sin; But how dare you live in this Sin? |
A44536 | and if you are not able to Weigh the strength of Arguments, how can you be sure that you are in the true Church at this time? |
A44536 | and what have we done, that we must not be counted a Catholick Church? |
A44536 | because the Priests of that Church do tell you so? |
A44536 | can there be any thing more contrary to it than their denying the Cup to the Laity? |
A44536 | did you ever ask absolution, and were you refused? |
A44536 | do we not stand up at it to express our readiness to defend it? |
A44536 | must they never reform when they have done amiss? |
A44536 | our''s that keeps to the truly antient Catholick Faith, or their''s that hath added things contrary to Scripture and reason and antiquity? |
A44536 | should you believe a Stone to be GOD, and adore it, might not you justly be charged with Idolatry? |
A44536 | what if it should not be God, as you have all the demonstration that sense or reason can give you, that it is not changed into another substance? |
A44536 | what if it should remain as very a Wafer, as it was before consecration? |
A44536 | what monstrous Idolatry would this be? |
A44536 | what? |
A44536 | when the House is on fire, would you have no body awake to alarm the Neighbours to look to themselves? |
A44536 | who should prescribe the way how God is to be worshipped, but God himself? |
A44536 | why will you make your reason a Slave to your Priests magisterial Sentences? |
A44517 | ? |
A44517 | And O Jerusalem, wilt not thou be clean, When shall it once be? |
A44517 | And dost thou verily believe that this is the way to Eternal Life? |
A44517 | And is this all that is to be observed upon this occasion? |
A44517 | And what is to be done with Self- Examination? |
A44517 | And what must thy Thoughts be, and what frame must thy heart be in when thou comest to the Holy Table of the Lord? |
A44517 | Behold I am healed at this time from mine Infirmity, and shall not his Praise be continually in my mouth? |
A44517 | But how should a creature find out the end of that which is infinite? |
A44517 | But is it possible, dost thou think, for any Man to obey, and live up to these Precepts? |
A44517 | But is there nothing else to be done by way of preparation for this Blessed Sacrament? |
A44517 | But what do I talk of desires of a single Heart? |
A44517 | But what if thou hast not obeyed these Precepts of the Gospel, is there any remedy, or hopes to recover the favour of God? |
A44517 | But what will this knowledge profit me, if my practice be not sutable, or my Belief strong, and firm, and vigorous? |
A44517 | Can you reflect upon his Doctrine, and attempt such villanies? |
A44517 | Can you refuse your Cordial? |
A44517 | Can you remember how he taught you in the Temple, even to astonishment, and venture on such proceedings? |
A44517 | Can you think of his miracles, and do so? |
A44517 | Canst not thou get a livelyhood, except thou art rich and greedy after the glories of the World? |
A44517 | Consc In what manner must thou ask advice of faithful Ministers of the Gospel? |
A44517 | Do I believe this and am I afraid of the worlds frowns? |
A44517 | Do I believe this and am I ashamed of the severities, thou callest me to? |
A44517 | Do I believe this, and shall not my Soul make thee her highest, and her chiefest good? |
A44517 | Do ye dispute the thing? |
A44517 | Do ye question whether ye shall do it or no? |
A44517 | Doest thou think that howling with them at last will give thee any comfort? |
A44517 | Hast thou a Soul, that''s in a possibility of being either eternally Happy, or eternally Miserable? |
A44517 | Hath the Cross of Christ so little power with me? |
A44517 | How ill art thou rewarded for thy kindness? |
A44517 | How is Consideration, and Thinking to be managed? |
A44517 | How is he alter''d? |
A44517 | How must these Sacraments be used, in order to thy present and everlasting Comfort? |
A44517 | I am but Dust and Ashes, and will God vouchsafe a Gracious look, to so mean an object? |
A44517 | I can give no reason why I have offended thee, except it be thy Goodness and Patience; and could fair Weather make me angry? |
A44517 | IS it not fit, O my Soul thou shouldest pause a little on thy Redeemers death, before thou goest to remember it with the Congregation? |
A44517 | If they are unreasonable, why shouldst thou lose thy Wits, and thy Salvation for their sakes? |
A44517 | In that vast Abysse, the head of this great River lies; but who shall dive into it? |
A44517 | Is it not possible to live in the World, and to keep thy self unspotted from it? |
A44517 | Is it possible you can demur upon it? |
A44517 | Is it possible you can stand out? |
A44517 | Is it possible your Hearts do not turn within you? |
A44517 | Is it possible, I can be so perfidious as to break with God? |
A44517 | Is this the Face admired by Angels, and dreaded by Divels? |
A44517 | Is this the Face that Abraham long''d to behold, and the Patriarchs were ambitious to have a view of? |
A44517 | Is this the Face that was once the desire of all Nations? |
A44517 | Is this the Face that was the perfection of Beauty? |
A44517 | Is this the Face which so many Prophets and Righteous Men have desired to see? |
A44517 | Is this the effect of my late Vow? |
A44517 | Is this to stand to the Covenant, I lately made with God? |
A44517 | Love desires the presence of its delightful object, and can any thing be more present then thou art? |
A44517 | O God what dost thou see in me? |
A44517 | O ye besotted Jews, what makes you run so fast to kill the Lord of Life? |
A44517 | Praise is comely for the Upright; the poor Cripple did so when he was Healed, and have not I far greater reason to do so? |
A44517 | Reigning? |
A44517 | Salvation? |
A44517 | Shall I come before him with Burnt- offerings, with Calves of a year old? |
A44517 | Shall I refuse to come when thou callest in this still voice? |
A44517 | Shall it not restrain me from such a sin as this? |
A44517 | Shall this word fright me away? |
A44517 | Shouldst not thou Cry? |
A44517 | Shouldst not thou Think? |
A44517 | The Lord is my Light and my Salvation, whom shall I fear? |
A44517 | The Lord is the strength of my Life, of whom shall I be afraid? |
A44517 | There is a prize put in thy hand; Why shouldst thou slight it, and lament thy contempt for ever? |
A44517 | There is no dallying in a thing of this consequence; and if other men will poison themselves, why shouldst thou? |
A44517 | They did not think that Heaven was to be gained at a cheaper rate, and why should I? |
A44517 | Thou art strangely bountiful, who would not love thee? |
A44517 | Thou hast promised it, and shall not I hope for it? |
A44517 | Thou hast said, Ask, and ye shall have, Seek, and ye shall find, Knock, and it shall be open''d to you; Who would not Hope after this? |
A44517 | Thy Apostles follow''d Thee, why should not I? |
A44517 | To see thee cast a favourable look on such a monster as I am, Who can forbear falling in love with so much clemency? |
A44517 | Was ever Goodness like this? |
A44517 | What Notions must thou entertain about these Sacraments? |
A44517 | What Precepts are those, thou art bound to obey in order to be saved? |
A44517 | What apprehensions must thou have of God, and Spiritual things? |
A44517 | What are the Rules to be observed in humbling the Soul with Fasting? |
A44517 | What are those means, whereby this Holy Obedience may be attained? |
A44517 | What can be difficult, where thou art both the guide, and the encourager? |
A44517 | What could be the reason? |
A44517 | What do I hear? |
A44517 | What dost thou mean by diligent hearing and reading of the word of God? |
A44517 | What haste dost thou make to dye? |
A44517 | What if thy Soul be capable of obeying, and disobeying God, doth that make it either Happy, or Miserable? |
A44517 | What is that Creature that thou bowest thus low to? |
A44517 | What is that mighty Love of God, that challenges such gratitude? |
A44517 | What is the nature of Prayer, and earnest begging for Grace and assistance of Gods Spirit? |
A44517 | What must thou then do to be saved? |
A44517 | What shall I do? |
A44517 | What shall I say unto thee, O thou great preserver of Men? |
A44517 | When God makes use of his own Blood to purify thee, O my Soul, Wilt thou wallow still in thy Dung, and Nastiness? |
A44517 | Where is thy sting? |
A44517 | Where shall I find out the spring of this mighty stream? |
A44517 | Where shall I find the beginning of it? |
A44517 | Wherein doth the Conscientious use of the Holy Sacraments consist? |
A44517 | Whether must they have fled for refuge, if thou hadst not given thy self a Sacrifice? |
A44517 | Who can hear this? |
A44517 | Who can search into the recesses of Eternity? |
A44517 | Who was ever confounded that trusted in thee? |
A44517 | Who was ever despised, that in good earnest called upon thee? |
A44517 | Who was ever forsaken that hoped in thee? |
A44517 | Why art thou cast down, O my Soul, and why art thou disquieted within me? |
A44517 | Why art thou obliged to do all this in order to Salvation? |
A44517 | Why art thou so loth to come to it? |
A44517 | Why dost not thou set about it? |
A44517 | Why dost thou act so contrary to it, when every moment thou art in danger of death, and upon thy death, there depends Eternity? |
A44517 | Why should I be afraid of going astray? |
A44517 | Why should not I? |
A44517 | Why should the examples of thy careless neighbors move thee, when thou knowest there are but few that will be saved? |
A44517 | Why shouldst thou venture with them? |
A44517 | and wilt thou goe out of the common road of Love, and spread thy Garments over me, and offer me thy friendship? |
A44517 | neglect the Medicine that must recover you? |
A44517 | shall a little profit or pleasure tempt me to please the Divel, and wrong my immortal Soul? |
A44517 | slight the Remedy that must fetch you to life again? |
A44517 | that should attract thee, and make thee leave the highest Heavens to descend into an Abyss of Misery? |
A44517 | why should I become behind them? |
A44517 | why should I have a less esteem for thee than they had? |
A44517 | ye can not live without him, and what evil spirit doth possess you to kill and murther him? |
A47513 | ''T is said, When your Children ask their Fathers in time to come, saying, What mean you by these Stones? |
A47513 | 3 dly, Does not Charity oblige Guardians to do these things? |
A47513 | 3, and 4. it is thus written, Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his Death? |
A47513 | And he said, What shall I Cry? |
A47513 | And how could Christians be Heirs according to the Promise, if their Children have no Right to it, as Abraham''s Children had? |
A47513 | And if you should constrain your Children to do what you do not your selves; what would it signifie? |
A47513 | And it shall be when thy Son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? |
A47513 | And shall Women degenerate into such unnatural Barbarity towards their young, as is not to be met with amongst the most Savage Creatures? |
A47513 | And she said, who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given Children Suck? |
A47513 | And therefore, how careful ought you to be, in so considerable a part of your duty towards your Children? |
A47513 | And therefore, how much are they to be Condemned, who make no Conscience at all of doing any thing for the benefit of either their Souls or Bodies? |
A47513 | And will not you, who have the hopes of a glorious Resurrection, be comforted in the absence of your Children? |
A47513 | And will you still continue to be so cruel to your poor Children, as to draw them along with you to the bottomless Pit? |
A47513 | And yet do you not advise and entreat them, for their Souls Health and Safety, to come to the Holy Communion? |
A47513 | Are God''s Mercies and Favours to Mankind impaired, by Christ''s coming into the World? |
A47513 | Are their Souls so contemptible in your eyes, that you will let them perish for want of Admonition? |
A47513 | Are you therefore to be enraged and mad with anger against the Worms, or against the Winds? |
A47513 | But now he is dead, Wherefore should I fast? |
A47513 | But shall they escape who do such things? |
A47513 | Can I bring him again? |
A47513 | Cometh this blessedness upon the Circumcision onely, or upon the uncircumcision also? |
A47513 | Did Christ think them worth purchasing with his own Blood, and will ye let them lie without fence or wall, or cultivation? |
A47513 | Do not we our selves confess so much, and do not most Men acknowledge it when they come to dye? |
A47513 | Do you believe a future Account, and do not ye enquire, whether you discharge your Duty to your Children? |
A47513 | Do you not desire that their Sins may be blotted out, that they may be washed with the Blood of their Saviour? |
A47513 | Does not A Sense of Honour oblige Guardians to be careful of their Pupils, and true and faithful to them? |
A47513 | For, what is there more common, than to see those neglected and slighted, who have been very kind and serviceable? |
A47513 | Have not Parents received from God freely and undeservedly, all the good things they enjoy, and particularly their Children? |
A47513 | Have not ye read the Curse God pronounced against Eli for his negligence, and are not ye afraid of the same Judgment? |
A47513 | How careful was he both of her Soul and Body? |
A47513 | How confident in his Friends, Neighbours, and Acquaintance? |
A47513 | How easie would every Man be? |
A47513 | How far are most Parents from doing this? |
A47513 | How great Ingratitude is there in this? |
A47513 | How great a Blessing would it be to the Church, to have many such Persons of her Society? |
A47513 | How is it, that you will not understand your Interest? |
A47513 | How many basely betray their truest Friends and greatest Benefactors? |
A47513 | How many root up those, by whom themselves have been planted? |
A47513 | How many think it a disparagement, to be so much as thought to be beholden to others, tho''their Obligations be very great? |
A47513 | How much greater must their Pleasure be, upon whom God hath bestowed Children, when they see them growing in Grace as they grow in Years? |
A47513 | How much more careful ought you to be, lest the Souls of your Children should be over- run with vicious Qualities? |
A47513 | How needful therefore is it for Parents to make their Will in good time? |
A47513 | How safe and secure from hurt and danger? |
A47513 | How shall the Child learn Sobriety, where the Father is often drunk? |
A47513 | How was it then reckoned? |
A47513 | How well did he instruct her? |
A47513 | How well- pleased? |
A47513 | How worthy of Praise were the Noble Spartans, who Honoured all Aged Persons very much? |
A47513 | If by your indulgence they sin, and by your connivence they grow wicked, will not the supreme Judge be avenged on such Officers? |
A47513 | If there is no regard to Truth and Justice, what a miserable thing must it be to live in Society? |
A47513 | Interpreters gave to Ptolemaeus Philadelphus, who asked him, what was the greatest negligence? |
A47513 | Is it not your interest to educate them into the Practice of Virtue, and Goodness, and Self denial? |
A47513 | Is not this it, which both Scripture and Philosophy teaches? |
A47513 | Is not this your Glory, that your Children are Christians? |
A47513 | Is this your Love, to provide for their flesh, and to neglect enriching their better part with religious Principles? |
A47513 | May not he do with his own, what he thinks good? |
A47513 | Not in Circumcision, but in uncircumcision? |
A47513 | Now what a folly is it for Men to consume, to disquiet, and to torment themselves, where it is to no purpose at all to do so? |
A47513 | Now, what can there be more base and abominable, than such a Temper as this? |
A47513 | Or can it be imagined, that the Condition of Believers under the Gospel, is worse than the Condition of those who believed under the Law? |
A47513 | Or how is it possible, the young man should be meek and patient, where the Father is Cholerick, and hath no command of his passion? |
A47513 | Or is this no part of the Account ye are to give? |
A47513 | Or must he give an account of his Actions, unto the work of his own Hands? |
A47513 | Or those eighteen upon whom the Tower of Si ● oe fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all Men that dwelt in Jerusalem? |
A47513 | Or who dare say unto him, what dost thou? |
A47513 | Ought you not to be at as much pains at least for their Souls? |
A47513 | Ought you not to do what in you lies, to shape and frame them to Virtue and Piety, that they may become amiable and acceptable in the sight of God? |
A47513 | Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? |
A47513 | Shall they, whose Love and Tenderness has been so noted and admired, prove unkind and cruel to the fruit of their own Womb? |
A47513 | Shall we by our Folly and Impiety give occasion of Offence and Scandal to the Church of Christ, which he hath purchased with his Blood? |
A47513 | Shall we commit such Villanies, and practice such Abominations, and thereby break our Solemn Vow and Engagement? |
A47513 | Shall we renounce the Captain of our Salvation, and prove Deserters, who have so lately vowed to renounce the Devil and all his Works? |
A47513 | Shall you be vexed and disquieted, because a Worm did eat up your pleasant Fruit, or because the stormy Wind did blow away your lovely Flowers? |
A47513 | Suppose ye that these Galileans were Sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things? |
A47513 | Then said his Servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? |
A47513 | They must, as need requires, reprove and chasten their Children, and how? |
A47513 | They must, as need requires, reprove and chasten their Children: and how? |
A47513 | To be made pure and clean in Heart and Life; to be made meet for that Holy Place, where no unclean thing can enter? |
A47513 | To be united by any civil ● yes to those, whose Promises and Ingagements are worse than none at all? |
A47513 | Was ever any Man saved without Holiness, and do you hope they will be, without this qualification? |
A47513 | What Villany and Wickedness seem they not likely to commit, who have no Sense of Benefits? |
A47513 | What a wonderful power may we daily observe in those early impressions which are made on Mens Minds? |
A47513 | What an excellent Example is David unto you in this matter? |
A47513 | What shall I render unto thee, O most Gracious God, and most Merciful Father, for all thy Mercies to me, and to all the World? |
A47513 | What would it mend the matter, if you should give way to your passion and anger never so much in such a case? |
A47513 | When he was in Circumcision, or in uncircumcision? |
A47513 | Whence is it that there are so many Prodigals, that so many come to an untimely end? |
A47513 | Will you be so mad, as to prefer Hell and Death, everlasting Misery and Woe, to Heaven and Everlasting Life, to Blessedness and Glory? |
A47513 | You love them, but how doth it appear you do, while you let their Souls die? |
A47513 | You take care that they may live comfortably in this World: Is it not a greater Duty to bestir your selves, that they may enjoy God for ever? |
A47513 | how far are too many Parents from doing this for their Children? |
A47513 | or what Profits and Preferments may be expected thereby? |
A47513 | that so many run into excesses, which destroy both Soul and Body? |
A47513 | what a sad thing is this? |
A44522 | And are you sure the Men you have lately believed have not deceived you, as you fancy we have done? |
A44522 | And are you sure, Madam, that the peace and satisfaction, you found in that Church was not delusion? |
A44522 | And can you consent to so great a Sacriledge? |
A44522 | And do but consider, what weakness, what impotency of Reason, and Spirit you betray and discover by such doings? |
A44522 | And do you blame Us for not being so impudent as the Church of ROME? |
A44522 | And how unlike the Worship of the true God is that Veneration you express to the Images and Pictures of Saints, and to the Relicts? |
A44522 | And is not this the Case of abundance of you? |
A44522 | And is not this threatning a Call to Repentance? |
A44522 | And is this the Worship, Madam, which Christ and his Apostles have injoyned the World? |
A44522 | And pray Madam, wherein have you bettered your self in going over to the Roman Church? |
A44522 | And what have we done, that we must not be counted a Catholick Church? |
A44522 | And when you receive the Sacrament but in one kind, contrary to Christ''s Command, do not you sin and allow of the Sin of that Church you are in? |
A44522 | Are not you afraid of doing things, that do so nearly border upon robbing God of his honour and glory? |
A44522 | Are the words is, and is transubstantiated, all one? |
A44522 | Are you sure you shall not? |
A44522 | Ay, but we believe it to be God: Why, Madam, doth your Belief that such a thing is God, or Christ, excuse you from Idolatry? |
A44522 | But how can you repent of your Passion, if you do not mortifie it? |
A44522 | But suppose the word is in these words, This is my Body, must be understood literally, how doth this make for Transubstantiation? |
A44522 | But where shall we find him? |
A44522 | But will you boast, say you, of having derived your Orders from the Church of Rome, when you believe the Church of Rome to be an idolatrous Church? |
A44522 | Can there be any thing more contrary to it than their denying the Cup to the Laity? |
A44522 | Can they annull what God would have Established, and continue to the Worlds end? |
A44522 | Can you seriously reflect upon this Commination, and be unconcerned? |
A44522 | Dare you appear before the Son of Man in the last day with such a Disposition of Soul, never yet seriously repented of? |
A44522 | Did Heathens do so, and shall Christians be strangers to this Practice? |
A44522 | Did they see the Christian Religion like to be swallow''d up by Darkness and Ignorance, and was it not time to rouze the slumbering World? |
A44522 | Did you change it without reason and without ground? |
A44522 | Did you go about mortifying that bitterness of Spirit, like Men in good earnest; how could ye fail of Success? |
A44522 | Did you want strictness of Life in our Church? |
A44522 | Do not you express all that''s terrible by Hell- fire? |
A44522 | Do not you see something in this Glass that''s very like you, and resembles your Temper? |
A44522 | Do we not stand up at it to express our Readiness to defend it? |
A44522 | Do you hope for Christ''s Rewards, and will you deprive your selves of them by your willful disobedience? |
A44522 | Do you own your selves Disciples of the Lord Jesus, and will not you believe what he saith in the Text? |
A44522 | Do you think we do not understand the Scriptures, and Fathers, and Antiquity, as well as they? |
A44522 | Doth anger according to Solomon''s Verdict, rest in the bosom of Fools, and do you take your selves to be wise Men for it? |
A44522 | Doth he assure you, that it renders you obnoxious to Hell- fire; and do not you think, what if I should fall into that Fire in my anger? |
A44522 | Doth the Church of Rome differ from the Church of England in any other Points? |
A44522 | From what Church we did immediately receive it? |
A44522 | HOW doth the Church of England differ from the Church of Rome? |
A44522 | Hath God told you, that he will not strike you dead in a Fit? |
A44522 | Hath he peremptorily forbid you all Bitterness and Wrath, and speaking evil one of another, and will not you obey him? |
A44522 | Hath our great Master threatned it, and do we make light of it? |
A44522 | Hath the Church of ROME another Gospel to teach you than that we did instruct you in? |
A44522 | Have you so learned Christ? |
A44522 | He ask''d hereupon, when we went off from the Church? |
A44522 | He asked, whether with a true Interpretation or without it? |
A44522 | He then asked again, what we counted the Rule of Faith? |
A44522 | He then asked, whether every Man was a true Interpreter of Scripture? |
A44522 | Here he asked, how we could receive the true Bible from a corrupt Church? |
A44522 | How can Men dispence with an express Law of God? |
A44522 | How can you answer it to God, that you did not improve your Reason more? |
A44522 | How can you conquer it, if you do not strive? |
A44522 | How can you mortifie it, if you do not conquer it? |
A44522 | How can you profess sorrow for this Sin, when you fall willfully into the same Sin again? |
A44522 | How can you strive, if ye do not use the proper means and weapons God hath appointed in the Gospel? |
A44522 | How dare you act thus against your Reason and Conscience? |
A44522 | How unlike that plain and simple Worship which the Gospel enjoyns? |
A44522 | I am perswaded you did never taste it, nor see it, nor feel it, nor smell it, and how do you know it? |
A44522 | I asked him, what he thought of Extreme Unction? |
A44522 | I asked him, whether I might not receive a Pearl from a Chimney Sweeper? |
A44522 | I told him, the Scripture with true Interpretation? |
A44522 | If God be a God jealous of his Glory, how can he like and approve of such doings? |
A44522 | If that Church be infallible why do not their own Divines agree in Interpretation of Scripture? |
A44522 | If the Cup was formerly given to the Laity, why will not they to effect the aforesaid Union, restore it to the Laity? |
A44522 | If you say, that you could not judge of Arguments having never been bred a Scholar, I would but ask you how you durst change your Religion then? |
A44522 | Is Hell- fire nothing but painted Flames? |
A44522 | Is it because we will not believe a Purgatory Fire, which cleanseth little, but Peoples Purses of their Money? |
A44522 | Is it because we will not believe the Miracle of Transubstantiation against four of our Senses, and Reason, and Scripture to boot? |
A44522 | Is it because we will not deceive the People of the Cup in the Blessed Sacrament, which Christ intended as a mighty comfort to them? |
A44522 | Is it because we will not receive things which the Church of Rome hath since added to the Catholick Faith? |
A44522 | Is not your Disobedience to Christ''s Command a Sin, or can you imagine that you are more obliged to obey Men than Christ himself? |
A44522 | Is the Spirit divided? |
A44522 | Is this following his Example, Who when he was reviled, reviled not again? |
A44522 | Is this the Christian Spirit? |
A44522 | Is this to Love one another with a pure Heart fervently? |
A44522 | Is this to be Children in Malice, as you are bound to be by your Profession? |
A44522 | Is this to be meek as Doves? |
A44522 | Is this to purifie your Hearts? |
A44522 | Is this to resist the Devil? |
A44522 | Is this treading in your Masters steps? |
A44522 | Madam, AND are you indeed got into the only Catholick Church? |
A44522 | Madam, who so blind as those that will not see? |
A44522 | Must they never reform when they have done amiss? |
A44522 | Or do you take that to be Repentance which is separated from actual Reformation? |
A44522 | Or doth not he exert his power upon all occasions? |
A44522 | Or is he not always the same? |
A44522 | Ours that keeps to the truly antient Catholick Faith, or theirs that hath added things contrary to Scripture, and Reason, and Antiquity? |
A44522 | Should you believe a Stone to be God, and adore it, might not you justly be charged with Idolatry? |
A44522 | Suppose our Religion did but begin then, why, must people be always in an Error? |
A44522 | The Cup of Blessing which we bless, is it not the Communion of the Blood of Christ? |
A44522 | The Jesuit asked whether, if a Man committed Theft, he may be call''d an Infidel? |
A44522 | UUhy do not you believe that the Church of Rome, is the only Catholick Church, and the Mistriss of all other Churches? |
A44522 | UUhy do not you believe, that the Books call''d Apocrypha, are Canonical Scripture? |
A44522 | What a mercy is it, that God will accept of a sincere Repentance after such Provocations? |
A44522 | What are the New Articles of Faith the Church of Rome hath added to the Antient Creeds? |
A44522 | What can be our Interest in deceiving you? |
A44522 | What have you your Reason for, but to judge what is agreeable to the Word of God, and what is not? |
A44522 | What if it should not be God, as you have all the Demonstration that Sense or Reason can give you, that it is not changed into another Substance? |
A44522 | What if it should remain as very a Wafer, as it was before Consecration? |
A44522 | What monstrous Idolatry would this be? |
A44522 | What was it Madam, that you wanted in our Church to carry you to Heaven? |
A44522 | What''s the reason the Church of England doth not receive those new Articles of Faith? |
A44522 | What? |
A44522 | When did the Church of Rome add these new Articles? |
A44522 | When the House is on fire, would you have no body awake to alarm the Neighbours to look to themselves? |
A44522 | Who is it that God hath imparted this Honour to? |
A44522 | Why do not you admit of the Sacrifice of the Mass? |
A44522 | Why do not you allow of Publick Service in Latin, or in a Tongue not understood by the People? |
A44522 | Why do not you believe a Purgatory? |
A44522 | Why do not you believe seven Sacraments? |
A44522 | Why do not you believe the Church of Rome infallible? |
A44522 | Why do not you believe, that Extreme Unction is a Sacrament necessary to Salvation? |
A44522 | Why do not you pray to the Uirgin Mary, and the Saints departed, and why do not you worship their Relicks? |
A44522 | Why do not you think Auricular Confession to a Priest necessary to Salvation? |
A44522 | Why do not you think it lawful for Laymen to receive the Communion in one kind only? |
A44522 | Why do you look upon their forbidding Priests to marry, as unlawful? |
A44522 | Why do you reject the use of Iudulgences, and Dispensations of the treasure of the Church? |
A44522 | Why may not the Images of God, of Christ, of the Uirgin Mary, and of other Saints be worshipped? |
A44522 | Why must not Traditions be received with the same Faith, that is due to the written Word of God? |
A44522 | Why, Madam, did any of our Ministers deny your Absolution, when you could assure them that your Repentance was sincere? |
A44522 | You confess you dare not live in any one Sin; But how dare you live in this Sin? |
A44522 | and if you are not able to weigh the strength of Arguments, how can you be sure that you are in the true Church at this time? |
A44522 | and is not the possibility of falling into it, a sufficient Defence against this inordinate Passion? |
A44522 | and the Bread which we break, is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ? |
A44522 | because the Priests of that Church do tell you so? |
A44522 | did you ever ask Absolution, and were you refused? |
A44522 | did you want that which the Apostles and the Primitive Christians never wanted? |
A44522 | is this to know, what manner of Spirit you are of? |
A44522 | may be you wanted a Voice from heaven to confirm the Promise of the Gospel, but have you since heard such a Voice from heaven in the Church of Rome? |
A44522 | who should prescribe the way how God is to be worshipped, but God himself? |
A39861 | Addrest himself to the Twelve Apostles, Demanding of them, whether they would also leave him? |
A39861 | Ahasuerus asked again, whether there were any Person in the Anti- chamber? |
A39861 | And GOD calling Adam, saying, Adam, Where art thou? |
A39861 | And Hazael having asked him why he wept? |
A39861 | And Jesus saith unto them, Yea, have ye never read, out of the Mouth of Babes and S ● cklings thou hast perfected Pr ● ise? |
A39861 | And Judah said, what profit is it if we slay our Brother? |
A39861 | And Saul trembling at this word, cried out, LORD, what wilt thou have me to do? |
A39861 | And as the Tribune was ready to torment him, S. Paul demanded, Whether''t was lawful to Scourge a Roman? |
A39861 | And demanding further of him, What they should do to him that the Tempest might cease? |
A39861 | And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? |
A39861 | And he said unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? |
A39861 | And how shall they Preach, except they be sent? |
A39861 | And the LORD said, Who told thee, that thou wast Naked? |
A39861 | And they worshipped the Dragon, which gave power to the Beast, and they worshiped the Beast saying, who is like to this Beast? |
A39861 | And we may here very well say with the Fathers, How Miraculous must those Truths be, whereof the Types and Figures only are such great Miracles? |
A39861 | And when our Saviour came to his Disciples, he found them asleep, and said, Could ye not watch with me one hour? |
A39861 | And which of you by taking thought, can add to his Stature one Cubit? |
A39861 | And why beholdest thou the Mote that is in thy Brothers Eye, but considerest not the Beam in thine own Eye? |
A39861 | And you, said our Lord, whom think ye that I am? |
A39861 | As it is written, How beautiful are the Feet of them that preach the Gospel of Peace, and bring glad Tidings of Good things? |
A39861 | At which words Abraham fell on his Face, and laughed, saying in his Heart, Shall a Child be born to him that is ● n Hundred years old? |
A39861 | Being thus divided one against another, they made the Blind Man speak again, and, demanded of him what he thought of this Man? |
A39861 | But GOD said unto him, thou Fool, this Night shall thy Soul be required of thee; Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? |
A39861 | But Jesus Christ demanded of him, How he( being a Master of Israel) could be ignorant of so weighty a matter? |
A39861 | But he answered one of them and said, Friend I do thee no wrong; didst thou not agree with me for a Penny? |
A39861 | But the Angel demanding of Abraham, wherefore Sarah laughed, because he promised her a Son, and whether any thing were too hard for the LORD? |
A39861 | Could you not( said he) have kept your Estate without selling it; or keep the Money after you have sold it? |
A39861 | Daniel being desirous to know the Interpretation of this Vision, asked one of the Angels what those four Beasts were which he had seen? |
A39861 | David, to congratulate his Victory; and when David asked him, Why he did not come to him during Absalom''s Rebellion? |
A39861 | Dost thou betray the Son of Man with a Kiss? |
A39861 | Elisha having heard her Complaint, ask''d her, what she had in her House? |
A39861 | For the Scripture saith, that the Disciples coming to him, asked him ▪ who was the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven? |
A39861 | For this reason it is, that all true Christians may cry out boastingly with S. Paul, O Death, where is thy Sting? |
A39861 | God himself endeavour''d by his Word, to cure Cain''s Heart, so impoyson''d with Envy; saying, Why art thou in wrath with thy Brother? |
A39861 | Has GOD so dealt with the green Tree? |
A39861 | Hast thou eaten of the Tree, which I commanded thee not to eat of? |
A39861 | He again desired further Instructions, LORD, said he, what wilt thou have me to do? |
A39861 | He asked the Subject of their Discourse, and why they were sad? |
A39861 | He enquired of our Blessed Saviour, How a Man could enter again into his Mothers Womb? |
A39861 | His Disciples asked him, whether this Man had Sinned, or his Parents, in that he was Born Blind? |
A39861 | How can we desire to be thought Innocent, when we are all Guilty; to pass for Righteous, when we rre Sinners? |
A39861 | I will give unto this last, even as unto thee; Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own; or are you Wicked, because I am Good? |
A39861 | If thou dost well, shalt thou not be accepted? |
A39861 | Is it I? |
A39861 | Is it possible that GOD should condescend to dwell upon the Earth? |
A39861 | JEsus Christ was led from Caiaphas to Pilate, who demanded of the Jews, What were the chief Heads of their Accusations against this Man? |
A39861 | O Grave, where is thy Victory? |
A39861 | Or how wilt thou say to thy Brother, Let me pull out the Mote out of thine Eye, and behold a Beam in thine own? |
A39861 | Or, Where shall we bestow this dreadful Pledge of his Omnipotent Presence? |
A39861 | Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and thus enter into his Glory? |
A39861 | Ought not this to satisfie us, that GOD himself, keeps account of the Days and M ● nutes of our sufferings? |
A39861 | Our LORD ask''d him whether they had not all been Cured and what were become of the other Nine? |
A39861 | Our Saviour Demanded of this ▪ Doctor, who of these three Men had been his Neighbour, who fell amongst Thieves? |
A39861 | Our Saviour did not set himself to Refute their Vain Imaginations? |
A39861 | Saul seeing his Son taken by the Lot, demanded of him what he had done? |
A39861 | Shalt thou not be rewarded accordingly? |
A39861 | Surely, if we would not deceive our selves, we must prefer Job''s Dunghil before Solomon''s Throne? |
A39861 | That is to say, My GOD, my GOD, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A39861 | The Chariot being then come to a place where there was Water, he caused it to stop, and demanded what hindred his being Baptized? |
A39861 | The High Priest arose, and ask''d him, Why he made no Defence against this Accusation? |
A39861 | The High Priest demanded of them, Why they Preached in the name of Jesus? |
A39861 | The High Priest having heard these words, rent his Cloaths, and cried out, He has spoken Blasphemy, What need have we of further Witnesses? |
A39861 | The LORD with great Long- suffering, bearing with this sinful weakness of his Servant Jonah, only demanded of him, Whether he did well to be angry? |
A39861 | The Pharisees after this put him out of the Synagogue, and our Saviour having found him ask''d him whether he Believed in the Son of GOD? |
A39861 | The Woman being ask''d, why she had done so? |
A39861 | The next Morning they caused S. Peter to be brought before them, and ask''d him in whose Name they had done this Miracle? |
A39861 | The next day, when David understood that Uriah was not gone to his House, he sent for him, and demanded of him, why he did not go home? |
A39861 | Then Judas said, Master, Is it I? |
A39861 | They will ask of him, When saw we thee an hungred, or a thirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? |
A39861 | This Doctor asked our Saviour, who are our Neighbours? |
A39861 | To which the Apostle with a loud Voice answered, Why do ye enquire after JESUS the Son of God? |
A39861 | Turning about, she saw Jesus Christ in the Form of a Gardner, who ask''d her, What she cry''d for? |
A39861 | What a Lesson have we here? |
A39861 | What remedy now is there for them in this dangerous Case? |
A39861 | What think ye? |
A39861 | Wherefore dost thou come to torment me before my Time? |
A39861 | Whilst they stood gazing on him, two Men cloathed in white appeared to them, who asked them, why they held their Eyes thus fixed towards Heaven? |
A39861 | Who art thou LORD? |
A39861 | Who can sufficiently enough admire and extol the Goodness and Mercy of the Lord? |
A39861 | Who is able to make War with him? |
A39861 | Why dost thou pine for grief and vexation? |
A39861 | Why is thy Countenance fallen? |
A39861 | Wist ye not that I must be about my Father''s Business? |
A39861 | Yet he said to him, Wherefore comest thou hither? |
A39861 | Yet we see, when Parents grow old, and need their Childrens Assistance, how seldom is it chearfully given them? |
A39861 | and do we think it just, he should spare the dry? |
A39861 | and if so, whether he should overtake and conquer them? |
A39861 | and shall Sarah, that is Ninety years old, bear? |
A39861 | behold the Heaven, and Heaven of Heavens can not contain thee, and how much less then this House that I have built? |
A39861 | he could audaciously answer, That he knew not, and said, Am I my Brothers keeper? |
A39861 | to which, as amazed as he was, answered, LORD, who art thou? |
A39861 | which was the greatest Commandment of the Law? |
A42831 | And do we act courageously for petty purchases; and faint and despond when we are to strive for Crowns and eternal Glories? |
A42831 | And if all this be short, what will be available? |
A42831 | And if his life be in trouble and discomfort; how terrible is it to reflect, that he must go from being miserable to be nothing? |
A42831 | And if neither reason, nor so much as our senses, may be believ''d, what assurance can we have of any thing? |
A42831 | And if the Master had such usage, what were the servants to expect? |
A42831 | And is it not a glorious Excellency, that makes Men like the fountain of all perfection? |
A42831 | And now did those poor Heathens hear the voice of a little Brook, and shall not we the noise of many Waters? |
A42831 | And shall the Beasts act more reasonably than the professed Sons of Reason? |
A42831 | And was not Tyranny well extirpated, when we were under an Army of Tyrants? |
A42831 | And was not this a Liberty worth the Bloud, and Treasure that was spent to purchase it? |
A42831 | And were not things come at length to a good pass, when men in Buff durst proclaim themselves the only Legal Authority of the Nation? |
A42831 | And what was this Belief of theirs? |
A42831 | And when one says, here''s Religion, and another says, there''s Religion; a third will scornfully ask, where''s Religion, and what''s Religion? |
A42831 | And when they come to such Sacred places as this, with what rude boldness do they enter Gods house? |
A42831 | And why may not the Spirit of God, working by an active Faith and Endeavour, fix Habits and Inclinations on the Soul, as prevalent as those? |
A42831 | Are there Flowers in the Wilderness and none in the Garden? |
A42831 | But is there not a cause for all this? |
A42831 | But the coming Day will set all right, and effectually resolve Pilate''s Question, What is Truth? |
A42831 | Can a Finite spirit bear such excess? |
A42831 | Do the wild Beasts of the Forest hear his voice, and shall not the Sheep of his own Fold obey him? |
A42831 | Doth not Nature it self teach you, that if a Man have long Hair, it is a shame unto him? |
A42831 | FOr the First, Who are the scoffers meant? |
A42831 | For can the regenerate be full of all manner of concupiscence, and at the same time be crucified to the Flesh, and its affections and lusts? |
A42831 | For what are all the pleasures and contentments of the World, but as so many rays of that Sun and emanations of that fountain? |
A42831 | For what is it to be happy but to be united to God? |
A42831 | For who can bear that dazzling Glory? |
A42831 | For who is rewarded for actions that are prefectly anothers, or who is punish''d for what he could not help? |
A42831 | Hast thou an Arm like God, or canst thou Thunder like him? |
A42831 | Having sin dwelling in him; and a captive to sin; and obeying the Law of sin; and yet free from the law of sin and death? |
A42831 | He hath shewed thee O man what is good: and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do Justice, and love Mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? |
A42831 | He saith he is a Prophet, but how shall we know it, where are his Miracles? |
A42831 | He that resists, resists the Ordinance of God, saith the Apostle; and who can lift up himself against the Lords Anointed and be guiltless? |
A42831 | How can they do good, that are accustomed to do evil? |
A42831 | How can those think of parting with their possessions and enjoyments, that have nothing else to expect? |
A42831 | How easie hath it made the way to this glorious reputation? |
A42831 | How else will you vindicate the Justice of God in all the odd and confused occurrences of this World? |
A42831 | How is it with the Sects in respect of peaceableness? |
A42831 | How small were the troubles of thy night, to the pleasures of this day? |
A42831 | How unworthy art thou of this sight of Glory? |
A42831 | IF any now should ask me, Whether this Doctrine of Universal Love do not tend to Universal Toleration? |
A42831 | IT is a question that hath much exercised the wits of the Curious, whether there be any decay in nature? |
A42831 | If He be call''d Belzebub, what must they look for? |
A42831 | If a man die, shall be live again? |
A42831 | If thou dost well, shalt thou not be accepted? |
A42831 | Is it not fit that the Gospel should at length appear to have been the power of God, and no creature of melancholy or design? |
A42831 | Is our Maker pleas''d with our sighs; or is there any Musick or sweetness to Him in our groans and tears? |
A42831 | Is this He whom the flesh and world tempted me so often to deny; and whose interest could do so little with me? |
A42831 | Is this the Saviour I loved so little? |
A42831 | It is no Question, I hope, whether God, or the Creature is to be first chosen; whether Heaven or Hell be better? |
A42831 | LOVE is the bond and tye of Christian Communion; How can two walk together except they are agreed? |
A42831 | Let him that is without Errour, throw the first Stone at the Erroneous; but if he begins, that is obnoxious himself, what favour can he expect? |
A42831 | May it not shame us, that we need Instruction from the Creatures that have no understanding? |
A42831 | No dream of imagination, or interest of any lust; but as simple as Innocence, and as clear as the virgin light? |
A42831 | Now what man in his wits, would run the venture of such fatal losses and miseries, for such trivial Nothings of advantage? |
A42831 | O how shall I answer this Judge? |
A42831 | Ought it not to be at last confest and known, that Religion was a great Reality, and no cunningly devised Fable? |
A42831 | Repentance is turning, Turn ye, turn ye, why will ye dye? |
A42831 | The Ninevites repented when they might have doubted, who is this Jonah? |
A42831 | The pleasures of Eternity crouded into a moment: Did unfaln Angels ever know such another? |
A42831 | Though the way is strait, yet''t is certain; or if it were otherwise, who would not venture his pains upon the possibility of such an issue? |
A42831 | Was it such comfort that our Lord promised to those that mourn? |
A42831 | We were made for Happiness, and Happiness all the World seeks: who will shew us any good? |
A42831 | Were not all miscarriages of Government well mended, when Government was thrown up by the roots? |
A42831 | Were they enlightened by a single Planet, and we not so by numerous Constellations? |
A42831 | Were we not well freed from evil Counsellors, when we made Kings of the worst we had? |
A42831 | What are the consequences, and effects of it? |
A42831 | What difficulties in my Duty, too great for Divine Aids? |
A42831 | What is the evil and malignity of the humour? |
A42831 | What is the example of a wicked, sensual, wretched World, to that of the Holy Jesus; and all the Army of Prophets, Apostles and Martyrs? |
A42831 | What is there in the World, that it should be loved more than God? |
A42831 | What pains are we to undergo in the narrow and difficult way, that the Glory which is at the end of it, will not compensate? |
A42831 | What profit in those designs whose objects are vanish''d with thy hopes? |
A42831 | What shall they do then; whither shall they go? |
A42831 | What shall we do then? |
A42831 | What sort of Scoffers we may suppose here meant? |
A42831 | What toying, talking, gazing, laughing, and other rude follies may we observe in the midst of the most solemn parts of worship? |
A42831 | What would a Stone be the better for being accounted one of the Ancient Pillars of Seth? |
A42831 | When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on earth? |
A42831 | Where was thy reason? |
A42831 | Where''s your infinite goodness and bounty, that suffers its servants always to be neglected? |
A42831 | Whither am I going? |
A42831 | Whither shall I flee from thy Spirit? |
A42831 | Who can tell the exact moment when the night ends, and the dawn enters? |
A42831 | Who would think now that such a Spirit as this, that so highly pretends to exalt Grace, should really disparage it, and undermine it? |
A42831 | Why should my noble Faculties, that were designed for glorious ends, be led into infamous practices by base Usages, and dishonourable Customs? |
A42831 | Why was light given unto man? |
A42831 | With what sad pangs of sorrow should we lay our Friends into the Grave; if we had cause to be assured that they were lost eternally? |
A42831 | Yea, why didst thou determine on the unreasonable side? |
A42831 | and how could we reflect upon our own mortality, if we were to look for no farther Being? |
A42831 | and how injurious were thy complaints to so glorious an expectation? |
A42831 | and how more unworthy of the favour of this glorious and triumphant Jesus? |
A42831 | and how much carelesness and irreverence do they express in their very looks and garb? |
A42831 | and how much slightness and playsomness in speaking of serving God, being devout, saying prayers, and such like serious things after it? |
A42831 | and was not the disease well cured, when the Body was destroyed? |
A42831 | and was this that Lord I was so careless to obey? |
A42831 | and what does unite us to God but Love? |
A42831 | and what have I done? |
A42831 | and what is the Flesh, that it should have more of our time and care, than the great interests of our Souls? |
A42831 | and what is the love of God but Religion? |
A42831 | and who is so ridiculous to digg for the wind to fill his Sails, or to endeavour to set to Sea without it? |
A42831 | and why were they not alwayes such in thy esteem? |
A42831 | carnal, and yet not walking after the flesh, but after the Spirit? |
A42831 | couldst thou not look beyond the grates of flesh, or didst thou see, and wouldst betray me into this danger and this misery? |
A42831 | disregard his promises, and slight his threatnings? |
A42831 | do we as much as impose any penance upon our external persons? |
A42831 | do we in them afflict our souls with penitence, and Godly sorrow? |
A42831 | he is a stranger to our Countrey, to our Laws, to our Religion, and shall he lead us? |
A42831 | how can these things consist? |
A42831 | how shall we do this? |
A42831 | is there no Remedy, no way? |
A42831 | must we sit down in despondency, in despair of Mercy? |
A42831 | one in whom sin revives while he dies; and yet one that is dead to sin? |
A42831 | or a piece of wood in beeing esteemed a Sacred Relique of the Cross? |
A42831 | or can there be more transport in ten thousand Hallelujahs? |
A42831 | or hadst thou any thing of more necessity, or concernment to engage thy thoughts? |
A42831 | or the world an enjoyment like those rewards he will now dispense? |
A42831 | or thy little policies of equal moment with the affairs of this day? |
A42831 | or whether all things are not still, as they were from the beginning, in all their kinds, and in all the degrees of their vigour, and perfection? |
A42831 | or will he applaud himself in having made Hell his sport, when he feels it? |
A42831 | or will his Wit recreate and support him when he shall be call''d to the Bar? |
A42831 | or, how can they bear up under the burdens and vexations of this state, that can not relieve themselves by the hopes of a better? |
A42831 | saith the transported admirer, How reasonable was thy Faith; and how unjust were thy Fears? |
A42831 | sold under sin, and yet free from sin? |
A42831 | throw off his easie yoke, as an intolerable burthen, and choose darkness, death and misery before light, and life, and glory? |
A42831 | was it cold, indifferent, unconcerned assent only? |
A42831 | was the sordid flesh a better friend than that triumphant Jesus? |
A42831 | was this the time I did so coldly expect, and so indifferently regard? |
A42831 | were thy pleasures comparable to the joyes of the happy expectants of this Time? |
A42831 | wert thou diverted by greater matters? |
A42831 | what can I say to my Judge? |
A42831 | what can the fondling flesh, and eht world do for thee? |
A42831 | what peace or temper among such principles? |
A42831 | what relish now in those pleasures that are gone out in stenchand shame? |
A42831 | what shall I say to the black indictment that lies against me? |
A42831 | what to my self? |
A42831 | what will become of an almighty and omniscient Justice if sinners are never call''d to an accompt? |
A42831 | what, that can justifie a Division? |
A42831 | when our Armed Masters murdered men in the Streets, and threatned the ancient Metropolis of the Nation, with Gunpowder and Granadoes? |
A42831 | where are his Credentials from Heaven to justifie our Belief of him? |
A42831 | where was thy Providence? |
A42831 | where was thy Self- love? |
A42831 | where were thy reflections? |
A42831 | who can stand before a Throne surrounded with incomprehensible Light and Flame? |
A42831 | who then shall be saved? |
A42831 | why did I abuse his love, and reject his addresses? |
A42831 | why did we not go from the darkness of the Womb to that of the Grave; and cease to be, assoon as we had a Being? |
A42831 | why was the Sun suffer''d to see a thing so miserable? |
A42831 | will he have any heart to droll when the Sentence is past? |
A42831 | will he shew himself good company among the Devils and his Angels; or make pastime of Heaven and Religion, amid the flames of Brimstone? |
A42831 | will his mirth hold when the Judge shall appear? |
A42831 | yea what will it be at that day? |
A42831 | — Lord, are there Few that be saved? |
A42824 | & c. Thirdly, The Woman said, she saw Gods arising, a company of evil Spirits( so some interpret) and what did Samuel among them? |
A42824 | ( which was the term of familiarity that the Major used to call the Captain by) to whom I replied, What my Major? |
A42824 | After these preliminary Interrogatories he desired him to tell him what he had seen in the Night? |
A42824 | After this he examined him for what cause those other two Men were imprisoned? |
A42824 | And are there not concomitant considerations here also? |
A42824 | And be it so, will J. Webster say, what is all this to the purpose, when the Book of Tobit is Apocryphal, and consequently of no Authority? |
A42824 | And being asked how she could think it was Florence Newton that did her this prejudice? |
A42824 | And being asked how she knew she was thus carried about and disposed of, seeing in her fits she was in a violent distraction? |
A42824 | And being asked the reason wherefore she cryed out so much against the said Florence Newton in her fits? |
A42824 | And being asked whether she perceived at these times what she Vomited? |
A42824 | And being demanded how she knew she was not well yet? |
A42824 | And does not Witch, from wit and weet, signifie as well a wise woman, as I noted above? |
A42824 | And does she not, I beseech you, put her Neb also into it sometimes, as into a Reed, as it is said of that Bird, and cry like a Butterbump? |
A42824 | And he said unto her, What form is he of? |
A42824 | And he said, Do you not see the Old Hag how she pulls me? |
A42824 | And if after all this, Samuel was a K ● … e, or the Witch, or the Devil, what assurance can we have in interpreting of Scripture? |
A42824 | And if blessed Souls are, or have been employed at any time, how is he so certain the real Samuel was not sent here? |
A42824 | And if so, what interest could he serve in carrying on, or conniving at a juggling Design and Imposture? |
A42824 | And now, Can the Sun borrow its Light from the bottomless Abyss? |
A42824 | And that a Spirit may penetrate, possess, and actuate some determinate Body, and yet not be in that Body? |
A42824 | And the King said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? |
A42824 | And then Goddard said, In the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, what would you have me to do? |
A42824 | And they asked her what she spoke to, and what made the great noise? |
A42824 | And those dissenters are ready to ask a reason, why they may not be sent in Messages to Earth, as well as those of the Angelical Order? |
A42824 | And what is Melancholy but a natural Drunkenness when it serments? |
A42824 | And when the substance of the Soul does so perpetually cease or perish, what I beseech you will become of Memory? |
A42824 | And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? |
A42824 | And why not as well that, as appoint the Prophet to meet the Messengers of Ahaziah when he sent to Beelzebub, 2 Kings 1? |
A42824 | And why then should there be need of so much pumping to answer this Objection? |
A42824 | And will he lend his Legions, to assist the Armies of his Enemy against him? |
A42824 | Are you a good or a bad Spirit? |
A42824 | Art thou come to torment us before the time? |
A42824 | As for Mr. G. what opinion he hath of his own Gift, and how he came to know it? |
A42824 | At last I said, In the Name of God, who is it, and what would you have? |
A42824 | BUt did she not turn out her confederate Knave to act the part of Samuel? |
A42824 | BUt was it not the Witch her self that acted all? |
A42824 | BUt were not those Angels that so appeared, special Prophets, Divine Messengers, sometimes in Scripture confessedly called Angels? |
A42824 | But Secondly, would God send Samuel at such a time, when he was seeking satisfaction from enchantment? |
A42824 | But for a perverse Caviller or crazy Sceptick, what is it that will satisfie them? |
A42824 | But how shall the power be known to be so, when we so little understand the capacities, and extent of the abilities of lower Agents? |
A42824 | But it happening that the Woman of the house stood at the Door, he thought himself engaged to ride to her and ask how she did? |
A42824 | But she had only said, An Old Man cometh up covered with a Mantle; This is but a very General Description, and why must that needs notify Samuel? |
A42824 | But what Logical ear can bear a saying so absurd and abhorrent from all reason, that a Whole should not be divided into parts but into Wholes? |
A42824 | But what did the Spirits do, were the Serpents, Blood and Frogs real or apparent only? |
A42824 | But what ground was there for conjecture? |
A42824 | But what is the incongruity, or what the wonder, if one in his condition should speak incongruously? |
A42824 | But what necessity thereof that 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 should signifie Lamina? |
A42824 | But what need more? |
A42824 | But where got she the Mantle? |
A42824 | Can Heat and Warmth flow in upon the World from the Regions of Sno ● … and Ice? |
A42824 | Can any thing be more srantick or ridiculous than this passage of St. Paul, if there was no Spirit or Devil in the Damsel? |
A42824 | Can it from thence, that Matter may be conceived without Cogitation, and Cogitation without Matter? |
A42824 | Can there be any deduction or illation more close and coherent with the Premises? |
A42824 | Could a meer Mad- man have done so? |
A42824 | Could the Devil represent no other Old Man in a Mantle, or could none of the dead appear so but Samuel only? |
A42824 | Did any come near to whisper this in their Ear? |
A42824 | Do you remember the clap on your back when your Servant was pulling off your Boots in the Hall? |
A42824 | Doth he think they were made for that purpose only to serve us? |
A42824 | For can there be any thing more One than what has no parts, into which it may be discerped? |
A42824 | For what communion hath Light with Darkness, or the Spirit of the HOLY ONE with those whose genius and ways are so unlike him? |
A42824 | Goddard askt what cases? |
A42824 | Had the Woman a Wardrobe of all Habits for all purposes? |
A42824 | Had they a mind to go into the Swine? |
A42824 | He askt again why she sat with one hand over the other? |
A42824 | He being much affrighted and amazed, began to bless him, and at last asked her who she was, and what she wanted? |
A42824 | He enquired if any thing were amiss with her hand? |
A42824 | He immediately sent for the Prisoner and asked him in the first place whether he was born or had lived about Guilford? |
A42824 | He replied, I am such a one? |
A42824 | He seeing nothing, askt him whereabout it was? |
A42824 | How applicable is this to the condition of Evil Spirits and their expectations? |
A42824 | How are you regimented in the other World? |
A42824 | How can therefore this newfangled Method of Cartesius convince us that this Supposition is false, and that the distribution is illegitimate? |
A42824 | How could he imitate his Voice thus of a suddain, and they discoursed a very considerable time together? |
A42824 | How could that confederate Knave change his own Face into the same figure, look, and mien that Samuel had, which was exactly known to Saul? |
A42824 | How could the Cheat, or the Woman in another Room tell this? |
A42824 | How doth that appear to be so certain? |
A42824 | How shall one deal with these Men, and what will not their confidence affirm? |
A42824 | How then can we be ignorant that she is somewhere, unless the Body itself be nowhere? |
A42824 | Hurt, quoth he? |
A42824 | I ask therefore here, By what vertue, or by what manner of way do the parts of so perfect a Solid cohere? |
A42824 | I would fain know, whether this be not beyond the force of meer natural madness? |
A42824 | If that were so, what then? |
A42824 | Is it not evident from hence, that she had a Closet, how else should she come out? |
A42824 | Is there any Balsom in the Cockatrices Egg? |
A42824 | It hath indeed been a great dispute among Interpreters, whether the real Samuel was rai sed, or the Devil in his likeness? |
A42824 | May it not therefore minister to others? |
A42824 | May not they therefore be used in those Services? |
A42824 | Mr. Hunt askt her, why then she would continue in such ill courses? |
A42824 | No, says the Drummer, did you not hear of a Gentlemans House that was troubled with the Beating of Drums? |
A42824 | Now, says he, how could Manasses make a Familiar Spirit, or make one that had a Familiar Spirit? |
A42824 | Now, what did Saul make this respectful reverence to, if he saw nothing? |
A42824 | Or how came those Mad- men to know, and utter such a great truth, which our Saviour did not presently publish, That he was the Son of God? |
A42824 | Samuel ask''t why he had disquieted him to bring him up? |
A42824 | Secondly, He enquired if he knew any of the Inhabitants of that Town or of the Neighbourhood? |
A42824 | So that the genuine sense and Grammatical in this answer to, What form is he of? |
A42824 | Surely as yet Saul and the woman are in the same Room; and being the woman askt, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? |
A42824 | That towards Evening, the Door of the Prison shook, and she arose up hastily and said, What makest thou here this time a night? |
A42824 | The Constable askt her how she did? |
A42824 | The Prisoner was called for up to the next Bar to the Court, and demanded if she could say the Lords Prayer? |
A42824 | The poor Man having by this time somewhat recovered himself, ask''t the Spectre whether by the juice of Plantain he meant that of the Leaves or Roots? |
A42824 | Then Goddard askt him, who was consederate with him in the said murder? |
A42824 | Then Goddard said, What would you have me to do in this thing? |
A42824 | Then he enquired, if he had ever heard of one Mr. Bower? |
A42824 | Then it askt him whether he did not know him? |
A42824 | Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? |
A42824 | Then the Apparition said, How stand cases at home? |
A42824 | To make a due return to this, we must consider a great and difficult Problem, which is, What is a real Miracle? |
A42824 | To which he said, should both of us come, or but one of us? |
A42824 | To which she the said Elenor said why what hurt is that? |
A42824 | Upon which instantly appeared a little Man in black Clothes to whom all made obeysance, and the little Man put his hand to his Hat, saying, How do ye? |
A42824 | Was it possible that he should not perceive that it was not Samuel when they came to confer together, as they did? |
A42824 | Was it to a Samuel in his fancy? |
A42824 | Was there nothing now beyond the rate of ordinary Mad- men in this? |
A42824 | What may this be? |
A42824 | What of no Authority? |
A42824 | What station do you hold? |
A42824 | What stuff is this? |
A42824 | What therefore do these Forms to the Body when they communicate to it their Esse? |
A42824 | What thinks he of the Souls of Moses and Elias, at the transfiguration on the Mount? |
A42824 | What, did they swallow the Wiars and Pictures? |
A42824 | What, do they consult Jugglers and Hocus- Pocusses? |
A42824 | Whence are you? |
A42824 | Where is your abode? |
A42824 | Whereat the Doctor wondering, presently demanded, What is the matter, Cousin Captain? |
A42824 | Whereupon Goddard said, I do adjure you in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, wherefore did you do this murder? |
A42824 | Whereupon Taverner askt him in the Name of God who he was? |
A42824 | Whereupon the Doctor enquires what he meant by this? |
A42824 | Which contingent particulars, how could the Cozener and her Confederate foretel, if there were nothing in it extraordinary and preternatural? |
A42824 | Which must be another Person distinct srom the Man himself, and who was that? |
A42824 | Which when he came near, the Apparition spake to him with an audible voice these words, Are you afraid? |
A42824 | Who but one that had taken too many drams of the Bottle could ever fall into such a fond conceit? |
A42824 | Who joyned the Soul and Body again? |
A42824 | Why hast thou disquieted me? |
A42824 | Will the Prince of Darkness strengthen the Arm that is stretcht out to pluck his Usurpt Scepter, and his Spoils from him? |
A42824 | and did they enter into them? |
A42824 | and doth not every Creature so? |
A42824 | and how then did they talk and converse with our Lord? |
A42824 | and was not this he to whom Saul bowed? |
A42824 | for the living,[ 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉] to the dead? |
A42824 | or more Subtile than what does not onely penetrate Matter, but itself, or at least other Substances of its own kind? |
A42824 | or their glorifyed Bodies without their Souls? |
A42824 | or was it some short Cloak of her own, that she threw on him? |
A42824 | or was this a raving fancy only? |
A42824 | or, Can the Spirit of Life slow from the Venome of the Asp? |
A42824 | should not a people seek unto their God? |
A42824 | were not they then employed in a Ministry here below, or were they only Phantasms? |
A42824 | yea, that our very faculties were not given us onely to delude and abuse us? |
A70263 | 9. Who can say I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? |
A70263 | Abundance more I could name to this purpose, and what was all this but a Kingdom of Heaven in their Souls? |
A70263 | All Peace- makers? |
A70263 | An Answer to the Soldiers Question, What shall we do? |
A70263 | And are these the mighty Things you rejoyce in? |
A70263 | And do not you expose your selves to the laughter of all judicious Men, when your Practices do so manifestly contradict your Profession? |
A70263 | And do you feel no desire to be so? |
A70263 | And hath not this been the temper, and is not this the complexion of many of you? |
A70263 | And if the Communion of Saints be one, must it not be a most blessed thing to be a Saint, and of that Communion? |
A70263 | And is it not high time to make peace with him? |
A70263 | And shall so vile, so pitifull a thing, the sport of Winds, and whose Life is a shadow, a dream, and a vapour, be proud of any thing? |
A70263 | And then how holy, how pious, how clean, how pure ought your thoughts to be to give so great, so rich, so magnificent a Guest suitable Entertainment? |
A70263 | And what are the Acts of the Holy Apostles, but Comments upon this Truth? |
A70263 | And what can be more blessed here on Earth than a Child of God, than a Son or Daughter adopted in Christ: Jesus? |
A70263 | And what horrid things have the Priests in some Popish Countries possessed their People with against the Reformation? |
A70263 | And what was our Saviour''s life, but a continual persecution from his Cradle to his Cross? |
A70263 | Are all Hypocrites tho''never so pious, that have not suffer''d as the Apostles did? |
A70263 | Are the things belonging to the Bliss and Happiness of your Souls the greatest Concerns of all; how is it that they are minded no more than they are? |
A70263 | Are there no Physicians there? |
A70263 | Are these the greatest Concerns and doth it not deserve one sober reflection, have I Soul that is immortal? |
A70263 | Are you angry with the means of your Preservation? |
A70263 | Art thou yet in a State of Nature, and art not thou afraid? |
A70263 | Behold an angry Man, what a disfigured Creature is he? |
A70263 | Behold that Lamb of God, who endured greater reproaches, injuries, calumnies? |
A70263 | Blessed are the Peace- makers; what? |
A70263 | Bolseck''s Life of Calvin, what is it, but a Collection of the greatest Calumnies, where the Lyes seem to keep pace with the Lines? |
A70263 | But what is a great Man to Almighty God? |
A70263 | But what is all this to the Kingdom of Heaven, to the Kingdom of Grace and Glory? |
A70263 | But what shall we say? |
A70263 | But what? |
A70263 | But what? |
A70263 | But, Why is this Humility call''d poverty in Spirit? |
A70263 | But, why? |
A70263 | Can Gold blind his Eyes? |
A70263 | Can it be safe to take it for granted, that your Souls are in a blessed State, when a mistake in this matter is the most dangerous thing in the World? |
A70263 | Can the outward Man be good when the inward is rotten and putrefied? |
A70263 | Can they be sorrowful, that have the Bridegroom always present with them, and are out of all Danger to be deprived of his Company? |
A70263 | Can they forbear rejoycing that lie at the Fountain, drink of the River of God, which is full of Water, even Water of Life? |
A70263 | Can you complain of want of Remembrancers and Monitors, when the Light of every Day puts you in mind, what manner of persons you ought to be? |
A70263 | Can you deceive him who sees through all your hypocrisie? |
A70263 | Caress a Friend and hug him in a Corner, and revile, or not to know him in Society? |
A70263 | Children of God? |
A70263 | Did you ever enquire, did you ever consult with your pious Neighbours, or some charitable Divine? |
A70263 | Did you ever seriously examine the privileges which attend the Children of God, and are these no motives to you to come into the number? |
A70263 | Do all the other Vertues stand for Cyphers? |
A70263 | Do all these come into the society of the blessed? |
A70263 | Do not the wickedest of Men do so, and is that an Argument that God is their Friend? |
A70263 | Do not we see how these outward Enjoyments crack in the very handling, and make themselves wings and flee away? |
A70263 | Do not you see what a stress the Holy Ghost lays upon it? |
A70263 | Do these Butterflies deserve such Admiration as most Men bestow upon them? |
A70263 | Do we not see many excellent Persons, who dread Sin as Hell it self, yet see nothing of the Light of God''s Countenance? |
A70263 | Do we take a Man of Straw for a rational Creature? |
A70263 | Do you believe he is kind to you, and shall his kindness provoke you to be his Enemies? |
A70263 | Do you believe this, and will not you labour after it? |
A70263 | Do you hope to be Members of that Community, and will you disparage your selves by Actions that will certainly exclude you from that Republick? |
A70263 | Do you think you are at peace with God, because you thrive and prosper in the World? |
A70263 | Does not Reason, nay, doth not Sense tell you, that if the Waters in the Spring be muddy, the Streams and Rivulets can not be clear? |
A70263 | Doest thou think thy God commands thee impossibilities? |
A70263 | Dost thou take him to be so hard a Master, that he bids thee remove Mountains, and gives thee no strength to touch them with one of thy Fingers? |
A70263 | Doth God take care of Oxen, and not of the Souls of Men? |
A70263 | Doth your mourning put you in a striving, or wrestling condition? |
A70263 | Egredere anima mea, quid dubitas? |
A70263 | Except you imitate the Manners of the Citizens above, you can never hope to be Partners with them in their Glory; and what are their Manners? |
A70263 | Hath grace then done thee no Service? |
A70263 | Hath not this been the Case of the best Servants of God? |
A70263 | Hath the Gospel done no good upon thee? |
A70263 | Have not your hearts been ready to leap within you, and your joys like mighty Rivers, been ready to overflow your Souls? |
A70263 | Have such Men as St. Paul and the Holy Apostle''s gone thro''firy Tryals, and shall I, a Disciple of those great Masters, tremble at the Fire? |
A70263 | Have the Generals, the Captains in Christ''s Army, gone thro''a Sea of Adversity, and shall I, a common Soldier, shrink at the Waves? |
A70263 | Have the Heroes of Religion suffered so much, and shall I, a puny Christian, complain? |
A70263 | Have the great Champions of the Gospel endured as much or more than I, and shall a Christian of an ordinary size find fault? |
A70263 | He hath declared so much, and will not you believe him? |
A70263 | How are they the greatest when they are regarded least of all? |
A70263 | How can you hope to come off, when the Judge shall argue with you from this Topick? |
A70263 | How can your Actions be pleasing to God, when your Minds are full of weariness, and unwillingness, and backwardness in his Service? |
A70263 | How many that abused their parents, did he bring to do them reverence? |
A70263 | How many that quarrelled with their brethren, did he reclaim? |
A70263 | How many years have some of you born Arms against God? |
A70263 | How many, think ye, that once neglected to educate their Children, by his means took that care upon them? |
A70263 | How the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs, and upon what Account it belongs to them? |
A70263 | How the weightiest when a Trifle is preferr''d before them? |
A70263 | How will you answer this Argument in the last Day? |
A70263 | How? |
A70263 | How? |
A70263 | How? |
A70263 | If God hath revealed it in his word, is it not worth enquiring or searching into it? |
A70263 | If I am not better than they, why should I expect more favourable Dealings at his hands? |
A70263 | If the Sin against which they Thunder be found in their Skirts, what hope is there that their Hearers and Disciples should become Wise unto Salvation? |
A70263 | If they Preach one thing, and Practise another, how uncertain must the Sound of those Trumpets be; and who shall prepare himself to Battel? |
A70263 | If they that are the Guides go astray, how shall the Blind find their way to Paradise? |
A70263 | If willing, let us see you go about it; but then how will you be able to Reform others, except you first Reform your selves? |
A70263 | If you do thrive and prosper in the World, can not those Blessings move you to be at peace with him? |
A70263 | Is God a Man? |
A70263 | Is God happy or not? |
A70263 | Is all that the Gospel requires, comprehended in this one qualification, Moral honesty? |
A70263 | Is he to be imposed upon? |
A70263 | Is it not Wisdom to believe him, who is the Fountain of Truth and Wisdom? |
A70263 | Is it not in this Creed, that you profess the greatest Blessings, that were ever bestow''d upon the Children of Men? |
A70263 | Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? |
A70263 | Is not he the searcher of hearts? |
A70263 | Is one link of the sacred Chain of Graces, the whole Chain? |
A70263 | Is one step of the way the full length of it? |
A70263 | Is that thy excuse, which ought to be thy sorrow? |
A70263 | Is the sin gone? |
A70263 | Is there a way to make it happy? |
A70263 | Is there no Balm in Gilead? |
A70263 | Is there not a life to come, which shall manifest their Dignity, and their Glory? |
A70263 | Is this Soul capable of being either happy or miserable? |
A70263 | Is this all the Righteousness God stands upon? |
A70263 | L. 10. Who is among you that fears the Lord, that obeys the Voice of his Servant, that walks in darkness, and sees no light? |
A70263 | My Body, what is it, but the result of God''s bounty? |
A70263 | My tears have been my meat day and night, while they say daily unto me, where is thy God? |
A70263 | Naturally fretfull? |
A70263 | Nay, what''s the reason that in your Creed you believe a Communion of Saints? |
A70263 | Oh Death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth in rest in his possessions? |
A70263 | Or is that Peace so inconsiderable, that it deserves no consideration? |
A70263 | Or must all be accounted reprobates, that walk softly all their days, and never felt the rage of Tyrants, and sworn Enemies of the Gospel? |
A70263 | Or shall we call that Hunger and Thirst, which wants the Essential Characters? |
A70263 | Purchas''d, by whom? |
A70263 | Reviling and speaking Evil falsly of good men being a great Sin, how this can make the Persons who are unjustly reviled, blessed? |
A70263 | Septuaginta propè annis servisti Christo,& mortem times? |
A70263 | Shall I dread the Appearance of a thing which I spy some Beauty and Satisfaction in? |
A70263 | Shall I hate a thing I see no harm in? |
A70263 | Shall not the Judg of the whole World judge righteous Judgment? |
A70263 | Shall we believe your Hunger and Thirst after goodness real; when we see no effects, no fruits, no signs of it? |
A70263 | Shall we take painted Fire for that which is in motion? |
A70263 | So a Christian seeing his Neighbour go astray, what should he do, but direct him into the good way? |
A70263 | St. Hierom* tells that Hilarion, just when he was expiring, spake these words, Egredere, quid times? |
A70263 | Suppose the Children of God are not much regarded here, but is there not a time coming, when they shall be honoured before the whole World? |
A70263 | The Example of Christ hath moved, and perswaded others to this Vertue, and can it not move you? |
A70263 | The Peace of Heaven shall fall to their share: Do not you reflect sometimes on that Peace, which the Children of the everlasting Kingdom shall enjoy? |
A70263 | The Temptations a Christian meets, and must meet with, and without which his Faith can never be tried, what are they but Persecutions? |
A70263 | The wisest Men in all Ages have thought so: Who wiser than Solomon? |
A70263 | Thou hast served Christ near seventy years, and art thou afraid to dye? |
A70263 | Thou that complainest so much, if thy Finger doth but ake, what wouldst thou do, if in time of Persecution, thy whole Body should be burnt? |
A70263 | Thou that sayest a Man should not commit Adultery, dost thou commit Adultery? |
A70263 | Thou that sayest a Man should not steal, dost thou steal? |
A70263 | Thou that teachest another, dost not thou teach thy self? |
A70263 | Thousands that are now in Heaven have been wrought upon by this great Example, and shall it have no influence upon you? |
A70263 | Thus they shall be filled in this Life: But is this promise ever fulfilled to any? |
A70263 | To that common impertinent Query, Where was your Church before Luther, Calvin, or Henry VIII? |
A70263 | Verse 13, Ye are the Salt of the Earth, but if the Salt have lost its Savour, wherewith shall it be salted? |
A70263 | What a poor contemptible Creature am I? |
A70263 | What can be the Motive to all this? |
A70263 | What can fill or feed them, but the love of God? |
A70263 | What can make them happy, but Righteousness? |
A70263 | What can satisfie them, but real Goodness? |
A70263 | What carefulness hath it wrought in you, yea what clearing of your selves, yea what fear, yea what vehement desire, yea what zeal, yea what revenge? |
A70263 | What could be the Occasion of this Calumny? |
A70263 | What doth it signify to confess so much when your Actions give your Mouths the lye? |
A70263 | What great blessedness is there in this title, beyond what other men enjoy? |
A70263 | What have I, that I have not receiv''d? |
A70263 | What is a Prince, or a King to the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords? |
A70263 | What is that way? |
A70263 | What is the future felicity, but perfect Peace, everlasting Peace, uninterrupted Peace? |
A70263 | What is there in this World that should make us so fond of rejoycing in it? |
A70263 | What it is that makes Men so base and wicked? |
A70263 | What made David wiser than his Enemies? |
A70263 | What made him know more than his Teachers? |
A70263 | What made him understand more than the Antients? |
A70263 | What peace while the Whoredoms of thy Mother Jezabel, and her Witchcrafts are so many? |
A70263 | What were the Multitudes that appear''d here? |
A70263 | What? |
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A70263 | When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, did you at all fast unto me, even unto me? |
A70263 | When you see the Sun shining upon you, is not this an Item, how you are to warm others by your blameless Conversation? |
A70263 | Where shall I find it? |
A70263 | Where was God, where was the Lord Jesus all the while? |
A70263 | Who live upon Alms, and am maintain''d by the pure Charity, and Compassion of an Omnipotent God? |
A70263 | Why dost thou doubt? |
A70263 | Why should you deceive, why should you delude your selves? |
A70263 | Why should you think it needless? |
A70263 | Why? |
A70263 | Why? |
A70263 | Why? |
A70263 | Why? |
A70263 | Will you give no credit to his word, till with Dives you lift up your Eyes in Hell, and see that God is not your friend? |
A70263 | Will you make his patience a sign of his being reconciled to you, when it is only a motive to a reconciliation? |
A70263 | Ye are the Salt of the Earth; but if the Salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? |
A70263 | You''ll say, do no mourners under Temporal losses and crosses come into the Number of these blessed Men? |
A70263 | Your conversation is to be in Heaven; and will you mind the Trifles of the Flesh, and so mind them, as to set your Affections upon them? |
A70263 | and why did they come? |
A70263 | but how is this Purity to be attain''d? |
A70263 | do you act like Men that are resolv''d to subdue, and master it? |
A70263 | do you allow the dangerous Guest no harbour? |
A70263 | do you cut the hair as soon as it grows again? |
A70263 | do you give the sin no quarter, when you see it appear again? |
A70263 | do you hugg it, embrace it, caress it no more? |
A70263 | do you swim against the stream? |
A70263 | i. e. Go out, O my Soul, why dost thou fear? |
A70263 | in the Flesh yet? |
A70263 | is it dead? |
A70263 | is it likely to die upon this mourning? |
A70263 | is it mortified? |
A70263 | is it vanish''d? |
A70263 | is no good Christian in darkness? |
A70263 | no Blessedness in being a Saint? |
A70263 | no not one that is able to judge between his Brethren? |
A70263 | not use the same Civility to his Neighbours Soul? |
A70263 | or if it could, where would you have it, when you are depriv''d and dispoil''d of all? |
A70263 | or shall that serve as an Apology, which deserves thy deep Repentance? |
A70263 | or what fellowship is there betwixt Christ and Belial? |
A70263 | proud of being in debt, and having a severer Account to give? |
A70263 | put up such affronts, which no Flesh is able to endure? |
A70263 | shall the chips and shavings of your incomes pass for that mercy, which thrusts its Head into the Clouds of Heaven? |
A70263 | shew your self tame under such an Aspersion? |
A70263 | such Mirth makes a David weep, and what good Man can forbear mourning, that beholds Men making sport with Fire- brands? |
A70263 | what Blessedness is there in this? |
A70263 | what is it, but a Heaven in their Souls? |
A70263 | what will Men say of you? |
A70263 | what''s the reason that most wicked Men, when they come to die, would fain be of that Number? |
A70263 | what''s the reason then that Kings and Princes wish they were so? |
A70263 | what? |
A70263 | what? |
A70263 | will you be a Fool? |
A70263 | will you be laught at by your Neighbours? |
A70263 | would you have the Fruit good when the Tree is nought? |
A44515 | 1.18, 19, 20. Who can grumble at Religion after all these advantages? |
A44515 | And are these Christian vertues? |
A44515 | And are these fit things to rejoyce in? |
A44515 | And can a Christian have a good opinion of these houses, where so many have lost their vertue? |
A44515 | And do not you think you are concern''d? |
A44515 | And have not you sins enough of your own to answer for, but you must load other mens upon you too? |
A44515 | And how dreadful must this make your account? |
A44515 | And how foolish is that Apothecary, that writes glorious Names upon his Pots, when the rich drugs that are named, have no being in his Shop? |
A44515 | And if it be so sad with her, before the Sentence be past, what trembling and horrour will invade her after it? |
A44515 | And if the blind lead the blind, shall not they both fall into the pit? |
A44515 | And is it worth losing Heaven, and eternal happiness for the sight of such jocular Shows? |
A44515 | And is not possible for you to know it? |
A44515 | And is not the greatest part of the World to be pityed, that can delight in nothing but what they can grasp and feel? |
A44515 | And is not this infinitely better, than the Pleasures of Sardanapalus, of Dives, and other luxurious men? |
A44515 | And is this fit to be done by Christians, who are to crucifie the Flesh with its lusts and affections? |
A44515 | And is this such a bug- bear to fright you from your duty? |
A44515 | And is this to walk after the Spirit, as we are commanded? |
A44515 | And is your Christianity so fierce and violent, that it needs a bridle? |
A44515 | And must it be made worse? |
A44515 | And suppose natural Beauty allures and tempts voluptuous Men, must therefore more evil be added to the former? |
A44515 | And therefore, 4. Who can harbour any hard Thoughts of Religion, because it debars us of disorderly sensual Delights? |
A44515 | And what Cruelty is it, when God is resolved to revenge thy Quarrel, that thou wilt needs revenge it too? |
A44515 | And what are the mighty advantages, men get by the representations of the Stage? |
A44515 | And what doth this sport betray but a weak, soft, easie, vain and empty mind? |
A44515 | And what if you do go but now and then, Doth your going but seldom justifie the action? |
A44515 | And what if you lose something considerable by pleasing God? |
A44515 | And what self- denial can there be, where we do not deny our selves in that, which is most pernicious to our better part? |
A44515 | And whether he hath not minded his own business, more than his Masters? |
A44515 | And why should not you raise your soul above the bubbles of external pomp? |
A44515 | And will it not tend to thy everlasting confusion that thou hast had the Name of a Christian, and done nothing like a Christian? |
A44515 | And wilt thou come without the Mark of thy Office before the great Shepherd, and Bishop of Souls? |
A44515 | Are not the hearts of men in his hand, and doth not he turn them as streams of Water? |
A44515 | Are the pleasures arising from hence, of that consequence, that they will counterballance so great a loss? |
A44515 | Are these Divertisements for a Creature that holds his very Being of God, and is beholding to him for all the Blessings he enjoys? |
A44515 | Are these fit Objects for thy Mirth? |
A44515 | Are these momentary satisfactions of that value, that you would run the hazard of being for ever deprived of the beatifick vision for them? |
A44515 | Are these the Christians, that are to go hand in hand together, to Gods everlasting Kingdom? |
A44515 | Are these the Christians, that are to help one another to Heaven? |
A44515 | Are these the graces that must make us glorious in the sight of God? |
A44515 | Are these the lights, the shining, the burning lights, that are to light the ignorant Brother to the inheritance of the Saints in light? |
A44515 | Are you afraid, Gods anger to you will not be great enough, except you add your Neighbours offences, to make his wrath the heavier? |
A44515 | Art thou born of God, and canst thou degenerate from his Nature? |
A44515 | As a King thou art to apppear before him, and wilt thou come in the posture of a miserable Vassal? |
A44515 | As thou art a Christian, thou art a Son of God, and do''st thou express that filial disposition in thy gate, and looks, and face, and Life? |
A44515 | Behold those pious Souls, that take a course contrary to that of the World; what makes them afraid of sinning? |
A44515 | But being unwilling to be better informed, judge you, whether it will not agravate your Condemnation? |
A44515 | But why should you mistrust him even in this present life? |
A44515 | But why should''st thou wonder at the Change thou see''st in thy Friend? |
A44515 | By giving thee opportunity of becoming a Christian, God hath made thee a King, and wilt thou run to the Bramble, and say, Come thou and Reign over me? |
A44515 | Can any Hell be thought too much for such stubbornness? |
A44515 | Can any man of reason think, that after all this mischief, they may be safely hugg''d and applauded? |
A44515 | Can you or any man reconcile such darkness with light, such Idols with the Temple of God? |
A44515 | Can you see how other Men by thinking arrive to Perfection, and will you lye groveling in the Dust? |
A44515 | Can you see other Men run away with all the Comforts of the Gospel, and remain senseless? |
A44515 | Can you see others carry away the Crown, and feel no Ambition in you? |
A44515 | Can you see others get into the Pool of Bethesda before you, and recover, and are you fond of continuing lame, and blind, and poor, and miserable? |
A44515 | Can you see others take away the Blessing of your Father from you, and be unmoved at the want of it? |
A44515 | Could you by meditating make that Glory present to you, and will you neglect the Opportunity? |
A44515 | Could you by musing and pondering bring Heaven into your Chambers and Closets, and will ye debarr your selves of that glorious Sight? |
A44515 | Couldst thou have dealt worse with a Slave, or with an Enemy, than thou hast done with me? |
A44515 | Couldst thou think, I would look on, and not set thy sins in order before thee? |
A44515 | Did Christ come down from Heaven, and die, and spill his blood for you, that you might securely indulge your carnal Genius? |
A44515 | Did he bleed, that you might grow strong in sin? |
A44515 | Did he die, that you might cherish the lusts of the Flesh? |
A44515 | Did he ever encourage such empty things? |
A44515 | Did he sacrifice himself for you, that you might please your self with such fooleries? |
A44515 | Did not I see thee at such a time, in such a place, in such a Garden, in such a Chamber playing the Rebel, and the Wanton? |
A44515 | Did not I see thee conspiring against me? |
A44515 | Did not I see thee treating with mine Enemies? |
A44515 | Did such phantastick actions deserve so great a condescension? |
A44515 | Did this condescension deserve, dost thou think, such affronts, and injuries, such contempt, and disobedience, as thou hast returned to me? |
A44515 | Didst thou ever receive such Favours at any Man''s hand, as thou hast received at mine? |
A44515 | Do not even wicked men confess so much, men who have been guilty of such crimes? |
A44515 | Do not these evidently make this slave usurp Authority over her Mistress? |
A44515 | Do not you see, do not you perceive, how sin grows upon you by frequenting these places? |
A44515 | Do not you think, what have I done to day? |
A44515 | Do they not look liker Mahomets Votaries, or Epicurus his Followers? |
A44515 | Do you believe he spoke true? |
A44515 | Do you ever examine your self at night about the actions of the day? |
A44515 | Do you think such men are like to be his favorites? |
A44515 | Do you thus requite his kindness? |
A44515 | Do''st not thou quake, to think, that the Revenger of Blood is upon thy Heels? |
A44515 | Does God expect thee at his Tribunal with the qualifications of a Child, and wilt thou appear before him as a Rebel? |
A44515 | Does not this threatning fright you? |
A44515 | Doest not thou remember the water that was sprinkled upon thy face in Baptism, nor the Sacrament whereby thy lips and tongue were blessed? |
A44515 | Doth this put no sad thoughts into your mind? |
A44515 | God designs thee to be his Priest; This is one of the Priviledges, that came by the Blood of Christ: But where are thy Sacrifices? |
A44515 | Had you rather forfeit Gods savour, then these ludicrous transactions? |
A44515 | Had you rather sin, then displease Men, or is a poor Creature more terrible to you, then he who thunders in the Heavens? |
A44515 | Hadst not thou reason to prefer my Favour before the smiles of a transitory VVorld? |
A44515 | Hadst not thou such base thoughts, such wicked intentions, such impure desires in such Company? |
A44515 | Hath God no ways to make you amends for your losses? |
A44515 | Hath he appeased the Almighties wrath for you, that you might spend your time in a Theatre? |
A44515 | Hath he given his Son on purpose to adopt thee, and thinkest thou to present thy self before him in the shape of a Prodigal? |
A44515 | Hath he no Glory, no Kingdom, no reward, no recompence to redintegrate your fortune? |
A44515 | Have not I been delighted with seeing my neighbour abus''d? |
A44515 | Have not the vices represented there in jest, been practised by the forward youth at home in good earnest? |
A44515 | Have not you found a Joy stealing upon your Souls after such refreshing Considerations, as hath transported you even into love of Martyrdom? |
A44515 | Have not you observed it? |
A44515 | Have not you seen how they have remitted in their warmth, and how the holy fire that once burn''d in their breasts is gone out? |
A44515 | Have they not deriv''d their boldness from these places? |
A44515 | Have you protested in the presence of God and angels, that you will not meddle with them, and will you break your vow? |
A44515 | Have you solemnly professed before the Congregation, that you will not have any affection for them, and do you make nothing of persidiousness? |
A44515 | He is omnipotent; will a Painter be afraid of his Picture, or a Man of his Shadow? |
A44515 | He looks upon them smilingly; and asks the Man who brought them, Whether his Master intended, that Cimon should be his Friend or his Servant? |
A44515 | He who preached up the Doctrine of the Cross, could he have any liking to that, which is directly contrary to that Doctrine? |
A44515 | He whose life was a perpetual selfdenial in the pleasures of this life, could he give the least colour, or shadow of approbation of them? |
A44515 | How barbarous, how inhumane, is thy Joy? |
A44515 | How can you discharge your conscience, to let your neighbour do evil without giving him an Item of Gods displeasure? |
A44515 | How canst thou expect the performance of his Promises, while thou art so false to thy engagements? |
A44515 | How contented have you been after such Exercises, or after some signal Self- denial? |
A44515 | How could''st thou abuse a Friendship of that worth and value? |
A44515 | How could''st thou undervalue a Favour of that importance and consequence? |
A44515 | How did I deserve such preposterous doings at thy Hands? |
A44515 | How justly may God look upon''t as presumption, to alter that Face which he thought fit to create in that shape it is of? |
A44515 | How knowest thou whether God will after the Fact, give thee his holy Spirit to come to this Repentance? |
A44515 | How many persons have I harden''d, and confirm''d in their sins by my example? |
A44515 | How much lightness and vanity have I encouraged by my presence? |
A44515 | How often doth he make it appear to the World, that where a mans ways please the Lord, he makes his very enemies to be at peace with him? |
A44515 | How ridiculous is that Man, that hangs out a Bush, and yet hath no Wine to sell? |
A44515 | How the Prospect of that future Judgment must be managed, that it may actually damp, and put a stop to these Carnal delights? |
A44515 | How unlike thy self wilt thou appear before God, if thou come without these qualifications? |
A44515 | How will you wish, that you had been in my condition? |
A44515 | How would you take it, if a man should give you a box on the ear but now and then? |
A44515 | I could withstand them now, why could not I have withstood them then? |
A44515 | I do not deny, but Men may do worse, but what necessity is there for their doing that which is bad, to avoid that which is worse? |
A44515 | I opened the Windows of Heaven, and look''d upon thee, when thou wast committing Fornication with such a Woman? |
A44515 | If they that walk afer the Flesh can not please God, how can you hope to please him, while you allow your self in this work of the Flesh? |
A44515 | If thou didst, how couldst thou be so ungrateful? |
A44515 | If to God, why dare not you prefer his favour before the favour of Men, and be guided more by his Laws, then by the benevolence of dust and ashes? |
A44515 | If you are, how can you run into the same temptation again, or go to a place where you will infallibly be tempted to the love of the World? |
A44515 | If you come to the Lords Table one day, and run to a Play- house another, do not you destroy all, that you built the day before? |
A44515 | If you come to the Supper of the Lord, there to profess your sorrow for loving the World, are you in good earnest sorry for it, or are you not? |
A44515 | If you examine your self in this manner and find these effects, have not you reason to ask God forgiveness? |
A44515 | If you have no courage to admonish them, what makes you appear there where you must be silent under the indignities offered to your Master? |
A44515 | If you lose this World for his sake, is not the felicity of the next recompence enough? |
A44515 | Is it not enough that natural Beauty is so dangerous? |
A44515 | Is it possible to be his friend, and a friend to these vanities? |
A44515 | Is it possible to live up to his precepts, and feed our eyes with these Shews? |
A44515 | Is it so flaming that it wants this stolen water to quench it? |
A44515 | Is it so hot, that it must have an extinguisher? |
A44515 | Is not the World bad enough? |
A44515 | Is not this fighting against your happiness? |
A44515 | Is not this justifying the Players profession, and to make them think that you approve of their ludicrous vocations? |
A44515 | Is not this making war against your soul? |
A44515 | Is not this tempting young people to those extravagancies they should detest? |
A44515 | Is not this the way to make her inamour''d with the World, from which a Christian is to run away, as much as he can? |
A44515 | Is not this to be blind to the great design of the Gospel? |
A44515 | Is not this to clogg your soul? |
A44515 | Is not this to live in contradictions? |
A44515 | Is not this to make your self odious to that God whose favour you expect in the last day? |
A44515 | Is not this to shut the gates of mercy against you? |
A44515 | Is not this to throw impediments in her way to felicity? |
A44515 | Is the Stage likely to produce vigorous apprehensions of Gods grace and favour? |
A44515 | Is the sight of a Comedy a probable means to make you live above the World? |
A44515 | Is there any thing in all the History of his life, that may be said to countenance such doings? |
A44515 | Is there any thing in the Gospel more plainly forbid, then conforming to the World? |
A44515 | Is this a proper end of the mighty purchase he hath made? |
A44515 | Is this a sight agreeable to the strait way, and the narrow gate, which leads to life? |
A44515 | Is this decency to afford your presence in a place, where the most debauched persons assemble themselves for ill ends and purposes? |
A44515 | Is this redeeming of your time to throw away so many hours upon fooling, and seeing mens ridiculous postures, gestures, and behaviours? |
A44515 | Is this sobriety, to stand by and hear men curse and swear, and talk of things which should not be so much as named among Christians? |
A44515 | Is this the return you make him for his sweat and agonies, for his sighs and groans, for his pains and all his labours? |
A44515 | Is this the way to grow in grace, and to advance in goodness, and to abound more and more in the love of God, which your Christianity obliges you to? |
A44515 | Is this to promote a lively sense of God? |
A44515 | Moses grows impatient at the Waters of Meribah, who would not have done so that had to deal with so stubborn a People? |
A44515 | Must I therefore slander and abuse a Man, because it is a less sin then to murther him? |
A44515 | Must sin be therefore multiplied, and the sickly minds of carnal men, more and more distemper''d? |
A44515 | O my Friends, are not these things to be considered by Gods servants? |
A44515 | O my friends, said he, do you ask me, Where I have been? |
A44515 | Of whom should he be afraid? |
A44515 | Or art thou not afraid of that saying, that Dog must stand without? |
A44515 | Or have you a peculiar exemption from that danger? |
A44515 | Or how would you resent it, to have your good name taken away by a person, not always, but whenever his humour prompts him? |
A44515 | Or to be a spectator of so many undecent and wanton gestures, postures, and actions, which in some Comedies make up the greatest part of the shew? |
A44515 | Say you so? |
A44515 | Shall men of no great sense of Religion complain of it, and shall a Christian do any thing, that may contribute toward the holding of them up? |
A44515 | Shall those Passions rule over thee, which thy God hath given thee for Servants, and Handmaids? |
A44515 | Should God call thee to Judgment O my Soul, this Night, or this Hour, art thou in a condition to appear before so great, so dreadful a God? |
A44515 | Should God speak the word within a few Minutes, Come away, come away, and give an account of thy behaviour; how unprepared art thou? |
A44515 | Sir, have you abjured these things in your Baptism, and dare you venter on them? |
A44515 | So great is thy danger, and canst thou loiter? |
A44515 | So near art thou to a tremendous Eternity, and Oh wilt not thou be clean? |
A44515 | That Sin which makes thee merry, that Folly that cheers thy Spirit, what is it but Ingratitude to thy kindest Benefactor? |
A44515 | The Hermit heard him, and replyed, Ay but Friend, What if there should be one? |
A44515 | This stands to Reason, for except things be made visible to us, how shall they move or fright us? |
A44515 | Thou art a Christian, but where is the Life of Christ that should be in thee? |
A44515 | Thou art call''d to be faithful, and hast given thy Faith to God; wilt thou break thy Faith, and hope to be guiltless at this Bar? |
A44515 | Thou art designed for a Citizen of the Celestial Jerusalem, and wilt thou appear before him as an Inhabitant of Hell? |
A44515 | Thou art one of God''s Family, and wilt thou appear before him, as a Traitor? |
A44515 | Thou art purchased by his Blood, and wilt thou live, as if that Blood had been spilt in vain? |
A44515 | Thou art wash''d in the Laver of Regeneration, and canst thou wallow with the Swine in the Mire? |
A44515 | Thou art within hearing of the Thunders, that come forth from the Throne of God, and do not thy Thoughts trouble thee? |
A44515 | Thou hast known the way of Righteousness, and wilt thou with the Dog return to the Vomit? |
A44515 | Thou must shortly appear before all the Host of Heaven, and art not thou got farther yet in Holiness? |
A44515 | Thou seest the fatal Hand upon the Wall, and do not they Kness smite one against another? |
A44515 | To whom have you greater obligations, to God or Man? |
A44515 | We may put forced glosses upon the words, but doth not this look like the natural sense of them? |
A44515 | What a Fool will you be then? |
A44515 | What comfort can it be to me, that men think me charitable, when God sees, I give Alms to be seen of men? |
A44515 | What did the Lord Jesus delight in, who lived upon Alms? |
A44515 | What doest thou rejoyce in? |
A44515 | What doth it avail me, that men say, I pray well, when God sees, I study to please the Company? |
A44515 | What evil Spirit did possess thee to make light of these kindnesses? |
A44515 | What feeds its preposterous longings more then these? |
A44515 | What great matter is it, that men applaud me for a single Virtue, when God sees I am partial in my Obedience? |
A44515 | What he hath done with the Creatures which have been given him for his use? |
A44515 | What hurt doth the Penitent Mary Magdalen receive by the Evagelists recording, or our speaking of her former Whoredoms? |
A44515 | What if it be so to Flesh and Blood? |
A44515 | What if you do not think it to be sin, will your thinking so excuse you? |
A44515 | What if you see it not with mortal Eyes? |
A44515 | What is it but hardning other men in their sins? |
A44515 | What is it but requiting the greatest Good with the greatest Evil? |
A44515 | What is it, but contempt of him who keeps thy Soul in Life? |
A44515 | What is your going to a Play- house, but giving Offence? |
A44515 | What makes them afraid of running with their Neighbours into Riot? |
A44515 | What makes them mourn? |
A44515 | What makes them rejoice in Spirit; You see nothing, that they have reason to mourn for? |
A44515 | What makes them, that they dare not do, what some of their carnal acquaintance and Relations do? |
A44515 | What need''st thou grieve that Men abuse thee here, when thy Sovereign Master will grieve every Vein of the Reviler''s Heart in this day? |
A44515 | What need''st thou seek Revenge, when thy Master, whom thou servest, is resolved to judge thy Cause in this Day? |
A44515 | What need''st thou take notice of an Affront offer''d to thee, when thy God stands engaged to take notice of it with a Witness in this day? |
A44515 | What pampers it more then such sights? |
A44515 | What place can any Creature promise him, who doth what he pleases in all the Armies of Heaven, and among all the Inhabitants of the Earth? |
A44515 | What will it profit me, that men call me Zealous; and Fervent, when God sees, that gain, and profit is the cause of it? |
A44515 | What will it profit you to taste of all the Sweets of this World, if any thing can be called sweet in so much Misery? |
A44515 | When God hath distinguish''d you from the ignobler Brutes, will ye be like the Horse and Mule, whose Mouths must be held with Bitt and Bridle? |
A44515 | Where are you then? |
A44515 | Whether every Man is bound to embitter his Carnal delights with this prospect? |
A44515 | Whether every Man is bound to imbitter his Carnal delights with this Prospect? |
A44515 | Who can find fault with it after this prospect of its benefits? |
A44515 | Who can inferr from his Actions, or Behaviour, that this Man believes a Word of Scripture? |
A44515 | Who can make this Judge happier than he is already? |
A44515 | Who dares asperse that beauteous Virgin after such Fruits it bears? |
A44515 | Who ever learned to abandon a sin, he is addicted to, by seeing its punishment on the Stage? |
A44515 | Who sees not, that these sights are meer incentives to lust, and fewel to feed the impurer fire in our breasts? |
A44515 | Who would conclude him to have lived in a Land where the Gospel is preach''d? |
A44515 | Who would desire that which hath been a Sword and Arrow to others? |
A44515 | Who would imagine, that this Man hath a rational Soul? |
A44515 | Who would not esteem it? |
A44515 | Who would not honour it? |
A44515 | Who would not look upon it as a horn of plenty, and a treasury of the greatest comforts? |
A44515 | Who would not maintain the honour of it, against all opponents? |
A44515 | Who would not prize it? |
A44515 | Who would not rise up in defence of it, when blasphemous Tongues would traduce, and revile it? |
A44515 | Who would not speak well of it? |
A44515 | Who would take the Wretch for a Disciple of the poor and afflicted Jesus? |
A44515 | Who would think, he were created after the Image of God? |
A44515 | Why do ye murmur against me when I bid you fast, and watch, and pray? |
A44515 | Why dost thou delight in Apes and Peacocks, when thou hast the Creator of all these to rejoyce in? |
A44515 | Why dost thou delight in Houses, when thou hast a House made without Hands to delight in? |
A44515 | Why dost thou delight in a fading Beauty, when thou hast him that''s altogether lovely to delight in? |
A44515 | Why dost thou delight in a little Gain, in Drops of Happiness, in Crums of Bliss, in shining Dust, when thou hast a Sea of Glory to delight in? |
A44515 | Why dost thou delight in a morsel of Meat, when thou hast the Birth- right of eternal Glory to delight in? |
A44515 | Why dost thou delight in the Rivers of Damascus, when thou hast the River of God''s Pleasure to delight in? |
A44515 | Why dost thou delight in the Slavery of thy Lusts, when thou hast him, whose Service is perfect Freedom to delight in? |
A44515 | Why dost thou delight in the Voice of a deceitful Siren, when thou hast him whose Voice comforts the Mourners of Sion to delight in? |
A44515 | Why dost thou delight in the nether Springs, when thou hast the upper Springs of Mercy to delight in? |
A44515 | Why dost thou delight in the shade of the Bramble, when thou hast the shadow of God''s Wings to delight in? |
A44515 | Why doth he compare us to a City seated upon a Hill, if we shine not in darkness, or do not stand up among the drowned part of the World? |
A44515 | Why must a sottish Lust and Passion engross thy desires, and my Law be cast behind thee? |
A44515 | Why should we be afraid to call a spade, a spade? |
A44515 | Why should ye be loath to labour, when to labour ye were born? |
A44515 | Why should ye refuse to suffer when shortly you must die, and mingle with Dust? |
A44515 | Why should you shut your eyes against a thing, as clear as the Sun? |
A44515 | Why would''st thou lose that which I purchased at so dear a rate? |
A44515 | Why would''st thou pollute that Soul, which I redeemed with mine own Blood? |
A44515 | Why wouldst thou make thy Heart a habitation of Devils, which I intended for my Throne? |
A44515 | Will not God revenge this breach, or canst thou think, he will let thee go unpunish''d for thy Treacheries? |
A44515 | Will not this turn to better account at last than fleshly Lusts, which war against the Soul? |
A44515 | Will the Judge ever take thee for his Sheep, when it''s evident, thou do''st not hear his Voice? |
A44515 | Will you count it a Foe because it denies you the Sword which would kill you? |
A44515 | Willful ignorance is as bad, as a known sin, and how easily might you know such doings to be sinful? |
A44515 | Wilt not thou believe me, who look''d within the Curtains, and saw thy abominations? |
A44515 | Wilt thou boast of being his Disciple, and art thou loth to follow his Example? |
A44515 | With what conscience can you promise the Lord Jesus to follow him, when you intend to expose your self again to these temptations? |
A44515 | With what eyes can you appear in the presence of that King of Kings, who have but a little before prostituted your Soul to the Devil? |
A44515 | With what face dare you approach the Table of your Lord, who have been a spectator of such shews but a little before? |
A44515 | Would any man that looks upon the jolly assembly in a Play- house, think that these are Disciples of the crucified God? |
A44515 | and if you ask him forgiveness, how dare you run upon the same rock again? |
A44515 | and if you do, doth not your presence at such shews, and your being pleased with them, fly into your face? |
A44515 | and shall we encrease the danger by tricks and artifices? |
A44515 | and what can that prohibition import, if conformity to the World in beholding these dangerous sights be not in a great measure meant by it? |
A44515 | and what is it but contending with our Maker, and expostulating with the Potter, Why hast thou made me thus? |
A44515 | and why could not I have thy Heart, and thy will and affections? |
A44515 | are not these things at which they may justly tremble day and night? |
A44515 | are the profane railleries, that are used there, fit preparatives for austerity of conversation? |
A44515 | had God struck me dead in that place, how sad would my condition have been? |
A44515 | hath not such a sin been pleasing to me? |
A44515 | have not I been tickled with mens speaking ill of him? |
A44515 | have you renounced them, and dare you fall in love with them? |
A44515 | how can you have patience to let them talk at this rate? |
A44515 | how can you hear it without reproving the men that do it? |
A44515 | how could the Primitive Christians know these things to be sinful? |
A44515 | how couldst thou find in thy Heart to afflict, and grieve me so often, who have endured such agonies already for thee on the Cross? |
A44515 | how did I spend my time, might not I have spent it better, then at a Play- house? |
A44515 | how dull in the work of meditation? |
A44515 | how many vain and foolish thoughts have these sights sent into my mind? |
A44515 | how slovenly and superficial in Gods service? |
A44515 | if it will not suffer you to please your Flesh beyond what is necessary for it''s Subsistence, must it therefore be your Enemy? |
A44515 | if you use the same means, why should not you fear the same unhappy influence? |
A44515 | must people therefore increase temptations with artificial Beauty? |
A44515 | or if you have some little regret upon your spirits, where is your tongue to speak for your friend? |
A44515 | the Sacrifice of fervent Prayer, the Sacrifice of an humble contrite Heart, the Sacrifice of Praise, and delight in God? |
A44515 | what doth it signifie, that men call me Religious, when God knows, I am an Hypocrite? |
A44515 | when Religion is mock''d? |
A44515 | when vertue is rendred odious? |
A44515 | who would not vindicate it, when it is abused? |
A44515 | why do not you keep out of their company? |
A44515 | why wouldst thou forsake me, the Fountain of Living VVaters? |
A44515 | will you sin against your knowledge, will you do that again, which will require a new repentance? |
A44515 | will you sin willfully after this? |
A44543 | 18, 19, 20. Who can grumble at Religion after all these advantages? |
A44543 | A ● ● not these things at which they may justly tremble day and night? |
A44543 | And are these Christian Virtues? |
A44543 | And are these fit things to rejoyce in? |
A44543 | And because he hath vouchsafed unto us Frankincense, and Wine, and Fire, must we therefore sacrisice to Idols? |
A44543 | And can a Christian have a good opinion of these houses, where so many have lost their vertue? |
A44543 | And do not you think you are concern''d? |
A44543 | And have not you sins enough of your own to answer for, but you must transfer other mens upon you too? |
A44543 | And how dreadful must this make your account? |
A44543 | And how foolish is that Apothecary that writes glorious Names upon his Pots, when the rich Drugs that are named, have no being in his Shop? |
A44543 | And if it be so sad with her, before the Sentence be past, what trembling and horror will invade her after it? |
A44543 | And if the blind lead the blind, shall not they both fall into the pit? |
A44543 | And is it not possible for you to know it? |
A44543 | And is it worth losing Heaven, and eternal happiness for the sight of such jocular Shews? |
A44543 | And is not the greatest part of the World to be pityed, that can delight in nothing but what they can grasp and feel? |
A44543 | And is not this infinitely better, than the Pleasures of Sardanapalus, of Dives, and other luxurious men? |
A44543 | And is this fit to be done by Christians, who are to crucifie the Flesh with its lusts and affections? |
A44543 | And is this such a Bug- bear to fright you from your duty? |
A44543 | And is this to walk after the Spirit, as we are commanded? |
A44543 | And is your Christianity so fierce and violent, that it needs a bridle? |
A44543 | And must it be made worse? |
A44543 | And suppose natural Beauty allures and tempts voluptuous Men, must therefore more evil be added to the former? |
A44543 | And therefore, 4. Who can harbour any hard Thoughts of Religion, because it debars us of disorderly sensual Delights? |
A44543 | And what Cruelty is it, when God is resolved to revenge thy Quarrel, that thou wilt needs revenge it too? |
A44543 | And what Self- denial can there be, where we do not deny our selves in that which is most pernicious to our better part? |
A44543 | And what are the mighty Advantages men get by the Representations of the Stage? |
A44543 | And what doth this sport betray, but a weak, soft, easie, vain and empty mind? |
A44543 | And what if you do go but now and then, Doth your going but seldom justifie the action? |
A44543 | And what if you lose something considerable by pleasing God? |
A44543 | And what is it but contending with our Maker, and expostulating with the Potter, Why hast thou made me thus? |
A44543 | And why could not I have thy Heart, and thy Will and Affections? |
A44543 | And why should not you raise your soul above the bubbles of external pomp? |
A44543 | And will it not tend to thy everlasting confusion that thou hast had the Name of a Christian, and done nothing like a Christian? |
A44543 | Are not the hearts of men in his hand, and doth not he turn them as streams of Water? |
A44543 | Are the pleasures arising from hence, of that consequence, that they will counter- ballance so great a loss? |
A44543 | Are these Divertisements proper for a Creature that holds his very Being of God, and is beholding to him for all the Blessings he enjoys? |
A44543 | Are these fit Objects of thy Mirth? |
A44543 | Are these momentary satisfactions of that value, that you would run the hazard of being for ever deprived of the beatifick vision for them? |
A44543 | Are these the Christians, that are to go hand in hand together, to Gods everlasting Kingdom? |
A44543 | Are these the Christians, that are to help one another to Heaven? |
A44543 | Are these the Graces that must make us glorious in the sight of God? |
A44543 | Are these the lights, the shining, the burning lights, that are to light the ignorant Brother to the inheritance of the Saints in light? |
A44543 | Are you afraid, Gods anger to you will not be great enough, except you add your Neighbours offences, to make his wrath the heavier? |
A44543 | Art thou born of God, and canst thou degenerate from his Nature? |
A44543 | As a King thou art to appear before him, and wilt thou come in the posture of a miserable Vassal? |
A44543 | As thou art a Christian, thou art a Son of God, and dost thou express that filial disposition in thy Gate, and Looks, and Face, and Life? |
A44543 | Behold those pious Souls, that take a course contrary to that of the World; What makes them afraid of sinning? |
A44543 | But being unwilling to be better informed, judge you, whether it will not agravate your Condemnation? |
A44543 | But why should you mistrust him even in this present life? |
A44543 | But why should''st thou wonder at the Change thou see''st in thy Friend? |
A44543 | By giving thee opportunity of becoming a Christian, God hath made thee a King, and wilt thou run to the Bramble, and say, Come thou and reign over me? |
A44543 | Can any Hell be thought too much for such Stubbornness? |
A44543 | Can any man of reason think, that after all this mischief, they may be safely hugg''d and applauded? |
A44543 | Can you see how other Men by thinking arrive to Perfection, and will you lye groveling in the Dust? |
A44543 | Can you see other Men run away with all the Comforts of the Gospel, and remain senseless? |
A44543 | Can you see others carry away the Crown, and feel no Ambition in you? |
A44543 | Can you see others get into the Pool of Bethesda before you, and recover, and are you fond of continuing lame, and blind, and poor, and miserable? |
A44543 | Can you see others take away the Blessing of your Father from you, and be unmoved at the want of it? |
A44543 | Can you, or any man reconcile such darkness with light, such Idols with the Temple of God? |
A44543 | Canst thou hear these shrieks, and be unconcerned? |
A44543 | Canst thou see this poor Creature lie in torments, and give no relief? |
A44543 | Could you by meditating make that Glory present to you, and will you neglect the Opportunity? |
A44543 | Could you by musing and pondering bring Heaven into your Chambers and Closets, and will ye debarr your selves of that glorious Sight? |
A44543 | Couldest thou have dealt worse with a Slave, or with an Enemy, than thou hast done with me? |
A44543 | Couldst thou think I would look on, and not set thy sins in order before thee ●? |
A44543 | Did Christ come down from Heaven and die, and spill his blood for you, that you might securely indulge your carnal Genius? |
A44543 | Did ever any Person oblige thee more than I? |
A44543 | Did he bleed, that you might grow strong in sin? |
A44543 | Did he die, that you might cherish the lusts of the Flesh? |
A44543 | Did he ever encourage such empty things? |
A44543 | Did he sacrifice himself for you, that you might please your self with such fooleries? |
A44543 | Did not I see thee at such a time, in such a place, in such a Garden, in such a Chamber playing the Rebel, and the Wanton? |
A44543 | Did not I see thee conspiring against me? |
A44543 | Did not I see thee treating with mine Enemies? |
A44543 | Did such phantastick actions deserve so great a condescension? |
A44543 | Did this condescension deserve, dost thou think, such Affronts and Injuries, such Contempt and Disobedience, as thou hast returned to me? |
A44543 | Didst thou ever receive such Favours at any mans hand, as thou hast received at mine? |
A44543 | Do not even wicked men confess so much, men who have been guilty of such crimes? |
A44543 | Do not these evidently make this Slave usurp Authority over her Mistress? |
A44543 | Do not you see, do not you perceive, how sin grows upon you by frequenting these places? |
A44543 | Do not you think, what have I done to day? |
A44543 | Do they not look liker Mahomet''s Votaries, or Epicurus his Followers? |
A44543 | Do you believe he spoke true? |
A44543 | Do you ever examine your self at night about the actions of the day? |
A44543 | Do you think such men are like to be his favorites? |
A44543 | Do you thus requite his kindness? |
A44543 | Does God expect thee at his Tribunal with the Qualifications of a Child, and wilt thou appear before him as a Rebel? |
A44543 | Does not this threatning fright you? |
A44543 | Dost not thou quake to think, that the Revenger of Blood is upon thy Heels? |
A44543 | Dost not thou remember the water that was sprinkled upon thy face in Baptism, nor the Sacrament whereby thy lips and tongue were blessed? |
A44543 | Doth this put no sad thoughts into your mind? |
A44543 | For what is it wherein you were inferior to other Churches, except it be, that I my self was not burdensom to you? |
A44543 | God designs thee to be his Priest; This is one of the Priviledges that came by the Blood of Christ ▪ But where are thy Sacrifices? |
A44543 | God hath made Iron, must thou therefore murther men with it? |
A44543 | Had God struck me dead in that place, how sad would my condition have been? |
A44543 | Had you rather forfeit Gods favour, than these ludicrous transactions? |
A44543 | Had you rather sin than displease Men, or is a poor Creature more terrible to you, than he who thunders in the Heavens? |
A44543 | Hadst not thou reason to prefer my Favour before the Smiles of a transitory World? |
A44543 | Hadst not thou such base thoughts, such wicked intentions, such impure desires in such Company? |
A44543 | Hast thou no Mercy left? |
A44543 | Hath God no ways to make you amends for your losses? |
A44543 | Hath he appeased the Almighties wrath for you, that you might spend your time in a Theatre? |
A44543 | Hath he given his Son on purpose to adopt thee, and thinkest thou to present thy self before him in the shape of a Prodigal? |
A44543 | Hath he no Glory, no Kingdom, no reward, no recompence to redintegrate your fortune? |
A44543 | Have not I been delighted with seeing my neighbour abus''d? |
A44543 | Have not I been tickled with mens speaking ill of him? |
A44543 | Have not the vices represented there in jest, been practised by the forward youth at home in good earnest? |
A44543 | Have not you found a Joy stealing upon your Souls after such refreshing Considerations, as hath transported you even into love of Martyrdom? |
A44543 | Have not you observed it? |
A44543 | Have not you seen how they have remitted in their warmth, and how the holy fire that once burn''d in their breasts is gone out? |
A44543 | Have they not deriv''d their boldness from these places? |
A44543 | Have you protested in the presence of God and Angels, that you will not meddle with them, and will you break your vow? |
A44543 | Have you renounced them, and dare you fall in love with them? |
A44543 | Have you solemnly professed before the Congregation, that you will not have any affection for them, and do you make nothing of perfidiousness? |
A44543 | He is omnipotent: Will a Painter be afraid of his Picture, or a Man of his Shadow? |
A44543 | He looks upon them smilingly; and asks the Man who brought them, Whether his Master intended, that Cimon should be his Friend or his Servant? |
A44543 | He that abstains from Cards and Dice, most certainly doth not sin, and who would not take the surest side of the Hedge? |
A44543 | He who preached up the Doctrin of the Cross, could he have any liking to that, which is directly contrary to that Doctrin? |
A44543 | He whose life was a perpetual selfdenial in the pleasures of this life, could he give the least colour, or shadow of approbation of them? |
A44543 | How apt is the World to get between this tremendous Day, and my sight? |
A44543 | How barbarous, how inhumane is thy Joy? |
A44543 | How can you discharge your conscience, to let your neighbour do evil without giving him an Item of Gods displeasure? |
A44543 | How canst thou expect the performance of his Promises, while thou art so false to thy Engagements? |
A44543 | How contented have you been after such Exercises, or after some signal Self- denial? |
A44543 | How couldest thou abuse a Friendship of that worth and value? |
A44543 | How couldest thou undervalue a Favour of that importance and consequence? |
A44543 | How couldst thou find in thy heart to afflict and grieve me so often, who have endured such Agonies already on the Cross? |
A44543 | How did I deserve such preposterous usages at thy hands? |
A44543 | How is it that thou wast not afraid to make thy Belly, thy Gold; thy Harlot, and such a great Man thy God? |
A44543 | How justly may God look upon it as Presumption, to alter that Face which he thought fit to create in that shape it is of? |
A44543 | How knowest thou, whether God will after the Fact, give thee his holy Spirit to come to this Repentance? |
A44543 | How many innocent men wrong''d daily? |
A44543 | How many parts of every day dost thou spend idly and foolishly? |
A44543 | How many persons have I harden''d, and confirm''d in their sins by my example? |
A44543 | How many vain and foolish thoughts have these sights sent into my mind? |
A44543 | How much lightness and vanity have I encouraged by my presence? |
A44543 | How often doth he make it appear to the World, that where a mans ways please the Lord, he makes his very enemies to be at peace with him? |
A44543 | How ridiculous is that Man that hangs out a Bush, and yet hath no Wine to sell? |
A44543 | How the Prospect of that future Judgment must be managed, that it may actually damp, and put a stop to these Carnal delights? |
A44543 | How will you wish, that you had been in my condition? |
A44543 | How would you take it, if a man should give you a box on the ear but now and then? |
A44543 | How? |
A44543 | I could withstand them now, why could not I have withstood them then? |
A44543 | I do not deny, but Men may do worse, but what necessity is there for their doing that which is bad, to avoid that which is worse? |
A44543 | I have Furies enough within: Ye damned Pleasures, whither have you brought me? |
A44543 | I hope you do not question the duty, and if you believe it incumbent upon you, can you imagin, that in frequenting the Stage, you imitate his example? |
A44543 | If a Treasure were to be had in such a place, and all about thee should be regardless of it, wouldst thou be as lazy as they? |
A44543 | If they that walk after the Flesh can not please God, how can you hope to please him, while you allow your self in this work of the Flesh? |
A44543 | If thou didst, how couldest thou be so ungrateful? |
A44543 | If to God, why dare not you prefer his favour before the favour of Men, and be guided more by his Laws, than by the benevolence of dust and ashes? |
A44543 | If you are, how can you run into the same temptation again, or go to a place where you will infallibly be tempted to the love of the World? |
A44543 | If you come to the Lords Table one day, and run to a Play- house another, do not you destroy all that you built the day before? |
A44543 | If you come to the Supper of the Lord there to profess your sorrow for loving the World; are you in good earnest sorry for it, or are you not? |
A44543 | If you examine your self in this manner and find these effects, have not you reason to ask God forgiveness? |
A44543 | If you have no courage to admonish them, what makes you appear there where you must be silent under the indignities offered to your Master? |
A44543 | If you lose this World for his sake, is not the felicity of the next recompence enough? |
A44543 | In Hell you''ll think, but it will be too late; there you''ll think, but your Thoughts will be your Torment? |
A44543 | Is half an Hour, or a quarter of an Hour every Day, such a business, that thou canst find no time for it? |
A44543 | Is it not enough that natural Beauty is so dangerous? |
A44543 | Is it possible to be his friend, and a friend to these vanities? |
A44543 | Is it possible to live up to his precepts, and feed our eyes with these Shews? |
A44543 | Is it so flaming that it wants this stolen water to quench it? |
A44543 | Is it so hot, that it must have an extinguisher? |
A44543 | Is not the World bad enough? |
A44543 | Is not this fighting against you ● happiness? |
A44543 | Is not this justifying the Players profession, and to make them think that you approve of their ludicrous vocations? |
A44543 | Is not this making war against you ● soul? |
A44543 | Is not this tempting young people to those extravagancies they should detest? |
A44543 | Is not this the way to make her inamour''d with the World, from which a Christian is to run away, as much as he can? |
A44543 | Is not this to be blind to the great design of the Gospel? |
A44543 | Is not this to clo ● your soul? |
A44543 | Is not this to live in contradictions? |
A44543 | Is not this to make your self odious to that God whose favour you expect in the last day? |
A44543 | Is not this to shut the gates of mercy against you? |
A44543 | Is not this to throw impediments in her way to felicity? |
A44543 | Is the Stage likely to produce vigorous apprehensions of Gods grace and favour? |
A44543 | Is the sight of a Comedy a probable means to make you live above the World? |
A44543 | Is there any thing in all the History of his life, that may be said to countenance such doings? |
A44543 | Is there any thing in the Gospel more plainly forbid, than conforming to the World? |
A44543 | Is this a proper end of the mighty purchase he hath made? |
A44543 | Is this a sight agreeable to the strait way, and the narrow gate which leads to life? |
A44543 | Is this decency to afford your presence in a place, where the most debauched persons assemble themselves for ill ends and purposes? |
A44543 | Is this redeeming of your time to throw away so many hours upon fooling, and seeing mens ridiculous postures, gestures and behaviours? |
A44543 | Is this sobriety, to stand by and hear men curse and swear, and talk of things which should not be so much as named among Christians? |
A44543 | Is this the return you make him for his sweat and agonies, for his sighs and groans, for his pains and all his labours? |
A44543 | Is this to have the same mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus? |
A44543 | Is this to promote a lively sense of God? |
A44543 | Moses grows impatient at the Waters of Meribah; Who would not have done so that had to deal with so stubborn a People? |
A44543 | Must I therefore slander and abuse a Man, because it is a less sin than to murther him? |
A44543 | Must sin be therefore multiplied, and the sickly minds of carnal men, more and more distemper''d? |
A44543 | O my Friends, are not these thing to be considered by God''s servants? |
A44543 | O my Friends, said he, Do you ask me where I have been? |
A44543 | Of whom should he be afraid? |
A44543 | Or art thou not afraid of that Saying, that Dogs must stand without? |
A44543 | Or have you a peculiar exemption from that danger? |
A44543 | Or how would you resent it, to have your good name taken away by a person, not always, but whenever his humour prompts him? |
A44543 | Or to be a spectator of so many undecent and wanton gestures, postures and actions, which in some Comedies make up the greatest part of the shew? |
A44543 | Or, because thy Herds and Flocks are great, must thou therefore commit Idolatry with them? |
A44543 | Say not, where are they to be found? |
A44543 | Say not, who doth so? |
A44543 | Say you so? |
A44543 | Shall men of no great sense of Religion complain of it, and shall a Christian do any thing, that may contribute toward the holding of them up? |
A44543 | Shall those Passions rule over thee which thy God hath given thee for Servants and Handmaids? |
A44543 | Should God call thee to Judgment, O my Soul, this Night, or this Hour, art thou in a condition to appeat before so great, so dreadful a God? |
A44543 | Sir, Have you abjured these things in your Baptism, and dare you venture on them? |
A44543 | So great is thy danger, and canst thou loiter? |
A44543 | So near art thou to a tremendous Eternity, and Oh wilt not thou be clean? |
A44543 | Suppose thou didst live in a Street, where all the Men were Beggars and Vagabonds, would that be a Motive, to follow their unlawful Calling? |
A44543 | That Sin which makes thee merry, that Folly which chears thy Spirit, what is it but Ingratitude to thy kindest Benefactor? |
A44543 | The Hermit heard him, smiled, and replied, Ay, but Friend, What if there should be one, where are you then? |
A44543 | There are innumerable Sins, which neither Prince, nor Magistrate can take notice of: How many Poor are oppressed? |
A44543 | This stands to Reason; for except things be made visible to us, how shall they move or fright us? |
A44543 | Thou art a Christian but where is the Life of Christ tha ● should be in thee? |
A44543 | Thou art called to be faithful, and hast given thy Faith to God; Wilt thou break thy Faith, and hope to be guiltless at this Bar? |
A44543 | Thou art designed for a Citizen of the Celestial Jerusalem, and wilt thou appear before him as an Inhabitant of Hell? |
A44543 | Thou art one of God''s Family, and wilt thou appear before him as a Traytor? |
A44543 | Thou art purchased by his Blood, and wilt thou live as if that Blood had been spilt in vain? |
A44543 | Thou art wash''d in the Laver of Regeneration, and canst thou wallow with the Swine in the Mire? |
A44543 | Thou art within a Bows- shot of the great Tribunal, and doth not thy countenance change? |
A44543 | Thou art within hearing of the Thunders, that come forth from the Throne of God, and do not thy thoughts trouble thee? |
A44543 | Thou hast known the Way of Righteousness, and wilt thou with the Dog return to the Vomit? |
A44543 | Thou must shortly appear before all the Host of Heaven, and art not thou got farther yet in Holiness? |
A44543 | Thou seest the fatal Hand upon the Wall, and do not thy Knees smite one against another? |
A44543 | Thou standest upon the brink of Hell, and wilt not thou step back? |
A44543 | To whom have you greater obligations, to God or Man? |
A44543 | We may put forced glosses upon the words, but doth not this look like the natural sense of them? |
A44543 | What a Fool will you be then? |
A44543 | What comfort can it be to me, that men think me charitable, when God sees, I give Alms to be seen of men? |
A44543 | What did the Lord Jesus delight in, who lived upon Alms? |
A44543 | What dost thou rejoyce in? |
A44543 | What doth it avail me, that men say, I pray well, when God sees, I study to please the Company? |
A44543 | What evil Spirit did possess thee to make light of these kindnesses? |
A44543 | What feeds its preposterous longings more than these? |
A44543 | What great advantage can it be to me, that men say I am humble, when God sees pride in that very humility? |
A44543 | What great matter is it, that men applaud me for a single Virtue, when God sees I am partial in my Obedience? |
A44543 | What he hath done with the Creatures which have been given him for his use; And whether he hath not minded his own business more than his Masters? |
A44543 | What hurt doth the penitent Mary Magdalen receive by the Evangelists recording, or our speaking of her former Whoredoms? |
A44543 | What if it be so to Flesh and Blood? |
A44543 | What if there should be no other world, to what purpose is all this Rigor and Mortification? |
A44543 | What if this mixt and promiscuous Dancing, be not expresly forbid in Scripture? |
A44543 | What if you do not think it to be sin, will your thinking so excuse you? |
A44543 | What if you see it not with mortal Eyes? |
A44543 | What is it but hardning other men in their sins? |
A44543 | What is it but requiting the greatest Good with the greatest Evil? |
A44543 | What is it, but contempt of him who keeps thy Soul in Life? |
A44543 | What is your going to a Play- house, but giving Offence? |
A44543 | What makes them afraid of running with their Neighbors into Riot? |
A44543 | What makes them mourn? |
A44543 | What makes them rejoyce in Spirit? |
A44543 | What makes them that they dare not do what some of their Carnal Acquaintance and Relations do? |
A44543 | What need''st thou grieve that Men abuse thee here, when thy Sovereign Master will grieve every Vein of the Reviler''s Heart in that day? |
A44543 | What need''st thou seek Revenge, when thy Master whom thou servest, is resolved to judge thy Cause in that Day? |
A44543 | What need''st thou take notice of an Affront offer''d to thee, when thy God stands engaged to take notice of it with a Witness in that day? |
A44543 | What place can any Creature promise him, who doth what he pleases in all the Armies of Heaven, and among all the Inhabitants of the Earth? |
A44543 | What pleasure couldest thou take in doing that which cost me so many Sighs and Tears, and a bloody Sweat? |
A44543 | What reason have we to believe that there is a day of Judgment? |
A44543 | What will it profit me, that men call me Zealous and Fervent, when God sees, that gain, and profit is the cause of it? |
A44543 | What will it profit you to taste of all the Sweets of this World, if any thing can be called sweet in so much Misery? |
A44543 | What wise Man would stand upon a Precipice, when he can walk in a beaten Road? |
A44543 | What? |
A44543 | When God hath distinguish''d you from the ignobler Brutes, will you be like the Horse and Mule, whose Mouths must be held with Bitt and Bridle? |
A44543 | Whether every Man is bound to embitter his carnal Delights with this Prospect? |
A44543 | Whether every Man is bound to imbitter his Carnal delights with this Prospect? |
A44543 | Whither shall I ● lee for remedy? |
A44543 | Who can find fault with it after this prospect of its benefits? |
A44543 | Who can inferr from his Actions, or Behaviour, that this Man believes a Word of Scripture? |
A44543 | Who can make this Judge happier than he is already? |
A44543 | Who dares asperse that beauteous Virgin after such Fruits it bears? |
A44543 | Who ever learned to abandon a Sin he is addicted to, by seeing its punishment on the Stage? |
A44543 | Who sees not, that these sights are meer incentives to lust, and fewel to feed the impurer fire in our breasts? |
A44543 | Who would conclude him to have lived in a Land where the Gospel is preach''d? |
A44543 | Who would desire that which hath been a Sword and Arrow to others? |
A44543 | Who would imagine, that this Man hath a rational Soul? |
A44543 | Who would not esteem it? |
A44543 | Who would not honour it? |
A44543 | Who would not look upon it as a horn of plenty, and a treasury of the greatest comforts? |
A44543 | Who would not maintain the honour of it, against all opponents? |
A44543 | Who would not prize it? |
A44543 | Who would not rise up in defence of it, when blasphemous Tongues would traduce, and revile it? |
A44543 | Who would not speak well of it? |
A44543 | Who would take the Wretch for a Disciple of the poor and afflicted Jesus? |
A44543 | Who would think, he were created after the Image of God? |
A44543 | Why do ye murmur against me when I bid you fast, and watch, and pray? |
A44543 | Why dost thou delight in Apes and Peacocks, when thou hast the Creator of all these to rejoyce in? |
A44543 | Why dost thou delight in a fading Beauty, when thou hast him that''s altogether lovely to delight in? |
A44543 | Why dost thou delight in a little Gain, in Drops of Happiness, in Crumbs of Bliss, in shining Dust, when thou hast a Sea of Glory to delight in? |
A44543 | Why dost thou delight in a morsel of Meat, when thou hast the Birth- right of eternal Glory to delight in? |
A44543 | Why dost thou delight in the Rivers of Damascus, when thou hast the River of God''s Pleasure to delight in? |
A44543 | Why dost thou delight in the Slavery of thy Lusts, when thou hast him, whose Service is perfect Freedom to delight in? |
A44543 | Why dost thou delight in the Voice of a deceitful Siren, when thou hast him whose Voice comforts the Mourners of Sion to delight in? |
A44543 | Why dost thou delight in the nether Springs, when thou hast the upper Springs of Mercy to delight in? |
A44543 | Why dost thou delight in the shade of the Bramble, when thou hast the shadow of God''s Wings to delight in? |
A44543 | Why dost thou delight 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉, when thou hast a House made without Hands to delight in? |
A44543 | Why must a sottish Lust and Passion engross thy Desires, and my Law be cast behind thee? |
A44543 | Why should we be afraid to call a spade, a spade? |
A44543 | Why should ye be loath to labour, when to labour ye were born? |
A44543 | Why should ye refuse to suffer when shortly you must die, and mingle with Dust? |
A44543 | Why should ye seek after a soft and easie Life, when e''er long you''ll meet with it in Heaven? |
A44543 | Why should you shut your eyes against a thing as clear as the Sun? |
A44543 | Why wouldest thou lose that which I purchased at so dear a rate? |
A44543 | Why wouldest thou make a mock of so great a Mercy? |
A44543 | Why wouldest thou make thy Heart a habitation of Devils, which I intended for my Throne? |
A44543 | Why wouldest thou pollute that Soul which I redeemed with mine own Blood? |
A44543 | Why wouldest thou refuse this Treasure? |
A44543 | Why wouldst thou forsake me, the Fountain of Living Waters? |
A44543 | Will not God revenge this Breach, or canst thou think he will let thee go unpunish''d for thy Treacheries? |
A44543 | Will not this turn to better account at last than fleshly Lusts, which war against the Soul? |
A44543 | Will the Judg ● ever take thee for his Sheep, when it''● evident, thou dost not hear his Voice? |
A44543 | Will you count it a Foe because it denies you the Sword which would kill you? |
A44543 | Willful ignorance is as bad as a known sin, and how easily might you know such doings to be sinful? |
A44543 | Wilt thou boast of being his Disciple, and art thou loath to follow his Example? |
A44543 | With what conscience can you promise the Lord Jesus to follow him, when you intend to expose your self again to these temptations? |
A44543 | With what eyes can you appear in the presence of that King of Kings, who have but a little before prostituted your Soul to the Devil? |
A44543 | With what face dare you approach the Table of your Lord, who have been a spectator of such shews but a little before? |
A44543 | Would any man that looks upon the jolly assembly in a Play- house, think that these are Disciples of the crucified God? |
A44543 | Would not one think that they had never heard of the Cross, and that whoever their Master was, they were disciplined only to live merrily? |
A44543 | Wouldst not thou find greater Profit in bestowing a few Minutes in Contemplation of that Judgment? |
A44543 | and controuling his Art and Wisdom, while not content with the Countenance he hath given, we seek to appear in a better? |
A44543 | and if you ask him forgiveness, how dare you run upon the same rock again? |
A44543 | and if you do, doth not your presence at such shews, and your being pleased with them, fly into your face? |
A44543 | and shall we encrease the danger by tricks and artifices? |
A44543 | and what can that prohibition import, if conformity to the World in beholding these dangerous sights, be not in a great measure meant by it? |
A44543 | are the profane railleries that are used there, fit preparatives for austerity of conversation? |
A44543 | hath not such a sin been pleasing to me? |
A44543 | how can you have patience to let them talk at this rate? |
A44543 | how can you hear it without reproving the men that do it? |
A44543 | how could the Primitive Christians, know these things to be sinful? |
A44543 | how did I spend my time, might not I have spent it better, than at a Play- house? |
A44543 | how dull in the work of Meditation? |
A44543 | how slovenly and superficial in Gods service? |
A44543 | if it will not suffer you to please your Flesh beyond what is necessary for it''s Subsistence, must it therefore be your Enemy? |
A44543 | if you use the same means, why should you not fear the same unhappy influence? |
A44543 | must people therefore increase temptations with artificial Beauty? |
A44543 | or if you have some little regret upon your spirits, where is your tongue to speak for your friend? |
A44543 | what is this but a mock- repentance, to go on in a circle of confessing and sinning, of sinning and confessing? |
A44543 | what pampers it more than such sights? |
A44543 | when Religion is mock''d? |
A44543 | when vertue is rendred odious? |
A44543 | who would not vindicate it, when it is abused? |
A44543 | why do not you keep out of their company? |
A44543 | will you sin against your knowledge, will you do that again, which will require a new repentance? |
A44543 | will you sin wilfully after this? |
A71315 | & c. Do we take up our Cross, when we take it ill, that God sends Afflictions upon us? |
A71315 | ? |
A71315 | A Christian, and Cheat, and Lye, and Dissemble, and commit a Thousand Abominations? |
A71315 | A Christian, and do things as contrary to the Nature of Christianity, as Light is to Darkness? |
A71315 | Again, to what purpose is the Multitude of your Sacrifices? |
A71315 | And after all, canst thou complain that he hath not visited thy Earth with his Showers? |
A71315 | And all that thy Light, thy Goodness, thy Seriousness, and Love to God might shine forth, and give Light to those that are in the House? |
A71315 | And are not these fit Examples for us to follow? |
A71315 | And are these the mighty Reasons that satisfie your Conscience? |
A71315 | And can any Man think, Christ was very serious in saying so, without being concerned, how to prevent, and escape that fatal Exit? |
A71315 | And can any Sin be little, that is an Affront to a Great and Infinite Majesty? |
A71315 | And canst not thou believe the Blessings he hath promised, though thou seeest them not? |
A71315 | And dare you deny him that service, which your entire dependance upon his Charity doth challenge at your Hands? |
A71315 | And do but consider, what weakness, what impotency of Reason, and Spirit you betray and discover by such doings? |
A71315 | And do not you tell them of it, that they may amend and do better? |
A71315 | And do not you think there is a great deal of Justice in all this? |
A71315 | And doth not the same Gospel say, there is an Everlasting Punishment, a Worm that dies not, and a Fire that is never quench''d? |
A71315 | And have not we very illustrious Examples of this Patience under Affronts and Injuries in Moses, David, St. Paul, and of other Apostles and Believers? |
A71315 | And have not you a fine Religion, that makes you more afraid of the Opinion, and Censures of Men, than of the Wrath of the living God? |
A71315 | And have not you reason to please such a Father? |
A71315 | And he that doth not follow him in the Regeneration, How shall he be able to sit with him in his Throne? |
A71315 | And how come ye to despise the Censures of Men in one Duty, and are afraid of doing it in another? |
A71315 | And how dreadful must their Condition be, when called away, to give an account of their turning the Grace and Patience of God into Wantonness? |
A71315 | And how shall he be convinc''d of that, if we do not return soft Answers for his rough and insolent ones, even Blessings for Curses? |
A71315 | And if there be such beauty in it, why are not we enamour''d with it? |
A71315 | And if this be the Nature of our Religion, to do good to them that hate us, how do we satisfie our selves without this Ornament of our Profession? |
A71315 | And if this must continue to Eternal Ages, what Tongue is able to express the Torment? |
A71315 | And if thou chargest God with Unkindness, when he hath been miraculously kind, dost not thou offer Injuries and Indignities to him? |
A71315 | And if to Obey God more than Men be Wisdom, where lies the Folly in being obedient to the Will of God in this particular? |
A71315 | And if we do none of these things, and yet call our selves Christians, do we not hide the Light, which that Name imports, under a bushel? |
A71315 | And if ye salute your Brethren only, what do you more than others? |
A71315 | And if ye salute your Brethren only, what do you more than others? |
A71315 | And if ye salute your Brother only, what do you more than others? |
A71315 | And is God the Governour of the World, and shall his Government alone, be without Places to tame obstinate Offenders? |
A71315 | And is not Devotion, from a Heart unwilling to be reconciled, a Worship much like theirs? |
A71315 | And is not our Intent, and Design the same? |
A71315 | And is not the Kingdom of Heaven a more lofty, and more spacious Empire than the whole Roman Monarchy, in all its greatest Extent and Glory? |
A71315 | And is not the possibility of falling into it, a sufficient Defence against this inordinate Passion? |
A71315 | And is not this hiding the Light, when thou hast an Inclination to do Good, and a carnal worldly Reason presently discourages thee? |
A71315 | And is not this sinking below Publicans and Heathens; for they love those that love them? |
A71315 | And is not this the Case of abundance of you? |
A71315 | And is not this threatning a Call to Repentance? |
A71315 | And is there such a thing? |
A71315 | And is this a suitable return for the Patience God exercises toward us? |
A71315 | And is this no Argument to stir us up to this Perfection? |
A71315 | And is this your Courage not to stand by your greatest Friend? |
A71315 | And may it not be said to such, Will you put out the Eyes of Almighty God? |
A71315 | And now give me leave to ask you, Is not this Work, and this End, the most proper Task of Persons, who have renounc''d the Devil and all his Works? |
A71315 | And now what shall I say more, to oblige you to let the Light of your good Works shine before Men? |
A71315 | And shall not we be concern''d at his Sin? |
A71315 | And shall the World, and your present Gain and Profit, blind you into Ruin? |
A71315 | And shall we deal thus with our Brethren? |
A71315 | And shall we make nothing of Spiritual Adultery? |
A71315 | And then hath God given thee nothing? |
A71315 | And therefore the Pharisees, coming to our Saviour about this Question, ask him, Is it lawful for a Man to put away his Wife for every Cause? |
A71315 | And what I have laid down here, ruines that common Plea, Why should I do more than others? |
A71315 | And what Ingratitude is this? |
A71315 | And what a lasting Hatred is settled in the Hearts of Antagonists by such Doings? |
A71315 | And what if they do? |
A71315 | And what is it that God would have us agree with him in, without delay? |
A71315 | And what should not a good Christian do, to convert a Sinner from the Error of his Ways? |
A71315 | And what? |
A71315 | And what? |
A71315 | And when he is ready to perform it to our Satisfaction, shall we stop the Accomplishment by our uneasiness under the Injury? |
A71315 | And when shall this Reconciliation be? |
A71315 | And which is the greater blindness, Corporal or Spiritual? |
A71315 | And why should we delay it? |
A71315 | And will you take the way to Hell, that you may get to Heaven? |
A71315 | And would you have God save a Man that doth not fear him? |
A71315 | And yet, how fashionable are such Discourses grown? |
A71315 | And, whither shall I go from thy Spirit, or whither shall I flee from thy Presence? |
A71315 | Another cries, Men will think it humor in me, and what if they do think so, where lies the hurt? |
A71315 | Are not these perfect Absurdities? |
A71315 | Are not these signs of Love? |
A71315 | Are not they all deliver''d with the same Seriousness, and by the same Authority? |
A71315 | Are not thy Commendations most rational, most weighty, most unbyass''d, most true, and most durable? |
A71315 | Are not we fond of Peace of Conscience? |
A71315 | Are not ye even in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ? |
A71315 | Are there no such Children? |
A71315 | Are there none among you that desire to be Great? |
A71315 | Are these Engagements kept? |
A71315 | Are these solemn Promises fulfilled? |
A71315 | Are they greater than those which were offer''d to Christ Jesus, or the Proto- Martyr? |
A71315 | Are things of this nature fit, do they deserve to be confirmed with such Religious Affirmations? |
A71315 | Are we therefore your Enemies, because we tell you the Truth? |
A71315 | Are you afraid of too much Comfort? |
A71315 | Are you sure you shall not? |
A71315 | Art not thou disrespectful to him when thou wilfully do''st that which he protests in his Word is abomination in his Eyes? |
A71315 | Art not thou unkind to him when thou sin''st against him? |
A71315 | At once to obey God, and to disobey him; at once to honour, and to affront him; at once to worship, and to blaspheme him? |
A71315 | Ay, but to break one of these least Commandments, and to teach another to do so, What great Matter is there in that? |
A71315 | Being an Answer to this Question, Why do you believe the Doctrine of the Trinity? |
A71315 | Believe it, and do nothing for it? |
A71315 | But V. Are there no Ambitious Men here? |
A71315 | But have not You seen some counterfeit Pearls, so Artificiously contrived, that the ignorant Spectator hath taken them for truly Oriental? |
A71315 | But here the Expostulation is more Just, Can any good come from him who Sins from the from the Father of Lyes and the Author of all Impiety? |
A71315 | But how can you repent of your Passion, if you do not mortifie it? |
A71315 | But how is all this to be done? |
A71315 | But how is this excellent Temper to be attain''d? |
A71315 | But is this an Argument, that I must therefore inflame my Soul with Wrath and Revenge, because the other swells with Venom? |
A71315 | But some Men will say here: Is not this the Case of the present Ministers of the Church of England? |
A71315 | But then, how can we agree with him, except we walk with him? |
A71315 | But what will Wishes signifie in that Day, when the time of Sowing, and Planting, and Working is past? |
A71315 | But why Man? |
A71315 | But why so disrespectful to that God, who incircles and crowns thee with loving kindnesses and tender Mercies? |
A71315 | But why, Christian, why art thou so unkind to that God who hath loved thee thus? |
A71315 | But you will say, may not a Man go to Law for his own, and may not a Man justly defend himself by Law, when he is wrong''d by another? |
A71315 | But, V. May it not be in some sence a Duty to love our Neighbour? |
A71315 | Can Charity be there, where the Man will not be Friends with his offended Brother? |
A71315 | Can a Father reject, or forget such Children? |
A71315 | Can a Fountain at the same place send forth bitter Water and sweet? |
A71315 | Can any Commandment, that proceeds out of the Mouth of God, be termed little? |
A71315 | Can such a Father Command any thing that''s unreasonable; or that is not fit for you; or which is against your Interest? |
A71315 | Can such a Father leave or forsake you? |
A71315 | Can that be lovely in us, which all Men take to be deformity in him? |
A71315 | Can there be Love there, where there is no Reconciliation? |
A71315 | Can there be a Government without Goals, and Prisons, and Dungeons? |
A71315 | Can there be greater Characters of his Love? |
A71315 | Can we imagine God is so fond of Services, as not to regard the Heart, which is and ought to be the principal Agent in the Service? |
A71315 | Can we read this of Barbarians, and look upon our selves as civiliz''d, who dare not come up to their Vertue? |
A71315 | Can we say, we agree with him, when God and we draw different ways? |
A71315 | Can you hope for any Mercy from him at such a time, when you do obstruct that Mercy by your uncharitable Spirit? |
A71315 | Can you seriously reflect upon this Commination, and be unconcerned? |
A71315 | Caress a Wretch that hath attempted to ravish the pledges of my Love? |
A71315 | Certainly, nothing would seem hard then, and why should it seem so now, when it is evident and apparent, you are in danger of those Flames? |
A71315 | Christians, the Gospel obliges you to love your Enemies, and will not ye love your Friends? |
A71315 | Content your selves with Corn, and Wine, and Oyl, when an everlasting Kingdom is to be had? |
A71315 | Content your selves with Trash, when Gates of Pearl, and a City of Gold is set before you? |
A71315 | Could God say indeed, ye shall not eat of this Tree? |
A71315 | Dare you appear before the Son of Man in the last day with such a Disposition of Soul, never yet seriously repented of? |
A71315 | Dares any say, he hath not? |
A71315 | Did Christ speak Truth in one place, and not in another? |
A71315 | Did Heathens do so, and shall Christians be strangers to this Practice? |
A71315 | Did not he consider the state and condition of our Souls? |
A71315 | Did they understand the Will of God, and can we follow better Patterns? |
A71315 | Did you go about mortifying that bitterness of Spirit, like Men in good earnest; how could ye fail of Success? |
A71315 | Do not even the Publicans so? |
A71315 | Do not even the Publicans so? |
A71315 | Do not even the Publicans so? |
A71315 | Do not even the Publicans the same? |
A71315 | Do not even the Publicans the same? |
A71315 | Do not even the Publicans the same? |
A71315 | Do not they Maintain, and Feed, and Educate you in the fear of God? |
A71315 | Do not they all come from the same Law- giver? |
A71315 | Do not they entreat you to mind your everlasting Interest? |
A71315 | Do not they plead, and reason, and argue with you, and warn you not to undo your selves? |
A71315 | Do not we commend it? |
A71315 | Do not we hear Men upon their Death- beds wish for it? |
A71315 | Do not we obscure it; do not we cover it; do not we keep it from shining forth? |
A71315 | Do not we own, and confess, and acknowledge, that these are certain marks of Love? |
A71315 | Do not we prize it in those that have it? |
A71315 | Do not we say all the kind things of it? |
A71315 | Do not we talk of it? |
A71315 | Do not you express all that''s terrible by Hell- fire? |
A71315 | Do not you find fault with your Servants and Children if they do not things according to your Mind? |
A71315 | Do not you own, that God sees the very Secrets of your Hearts; and do you hope to hide your secret Malice from his All- seeing Eye? |
A71315 | Do not you see how Tares, how Thistles, and Bryars, and Thorns, cover and hide the Wheat, the good Corn that grows among them? |
A71315 | Do not you see something in this Glass that''s very like you, and resembles your Temper? |
A71315 | Do not you think this would be as great a Torment as can well be imagined? |
A71315 | Do not your Parents love you? |
A71315 | Do we believe that God is pleased with those that have the Name that they live, and are dead? |
A71315 | Do we believe this Promise, and shall not we trust God for the pe ● formance of it? |
A71315 | Do we know how long we shall continue here? |
A71315 | Do you believe the Apostles? |
A71315 | Do you believe the Son of God, that came into the World to save Sinners? |
A71315 | Do you hope for Christ''s Rewards, and will you deprive your selves of them by your wilful Disobedience? |
A71315 | Do you hope to deceive him that searches the Hearts and the Reins? |
A71315 | Do you hope to make the Sepulchre so white, that he shall not spy the rotten Bones that lie concealed there? |
A71315 | Do you look upon him as the inexhausted Spring of Bounty and Mercy and Compassion? |
A71315 | Do you make Conscience of the Stipulation? |
A71315 | Do you own all this, and shall you think much of bowing the Knee before him, and breaking forth into Celebrations of his wonderful Works? |
A71315 | Do you own your selves Disciples of the Lord Jesus, and will not you believe what he saith in the Text? |
A71315 | Do you take all this to be Fancy only; or do you think that these are only Symptoms of brain- sick and melancholy Men? |
A71315 | Do you think to blind him, that sees by Night, as well as by Day? |
A71315 | Do you think to lull him asleep with your Devotion, that he may not mind the Leprosy which infects your Souls? |
A71315 | Do you think to make the Grass so thick, that the Snake which lies underneath, shall escape the piercing Eye of his Omniscience? |
A71315 | Dost not thou believe there is a God though thou seest him not? |
A71315 | Dost thou know when thou shalt die? |
A71315 | Doth Anger according to Solomon''s Verdict, rest in the bosom of Fools, and do you take your selves to be wise Men for it? |
A71315 | Doth God govern himself by the Verdict of the World, and sensual Men? |
A71315 | Doth a Fountain at the same place send forth bitter water and sweet? |
A71315 | Doth a Principle of real Goodness, give a Man such Reputation among his Neighbours, and is it not fit we should imitate these Patterns? |
A71315 | Doth he assure you, that it renders you obnoxious to Hell- fire; and do not you think, what if I should fall into that Fire in my Anger? |
A71315 | Doth not his Soul gather greater Guilt and Blackness by it, while our lasting and continu''d Patience, makes our own brighter and more splendid? |
A71315 | Doth not the Enemy sin grievously against God, when he doth Revile or Curse us? |
A71315 | Doth not the same Spirit run through all? |
A71315 | Doth not this argue a delight in a sinful sensual Life? |
A71315 | Doth not this infer want of Sense, and want of Fear? |
A71315 | Doth not this look like Enmity against God? |
A71315 | Either it will be fulfilled, or not: If it will not be fulfilled, where is Christ''s Veracity? |
A71315 | Except we be of the same Mind with him? |
A71315 | For can we say we believe his Promises, when we will not let the Light of our Piety shine before Men? |
A71315 | For if ye love them which love you, what Reward have you? |
A71315 | For if ye love them which love you, what Reward have you? |
A71315 | For if you love them which love you, what Reward have you? |
A71315 | For if you love them which love you, what Reward have you? |
A71315 | For if you salute your Brethren only, what do you more than others? |
A71315 | For what was all that Glory, but Paint, and shew, which perished? |
A71315 | God doth not, and why should I? |
A71315 | God is Love, and where should Love dwell, but in a Heart that loves? |
A71315 | God is the God of Love, and will he accept of a Devotion coming from a Heart that hath no Love? |
A71315 | Had God Compassion on me when I was his Enemy, and shall I have none on mine? |
A71315 | Hath God exalted your Natures above that of irrational Creatures, and is imitating Bears and Tygers, the highest Dispensation you arrive to? |
A71315 | Hath God loved me when I was his Enemy, and shall I hate my Fellow- Christian, because I look upon him as mine Enemy? |
A71315 | Hath God told you, that he will not strike you dead in a Fit? |
A71315 | Hath he peremptorily forbid you all Bitterness and Wrath, and speaking evil one of another, and will not you obey him? |
A71315 | Hath not God declar''d his Wrath and Indignation against this returning Evil for Evil; and is it your Wisdom to run into the danger? |
A71315 | Hath not God wash''d thee with the Water of Baptism? |
A71315 | Hath not he bestowed his Holy Spirit on thee? |
A71315 | Hath not he bought you with his Blood? |
A71315 | Hath not he given thee large and plentiful means of Grace? |
A71315 | Hath not he laid down his Life for you, to deliver you from the Wrath to come? |
A71315 | Hath not he loved us? |
A71315 | Hath not he power to prescribe Rules, how you are to worship him? |
A71315 | Hath not he set Examples before thee in Scripture, and in the World? |
A71315 | Hath not he surrounded thee with Motives, and Incentives, and Incouragements? |
A71315 | Hath not he vouchsafed thee the Light of his Gospel? |
A71315 | Hath not he water''d thy Ground, and caused Manna to rain upon thy Field? |
A71315 | Hath our great Master threatned it, and do we make light of it? |
A71315 | Have none of you a mind to be prefer''d and exalted to eminent Places? |
A71315 | Have not Thousands and Thousands hoped so, and yet been mistaken? |
A71315 | Have not you seen some curious Limner, draw Infects and Butterflies, with that Life, that one would take them for living Animals? |
A71315 | Have we a Lease of our Lives? |
A71315 | Have you read the Gospel, and can you call it so? |
A71315 | Have you so learned Christ? |
A71315 | He draws thee with Cords of Love,( was ever greater gentleness used toward a Child?) |
A71315 | He that delights in nothing so much as in a Heart sincere, and upright, will he be fond of Hypocrisy? |
A71315 | He that formed the Eye, shall not he see? |
A71315 | He that hath protested, that an evil Heart is abomination to him, will he relish the Water which comes from that bitter Spring? |
A71315 | He that scorned the Blind and the Lame offered to him in Sacrifice, will he be pleased with such blind and lame Devotion? |
A71315 | He that spoke you into Being, hath not he power to command you? |
A71315 | His ill Language, doth it not look very odious in him, and doth it change its Face or Nature, if we use it by way of Retaliation? |
A71315 | How Law- Suits are prolong''d to the loss of our Time, and Quiet, and better Employments? |
A71315 | How are we concern''d, if we do not mourn for it? |
A71315 | How can a Divine Command be little, that concerns Mens Immortal Souls? |
A71315 | How can we shew him a good Example, if we do not let him see, that there is a better Spirit in us? |
A71315 | How can you conquer it, if you do not strive? |
A71315 | How can you mortifie it, if you do not conquer it? |
A71315 | How can you profess sorrow for this Sin, when you fall wilfully into the same Sin again? |
A71315 | How can you strive, if you do not use the proper means and weapons God hath appointed in the Gospel? |
A71315 | How desperate must your Condition be, if after this solemn League and Pacification with God you wallow in your former Sins again? |
A71315 | How did Christ fulfil the Law and the Prophets? |
A71315 | How do many break their Sleep, and fall into Discontent, and Vexation, because they can not be advanced? |
A71315 | How do we confine our Love to little Sects and Parties? |
A71315 | How do we mourn for it, if we do not pity him? |
A71315 | How do we pity him, if we do not endeavour to reform him? |
A71315 | How do you forgive them when ye will not be Reconciled to them? |
A71315 | How doth it appear, that Christ did not come to destroy the Law and the Prophets? |
A71315 | How doth that excuse you? |
A71315 | How great is God''s care of our Souls, who from age to age preserves this Treasure to us? |
A71315 | How long halt you between two Opinions? |
A71315 | How much more must this hold in Spiritual? |
A71315 | How shall we reform him, except we shew him a good Example? |
A71315 | How sweet, how charming is the Motive? |
A71315 | How unlike God is that Man who talks deceitfully to his Neighbour, that tells him one thing and means another? |
A71315 | I am sure you can not think so, if you will consider it in cool Blood? |
A71315 | I call God for a Record upon my Soul, God is my witness, Behold before God I lye not, I say, what are all these, but solemn Oaths? |
A71315 | I do not deny, but these are good things; but what is all this to Christianity, which is a higher Discipline, and a sublimer Dispensation? |
A71315 | I would call to them in the Language of St. John the Baptist, O Generation of Vipers, why will not ye be warned, to flee from the Wrath to come? |
A71315 | If God be so kind to his very Enemies, what will he be to his Friends? |
A71315 | If Mens trespassing upon our Goodness, is subservient to the perfection of Grace, how can we be losers by it? |
A71315 | If he hath not loved us, what do our Praises signifie? |
A71315 | If he is to be blamed, why dost thou imitate him in that, for which thou findest fault with him? |
A71315 | If his Goodness be so great to his Foes, how great must be his kindness to his Favourites? |
A71315 | If it be lawful in some Cases, what those cases are; and what Rules are to be observ''d in the management of it? |
A71315 | If it be, where is Your Security? |
A71315 | If one Man sin against another, the Judge will Judge him, but if a Man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat for him? |
A71315 | If so, whence is it, that such Men find comfort, when the profane Herd can find none? |
A71315 | If there are none, what''s the reason of the many daily Complaints of this Nature? |
A71315 | If they can not move thee to Piety, to Goodness, to a strict Conversation before Men, how canst thou be said to believe them? |
A71315 | If they have been Gainers, why should not we venture upon the reproach of Christ as well as they? |
A71315 | If this be our Religion, why are we loath to put it in practice? |
A71315 | If this were all, what need was there of the Incarnation of the Son of God? |
A71315 | If those that hate him enjoy so much of his Bounty, what may those look for who love him? |
A71315 | If thou believest not his Promises, why dost thou profess the belief of them? |
A71315 | If to serve God be a weariness to you, will it not be so to others? |
A71315 | If ye had believed Moses, you would also have believed me, for he wrote of me; but if you believe not his Writings, how shall you believe my Words? |
A71315 | If you do not more than others, is it not a certain sign that you do not heartily believe an eternal Reward? |
A71315 | If you do not, do you think God sits like an idle Spectator of your Perjuries? |
A71315 | If you find Sweetness, or Consolation in that degree of Goodness you are arrived to, is not that a motive to go on from Vertue to Vertue? |
A71315 | If you love him, you must keep his Commandments; and if Love obliges you to keep one, why not another? |
A71315 | If you offer the Blind and the Lame, will not others imitate you? |
A71315 | Is God a God of Order, and will he be pleased with Contradictions? |
A71315 | Is God so great a King, and is it not reasonable we should come before him, when we come to pray to him, or to praise, him with the deepest Humility? |
A71315 | Is Hell- fire nothing but painted Flames? |
A71315 | Is he a Man, that you think to impose upon him? |
A71315 | Is it a small thing to you to affront him, and would you cheat him too? |
A71315 | Is it necessary to grieve for the loss of these outward Blessings, as if all our Happiness were gone? |
A71315 | Is it necessary to make them an impediment to our Duty, an obstacle to Vertue, or a stumbling- block in our way to the Mansions of Glory? |
A71315 | Is it not Charity in us to acquaint you, in what manner these Services are to be performed? |
A71315 | Is it not Kindness in us, to shew you the Rocks you are to shun? |
A71315 | Is it not Wisdom to foresee the Evil, and to hide our selves from it? |
A71315 | Is it not an excellent Character? |
A71315 | Is it not because the Gospel faith so? |
A71315 | Is it not commanded as much as labouring for a Livelihood? |
A71315 | Is it not far greater Courage to subdue a Passion, than to fall under the Power and Tyranny of it? |
A71315 | Is it not for those that follow and obey him, that their imperfect, yet sincere Obedience may be accepted? |
A71315 | Is it not greater Courage to overcome the Evil with Good, than to be overcome with Evil? |
A71315 | Is it not rather the way to procure the Frowns of God? |
A71315 | Is it not seeming to be good, when we are not? |
A71315 | Is it not to chuse proper Means to attain the end? |
A71315 | Is it not, because they are assured of his Honesty, Sincerity, Piety, Constancy, Veracity, and unfeigned Goodness? |
A71315 | Is it possible that God will prove false? |
A71315 | Is it possible that he will depart from his Word? |
A71315 | Is it possible to rejoyce in Persecutions, in being made the filth and off- scouring of the World? |
A71315 | Is it therefore necessary to rejoyce in it, as in our greatest Felicity? |
A71315 | Is not Christ your greatest Friend? |
A71315 | Is not Flesh and Blood that which you are oblig''d to fight against? |
A71315 | Is not forbearing to return Evil for Evil, Railing for Railing, ill Language for ill Language, a Duty as much as providing for your Families? |
A71315 | Is not the one as easily said as the other, and is there not far greater satisfaction in the one than in the other? |
A71315 | Is not this Drawing a Curtain before it, that it may not be seen? |
A71315 | Is not this a mighty Commendation? |
A71315 | Is not this a sign of a secret Hatred and Indignation against the ways of God? |
A71315 | Is not this an Argument of Obstinacy and Stubbornness? |
A71315 | Is not this breaking the Bond, and dissolving the Tie, and divorcing our selves from him, who loved us, and wash''d us with his own Blood? |
A71315 | Is not this shutting it up in a Dark- Lanthorn, when it should be set on a Candlestick? |
A71315 | Is not this the way to strengthen, to confirm, and to establish, and to perfect it? |
A71315 | Is our Goodness the worse, because it meets with frequent Trials? |
A71315 | Is that convincing them, when they see you do things, and venture on Actions, which God protests shall exclude you from the Kingdom of Heaven? |
A71315 | Is there any of you here, that''s guilty of any of these Sins, and yet do ye hope to be happy? |
A71315 | Is there any thing greater in this World, than the good and welfare of their precious Souls? |
A71315 | Is there not greater Spirit in you, than there is in such pitiful Animals? |
A71315 | Is this Agreement when he bids us harken to the Motions of his Spirit, and we are guided by the Suggestions of the World, and the Devil? |
A71315 | Is this being faithful to the Husband of our Souls? |
A71315 | Is this following his Example, Who when he was reviled, reviled not again? |
A71315 | Is this my acknowledgement of God''s Love? |
A71315 | Is this the Christian Spirit? |
A71315 | Is this the way to procure the Smiles of Heaven? |
A71315 | Is this to Love one another with a pure Heart fervently? |
A71315 | Is this to be Children in Malice, as you are bound to be by your Profession? |
A71315 | Is this to be like our Father which is in Heaven? |
A71315 | Is this to be meek as Doves? |
A71315 | Is this to express my gratitude for his Goodness? |
A71315 | Is this to know, what manner of Spirit you are of? |
A71315 | Is this to purifie your Hearts? |
A71315 | Is this to resist the Devil? |
A71315 | Is this treading in your Masters steps? |
A71315 | Is this your Courage to be Slaves to a silly Lust, and to crouch to a base Temptation of the Devil? |
A71315 | It is Enmity against God, and how can he be your Friend? |
A71315 | It is presumption, and you''ll maintain it, come what will of it; and how can God Almighty like any thing you do? |
A71315 | It is the Holiness of God that makes him sweet and amiable to the Soul: And how can that Soul delight in his Beauty, that sees no Beauty in Holiness? |
A71315 | It is true, God may restrain them from following your example; but if he doth not, is not this the natural consequence of it? |
A71315 | It''s true, there is an Intercessor that sits at the right Hand of God, to intercede, but for whom doth he do that kind Office? |
A71315 | It''s true, they were derided by the World for so doing; but have they lost any thing by the Bargain? |
A71315 | It''s true, you are liable to be Cheated, but who is not? |
A71315 | Let your Light shine,& c. and can you refuse to do it? |
A71315 | Love a Man that hath sought my Life? |
A71315 | Love an Enemy? |
A71315 | Mad- man, that thou may''st not be despis''d by Men, dost thou offend thy God? |
A71315 | May it not justly be said to such among you, as Elijah to the Israelites? |
A71315 | May so much Good be done, by letting the Light of your good Works shine before Men? |
A71315 | Men are led by Example, if you have an aversion from the Ways of Righteousness, will not this tempt others to have an aversion too? |
A71315 | Men, Fathers and Brethren, do you believe the Prophets? |
A71315 | Might not we as well say, that God spoke in jest? |
A71315 | My Brethren, Doth a Fountain at the same place send forth bitter Water and sweet? |
A71315 | Nay have not you found it very Comfortable to do so, to tread his Courts, and to worship him in the Beauty of Holiness? |
A71315 | Nay, doth not the wicked Man lose more by his repeated Injuries, than we by our repeated Patience? |
A71315 | Nay, if he be miserable, doth not he deserve your Prayers, your Alms, and your Charity? |
A71315 | No doubt it is so, and may be made very easie too; and if you ask me how? |
A71315 | Not dare to consult the interest and welfare of your Souls above that of Flesh and Blood? |
A71315 | Not dare to maintain a good Conscience in despight of all Opposition? |
A71315 | Not to love your Enemies will bring the Wrath of God upon you; how much more your not loving those who love you? |
A71315 | Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to Law one with another, why do ye not rather take wrong? |
A71315 | Once more, Is there not a Promise made to the Patient Soul, that God will stop the rage of her Enemies? |
A71315 | Or do you take that to be Repentance which is separated from actual Reformation? |
A71315 | Or, a Being so weak, that it''s possible to gull him into approbation of your Services? |
A71315 | Query, Whether it be in no case lawful for a Christian to go to Law with his Brother, or defend his Right by Law, when wrong''d by another Man? |
A71315 | Repine and murmur when we are corrected; are impatient under the Rod, and look upon the Scourge as our greatest Enemy? |
A71315 | See how his love to me shines in that glorious Sun, and shall I return hatred for his Love? |
A71315 | See how ready God is to give to you, and to lend you what ye stand in need of; and why so? |
A71315 | Shall God, whose Purity is great, and astonishing, and infinite, accept of an Oblation, which hath so impure a Foundation? |
A71315 | Shall any of us, after all these Motives, be loath to pray for his Enemies? |
A71315 | Shall his Patience make you worse, or his Forbearance harden you? |
A71315 | Shall it rise against the Porter, who hath Power to make of it a Vessel of Honour, and Vessel of Dishonour? |
A71315 | Shall we call our selves Children of this great King, and do nothing that''s truly like our Father which is in Heaven? |
A71315 | St. Paul was fond of this, and why should not we? |
A71315 | Take him into my Arms that hath endeavour''d to snatch from me the dearest Blessings I enjoy? |
A71315 | That he that hates his Brother, is a Murtherer, and we know, that a Murtherer hath not Eternal Life in him? |
A71315 | That thy Fellow- servant may not Jeer thee, dost thou dishonour thy Creator and greatest Benefactor? |
A71315 | The loss of an Eye or Limb is nothing to the loss of a Soul? |
A71315 | The neglect of the more difficult Task will make you miserable, and will not neglect of the easier cover your Faces with Confusion? |
A71315 | Then would ye be put off with a Temporal Reward? |
A71315 | This I say hath no great weight in it; for how doth it appear, that what they swore was unlawful? |
A71315 | Thou blamest him because he doth not salute thee first; and art not thou to be blamed as much as he for not preventing his Salutation? |
A71315 | To what purpose is your Reason, if from Gods forbearing to punish you, you do not infer his earnest desire to save you? |
A71315 | Treasures of Mercy, which came in with Jesus Christ? |
A71315 | Vnderstand this, ye bruitish among the People, and ye Fools, when will ye be wise, He that planted the Ear, shall not he hear? |
A71315 | WHAT is sweeter than Light? |
A71315 | Was God''s Love to me intended as a Pattern for me to follow, and shall I overlook the Design, and please my self in my Hatred and Ill- nature? |
A71315 | Was he ignorant of what our Shoulders would bear? |
A71315 | Was the way they walk''d in, good and safe? |
A71315 | Was there ever greater Cowardice than this returning Evil for Evil? |
A71315 | We all conclude, they were saved by doing as Christ directs in the Text, and shall we be fond of finding out a new way to Salvation? |
A71315 | We grant it, but whose fault is it? |
A71315 | We that stand so much upon our Credit, why are we loth to venture upon that, which will procure us such Credit not only with Men, but with God too? |
A71315 | What Flattery, what Dissembling, what Compliances are used, and all to be Great? |
A71315 | What Grief, what Sorrow, what Anguish must this cause? |
A71315 | What Ingratitude is this? |
A71315 | What Iniquity do''st thou find in him, that a God so tender and so kind can not attract or charm thy Heart into reciprocal Love? |
A71315 | What Injury we offer( by hiding our Light) to God and Man? |
A71315 | What Reward? |
A71315 | What a Mercy is it, that God will accept of a sincere Repentance after such Provocations? |
A71315 | What a Torment, what a Plague, what a Vexation must this be? |
A71315 | What a false Accusation of God? |
A71315 | What can keep you in awe if Oaths can not? |
A71315 | What cringing, what bowing to Great Men? |
A71315 | What do we think? |
A71315 | What else can be the reason of it? |
A71315 | What greater than your Father which is in Heaven? |
A71315 | What hath the World to do with my Religion? |
A71315 | What if Men should count you Fools for minding the business of your Calling, or providing for your Families? |
A71315 | What if Men, who have no right Apprehensions of God, make nothing of corrupt Communications, must I be guided by their Example? |
A71315 | What if no Man hath hired us; Is not the excellency of the Work enough to make us run into the Vineyard? |
A71315 | What if the brutish Man do curse us, what hurt can his Cursing do us, while we do not answer him according to his Folly? |
A71315 | What if they be weakly and sickly, is it likely he will turn them out of Doors, or cast them away from his Presence? |
A71315 | What is Hypocrisy? |
A71315 | What is Wisdom? |
A71315 | What is grace, but converting our Souls and Bodies to those Uses, for which God hath appointed them? |
A71315 | What is greater than God? |
A71315 | What is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? |
A71315 | What is there that is more hunted after? |
A71315 | What needless Charges Men involve themselves in to their own Vexation and Discontent? |
A71315 | What running to this Friend, and to th''other Friend? |
A71315 | What should make it unpracticable? |
A71315 | What waiting at Court? |
A71315 | What was the giving of his Son, but a miraculous deceding from his own right of punishing us according to our Deserts? |
A71315 | What''s the Reason that so many Thousands rush into Sin, as the Horse rushes into the Battle? |
A71315 | What''s the Reason, that God calls away so many, and summons them to Judgment, before they have seriously consider''d, why they did come hither? |
A71315 | What, did not he know our Frames? |
A71315 | What, upon a Death- bed? |
A71315 | What? |
A71315 | What? |
A71315 | What? |
A71315 | What? |
A71315 | What? |
A71315 | What? |
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A71315 | What? |
A71315 | What? |
A71315 | When God bids us do one Thing, and we do another? |
A71315 | When God commands us to live in Love, and we maintain and harbour Hatred and ill Will to our fellow Christians? |
A71315 | When he bids us walk in the Light, and we walk in Darkness? |
A71315 | When shall that admirable Spirit, which shined so bright in the primitive Believers revive again? |
A71315 | When shall that pristine Unity and Purity return? |
A71315 | When shall thy Kingdom come, that the whole Multitude which Believe shall be of one Heart, and of one Soul? |
A71315 | When you come to lie upon a Death- Bed, do not you desire an everlasting Reward? |
A71315 | When you see the Crown of Glory glittering a- far off, which the eternal God holds out to you as a Motive? |
A71315 | Whence is it, that such Persons can rejoice in Tribulations, under which the careless Sinner faints and sinks, and casts away his Hope? |
A71315 | Where are the distinguishing Marks, to discern, which is to be practised, and which is not? |
A71315 | Where? |
A71315 | Which is better, that God should count ye Fools; or that Men should do it? |
A71315 | Who can grapple with him? |
A71315 | Who can make his Party good against him? |
A71315 | Who can resist him? |
A71315 | Who doth not commiserate a blind Man? |
A71315 | Who makes them to differ? |
A71315 | Who told you, you may observe one, and not another? |
A71315 | Who would have any Difference with him? |
A71315 | Why art not thou angry with the Fire for barning the Stuff that''s thrown into it? |
A71315 | Why do we praise him, as it is in our Liturgy, for our Creation, Preservation, and all the Blessings of this Life? |
A71315 | Why do we stand reasoning and disputing about the hardness of the thing, and do not put our Hand to the Plough? |
A71315 | Why should not we do as they did? |
A71315 | Why should not we free and extricate our selves from the Snares of the World, and press toward the Mark as well as they? |
A71315 | Why should we think much of it to cry, God bless you, when the Enemy cries, God damn you? |
A71315 | Why should you urge this,( will some say) for the thing is impracticable? |
A71315 | Why will ye provoke your Father in Heaven, to deal with you, as with hardned Malefactors? |
A71315 | Why will ye pull down that Vengeance upon you, which God was willing to lay by, and to keep lock''d up in his Magazenes of Thunder? |
A71315 | Why will you play with his Patience? |
A71315 | Why wilt thou dishonour him with those Creatures which were intended for thy use and refreshment? |
A71315 | Why wilt thou make those Members of thy Body Instruments of Unrighteousness, which were intended to be Instruments of Holiness? |
A71315 | Why wilt thou make thy Soul a sink and sty of impure and noisome Lusts, which was intended to be a Temple of the Holy Ghost? |
A71315 | Why wilt thou suffer that Tongue of thine to vent it self in frothy and corrupt Communications, which was given thee to sing his Praises? |
A71315 | Why? |
A71315 | Will not you blush to alledge them before the Searcher of all Hearts? |
A71315 | Will you dare to plead them in the last Day? |
A71315 | Will you plead, that you mean no evil by it? |
A71315 | Will you tempt him to send Scorpions, and fiery Serpents among you, when he designed nothing but Rods to correct you? |
A71315 | Would I use a Friend so? |
A71315 | Would not you have your Adorations of him useful and profitable to you? |
A71315 | Would ye offer Devotions to God which vanish in the Air? |
A71315 | Would you see and tast how sweet and gracious God is? |
A71315 | Would you therefore neglect doing so because of that Censure? |
A71315 | Would you think them so, if you lay Howling in Eternal Flames? |
A71315 | afraid of transgressing a Punctilio of Honour, when you run the hazard of Eternal Damnation? |
A71315 | and can any thing look more stately and magnificent? |
A71315 | and canst thou find in thy Heart to grieve such Bowels of Compassion? |
A71315 | and examine your Lives: Are these Oaths observed? |
A71315 | and if the Righteous be scarcely saved, where will the Wicked and Sinner appear? |
A71315 | and shall we be afraid to tread in their Steps? |
A71315 | and what is more amiable than Goodness? |
A71315 | because Flesh and Blood saith it is so? |
A71315 | how subject to Mistakes? |
A71315 | might not a Papist say, I mean no Idolatry by Worshipping Saints and Angels? |
A71315 | not dare to obey your God, whom you confess to be greater than the greatest Monarchs of the World? |
A71315 | not ours, but of his own impenitent Heart, which indeed deserves our Pity and our Prayers, but heaps no Guilt upon our Heads? |
A71315 | put these Indignities upon my best and greatest Friend? |
A71315 | to be sent away with a Curse, even with the Curse inflicted on the Man that came to the Marriage Feast without a Wedding Garment? |
A71315 | to tremble at the Censures of Dust and Ashes, and to throw your selves headlong into the gulph of Perdition? |
A71315 | to what purpose do ye pray? |
A71315 | what need of all the cost and charges of Miracles, and the visible descent of the Holy Ghost? |
A71315 | what need of all the mighty Manifestations of God we see, and read of, and pretend to believe? |
A71315 | when God enjoins us to take to the strait Way, and we venture upon the Broad? |
A71315 | when the young Man ask''d him, What good thing he should do to inherit Eternal Life? |
A71315 | whereas those of poor Mortals, how partial are they? |
A71315 | will the Name bear us out? |
A71315 | will the Title make us Favourites? |
A71315 | you''ll reply, Who saith it is so dangerous? |
A44513 | ''T is dangerous to climb a Tree: Yet doth the Husband- man therefore let his better Fruit drop down, without getting up to gather it? |
A44513 | ''T is dangerous to fight against a numerous Enemy: But is the Soldier therefore dis- hearten''d from venturing into the Battel? |
A44513 | ''T is dangerous to go to Sea: Yet doth the Sea ● man therefore forbear his Voyage? |
A44513 | 1, 2, 3. Who is this that comes from Edom, with died Garments from Bozra? |
A44513 | 11, 12. by eating with the Man who had no Wedding- Garment? |
A44513 | 13. possibly the same which Christ celebrated the Eucharist in; and who knows not, that mention is sometimes made of a Church in such a Man''s House? |
A44513 | 2. to be the Husband of one Wife, yet how doth it follow from thence, that his Widow, when he dies, must never marry again? |
A44513 | 26. that said to Christ, Have not we eaten and drunk in thy presence? |
A44513 | 3. were as much out, when they cryed, Wherefore have we fasted, and thou seest not? |
A44513 | 4. Who hath given me a Key to other Men''s Hearts, whereby I can judge, at the Receiving of the Eucharist, that my Neighbour receives unworthily? |
A44513 | AND dost thou think that those were the only Men that ever mocked the Lord Jesus, O my Soul? |
A44513 | AND hast not thou thus betrayed him, O my Soul, even with a false and counterfeit Devotion? |
A44513 | AND hath not this been thy Case, O my Soul? |
A44513 | AND hath not this been thy Temper, O my Soul? |
A44513 | And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? |
A44513 | And can they imagine, that God will reward them for neglecting a greater Duty, for a less? |
A44513 | And canst thou think, thou shalt? |
A44513 | And doth not this look like Consent, or Approbation of that Murther? |
A44513 | And forgettest the Lord thy Maker, that hath stretched forth the Heavens, and laid the foundations of the Earth? |
A44513 | And hast not thou done so as to other Sins? |
A44513 | And hast not thou prayed sometimes to be rid of secret Corruptions, while thou hast hoped God would not hear thee? |
A44513 | And hath it not forced thee to call in other Follies to maintain it? |
A44513 | And hath not this been thy Case, O my Soul? |
A44513 | And he said unto them the third time, Why, what Evil hath he done? |
A44513 | And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, or scrip, or shoes, did you lack any thing? |
A44513 | And how are we better than such a Man, if we are afraid to follow our Heavenly Father, even then when he leads us over Rocks, and Precipices? |
A44513 | And how can any Man be sure there are such Words in the Bible, as, This is my Body, if he may not believe his Eye- sight? |
A44513 | And how little hast thou minded the threatnings of the Holy Ghost in this case? |
A44513 | And how much does this want of Rebellion, and thinking our selves wiser than God? |
A44513 | And how much doth this want of betraying thy Master that bought thee, and thy God who redeemed thee? |
A44513 | And if it were dangerous, why should it fright any Soul from coming? |
A44513 | And if one Circumstance may be neglected, why may not another, such as Sitting, be forborn? |
A44513 | And if others will be wicked, why should that be an Impediment of my being good? |
A44513 | And if such a Person be not worthy of him, how can be worthily receive him in the Sacrament? |
A44513 | And if these be proper and necessary here, why should the humble Posture, in which they are offered, be counted superstitious? |
A44513 | And if this way of reasoning were just, why should it not be as convenient for the Priest to receive in one kind, as for the Laity? |
A44513 | And if you ask me, What Reflections are most proper in this case? |
A44513 | And is not this a powerful Motive to bear what Providence thinks fit to inflict upon us? |
A44513 | And is the Labour for the Body of that Consequence, that the Soul deserves to be neglected? |
A44513 | And ought not this to make thee say to him for the future, Speak, Lord, for thy Servant hears? |
A44513 | And said unto them, Why sleep ye? |
A44513 | And seemed to be zealous for Religion, when it was only thine own private Interest thou didst aim at? |
A44513 | And shall I betray him any longer? |
A44513 | And shall I entertain them? |
A44513 | And shall I make much of them? |
A44513 | And shall I think any thing to dear to part with for thy sake? |
A44513 | And shall so dangerous a Guest lodge any longer there? |
A44513 | And shall this be made Felony, without Benefit of the Clergy? |
A44513 | And they said unto him, Where wilt thou, that we prepare? |
A44513 | And they said, What need we any farther Witness? |
A44513 | And was this a Crime, which Men of Ingenuity would have thought the greatest Mercy? |
A44513 | And we are told of a Man, that had the Power of Miracles conferr''d upon him, and being ask''d of his Friend, How he came by that Power? |
A44513 | And what better signs can there be of the Spiritual health, and flourishing state and condition of their Souls? |
A44513 | And what can we ascribe these Defects to, but to Men''s Indisposition? |
A44513 | And what if Christ calls Judas a Devil? |
A44513 | And what if there were? |
A44513 | And what is it, not to discern the Lord''s Body? |
A44513 | And what is this, but Consecrating the Elements, and Sanctifying of them? |
A44513 | And what, if sometimes he doth afflict us? |
A44513 | And where is the Place of thy Rest? |
A44513 | And while I give my self liberty to judge another, is it not a very great Sign that I am not very sensible of mine own Vileness? |
A44513 | And while thou considerest not the Operations of God''s Hands, how canst thou be thankful? |
A44513 | And who can abide the Fierceness of thine Anger; where thy Fury is poured out like Fire, and the Rocks are thrown down by thine Arm? |
A44513 | And who can forget himself so much, as to think that all this may be done without a serious Behaviour? |
A44513 | And whom couldst thou blame, if God should condemn thee as an Unbeliever, who hast resisted the known Truths of his most holy Oracles? |
A44513 | And why art thou so loth to be holy, as thy Father in Heaven is holy? |
A44513 | And, O my Soul, hast thou not very often, out of Mistrust of God''s Providence, made use of wrong Means to compass thy Safety? |
A44513 | And, O my Soul; Dost not thou see thy self in this Glass? |
A44513 | Are the Priest''s Hands holier or cleaner than the People''s? |
A44513 | Are there two Christs? |
A44513 | Are you Christians, or are you Heathens? |
A44513 | Are you afraid of living up to his Example? |
A44513 | Are you afraid of losing your foolish Delights and Satisfactions? |
A44513 | Are you afraid of parting with that, which is death himself to your redeemer, your Sins and Naughtiness? |
A44513 | Are you afraid of purifying your Selves, even as he is pure? |
A44513 | Are you content, all should stoop to him, and all that is within you should bow to his Scepter? |
A44513 | Are you content, he should be formed in you, and fill all your Faculties? |
A44513 | Are you so, saith the Bishop? |
A44513 | Are you willing, he should tread down his Enemies in you, Enemies which have usurp''d his power? |
A44513 | Are you wise and understanding Men: And will you not open your Eyes, and see your Danger? |
A44513 | Art not thou as dull and as dead in God''s Service, as thou hast been heretofore? |
A44513 | Art thou walking, art thou standing, art thou sitting, art thou going out, or coming in? |
A44513 | Art thou wiser than he; Or dost thou see farther into things than he? |
A44513 | Awake, awake thou sluggard, lest the Revenger of Blood overtake thee? |
A44513 | Besides, do People make a Meal when they are going to a Feast? |
A44513 | But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of Man with a Kiss? |
A44513 | But doth any Man of common Sense infer from thence, that such a Person is transubstantiated into a Fox, or Lion, or Tyger? |
A44513 | But how can a certain Law be prescribed to People that have neither Grapes nor Wine; as it happens in many Countries far distant from the Sea? |
A44513 | But how shall we ever love him to any purpose, except we use the means, whereby that Love must be raised and kindled in our Breast? |
A44513 | But however, if Communion in one kind be so profitable for the Laity, why should it not be as profitable for the Clergy? |
A44513 | But if these be the beginnings of God''s anger, what will the progress of his Justice be, and where will it end? |
A44513 | But the other answering, rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same Condemnation? |
A44513 | But what doth it signifie, whether the Modern Greeks, who are sunk into gross Ignorance and Barbarism, be of our Opinion, or no? |
A44513 | But will this Argument hold Water, do you think, when God shall plead with you? |
A44513 | But, O my Soul, how hast thou hunted after Shadows, and left the Substance unregarded? |
A44513 | But, What if Christ be in Heaven, and out of the reach of thy Baseness and Malice? |
A44513 | But, suppose it were a Task of some difficulty, Is Heaven worth nothing? |
A44513 | Can I look on my neglects, and not charge them with this Death? |
A44513 | Can I remember my Love to the World, and not accuse it of having had a hand in buffeting and reproaching of him? |
A44513 | Can I see all this, and continue stubborn and obstinate, and an enemy to these Virtues? |
A44513 | Can I think of my Pride and Wrath, and not bid them look on the Wounds they made in that Holy Flesh? |
A44513 | Can I think of this, and not believe, that this was to teach me, how I must behave my self toward those, that have done me wrong? |
A44513 | Can he that is the Fountain of Wisdom, do any thing that is irrational? |
A44513 | Can the Shell please God, who hath so often declared, that he will be satisfied with nothing but the Kernel? |
A44513 | Can we think, because we have no extraordinary Esteem of the Mercy, that God will set light by it because we do? |
A44513 | Can you hope for God''s Pardon at last, that refuse to accept of it in this Ordinance? |
A44513 | Can you prefer your little business before his Will? |
A44513 | Canst thou forgive such injuries, and shall not I forgive them that trespass against me? |
A44513 | Canst thou have a better Prince to rule thy Thoughts, and Words, and Actions? |
A44513 | Consider it, thou dull and careless Man; and then tell me, whether Christ requires any thing unreasonable of thee to prevent it? |
A44513 | Conversing with our selves before we eat, consists in asking our Hearts, What have I done? |
A44513 | Did ever any miscarry under his Rule? |
A44513 | Did not the hands of the Soldiers, that nailed the Saviour of the World to the Cross, tremble? |
A44513 | Did not your Hearts smite you when you said so? |
A44513 | Did the Priests receive greater Benefit by Christ''s Death, than the People? |
A44513 | Didst thou ever consider, O my Soul, what thy Sins did cost? |
A44513 | Do you believe that he must be your Judge, and will you allow always your selves in Rebellion and Contumacy under his Injunctions? |
A44513 | Do you pretend to be friends of Christ, and are you loath to accept of him for your Friend? |
A44513 | Do you take pleasure in being Reprobates? |
A44513 | Does any Man hope ot arrive to Learning and Scholarship, without Books or Reading? |
A44513 | Does any Person hope to keep himself warm in Winter, that puts on no Cloaths? |
A44513 | Dost thou hope to rest for ever among the Flowers of Paradise, and is it not high time to prepare for it? |
A44513 | Dost thou oblige thy self to be his Subject, and dost thou turn Rebel? |
A44513 | Dost thou say freely, and without murmuring, It is the Lord, let him do what seems good to him? |
A44513 | Dost thou take him for thy Lord, and wilt not thou do what he saith? |
A44513 | Dost thou take him to be some Heathen Deity that hath Eyes, and sees not, Ears and hears not? |
A44513 | Dost thou think God doth not hear the great Mediators Prayer for thee? |
A44513 | Dost thou think, he can refuse his intercessions, whom he always hears? |
A44513 | Doth any Man hope to thrive in the World, that will not bestir himself, become active in his profession, and apply himself to Labour? |
A44513 | Doth he promise to come and meet you in this Ordinance, and are you loath, or ashamed, to be seen in his Company? |
A44513 | Drink of it, thou thirsty Soul, Why shouldst thou fear? |
A44513 | Either thou understandest, what this engagement means, or thou dost not: If not, how darest thou touch the Sacred Elements with polluted Hands? |
A44513 | Eternal Life and Glory: And what greater Blessing can be thought of, to enjoy all Blessings at once, and to all Eternity? |
A44513 | Foolish Creature, Dost thou thus reward the Lord thy God? |
A44513 | For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? |
A44513 | For whatever thou hast pretended, thou hast not truly known him? |
A44513 | For whether is greater, he that sitteth at Meat, or he that serveth? |
A44513 | For, Is Christ divided? |
A44513 | HOW often, O my Soul, hath Christ asked thee this Question, Am not I thy King? |
A44513 | HOw justly after this prospect, may God say, What could have been done more to my Vineyard, that I have not done in it? |
A44513 | Had he asked, What he should do to be saved? |
A44513 | Had thy Mind been set upon Spiritual Things, how couldst thou have run out into this licentiousness? |
A44513 | Had you rather keep your Trash, and Dung, and Filth, than come hither and be made clean? |
A44513 | Hadst thou considered it, how couldst thou have been so merry, so blithe, so jocular in the Commission? |
A44513 | Hast not thou been more afraid of Dust and Ashes, than of the Holy One of Israel? |
A44513 | Hast not thou drawn nigh unto him with thy Lips, when in thy Conversation thou hast denied him? |
A44513 | Hast not thou feared Men, more than God? |
A44513 | Hast not thou given God the Shell of thy Duties, without the Kernel? |
A44513 | Hast not thou given him invitations to enter into thee by carnal Security, and taking too great liberty in thy conversation? |
A44513 | Hast not thou maintain''d thy League with Sin, while thou hast pretended, by thy bowing to the Son of God, that that League was broken and dissolved? |
A44513 | Hast not thou plainly flattered thy self, that God would break his Word, and act contrary to his Promises and Threatnings? |
A44513 | Hast not thou professed Grief for thy Lusts, when at the same time thou hast hugged them as thy Darlings? |
A44513 | Hast not thou professed Love to the holy Jesus, when at the same time thou hast most basely affronted him? |
A44513 | Hast not thou shewn much love with thy Lips, while thy Heart hath gone astray from thy Redeemer? |
A44513 | Hast not thou told him sometimes that thou repentest, when thou hast been loth to part with thy darling Bosom- Sin? |
A44513 | Hast not thou too often pretended God''s Glory, when thou hast sought thine own? |
A44513 | Hath God given thee Power to examine thy self, and wilt thou neglect that Power? |
A44513 | Hath not Temporal Interest restrain''d thee from Sin, more, than God''s All- seeing Eye? |
A44513 | Have the Workers of Iniquity no Knowledge, who eat Bread, and call not upon the Lord? |
A44513 | He is willing to run upon what errand soever God shall think fit to send him? |
A44513 | He sees that such a Blessing will be thy bane, and therefore wisely takes it away from thee, why then dost thou grumble? |
A44513 | His Child, and become a Prodigal? |
A44513 | His Confederate, and conspire against him with his Enemies? |
A44513 | How boldly hast thou sometimes thrown off his Yoak, and how unwilling hast thou been, that this Man should reign over thee? |
A44513 | How can I remember them without abhorrency? |
A44513 | How can I remember them without arming my Soul with resolution and arguments, to fight against them? |
A44513 | How can he but frown upon that Creature, whom no Charms of an Almighty Love can melt, and the threatning of Man can affright into any thing? |
A44513 | How can he wash thee with the Blood of the Lamb? |
A44513 | How can the Soul fix on the Cross of Christ? |
A44513 | How can you, with such Hands, receive the Body of the Lord? |
A44513 | How canst thou hope for a seat in the Eternal Mansions, where no defiled thing must enter, that wouldst not cleanse thy self from filthiness? |
A44513 | How canst thou hope to be advanced to my Throne, who wast ashamed to look upon me hanging on the Cross? |
A44513 | How canst thou hope to participate of my Happiness, that wouldst not weep at my bitter Passion? |
A44513 | How could sinful delights be so charming to thee, if thou didst believe, that they will throw thy Soul into a violent Fever? |
A44513 | How could we apply our selves to the Duties required of us, with that coldness, which is so visible in most Congregations? |
A44513 | How could we hear with that indifferency? |
A44513 | How could we let our Thoughts rove and wander, while we seem to be engaged in Devotion? |
A44513 | How could''st thou Receive with an impenitent Heart, if thou didst believe, that thy impenitence will kill thy Soul? |
A44513 | How do I know, but that he who was vicious a Week ago, may become a Penitent that Day? |
A44513 | How durst thou venture on those sins, that are poison and venom to thy Soul? |
A44513 | How durst we stare about in Prayer? |
A44513 | How justly may I Expostulate with you, what are you afraid of, that you either come not at all to this Well of Salvation, or come but seldom? |
A44513 | How many have I known, that have come to this Holy Sacrament, and, after that, have grown worse than ever? |
A44513 | How often hast thou scandalized and given offence to other Men by thy unchristian? |
A44513 | How shall I aggravate their Offence? |
A44513 | How shall I be reveng''d upon you? |
A44513 | How shall I convince the holy Angels that stand about me, that I condole with him? |
A44513 | How shall I testifie my Concernedness at the Sufferings of the Lord Jesus? |
A44513 | I am going to Mount Calvary, and shall these menstruous rags be my Attendance? |
A44513 | I am now going to the Cross of Christ, and shall I approach with these Ensigns of Rebellion in my Soul? |
A44513 | If Christ deserves not thy venturing All, even Life it self, what dost thou profess thy self a Christian for? |
A44513 | If Christ thought it convenient to give it him, who shall say, it was not so? |
A44513 | If he be their Father, where is his Honour? |
A44513 | If he saith, that it amounts to murthering of him, Will thy laughing at the Conceit excuse thy Folly when his Anger shall be kindled? |
A44513 | If my Neighbour will throw himself down from a Precipice, why should that hinder me from walking in a plain Path? |
A44513 | If such a death as Abner''s deserv''d to be taken notice of, what must we think of the Death of the Lord Jesus? |
A44513 | If the Actions of a Child of God are no part of thy Life, how dwells thy Heavenly Father''s Nature in thee? |
A44513 | If this Sacrament be a means of obtaining Happiness, will that Happiness fall to our share, without using the proper means? |
A44513 | If thou art a Child of God, why wilt not thou be governed by the Spirit of God? |
A44513 | If thou art, what mean the Vanities thou doatest upon? |
A44513 | If thou believest God to be infinitely Wise; and consequently, that what he sends on thee, is most wisely order''d, why dost thou murmur? |
A44513 | If thou dost good to them that do good to thee, what Thanks hast thou? |
A44513 | If thou hast not slain thy Thousands with Saul, nor thy Ten thousands with David? |
A44513 | If thou refusest to come to this Ordinance, how can God be kind to thee, how can he visit thee with the Favour he bears to his own People? |
A44513 | If we reflect on the marvellous Purity of the Divine ● Nature, Who of us can be thought worthy to approach it? |
A44513 | Indeed, what can we desire he should do more for us? |
A44513 | Is any Man sorry for a Treasure he finds in the Field? |
A44513 | Is any sick among you? |
A44513 | Is it Grief and vexation, that I can not have my Will in such outward things, as my Appetite desires? |
A44513 | Is it Impatience, or Worldly sorrow? |
A44513 | Is it Lov ● and Affection to the Vanities of this World? |
A44513 | Is it a desire of Vain- glory? |
A44513 | Is it backwardness to Holy Duties? |
A44513 | Is it discontent in the condition I am in? |
A44513 | Is it frothy discourses? |
A44513 | Is it intemperance in Eating, and Drinking? |
A44513 | Is it not their worthy Receiving? |
A44513 | Is it not worth a being torn by Bears and Lions, to inherit an everlasting Kingdom? |
A44513 | Is it not worth knowing whether thou art of God, or a Child of the Devil? |
A44513 | Is it possible that an offended God will then fly into thy Embraces, whom thou didst not care for all thy Days? |
A44513 | Is it possible to behold God''s bleeding Love, and not cry Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; Praise thy God, O Zion? |
A44513 | Is it possible to know his Beauty, and not to be enamour''d with him? |
A44513 | Is it rendring railing for railing? |
A44513 | Is it revenge? |
A44513 | Is it such Comfortable thing to be excluded from God''s favour? |
A44513 | Is it sudden Anger? |
A44513 | Is it unwillingness to to know the Will of God? |
A44513 | Is it vain Romantick Imaginations? |
A44513 | Is it weariness of God''s Service? |
A44513 | Is it when an angry God looks thee in the Face, and an evil Conscience upon thy Death- bed presages thy future Torments? |
A44513 | Is not he, that sits at Meat? |
A44513 | Is not the Tongue a Member of the Body, as well as the Hand? |
A44513 | Is this a Cause, worth suffering for? |
A44513 | Is this a State to continue in one Moment longer? |
A44513 | Is this a condition to sleep another Night in? |
A44513 | Israel is an empty Vine; He brings forth fruit unto himself: Why unto himself? |
A44513 | It is design''d to recreate, design''d to refresh, desing''d to revive, design''d to support their Spirits: Dost thou believe this, Christian? |
A44513 | It is impossible he should be mistaken in his Verdict of things: And wilt thou say, he doth not speak what is true? |
A44513 | It is the Will, the Order, the Command of that God, in whom you believe to come often, and shall any thing hinder you from obeying his Command? |
A44513 | It was more particularly to direct us in our Praises and Thanksgivings when we come to the Table of our dearest Lord? |
A44513 | It was therefore wisely said by Alphonso King of Arragon, when one of his Familiars ask''d him, Who it was, that he counted the happiest Man? |
A44513 | JUdgment must begin at the House of God; and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them, that obey not the Gospel of God? |
A44513 | Judgments, if they befall an unworthy Receiver, do expiate his Sins? |
A44513 | Let the Physician be never so skilful, if the Patient will not follow his prescriptions, what hopes can there be of his Recovery? |
A44513 | Must his Wisdom be modell''d by thy shallow Reason; Or shall a Creature dispute the Oracle of its Creator? |
A44513 | Must you be dragg''d to your own Happiness? |
A44513 | Must you be forc''d to drink of this Water of Life? |
A44513 | Nay, Who can promise themselves a greater Welcome to this Table, than those that resist Temptation? |
A44513 | Need he value thy Flouts and Jeers, that hath Flames and Vengeance at command, to lash thee into better Manners? |
A44513 | No sense of the Mysteries, the very Angels desire to look into? |
A44513 | O God what moved thee to love me thus? |
A44513 | Once God seem''d to have thy Heart: But did not Sin and the World possess it afterwards? |
A44513 | Or canst thou think he did not design thy Good, when he commanded that which crosses the Inclinations of Flesh and Blood? |
A44513 | Or his Perfection, and not to love him? |
A44513 | Or how couldst thou hope to be cleansed, that wouldst not make use of my Blood to wash thy self? |
A44513 | Or sorry for an Act of Oblivion which a gracious Prince imparts to Offenders, whereof himself is the Principal? |
A44513 | Or sorry for an Estate that falls to him by the Decease of a Relation? |
A44513 | Or what Satisfaction in a Rescue effected by the Devil''s Means; at least, by doing things acceptable to him? |
A44513 | Or, If a King put a Treasure into a poor Prisoner''s Hands, will he scorn it, or withdraw his Hand? |
A44513 | Or, Who assures me, that he who did cast God''s Laws behind him Yesterday, may not this Day cry out, O wretched Man that I am? |
A44513 | Or, Who of us is worthy of that incomprehensible and diffusive Love, represented to us in this Ordinance? |
A44513 | Or, are the Bowels, into which the Bread is received, purer than the Hand? |
A44513 | Or, if we have the same Apprehensions of our own Unworthiness, shall not we express them by proper External Postures? |
A44513 | Or, was ever any so foolish, as to hope to come to his Journies end, if he sits still in a Tavern or Alehouse by the way? |
A44513 | Or, were some peculiar Advantages consigned to them by his Death, over and above what is intended for the Laity? |
A44513 | Saying, Art thou the Christ? |
A44513 | See, through what Sufferings the Son of God enters into his Glory: And canst thou think thou shalt reign with him, except thou suffer with him? |
A44513 | Shall I accept of a part, and not of the whole? |
A44513 | Shall I dare to do such a barbarous thing again? |
A44513 | Shall I receive him as a Saviour, and not as a Guide and Ruler too? |
A44513 | Shall I see thy Face broke with Grief, and not blush at my daring Sins that broke it thus? |
A44513 | Shall I stretch forth my Hand, to put his Sceptre of Grace and Mercy to my Lips, and break the Sceptre when I have done? |
A44513 | Shall I think much of the burthen, when thou enduredst far greater for my sake? |
A44513 | Shall I with the Jews, refuse my great Redeemers company, and desire a Barabbas? |
A44513 | Shall a Man be sorry for that, which God had ordain''d, appointed and design''d for the Relief and Redress of our Misery? |
A44513 | Shall any thing hinder me from loving thee? |
A44513 | Shall my Body? |
A44513 | Shall my Sins? |
A44513 | Shall not his Orders prevail with you? |
A44513 | Shall so sweet a voice be lost upon you? |
A44513 | Shall that excellent Faculty be employed in searching into the Accounts of thy Shop, and not into the State of thy better Part? |
A44513 | Shall the World, or the Creatures here below? |
A44513 | Shall thy Reason lie useless? |
A44513 | Shall we look upon that Celestial Food with dull and careless Thoughts? |
A44513 | Shall we see him bow his Head under the Weight of our Offences, and shall not the Burthen appear heavy and insupportable to our Spirits? |
A44513 | Shall we see the innocent Lamb weep for our Stubbornness, and be unconcerned at the Spectacle? |
A44513 | Should a poor Man take the Cordial you send him, and fling it upon a Dunghil, how would you resent it? |
A44513 | Should thy God love thee at this rate; love thee to Day, and forsake thee to Morrow, where wouldst thou hide thy Head in the Day of Battel? |
A44513 | Sinner, When is it that thou dost intend to reform? |
A44513 | The Holy Ghost, speaking by St. Paul, protests so much: And wilt thou add sinning against the Holy Ghost to all thy Offences? |
A44513 | The Scripture calls them Filth and Poyson; for so they are in the Eyes of an holy God: And are they dearer to you, than the Love of God? |
A44513 | The Sins that thou hast left, was it the Love of God, or the Change of thy Condition, that made thee abandon them? |
A44513 | The Watch- men that go ● ● ut the City, found me; to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my Soul loves? |
A44513 | The wilful Neglect of this Sacrament is a damnable Sin: And can you think that your not coming will make your Condition more easie and tolerable? |
A44513 | Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? |
A44513 | They are perfect Leprosie: And had had you rather be full of Sores and Boyls, than come hither to be made clean? |
A44513 | They are the Disgrace and Reproach of your Souls: And will you delight in your Infamy? |
A44513 | They are the things that separate betwixt a glorious God and you: And will you uphold that fatal Distance and Separation? |
A44513 | They being things which no Man can help,( for, Who can hinder the Devil from tempting him?) |
A44513 | They crucified your Saviour: And will you keep that which murther''d him? |
A44513 | They exclude you from the Kingdom of Heaven: And will you be content with that Exclusion? |
A44513 | This was literally fulfilled in Christ: And shall not we share in the Depth of that Sorrow? |
A44513 | Thou canst weep for the Loss of a Father; and canst not thou weep at the Remembrance that thy Father and Redeemer died for thee? |
A44513 | Thou canst weep under a great Burthen; and can not the great Load of thy Transgressions make thee weep? |
A44513 | Thou gavest me this Heart, and this Strength: And on whom can I bestow it better, than on thee, the Author of it? |
A44513 | Thou hast made thy self merry with thy Sins; how is it possible thou shouldst weep for them? |
A44513 | Thou hast wept upon the reading of a Romance; and canst not thou weep at the true History of thy Saviour''s Passion? |
A44513 | Thou hast, indeed, answered with thy Lips, That he is: But how far hath thy Heart been from him, and how loth hast thou been to be govern''d by him? |
A44513 | Though thou hast not been guilty of the formal Act of Judas''s Crime, yet hast not thou too often open''d the door to thy mortal Enemy? |
A44513 | Thy Sins are as great as other Men''s; why shouldst not thou weep as other Men? |
A44513 | To caress the Handmaid, and to let the Mistress starve? |
A44513 | To what purpose is the Carkase, while that, which should animate it, is engaged another way? |
A44513 | Was God beautiful and delightful heretofore, and hath he ceased to be so now? |
A44513 | Was ever any admitted there, that would not sweat and labour here? |
A44513 | Were they rejected by the Master of the Feast, because they feasted in his Company? |
A44513 | Wert thou to appear before the great Tribunal at this Instant, how justly might God condemn thee by thine own Confessions? |
A44513 | What Arguments shall I use with them? |
A44513 | What Bug- bears are these, to fright poor silly, ignorant People with? |
A44513 | What Comfort canst thou take in a Deliverance compassed by Sin? |
A44513 | What Comfort or Consolation can be supposed to flow into the Soul without it? |
A44513 | What Danger can there be in Repentance? |
A44513 | What Danger in doing the Will of God? |
A44513 | What Danger in eating and drinking with a Lively Faith in the Promises of the Gospel? |
A44513 | What Danger in making the Love of God, and the serious Contemplation of it, a Motive and Occasion to grow in Grace? |
A44513 | What Danger in performing our Duty? |
A44513 | What Danger in serious Endeavours to cleanse our selves, that we may be pure, even as God is pure? |
A44513 | What God said to the Jews, may be the more justly said to us Christians, What could have been done more to my Vineyard, that I have not done in it? |
A44513 | What Lust hast thou mortified, what Corruption hast thou killed, what darling Desires hast thou sacrificed for Christ? |
A44513 | What Sense, what touches of his Love can it have, or what guesses can it make at its Spiritual growth, and advancement in Holiness? |
A44513 | What Vows hast thou made in Trouble, and how forgetful hast thou been to pay them? |
A44513 | What a Weariness hath it been to thee, to survey these Glories, to walk about that Jerusalem, and to behold the Towers and Bulwarks of it? |
A44513 | What an argument of God''s Judgment? |
A44513 | What an argument that they are left to the power of the Devil? |
A44513 | What an argument, that God hath withdrawn his Holy Spirit from them? |
A44513 | What an obligation to Treat him with all Respect, Honour, and Humility? |
A44513 | What an obligation to be entirely subject to him, and to yield to all things he desires of her? |
A44513 | What an obligation to commend and praise him, and to express her Sense of his unspeakable Favour to her? |
A44513 | What an obligation, to give him content in all things, and to deport her self every where, so as to please him? |
A44513 | What an obligation, when he is absent, to speak of him, to long for him, and to be impatient for his return? |
A44513 | What are the Glories of this World, but mere Shews? |
A44513 | What are these but Enemies to the Cross? |
A44513 | What can I do of my self? |
A44513 | What can I think of it? |
A44513 | What can be more comfortable? |
A44513 | What can be more satisfactory? |
A44513 | What can he judge of you? |
A44513 | What can the Ever- Blessed Jesus think of you? |
A44513 | What can we desire more after his spilling his Blood, and enduring for us more, than any Man ever did? |
A44513 | What can we imagine to be the Reason of it? |
A44513 | What can work more upon harden''d hearts? |
A44513 | What could be more innocent than the Love- Feasts in the Primitive Church? |
A44513 | What dangerous Guests are those? |
A44513 | What disorders, what corruptions find countenance, or approbation in my Soul? |
A44513 | What do they more than the disciples of Hell? |
A44513 | What do you call Contempt of God, if this be not it? |
A44513 | What do you call slighting of Incomprensible Mercy, if this do not deserve that Name? |
A44513 | What dost thou make of God? |
A44513 | What evil desires am I ready to entertain? |
A44513 | What frights you? |
A44513 | What good can Hills or Mountains do, when God is angry? |
A44513 | What hath thy living in Strife and Variance been, but a Conspiring with the Devil, against the Holy Jesus, that Prince of Peace? |
A44513 | What if God would not part with an Interest in his Love upon cheaper Terms? |
A44513 | What is Rebellion, but not to obey when we know his Will, and have all possible Opportunities to know it? |
A44513 | What is this Bread, but an Emblem of the Communion of Saints, and a Representation of thy Communion with the Great Head, the Lord Jesus? |
A44513 | What is this, but to make God a Lyar, and to hope that he will not be so good as his Word? |
A44513 | What makes them contented under their Misfortunes and Disasters? |
A44513 | What makes them converse with God so often 〈 ◊ 〉 Prayer, and Holy Thoughts? |
A44513 | What makes them forgoe their Interest rather than wrong their Consciences? |
A44513 | What makes them kind and tender- hearted, and so easie to be intreated to that which is Good? |
A44513 | What makes them silent, and patient under private injuries? |
A44513 | What makes them so ready to deny themselves? |
A44513 | What makes them so solicitous about their Everlasting State? |
A44513 | What makes them stand up for the Glory of God, when they see it profan''d and abused? |
A44513 | What makes them take such comfort in the Cross of Christ? |
A44513 | What means that Fondness of the World, that fills the Chanels of thy Heart? |
A44513 | What means thy Averseness from imitating the Primitive Saints in their Self- denials? |
A44513 | What need is there of any farther Witness, when thine own Mouth bears witness against thee? |
A44513 | What opinion can he entertain of you, but that you are his Enemies, Enemies to his Supper, Enemies to his Love, Enemies to your own Souls? |
A44513 | What pains do Men take to get a little Money, or to purchase a parcel of Lands, which they know not whether they shall possess above a Month or two? |
A44513 | What shall I feed on, that I may recover Strength? |
A44513 | What shall I say of this Mercy? |
A44513 | What shall I say to such Persons? |
A44513 | What should I do but praise thee? |
A44513 | What sins are those, that I am apt to lodge in my Bosom? |
A44513 | What stops your Journey? |
A44513 | What thinkest thou of thy Mock- Fasts, and of thy Mock- Prayers? |
A44513 | What? |
A44513 | What? |
A44513 | When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked, whether the Man were a Galilean? |
A44513 | When shall I be rid of my vain, foolish, wicked, and dangerous Thoughts? |
A44513 | When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the Sword? |
A44513 | When thou hast cherished a grudge against him, how quickly hast thou spied faults in his Actions? |
A44513 | When thou hast engaged in a Sin that hath been heinous and dreadful, hath not that Sin wanted Support from other Sins? |
A44513 | When thou hast fasted sometimes, hast not thou pretended Sorrow for thy Sins, when at the same time thou hast been loth to part with them? |
A44513 | When thou hast not known how to spend thy Time, hath not the Enemy made thee swallow the dangerous Bait? |
A44513 | When thou hast, with David, taken thy Rest and Ease, hath not Satan brought a Bathsheba to thee, and thrown some ill Thought into thy Mind? |
A44513 | When wilt thou adorn my Soul with profound Humility, which may be an Invitation of thy Gracious Presence? |
A44513 | When wilt thou establish the Life of Love, even that Divine Life, in my Soul? |
A44513 | When wilt thou purge and cleanse this House from the Rubbish which annoys it? |
A44513 | When, when shall it be, that I shall love thee perfectly? |
A44513 | Where is the House that Man can build unto thee? |
A44513 | Wherefore art thou red in thy Apparel, and thy Garments like him that treads in the Wine- Fat? |
A44513 | Wherein have we robb''d thee? |
A44513 | While you keep off and stand out, are not you the Persons that would not have this Man, this more than Man, to Reign over you? |
A44513 | While you wilfully absent your selves, do not you refuse to be healed? |
A44513 | Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a Man that shall dye, and of the Son of Man, that shall be made as Grass? |
A44513 | Who bids me trouble my Head about another''s Receiving, when I have enough to do with mine own Heart? |
A44513 | Who can stand thine Indignation? |
A44513 | Who can tell so well the venomous Influences and Tendencies of thy Sins, as he that perfectly understands the poysonous nature of it? |
A44513 | Who hath been so wise, as to inform you, that this way you may flee from the Indignation of the Lord? |
A44513 | Who hath told you that this is the way to escape the Wrath to come? |
A44513 | Who knows how soon that Patience will be tired, and turn into a tempestuous Indignation? |
A44513 | Who of us makes any thing of Hypocrisie? |
A44513 | Who then is able to resist you? |
A44513 | Who would imagine that Men could be so perverse, Men that live under the Gospel too, as to be guilty of murthering Christ? |
A44513 | Who, among the Children of Men, that had Power in his Hand to be revenged on such Contempt, would have born this with Equanimity? |
A44513 | Whom have I in Heaven to love, but thee? |
A44513 | Whom say Men, that I am? |
A44513 | Why do not thy Celestial Flames consume in me all that is contrary to thy Love? |
A44513 | Why dost not thou exert it for my Help? |
A44513 | Why dost not thou shew it? |
A44513 | Why hath thy sensual Appetite so much power over thee? |
A44513 | Why shouldst thou make thy Soul sick, when the great Physician offers thee health, and Salvation? |
A44513 | Will Christ vouchsafe a favourable Look to me, where he sees such Satyrs dance? |
A44513 | Will God, the Great, the omnipotent God, look upon such an one as I? |
A44513 | Will a Malefactor scruple to accept of his Prince''s Pardon? |
A44513 | Will not the Sins you live and continue in, do your Work for you, and make you Heirs of Damnation? |
A44513 | Will nothing serve you, but the most ignominious Death; a Death, which none but Slaves were destin''d to? |
A44513 | Will ye refuse it, and chuse to be miserable? |
A44513 | Wilt thou enter into a Covenant with this lump of Clay? |
A44513 | Wine hath briskness and spirit in it, and might not this be an Item to tell us, how lively and vigorous our Love should be to Christ Jesus? |
A44513 | Wine is cleansing too, and might not this be an hint of the purifying quality of the Blood of the Holy Jesus? |
A44513 | Would not one think, that you have a mind to be miserable, when you are so backward to come to him, that would deliver you from your misery? |
A44513 | Yet how fond art thou of them, and how strangely hast thou been enamoured with them? |
A44513 | Yet, why wonderest thou, O my Soul, when thou hast slept securely at the very Gates of Hell, in the Suburbs of Destruction? |
A44513 | You will say, Who can be supposed to refuse it? |
A44513 | You will say, Who can murther him now he is in Glory? |
A44513 | and how like new Wine, our Love should be ready to burst the bottles, at least vent it self in some such ejaculations? |
A44513 | and shall I after all, be loath to be govern''d by so Gracious a Master? |
A44513 | and the Sons and Daughters of Men, that thou hast such Respect to them? |
A44513 | and will not his Soul be avenged on such Persons? |
A44513 | dost not thou shun that Rock, which God sees, and says, will split thy Vessel? |
A44513 | for ever give us that Bread? |
A44513 | may not be improper to be put to our Acquaintance, What Men abroad do think of us? |
A44513 | of 〈 ◊ 〉 What makes them afraid of the very appearances ● y vil? |
A44513 | one in publick, another in private? |
A44513 | or let them go out and in without controul? |
A44513 | sinful Man, how couldst thou neglect coming to the Supper of the Lord, if thou didst believe, that this neglect will bring a Consumption on thy Soul? |
A44513 | than him that sits upon the Circles of the Earth? |
A44513 | what is Man, that thou so regardest him? |
A44513 | wilt thou tye, and oblige thy self to do me good? |
A44530 | 34. so when these threatnings occur, the interrogation must be; Of whom doth God speak, of me or of another? |
A44530 | ? |
A44530 | Am I kind as well as just to them, especially to those, who faithfully labour in Gods Vinyard? |
A44530 | Am not I guilty of the same sin, and may not I justly think, he speaks of me, as well as of another? |
A44530 | And can we be so unreasonable as to think Christ hires us to take our pleasure here, when he hath so much work for us to do? |
A44530 | And do you thus reward this Spirit of Love? |
A44530 | And have not I boasted of my Charity to others? |
A44530 | And have not I given Judgment before I have heard the Cause? |
A44530 | And have not I thought my self wiser than God, in fancying I might have done better in another State of Life, than that he thought fit to place me in? |
A44530 | And if God''s anger against these neglects be so heavy in this life, what will it be in the day of Wrath, and in the day of Indignation? |
A44530 | And if the same God be slighted in the greater and lesser Laws, will not the same God find a time to lash the boldness of the offender? |
A44530 | And if you are resolv''d not to learn it, how will ye be able to appear at the great Tribunal? |
A44530 | And is not the zeal, and fervency for Gods glory we find in our selves very inconsiderable? |
A44530 | And must the Devil be adored with greater revereverence than He, at whose presence Devils tremble? |
A44530 | And now what Arguments, what Motives, what Incentives, shall I give you to oblige you to venture on this Exercise? |
A44530 | And shall it not be more expedient, now that they war against the Soul? |
A44530 | And shall we not mourn for a Soul, that hath been dead, and may by repentance be brought to life again? |
A44530 | And shouldst not thou also have compassion on thy fellow- servant, even as I had pity on thee? |
A44530 | And was I sensible of my Spiritual Wants, and Necessities all the time? |
A44530 | And what makes them fill their Epistles, with so many pathetical exhortations to this seriousness? |
A44530 | And when I craved a Blessing, was not my mind more intent upon the Meat before me than on the Great God above me? |
A44530 | Are Corruptions blown away with a breath? |
A44530 | Are his Smiles odious? |
A44530 | Are his embraces such dreadful things, that you shun them? |
A44530 | Are these wretches so watchful to loose their Souls, and shall not we be as watchful to save ours? |
A44530 | Are we not very apt to sink into Hypocrisy, and to be backward to the greater and weightier matters of the Law? |
A44530 | Are you afraid of the love of God? |
A44530 | Are you afraid of your own Bliss? |
A44530 | Are you bound with Chains? |
A44530 | Are you ever like to love your Neighbours, as you selves, while you reject this Exercise? |
A44530 | Are you loath to converse with infinite Beauty? |
A44530 | Are you proud of being his Followers, and scorn his Laws? |
A44530 | Are you reproach''d? |
A44530 | Art thou more afraid, than such a Mighty, and Wealthy Man? |
A44530 | Art thou more delicate, than such a Senatour? |
A44530 | Art thou weaker than such a Woman? |
A44530 | As for the Conscience; Have I made Conscience of the least Sins to day? |
A44530 | As for the Eighth Commandment; Have I come justly by those things, I have gain''d this day? |
A44530 | As for the Eye; Have I this day lifted up mine Eyes to Heaven, and taken notice of Gods Providences? |
A44530 | As for the Hands and Feet, whereby the Scripture usually expresses Mans actions; Have I been diligent in the Duties of my Calling to day? |
A44530 | As for the Mind; Have I endeavour''d to disposses my Mind of Evil thoughts to day? |
A44530 | As for the Ninth Commandment; Have I spoke nothing but Truth to day? |
A44530 | As for the Passions and Affections; Have not I given way to the Workings of Pride, and Anger to day? |
A44530 | As for the Seventh Commandment; Have I maintained Chastity this day? |
A44530 | As for the Sixth Commandment; Have I been just in all my Dealings this day? |
A44530 | As for the Tenth Commandment? |
A44530 | As for the Tongue, and Lips; Have I wilfully spoke evil of no man to day? |
A44530 | As to the First Commandment; Have not I this day confided in the Creature more, than in the Creator? |
A44530 | As to the Fourth Commandment; which doth in a special manner, respect the Lords day: Have I gone this day with joy into the House of God? |
A44530 | As to the Second Commandment; Have I feared God to day, and have I feared him more, than all the men, I have had to do with? |
A44530 | As to the Third Commandment; Have not I this day neglected an opportunity of giving good Counsel, and Advice to men, related to me? |
A44530 | Bitterness, and Wrath, and Anger, and Clamour, and evil speaking and Malice, How little do men make of these sins? |
A44530 | But give me leave to ask you, What kind of Religion would you have? |
A44530 | But what mean these Provocations? |
A44530 | By this God would teach you, by this he would instruct you, by this he would communicate himself to you; but if you will not, whose fault is it? |
A44530 | By what Title or Prerogative? |
A44530 | Can I imagine, that these are no Invitations to convert those good customs into practice? |
A44530 | Can I imagine, that these examples are represented to me, without a Providence? |
A44530 | Can Men break their sleep to mind the works of Darkness, and shall not we break ours, for doing things, which become the Children of Light? |
A44530 | Can any Affront be small that''s levell''d against him, whose Brightness dazles the eyes of Angels? |
A44530 | Can any sin be little that is committed against an Infinite Majesty? |
A44530 | Can not you enjoy your selves, without you may be licentious? |
A44530 | Can nothing move you, but Viols of Wrath? |
A44530 | Can nothing open your Eyes, but Hell? |
A44530 | Can nothing prevail with you, but a consuming Fire? |
A44530 | Can sublunary Objects afford any comfort, and is it possible, that he that made those comforts should not yield far greater satisfaction? |
A44530 | Can the Creature be more lovely than the Creator? |
A44530 | Can the Devils Votaries deny themselves, for their Master, and shall we do nothing for ours? |
A44530 | Can the Stream be more pleasant than the Fountain? |
A44530 | Can there be any thing more needful, then God''s Favour? |
A44530 | Can there be more edifying Discourse, then to relate and represent to one another the Holy Actions of Saints, either departed, or living yet? |
A44530 | Can we be Christians without it? |
A44530 | Can you be enamoured with him, and affront his Holiness? |
A44530 | Can you love God and fight against him? |
A44530 | Can you remember, that these had a hand in that Murther, and can you hug these Enemies in your Bosoms? |
A44530 | Can you tell us a way, how to reconcile Gods purity with your uncleanness? |
A44530 | Can you think that Gods Spirit will ever visit you, while you mind nothing so much as your Belly? |
A44530 | Canst thou draw Leviathan with a Hook, or his Tongue with a Cord, which thou lettest down? |
A44530 | Canst thou put a hook into his Nose, or bore his Jaw through with a Thorn? |
A44530 | Christians, Is your Reason a Talent, or no? |
A44530 | Come forth, my Soul, said b old Hilarion, Why art thou afraid? |
A44530 | Could a Centurion, a Captain, a Man of Arms, stoop to the humble Laws of the Gospel, and can not you? |
A44530 | Could a Mary Magdalene weep, and can not you? |
A44530 | Could a Paulus Sergius, a great Commander, leave his Place and Dignity, to keep a good Conscience, and can not you? |
A44530 | Could a Wealthy Zachaeus confess his sin, and make restitution, and turn, and can not you? |
A44530 | Could he be Master of this Grace, and why can not I? |
A44530 | Could they do this, and can not you? |
A44530 | Could they leave Lands, and Houses, and Father, and Mother, and Life it self, for the Gospel, and can not you part with a Trifle for Heavens Glory? |
A44530 | Could they, that had greater Impediments than you have, embrace Christ''s Yoak, and can not you? |
A44530 | Could they, that had more to plead for their refusal of God''s Offers, than you, slight, and leave all, and follow Christ, and can not you? |
A44530 | Dares any of you refuse the everlasting Mercy of God? |
A44530 | Did Christ find, even your unsavoury Speeches, your looser Gestures, your obscene Expressions, your Carnal Thoughts heavy? |
A44530 | Did I come to Hear with Resolutions to Practice, what I heard? |
A44530 | Did I feel any heat in my Hearing which was ready to consume the Straw, and Stubble of my carnal Affections? |
A44530 | Did I find any sweetness in the Word of God, I heard to day? |
A44530 | Did I prepare my self for hearing the Word by suitable Thoughts, and Contemplations of that awful Majesty, before whom I was to appear? |
A44530 | Did I take occasion to speak of something, that''s good at my Table? |
A44530 | Did even these help to crush him under the burthen of Gods Anger, and do you make sport with them? |
A44530 | Did ever any man hire a day Labourer, to see him only Eat lustily, or Walk up and down in the House, with his Hands in his Pocket? |
A44530 | Did it fill me with Praises and Adorations of the stupendious Humiliation of the Son of God? |
A44530 | Did it fill me with serious deliberate Resolutions to watch against them? |
A44530 | Did it make me resolve to imitate him in his Holiness? |
A44530 | Did my Sins grieve me, when I beheld Christ Crucified? |
A44530 | Did not I Eat, and Drink more than Nature required? |
A44530 | Did not I sink into carnal Security? |
A44530 | Did the sight of Christs Crucifixion fill me with indignation against my Sins? |
A44530 | Did they think nothing too costly to part with for the Pearl of Price, and will not you quit one Lust, one darling bosom Sin for it? |
A44530 | Did they think the Day of Judgment was near at hand, and shall not we fear it much more? |
A44530 | Did they think to keep their Garments white, and their Lamps burning against the Bridegroom came, and shall not we think so much more? |
A44530 | Did you ever know Cedars fall with the touch of a hand? |
A44530 | Do Friends forsake you? |
A44530 | Do I communicate to them, that teach in all Good things? |
A44530 | Do I feel in my self any Purposes at this present to do as I have been advised to day? |
A44530 | Do I forbear with their infirmities? |
A44530 | Do I give them that, which is due to them? |
A44530 | Do I love them? |
A44530 | Do I obey them in things that tend to my Salvation? |
A44530 | Do I possess nothing, that hath been got by Deceit, or Oppression? |
A44530 | Do I respect Gods Ministers? |
A44530 | Do his Courtships strike terror? |
A44530 | Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee, and am I not grieved with those that rise up against thee? |
A44530 | Do not we embrace Excuses suggested by the Devil, whereby we leave the most excellent Duties undone? |
A44530 | Do not we fall short of that Christian Perfection, the Holy Ghost urges? |
A44530 | Do not we find Imperfections, and Infirmities in our holy performances? |
A44530 | Do not you all declare, that you would fain inherit the Kingdom, which fades not away? |
A44530 | Do they watch to contrive mischief, and shall not we do so to contrive our felicity? |
A44530 | Do we find no Remora''s, no Impediments, that let us in our course to Heaven? |
A44530 | Do we find no coldness, no deadness, no indisposedness in Gods Service? |
A44530 | Do you ever hope to overcome the Lusts of the Flesh without this Exercise? |
A44530 | Do you glory in his Salvation, and are you loth to follow his Example? |
A44530 | Do you make confession of Sin a business of custom only? |
A44530 | Do you make no more than a formality of it? |
A44530 | Do you think God will be put off with shadows, and the Almighty gull''d with counterfeit Devotion? |
A44530 | Do you think the World and its Glories will ever become contemptible in your eyes, if by such Abstinence now and then you do not learn to despise it? |
A44530 | Do you think you will ever become eminent Saints, while you are all for eating and drinking? |
A44530 | Do you think your evil desires will ever die, without you chastise them by fasting into better manners? |
A44530 | Do you think your eyes will ever be as clear as theirs, while your Fasts are not as strict as theirs? |
A44530 | Do you think, God is so fond of you, that he''ll make you partakers of the Divine Nature, while you know not, what denying the Body means? |
A44530 | Do you think, you will ever be admitted to those high degrees of Gods favour, that the Saints of old arriv''d to without such abasement? |
A44530 | Do you think, you will ever feel that joy, they felt, without such preparatives? |
A44530 | Do you think, you will ever get any great portion of Grace, while you think much of attending the Lord, in such mortifications? |
A44530 | Do you think, your minds will ever pierce into the Mysteries of Gods love without such Humiliations? |
A44530 | Doth Gods willingness to receive you, fright you? |
A44530 | Doth he thank that Servant, because he did the things that were commanded him? |
A44530 | Doth not reason tell you, that many little sins, amount to a great one? |
A44530 | Doth one God give the greater, and an other the lesser Injunctions? |
A44530 | Doth this Exercise seem so grievous to you, that can rise at any time in the night to get some considerable gain? |
A44530 | Fancy you hear God pleading with you, Sinner, What Iniquity hast thou found in me? |
A44530 | Foolish, because he suffers long? |
A44530 | For what is Abstinence but a Picture of Heaven? |
A44530 | Hast thou served Christ so long, and dost thou tremble? |
A44530 | Hath God so honoured thee, and art not thou obliged to seek his glory? |
A44530 | Hath any of you a mind to be damn''d? |
A44530 | Hath he appointed a Day, to judge the World in, and will you prevent that Judgment? |
A44530 | Hath he deserved no better dealings at your hands? |
A44530 | Hath he glorifyed thee, and is he willing to give thee greater glory, and wilt thou think much of glorifying him? |
A44530 | Hath it discover''d it self in actions? |
A44530 | Hath my Faith been lively this day? |
A44530 | Hath my Heart been very indifferent as to these outward Conveniences, and unconcern''d whether I have much of this Worlds Goods or no? |
A44530 | Hath my Heart gone along with my Prayer? |
A44530 | Hath not my love to God been in words only? |
A44530 | Hath not the sight of such a Vanity, transported me into admiration of it? |
A44530 | Hath there been any known Sin, that I have not shunn''d, or hath there been any known Duty, which I was not more forward to perform, than to omit? |
A44530 | Have I Pray''d with my Family to day, and did that Prayer proceed from an humble sense of our Spiritual Wants, and Necessities? |
A44530 | Have I Read in private? |
A44530 | Have I abhorr''d all obscene, filthy, and impure Communications, and Actions? |
A44530 | Have I abhorred the motion, when I have been tempted to any Evil? |
A44530 | Have I according to the Apostles Command, laid in store, as God hath prospered me the foregoing week? |
A44530 | Have I admired, and adored Gods Holy Attributes? |
A44530 | Have I ask''d, and begg''d, of God Spiritual Blessings with greater earnestness, and importunity, than Temporal? |
A44530 | Have I been Hospitable and glad to feed some Stranger or poor House- keeper at my Table? |
A44530 | Have I been a practical Christian, and hath the Will of God been the Rule of my Life, and Conversation? |
A44530 | Have I been afraid of calling my Neighbour Fool? |
A44530 | Have I been better to day, than yesterday? |
A44530 | Have I been candid, and open- hearted in my Dealings? |
A44530 | Have I been careful to drop something of God in the company, I have been in? |
A44530 | Have I been cautious of giving Men any Nick- names? |
A44530 | Have I been compassionate, tender- hearted? |
A44530 | Have I been concern''d at other Mens Sins, as well as at mine own? |
A44530 | Have I been contented this day with that condition God hath allotted me in this World? |
A44530 | Have I been contented with Gods knowing of it? |
A44530 | Have I been easily reconciled to persons, that did offend me? |
A44530 | Have I been easily reconciled, if Men have been sorry for their Fault? |
A44530 | Have I been enflamed with the goodness of the men I have read of? |
A44530 | Have I been faithful to my Trust? |
A44530 | Have I been more desirous to be, than to seem good? |
A44530 | Have I been more sollicitous to reform my self than others? |
A44530 | Have I been much in holy Ejaculations to day? |
A44530 | Have I been officious to my Equals, kind to my Inferiours? |
A44530 | Have I been ready to give good Counsel to people, if they have desired it, and God put an opportunity into my hand? |
A44530 | Have I been silent, when I have had no certain knowledge of things, and have I been willing to be better inform''d by others? |
A44530 | Have I been sorry and troubled for any injury, that hath been offer''d to my Neighbour? |
A44530 | Have I been thankful for Kindnesses shew''d me? |
A44530 | Have I been troubled, when I have heard of the Adulteries, Fornications, and Lasciviousness of other men? |
A44530 | Have I been very Conscientious in my ways, and been afraid of the very appearance of Evil? |
A44530 | Have I been very cautions of offending him? |
A44530 | Have I been very moderate in my Eating, Drinking, Recreation, Cloathing, and Desires after these outward Comforts? |
A44530 | Have I been willing to decede from mine own right, for peace, and quietness sake? |
A44530 | Have I beheld the Finger of God in the Blessings, I have received to day? |
A44530 | Have I by my good example, endeavoured to keep my Neighbours from sinning? |
A44530 | Have I called in Pious and Spiritual Reflections? |
A44530 | Have I called my Family together, read to them, instructed them, made them give me an account of what they remember? |
A44530 | Have I carried my self peaceably? |
A44530 | Have I conscientiously discharged the Duties of my several Relations? |
A44530 | Have I contented my self in my common discourses with bare assertions, without vehement Asseverations? |
A44530 | Have I dash''d all evil Concupiscence in my Soul in its Birth, and when first I felt it stirring? |
A44530 | Have I dealt uprightly and honestly with all Men? |
A44530 | Have I defrauded no Man, deceived no Man? |
A44530 | Have I desired to be at peace with God, and to be united unto him more? |
A44530 | Have I discharged the Duty of a Friend to those, whom I have made believe, that I was their Friend? |
A44530 | Have I done by my Neighbour, as I would be done by? |
A44530 | Have I done more than others? |
A44530 | Have I done my duty at home? |
A44530 | Have I done nothing, that hath savour''d of hatred or contempt of God? |
A44530 | Have I done, as a person, in such a Relation would, and should have done? |
A44530 | Have I dropt never a Lye in my Shop, or Trade, or in company, either in Jest, or for some Advantage, or to please Men? |
A44530 | Have I entertained low and humble Conceits of my self? |
A44530 | Have I entirely relied upon God in the use of lawful means? |
A44530 | Have I exercised my Hope in God? |
A44530 | Have I exhorted them to love, to kindness, to mutual forbearing one another? |
A44530 | Have I expressed my love to God to day? |
A44530 | Have I felt a mighty hunger, and thirst after Righteousness in my Soul? |
A44530 | Have I forbore to speak ill of them? |
A44530 | Have I given God all the Glory, and have I spoke very modestly of my self? |
A44530 | Have I given God that Worship to day, which is due to him? |
A44530 | Have I given demonstration of the sincerity of my Faith by my Works, and hath my outward Conversation been suitable to my Profession? |
A44530 | Have I given no just occasion to my Neighbour to quarrel with me? |
A44530 | Have I given some Alms to day? |
A44530 | Have I got ground of such a corruption? |
A44530 | Have I had an opportunity to shew myself Merciful; and have I embraced the opportunity? |
A44530 | Have I heard a man speak disgracefully of me without being enraged at the Calumny? |
A44530 | Have I heard men entice me to sin, and have I abhorred the invitation? |
A44530 | Have I heard men, Swear and Curse, and have I been concern''d at the greatness of their Sin? |
A44530 | Have I heard my Neighbour reviled, or ill spoken of, and have I done the duty of a Friend, and justified his innocent Behaviour? |
A44530 | Have I heard of losses I have had, with Patience? |
A44530 | Have I heard the Word, and treasured it up in my Heart? |
A44530 | Have I heard this day of any undecent deportment of any of my Family, and have I reproved them for it, or admonished them to amendment of life? |
A44530 | Have I hurt no body in Word, or Deed? |
A44530 | Have I in my Addresses, and Answers, shew''d all Meekness unto all Men? |
A44530 | Have I in my supplications represented to my Mind, Gods Greatness, Goodness, Majesty, and Holiness? |
A44530 | Have I kept my due distance to my Superiours? |
A44530 | Have I kept my word to day? |
A44530 | Have I laid aside somewhat of my Gain for Pious uses, to give to them, that need? |
A44530 | Have I look''d to my inward man, and indeavour''d to purifie my Thoughts, Desires, and Inclinations? |
A44530 | Have I look''d upon the Works of God to day, upon Trees, and Herbs, and Flowers, and admired the Wisdom, Glory, and Bounty of God? |
A44530 | Have I made Conscience of doing a thing, which I have either known, or feared to be a Sin? |
A44530 | Have I made it my first and chiefest Business to secure Gods Kingdom, and its Righteousness? |
A44530 | Have I made my Servants and Children hear, what the Lord their God requires at their hands? |
A44530 | Have I made the lesser Commandments my Rule, as well, as the greater? |
A44530 | Have I magnified Gods Mercies, and dared to own God in the Blessings I have received? |
A44530 | Have I meditated, and bid my thoughts fly up to Heaven to take a view of my Eternal rest? |
A44530 | Have I minded mine own Errors more than my Neighbours? |
A44530 | Have I moderated mine Anger? |
A44530 | Have I not spent Money upon my Sin, and Pride, or Wantonness? |
A44530 | Have I obeyed God in sincerity? |
A44530 | Have I patiently heard, what men could say for themselves? |
A44530 | Have I perform''d what I promis''d either to God or Man? |
A44530 | Have I pray''d for them? |
A44530 | Have I prayed to him in Truth, and praised him with joyful Lips? |
A44530 | Have I read a Portion of the Holy Scriptures to day, and remembred to apply the things, I read of, to mine own Conscience? |
A44530 | Have I really endeavour''d more to please God than Men? |
A44530 | Have I resisted Wandring thoughts in Prayer? |
A44530 | Have I serv''d God without distraction, more to day, than I have done formerly? |
A44530 | Have I shew''d Courage and Resolution when I have seen, or heard my God dishonour''d? |
A44530 | Have I shunn''d that company, which I was afraid would draw me into Sin? |
A44530 | Have I shunn''d the occasions of such sins, as I am very prone too? |
A44530 | Have I some way or other shewn my abhorreney and detestation of their Sins? |
A44530 | Have I studied Meekness, and Gentleness in my Answers, and Actions? |
A44530 | Have I studied gravity in Words, Actions, Gestures, and Postures, and Behaviour? |
A44530 | Have I studied sincerity in Devotion, sincerity in my Dealings, and sincerity in all my Speeches? |
A44530 | Have I taken care to spend it for Eternity? |
A44530 | Have I taken notice how God takes care of Beasts, and Fowls of the Air; and from thence taken occasion to strengthen my Faith? |
A44530 | Have I taken notice of Gods goodness to me, and mine, and stood amazed at it? |
A44530 | Have I trembled to see God abused? |
A44530 | Have I walk''d very strictly, and circumspectly? |
A44530 | Have I watched over my Thoughts, Inclinations, and Desires? |
A44530 | Have I watcht against Wrath and Envy, and Malice, and immoderate Grief, and carnal Mirth? |
A44530 | Have I, to the best of my skill, and power, promoted peace among dissenting Brethren, if I have met with any such? |
A44530 | Have my Desires kept within their bounds, and have not I been ready to determine, what State, and Condition, is fittest for me? |
A44530 | Have my Sins been a grief or trouble to my Soul? |
A44530 | Have not I abused my Christian Liberty? |
A44530 | Have not I aimed more at the information of my Judgment, than at warming my Affections? |
A44530 | Have not I been Cruel, Harsh, Morose, Ill- natur''d to Men? |
A44530 | Have not I been a Respector of Persons? |
A44530 | Have not I been angry with my Neighbor without a Cause? |
A44530 | Have not I been ashamed of standing up for the Glory of Gods name? |
A44530 | Have not I been desirous others should know, what I do as to that Point? |
A44530 | Have not I been fiery and hot upon very slight and trivial occasions? |
A44530 | Have not I been guilty of Covetousness? |
A44530 | Have not I been intemperate to day? |
A44530 | Have not I been more careful about making provision for the Flesh, than about enriching of my Soul? |
A44530 | Have not I been more careful to make my Face pleasing to Spectators, than I have been to approve my self to God? |
A44530 | Have not I been more curious about my Cloaths, than about my Graces? |
A44530 | Have not I been negligent in providing for my Family? |
A44530 | Have not I been peevish and impatient, under such a Providence, that hath crossed my Designs? |
A44530 | Have not I been peremptory in accusing my Neighbour of an Error, when nothing but a conjecture, or surmise rais''d the Accusation? |
A44530 | Have not I been pleased with the Commendations I have heard men pass upon me, and hath not their applause tempted me to vain- glory? |
A44530 | Have not I been tickled with some obscene, or filthy Story, I have heard? |
A44530 | Have not I been very forward to censure others? |
A44530 | Have not I been voluntarily ignorant of such Deceptions? |
A44530 | Have not I been wavering in asserting the Truth? |
A44530 | Have not I been wilfully ignorant of some Truth, that hath been brought to my Ears? |
A44530 | Have not I begg''d of God things, contrary to the Will of God? |
A44530 | Have not I begun a Quarrel, or encouraged it, when it was begun? |
A44530 | Have not I beheld immodest Actions, and been delighted with them? |
A44530 | Have not I betray''d the Secret of my Friend? |
A44530 | Have not I broke forth into rash Oaths? |
A44530 | Have not I by Equivocations, Palliations of Sins, and Mental Reservations sought to put a Cheat upon my Neighbour? |
A44530 | Have not I by my lukewarmness betray''d Christ''s Cause? |
A44530 | Have not I cherish''d any unlawful Lust or Desire after Man, or Woman? |
A44530 | Have not I complyed with some sinful Action of the Company, I have been in? |
A44530 | Have not I connived at Sins in my Children, or Friends, which I have reprov''d in a Servant, or one in a low Condition? |
A44530 | Have not I consented to another Mans Injustice? |
A44530 | Have not I despised God, by rejecting some motions of his Holy Spirit? |
A44530 | Have not I disdain''d to speak to him, because he went in Rags? |
A44530 | Have not I dissembled with men, flatter''d them, given them fair words, when in my Heart I hated, or despised, or undervalued them? |
A44530 | Have not I doubted of some Truth revealed in the Word of God, or lived as if I had doubted of his Providence? |
A44530 | Have not I exalted my self, or thought my self better than my Neighbours? |
A44530 | Have not I extenuated, or denied Gods Mercies? |
A44530 | Have not I fed mine Eyes with some unlawful Spectacle? |
A44530 | Have not I found greater joy in temporal, than in spiritual Blessings? |
A44530 | Have not I grumbled, and repined, that God hath not provided so well for me, as he hath done for others? |
A44530 | Have not I in a Passion given men ill Language? |
A44530 | Have not I indulged my self in Hypocrisie? |
A44530 | Have not I laught at those Sins, I should have Mourned at? |
A44530 | Have not I lived to day like a Man, that doth not believe the Promises, and threatnings of God? |
A44530 | Have not I lost somewhat of the Life of Religion, by going into such Society? |
A44530 | Have not I loved some outward thing more than God? |
A44530 | Have not I made light of Sin? |
A44530 | Have not I mistrusted Gods Providence? |
A44530 | Have not I neglected my Duty of Prayer upon the account of some Wordly Interest? |
A44530 | Have not I neglected the Gifts of God, that are in me? |
A44530 | Have not I preferred my Worldly profit to day before my Duty? |
A44530 | Have not I pretended Friendship, when I had no love for them? |
A44530 | Have not I rashly judged, and condemn''d my Neighbour to day? |
A44530 | Have not I rashly made, or falsly broke a Promise? |
A44530 | Have not I rendred Railing for Railing, and Threatning for Threatning? |
A44530 | Have not I reported things for certain, which at the best have been but doubtful? |
A44530 | Have not I said something, whereby my Neighbour might suffer in his Credit, and Reputation? |
A44530 | Have not I said that in my Wrath, which now I wish I had not? |
A44530 | Have not I scandalized some Persons by my Actions? |
A44530 | Have not I seen men sin, and laught at it? |
A44530 | Have not I shunn''d discourses of God, and Holiness? |
A44530 | Have not I spent my time in idleness? |
A44530 | Have not I spent my time in tittle- tattle, and of what this, and of what the other Man or Woman doth? |
A44530 | Have not I spent that time in idleness which should have been spent, in working in my Calling? |
A44530 | Have not I spoke Evil of Dignities? |
A44530 | Have not I stayed away from the publick Worship of God for wordly Gain? |
A44530 | Have not I studied Revenge? |
A44530 | Have not I suffer''d my Neighbour to be wronged, when I might have prevented it? |
A44530 | Have not I suffered worldy thoughts to eat out the virtue of my Prayers? |
A44530 | Have not I taken more pains, and care to dress my Body, than I have done to beautifie my Soul? |
A44530 | Have not I talk''d Surly, or Proudly to a Man because he was Poor? |
A44530 | Have not I the same means of Grace to help me? |
A44530 | Have not I thought of my Trade, and Farms, and Oxen, while I have been repeating the words after Gods Minister? |
A44530 | Have not I tormented my self with Cares, and Carkings, about a Livelihood? |
A44530 | Have not my Ears been open to corrupt, and vain communications? |
A44530 | Have not we Defects and Infirmities enough to Discourse of? |
A44530 | Have not you heard, that this makes the Soul beautiful, and lovely in the eyes of him, that gave it? |
A44530 | Have not you read, have not you heard, what the presence of a Monarch can do with Wrestlers, and Men of Activity? |
A44530 | Have the Duties and Precepts I have read caused in me a willingness to perform them? |
A44530 | Have they made me take on and mourn, because I have offended, a tender Father, a gracious God, a merciful Redeemer? |
A44530 | Have we such a constant Benefactor continually about us, and are not we concerned more at his Presence? |
A44530 | Have you convers''d with Ministers so long, and are no better Scholars? |
A44530 | Have you drudged so long in the Devils Service, and are not you weary yet? |
A44530 | Have you forgot that this Charity is the root of all Virtues? |
A44530 | Have you forgot, that this is the Bond, that unites the Soul to its Creator? |
A44530 | Have you lived so long under the Gospel, and have learn''d Christ no better? |
A44530 | Have you minded your Bodies so long, and do not you think it time yet to prevent the ruine of your Souls? |
A44530 | Hear this ye drowsie, lazy, careless Christians, what do you call your selves Christians for, if you will not do as the antient Christians did? |
A44530 | How came Christ''s Yoak to be easie to us, and his Burthen light? |
A44530 | How came we by that serious Frame of Spirit we are in? |
A44530 | How came we to Extricate our selves from such Snares, and Deceits of the Devil? |
A44530 | How came we to be rid of such a Sin? |
A44530 | How came we to conquer such a Lust? |
A44530 | How came your Spiritual concerns to deserve so little care? |
A44530 | How can he want Support, that is sensible, that the God of all Consolation is with him? |
A44530 | How can he want a refuge, or hiding place, that is sensible he hath the rock of ages in the room with him? |
A44530 | How can we deal worse with a man that hates us, than by not looking on him, when he meets us? |
A44530 | How can we expect, God will deal favourably with us, if we do not deal so with our fellow Christians? |
A44530 | How can you but sit in darkness, if you refuse this Torch of Heaven? |
A44530 | How did we compass that Facility, and Willingness, to conform to God, which seems to be in us? |
A44530 | How do you put on the whole Armour of God, if you arm not your selves against these common Souldiers of the Devils Army? |
A44530 | How hath God punish''d Princes, how hath he visited Subjects for their carelesness of these mutual Offices? |
A44530 | How hath he honoured thee by making thee an Angelical Substance, Sublime, and capable of soaring above this trasitory World? |
A44530 | How hath he honoured thee by putting all things under thy feet, and by making thee capable to converse with him, to all Eternity? |
A44530 | How hath he honoured thee in that he hath charged his Angels to guard thee in thy going out, and in thy coming in? |
A44530 | How have I behaved my self to them, whom I have lookt upon as mine Enemies? |
A44530 | How heavy the burthen of our Sins was, that could make the Son of God cry out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A44530 | How is it possible you can love God, while you do not exercise your selves in rooting out of these lesser sins? |
A44530 | How loath is he to believe our rebellion against him? |
A44530 | How many Children have smarted for the neglect of theirs to their Parents? |
A44530 | How many Masters have been ruin''d, because their Servants remembred not what faithfulness, and what duties, God required at their hands? |
A44530 | How many Servants have complain''d that they have been undone, because their Masters admonish''d them not? |
A44530 | How many are there that can sit up drinking and dancing and revelling all night? |
A44530 | How many base and filthy Lusts croud the way thou walkest in? |
A44530 | How many excellent Examples of holy Men and Women may we pitch upon in our Discourses? |
A44530 | How much better is thy love than wine? |
A44530 | How shall God forgive you? |
A44530 | How shall a Man arrive, saith he, to these Virtues? |
A44530 | How should I believe your promises now, that have falsified your Word already? |
A44530 | How should you hunger and thirst after that, which you care not, how rarely you cast your eyes upon? |
A44530 | How should you strive, if you enter into no Holy purposes, to arm your selves against the sins of the day? |
A44530 | How should your Understanding be enlightned, if you will not make use of this Candle? |
A44530 | How should your life end in rest, who never tried your strength in these Exercises? |
A44530 | How such a one scorn''d to be call''d the Son of Pharaohs Daughter, and fix''d his eyes upon the great Recompence of Reward? |
A44530 | If Holiness of Life be a Ministers Duty only, what makes you repent on your Death- beds, that you have not minded it more? |
A44530 | If I have heard any person speak evil of me, because of my Conscientiousness, have I rejoiced at it? |
A44530 | If I have wronged, or deceived my Neighbour, am I willing and ready to make restitution? |
A44530 | If I should withdraw my presence from thee, take away all, I have given thee, wouldst not thou complain, and mourn? |
A44530 | If it be a Talent, must not you give an account of it in the last day? |
A44530 | If it be not, then it is no gift of God; if no gift of God, why do you thank him, why do you praise him for it? |
A44530 | If it be, why should not you give God his own again with Usury? |
A44530 | If it were not against a Law of God, it could not be sin; but is not the same Authority to be seen in the least Precept,, as well as the greatest? |
A44530 | If meaner things, or Trifles are thought worth discoursing of, why should not the greatest, most excellent, and noblest, be worth talking of? |
A44530 | If the Medicine was wholesome, before we were sick, how much more wholesome must it be, now we are so? |
A44530 | If this Communing with our own hearts be profitable to our own Souls, why should it not be so to the Souls of persons committed to our trust? |
A44530 | If thou art minded to offend God, get Curtains, that can hide his sight; for if he see, what madness is it, to conspire against him, before him? |
A44530 | If thy design be honest, and lawful, Why shouldst thou be loth to recommend thy endeavors to the conduct of Providence? |
A44530 | If we are Treacherous to our God, how should we keep Faith with Men? |
A44530 | If we are unfaithful in greater Matters, Who will commit lesser to our trust? |
A44530 | If we break the Vows we make to God, What Man can trust us after that? |
A44530 | If we think it necessary to our Salvation, shall we think, those under our Charge may find out another way to Heaven? |
A44530 | Is God our enemy, that we care not for beholding him in secret, when he stands before us in our Closets? |
A44530 | Is Satans Angel given thee to buffet thee? |
A44530 | Is fullness of Bread, the way to be fill''d with the Holy Ghost? |
A44530 | Is it not all one, whether one Goliah, or a Thousand Philistines overcome you? |
A44530 | Is it not time unto our Arms to fly, When but a Hill''twixt them and us doth lye? |
A44530 | Is it not to be acquainted with the Will of God, that you may do it? |
A44530 | Is it not to know the Task, God requires at your hands? |
A44530 | Is it not to learn your Work? |
A44530 | Is it only to divert your selves? |
A44530 | Is it only to hear us talk? |
A44530 | Is it only to pass away the time? |
A44530 | Is it rational to believe, that the Spiritual delights above are purchased by brutish, and beastly ones on Earth? |
A44530 | Is not his Divine, above his Humane Nature, and is not the Deity more excellent, than the most Glorious Image, or representation? |
A44530 | Is not the same God alive? |
A44530 | Is not this Call enough to baptize them, and to adopt them into Christianity? |
A44530 | Is not this the Fast that I have chosen? |
A44530 | Is not your Soul more than your Trade, and your Eternal welfare, more than a livelyhood on Earth? |
A44530 | Is the Tool a greater thing than the Workman? |
A44530 | Is the World a fit Object to engross so Noble a Faculty? |
A44530 | Is the true God the only Deity, that deserves no Self- denial at our hands? |
A44530 | Is there any of you that would not be thus dealt withal? |
A44530 | Is this your affection to him, to do what you know wil cross his Will and Pleasure? |
A44530 | Is this your respect to him, to disoblige him in things he intends for your eternal Wellfare? |
A44530 | Is your Eye therefore evil because God is good? |
A44530 | It is ill manners, as well, as irreligion, and do not your Hearts and Consciences smite you for it? |
A44530 | It this the recompence, you give him for all the kind motions, and whispers he hath follow''d you withall? |
A44530 | It''s impossible, said his friend, for such a one is become an Angel, if thou art an Angel, what dost thou stand knocking here for? |
A44530 | Laban was more concern''d for his God, than for his Sheep and Oxen; Shall an Idolater mind his Idol, more than you the great God of Heaven, and Earth? |
A44530 | Men are not weary of playing at Cards, or Dice all night, and can not they watch one hour with Christ at night? |
A44530 | Must you be vain, because God is patient? |
A44530 | Must you sin, because he doth not punish, or transgress his Laws, because by his Mercies he would oblige you to Repentance? |
A44530 | Nay do not Physitians cure men by Abstinence? |
A44530 | Nay, What do you come to Church for? |
A44530 | Nothing in Nature is idle, and shall a Christian be the only idle thing in the World? |
A44530 | Oh Sirs, consider, whether these excuses will be accepted in the last day? |
A44530 | On the Lords day especially; Have I heard the Word this day with seriousness? |
A44530 | Or did ever Children with a switch, strike a sturdy Oak out of its place? |
A44530 | Or did ever any man forswear eating Meat, because the Glutton eats till he makes himself sick with it? |
A44530 | Or have not I been guilty of another Extreme, which is Prodigality? |
A44530 | Or is the undoing of our selves a more charming act, than securing our everlasting interest? |
A44530 | Or will these foes ever yield, while you make no war against them? |
A44530 | Prater quidam interrogavit Senem, quid est Humilitas? |
A44530 | Shall God allow grains in offences, and shall not we? |
A44530 | Shall Men, willfully blind, tell the Allmighty, what colour their sins are of, or how he must interpret them, that searches the heart, and the reines? |
A44530 | Shall a Heathen, a Turk, a Jew, out- do me in Holiness? |
A44530 | Shall a few Lusts blind you? |
A44530 | Shall he remember we are dust, and shall we forget, that our Neighbours are so, and subject to mistakes and errours? |
A44530 | Shall not we do as much to make sure of Heaven, as they do to make sure of Hell? |
A44530 | Shall the meanest thing, which is no more but Dross and Dung in the sight of God, employ that Power which is capable of fixing upon the Noblest Being? |
A44530 | Shall the softness of the Bed keep the Soul from such employment? |
A44530 | Shall they think the Devils service worth their watching at night, and shall not we think the service of our God worth so much? |
A44530 | Shall this World delude you? |
A44530 | Shall we take on thus for dead Flesh, which we can not raise to life again? |
A44530 | Shall you give an account of your Riches, and Honour, and Time, and Opportunities, and Liberty, and give no account of your Reason? |
A44530 | Shall your Flesh beguile you? |
A44530 | Suppose my condition is not the same with his, yet is there any condition, which a Man may not, or is not obliged to be good in? |
A44530 | The Watchmen that go about the City found me, to whom I said, saw ye him, whom my Soul loveth? |
A44530 | The silent night rouzes their Spirits into action, and shall it dead ours altogether? |
A44530 | This Man could do so, and can not you? |
A44530 | This is exceeding profitable Work; Profit is a mighty bait to you in other Concerns, and why can it not be so here? |
A44530 | Thou art no Thief, no Robber; but, Will not thy many covetous wishes make up a Robbery? |
A44530 | To undo the heavy Burdens, to deal thy Bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the Poor, that are cast out, to thy house? |
A44530 | Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere nemo? |
A44530 | Ut teipsum serves, non ex pergisceris? |
A44530 | Venture into another World, Why dost thou doubt? |
A44530 | Was God first and last in my thoughts, when I Waked this morning, and went to Rest last night? |
A44530 | Was ever Ingratitude like this? |
A44530 | Was it Curiosity, or Piety, that led me to the Temple? |
A44530 | Was it custom that obliged me to go and hear, or was it a fervent desire to be edified, and built up in my most holy Faith? |
A44530 | Was it expedient before our Lusts were in Rebellion against our Reason? |
A44530 | Was my Heart affected with the happy Message of Grace and Pardon? |
A44530 | Was my Soul affected with the Mystery of Gods love? |
A44530 | Was my Soul affected with the love of God, when I heard it described to day at the Receiving of the Holy Sacrament? |
A44530 | Was my heart ravisht when I heard the joyful news of Christs Redemption to day? |
A44530 | Was not I more taken with the Ministers delivery, than the great things he spoke of? |
A44530 | Were all thy idle words laid together, How much would they want of Blasphemy? |
A44530 | What Hallelujahs? |
A44530 | What Harmony is to be met with there? |
A44530 | What Hymns? |
A44530 | What Incentives do we make choice of to the Love of God? |
A44530 | What Melody? |
A44530 | What Musick? |
A44530 | What Praises? |
A44530 | What Songs? |
A44530 | What are our Tongues given us for, but for Discourses and Conferences of this Nature? |
A44530 | What are the eyes? |
A44530 | What can they want, while God supports them? |
A44530 | What composes our spirits in Fiery Tryals? |
A44530 | What damps or dulls your admiration of Gods providences? |
A44530 | What did we to vanquish such a Corruption? |
A44530 | What do we call our selves Christians for, if we will not learn to run in this race? |
A44530 | What do you confess your sins for, but to be better? |
A44530 | What doth it signifie, to believe a God, and to walk, as if there were none? |
A44530 | What edifying expressions and discourses may we build upon these thoughts, and contemplations, when we visit one another? |
A44530 | What good have I done to day? |
A44530 | What great Conquest is it, to perswade the Proud to Covetousness, or the Drunkard to Adultery? |
A44530 | What is your sinning against him, but reviling of him? |
A44530 | What made the antient Hermits, that kept almost a perpetual Fast, live so long? |
A44530 | What made the first Planters of the Christian Religion fast so often, if they had not apprehended it exceeding necessary? |
A44530 | What makes so many Hypocrites in the Christian Church, but this insensibleness of lesser sins? |
A44530 | What makes so much work for Physitians but eating and drinking to intemperance? |
A44530 | What makes the Apostles write so many Epistles to their Hearers and Disciples? |
A44530 | What makes us contented in all conditions? |
A44530 | What makes you go to it, as Malefactors do to the place of Execution? |
A44530 | What makes you send for us to cloath you with the Garments of Righteousness, when your Souls are going to another World? |
A44530 | What makes you shun this Watch- tower, as if it were as bad, as the Valley of Hinnom? |
A44530 | What makes you so backward to this Exercise? |
A44530 | What makes you that you are no more enamour''d with him, that''s altogether lovely? |
A44530 | What prevailes with us to be patient? |
A44530 | What puts us upon Self- denial? |
A44530 | What should hinder me from following him? |
A44530 | What should you do but imitate your Father, which is above? |
A44530 | What sin hast thou withstood? |
A44530 | What, if it should be so? |
A44530 | What? |
A44530 | When I received the Holy Sacrament to day, were my thoughts fixed on the Cross of Christ? |
A44530 | When in grief, she was tempted to mourn, like one without hope, she cryed, Why art thou cast down, O my Soul, and why art thou disquieted within me? |
A44530 | When shall Dagon fall? |
A44530 | When shall it once be? |
A44530 | When shall the Ark be set up? |
A44530 | When shall the Fig- tree blossom? |
A44530 | When shall the Spices flow? |
A44530 | When shall the Vine put forth her tender Grapes? |
A44530 | When will poor unconverted Sinners be convinced of their gross Mistakes? |
A44530 | When will the dull World learn this Truth? |
A44530 | When will they believe our report, and think that we are the best Friends, they have? |
A44530 | When will they see the Charms that are in Godliness, and fall in love with it? |
A44530 | Where is your Christian Perfection, if you watch not against the least sin? |
A44530 | Wherein art thou better? |
A44530 | Which of the two do we count most useful, a Ship that lies still in the Harbor, or that which encounters with the Waves and Billows of the Sea? |
A44530 | Who hath made you Judges of your Neighbours? |
A44530 | Who is she that looks forth as the Morning, fair as the Moon, clear as the Sun, and terrible as an Army with Banners? |
A44530 | Who of you desires not to be saved? |
A44530 | Who opened a Window to you into their hearts? |
A44530 | Whoever rejected Wine, because Men make themselves drunk with it? |
A44530 | Why do you usurp God''s Authority? |
A44530 | Why dost thou compel me to cast thee off? |
A44530 | Why must ye needs be slovenly and careless in this particular? |
A44530 | Why of all things must your Souls, and your God be neglected? |
A44530 | Why should not I tread in his steps? |
A44530 | Why should not his practice kindle in me desires, to arrive to the same happiness? |
A44530 | Why should you cheat your selves? |
A44530 | Why should you delude your selves in a thing so palpable? |
A44530 | Why, Christs Divinity is with thee now, and can not his Divinity have the same influence upon thy Spirit, that his Humanity would have? |
A44530 | Why? |
A44530 | Why? |
A44530 | Why? |
A44530 | Why? |
A44530 | Will it serve turn, do you think, to say, That you have employ''d it about the World? |
A44530 | Will not the very Heathen shame you in the last day, if you neglect this Exercise? |
A44530 | Will nothing make you wise, but experience of Gods Indignation? |
A44530 | Will ye Abjure, what then you gave your consent to? |
A44530 | Will ye be false to your promise? |
A44530 | Will ye break your Vow? |
A44530 | Will you count that Godliness your shame, which the Saints of old did esteem their glory? |
A44530 | Will you slight him, because he is kind, or undervalue him, because he caresses you to your happiness? |
A44530 | Will you slight this Mercy? |
A44530 | Will you trample on the Blood of Jesus? |
A44530 | Will your sins leave you when you do not think of them? |
A44530 | Wilt thou play with him as with a Bird? |
A44530 | Would not you deny your selves in your ease for a Crown of Glory? |
A44530 | Would you be Religious, and dissolute? |
A44530 | Would you be good, and have Elbow- room in Sin? |
A44530 | Would you be happy, and suffer no restraint to be laid upon your Sensual Pleasures? |
A44530 | Would you be his Disciples, and live as you please? |
A44530 | Would you be pious, and be kept within no bounds? |
A44530 | Would you have God believe you, that you love him, when you are loath to do whatsoever he commands you? |
A44530 | Would you have all that the World affords, and all that Heaven affords? |
A44530 | Would you lie in the lap of Sensual Delights here, and from thence drop into the Bosom of Everlasting Mercy? |
A44530 | Would you live easie here, and easie hereafter too? |
A44530 | Would you think it troublesome to rise at midnight to get ten or twenty pounds? |
A44530 | Wrath and Anger will decay, and cool, if thus it be call''d to the Barr every day; What can be more pleasant, then thus to explore the day? |
A44530 | You are for Peace and Quietness, but are your sinister constructions of your neighbours Actions, the way to it? |
A44530 | You are sick, desperately sick, why should you be loath to know it? |
A44530 | You can not but be sensible that these( you call) lesser sins offend him, and is this your love to him, to disobey him? |
A44530 | You complain of Ignorance; How should you increase in Knowledge, if you will not meditate? |
A44530 | You complain you can not conquer your corruptions; How should you conquer, when you do not strive? |
A44530 | and because they go beyond the just bounds of these Severities, must they therefore be quite laid aside, and despised as useless? |
A44530 | and if that be their great remedy, why should we not make use of it, before we have need of them? |
A44530 | and if to be better, how is it possible, you should be so, without you defend and guard your Souls, by such Holy purposes the next day? |
A44530 | and the smell of thy ointment, than all spices? |
A44530 | and to what purpose is it to adore him, when his greatness can have no influence, upon our Consciences? |
A44530 | any thing more necessary, than the love of God? |
A44530 | any thing of greater necessity, than the true way to inherit eternal life? |
A44530 | how humble St. Paul was, how couragious St. Peter, how fervent David, how meek Moses, how patient Job? |
A44530 | how inexcusable do you make your selves? |
A44530 | if we do, how can we want matter of Discourse? |
A44530 | look upon David, how patiently he endured the railings of Shimei; are you persecuted for Righteousness sake? |
A44530 | or Lusts that are deeply rooted, expelled with Sighs and Wishes? |
A44530 | or the Pot of greater consequence than the Potter that did make it? |
A44530 | or what shall a Man give in exchange for his Soul? |
A44530 | or wilt thou bind him for thy Maidens? |
A44530 | shall not we work to do him service, that works all our Blessings for us? |
A44530 | the Iron that lies by, or that which we do daily take pains about? |
A44530 | the same Spirit ready to assist me? |
A44530 | the standing Water, or the flowing Stream? |
A44530 | undervalue his Agonies, or fancy, they deserve no such Exercise? |
A44530 | were you sure to get every time you rise at night, half a score of Broad pieces of Gold, would not you make a shift to get up? |
A44530 | what can be more unreasonable, where is your Justice, your Equity, your Religion? |
A44530 | what great matter hast thou lost? |
A44530 | while we shut up our bowels of compassion to the needy? |
A44530 | whom can you blame? |
A44530 | wilt not thou be clean? |
A44530 | would not you have others put such charitable interpretations on your Words and Actions, and will not you express the same civility to others? |
A44530 | would you be preserved from fainting under troubles? |
A44530 | would you be supported in distress? |
A44530 | would you bear up under the greatest storms? |
A44530 | would you have others discharge their Duty to you, and would you be excused from discharging yours to them? |
A44530 | would you have others live up to this Light, and would you love Darkness better? |
A44530 | would you have others smooth the rough outside of your Offences, and put on them the skins of Lambs, and would you put the Lions skin on theirs? |
A44530 | would you have others subject to this Rule, and would you except your selves? |
A44530 | would you have others wash your errours white, and would you throw Ink on theirs? |
A44530 | would you hold out in the greatest persecutions? |
A44530 | your eyes are so entirely fix''d on the Flesh, and on the World; How should you love that, which you see but seldom? |
A44524 | ( And why should he tell me so, if it were not so? |
A44524 | A Friend is often loved better than neer Relations; What may not I promise my self from this Love and Friendship of God? |
A44524 | All my sorrows and bitterness will shortly be poured out into an ocean of sweetness, and how little of it shall I perceive then? |
A44524 | Am I afraid God is not enrag''d enough against me, or that his Anger is not red enough? |
A44524 | Am I by the Apostles verdict, an Idolater, and do I make light of so great a guilt? |
A44524 | Am I certain that Iniquity will be my confusion, and am I resolv''d to dye? |
A44524 | Am I one of these stubborn, unconverted, careless men or no? |
A44524 | Am not I Religious for filthy lucre''s sake? |
A44524 | Am not I afraid of vengeance, or can I think God will suffer a wretch, that lives upon his mercy, and makes no better return, go unpunished? |
A44524 | Am not I more curious to know other mens conditions than mine own? |
A44524 | Am not I more severe in pressing the lesser concerns of Religion, than I am in urging the greater? |
A44524 | Am not I more zealous in publick, than I am in private? |
A44524 | And Sirs, will you be rob''d thus quietly of your bliss and glory? |
A44524 | And are not these excellent Arguments against Consideration? |
A44524 | And because the Tree is pleasant to the eye, wilt thou prepare for being expell''d out of Paradise for ever? |
A44524 | And can I resist that Love? |
A44524 | And can there be any thing more absurd, than to call an Ox, or Lion, or Elephant, a nobler Creature than Man? |
A44524 | And do you lose Heaven for this? |
A44524 | And dost not thou act the same madness, when thou preferrest lying in the Arms of an Enemy, before resting in the bosome of a gracious Redeemer? |
A44524 | And doth Salvation deserve no more, but a few slight and skin deep reflexions, when thou liest a dying? |
A44524 | And doth it drive me to give God my dearest and tenderest love? |
A44524 | And doth it engage me to count all things Dross and Dung, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ? |
A44524 | And how could it consist with his Wisdom and Integrity to deceive me with Bugbears, and Chimera''s?) |
A44524 | And if they fear no revenging Arm, why should he make his Life miserable, by thinking of punishment? |
A44524 | And if they think not the omission prejudicial to their spiritual interest, why should he terrifie himself with counterfeit thunder? |
A44524 | And is not thy Distraction as great, to esteem a sinful pleasure more, than the favour of God? |
A44524 | And is that which was intended for his footstool, become his Throne, whereon he braves all the messages of grace and pardon? |
A44524 | And is this the Coat of the Sons of God? |
A44524 | And must I have no seat in yonder Mansion? |
A44524 | And now Sinner, which of these Pictures wouldst thou chuse? |
A44524 | And now let any man in his wits judge, whether Coversion, in that sense we speak of it, both in publick and private, be not indispensably necessary? |
A44524 | And run the hazard ▪ of an endless Tempest, for a few months Recreation? |
A44524 | And set by the Dross and Dung of this World more, than by the excellency of the knowledge of Christ? |
A44524 | And shall I after all this, repine, because I am not a Favourite of Kings and Princes, when I have God for my constant guide, and associate? |
A44524 | And talk of being saved, when thy actions savor only of preparation for eternal misery? |
A44524 | And to be enamor''d with deformity it self, when thou art courted by him, who is altogether lovely? |
A44524 | And what I must drink? |
A44524 | And what shall I gain by it in the end? |
A44524 | And when there is nothing can rouze me from my security, but affliction, ought not I to kiss the rod? |
A44524 | And where is that alteration, that renovation of the Mind, Will, and Affections? |
A44524 | And wherewithall I shall be cloathed? |
A44524 | And whether Consideration how to be converted, fall not under the same necessity? |
A44524 | And why should not my resolution prompt me to the same generous enterprizes? |
A44524 | And why should they be dearer to me than my God, my Soul, and a good Conscience? |
A44524 | And will you storm the gates of Hell, because others are so desperate, as to do it? |
A44524 | Are not these evident signs, that the World draws and attracts my Heart most powerfully? |
A44524 | Are not these very lofty and pregnant Reasons, to confute the necessity of so great a Duty? |
A44524 | Are questions I have a far greater desire to be resolved in, than to know, what I must do to please God, and to be happy for ever? |
A44524 | Are the concerns of my Soul so trivial, that they do not deserve one day in the week? |
A44524 | Are you afraid men will laugh at you for being serious? |
A44524 | Art not thou weary of iniquity? |
A44524 | Art thou still in love with that which will undo thee? |
A44524 | Because such a man ruines himself and his Family, have you a mind to do so too? |
A44524 | Because such a one doth not mind his Trade, but lies in Ale- houses and Taverns, must you necessarily make him your pattern? |
A44524 | Because such a one imbezles his Estate, must you therefore spend yours in riotous living? |
A44524 | Because such a one lets his Garden run to Weeds, must you therefore fill yours with Bryars and Thorns? |
A44524 | Behold, O my Soul, the vast number of the Stars, and Lamps of Heaven, how wise, how powerful is that God that made them? |
A44524 | Behold, they rise and goe down at his command, and do not fail one minute of their appointed time; how should this teach thee obedience? |
A44524 | Being advanc''d so high, why should I be enamour''d with a little Dust? |
A44524 | Believe? |
A44524 | But how can I love thee, except I keep thy Commandments? |
A44524 | But if they did, is there not some difference between knowing these sacred Truths, and having them set home upon the Conscience? |
A44524 | But may it not be requisite to enquire, whether these Doubters have ever taken the right way to be satisfied? |
A44524 | But then how shall these, or any other Cheats be discover''d and avoided, but by Consideration? |
A44524 | But then what would our reason signifie? |
A44524 | But what power hath my Faith upon my Affections? |
A44524 | But what shall we say? |
A44524 | But what will not Prejudice do? |
A44524 | Can I conceive it possible, that God will go from his Word, to please a stubborn Sinner? |
A44524 | Can I do less than love him, to whom I owe all I have? |
A44524 | Can I ever be serious, and not believe it? |
A44524 | Can I harden my heart against these Charms? |
A44524 | Can I hear the Son of God call so often, Woe, Woe, to ye Hypocrites, and hug the sin in my bosom? |
A44524 | Can I imagine God will blow out that everlasting Fire, to gratifie my vicious temper? |
A44524 | Can I look upon all these passages and occurrencies, and not conclude another world? |
A44524 | Can I refuse this kindness? |
A44524 | Can I remember the fate of Judas, and not think of a serious repentance? |
A44524 | Can I think he would say, A Little more sleep, and a little more slumber, and delay his obedience? |
A44524 | Can mans kindnesses be so prevalent, and shall not the goodness of God fire my Soul into a practical love to his Name? |
A44524 | Can not, did I say? |
A44524 | Can that Gold and Silver I enjoy and do so much prize and adore, be any motive to the great Judge of Life and Death to absolve me? |
A44524 | Can that be little which nailed Christ to his Cross? |
A44524 | Can the Rock hold out against these bowels of compassion? |
A44524 | Can the pleasures of Sin be antidotes against Sin? |
A44524 | Can there be a lovelier Being, than he, from whom whatever is beautiful in Men or Angels flowes? |
A44524 | Can there be any thing in Nature more silly, or ridiculous? |
A44524 | Can there be any thing more reasonable than Christs precepts? |
A44524 | Can there be greater ingratitude in the World, than I am guilty of by this sin? |
A44524 | Can there be greater madness, than to prefer Stone before Bread, and a Serpent before a Fish? |
A44524 | Can two walk together except they be agreed? |
A44524 | Can we read how tribulation and anguish shall certainly fall upon every Soul that doth evil, and not speak to you to prevent it? |
A44524 | Can we see you stand upon the brink of destruction, and be so cruel, as not to acquaint you with the bottomless gulph that''s underneath? |
A44524 | Canst thou have such low thoughts of everlasting Glory, as to let Consideration of it, come behind all the satisfactions of thy flesh? |
A44524 | Consider, what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and loose his own Soul? |
A44524 | Consider, what your pride, and sensuality will at last conclude in? |
A44524 | Consider, whether you are not obliged to practice all those Vertues, and Duties, that the meaner sort perform? |
A44524 | Consideration? |
A44524 | Darken the Room that I may not see the Sun? |
A44524 | Did ever any Father love his Son so, as never to part company? |
A44524 | Did ever any man hate his own flesh? |
A44524 | Did it raise them to the power of Senacherib, to the magnificence of Nebuchadnezar, to the pleasures of Solomon? |
A44524 | Did offending a Gracious God, ever cost me the tenth part of the Tears, I shed for being deprived of a little shining Clay? |
A44524 | Did sin ever grieve me a quarter so much as a temporal loss? |
A44524 | Did the sot but blow those sparks of Reason he hath left, into such considerations as these, how horrid, how nauseous would the sin appear? |
A44524 | Did they ever do, what every rational man ought to do, that is willing to be ascertained of the truth of a common report? |
A44524 | Do I know that I shall be miserable, if I continue in that course I have held on in hitherto, and am I in love with eternal ruine? |
A44524 | Do I lead a life which is the readiest way to eternal Vengeance, and shall I not step back and prevent it? |
A44524 | Do I make nothing of God''s threatenings? |
A44524 | Do I run the hazard of everlasting flames, and do I lie playing in the Suburbs of destruction? |
A44524 | Do men gather Grapes of Thorns, or Figs of Thistles? |
A44524 | Do not I applaud my self for my own sanctity, while I despise others, whom I fancy not so Holy as I am? |
A44524 | Do not I by pretending to please God, neglect my Duty to my neighbor? |
A44524 | Do not I draw nigh to God with my Lips, when in my heart and conversation I deny him? |
A44524 | Do not I make Devotion a scaffold to erect my own credit and profit by? |
A44524 | Do not I make a gain of Godliness, and use Religion as a cloak, to cover my secret sins? |
A44524 | Do not I pretend God''s Glory sometimes, when I aim at nothing but mine own? |
A44524 | Do not I require those Duties of other men, which my self am loath to practise? |
A44524 | Do not deceive thy self, doth not this knowledge thou pretendest to, make thee secure and careless? |
A44524 | Do not they trudge from Lawyer to Lawyer to advise about the Evidences, that relate to it? |
A44524 | Doe not I come too late, O my Lord, to the throne of Grace? |
A44524 | Doe not I commend that in a rich or great man, which I can reprehend in my inferiors, or meaner persons? |
A44524 | Does not every man desire to be happy? |
A44524 | Does not my blood rise at the very thoughts of it? |
A44524 | Does the case stand thus, and must my sinful life expire into the Worm that dies not? |
A44524 | Doest not thou see how in sickness the Soul sympathizes with the Body? |
A44524 | Dost not thou remember, O my Soul, how the world Was lost by eating of the forbidden Tree? |
A44524 | Dost not thou see the Enemy behind him? |
A44524 | Dost thou believe, that what ever is in man, and can challenge obedience, is more eminently in God, and dost thou scruple to comply with his Will? |
A44524 | Dost thou feel this O my Soul? |
A44524 | Dost thou rightly understand, O my Soul, what this great, and tremendous Ordinance means? |
A44524 | Dost thou see a crucified Jesus stretching forth his Arms to embrace thee, and dost thou feel no warmth, no heat, no zeal, no affection? |
A44524 | Dost thou see the Angel of the Lord preparing to rain down Fire and Brimstone on thee, and wilt thou not save thy self in Zoar? |
A44524 | Dost thou see the Revenger of blood upon thy heels, and wilt not thou run into the City of Refuge? |
A44524 | Dost thou see the great burning Lake before thee, and dost not thou quake and tremble? |
A44524 | Dost thou stand upon the brink of destruction, and art thou not afraid? |
A44524 | Doth it discover to me my spiritual poverty, and make me prefer others before my self? |
A44524 | Doth it make me cautious and afraid of offending that God whom I believe of purer eyes than to behold iniquity? |
A44524 | Doth it make me cut off my right hand, pull out my right eye when they do offend me? |
A44524 | Doth it make me despise the World, and overcome it, and use it only as my Servant, while God alone is my Master? |
A44524 | Doth it make me embrace Christ both as my Redeemer and Governor, both as my Saviour and my King? |
A44524 | Doth it make me live like a person that believes the Omnipresence, and Omniscience of God? |
A44524 | Doth it make me pray with fervency and importunity? |
A44524 | Doth it make me prize Christ above all? |
A44524 | Doth it make me prize the promises of the Gospel above all riches, and doth it make me willing to suffer for Christ? |
A44524 | Doth it make me rejoyce in that Saviour I have not seen with joy unspeakable and full of glory? |
A44524 | Doth it make me take notice of Gods gracious Dealings and Providences, and admire Gods wisdom and greatness, and power and goodness in all? |
A44524 | Doth it not make thee sit down contented without the life of Religion? |
A44524 | Doth it not persuade thee to believe that thou art a Christian, though thou dost not imitate Christ in his holy life and conversation? |
A44524 | Doth it produce that mind in me, which was in Christ Jesus? |
A44524 | Doth it purifie my heart, and drive away those lusts that have taken up their residence there? |
A44524 | Doth it transport my Soul into ravishments upon the sight of yonder glorious things, God hath laid up and prepared for those that love him? |
A44524 | Doth it work by charity too, by good works? |
A44524 | Doth it work by love? |
A44524 | Doth not Dives, his calling for a drop of water to cool his burning Tongue, affright me? |
A44524 | Doth not thy God know better, what is expedient for thee, than thy self? |
A44524 | Dull blockish heart, what dost thou mean? |
A44524 | Either I believe an eternity of Torments, that shall attend a careless sinful life, or I do not: If not, why dare not I profess my denial? |
A44524 | Feast with so Glorious a God, and come without a Wedding- Garment? |
A44524 | From the Earth, 0 my Soul, launch out into the Waters, how useful are the Lessons, suggested to issue by this Element? |
A44524 | God hath made me many glorious promises, how can I forbear rejoycing under the thoughts of them? |
A44524 | God love a little slime and earth? |
A44524 | God that might sport himself with my everlasting groans; what need he have cared, whether I were saved or no? |
A44524 | God would save thee by that burthen which lies upon thee, and dost thou prefer a little froth before an Eternal weight of blessedness? |
A44524 | God''s Presence can make it a Heaven, Walls can not keep out the Smiles and Glory of the Highest; What is poverty? |
A44524 | Had God snatcht me away in that dismal service, how dreadful would my wages have been? |
A44524 | Had any man but shewn me the ten thousandth part of that love, which God hath manifested to me, how should I love him? |
A44524 | Had not you better be laugh''d at here, than be scorn''d by God, and his Holy Angels to all Eternity? |
A44524 | Had you been but a quarter of an hour in Hell, would not you call all those men sots, and fools, that now excuse their wilful neglect of this work? |
A44524 | Hast not thou heard thy Saviour call, Come to me all ye that are weary and heavy loaden, and I will give ye rest? |
A44524 | Hast thou receiv''d the good at the hand of the Lord, and shalt not thou receive the evil also? |
A44524 | Hath Gods Favour no Temptation? |
A44524 | Hath Heaven no Beauty? |
A44524 | Hath not he power to do with his own what he pleaseth? |
A44524 | Have I liv''d in the World all this while, and am not I nearer Heaven than I was some years ago? |
A44524 | Have I no self- end in any Religious Duty? |
A44524 | Have not I enemies enough, but I must make my self my greatest Foe? |
A44524 | Have not I reason to believe he would go beyond Zachaeus, leave himself but just enough to live on, and study how to do good with the rest? |
A44524 | Have not I reason to believe, that the Lawes of Christ would seem very facil and practicable to him? |
A44524 | He that makes a rich Carpet, doth not intend it for Dish- clouts: And shall I think God more imprudent than man? |
A44524 | Holiness itself, and find out a way, to promote iniquity? |
A44524 | How absurd, how impertinent, how contradictory is this Belief? |
A44524 | How amiable are thy Tabernacles, Lord God of Hosts? |
A44524 | How art thou cut down to the ground? |
A44524 | How beautiful must he be, to whom all these inferior Beauties owe their Being? |
A44524 | How bright that knowledge thou hast revealed to me? |
A44524 | How can I be said to love thee, while I hate to conform my self to thy Will and Pleasure? |
A44524 | How can I be thy Friend, except I doe whatsoever thou commandest me? |
A44524 | How can I dispense with a sin for profits sake? |
A44524 | How can my Soul be weary of Delighting in thee? |
A44524 | How canst thou hope thy Religious exercises will be accepted in Heaven, while thou know''st not what this Holy delight doth mean? |
A44524 | How close doth my heart stick to the profits and advantages it affords? |
A44524 | How dead under the joyful message of pardon? |
A44524 | How deliberate, how circumspect am I in my addresses to my King, and is not God a greater Prince than he? |
A44524 | How despicable a Creature is a Mite? |
A44524 | How do I deceive my self with the fair names of good Husbandry and Frugality? |
A44524 | How do I dote upon these sublunary vanities? |
A44524 | How do I pervert the end of Gods bounty when I make that to ruine and destroy my nature, which was intended to preserve it? |
A44524 | How do I prepare for Diseases by this Vice? |
A44524 | How do I prostitute, and expose my self to the contempt and scorn of Men that know me? |
A44524 | How dost thou know thou shalt live till tomorrow? |
A44524 | How doth it grieve me, when I spend any thing upon Religion? |
A44524 | How dull am I under the most lively descriptions of the joys of Heaven? |
A44524 | How dull under the stupendous offers of Grace and Mercy? |
A44524 | How dull when tempted by all the ravishing arguments of Gods love, to love him above all? |
A44524 | How far greater pains do I take to be rich, than to be happy for ever? |
A44524 | How far greater satisfaction doth my thriving in the world give me, than my thriving in Grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ? |
A44524 | How frequent the motions of thy spirit thou hast shed into my Soul? |
A44524 | How great hath been thy care of my temporal concerns, but how far greater thy care of the weighty concerns of my Soul? |
A44524 | How great the light thou hast imparted to me? |
A44524 | How happy art thou, if thou art sensible of these operations? |
A44524 | How happy do I count my self, when Religion doth cost me nothing? |
A44524 | How hast thou adjur''d me by the bowels of Jesus, by the wounds and agonies of the Son of God, to dye unto sin, and to live unto righteousness? |
A44524 | How hast thou allur''d me by the various tokens of thy Love, to love thee better than the World? |
A44524 | How hast thou bid me trust to broken Reeds, and lean on props which were rotten and decay''d? |
A44524 | How hast thou disparaged Piety to me, as a sneaking qualification, and represented Sin as the Royal way to Credit and Reputation? |
A44524 | How hast thou prompted me to palliate my Offences, and to lay them at other mens doors? |
A44524 | How hearty is my joy, under the blessings of Gods left hand? |
A44524 | How inconsiderable an Insect is a Flie? |
A44524 | How inexcusable will this make thee? |
A44524 | How is my Soul bound up with my Corn, and Wine; and Oyl? |
A44524 | How is my Soul fix''d upon this World? |
A44524 | How is that glorious Image thou didst once shed into his breast, blotted and defiled? |
A44524 | How is thy pomp brought down to the grave? |
A44524 | How is thy similitude in Man defaced? |
A44524 | How justly may he deny me his Grace and assistance, who do not seek it more earnestly? |
A44524 | How justly may he refuse to be found by me, who seek him, as if his favour deserved no pains, or trouble? |
A44524 | How justly may he say, Depart from me, I know thee not, who am so indifferent, whether I enjoy the light of his countenance or no? |
A44524 | How like a Beast do I live? |
A44524 | How little am I affected with the blessings of his right? |
A44524 | How little of my desires and breathings, hath God and a bleeding Saviour? |
A44524 | How little reason should I have to complain of the tediousness of thy Yoak? |
A44524 | How loath am I to be any at charges for Heaven? |
A44524 | How loath am I to confess my self guilty of this vice? |
A44524 | How loath am I to honour God with my substance? |
A44524 | How loath am I to part with any of this worlds Goods, for Gods service? |
A44524 | How many thousands are cut off, as they are going up the hill, in the noon of their days, before half their race be run? |
A44524 | How may I exult, how may I triumph in this love? |
A44524 | How may I stand amazed at this prodigious long suffering of my God? |
A44524 | How miraculously hast thou turn''d the hearts of Men many times into mercy and compassion for my good? |
A44524 | How numerous the checks of my own conscience which thou hast sent me? |
A44524 | How often dost thou bring light out of darkness, and turnest my affliction into the greatest joy? |
A44524 | How often doth he manifest his displeasure against this sin in his Word, and can I think I am not concern''d in the commination? |
A44524 | How often doth the afflicted Beleever walk in darkness? |
A44524 | How often hast thou heard my Prayer, and granted me the request of my Lips? |
A44524 | How often hast thou taught me to cover my sins with plausible names, that I might not be forc''d to leave them? |
A44524 | How often hath he disappointed me in my hopes and desires, and shall I fawn upon the Enemy? |
A44524 | How often have I fear''d such an accident would be my ruine, and God hath turn''d it into the greatest good? |
A44524 | How shall I be crown''d if I strive not? |
A44524 | How shall I strive, if I have no temptation? |
A44524 | How shall our reason judge of them, but by Consideration? |
A44524 | How shortly will all these delusions be discover''d? |
A44524 | How should I praise his munificence? |
A44524 | How should I rejoyce to have such a friend as Jonathan was? |
A44524 | How should I revere his memory? |
A44524 | How should I speak of his favours? |
A44524 | How should I stand amazed at the strangeness of the favour? |
A44524 | How should I study to please him? |
A44524 | How should my Soul rejoyce at the dawning of it? |
A44524 | How should the possibility of such misery fright and terrifie me into watchfulness and seriousness? |
A44524 | How should these Cheats be discover''d but by our reason? |
A44524 | How sinner? |
A44524 | How soon might I vanquish this sin? |
A44524 | How strange hath been thy condescension, and doth not all this deserve my love? |
A44524 | How strangely hast thou wheel''d things about for my deliverance? |
A44524 | How strong have been the convictions thou hast vouchsafed me? |
A44524 | How unwillingly, how grudgingly, do I part with any thing considerable, for Charitable uses? |
A44524 | How unworthy have I lived of this incomprehensible Love? |
A44524 | How unworthy of that Reason which the wise Creator hath bestowed upon me? |
A44524 | How unworthy of those Mercies I daily enjoy? |
A44524 | How vain will my love appear in the last day, if it hath been a stranger to obedience here? |
A44524 | How wisely dost thou order my affairs? |
A44524 | How wisely hast thou many times denied me temporal mercies, because thou hadst a mind to enrich me with spiritual Blessings in Heavenly places? |
A44524 | How wonderufl are thy Providences to me and mine? |
A44524 | How would many of the sober Heathens, have scorned a temptation to such a sin? |
A44524 | How? |
A44524 | I find how this sin deprives me of a Holy communion with God, and shall I loose my greatest comfort and support, and satisfaction for it? |
A44524 | I have been abused and cheated by Sin these many years, and shall I be cheated still? |
A44524 | I pretend to knowledge of the Cross of Christ, but doth this knowledge make me humble and vile in mine own eyes? |
A44524 | I that will not be cheated in my Trade or Dealings with men, shall I suffer my self to be imposed upon by a lying Devil? |
A44524 | I''ll be wise before it be too late, I will not hazard my Soul as most men do, O how I blame my self for serving Sin and the World thus long? |
A44524 | I, see a Law in my Members, warring against the Law of my Mind, and bringing me into captivity to the Law of Sin? |
A44524 | If God doth do nothing in vain, what can we imagine that this power of Consideration is given for? |
A44524 | If God had commanded severer things, is not Heaven recompence enough? |
A44524 | If God laid down his life for his enemies, what will not he do for his friends? |
A44524 | If I am none of this number, What means the bleating of Sheep, and the lowing of Oxen in mine ears? |
A44524 | If I do not thrive in outward Riches, by loving thee; hast not thou who art rich in mercy, a pearl of price to bestow upon me when this life is ended? |
A44524 | If I fear not Hell- fire, why do not I fear impoverishing of my self and Family? |
A44524 | If I loose in this World by loving thee, hast not thou Treasures enough to recompence my losses? |
A44524 | If a fool laughs at you, do you regard it? |
A44524 | If any man love the World, the love of the Father is not in him; and can I be contented without the love of God? |
A44524 | If he hath satisfied God for the injuries he received by any sins, why should they make a new satisfaction by holiness of their Lives? |
A44524 | If men despise me for loving thee, hast not thou Honour and Glory enough to crown me withal? |
A44524 | If the streams be so lovely, what must the water in the Fountain be? |
A44524 | If these be not signes of Grace, what character of mercy wouldst thou have? |
A44524 | If they hope to do well after all this, why may not he? |
A44524 | If thou feelest no holy force in thy Soul, to shake off every weight and every sin which doth so easily beset thee? |
A44524 | If thou must be miserable, hadst thou not better be so here, than hereafter? |
A44524 | Is God so dull an object that it can not stirr, or rouze thee from thy Lethargy? |
A44524 | Is he all wise, and doth not he know what medicines are fittest for thee? |
A44524 | Is his servant become his Sovereign? |
A44524 | Is it for this, that the riches of grace and mercy, are vile and mean, and despicable in your eyes? |
A44524 | Is it for this, you hazard the favour of God? |
A44524 | Is it for this, you leap into destruction? |
A44524 | Is it for this, you scorn the gold of the Sanctuary? |
A44524 | Is it not all one, as if a woman should entreat her Husband, to let her enjoy the pleasure of an unlawful Bed? |
A44524 | Is it not every mans interest to study how to prevent it? |
A44524 | Is it possible a messenger of that worth and beauty, and excellency, can want a lodging? |
A44524 | Is it possible it should fare no better than the GREAT JESUS, be destitute of a place where to lay its head? |
A44524 | Is it so as God hath told me? |
A44524 | Is it such a pleasure to be laught at by all men that maintain Sobriety? |
A44524 | Is it such a pleasure to have God my Foe? |
A44524 | Is it such a pleasure to make a Pond of my Body? |
A44524 | Is it such a satisfaction to have him, that can destroy both Soul and Body into Hell, for my Adversary? |
A44524 | Is not Eternity more to me, than a moment of time? |
A44524 | Is not here enough to warm my affections towards thee? |
A44524 | Is the King immortal, invisible, blessed for evermore, to be put off with the chips and shavings of Devotion? |
A44524 | Is the portion of Hypocrites no discouragement? |
A44524 | Is the world become his Master? |
A44524 | Is there any impediment that you may not remove, if you will? |
A44524 | Is there no Charm in his Love? |
A44524 | Is there no Physitian there? |
A44524 | Is there yet compassion left for such a poor sinner? |
A44524 | Is this adorning the Gospel of my Saviour, as my Profession requires? |
A44524 | Is this remembring thy dearest friend, to think of him solemnly but once or twice a year? |
A44524 | Is this slovenly Devotion a sit Present for him, who searches the Hearts and the Reins? |
A44524 | Is this the Livery of a Christian indeed? |
A44524 | Is this the Man that receiv''d a Soul to mind Heaven most? |
A44524 | Is this the Wedding garment I may triumph in? |
A44524 | Is this thy wisdom, to lie in a Dungeon, when a Palace is prepared for thy reception? |
A44524 | Is this thy wisdom, to neglect thy weightiest Concerns, and spend thy time in admiring Bubbles? |
A44524 | Is this thy wisdom, to relie on broken Reeds, rather than on the Rock of Ages? |
A44524 | Keep out a Messenger that brings glad tydings? |
A44524 | Lock the gates against a good Angel? |
A44524 | Look upon Jesus, the Author, and Captain of thy Salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings; art thou better than the Son of God? |
A44524 | Love God, and encourage sin? |
A44524 | May not he affright stubborn sinners, with what punishment he hath a mind to? |
A44524 | Must I see others run away with these Treasures, while my self can expect nothing but Gods curse and anger? |
A44524 | Must my body engross all my endeavours, and must my Soul be starved? |
A44524 | My love of the world is Adultery, and shall I desire that, wherewith I have committed Adultery? |
A44524 | Nay, when God doth love me so entirely, why should not I for love of him conform my understanding to his judgement? |
A44524 | No House in that Jerusalem which is above? |
A44524 | No habitation in that City, which hath foundations, whose Maker and Builder is God? |
A44524 | Notwithstanding my long contempt of these loving kindnesses of the Lord, I am alive yet, and on this side Hell? |
A44524 | O how their thoughts at that time will all be changed, and all their Triumphs be turn''d into Funerals? |
A44524 | O my God, can I think of so great, so holy, so infinite, so merciful, so munificent a Being, and forbear to be enamour''d with thee? |
A44524 | O my Lord, hast thou united me so close unto thee, and shall I defile my self, by setting my love on trifles? |
A44524 | O my Soul, canst thou name that charming name of God, and feel no joy, no gladness in thy affections? |
A44524 | O my Soul, who can express all the pleasing objects, which are in this Glorious God thou dost adore? |
A44524 | O sinner, is thy heart of stone, that it doth not dissolve at this Gracious Message? |
A44524 | Oh my Lord, how often hast thou darted Rays of Light into my Soul, and the impure fire of my Lusts hath prevailed against them? |
A44524 | Or would you have us leap into everlasting burnings with you, for not reclaiming you from venturing into that fire? |
A44524 | Quit that which must support my Family? |
A44524 | Satan follows thee, but dost not thou resist him? |
A44524 | Shall I be angry with a Chirurgeon, who to prevent the spreading of my Cancer, cuts off a Member, to preserve my life? |
A44524 | Shall I count that loss, which is my gain, and call my want of Riches, a misfortune, when it is the greatest remedy to fit my Soul for Heaven? |
A44524 | Shall I flatter thee with my Lips, and hate thee in my Heart? |
A44524 | Shall I give him advantages against my self, first let him deceive me, and then laugh at me? |
A44524 | Shall I harbor a Snake there, which will sting me into endless gnawings of Conscience? |
A44524 | Shall I imagine that God hath less foresight with him, than dust and ashes? |
A44524 | Shall I join with that roaring Lyon, and teach him how to devour me? |
A44524 | Shall I love my Friend, and shall not I love thee my Joy, my Treasure, my Hiding- place? |
A44524 | Shall I love thee in words only, who hast loved me in Deeds? |
A44524 | Shall I sing in Chains, rejoyce in Fetters, glory in my Shackles, be proud of the Devils Service, boast of my Slavery? |
A44524 | Shall I think my self a Child of God, when that which I do, is fitter for a Child of the Devil, than for a Favourite of Heaven? |
A44524 | Shall I think my self sufficiently holy, when I am so little acquainted with the first rudiments of Holiness? |
A44524 | Shall I( Judas like,) kiss thee, and betray thee? |
A44524 | Shall he say, Suffer thou this affliction, and wilt thou answer with that ill- natur''d Son in the Gospel, I will not? |
A44524 | Shall so great a Soul be married to so mean a slave? |
A44524 | Shall the present Food flatter thee into eternal hunger? |
A44524 | Should I pretend to love my Prince, and affront his Law, how soon would my love be accused of a lye? |
A44524 | Sirs, what is it that doth discourage you from a sincere consideratiori of your Spiritual condition? |
A44524 | Sirs, what is it, that we are exhorting you unto? |
A44524 | Sirs, you stand upon the brink of a bottomless pit; who, but a man, whose brains are crack''d, would not look about himself? |
A44524 | Slight this stupendious blessing? |
A44524 | So great a Spirit join''d to so pitiful a vassal? |
A44524 | So in Fasting, Consideration must acquaint us, whether it be the outward performance we do regard more, than the inward frame of the Soul? |
A44524 | Spurn at this favor? |
A44524 | Sup with him, who dwelleth in the Heavens, and not purify thy self even as he is pure? |
A44524 | That man, who examines not his spiritual estate or condition, whether he is that sinner, that shall be everlastingly miserable? |
A44524 | The Angels love thee, and they have no other way to demonstrate their Love, but by running at thy commands? |
A44524 | Their Prophets, what mighty, what powerful Men were they? |
A44524 | There is no sin that''s more in my power to avoid than this, the most barbarous Heathen can shun it, and shall I pretend impossibility? |
A44524 | They all run to the upright in heart, and must I go without these Cordials? |
A44524 | Thou delightest in a delicate shape, why not in him that''s fairer than the Children of Men? |
A44524 | Thus it is with me, why should I deny it? |
A44524 | To see this, what sober man would not bless himself? |
A44524 | True Conversion consists in resisting and conquering such Delusions, but how shall they be resisted, if they be not known? |
A44524 | Variety is strangely delightful to thee here on Earth, and why then hath God so little of thy delight? |
A44524 | Was ever any man in love with torment? |
A44524 | What Devil doth possess me, that I should prefer Dancing and Revelling for a few hours, before endless joy? |
A44524 | What Friends, what Benefactors hast thou rais''d me? |
A44524 | What Man, what Devil can hurt me, while I love thee, without whose command no creature dares stir or move? |
A44524 | What agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols? |
A44524 | What are slanders and reproaches? |
A44524 | What are you afraid of? |
A44524 | What brute but a Swine would disorder it self, as I do my Body? |
A44524 | What calamity or misery is there in which this love can not hold my Head, and keep it from aking? |
A44524 | What can I plead in excuse of so soul a crime? |
A44524 | What canst thou plead for thy averseness from God, after such a prospect of his favours? |
A44524 | What concord hath Christ with Belial? |
A44524 | What crime is there that I am not fit for, when my Reason is overwhelmed with Drink? |
A44524 | What difficulty is there in leaving so gross a vice, which threatens so much mischief and misery? |
A44524 | What flouds of Consolation doth God sometimes pour out upon his Soul? |
A44524 | What follies and extravagancies doth it involve me in? |
A44524 | What great, what noble, what generous actions would thy love put me upon? |
A44524 | What hinders thee? |
A44524 | What hinders you? |
A44524 | What hurt hath God ever done me, that I should thus wilfully affront him? |
A44524 | What if God should strike me dead in a drunken fit? |
A44524 | What is all the light our Eyes behold, but a rush Candle to him that is the Father of Lights? |
A44524 | What is hypocrisie, if this be not? |
A44524 | What is it puts me many times upon doing good, applause from Men, or the love of God? |
A44524 | What is it stops thy progress? |
A44524 | What is there in them that should discourage me? |
A44524 | What judgements mightst not thou have inflicted on me for my wilful sins? |
A44524 | What makes me thus stupid, that I should forgo the Milk and Honey of Canaan, for the pitiful Garlicks and Onions of Egypt? |
A44524 | What man of reason would envy such advantages? |
A44524 | What means my earthly mindedness? |
A44524 | What means my living in wilful Contempt of so many commands of the Son of God? |
A44524 | What means my unwillingness to take God for my greatest portion? |
A44524 | What mysteries are these things to a poor Worldling? |
A44524 | What pains should I take to manifest my gratitude? |
A44524 | What promise in the Gospel can I lay hold of, during this condition? |
A44524 | What shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? |
A44524 | What should discourage me from loving thee, when I have all the promises of the Bible to prompt me to it? |
A44524 | What thinkest thou Sinner? |
A44524 | What''s become of my understanding? |
A44524 | What''s the reason that I can not shake off the fears of it, if I would never so fain? |
A44524 | What? |
A44524 | When I have been in the greatest straits, how hast thou shewn me a way to escape? |
A44524 | When is it that I intend to be clean, shall I delay it one moment longer, that know not but I may be in Hell before the Clock doth strike again? |
A44524 | When this Air yields to all gross Bodies, and lets them pass without opposition, how doth it read to thee Lectures of Patience and Humility? |
A44524 | Where words could not prevail, Tears were the means to supple and affect them; and, it seems, there is not stronger Rhetorick in the World than these? |
A44524 | Wherefore is he red in his apparel, and his garments like him that treads in the Wine- fat? |
A44524 | Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury? |
A44524 | Who can express the Honour God bestows on those that give their hearts to him? |
A44524 | Whom do I cheat all this while, is it not my own Soul? |
A44524 | Why do I play the Hypocrite, and make the World think I do believe it? |
A44524 | Why doe ye dispute the case? |
A44524 | Why doe ye stand musing? |
A44524 | Why doe you deliberate whether ye shall or no? |
A44524 | Why doe you loiter? |
A44524 | Why does something within me check me, when I would be so profane as to deny it? |
A44524 | Why should Father and Mother, Wife and Children, Brethren and Sisters, Lands and Houses make thee lose a Crown? |
A44524 | Why should I be afraid to ask such a question, when there is no less than Eternity in the case? |
A44524 | Why should I call light darkness, and darkness light; put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter? |
A44524 | Why should I flatter and deceive my self? |
A44524 | Why should I love God less than dogs do their Masters? |
A44524 | Why should I sooth my self into kind thoughts of my condition, that is so apparently dangerous? |
A44524 | Why should I think it incongruous to Gods justice, to punish sins committed here, with an Eternity of pain and anguish? |
A44524 | Why should I weep, when God takes away from me the cause of weeping? |
A44524 | Why should he fright me with painted fire? |
A44524 | Why should not my understanding serve me to consider the one as well as the other? |
A44524 | Why should they consider, how to be rid of Sin, and lay the pleasures of Holiness before their eyes? |
A44524 | Why so barbarous to my immortal part? |
A44524 | Why so cruel to my own Soul? |
A44524 | Why so inhumane to my spiritual interest? |
A44524 | Why so mad to run into the fire? |
A44524 | Why such an enemy to my own good? |
A44524 | Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recover''d? |
A44524 | Will God give a reward, to Men, that stand yawning, and stretching themselves in his Vineyard, unresolv''d, whether they shall work or no? |
A44524 | Will a Tradesman leave his Calling, because such a man makes Songs and Ballads upon''t? |
A44524 | Will a few pleasant Cups counterballance thy everlasting Thirst? |
A44524 | Will any man give over the study of Divinity, or Law, or Physick, because the ignorant Peasant sneers at him? |
A44524 | Will he bail you out, when Gods thunder shall break out upon all disobedient sinners? |
A44524 | Will he be your Advocate, when you shall have your Consciences pleading against you? |
A44524 | Will he undertake for you, when God will be abused and mocked no longer, and the day of his wrath doth come? |
A44524 | Will it not be far more comfortable to have none of this load to burthen, and oppress my Soul? |
A44524 | Will not the remembrance of my eager pursuit after these Butterflies and Gaudes, fill me with anguish and sorrow? |
A44524 | Will nothing less serve the turn, than leaving all, and following Christ? |
A44524 | Will that man who laughs at you for despising the world, save you harmless at the day of Judgement? |
A44524 | Will these Paper Walls be proof against everlasting burnings? |
A44524 | Will these companions save me when I come to dye? |
A44524 | Will you howl with Devils, because others delight in that Musick? |
A44524 | Will you run the hazard of losing the light of Gods countenance for ever, because others know not, how to prize it? |
A44524 | Will you scorn the offers of salvation, because others will not be drawn by cords of Love? |
A44524 | Will you suffer yourselves to be stript of all you have, without the least opposition? |
A44524 | Will your Religiousness give me bread? |
A44524 | Wilt thou receive such a Prodigal into thy favour? |
A44524 | Wilt thou take him into thy bosome, that hath been a Rebel, a Traytor against thee these many years? |
A44524 | Wilt thou venture an everlasting storm, for a present calm? |
A44524 | Would an audible voice from Heaven doe it? |
A44524 | Would any man imagine that you believe a reward to come, that sees you so greedy after a present recompence? |
A44524 | Would any man think, you had rational, immortal Souls within you, that sees you live thus? |
A44524 | Would not you confess, that all those pretended cloggs are meer cobwebs, which may be broke through with the greatest ease? |
A44524 | Would not you see the vanity of their pretences? |
A44524 | Would the Fool, I say, but think seriously on these familiar Arguments, how could he say in his heart, There is no God? |
A44524 | Would you be frighted from this duty by any temporal losses, as now you are? |
A44524 | Would you have me precipitate my self into ruine? |
A44524 | Would you have me starve and perish? |
A44524 | Would you have us to be as tyrannical to you, as you are to your own Souls? |
A44524 | after such horrid wilfulness? |
A44524 | and can not he pray that this fire may goe out? |
A44524 | and canst thou see a God court thee, and grow coy? |
A44524 | and doe not these Stars put thee in mind, how e''re long thou shalt shine as the Stars in the firmament for ever? |
A44524 | and dost thou let thy Servant goe without chiding, that doth neglect the business thou hast recommended to his care? |
A44524 | and drops of Gods anger more tolerable, than flouds of his displeasure? |
A44524 | and he seems to be able to comprehend with all Saints, what is the depth and breadth of the love of God? |
A44524 | and he that doth but frown now, how easily might he thunder? |
A44524 | and how soon hath this vain world taken me off again, and dull''d, and dash''d those considerations? |
A44524 | and if there were no Hell, no Judgement to come, how should the inconveniences, which attend this sin, discourage me? |
A44524 | and must my sport of sin be crusht into never dying anguish? |
A44524 | and my wilful contempt and neglect of Gods Will, be turned into Chains of Darkness for ever? |
A44524 | and shall Satan goe away with thy Soul? |
A44524 | and shall love to a sensual careless life, hinder thee from laying hold of the greatest Treasure? |
A44524 | and what Patent hast thou from Heaven, that it shall not be thus with thee? |
A44524 | and what communion hath light with darkness? |
A44524 | and whether you will dare to brave it at the great Tribunal, as now you doe on Earth, where you have no body to controul you? |
A44524 | and whither he walks in that strait way, and strives to enter in at that narrow gate, the Holy Ghost doth speak of? |
A44524 | and who is the looser all this while? |
A44524 | and why should you regard such mens scorn any more, than the laughter of fools? |
A44524 | and wilt thou beworse than a Devil, and spurn at that Love, which Angels stand astonish''d at? |
A44524 | and yet how free, how full are thy promises to the truly penitent? |
A44524 | and yet none of all these stir thy Soul to reflect seriously, what thou must doe to be saved? |
A44524 | are all the avenues to mercy shut? |
A44524 | are not Rods gentler than Scorpions? |
A44524 | are not these signs that Gods Spirit warms thy affections, and makes intercession for thee with groanings, which can not be uttered? |
A44524 | are the gates of Mercy open yet for so vile a wretch? |
A44524 | are you deaf to my groans? |
A44524 | are you grown strangers to compassion? |
A44524 | art thou afraid of being too much enamoured with this Jesus? |
A44524 | art thou afraid of renewing thy Repentance, thy Faith, thy Hope, thy Charity too often? |
A44524 | art thou afraid of thinking too much of this Love, and consequently of being too Religious? |
A44524 | art thou afraid that the sight of his broken Body will break thy Heart too much? |
A44524 | art thou afraid that the sight of his effused Bloud, will make thee pour out too many Tears and Prayers, and Praises of his Love? |
A44524 | but how wilt thou escape, if thou neglect so great a Salvation? |
A44524 | but will these delusions stand the fire? |
A44524 | can all the Beauty thou seest in that painted Harlot, countervail the misery it dies into? |
A44524 | can not he as well be glorified in thy Torments, as he can in thy Salvation? |
A44524 | can not he make his Justice, triumph over such a stubborn wretch as thou art? |
A44524 | can that be little which offends an infinite Majesty? |
A44524 | can there be a greater witness, than the Son of God? |
A44524 | can there be any thing surer than the word of God? |
A44524 | canst thou behold so great a love, and not loose thy reason in the admiration of its greatness? |
A44524 | canst thou behold that Glory, which God hath prepared for thee, and think much of these fiery Trials? |
A44524 | canst thou remember thy sins that brought him to the Cross, too often? |
A44524 | canst thou represent his Love too often to thy mind and affections? |
A44524 | canst thou see him carress thee, and turn away thy face? |
A44524 | consider thy ways upon thy death- bed? |
A44524 | did I but love thee as I do a dear friend, how easy would all thy Precepts seem? |
A44524 | did ever any Mother love her Child, as never to suffer it to goe from her Arms? |
A44524 | did the Drunkard, When he comes to himself again, Smite upon his Thigh, and say what have I done? |
A44524 | do not the homely feet of the former fright thee? |
A44524 | doe Men and Angels leave me? |
A44524 | doe all forsake me? |
A44524 | dost not thou correct thy Child when he is stubborn? |
A44524 | dost thou believe such a Heaven, where no good shall be absent, and canst thou be hunting after the husks, and empty shells of sensual pleasure? |
A44524 | dost thou know what Consideration means? |
A44524 | dost thou think he can not live without thee? |
A44524 | dost thou think thy being in his Heaven, doth add any thing, to his felicity? |
A44524 | doth God offer to kiss thee with the kisses of his Lips, and dost thou scorn his embraces? |
A44524 | especially, when fretting and strugling to shake it off before Gods time, doth but make my neck more sore, and the yoak far more uneasy? |
A44524 | first let him seduce me into the Net, and then punish me for being taken? |
A44524 | for shame, let not God goe away empty; think what a condescension it is in God, to be willing to accept of so inconsiderable a Present, as thy Heart? |
A44524 | for, What is thy life, even a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away? |
A44524 | hadst not thou rather be rid of that burthen than keep it? |
A44524 | hadst thou rather enjoy thy good things here, than lye with Lazarus in Abrahams bosom? |
A44524 | hadst thou rather goe along with him, that will murther thee, than accompany him that will encircle thy Head with a Crown of Glory? |
A44524 | hast not thou reason to thank him for chastising thee, but now, who might have done it much sooner? |
A44524 | hast thou forgot the peremptory command of Christ, Do this in remembrance of me? |
A44524 | hath he no Prayer left to stop my calamity, and to give a truce to my torments? |
A44524 | hath not thy God said, that he''l love those that do love him? |
A44524 | hath thy God a hand in this affliction, or hath he not? |
A44524 | he that before had a thousand excuses, why he could not do what Christ enjoyns him; how doth he now lay all those idle apologies by? |
A44524 | he that before scorn''d to hear the glad tidings of the Gospel; how doth he now submit to Christs easy yoak? |
A44524 | he that before thought such a duty unfit, and improper for a person of his quality, how cheerfully doth he now bow, and yield to it? |
A44524 | he will not be able to answer for himself, how then should he plead your cause? |
A44524 | how Mens weakness scarce gives them leave to repeat the Lords Prayer intire, without interruption? |
A44524 | how chearfully shouldst thou run at the command of thy God? |
A44524 | how full of miracles is every circumstance here? |
A44524 | how great a mercy is it, that it is not worse with thee? |
A44524 | how joyfully might I rise next morning, and comfort my self with the happy remembrance of the blessings, my Soul hath receiv''d the day before? |
A44524 | how little do the Inhabitants of that New Jerusalem mind the pomp and grandeur of this world? |
A44524 | how little do they esteem the friendship of the Almighty? |
A44524 | how little do those flashes of contemplating God in the week days, which are so often interrupted by worldly businesses, warm the Soul? |
A44524 | how little wouldst thou regard, what man can do unto thee? |
A44524 | how long hath God spared thee, who might long ago have poured out the vials of his wrath upon thee? |
A44524 | how odious is this Vice I indulge my self in? |
A44524 | how often hast thou sent sparks of Grace into my Soul, while I have done what I could, to smother that Holy fire? |
A44524 | how often hast thou stung my heart, prick''d it, and goaded it into serious reflexions? |
A44524 | how often hast thou suggested to my Soul, the danger it hath been in, and yet I have not trembled? |
A44524 | how often have I deserv''d thine anger? |
A44524 | how often on the other side, is a vail drawn over all these bright Conceptions, and he groveling in the dust? |
A44524 | how pleasant is this contemplation? |
A44524 | how quietly might I lye down at night, after so sweet a converse with God all day? |
A44524 | how should I adore his Name? |
A44524 | how should this put thee upon promoting peace, and concord, and agreement among thy neighbors? |
A44524 | how soft would my rest be, having worked in God''s Vineyard so many hours? |
A44524 | how soon would time wear out the memory of it, and leave thee as careless as it found thee? |
A44524 | how the Mind languishes with the Flesh? |
A44524 | how the mind is employed with thinking of the pain and anguish, and uneasiness of the Body? |
A44524 | how weak, how feeble the thoughts are upon a Death- bed? |
A44524 | how wonderful is thy love? |
A44524 | if God had a mind to kill thee, would he have shewn thee all these things? |
A44524 | if God were gone from thee, would not his Spirit be gone too? |
A44524 | if I believe there is a God, what can I fancy that God to be? |
A44524 | if I would in good earnest resolve to be allur''d by my old companions no more? |
A44524 | if he hath not, where is his Providence? |
A44524 | if he hath, why dost thou grumble? |
A44524 | if the outward Court be so magnificent, what must the Presence- Chamber of the King of Kings be? |
A44524 | if those miracles will not perswade, thee, how should a new miracle do it? |
A44524 | if thou art able, and wilt not take thy faithfulness into serious consideration, can there be any thing more just in the world, than thy damnation? |
A44524 | if thou art not heartily resolv''d to part with it, why dost thou complain? |
A44524 | if thou dost, what need there any more miracles? |
A44524 | if thou hast not the Spirit of God, what mean thy longings after God? |
A44524 | if thou hast such a mind to be the Devils slave, what need God take pains to rescue thee from that bondage? |
A44524 | if thou lov''st him not why art thou restless till thou enjoyest him? |
A44524 | if thou lovest him not; why dost thou desire him? |
A44524 | is an ever- gnawing Conscience, matter of sport and laughter? |
A44524 | is it such a pleasure to deprive my self of Reason? |
A44524 | is it to dig down Mountains? |
A44524 | is it to exhaust the Sea? |
A44524 | is it to pull down the Sun from his Orb? |
A44524 | is it to reverse the course of Nature? |
A44524 | is it to unhinge the Earth, or to stop the flux and reflux of the Ocean? |
A44524 | is it to work miracles? |
A44524 | is not the way to life a race, where men must run on till they reach the mark? |
A44524 | is there no body to speak comfort to me? |
A44524 | is there no door for Consolation open? |
A44524 | love thee, and love my sins, which are thy greatest enemies? |
A44524 | ls this renouncing the Devil and all his works, as I vow''d to do in Baptisme? |
A44524 | may not he be God, and Great, and Glorious, and admired by Angels, while thou friest in Hell? |
A44524 | must my Frolicks dye into endless howlings? |
A44524 | my Heart and my Flesh cryeth out for the living God, when shall I come to appear before thee? |
A44524 | my Soul longeth, yea even fainteth for the Courts of the Lord? |
A44524 | nay, how shall we be sure that the sight of a new miracle would work upon thee? |
A44524 | or can I spend too much time in commemorating so glorious a Favour? |
A44524 | or can I think God is so fond of answering my requests, that he matters not, with what frame of Heart I approach his Throne? |
A44524 | or destroy that Tophet, out of tenderness to my Lusts and Corruptions? |
A44524 | or is Salvation so easy a thing, that to spend much time in the contrivance of it, is altogether needless? |
A44524 | or my Jollities procure a pardon in that day, when God shall judge men according to the Gospel? |
A44524 | or prove a Lyar, that I may go with greater ease to Heaven? |
A44524 | or what shall a man give in exchange for his Soul? |
A44524 | or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? |
A44524 | reconciled thee to an offended God? |
A44524 | see how the ambitious love the applause of men, and wilt not thou love him who is brighter than the Sun? |
A44524 | shall God magnify his Mercy upon thee, and wilt thou fall in love with his enemy? |
A44524 | shall I throw brimstone into the flame, to make that consuming fire more terrible? |
A44524 | shall he possess that Treasure, which Angels are ambitious of? |
A44524 | should Death arrest me before I have made my Calling and Election sure, how fearful, how wretched would my condition be? |
A44524 | should not I give him the cream and marrow of my endeavours, that hath greater power over me, than my Master, my Father, or my Prince? |
A44524 | should thy Saviour remember thee no oftner than thou dost his death and passion, how fearful would thy condition be? |
A44524 | shouldst not thou remember him as often as thou hast an opportunity? |
A44524 | shouldst not thou stand amazed at his Favour? |
A44524 | shouldst not thou wonder, that this immense, and infinite Majesty will vouchsafe a gracious look to so vile a worm as thou art? |
A44524 | so great a God, and so mean a Sacrifice, so infinite a Majesty, and so pittiful a Present? |
A44524 | such Labyrinths, such Inconveniences do I cast my self into by my sinful life, and are these encouragements to continue in it? |
A44524 | survey the World, where is there so ravishing an object? |
A44524 | the Ship is ready to be cast away, the Masts are split, it''s leaking on every side; who would not lay hold of a Plank to save himself from drowning? |
A44524 | the University, where we shall know, even as we are known? |
A44524 | the hopes of a Kingdom makes a Captive Prince merry, though he is in prison, and shall not the hopes of yonder joys, keep thy heart from sinking? |
A44524 | the least push, or thrust sends you thither; who would not take some pains to get into a Harbor? |
A44524 | thou art his creature, and may not he do with his own what he pleases? |
A44524 | thou art in pain, but what is this to Hell- fire? |
A44524 | thou art in torments, but what is this to the Agonies, the unhappy Spirits in the burning Lake endure? |
A44524 | thou art not alone in misery, thou hast whole Armies of Holy Men to bear thee company; canst thou look upon yonder Heaven, and repine? |
A44524 | thou canst not totally master such a corruption, but dost not thou fight against it? |
A44524 | thou hast affronted him, and must not he use his Rod? |
A44524 | thou hast forsaken him, and must not he shew his displeasure against thy ingratitude? |
A44524 | thou hast infirmities to wrestle withal, but hath not thy God promis''d thee, that he''ll bruise Satan under thy feet shortly? |
A44524 | thou hast sinn''d against him, and must not he correct thee? |
A44524 | thou hast very highly obliged him, indeed, that he need be at all this trouble to make thee in love with his ways? |
A44524 | thou meetest with temptations, but dost not thou grapple with them? |
A44524 | thou pretendest want of preparation, but whose fault is it that thou art not prepar''d? |
A44524 | thou seest how this Earth produces Gold and Silver, and if this Earth be so Glorious, what will Heaven be? |
A44524 | thy Conscience terrifies thee, but hast not thou the Cross of Christ to fly to? |
A44524 | was Heaven purchas''d in a moment, or Sin conquer''d in an hour? |
A44524 | wert thou in Gods stead, wouldst not thou require the same account of thy servant, on whom thou hadst bestow''d such a Talent? |
A44524 | what Fiend, what Enemy, what Devil, what Charm quenches the fire of thy resolutions? |
A44524 | what a stir do men keep, to purchase the friendship of Great Men? |
A44524 | what arguments can you desire that you have not? |
A44524 | what benefit doth he receive, by offering thee his bosom? |
A44524 | what can I look for but Eternal Darkness? |
A44524 | what can hinder thee from preparation, but love to sin? |
A44524 | what do I hear? |
A44524 | what do I see? |
A44524 | what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? |
A44524 | what greater assurance, canst thou have of Gods love to thee, and of Christs kind thoughts towards thee, than thy weariness of sin? |
A44524 | what hope can I have, that Christ''s Bloud will save me, when I swear it away, and thrust it from me with both Arms? |
A44524 | what insolence is it to think thy self more knowing, than he that knows all things? |
A44524 | what is a Prison? |
A44524 | what is impudence is it in me, to desire that of God, which I ought to hate; at the most, love but with fear and trembling? |
A44524 | what is it sinner, that would make thee take thy ways into serious consideration? |
A44524 | what is my careless devotion, but mocking of God, and my drowzy Prayer, what is it but playing with him, at whose Presence the Mountains tremble? |
A44524 | what is the Sun, but a dark Lanthorn, in comparison of God? |
A44524 | what is this friendship to Gods love? |
A44524 | what is thy Soul to him? |
A44524 | what makes Christ so sweet, and sin so bitter to thee? |
A44524 | what makes thee afraid of offending God? |
A44524 | what makes thee angry with thy self for displeasing God? |
A44524 | what makes thee asham''d of looking up to Heaven? |
A44524 | what makes thee breathe and pant after Christ, as the wounded Hart pants after the Water- brooks? |
A44524 | what makes thee cry out, O wretched creature that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? |
A44524 | what makes thee wish, that what thou hast done against God, were undone? |
A44524 | what manner of love is this? |
A44524 | what mean these longings of Almighty God after my happiness? |
A44524 | what means this industry of that incomprehensible Being, to be at all this charge, and pains, to make me blessed? |
A44524 | what means thy love to a Spiritual life? |
A44524 | what should I love this Earth for, when I have a God to love? |
A44524 | what''s the impulsive cause of it? |
A44524 | when God allows me six dayes in the week, to follow the business of my lawful Calling, can not I allow one day entire for his service? |
A44524 | when God hath made me a King, why should I debase my self, or stoop to the mean employment of a Peasant? |
A44524 | when I was his enemy, God seemed to love me more than he did himself, and now that I am his friend, shall I think he will love me less, than an enemy? |
A44524 | when all these painted Gaudes must break into a dismal Dungeon; wilt thou laugh awhile, that thou mayst mourn and lament for ever? |
A44524 | when shall I be freed from this Earth and Dross, and do thy Will, O my God, without Lett, or Interruption? |
A44524 | when shall I shake off this clogg of the flesh, and praise thee day and night in thy Temple? |
A44524 | whence are all my Mercies but from thee? |
A44524 | whence is it that thou delightest not in the company of sinners, but thy delight is chiefly in them that fear the Lord? |
A44524 | whence is it, that all the preferment and riches of this World can not tempt thee to sin wilfully? |
A44524 | where dost thou see a more lovely Being? |
A44524 | where is my reason? |
A44524 | where is my self- denial, if I can not deny my self in my worldly discourses, or thoughts one day? |
A44524 | where is that Elijah, that pray''d, that there might be no rain, and there came no rain, for three years, and six months? |
A44524 | where is that Joshua that prayed for the Suns standing still, and it stood still in the midst of Heaven? |
A44524 | where is the spring of it? |
A44524 | where is your wonted clemency? |
A44524 | wherein doth he do thee an injury, if he doth ask what thou hast done with this power? |
A44524 | wherein doth his advantage lye? |
A44524 | whether he finds those qualifications in himself, which the Son of God requires of all that shall be Heirs of glory? |
A44524 | whether the threatnings of the Gospel concern him? |
A44524 | whither he feels those things in his Soul, which men that have a title to the great Inheritance are sensible of? |
A44524 | who can look upon those curious Lights without admiring their Creator? |
A44524 | who sees not, that these are but inventions, to give some colour of reason to thy unwillingness, to shake off the sins which do so easily beset thee? |
A44524 | who sees not, that these are only arguments suggested by the Devil, to keep thy Soul from her true food and nourishment? |
A44524 | who shall abide in thy Tabernacle? |
A44524 | who shall deliver me from the body of this death? |
A44524 | who shall dwell in thy Holy Hill? |
A44524 | why art thou altogether for a clean Heart, and for renewing of a right Spirit within thee? |
A44524 | why art thou willing to follow him through misery, and the greatest troubles, to be forever with him? |
A44524 | why dost thou pray so earnestly for the fruit of the Spirit? |
A44524 | why dost thou watch against thy corruptions? |
A44524 | why dost thou weep? |
A44524 | why hath he given us faculties to discourse pro and con of things, and to argue, and debate the case with our selves? |
A44524 | why should I dote on Nature, when I am in the state of Grace? |
A44524 | why should he make us capable of being wrought upon by arguments and moral persuasions? |
A44524 | why should not my mind agree with the verdict of the Most High? |
A44524 | why shouldst not thou run at his call? |
A44524 | why shouldst not thou trust God with thy Soul? |
A44524 | why shouldst thou believe he hath forsaken thee, when he doth give thee daily testimonies of his Love? |
A44524 | why shouldst thou expect better dealing at Gods hands, than they? |
A44524 | why shouldst thou think he doth thee wrong, by sending this cross upon thee, who hast deserved no less than damnation? |
A44524 | why what should hinder you from believing it? |
A44524 | why, how couldst thou be sure it came from Heaven? |
A44524 | will God be crown''d with Thorns, that I may wear an incorruptible Crown of Glory? |
A44524 | will God be yet intreated for such a poor forlorn creature? |
A44524 | will God mind a Supplication, in which I do not mind his Greatness, Majesty, and Holiness? |
A44524 | will God suffer that I may not? |
A44524 | will no anguish melt him? |
A44524 | will no repentance touch the Heart of God? |
A44524 | will no sorrow move him? |
A44524 | will none relieve me? |
A44524 | will the Eternal dye, that I may not fall a prey to the second Death? |
A44524 | will this Plea hold, when thou shalt appear before the great Tribunal? |
A44524 | wilt not thou give him thy heart? |
A44524 | wilt thou be reconcil''d to so great a rebel? |
A44524 | wilt thou eat of the same Bread he doth, and not drink of his Cup too? |
A44524 | wilt thou make this Love a refuge for wilful sins, and hope for the light of Christs countenance? |
A44524 | wilt thou pass by unkindesses of so deep a Dye? |
A44524 | wilt thou prefer the motions of a lying Devil, before the Oracles of the Great God of Heaven? |
A44524 | wilt thou prove a Rebel to thy Prince, a prodigal Son to thy Father, an unfaithful Servant to the best of Masters? |
A44524 | wilt thou slight this Love, and hope to go unpunish''d? |
A44524 | would a mans rising from the dead do it? |
A44524 | would a miracle do it? |
A44524 | would no other remedy serve turn to recover me, but the death of the Son of God? |
A44524 | wouldst not? |
A44524 | wouldst thou be about him only, when he rides in triumph into Jerusalem, and forsake him in the Desart? |
A44524 | wouldst thou be with him on Mount Tabor only, and not accompany him to Golgotha? |
A44524 | wouldst thou follow him only while the loaves doe last, and abandon him when he wants bread for the multitude? |
A44524 | wouldst thou followthy Saviour in Sun- shine only, and not go with him into the Garden of Gethsemane? |
A44524 | wouldst thou inherit his Crown of Glory, without wearing his Crown of Thorns here? |
A44524 | wouldst thou own him only when men cry Hosanna, and run away from him, when they cry out Crucify him? |
A44524 | you may have seen others hang, or drown, or burn themselves, but is this a Temptation to you to follow them? |