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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A60193 | And is not this just with God, that when you wilfully separate your selfe from others, he should separate others from you? |
A60193 | Be not thou just overmuch, neither make thy selfe overwise: wherefore shouldest thou be desolate? |
A60193 | Besides, had not all the true Churches of Christ their blemishes and deformities, as you may see in seaven Asian Churches? |
A60193 | What then? |
A12181 | Doe the wicked thinke to shame or feare good men? |
A12181 | He that seekes us before wee sought him, will he refuse us when wee seeke after him? |
A12181 | I that am a King to rule over my lusts, doth this agree with my condition? |
A12181 | Preventing mercy is the greatest, how many favours doth God prevent us with? |
A12181 | When wee can aske our affections, Whom have I in heaven but thee? |
A12181 | When wee finde any grace wrought in us, wee should have a holy esteeme of our selves, as when wee are tempted to sinne: What? |
A12181 | When wee goe about any action or businesse, let us alwayes aske our soules this question, Is this sutable to my calling, to my hopes? |
A12181 | but if not, Why doe I doe it? |
A12181 | this base act, this base Company; shall such a man as I doe this? |
A12181 | what is the reason thou lovest mee and not others? |
A12178 | All are ours, doeth not this hinder bounty? |
A12178 | And now Christ governes ● ll Kings in the Church; How? |
A12178 | And then fourthly, all things were common, but How? |
A12178 | And then it was, secondly, arbitrary also, was it thine owne? |
A12178 | Can the same reasons be for contraries? |
A12178 | Death is ours, it is our preferment: why should we be afraid of that, that is a part of our portion? |
A12178 | For what assurance have we of things to come? |
A12178 | How is this? |
A12178 | The Scripture stablisheth Bounty and Almes, If there be not a distinction of property where were Almes? |
A12178 | The very judgement of the wicked and the eternall sentence of them, it is the Churches, why? |
A12178 | Those that are not Christs are not the things theirs that they have, because they are not Christs? |
A12178 | Why doth God continue the life of good Magistrates and good pastors? |
A12178 | Why? |
A12178 | have not wicked men title to what they have? |
A12178 | what idle forecasts are these, why things to come? |
A12205 | And therefore what can make a Christian uncomfortable when he hath the Spirit of Christ, and faith the root of grace? |
A12205 | And what a sweet reflection is this? |
A12205 | And when the soule hath entred into the vaile, and sees the glorious things of heaven, and happinesse, what are all things below? |
A12205 | But did not the Disciples beleeve already? |
A12205 | But how doth faith in Christ ease the soule of trouble? |
A12205 | But how shall we know we know that our hearts are more troubled then they should be? |
A12205 | Can the the soule thinke that this was done for any small, or to little purpose? |
A12205 | Do not the promises weigh downe all discouragements whatsoever? |
A12205 | I but my faith is weake? |
A12205 | I shall have such a good, if I yeeld to such a lust: I, but what is that to heaven, saith Faith? |
A12205 | Iosuah was much cast downe when he saw it went not well with Israel: but get thee up Iosuah, saith God, what doest thou lying here? |
A12205 | Now doth thy conscience tell thee, that though in weake measure, yet I do so? |
A12205 | Now now doth faith in Christ ease the soule in trouble? |
A12205 | Or that other: If God spared not his Sonne for us; how will he not with him give us all things else? |
A12205 | Psalme, David puts cases, The Lord is my strength, the Lord is the light of my countenance, of whom shall I be afraid? |
A12205 | Then here is the word, and thy conscience for thee: and doth the spirit witnesse with thy conscience that it is so indeed? |
A12205 | These be good comforts indeed, and certaine, and true, for they be the word of God: but what is this to me? |
A12205 | What a blessed condition shall we be in, to be in Christ, and to know that we are so? |
A12205 | What greater object of feare might be presented to a man then the angry face and countenance of a terrible Tyrant? |
A12205 | What losse, what crosse, what want of friends, hath he not all in God, and in Christ, and in the promise? |
A12205 | When Micaiah had seene God sitting on his Throne, what was Ahab to him? |
A12205 | Yet when by the eye of faith, he saw him that was invisible, and then looked upon Pharaoh, what was Pharaoh, to God? |
A01528 | * Who would not straine hard for a Crowne? |
A01528 | 30. t Quid ista proderit praenosse, si non contingat evadere? |
A01528 | And from what stronger incouragement can this be, than from a crown of life here promised to the crowne of all graces, Perseuerance? |
A01528 | And how are they Christians that keepe no faith with Christ? |
A01528 | And how can we hope to haue strength thus to stand, if we be not carefull to seeke it, where it is only to be had? |
A01528 | And who would not for a spurt, for a short brunt endure any difficultie, any hardnesse, to liue at hearts ease for euer after? |
A01528 | And, is it so then, that without such perseuerance nothing in this kinde is auaileable? |
A01528 | But how long must this faithfulnesse of ours be continued? |
A01528 | But what hath leuitie and inconstancie, saith Augustine, to doe with eternitie? |
A01528 | For how many professe the faith of Christ, that yet are wholly q estranged from the life of Christ? |
A01528 | For what a toy( to speake of) haue we depriued our selues of eternall felicitie? |
A01528 | For what can be long in that, that is not long it selfe? |
A01528 | He will doe it? |
A01528 | How appeareth that, may some say? |
A01528 | Quid autem proderit appellari quod non es? |
A01528 | Quid levitati& aetern ● tati? |
A01528 | Quid tam circumcisum, tam breve, quam hominis vita longissima? |
A01528 | Sometime in regard of their fidelitie and faithfulnesse vnto Christ: l Who is a wise and a faithfull seruant? |
A01528 | What should I say more of him, but as it is in my Text? |
A01528 | Wouldst thou therefore continue faithfull to Christ thy Master, and hold out in thy Christian course to the end? |
A01528 | quid nomen prodest, ubi res non est? |
A01528 | x All the waies of God are mercy and truth, saith the Psalmist, but to whom? |
A01528 | “ Who would not endure much for a Kingdome? |
A12194 | Alas I am not convinced by the Spirit, that Christ is my righteousnes therfore what case am I in? |
A12194 | Because I goe to the Father; what strength is there in that reason? |
A12194 | But how? |
A12194 | But wherefore did he go to the Father? |
A12194 | But you will aske me this Question, how shall we know common Conviction of conscience from this of the Spirit? |
A12194 | But you will aske me why is the sending of the Spirit necessary for the convincing of this righteousnesse? |
A12194 | But you will aske me, how doth the Holy Ghost convince me of the righteousnesse of Christ? |
A12194 | Can I love thee except thou love me first? |
A12194 | Canst thou have any free and voluntary obedience from me, unlesse I be convinced that Christ is mine? |
A12194 | How joyfull intertainement shall we have of the Father and the Sonne? |
A12194 | In mercy or justice? |
A12194 | The Holy Ghost begins with Convincing of sinne; What is this Convincing? |
A12194 | To end the point, I beseech you labour to live by this faith, heere is an evidence if we can live by it; How is that? |
A12194 | What imbitters blessings and puts a sting into all afflictions but sinne? |
A12194 | What is the reason? |
A12194 | What is the righteousnesse of Christ? |
A12194 | Where the soule is convinced of the righteousnesse of Christ, there the conscience demands boldly: It is God that justifies, who shall condemne? |
A12194 | Wherein wilt thou be glorified? |
A12194 | You see the Pharisees Wise men, Learned men being convinced they hated Christ to the death; why? |
A12194 | You will aske me, How shall wee know whether we be convinced of this righteousnesse or no? |
A12194 | for carnall men that goe to Hell are Convinced by a common conviction, what is this saving Conviction? |
A12194 | who cares for a pardon that is not condemned? |
A12194 | why the Comforter may and shall convince of righteousnesse? |
A12194 | why this, Christ took upon him to be our surety, and hee must acquit us of all our sinnes ere he can goe to his Father? |
A12209 | And indeed what joy can bee compared with this, that the soule hath communion with Christ? |
A12209 | And lastly, impossible as he was a Prophet, for else how could he have instructed his people in doctrines of salvation? |
A12209 | And what shall I say more? |
A12209 | And why there? |
A12209 | But if wee should try all by this rule: how few would be sound to be risen with Christ? |
A12209 | But what have wee to bestow upon him againe? |
A12209 | But when rose hee? |
A12209 | For, art thou risen with Christ? |
A12209 | Hast thou then a longing desire to have a further taste of the love of Christ? |
A12209 | Impossible as hee was King; for how then could hee have triumphed over his enemies here and in hell? |
A12209 | Impossible as hee was Priest; for, if hee had not risen, how could hee have made daily intercession for us as he doth? |
A12209 | Is this in all true Christians, if such? |
A12209 | It is not when wee lay our strength( all of it) upon good meanes? |
A12209 | Many times he delayes the manifesting of his love; but what though? |
A12209 | O then hath he given thee any the like strong desire after him? |
A12209 | So then, what cause of feare? |
A12209 | Therefore I say, art thou sicke and in prison, or so lame of thy limbes that thon canst not come to the assembly? |
A12209 | Thirdly, it implyeth hope to get it; else who would seeke it, but leave it rather as a thing desperate? |
A12209 | True indeede: but shall man beare with his wife, because shee is the weaker vessell, and will not Christ much more with his Spouse? |
A12209 | What did the woman of Canaan? |
A12209 | Whom have I in Heaven but thee? |
A12209 | Yea, but we have infirmities, and are by them a wife too farre unfit for such a husband? |
A12209 | and so when wee strive with God in prayer, and labour in all humility, rightly, and profitably to use all his holy ordinances? |
A12209 | and that wee should goe mourning all the day long without any sense of his love? |
A12209 | for how few would delight in heavenly company, or in heavenly actions; as to praise God, or to commune with God in prayer? |
A12209 | for what should hold us in the grave, now that deaths bands are loosed, or shal the head be above water, and the members perish in it? |
A12209 | what then may we thinke of the most part of the world, that professe religion but from the teeth outward? |
A12202 | And when men doe see them, are there not sudden passions that come up in men that robbe them of the use of their knowlege? |
A12202 | But how are the truth of these desires knowne? |
A12202 | But how doth he make it good, they are thy servants? |
A12202 | Can God foresee any entitie, and thing that hath a beeing in nature, or grace without foresight to direct it this way or that way? |
A12202 | Doe wee thinke that God will give strength to an ill businesse? |
A12202 | For what are our sinnes, but that that makes us enemies to God? |
A12202 | For what is all the comfort that he hath, but that that is derived from God? |
A12202 | Hee that hath given us Christ, that hath not spared his owne Son, but gave him to death for us all, how shall he not with him give us all things else? |
A12202 | How did they know that they were thine? |
A12202 | How doth hee make it good, that hee feared the name of God? |
A12202 | One maine circumstance that besiegeth and besets a businesse, may hinder an excellent businesse: who can see all things that beset a businesse? |
A12202 | WHat is included in this word prosper? |
A12202 | What carries the soule, but desire? |
A12202 | What hast thou to doe( saith God) Psalme 50. to take my name into thy mouth and hatest to be reformed? |
A12202 | What is the reason that God blasts, and brings to nothing many excellent endeavours, and projects? |
A12202 | Whe ● a man comes to God with a purpose to sinne, he comes to wound God at the same time as an enemie, and is hee like to speede? |
A12202 | Who will regard the petition of a man that comes to wound him at the same time? |
A12202 | Why are desires, such trialls of the truth of Grace? |
A12202 | Why should we pray for them, if they could apply their own will which way they would? |
A12202 | Why should wee give thankes for that wee have liberty to doe this way, or that way? |
A12202 | Will a Master suffer his servant to miscarrie in his service? |
A12202 | Will you steale and oppresse and commit adultery, and yet stand before me? |
A12202 | You see here that any good Christian may be a good statesman in one good sence; what is that? |
A12202 | all circumstances that stand about a businesse? |
A12202 | hath not hee the hearts of Kings in his hand as the rivers of waters: to turne this way or that thē way? |
A12202 | who can see all circumstances of time, and place and persons, that are hindrances, or furtherances? |
A12202 | will swearers, and blasphemers, and filthy persons shake off the execution as they can the threatnings? |
A12202 | will you doe this and this villany, and stand before me? |
A12168 | Alas this poor life of ours, it is a life of necessities; how many things are needfull for our bodies? |
A12168 | Alas, where is the desire of one thing necessary all the while? |
A12168 | And this is not simply set out, but likewise with a holy insultation, The Lord is my light and salvation, whom shall I feare? |
A12168 | And what other place hath he such care to protect, and provide for as his house? |
A12168 | But can wee doe the will of God on earth as it is done in heaven? |
A12168 | But here it may be asked, why doth he say, One thing? |
A12168 | But to speake a little more of the object, why doth he say, One thing? |
A12168 | But what is that to this? |
A12168 | Can the hypocrite pray alway? |
A12168 | For how doth nature differ from Art? |
A12168 | For the obiect here propounded, what more desirable then the chiefe good? |
A12168 | For what end? |
A12168 | Hee saw God in his power, and then looking from God to the creature, alas, who was he? |
A12168 | Holy desires are kindled in the Soule from the love of God: for what saith hee here? |
A12168 | How shall I know whether my desire be strong enough, and ripe enough or no, to give me comfort? |
A12168 | I desire one thing; What is that? |
A12168 | If God be with us, who can be against us? |
A12168 | It was generally propounded before, One thing have I desired, and that will I seeke after, with all my might, and what is that? |
A12168 | Of whom doth hee desire it? |
A12168 | One thing have I desired, what was that? |
A12168 | Put case God doth not heare our request, that he doth not grant what we aske? |
A12168 | The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? |
A12168 | To dwell in the house of the Lord, what to doe? |
A12168 | Was there but one thing for holy David to make the object of his desire? |
A12168 | Well, but that that he prayed for, hee was assured of, and therefore what need hee pray for it? |
A12168 | What is his care? |
A12168 | What is the reason that God doth not presently accomplish our desires? |
A12168 | Would you know a comfortable note to distinguish an hypocrite from a true Christian? |
A12168 | and doth Gods glorious Kingdome of heaven come while wee are here in earth? |
A12168 | as Michaia, when he had seene God sitting upon his Throne, What was Achab to him, when he had seen God once? |
A12168 | for the place, where can it bee more desired, then in his house, where his presence is manifested? |
A12168 | how many things are needfull for the decencie of our condition? |
A12168 | how many things need we for our soules? |
A12168 | it is a life of necessities; how then doth hee say, One thing have I desired? |
A12168 | take it hence, Will the hypocrite pray alway? |
A12168 | the comfort of his wife and house,& c. Tush, what doe I regard these things? |
A12168 | these be things of this life? |
A12168 | to be rich and great in the World, and to bee revenged on my enemies? |
A12168 | was there but one thing needfull? |
A12168 | what better end to bee in that house, then to behold God in the beauty of holinesse? |
A12168 | what is the bent of thy soule? |
A12168 | what terme of happinesse better then for ever? |
A12168 | when a man is once converted and turned, wherein is his turning? |
A12168 | will not he regard their petitions; when an unrighteous Judge shall care for the importunity of a poore Widow? |
A12187 | A Christian should have high thoughts of himselfe, what shall I defile the nature, that God hath taken into unity of his person? |
A12187 | And as Luther sayd, shall wee weepe and cry, when God laugheth? |
A12187 | And considering this must certainely come to passe, Why doe ye feare, ye house of David? |
A12187 | And if God be with us, who shall be against us? |
A12187 | And is any thing rarer then that, A Virgin shall conceive, and beare a sonne? |
A12187 | And shall not we make use of the same reason now? |
A12187 | And shall not we make use of these things in times of distresse? |
A12187 | And shall not wee then labour to bee with him, as much as we can? |
A12187 | And therefore come life, come death, Christ is our surety, he layeth up our dust, keepeth our ashes in the grave, and will Christ loose any member? |
A12187 | And therefore if hee did it for this end, that wee might bee neere him as our nature is neere him, shall not wee make it a ground of comfort? |
A12187 | And therefore the Scripture runneth comfortably on this; God hath redeemed the Church with his owne bloud: hath GOD blood? |
A12187 | And who can doe this but God? |
A12187 | And will hee suffer his Church to want, that hee hath taken so neere to himselfe? |
A12187 | But how doth friendshippe betweene God and us arise from hence? |
A12187 | But how shall wee improve it? |
A12187 | But you will say, this promise was to come, and how could this confirme their faith, for the present, that they should not bee destroyed? |
A12187 | Christ is come in the flesh, and is triumphant in Heaven, God having given Christ, will hee not give all things necessary whatsoever? |
A12187 | For if God be with us in our nature, and by consequence in favour, who shall bee against us? |
A12187 | For the pure nature of God, what hath it to doe with the unpure nature of man, without Emanuel, without him that is God man, to make satisfaction? |
A12187 | For what doe wee usually behold with earnestnes? |
A12187 | God shall raise my body out of the dust, and the grave, and can not he raise my body out of sicknesse? |
A12187 | God trusteth us to see, if wee will bee on his side, and calles to us, as Iehu did, Who is on my side, who? |
A12187 | God, hath God at his right hand, appearing for us, and shall wee bee affraid to goe to the Throne of grace? |
A12187 | Hath he given the greater, and will he stand with thee for the lesse? |
A12187 | He hath given Christ, and will he not give all things needfull? |
A12187 | How shall I know hee is my Emanuel, not onely God with us, but God with me? |
A12187 | If God be with us, who can bee against us? |
A12187 | If God bee on our side, who can bee against us? |
A12187 | In all our necessities and wantes goe to God: how? |
A12187 | It is not deified, and so made infinite) yet as much as the creature can bee capable of, there is in Christ- man, and so shall wee defile that nature? |
A12187 | Know O house of David, is it a smal thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also? |
A12187 | Now when did the virgin conceive? |
A12187 | Now, if wee have not a word for the Church, not so much as a prayer for the Church, how can wee say, God with us? |
A12187 | Shall God bee God with us in our nature in heaven, and shall wee defile our natures that GOD hath so dignified? |
A12187 | Shall not I goe to him that suffered so much for me? |
A12187 | Shall the reasonings before Christs comming be of more force, then these bee, now Christ is come, and is in glory, appearing in Heaven for us? |
A12187 | Shall we have wisdome in the things of this World, and not make use of the grand comforts, that concerne our soules? |
A12187 | So that if you aske, when doth Christ first live in a Christians heart? |
A12187 | Therefore how is it said, he shall be called Emanuel? |
A12187 | We out of our weaknes, wonder at poore pety things, as the Disciples at the building of the Temple, What stones are these? |
A12187 | Wee have desires to bee with him in his Ordinances as much as may be, and in humble resignation at the houre of death; how shall wee be with him here? |
A12187 | What a shame is this? |
A12187 | What can be in a greater degree of strangenesse( except the devils) then mens unholinesse, and Gods pure nature? |
A12187 | What is that? |
A12187 | What stoppeth mercy but sinne? |
A12187 | Who is on his side? |
A12187 | [ 2], 25,[ 1], 27,[ 1] p. Printed by E[dward] G[riffin, and John Norton?] |
A12187 | and my state out of trouble? |
A12187 | and why a virgin? |
A12187 | are not all his Riches for our use? |
A12187 | but God is on our side, and on what grounds? |
A12187 | can not hee raise the Church out of misery? |
A12187 | can the members want influence, when the head hath it? |
A12187 | can the wife be poore, when the husband is rich? |
A12187 | can this bee, where these things are beleeved? |
A12187 | have wee such a foundation of comfort, and shall not wee make use of it? |
A12187 | reasons thus: God that spared not his owne Sonne, but gave him to death for us all, how shall not hee with him give us all things? |
A12187 | then the Incarnation of Christ? |
A12187 | we wonder at the greatnesse of birth and place, but alas, what is fit for the soule being a large and capable thing to stand in admiration of? |
A12187 | when we are not used to speake to God by way of prayer, nor to man but by way of opposition and contestation? |
A12187 | wherefore serve they but to comfort us in all conflicts with Satan, and in all doubtings that arise from our sinfull hearts? |
A12180 | 10. doe you come to mee, and commend your soules to me? |
A12180 | Againe remember this for a ground that Christ as man merited not the grace of Vnion or unction, for how could he merit before he was? |
A12180 | And as it is our honour, so it is our security, and safety to bee under him, why? |
A12180 | But first let us see why it s sayd He is Lord both of the dead and of the living, prefixing the dead before the living? |
A12180 | But how is it they are the Lords? |
A12180 | But what manner of Lordship is this? |
A12180 | By what title is hee Lord? |
A12180 | Christ is Lord, both of the dead and of the living, for the better clearing of the point, let us see what is Lordship? |
A12180 | Domine quo descendis,& c. Lord how farre goest thou? |
A12180 | For what is the Sacrament but are presentation of his body broken, and of his blood powred out for us, that hee might be Lord over us? |
A12180 | Hee revived? |
A12180 | How doth he prove that they doe it to the Lord? |
A12180 | How doth hee proove that these holy Christians did eate, or not eate to the Lord? |
A12180 | How shall we live to Christ? |
A12180 | I am freed from it, I am redeemed from my selfe, what have I to doe with my selfe, but deny all? |
A12180 | In the third placē how doth he prove, that they are the Lords that live, and dye to him? |
A12180 | Now hee proves their whole life, and death are to the Lord, because they are the Lords, how doth he prove that they are the Lords? |
A12180 | So you see the dependance of the reason, they eate, or eate not to the Lord: why? |
A12180 | That he might be Lord of the dead& c. How is Christ Lord? |
A12180 | The second Adam hath bought us with his blood, and life, to rule us for ever, will hee then suffer us to bee disposed off by our selves? |
A12180 | Thereupon that is no objection, he seemed sometime a little unwilling? |
A12180 | Thirdly, Hee revived, therefore he is Lord of the quicke and of the dead? |
A12180 | This doubt rose from difference of aymes, whether he should please God or man? |
A12180 | We see what it is to live to Christ, let us see: what is it to dye to the Lord? |
A12180 | What became of those bodyes that rose with him after? |
A12180 | Whether Christ by his dying and abasement did merit any thing for himselfe? |
A12180 | Why is this added to rising againe? |
A12180 | Why was there a stop of that glory? |
A12180 | Why? |
A12180 | and be subject to him, shall he for ever be Lord for my good, and shall not I as much as lyeth in me, lay a foundation for ever in his service? |
A12180 | and grow sinfull, and have lesse conscience then a Turke or a Iew, will Christ continue his blessed prerogatives, and priviledges to such? |
A12180 | and hell most? |
A12180 | could Christ merit to be united to the second person, that was the greatest grace that ever was? |
A12180 | hee that will not quench the smoaking flaxe, nor break the brused reede, will hee cast away his poore children that strive against their corruptions? |
A12180 | is it not for our good, that he is our Lord in life and in death? |
A12180 | that when I am dead posterity may serve him? |
A12180 | what became of Adam, when he was master of himselfe? |
A12180 | what have I to doe with it? |
A12180 | what have I to doe with this ambition? |
A12180 | will not he favour his owne spouse as the weaker vessell think you? |
A12177 | And therefore if you aske, what doth the soule first to make Christ his owne? |
A12177 | And therefore were it not that in this varietie of conditions we had something that is afterward, ● here were our comfort? |
A12177 | And what is there in the World, but Christ, and the best things, but a man is prone to defile himselfe in? |
A12177 | And what kinde of subjection is it, to bee subject to our owne lusts? |
A12177 | As an Vsurer,( for whose good is he?) |
A12177 | Besides, wee have enemies greater than our selves, the powers of hell: and therefore if we had not a better above us, what would become of us? |
A12177 | But because God is mercifull, and Christ a Saviour, may you therfore live like libertines? |
A12177 | But what is all ple ● sure here, to the pleasure of a good conscience? |
A12177 | But when they have given their strength to the flesh before, and doe at time of death bequeath their spirits to the Lord, will hee owne them? |
A12177 | Did hee so? |
A12177 | Did not Moses know what hee did, when he forsook Pharoahs Court? |
A12177 | Have I reason to doe this? |
A12177 | Hee taketh notice of the teares ▪ that fall from their eyes, and will not hee take notice of their bloud? |
A12177 | Hee taketh notice of their persons, their haires, their teares, and will hee part with their lives for nothing? |
A12177 | Hee that dyeth in the Lord, is a blessed man, so sayth the spirit, the flesh will not say so, but rather will inferre, who would bee so religious? |
A12177 | How doe wee know hee hath purchased it by his death satisfactorily? |
A12177 | I beseech you seriously consider of it, and put this qu ● re to your soules; I have lived in such and such a sin, but what is the fruit of it? |
A12177 | If Christ had not risen again, where had our comfort bin? |
A12177 | If a man have that principle, and mindeth it, that all things worke together for the best, to them that love God, what can discourage him? |
A12177 | If you ask ●, how shal we know in particular, that it is so indeed, that wee are Ch ● ● st ●? |
A12177 | In a word, if we be Christs, undoubtedly we will side with Christ, Who is on my side, who? |
A12177 | In ill, and doubtfull times, Christs calls are for a partie, and calleth our, where is my party? |
A12177 | In the meane time their mindes are variable, their affections may dye before themselves: as how many have beene cast off in their old dayes? |
A12177 | Men will be turned upside down, rather than their wils shal be crossed; but doth not this provoke God? |
A12177 | Now shall God be mercifull, and indulgent, and man severe? |
A12177 | Now who would bee willing to serve an enemy? |
A12177 | One thing is necessary, how may it rectifie us? |
A12177 | Saith hee, Our bodies are bought with a price, And shall I take the members of Christ, and make them members of an 〈 ◊ 〉? |
A12177 | Seek the end in the meanes? |
A12177 | Shall a piece of earth strive against him? |
A12177 | So when wee are tempted by corruption, and Satan joyning with it; reason thus: Shall I de ● ● le this body of mine? |
A12177 | The Christians whole life is onely to Christ, but what is the life of a man out of Christ? |
A12177 | To what end is all this? |
A12177 | VVhat are riches to him, that is the fountain of all riches? |
A12177 | VVhat should these doe in a heart dedicated to God, consecrated to Christ? |
A12177 | What an excellent generall rule is that of Christ? |
A12177 | What happinesse is it, Isay, to be under such a Lord? |
A12177 | What is friendship here to communion with God, and friendship with Christ, and the protection of Angels? |
A12177 | What is it to live to the Lord? |
A12177 | What is the Lord? |
A12177 | What other people that are under a government, can say so? |
A12177 | What should such base abhominable 〈 … 〉 to Christ? |
A12177 | Who art thou that judgest another mans servant? |
A12177 | Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods people? |
A12177 | Whom have I in heaven but thee, or in ● arth in comparison of thee? |
A12177 | Why is he Lord? |
A12177 | Why to Christ? |
A12177 | Why? |
A12177 | and doe not wee come to Church? |
A12177 | and will not hee break it to powder? |
A12177 | him? |
A12177 | is it not to bee ruled by our enemies? |
A12177 | it is no more than hee did for us; hee being our Lord, was abased for us in his blessed body, and flesh, and therefore shall not wee suffer for him? |
A12177 | my self? |
A12177 | or Christ? |
A12177 | or Paul, when he said, to be with Christ is best of all? |
A12177 | or his enemies? |
A12177 | sayth Iehu? |
A12177 | to a damned world, and to Satan? |
A12177 | we have a spring, what if the streame bee dried up? |
A12177 | what is our aim? |
A12177 | who is on my side, sayth Christ? |
A12177 | who owneth Christ and his truth, and doctrine, and good wayes, honesty and religion? |
A12177 | who standeth for me? |
A12171 | 10. Who hath despised the day of small things? |
A12171 | 2 Let men take heede of taking up Sathans office, in deprauing the good actions of others, as he did Iobs, Doth hee serve God for nought? |
A12171 | And if wee may hope for victory upon bare resistance, what may wee not hope for when the Spirit hath gotten the upper hand? |
A12171 | Art thou bruised? |
A12171 | But Christs Spirit is in those who are in some degree earthly minded? |
A12171 | But are we not bruised unlesse wee grieve more for sinne, than we doe for punishment? |
A12171 | But hath he put into thine heart a desire to pray? |
A12171 | But how shall we come to have this temper? |
A12171 | But how shall we know whether wee are such as those that may expect mercy? |
A12171 | But this is so little and weake, that it will vanish, and come to nought? |
A12171 | Can CHRIST forget himselfe? |
A12171 | Can a dead man complaine? |
A12171 | Can the head forget the members? |
A12171 | Can we have a better patterne to follow than this of him by whom we hope to bee saved? |
A12171 | Come vnto me all yee, that are weary and heavy laden& c, he cryed, but how? |
A12171 | Discouragements whence? |
A12171 | For shall we that are servants quench those weake sparkes which our Lord himselfe is pleased to cherish? |
A12171 | Hee that dyed for his enemies, will hee refuse those the desire of whose soule is towards him? |
A12171 | How bare hee with the many imperfections of his poor Disciples? |
A12171 | How carefull was Saint Paul that the incestuous Corinthian repenting, should not bee swallowed up with too much griefe? |
A12171 | How carefull was our blessed Saviour of little ones that they might not bee offended? |
A12171 | How doth he defend his Disciples from malitious imputations of the Pharises? |
A12171 | How gently did hee indure Thomas his unbeleefe? |
A12171 | How little incouragement will cary us to the affaires of this life? |
A12171 | How will they be laden with curses another day that abuse the judgement of others by sophistry and flattery, deceivers, and being deceived? |
A12171 | If Christ will not doe it, what can? |
A12171 | If Christ will not quench the smoaking Flax, what need we feare that any neglect of our part can bring us under a comfortlesse condition? |
A12171 | If it prevaile with GOD himselfe in tryalls, shall it not prevaile over all other opposition? |
A12171 | If our saith were but as firme as our state in Christ is secure and glorious, what manner of men should we be? |
A12171 | If the sweetnesse of all flowers were in one, how sweet must that flower needs be? |
A12171 | If thou beest not so much as smoaking flax, thē why doest thou not renounce thy interest in Christ, and disclame the Covenant, of grace? |
A12171 | In CHRIST all perfections of mercy and love meete, how great then must that mercy be that lodgeth in so gracious a heart? |
A12171 | Let us lament our owne untowardnesse, and say, Lord, what an heart have I, that needs all this, that none of this could bee spared? |
A12171 | Now having beene prevailers with GOD, what shall stand against us if we can learne to make use of our faith? |
A12171 | Now if naturall conscience bee so forcible, what will it be when besides it owne light it hath the light of divine truth put into it? |
A12171 | O miserable man that I am, who shall deliver? |
A12171 | Oh but is it possible( thinketh the misgiving heart) that so holy a GOD shold accept such a praier? |
A12171 | Shal our sinnes discourage us, when hee appeares there onely for sinners? |
A12171 | Shall every sinne and blasphemy of man be forgiven, and not these blasphemous thoughts, which have the Devill for their father? |
A12171 | The Holy Ghost is content to dwell in smoakie offensive soules, Oh that, that spirit would breath into our Spirits the like mercifull disposition? |
A12171 | The faithfull Iewes rejoyced to thinke of the calling of the Gentiles: and why should not we joy to thinke of the calling of the Iewes? |
A12171 | Was there ever any fierce against God and, prospered? |
A12171 | Weaknesses what? |
A12171 | What a support to our Faith is this; That GOD the Father, the party offended by our sinnes, is so well pleased with the worke of Redemption? |
A12171 | What course shall such take to recover their peace? |
A12171 | What defences was Saint Paul driven to make for himselfe, for his plainnesse in unfolding the Gospell? |
A12171 | What incouragement have we to commend the state of the Church in generall, or of any broken hearted Christian, unto him by our prayers? |
A12171 | What need wee knock at any other doore? |
A12171 | What should we learn from hence, but to come boldly to the throne of Grace in all our grievances? |
A12171 | Whece comes these restlesse groanings and complaints? |
A12171 | When CHRIST himselfe was therefore molested in this kinde, that he might succour all poore soules in the like case? |
A12171 | Whence are then discouragements? |
A12171 | Who is hee that despiseth the day of little things? |
A12171 | Who would not rather wa ● … e in the light, and in the comforts of the Holy Ghost, than to live in a darke perplexed estate? |
A12171 | Would S. Paul doe nothing, because he could not doe the good hee would? |
A12171 | Yes a sparke of faith and love: but CHRIST will not regard that? |
A12171 | and not rather bee caried with full saile to heaven, than bee tossed alwayes with feares and doubts? |
A12171 | can any bee more tender over us than CHRIST? |
A12171 | hee that by his messengers desires us to bee reconciled, will hee put us off when wee earnestly seeke it at his hand? |
A12171 | shall man be proud, after GOD hath beene humble? |
A12171 | shall wee thinke there is more mercy in our selves, then in GOD, who planteth the affection of mercy in us? |
A12171 | this thou darest not do; why dost thou not give up thy selfe wholly to other contents? |
A12171 | 〈 ◊ 〉, carest thou not that we perish? |
A12170 | A little liberty from corruption, a little freedome and enlargement of Spirit here, how sweet is that? |
A12170 | All those things are but shadowes, and scarce that, of things to come; and yet how earnestly desirous are men of them? |
A12170 | An Atheisticall heart would say thus: Such a thing will be; Christ will come, whether I pray, or no; what need I pray then? |
A12170 | And when AMEN, that is, Christ himselfe, shall say his Amen to any thing; is it so much for us, to give our Amen? |
A12170 | Are our Consciences besprinkled by that from dead workes, to serve the everliving God? |
A12170 | Are our hearts set at liberty to goe to the Throne of grace? |
A12170 | Are you in any disconsolate condition? |
A12170 | Because, where the treasure is, there will the heart be also; now where is the Churches treasure but in Christ? |
A12170 | But on the contrary, he that hath no good by the first, can not truely desire nor comfortably expect the second comming of Christ: for why? |
A12170 | But what hath hee lost? |
A12170 | Christ is a Mediatour and Intercessour; for whom? |
A12170 | David was a King, of prayers; but Saul came by providence onely, and by the peoples importunitie: whether was the more blessed? |
A12170 | Doe wee leave any thing in this world behind us? |
A12170 | Doest thou beleeve? |
A12170 | Doest thou repent? |
A12170 | Doth that pardon our sinnes? |
A12170 | For what ravishing Ioy, what inexplicable sweetnesse shal then everlasting possesse our soules? |
A12170 | For whose good hath God appointed the Lords day? |
A12170 | For why? |
A12170 | George Hughes?. |
A12170 | Have not wee then just cause to take occasion, to shame and blame our selves, for the disproportion of our desires to earthly and heavenly things? |
A12170 | Have we thus any benefit by his first comming? |
A12170 | How long? |
A12170 | If rest from labour bee so sweet, what is the glorious liberty of the Sonnes of God? |
A12170 | If the earnest bee so comfortable, what is the whole bargaine? |
A12170 | If the first fruits are so sweet, what is the full harvest? |
A12170 | If the promises doe so quicken us, as you have it in the Psalmes, Thy word hath quickned mee; what will the full performance of them doe? |
A12170 | If you be, see what the Apostle Paul saith to the The ssalonians; Wherefore, comfort yee one another with these words: With what words? |
A12170 | Is a Souldier loth to thinke of a day of Victorie, and Triumph? |
A12170 | Is a contracted person loth to thinke of the day of Marriage? |
A12170 | Is it not for our owne? |
A12170 | Is not this a great honour to us, that he will not performe things without our consent? |
A12170 | Is the Labourer loth to thinke of a Sabbath, or a day of Rest? |
A12170 | It is that which the Church desires here: and in the Canticles, what is it that the Church prayes for in the beginning? |
A12170 | Let us try our selves by this: what benefit have we by the first comming of Christ, by his death, and the shedding of his blood? |
A12170 | May not I doe so? |
A12170 | Now because our spirit is exceeding short, and we are readie to crie out, as it is in the fixt of this Booke; How long, Lord, holy and true? |
A12170 | Oh, rouze up and quicken your hearts with such considerations: Doe you conflict with any enemies, either without or within? |
A12170 | Our spirits are supernaturall, and carried to the best of Spirits; and who is the best of spirits but Christ himselfe? |
A12170 | Shall wee thinke much then of that which God appoints for us? |
A12170 | Signatures: A- F¹² G(-A1, blank?). |
A12170 | Therfore is there not in regard of our selves, good reason for Christians to say, Amen, even so come Lord Iesus? |
A12170 | They are all desirous of these things; and why should not wee be of that time, when all these things shall indeed and really be performed? |
A12170 | To make him like that, which he hates most? |
A12170 | What a wicked thing is this, that wee should make an Idoll of God, and transforme him into the likenesse of Satan, his Enemie? |
A12170 | What is it that makes Hell so horrible? |
A12170 | What is the way, to fight the good fight of Faith? |
A12170 | What manner of persons ought wee to be? |
A12170 | Who amongst us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? |
A12170 | Who amongst us,( saith the Prophet) shall dwell winh the devouring fire? |
A12170 | Who can avoid or abide that dreadfull Sentence; Goe ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the Devill and his Angels? |
A12170 | Who shall appeare before Christ? |
A12170 | Why doth the Church desire so much this second and glorious comming of Christ? |
A12170 | can I heare of these things, and bee no more affected with them then I am? |
A12170 | for perfect men? |
A12170 | in going on presumptuously in sinne, and never thinking upon that great Day? |
A12170 | now if you will not endure these holy exercises here, what should you doe in Heaven? |
A12170 | or a King, of the day of his Coronation? |
A12170 | shall I yeeld to this? |
A12170 | what measure of holinesse should be set to them, that looke for the second comming of Christ? |
A12203 | Am I fit to end my dayes? |
A12203 | Am I in a state fit for heaven? |
A12203 | And have wee not Scriptures to shew that all is Vanitie? |
A12203 | And is there not a danger in being drawne away to hazzard our Soules? |
A12203 | And so for conversing with company, are they such as are comfortable and cheerefull? |
A12203 | And therefore why should we looke after perishing things, and neglect better? |
A12203 | And will pretending this excuse men when they are called to duties? |
A12203 | Are all things perishing food, such as we must leave, vaine and emptie things? |
A12203 | Are all things vaine, and shall I not labour to have my part in that that shall never die in him that is my Husband for ever, and my Lord for ever? |
A12203 | Are not all things so that are here, if we be Christians indeed? |
A12203 | But what is this for the Sacrament? |
A12203 | Come to a man that is gasping out his life, and aske him, what doth honours doe you good? |
A12203 | Compare this short time here, of health and strength, of honour and place, and friends, what is this to Eternitie? |
A12203 | Could this excuse him? |
A12203 | Doe I grieve for these? |
A12203 | Doth hee that acts the part of a Nobleman upon the Stage think himselfe better than another, that acts the part of a Poore man? |
A12203 | For instance, Those that have wives, have they not beene drawne away by their wives, as Solomon was to Idolatrie? |
A12203 | For is not God worth all? |
A12203 | God makes fooles of them, for how few have you that goe beyond the third generation? |
A12203 | Have wee not experience of former times? |
A12203 | How are these five directions inforced? |
A12203 | How few houses have you, that are now in them can say, My Ancestour dwelt here, and these were his Lands? |
A12203 | How is it with me for world without end? |
A12203 | How many things doth this poore life need while wee are in this world? |
A12203 | How should we use it? |
A12203 | How? |
A12203 | I, but is my soule as it should be? |
A12203 | If I have Christ what can I want, when I receive the Sacrament, having Communion with Christ? |
A12203 | If a friend bee dead, shall a man bee therefore angry? |
A12203 | If things come amisse in his Inne, will hee quarrell with Host, that hee hath not a soft bed? |
A12203 | If we doe not make use of it, we are worse then the Divell himselfe, he makes use of the shortnes of his time, what doth hee? |
A12203 | Is reckonings eaven betweene God and my soule? |
A12203 | Is there not a danger of being drawne away? |
A12203 | Now shall wee be immoderate in any thing that passeth away? |
A12203 | Shall I ioy in that that I can not inioy? |
A12203 | Shall I not labour to strengthen mine Interest in him that hath all good things in him? |
A12203 | Shall I not therefore looke for those comforts and those graces, and for that condition, that will abide when I am gone hence? |
A12203 | Shall I oppose Cods sentence? |
A12203 | Shall wee grieve much for the losse of that that wee can not hold? |
A12203 | Shall wee make all things subordinate to them, as worldlings doe, subordinate Religion to worldly things, and make all things contrary? |
A12203 | Shall wee stand upon apparitions, that the more wee know them, the more wee shall undervalew them? |
A12203 | The fashion of this world passeth away; value them by that they have of eternitie, what of the Spirit is in them? |
A12203 | There is a danger to be hurt, and a danger in being hurt, did not sinne come in that way? |
A12203 | There is a goodly shew and Apparition: what is within? |
A12203 | To adde a little in this point, This is the reason why none but a true Christian can carry himselfe moderately in the things of this world, why? |
A12203 | VVhat is become of Babylon, and all those goodly Cities? |
A12203 | VVhat is become of Ierusalem? |
A12203 | VVhat is become of Rome? |
A12203 | VVhat is the Sacrament, but the Food of our Soules, our Everlasting Manna, that will continue for ever, and make us continue for ever? |
A12203 | VVhat is the ground of this, that all things are thus passing? |
A12203 | VVhat is this point of time to eternitie? |
A12203 | VVho promised thee thou shouldest enioy thy wise long, that thou shouldest enjoy thy children long, thy place long: haste thou a promise for this? |
A12203 | Was not Adam led away by his wife? |
A12203 | Wee say if a glasse be broke, is a man much angrie? |
A12203 | Were it not an unkinde thing if a man should invite strangers, if they should turne their kinde friend that had invited them, out of dores? |
A12203 | What Grace is in them? |
A12203 | What doth riches doe you good? |
A12203 | What hath the Minister to doe with these things? |
A12203 | What if all the earth should fayle? |
A12203 | What is this little time given us for? |
A12203 | What is within government? |
A12203 | What is within the things of this life? |
A12203 | What thoughts hath hee of his Eternall estate, of the fading condition of these things? |
A12203 | What time? |
A12203 | What to use them as if they had none? |
A12203 | When a Christian is all in passion, all in Ioy, all in feares, or in griefe: why, what is the matter at that time? |
A12203 | Why should wee dote upon a perishing fashion? |
A12203 | Why should wee promise our selves that which the Word doth not promise us, or that wee can not see experience of in the world? |
A12203 | Why would wee have a condition severed from all men? |
A12203 | Why? |
A12203 | and how many men perish by being too Vxorious, by being too flexible in that kinde? |
A12203 | are they new Creatures? |
A12203 | are they new borne? |
A12203 | are they such as may helpe to the main? |
A12203 | are they truely noble? |
A12203 | hath a States- man skil in this or that trade? |
A12203 | how few houses have you, that the childe, or the Grand- childe can say, this was my Grand- fathers, and my Great Grand- fathers? |
A12203 | is there not a great deale of care? |
A12203 | no: why do I intangle my selfe in that which hinders the maine? |
A12203 | to care for them, as if they had none? |
A12203 | what desperate follie is it to venture the losse of Eternitie, for the enioying of these things? |
A12203 | what desperate folly were it? |
A12203 | what doth possessions doe you good? |
A12203 | what of the Image of God is in them? |
A17936 | ( then say they,) that sin which is the punishment doth deserve more punishment, and so it doth: What( say they) and doth that deserve another? |
A17936 | 6. and there we read, that some who were thus sinfull were yet sanctified, were washed, and are now with Christ: and if they, then why not some now? |
A17936 | And if neither the first or second Adam could be free from their Impudent Assaults; Who then may look for exemption? |
A17936 | And in Paul: Who cals chastity a mans honour? |
A17936 | And is not Sathan said to tempt us? |
A17936 | And when Salomon was old, saith the Text, hee doted on an our- landish woman: how comes ● his? |
A17936 | And who can thinke, that Abraham did not repent of that his sin in the matter of Sarah? |
A17936 | Be out of heart because all is not done in a day? |
A17936 | Biblida quid refer ● ●? |
A17936 | But in his troubles; and where? |
A17936 | But in the High Priests Hall, and who? |
A17936 | But yet we must grant, that a man may bee good in the heart, and yet for a time( and how long who can say?) |
A17936 | Christ indeed was tempted, and had no Lust in him, and did not Satan lose his labour? |
A17936 | Could one kill the Divell? |
A17936 | Desertion is in it selfe no sin: for Christ was without sense, aye, he was so deepe in it, that when he dyed, he said, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A17936 | Doth it follow then, that by the Law forbidding such Lusts, must be meant the tenth or one distinct Commandement? |
A17936 | Even stand it out, hold there, as we have a calling to be there, what if wee quake? |
A17936 | Give over because the physick doth not heale at once taking? |
A17936 | Have we repented, or have we not? |
A17936 | Have wee not a command to pray? |
A17936 | How can it come into the heart now, if it were not there from the very first? |
A17936 | How so? |
A17936 | I have( saith hee) done foolishly, I have sinned and that greatly; Lord forgive, what? |
A17936 | I mourne, Blessed( not shall be) but are those that mourne, why? |
A17936 | Iacob had sore and heavy afflictions, yet it went ever for truth,( Iacob have I loved) hee loved him, when? |
A17936 | If none, What make we there? |
A17936 | In the faith, and what then? |
A17936 | Is the reason in our will? |
A17936 | Is there a new Originall sin? |
A17936 | Let us then say, that it is a dāgerous case, for a godly man to sinne the same great sin after repentance, what if it doe not put him out of Christ? |
A17936 | Looke up then, and if from want of sight and feeling wee doe say, Why hast thou forsaken me? |
A17936 | Man would then learne not to bee so bold with occasions of sin against nature; what if at first nature doth even spit at them? |
A17936 | No, no more: and must wee have all we beleeve? |
A17936 | No; what, to runne? |
A17936 | Now if repentance could doe it at first, when the sin was greater; can wee question, whether repentance doth fetch it off, when the sin is lesser? |
A17936 | Our case is good, and our prayer is of force, and what if for all that, sinne bee there, yet it raignes not there? |
A17936 | Out of the heart saith Christ proceedeth blasphemies: What? |
A17936 | Put the case( saith he) that a man must dye or tell a lye, is it not a sinne in this case of necessity to lye? |
A17936 | Resist saith Peter, how resist? |
A17936 | Say the worst, have wee blasphemed? |
A17936 | Shortly, Through whom? |
A17936 | Should God sit still, and the law of nature stand still and looke on, and let our Originall sin, our lust within shew it selfe? |
A17936 | Some say, it ought not to be said, that God doth punish sin with sin, why? |
A17936 | Stedfastly, how stedfastly? |
A17936 | The Law, I know, permitted it to the Iewes, to the stranger, what of that? |
A17936 | The foolish hath said in his heart there is no God, what followes? |
A17936 | The infirmity: No, the iniquity; of whom? |
A17936 | The next thing that we must doe by our faith, is, to take Christ Iesus, and set him against the Tempter, why? |
A17936 | The next thing wee are to looke to, is, that we doe not coozen and deceive our selves, so as to thinke we have not overcome the tentation: why? |
A17936 | The weapons of our warfare are not carnall, but mighty, how? |
A17936 | This is too much, to say one will never vow again, who can say what need one may have; what good a vow may doe one? |
A17936 | Thus the Lord doth laugh at their calamity, and mocke when their feare commeth: but why are men so set in that sin? |
A17936 | To save one soule fom death is noted in the d Word to be an honourable piece of service: How great is your Honour and comfort then? |
A17936 | We all read that the heart of man is deceitfull above all things, yea, above the divell, why? |
A17936 | What are we? |
A17936 | What if wee have grace? |
A17936 | What, should the Law then forbid that to bee done by rich men, which most rich men never did? |
A17936 | Why Peter a chiefe Apostle in the love and favour of Christ his master; and is not Peter in heaven? |
A17936 | Why hath Satan filled thy heart? |
A17936 | Why is it past the power of our Divines with their pens and tongues to cry downe vsury? |
A17936 | Wisdome, Let him aske of God: but he will not give me, yes, he giveth to all: and what if our wants that way bee great? |
A17936 | and did Adam in whom there was no spice of sinne? |
A17936 | and may we not think that the holy Ghost saith not murther but murthers, not adultery but adulteries? |
A17936 | and so, why not another? |
A17936 | and was not this horrible pride too? |
A17936 | and what if worse haunted than when I set my selfe against it then before? |
A17936 | and why those rather than these? |
A17936 | are we better? |
A17936 | are wee so good as these fathers were? |
A17936 | is our nature better than others? |
A17936 | must we not have a promise and faith for all? |
A17936 | of the promise; 2 heires, of what? |
A17936 | or a new kind and species added unto it? |
A17936 | r. who can say? |
A17936 | say one must lose his life if hee doe not perjure himselfe, and beare false witnesse, doth that necessity make it no sin? |
A17936 | some, or all, if not all; which are excepted? |
A17936 | to beat us? |
A17936 | was not the heart of man onely evill and prone to all evill ever since the fall? |
A17936 | was the cause in our nature? |
A17936 | what are our fathers houses, that we have beene preserved in our houses from such scandalous sins? |
A17936 | what else will so set us a praying, a whining, a watching, a fasting? |
A17936 | what if it do not hang him? |
A17936 | what must wee doe? |
A17936 | which many heathens would rather have lost their lives than have endured, and what? |
A68733 | A carelesse spirit oft proves a wounded spirit, and that, who can beare? |
A68733 | Alas, are these fruits of Gods speciall love? |
A68733 | Alas, let our bodies speake, we are not free from sicknesse and diseases: nay, what is our life but a going to corruption? |
A68733 | Alas, what are all gifts and parts without a gracious heart? |
A68733 | All this is true, while faith holdeth out; but that may faile? |
A68733 | And have we not since we were borne added sinne unto sinne? |
A68733 | And indeed what man will endure his greatest favours and kindnesses to be sleighted? |
A68733 | And should not this worke upon our hearts a care not to grieve the holy Spirit? |
A68733 | And wee may know this appropriation by appropriating God againe; Whom have I in heaven but thee, and what have I in earth in comparison of thee? |
A68733 | And what is there that an ill disposed soule can not sucke poyson out of? |
A68733 | And what should be the distinguishing character of gracious soules now, but to bee such as wait for the comming of Christ? |
A68733 | And why are we certaine of the favour of God to our comfort for the present, but that wee doubt not of it for the time to come? |
A68733 | And will not unkindenesse to the Spirit make us ashamed to lift up our face to heaven? |
A68733 | Are t ● ey not called Daemones, from the largenesse of their understanding? |
A68733 | Are we not all the children of wrath? |
A68733 | As Reuben said unto the rest of his brethren, Spake I not vnto you,& c? |
A68733 | As common ● wearers, can they plead ignorance? |
A68733 | Bad is our condition by nature, and what a deale of misery doe we adde to this bad condition? |
A68733 | But Sathan is strong, and his malice is more than his strength? |
A68733 | But how little of our time is spent in thoughts this way? |
A68733 | But how shall wee know this witnesse from an enthusiasticall fancie and illusion? |
A68733 | But seeing Sathan will oft interrupt good motions by good motions, that he may hinder both: How shall we know from whence the motions come? |
A68733 | But the time is long betweene us and salvation, and many dangers may fall out? |
A68733 | But there be, you will say, strong illusions? |
A68733 | Christ appeared, and the free favour of GOD in Christ, whereby wee are assured of salvation: which teacheth us, what to doe? |
A68733 | Displeasure is as the person is: it is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the living God, who knowes the power of his wrath? |
A68733 | Do we not grow in sinne as we do in yeares? |
A68733 | Doe I not buy my sin too deare? |
A68733 | For are we in darkenesse? |
A68733 | GOD honours no grace so much as faith; Why? |
A68733 | God spake to me, and I heeded him not, how doth God speake? |
A68733 | Have not the divels greater parts than any man? |
A68733 | He hath shewed that this is a sinne: whom do I grieve, by the commission of it? |
A68733 | Hee will keepe us, but by what meanes? |
A68733 | How carefull should we be to give contentment to this sweet Spirit of God? |
A68733 | How little beholding is the holy Spirit to such, who please themselves in a spirit of opposition? |
A68733 | How shall we know when we grieve the Spirit? |
A68733 | I beseech you by the mercies of God, saith Saint Paul: what mercies? |
A68733 | Is it little for you to despise mee, but you will grieve God? |
A68733 | Is not God just? |
A68733 | Is this my duty, and that which tends to my comfort? |
A68733 | It may be demanded how farre forth a childe of God may grieve the Spirit, and yet remaine the childe of God? |
A68733 | It may be objected, when we doe any thing amisse, we intend not the grieving of the Spirit? |
A68733 | Let us labour to improve these talents, to the end for which they are sent: are they motions of comfort? |
A68733 | May not there be doubtings where there is true faith, may not a true beleever be without assurance? |
A68733 | Sinne against the holy Ghost, what? |
A68733 | So may Gods Spirit, and conscience, say to men, Did not I acquaint you with the danger of sin? |
A68733 | So men runne into the danger of others, by wronging them, what is the cause? |
A68733 | The Lord knoweth who are his: but how shall we know it? |
A68733 | The Spirit of God, and wound my owne conscience: and then consider, will that, that I sinne for, countervaile this? |
A68733 | The flesh here will make a froward objection, We can doe no more then we can? |
A68733 | The foole hath said in his heart, there is no God: and what followes? |
A68733 | The fourth point is, what course wee should take to prevent this grieving of the Spirit? |
A68733 | The grace of God( saith Paul to Titus) that bringeth salvation, Christ appeared: and what is Christ but grace? |
A68733 | The holy Spirit of God is our guide: who will displease his guide? |
A68733 | Those that neglect the Word and Sacrament, what doe they despise, a poore Minister? |
A68733 | We are sealed to the day of Redemption, and who can reverse Gods seale, or Gods act and deed? |
A68733 | Wee are angry with our selves for being passionate, but what is the cause of passion? |
A68733 | What an indignity is this to the holy Spirit, to thinke it better to be accounted witty, and politicke, then to be holy, and gracious? |
A68733 | What comfort would the soule have, if it should see heaven open, and it selfe entring into it, if redemption were at hand? |
A68733 | What grace hath hee wrought in thy heart by his Spirit? |
A68733 | What greater indignity can wee offer to the holy Spirit, than to prefer base dust before his motions? |
A68733 | What is more sure then the thing it selfe? |
A68733 | What is the cause? |
A68733 | What more comfortable then faith in it? |
A68733 | What need I bring Scripture to prove it? |
A68733 | When we sinne, what doe we else but grieve this guide? |
A68733 | Whence came this voyce of Saint Paul? |
A68733 | Whence is it that we grieve the Spirit? |
A68733 | Who can mortifie those strong corruptions, that would hinder us in the way to heaven, but the Spirit cloathing our spirit with power from above? |
A68733 | Who can raise our spirits above all temptations and troubles, but that Spirit of power that is above all? |
A68733 | Who will thinke himselfe well entertained into an house, when there shall be entertainement given to his greatest enemy with him? |
A68733 | Why are voluntary sinnes so great, and so much grieve the Spirit of God? |
A68733 | Why doth he blesse God before we have it? |
A68733 | Why then do we pray for the forgivenesse of sinnes? |
A68733 | Why will you perish, you house of Israel? |
A68733 | Would men goe on in sinnes against conscience, if they thought of this last day? |
A68733 | You are now in misery, and terrours of conscience, but did you not sleight former admonitions, and helps, and meanes? |
A68733 | and hell terrible? |
A68733 | and how gracious is the Spirit that will vouchsafe to have such communion with such poore sinfull spirits as ours? |
A68733 | and neglect bread and wine? |
A68733 | did not I move you to this good by mine owne Spirit? |
A68733 | doth religion and the Spirit teach you this? |
A68733 | he is a Spirit of consolation: Are we in perplexity, and know not what to do? |
A68733 | he is a Spirit of life: Are we in a disconsolate estate? |
A68733 | he is a Spirit of light: Are we in deadnesse of spirit? |
A68733 | he is a Spirit of wisedome: Are wee troubled with corruptions? |
A68733 | how oft in the Epistles of Saint Paul is it? |
A68733 | leading us to holinesse and happinesse? |
A68733 | let us use them for comfort: are they motions tending to duty? |
A68733 | saith God, they intended no such matter as perishing: Gods meaning is, why will you go on in such destructive courses, as will ēd in perishing? |
A68733 | they know the Commandement, God will not hold them guiltlesse, that take his name in vaine: can they plead perturbation? |
A68733 | what greater unkindnesse, yea, treachery to leave directions of a friend to follow the counsaile of an enemy? |
A68733 | what shall wee thinke then of them which doe not onely neglect, but despise, yea oppose this holinesse, and indure any thing else? |
A68733 | who purifieth the cōscience, but he that is above cōscience? |
A68733 | ● nd shall see more regard had, and better countenance shewed to his enemy, than to him? |
A09999 | 9. and why? |
A09999 | A man must haue a praying time; is it not as necessary? |
A09999 | Againe, if there be an indisposition in me, why do I hazard my selfe? |
A09999 | Againe, on the other side, he hath prayed for such and such things, and yet they haue not bin granted? |
A09999 | Againe, this is another case, what a man is to doe in the private performance of this duty, whether he be bound alwayes to vse his voice? |
A09999 | And if you obiect now, I, but it will cost vs much time to doe this? |
A09999 | And likewise Ezekias, and David, they vse the same Argu ● … nt to God, shall the ● … st praise thee? |
A09999 | Another Case is, what it is to pray in faith? |
A09999 | Another case is whether wee may vse a set forme of prayer? |
A09999 | Besides, doe you not say, when you haue great businesse in hand, that a man must haue a dining time, and a sleeping time,& c? |
A09999 | But may I not stay till I bee more fitted, till my heart bee more softened, and more humbled? |
A09999 | But now you will say this to me,( that may be obiected) why? |
A09999 | But now, if you aske; whether that be sufficient? |
A09999 | But you will say, how shall we be clensed? |
A09999 | But you will say, it may be, God will not accept it? |
A09999 | But you will say; what faith is it then that is required? |
A09999 | But, now, al the question i ● … what thi ● … fervency is? |
A09999 | But, say it bee some ● … 〈 ◊ 〉 noble then that, as learning, and knowledge, yet, what is that to the renewing of Gods image in vs? |
A09999 | But, should the sacrifice be offered without incense? |
A09999 | But, you will say, every man doth so, and how shall we know it? |
A09999 | But, you will say, how shall a man know, when he prayeth to bestow that, which he prayeth for, vpon his lusts? |
A09999 | But, you will say, why may not both bee accommodated? |
A09999 | First, a man is ready to say, what need I spend so much time, and bee so large in the expression of my wants to God, when he knowes them? |
A09999 | For what is our health, but the peace of our humours within? |
A09999 | Hath not the Lord commanded you to pray constantly, at all times? |
A09999 | I can not make them better knowne to him, hee knowes them well enough already, and therfore what needeth it? |
A09999 | I, but you will say to me, if this be required, who shall be heard in his prayers? |
A09999 | If we goe to the Lord, and say, Lord, thou art a father, thou art a Master, thou art a husband, whither should the children goe, but to their father? |
A09999 | If you aske how it can be? |
A09999 | If you make conscience of one commandemēt, why doe you not of another? |
A09999 | Is it not the key that openeth all Gods treasures? |
A09999 | Last of all consider this, when thou commest to offer sacrifice to God, wouldest thou offer that which cost thee nothing? |
A09999 | Let vs draw neere, saith the Apostle, in assurance of faith: but how? |
A09999 | Lord, saith he, shalt thou haue glorie from the graue? |
A09999 | Now do we not need protection from outward dangers, from day to day? |
A09999 | Secondly, put the case it were, yet is it not the greater businesse? |
A09999 | They are written for our learning? |
A09999 | Thirdlie, it will bee obiected, I but, al ● … s, what can the endeavours or the prai e ● … s of a weake man doe? |
A09999 | Thirdly, a man is ready to say againe, but I find many difficulties, how shall I doe to remove them? |
A09999 | This is a thing commonly knowne, you will say, who knowes not that, except we come in the name of Christ, no petition can be acceptable? |
A09999 | What is it to haue Armour, and not to haue it ready? |
A09999 | What is the reason? |
A09999 | What was the reason that he wrestled? |
A09999 | When a man saith thus with him selfe, thus, and thus much good I haue received, at the Lords hands, what though I want such a thing? |
A09999 | Why may wee not say as wel ● …? |
A09999 | Why so? |
A09999 | Why will you not trust God, that goes so much beyond vs, that hath an infinite wisedome, and an infinite power? |
A09999 | Why? |
A09999 | You know, it was Vzziahs fault to offer incense, when it was proper to the Priest to doe it? |
A09999 | You will say vnto me what is this holinesse? |
A09999 | a peace offering: what was that? |
A09999 | and do you thinke, that this is a true sound and hearty profession? |
A09999 | and likewise whether it bee sufficient? |
A09999 | can they change the purpose of Almightie God, if he doe not intend ● … o doe this thing for ● … oe, shall I hope to alter him? |
A09999 | can you expect it at his hands? |
A09999 | doe wee not need to be kept from the inward danger of sinne and temptation? |
A09999 | for who can say his heart is pure, and his hands are innocent? |
A09999 | is not that the way to bring in more ● … in, and to suffer those good things that are in the heart to steale out? |
A09999 | is not that very dangerous? |
A09999 | shall any glory be given thee in the graue ▪ shall we be able to doe any thing for thy honour, when we are dead? |
A09999 | shall we not therfore pray? |
A09999 | what is it that you g ● … by all your labours, and trauailes? |
A09999 | what is our cheerefulnesse, and ioy, but the peace of conscience within? |
A09999 | what though I be prest with such an affliction, and calamitie? |
A09999 | when heaven was shut vp, was not this the key that opened? |
A09999 | when the wombes were shut vp, was not this it that opened? |
A09999 | when thou desirest vvealth, and successe in thine enterprizes, that tend to mend thy state, is it not out of some ambition? |
A09999 | when thou wast earnest for health, was it not that thou mightest liue more deliciously? |
A09999 | whether he be bound alwayes to vse such a kinde of gesture? |
A09999 | whither should the servants goe, but to their Master, to their Lord? |
A09999 | whither should the wife goe, but to her husband? |
A09999 | whither should the wife goe, but to their father? |
A09999 | will a man serue himselfe altogether, to come meerely to aske the thing hee wants? |
A09999 | you know, that desire is condemned, if any man will be rich: is it not a desire of greatnesse? |
A12191 | 1 First of all, have not we matter to praise God that he would correct us at all? |
A12191 | 1 What state is that? |
A12191 | 2 Is hee not a foole, that will doe that in an instant, that hee may repent many yeeres after? |
A12191 | And doe we think that he that regards dogges out of the Church, will neglect his children in the Church? |
A12191 | And indeed when we judge the people to be truly good, and true hearted to God, we owe them this dutie? |
A12191 | And then for our children ▪ those that God hath committed to us, let us make use of baptisme, do they die in their infancie? |
A12191 | And what can he doe now at the right hand of God in heaven? |
A12191 | And what may we impute it unto? |
A12191 | And would it not comfort her soule to have the judgement of so strong a man as Paul? |
A12191 | Attention is a speciall thing: how many sermons are lost in this Citie, that are as seed drowned, that never come to fruite? |
A12191 | But especially in matters of grace, if God had not sent Christ to redeeme the world, what a cursed condition had we lyen in? |
A12191 | But when is preparation sufficient? |
A12191 | But you will aske, how shall I know a man whose heart is opened, and attends better then another man doth? |
A12191 | By those that are fooles indeed, in the judgement of him who is wisedome indeed, God himselfe: who would care to be accounted a foole of a foole? |
A12191 | Can we looke for any thing but GOD must discover his mind to bestow it? |
A12191 | Christians must not fall to jarre, why? |
A12191 | David roared, his moysture was turned into the drought of summer, what course doth hee take? |
A12191 | Deliverance from troble, and sicknesse? |
A12191 | Especially now when we come to the communion, what doe we heere if we can not relish the food of our soules? |
A12191 | For whence is it that all other things are sweet to vs? |
A12191 | God opened her heart, to what end? |
A12191 | Have wee not great, provoked, cruell Idolatrous enemies? |
A12191 | How can these praise God? |
A12191 | How made hee this heaven, and earth, this glorious fabrick? |
A12191 | I must abolish sin in my nature? |
A12191 | If we would stirre up our selues to prayse God let us consider our owne vnworthinesse? |
A12191 | Is hee not a foolish man( in matter of dyet) that will take that, that he shall complaine of a long time after? |
A12191 | Is it not worse to fall into the hands of our enemies? |
A12191 | It is as if shee had sayd, God hath taken me into his family, and will admit mee to heauen, and will not you come to my house? |
A12191 | It was the speech of a Heathen, we are best when we are weakest, why? |
A12191 | Let this teach us to set a price upon the ordinance of God: doth God set up an ordinance; and will he not giue vertue, and power to it? |
A12191 | Oh t ● at men would therefore praise the Lord,& c. It is a duty as I said before fit for Angels, fit? |
A12191 | Perhaps thou shalt be accounted a foole by whom? |
A12191 | Shall I yeild to that: that in baptisme I haue sworne against? |
A12191 | Shall wee not affect and loue them that God loues? |
A12191 | The Church of latter times, in the time of reformation, how began it? |
A12191 | There are many that their bodies are well( thanks be to God) but how is it with their soules? |
A12191 | There is one faith, and one Baptisme, have wee not all one father? |
A12191 | Therefore poore soules when they want good evidence, when they doubt whether their estate be good or no? |
A12191 | To make them more thankfull when they recover: for what is the reason that men are so sleight in thanksgiving? |
A12191 | To what purpose? |
A12191 | WHAT word? |
A12191 | Was it not so among our selues? |
A12191 | Was not civill commerce stayed? |
A12191 | We may shake off( as prophane spirits doe) the Ministers exhortations: but will you shake off depart ye Cursed at the latter day? |
A12191 | What a pittifull state are wicked men in? |
A12191 | What enemies wee have provoked? |
A12191 | What have wee within us to praise God? |
A12191 | What if wee be free from the sicknesse, are we not in great danger of worse matters th ● n the sicknesse? |
A12191 | What is the end of our hearing? |
A12191 | What is the end of receiving the sacrament? |
A12191 | What is the reason wee yeeld to corruptions and temptations? |
A12191 | When it hath wrought that holy affection, it works by that holy affection? |
A12191 | When we are tempted to sinne, let us thinke, what haue I to doe with sinne? |
A12191 | Where is spirituall life, when this spirituall sence is gone: when men can not relish holy things? |
A12191 | Whether it be connaturall to the word or no? |
A12191 | Whither can a man goe from this arrow, but that God being every where might smite him with the pestilence? |
A12191 | Why are wicked men fooles, and Gods children, so farre as they yeeld to their lusts? |
A12191 | Why did shee desire them to come to her house? |
A12191 | Why doth hee begin with transgressions against the first table, and then iniquities the breach of the second? |
A12191 | Why hath God given man reason here upon the stage of the world? |
A12191 | Why? |
A12191 | Will you shake off that sentence, you would not heare me, and I will not heare you? |
A12191 | YOU see many sweet graces presently after shee beleived, here is a loving heart? |
A12191 | a thanksgiving? |
A12191 | and where haue wee the mind and bosome of God opened to us, is it not from the scriptures the word of God, from the good word especially? |
A12191 | as hee saith very well, who is ambitious, voluptuous, or covetous for the world when he is sick, when he sees the vanity of these things? |
A12191 | by his word, how are things multiplyed? |
A12191 | especially prayse him when he hath immediately done it, as he can, did not he make light before there was a sunne? |
A12191 | hee knows not whether hee be in the favour of God or no? |
A12191 | let us examine if we desire to tast the loue of God, and to be acquainted with God here if not, What shall wee doe in these spirituall distempers? |
A12191 | nay, what is the duty it selfe? |
A12191 | oh grave where is thy victory? |
A12191 | were not the veynes of the kingdome stopped? |
A12191 | what is the end of prayer? |
A12191 | whether it be savourie or no? |
A12191 | whether they could be without the meanes of salvation or no? |
A12191 | with his mightie commanding word, how doth hee preserve things? |
A12191 | with his word; Let there be light, and there was light,& c. And how shall hee restore all againe? |
A12191 | with physick? |
A93248 | A man that refuseth heavenly Comforts to imbrace comforts below, how should hee reflect upon himselfe with shame? |
A93248 | Againe teares are good and sound, when wee weepe for our owne sinnes, as well as the sinnes and miseries of others? |
A93248 | Alas, if we have nothing laid up before hand, what will be our end? |
A93248 | All things are yours saith the Apostle, whether Paul, or Apollo, things present, things to come; why? |
A93248 | And if we glory in him now as a God reconciled, what shall we doe in heaven? |
A93248 | And if you ask how they know whether the word be the Word? |
A93248 | And is it not a credit to Religion, when we walke in comfort of the holy Ghost? |
A93248 | And shall not a Christian glory in his God? |
A93248 | And shall the Lord of Hosts make a Feast, and not content the whole man? |
A93248 | And so the Church in Babylon, under what rebukes was it? |
A93248 | And then he will doe it; for what is grace, but an earnest of that fulnesse we shall have in heaven? |
A93248 | And what is joy here, but an earnest of fulnesse of joy for evermore? |
A93248 | And what is the seal of all this? |
A93248 | And what saith the Scripture? |
A93248 | And what were induring of troubles, if something were not in heaven to make amends for all? |
A93248 | And whence is all this but by the death of our blessed Savior Jesus Christ? |
A93248 | And where should the body be, but with the head? |
A93248 | And wil God lose his earnest? |
A93248 | And, woman is this thy faith? |
A93248 | Are not we fit to doe service, when our spirits are most inlarged? |
A93248 | Are we able to justifie these things by the sweetnesse wee have found in them? |
A93248 | As Peter answered when Christ asked him, will you be also gone? |
A93248 | Before he spake of a feast, and if the Feast- maker be not there, what is all? |
A93248 | Being justified by faith, wee have peace with God, and rejoyce under hope of glory; Nay afterwards, saith he, we rejoyce in tribulations: And why? |
A93248 | But how came Christ to feare death, and we not to fear? |
A93248 | But how commeth death to be swallowed up? |
A93248 | But how shall I know whether griefe be right or no? |
A93248 | But how shall we know whether we have this heavenly light and revelation, or no? |
A93248 | But wee are bid to rejoyce alwaies; why then is it required that we weepe and mourne? |
A93248 | But what are these reasons to those which the soule of a gracious Christian knoweth by the operation of the Word upon the heart? |
A93248 | But what is the reason of it? |
A93248 | Can a man see a poore Asse fall under a burthen, and not helpe to take it up, and yet see man falling to hell, and not be affected with it? |
A93248 | Can a worlding glory in his riches, his greatnesse, his favour from such a man, as Haman did? |
A93248 | Canst thou repent of a sinne before it bee committed? |
A93248 | Doth God performe any promise, and so give cause of joy? |
A93248 | First of all by supposition that there bee glorious excellent things? |
A93248 | For the head of the Church, we should spend the time to no purpose to prove it; what was Christs life? |
A93248 | For what is the use of this Feast, but to cherish both soule and spirit? |
A93248 | God hath affections for any condition: Is a man in misery? |
A93248 | Gods manner is first of all to give promises to his Church; why? |
A93248 | Hence may this question be easily answered; VVhence hath the Scripture authority? |
A93248 | Here we have Communion of Saints; but what is this communion of Saints, to Communion with God for ever? |
A93248 | Here we have love, many love tokens from God, I, but what is love to union? |
A93248 | How know you the light to be the light but by it selfe? |
A93248 | How may wee know it is the Word of God, but by the Chu ● ch? |
A93248 | I have found thy words efficacious to comfort and strengthen, and raise, and shall I depart from thee, who hast the words of eternall life? |
A93248 | I professe my selfe to be a Christian, where is my faith? |
A93248 | I saw a pale horse, and death upon it, and after him comes hell: what were death, if it were not for the Pit, and Dungeon that followeth it? |
A93248 | I, but what saith the Church there? |
A93248 | If Christ were so able in his kingdome of patience to conquer our greatest enemies, what will he doe in his kingdome of power? |
A93248 | If wee go to the body and state, or any thing about a man, there is cause of griefe; hath not every member many diseases? |
A93248 | In what case were he, if he should lose that object? |
A93248 | In what state are they now? |
A93248 | Is it not a scandall, when we droope under the crosse? |
A93248 | Is it not the most terrible judgement under heaven to dye in our sinnes? |
A93248 | Is it the consolation of the Almighty, and shall not I embrace it? |
A93248 | Is there nothing for the present, no ground of comfort? |
A93248 | Is this Gods word that giveth this direction, that giveth this comfort, and shall I not regard it? |
A93248 | It makes Lions Lambs, Leopards Kids; And what is the ground of all? |
A93248 | Moses speech is verified of them; They shall be a hissing to all Nations, and is not it a proverbe? |
A93248 | Most of graces are founded upon affection; and all graces are but affections sanctified: what would become of grace, if wee had not affections? |
A93248 | Mountaines of Brasse and Iron are not so firme as this Mountaine; For what sustains the Church but the Word of God? |
A93248 | My God my God why hast thou forsaken me? |
A93248 | Now God can create a new spirituall eye to discerne of spirituall things, which a naturall eye can not; who can see things invisible? |
A93248 | Now it is covered with disgrace, and disrespect in the world, scorned and reproached, but what is that to him? |
A93248 | Now what must follow after this Feast? |
A93248 | O Grave where is thy Victory? |
A93248 | Shall God borrow Authority from men? |
A93248 | So Saul, to morrow thou shalt die, and was he the better? |
A93248 | Some say they can not weep, but they can grieve, whether then is it necessary or no to weepe? |
A93248 | The Jewes wondred at the Manna, saying what thing is this? |
A93248 | The ground wee have of comfort under rebuke, and disgrace, there is a spirit of glory, what is that? |
A93248 | The head of the Church our blessed Saviour, and all his gracious Apostles, what a life did they live? |
A93248 | The virgins put the Church to describe her beloved, what is thy beloved more then another beloved? |
A93248 | The word in his promises to reveale his minde to mankinde, and make knowne what he will have us to doe, and what he will doe to us? |
A93248 | There is no sinne without an error in judgement, there is a vaile of ignorance and unbeliefe; what creature will run into a pit when he seeth it open? |
A93248 | These be very great matters, and therefore there is a great confirmation, they have a seale, and what is that? |
A93248 | They that make a sport of sinne, what are they? |
A93248 | This is a very comfortable consideration, for if death be overcome when it seem''d to overcome Christ, what need wee feare any other enemy? |
A93248 | We have seen the Lord, and what have wee to doe with Idols? |
A93248 | We have sence and feeling of many things, he reserveth not all for heaven; how many sweet refreshments have we in the way? |
A93248 | We must be sensible of any affliction, that wee might joy afterwards, and wee ought to labour for it: For is not the joy of the Lord our strength? |
A93248 | We must doe, and we shall know: But can wee doe, before we know? |
A93248 | What are we? |
A93248 | What doth it in the heart? |
A93248 | What is faith to sight? |
A93248 | What is heaven without him? |
A93248 | What is our faith to those glorious things we shall see hereafter? |
A93248 | What is peace here, but an earnest of that peace in heaven? |
A93248 | What is the chiefest point of wisdome? |
A93248 | What is the reason of all the wickednesse of the world, and barrennesse, and voluptuousnesse, but because they have not learned to wait? |
A93248 | What is the reason of that order? |
A93248 | What is this hope to the fruition of what we hope for? |
A93248 | What is to be feared in the world? |
A93248 | What shall wee doe therefore? |
A93248 | What was Paul before Conversion, and Zaccheus? |
A93248 | Whence hath the Scripture authority? |
A93248 | Wherefore is it that thou wilt reveale thy selfe to us, and not unto the world? |
A93248 | Whether the vaile be yet upon our hearts or no? |
A93248 | Who can take away the wound of a guilty conscience, but he that hath set the conscience in the hearts of men? |
A93248 | Who hath more cause of teares than the best Saints? |
A93248 | Who in the world can say at the houre of death, and day of judgment, Loe, this is my riches, this my honours? |
A93248 | Who is this that cometh out of the wildernesse? |
A93248 | Why doe yee look on me, saith Isaiah? |
A93248 | Why is he called the Lord of Hoasts? |
A93248 | Why should I smite them any more saith God*? |
A93248 | Why? |
A93248 | Why? |
A93248 | Why? |
A93248 | You hear therefore what course to take under disgrace; what shall wee doe, when the Church passeth under disgrace? |
A93248 | You will aske me, how shall I know it is the Word of God, if the Church tells us not? |
A93248 | and is not our lives a kind of hospitall, some sicke of one thing, some of another? |
A93248 | and make his boast in his God? |
A93248 | are they not a word of reproach? |
A93248 | can two contraries stand together? |
A93248 | doe they tend to action? |
A93248 | hee that carried his naturall body, will not hee carry his mysticall body thither too? |
A93248 | no, I will not; whether shall I goe, thou hast the words of eternall life? |
A93248 | that God should reveale these things to me, and not to the world? |
A93248 | the Word, the Spirit of God in the Scriptures: And who is above God? |
A93248 | upon what ground? |
A93248 | what am I? |
A93248 | what creature will runne into the fire, the most dull creature? |
A93248 | what is hope, but for the excellency of the object of hope? |
A93248 | what is patience, but for consideration of that? |
A93248 | where is my hope? |
A93248 | where the Spouse, but with the Husband? |
A93248 | who? |
A93248 | will hee bee in piece- meale in heaven? |
A93248 | you are Christs, and Christ is Gods: what are ours? |
A12184 | 35. they accepted not deliverance, that they might obtaine a better resurrection: are these carnall promises? |
A12184 | A Christian will remember he is a Christian, and will walke worthy of his calling, and with Nehemiah hee will reason, shall such a man as I doe thus? |
A12184 | A dead man does no harme, hath no power; contrarily are we strong to commit sinne, and doe we earnestly intend it? |
A12184 | A sick man can not eate meat, but it breeds humours that strengthens the disease: shall he therfore forbeare all manner of meats? |
A12184 | Ah, but is God thus hard to us, that he will not allow us the injoyment of the comforts of this life, but we must for them lose Christ? |
A12184 | Alas poor ignorant men, is not the understanding Gods, as well as the outward parts? |
A12184 | Alas, we are all sicke of this disease, veniam petimus damusque: are they too hot, we are too cold, why should we not stoope and yeeld? |
A12184 | Alas, what example? |
A12184 | And Solomon had all abundance of wisedome, riches, and the like; why? |
A12184 | And indeed what ground can a condemned person have of joy? |
A12184 | And the Apostle Peter having declared the second comming of Christ, thence inferres; what manner of men ought wee to be in all godly conversation? |
A12184 | And thus even within the p ● le of the Church, what a scandall is it that men should glorie in a gracelesse grace of swearing? |
A12184 | And verily, what other is Poperie, but a bodie without a soule? |
A12184 | And what should we glory in above the Iewes? |
A12184 | And why should not Christians rejoyce? |
A12184 | Are they troubled with crosses? |
A12184 | But Christ is in heaven, wee are on earth, how can we be united to him that is so farre distant from us? |
A12184 | But how can he be said to be blamelesse as concerning the law, when he was without the law? |
A12184 | But how can this righteousnesse performed by Christ be sufficient for us? |
A12184 | But how can this righteousnesse performed wholly by him, be mine? |
A12184 | But how doe they compose differences? |
A12184 | But how farre are we here from? |
A12184 | But how may they be said, to make their bellie their God? |
A12184 | But how may this bee done? |
A12184 | But how shall we be qualified, that outward things may not be hinderers of us? |
A12184 | But how shall we come to this grace? |
A12184 | But how shall we know whether wee die to sinne or not? |
A12184 | But how shall we know whether wee have made this choyce, or not? |
A12184 | But how shall wee know whether wee rejoyce in Christ, or not? |
A12184 | But how? |
A12184 | But if he was blamelesse as concerning the law, how could hee blame himselfe so as hee did? |
A12184 | But it may be asked, may wee not seeke to content our flesh? |
A12184 | But it may be said: There are many Christians are not in this happy condition? |
A12184 | But it will be asked, what may wee not thinke of duties that are past? |
A12184 | But it will be questioned, does a Christian ever know he is called? |
A12184 | But it will be said, are the bodies of Christians base, for whom Christ shed his most precious bloud? |
A12184 | But men may say, what is there no pause, is there no Sabboth? |
A12184 | But some Popish heart may aske: How common people should know the Word, to be the word of God? |
A12184 | But some may say, Christ hath saved us already, what need is there therefore of his second comming? |
A12184 | But some may say, did Paul esteem all things to be losse, yea his good workes? |
A12184 | But some may say, if it bee an inheritance to us, how is it then propounded as a price to us? |
A12184 | But some men may say, how shall we know whether we serve God in spirit, or no? |
A12184 | But some will say, O what doe you condemne outward duties, and use of them? |
A12184 | But some will say, wee can not alwayes intend such things as these, we have our callings, and are busied about earthly matters and cares? |
A12184 | But some will say: What a great matter doe you make of this? |
A12184 | But the Papists say, we have it by faith, why then is it a price or reward? |
A12184 | But the weake Christian will object, are wee not( yea the best of us) troubled with our personall secret infirmities, what shall then become of us? |
A12184 | But to proceed in the next place, this is a price of calling, we must be called to it: who can take a calling on him, unlesse God calles him? |
A12184 | But what''s the reason? |
A12184 | But when is the time of this blessed change? |
A12184 | But who are these that shall be thus changed? |
A12184 | But why are Christians Brethren? |
A12184 | But why are we not happie before our resurrection? |
A12184 | But why doth the Apostle so often inculcate these words? |
A12184 | But why, or how is it that there is no perfection of grace in this life? |
A12184 | By this meanes also wee may try our profession: doe we come by faith and religion, with pleasure and ease? |
A12184 | Canst thou truely appeale to God, as Peter did to Christ, thou knowest that I love and preferre thee above all? |
A12184 | David knew adulterie was a sinne, and Peter knew it was dangerous for a man to relye on himselfe, yet how foulely did they fall? |
A12184 | Do we find that we have but short spirits, that our graces are but weake? |
A12184 | Doe men then molest us, persecute and vexe us? |
A12184 | Dost not thou doe good duties to be seene of men, as the Pharisees did? |
A12184 | Dost thou serve God with thy affections? |
A12184 | Dost thou weepe in secret for sinnes? |
A12184 | Doth God blesse us with prosperitie? |
A12184 | Doth the devill accuse them? |
A12184 | For answer, I would aske such an one, How they know the Popes Canons, or any Booke of his Constitutions to be the Popes? |
A12184 | For are there not those that teach Concision? |
A12184 | For shall we try all things to be sure of our temporall estate? |
A12184 | Fourthly, this should teach us to take part with Gods children; what though they suffer affliction? |
A12184 | Hast thou the Sacraments? |
A12184 | Hence we may see therefore, the wisest man, and the noblest spirit, who is the wisest man? |
A12184 | How shall we know whether our confidence is fleshly or not? |
A12184 | I answer, Christ and we are both one, doth not the eye see for the bodie, are not the riches of the husband and wife all one? |
A12184 | I answer, if a tree did reach to heaven, and have its roote in the earth, doth this hinder that the branches and the roote are not united? |
A12184 | In the last place, How shall we come to be found in Christ? |
A12184 | In the next place, this may be a comfort to us in all our troubles and afflictions of this life: Are troubles neare? |
A12184 | Is it so? |
A12184 | Is this a spirituall worship? |
A12184 | It s the honour of a man to passe by such, doe wee looke Christ should forgive us, when wee will not forgive others? |
A12184 | It will be asked: May we not rejoyce in friends societie, deliverance from dangers, and the like good things of this world? |
A12184 | Lastly, wee must indeavour to make a spirituall use of all things as God doth: doth God send crosses on us? |
A12184 | Let this raise up our soules Are wee swallowed up with the sense of any miserie? |
A12184 | Let those that are enemies to Christ his members consider this, against whom doe ye strive? |
A12184 | Many there are that use the meanes, but take no joy at all in them: why? |
A12184 | Nay why should not we sing as the Israelites did after their deliverance? |
A12184 | Nay, canst thou desire this search, that thou maist know thy ● inne more and more? |
A12184 | Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A12184-e430 Lo ● uere ut videa? |
A12184 | Now seeing the covenant is the same, and given to children, now as then: why may not the seale therof be now given in their infancie, as then? |
A12184 | Now what was Pauls joy? |
A12184 | Of prayer in thy studie when none sees thee? |
A12184 | Of thy very thoughts? |
A12184 | Remember the woman of Canaan: at the first despised and called dogge, but what did her constancy gaine? |
A12184 | Saul, why persecutest thou me? |
A12184 | Secondly, Exami ● e thy selfe, whether thou makest conscience of private closet duties? |
A12184 | Secondly, examine what doth take up dayly the powers of our soules and affections: doe wee delight in the best things? |
A12184 | Shall errors? |
A12184 | Shall injuries? |
A12184 | Shall sinne? |
A12184 | Sixthly, in persecution all my hurt redounds to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? |
A12184 | So as would we have favour in our sinnes, and teachers that shall bolster us up in them, and not crosse our vaine courses? |
A12184 | So by reason of our corruption we have within us, we halt in every good worke we put our hand to: shall we not therefore worke at all? |
A12184 | Some will say: what are the graces of Gods spirit? |
A12184 | That is, why will you doe those things that will lead you to destruction? |
A12184 | The Apostle speaking of any thing that ● e ● kes competition with Christ for value, how doth he vilisie it? |
A12184 | The Papists indeed they speake much of their mildnesse and meeknesse, but what is the reason? |
A12184 | The reason is: if Christ be fully all sufficient, what need is there of any outward thing to put confidence in? |
A12184 | The wicked they labour for hell, venturing losse of credit, strength, and estate, and is there not better gain in goodnesse? |
A12184 | Thirdly, Canst thou indure the search of thy selfe? |
A12184 | Thirdly, this gaine is not to be gotten but at a price, it must begotten by parting with all outward things: so farre, as to make them gaine to us? |
A12184 | Thirdly, this may serve to daunt Christs enemies, they can not hurt the least of his little ones but they hurt him, Saul, why persecutest thou mee? |
A12184 | We may also in the next place hence gather, who are of the highest spirits? |
A12184 | We may observe this as a marke to know our estates by: what is high in thy esteeme? |
A12184 | What a change shall be wrought in us, when we shall see him as he is? |
A12184 | What is the thing wee intend chiefly, is it riches, or pleasures, or honours? |
A12184 | What is to be done then? |
A12184 | What made the Iewes rejoyce? |
A12184 | What made the house of Iuda so famous? |
A12184 | What man is he that feareth the Lord? |
A12184 | What place is left for profession? |
A12184 | What? |
A12184 | Who is also the most truly noble minded? |
A12184 | Who shall condemne us, it is Christ that dyeth? |
A12184 | Why doe they grieve? |
A12184 | Why will you perish? |
A12184 | Why( if this be true) are Gods children so disconsolate, none are so much troubled in conscience, as they? |
A12184 | above other nations? |
A12184 | and Mary so blesse her selfe? |
A12184 | and dost thou resolve hereafter to amend thy life? |
A12184 | and shall not we much more seeke to assure our spirituall and eternall estate unto us? |
A12184 | and that urge merits, as the Papists doe? |
A12184 | and thy infirmities by all meanes, by thy selfe, by others, by the word, by private friends? |
A12184 | and thy very soule? |
A12184 | and what doe wee apprehend in our trouble? |
A12184 | and who can be inabled but those that hee inables? |
A12184 | and with Marie chuse the better part, which shall not be taken away from us? |
A12184 | are the sacrifices, the sweet odours, and ornaments of the spouse, are these dung? |
A12184 | can that ● cquit us, if God and the law condemns us? |
A12184 | did St. Paul part with life? |
A12184 | do we finde the strong holds of sin in us rased, and new spirits, new thoughts, new desires in us? |
A12184 | doe their sinnes trouble them? |
A12184 | dost thou uncover thy head, or bow the knee? |
A12184 | for their equivocation? |
A12184 | for this end, that thou mayst truely hate it, with a more perfect hatred? |
A12184 | hast thou an earnest desire to leave off thy course of sinning? |
A12184 | hath he said, and shall it not come to passe? |
A12184 | how is that prepared? |
A12184 | is hee not truth it selfe? |
A12184 | is honour, riches, pleasure, or the like? |
A12184 | is it Christ who is our present help in time of trouble? |
A12184 | is it not policy, and wisedome for us thus to avoid reproach, and to get the good will of all? |
A12184 | is not he God that hath promised? |
A12184 | no, God will not give his glorie to another, and will he part with his glorie in this great worke? |
A12184 | or doe we ever thinke to partake with him in happinesse, that will not partake with him in his mean estate? |
A12184 | shall finite corrupt man be able to make an infinite worke perfect? |
A12184 | shall infirmities? |
A12184 | shall wee feare them? |
A12184 | speake thus? |
A12184 | that which thou dost to my members thou doest to me? |
A12184 | then there is a blessed change in us, but doe we seeke to our owne devices, to our owne policies and inventions? |
A12184 | these are good, and they seeme faire: but where is the heart? |
A12184 | thinke such vile sinfull thoughts? |
A12184 | what can make our faith faile? |
A12184 | what good got they that came out of Egypt and died in the wildernesse, it may be even in the border of the land of promise, yet never saw it? |
A12184 | what imitation can there be, when they know not what to imitate? |
A12184 | what shall we get by these courses? |
A12184 | when they neither know what they doe nor say? |
A12184 | where is he that will indure a scoffe or scorne for religion? |
A12184 | whether base and contemptible? |
A12184 | which propounds his glorie as the maine end thereof? |
A12184 | who asking after her well beloved, those whom she enquired of, enquired of her who he was? |
A12184 | why or how can it be a price or reward, and yet ours by beleefe? |
A12184 | why should he not be as able to quicken dust now as at the first? |
A12184 | why? |
A12185 | 10. and then wee may triumphantly insult with Paul, Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? |
A12185 | Alas, where is the affection of love? |
A12185 | All goe together, GOD, and the things of GOD: What doe wee talke of loving GOD, and despise Christians, and Religion? |
A12185 | And can wee place it better then upon devine things, whereby we are made better our selves? |
A12185 | And have wee not more cause comparing the grounds of our affection, when wee have more then they in those times? |
A12185 | And if it bee so, what affection is answerable but admiration? |
A12185 | And is there any of us that can not say that GOD hath dealt specially in giveing them some mercie more then to others? |
A12185 | And so by way of contraries for ills, what are the greatest ills? |
A12185 | And so for sobrietie; what forceth a moderate use of all things here? |
A12185 | And so from us back againe to God, what are the things wee performe to him? |
A12185 | And what are all good actions but love well place ●? |
A12185 | And where were patience? |
A12185 | And with all to humble our selves, and to say with the Psalmist, Lord what is Man, that thon so farre considerest him? |
A12185 | And yet how many spirits edged by the Divell, oppose all that is good, and will not give way to Gods Spirit? |
A12185 | Are wee greater than Paul and Peter, the great Apostles of the Jewes and Gentiles? |
A12185 | As Saint Peter sayth, Iohn 6. when Christ asked them, Will you also forsake me? |
A12185 | As, is there not cōfort now in a litle glimpse, when God shines upon a Christians soule, when he is as it were in heaven? |
A12185 | Behold what love hath the Father shewed us, that we should bee called the sonnes of God? |
A12185 | But alas, what is it to that that they shall know? |
A12185 | But it will bee sayd by some weake conscience, how shall I know I love God, when I love the world, and worldly things? |
A12185 | But then for our soules, what food hath he for that? |
A12185 | But what affection is due and suiting to the estate of a Christian? |
A12185 | But what hath God prepared? |
A12185 | But why doth he set down any qualification at all, and not say, for Christians? |
A12185 | But why for them that love him, more than for any other thing? |
A12185 | Can a man say he loves him, whose company hee cares not for? |
A12185 | Can a man that lookes for these excellent transcendent things, be too careful of his life? |
A12185 | Could man when he was worse then dust, in a lost damned estate, think of redemption? |
A12185 | Doest thou defile thy selfe, and live in sinful courses, and hast thou this hope? |
A12185 | Doest thou love God? |
A12185 | Doest thou love God? |
A12185 | Doest thou pretend thou lovest GOD, if thou carest not for these? |
A12185 | Doest thou value thy selfe as a member of Christ, and an heire of Heaven, as a Christian above all conditions in this world? |
A12185 | Doth God delight in a meeke, broken, humble spirit? |
A12185 | Esteeme likewise carries our thoughts: Wouldest thou know what thou esteemest highly? |
A12185 | For a man to be nothing in Religion, and all that comes from him to be dead, and still- borne, to bee abortive actions who would bee in such a cafe? |
A12185 | For how could he look for love from us in a state of corruption, when the best thing in us was enmitie to him? |
A12185 | For if God had not revealed it, who could ever have devised it? |
A12185 | For if divine authority cease in the Gospel, what were it? |
A12185 | For shame, shall we be so Atheisticall? |
A12185 | For wee should begin the life of heaven, upon earth, as much as may bee; and what is that, but a blessing and praising of God? |
A12185 | For when is truth knowne, but when in particulars wee stand for it, and will neither betray it, nor do any thing that doth not benefit a Christian? |
A12185 | God hath prepared them, and he hath prepared them for those that love him; but how shall wee know that God hath prepared them for us? |
A12185 | Hast thou with Mary, made choyce of the better part? |
A12185 | Hath God set up a profession of Religion, and doe wee thinke that we must bee beholding to his, and our enemy for any base contentments? |
A12185 | How can wee love God with all our might, except as farre as our might extends our love extends? |
A12185 | How doest tho ● know thou art good? |
A12185 | How farre doth thy activitie, thy power, thy sphere, that thou canst doe any thing, stretch? |
A12185 | How shall I know I love God? |
A12185 | How shall our soules be filled at that time? |
A12185 | How shall we know whether these things be prepared for us or no? |
A12185 | Idolls of the World? |
A12185 | If a litle joy here bee so pleasant and comfortable, that it makes us forget our selves, what will bee that eternall joy there? |
A12185 | If a man should have asked them why they wold suffer their bodies to be misused thus when they might have redeemed all this with a little quiet? |
A12185 | If he should see hell open,& the terrours there, for him then to abstraine from sinne, what glory were it? |
A12185 | If the things that God hath prepared for his children, be secret and excellent, how then come we to know them at all? |
A12185 | If these excellent things in the Gospell bee secret, how come we to know them? |
A12185 | In the time of danger, whither doth thy soule run? |
A12185 | Indeed where shall a man have comfort in many passages of his life, if he finde it not in religion? |
A12185 | Is it Religious wayes, and religious company? |
A12185 | Is it not a vaine thing to looke for light from darknesse? |
A12185 | Is there such contentment in the delights of this world, that are the delights of our pilgrimage? |
A12185 | It is full of devices& inventions to please: therefore ● t thinkes, can I give consent in loving such, and such? |
A12185 | It is such an affection as sets the soule on worke to thinke, wherein may I give content to such a person? |
A12185 | It sets the minde on worke to studie, wherein shall I please God? |
A12185 | It will be objected, may we not love any thing but God, and holy things? |
A12185 | It will keepe us from all sin: what is any sin, but the abuse of love? |
A12185 | Kings prepare great matters for those they meane to advance: what shall wee thinke then God will doe for his friends? |
A12185 | Lord how doe I love thy Law? |
A12185 | May we not love the creatures at all? |
A12185 | Now the judgement apprehending God and his love to bee the best thing to make us happy, prizeth it above all, Whom have I in heaven but thee? |
A12185 | Now where these things possesse not the soule, how can wee say, that wee love God? |
A12185 | Our love is the best thing in the World, and who deserves it better then God, and Christ? |
A12185 | Shall a man thinke by a penny to merit a thousand pound, by a little performance to merit things that are above the conceit of men and Angels? |
A12185 | Shall men talke of love to GOD, and their affections are stirred up I know not whereabout? |
A12185 | Shall not wee presently disdaine any proud conceits? |
A12185 | Shall we envie when they shall shortly be turned naked out of this world to the place of torment? |
A12185 | Should not our lives be almost angecall? |
A12185 | That good woman she loved much, why? |
A12185 | The cause of it is his free love: but if you aske mee what qualification the persons must have? |
A12185 | The soule that loves God, and Christ, sayth, Is there any good people, any that carry the image of God, and Christ? |
A12185 | Therefore darke disputes of election& predestination, at the first especially, let them go: how standest thou affected to God, and to good things? |
A12185 | Thirdly, by arguing from the lesse to the greater: If peace of conscience bee so sweet here; what is eternall peace? |
A12185 | This should shame us, when they in darke times so loved the truth of GOD, and wee see all cleare and open, and yet are cold? |
A12185 | Those therfore that will part with nothing for God, nor for Religion, and the Truth, when they are called to it, doe they talke of love to GOD? |
A12185 | To let us know that religion and holinesse is a matter of power, Wouldst thou know what thou art in religion? |
A12185 | Wee can see nothing but the goodnesse of God, what is all the Creatures but Deus explicatus, God unfolded to our senses? |
A12185 | Wee have made choyce of thee, whither shall wee goe? |
A12185 | Wee see men of excellent parts are enemies to that they teach themselves, opposing the power of the Gospell: whence is all this? |
A12185 | Were it not for the joyes of heaven, where were hope? |
A12185 | What a base thing is it for a man to suffer such a sweete streame as love a holy current to run into a sinke? |
A12185 | What a shame is it, that when God hath given us such a sweet affection as love, that hee should not have our love againe? |
A12185 | What are all the Creatures, but Gods goodnesse? |
A12185 | What doe we heare but his good in those delights that come that way? |
A12185 | What doe we professe our selves? |
A12185 | What doe wee hate, but what is opposite to that we love? |
A12185 | What doest thou thinke of most, and highest? |
A12185 | What duty more necessary than to love God? |
A12185 | What enforceth the keeping of a good conscience in all things? |
A12185 | What forceth this, but the consideration of a glorious condition in another world? |
A12185 | What is the Gospel without the Spirit of Christ, to discover the minde of God to us? |
A12185 | What is the bent of thy soule? |
A12185 | What is the worke of faith? |
A12185 | What is thy choyce? |
A12185 | What is true grace, but joy, and love and delight in the best things, and all others spring from love? |
A12185 | What is wonderment? |
A12185 | What manner of men should wee be in all holy conversation, Considering what things are layd up in heavē,& we have the first fruits of them here? |
A12185 | What preparation? |
A12185 | What tho we should have of the world? |
A12185 | What will become of a man in this uncertaine world, if hee have not somewhat where hee may place his content? |
A12185 | What, did hee wonder at his love of GODS Law, when the Canon was so short? |
A12185 | When shall a man use the world, as though hee used it not? |
A12185 | Where were the exercise of faith, if it were not for hope of such an estate which feeds faith? |
A12185 | Whither goest thou man? |
A12185 | Whither should wee goe from him for contentment? |
A12185 | Who can comprehend the love of God, that gave his sonne? |
A12185 | Who could discover those things that are meerly supernaturall, but God himselfe? |
A12185 | Who would endure any thing for Christ, if it were not for a better estate afterwards? |
A12185 | Who ● nowes the things of man but the spirit of a man? |
A12185 | Why doth God reveale these things in the word? |
A12185 | Why doth he not goe to the root of all? |
A12185 | Why doth he not say, to them that believe in h ● m? |
A12185 | Why doth hee not say, For those that God loves? |
A12185 | Why not for those that God hath elected? |
A12185 | Why? |
A12185 | Why? |
A12185 | and shall we build upon the authoritie of the Church for these truthes? |
A12185 | and when are we angry, but when that we love is opposed, and wronged? |
A12185 | and who knowes the things of God, but the spirit of God? |
A12185 | but what bee these things that wee feele, and see, to those in another world, that wee can not apprehend for the greatnesse of them? |
A12185 | doest thou breake into heaven? |
A12185 | doest thou love God, and divine things, and delight in them? |
A12185 | doth God require our affections for himselfe? |
A12185 | for what is the Gospell but a revelation of such things as naturall men could never invent? |
A12185 | how can love and strangenesse stand together? |
A12185 | into a sweet place, to refresh that? |
A12185 | is it the feare of God above all things? |
A12185 | is there such contenment in holy company ● here? |
A12185 | may we not love the Creatures, because it is here specified as a note of those, that these things are prepared for those that love God? |
A12185 | must not the heart, and all be new molded againe? |
A12185 | or call upon God? |
A12185 | or call upon God? |
A12185 | or to thy friends if thou bee a worldly minded man? |
A12185 | sayth hee, Lord, whither shall wee goe? |
A12185 | shall I bee cast downe with this crosse, that have things that eye hath not seene, nor eare heard,& c. Prepared for me? |
A12185 | shall I lose all for pettie poore things, that are within my owne reach and compasse? |
A12185 | shall they merit the glory to bee revealed, that is so great that eye hath not seene,& c. What proportion is there? |
A12185 | shall wee talke of merit? |
A12185 | the great things that God hath prepared for those that he hath chosen to salvation? |
A12185 | the joyes of heaven by Christ, and the misery of hell, from which wee are delivered, and redeemed by Christ? |
A12185 | therefore how could God foresee any thing in us, when he could see nothing but enmity and darknesse in our dispositions by nature? |
A12185 | those that the eye can see, that wee can feele, and heare of, and conceive? |
A12185 | to look for love from enmity and hatred? |
A12185 | to thy purse, if thou bee a rich man? |
A12185 | what motive more effectuall than the Gospell? |
A12185 | what peculiar things are they that God hath reserved for his owne Children, for those that love him? |
A12185 | what shall there be in heaven? |
A12185 | what will become of us? |
A12185 | when thou carriest a soule in thy breast, and in that soule the affection of love, how is that set? |
A12185 | where is esteeme? |
A12185 | whether wee bee capable of these things or no? |
A12185 | which way goes that? |
A12185 | whither is the poynt of it set? |
A12185 | whither is thy love carried, and thy delight, and joy, those affections that spring from love? |
A12185 | who can comprehend the excellency of Christs gift? |
A12185 | who would turne a sweete streame into a sinke, and not rather into a garden? |
A12185 | why should wee goe out of religion to content our selves in ● vain recreations& pleasures of sinne for a season, when wee have abundance in God? |
A12210 | A Christian indeed undergoes more trouble and paines( especially with his own heart) than others do, but what is that to his gaines? |
A12210 | A man that sees his conscience awakened without this anointing, what is he? |
A12210 | A seale continues with the thing, but the joy of the Spirit comes after the work of the Spirit, and abides not with us? |
A12210 | Afflictions serve for this very end, to make us more prize God,& deny the creature with all its excellencies: are our crosses great here? |
A12210 | Againe, doth God order all for the best, to them that love him? |
A12210 | Againe, is there any thing more comfortable then that we give content to God? |
A12210 | Againe, is there any thing more worthy our soules, than to be united to God? |
A12210 | Alas say they, I had as good take this pleasure as have none at all: what shall become of me hereafter, who knowes? |
A12210 | Alas what can we have from God, but by the manifestation of hiis own good will? |
A12210 | Am I not under the hand of my God, working my good out of every evill? |
A12210 | And are they certainly true, Yea and Amen in him? |
A12210 | And can wee admire any thing with wisdome but God alone? |
A12210 | And if God be on our side, who can bee against us? |
A12210 | And if God turne all things whatsoever to our good, should not wee through the whole carriage of our lives, chiefly aime at his honour? |
A12210 | And shall others that succeed after say, what ever it was then, now it is thus: and must we beleeve all? |
A12210 | And shall we then in our distresses dist rust God for our souls, when we will trust a weak and mortall man with our bodies? |
A12210 | And that he who knew no sin, should be made sinne for us? |
A12210 | And what is faith, but a building on the promise of God? |
A12210 | And why to them that love God? |
A12210 | And would not Peter have bin glad, that hee had never denied his Master? |
A12210 | Another Evill arising from the guiltinesse of sin, is anguish of mind, and a wounded spirit, which( saith Salomon) who can beare? |
A12210 | Another signe is, To examine what desire wee have to be dissolved, and to be with Christ: Doe wee love his appearing to judgement? |
A12210 | Are all the Promises of what kind soever, whether spirituall and outward, temporall or eternall, are they all made to us in Jesus Christ? |
A12210 | Are there not many ● hat heare the Word, and know Gods mind, who yet profit nothing to amendment of life? |
A12210 | As a branch out of the root; what sap is there is such a thing? |
A12210 | As it was said of Christ when he stilled the Seas, Who is this that the very wind and Seas obey him? |
A12210 | Before wee are anointed with the Spirit of Christ, with stablishing grace, what are we but a company of nasty abominable persons in the eyes of God? |
A12210 | Besides, how can a man suffer willingly, that knowes not that God hath begun any good work in him? |
A12210 | But here the maine question will be, and the difficulty arises, how all ill things can work together for the best to Gods children? |
A12210 | But how doth God establish us by faith? |
A12210 | But how shall I know whether I doe esteeme rightly of God or no? |
A12210 | But how shall we know that we have the Spirit? |
A12210 | But if all things( yea sin it selfe) shall turne to the best to those that love God, what need we then care for the committing of sinne? |
A12210 | But let a man stagger and doubt whether hee belong to God or no, what a miserable case will he be in at the time of dissolution? |
A12210 | But what is a Promise? |
A12210 | But what needs confirmation when we beleeve? |
A12210 | But what of that? |
A12210 | But why doth the Spirit thus establish and seale us, and conveigh grace to our soules? |
A12210 | But why the Spirit rather than the Father or the Sonne? |
A12210 | But you will say, How can that be a seale? |
A12210 | But you will say, doth not God doe many good things to them that are out of Christ? |
A12210 | But you will say, what shall I account of my self, if there bee but a little signe of grace in me? |
A12210 | Can any thing hurt us, when hee is become our loving Father? |
A12210 | Can any thing satisfie us more than God? |
A12210 | Can we have a greater happinesse than to be made one with Christ? |
A12210 | Can we say wee love such a man when we care not for his company? |
A12210 | Can wee spend our labours to better purpose? |
A12210 | Christ seemes to insinuate as much, saying, What can I give you better than the Holy Ghost? |
A12210 | Compare him with a man that hath present things only, with an Esau that abounds with worldly goods, and how great is the difference? |
A12210 | David having beene thorowly humbled for sinne, when Shimei his subject cursed him to his face, how patiently did hee beare the same? |
A12210 | Death( with the eternity of torment after it) who can looke it in the face without the assurance of a happy change? |
A12210 | Didst thou belong to Christ, would ever these crosses,& losses, and miseries have befallen thee? |
A12210 | Do not many spin a fine thred, and weave a faire web, when by their turnings and devices they turne themselves into hell? |
A12210 | Doe wee delight to speak much and often of Christ, and the benefits we receive by him? |
A12210 | Doth God love mee, doth hee doe good to my soule for my owne sake( abstracted from his Sonne?) |
A12210 | Doth not he love us first of all? |
A12210 | Doth not hee know better what is good for us, than we can possibly imagine what is good for our selves? |
A12210 | Doth the truth vary according to mens judgements? |
A12210 | For what are we made for, think you? |
A12210 | For when the conscience of a guilty person is affrighted, what man can allay its feares? |
A12210 | Fourthly, an ointment hath another property, it consecrates persons to holy uses? |
A12210 | God had alwayes sealed ones, marked out for himselfe, whom he preserved from the danger of dark times; why then should wee be afraid of evill tidings? |
A12210 | Hamans honor, what good did it to him, but only brought him to greater shame? |
A12210 | Have wee not much to do and suffer in this life? |
A12210 | He doth indeed, it can not bee denied; but are they blessings? |
A12210 | He promiseth ease and refreshment, but to whom? |
A12210 | How are we in Christ? |
A12210 | How can that rest quiet in any thing, but in what it is assured comes from God? |
A12210 | How can the Conscience be satisfied? |
A12210 | How can the gates of hell prevaile against the faith of a true beleever, when it is carried to the promise, and from the promise to Gods love? |
A12210 | How comfortably will the soule commend it self to Christ, when it finds it selfe stamped with the Spirit of Christ? |
A12210 | How commeth it to passe, that death which is fearefull in it selfe, can not hurt us? |
A12210 | How darest thou think of God who is a Consuming fire? |
A12210 | How doth Heaven differ from Earth? |
A12210 | How doth that appeare? |
A12210 | How is it possible that we should give him the glory of his mercies, if we never observe them? |
A12210 | How is it that all this sorrow and misery hath befallen mee, and lieth so heavie upon my soule? |
A12210 | How is that done? |
A12210 | How lumpish and dead is he under the crosse without this assurance? |
A12210 | How many friends have we in him alone? |
A12210 | How may a man know that hee hath a soule? |
A12210 | How may a man obtaine this blessed guest to lodge in his soule and rule over him? |
A12210 | How ought this to stay the soule under all its heavie pressures? |
A12210 | How shall a man know whether God hath a part in him? |
A12210 | How shall wee know that a man hath establishing grace? |
A12210 | How shall wee know that there is such a spirituall sealing in us? |
A12210 | How should wee be overwhelmed with despaire, did not the Spirit support us? |
A12210 | I shall therefore demonstrate, 1 The truth of this, how it can be so? |
A12210 | If God justifie us, who shall condemne us? |
A12210 | If Luther had had no infirmities, how would men have attributed to him above measure? |
A12210 | If the Promises layd hold on by faith, quicken and cheare the soule, what shall the accomplishment of them doe? |
A12210 | If we have not something above nature, how is it possible wee should hold out in great trials? |
A12210 | In the times of martyrdome, there was fire and faggot, and the frownes of bloudy men; but who were the persons suffering? |
A12210 | Is Gods glory and the Churches welfare deare to us? |
A12210 | Is any service comparable to the service of a Prince? |
A12210 | Is it not a wounded spirit? |
A12210 | Is it not because they rest upon the skill of the Physitian? |
A12210 | Is it not for that they were so formerly stung with the sight and feeling of their sinnes? |
A12210 | Is it not the errand of all Gods mercies to bring us neerer to him selfe? |
A12210 | Is it possible that the love of God and the love of sinne shold ever stand together? |
A12210 | Is not faith confirmation enough? |
A12210 | Is not his love full and overflowing? |
A12210 | Is not right, right? |
A12210 | Is not the Law the Law? |
A12210 | Is not the Word of Christ a word that alters not, but remaines stedfast to all eternity? |
A12210 | Is there any thing that may or ought to challenge our love but Christ? |
A12210 | Know wee not that all things here shall perish? |
A12210 | Love is communicative; and what desire of communion can that soule have, that lives a stranger to his Maker? |
A12210 | May we look for favour from God for any thing in our selves? |
A12210 | Now therefore what kind of Good is this the Apostle meaneth? |
A12210 | Now upon this blessed contract made in Christ to his Church; what followeth? |
A12210 | Now what love can there be in God to us( since the fall,) which must not be grounded on a better foundation than our selves? |
A12210 | Oh saith he, the Holy Ghost hath sealed me up to the day of redemption, shall I grieve and quench the same for this base lust? |
A12210 | On the contrary, if a man have not something above nature in him, when death& judgement comes, how miserable is his condition? |
A12210 | Pharaohs tenne Plagues( which might have humbled his soule) made him but worse and worse: therfore saith God, Why should I smite you any more? |
A12210 | Put the case the stamp of the Prince be an old Coyne, is it not currant though it bee crackt? |
A12210 | Put the case we can not shew the men as they rediculously urge; what is that to the purpose? |
A12210 | Received ye the Spirit, by the hearing of the Law, or of faith preached? |
A12210 | Sathan and all his instruments, what get they by their cruelty to the Saints? |
A12210 | Shall present men interpret it thus, and say, it is so now? |
A12210 | Shall the judgement of any man, be the rule of Gods unerring truth? |
A12210 | So likewise for the Holy Ghost; what heavenly attributes are ascribed to him in the Scriptures? |
A12210 | So that if thou dost outwardly only confesse God, what dost thou more than the Devill? |
A12210 | The reason is this, how can poore dust and ashes dare to challenge any thing of the great Majesty of Heaven, without a warrant from himselfe? |
A12210 | The second use for instruction is this; If such excellent and eminent Saints by sinne have fallen grievously? |
A12210 | Therefore labour for certainty of knowledge, that thou maist have a certainty of faith: What is the reason our faith is weak? |
A12210 | Therefore when wee place our love and joy in the world, do we not lose them too? |
A12210 | This wound in spirit breedeth afterwards a sound spirit; Repentance is good,& Faith in Christ is good; But what doth prepare us to these happy graces? |
A12210 | Those that live in sinnes against conscience, think we that these love God? |
A12210 | Those therefore that goe on from day to day, without private speeches with God, or solacing of their soules in him, what affection have they to him? |
A12210 | To live here only? |
A12210 | Upon what unchangeable grounds is the love of God and the faith of a Christian builded? |
A12210 | Wee shal know it by our choice, and our choice followes our judgement: Would wee know whether our judgement be good? |
A12210 | What Prison can shut up the Spirit of God? |
A12210 | What a King is this, that even the most terrible things are at his command and work for the best unto him? |
A12210 | What a blessed estate is it to be in Christ? |
A12210 | What a comfort is this, that wee may goe to God in Christ, and claime the Promises boldly? |
A12210 | What a comfort is this? |
A12210 | What a miserable perplexity must such a soule needs be in? |
A12210 | What a wondrous comfort is this, that God hath put himselfe over to be ours? |
A12210 | What are all friends in the world to the Holy Ghost? |
A12210 | What are our souls without Gods anointing? |
A12210 | What are the vertues of this oyntment? |
A12210 | What are those graces which wee receive from Christs fulnesse? |
A12210 | What became of Dives his riches? |
A12210 | What comforts so great as those that are fetched from the Fountaine? |
A12210 | What friend will bee content, that a man should only love him because he doth him good? |
A12210 | What greater unkindnesse can a man doe his friend, than to slight his loving direction, and embrace the counsell of a professed ene mie? |
A12210 | What is Hope, but the expectation of those things that the word saith? |
A12210 | What is a man out of Christ? |
A12210 | What is that stamp, that the Spirit seales us withall? |
A12210 | What is the manner of our sealing by the spirit? |
A12210 | What is the reason that Christians are so daunted and flie off in time of danger? |
A12210 | What is the reason that many proud hearted persons are damned? |
A12210 | What makes a man differ from himself and frō other men, but this? |
A12210 | What need we feare any creature, when wee have him on our side, who hath both Men and Devils at his beck? |
A12210 | What shall we doe? |
A12210 | What? |
A12210 | Whatsoever his estate and condition was, God turned it to the best: shall any man dare to mislike of Gods allowlowance? |
A12210 | When David was in his greatest distresses; what desires had he then most in him? |
A12210 | When a man carries about him the marke of the Spirit, what in the world can discourage such a soule? |
A12210 | When we venture upon any thing against conscience, is there not a decay of our love to God? |
A12210 | Whether is the spirit it selfe this seale, or the work of the spirit, and the graces thereof wrought in us? |
A12210 | Whether tend all the troubles we meet with in this world? |
A12210 | Why are the Angels attendants on us? |
A12210 | Why do men in time of dangerous sicknesse take bitter Physick, which is almost death unto them? |
A12210 | Why doe they then undergo such things as they loath at other times? |
A12210 | Why is it called here an annointing? |
A12210 | Why is it thus with thee, why art thou dejected in this manner? |
A12210 | Why should not I be patient in sicknesse, in poverty, in dis graces, or why should I despaire at the houre of death? |
A12210 | Why, saith the Apostle, bee it so? |
A12210 | Will not God really and truly vouchsafe unto his people this earnest of the Spirit in their hearts? |
A12210 | and are wee now fit for his comming? |
A12210 | and prevent us with his favours? |
A12210 | and what is it that makes us constant in duty,& carries us through so many oppositions as we meet withall, is it not love? |
A12210 | and where were the foundation of faith? |
A12210 | and wherefore doth hee still make intercession for us in Heaven? |
A12210 | are these favours to them? |
A12210 | can there be more sweetnesse in the streame, than in the spring? |
A12210 | did not his abuse thereof plunge him deeper into hell? |
A12210 | doth he not cloath, and feed, and protect wicked men daily? |
A12210 | doth not the Sunne shine, and the raine fall, upon the just and the unjust, upon the evill, as well as the good? |
A12210 | his greatnesse made him swell in pride, and his pride had a suddaine fall: What became of Herods high mind in taking to himselfe the glory of God? |
A12210 | how hardly is corrupt selfe brought under? |
A12210 | how then much more are we poore weak soules subject to fall, if wee neglect watchfulnesse over our selves? |
A12210 | must we bring the strait Rule to the crooked Timber for to be measured? |
A12210 | nay, become a curse to free us from the curse? |
A12210 | no certainly; can we desire a more ample testimony of his favour, than he hath already bestowed upon us? |
A12210 | or if thou canst not pray with distinct words, canst thou mourne and groane? |
A12210 | shall wee despaire then? |
A12210 | so vilified, so persecuted? |
A12210 | that we should not doubt of his love, but rest securely upon him: why then doe we distrust the Almighty, who is truth it selfe, and never failed any? |
A12210 | that wee should doubt of Gods love? |
A12210 | they doe but encrease their own torment, and doe them the more good? |
A12210 | was it not this, that they were not fitted and prepared for God? |
A12210 | whatsoever is besides God, is but a creature, and can the creature be other than changeable? |
A12210 | when a man may know by a private reflect act of the soule, that he is in the state of grace? |
A12210 | wherefore did he die and rise againe? |
A12210 | which when foolish people ascribed it to him, was hee not presently smitten, so as the wormes consumed him, and hee dyed a lothsome death? |
A12210 | why doth that doe all? |
A12210 | why, hee longed after the House of God: when the people were ready to stone him, wherein did he trust, but in the Lord his strong ● ower? |
A93249 | & can not Christ bear the infirmities of his spouse? |
A93249 | 22. on the Crosse, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A93249 | Again, if God owns us in his glorious condition, shall we be ashamed of the Doctrine of Christ, of the Children of God, to own them? |
A93249 | Alas, how can I perform chearful service to God, when I doubt whether he be my God, and Father, or no? |
A93249 | Alas, is our soul for any thing but God? |
A93249 | All Gods severity is reducible to mercy, and Christ: all his afflictions, humiliations, and abasements, do they come from unfatherly affection? |
A93249 | And being the spirit hath shamed thee for thy sins, what can the Devil say? |
A93249 | And could the Father raise him, if he were not reconciled? |
A93249 | And did not the Disciples so? |
A93249 | And have we a Father so rich, so loving, and shall not we have intercourse with him in all our daily necessities? |
A93249 | And how come we to be Christs Brother? |
A93249 | And indeed, what is all without Christ? |
A93249 | And shall not we own him, that owneth us in state of glory? |
A93249 | And shall we blesse the Virgin Mary, as Mother of God, and not God as Father of Christ? |
A93249 | And shall we think then to preserve respect with God, without much industry and holiness? |
A93249 | And so God in doubtful times of danger, cryeth out, who is on my side, who? |
A93249 | And this we should learn likewise to maintain a sweet frame between God and us; shall God open such an advantage to us? |
A93249 | And to whom? |
A93249 | And when doth Christ bid her go? |
A93249 | And when we be in Christ, shall not we make use of them, when we be troubled with sense of sin, or in desperate conditions? |
A93249 | And will Christ suffer his sister, his spouse, his Church to be abused long? |
A93249 | Are these evidences to try whether we be Gods, or no? |
A93249 | Are these things severed from us? |
A93249 | As for instance, what is the ground of all the Petitions in the Lords Prayer? |
A93249 | As he said in the Sacrament, Quid paras dentem,& ventrem, Crede,& manducasti: what dost thou prepare thy teeth and stomack for? |
A93249 | As our Saviour saith, you that be earthly Fathers, when your Children ask such a thing, will you deny? |
A93249 | As you have it in that place of Scripture, All things are yours, why? |
A93249 | Beloved, what can not we expect from God, that is now becom our God? |
A93249 | Beloved, where is the fault? |
A93249 | Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; what? |
A93249 | But having so much upon him, did it take away his claim of God, as his God? |
A93249 | But how came they to be his Brethren? |
A93249 | But how shall I doe? |
A93249 | But how shall we know whether we be risen with Christ, or no? |
A93249 | But may not another man, that is not in Christ, come to God under the sweet name of our Father? |
A93249 | But put case you had the guilt of your own sins, and of many sins beside, what is that to this of Christ, who had the guilt of all sin? |
A93249 | But the question is, whom God is a God to in the nearest bond of the covenant of grace? |
A93249 | But who together with himself? |
A93249 | But why doth Christ thus conceal himself in regard of his fuller manifestation? |
A93249 | By peculiar gifts, when he gives to them, that which he giveth to none else: shall we imagine God to be our God, by common gifts, and common graces? |
A93249 | Can a Mother forget her Child? |
A93249 | Can a friend bear the infirmities of a friend, and a Huband of a Wife? |
A93249 | Can a man alwayes rejoyce, if he hath not grounds why? |
A93249 | Can a man rejoyce, that his name is written in Heaven, and not know his name is written there? |
A93249 | Can we look Christ in the face with comfort, if we neglect his cause, his truth and his Church? |
A93249 | Can we pitty and pardon a Child, and will not God pardon and pitty us? |
A93249 | Death is on me, trouble, sickness, vexation of conscience is on me, and God hath forsaken me, I have no God to go to, what a miserable estate is this? |
A93249 | Did not he leave his own Son upon the Cross, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A93249 | Did not the Manna stink, when gathered on the Sabbath day? |
A93249 | Did not you ingage your selves to God in your Baptisme? |
A93249 | Do we th ● n walk as Christ did? |
A93249 | Doth he know our names now on earth, and giveth to every one particularly by himself, if we come worthily? |
A93249 | Faith is wonderfully operative, especially having these promises; what promises? |
A93249 | For persecution of enemies, was not Christs whole life fill''d up with persecution, and yet a Son? |
A93249 | For who was more indulgent to the Disciples then Christ, who saw their weakness? |
A93249 | For why are men so addicted to outward things, outward complements? |
A93249 | Go to my brethren; now I come to the Commission, or Charge given to her ▪ Go to my brethren; who is the party charged? |
A93249 | God bids us be thankful in all things, how can I know that? |
A93249 | God will marry them in mercy; in what mercy? |
A93249 | He doth not say, I ascend to the Father, that were no great comfort; for what were that to them? |
A93249 | He is a Tree of righteousness, and what can come from a good Tree, but good fruit? |
A93249 | He payd dear for it, alas, are we worth so much, that God should become man to die for us, to rise again for us, to justifie us, and make us brethren? |
A93249 | He that dyed for his enemies, and seeks them that never sought him, that is found of them that sought him not, will he refuse them that seek him? |
A93249 | How cometh he to be the God of peace to us, which brought us from death to life, by our Lord Jesus? |
A93249 | How comfortable will it be to hear him say to every one in particular, Come thou, and thou, stand on my right hand, sit and judge the world with me? |
A93249 | How shall I know therefore whether I ascend? |
A93249 | I have fallen from God, saith the soul: what if thou hast? |
A93249 | If God be our God and Father in Christ, why have we sins? |
A93249 | If God be ours, then all is ours too; what be they? |
A93249 | If God the party offended do justifie, who shall condemn? |
A93249 | If God were not merciful to sinners, where should he have any to worship him? |
A93249 | If all things were made up between God and us, what need of an intercessor? |
A93249 | If he be against us, who is for us? |
A93249 | If he be for us, who is against us? |
A93249 | If they do good on us here on earth, if we by faith lay hold on him, and have intercourse with him, what will it be in the day of judgement? |
A93249 | If thou be none of the Family, what hast thou to do with them? |
A93249 | If thou hast an heart humbled, and hast a desire of favour, will he refuse thee, that receiveth many in the world? |
A93249 | If we can not indure them here, how shall we ever live with them in Heaven? |
A93249 | If we could keep it in us, and exercise it, could we live in any sin? |
A93249 | If we could learn this aright to make things to come present, what kind of people should we be? |
A93249 | If we could set Hell before us, could the pleasures of Hell bewitch us? |
A93249 | If you aske what is Religion? |
A93249 | In what sense is God Christs God? |
A93249 | Is Christ ascended to Heaven, to be a mediator of intercession to appear before God; for whom? |
A93249 | Is it in Christ? |
A93249 | Is it not as if he should say, Mary? |
A93249 | Is thy heartright to Christ, art not thou a false Hypocrite, a secret Traitor to Christ, and to his cause and Church? |
A93249 | It is God that justifieth, who shall condemn? |
A93249 | It is a good question after Christs Resurrection, what cause of weeping, when Christ is risen? |
A93249 | It is not in our perfection, for then the poor Disciples, where had they been? |
A93249 | It is therefore a good question to them that believe, why weepest thou? |
A93249 | It is your Fathers good will to give you the Kingdom, what then? |
A93249 | It was objected to that good Jehonadab: a good man, have we any thing to do with Gods enemies? |
A93249 | Lord what is my joy, what is my hope, what is my trust, what is my comfort, is it not in thee? |
A93249 | Lord, if I had had my due, what would have become of me? |
A93249 | Mary: And what is her charge? |
A93249 | Mary; and is there so much force in one word? |
A93249 | Now besides the apparition of the Angells, here is the speech of the Angels Woman why weepest thou? |
A93249 | Now every truth in Scripture is written for our comfort, and shall it be no more comfort to us, then to the Devils? |
A93249 | Now how doth God shew himself a God in a peculiar respect to his Children? |
A93249 | Now if we have joyned with a temptation, Satan will say; will you go to God, and to prayer, that have served God thus? |
A93249 | Now, what is the foundation of this, that God is our God in the Covenant of grace? |
A93249 | Oh but is it possible God should do it? |
A93249 | Oh it is a judgment of judgements, to be hardned in sinful courses of life: how can it but end in desperation at length? |
A93249 | Our Saviour Christ here saith, Mary, but when? |
A93249 | Our sins are forgiven, because he, our head, and surety hath suffered death for us, and if Christ be risen again, why weep we? |
A93249 | Peter denyed Christ; but did Christ deny Pete? |
A93249 | Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? |
A93249 | Say not, who shall ascend up to Heaven? |
A93249 | Shall a Child be always prowling for it self? |
A93249 | Shall we attribute mercie to men, and not to God? |
A93249 | Shall we doubt any thing of that love, when he out of his free love, will own us as brethren, shall not we own him? |
A93249 | Tell you me, you are risen, while you carry the bonds of your sins about you? |
A93249 | That in the sharing, and dividing of all things, God hath given himself to us, and what an offer is this? |
A93249 | The Devils works you do, and will do; can we not take the word of the Covenant into our mouths, and shall we take the seal of the Covenant? |
A93249 | The doubtful distrustful heart, till it be subdued by a spirit of faith, saith, who shall ascend to Heaven, to tell me whether I shall go to Heaven? |
A93249 | The first words that ever Christ spake after his resurrection to them he appeared to, is, woman why weepest thou? |
A93249 | Then what belongeth to him? |
A93249 | There be many duties and dispositions that God requires, which we can not be in, without assurance of salvation on good grounds; what is that? |
A93249 | There is none of us all, I can except none, but had need of this: have we dealt so unkindly with Christ since our conversion? |
A93249 | Therefore rejoyce that your names are written in Heaven, and how can a man rejoyce, that knoweth it not to be so? |
A93249 | They be very formal men, look to their outward devotion, who so devout as they? |
A93249 | They can read at home; but is that the way God hath sanctified? |
A93249 | They can say, they be Gods Creatures; but what a fearful condition is it` not to be able to say, God is my Father? |
A93249 | They studied it; but what were they for the inside? |
A93249 | This is a great indignity, though we think not of it, to doubt of our salvation, and not cast our selves on his mercy? |
A93249 | This is our whole man, and what is all else? |
A93249 | To what use is riches and friends, if we do not use them? |
A93249 | To whom do I ascend? |
A93249 | To whom must she go? |
A93249 | VVhat dost thou come to torment us before our time? |
A93249 | VVhat have I in Heaven but thee, and in earth in comparison of thee? |
A93249 | Was it a claim that did him any good? |
A93249 | We think if we commit sin, there is no hope; but what needs a Mediator, but to make peace between the parties disagreeing? |
A93249 | What a blessed intercourse is there now, since Christs ascension, between Heaven and Earth? |
A93249 | What are all discouragements to this? |
A93249 | What can not we look for from that Majesty, that hath condescended to be called Father, and to be a Father to us in all our necessities? |
A93249 | What carrieth he in him? |
A93249 | What cometh from him? |
A93249 | What condition were they in now, when Christ biddeth them go? |
A93249 | What do I make my God? |
A93249 | What do they in Heaven? |
A93249 | What doth Jesus say to her? |
A93249 | What have they to do with us? |
A93249 | What if we had Paradise, if we offend God, we shall be cast out? |
A93249 | What if we had the dignity to be Apostles, if with Judas we have not God, what will all come to? |
A93249 | What interest have we to all the Petitions, and to every Article of the Creed, if there be not a particular application? |
A93249 | What is it for us to make God a God to us? |
A93249 | What is it to be a God to any? |
A93249 | What is that to me? |
A93249 | What is the Message? |
A93249 | What is the reason? |
A93249 | What lost Mary by it? |
A93249 | What must we do then? |
A93249 | What saith Paul? |
A93249 | What saith our Saviour Christ to the poor Disciples, doubting of want? |
A93249 | What saith the Lord in Jeremy, VVill the Husband take the VVife when she hath been naught? |
A93249 | What was Christ to ascend for? |
A93249 | What we may expect from God, being a Father? |
A93249 | What will all be ere long? |
A93249 | What will the fruit of a believing heart be? |
A93249 | What? |
A93249 | When did he speak this? |
A93249 | When doth he bid her go? |
A93249 | Whence is the strength of this Argument? |
A93249 | Who art thou, will Satan say, flesh and blood a peece of earth, wretched Sot, wilt thou claim kindred of Christ? |
A93249 | Who can take away the opposite disposition of mans nature to goodness, but God by his spirit? |
A93249 | Who giveth us a being to be Christians, to have a new nature, to have a good being, but God? |
A93249 | Who must go? |
A93249 | Who observeth the influence of the Sun, or the sweet influence of the Starres upon the earth? |
A93249 | Who raised him? |
A93249 | Who shall descend to the deep? |
A93249 | Who then can say our Father? |
A93249 | Why do not Christians injoy the comforts of this, that God is their God in Christ, more then they do? |
A93249 | Why is Christs love so constant, so invincible, that nothing can alter it? |
A93249 | Why, no man will do it? |
A93249 | Why? |
A93249 | Why? |
A93249 | Will God own a man, and not make him suitable? |
A93249 | Will a Father cast off his Child? |
A93249 | Will he forgive sins to day, and bring us into Court, and damn us to morrow? |
A93249 | Will you have the first words in estate of glory, his first words after death? |
A93249 | Woman, why weepest thou? |
A93249 | You may aske, why they spake but one word? |
A93249 | after his Resurrection, when he was in the state of glory: what is the Message? |
A93249 | and have not you in your lives given your selves to lusts, which you renounced at your baptisme? |
A93249 | and is not he willing to receive you? |
A93249 | and not pitty to the Father of all bowels and compassion? |
A93249 | and nothing but so? |
A93249 | and shall not we by prayer and faith, fetch from our Father all we stand in need of? |
A93249 | and will not he know us then? |
A93249 | and will our hearts rest in any thing but God? |
A93249 | as David putteth the quaere to himself: now Lord, what is my hope, is it not in thee? |
A93249 | but to preach life to all repentent sinners? |
A93249 | carry we the image of the second Adam? |
A93249 | despair of mercy when we have a Father to go to? |
A93249 | despair under the name of a Father? |
A93249 | do we love Christ in his members, God in his Image? |
A93249 | do we love the Ordinances, and the power of Re ● igion? |
A93249 | do we shew by our conversation, whose Children we are? |
A93249 | do we walk in light? |
A93249 | doth the Scripture intend us no more comfort then the Devils? |
A93249 | fear not little flock, he that will give you a Kingdom, will not he give you daily bread? |
A93249 | had not some of them denyed Christ, and had they not all forsaken him? |
A93249 | hath not God made us for himself? |
A93249 | have not we dealt proudly, and unkindly, and carlesly with him? |
A93249 | have we the patient, humble, meek disposition of Christ in our measure? |
A93249 | how shall we look that he will own us hereafter, when he tru ● teth us with his cause and glory, and we betray all to pleasure such and such? |
A93249 | if the time to come were present, could any thing in the world withdraw us? |
A93249 | is it not for sinners? |
A93249 | is there mercy for such a wretch? |
A93249 | nay, will he leave his Dove, his love, his undefiled one, where he hath placed all his joy, and contentment to the malice and fury of the enemy long? |
A93249 | or who shall enter into the deep to tell me, I am freed from hell? |
A93249 | shall God be our Father, and bear the gracious eternal affection of a Father? |
A93249 | shall I receive the Sacrament, and joyn with Gods people? |
A93249 | shall I yield to this temptation? |
A93249 | shall not I labor for a heart to yield chearful obedience, doth it not come deadly off? |
A93249 | this sheweth what we are, and is our conversation sutable to our inward disposition? |
A93249 | to go to the Apostles under the sweet tearm of brethren; When doth he call them so? |
A93249 | to what use is God and Christ, if we use them not? |
A93249 | unless I know God is mine, and Christ is mine, can I be thankful for that which I doubt of, and think I ought to doubt of? |
A93249 | was it a useful claim? |
A93249 | what hast thou to do with me? |
A93249 | what hath lust and filthiness? |
A93249 | what hath pride to do with a heart bequeathed to God? |
A93249 | what have they to do with God? |
A93249 | what is the end of his ascension? |
A93249 | what saith Christ? |
A93249 | what then is the peculiar gift, and love- token that God bestowes upon his favorites? |
A93249 | what work is there in Heaven for a mediator, if we were not daily sinners? |
A93249 | when Christ calleth us brother, shall not we answer, I am thy brother? |
A93249 | who can shine into the soul, and quicken the soul, but Christ by his spirit? |
A93249 | who is above the heart and conscience, but Christ by his spirit? |
A93249 | who maintaineth and preserveth that being, but God? |
A93249 | whom seekest thou? |
A93249 | whom seekest thou? |
A93249 | why persecuted with men? |
A93249 | why should we conceive worse of him then of our selves? |
A93249 | why streightned thus and thus and thus? |
A93249 | why then should we love vanity, and besot our selves? |
A93249 | why vexed with the Devil? |
A93249 | why? |
A93249 | will God take his friend, and not give him a friendly nature? |
A93249 | will we give pitty to a Father? |
A93249 | yea, he offereth himself to be thy God, if thou wilt come in: wherefore serveth our Ministry, the word of grace? |
A93249 | you know Jehu cried out, who is on my side, who? |
A12183 | 1 Doth God manifest his glory? |
A12183 | 3 Againe, is grace glory, when God sets it on us, shall wee cast our crowne in the dirt? |
A12183 | 3 But how shall we know whether we be set at liberty or no? |
A12183 | 338,& c. And why? |
A12183 | 358 And why? |
A12183 | ? |
A12183 | A wicked man can not desire death, he can not desire heaven it selfe, why? |
A12183 | And then glorious liberty he hath to come into the presence of God upon all occasions, being a friend of God, are not these things glorious beloved? |
A12183 | And then whose are we, if wee bee none of Christs? |
A12183 | And to incourage us, here grace begunne hath the same name as grace perfect, both are glory, why doth God call them by one name? |
A12183 | And what are we to looke to mainely now? |
A12183 | And where are meaner men in the appearance of a glorious Prince? |
A12183 | Beloved it is invalluable, there is not the least branch of this spirituall liberty, but it is worth a thousand worlds, how should we value it? |
A12183 | But how are we changed into the likenesse of Christ? |
A12183 | But in the next Chapter, there he shewes himselfe to Moses, and how doth he shew himselfe, and his glory to Moses? |
A12183 | But now to man in a lapsed estate, what attribute shines most, and is most glorious? |
A12183 | Christ was borne there: what makes the heart where Christ is borne, more glorious than other folke? |
A12183 | First of truths: what is the scope of the whole scriptures, but Christ? |
A12183 | For I would know whether the first Adams liberty, were greater or the liberty in heaven the second Adams liberty? |
A12183 | Glory what? |
A12183 | Hath this sight a transforming power in thee, to the Image of Christ? |
A12183 | Hope, what doth it? |
A12183 | How come we to dye to sinne, by vertue of Christs death? |
A12183 | How is the Spirit grieved? |
A12183 | How is this grace of God in Christ, conveyed to us yet nearer? |
A12183 | How shall wee have the eye of our soules fit to behold the glory of God? |
A12183 | How shall wee know then that wee see God in Christ, and the glory of God in the Gospell comfortably? |
A12183 | How shall wee know then whether we have the Image of Christ stamped upon us, or no? |
A12183 | If God were glorious in all other attributes, and not it mercy, what would become of us? |
A12183 | If grace and mercy were hid, our state being as it is, since the fall, what were all other attributes but matter of terrour? |
A12183 | If we have not the Spirit, how shall we come to have the Spirit? |
A12183 | In restraint of the outward man, if ever God restraine us to humble us, what a blessed thing is this, that the Spirit is at liberty? |
A12183 | Is it for want of understanding that the Angels choose not ill? |
A12183 | Is it not an unsightly thing to see a golden pillar daubed with dirt? |
A12183 | Is it so in this outward creation of the old heavens, and old earth that must be consumed with fire, and is it not much more in the new creation? |
A12183 | Is not Christ all in all these? |
A12183 | Is not love a glorious grace, that melts one into the likenesse of Christ? |
A12183 | Is not wisedome a glorious thing, to see a wise understanding man able to guide himselfe and others? |
A12183 | It hinders boldnesse with men: for what makes a man couragious in his dealings with men? |
A12183 | It is of the same substance, of the same colour that other water is? |
A12183 | It is said of Antiochus that he was a vile person, what, though hee was a King? |
A12183 | It is true, Christ is our righteousnesse, but what is that to us except wee have something to put it on? |
A12183 | Many are discovered hence, to have no spirit of God in them, In trouble, whether goe they? |
A12183 | Now this inward liberty is wrought by the liberty of the Gospell? |
A12183 | Oh but I haue offended often, and grievously? |
A12183 | Oh say they,( which is their maine objection) here is a prejudice to the liberty of the will, this is to overthrow the nature of man? |
A12183 | See what Saint Paul saith, what his judgement was: Oh foolish Galathians, before whom Christ hath been painted and cruci ● ied, how was he painted? |
A12183 | Take away Christ, what was the Brazen Serpent? |
A12183 | The Gospell the kingdome of God, why? |
A12183 | The holy Apostles wee know till the Spirit came more abundantly upon them; what darke creatures they were? |
A12183 | The spirit is to the soule, as the soule is to the body; what is the body without the soule? |
A12183 | Then againe it is victorious, shining to victory, over all that is contrary: For alasse beloved, what would become of us? |
A12183 | Then againe we all expect glory in heaven, and how can wee doe that except we befitted for it? |
A12183 | Then why should we be afraid of death? |
A12183 | Therefore, wouldst thou know, what thy condition shall be afterwards? |
A12183 | Those that care not what company they keepe those that despise the Image of Christ in those among whom they live, can they grow in grace? |
A12183 | Thy Kingdome come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven; can it be so in this world? |
A12183 | We all behold the glory of God, now reconciled in Iesus Christ, what doth that beholding worke? |
A12183 | We enter into a covenant with God, in the covenant of grace, and how can we maintaine the covenant of grace, without some likenesse to God and Christ? |
A12183 | We shall give account of all the good examples we have had, doth God kindle lights for nothing? |
A12183 | Wee are never in such a condition as we ought to be, except grace be glory to us, and when is grace glory to a sinner? |
A12183 | Well, how shall we know whether we have the spirit of Christ or no? |
A12183 | What a comfort is this to sinfull man, that in casting himself upon Christ, and upon Gods mercy in Christ, hee yeelds glory to God? |
A12183 | What doe we pray in the Lords prayer but for this liberty? |
A12183 | What is all the Scriptures without Christ? |
A12183 | What is all? |
A12183 | What is glory? |
A12183 | What is so contrary, as the nature of God, to the nature of man out of Christ? |
A12183 | What is the Charter of our liberty? |
A12183 | What is the best liquor if it hath lost its life and spirit, but flat and unsavory? |
A12183 | What is the liberty of the Gospell? |
A12183 | What is the reason that Wine, or Aqua- vitae, doth more refresh and strengthen then common water? |
A12183 | What is the reason, they are determined eternally to that that is good? |
A12183 | What is the way, after wee have had boldnesse and sweete familiarity with God, and it hath beene interrupted by sin, how shall we recover our selves? |
A12183 | What is this to the Gospell? |
A12183 | What made the second temple beyond the former? |
A12183 | What makes the times now more glorious than they were before Christ? |
A12183 | What saith the Prophet? |
A12183 | What things in Christs death did especially discover themselves to us,( when we once beleeve) to our comfort? |
A12183 | What was he to his enemies? |
A12183 | What was his disposition, and carriage? |
A12183 | What was the Arke? |
A12183 | What were the Sacrifices? |
A12183 | What? |
A12183 | When did this fulnesse of the Spirit come upon Christ, when had hee it? |
A12183 | When was the fullest measure of the Spirit in Christ? |
A12183 | Whose image and superscription is this? |
A12183 | Why doe all come under one name, the state of glory in Heaven, and the state of grace here, is there no difference? |
A12183 | Why is it a priviledge for many, that we all? |
A12183 | Why not before? |
A12183 | Why? |
A12183 | You see how full of love he was, what drew him from heaven to earth? |
A12183 | a ca ● k ● ss ●, a loathsome dead thing; what is the soule without the spirit? |
A12183 | and take the wine alone, as it doth not represent better things, and what is the wine? |
A12183 | and to live to righteousnesse by the fellowship of Christs resurrection? |
A12183 | and what did he in the like case, when he was upon earth? |
A12183 | and why are Kings, and great men glorious at certaine times, but that there bee beholders? |
A12183 | are we not to dye, and to appeare before God? |
A12183 | are we not to enjoy the blessings of God purely, and doe not these things require a great deale of strength of grace? |
A12183 | but that men may behold the Light? |
A12183 | by the imployment of Heaven, what is that? |
A12183 | can the soule performe sanctified actions without a sanctified power? |
A12183 | did he call for fire from heaven, when they wronged him, was he all on a heate? |
A12183 | dost thou carry the Image of Sathan, and dost thou thinke to bee a Christian, except it be in tytle and profession onely? |
A12183 | doth this suite with thy profession? |
A12183 | except we be united to Christ what good have wee by Christ, if Christ bee not ours? |
A12183 | from the first Promise of the blessed Seed, The Seed of the woman shall break the Serpents head, to the end of the book? |
A12183 | have we not many enemies to resist? |
A12183 | have we not many graces to perfect? |
A12183 | he was created in Gods Image, and what is our glory? |
A12183 | how come wee to be like him? |
A12183 | how sweete was he to sinners when they repented, how ready to forgive and pardon? |
A12183 | how we are justified, and freed by him, by the glorious mercy of God in Christ? |
A12183 | is it not a Grape of the heavenly Canaan? |
A12183 | is it not the beginnings of heaven? |
A12183 | is not faith a glorious grace that triumphs over the great God himselfe, binding him with his owne Word and promise? |
A12183 | is not the Spirit that wee have here, an earnest of that inheritance? |
A12183 | is not the new creature more for his glory then the old creature? |
A12183 | no, we desire health, when we have health, is that all? |
A12183 | or as a glow- worme? |
A12183 | or to see a crowne cast in the dirt? |
A12183 | our liberty in grace, or that in glory? |
A12183 | shall we thinke then of our former misery and basenesse, and trouble, and persecution? |
A12183 | shall wee defile, and blemish our glory by sinniug against conscience? |
A12183 | such as are like Christ? |
A12183 | that a man may goe with boldnesse to the throne of grace, by the Spirit of Christ? |
A12183 | that we might beginne Heaven on earth, as much as might be, and how shall we doe that? |
A12183 | the liberty of Christ, was that he could not sinne at all: which thinke you was the chiefe, he that could not or hee that might sinne, if hee would? |
A12183 | the liberty of the first man was, that he might not sinne, if hee would? |
A12183 | there is excellent glory, mervailous glory, wondrous grace, and Christ,& c. must there be light, and must there not be an eye to discover this? |
A12183 | we should glorifie God for the Sunne and Moone, and Stars, and other creatures, is not a Christian more glorious than all the creatures in the world? |
A12183 | wee are all vayled by nature, the Spirit takes away the vaile from our eyes, and from the truth, what is the reason the Gospell is so obscure? |
A12183 | what is all this glory, but a flash? |
A12183 | what made the least in the Kingdome of heaven, greater than Iohn Baptist? |
A12183 | what meanes must wee use to get it? |
A12183 | who expects any thing from a barren wildernesse? |
A12183 | why not in this world? |
A12198 | 313 Extremities whereinto the godly are suffered to fall: and why? |
A12198 | A Moath may corrupt, a theefe may take away that we have here, but who can take our God away? |
A12198 | Agur was in jealousie of a full condition, and lest instead of saying, what have I done; why am I thus cast downe,& c? |
A12198 | Alas then what will become of us in such a case if we be not supported by a spirit of power, and the power of ● … n almighty spirit? |
A12198 | Alas, what is all this, to be able to say, God is mine, who hath in him the sweetnes of all these things, and infinite more? |
A12198 | An ● … whence was this contradiction so unwearied, in making head againe and againe against the checks of the spirit, in him? |
A12198 | And as it is a ground of repentance in stopping our course to ask what have I done? |
A12198 | And how strong helpes have we to uphold our Faith, in those great things which wee are not able to conceive of, till wee come to possesse them? |
A12198 | And indeed what can bee expected from man whilest hee is vanity but vaine imaginations? |
A12198 | And indispose our selves for doing or taking good? |
A12198 | And shall not wee bee bold to say so after Christ hath taught us, and put this claime into our mouthes? |
A12198 | And shall we not maintain our right in God, against all the tricks& cavils of Satan,& our own hearts? |
A12198 | And shall we ● … e as dead as the earth, as the stones ● … ee tread on? |
A12198 | And what is there wherein God can not help us? |
A12198 | And why? |
A12198 | And will God that hath put these affections into Parents and friends, neglect the care of those hee hath taken so neere unto himselfe? |
A12198 | And ● … hat makes hel but the absence of God? |
A12198 | Are not our good dayes more than our evill? |
A12198 | BUt how doth it appeare that this combate in David was a spirituall combate? |
A12198 | BVt how shall we know, whether we have by grace got the victory over our selves or not? |
A12198 | Because together with his exiling from Gods house, he was upbrayded by his enemies, with his religion: where is now thy God? |
A12198 | But alas, what are all other goods without the chiefe good? |
A12198 | But by what spirit? |
A12198 | But how can a man that is not yet in the 〈 ◊ 〉 of grace say with any comfort,[ My God?] |
A12198 | But how comes God to be the salvation of our countenance? |
A12198 | But how doe wee know that God heares 〈 ◊ 〉 prayers? |
A12198 | But how dost thou manage thine owne affections? |
A12198 | But how shall we be enabled to this great ● … y? |
A12198 | But how shall we know, that Satan joynes with our nature, in those actions unto which nature it selfe is pro ● …? |
A12198 | But how was David affected with these reproaches? |
A12198 | But may wee not trust in riches, and friends, and other outward helps at all? |
A12198 | But some( as Gideon) may object, if 〈 ◊ 〉 intend to be so gracious, why is it thus with us? |
A12198 | But what are discouragements, to the incouragements Religion brings with it? |
A12198 | But what are these to his gaines? |
A12198 | But what ground hast thou to build thy selfe so strongly upon God? |
A12198 | But what if our condition be so darke, that we can not reade our evidence at all? |
A12198 | But what is the message? |
A12198 | But what of all this? |
A12198 | But what was that they said so reproachfully? |
A12198 | But why should wee not rather labour to keepe the affections of the soule in due proportion? |
A12198 | But why then doth God appeare as a stranger to me? |
A12198 | But, what if pressing upon our soul ● … will not help? |
A12198 | But, what is the reason that the affecti ● … s doe not alwayes follow the judgement, 〈 ◊ 〉 the choise or refusall of the will? |
A12198 | But, why gives he this way to his griefe? |
A12198 | By this likenesse of disposition, wee are fashioned to a communion with him: Can two walke together and not be agreed? |
A12198 | By this meanes we are sure never 〈 ◊ 〉 be very miserable; how can he bee dejected, that by a sweet communion with God sets himselfe in heaven? |
A12198 | Can not he that hath vouchsafed an issue in Christ from eternall death, vouchsafe an issue from all temporall evills? |
A12198 | Can we crosse our selves, or spend our labours to better purpose? |
A12198 | Can we have a greater incouragement then under God to be gainer of a soule, which is as much in Gods esteeme as if we should gaine a world? |
A12198 | Can wee have a fairer offer, then for God in Christ to make over himselfe ● … to us? |
A12198 | Can wee have so meane thoughts of him, as that we should intend his glory, and ● … e not much more intend our good? |
A12198 | Comfort one another with ● … se things, saith the Apostle? |
A12198 | David doth acknowledge with humble admiration, that a heart ● … larged comes from God, Who am I( saith he) and who are my people? |
A12198 | David was now banished from the Sanctuary, from his friends, habitation, and former comforts; but was he banished from his God? |
A12198 | Dead stones in an Arch uphold one another, and shall not living? |
A12198 | Did ● … er Christ thrust any back from him, ● … at put themselves upon him? |
A12198 | Doth he not set us before his face? |
A12198 | Ergone it a liberi esse volunt, ut nec Deum volunt habere Dominum? |
A12198 | Flere? |
A12198 | For what can stand against God, upon whose truth and power faith relyes? |
A12198 | For what is waiting indeed, but a continuing in a gracious inoffensive course, till the accomplishment of our desires? |
A12198 | For what will be ● … the issue of this but certaine destruction? |
A12198 | For why should we not be disquieted when we are disquieted? |
A12198 | Go ● … blasteth all devised service with 〈 ◊ 〉 demand, Who required these thing ● … your hands? |
A12198 | God hath more worke from them then from others; why then should any be discouraged? |
A12198 | Had wee not a perpetuall confidence in the perpetuity of his love to us, how is it possible we should praise him? |
A12198 | Hic sacer ALTARIS CAREO minoris erit? |
A12198 | How basely doth the Scripture ● … ak ● … ak of whatsoever stands in our way? |
A12198 | How can we please the devill better then thus doing? |
A12198 | How can wee enjoy God, and not joy in him? |
A12198 | How doe all creatures ● … aise God, but by our mouthes? |
A12198 | How doth i ● … weaken? |
A12198 | How many are there that upon the disgrace that followes Religion, are frighted from it? |
A12198 | How many are there that will adventure the losse of the love of God, for a thing of nothing? |
A12198 | How many blessings doth God ● … tow upon us, above our deserts, yea, ● … e our desires, nay, above our very ● … ghts? |
A12198 | How many blessings hath God bestowed upon us, that we never prayed for? |
A12198 | How many imagine their failings, to be fallings, and their fallings, to be fallings away? |
A12198 | How pittifull then is their case, who goe to a destroyer for salvation? |
A12198 | How ready will God be to shew mercy to us when we seeke it, that thus presseth upon us, when we seeme to refuse it? |
A12198 | How should it humble us, that the seeds of the vilest sinne, even of the Sinne against the holy Ghost is in us? |
A12198 | How then can we let the reines of our affections loose to sorow without being injurious to God and his providence? |
A12198 | How will it end? |
A12198 | I am to deale with a patie ● … God, why should I cherish reveng ● … thoughts? |
A12198 | I am to have communion with a God of peace; What then doe turbulent thoughts and affections i ● … my heart? |
A12198 | If Christians knew the power they have in heaven and earth, what were able to stand against them? |
A12198 | If God be with us, who can be against us? |
A12198 | If God give quietnesse, who shall make trouble? |
A12198 | If God hath not chosen mee in Christ ● … e his, what ground have I to trust in 〈 ◊ 〉? |
A12198 | If God should take advantage of our way wardnesse, what would become of us? |
A12198 | If Gods children have cause to praise God in their worst condition, what diffe ● … ce is there betwixt their best estate and their worst? |
A12198 | If I be a Father, where is mine bo ● … r? |
A12198 | If a darke dungeon bee so lothsome, what is that eternall dungeon of darkenesse? |
A12198 | If a feast bee so pleasing, what is the continuall feast of a good conscience? |
A12198 | If at that time without former experience, wee did trust God, Why not now, when we have forgotten our experience? |
A12198 | If fire bee so terrible, what is hell fire? |
A12198 | If hee will raise our bodies, can he not raise our conditions? |
A12198 | If men caried away with their own lusts, would give but a little check, and stop themselves in their posting to hell, and aske, What have I done? |
A12198 | If the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? |
A12198 | If the hiding of his face will so trouble the soule, what will his frowne and angry look doe? |
A12198 | If the meeting of friends be so comfortable, what will our meeting together in heaven be? |
A12198 | If there were not great dangers, where were the glory of Gods great deliverance? |
A12198 | If this bee true that there are such fearefull things prepared for sinners, why am I not cast downe? |
A12198 | If this will not satisfie the soule, what can? |
A12198 | If true, why doe wee make God in his rich promises a lyar? |
A12198 | If we will not trust in salvation, what will we trust in? |
A12198 | If wee had all other comforts that our hearts can desire, yet if God withdraw himselfe, what remaines but a curse and emptinesse? |
A12198 | In warre men will adventure their lives, because they thinke some will escape, and why not they? |
A12198 | In worldly things, how 〈 ◊ 〉 wee cherish hopes upon little ● … ounds? |
A12198 | Infirmities to be Presumptions: every sinne against Conscience, to be the sinne against the Holy Ghost ● …? |
A12198 | Is God indebted to us, doth hee owe us any thing? |
A12198 | Is God our God, and will he suffer any thing to befall us for our hurt? |
A12198 | Is it not a vanity to preferre the casket before the jewel, the shell before the pearle, the gilded potsheard before the treasure? |
A12198 | Is it not our own? |
A12198 | Is my judge of my minde? |
A12198 | Is not Christ now a fitting and preparing of us daily, for what he hath prepared and keepes for us? |
A12198 | Is not our flesh there in him? |
A12198 | Is not our husband there? |
A12198 | Is not this a goodly argument( saith Bilney?) |
A12198 | Is there any I may honour God by releeving, comforting, counselling? |
A12198 | Is there ● … y of Christs deare ones? |
A12198 | Is this according to the rule,& c? |
A12198 | Is this preaching of repentance in the name of Jesus? |
A12198 | It is my duty ● … refore knowing this, to beleeve, by ● … ing whereof, I put that question, ● … ther God be mine or no? |
A12198 | It were better for 〈 ◊ 〉 aske our selves this question be ● … hand, Who acquired this? |
A12198 | It 〈 ◊ 〉 a holy state of soule to bee under t ● … power of nothing beneath it selfe; A ● … we stirred? |
A12198 | Let our sottish and rebellious flesh murmure as much as it will, who art thou? |
A12198 | Let us gather our selves, with all our wit and strength together, Alas, what can wee doe but provoke him, and get more stripes? |
A12198 | Let us therefore( when any lawle ● … passions begin to stir) deale with o ● … soules as God did with Ionah; Doest th ● … well to be angry? |
A12198 | Lord, what doe I complaine of this my unruly passion? |
A12198 | Nay, rather what''s become of your eyes, we may say unto them? |
A12198 | Nay, shall we( as many doe) fight against God with his owne favours, and turne Gods blessings against himselfe? |
A12198 | Now these promises are 1. for their spring from whence they proceed, fre ● … ing agements of God; for if hee had not bound himselfe, who could? |
A12198 | Oh if we had but faith to answer those glorious truths which God hath revealed, what manner of lives should we leade? |
A12198 | Our flesh, an enemy so much the worse, by how much the nearer, will be ready to upbraide us within us, where is now thy God? |
A12198 | Our life is oft too much in the life of others, which God takes unkindly: How many friends have we in him alone? |
A12198 | Perfection in us is sincerity: What is the end of faith but to bring us to Christ? |
A12198 | Pietas ubi prisca? |
A12198 | Plenty to ease, promises to presumption, gifts to pride? |
A12198 | Praise is a just and due tribute for all ● … s blessings; for what else especially ● … e the best favours of God call for at ● … r hands? |
A12198 | Quis pollicetur serēti proventum; naviganti portum; militanti victoriam? |
A12198 | See therefore Davids art, hee demands of himselfe why hee was so cast downe? |
A12198 | See 〈 ◊ 〉 folly and fury of most men in this, for ● … s silly wormes to contradict the great God: And to whose perill is it? |
A12198 | Seeing then, disquieting and dejectin for sinne is necessary, how shall wee k ● … when it exceeds measure? |
A12198 | Shall God be so true to us, and shall not wee be true to him and his truth? |
A12198 | Shall God make other fathers and husbands faithfull, and not be faithfull Himselfe? |
A12198 | Shall I redeeme a short contentment, with lasting sorrow? |
A12198 | Shall all our study bee to satisfie the desires 〈 ◊ 〉 the flesh, and neglect this? |
A12198 | Shall the importunity of one poore woman prevaile with an unrighteous Iudge? |
A12198 | Shall these Relations yeeld comfort from the creature, and not from God himselfe, in whom they are in their highest perfection? |
A12198 | Shall we abuse peace to security? |
A12198 | Shall we live as if wee were resolved God should have no praise by us? |
A12198 | Shall we make our selves God, ascribing all to our selves? |
A12198 | So likewise of faith and new obedience, to aske what shall I doe for the time to come? |
A12198 | Such men were in a way of hope, if they had but so much apprehension of their estates, as to ask themselves, What have I done? |
A12198 | THen, how shall we know when a man is cast downe and disquieted, otherwise then is befitting? |
A12198 | TO returne againe to the words, Why art thou cast downe ô my soule,& c. or, why dost thou cast downe thy selfe? |
A12198 | That the seeds of deniall of Christ had lyen hid in the zealous affection of Peter towards Christ? |
A12198 | That the seeds of murther had lurked in the pittifull heart of David? |
A12198 | The virgin Mary was stirred up to magnifie the Lord, but why? |
A12198 | There is no one portion of Scripture oftner used to fetch up drooping spirits then this, Why art thou cast downe oh my soule? |
A12198 | Therefore it is the best wisedome not to provoke the great God, for are wee stronger then he, that can raise our selves against our selves? |
A12198 | These things well pondered, should set the greater price upon Gods blessings, what are we in nature and grace, b ● … Gods blessings? |
A12198 | This is that here which put Davids soule so much out of frame; For from whence was this contradiction? |
A12198 | This is wonderfull cōfortable say they, but what is it to me? |
A12198 | To suck poyson out of that, from which we should suck honey? |
A12198 | Tonabo tuas, Pietas neglecta, querelas: Quid non Schisma, Tepor, Fastus,& Astus agunt? |
A12198 | Vnde hoc montrum,& quare istud? |
A12198 | WHat if neither the speech of others to us, nor the rebuke of our owne hearts will quiet the soule; Is there no other remedy left? |
A12198 | We faint not saith S. Paul, wherefore doth he not faint? |
A12198 | We learne to tame all creatures, even the wildest, that wee may bring them to our use; and why should wee glve way to our owne unruly passions? |
A12198 | We would not change conditions with them, so as to have their spirits with their condition? |
A12198 | Wee may bee sure no hurt shall befall us, that he can hinder; and what can not hee hinder that hath the ● … yes of hell and of death? |
A12198 | Were it not for a few gracious soules, what honour should God have of the rest of the unthankfull world? |
A12198 | Were we skilfull in the ● … t of faith, to improve so great an interest, what in the world could much dismay us? |
A12198 | What a dishonour is it to Religion to conceive that God will not maintaine and honour his followers? |
A12198 | What a happy estate is this? |
A12198 | What a shame is it for a Noble mans sonne to live like a beggar? |
A12198 | What a sight were it for the feet to be where the head is, and the earth to be where the heaven is, to see all turned upside downe? |
A12198 | What a wondrous comfort is this, that God hath put himselfe over to be ours? |
A12198 | What am I now about? |
A12198 | What an unworthy thing is it, that wee should pity a beast overloaden, and yet take no pity of a brother? |
A12198 | What becomes of their Reformation, of their Gospell? |
A12198 | What can daunt that soule, which in the greatest troubles hath made the great God to be its owne? |
A12198 | What can w ● … looke for from a Viper but poyson? |
A12198 | What can we have more? |
A12198 | What comforts so great, as these that ● … re fetched from the fountaine? |
A12198 | What evidence of goodnes is it, for a man to be good onely upon the apprehension of something that contents him? |
A12198 | What folly is it to straighten and darken our owne spirits? |
A12198 | What good can any thing doe us if we use it not? |
A12198 | What good will come of this? |
A12198 | What greater assurance can there be, then for Being it ● … o ● … o lay his being to pawne? |
A12198 | What had we been if God had not been good unto us? |
A12198 | What hast thou to doe to take his 〈 ◊ 〉 into thy mouth, and hatest to be refor ● … d? |
A12198 | What if he be a foundation, and we doe not build on him? |
A12198 | What if hee offers himselfe as a husband, if we will not accept of him, what availes it us? |
A12198 | What is Religion it selfe but a spirituall bond? |
A12198 | What is all that the earth ca ● … afford us, if God deny health? |
A12198 | What is in us, about us, above us? |
A12198 | What is there in the world of equall goodnes to draw us away frō our God? |
A12198 | What is 〈 ◊ 〉, but vanity, and lesse then vanity? |
A12198 | What kinde of people were those that followed Christ, were they not such as had lived long in their sinfull courses? |
A12198 | What made our blessed Saviour endure the ● … osse and despise shame, but the joy of glory to come set before him? |
A12198 | What madnesse is it to spend all our labour, to possesse our selves of the Cisterne, when the fountaine is offered to ● … s? |
A12198 | What makes heaven but the presence of God? |
A12198 | What returne so rich, as trading with God? |
A12198 | What see we, taste wee, enjoy we, but blessings? |
A12198 | What then may wee thinke of this powerfull grace of faith which is altogether supernaturall? |
A12198 | What wonder is it if faith overcome the world, if it overcomes him that made the world? |
A12198 | When God once charges sinne upon the soule, Alas who shall take it off? |
A12198 | When God seems to cry out unto us, who is on my side, who? |
A12198 | Whence was it that Corruptio ● … would not be said Nay? |
A12198 | Whence were these sudden and unlookt for objections of the flesh? |
A12198 | Where is now thy God? |
A12198 | Where is now thy God? |
A12198 | Whither will this course tend? |
A12198 | Who are wee that God should single us out for the glory of his rich mercy? |
A12198 | Who that hath his senses about him, would perish for want of water, when there is a fountaine by him? |
A12198 | Who will trouble himselfe in correcting another mans childe? |
A12198 | Who would have thought the seeds of murmuring had lurked in the meeke nature of Moses? |
A12198 | Why am I no more troubled and discouraged for my wicked courses? |
A12198 | Why art thou c ● … downe ô my soule? |
A12198 | Why art thou cast downe O my soule, and why art thou disquieted within me? |
A12198 | Why art thou cast downe O my soule, and why art thou disquieted within me? |
A12198 | Why art thou thus troubled? |
A12198 | Why doe 〈 ◊ 〉 trouble our selves about that which we 〈 ◊ 〉 have no thanke for? |
A12198 | Why should not a Christian be as bold for his God, as others are for the base gods they make to themselves? |
A12198 | Why should we load God with injuries, that loadeth u ● … with his blessings? |
A12198 | Why should we not be cast downe when we are cast downe? |
A12198 | Why should we trust in God as a Saviour? |
A12198 | Why then should we weaken our interest in God, for any thing this earth affords? |
A12198 | Why then, waite in trusting? |
A12198 | Will a Father or Mother suffer a child to be wronged in their presence, if they can help it? |
A12198 | Will a friend suffer his friend to be injured, if he may redresse him? |
A12198 | Will he lay any more upon us, then he gives us strength to beare? |
A12198 | Will hee suffer any wind to blow upon us, but for good? |
A12198 | Will not a time come when all things shall appeare as they are? |
A12198 | Will not the time come when this will prove bitternesse in the end? |
A12198 | Will not this carry the soule above all naturall inclinations whatsoever( though strengthened by outward occasions) if wee resolve to put it to it? |
A12198 | Would an old man( when he is very neare his journies end) make longer provision for a short way if he would aske himselfe a Reason? |
A12198 | [ God] there is all to be had; but what is that to me, unlesse he be my God? |
A12198 | and for life it selfe to lay life to pawne, and all to comfort a poore soule? |
A12198 | and hath hee not taken possession for us? |
A12198 | and his spirit below with us? |
A12198 | and if salvation it self can not save us, what can? |
A12198 | and is it not muc ● … more vanitie to preferre the outward condition before the inward? |
A12198 | and said daily? |
A12198 | and shall not the prayers of many that cry unto the righteous God take effect? |
A12198 | and then upon setling, the soule in way of thankes, will be ready to aske of it selfe, What shall I returne to the Lord? |
A12198 | and what cause have wee to feare continually that wee are worse than we take our selves to be? |
A12198 | and what is in the world lesse that will content us long, or stand us in any stead, especially at that time when all must be taken from us? |
A12198 | and what is thy worth? |
A12198 | and whether wee will have the same judgement of it in sicknesse and death, and at the day of reckoning as we have for the present? |
A12198 | and worke wonders not onely in the great world, but also in the little world, our soules and bodies when he pleases? |
A12198 | as if wee would teach him how to govern his Church? |
A12198 | but, where is thy God, that thou dost boast so much on? |
A12198 | doe not passions get the upper hand, and keepe reason under foot? |
A12198 | doe we not enjoy more than we want, I meane, of the things that are necessary? |
A12198 | doth he not keep our place for us? |
A12198 | for a great rich man, to live like a poore peasant? |
A12198 | have we not some first fruits and earnest of it before hand? |
A12198 | he should say, Who is the Lord? |
A12198 | how dost thou rule in thine owne house? |
A12198 | in thy selfe? |
A12198 | nulla novis sufficit Herba Malis? |
A12198 | or for hunger that is at a feast? |
A12198 | or, art cast downe by thy selfe? |
A12198 | than consider, It this m ● … ter worth the losse of my quiet? |
A12198 | that it should bee skilfull in the story( almost) of all times and places, and yet ignorant of the story of it selfe? |
A12198 | that seeke for help from hell? |
A12198 | that we should be able to give account of any thing better then of our selves to our selves? |
A12198 | that we should know what is done in the Court and Countrey, and beyond the Seas, and be ignorant of what is done at home in our owne hearts? |
A12198 | that we should live knowne to others, and yet die unknowne to our selves? |
A12198 | they upbraid him with his singularity, they say not now, where is God? |
A12198 | to fall when we have so many stayes to lay hold on? |
A12198 | to famish at a banquet? |
A12198 | to fret thus? |
A12198 | to have our wils? |
A12198 | to your riches, to your plea ● … re, which you have loved more then God or goodnesse? |
A12198 | what an indignity is it for Princes to goe a foot, and servants on horse- ba ● … for those to rule, whose place is to 〈 ◊ 〉 ruled? |
A12198 | what can they availe them now? |
A12198 | what can we call to minde? |
A12198 | what can we resolve upon? |
A12198 | what can we speake? |
A12198 | where are their great friends, their riches, their honors, which they set up as a god? |
A12198 | who would not be a Christian, if it were but for this, to have something to relie on when all things else faile? |
A12198 | who would requi ● … e good with evill? |
A12198 | why shouldest thou stand out in a profession that findes no better entertainment? |
A12198 | 〈 ◊ 〉 there any of Ionat hans race? |
A12167 | ( as the Apostle reasons) shall I defile my vessell with sinne? |
A12167 | 6. Who is this that commeth out of the wildernesse like pillars of smoake, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the Merchant? |
A12167 | 6. there are seven hornes and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God, here Christ the lambe hath seven eyes and seven hornes: what be these? |
A12167 | 6. you have his love set forth, Hee loved us, and how doth he witnesse it? |
A12167 | A Christian as soone as ever he becomes a Christian, and ever after to death and in death too, he gives up himselfe to Christ? |
A12167 | A turning of Christs speech to the winds to blow upon his Garden: with the End, why? |
A12167 | And againe, Observe it against our Adversaries: What say they? |
A12167 | And as it is an argument that God heares our prayers, so is it of the presence of Christ; for how could wee pray but from his inward presence? |
A12167 | And here how excellently is the expression of Christs mercie, love, and patience set out? |
A12167 | And how was hee used in the Apostles that were after him, and in the Ministers of the Church ever since, What have they indured? |
A12167 | And indeed wherein doth the Church differ from other grounds, but that Christ hath taken it in? |
A12167 | And is it love lost? |
A12167 | And is it not fit that Christ should eat fruit of his owne vine, have comfort of his owne Garden, to tast of his owne fruits? |
A12167 | And is it not monstrous in Grace? |
A12167 | And it is an odious temper to God; for doth not hee deserve cheerefull service at our hands? |
A12167 | And reason the matter, how doth this that I am mooved to suite with my Hopes and expectation to come? |
A12167 | And this also should move us, to be fruitfull, for men will indure a fruitlesse tree in the wast wildernesse, but in their garden who will indure it? |
A12167 | And we have need of feeding as well as breeding: where dost thou feed? |
A12167 | And what greater love, then the love of the soule? |
A12167 | And what shall wee loose by it? |
A12167 | And withall, labour for abundance of the Spirit of God, for what makes men sleepie, and drowsie? |
A12167 | And yet whose imployment is greater, then the imploiment of the cheife Magistrate? |
A12167 | Are not two loving well- wishers well met? |
A12167 | Are the discouragements from impossibilities? |
A12167 | Are wee affraid of men? |
A12167 | Are wee allured by the world? |
A12167 | Aske such ones doe you love God, his Children, and his Word? |
A12167 | Because the former question, namely, What is Christ? |
A12167 | Beloved, Is Christ an excellent golden head and shall he have a base body? |
A12167 | Blessed are they that hunger and thirst,& c. But I am emptie of all? |
A12167 | But How shall we know that Christ is present in us? |
A12167 | But I am stung vvith the sence of my sinnses? |
A12167 | But I shall loose my pleasure? |
A12167 | But how can it be the Churches, when it is not in the Church, but in Christ? |
A12167 | But how com ● ● th ● hee to be thus faire? |
A12167 | But how doth he knocke? |
A12167 | But how lovingly doth he speake to her? |
A12167 | But how shal we know that God heares our Prayers? |
A12167 | But how shall we know that Christ loves us in this peculiar manner? |
A12167 | But how shall we know, whether we be espoused to Christ, or not? |
A12167 | But shee is blacke? |
A12167 | But some may object, Christ can open to himselfe, why doth he not take the key and open, and make way for himselfe? |
A12167 | But to what end must these winds blow upon the Garden? |
A12167 | But what if we doe not kisse him, and subject our selves to him; love him and beleeve in him? |
A12167 | But what is the ground of such love? |
A12167 | But what is this to us or to the Church? |
A12167 | But what is this white and ruddie: what is beauty? |
A12167 | But why is the Church thus earnest? |
A12167 | But you will say, How doth this appeare when in some desertion a Christian finds no grace, strength, or comfort at all? |
A12167 | But, How can this be that there should be conscience of sinne, and no conscience of sinne, a sinner, and yet a perfect Saint and undefiled? |
A12167 | But, How is that? |
A12167 | But, What defence hath Gods poore Church? |
A12167 | But, Why is the Church compared to a Garden? |
A12167 | C ● n a mother forget her sucking child, if she should yet will not I forget thee? |
A12167 | Can I hope to find that of God, that others can not find from me? |
A12167 | Can I love Christ, and can not I love him in whom I see Christ? |
A12167 | Can a mother forget her child? |
A12167 | Can they blindfold him in Heaven that hath this sharp eye? |
A12167 | Can we see more in our selves, then hee doth? |
A12167 | Can we thinke he will suffer us to want that which is needfull? |
A12167 | Can we want righteousnesse, while we have Christs Righteousnesse, is not his garment large enough for himselfe and us too? |
A12167 | Christ can open to himselfe, and wee have no free will, nor power to open? |
A12167 | Consider whence they come? |
A12167 | David wonders at his owne love, Oh how I love thy law, oh how aimeable are thy Tabernacles? |
A12167 | Did Christ ever turne back any that came unto him, if they came out of a true sence of their wants? |
A12167 | Did ever soule love Christ more then that woeman that had so many Divels cast out of her? |
A12167 | Did hee ayme at these imperfect beginnings to rest there? |
A12167 | Doe they take such courses that are wiser then I, and shall not I take the like course too? |
A12167 | Doe wee entertaine Christ to our losse? |
A12167 | Doth Christ by his Spirit discover the secret love the hath borne to us before all worlds? |
A12167 | Doth any man so love his creditor as he that hath much debt forgiven him? |
A12167 | Doth he delight in strangenesse, that makes all this Love to a Christians soule? |
A12167 | Doth hee come emptie? |
A12167 | Doth our love to God abide for ever; and doth not his love to us whence it commeth? |
A12167 | Excuses from Oxen, Wives,& c. Was it not lawfull to buy Oxen? |
A12167 | First, Christ doth use sometimes to leave his Church, as here he doth, My Beloved had withdrawne himselfe,& c. But what kind of leaving is it? |
A12167 | First, those that are not yet in Christ, not contracted to him to draw them; what can prevaile more then that which is in Christ? |
A12167 | For what hath beene the food in Popery? |
A12167 | For would men suffer idle words, yea filthy and rotten talke to come from their mouths if they were awake? |
A12167 | Hath Christ no affections now he is in Heaven, to her that is so neere him as the Church is? |
A12167 | Hath Christ thus infinitly loved us, and shall not wee backe againe make him our love? |
A12167 | Hee hath but two houses to dwell in; the Heavens, and the heart of an humble broken hearted sinner; How can Christ come into the soule? |
A12167 | Hee hath done the greater and vvill he not doe the lesse? |
A12167 | Hee loved mee( saith Paule) what was the effect of his love? |
A12167 | Hovv shall vve knovv that the Word is the Word of God? |
A12167 | How carefull is God of us, by this private way to prevent future shame? |
A12167 | How doe we value Christ, what price doth the Church set on him? |
A12167 | How doth Faith overcome the world? |
A12167 | How graciously Christ doth deale with us, That he doth alwayes leave some grace, before hee doth offer to depart? |
A12167 | How is it with our affections, and bent to good things? |
A12167 | How know we that the fire is hot? |
A12167 | How long hath he waited for our conversion? |
A12167 | How many mercies doe we enjoy? |
A12167 | How many severall tempers hath the Church beene in? |
A12167 | How much more shall Christ himselfe, where he is present, come with Graces and comfort? |
A12167 | How shall I know whether God regard my prayers or not? |
A12167 | How shall we carry our selves when it falls out that our hearts faile of that we seek for, whē we pray without succes& find not a presēt answer? |
A12167 | How shall we do to keep& preserve our soules in this waking condition, especially in these drowsietimes? |
A12167 | How shall we know light to be light? |
A12167 | How with our hatred, our zeale? |
A12167 | I am laden, and vvretched? |
A12167 | I answer, Indeed there is difference, Whence comes that difference? |
A12167 | I have no time( saith the worldling) what will you have mee to do? |
A12167 | I have planted thee a noble vine, how art thou then come to be degenerated? |
A12167 | I have put of my coate, how shall I put it on? |
A12167 | I have put of my coate, how shall I put it on? |
A12167 | I have put of my coate, how shall I put it on? |
A12167 | I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them? |
A12167 | I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them? |
A12167 | I have washed my feete, how shall I defile them? |
A12167 | I have washed my feete, how shall I defile them? |
A12167 | I have washed my feete, ● ow shall I defile them to rise and open the doore to thee? |
A12167 | I was then perhaps too indiscreete, now wilt thou call me againe to those troubles, that I have wisely avoyded? |
A12167 | I. Whither is thy Beloved gone O thou fairest among women? |
A12167 | If God love us thus, what must we doe? |
A12167 | If a man be in love with Christ, what will be harsh to him in the world? |
A12167 | If he giveth himselfe will he not give all things with himselfe? |
A12167 | If the Sister should shut out the Brother, were it not most unnaturall? |
A12167 | If the eye of their soules were awake, would they runne into these snares, that their owne Consciences tells them are so? |
A12167 | If they be bad, why doe I doe them at all? |
A12167 | If they be good, why doe I not doe them? |
A12167 | If they be good, why doe I stick at them? |
A12167 | If we should aske what is the reason there be so many, that Apostatize, fall away, grow prophane, and are so unfruitfull under the Gospell? |
A12167 | If we study to please men in whom there is but little good; should we not much more study to please Christ the fountaine of goodnesse? |
A12167 | If you aske, why wee must grow up and bee fed still? |
A12167 | In choosing us, what did God ayme at? |
A12167 | In former times when they had not the Scriptures, and the comforts of them to feed on, what did the poore soules then? |
A12167 | In himselfe and in his owne blessed person, what did he endure? |
A12167 | In the next place, are we ready to suffer for Christ? |
A12167 | In this case God will not regard our prayers, as it is said; I care not for your Prayers, or for any service you performe to me: why? |
A12167 | In this sweet Conjunction we must know, that by nature, we are cleane otherwaises then Spouses for what was Salomons wife Pharoahs daughter? |
A12167 | Is he fit to be united to a golden head that is a common drunkard, a swearer, that is a beast in his life and conversation, is this sutable? |
A12167 | Is heere the Spirit of Christ? |
A12167 | Is it not a comfort to know where to feed and to have pastures to goe to, without suspition of poyson? |
A12167 | Is it not a wonder we stand so long, when Cities, stone walls fall, and Kingdomes come to suddaine periods? |
A12167 | Is it not better to take shame to our selves now, than to be shamed hereafter before Angels, Divels and Men? |
A12167 | Is it not equall, that hee should bid us, Depart yee cursed I know you not? |
A12167 | Is it not more for outward things, then for inward? |
A12167 | Is there any harbour for me to rest in mine owne Righteousnesse? |
A12167 | Is there any love in an Husband, a Brother, a Mother, a Friend, in an Head to the members? |
A12167 | Is there any thing truely and cordially hated but Grace? |
A12167 | Is there more love and mercy, and pittie in us to those that we take neere us, then there is in Christ to us? |
A12167 | Is there such love in God, to become man, and to be a Sutor to vvoe me for my love? |
A12167 | Let us therefore discerne of our estate in grace by this, how do we relish divine truths? |
A12167 | Men are pleas''d with answering the bill of accusation against them thus ▪ are we no ● baptised? |
A12167 | My God my God, why hast thou forsaken mee? |
A12167 | My bowels were mooved in mee,& c. What was that? |
A12167 | No, I have put of my coate, how shall I put it on? |
A12167 | Now what meanes of knocking hath hee not used among us a long time? |
A12167 | Now what patience is there in Christ to suffer himselfe in his messengers, and his children to be thus used? |
A12167 | Now whence came all this? |
A12167 | Now you may say, Why is shee so exact in reckoning up so many particulars of her Beloved, his Head, Lockes, Eyes, Lips, and such like? |
A12167 | O But what kind of man was he? |
A12167 | Oh, since I am thus undefiled shall I rest in my selfe? |
A12167 | Or if men be great, why this is not honourable to do thus, as you know what Michall said to David, How glor ● ous was the King of Israell this day? |
A12167 | Propound unto them waking considerations, What causeth our sleepes, but want of matters of more serious observation? |
A12167 | Psalme is to that purpose, O how aymiable are thy Tabernacles O Lord of hosts? |
A12167 | Recreations are lawfull, who denies it? |
A12167 | S ● ● l S ● ● l why persecutest thou mee? |
A12167 | Saul Saul why persecutest thou me? |
A12167 | Saul Saul why persecutest thou mee? |
A12167 | Shall I look for mercy that have no mercifull heart my selfe? |
A12167 | Shall a good christian be Chists love, and shall he be the object of my hatred and scorne? |
A12167 | Shall hee make men tender and carefull over others, and shall not he himselfe be carefull of his owne flock? |
A12167 | Shall the Church of God be the love of Christ, and shall it be our hatred? |
A12167 | Shall we thinke much then to waite a little while for him? |
A12167 | Shall we utterly distaste a Christian for that? |
A12167 | Si tuo tempore hec dicebas( O sapiens Au ● us ● ine) quid nostra tempestate d ● xisses? |
A12167 | So if you aske, How we know the Word of God to be the Word of God? |
A12167 | Summer and Winter arise from the presence and absence of the sunne: what causeth the Spring to be so cloathed withall those rich ornaments? |
A12167 | Surely thinks the soule then, he desires my Salvation, and Conversion; And to vvhat kind of persons doth he come? |
A12167 | That we may further improove this point, Is Christ altogether lovely, so lovely to us and so beloved of God the Father? |
A12167 | That which is most precious is most communicating, as the Sunne a glorious creature, what doth so much good as it? |
A12167 | The Church here from what doth shee commend her Beloved? |
A12167 | The Church stood upon tearmes with Christ when he would have come in to her, but what ensued hereupon? |
A12167 | The Lord is my Shepheard, and what is the use that David presently makes hereof? |
A12167 | The Question asked is, What is thy Beloved more then anothers Beloved, O thou fairest among woemen? |
A12167 | The Spouse there is cloathed with the Sunne, with the beames of Christ: but is that all? |
A12167 | The child of God is cast downe when he finds not the presence of God as he was wo ● ● t, his spirits faile? |
A12167 | The consideration hereof made her ashamed of her selfe, what so excellent, so deserving a person as my beloved is to me, to be used of me so? |
A12167 | The honours pleasures and profits that are got by base ingagements to the humours of men, what are these to Christ? |
A12167 | Then the second Question is, whither is thy Beloved gone? |
A12167 | Therefore why doe wee murmure at the crosse, when all is to recover our spirituall taste and rellish? |
A12167 | This drew the Disciples in admiration to say, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the seas obey him? |
A12167 | This fruitlesse estate being often watered from heaven, how fearefully is it threatned by the Holy Ghost? |
A12167 | This here in the text is not such, but a Question tending to further resolution and satisfaction, What is thy Beloved more then another Beloved? |
A12167 | This is one thing that may humble us of this place and nation, that Christ hath no further entrance, nor better entertainement after so long knocking? |
A12167 | This was a noble resolution which was in good Nehemiah, Shall such a man as I flie? |
A12167 | To come in particular, what is that good the Church here confesseth, when shee saith, that her heart waketh? |
A12167 | To come to make an Use of Direction, how to come to be able to say this, I am my Beloveds and my Beloved is mine? |
A12167 | To him that hath shall be given: what is that? |
A12167 | Upon the Crosse, what did hee indure there? |
A12167 | VVhither is he gone, how shall I get Christ? |
A12167 | Variant: cancellandum(?) |
A12167 | Was not he ashamed of us, and shall we be ashamed to owne him and his cause? |
A12167 | We are bidden to delight in the Lord, and in whom should we delight, but where all fullnesse is to be had to delight in? |
A12167 | We may love our friends( and we ought to doe so) and other blessings of God, but how? |
A12167 | Wee know what I ● hu said to Ionadab, when he would have him into his Chariot, Is thine heart as mine, then come to mee? |
A12167 | Were they awake, would they ever doe thus? |
A12167 | What a blessed estate is this? |
A12167 | What a blessed estate is this? |
A12167 | What a comfort was it to Iosephs brethren that their brother was the second person in the kingdome? |
A12167 | What a most blasphemous thought were this to conceive so? |
A12167 | What a pitifull case is it to lose other comforts, and therewith also to be in such a state, that we can not go to God with any boldnesse? |
A12167 | What a vvondrous condiscending is this? |
A12167 | What a world of incouragements hath a Christian? |
A12167 | What a world of precious time is spent in idle conversing, as if the time were a burthen, and no improovement to be made of the good parts of others? |
A12167 | What carried the blessed Saints and Martyrs of God in all times through the pikes of all discouragements? |
A12167 | What could hinder him? |
A12167 | What course taketh he? |
A12167 | What doe men meane when they feare not to lye, dissemble, and rush upon the pikes of Gods displeasure? |
A12167 | What doe our soules therefore thinke off? |
A12167 | What doe prophane persons in the Church? |
A12167 | What evill? |
A12167 | What folly and misery 〈 ◊ 〉 this, when there are delicate things to fe ● d on, to gnaw upon stones? |
A12167 | What had Christ no love but his Spouse? |
A12167 | What hindered them in the Gospell who were invited to the Supper? |
A12167 | What is excellent in the Heavens? |
A12167 | What is in our joy, if Christ bee not there? |
A12167 | What is in the braine where Christ is not? |
A12167 | What is the matter that such a one is so earnest, so carefull, watchfull laborious inquisitive? |
A12167 | What is the reason hee shunnes his owne conscience: that he is loath to heare the just and unanswerable accusations that it would charge upon him? |
A12167 | What is the reason hee shunnes the sight of holier and better menthen himselfe? |
A12167 | What is the reason of discomforts, unresolvednesse, and unsetlednesse? |
A12167 | What is thy Beloved more than another Beloved? |
A12167 | What is thy Beloved more then another Beloved, O thou fairest among woemen, what is thy Beloved more then another Beloved that thou dost so charge us? |
A12167 | What is thy Beloved more then another Beloved? |
A12167 | What is thy Beloved more then another Beloved? |
A12167 | What made Moses to fall from the delights of Egypt? |
A12167 | What makes a husbandman goe through all discouragements? |
A12167 | What makes a souldier to fight hard for the victory in the end? |
A12167 | What makes men in their corruptions to avoid the Ministery of the Word, or any thing that may avvake their consciences? |
A12167 | What place then should he have in our hearts? |
A12167 | What shall I say more of him? |
A12167 | What then shall be his presence in Heaven, how would it make the heart spring there thinke you? |
A12167 | What will become of us if we have not a husband to discharge all our debts but to bee imprisoned for ever? |
A12167 | What? |
A12167 | When they say one thing and doe another, are they not dead? |
A12167 | When wee are in our advised and best thoughts, what do ● wee most thinke off? |
A12167 | Whence came this fortitude? |
A12167 | Whence comes this fairenesse under such seeming foulenesse and disgrace? |
A12167 | Wherefore serves the Ministrie? |
A12167 | Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? |
A12167 | Who sues a wife for debt, when she is married? |
A12167 | Who will knocke, when he hath the key himselfe? |
A12167 | Who would not hate the divell if he should appeare in his owne likenesse? |
A12167 | Whom have I in heaven, but thee? |
A12167 | Whom should we rather desire to be like then one so great so gracious so loving? |
A12167 | Why Lord? |
A12167 | Why are we discouraged therefore; and why are we cast downe, when we have such a powerfull and such a gracious God to go to in all our extremities? |
A12167 | Why doth he give unto her the name of Spouse, and Sister but that he would be kinde, and loving, and that we should conceave so of him? |
A12167 | Why hath not Christ a quarrell to the Church then? |
A12167 | Why is Christ as King thus resembled to an head of gold? |
A12167 | Why is Christ said to have the eyes of doves? |
A12167 | Why should I be as one that turnes aside by the flocks of those that are Emulators to thee? |
A12167 | Why should we think basely of that which Christ thinks precious? |
A12167 | Why should we thinke that offensive which he counts as incense? |
A12167 | Why? |
A12167 | Why? |
A12167 | Will not a fowle that hath wings, avoyde the snare? |
A12167 | Will such excuses serve the turne? |
A12167 | Will the flesh indure this, thinke you? |
A12167 | Would a waking man runne into a pit? |
A12167 | Would we have our hearts to love Christ, to trust in him, and to embrace him, why then thinke what is hee to us? |
A12167 | Yes, for what doe corrections speak ●, but amendment of the fault we are corrected for? |
A12167 | and doe we not come to Church? |
A12167 | and doth not his mercy deserve, that our love should take all care, to serve him that is so gratious and good to us? |
A12167 | and hath not a Christian more cause to boast in God and in Salvation? |
A12167 | and take a base, ignoble, beggerly person? |
A12167 | and that he should take us into one Body with himselfe, to make one Christ? |
A12167 | and they double it, what is thy Beloved more then another Beloved that thou so chargest us? |
A12167 | and was it not lawfull for the married to take content in a wife? |
A12167 | and was this discovered to me and yet would I none of him? |
A12167 | and what doe those remaining in Popery feed on? |
A12167 | and who will knocke, when there is none within to open? |
A12167 | another had married a wife; were not all these things lawfull? |
A12167 | are they connaturall and suteable to us? |
A12167 | are they dearer unto us then thousands of gold and silver? |
A12167 | beginne there, nay and what we are? |
A12167 | by what? |
A12167 | can we imitate a better patterne? |
A12167 | did his love goe out of his own heart to her( as it were?) |
A12167 | doe we like them above all other truthes whatsoever? |
A12167 | doe we love them more then our appointed food? |
A12167 | doe wee thinke that hee will neglect his Jewels, his Spouse, his Diadem and Crowne? |
A12167 | doth he discover the breast of his father, and his owne heart to us? |
A12167 | doth he not deserve the marrow of our soules? |
A12167 | doth his love make him blind? |
A12167 | doth not his greatnesse require it at our hands, that our sences bee all waking? |
A12167 | from the presence of Christ, and the Comforter which he had formerly promised? |
A12167 | hath he beene a wildernesse to us? |
A12167 | hath he ordained a ministery for to bring me in? |
A12167 | how can this be? |
A12167 | how doe I proove them to bee good? |
A12167 | how few lay hould upon God, presse upon him, wrestle with him by prayer? |
A12167 | how furthers it my journey homewards? |
A12167 | how long doth hee still waite for the through giving up of our soules to him? |
A12167 | how many indignities did he digest in his Desciples after their conversion? |
A12167 | how shall I seeke him? |
A12167 | in any thing in the world? |
A12167 | is hee blind? |
A12167 | is my body his to defile, is my tongue his to sweare at his pleasure, shall I make the temple of God the member of an harlot? |
A12167 | is not his obedience enough for us? |
A12167 | is this unkindnesse even in Nature to looke strangely upon a man that is neere a kin, that comes and saith, Open to mee my Sister? |
A12167 | made such large promises, is he so excellent? |
A12167 | must we loose our comfort? |
A12167 | now faire when her vaile was taken away? |
A12167 | now faire when the Watchmen abased her: now faire when she was disgraced? |
A12167 | or are they not? |
A12167 | or sinne if it should appeare in his owne colours? |
A12167 | or take them at the best, are they not asleepe? |
A12167 | or upon a swords point? |
A12167 | or will a beast runne into a pit when it sees it? |
A12167 | shall I doe this; yeeld to this base discouragement? |
A12167 | shall J discourage others( like those spies of Canaan) by mine example? |
A12167 | shall it be all one to me, what opinions are held? |
A12167 | shall not J stand for Religion? |
A12167 | shall we need to patch it up with our owne righteousnesse? |
A12167 | that is, by those that are not true friends, that are false shepheards, why should I be drawne away by them? |
A12167 | that nothing is left? |
A12167 | the want of spirits, wee are dull, and overloaden with grosse humours, whereby the strength sinkes and failes? |
A12167 | were it not a mad part? |
A12167 | what a spirit of slumber possesseth us, which will be awaked with nothing to seeke after Christ? |
A12167 | what did I choose, and what did I leave? |
A12167 | what indignity is this? |
A12167 | what is the reason ▪ this second question is seldome made? |
A12167 | what patience had hee in enduring the refractorie spirits of men when he was here? |
A12167 | what shall J flie? |
A12167 | when our Brother comes for our good, and in pittie to our soules to let him stand without doores? |
A12167 | where is this stirring up of our selves, and one another upon these grounds? |
A12167 | whether is thy beloved turned aside, that we may seeke him with thee? |
A12167 | whither is thy Beloved turned aside that we may seeke him with thee? |
A12167 | why were men then so violent to cleave unto Christ? |
A12167 | why what time had David when hee meditated on the Law of God day and night? |
A12167 | would you have better food? |
A12167 | 〈 ◊ 〉 shall we do that? |
A12197 | 1 That Christ was forsaken ● 2 That hee was very sensible of it, even unto complaint, Why hast thou for saken me? |
A12197 | A complaint by way of expos ● ulation, Why hast thou forsaken me? |
A12197 | About the ninth houre Iesus cryed with a loud voyce, Ely, Ely, Lamasabac- thany( that is to say) My God, my God, w ● y hast thou forsaken me? |
A12197 | Achitophell had the keeping of his owne soule, and what became of him? |
A12197 | Againe we see here, that mischievous attempts, are successelesse in the end: for did ever any harden themselves against God and prosper long? |
A12197 | Againe, it is farre better; because to bee with Christ is to have the marriage consummate, is not marriage better than the contract? |
A12197 | Againe, those that commit their soules, or any thing to God, finde themselves quieted therein; Is it not so amongst men? |
A12197 | Alas, how can a man at the houre of death commit his soule into the hands of Almighty God, that staggers whether he bee his childe or no? |
A12197 | Alas, how many good thoughts are conceived whilest the word is hearing, which yet prove abortive and sticke in the birth? |
A12197 | Alas, what shall become of them ere long? |
A12197 | All other faithfulnesse is but a Beame of that which is in God: Shall not hee bee most faithful that makes other things faithfull? |
A12197 | And is it much farre better to die, that we may be with Christ, than to live here a conflicting life? |
A12197 | And shall not wee beloved say, My God, in any affliction or trouble that befals us? |
A12197 | And shall wee not now much more considering it hath beene attended by God with so many mercies, cherish and maintaine the same all we can? |
A12197 | And when they have gotten a little grace how difficult is it to keepe it? |
A12197 | And whence is this to me,( said Elizabeth) that the mother of my Lord should come unto me? |
A12197 | Are Gods people his house? |
A12197 | Aske a sinner when hee is about to sinne, Could you not wish that there were no God at all, that there were no eye of heaven to take vengeance on you? |
A12197 | Austin saith well, Every sinne is a lye; Men would be happy, yet they will not live so as they may be happy; what more deceitfull than this? |
A12197 | Beloved, God stands upon his prerogative then, when he is scarce knowne in the world; when they say, Where is God? |
A12197 | Beloved, shall such a man as he was, so carefull, so fruitfull, so good, shall he complaine thus? |
A12197 | Beloved, the Gospel suffers much through the sides of professors: What saith the wicked worldling? |
A12197 | Beloved, wee ought to seek out Gods workes, and shall wee not take notice of them when they are offered to our view? |
A12197 | Beloved, when trouble of conscience comes, when sicknesse and death comes, what will become of a man that hath not this sweete acquaintance with God? |
A12197 | Beloved, who amongst us would indure a barren tree in his Garden? |
A12197 | But against whom was this plot directed? |
A12197 | But by whom and against whom, was this plotting? |
A12197 | But for what end doth GOD leave his children, as he did here our blessed Saviour? |
A12197 | But how could Christ bee forsaken of God,( especially so forsaken as to suffer the anger of his father) being an innocent person? |
A12197 | But how could Christ take our sinnes upon him and not be defiled therewith? |
A12197 | But how doth God deliver? |
A12197 | But how long doth he desire that God should have glory? |
A12197 | But how shall we attaine this sanctified sweet desire that Paul had, to die and be with Christ? |
A12197 | But how should wee expect our words should prevaile, when as the great workes of God prevaile not at all with them? |
A12197 | But in what part was Christ forsaken? |
A12197 | But may not a good Christian feare death? |
A12197 | But must wee not commit our bodies and our estates to God, as well as our soules? |
A12197 | But perhaps GOD will not heare mee? |
A12197 | But put the case I can not pray, as sometimes wee are in such a case that we can not make a large prayer to God? |
A12197 | But suppose a man be in a desperate estate, and hath no way of escaping? |
A12197 | But suppose a man carry himselfe ill in suffering? |
A12197 | But to whom must the soule be committed? |
A12197 | But upon what ground should Christ become our surety? |
A12197 | But what be the more especiall times wherein a man may know some judgement is like to fall upon the Church of God? |
A12197 | But what course took David herein? |
A12197 | But what is here to bee beheld? |
A12197 | But what is meant by judgement here? |
A12197 | But what is the limitation here? |
A12197 | But what man will have his courtesies rejected though never so meane? |
A12197 | But what must wee commit to God in well doing? |
A12197 | But what should wee desire our soules to bee kept from in this world? |
A12197 | But what speciall reason was there that Christ should take this so deeply? |
A12197 | But what stirred up this wisdome of God? |
A12197 | But what supported the faith of Christ in this woefull, rufull estate he was in, being forsaken of God as our Surety? |
A12197 | But what was the manner of carrying their designe? |
A12197 | But when is sinne ripe? |
A12197 | But where shall they stand in the houre of death? |
A12197 | But whilst Paul lived in this cold comfort on Earth, see what large encouragement had hee from Heaven? |
A12197 | But why doth God chiefly afflict his owne people more then others? |
A12197 | But why must wee commit our soules to God? |
A12197 | But why was Christ thus forsaken of his Father? |
A12197 | But will not God keepe us without wee commit our selves unto him? |
A12197 | But, how may I come to obey the Gospell? |
A12197 | But, what is it to obey the Gospell? |
A12197 | Can that man put confidence in God that prowles for himselfe, and thinkes he hath no Father in heaven to provide for him? |
A12197 | Christ our Head being in heaven, will draw his body after him; What should hinder us? |
A12197 | Consider this, will Christ come from Heaven ere long to bee glorified in us, and shall not we labour to glorifie him, while we are here? |
A12197 | Did not satan, and all the spirituall powers of Hell daily come about him, like ramping& roaring Lions? |
A12197 | Doe men who live in these sinnes( without remorse) thinke to come to heaven? |
A12197 | Doe the creatures know their times and seasons, and shall Christ complaine that we know not the day of our visitation? |
A12197 | Doe these men thinke they repent? |
A12197 | Doe they care to hurt the body? |
A12197 | Doe we thinke it will goe alone when it goes, whensoever God removes it from us? |
A12197 | Doe wee not thinke God stands upon his truth and faithfulnesse? |
A12197 | Doest thou want any grace? |
A12197 | Doth not Christ dwell amongst us by his Ordinances,& by his Spirit working effectually in the same? |
A12197 | Doth not the Gospell bring salvation? |
A12197 | Doth that childe trust his father, that( besides going to schoole) thinkes what hee shall put on? |
A12197 | Doth that man beleeve he shall obtaine a heavenly kingdome, who never sits himselfe with holinesse for it? |
A12197 | Even among men, are not sinnes against favours the greatest sinnes? |
A12197 | For the favour of men that will faile, shall I lose the perpetuall favour of God, whose wrath is a cōsuming fire& burnes to hell? |
A12197 | For the time is come that judgement must begin at the house of God, and if it begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospell? |
A12197 | For will a man trust his Iewels with an enemy, or with a doubtfull friend? |
A12197 | Get loving hearts, love is full of invention, how shall I glorifie God? |
A12197 | God preserves us from evill workes, and preserves us to his heavenly Kingdome of his meere love and mercy; where then is the merit of man? |
A12197 | God will meet thee one time or other: is thy will at liberty? |
A12197 | Had we not better beleeve this than finde it so hereafter? |
A12197 | Hast thou not all thou hast from God as a Steward, to improve for thy Masters advantage? |
A12197 | Hath not Antichrist a long time prevailed? |
A12197 | Have I lost Christ and all the Good by him for ever, only to satisfie my sinfull disposition? |
A12197 | He provided for them before they were borne, doth not hee provide care and affection in the Mothers heart? |
A12197 | Hee hath made all for his owne glory, and when wee with a single eye can ayme at that too, what a sweet harmony is there? |
A12197 | Here a question would bee answered, which some uncharitable spirits make, and that is this, Whether England bee the house of God, or no? |
A12197 | Here then is the use of al uses: What is the former use which Paul makes of the experiēce of Gods deliverāce? |
A12197 | How are good men despised in the world? |
A12197 | How are they made the onely Butt to shoot at? |
A12197 | How can we misse of salvation when we are saved already? |
A12197 | How contrary to a carnall man, that lives according to the sway of his owne base lusts? |
A12197 | How did hee sweate water and bloud in the garden, when hee felt but a little while his Fathers displeasure for sinne? |
A12197 | How doe Physitians deliver from an Apoplexie ● from a Letharg ● e? |
A12197 | How few actions come to their due ripenesse and perfection? |
A12197 | How is that? |
A12197 | How is that? |
A12197 | How little a temptation turnes over a great man? |
A12197 | How prove you that? |
A12197 | How strong in faith might old men be, that have had many experiences of Gods love; if they would take this course? |
A12197 | How sweet is a mans rest at night after he hath y ● elded himselfe to God by faithfull prayer? |
A12197 | How then was Christ forsaken? |
A12197 | How will it shame a man when he shall thinke, I doe these things now, but what will Posterity thinke of me? |
A12197 | I beseech you consider, what hurt have wee ever had by the reformation of Religion? |
A12197 | I must leave such a childe so much, and so much, and why I pray you? |
A12197 | I stand not upon others forsaking, but why hast thou forsaken me? |
A12197 | If Christ cryed out thus, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A12197 | If Christ had committed his health to God, and had cast himselfe downe from the Pinnacle, what an act had this beene? |
A12197 | If a King should say so, O how would we be set on fire? |
A12197 | If a house be not in perfect repaire, is it not still a house? |
A12197 | If a man commit a Iewell to a trusty friend, is hee not secure presently? |
A12197 | If he deliver, it is from the greatest evill; if he preserve, it is to the greatest good; Who would not serve such a master? |
A12197 | If it bee sinne to kill infants in the wombe, what is it to kill the breed of the blessed spirit in our hearts? |
A12197 | If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the wicked and ungodly appeare? |
A12197 | If times come that Religion flourish or goes downward, yet relye on him still; hath hee not given his Sonne to us, and will hee not give heaven also? |
A12197 | If wee speake of grace, and good things, it is better to bee with Christ than enjoy the graces and com ● orts of the holy- Ghost here; Why? |
A12197 | In this Portion of Scripture you have Christs Compellation, My God, and his Complaint, Why hast thou forsaken me? |
A12197 | Is it not a good thing to have a sweete security of soule? |
A12197 | Is it not a greater comfort that a Prince should come in Person to a subject, and cheare him up, than send a meaner man? |
A12197 | Is it not a spirit of illusion? |
A12197 | Is it not the greatest comfort to a Christian soule, when God in want of meanes, comes immediately himselfe unto us, and comforts us by his Spirit? |
A12197 | Is it not the word of grace, the word of life, the word of the Kingdome? |
A12197 | Is not the earth the Lords, and the fulnesse thereof? |
A12197 | Is not the least evil of sinne worse than the greatest evill of punishment? |
A12197 | Is there any way wherein I may shew my thankfulnesse, and I will doe it? |
A12197 | Is this repentance, when a man is inveigled with the sin hee meanes to commit: and can not overcome himselfe in the case of revenge? |
A12197 | It may bee objected, Here is a great deale of labour and striving against corruptions in deed, may not a man walk with God without all this adoe? |
A12197 | It was S. Pauls complaint, and it will be the complaint of all sinfull wretches at the last day; What hath pride profited us? |
A12197 | It was done to the greene tree, and shal we wonder if it be done in the drie? |
A12197 | It will make him search his heart in regard of corruption; Is there any sinne that I am not willing to part with? |
A12197 | It will make him search the experience of other Christians; Have you any word of comfort for me? |
A12197 | Iudas by his thirty peeces of silver? |
A12197 | Let the body imitate the head, even goe to GOD in their behalfe, and powre out your complaint ● before him, Lord, where are thy mercies of old? |
A12197 | Marke the bitter expressions in Scripture, Why do the heathen rage without feare or wit? |
A12197 | Most men looke how safe their counsels are, not how holy and agreeable to God; is this to trust in him? |
A12197 | My soule thirsteth for God, for the living God, when shall I come and appeare before God? |
A12197 | My ● od, my God, why hast thou for saken mee? |
A12197 | No people o ● t of the Church are capable of this sin; for how can they sinne by infidelity and unthankfulnesse for the Gospell, that never had it? |
A12197 | No, for immediately after, he was put to death; what then? |
A12197 | Now dost thou so? |
A12197 | Now if this man shall scarcely bee saved, where shall the sinner and ungodly appeare? |
A12197 | Now what returne shall wee make for all this? |
A12197 | Oh I, with all my heart; and can you then wonder that God hates sinne so, when it hates him so, as to wish the not being of God? |
A12197 | Oh beloved, how should wee reverence the blessed truth of God, and gracious motions of his Spirit? |
A12197 | Oh beloved, what deprives a poore Christian soule of cōfort more than this? |
A12197 | Oh but how doe they resigne them? |
A12197 | Oh how the wicked tremble and quake when G O D comes to judge them in this world, though they were a terrour to others before? |
A12197 | Oh were we but acquainted with this kinde of reasoning with God, how undaunted would we bee in all troubles? |
A12197 | Oh what a sweet comfort will it be when we are on our death- bed, to thinke what we have done in our life times? |
A12197 | On the contrary, what a good thing is it( like Iosi ● ● and Nehemiah) to bee full of goodnesse while wee live? |
A12197 | Patience is too meane a word: what a ground of joy and triumphing is it? |
A12197 | Put ca ● e a man were subject to an hundred deaths one after another, what are all these to salvation? |
A12197 | Saint Paul saith, The Wife is the glory of the Husband; what meanes he by this? |
A12197 | Set heaven and salvation aside, what greater happinesse can be desired? |
A12197 | Shall God laugh, and we cry? |
A12197 | Shall I for a pleasure that will end, have a judgement that shall never end? |
A12197 | Shall a man praise God for that which he doubts of? |
A12197 | Shall such a man as I doe this? |
A12197 | Shall the members of Christ suffer in other countries, and wee professe our selves to bee living members, and yet not sympathize with them? |
A12197 | Sinne promiseth us contentment, continuance, secrecie, full satisfaction& c. but doth it make good this? |
A12197 | That a friend should bee faithfull to his friend, is it not from God the great friend? |
A12197 | The Lord hath delivered me; aud therefore he will deliver me: but what use doth he make of this, that God will deliver him? |
A12197 | This is the unhappinesse of us Ministers; all other professions are beleeved when they discover danger, but who beleeveth our report? |
A12197 | Those that are hurried in their life with false doubts and perplexities, What shall become of mee? |
A12197 | Those that have misused their bodies, and wounded their soules in their lives, how can they commit thē to God at their deaths? |
A12197 | To conclude, marke what the Apostle saith here, What shall bee the end of those that obey not the Gospell? |
A12197 | To manage our Christian State aright? |
A12197 | To whom was God nearer than Christ in support and sanctifying grace? |
A12197 | Upon what ground? |
A12197 | Was Christ ignorant of the cause of Gods forsaking him? |
A12197 | Was Christ so exceding sensible of the want of his Fathers love, though it were but a while? |
A12197 | We see the Disciples when they had the spirit of Christ within them, to warme their hearts, what cared they for whipping or Stockes,& c? |
A12197 | We see this in David and Salomon, and( if God leave us to our selves) even the strongest man in the world, how soone is he overturned? |
A12197 | Wee had it dearely, it hath beene taught by our forefathers, and sealed with their blood;& shall we betray it? |
A12197 | Wee may justly take up Salvians complaint in his time, Who hath made the earth faithfull to bring forth fruit( saith he) but God? |
A12197 | Wee need not bee ashamed to learne some things of our very enemies: If they be so pragmaticall for evill, why should not wee be as active for good? |
A12197 | Wee see this forsaking was in the natur all branch, and shall wee wonder that it is done in the grafted branches? |
A12197 | Were ever any, when the beginning and ending was laid together, established by wickednesse? |
A12197 | What a blessed commendation is this( next to Heaven) to have a blessed report on earth? |
A12197 | What a comfort is it to have a wall of fire still compassing us about? |
A12197 | What a happy thing is it when a man is gone, to say, such a man did such a thing? |
A12197 | What a preposterous course is this? |
A12197 | What a scandall is this to the cause of Christ? |
A12197 | What are all our remporall deliverances, if wee live still in sin, goe on in sinne, die in our sinnes, and so perish eternally? |
A12197 | What are the honours of the earth, but meere shadowes of good? |
A12197 | What be those times wherein God will visit his Church? |
A12197 | What can the favour of men( upon whom wee beare our selves) doe us good now? |
A12197 | What course should we take to prevent the Judgement of God, and keepe it from us? |
A12197 | What doe I say, the Righteous shall be saved? |
A12197 | What doe men thinke to reigne in heaven, when they can not raigne over their owne hase corruptions? |
A12197 | What doest thou talke man? |
A12197 | What doth a man get by pleasing men to displease God? |
A12197 | What god Haman( and so of the rest) by their sinnes at the last? |
A12197 | What got Pharaoh by being delivered from ten plagues, and then to perish in the Sea? |
A12197 | What had become of him if that had not swallowed him up? |
A12197 | What if wee passe unknowne in the world? |
A12197 | What is above nature if this bee not, for a man to overcome himselfe in this sweet appetite of revenge? |
A12197 | What is the Gospell but salvation and redemption by Christ alone? |
A12197 | What is the glory of England? |
A12197 | What is the ground and end of it? |
A12197 | What is the reason that love descends so much? |
A12197 | What makes a man fall foule? |
A12197 | What nourishment can there be without digestion? |
A12197 | What shall their end be that obey not the Gospell? |
A12197 | What will a man care for crosses, and losses, and disgraces in the world, that thinkes of a heavenly Kingdome? |
A12197 | What will a man care for ill usage in his pilgrimage, when he knowes he is a King at home? |
A12197 | What will not the presence of GOD doe when a man enjoyes his face? |
A12197 | What will not the word of a King doe? |
A12197 | What, will God keepe him from evill sufferings? |
A12197 | What? |
A12197 | When a man considers, I suffer now, but it is by the will of God, he puts me upon it, how cheerfully will such a one commit his soule to the Lord? |
A12197 | When wee are in the state of grace, they will have Merit of condignity; but how can that be, when as free grace runnes along in all? |
A12197 | Where shall the ungodly and sinners appeare? |
A12197 | Which of you al hath not some time or other had his heart warmed with the sweet motions of Gods Spirit? |
A12197 | Who would lose the comfort of all this, to be barren, and yeeld to his base unbeleeving dead heart? |
A12197 | Whom should I desire to be like more than him, that hath done so much for me? |
A12197 | Why doe wee limit the holy One of Israel, and not cast our selves upon him, except hee will covenant to deale thus and thus with us? |
A12197 | Why doth God begin with his owne Church and people? |
A12197 | Why doth he not say, I desire to be in heaven? |
A12197 | Why is it not so with us? |
A12197 | Why should we then feare death, that is but a passage to Christ? |
A12197 | Why so? |
A12197 | Why then should men take indirect courses, and wound their consciences for worldly pel ● e? |
A12197 | Why? |
A12197 | Why? |
A12197 | Will God save us at last, and yet suffer us to live as wee li ● t now? |
A12197 | Would hee have committed his dearest jewell into the hands of God, if hee had not beleeved in him? |
A12197 | Would you know some rules of discerning whether heaven belongs to you or not? |
A12197 | You see even base carnall love will make a man indute poverty, disgrace, what not? |
A12197 | a Sheild that our enemies must breake through before they can come at us? |
A12197 | alas, his heart is become a stone; Where shall Balthazar appeare whē he sees a hand- writing upon the wall? |
A12197 | all this may bee spared when there is a loving heart: And when shall we have loving hearts? |
A12197 | an eternall King to rule me both in lise and in death? |
A12197 | and adventure upon no good action? |
A12197 | and is Christ an eternall head? |
A12197 | and knows not whether he shall goe to heaven or hell? |
A12197 | and shall not this fire that comes from heavē, when it is once kindled in our hearts prevaile much more? |
A12197 | and to lay a foundation of happinesse and prosperity to the Church and State when we are gone? |
A12197 | and was it not foretold that the beast should prevaile? |
A12197 | and yet to whom was he further off in present feeling? |
A12197 | as though they should come out of the puddle to heaven? |
A12197 | because God can not blesse him else: Oh fearefull, Is God ● yed to mean ● s, can not heblesse with a little as well as with a great deale? |
A12197 | but to be with Christ is to triumph over all enemies, to be out of Satans reach; is not perfection better than imperfection? |
A12197 | can he desire the Image of God upon him that hates it in others and in himselfe too? |
A12197 | can he desire the communion of Saints, that( of all societies) hates it the most? |
A12197 | can he desire to be free from sinne, that ingulfes himselfe continually in sinne? |
A12197 | did not that awaken wisdome to reconcile justice and mercy to Christ? |
A12197 | doe wee want comfort, and strength, and assistance, and have wee a God the Fountaine of all to goe to? |
A12197 | doest thou want spirituall life? |
A12197 | doth not he provide suck in the Mothers breasts, and will hee not care for them now they are borne, as well as he did before they came into the world? |
A12197 | doth the world continue for a company of wretches, a company of prophane, blasphemous, loose, disorderly livers? |
A12197 | from da ● ger? |
A12197 | from death? |
A12197 | hast thou a minde to be better? |
A12197 | hath God beene a barren wildernesse to us? |
A12197 | hath hee not trusted thee with a Body and a soule, with a portion of goods, with place, time, strength and abilities to doe good? |
A12197 | hath it come naked unto us? |
A12197 | hath it not beene attended with peace and prosperity? |
A12197 | hath not God beene a wall of fire about us? |
A12197 | have wee a God that is our GOD, and doe wee want grace? |
A12197 | he that gives thee the will, will also give thee the deed: is not this the Promise that God will deliver thee from every evill worke? |
A12197 | he will universally make a riddance of them all at once: where shall a Naball stand when judgement comes upon him? |
A12197 | how can loose livers and your filthy uncleane wretches that live in continuall enmity against the Lord, commit themselves with any comfort unto him? |
A12197 | how can the swearer commit his soule to God? |
A12197 | how covetous and full of distrust are they? |
A12197 | how he shall be provided for, and what inheritance he shall have hereafter? |
A12197 | how much seed is spilt in vaine? |
A12197 | how shall I bring to heaven as many as I can? |
A12197 | how shall I doe good to others? |
A12197 | how shall a man praise God for salvation, when perhaps he shall not come to it? |
A12197 | how shall a man praise God for that which perhaps he may fall from, before hee die? |
A12197 | in the midst of sinsull occasions, how ready are wee to joyne with them, and betray our owne soules? |
A12197 | is it not from God the chiefe Father? |
A12197 | is not home better than absence? |
A12197 | it is but a departure to a better condition? |
A12197 | must God have so much in hand or else hee can not inrich and raise up thy Children? |
A12197 | shall I for a little profit, lose my soule eternally? |
A12197 | shall a piece of dust and clay bee so neare God, when I am tumbled out of heaven my selfe? |
A12197 | take away the Gospel, and what have wee that other Nations have not better then our selves? |
A12197 | that one professing the same religion, should study to supplant and devoure another? |
A12197 | that whether I sleepe or wake, whether I bee at home or abroad, live or die, I have a Providence watching over mee better then mine owne? |
A12197 | the world? |
A12197 | to be with Christ is to be at home; is not triumph better than to be in conflict? |
A12197 | to keepe our selves in the sense of Gods love? |
A12197 | to please a carnall friend? |
A12197 | to save a little here? |
A12197 | to sleepe in a whole skin? |
A12197 | to walke worthy of the Gospell, that God may still doe us good and delight to bee present with us? |
A12197 | what a shame is this? |
A12197 | what are the worme- eaten pleasures of the world? |
A12197 | what hath your obedience beene, this is that God lookes after; every man can talke of religion, but where is the practice? |
A12197 | what is the matter? |
A12197 | what shall I eate, and what shall I drinke,& c? |
A12197 | what shall a company of us do? |
A12197 | what will be the remembrance of it when I am gone? |
A12197 | what will make our passage to heaven sweete if this will not? |
A12197 | when perhaps hee is Gods to day, and may be the Devills to morrow? |
A12197 | when was this? |
A12197 | where are the sounding of thy bowels? |
A12197 | where are thy ancient bowels to thy Church? |
A12197 | where are thy former mercies? |
A12197 | where is the popish doctrine of falling away then? |
A12197 | where is then the bringing forth of a lye? |
A12197 | who could know the price of a soule better than hee that gave his life for redemption of it? |
A12197 | why should the enemy triumph? |
A12197 | why then are wee disquieted? |
A12197 | why then should we distrust him in lesser? |
A12197 | will a man leave his house, though it bee never so meane, when hee knowes not whither to goe? |
A12197 | will a man leave the prison when he knows he shall be caryed to execution? |
A12197 | would not ● sharpe execution be the just desert of such persons? |
A12182 | & shall not Christ God- man, derive righteousnesse, and comfort, and joy, and peace, and whatsoever is good? |
A12182 | ( that tenent in Popery is against sense) when a man is condemned by the law, is his name in the law? |
A12182 | ( to come to that more particularly) They say unto me? |
A12182 | ( to speak a little of that by the way) thou lovest, and art kind, but saith Christ, what peculiar thing canst thou doe? |
A12182 | 26, to send warre and famine& c. For the breach of his Covenant: what a comfort is it then for such as have kept the Covenant? |
A12182 | 3. Who shall assend into thy hill, O Lord, who shall stand in thy holy place? |
A12182 | A Conscience that hath answered God by believing his promises and hath renewed the Covenant to obey God in all things, what a wondrous peace hath it? |
A12182 | A Kingdome, nay all the Kingdomes in the world will not comfort a man, if his body be not in tune, and alas, how soone is this body out of tune? |
A12182 | A heathen man may be kind and loving, but canst thou overcome revenge, canst thou spare, and doe good to thine enemies? |
A12182 | A wicked man can never desire to be in heaven as he should be: for how should we desire to be in heaven? |
A12182 | Againe, if our bodies be vile and base, why should wee spend the strength of our soules in searching to satisfie the lusts of so vile a body? |
A12182 | Againe, is our body a vile body, a base body, as wee have it here? |
A12182 | Againe, let us make use of all former experience to strengthen faith: Hath God beg ● … n the worke? |
A12182 | Againe, this touched upon religion it selfe, this reproach, where is now thy God? |
A12182 | Againe, what paines did hee take in this body? |
A12182 | Againe, why doth God reveale these things before hands, that wee shall appeare in glory in our body and soule, in our whole man? |
A12182 | Alas the guiltie soule, how dares it look God in the face but by a promise? |
A12182 | All the Saints in former time were wondrous thankfull for that they had: for what can a travailer look for but discourtesies, and hard usage? |
A12182 | All worldlings, and base creatures, they out- live their happinesse; for where do they plant it? |
A12182 | An instrument that hath many strings, is soone subject to be out of tune, and there are many strings in the body: how many turnings? |
A12182 | Anabaptisticall spirits would not have children baptized, if they believe not: why then were the Children of the Iewes circumcised? |
A12182 | And as he spake, so the rest thought of him, as if he had beene a man forsaken; and so here they say to this holy man, where is thy God? |
A12182 | And can we have more incouragement? |
A12182 | And continually too, they are never weary, they say daily, where is thy God? |
A12182 | And he was never nearer to David, then when they said, where is thy God? |
A12182 | And how will God take this at the houre of death? |
A12182 | And if the time be long ere heaven and earth be destroyed, yet what will become of me ere long? |
A12182 | And joyne with it an enquiry upon the soule; are these things so? |
A12182 | And may we not triumph against all enemies when there is the answere of a good Conscience? |
A12182 | And next you see here, that God overthrowes their wals, and by what meanes? |
A12182 | And so for abounding in good workes, your labour is not in vaine in the Lord: what made Saint Paul presse the abounding in good workes? |
A12182 | And so for chearefulnesse: that God also requires in every action, what inlargeth the heart of a man in Gods worke? |
A12182 | And so for the meanes of salvation, men that care not for hearing the word, are they perswaded it is the word of God to salvation? |
A12182 | And so let us hold out, we shall receive a reward, what will make us constant but this? |
A12182 | And then betweene them, and that they looked to what difficulties were there? |
A12182 | And then what a blessed time will that be, when every one shall be glorious himselfe, and shall put downe the Sunne in glory in his body, and soule? |
A12182 | And thirdly in this reproach of theirs, thus violent, Where is now thy God? |
A12182 | And to helpe us, doe but consider, what if wee waite a few yeares, what is that to Eternitie? |
A12182 | And we may know that we are Gods peculiar by some peculiar thing that wee can doe: what peculiar thing canst thou doe? |
A12182 | And what serves that knowledge for, but to damne them, the more? |
A12182 | And when he is in such a state, what is all the world to him? |
A12182 | And who will shew us any good? |
A12182 | And( to cut off other things, for where should 〈 ◊ 〉 end?) |
A12182 | Anti christ pe ● … 〈 ◊ 〉 men to their religion, how? |
A12182 | Are there not men now abroad, that will revive these heresies? |
A12182 | As if he had allowed, and liked of the base carriage and condition, and profession of these wretched men, as well as of Davids: where is now thy God? |
A12182 | As the Prophet complaines; hath ● … ligion done us any harme? |
A12182 | As with a Sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me: while they say unto me daily, where is thy GOD? |
A12182 | As with a sword in my bones mine enemies reproach me, while they say to me daily, where is thy God? |
A12182 | As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me, when they say unto me dayly, Where is thy God? |
A12182 | Blessed Abraham who was a type of Christ, how many difficulties had he? |
A12182 | But God will sometimes, even stirre up the hearts of wicked men, to a sight and admiration of the excellent estate of Gods children; why? |
A12182 | But are no ● … wee as ill? |
A12182 | But doe not men joy in the creature and delight in it ofttimes more then in God? |
A12182 | But doe we doe so? |
A12182 | But how can God bee the God of our children, when they are borne in corruption, Children of wrath? |
A12182 | But how could this bee free, when they ● … ould not avoid it? |
A12182 | But how shall any Christian know, that his body shall be like to the glorious body of Christ? |
A12182 | But how shall they know that they are Gods children at that time? |
A12182 | But in whom it is established, how commeth it to be sure? |
A12182 | But secondly, when wee have found God to be our God, then make this use of it, a use of resolution: is God my God? |
A12182 | But the Pope, the Beast, what was too blame in him? |
A12182 | But to answer an ordinary let, or two, that the Devill casts in mens wayes, in these things: But doth not God accept the will for the deed? |
A12182 | But was it the strength of faith in it selfe? |
A12182 | But what if they have not Baptisme, the seal of the Covenant? |
A12182 | But what is the scope? |
A12182 | But what is the specialtie of this reproach? |
A12182 | But why is the state of Rome called the Beast? |
A12182 | But why must all this come to passe? |
A12182 | But you will say, how shall we know, that this Covenant belongeth to us, that wee are such as we may say, God is our God? |
A12182 | But you will say, wicked men are strangers, and pilgrims too? |
A12182 | But, alas, what is this? |
A12182 | By what eye? |
A12182 | Can he wish this? |
A12182 | Can there bee any thing in the Current, that is not in the Spring before? |
A12182 | Can they bee Children of wrath, and the Children of God both at one time? |
A12182 | Can we say with David, Whom have I in heaven but thee, or what is there in earth in comparison of thee? |
A12182 | Canst thou sacrifice Isaac as he did? |
A12182 | Christ was in the Saints, when Saul persecuted them, and Paul was not aware of it: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? |
A12182 | Christianly, and dies in the faith he lived by; when as a great man, in conceite, in know ledge he lives wickedly, and dies worse? |
A12182 | Could wee be dead either for grace or comfort, if wee did oft thinke of this with application? |
A12182 | Curse yee Meroz: why? |
A12182 | David might rather have said to them, where are your eyes? |
A12182 | David, Iehosaphat, and all the saints what doe they alledge in their prayers to God? |
A12182 | Doe those thinke of this, that use their bodyes for base purposes? |
A12182 | Doe we thinke that God wil suffer the creature to serve him as hee pleaseth? |
A12182 | Doe you renownce the Flesh, and the World, and the Divell? |
A12182 | Doth God raise up men to rule, that they should enthral themselves, and their Kingdomes to the Beast, to give them to Gods Enemies? |
A12182 | Dothnot God care for us? |
A12182 | Every birth is with pangs: now what is death, but th ● … birth to immortality, the birth of glory? |
A12182 | Faith hath eares of her owne, to heare the word of God, and believe it; faith hath eyes of her owne; and what kinde of eyes? |
A12182 | Finally my brethren, be stedfast and unmooveable, al ● … y abounding in the work of the Lord, why? |
A12182 | First let us thinke of the incouragement, that is our warrant, and then yeeld present obedience: And then what will bee the issue? |
A12182 | First of all concerning God: for when they said to him, Where is thy God? |
A12182 | First they are within the Covenant, have they not received the seale of the Covenant, which is Baptisme? |
A12182 | For David found experience of God; he might rather have upbraided them, where is your God? |
A12182 | For how should wee performe all that comes from us? |
A12182 | For indeed all that the body hath here, it is beholding to the soule for, why therefore should it not be an instrument for the soule in holy things? |
A12182 | For instance, is the retyred carriage of men to God, such as their carryage is to the eye of the world? |
A12182 | For the Devill knowes well enough, that as long as God, and the soule joyne together, it is in vaine to trouble any man? |
A12182 | For the building of the wals of Iericho what should I speake of Popery, and the like? |
A12182 | For what if God give you particular favours, if they bee not from his grace and favour, what will they doe us good? |
A12182 | For why is the worke of the spirit called an earnest, but that God will make good the bargaine? |
A12182 | For yee are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God,& c. You see the first proposition, yee are dead, with whom? |
A12182 | Gerson, that had many good things in him, though he lived in ill times: Oh saith he, good Augustine, Dost thou complaine of those times? |
A12182 | God by Ieremy speakes to Bar ● … ch a good man, I will destroy all these things, and dost 〈 ◊ 〉 seeke great things for thy selfe? |
A12182 | God complaines how they served him, therefore saith he, what hast thou to doe to take my Covenant into thy mouth, and hatest to be reformed? |
A12182 | God saw how Abraham apprehended and valued seed, when hee said, what wilt thou give me, since I am childlesse? |
A12182 | God to his word addeth seales, to help our faith: what a good God is this? |
A12182 | God was never nearer him in all his life then then; and yet he cryes out; my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A12182 | Gods Covenant now is such a Testament, sealed with the death of Christ, made out of love, meerely for our good, for what can God receive of us? |
A12182 | Happy in their disposition; what is the disposition of a holy, and blessed man at his end? |
A12182 | Hath God beene a wilder ● … sse to us? |
A12182 | Hath not the Lord threatned ● … urse upon curse, against many particular sins? |
A12182 | He speakes there of seeking our owne good, what is the best thing wee should seeke for? |
A12182 | He that saith, Thy Kingdome come, what doth he pray for? |
A12182 | Hiel would needs build Iericho againe, and why should hee build it? |
A12182 | How came they to build these wals of Iericho? |
A12182 | How can the soule appropriate God to himselfe? |
A12182 | How comes this returne? |
A12182 | How doe we prove that? |
A12182 | How doth David entertaine this usage? |
A12182 | How doth faith see this? |
A12182 | How doth that follow? |
A12182 | How have they fenced themselves, by applying themselves to humour all sorts of people? |
A12182 | How is it a judgement, or a punishment, when it is voluntary? |
A12182 | How is that seene? |
A12182 | How know we that a man hath a good conscience, a peaceable good conscience, when it is troubled? |
A12182 | How many are there that justifie errours that they condemne in their hearts, to live a lazy, idle, a full, a plentifull life? |
A12182 | How many examples are there in Scripture that God plagued and punished the children for the fathers sinnes? |
A12182 | How many have yee to build up the wals of Iericho againe in this kind? |
A12182 | How many promises have we discovered before hand? |
A12182 | How much are wee beholding to Christ, that hath freed us from the danger of ● … hese? |
A12182 | How oft is this, I am the Lord your God, repeated by Moses as a ground of separation from Idolatry? |
A12182 | How shall I know that God loves me? |
A12182 | How shall a man know that hee hath a peaceable good Conscience in the middest of this rebellion? |
A12182 | How shall this be wrought upon the soule? |
A12182 | How shall we strengthen our faith this way? |
A12182 | How strongly have they built up wals in their owne conceit, when they had got the whole world almost into subjection to them? |
A12182 | How was he abased before he was glorious? |
A12182 | How was his body every way, in all the parts of it, abased and made vile for us? |
A12182 | I am the Lord thy God,( in the first Commandement) there is the ground, what followes? |
A12182 | I am thy exceeding great reward, saith God to Abraham, is not this enough? |
A12182 | I beleeve every Article of the faith: and doe you renounce the Devill, and all his works? |
A12182 | I beseech you let us look to it in time, that it may not be truly said to us, by way of upbraiding, where is now thy God? |
A12182 | I chuse him, Whom have I in heaven but thee? |
A12182 | I doe beleeve, that was the answer: dost thou beleeve in God the Son? |
A12182 | I doe beleeve: dost thou beleeve the Forgivenesse of sins, the Resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting? |
A12182 | I doe beleeve; dost thou renounce the Devill, and his workes? |
A12182 | I love him againe, therefore I know hee hath loved me first, it is an undoubted argument: How shall I know that God hath chosen mee? |
A12182 | I make conscience to make good my promise to men, and shall I breake with God? |
A12182 | I shall be turned to earth, and shall I seeke great things here upon earth? |
A12182 | I speake not of what comes from the body, in which respect it is base and vile: but how many things doth this vile body stand in need of? |
A12182 | I will say to God( for the time to come) my rocke, why hast thou forgotten me? |
A12182 | I will say to God, my rocke, why hast thou forgotten me? |
A12182 | If Idoe, how is it that I am no more affected with them? |
A12182 | If a Christian did consider, Iam going to heaven, to God, what do I seeking great things here, which God will destroy? |
A12182 | If a man should aske the reason of men, why doe you leave these courses, why doe you doe this good? |
A12182 | If any thing could raise us without God( I mean) to comfort, we might seeke to them, and make them God, upon good reason: but what can they doe? |
A12182 | If every Starre be beautifull, how beautifull are all in their lustre? |
A12182 | If his Children bee whipped with Scorpions, what will he doe to Rebels? |
A12182 | If our conversation be in heaven, why are our bodies yet subject to such afflictions and basenesse in this world? |
A12182 | If the tongues of wicked men, as St. Iames saith, be a a world of mischeife, what is the whole man? |
A12182 | If there were a pit open before a m ● … ns eyes, would hee plunge himselfe into that pit that were before his eyes? |
A12182 | If they had said this truly: how grievous had it beene to David? |
A12182 | If we lose honour, wealth, or pleasure, we shall have it abundantly in him ▪ What doe we heare in the sacrament? |
A12182 | In Baptisme, dost thou beleeve, saith the Minister, in God the Father Almighty? |
A12182 | In Christs ● … me, what miracles did they see? |
A12182 | In anger, God may let a man enjoy favours, as the fruits of his displeasure, but what can they doe without him? |
A12182 | In these three respects especially, God was wronged, when they said, where is thy God? |
A12182 | Is God the Author of sinne? |
A12182 | Is a labouring man loath to have his hire, or a weary man loath to have rest? |
A12182 | Is here a true desire when they are not willing to have the hinderances removed? |
A12182 | Is it not oft in the Psalmes, Their words are as swords; the poyson of Aspes is under their lipps? |
A12182 | Is it possible that I should be the child of God, and believe these things, and find my selfe no more affected? |
A12182 | Is not that more wonder, then that man should become like God in his second comming? |
A12182 | Is there a holy wonderment at them? |
A12182 | Is this our thankefulnesse t ● … God? |
A12182 | It is an undoubted Argument, shall I be able to single out God, to be instead of all to me, and hath not hee chosen me first? |
A12182 | It is more vile in death, in the houre of death, then it is base and vile indeed; can wee indure the sight of our dearest friends? |
A12182 | It is no wonder that men lose their affections that are carelesse in the use of me ● … nes; and if they loose them, will they not loose all? |
A12182 | It is( when they say, where is thy God?) |
A12182 | It may bee asked whether there may be a perswasion of the truth in generall, without a perswasion of our owne particular interest in them? |
A12182 | It should stir vs up to goe beyond wicked men, shall we not goe so farre as those goe that shall never come to heaven? |
A12182 | Let mee aske any one why Christ came? |
A12182 | Let us shame our selves therefore: Lord, doe I professe I see things above nature? |
A12182 | Let us therefore make much of the Gospel: what moved God to give up the Easterne Empire, those glorious Churches in Saint Iohns time, unto the Turke? |
A12182 | Looke into the state of the City, those that are best able in the City, doe they not rise of nothing? |
A12182 | May not God complaine of us, that we come to the communion, to his table, with false Iudas hearts, and afterwards betray him? |
A12182 | Must not this be a cursed Indeavour, when wee goe about to build, that that wee our selves have vowed to pull downe? |
A12182 | My teares have bin my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, where is thy God? |
A12182 | Naaman, out of the pride of his heart, saith he, what are the waters of Iordan? |
A12182 | No, Kings raigne by Him; The Pope saith, by mee: Is their constitution of men? |
A12182 | No, certainly there must be resolutions, and covenants, and purposes,& c. What is the difference betweene a Christian and another man? |
A12182 | Not that wee answer by our owne strength, for it is the Covenant of grace: why is it a Covenant of grace? |
A12182 | Now how doth it come to passe that we see not so well as they, nor so strongly as they? |
A12182 | Now how doth the spirit worke this particular perswasion? |
A12182 | Now how shall we doe both? |
A12182 | Now how stands David affected with this? |
A12182 | Now in the next verse he takes up his soule, and expostulates with himselfe, why are thou so sad oh my soule, and why are thou disquieted in me? |
A12182 | Now what doth shew, that the death of the Mediator is a sufficient sacrifice, and Satisfaction? |
A12182 | Now what doth the spirit here? |
A12182 | Now what saith David? |
A12182 | Now what wals have they built up? |
A12182 | Our life is now hid, our happinesse is vayled over, there are many things betweene us and our life, but shall it alwayes bee so? |
A12182 | Promises, they saw things in types, and glasses, a few promises, and what was that they sought? |
A12182 | Seeke my face, that is, seek my favour, and grace; favour appeares and shines in the face: Seeke my face, observe me, depend on me, for what? |
A12182 | Seeke those best things in the first place; what then? |
A12182 | Shall I not be content with my portion? |
A12182 | Shall the first Adam derive unrighteousnesse, discomfort and misery that was a man? |
A12182 | So a Christian is a King, he is an heire, and being a stranger, he shall meete with dogges in this world; as, who doe dogs bark at, but at strangers? |
A12182 | So a child of God, sometimes he diverts, and turnes aside, yet notwithstanding he considers, doth this way lead to God ward? |
A12182 | So in seeking, we must observe God, and depend upon him, and for what? |
A12182 | Take him in his soule, how many states is he in? |
A12182 | That is the cause why he should be cursed? |
A12182 | That they were enemies, of hostile nature, and disposition,& they reproached him, and dayly, and that in his Religion, where is thy God? |
A12182 | The Devill hath a thousand wiles, I can not reckon all the Instruments of Sathan, who can tell all his wiles? |
A12182 | The causes were diverse? |
A12182 | The lusts of the body set the wit, and affections on worke to proule for it selfe, what a base thing is this? |
A12182 | The presence of God, and the face of God, where is it to be sought for? |
A12182 | The scope is to shake his faith, and his confidence in God: and this is that that touched him so neerly, while they upbraided him, where is thy God? |
A12182 | The scope is worse then the words, where is thy God? |
A12182 | The specialty of that expression, how they reproached him, they said unto him, Where is thy God? |
A12182 | The spirit of despayre, the spirit of anger that, is in reprobate persons, how doth it disfigure their faces? |
A12182 | Then after his desire, he layes forth his grief, My teares have bin my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, where is thy God? |
A12182 | Then for their light to goe by it was but little, what a little light had they? |
A12182 | Then there are proud thoughts, what? |
A12182 | Theseall, they had the promises, they had not the things promised; but did they take pet upon this? |
A12182 | They are enemies, they reproach, they reproach in this, where is thy God? |
A12182 | They were circumcised, because they were in Covenant: and is not the Covenant of grace enlarged? |
A12182 | This is another end that God aymes at: what may we learn hence? |
A12182 | This is our excellency, what can keepe our bodies from being a deformed loathsome thing, if the soule be taken away? |
A12182 | This is the Covenant in the Messiah: but first, what is it to be a God? |
A12182 | This malitious speech, Where is thy God? |
A12182 | This, to give their Kingdomes to the Beast? |
A12182 | Thou seeke God? |
A12182 | To give a little further light, to that I touched before, you will aske, why God useth meanes, and doth not worke immediatly? |
A12182 | Was not his body first vile, and then glorious? |
A12182 | Was there ever any that did more good then our Saviour Christ? |
A12182 | We ascend glorious ● … to heaven, where is the ground of it? |
A12182 | We see when Christ did but look toward Ierusalem, the Samaritans ● … ad enough, they began to maligne him, why? |
A12182 | We sit in heavenly places, why? |
A12182 | We that will answer to the Covenant made in baptism, must perform it, especially that that we then Covenanted, what was that? |
A12182 | Wee come to God with a purpose to offend him; if we come not with a purpose to leave our sins, why do we come? |
A12182 | Well, but what hath God done? |
A12182 | Well, wee see what reason the holy man David had to bee so sensible of this reproach, for they said unto him daily, where is thy God? |
A12182 | Were our soules given us for this end? |
A12182 | What a comfort is it when our hearts and Consciences makes a gracious answer to God, in believing and obeying? |
A12182 | What a comfort is such a Conscience? |
A12182 | What a comfort is this? |
A12182 | What a disposi ● … on o ● … soule is that that cals divine truths into question? |
A12182 | What a glorious time will it be, when the glorious body of Christ shall appeare, and all the Saints shall appeare in glory? |
A12182 | What a miserable taking are they in, that in extremity have no acquaintance with Gods word? |
A12182 | What a spring of comfort is here arising to a Christian in all estates? |
A12182 | What a thing is this, that a wicked man should see such an estate, and not take it? |
A12182 | What a world of adoe was there to bring Israel out of Egypt? |
A12182 | What be the affections wherby the soule imbraceth these good things it is perswaded of? |
A12182 | What became of Hamans plots? |
A12182 | What can be grievous? |
A12182 | What cares Satan for other sins that we fall into? |
A12182 | What cares he for riches, or pleasures, or honours, when the soule sees incomparable better things? |
A12182 | What cause have we to be thankfull, that we are as the three young men in the Furnace? |
A12182 | What did Abraham then when he came to heaven? |
A12182 | What doth Paul in the meane time? |
A12182 | What doth faith in the houre of death? |
A12182 | What is Popery, but a masse of Iewish, and heathenish Ceremonies, besides some Blasphemies that they have? |
A12182 | What is death to him? |
A12182 | What is heaven, but the presence of God there? |
A12182 | What is hell, but the want of Gods presence, Gods face and favour is not there? |
A12182 | What is it to die in faith? |
A12182 | What is that? |
A12182 | What is that? |
A12182 | What is the ground of this? |
A12182 | What is the heart, and tongue, and life, and all of wicked men? |
A12182 | What is the life of most men, but a purveying and prouling for the body? |
A12182 | What is the patterne, according to which this body shall be changed, by this author of it, Christ Jesus? |
A12182 | What is the reason of it? |
A12182 | What is the reason that God confoundeth proud men at last? |
A12182 | What is the reason that a holy man is so much affected with heavenly things, hee feeles no more joy many times than a wicked man? |
A12182 | What is the reason that many men at the houre of death will admit no comfort? |
A12182 | What is then to be thy God? |
A12182 | What made Saint Paul converse as if he were in heaven? |
A12182 | What makes hell in the heart of a man? |
A12182 | What meanes have they now to build the wals againe? |
A12182 | What mkes men abound in workes of mercy and love, but this appearing of Christ? |
A12182 | What need I quote further evidences the, Scripture being thus pregnant? |
A12182 | What needs all this adoe saith the wicked athiest, will not lesse serve the turne, but there must be these vowes, and purposes, and resolutions? |
A12182 | What preferment is there to that of Christianity? |
A12182 | What shall wee doe then? |
A12182 | What shall wee thinke of them that preferre their private devotions( as they say) before Gods assemblies? |
A12182 | What should this affoord us? |
A12182 | What stirres us up to doe things sincerely to Christ? |
A12182 | What then? |
A12182 | What was the matter that this reproach, where is thy God? |
A12182 | What was the reason of this? |
A12182 | What way have we to prevent their building, that the wals of Iericho be not built again? |
A12182 | What will all that a reprobate wretch hath doe him good? |
A12182 | What will become of heaven and earth, and all things here ere long? |
A12182 | What will his favours, his riches, and honours and preferments doe him good when he dies, when hee shall conflict with the anger of God? |
A12182 | What word have you for extremity? |
A12182 | When is the sight of faith strong? |
A12182 | When shall this be? |
A12182 | Whence did we draw sinne, and misery? |
A12182 | Where are our desires? |
A12182 | Where is thy God? |
A12182 | Where is thy God? |
A12182 | Where is thy God? |
A12182 | Wherein shall this Glory of our bodyes consist? |
A12182 | Wherein stands this glory? |
A12182 | Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods people? |
A12182 | Who? |
A12182 | Whom have I in heaven but thee? |
A12182 | Whose? |
A12182 | Why art thou disquieted oh my soule? |
A12182 | Why doe not men, having an ill disposition, and corruptature, doe ill? |
A12182 | Why doe we not labo ● … to be in such a condition, that we may be cherished? |
A12182 | Why doth he make the Covenant with his seed, as well as with himselfe? |
A12182 | Why doth not God all at once subdue these wals of Iericho in us; but by little, and little? |
A12182 | Why shall they not prevaile any longer? |
A12182 | Why shall wee appeare with Christ, and be glorious with him? |
A12182 | Why should we regard our bodies? |
A12182 | Why should wee doubt of it? |
A12182 | Why then should we feare changes, when all changes shall end in that that is better? |
A12182 | Why therefore should we strengthen that that is a curse, and will make us cursed too? |
A12182 | Why would not God have Iericho built againe? |
A12182 | Wil God put into their hearts to give up their kingdomes to the Beast? |
A12182 | Will a negative Religion bring any man to Heaven, to say he is no Papist, nor no Schismatick? |
A12182 | Would a man have dogs not to barke? |
A12182 | You that doe upbraid us with Idolatry, what is become of your Religion? |
A12182 | You will say, why doth he light on such 〈 ◊ 〉 Generation? |
A12182 | all other things are but streames, God is the Fountaine; if vve have not the Spring, vvhat vvill become of us at last? |
A12182 | and God beene abased in his first comming? |
A12182 | and am I perswaded of these things that they are so? |
A12182 | and can we not doe any thing in this world with wishing, and can wee for heaven? |
A12182 | and do I professe that I am perswaded that the word of God is true, and am I no more affected? |
A12182 | and doe we thinke that our bodies must not be vile before they be glorious? |
A12182 | and for the Sacrament, it is a poore Ordinance; what is there, but wine and bread, and such like? |
A12182 | and how doe wee 〈 ◊ 〉 quite it? |
A12182 | and how is it possible he should not loath ill, and dest 〈 ◊ 〉 things? |
A12182 | and how was he disgraced in this body? |
A12182 | and if I sit downe by these, if a travailer sit down by delights, and gaze upon things by the way, when shall he come home? |
A12182 | and in renouncing all Gods and our enemies? |
A12182 | and my joy so working, and spiritly, and quicke as it should, or no? |
A12182 | and so make our soules nothing else almost, but stewards to proule how to content, how to cloath and how to feed this body? |
A12182 | and then when they came to Iordan, what Miracles were wrought? |
A12182 | and there is no wicked man, but a man may in h ● … s greatest extremity upbraid him, and that in truth, where is your God? |
A12182 | and what doe I desire on earth in comparison of thee? |
A12182 | and what is there in earth in comparison of thee? |
A12182 | and why goe I mourning, for the oppression of the enemy? |
A12182 | and why not on such a place? |
A12182 | and will make the time to come terrible to us, the houre of death, and the day of judgement? |
A12182 | and willingly obey all that I heare? |
A12182 | and would we have wicked men that have evill tongues not to scorne that they know not? |
A12182 | and your doing such things now? |
A12182 | are all thy members weapons of an unsanctified soule, to offend God, and to fight against thy soule? |
A12182 | are they not capable of grace and glory? |
A12182 | are they not capable of supernaturall and excellent things? |
A12182 | are they the way to heaven? |
A12182 | as if a man should aske what is become of the Moone, betweene the old, and the new, when the darke side is towards us? |
A12182 | be these actions Christian actions? |
A12182 | because he is in heaven before hand: as the Husband takes up a place for his wife: why doth she goe into the countrey, and take it up after? |
A12182 | but shall we be alwayes fighting and striving? |
A12182 | can such a body looke for glory? |
A12182 | canst thou doe as Abrams did? |
A12182 | canst thou leave children, and wife, and life, and all at Gods command? |
A12182 | canst thou more trust in the promise of God, then in the dearest thing in the world, yea, then in thy own feeling of grace? |
A12182 | canst thou relye upon God, when he appeareth to be an angry God? |
A12182 | canst thou trust in God when all means faile? |
A12182 | certainely this is the lesser, why should we doubt of it? |
A12182 | could faith do this? |
A12182 | do we not hate a Harlot? |
A12182 | doe I believe them? |
A12182 | doe I know these things? |
A12182 | doe I not daube with my heart? |
A12182 | doe I not deceive my selfe? |
A12182 | doe I obey? |
A12182 | doe I willingly cast my selfe into the mold of Gods word? |
A12182 | doe the wals of Iericho begin to f ● … ll? |
A12182 | doe we come only to receive his love to us? |
A12182 | doe we not hate an old Strumpet, an old painted Strumpet? |
A12182 | doe wee not hate her that is a Bawd? |
A12182 | doest 〈 ◊ 〉 beat thy braine, and thy breast, and thy spirits, doest thou take up thy time, and all to provide for the flesh? |
A12182 | dost thou use it to the base services of sinne? |
A12182 | doth he not set out words by swords? |
A12182 | doth it triumph in thee over thy naturall corruption? |
A12182 | doth my heart runne after other things, that professe my selfe to bee perswaded of better things? |
A12182 | doth not the soule quicken it? |
A12182 | except the Lord have spoken peace to the soule before, and have said, I am thy salvation? |
A12182 | hath he our trust and affiance? |
A12182 | hath it not its beauty from the soule? |
A12182 | hath no ● … God beene with us strangely, by the confusio ● … of the plots of others? |
A12182 | hath not God dyed? |
A12182 | hath not God himselfe become man? |
A12182 | hath not hee promised that hee will not faile us nor forsake us? |
A12182 | have not wee waters that can doe as much? |
A12182 | hee left all at Gods command, canst thou doe that if need should be? |
A12182 | here are rich and precious promises, but where is my precious faith to close with, and to imbrace these things? |
A12182 | how can he say as Thomas did, My Lord and my God? |
A12182 | how comes faith to have this strength? |
A12182 | how crept it into the world? |
A12182 | how doe we use these bodies of ours? |
A12182 | how doth he carry himselfe all this while? |
A12182 | how is my disposition answerable then, am I so affected as I should be? |
A12182 | how little a time betweene us, and the glory that is to be revealed? |
A12182 | how many instruments doth the soule use? |
A12182 | how noysome is their presence after death? |
A12182 | how opposite are they to the spirit of David? |
A12182 | how shall I overcome such a temptation if I meete with it? |
A12182 | how willing is hee to have us believe him? |
A12182 | in secret they will commit this or that sinne, and thinke, who seeth? |
A12182 | is a King loath to be crowned? |
A12182 | is a partie contracted loath to have the marriage consummate? |
A12182 | is he not rich enough? |
A12182 | is my love so hote? |
A12182 | is not God our portion? |
A12182 | is not hee Lord of heaven and earth? |
A12182 | is not that which is greater done already? |
A12182 | nothing but dust, a vile body, why should wee be proud then of our bodies, or of any ornament of our body, seeing it is a vile body? |
A12182 | of communion with God, of the blessed stampe of the Image of God? |
A12182 | poore Monke, get thee into thy Cell, and say Lord have mercy upon thee, dost thou thinke to overcome the whole world with thy writing? |
A12182 | shall I yield to such a one as he? |
A12182 | shall we hinder Gods purpose? |
A12182 | so men thinke, shall I yeeld to a Minister? |
A12182 | so what makes a man worke, but the hope of reward? |
A12182 | some? |
A12182 | such a Pope sate so long, the Whore sits in the very phrase, and what is the seat called? |
A12182 | surely I have renounced this, shall I overthrow my owne promise? |
A12182 | that I see Christ in heaven, and see my selfe there? |
A12182 | that have bin instruments to make others likewise sinne? |
A12182 | that have never had the courage to plead for God, that have beene fierce against God, Who ever was fierce against God, and prospered? |
A12182 | that have stored up nothing? |
A12182 | the world: what is in his heart? |
A12182 | they doe all that they can to keepe life now; how shall we prevent this, that they build not up the wals of this spirituall Iericho againe? |
A12182 | to beat out God, and his Spirit? |
A12182 | to build the wals of Iericho againe: what doe we goe about, but to strengthen that that God hath cursed? |
A12182 | to cherrish lusts that fight against thy soule, and against thy Maker and Redeemer? |
A12182 | to heaven ward? |
A12182 | to raise a fort for ● … athan, to enter into our soules, and keep pos ● … ession in us? |
A12182 | to travell in our affections to base things worse then our soules? |
A12182 | touched him so to the quick? |
A12182 | we answered that we would beleeve, doest thou beleeve? |
A12182 | what a blessed time will this be? |
A12182 | what a reflexion of beauty and glory will there be, one shining upon another, when Christ shall come to be glorious in his Saints? |
A12182 | what became of Achitophels policie? |
A12182 | what can be over burdensome to that soule that knowes it hath the pledge, and earnest of glory hereafter? |
A12182 | what dost thou ● … eddle with in the world? |
A12182 | what doth Religion hurt us? |
A12182 | what doth Satan for us when hee getteth us to crack our consciences by griplenesse after earthly things? |
A12182 | what is become of all now? |
A12182 | what is become of him? |
A12182 | what is become of your God that you bragged so of, and thought your selves so happie in, as if he had beene no bodies God but yours? |
A12182 | what is become of your forwardnesse, and strictnesse now? |
A12182 | what is become of your much reading, and hearing now? |
A12182 | what is become of your new Religion? |
A12182 | what is the end of the ministery, but to spread before us the unsearchable riches of Christ? |
A12182 | what is the power of the spirit in thee? |
A12182 | what makes a man runne, but the victory, and the Crowne? |
A12182 | what makes a man sowe his seed, that he scarcely can spare, but the hope of a harvest? |
A12182 | what need God stoope thus? |
A12182 | what need we cracke our consciences and breake our peace for the mucke of the world? |
A12182 | what opposition? |
A12182 | what puts fire into his affections but this, that Christ will come and appeare in glory ere long? |
A12182 | what tricks have they to keepe people in ignorance? |
A12182 | what will be grievous to us in this world, when our soules are thus settled? |
A12182 | what will spring from it? |
A12182 | what worke hath the Spirit of God in us? |
A12182 | what wouldest thou have said, if thou hadst lived now? |
A12182 | whatsoever is not God, canst thou be content to be without? |
A12182 | when great Magistrates, and others have their purple on, let them consider, what doth this glorious garment cover? |
A12182 | when he see all ended there? |
A12182 | when he shall see hell before him, and see heaven shut? |
A12182 | when the soule is gone out of the body, where is the life? |
A12182 | when there is not respect of the meanes that should be used? |
A12182 | when wee goe about to raise that, that we have formerly destroyed by our owne vowes? |
A12182 | when wee labour more to approve our carriage to men, then we make conscience of our spirits to God? |
A12182 | where is all this that you supproted your selfe with, and bore your selfe so big on, that you despised all others? |
A12182 | where is my comfort? |
A12182 | where is my joy? |
A12182 | where is my love? |
A12182 | where is that now I pray? |
A12182 | where is the beauty, where is any thing? |
A12182 | where is your goodly profession? |
A12182 | where is your sight? |
A12182 | wherein doth the new Covenant differ from the old, but( among many other things) in the enlargement of it? |
A12182 | whether he be in the state of grace and doth things graciously? |
A12182 | whether is greater for God to become man, or for men to be raised out of their graves, and become glorious? |
A12182 | whither doth thy feet carry thee? |
A12182 | who art thou Lord? |
A12182 | who would not be a Christian for the comfort, and for the sence, and feeling? |
A12182 | why art thou troubled? |
A12182 | why hee did not cast downe these wals by his owne will, and pleasure? |
A12182 | why should we be 〈 ◊ 〉 unfruitfull, when God hath given us so ● … any encouragements to be thankefull, and 〈 ◊ 〉, as he hath done? |
A12182 | why should wee bee loath to die? |
A12182 | why should ● … e grow cold, and luke- warme? |
A12182 | why should 〈 ◊ 〉 decay in our first love? |
A12182 | will not they doe that in secret ofttimes, that they will not doe openly? |
A12182 | with the promises, or good examples? |
A12182 | your riches, honour, and estate? |
A12182 | ● … f the Children of God scarcely be saved, where ● … hall the sinner and ungodly appeare? |
A12182 | ● … s not this to raise Iericho? |
A12182 | ● … ursed is the man that cals evill good, and good ● … vill; have we not many that doe so? |
A12166 | & c. Is not God in the height of Heaven? |
A12166 | & c. Yee brutish foolish people, shall he that makes others heare not heare himselfe? |
A12166 | 1 And what doth death worke upon the body? |
A12166 | 1 But if a man doe not repent, but live still in sinne, what a state is hee in? |
A12166 | 1 Hope stirres up diligence and indeavour in the things of this world; what makes men adventure to the Indies, east and west? |
A12166 | 111. but if these things bee so wonderfull, and to bee regarded and delighted in, alas what is all the worke of redemption? |
A12166 | 2 But what evidence doth he give upon this inquisition? |
A12166 | 2. and other places, what is the motive there to live a holy, and righteous and sober life? |
A12166 | 28? |
A12166 | 4 Againe, a rule must bee authenticall; what is that? |
A12166 | 5 In his death, what did the Spirit of life then? |
A12166 | 8. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect? |
A12166 | A Christian that carries himselfe valiantly and couragiously, is not his course grounded on sound reason? |
A12166 | A base esteeme of the Gospell is a great sinne, How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation? |
A12166 | A man may see it by mens discourses, there is inquirie how the sicknesse spreads, how many dies? |
A12166 | A miserable condition, why? |
A12166 | Affliction withdrawes that which is the fuell of sinne: for what doth our sinnefull disposition feed on? |
A12166 | Againe he meanes, 2 what comfort can you have more? |
A12166 | Againe, 3 God hath put into every man a Conscience, wherefore serves conscience, but especially to direct in particulars? |
A12166 | Againe, 3 in a Kingdome there is glory and excellency:( where is it to be had else?) |
A12166 | Againe, let us not be over much discouraged with our infirmities and corruptions; If God be with us, who can be against us? |
A12166 | Alas how many sinnes are there that every body may see in the times in all rancks? |
A12166 | Alas poore soule thou mayest be dead for all this; what are all these abilities for? |
A12166 | Alas, if most men aske their owne consciences, wherefore they live; what is the life of many, but an annoyance? |
A12166 | Alas, what a conflicting life hath a Christian with his own heart? |
A12166 | Alas, what is it, but a corruptible, vile body? |
A12166 | Alas, when wee see the younger sort given to blaspheme and sweare, to loosenesse and licentiousnesse, what old age may we looke for there? |
A12166 | Alas, why do we put off? |
A12166 | All our husbands riches are ours for our good, we receive of it in our measure, why doe wee not goe to the Fountaine, and make use of it? |
A12166 | And as they goe eagerly and desperately, 3 so dangerously too, for is it not dangerous to provoke God? |
A12166 | And doe we looke to be preserved from falling into sicknesse, or if we be sicke, to be cured? |
A12166 | And for damnation, which accompanies death, It is God that justifieth, who shall condemne? |
A12166 | And for the time to come, let us trust in God, that God will bee with us, if wee bee with him; and to sticke to him: who then shall bee against us? |
A12166 | And how comes he to be a King to rule over us by his holy Spirit, and to have a right unto us? |
A12166 | And how doth this base affection tyrannize in some men? |
A12166 | And indeed how many sweet savours were there in the sacrifice of Christ offered on the Crosse? |
A12166 | And least they should object, how doe you know this? |
A12166 | And let us be stirred up to repent presently; doth not God now warne you? |
A12166 | And shall God love him, and delight in him, and shall not our soule delight in Christ? |
A12166 | And take heed of those that are defiled, take heede of sinners; who would willingly lie with a leprous person? |
A12166 | And that is the reason that the Apostles so differed from themselves, before and after Christs ascention, what a wondrous alteration was there? |
A12166 | And then a triumph, If God be with us, who can be against us? |
A12166 | And we have no comfort by the life of God, as it is in Gods life alone severed: for alas, what communion have wee with God without a Mediator? |
A12166 | And what a staggering will this be to conscience, when a man shall deferre his repentance till Gods judgements seaze upon him? |
A12166 | And what comes of this when wee receive Christ and set to our seale that God in the promise of salvation by Christ is true? |
A12166 | And what makes us confesse our sinnes? |
A12166 | And wherefore is all this? |
A12166 | And will not spirituall wisedome teach us, the more spreading and infectious sinne is, the more heed to take? |
A12166 | Are they good? |
A12166 | Are they not for the spirituall life? |
A12166 | Are we in misery? |
A12166 | Are we not pressed in S. Pauls Epistles, To carry our selves worthy of our profession, and have we done so? |
A12166 | Are we troubled with any corruptions? |
A12166 | As we are Temples of God: so he is our Temple, wee dwell in him, thou art our habitation,& c. Who would not labour to bee in such an estate? |
A12166 | But Christ had the Spirit before, what doth he meane then when hee saith hee will put the Spirit upon him now? |
A12166 | But are Christians alwayes in this state of soule, that they can say, Come? |
A12166 | But did the Spirit of life doe nothing else, but sanctifie and inrich the humane nature of Christ with grace? |
A12166 | But did they stay here? |
A12166 | But how chanceth it, that they doe not know and perceive it? |
A12166 | But how or by what meanes doth Christ give his Spirit to us? |
A12166 | But how shall I know whether hee be Sealed for my good or no? |
A12166 | But how shall we know when a judgement is neare hand? |
A12166 | But how shall we know, that we are in Christ Jesus? |
A12166 | But how shall wee know when our labour is immoderate, unseasonable, and inordinate after earthly things? |
A12166 | But is this onely true of the Church militant, herebelow, doth not the Church in heaven say Come too? |
A12166 | But sinne it selfe is an intrinsicall death: Why? |
A12166 | But that we know there is mercy with him that he may be feared? |
A12166 | But what authority hath he? |
A12166 | But what comes from us? |
A12166 | But what doth Saint Paul, when other men seek their owne, and are carried after private ends? |
A12166 | But what is this seale of the Spirit whereby God seals us after we beleeve? |
A12166 | But what would God do so for the time to come? |
A12166 | But when we have them in our memory, let us aske our selves, are these things so, or no? |
A12166 | But wherein lieth the difference betweene this meate, this foode of the soule and other meate? |
A12166 | But why dost thou speake thus? |
A12166 | But why doth the Apostle speake here, of a Law of the Spirit of life in Christ, which frees us; but here is no mention of satisfaction by death? |
A12166 | But why is our blessed Saviour so considered, and the comforts, and prerogatives, and good things we have by him termed food? |
A12166 | But why is the word of God called judgement? |
A12166 | But, is not the Kingdome of Heaven, and grace free? |
A12166 | Can the swearer beleeve that God will not hold him guiltlesse that takes his name in vaine: that a curse shall follow the swearer? |
A12166 | Can this be any other then selfe- love? |
A12166 | Carnall reason saith, is there any providence that rules in the earth? |
A12166 | Christ is our wisdome and our riches, yet how few goe to him to fetch any riches, but content themselves with the transitory things of this life? |
A12166 | Christ is the light of the world, yet how few follow him? |
A12166 | Christ is the true Messias; why? |
A12166 | Christ is the way, yet how few tread in his steps? |
A12166 | Christ will give it, if he will give it why must wee labour after it? |
A12166 | Christ, he is the blessed Counsellour, how comes he to be so? |
A12166 | Conscience may say as Reuben said to his brethren, when they were in miserie; Did not I tell you, doe no hurt to the lad? |
A12166 | Consider, that body that thou dotest on now, and which is made by the Divell a snare to thee: what will it bee ere- long? |
A12166 | Death what? |
A12166 | Do we not adde something to the common judgement? |
A12166 | Doe but purpose to live in sinne one quarter of an houre; may we not be taken away in that quarter? |
A12166 | Doe you provoke me to jealousie( saith God) and not your selves to destruction? |
A12166 | Doth Christ delight in us, and God delight in Christ, and shall not we delight in Christ, that delights in us, and in whom God delights? |
A12166 | Doth God delight thus in Christ, in his person or considered mystically? |
A12166 | Doth he chuse them? |
A12166 | Doth hee call them? |
A12166 | Especially in the great point of justification, doth conscience speak peace to thee in the blood of Christ? |
A12166 | Exactnesse in other things is best: Is to be best in the best naught, when to be best in that which is not so good carries away the commendations? |
A12166 | First, let it be a rule of tryall to know,& judge of our estate, whether we be entred into this gate of Heaven or no? |
A12166 | For why are we under sinne? |
A12166 | From the cause of it, want of consideration, they did not say, what have I done? |
A12166 | God gives us up to sinne, why are we under death? |
A12166 | God hath made him a steward, and yet he is unfruitfull, and labours to undermine and ruine the state of others? |
A12166 | God is every where, wee are alwayes neare to God, Whither shall I go from thy presence? |
A12166 | God laughes in Heaven at his enemies, and shall wee weepe? |
A12166 | God will honour some so much, to be instruments for common good here: but what is that to eternall salvation? |
A12166 | Gods c ● ild ● en shaken, why? |
A12166 | Great persons have a great priviledge; what is that? |
A12166 | Hast thou given the horse strength? |
A12166 | Hath God chosen Christ to worke our salvation, and shall we choose any other? |
A12166 | Have not wee cause to blesse God, and to be thankefull? |
A12166 | Have we been carefull of private Prayer, to offer our selves to God as Priests? |
A12166 | Have we carried our selves so in spirituall things, as to rule our base lusts? |
A12166 | Have we preferred Christ in our thoughts above all the things in the world, have they all beene dung to us? |
A12166 | Have we walked worthy of the dignity we are called to by the Gospell? |
A12166 | He answers it with another question, If God be with us, who can be against us? |
A12166 | He propounds the quaere to himselfe, he catechiseth his own heart, and others, if these things be so, what can be sayd against them? |
A12166 | Hee served God, but how? |
A12166 | Heere are all these; heere is will to bestow it, he will give it, what freer then a gift? |
A12166 | Heere is will, Christ will give it, why? |
A12166 | Heere is will, I but what power and strength hath he to give it? |
A12166 | Heere we may see the misery of the world, Christ is a Prophet to teach us the way to Heaven, but how few be there that will be directed by him? |
A12166 | Here is a ground likewise of all contentment in any condition in the world, what can be sufficient to him, that God can not suffice? |
A12166 | How are we all guilty? |
A12166 | How can hee looke with comfort any way? |
A12166 | How can this be? |
A12166 | How comes this freedome? |
A12166 | How could Christs Man- hood deserve any thing of God before it was? |
A12166 | How doe we know that these words in the Prophet Isaiah are fitly appliable to Christ? |
A12166 | How doe you come now into the presence of God? |
A12166 | How doe you know a prayer from a formall lip- labour? |
A12166 | How doth God beseech us in the Ministery, Wee beseech you to bee reconciled, and Why will yee die O house of Israel? |
A12166 | How doth it spring hence? |
A12166 | How doth the Law of the Spirit of life free me? |
A12166 | How doth this depend upon the other? |
A12166 | How is that? |
A12166 | How much more shall your heavenly Father give his holy Spirit to them that aske him? |
A12166 | How shall we know how to serve the Will of God in every particular action? |
A12166 | How shall we know that? |
A12166 | How shall we seeke the face of God? |
A12166 | How shall we shew our thankfulnesse to God? |
A12166 | How shall we stirre up our selves? |
A12166 | How should the Church know she is a Bride? |
A12166 | How, and in what respect is Christ thus beloved of God? |
A12166 | I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickednesse, saying, what have I done? |
A12166 | I know not a more pregnant fruitfull principle in the Scripture than this, If God be with us, who can be against us? |
A12166 | I neede not speake, the world knowes vvell enough; Can God indure this, when conscience of his service shall goe under the brand of opposition? |
A12166 | If God be for us, who can be against us? |
A12166 | If God be with us, who shall be against us? |
A12166 | If God befor 〈 ◊ 〉, who can be against us? |
A12166 | If God gave his Sonne for us, shall hee not with him give us al things else? |
A12166 | If God had not been with us in the Powder- plot, where had wee beene? |
A12166 | If hee spared not his owne sonne but delivered him to death for us all, how shall hee not with him give us all things? |
A12166 | If marriage be honorable, what is this marriage and contract? |
A12166 | If there be no strength in thee, but every tentation turnes thee over, and thou yeeldest to every base lust, where is Christ? |
A12166 | If this be so, what shall wee doe to God againe? |
A12166 | If we were in heaven and should look downe below upon all snares, and dangers, what would we care for them? |
A12166 | If yee know this Will; is there all? |
A12166 | In all our affaires whatsoever, God is with us: Feare not Josua: Feare not Moses: what was the ground of their comfort? |
A12166 | In how many respects doe wee not speake aright in regard of the judgements of God? |
A12166 | Is conscience with thee, dost thou not sinne against conscience? |
A12166 | Is it not dangerous living one houre in a state that wee would not dye in? |
A12166 | Is it not our iniquities? |
A12166 | Is it not rebellion not to receive a Magistrate whom the Prince hath authorized under his broad Seale? |
A12166 | Is it not so in civill things? |
A12166 | Is it not the Pestilence? |
A12166 | Is it possible for the soule to desire to goe to Christ, that will not suffer him to come to it? |
A12166 | Is it possible that hee should delight in the head, and refuse the members? |
A12166 | Is it so? |
A12166 | Is not God with him? |
A12166 | Is not Gods choise the best, and the wisest? |
A12166 | Is not innocency trodden downe oft- times? |
A12166 | Is not repentance the gift of God, and are not gifts given according to the good pleasure of the giver? |
A12166 | Is not the ripest corne cut first? |
A12166 | Is our understanding and judgement given us to plot for the world, to be judicious for the things of this life onely? |
A12166 | Is the Kingdome of Heaven such a sleight thing, that it should be obtruded to us whether we will or no? |
A12166 | Is there any thing that a man should be earnest for, if not for these things? |
A12166 | Is there not a necessity to renew our peace? |
A12166 | Is there not such a plenty, and depth in good things, especially of the Gospell, whereby our sinnes are pardoned, and grace is given? |
A12166 | Is this strength of grace? |
A12166 | Is this to rouze thy selfe? |
A12166 | It honours his power, what makes us confesse our sinnes, but that we are afraid of his power least he should execute it? |
A12166 | It is a question answered with another question, What shall wee say to these things? |
A12166 | It is a time to reap the comforts of religion at the houre of death; shall we defer to serve Gods will till we come to make our own will? |
A12166 | It is no matter what God saith, unlesse he over- power the unbeleeving heart, to say, what shall I say to these things? |
A12166 | It is true; but in what sense are they against us, and how farre are they against us? |
A12166 | It made him crie out, My God, my God, why ● ast thou forsaken me? |
A12166 | It may be objected, Christ was God himselfe, hee had the Spirit and gives the Spirit, therefore how could the Spirit be put upon him? |
A12166 | Jt is true, but what hath he wrought in thee by his Spirit, hast thou the Spirit of Christ? |
A12166 | Labour after it, why? |
A12166 | Let us hold out and we shall get the victory and overcome even God himselfe, how much more all other things? |
A12166 | Let us never murmure therefore at Gods hand, but willingly yeeld at the first: what doth a stubborne horse get, but the spurre, and stripes? |
A12166 | Let us take notice now of the hand of God upon us; what is the meanes to stop his hand that he come not among us with his publick judgements? |
A12166 | Let us therefore examine our selves, what the Spirit doth in us, if Christ bee set apart to redeeme us, as a Priest? |
A12166 | Life what? |
A12166 | May not God justly strike us on the sudden? |
A12166 | May not we say, Our iniquities have blowne us away? |
A12166 | Men talke of being too strict and too holy: Can there be too much of that which wee can never have enough of in this world? |
A12166 | My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A12166 | My flesh is meate indeed, and my blood is drinke indeed: and hee calls his body broken, the bread of life, Why? |
A12166 | No, they doe abhominably prophane the Lords Prayer: what kind of Service is that, when their desires are quite cleane contrary? |
A12166 | Now God threatneth us to come, and give our account, who can be secure, he shall have life for a weeke or for one day? |
A12166 | Now how can a man doe this without consideration? |
A12166 | Now it being a Kingdome, and the Kingdome of Heaven, what affection is answerable but a violent strong affection? |
A12166 | Now our blessed Saviour takes them off from labouring for this by a strong Argument: Would you have a greater argument? |
A12166 | Now what is the reason of it why we are dead? |
A12166 | Now what right had the Gentiles( that were little better then dogs) could they have any thing to doe with the kingdome? |
A12166 | Now( to apply it to our purpose) wouldest thou know whether thou be such a one for the present as for whom Christ is Sealed a Mediator? |
A12166 | Now, hee having taken our nature, and our persons to be one with him, how neere are Christ and we together? |
A12166 | Put case a man be sick, all the meate he eates it strengthens his sicknesse, shall he therefore not eate at all? |
A12166 | Saint Paul questions with the Galathians, saith hee, I would know of you, how came ye by the Spirit? |
A12166 | Saith a Romane; what, is it such a matter to die? |
A12166 | Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? |
A12166 | Secret Will of God, no rule, why? |
A12166 | Shall the Lyon roare, and shall not the beasts of the forrest tremble? |
A12166 | Shall we run to Saints mediation, to the Virgin Mary and others for intercession, which is a part of Christs office? |
A12166 | Shall we sweare and lye, and blaspheme, and say we care not though God heare us that will lay every thing to our charge, not onely words but thoughts? |
A12166 | Shall we thinke to have it when our hearts tell us wee esteeme other things bet ● er? |
A12166 | Shall wee heare God roare in his judgements, and heare the trumpet blowne, and not be affected? |
A12166 | Since we have had the truth, what peace, and plenty have we had? |
A12166 | Sinne, and death are an adamantine chaine, and linke that none can sever; who shall separate that which God in his Justice hath put together? |
A12166 | So a Christian is not alone, hee is not left to the mercy of his enemies; but God is with him, and who shall be against him to prevayle over him? |
A12166 | So againe, What makes wicked men so loose? |
A12166 | So he may say, Who can be against us? |
A12166 | So here, I have promised you deliverance out of Babylon, and this and that, doe you doubt of the performance? |
A12166 | So on the contrary it is with death; what is death? |
A12166 | So that it is a false judgement that the world hath: they thinke great men happy men, why? |
A12166 | So that we may say, who is not against a Christian? |
A12166 | So the Disciples before they received a great measure of the Spirit, how vaine- glorious were they? |
A12166 | So the best of us may thinke, have I not a corrupt nature, and for the sinnes of the times, am not I soyled with them? |
A12166 | Spirituall life whence? |
A12166 | That he should love the husband, and mislike the Spouse? |
A12166 | That which is blasted in the bud, what fruit may we looke for from it afterward? |
A12166 | The comfort of a Christian is that he hath no enemy that shall prevaile over him, and what is the ground of that? |
A12166 | The did not say in their hearts and tongues, What have I done? |
A12166 | The face of God, it is as the Sunne to the creatures: when the Sunne hides his face, what is there but darkenesse and night? |
A12166 | The glory of the times is the manifestation of the Gospell, and shall we grow in the decay of our love? |
A12166 | The ground that is layd, is ▪ If God be with us? |
A12166 | The heart of man is a proud creature, a proud peice of flesh, men stand upon their distance, what; shall I stoupe to him? |
A12166 | The necessity, it is meate, and what so necessary as meate? |
A12166 | The one, is uncertaine: I meane, for our yeelding to our base affections, what get we? |
A12166 | The sicknesse is now among us: Jf a man should aske now what Family is likeliest to have the vengeance of God on it? |
A12166 | The will of any man can not be the rule of any mans service, further than it is agreeable to the first rule, why? |
A12166 | There are many things loathsome, as deboishnesse,& c. But vvhat is so eagerly, and heartily hated as the povver of godlinesse? |
A12166 | There is a world of Rhetorick in this one word Father, why Lord, thou art my Father, shall I bee destroyed? |
A12166 | There is matter of wonder likewise in that from whence he is a servant; 2 whence comes it that Christ is a servant? |
A12166 | There is no hope of free pardon to them, what makes men so eagerly to imbrace the Gospell notwithstanding their sinnes? |
A12166 | Therefore let us shame our selves, is there such a store- house of comfort and grace every way in Christ? |
A12166 | Therefore there is a like necessity of the word of God, as of his service: for what Master will bee served according to the will of his servant? |
A12166 | Therefore those that pray not what kinde of persons are they? |
A12166 | Therefore what shall wee say, when those that pretend to desire the comming of Christ, shall countenance heresies that m ● st have an end first? |
A12166 | Therefore you see every way the state of a Christian is a glorious condition, Who can be against us? |
A12166 | These places suffer violence: but what violence doth the poore Gospell indure? |
A12166 | They make the profession of Religion, a cover for their ill dealing, for their unfaithfull courses, what a shame is this? |
A12166 | They prevayle a great way: what doe they intend? |
A12166 | They spake not aright, no man repented him of his wickednesse, saying, what have I done? |
A12166 | This doth impose upon us the duty of carefull and reverent walking with God: Would we speake carelesly, or ill of any man, if hee heard us? |
A12166 | Those that are put to their will, if there bee not answerable wisdome to guyde it, to what mischiefe do they plunge themselves and others? |
A12166 | Thou saist thou beleevest on Christ and hast made him thine own, what comfort and strength feelest thou by Christ? |
A12166 | Thou that livest prophanely day after day, when dost thou meane to serve God? |
A12166 | Thus, will you goe to Idols, flocks and stones, devises of mens braine for supply of grace and comfort? |
A12166 | Thy best performances are stained, wilt thou doe none therefore? |
A12166 | To be free from the law of sinne and death, what? |
A12166 | To make this a little clearer: how can this bee( will some man thinke) that every common action should bee a service of God? |
A12166 | To serve, wha ●? |
A12166 | Was Christ a chosen servant of God and shall not we take Gods choise? |
A12166 | We are under sinne: what sinne? |
A12166 | We can do no good to him; what doth he care for our goods? |
A12166 | We had need to stirre up our selves, the danger is present, we are beset round about, yet who is stirred up to earnest prayer? |
A12166 | We see here, he layes the blame upon their iniquities; did not the Babylonians carry them away? |
A12166 | We shall give an account for every idle word, and for every idle thought, and shall we not regard it? |
A12166 | Wee know not what to pray, but the Spirit makes intercession; How is that? |
A12166 | Wee wrong our soules to joyne with dead persons, who would converse with dead courses, and corps? |
A12166 | Well and in this case what shall we doe? |
A12166 | Well then, what is Davids argument of comfort? |
A12166 | Well upon tryall if wee find our selves not so disposed as we should, how shall wee carry our selves, that we may say, Come? |
A12166 | Well, but what shall we doe when judgements are comming? |
A12166 | Were our foules made to pursue things that are earthly and base, worse then our selves? |
A12166 | Were our wits made onely to plod in our temporall, and to neglect our heavenly calling? |
A12166 | What a case is this? |
A12166 | What a comfort then is it to thinke, if I have fellowship with Christ, it is sealed by the Sacrament? |
A12166 | What a fearfull bondage is this, that being under sinne, we are under Satan? |
A12166 | What a large comfort is this? |
A12166 | What an excellent thing is this that vve may keepe sessions in our owne soules, and so need not be called to Gods assises? |
A12166 | What are all our performances if they be not out of love to God? |
A12166 | What are daies of fasting for, but to give our selves leisure, that we may not thinke of meate and drinke and businesse? |
A12166 | What can such a man looke for, but the judgement of God to light on him first or last? |
A12166 | What course shall wee take to keep God comfortably with us? |
A12166 | What do we know but that that little time wherein wee yeeld to the service of the Divell, may be the time when God will fetch us hence? |
A12166 | What doth it in Christ? |
A12166 | What gives us title to Heaven and frees us from Hell? |
A12166 | What good hath God by it but onely the glory of his mercy, in saving our soules through Christ? |
A12166 | What ground have we to hope for immunity more then others? |
A12166 | What had sinners to doe with grace? |
A12166 | What hath blowne us from our callings and imployments? |
A12166 | What if hee should feed deliciously every day as Dives? |
A12166 | What if men heare not, yet conscience heares, and God heares? |
A12166 | What if wee doe it not? |
A12166 | What is heere meant by the meate that perisheth? |
A12166 | What is in a Kingdome? |
A12166 | What is life? |
A12166 | What is meant by judgement here? |
A12166 | What is more cleare than Gods providence? |
A12166 | What is requisite in a Rule? |
A12166 | What is the course of many Christians? |
A12166 | What is the difference betweene a Christian& another man? |
A12166 | What is the glory of the kingdome we live in above Pop ● ry? |
A12166 | What is the reason that Christ is not relished more? |
A12166 | What is the reason that former times were called darke times, and so they were, the times of Popery, a darke age? |
A12166 | What is the reason that men are ashamed of good courses so soon? |
A12166 | What is the reason that men refuse this chosen stone? |
A12166 | What is the reason that the Church in heaven saith, Come? |
A12166 | What is the reason that the Scripture hath that phrase so often, Feare not, I am with thee; as to Paul, and Ioshua, and the rest? |
A12166 | What is the wit of a man that is not in Christ, occupied about all his life time? |
A12166 | What is this to the life of grace? |
A12166 | What issues from them but stench? |
A12166 | What makes Winter, but the absence of the Sunne? |
A12166 | What makes night in the soule, when the soule is benighted with ignorance that it can not see it selfe nor see the judgements of God? |
A12166 | What makes the condition of the divels so desperate? |
A12166 | What makes the faults of wives worse, then the fault of single persons? |
A12166 | What makes the night, but the absence of the Sun? |
A12166 | What makes the poore husbandman diligent to plow and to sow? |
A12166 | What makes the times better? |
A12166 | What need a man feare death and damnation, and the miseries of this life, and Satan? |
A12166 | What one grace is not set on worke in prayer? |
A12166 | What shall seperate us from the love of God in Christ Iesus? |
A12166 | What shall we say to these things? |
A12166 | What shall wee say of those therefore, that are so farre from drawing neare to God when they have these opportunities, that they turne their backs? |
A12166 | What shall wee then say to these things? |
A12166 | What should I speake of forgetting life eternall, and damnation? |
A12166 | What should this teach us? |
A12166 | What should we learne hence? |
A12166 | What then is the glory that is to be revealed on the Sonnes of God in the day of revelation? |
A12166 | What time had he to rule his Kingdome then? |
A12166 | What use is there of these words in this place? |
A12166 | What violence is in the lives of most Christians, what strength to enforce good actions, how doe they improove the meanes of salvation? |
A12166 | What was the cause of all this, that they were thus unrepentant, and that generallly No man said What have I done? |
A12166 | What 〈 ◊ 〉 I now? |
A12166 | What? |
A12166 | When God that is a God hearing prayer ▪ shall not regard his prayer? |
A12166 | When Moses pretended he ● ould not speake, Who gives a mouth, saith God to him? |
A12166 | When it is propounded thus hopefully, who would not offer violence to this Kingdome? |
A12166 | When we slight a man, we say wee care not if he heard us himselfe; But shall wee slight God so? |
A12166 | Wherefore is all the fullnesse that is in him? |
A12166 | Wherefore serves the blessed Spirit, but to be a Counsellour? |
A12166 | Who are we, are wee stronger then God? |
A12166 | Who for shame can be proud when he thinks of this that God was abased, shall God bee abased, and man proud? |
A12166 | Who hath left an oath? |
A12166 | Who hath left his wicked courses and entered into a nearer communion with God for all our teaching? |
A12166 | Who is not brought upon his knees for the weakenesse of his best actions? |
A12166 | Who is so pitifull of our brethren round about as he ought? |
A12166 | Who is this that ingageth his heart to approach unto me, saith the Lord? |
A12166 | Who shall be against us? |
A12166 | Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods people? |
A12166 | Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods people? |
A12166 | Who would goe to the Pest- house, or to one that hath Lord have mercy upon us on the doore? |
A12166 | Who would not labour for assurance that yields this abundant comfort in all conditions? |
A12166 | Who would not labour to be in a better condition? |
A12166 | Why are we so dejected as if we had not such a rich husband? |
A12166 | Why are we under damnation and wrath? |
A12166 | Why are wee so weake and comfortlesse? |
A12166 | Why art thou as a stranger? |
A12166 | Why did he not die before? |
A12166 | Why did the Divells fall? |
A12166 | Why do we esteeme of Chrystall more then glasse? |
A12166 | Why doe you spend money for that which is not Bread? |
A12166 | Why doth God speak thus honourably of David? |
A12166 | Why doth that come in Scripture? |
A12166 | Why hath God planted us here, in the Paradise of the Church? |
A12166 | Why in the middest of aboundance, are we poore and beggerly? |
A12166 | Why is the state of grace and the meanes of grace and glory it selfe called the Kingdome of Heaven? |
A12166 | Why should we decay in our love? |
A12166 | Why should we wish for that condition that will never be in this world? |
A12166 | Why the matter of Vriah so objected to David? |
A12166 | Why, are we under Satans government? |
A12166 | Why? |
A12166 | Why? |
A12166 | Why? |
A12166 | Why? |
A12166 | Wicked men thinke they knovv God, and they knovv religion vvell enough: I, but what use do they make of it in their particular course? |
A12166 | Will not men get any cause so they have a good purse? |
A12166 | Will of God, Counsell, why? |
A12166 | Would we then have death as a sweet rest to us? |
A12166 | Yet who can be against us in this sense; that is, to prevayle altogether? |
A12166 | and amongst men, is he Sealed for holy men or sinners? |
A12166 | and doth not grace worke that, that nature doth in a higher degree? |
A12166 | and how shall we love God except we be perswaded that hee loves us first? |
A12166 | and if we must labour for it, how doth he give it? |
A12166 | and that many fall off? |
A12166 | and the whoremonger, that whoremongers and adulterers God will judge? |
A12166 | and what brings that? |
A12166 | and what doth a man get that stands out, when God comes to humble him by affliction, and intends his good? |
A12166 | and what use can you make of this for courage, and for comfort for the time to come? |
A12166 | and what will become of us then? |
A12166 | and whence ariseth it? |
A12166 | and your labour for that which satisfieth not? |
A12166 | another glorious triumphant speech, another glorious speech, Who shall separate us from the love of God founded in Christ? |
A12166 | art thou able to encounter a tentation? |
A12166 | art thou able to performe holy services? |
A12166 | art thou able to resist a lust? |
A12166 | at the houre of death? |
A12166 | because he knows if God be with him, who can be against him? |
A12166 | but this is but for a time, and for tryall, Can a mother forget her childe? |
A12166 | by hearing of Christs Gospel, or of the Law preached? |
A12166 | canst thou beleeve Christ to be thy King, and yet suffer thy lusts to beare sway in thee? |
A12166 | canst thou beleeve that Christ is a Priest that died forthy sinnes, and yet cherishest and lovest sinne? |
A12166 | deale not so hardly with Ioseph as to cast him into the pit? |
A12166 | did David serve God when he was to die only? |
A12166 | doth Christ meane that wee should not labour at all for earthly things? |
A12166 | doth hee reade a Lecture of ill husbandry and unthriftinesse and negligence? |
A12166 | for whom is he Sealed? |
A12166 | hast thou cloathed his necke with thunder? |
A12166 | hath hee afflicted thee as I afflicted others? |
A12166 | he doth not put the case, but layes it as a ground; If God be with us? |
A12166 | he that is our surety is dead; dead? |
A12166 | he that planted the eare, he that is all eare, shall not hee heare? |
A12166 | he that strooke them may he not strike thee? |
A12166 | he will guide me by his counsell, while I live here, and when I am dead, what will he do fot me after? |
A12166 | hee will receive mee to glory: whereupon saith hee, who have I in heaven but thee? |
A12166 | here is comfort; are you sinfull? |
A12166 | here is righteousnesse; are you led away with present contentments? |
A12166 | how can these two, guift, and labour stand together? |
A12166 | how then wouldest thou have God to regard it? |
A12166 | is he Sealed for Angels or for men? |
A12166 | is hee not in his Congregations, and Assemblies of his Saints? |
A12166 | is not this the end why I live heere? |
A12166 | is our condition so here, as that wee desire to be as we are still? |
A12166 | is there a God in heaven, that suffers these things to go so confusedly? |
A12166 | is there not that sweetnesse in them, whereby to gaine our love more and more? |
A12166 | is thy heart sprinkled with it; that it is not as the blood of Abel that cries for vengeance? |
A12166 | it is God that justifieth, who shall condemne? |
A12166 | not in outvvard manifestations onely, vvhich is laudable, and a good demonstration of the affections of people: but alas what is that? |
A12166 | others have beene stricken, might not the same arrow have stricken mee? |
A12166 | our sinnes? |
A12166 | put case there might be some oversight; art thou secure from Gods arrow? |
A12166 | saith the soule that heares this, we heare much of an authorized Saviour, of an authorized Mediator to be All- sufficient, but what is that to mee? |
A12166 | seeing therefore wee goe to our fathers, it should rather make us chearefull: Here, whom do we live with? |
A12166 | shall God become a servant, and shall wee that are servants thinke much to serve our fellow- servants? |
A12166 | shall I not agree with God, and his Spirit, and his comforts? |
A12166 | shall they be best in regard of an unbeleeving heart? |
A12166 | so many men do many things amisse, Conscience may say; did not I tell you this before, it was naught, and yet you would needs doe it? |
A12166 | so shallow minded men, they see any earthly excellencie, they stand gazing; Alas saith Christ, doe you wonder at these things? |
A12166 | so what were Christ if wee had not faith to lay hold on him? |
A12166 | take them at the best, our friends? |
A12166 | that would stagger me most, that would shake my Faith most? |
A12166 | the Ministers of God strive with men, but they breake off the cords, and cry, tush they are silly men shall we yeeld to them? |
A12166 | there is no sowing after this life; then is the time of reaping; and why wilt thou deferre the time of sowing till thou come to reap? |
A12166 | therefore what needs violence to a thing that is free, and freely offered? |
A12166 | therfore resolve not a moment to serve sinne; our whole time is but short in respect of eternity: what is our generation to world without end? |
A12166 | these things are implyed in this question, What shall we say to these things? |
A12166 | they in time chuse him, 1 Whom have I in heaven but thee? |
A12166 | though they erre egregiously; they account rebellion service; and make traitors merit,& c. But are our Tenents subject to such grosse things? |
A12166 | to be a new creature, to be changed by the powerfull ordinances, and Spirit of God? |
A12166 | to get into Christ, to make him mine own, to be turned into him, to feed on him, to get joy and comfort, and strength from him? |
A12166 | to runne against thornes? |
A12166 | to rush upon the pikes? |
A12166 | was the Gospell delivered by Christ as the law was, in terrors and feares? |
A12166 | was there not the sweet savour of obedience? |
A12166 | what and if he had all the kingdomes of the world? |
A12166 | what and if he had the wisedome of Salomon, the strength of Samson? |
A12166 | what are all? |
A12166 | what can be said more? |
A12166 | what can separate us? |
A12166 | what can you desire more? |
A12166 | what excuse can men have for their sinnes now? |
A12166 | what good wee did, what ill wee hindred? |
A12166 | what goodly building is here? |
A12166 | what is the best evidence to know that God is with us? |
A12166 | what use will you make of all that hath beene said? |
A12166 | what will you sucke out of it? |
A12166 | when he growes low and can not heate the earth: So what makes winter in the soule, deadnesse and darkenesse and dullnesse in Gods service? |
A12166 | when he saith; If God be with us? |
A12166 | where is Christ, here? |
A12166 | wherefore hath the Father Sealed Christ but in love to thee? |
A12166 | whether it be filthinesse, or profanenesse, or swearing, or injustice, and whether have I made satisfaction or no? |
A12166 | who shall be against us, so farre as to have their will in the issue? |
A12166 | why doth he not say which the Sonne of God shall give you? |
A12166 | why doth the Scripture mislike will- worship; worship that is according to our owne will? |
A12166 | why forbidden? |
A12166 | ● s there ● ot cause to grow in love to the Gospell, when God hath taken it from others, and hath given ● ● to us? |
A09990 | ( As I said before,) shall I goe vp to Hebron, or shall I not goe at this time? |
A09990 | ( for it is said to be made to both) how all Nations are blessed in Abraham, and yet it is said, they shall be blessed in thy seed? |
A09990 | ( it is to that purpose brought in) What are they to the Lord? |
A09990 | 1. such an expression; there the Disciples aske Christ this question; Master,( say they) who shall bee the greatest in the Kingdome of God? |
A09990 | 10. what wilt thou doe in such a case? |
A09990 | 11. what was the reason that he started aside, that he did not beleeue as at other times? |
A09990 | 11. when Pilate sayth to our Saviour, haue I not power to crucifie thee, or to loose thee? |
A09990 | 22. you see the difference there, betweene the assurance of faith, and of presumption, Draw neere in assurance of faith: What then? |
A09990 | 24. sayth the Lord there, Doth the plow- man plowe all the day? |
A09990 | 30. when he thought his mountaine was made strong and vnderpropped well on each side; What caused now an alteration? |
A09990 | 34. Who hath given to him, and it shall be recompenced to him? |
A09990 | 38. you see the holy Ghost reasoning with the sonnes of men, even after this manner; Why, sayth he, doe you doubt him? |
A09990 | 4. cals the Old Testament, those teachings that the people had then, impotent and beggerly rudiments? |
A09990 | 6. where this obiection is made, If there be a promise of pardon, and of grace, through Christ, then belike we may liue as we list? |
A09990 | 9. that the heart of man is exceeding deceit full, who can know it? |
A09990 | A man againe that withdrawes his heart from them, and trusts in the Lord, may not he wither? |
A09990 | A perverse and crooked minde, who can make straight? |
A09990 | Abner how inconstant was he to Ishbosheth? |
A09990 | Againe, he holds the windes in his fist; who sees him as such a God, that is able to hold the windes in his fist? |
A09990 | Againe, if thou thinke him to be All- sufficient, why art thou not content to be at his immediate finding? |
A09990 | Againe, it is not because the Lord will not doe it; for he is as infinite in loue to me, as he is in power: What is the reason of it then? |
A09990 | Againe, when all the Starres shine, and the Sunne is set, is not that night? |
A09990 | Againe, who is it that maintaines all the creatures? |
A09990 | Againe, who is it that restrained thy lusts before? |
A09990 | Againe, withall, how dangerous it is to refuse it: for who knowes how long the LORD will waite? |
A09990 | Againe; Who are they that divide the world? |
A09990 | Alas ▪ you will say, is it euery committing of sinne? |
A09990 | Alas, I am weake, I finde my selfe too weake already in the Battell, he is too strong for mee? |
A09990 | And for what end doe you thinke did the Lord it? |
A09990 | And from whence was that feare, but because he reckoned not God, to be a Buckler strong enough, and sure enough? |
A09990 | And if you aske now what is the condition that makes euery man partaker of this Covenant of grace? |
A09990 | And is he not able to bestow it on thee, though there be an emptines in thine heart? |
A09990 | And might he not well say, he was an exceeding great reward? |
A09990 | And so Abraham, when he was to offer his onely sonne, what should he doe now? |
A09990 | And so David, how many hard taskes went he through, with all chearefulnesse, and constancie? |
A09990 | And so Moses thought it a hard thing, to be barred from comming into the land of Canaan; but what lost he by it? |
A09990 | And so againe, breathing the holy Ghost, who lookes vpon God, as one that dispenseth it, as it pleaseth him to giue it and withdraw it at his will? |
A09990 | And so againe, when you see the Church in such a case as it is now in, we are readie to cast away all hope, and to say, What shall we doe? |
A09990 | And so againe, who lookes vpon him as lapping vp the waters as in a garment? |
A09990 | And so likewise, what is the reason of the vneven wayes of men, which they take to bring their enterprises to passe? |
A09990 | And so, likewise, who can supply that which is wanting? |
A09990 | And therefore why should you not be content to take God alone? |
A09990 | And therefore why should you not be content with God alone? |
A09990 | And therefore, Beloved, why should you not be content to haue the Lord alone for your portion? |
A09990 | And therefore, why should I not be content to haue him alone? |
A09990 | And therefore, why shouldst thou not be contented to haue God alone for thy portion? |
A09990 | And what doth this duty doe? |
A09990 | And what hast thou that thou hast not received? |
A09990 | And what is that light? |
A09990 | And what is the reason that we come not with great faith, but because we come not in the name of Christ? |
A09990 | And what miserie came vpon Gehezi for missing his time? |
A09990 | And what then? |
A09990 | And what vse should you make of it? |
A09990 | And when a man shall object ▪ but this is a hard thing? |
A09990 | And wherein stands this washing? |
A09990 | And whither goest thou? |
A09990 | And whither goest thou? |
A09990 | And why? |
A09990 | And, Beloved, what shall I say more? |
A09990 | Another objection is; If God be All- sufficient for these outward things, why am I thus crossed? |
A09990 | Another was; What? |
A09990 | Are not they likewise perfect? |
A09990 | Are they able to bring it to passe? |
A09990 | Art thou able to doe so, to see and know him thus in his greatnesse? |
A09990 | Art thou able to say, that he is holy in all his wayes, and in this to see the greatnesse of God, and thy owne folly and weakenes? |
A09990 | Art thou not Sarahs maid? |
A09990 | As if he should say; Lay those two things together, dost thou thinke it an easier thing to make heaven and earth, then to bring that thing to passe? |
A09990 | Beloued, there are many difficulties in this, how the promise should be made to the seede? |
A09990 | Beloved, doe you thinke the workes of Redemption should come short of the workes of Creation? |
A09990 | Beloved, if we did it, why are our hearts discouraged? |
A09990 | Beloved, if we did see him in his greatnesse, why should Torches and Candles haue so great a light before vs? |
A09990 | Beloved, what doe you thinke heaven is? |
A09990 | Beloved, you shall finde it a matter of power: take a man; Is it not a matter of strength in him to forgiue, to passe by an infirmitie? |
A09990 | Beloved; the meaning of this, is not that you should reach his perfection; for, who can ever doe it? |
A09990 | Besides this: what is the cause that men seeke after vaine- glory, that they are subiect to enuie? |
A09990 | Besides, as there is a power in his wrath; Who knowes the power of his wrath? |
A09990 | Besides, how is it that you see things sitted one to another as they are? |
A09990 | Besides, is it not a power to be rich? |
A09990 | But he doth pray sometimes? |
A09990 | But how came Gehasie to know that? |
A09990 | But how shall a man know that time? |
A09990 | But how shall a man know that, whether he haue done this? |
A09990 | But how shall a man know whether this faith be right or no? |
A09990 | But how shall this be proved? |
A09990 | But is that all, that thou shalt want the comfort of God? |
A09990 | But now who is able to perswade men of this? |
A09990 | But then comes an objection, I, but I shall leaue it to my Sonne? |
A09990 | But then this obiection comes in, the Lord dispenseth comforts by such meanes? |
A09990 | But this will be obiected; I but we finde it otherwise, those that are his children, are they not poore? |
A09990 | But what doe you say of the Gentiles, that are now come in? |
A09990 | But what if hee haue valiant men and Souldiers? |
A09990 | But what is the benefit of this knowl ● d ● e? |
A09990 | But what is the cause they want grace? |
A09990 | But where is the true sprinkling vpon the heart and conscience? |
A09990 | But whereas it may be said, who knowes what he may be? |
A09990 | But who walkes as seeing him thus in his greatnesse, and in his All- sufficiencie? |
A09990 | But why is this? |
A09990 | But you will obiect, Was it not Iobs case? |
A09990 | But you will say againe, What needs this perswasion of Gods All- sufficiencie in forgiving? |
A09990 | But you will say to me ▪ may not a man, whose heart is vnsound, keepe a constant course in sacrificing to the Lord, that is, in praying to the Lord? |
A09990 | But you will say, How can it be, that a naturall man should neuer know these things? |
A09990 | But you will say, How comes this blood to be a witnesse? |
A09990 | But, may not a man that trusts not in God, but lookes a little too much to the creature, prosper? |
A09990 | But, sayth he, you shall come boldly; through whom? |
A09990 | But, why then is it said, it is a little? |
A09990 | But, you will say, who doth not know that the creature is emptie? |
A09990 | Canst thou learne not to murmur against God, in any of his wayes? |
A09990 | Canst thou learne to captivate, and bring vnder thy thoughts to the wayes of Gods providence? |
A09990 | Canst thou looke on thy selfe as on a vile Creature, as Peter did, saying, Goe from me: for I am a sinfull man? |
A09990 | Canst thou say, that thou art but dust, and ashes, and to say it in good earnest? |
A09990 | Certainely, it was not for himselfe, for he had no neede of it, but he bought it for vs; and will he not make vse of it, when he hath done? |
A09990 | Certainely, they are most true, I can not doubt of them: but then he begins to consider, As they are true, how fit are they for mee? |
A09990 | Crooked Children, who can make them straight? |
A09990 | Crooked affections, inordinate feares, and inordinate griefes, who can rectifie them? |
A09990 | David how inconstant did he finde the people, and apt to rebell against him? |
A09990 | David was at that time not fit to haue done it, he was not able to haue done it, as circumstances were: but was he a looser by it? |
A09990 | David, in all that he did, he asked counsell of the Lord; shall I stay in such a Cittie, or shall I not stay? |
A09990 | Did not the Lord recompence it abundantly to him, when Salomon was given to him in his stead? |
A09990 | Did you not rather receiue it by the hearing of ● aith preached? |
A09990 | Did you receiue the Spirit by the workes of the Law? |
A09990 | Doe you not call it so? |
A09990 | Doe you thinke they would haue regarded them much? |
A09990 | Doe you thinke, that he will purchase a thing at so deare a rate, and when he hath done, make no vse of it? |
A09990 | Doest thou( sayth the Lord) know the treasures of snow and hayle that I haue hid? |
A09990 | Dost thou finde thy lusts as strong, as they were? |
A09990 | Doth one condition fall to all, both good and bad? |
A09990 | Doth this tend towards such a Iourney or not? |
A09990 | First, I say, God doth thus for a time: And why? |
A09990 | First, art thou able to say, I haue not the vnderstanding of a man in me; That is; Canst thou see the emptinesse, and vanitie of thy owne knowledge? |
A09990 | First, if a man beleeue that All- sufficiencie that is in God, why doth he terminate his affections in the Creature? |
A09990 | First, sayth he, the people are rebels, and will the Lord giue them water, that haue carried themselues in such a manner? |
A09990 | First, the heart must be all sanctified: If you say, how shall wee know that? |
A09990 | For if they be all vanitie, what a change doe wee make? |
A09990 | For what causeth this vanitie, that lieth vpon the whole face of the creature? |
A09990 | For what hope hath the Hypocrite when hee hath heaped vp riches, when God shall come and pull away his soule? |
A09990 | For, Beloved, what is it, when we haue other men that are strong, and wise, and potent to rest vpon? |
A09990 | Gehezi, when he tooke a gift of Naaman; The Prophet his Maister reproues him in these words; Gehezi, sayth he, is this a time to receiue gifts? |
A09990 | God forbid: Shall we that are dead to sinne liue yet therein? |
A09990 | Hast thou not had the spirit of bondage? |
A09990 | Hast thou that respect to Gods Commandements, that when other commandements come, thou regardest them little, but thou hast still an eye to that? |
A09990 | Hath Christ so taught you? |
A09990 | Hath he not grace enough to put into their hearts, that he might reape the full fruits of righteousnesse? |
A09990 | Hath he not spirit enough? |
A09990 | Haue you had experience of this? |
A09990 | He proues it by this; for, sayth he, he knowes not what shall be; for who can tell him what shall be? |
A09990 | He that lappes the waters in a garment, is he not able to restraine men that are violent against vs in wrath? |
A09990 | How can it be said, in Abraham shall all the Nations of the world bee blessed? |
A09990 | How did that appeare? |
A09990 | How doe they receiue from Abraham? |
A09990 | How doth godlines giue contentment? |
A09990 | How inconstant was he to Ioab, when he had prevailed in that battaile against Absolom? |
A09990 | How shall we doe that? |
A09990 | How shall we know that? |
A09990 | How shall wee know that? |
A09990 | I say, now looke to thy selfe, art thou able to serue him, without looking to present commoditie? |
A09990 | I say, surely, if thou hast not t ● sted of this, Christ, hath not sowne the seed of grace in thy heart: doth any man sow before he hath plowed? |
A09990 | I will giue you,& c. there is an expression of the Couenant, and yet it is a condition that is required on our part? |
A09990 | I would aske thee in this case, wouldst thou haue it without thy Fathers good will? |
A09990 | I would aske you but this question; Whether can all that portion make them happy, or make your selues so, or any one else? |
A09990 | I, but what if hee haue horses and chariots? |
A09990 | If God be All- sufficient; why are there so many defects in my estate, in my health, this way and that way? |
A09990 | If I were hungry after them, who could keepe them from me? |
A09990 | If a man be brought to povertie, it can not be beyond that of Iobs; was it not enough for Iob to haue God for his portion? |
A09990 | If againe, I were in the lowest ebbe, is not he enough? |
A09990 | If he made heaven and earth, doest thou not thinke he is able to doe that? |
A09990 | If the Lord be All- sufficient, why should you not bestow it altogether vpon him? |
A09990 | If there be enough in him, why should you step out to them? |
A09990 | If there be nothing in the Creature, but emptines, why doe you loue the Creature? |
A09990 | If thou be Sarahs maid, whence commest thou? |
A09990 | If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? |
A09990 | If thou sinnest, what dost thou against him, yea, when thy sinnes are many, what dost thou to him? |
A09990 | If we did thinke him to be All- sufficient, when one meanes is broken, can not he finde out another, if he be All- sufficient? |
A09990 | If we doe implore GOD ● ayde, doe you thinke that God will breake his Couenant? |
A09990 | If you aske the reason, why will the LORD haue it so? |
A09990 | If you aske, where this happinesse is to be found? |
A09990 | If you beleeue, where is your Circumcision? |
A09990 | If you doe marke the parts of it, hath not Christ redeemed vs from our vaine conversation? |
A09990 | If you looke vpon the Law without, Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God, and shalt feare him,& c. it is a hard Law, who can keepe it? |
A09990 | If you obiect; But you see sometimes patience, euen in the best of the Saints, hath not a perfect worke, but is sometimes interrupted? |
A09990 | If you say to me, who doubts of this, that the Lord is able to forgiue? |
A09990 | In like manner, David had an exceeding great desire to build the Temple, when it was not the Lords will, that he should doe it; was he a looser by it? |
A09990 | Is he not a Sunne and a Shield, sayth the Psalmist? |
A09990 | Is it for him? |
A09990 | Is it not I sayth the Lord? |
A09990 | Is it not I the Lord? |
A09990 | Is it not I the Lord? |
A09990 | Is it not a part of thy Couenant? |
A09990 | Is it not from hence, that men apprehend not God to be All- sufficient? |
A09990 | Is it not he that made them? |
A09990 | Is it not so when you haue the Lord alone? |
A09990 | Is it not so with vs all? |
A09990 | Is it not sufficient? |
A09990 | Is it not the providence of God? |
A09990 | Is it not to bestow on vs? |
A09990 | Is it that he might keepe it, and hoard it vp? |
A09990 | Is it that that moues thee? |
A09990 | Is not the Lord the Master of them? |
A09990 | Is not the Lord the cause? |
A09990 | Is the Law of God thus written in your hearts? |
A09990 | Is the Law then against the promise of GOD? |
A09990 | Is there any thing in the world can helpe a man to happinesse to any purpose? |
A09990 | Is there not enough in him, who is full of all comfort? |
A09990 | It can not helpe thee to saue thy soule, what wil it profit thee? |
A09990 | It is said, the Lord helped him vntill hee was mighty, and what then? |
A09990 | It is sayd there, that, though I sack were the sonne of the promise, yet he willingly offred him; why? |
A09990 | It may be you haue that outward Circumcision in the flesh, but where is the Circumcision of the heart? |
A09990 | It was a lawfull thing for them to build houses to dwell in, and to enioy, but, sayth he, is this a time to dwell in your seeled houses? |
A09990 | Know you not, that as ma ● y as are baptized into Iesus Christ, are baptized into his death? |
A09990 | Last of all; What doth it? |
A09990 | Looke to it now, art thou ouercome with sinne? |
A09990 | Looke vpon David, or Paul, vpon Salomon, Lot, and Noah, and all the Saints, so long as God was with them, how strong were they? |
A09990 | Marke, this is the thing he prayes for, that they might stand perfect: Why? |
A09990 | May he not keepe those ordinances constantly? |
A09990 | Moreover, if God be All- sufficient, why are we then so readie to knock at other mens dores? |
A09990 | My Beloved, if the water were all in one place, if it were all in one river, in one chamber, what would become of mankinde? |
A09990 | My Beloved, to what end hath the Father given him all things into his hands? |
A09990 | Next to this the question will be, well but how shall I finde it? |
A09990 | No, my beloued, it is not Christ that sups with thee ▪ but it is a delusion of Satan ▪ but how shall we know this? |
A09990 | No: All the tryall is in this, to trust in him alone: for if you did thinke him All- sufficient; why should you not doe so? |
A09990 | No; we shall haue more; how shall we haue it? |
A09990 | Now if there be no man, nor no creature in heaven or earth, that can doe good or hurt,( Beloved) why should we be servants to men? |
A09990 | Now marke the Lords answer there, is the Lords hand shortened? |
A09990 | Now what is it to be a childe of Abraham? |
A09990 | Now what is it to be pure? |
A09990 | Now what is the end of all motion, and of all labour? |
A09990 | Now when a man considers this, Are these the promises of the LORD? |
A09990 | Now, if you aske how one should finde this way? |
A09990 | Now, what is it that makes the Couenant? |
A09990 | Now, when a man hath tooke the blood, What? |
A09990 | Now, you will say, How shall wee know this? |
A09990 | Now, you will say, how then shall a man know whether it bee the Commandement that moues him, if that be the proper effect of sincerity? |
A09990 | Paul, sayth he, pressed hard toward the marke, for what purpose? |
A09990 | Peter, when he denied Christ, was it not from feare? |
A09990 | Sayth he, if thou sinne, what is that to him? |
A09990 | Sayth the Lord, I will giue thee that Penny, thou shalt worke in my Vineyard; I but when a man hath it,( marke it) he murmurs, why? |
A09990 | Secondly it is obiected, that others that are out of the Couenant, they liue in peace? |
A09990 | Shall I doe it in such a season, or shall I s ● ay another? |
A09990 | Shall I goe vp to warre to such a place, or shall I not goe? |
A09990 | Shall a man merit in giving to the Lord the fruits of his owne Vineyard, the Apples of his owne Orchard? |
A09990 | Shall six hundred thousand men be fed with flesh, shall all the Beeues and Sheepe be slaine, or shall all the fish in the Sea be gathered together? |
A09990 | Shall we therefore sinne that grace may abound, or because grace hath abounded? |
A09990 | Should not this free vs, from fearefull perplexities, from vaine hopes, and vaine feares? |
A09990 | So Dauid, when hee comforted himselfe at Ziglag, what was it that he comforted himselfe in? |
A09990 | So David, when he would goe out of the way, in his adultery, and murther, did he not goe about towards his happines? |
A09990 | So againe, after that manner doth the second signe of the Couenant, which is the Passeouer, when the LORD shall aske, Doe you beleeue? |
A09990 | So againe, sayth he, who is it that enlightens the earth? |
A09990 | So in all such doubtfull Cases goe to God, shall I doe such a thing, or shall I not? |
A09990 | So that put these two together, out of the rocke, and vnto rebels, there his fayth fayled, for it was difficult: and whence came this? |
A09990 | So the Lord deales with his children; But yet, my Beloved, why should you not be content to haue him alone for your portion? |
A09990 | So then, seest thou a wicked man doing wickedly, and yet not punished? |
A09990 | So, what if we had never so much, and no beames flowing form him though them, who onely is the God of all comfort, and the Father of all consolation? |
A09990 | Suppose you haue nothing but him for your portion, shall not the Lord be sufficient to make you happie? |
A09990 | THE point which we were in handling, was this, How a man may know whether he be in the Couenant or no? |
A09990 | That is, it is a dangerous thing to admonish Princes; who shall say to a Prince, what doest thou, sayth the Wiseman? |
A09990 | That is; All the things in the world, all the men in the world? |
A09990 | That is; All- sufficient, to fill you with comfort of all kindes? |
A09990 | That is; I may satisfie my selfe,( I doe but apply it by way of allusion) if I would haue Sacrifice in abundance, might I not haue it? |
A09990 | That is; If he were desirous of perfect and absolute obedience, could he not haue it? |
A09990 | That is; Why should we regard men so much? |
A09990 | That is;( as the originall shewes more clearely) as one that hath founded the great and waightie earth vpon nothing? |
A09990 | That place, you know, Amos 3. shall there be evill in the Cittie, and the Lord hath not done it? |
A09990 | The Sabbath, that he hath taken for himselfe, and hath called it his day, Some may aske, is not that for his owne sake? |
A09990 | The Woman might aske, But how can this bee? |
A09990 | The Word, and meanes of grace, doe they not strike at every rebellion? |
A09990 | The bloud of Christ, doth it not wash every sinne? |
A09990 | The holy Ghost, doth not he mortifie every sinfull lust? |
A09990 | The next question wee had to propound to you, was this, How a man should know whether he be within the Couenant, or no? |
A09990 | The question now i ●, whether of the ● e he will feare most? |
A09990 | The question onely is, in what manner Abraham shall be the Lords; how that shall be declared? |
A09990 | The same may I say of all other comforts in the world; who made them? |
A09990 | The satisfying of sinfull lusts, doth it not arise from hence? |
A09990 | There was nothing, you know, when he made the world: when he made ● he Angels, what was it he bestow ● d his riches vpon? |
A09990 | Therefore thinke with thy selfe, there is no man that hath all, and why should I desire it? |
A09990 | Therefore, I say, God delights to doe it so much the rather, when men are prepared, and say with themselues, what should hinder me? |
A09990 | Therfore, thinke with thy selfe, what is the exceeding 〈 ◊ 〉 of his loue? |
A09990 | This is but to open a dore of liberty, to make men more loose? |
A09990 | This was the fault of the Iewes; saith he ▪ they returned againe; but to whom was it? |
A09990 | Thou shouldst be about Sarahs businesse, what dost thou here in the Wildernes, running from thy mistris? |
A09990 | To know that, vpon good ground, I lay hold of these promises? |
A09990 | Verses, What shall wee say then? |
A09990 | Was he not an exceeding great looser by it? |
A09990 | Was it not Dauids case? |
A09990 | We haue such an High Priest, as is able perfectly to saue those that come to him: And why? |
A09990 | Well, but is not that an easie thing, when the mind and the state are put together? |
A09990 | Well, saith the Lord there, I will make a Couenant with you: and what will I doe? |
A09990 | Well, you will say, I grant this; but what followes on that? |
A09990 | Well; what is the conclusion? |
A09990 | What are these but particulars? |
A09990 | What can a man desire more but to be satisfied? |
A09990 | What did he doe? |
A09990 | What doe a number of those that professe themselues to be within the compasse of the Couenant there? |
A09990 | What doe we else but reioyce in our selues, and forget to giue all the glory to Christ? |
A09990 | What doest thou else but giue to him of his owne? |
A09990 | What if a man had the avre and no light in it? |
A09990 | What if he will be with thee in disgrace? |
A09990 | What if he will be with thee in povertie? |
A09990 | What if he will goe with thee into banishment, or into prison, as he did with Ioseph? |
A09990 | What if the Lord will be with thee? |
A09990 | What is it that man so seekes after? |
A09990 | What is that? |
A09990 | What is the reason of that? |
A09990 | What is the reason that Paul exceeded other men in grace? |
A09990 | What is the reason that men loue riches? |
A09990 | What is the reason that the New Testament is said to bee stablished vpon better promises? |
A09990 | What is the reason that wee shall loue him perfectly in heauen, but because we shall know him fully? |
A09990 | What makest thou here Eliah? |
A09990 | What makest thou here? |
A09990 | What man is he that feares the Lord? |
A09990 | What shall wee gather from that? |
A09990 | What should keepe me from bringing such an enterprise to passe? |
A09990 | What so brittle, and so vnconstant? |
A09990 | What then though you haue nothing but him alone? |
A09990 | What though he suffer his Church to be over- runne with enemies for a time? |
A09990 | What though thou be a looser in thy credit? |
A09990 | What though thou be a looser in thy profit, as Amaziah was? |
A09990 | What was it to Paul, when he indured that state and condition that he did, when his heart was so fashioned to it as it was? |
A09990 | What was the issue of it? |
A09990 | What was the reason else that Peter, Andrew, Iohn, and the rest of the Apostles, were able to forsake all things, when others were not? |
A09990 | What was the reason that Paul served the Lord with a perfect heart? |
A09990 | What was the reason the Third Ground did it not? |
A09990 | What was the reason the second Ground was not perfect with the Lord? |
A09990 | What was the reason there was more grace dispersed by Iesus Christ than by Moses? |
A09990 | What was the reason, on the other side, that Demas turned from the Lord? |
A09990 | What will he doe in this case? |
A09990 | What would become of the Beasts? |
A09990 | What? |
A09990 | When Abraham was an exile from his Countrey, and had not a foote of land, was not the Lord All- sufficient to him? |
A09990 | When Eliah fled, and had no meate, he had neither money, nor any body to provide any thing for him, did not the Lord provide for him? |
A09990 | When God sayd to him, that he would giue them flesh for a moneth together; what sayth Moses againe? |
A09990 | When the Sunne shines to you, though there be never a Starre, is it not day? |
A09990 | When thou hast gotten all thou wouldst haue, yet what is that, except thy heart be fashioned to it? |
A09990 | When we come to God with out the Sonne, what doe we els in so doing, but dishonour the Sonne? |
A09990 | When we come to heavē, shall we haue lesse varieties? |
A09990 | When you are in heaven, doe you thinke your estate shall be worse? |
A09990 | When you see a mightie raine, sayth he, who can open the bottles of heaven, and who can shut them? |
A09990 | Whence comes the light? |
A09990 | Where the word of the King is, there is power, and who shall say to him, what doest thou? |
A09990 | Who can stand before wrath, and envie, that is like a violent water, that overflowes all, and that carries all before it? |
A09990 | Who can vnder ● tand the height, and breadth, and length, and depth of this reward, I am thy exceeding great reward? |
A09990 | Who is able so fully to beleeue the forgiuenes of his sinnes, as he ought? |
A09990 | Who is able to doe it when he is put to it? |
A09990 | Who lookes vpon God, as thus great in power? |
A09990 | Who lookes vpon him as such a God? |
A09990 | Who would haue said, that this Church should haue recovered? |
A09990 | Why doe we not serue him with the losse of all these? |
A09990 | Why doe wee hang downe our heads vpon every occasion, when troubles come? |
A09990 | Why doe you thinke the Wiseman would magnifie wisdome so much? |
A09990 | Why is Israell oppressed? |
A09990 | Why is he made rich with all treasures? |
A09990 | Why should we be troubled at it? |
A09990 | Why should you be so intent vpon them? |
A09990 | Why should you be so subiect to carnall griefes, and feares, and carnall desires? |
A09990 | Why should you spend it vpon the creature? |
A09990 | Why should your minde be occupied about it? |
A09990 | Why then shouldest thou be vneven in thy wayes, serving me sometimes, by fits, and sometimes the creature? |
A09990 | Why? |
A09990 | Will God heare his prayer when he cryes,& c.? |
A09990 | Will he be lift vp, and puffed vp with all this? |
A09990 | Will he call vpon God at all times? |
A09990 | Wouldest thou know then in which of these two ● ankes of men thou art? |
A09990 | You know Abrahams faith is every ● where commended, and what was his faith? |
A09990 | You shall know it by this, How did Abraham know whether he was in the Couenant, or how will you know whether Abraham, or any other were? |
A09990 | You wil say, how shall we do to be perswaded of it? |
A09990 | You will say to me, how shall I know that? |
A09990 | You will say to me, how shall we know? |
A09990 | You will say to me, this is very hard, who is able to be perfect, as his heavenly Father is perfect? |
A09990 | You will say, How shall a man know whether he know this wisdome or no, whether hee thus iudge of the wayes of God? |
A09990 | You will say, Is this such a matter? |
A09990 | You will say, What is this seale, or witnesse of the Spirit? |
A09990 | You will say, how can that be? |
A09990 | You will say, how can that be? |
A09990 | You will say, how shall that be done? |
A09990 | You will say, what are these things? |
A09990 | You will say; Is not the creature able to doe good or hurt? |
A09990 | You willsay, what comfort is there in that? |
A09990 | a mans heart will goe further, if there be such riches in God, such an All- sufficiency in him, why is it not better with me? |
A09990 | and if this were all, what should become of the principall part of man, that which is indeede the man himselfe? |
A09990 | and wh ● drawes the Curtaines of the night? |
A09990 | and what doth the body serue for but for the soule? |
A09990 | are these promises true? |
A09990 | are they confirmed with the blood of the Testator? |
A09990 | are they not clensed out? |
A09990 | are they not forsaken many times? |
A09990 | are they not like servants in the great house of the world, and we as children? |
A09990 | art thou glad of such an advertisement? |
A09990 | because it exceedingly increaseth grace; And what is the profit of it? |
A09990 | did he not provide for him abundantly? |
A09990 | did he not soone take away that, and turne the River another way, as it were, and fill him with abundance? |
A09990 | did he not soone turne it? |
A09990 | did not he himselfe take away Nabals life, and giue Nabals wife and goods, as he did Sauls goods, and his house, and his wiues to him? |
A09990 | did not the Lord write bitter things against him, and he was a iust man, and one that feared God? |
A09990 | doe not all things continue alike, since the time of the Fathers? |
A09990 | doe wee not giue gold away for drosse? |
A09990 | dost thou commit sinne? |
A09990 | dost thou obey sinne, when it comes with a command vpon thee? |
A09990 | dost thou remember what particular calling thou art in? |
A09990 | doth any man make a new impression before there bee an obl ● t ● ration of the old? |
A09990 | euery body will be ready to apply the promises of mercy and forgiuenesse, but what warrant haue I to apply them? |
A09990 | for, what are all the creatures? |
A09990 | had he not another sonne that was fitter for him, borne of his owne Wife? |
A09990 | had not he a house built him, as well as if he had built the house of God? |
A09990 | had not he as great a reward, as if he had performed it? |
A09990 | hath hee confirmed them with an Oath? |
A09990 | heere is the outward Passeouer, the outward profession, you come and take the signe and the seale, but where is the inward sprinkling? |
A09990 | here he was dessolate, poore, and needy, certainely his heart could not but be ready to faile,& what should sustaine him in this case? |
A09990 | how againe it should be made to Abraham himselfe? |
A09990 | how can you giue to him? |
A09990 | how should it be knowne they were perfect? |
A09990 | is it not happines, and comfort? |
A09990 | is it not hence, that they apprehend not God to be All- sufficient? |
A09990 | is it not man? |
A09990 | is not he able to giue thee fourescore talents, sayth the Prophet to him? |
A09990 | not to be borne of Abraham according to the flesh, but to be like Abraham; you are the children of the Deuill, Why? |
A09990 | now he begins to consider these promises, and he begins first to thinke, What? |
A09990 | or to what end is it vsefull for vs to know, that they are in the hands of the sonne, more then that they are in the hands of the Father? |
A09990 | or what receiues he at thy hands? |
A09990 | shall I give you water out of the rocke? |
A09990 | shall he continue in filthinesse now, and walke after the lusts, of his former ignorance? |
A09990 | shall the Apostles in their times be able to perswade them? |
A09990 | shall we continue in sinne that grace may abound? |
A09990 | should it not keepe our hearts perfect with God, if we were thus perswaded? |
A09990 | that such a promise as this should be made to mee, that I should goe, and saue Israel? |
A09990 | that they seeke them, and heape them vp aboue measure? |
A09990 | thou that art a Minister, what dost thou doing the thing that belongs not to such a one to doe? |
A09990 | to carnall feares? |
A09990 | to carnall hopes, and the like? |
A09990 | vpon what ground haue I done it? |
A09990 | was he not led into a better Canaan, into Paradise, into a more glorious condition? |
A09990 | was it not done by the preaching of Christ, and by offering to you the pardon and forgiuenesse of sins through him? |
A09990 | was it not, because he thought there was not enough in him? |
A09990 | was not his bones broken, as hee complaines, after the committing of the sinne of adultery? |
A09990 | what doe these Commandements and precepts doe, when they are applyed to the heart of man? |
A09990 | what is the goodnes of them? |
A09990 | what is this to my comfort? |
A09990 | when the Lord shall looke on that worke, shall he not say likewise, it is very good? |
A09990 | whether in riches, or in matter of estate? |
A09990 | whither wilt thou goe? |
A09990 | who comes not more vnchearfully before God, because of it? |
A09990 | who is able to doe it? |
A09990 | who is able to dwell with euer lasting burnings? |
A09990 | who is it that hath given thee any abilitie to thinke those good thoughts, to doe those good things? |
A09990 | who knows when he will cease waiting, and shut vp the doore of grace to vs? |
A09990 | who made the dumbe, and the deafe, and the hearing, and the seeing? |
A09990 | who made those brothers and sisters, that thou art deprived of in exile, or vpon any such occasion, in povertie and disgrace? |
A09990 | who made those fathers and mothers? |
A09990 | why am I no more able to overcome my sinnes? |
A09990 | why am I not in a higher condition? |
A09990 | why are they not removed from me? |
A09990 | why are you not content to consecrate your selues to him, to be to him alone? |
A09990 | why doe I come short of the performance of such purposes and desires? |
A09990 | why doe I fall backe so often to the same sinne? |
A09990 | why doe I finde so many things in my life contrary to the Rules of Sanctification, and so contrary to this All- sufficient power of God? |
A09990 | why doe I suffer these afflictions? |
A09990 | why doe I want so many things which I haue need of, and desire to haue? |
A09990 | why doe you feare the Creature? |
A09990 | why doe you reioyce in the Creature immediately as you doe? |
A09990 | why hath he given me but such a measure of gifts, but such a meane place, but such a quantitie of health, of wealth, of vnderstanding? |
A09990 | why may not a man haue a sufficient habituall strength in himselfe, by which he may be able to out- wrestle lusts, and to ouercome temptations? |
A09990 | why should we be subiect to carnall delights? |
A09990 | will he pray? |
A12186 | & c. You will say, when is this performed? |
A12186 | 1 Whence was he taken? |
A12186 | 2 And when was he taken up to glory? |
A12186 | 2. Who knowes the things of God, but the Spirit of God? |
A12186 | 2. Who shall abide it? |
A12186 | 4. he joynes them together, I have learned to want and to be abased: Why? |
A12186 | 46. what an object of trust is here, if we had bu ● faith to make use of it? |
A12186 | 6 Hence likewise comes the sympathy betweene Christ and us; for Christ is sayd to suffer with us: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? |
A12186 | 9 Saul, Saul why persecutest thou me? |
A12186 | A Christian hath that that is infinitely better, and shall hee alway droope and be cast downe? |
A12186 | Againe for your sakes, not for himselfe, he became not poore to make himselfe richer, hee did not merit for himselfe, what neede hee? |
A12186 | Againe, are these things Mysteries, great Mysteries? |
A12186 | Againe, hath the poverty of Christ made us rich; what will his riches doe? |
A12186 | Againe, hence we may fetch a rule, of discerning when we are godly, what makes a true Christian? |
A12186 | Againe, is Christ received up to glory? |
A12186 | Alas, if Angels had taken state upon them, where had this attendance bin? |
A12186 | All things are yours( sayth the Apostle:) What be those? |
A12186 | Am I in the favour of Christ, and finde no fruits of it? |
A12186 | Am I one of those? |
A12186 | And God in wisedome sees it the fittest way to dispense his grace to men by men; why? |
A12186 | And after death, what comfort are those in, that have made their peace with God in Christ? |
A12186 | And exceeding wisedome in God, in satisfying his justice, that he might shew mercie? |
A12186 | And for the chiefe, the trouble of mind, alas he knew it, in that great desertion, when he cryed out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A12186 | And for the damned spirits, 7 they are all in that cursed condition, with himselfe, therefore Where shall the ungodly appeare? |
A12186 | And if we should go to God, and not be acquainted with these he will aske us upon what ground? |
A12186 | And it will make a man woundrous thankfull, Who am I, and what is my fathers house? |
A12186 | And learne this also from them, shall they glorifie God for our good especially, and shall we be dull, and cold in praising God, on our owne behalfe? |
A12186 | And our greatest abasements, what are they to the abasement of Christ? |
A12186 | And shall I thinke much to be serviceable to my poore brethren for whom God was made flesh; and not onely so, but was crucified? |
A12186 | And shall we now for feare of men, for feare of shame, for any base earthly respect, be ashamed of our glorious Head? |
A12186 | And shall we shew our thankefulnesse, in provoking his Majestie? |
A12186 | And shall we thinke so great a Mysterie as this was for small purpose? |
A12186 | And shall we thinke, so great a matter was for small purpose; for little sinnes, or for few sinnes onely? |
A12186 | And so in the Veile of the Tabernacle, the Veile had round about it Pictures of Cherubins: What did that shaddow out unto us? |
A12186 | And that proud Historian Tacitus, how scornfully doth he speake of Christians? |
A12186 | And then we will not be fruitfull: for who is so fruitfull a Christian as hee that is thankfull? |
A12186 | And then whatsoever good thing wee have in Christ, it comes freely too, hee that gave Christ freely, shall hee not with him give us all things too? |
A12186 | And then, what was there in us that should move him to abase himselfe so low; was there any worth in us? |
A12186 | And those that say they know it enough, deceive themselves, they know it not: Religion is a Mysterie; and can it be learned at the first? |
A12186 | And whence is it, that our persons are become lovely to God? |
A12186 | And why in Christ? |
A12186 | And why in that Person? |
A12186 | And why is that called a Mysterie? |
A12186 | And, shall I defile this flesh of mine, that I professe to be a member of Christ? |
A12186 | Are there not thousands that sit in darknesse? |
A12186 | Are they not now so? |
A12186 | Are they true? |
A12186 | Are we cast downe and no man regards us? |
A12186 | Are we overpowered? |
A12186 | Are we perplexed, that we want wisdome? |
A12186 | Are we troubled with the sense of sin? |
A12186 | Are we wronged? |
A12186 | As a wise Physitian he purgeth a foule body, till he bring it almost to skin and bone: but why? |
A12186 | As for the Holy- Ghost, how can they looke for comfort from him? |
A12186 | As soone as ever he wa ● borne, when they appeared to the Shepheard, what a glorious Hymne they sang? |
A12186 | Aske a man that is spiritually poore before he be in Christ; what would you have? |
A12186 | Before Christs time, they were Dogges, in our Saviour Christs censure; Shall I give the Childrens Bread to Dogges? |
A12186 | But Christ being God, was it needfull that he should become poore, might not an Angell, or some other creature have served for the worke? |
A12186 | But hath Reason no use then in the Gospel? |
A12186 | But here is another Mysterie; Why the Gentiles, being all alike naught, God should leave the better of the Gentiles, and reveale Christ to the worst? |
A12186 | But how doth he take up the contention? |
A12186 | But how shall I come to have Christ manifest in my flesh? |
A12186 | But is it possible for God to forgive such a wretched sinner, that hath beene a blasphemer,& c? |
A12186 | But is not he richer that hath a fountaine, then he that hath but a cesterne? |
A12186 | But is the Doctrine of the Gospel it selfe onely a Mysterie? |
A12186 | But is there no staggering, is there no formido contrarij, is there no feare that it may be otherwise? |
A12186 | But more particularly, How a Mysterie of iniquitie? |
A12186 | But more particularly, what be the riches that we have by the poverty of Christ? |
A12186 | But must nothing be preached but Christ? |
A12186 | But must we not be liberall, and kind, and bountifull to all? |
A12186 | But when did he take upon him our nature? |
A12186 | But why doth he joyne afflicted and poore together? |
A12186 | But you will say, How can the Angels helpe our soules any kind of way? |
A12186 | But you will say; Gods children fall into inconveniencies, how then are they attended by Angels? |
A12186 | But, why did God suffer the Gentiles to walke in their owne wayes? |
A12186 | Can not he send beames and influence from thence, to cherish the Earth? |
A12186 | Can that be true riches that makes a man poorer, that hath not a gracious heart? |
A12186 | Christ carries our names in his heart: how can he forget us then? |
A12186 | Christ clothes me with his righteousnesse, and shall not I cloth Christ in his poore members? |
A12186 | Christ is the Pearle of the Ring, Christ is the maine, the Center wherein all those Lines end: take away Christ, what remaines? |
A12186 | Christ must be preached, But to whom? |
A12186 | Christ tooke up his Disciples, when they sayd; Oh, Master, what kind of stones are here? |
A12186 | Christ( as I said) cam ● not to make ● s rich in the things of this life: for doe but consider a little of outward riches, what be they? |
A12186 | Did Christ doe this, that thou shouldest be a proud person? |
A12186 | Did it draw him to take my nature and flesh on him? |
A12186 | Did they not keepe their words better? |
A12186 | Do they know that there is a God, a Christ, and mercy? |
A12186 | Doe but conceive in your owne selves, what equity is it, that Truths should be obtruded to men that care not for them? |
A12186 | Doe we professe our selves to be Christians, and live like Pagans? |
A12186 | Doe we think to have communion with Christ in glory, and not get the victorie over these base courses? |
A12186 | Doth God esteeme such poore? |
A12186 | Doth all that we have in Christ, come from grace, the grace in us, and comforts, and outward things meerely from grace? |
A12186 | Doth mercy and grace teach them that lesson? |
A12186 | Doth not the grace of God teach this as well as the Law, and from a higher ground? |
A12186 | Doth the Sunne in the Heavens come downe to the Earth, to make the Spring, and to make all fru ● tfull? |
A12186 | Even as the Virgin Mary she conceived Christ, when she yeelded her as ● ent ▪ When the Angell spake to her, what sayth she presently? |
A12186 | Finally Brethren, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,& c. Think of these things, and what then? |
A12186 | First, 1 what is their relation to us? |
A12186 | First, we were delivered from Heathenisme: what kind of people were we in Iulius Caesars time? |
A12186 | For him to be so abased, as there was never any abasement like unto Christs, because of the greatnesse of his Person? |
A12186 | For this very cause, some are sick and some weake, and some sleep, some die: Why? |
A12186 | God hath us in his eye; he sets his children before him alway: how can he forget them? |
A12186 | God is ours, the Spirit is ours, Heaven is ours, the Earth is ours; Afflictions, Life, Death, Paul, Apollo, the Angels themselves, all is ours: Why? |
A12186 | Hallowed be thy name; and what is the end that we were created and redeemed for, but that God may have some glory by us? |
A12186 | Hath God such need of people, to fill heaven with, that he will have such uncleane persons? |
A12186 | Hath not God chosen the poore of this world, rich in faith? |
A12186 | He became of no reputation, and wilt thou stand upon termes of credit? |
A12186 | He hath made himselfe knowne to be All- sufficient, what a world of comfort is in that? |
A12186 | He overcame the Devill, in his temptations: Who can overcome the Devill, but he that is the Sonne of God? |
A12186 | He that will not part with a penny, for the gayning of a thousand pound; doth he beleeve, that he shall have so much? |
A12186 | He tooke upon him the forme of a servant, and wilt thou be altogether a Lord and King in thy affections,& not serve thy brethren? |
A12186 | He was apprehended as a Male- factor, but he struck them all down with his word, Whom seeke yee? |
A12186 | He was made a Curse for us: How came Christ to be cleared of our sinnes, that lay upon him? |
A12186 | How are we advanced above them? |
A12186 | How are wee made rich by the poverty, and abasement of Christ? |
A12186 | How barren have wee beene in good works? |
A12186 | How can Christ forget his Church? |
A12186 | How can an unsanctified soule close with a holy God? |
A12186 | How can we thinke, that Christ will owne us, when we will not owne Religion here? |
A12186 | How can wee live well, and dye comfortably without it? |
A12186 | How did we fall from God at the first, that was our Rock, our defence and trust? |
A12186 | How doe they justifie their profession? |
A12186 | How doe we justifie Christ? |
A12186 | How doe we justifie our selves? |
A12186 | How doe we know Divine Truths now? |
A12186 | How have we failed in bringing honour and credit to our profession? |
A12186 | How holy and pure is God? |
A12186 | How is Christ to be beleeved on? |
A12186 | How is that? |
A12186 | How is that? |
A12186 | How joyfull were they of the Incarnation of Christ, and the great Worke of Redemption, wrought thereby? |
A12186 | How many discouragements had blessed Abraham to leave his fathers house, and to goe he knew not where; and after to sacrifice his sonne? |
A12186 | How shall this be? |
A12186 | How shall we bring our soules to this so necessary a duty? |
A12186 | How shall we carry our selves that we may improve Christs riches; to be made rich in grace by him? |
A12186 | How shall wee bee able to go to God? |
A12186 | How shall wee come to know this Mysterie as wee should, and to carry our selves answerable? |
A12186 | How shall wee know that we are sufficiently humbled, and made poore in spirit? |
A12186 | How sweet is thy goodnesse? |
A12186 | I but what followes, what doth that grace teach thee? |
A12186 | I send you( sayth Christ) as Sheepe among Wolves: and how? |
A12186 | If Turks and Heathens should see them, they would say; You talke of Religion, but where is the power of it? |
A12186 | If a man were to go through a storme for some great matter, if he did beleeve he should have some great preferment, would he not ad ● enture? |
A12186 | If any newes or tydings be of any great hard matter; I beseech you who hath his soule best composed at that time? |
A12186 | If he have given us his Sonne, will he not with him give us all things else? |
A12186 | If hee had stood upon termes, and disdeyned the Virgins wombe, and to become poore for us, where had our salvation beene? |
A12186 | If hee have given us such a pawne as CHRIST, who is riches it selfe, shall he not with him give us all other things? |
A12186 | If we be not members of Christ, woe unto us: and if we be, doe such courses suit with such a neerenesse to Christ? |
A12186 | If wee doe not make our peace with God, 2 what a case are we in? |
A12186 | If when we were enemies wee were reconciled to God by the death of his Sonne; how much more being reconciled shall wee bee saved by his life? |
A12186 | If you come to a poore man that labours for his living, and aske him, why doe you labour so? |
A12186 | In a word, the greatnesse of the ill we were in, required it: who could deliver us from the bondage of Sathan, but God? |
A12186 | In his owne blessed Sonne; and who come neerest in his delight to his Sonne? |
A12186 | Indeed, we are in Christ above Angels, advanced higher then Angels,( what cause have we to prayse God?) |
A12186 | Is Christ taken up to glory, and for us, as well as for himselfe; what manner of men ought we to be in holy conversation? |
A12186 | Is he not in heaven in majesty, to apply all that he hath gotten? |
A12186 | Is he not our intercessor at the right hand of God, to appeare before God for us to make all good? |
A12186 | Is he so? |
A12186 | Is it a dead favour? |
A12186 | Is it not equall? |
A12186 | Is it not so in divine things? |
A12186 | Is it so, that Religion is a Mysterie? |
A12186 | Is not a little peace of conscience, and joy in the Holy Ghost, and assurance that God is ours, worth all worldly things? |
A12186 | Is not he wiser, to know what is good for us, better then we doe for our selves? |
A12186 | Is not here the greatest reason in the world, to beleeve him that is Truth it selfe? |
A12186 | Is that all? |
A12186 | Is there any fuller of love, and mercy, and grace then he: that hath made himselfe poore to make us rich? |
A12186 | Is there but a few, but a remnant in all times? |
A12186 | Is this flesh of mine now in Heaven, sitting at the right hand of God? |
A12186 | Is this the power that raysed Christ from the dead, when by the strength of nature men can doe it? |
A12186 | Is this the way to be thankefull to God? |
A12186 | It is comfort enough that it is called seed: who grieves to cast his seed into the ground? |
A12186 | It is not so in mens matters? |
A12186 | It is said of the Pharises in the Gospel, that when Christ spake great matters, they scoffed at him: But what sayth the Text? |
A12186 | It is with such men as with those that gathered Mannah, when they should not; it stanke: Hath God set up an Ordinance for nothing; for us to despise? |
A12186 | It was fit there should be a time of Christs abasement; how should he have suffred else? |
A12186 | Let a man be great in the world, if it be not from the grace of God, what is it? |
A12186 | Let a man be rich, if he have it not from the love and mercy of God, what will all be in time, but snares? |
A12186 | Must Christ come downe in his Body to us, or else he can doe us no good? |
A12186 | Must there be a corporeall descent, or else we can receive no influence from him? |
A12186 | Must we needs make him bodily present every where, as the Papists doe, and other Heterodox strange conceited men, in Germanie? |
A12186 | My soule doth magnifie the Lord, and my spirit rejoyceth in God my Saviour, she begins with magnifying the Lord, but what was the ground? |
A12186 | No, we were Christs enemies: was there any desire in us? |
A12186 | No, we were dead in sins: was any goodnesse in us? |
A12186 | No, we were dead: was there any strength in us? |
A12186 | Nothing we brought into this world, and with nothing we must goe out; and are they true riches that determine in this life? |
A12186 | Now how doth providence serve the decree of election? |
A12186 | Now is there any greater or more excellent person then Christ? |
A12186 | Now, if a man beleeve this, can he be base and earthly- minded? |
A12186 | Now, wee are to draw neere to God in the Sacrament, and the neerer to God, the more we honour him: who honours God most? |
A12186 | Now, what a King is that, that hath a Guard of Angels? |
A12186 | Now, what power is in the lives of most men? |
A12186 | Oh Lord, extend the bowels of thy mercy, will not the Lord be jealous of his glory, when you alleage it? |
A12186 | Oh, but what need much, lesse would fere he turne? |
A12186 | Oh, how doth S. Paul, in every Epistle, stirre up people to be thankfull, for revealing these Mysteries? |
A12186 | Oh, sayth Christ, Are these the things you wonder at? |
A12186 | Oh, what a goodly order they have among them, one under another? |
A12186 | Or how shall he be comfortable, excep ● he know that he hath interest in Christ? |
A12186 | Riches what? |
A12186 | S. Paul sayth, he was jealous with a holy jealousie over those he taught: why? |
A12186 | S. Paul? |
A12186 | Shall Angels see and wonder at these things? |
A12186 | Shall I abuse it, as intemperate persons doe? |
A12186 | Shall I have base conceits of any man, whose flesh Christ hath taken? |
A12186 | Shall I make it the member of an harlot? |
A12186 | Shall I stoupe to him? |
A12186 | Shall I wrong him now he is in Heaven? |
A12186 | Shall it be the joy of Angels, and shall it be our sorrow, the welfare and thriving of others spiritually or outwardly? |
A12186 | Shall not any condition content a man in this world, that hath such a glorious condition in the eye of Faith to enter into? |
A12186 | Shall they wonder at it, and joy and delight in it; and shall we slight those things, that are the wonderment of Angels? |
A12186 | Shall we be mooved with the disgracefull speeches of carnall men? |
A12186 | Shall we carry our selves thus prophanely at these times, when we should walke in a holy disposition? |
A12186 | Shall we defile our selves with sinfull courses,& make our selves baser then the Earth we tread on, worse then any creature? |
A12186 | Shall we despise the worke of regeneration, and the image of God in another? |
A12186 | Shall we disdain to relieve them, that the Angels doe not disdaine to comfort? |
A12186 | Shall we have such base thoughts of heaven? |
A12186 | Shall we thinke to have communion and fellowship with Christ in glory, when we make the members of Christ the members of Harlot? |
A12186 | Shall we wish for a severed condition from him? |
A12186 | Shall we, out of disdaine and envie, think our selves too good to doe any thing, when it is the delight of Angels? |
A12186 | So Moses, to leave the Court, and to cleave to a despised people; what a worke of Faith was there? |
A12186 | So as I can not tell how, I can not expresse it, and, What love hath God shewed us, that we should be called the sonnes of God? |
A12186 | So it is the nature of shallow men, to wonder at the things of this world, to be taken with emptie vaine things: Are these the things we wonder at? |
A12186 | So when he speakes of the fruits of the Gospel, what strange words the Scripture hath? |
A12186 | So, what is the Church? |
A12186 | So, who is this that is taken up in glory; is it not he that was manifest in our flesh before? |
A12186 | Some are ready to say; Can not I as well reade privatly, at home? |
A12186 | Some may say, How doth it appeare, that Christ is King of the Church? |
A12186 | Take away grace the free favour of God, extract this quintessence; take the love of God out of things, what are they? |
A12186 | Take heed of pride: God himselfe emptied himselfe, and wilt thou be full of pride? |
A12186 | Thanksgiving is a Sacrifice, with which God is well pleased: is it so? |
A12186 | That I shall not go the broad way to destruction? |
A12186 | That he should become a poore and weake man? |
A12186 | That he whom Heaven and Earth can not comprehend, should be inclosed in the Wombe of a Virgin? |
A12186 | That it is a Mysterie, it will easily appeare: For, was it a great Mysterie, that God should take our nature upon him, to be abased in it? |
A12186 | That the great God should take upon him a Piece of Earth? |
A12186 | That the love thou bearest to me, may bee in them; what a sweet comfort is this? |
A12186 | The Angels will for ever love, and honour, and attend us: why? |
A12186 | The Church it selfe is a mysticall thing: For under basenesse, under the scorne of the world, what is hid? |
A12186 | The Romish Church, is it not under the Mysterie of Iniquitie? |
A12186 | The Sacrament is bane and poyson to us, if wee come without repentance: What saith the Apostle? |
A12186 | The Sunne doth more good, being in Heaven, then he could doe if he were on the Earth; if the Sun were lower, what wou ● d become of the Earth? |
A12186 | The Sunne is a most glorious creature, the most visible object of the world; what is that to a blind man, that hath skales on his eyes? |
A12186 | The grace of God hath appeared in Christ, what? |
A12186 | The immortall God to take upon him our flesh, and to dye? |
A12186 | The power that raysed Christ from the dead? |
A12186 | The prayers of such men, that would crie downe this Ordinance, how are they like to be accepted? |
A12186 | The worke of salvation as it is from Christ, so it is from the grace of Christ; therefore it was free and voluntary: what so free as grace? |
A12186 | The world presents terrors; what are these, to the glorie that shall be revealed? |
A12186 | Then againe the world should not stand, were it not for a company in the world that are his: for what are others? |
A12186 | Then we give God glory, when we set light by life it selfe, as holy Saint Paul could say, What, doe you tell me of suffering at Ierusalem? |
A12186 | There will be alway a Church in the world, that is the object of our beleefe: what is the meaning of it? |
A12186 | Therefore if we would trust God, and go to God boldly; as who is there here now that will not have need of him? |
A12186 | Therefore it is called the Ministery of the Spirit; why? |
A12186 | Therefore let us examine our selves, am I in the favour of God and of Christ? |
A12186 | Therefore, aske thy soule; hast thou sued out thy pardon? |
A12186 | These God will have in the Church together; the Mysterie of Godlinesse, and Vngodlinesse; of Christ, and Antichrist: Why? |
A12186 | They saw him with wonderment: 1 For, was it not a wonder, that God should stoupe so low, as to be shut up in the straits of a Virgins Wombe? |
A12186 | This is the wisdome of the Saints of God are we in extremity? |
A12186 | Those therefore that swell, and storme, and murmure, and rage, what doe they get but more stripes? |
A12186 | To come to an use of tryall, how shall wee know wither Gods good will be to us in Christ, or no? |
A12186 | To comfort and relieve one another, it is the worke of an Angel: Shall any man thinke himselfe too good to helpe any poore Christian? |
A12186 | To what purpose is this fulnesse in him? |
A12186 | To whom is Christ justified by the Spirit? |
A12186 | Vpon what acquaintance? |
A12186 | Was not here exceeding wondrous love and mercie to man kind, to wretched man, having passed by the glorious Angels that were fallen? |
A12186 | Was our nature advanced, in his Incarnation? |
A12186 | Was the Church ever more glorious then in Babylon, when Daniel was there, and the three young men were put into the fire? |
A12186 | Was there ever any man fierce against God, and prospered? |
A12186 | Was there ever any, that set themselves against the Church of God, and prospered? |
A12186 | Was there no other way to make us rich but by Christs becomming poore? |
A12186 | Wat need he be Redemption, if we were not lost and sold in our selves to Satan, and under his bondage? |
A12186 | We are predestinate, to be comformable to Christ, wherein stands our conformitie? |
A12186 | We have whatsoever we have, by vertue of the Covenant: for what could wee looke for from God but in Covenant, wherein he hath bound himselfe? |
A12186 | We know it was the speech of wicked Cain; Am I my brothers keeper? |
A12186 | We professe our selves to be the children of God, the Heires of Heaven, What peculiar thing doe we? |
A12186 | Were not Socrates, and Plato, and such like, more goodly Moralists then the Corinths,& Ephesians? |
A12186 | Were they not from his Divine Power? |
A12186 | Were they so loose in their lives, and conversations; and so licentious? |
A12186 | What a comfort is this at the houre of death, and at the death of our friends, that they are gone to Christ, and to glory? |
A12186 | What a devillish qualitie is envie and pride, that stirres us up to disdaine to be usefull one to another, especially to those that are inferiours? |
A12186 | What a devillish sinne then is envie, and pride, and disdaine? |
A12186 | What a linking together of things? |
A12186 | What a mercie and love was this? |
A12186 | What a wise fabricke it is? |
A12186 | What a wrong is this to the grace of Christ? |
A12186 | What are the Mysteries of Nature, the Miracles of Nature, the Loadstone,& c. to these supernaturall Mysteries? |
A12186 | What are those Attributes? |
A12186 | What be they? |
A12186 | What can he foresee in persons that were dead? |
A12186 | What can the world set before the soule of a beleever, that is not beneath? |
A12186 | What cause have the Gentiles, that were in the shaddow of death before, to be thankfull to God? |
A12186 | What could God see in me to single me out of the rest, out of a great number that go the broad way to destruction, to set his love upon me? |
A12186 | What credit to religion? |
A12186 | What doth the horse get at last by shaking off his Rider that is skilfull? |
A12186 | What doth this appearing of grace teach us? |
A12186 | What good will come by this? |
A12186 | What hast thou to doe( saith God) to take my name into thy mouth, to take my Sacrament into thy mouth, when thou hatest to be reformed? |
A12186 | What have I in me to evidence that God hath set his stampe upon me to be his? |
A12186 | What have I to evidence to me that I am of that little flock that is Christs? |
A12186 | What if God be mercifull in Christ? |
A12186 | What if God take away a great deale of these things, and make them up in favours of a higher kinde? |
A12186 | What if a man have no body by him when he dies, but God and his good Angels, to carry his soule to Heaven, is he neglected? |
A12186 | What in this world can fall very uncomfortably to such a man? |
A12186 | What is a Mysterie? |
A12186 | What is grace? |
A12186 | What is great in this world to him, to whom Christ is great; to whom, Heaven and the Mysteries of Religion are great? |
A12186 | What is it that troubles many when they come to dye? |
A12186 | What is it to acknowledge him? |
A12186 | What is more opposed, then the Mysterie of Godlinesse? |
A12186 | What is peace? |
A12186 | What is the Gospell? |
A12186 | What is the argument he useth? |
A12186 | What is the foundation of the covenant? |
A12186 | What is the matter of their celebration, and gratulation? |
A12186 | What is the reason that oft times the great and weighty businesses of this life, have not answerable successe? |
A12186 | What is the reason that we are no more thankful for common benefits? |
A12186 | What is the reason( Christ being so rich) that Christians have no more grace? |
A12186 | What is the reason, that men are taken up with admiration of petty Mysteries, of poore things? |
A12186 | What is the reason, that there is one word in the Greeke, and in other Languages, to signifie both common, and prophane? |
A12186 | What is the reason, the Church is so abased th ● n? |
A12186 | What is the sweet communion that we shall have one with another for ever in Heaven? |
A12186 | What is there in me? |
A12186 | What kind of Nation were we in Iulius Caesars time? |
A12186 | What kind of people were the Corinthians? |
A12186 | What made Iohn Baptist greater then all the Prophets, and others in those times? |
A12186 | What made Moses, and all the Saints, in all times to be so patient? |
A12186 | What made Steven( not onely patient, but) glorious? |
A12186 | What made the Martyrs not onely patient, but triumphant in all their sufferings? |
A12186 | What made the Times of Christ so great? |
A12186 | What made the second Temple greater then the first? |
A12186 | What made those after Iohn Baptist greater then he? |
A12186 | What makes men so unfortunate and successelesse in their consultations? |
A12186 | What makes these Times glorious? |
A12186 | What moved him to satisfie his Justice? |
A12186 | What need Christ be Sanctification to us, if we were not defiled in our selves? |
A12186 | What need Christ to be Wisedome to us, if we were not fooles in our selves? |
A12186 | What need I speake of particular branches? |
A12186 | What need a Saviour, unlesse wee were lost? |
A12186 | What power is there in hearing the Word, when many are so full of prophanenesse, that they altogether neglect it? |
A12186 | What power is there, now and then to speake a good word, or now and then to doe a slight action? |
A12186 | What shall we doe to be saved? |
A12186 | What should hinder, when it was so neere to God, as to be one Person, to be taken into the union of the Person? |
A12186 | What should we be afraid of? |
A12186 | What then? |
A12186 | What tribute do they give to God? |
A12186 | What was Christ? |
A12186 | What was the reason that his being made a curse, and to dye for us, should be of such worth? |
A12186 | What were all things in the world besides, if we had not the blessed Truth of God? |
A12186 | What were the Gentiles? |
A12186 | What were wee of this Nation sixteene hundred yeeres agone? |
A12186 | What, did I say all things are ours? |
A12186 | What, shall wee therefore give carnall liberty, to all loosenesse, as if Christ came to bring Christians liberty to licenciousnesse? |
A12186 | What? |
A12186 | What? |
A12186 | Whatsoever ill we endure, there shall be comfort mixed with it, and it is better to have it, then the comfort: what a comfort is this? |
A12186 | Whe ● ce is that, that we can call God, Father? |
A12186 | When Christ comes, shall he find Faith in the world? |
A12186 | When he entred into a depth that he could not fathome, doth he cavill at it? |
A12186 | When he nakedly beleeves the grounds of Divine Truth, the Articles of the Faith, when he can patter them over, doth that make a true Christian? |
A12186 | When the Church is under any abasement, at the lowest, it hath a glorious Head in Heaven, and what, doth he sit there, and do nothing? |
A12186 | When the great God became man, shall we wonder that Angels should attend upon the nature that God hath so honoured? |
A12186 | When we are ashamed to stand for him, shall we thinke to stand at his right hand? |
A12186 | When we find any trouble in the world, not to trouble our selves over- much: In nothing be carefull,& c. No, shall we cast away all care? |
A12186 | When we have many things in this world set before us; shal we make a base choise? |
A12186 | Whence came thy Faith? |
A12186 | Whence is it, that we are sonnes of God? |
A12186 | Whence was it upheld in suffering, that it did not sinke under the wrath of God? |
A12186 | Whence were his Miracles? |
A12186 | Where doth Poperie and prophanenesse reigne most? |
A12186 | Where is my faith, my love, my hope, my contentation, my patience and victory over temptations and lusts? |
A12186 | Where is the Spirit of glory, the Spirit that should be in Christians, that hope to be glorious? |
A12186 | Where is the justifying of Religion? |
A12186 | Where is the life and glory of the Church? |
A12186 | Wherefore is all this, but that he would have us beleeve, be our sinnes what they will? |
A12186 | Wherein stands the equity? |
A12186 | Who cares for Christ, that sees not the necessity of Christ? |
A12186 | Who could free us from the wrath of the great God, but he that was equall with God? |
A12186 | Who shall despaire then? |
A12186 | Who will marry with Christ, but those that know their owne beggerie and miserie, out of Christ? |
A12186 | Who will not be patient a while, that hath such glory in his eye? |
A12186 | Why are Christians called, beleevers? |
A12186 | Why come we under the shaddow of Gods wing? |
A12186 | Why do I hope for the glory to come? |
A12186 | Why doe I love God? |
A12186 | Why doe we call Faith, Hope, and Love, graces, but because they issue from the mercy, and favour, and love of God in Christ? |
A12186 | Why doth he say, Peace on Earth? |
A12186 | Why is the Church of Rome so erroneous; but because she leaves Christ, and cleaves to other things? |
A12186 | Why may not Paul a persecutor finde mercy as well as Timothy, that was brought up to goodnesse from his youth? |
A12186 | Why may we not expect it? |
A12186 | Why should God be at good termes with us, but to enjoy the friendship of his poore creature? |
A12186 | Why should a believer feare that God will cast him away? |
A12186 | Why was he manifest in the flesh, and why is there an Ordinance of Preaching? |
A12186 | Why? |
A12186 | Why? |
A12186 | Will Christ endure this? |
A12186 | Will God overturne his methode, and order, for our sakes? |
A12186 | Will he not advance those that are troden on now, and made as the dirt in the street, that they shall shine as the Sunne? |
A12186 | Will he not make the soule glorious then, where he is? |
A12186 | Will not he acknowledge us, that are bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh? |
A12186 | Would Pagans live as many men doe? |
A12186 | Would they sweare by their gods idly? |
A12186 | Would we see all in Christ, that we have riches, and wisdome, and happinesse, and favour, and life, and all in him? |
A12186 | Yes: Doe I beleeve them to be so, or no? |
A12186 | Yet how few give God praise, that hath had mercie on us Gentiles, that hath delivered us from Gentilisme and from the darkenesse of Poperie? |
A12186 | You will say, How can he be pittifull? |
A12186 | and if we stand upon termes when wee are to suffer for him or to stand for his cause; where will our comfort be? |
A12186 | and indispose our selves to all goodnesse? |
A12186 | and is there not the force of a cause in the second Adam, to convey grace and glory to his, he being God& man? |
A12186 | and that we should not labour to finde our portion in that love? |
A12186 | and to make us wise, then he that was the wisedome of God himselfe? |
A12186 | and what is praise, but the turning of a truth into praise? |
A12186 | and what is the glory to which God loves us? |
A12186 | and why art thou troubled? |
A12186 | and( as I said before) why doe we call any benefit we have a grace? |
A12186 | as the Gadarens, to save their Hogs, they would loose Christ: shall wee make choice of poore things, and leave grace, and Christ? |
A12186 | beleeve them: Are they good? |
A12186 | believe in him, and obey him, and thou puttest that question out of question: thou doubtest whether God love thee or no? |
A12186 | did the love of God draw him into the Wombe of the Virgin? |
A12186 | doth he not love us, with the same love that hee loves his Son? |
A12186 | ere long whence shall hee hope for comfort? |
A12186 | for what ground have they respect to us at all? |
A12186 | from the love of God founded in Christ? |
A12186 | had he any sin of his own? |
A12186 | here is matter of joy, and shall we be beholding to the Devill for joy, when we should rejoyce for Christ? |
A12186 | his Spouse, and thus used? |
A12186 | his Turtle, and thus pulled and plucked by the Birds of prey? |
A12186 | is it not by opening the riches of Gods love in Christ, in the Scriptures? |
A12186 | is it the sweet love of God in Christ, the excellent state we have in Christ? |
A12186 | is that the reasoning of the Scriptures? |
A12186 | is there reconciliation wrought betweene God and thee, and accounts made even? |
A12186 | is this flesh of mine taken into unitie with the second Person? |
A12186 | it is said, We are come to the innumerable multitude of Angels: What is the meaning of that? |
A12186 | my heart is not fit to conceive Christ in; there is nothing in it, but deadnesse, and darknesse, and dulnesse, and rebellion? |
A12186 | nay, in persons that were in a contrary disposition to goodnesse? |
A12186 | only that he is borne? |
A12186 | shall we, insteed of repenting, runne further and further into guilt? |
A12186 | that Christ should humble himselfe so low, to be God in our flesh? |
A12186 | that he made him crie out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A12186 | that is, what a separation is there, in the nature of God from sin, considering that he so punished it in his Son, our Surety? |
A12186 | that made him cry out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A12186 | there is nothing but enmity in our nature, to supernaturall goodnesse, can God foresee grounds of love in enmity? |
A12186 | they may helpe our outward man, or the State where we live; but what good doe they to the inward man? |
A12186 | to teach us to live as we list, and to be more disordered then at other times? |
A12186 | what are our bodies, and soules in comparison of God? |
A12186 | what can we looke for now by his riches, that have so much by his poverty? |
A12186 | what comfort is it that we goe on the earth ▪ and enjoy the comforts that God gives us in this world, and then to perish for ever? |
A12186 | who can dwell with everlasting burnings? |
A12186 | who can have communion with God, who is a consuming fire? |
A12186 | who was fitter to restore us to the Image of God, then he that was the Image of God himselfe? |
A12186 | will not the thing it selfe yeeld matter of rejoycing? |
A12186 | ● od the Father will delight in us, because we are like the Son of his delight; whom doth God delight most in? |
A10010 | & c. are they not fruits and buds that proceed from a sappe within? |
A10010 | 1 Whence come thy evill words? |
A10010 | 19. to cry out, Lord, who can understand his faults? |
A10010 | 2 If indeed we thinke that it is the Lord that doth good and evill; why are we so inobservant and negligent of him? |
A10010 | 2 It is so in every duty; as in Prayer, when you call on God in private, doth God regard the words of a prayer? |
A10010 | 2 Secondly, what kinde of wrath is this? |
A10010 | 22. is better than life; he that is rich in friends, is better than he that is rich in money; and among friends, who is like to God? |
A10010 | 3 Againe, doe we not need such a day? |
A10010 | 3 Againe, if we thinke that God only doth good and evill, why have not wee our eyes on him altogether? |
A10010 | 8.2, 3. you shall find there how God deales with his people, hee carries them thorow the wildernesse, and to what end? |
A10010 | Againe, 2 did Zeale turne away the wrath of the Lord, then where are our zealous affections? |
A10010 | Againe, 3 if it be Zeale that turnes away the wrath of the Lord, then where is our boldnesse, our courage, our forwardnesse for the Truth? |
A10010 | Againe, are not they things which we should entertaine God with? |
A10010 | Againe, consider, put case thou hast liberty, if sicknesse come and give thee warning, alas how farre art thou from being able to repent? |
A10010 | Againe, doest thou take him for his kingdom and his wealth only? |
A10010 | Againe, he should have no service from us; for how can we serve him when we are not healed? |
A10010 | Againe, how perverse are judgements of men? |
A10010 | Againe, if a man hates, he hates all the kinde: But why doest thou love one more than another? |
A10010 | Againe, if it be not so, is it not a slight sorrow? |
A10010 | Againe, if this were so, we must take away all Election and Reprobation; for what is Election? |
A10010 | Againe, if thou hatest them, why wilt not thou labour to have them utterly destroyed? |
A10010 | Againe, if you will say, what use is there of it? |
A10010 | Againe, riches stand us in stead in the time of need; for, why doe men lay up treasures? |
A10010 | Againe, the things we should delight in, are they not tedious to us? |
A10010 | Againe, we are apt to thinke, that though we forsake the Lord, yet hee will not forsake us: else why are wee so bold in sinne? |
A10010 | Againe, we see that the Angels and Adam in Paradise had grace as true as we, yet they fell from it? |
A10010 | Againe, what meanes the breaches of the Sabbath? |
A10010 | Againe, why doe you cease to follow the LORD, but that you set up some other god to follow? |
A10010 | Alas, what would all this availe without a pardon? |
A10010 | And after this manner doth Sanctification arise from Iustification? |
A10010 | And againe, 3 wee thinke it a disparagement, what have wee lived thus long, thus many yeares together in this tract, and shall I now change it? |
A10010 | And againe, it was once delivered to the Saints, for what? |
A10010 | And am I your enemie, because I tell you the Truth? |
A10010 | And are not the hearts of men, to whom we speake, as Tinder, ready to take fire at the least sparke, if you heed it not? |
A10010 | And as Luther wrote to Melancthon, when he began to faint; Why, Melancthon, if this be the Cause of God, why should we be discouraged? |
A10010 | And as Nathan taught David to reason, Hath the Lord made thee King over Israel, and done thus and thus for thee, and wilt thou serve him thus? |
A10010 | And at whose hands must it be required? |
A10010 | And besides, if you consider what men are, men are reasonable, and to what end is reason given you, but to looke on things past and future? |
A10010 | And consider what his wrath is, The violence of a Lion is terrible, the wrath of a King is great, but who knowes the power of Gods wrath? |
A10010 | And doe you thinke the Lord would send his Sonne to suffer death, and to suffer it in vaine? |
A10010 | And for the Sabbath he bids us Remember to keepe holy the Sabbath day: How apt are we to neglect it, to disobey it? |
A10010 | And in the hundred and nineteenth Psalme, and the ninth verse, Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? |
A10010 | And is it then so small a matter to neglect words? |
A10010 | And is not every thing strongest in the Cause? |
A10010 | And is not hee the cause of death, which is the journeys end of both the former? |
A10010 | And is not there the same reason of all other evils? |
A10010 | And knowest that thou art a New Creature, why wilt thou be discouraged? |
A10010 | And now, what would you have besides? |
A10010 | And shall not that wrath take away our head, as Elisha said? |
A10010 | And so I say to every one, be the sinne never so small, instance in what you will, is it not disobedience? |
A10010 | And so we may say, Is there any good that he hath not done; where marke the generalitie, Is there any evill that he hath not done? |
A10010 | And so, why is it said that Manna was Angels food? |
A10010 | And the new man, is it not the contrary? |
A10010 | And therefore shall not wee be willing to keepe it, when it was for our owne sakes that the Lord appointed it? |
A10010 | And thirdly, to a fire, what a great matter will a little fire kindle? |
A10010 | And what doe you thinke of this Truth? |
A10010 | And what is Iobs meaning, when he said? |
A10010 | And what is it that should invite you? |
A10010 | And what is the answer the Lord lookes for? |
A10010 | And what is the reason thou runnest not into the same Outrages that others doe? |
A10010 | And what is the reason? |
A10010 | And what stronger signe is there in regenerate men, to evidence their regeneration, than this Contention betweene the flesh and the spirit? |
A10010 | And what then? |
A10010 | And what were other kingdomes of the world but plenty of all things? |
A10010 | And what will you have us to doe? |
A10010 | And when Davids Mountaine was made strong, he sayes, therefore I shall not be moved; and have not wee the same thoughts in us? |
A10010 | And when it is ingrafted? |
A10010 | And why are they not so? |
A10010 | And why doth David say, Thy Law is sweeter to mee than the honey, if there were not somewhat that his soule did feed on? |
A10010 | And why hath he put this difference, but because he loved us? |
A10010 | And will not God thinke so, when we bestow the Thoughts in vaine things, which should be occupied about him? |
A10010 | And will you not regard this that will doe that indeed? |
A10010 | And you have robbed me, and spoiled me, and you say, Wherein have we robbed thee? |
A10010 | And you reckon it a wearinesse to serve the Lord, and you say, wherein are we weary? |
A10010 | And, if you object, we doe not resist this Truth, we obey it in many things? |
A10010 | Are not religion and zeale the two which hold all up? |
A10010 | Are not these riches for the same purpose? |
A10010 | Are not they the rescues that deliver the Citie? |
A10010 | Are not wee ready to thinke, if I had such an advantage, such a friend, I should do well? |
A10010 | Are the cures of the soule lesse than the cures of the body? |
A10010 | Are the times in thine hand? |
A10010 | Are they not as medicines, or plaisters to heale a Church, or a Nation or a particular person? |
A10010 | Are they not minted there? |
A10010 | Are they not the pillars that beare up the Church and Common- wealth? |
A10010 | Are we able to doe it? |
A10010 | Are we not content to buy great reversions with the losse of a little money for the present, for we say it will come in? |
A10010 | Are we not content to endure an Apprentiship of seven or eight yeares, for our greater advantage? |
A10010 | Are you not bound to that? |
A10010 | Are you stronger than he? |
A10010 | Art not thou cut out of the same peece, and made of the same masse, the same clay? |
A10010 | Art not thou the cause of it? |
A10010 | As how will you know when a thing is naturall? |
A10010 | As if he had said, what hast thou done abroad in the world? |
A10010 | As many as received him he made the sonnes of God: What is that a meere title? |
A10010 | As when the day is done, the beast wanders abroad; and doe not we finde it so amongst us? |
A10010 | Because it was luke- warme, and therefore the meanes to continue or procure his favour, is it not heate and zeale? |
A10010 | Besides, if it were the meaning of Christ, This is my body, what is the reason the Disciples never asked any question about it? |
A10010 | But againe, I am unfit, if I were fit and ready for this, I might receive fruit from the Sacrament, but I am unfit? |
A10010 | But besides these, if we shew them Scripture too, what will they have then to say? |
A10010 | But how doth hee prove that it is the power of God to salvation? |
A10010 | But how doth it worke this effect in a mans heart? |
A10010 | But how shall I know it, a little further? |
A10010 | But how shall we know that God is angry with men? |
A10010 | But how shall we know whether the frame of our Soules be thus altered or no? |
A10010 | But how will this appeare? |
A10010 | But how will this be proved? |
A10010 | But is not the Spirit sent into our hearts before, when he workes faith? |
A10010 | But is not this of great Consequence? |
A10010 | But is this all we shall have by Christ? |
A10010 | But is this all, that we are subject to death, when we are out of Christ? |
A10010 | But is this all? |
A10010 | But is this all? |
A10010 | But is this all? |
A10010 | But is this all? |
A10010 | But is this all? |
A10010 | But is this all? |
A10010 | But is this all? |
A10010 | But marke it, I say, if you keepe the Commandements of God, What meanes this bleating of the sheepe? |
A10010 | But must all the old building bee pulled downe; Is there nothing to be left there? |
A10010 | But now all the question is, how shall a man be able to doe this? |
A10010 | But the naturall man will say, this is impossible; for then wee shall have no sinne? |
A10010 | But we have no feeling of these things? |
A10010 | But what is it then? |
A10010 | But what is it to commit a knowne sin, because it may be I am not convinced sufficiently of that? |
A10010 | But what is it to meet the Lord? |
A10010 | But what is this zeale? |
A10010 | But what kind of misery is it? |
A10010 | But when a man is in Christ, he is delivered out of the hands of all his enemies; hee need feare nothing; for what should hurt him? |
A10010 | But when hee shall not tell how to scape the wrath of GOD, if hee sinne against man, man shall judge him; but who shall, when hee sinnes against GOD? |
A10010 | But wherein consists the new man? |
A10010 | But you will aske, how is the wrath of God revealed from heaven? |
A10010 | But you will object; every man thinks there is a God? |
A10010 | But you will say to me, If this wrath of God be so terrible, and it be sinne that brings this wrath, what shall we doe? |
A10010 | But you will say to me, Is this so? |
A10010 | But you will say( and that is a thing that keepes men off) I have done it already, and what need you to presse this? |
A10010 | But you will say, Is this the case of every man, who then shall bee saved? |
A10010 | But you will say, What would you have us to doe for it? |
A10010 | But you will say, this is a small mercy, you shall have your sinnes forgiven, will this move men to come in? |
A10010 | But you will say, to what end then are the creatures? |
A10010 | But you will say, what are these riches worth, to bee rich in grace, and to bee rich in good workes? |
A10010 | But you will say, what are those? |
A10010 | But you will say, what great newes is there in this? |
A10010 | But, 3 you will say I feele nothing? |
A10010 | But, alas, wherefore doe I goe about to enlarge my expressions of this Wrath? |
A10010 | But, every man will be apt to say,( and indeed they that are most guilty) but I hope we doe practise it, and not detaine it? |
A10010 | But, if any object; This is the way to discourage men, to make them desperate, to make them fly from Religion by telling them sin is so terrible? |
A10010 | But, it may be objected, May not a man observe this Truth too much, may he not be too scrupulous, too carefull in regarding it? |
A10010 | But, it may be objected, when they do things in secret, doe they not doe them to the Lord? |
A10010 | But, they were wise men, Grecians, Athenians, men excelling in wisdome all other, how did they detaine it, one would thinke they did enlarge it? |
A10010 | But, you will object, Why should there be those different kinds of working? |
A10010 | But, you will say these things that you speak are wonderfull things, how shall we have this wrought in us? |
A10010 | But, you will say, 1 of what use is this to us, that God doth it? |
A10010 | But, you will say, How shall I doe that, then I shall be free from all sinne? |
A10010 | But, you will say, How shall I know when my Nature is altered? |
A10010 | But, you will say, I doe many things in secret out of Conscience, and I hope it is not so much corrupted? |
A10010 | But, you will say, I feele no burthen of it? |
A10010 | But, you will say, I should be willing to doe this, but how shall I be able to doe it? |
A10010 | But, you will say, If we knew they were New Creatures, we would not doe so? |
A10010 | But, you will say, What shall I doe to have this old Nature made new? |
A10010 | But, you will say, that is not so, Adam was in Paradice, he had outward contentments in abundance, but to be made a New Creature is not so? |
A10010 | But, you will say, they doe bring forth fruit, doe they not do many actions in good moods? |
A10010 | But, you will say, this is a discouraging doctrine, if God must doe all, what shall we doe? |
A10010 | But, you will say, this is a notion, how shall we see it by experience? |
A10010 | But, you will say, this was an heard judgement, did not David faile many times as well as he? |
A10010 | But, you will say, we have knowledge, and, if that would doe it, then they that know most are best men? |
A10010 | But, you will say, what benefit have I by that? |
A10010 | But, you will say, what needs that, when we have once done, is it not enough? |
A10010 | But, you will say, you talke of Impossibilities, which no man is able to performe? |
A10010 | Can a sicke man doe any service? |
A10010 | Can any but he cause all things worke together for thy good? |
A10010 | Can words, can all morall wit make a New Creature? |
A10010 | Come to Sorrow, how ready are we to exceed in worldly sorrow? |
A10010 | Come to particulars, doe you not know, it is his Command you should not sweare, not only greater, but lesser oaths? |
A10010 | Consider that blindnesse in the understanding, that unaptnesse, how quicke and ready men are to bring their owne ends to passe? |
A10010 | Consider that which Christ saith, Heaven and earth shall passe, but the least jot of this Law shall not passe: What is the meaning of that? |
A10010 | Consider what you doe? |
A10010 | Couldest thou not wish that there were no such strict law, as Gods Law is? |
A10010 | Couldest thou not wish that there were not any Iudge to call thee to account? |
A10010 | Custome makes the worst things, even grievous things pleasant, how much more, when one fals on that which is good indeed? |
A10010 | Did they not practice many morall vertues? |
A10010 | Didst not thou get it first by going to Christ, and shall not thou still regaine and repaire thy strength by that meanes? |
A10010 | Didst thou beleeve this Scripture and lay it to heart? |
A10010 | Do we make it straiter than the Holy Ghost doth? |
A10010 | Do you not so out of love? |
A10010 | Doe not men willingly serve a Master, or a Mistresse, a long time, for hopes hereafter? |
A10010 | Doe not say, This Rule is strict, who can heare it? |
A10010 | Doe not thinke that this is but a notion, doe not say, who is it but doth sinne? |
A10010 | Doe not we feare men? |
A10010 | Doe not we feare the Creature, and this and that particular evill? |
A10010 | Doe not we finde by experience, that riches, and friends, and credit, and wisdome and the like doe comfort us? |
A10010 | Doe not you hate holinesse in others? |
A10010 | Doe we not feed them with the things they desire? |
A10010 | Doe we not lodge them? |
A10010 | Doe you not offer to God of the worst? |
A10010 | Doe you not think that Sabbaths are to be kept, and to be kept holy? |
A10010 | Doe you regard Pearles above Flowers, because they will not wither? |
A10010 | Doe you thinke that he hath lesse compassion now he is in Heaven, than hee had when he was on Earth? |
A10010 | Doe you thinke that now he is in heaven, he hath laid aside his mercifull disposition? |
A10010 | Doest thou thinke it a good excuse to say, I have done it thus long, and therefore will doe it still? |
A10010 | Doest thou thinke to have thy disease healed before? |
A10010 | Doth hee not send it for an answer? |
A10010 | Doth not Christ baptize us with fire and with the Holy Ghost? |
A10010 | Doth not he make the Heaven as Brasse, and the Earth as Iron? |
A10010 | Doth not he when he will, open the windowes of Heaven, and unstop the bottels of the clouds, and powre outraine unseasonably? |
A10010 | Doth not the wrath of God follow? |
A10010 | Doth one Grace crosse another? |
A10010 | Else why should Peter say, It had beene better they had never knowne the way of righteousnesse? |
A10010 | Even to the same exactnesse, though I want ability to performe it? |
A10010 | Famine is a leane devouring evill, which causes the Land to eate up the inhabitants thereof; but is not the Lord the onely cause of it? |
A10010 | For if it had beene not of love to God, wouldest thou not have turned sooner? |
A10010 | For it may be objected, There be many excellent things in men, as your morall Philosophers, had they not much light in their understandings? |
A10010 | For put case there be a necessity, hast not thou caused it thy selfe? |
A10010 | For these good purposes, what are they but as blossomes nipt with untimely frosts? |
A10010 | For to what end serve riches? |
A10010 | For what doe we do when we preach the Word? |
A10010 | For what is Sanctification, but a drawing neere to the Lord? |
A10010 | For what is it that food doth? |
A10010 | For what is that that keepes a man from comming to Christ, but his discouragements? |
A10010 | For what is the Plague but a sword in the hand of an Angell, who drawes it out, and puts it into its sheath againe, at his Masters appointment? |
A10010 | For what is the Sacrament? |
A10010 | For what is the reason that any man steps out from God? |
A10010 | For what ● ● it to leane to him? |
A10010 | For where doth Popery abound so much, as in the darke places of the Kingdome? |
A10010 | For why is this heape of chaffe preserv''d from burning? |
A10010 | From what? |
A10010 | God awakens sinners, but what kinde of awakening is it? |
A10010 | Grace preferred before all other Excellencies: 2, 38 Grace the proper Excellencie of a man: 2, 40 Knowledge of Christs Excellencie unites us to him? |
A10010 | Had not Paul a new light? |
A10010 | Hast not thou the same nature that other men have? |
A10010 | Hast thou broken my Commandement? |
A10010 | Hast thou given over thy drinking, thy gaming, thy sinne of uncleannesse, thy breaking of the Sabbath? |
A10010 | Hath not Christ taken thy nature as well as theirs? |
A10010 | Hee that obeyes not the Sonne, the wrath of God abides on him: And what is that wrath of God? |
A10010 | Hee that overcomes shall not be hurt of the second death: Why, is it so great a matter? |
A10010 | Here now no man can complaine, saying, Why is there such an Impediment? |
A10010 | His love: And why his love? |
A10010 | How abundant was it in David? |
A10010 | How corrupt is this sensuall Appetite? |
A10010 | How did Paul doe to give this Truth liberty to rule in his life? |
A10010 | How do we know that? |
A10010 | How full of questions were the Schoole- men? |
A10010 | How it worketh this in a man? |
A10010 | How prone to evill? |
A10010 | How ready to run out? |
A10010 | How shall it be healed? |
A10010 | How was that done? |
A10010 | How wise are they for other things? |
A10010 | I but, you will say, Christ is mercifull, he is very ready to forgive, I hope I am not out of him, but he is ready to receive me? |
A10010 | I gave her space to repent, and shee did not; What then? |
A10010 | I have committed sinne, and yet have no experience of his wrath following so close upon it? |
A10010 | I have other meat that you know not of: and what is Davids meaning when he saith? |
A10010 | I will give thee one note of it: Is it such an humiliation as hath brought thee to Christ? |
A10010 | I will make a covenant with my people, and what is that? |
A10010 | I will make a new Covenant, saith God: And what is that? |
A10010 | If God only doth good and evill, why then doe you hasten after outward things and weary your selves in vaine for that which will not profit? |
A10010 | If God would humble me, and set it on, and convince me by his Spirit, it might be done, but how shal I doe it my selfe? |
A10010 | If I have Christ for my husband, shall he be my husband in vaine? |
A10010 | If I have so many sins, how can I be saved? |
A10010 | If Zeale turne away the wrath of God, then where is our zeale for the Church of God? |
A10010 | If a man be in strength and in health, what if you put him into a Cottage, what if he be put into prison? |
A10010 | If any delightfull object be propounded, how ready is it to embrace it? |
A10010 | If he be united, if he be married to him, how can he be more? |
A10010 | If he finde there is none, he begins then to think, yea, but is there any comfort to mingle with it? |
A10010 | If he shall be cut off that came not to the Passeover; shall not he be cut off that comes not to the Sacrament? |
A10010 | If it be not the Cause of God, why doe not wee desist altogether? |
A10010 | If riches encrease, set not your heart on them, and why? |
A10010 | If the Branches be so bitter, what is the Root? |
A10010 | If the Corne be once out, will not the Lord( as men use to doe after winnowing) set the chaffe on fire? |
A10010 | If the Dough be sowre, how sowre was the Leaven? |
A10010 | If the wrath of a King be a messenger of Death, what think you of the wrath of God? |
A10010 | If there be a command to this or that duty, am not I bound to endeavour to keepe it? |
A10010 | If this were beleeved, how would it change our joyes into teares? |
A10010 | If thou dost now take resolution to amend, hast not thou cause to suspect that it proceeds from selfe- love? |
A10010 | If we thinke God to be the Author of good and evill, why are these things so? |
A10010 | If wee thinke the Lord onely doth good and evill, why then will not we obey him and serve him, and please him in all things? |
A10010 | In a word, Why doe we turne the maine into the by, and the by into the maine? |
A10010 | In all our calamities and dangers, why doe not wee seeke to him, as to one that onely can helpe us, and heale us? |
A10010 | In the Iubile, every man would not goe out of servitude, some would continue servants still; and why? |
A10010 | In this sense, Manna is said to bee the food of Angels: why could Manna bee the food of Angels? |
A10010 | In your youth you shall serve me, and yet how apt is youth to forget God? |
A10010 | Indeed, if they were of great moment, he lost by it, but, as Iames saith, They are but as flowers of the grasse worth little? |
A10010 | Is he such a Father that his children should bee ashamed of him? |
A10010 | Is it a small matter to neglect the Rudder of the Ship? |
A10010 | Is it a sorrow effectuall to worke any change in thee, to prevent sin for the time to come? |
A10010 | Is it not a false sorrow? |
A10010 | Is it not because there is some Corne some Wheate mixed therewith? |
A10010 | Is it not our wisdome then to provide for another life? |
A10010 | Is it not repugnant to what the Lord hath commanded? |
A10010 | Is it not your part to take care and labour as farre as you may, that every Candlestick may have a Candle set in it to give light? |
A10010 | Is it thus with thee? |
A10010 | Is it to bow it downe as a Bulrush? |
A10010 | Is not sinne the first linke of the chaine? |
A10010 | Is not the Spirit the wind? |
A10010 | Is there not some exempted place in thy heart and life that is yet old, as old as it was? |
A10010 | Is there not the same meanes of renuing of it from day to day, Is not the same meanes of renuing it, as there is of receiving of it at the first? |
A10010 | Is this Religion? |
A10010 | Is this a Fast, to hang downe your head for a day? |
A10010 | Is this a good reason to move men to good workes? |
A10010 | Is this all? |
A10010 | Is this all? |
A10010 | Is this the Power of Godlinesse; is this to be Baptized with the Holy Ghost, which is as Fire? |
A10010 | Is thy heart changed and sanctified by being in him? |
A10010 | It is Peters speech to Ananias and Saphira, Why hath Satan filled thy heart? |
A10010 | It is as if the Lord said, what doe you meane? |
A10010 | It is said that Aaron, when he caused the people to commit that sinne, or was an instrument rather, it is said that he left the people naked, why? |
A10010 | It is said, the Lilies are much better cloathed than he: And why? |
A10010 | It is the case of every man out of Christ; What are we out of him? |
A10010 | It is true, Adam ran in debt, but doe not we pay many debts of our Grand- fathers and Fathers, which wee never drunke for? |
A10010 | It is true, and we can not deny but knowledge abounds amongst us, as the waters in the Sea: But where is the Salt? |
A10010 | It is true, but doth this crosse your zeale? |
A10010 | It is true, they were wise in their owne conceit; but thinking themselves wise, they became fooles, how doth that appeare? |
A10010 | It is very true, but doe you thinke, when they would have killed Iesus and Lazarus, they knew them to be so? |
A10010 | It is very true, he is mercifull, but to whom? |
A10010 | Labour to see this beauty in Christ, to see what he hath done for you; Was he not crucified for you? |
A10010 | Let me aske you, Doe you obey it in those things that crosse that particular unrighteousnesse wherein you are delighted? |
A10010 | Let us consider a little; What was it, thinke you, that made Adam happy in Paradise? |
A10010 | Men will say, you promise for eternity indeed, but what doe ye for the present? |
A10010 | Might not I have performed this duty, if I would have gone about it? |
A10010 | Must not the Holy Ghost change thine heart? |
A10010 | No, it is God; then why doe we make a question? |
A10010 | Now consider what Disobedience is; Remember that speech, Hast thou eaten of the Tree concerning which I commanded, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it? |
A10010 | Now do but think with your selves; doe you thinke he lesse pities the diseases of the Soule, than he did the diseases of the Body? |
A10010 | Now doe we thus trust him? |
A10010 | Now doe you hate all sinne, all kindes of sinne, one as well as another? |
A10010 | Now how is the Law a Schoole- master? |
A10010 | Now is it so with you? |
A10010 | Now the vse of this is double: First, is this so necessary? |
A10010 | Now what is so excellent as this? |
A10010 | Now what is that Covenant? |
A10010 | Now what is that, you are Christs Epistle not written with Inke, but by the Spirit of God? |
A10010 | Now when wee come to doe this, doe you thinke that any man in the world is able to worke it in the hearts of men? |
A10010 | Now, if thou mayest take it, and fall from it againe, thou art as Adam was; how miserable then is thy condition? |
A10010 | Now, what is it to take it violently? |
A10010 | Now, what is liberty? |
A10010 | Now, who can give that but God, who hath the command of all things? |
A10010 | Now, why should it seeme unreasonable that I should be liable to Adams account? |
A10010 | On the other side; suppose he had health, put him into a Cottage, if he have strength, would hee not beare it well enough? |
A10010 | Or secondly, is it needfull for this, the shewing forth the Lords death till he come? |
A10010 | Our tongues are our owne, we will use them, Who is Lord over us? |
A10010 | Out of the heart comes Adulteries, Fornications,& c. And if out of the heart, is it not thence as from the cause, the Principle? |
A10010 | Paul tels the Romans that his intent was To come to them: But what should he doe there? |
A10010 | Saith the Lord, If one of you have put away his wife, will he returne to her againe? |
A10010 | Secondly, hast not thou brought on thy selfe that strong Inclination, that strange power of sinne? |
A10010 | Secondly, if it be Zeale that turnes away the LORDS wrath, then where is the Zeale that should be among us? |
A10010 | Secondly,( to go no further than this place) The wrath of God is revealed from heaven, but against whom? |
A10010 | Shall I have him, and not make use of him? |
A10010 | Shall we have Meate and Drinke, Houses and Vines? |
A10010 | Since this might be done without a miracle, all that we have by Christ, all that is represented in the Sacrament, what necessity is there? |
A10010 | So Iohn the Baptist, that came to prepare the way of the Lord, to make way for Christ: How did he make way? |
A10010 | So the want of Delight in God, who thinkes of it? |
A10010 | So when we preach the Gospell, there be everlasting doores; can we open the Iron- gates? |
A10010 | So you know you must renew your repentance; are not these Truthes knowne? |
A10010 | So, canst thou deny thy selfe? |
A10010 | So, we see, when the Apostle Paul came to do this businesse with Felix, to have brought him to Christ, if he could, what course takes he? |
A10010 | Spirituall things must be discerned by spirituall light, A naturall man can not conceive of them; Why? |
A10010 | Suppose a man ride on an unruly horse, Is it a small thing not to keepe the hand on the bridle, to neglect it? |
A10010 | Take Paul, he was persecuted and afflicted, had not he an hundred fold? |
A10010 | Take two men, the one rich in these kinde of riches, another that is rich to the world; when these two die, which of the two riches would you chuse? |
A10010 | That every man is ready to say, Who is able to practice according to his knowledge? |
A10010 | That is all in all, indeed it is the sword of the Spirit, but what is it without the Almighty hand of God? |
A10010 | That is, hast thou beene disobedient? |
A10010 | That is, where is that Zeale, and holinesse that should season all our knowledge? |
A10010 | That thou hast a new heart, and yet ploddest in the same old tract that thou didst? |
A10010 | That thou hast a new heart, and yet usest thy old speeches still? |
A10010 | The Church of Ephesus fell from her first love, what then? |
A10010 | The Cup of blessing, that we blesse, is it not the Communion of the bloud of Christ? |
A10010 | The Cup of blessing, that we blesse, is it not the Communion of the bloud of Christ? |
A10010 | The Iewes that killed the Prophets, doe you thinke, they thought them to be Prophets when they slew them? |
A10010 | The Sabbath should be kept with delight, but how burthensome is it to give God his whole time, to keepe it holy, and not to rob him of any part of it? |
A10010 | The bread that we breake, is it not the Communion of the body of Christ? |
A10010 | The heart, saith Ieremie is deceitfull aboue all things, who can know it? |
A10010 | The question, you will aske me, will be, what is that new quality? |
A10010 | The scope of the place is to shew the power of preaching the Word purely; what is the chaffe to the Wheat? |
A10010 | The weapons of our warfare are mighty ▪ but how? |
A10010 | Then see the Condition required on our part; What is that? |
A10010 | Ther ● fore make this use of the actuall sinnes which you commit, they should be as Rivers to lead you to the Sea of corruption within you? |
A10010 | Therefore Christ takes up Nichodemus, when he tells him that men must be made New Creatures; he wondering at it, saith, what dost thou meane by that? |
A10010 | Therefore comfort your selves, my Brethren, with these words, Doe you regard an Inheritance above a Lease, because an Inheritance is a constant thing? |
A10010 | Therefore in the same Chapter, see how carefully that is put in; Is this an acceptable day to the Lord? |
A10010 | Therefore make use of this, when any thing is objected that is terrible and grievous, answer it with this, I am in Christ? |
A10010 | Therefore the Apostle comming to answer that question, If grace abound, why doth not sinne abound? |
A10010 | Therefore you may see what an Emphasis God puts on that, Hast thou eaten of the tree, of which I bade thou shouldest not eat? |
A10010 | Therefore, have you prayed, and yet finde not your selves New Creatures? |
A10010 | Therefore, when you see this to be your case: What makes you secure? |
A10010 | These acts of disobedience on his owne Day? |
A10010 | They are deceived in this, for the sinne is so much the greater; if the Sparke be so much, what is the fornace within? |
A10010 | They are much worth every manner of way: for first, why doe you prize riches, but because they can procure any thing that you need? |
A10010 | They breed an emnity in men, instance that place of Ahab, Hast thou found mee, Oh mine enemie? |
A10010 | They have another Nature, what followes on that? |
A10010 | Thirdly, are they inseparable? |
A10010 | Thirdly, will you know the meanes how it is revealed? |
A10010 | This is a turning of the course of Nature, is not your Nature carried as violently to sinne, as the Sunne in his course? |
A10010 | This is the great miracle that Iohn will have them attend unto; and is not this daily done? |
A10010 | This you ought to doe; but on the other side, how many hundreds and thousands are there that doe as they did, when they saw the miracles, they envied? |
A10010 | Thou foole, if thy sins be forgiven thee, shall not all misery be taken away? |
A10010 | Thou remainest in thy wickednesse; And why is that? |
A10010 | Thou which judgest another, doest not thou condemne thy selfe? |
A10010 | Thus Amos concludes it in his third Chapter, Is there any evill in the City that he hath not done? |
A10010 | To save the shooe, and lose the foot, to save the cloaths, and to have the body destroyed? |
A10010 | To what use serveth this doctrine? |
A10010 | Tribulation and anguish on every soule that doth evill, to whom? |
A10010 | Warre you know is a terrible thing, when Enemies come as Bees on a Land; but doth not the Lord hisse for them? |
A10010 | Was it the being in a Garden full of pleasant things? |
A10010 | Was that then which was good, made death unto me? |
A10010 | Was there ever any man resolved with himselfe, I will live a godly life, if I can? |
A10010 | We see in all other things, if there be an end propounded and sufficient motives, it is enough: and why should God give different objects? |
A10010 | Well, though we can not doe it fully, yet we will endevour to doe it a little: You will say, What shall we have by Christ? |
A10010 | What an alteration would it make in our lives? |
A10010 | What are Organs without breath? |
A10010 | What are those lusts? |
A10010 | What are we, my Brethren? |
A10010 | What doe we, when we dresse up a Sermon never so well? |
A10010 | What dost thou here Elijah? |
A10010 | What else is the end of all his judgements? |
A10010 | What else is the meaning of it, Whosoever is in Christ is a New Creature? |
A10010 | What gainers might wee be in grace and holinesse, if wee would sanctifie every Sabbath as we should? |
A10010 | What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power knowne, endure with much long- suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction? |
A10010 | What is it in this life you would have, if there were immortality? |
A10010 | What is it then? |
A10010 | What is that poverty? |
A10010 | What is that to come with authority? |
A10010 | What is that? |
A10010 | What is that? |
A10010 | What is the meaning of that? |
A10010 | What is the reason he should rejoyce that this was made manifest, seeing to some it did no good? |
A10010 | What is the union betweene Christ and us? |
A10010 | What is this? |
A10010 | What is thy end of going to him, but to have thy dis ● ● se healed? |
A10010 | What meane those Oathes amongst us, for which the Land mournes? |
A10010 | What meanes Fornication and Whoredome which is so frequent? |
A10010 | What need or necessity is there that they should be so interpreted? |
A10010 | What needs such a monstrous fetch as this, to helpe the words to a meaning? |
A10010 | What reason hath a man to be glad of it? |
A10010 | What shall we have then, you will say? |
A10010 | What shall we say when thou hast given us commission? |
A10010 | What shall we then doe? |
A10010 | What then is this preaching in evidence of the Spirit? |
A10010 | What then will God doe in this case? |
A10010 | What then? |
A10010 | What then? |
A10010 | What then? |
A10010 | What then? |
A10010 | What use are we to make of this? |
A10010 | What use is there of it? |
A10010 | What was Salomons Kingdome? |
A10010 | What was hid from them? |
A10010 | What were those great things? |
A10010 | What wilt thou doe then? |
A10010 | What wilt thou doe? |
A10010 | When I have done this, what shal I then do? |
A10010 | When a man sees the Sun, what is a Candle or torch to him? |
A10010 | When sicknesse comes, what will other things doe us good? |
A10010 | When sparkes fly out of the Chimney top, shall we not say, there is fire in the house? |
A10010 | When we come to the Sacrament, there is a reconciliation, an atonement to be made in a speciall manner; What must you do then? |
A10010 | When you finde pleasure, and continue in strife and debate? |
A10010 | Where is the Fire that should adde practice to our knowledge, and make it an acceptable sacrifice to GOD? |
A10010 | Who amongst the Saints? |
A10010 | Who knowes the power of thine anger? |
A10010 | Whose damnation sleepeth not; What is the meaning of that? |
A10010 | Why are not wee more zealous against sinne? |
A10010 | Why are we not zealous for the Lord, and zealous against sinne? |
A10010 | Why are we so fearefull and shie of doing the thing that otherwise we thinke meet to bee done? |
A10010 | Why doe not we take its case to heart? |
A10010 | Why doe you labour without being satisfied? |
A10010 | Why doe you suffer your soules to goe ragged as it were, to be so unequally, so unreverently clad? |
A10010 | Why doest not thou get grace of all sorts to adorne and beautifie thy selfe withall? |
A10010 | Why doest thou go starved, hungry and thirsty, drooping all the day? |
A10010 | Why doth he adde that? |
A10010 | Why is there so little growth in religion, so much barrennesse in good workes, the price whereof is more than gold and silver? |
A10010 | Why may not I come in? |
A10010 | Why mourne we not for the abominations that are amongst us? |
A10010 | Why should you not come in? |
A10010 | Why then should not you be perfect with him? |
A10010 | Why then will you not beleeve it? |
A10010 | Why will not you urge the Lord with this, and by prayer desire the accomplishment of it? |
A10010 | Why will you not minde this then? |
A10010 | Why wilt thou cherish them a little? |
A10010 | Why? |
A10010 | Why? |
A10010 | Why? |
A10010 | Why? |
A10010 | Will I accept such a Fast as this? |
A10010 | Will any man deny to follow that which is good? |
A10010 | Will there not come a day of need, will there not come a time of spending, when there will be no leasure to gather at the day of death? |
A10010 | Will this make a New Creature? |
A10010 | Will you make God all Iustice? |
A10010 | Will you not from this time crie unto me, Thou art my Father, and the guide of my youth? |
A10010 | Will you provoke God to jealousie? |
A10010 | Wilt thou say that thou hast a new heart, and yet keepest thy old company still? |
A10010 | Woe be to you that laugh; If there were not something in this inordinate mirth and jollity that keepes downe the Truth, why should that be added? |
A10010 | Wouldest thou not have that removed which restraines thee? |
A10010 | Yea, but you will say, Is there such a condition in the world? |
A10010 | Yet doe not wicked men with them, as those that to lop the Tree are still hacking at the boughes? |
A10010 | You are wo nt to say, Take heed to the fire, for you know not what a sparke may doe, and is it a small matter to neglect your tongues? |
A10010 | You have despised me, and you say, Wherein have we despised thee? |
A10010 | You know Manna was a materiall thing, such as a spirituall substance can not feed on, but because by that Manna Christ was represented? |
A10010 | You see when he appeared to Elias, what majestie he came in? |
A10010 | You that are to receive the Sacrament, what doe we therein, but offer Christ to you? |
A10010 | You thinke it a sinne not to heare the Word, and is it not so, not to receive the Sacrament? |
A10010 | You will aske, how I shall know the difference? |
A10010 | You will say then, What is a Fast? |
A10010 | You will say what is that? |
A10010 | You will say you doe not hate God; but let me aske you this question, Wouldest thou not live at liberty? |
A10010 | You will say, How doe they differ? |
A10010 | You will say, How shall that be done? |
A10010 | You will say, I hope we are perfect with God: But if we be, why are our actions so dissonant? |
A10010 | You will say, If a man be in Christ, how can he be more? |
A10010 | You will say, What would you have us to doe more? |
A10010 | You will say, how can God be your portion? |
A10010 | You will say, in what consists this taking? |
A10010 | You will say, we doe depend on God, wee trust in God, and none but him? |
A10010 | You will say, we finde not this, for who hath the world at will? |
A10010 | You will say, what are those evils in particulars that we must needs fall into, if we come not in to Christ, and what good shall wee get by him? |
A10010 | You will say, what is this mark of the Lord? |
A10010 | You will say, what things should we punish? |
A10010 | You will say, wherein is this Kingdome; wherein doth this kingdome consist? |
A10010 | You will say, who doth question it? |
A10010 | and yet will you commit these sins? |
A10010 | are they not grievous? |
A10010 | art not thou more sorry for the effect of sin, than for the evill of sin, for the burning of the coale, than for the blacknesse of the coale? |
A10010 | consider there, what is the reason why the Lord will spue out the Church of Laodicea, and cast it away? |
A10010 | doe you not despise God in the prayers that you make, doe not you performe them in a sleight and perfunctory manner? |
A10010 | doth it not concerne him in private, as well as the Minister in publike? |
A10010 | doth it not excell it? |
A10010 | having such a full wardrobe there, why dost not thou goe and sute thy selfe from top to toe? |
A10010 | how was he affected? |
A10010 | how would a man be affected in such a case? |
A10010 | is it not a precious thing? |
A10010 | is it not the filth, and the foulenesse of the soule? |
A10010 | is it not the slavery and bondage of the soule? |
A10010 | is not the hedge broken downe? |
A10010 | it is but the rigging of the sailes, and what will all this doe without wind? |
A10010 | it teacheth every man to sit still? |
A10010 | making Lions Lambes, making you New Creatures? |
A10010 | may he not have many blossomes? |
A10010 | may not an hypocrite goe farre? |
A10010 | much rectitude in their lives? |
A10010 | not proportionable to thy sin: Is it a sorrow that continues on thy heart? |
A10010 | or such a Master as we should be ashamed to weare his Livery? |
A10010 | or what great benefit hath a man by this freedome? |
A10010 | saith the Prophet there, I rose early, and sent my messengers, but how did you carry your selfe towards them? |
A10010 | saith the Psalmist there, If thou Lord shouldest marke all that is done amisse, who could stand? |
A10010 | saith the Psalmist there, Who knowes the power of his wrath? |
A10010 | see how the Lord reasons, Let not the strong man rejoyce in his strength, nor the wiseman in his wisdome, and why? |
A10010 | shall not this affright thee somewhat? |
A10010 | specially where there be thatched- houses and combustible matter neare? |
A10010 | that are shut up from you, which you have no experience of, but only that I tell you, and therefore you ought to beleeve me? |
A10010 | the Apostle speaking there of one particular sin, that is, of eating meat offered to Idols, saith, Will you continue to doe it? |
A10010 | there is no musike made: And what is all our preaching, when the Spirit is absent? |
A10010 | there is nothing left to shelter us; what are we without him? |
A10010 | they are told, they shall give in the same number of Brickes that they did before, and yet shall have no straw; Now how should they do this? |
A10010 | to breake over the Pale, to goe aside the rule? |
A10010 | to gaze upon it, only to know it? |
A10010 | to humble them; And how doth he humble them? |
A10010 | to the light that is in him? |
A10010 | was there ever any particular sinne, of which thou couldst say, this sinne I could not abstaine from? |
A10010 | we preach Christ in the Sacrament, he is therein indeed offered more sensibly: Now what have you to doe with Christ, if you are not humble? |
A10010 | what is the Pen to him that writes the Epistle? |
A10010 | what shall we doe with our naturall dispositions? |
A10010 | when he would know, Art thou he, or looke we for another? |
A10010 | when some had made this objection, If grace abound, why doe we not sinne the more, that grace may more abound? |
A10010 | when the Lord had that converse with the woman of Samaria, what saith he to cause her to come in? |
A10010 | who is it that findes himselfe such a New Creature? |
A10010 | why are we so unequall and uneven in our wayes? |
A10010 | why do we reckon it a wearinesse to serve him? |
A10010 | why doe wee not feare him, and nothing els, trust in him and in nothing besides, depend on him, and upon no other? |
A10010 | why doe wee serve God so by halfes, and by fits? |
A10010 | why dost thou defer to turne to God? |
A10010 | why doth not a man sinne more? |
A10010 | why have not we the bowels of compassion to lament over its condition, as if it were our own? |
A10010 | why should we goe coldly about it? |
A10010 | why then art thou bold on? |
A10010 | why will you start from him at any time, or upon any occasion? |
A10010 | will it not quickely runne to the Sands? |
A10010 | will there be any Epistle written? |
A10010 | you must know that sicknesse is cured, and health is come in the roome; then what matter is it, if you are bound to these duties? |
A60194 | ( as Saine Paul was in affliction oft,) what comforted Saint Paul? |
A60194 | ( as they idly say) How we may know that the faith that we professe is the ancient faith? |
A60194 | ( for no man will be served by his servant as he pleaseth) how shll we know these certain truths? |
A60194 | ( for that is the question now) whether the Spirit it self, or the work of the Spirit, or the comfort and joy of the Spirit? |
A60194 | ( politike lawes I speak not of) shall a man yield to mens opinion, especially if the VVord do not warrant it? |
A60194 | ( to come to the matter more particularly,) what is that that the Spirit seales us with especially? |
A60194 | 12. have ye forgotten the Consolation that speaks? |
A60194 | 14. saith he, Who am I? |
A60194 | 2. how the Psalmist there insults over those that threaten to do this and that: Why do the Heathen rage? |
A60194 | 34. where he describes it, and tells us his name: what is the name of God? |
A60194 | 44. being in great distresse, they kept themselves from Idolatry, and from the contagion of the times wherein they lived: upon what ground? |
A60194 | 5. desire such to be reconciled to God? |
A60194 | 51. how he presseth upon God for mercy, and will a little serve him? |
A60194 | 8. who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods people? |
A60194 | 9. what is the reason? |
A60194 | ? |
A60194 | ? |
A60194 | A Christian is in the favour of God now, how shall he not be so for ever? |
A60194 | A Christian that is judicious and understanding, ask him in what estate he is? |
A60194 | A bad conscience can not joy in the middest of joy, it is like a goutie foot, or a goutie toe covered with a velvet shoe: alas, what doth it ease it? |
A60194 | A man may know here is stablishing grace: because except there were somewhat above nature, where were a man in such a case? |
A60194 | A man that hath his enemy to guide him to a place, that hath a Pirate to guide him in a Ship, how can he come to good? |
A60194 | Achitophel, he made provision, he set his house in order, and what became of him after? |
A60194 | Again, Christ stiles himself sweetly our brother: what a world of promises are in these relations? |
A60194 | Again, are all the promises of God in Christ and in him Yea, and Amen? |
A60194 | Again, are there not oft- times new, and great temptations, that a man must have a new measure of grace to resist? |
A60194 | Again, do we not need a great measure of strengthening Grace continually? |
A60194 | Again, for Apostasie, in the times of the alteration of Religion: why do men alter as the State alters? |
A60194 | Again, in the second place,( to make an Use of examination) I beseech you examine your selves whether you find this stablishing in your hearts or no? |
A60194 | Again, is it not a seeming wisdome to come to heaven by our own works, by our own merits, that so we may set the people on to good works? |
A60194 | Again, it comforts in sicknesse, Ezechias was sick, what doth he retire unto? |
A60194 | Again, the Invocation of Saints it is a Point wondrous full of uncertainties: Can they know and say certainly that the Saints hear them? |
A60194 | Again, what is the reason of that unfruitfulnesse that is amongst men? |
A60194 | Ahab got much by yielding to the carnal wisdome of Jezabel, Hast thou gotten, and also taken possession? |
A60194 | Alas what are all discomforts when God sets himself to comfort? |
A60194 | Alas, do not thousands sit in darknesse, and in the shadow of death? |
A60194 | Alas, what a miserable case is such a man in when he comes to dye? |
A60194 | Alas, what is a man out of Christ? |
A60194 | All the Creatures in the world would have sunk under the sufferings that Christ indured, what abasement to the abasement of Christ? |
A60194 | All the honours in the earth, all riches, and contentments, all the friends that we have, what can they do? |
A60194 | All the promises being made in Christ, what comfort or what good can those that are not yet in Christ have by the promises? |
A60194 | All things work for the best to them that love God? |
A60194 | Although a man should not be insensible of the ills of the times:( for else how should we pray against them?) |
A60194 | Am I not an Apostle? |
A60194 | Among the Jewes was there not the worshipping of the true God? |
A60194 | And Abraham, I am dust and ashes, shall I speak to my Lord? |
A60194 | And Moses he overcame God, Let me alone, why dost thou presse me? |
A60194 | And after it was committed, how did he cover it? |
A60194 | And again, as Bildad saith, Job 18. are the comforts of God light to thee? |
A60194 | And as I said, Who will be ruled by his enemy? |
A60194 | And consider, that how long soever we indure any thing, yet what is that that we indure here, to that that we are freed from by Christ? |
A60194 | And considering that there is such a day, let us make much of the day of the Lord, that is now left us; what is that? |
A60194 | And for men that are not yet believers, how wondrously doth God labour to bring such men to a good hope? |
A60194 | And he calls it, vain boasting: what makes God confound insolent attempts? |
A60194 | And he hath rules, seek thy self in all things; love thy self above all: And what then? |
A60194 | And he sends us to Christ, if Christ be dead, or rather risen again, who shall lay any thing to our charge? |
A60194 | And hereupon wicked men are called the world: why the world? |
A60194 | And how can we be thankful for himself, when we will not come and partake of him? |
A60194 | And how comfortably in the hour of death can the soul commend it self to God, when it sees it self stamped and sealed by the Spirit of Christ? |
A60194 | And how doth their wisdome bring them to hell? |
A60194 | And how? |
A60194 | And if God be with us who can be against us? |
A60194 | And if God be with us, who can be against us? |
A60194 | And if he have given us Christ, shall he not with him give us all things else? |
A60194 | And if this be so, then either those that have this earnest, this seal of the Spirit, they may be assured, or no; and if not, where is the fault? |
A60194 | And if you have nothing, come and buy without money, have you a will to come? |
A60194 | And indeed he hath shewed that he loves us; would we have a better evidence of it then his own Son? |
A60194 | And indeed, what is the difference between one Christian and another that lives in the bosome of the Church? |
A60194 | And is it any policy to suffer those to poison the judgments of people with heresies to God, and treason to their Prince? |
A60194 | And is it not a blessed thing that God will be trusted, that he hath made himself such a one as we may trust him? |
A60194 | And it is Judge of this controversie too, whether it be the Word of God? |
A60194 | And it is spirituall Adultery: for what should take up our affections? |
A60194 | And let every man think, what if God have hid my comfort in another man? |
A60194 | And let us end every day, as we would end our lives, how would we end our lives? |
A60194 | And no otherwise? |
A60194 | And now, O Israel, what doth the Lord require of thee, for all his favours, but to serve him with a chearful and good heart? |
A60194 | And often let us examine our selves, Would I die in this, and for this? |
A60194 | And shall he have a pardon, when he cares not for it? |
A60194 | And shall we think all shall be safe with us, as the Jewes did, crying, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord? |
A60194 | And shame our selves; what, hath God freed me from so great misery? |
A60194 | And so again, is it not a pretty wisdome to draw men by pictures, and likenesses? |
A60194 | And so whoremongers; the Word of God saith, Whoremongers, and adulterers God will judge; would men if they did believe this truth, live in these sins? |
A60194 | And so, art thou doubtful for the time to come what shall befall thee? |
A60194 | And that is the reason likewise why such a man can never be a good Christian, he can never go through the variety of times: why? |
A60194 | And the same spirit helps our infirmities and teacheth us how to pray? |
A60194 | And the world runs a clean contrary Byas in the several examples thereof: How many scandals do there arise daily even in the very Church it self? |
A60194 | And then Christ, what relation hath he taken on him? |
A60194 | And then Despair: when a man saith, What should I go about these things? |
A60194 | And then he blames his soul, Is God so? |
A60194 | And this he did in himself, before he doth it in us: for did not his greatest crosses tend to his greatest glory? |
A60194 | And this makes us to esteem highly of others: how sweet are the looks, and sight of a friend? |
A60194 | And those that disfurnish themselves by their negligence, and carelesnesse of such blessed helps, what enemies are they to their own comfort? |
A60194 | And to make us the more to think of these things, consider, that all other things, alas, what are they, when we have not a promise of them in Christ? |
A60194 | And what a comfort and encouragement is this, that a Christian hath so many factors for him? |
A60194 | And what a comfort is it to go to the experiments of scripture? |
A60194 | And what good have we by his sufferings? |
A60194 | And what is it that dulls and deads endeavour? |
A60194 | And what is our Saviour Christs whole course, but to free men from suspition of want of love? |
A60194 | And what is that that we can suffer here, to the glory and joy that remaines for us in heaven? |
A60194 | And what is the Ordinance of God to strengthen faith, is it not the Sacrament? |
A60194 | And what is the bawde for all this? |
A60194 | And what madnesse is it for a man to humour men, and displease conscience his best friend? |
A60194 | And what man is the Pope oft- times? |
A60194 | And what shall separate us from the love of God? |
A60194 | And when is the soul encouraged to suffer afflictions for Christ? |
A60194 | And when we have gotten rules, apply them: for what are rules without application? |
A60194 | And when we know them, work them upon our hearts by meditation, and shame our selves upon it: say, is it true, are these promises so? |
A60194 | And who do we do it to? |
A60194 | And why doth the Devill so cherish suspition, and a jealous disposition? |
A60194 | And why should we desire to do our bodies good, or our estates good, till God hath wrought his cure on our souls? |
A60194 | And will God suffer his creature to devise a Religion to serve him? |
A60194 | And would you have matter of joy in this world, that should joy you when nothing else will joy you? |
A60194 | And( would you have more?) |
A60194 | And, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft,& c? |
A60194 | And, Why will ye perish, O house of Israel? |
A60194 | Another branch of this is, That though Gods Promises be Yea, and Amen in his time, yet he usually defers his promises for a time, and why? |
A60194 | Are Gods Children sensible of Death, and the danger of it, and out of a principle of nature, and Grace too? |
A60194 | Are the Promises Amen? |
A60194 | Are the courses of Gods Children good, why will you oppose them? |
A60194 | Are the promises of God in Christ Yea, and Amen? |
A60194 | Are these matters to be slighted? |
A60194 | Are they not in themselves good motions, stirred up by the Spirit? |
A60194 | Are they not worthy to be damned? |
A60194 | Are they so? |
A60194 | Are they so? |
A60194 | Are they so? |
A60194 | Are those truths thou knowest so firmly wrought in thee by the Spirit of God? |
A60194 | Are we not all Christians? |
A60194 | Are we not all a like tainted with originall fin? |
A60194 | Are we wiser then he? |
A60194 | Are you resolved to be naught then? |
A60194 | Art thou come to torment us before our time? |
A60194 | Art thou sensible of thy imperfections, that thou canst not go about the duties of Religion, and of thy particular calling? |
A60194 | As Adams eyes were opened after his sin; why? |
A60194 | As David saith, what a foole? |
A60194 | As I said before, Shall we have certain promises of God that never lie, and shall we not build on them? |
A60194 | As for example, that excellent prerogative to be the Sons of God: What love? |
A60194 | As if a servant; or a slave must devise how his Lord will be served: what impudency is this, if we consider what God is? |
A60194 | As if they would swallow up the Church, and Christ the anointed: why do they do this, and that? |
A60194 | As in Plants and Trees, what is the fruit of the tree? |
A60194 | As in the Sacrament, would not God give Christ, and his benefits? |
A60194 | As it is in the Bible, in the book? |
A60194 | As it is said and observed by an ancient Father, that seldom he saw any good come by generall counsels: why? |
A60194 | As it is with Physical water; there is the water, and there are many strong things in it: What? |
A60194 | As one saith well, What good is it for thee that none knowes what is done, when thou knowest it thy felf? |
A60194 | As the Prophet Isay saith, When you fasted, did you fast to me? |
A60194 | As upon what grounds do they believe the Articles of the faith to be so? |
A60194 | As we can not escape Gods eye, so we can not escape the eye of conscience, Whether shall I flee from thy presence? |
A60194 | As we see in Asa, how many faults had he committed? |
A60194 | As we sleep quietly, because we hope to rise again, and we put our seed into the ground, with comfort, why? |
A60194 | As why doth God humble great ones with great afflictions? |
A60194 | Ask another, What do you mean to live so loosely, and carelesly? |
A60194 | Ask any man why he doth take so much pains, and be a drudge in his place? |
A60194 | Ask them why they sweat? |
A60194 | Away with conceit of merit: if we merit not daily bread, if we merit not outward deliverance, if we merit not health, what can we do for eternal life? |
A60194 | Because thou hast a little strength; how is that discovered? |
A60194 | Besides the vanity of th ● …, consider how you have gotten them, and how miserable will you judge your selves presently? |
A60194 | Bring my soul out of trouble, that I may praise thy Name, and what shall others do? |
A60194 | But I am not convinced by the Spirit assuring my soul that it is the Word of God; if men did believe it, would men bring a curse upon themselves? |
A60194 | But are the Promises founded upon thee? |
A60194 | But doth he deliver us onely outwardly? |
A60194 | But for the other, Knowledge puffeth up saith the Apostle; what edifies, and builds up? |
A60194 | But how considered is he the object of trust, God out of Christ Mediator? |
A60194 | But how shall any man certainly know it is yea? |
A60194 | But how shall the Church come by this abundant satisfaction and merit? |
A60194 | But how? |
A60194 | But in that wherein our nature is prone to put overmuch confidence, what are we? |
A60194 | But it is a Use of comfort to poore deluded Christians: they think, alas, can my estate be good, I am afraid of Death? |
A60194 | But it may be objected: how can we know our estate in Grace, our virtues are so imperfect, our abilities are so weak and feeble? |
A60194 | But not to go farther, that in the Revelation shews the truth of a little grace: what saith he? |
A60194 | But now who hath taken the relation of a father upon him? |
A60194 | But some man may say, How shall I know that I can pray, that I am in a state to help the Church of God, and to prevail for it by my prayers? |
A60194 | But some may say, is not the life the best Apology? |
A60194 | But some will say, what do you talk of suffering? |
A60194 | But those that do not belong to God, what do they in the hour of death, and in extremity? |
A60194 | But thou wilt object, I am a weak Christian, a sinful creature, what should God regard my prayers? |
A60194 | But to take a Christian in his worst time, in the worst and greatest afflictions, how shall he know then that he is sealed of the Spirit? |
A60194 | But what course shall we take when we want comfort? |
A60194 | But what doth God? |
A60194 | But what favours? |
A60194 | But what if there be inward grievances too? |
A60194 | But what in us is stablished in Christ? |
A60194 | But what is a further ground of this? |
A60194 | But what is become of this Church now? |
A60194 | But what is his degree of hope? |
A60194 | But what is the argument of the Apostle here? |
A60194 | But what is the reason of the proportion, why the greatest comforts follow the greatest sufferings, what is the ground of it? |
A60194 | But what is the vessel for this oyl? |
A60194 | But what is this Spirit an earnest of? |
A60194 | But what is this, if thou do not fence thy soul and thy spitit, and take a draught of the Promises every day afresh? |
A60194 | But what need confirmation when we believe? |
A60194 | But what relations hath he put upon him? |
A60194 | But what shall it be then of those that have opposed goodnesse? |
A60194 | But what then will avail at that day when Christ shall come to judge both the quick and the dead? |
A60194 | But what? |
A60194 | But when our peace is interrupted, when the waters are come into our souls, what must be our course? |
A60194 | But where shall we have it? |
A60194 | But why is it called flesh? |
A60194 | But why should the Apostle here not say thus, Not with fleshly wisdome, but with spiritual wifdome? |
A60194 | But why the Spirit, rather then the Father and the Son? |
A60194 | But you will say, Doth not God do many good things to them that are out of Christ? |
A60194 | But you will say, How can that be a seal that is not alwaies? |
A60194 | But you will say, What shall I account of it, if there be but a little sign of grace? |
A60194 | But( to come to the third Point) why doth he bring in consent to help? |
A60194 | But, another quere may be here, May a man glory in that which is in him, of the grace of God that is in him? |
A60194 | By me, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, would not his own authority serve the turn? |
A60194 | By this you may discern who take the wisest course; he that measures his life by a right measure and rule: who judgeth aright of persons and things? |
A60194 | Can I do too much for him, that hath done so much for me? |
A60194 | Can I part with my life? |
A60194 | Can I use indirect means, and yet believe that God is Al- sufficient to me in the Covenant? |
A60194 | Can a Mother forget her Child? |
A60194 | Can a man that is but a capable creature though glorified, as Peter, or Mary,& c. distinctly consider a thousand Petitions that are made? |
A60194 | Can he pretend I must sin upon necessity, who hath no necessity imposed upon him by God, but to avoid all sin? |
A60194 | Can none stablish the soul upon Christ, but God? |
A60194 | Can not a man think of a little pelf of the earth without comfort, when he knowes he hath assurance to it? |
A60194 | Can these men have humble hearts? |
A60194 | Can you dishonour him more, then to call his truth into question, that is Yea, and Amen? |
A60194 | Can you honour God more then in believing the Gospel? |
A60194 | Can you say that the Priest intends consecration in these words, This is my body? |
A60194 | Can you say when you confesse your sins, that you confesse all? |
A60194 | Can you tell certainly that Transubstantiation depends upon his consecration? |
A60194 | Children of wrath? |
A60194 | Christ himself, did he not take two disciples into the garden with him when his spirit was heavy? |
A60194 | Christ is Alpha, and Omega too; and What shall separate us from the Love of God in Christ? |
A60194 | Christ suffers nothing, he is in heaven, in glorie; how can he suffer? |
A60194 | Christ was the Son of the promise, how was he born? |
A60194 | Christ when he ascended on high, he led captivity captive,& gave gifts to men: What gifts? |
A60194 | Civil man, who? |
A60194 | Come to a Papist, and ask him, what? |
A60194 | Come to some men, and aske them, how it is with you? |
A60194 | Consider now, if the prayer of one righteous man prevail much, what shall the prayer of many righteous men do? |
A60194 | Consider seriously of it, what a joy will this be, that we have led our lives by a rule different from the world? |
A60194 | Corrupt nature stirs a man up to fret, and say, what doth God mean to do thus? |
A60194 | Credible, because God hath said it, and there is reason to prove it: as a man may prove by Divine reason, that all shall work for the best; why? |
A60194 | Dare they say their doctrine is nearer Apostolical then ours? |
A60194 | David saith of some, There be many that will say, who will shew us any good? |
A60194 | Death what is it? |
A60194 | Did Christ leave him? |
A60194 | Did not he know that God had ordained one to comfort another? |
A60194 | Did you ever feel the sweet joy of the Spirit after conflict with corruptions, and getting ground of them, and in holy duties? |
A60194 | Do I believe this, or do I not believe it? |
A60194 | Do I find God speaking to my heart in the Word? |
A60194 | Do I live without God in the world, as if there were no Promise? |
A60194 | Do children use to shift? |
A60194 | Do not they believe that Christ is Mediatour? |
A60194 | Do not they believe the Scriptures to be the VVord of God? |
A60194 | Do they know what they do? |
A60194 | Do we believe the Trinity, or that Christ is our Redeemer, because the Church saith so? |
A60194 | Do we know what times may come? |
A60194 | Do we not believe the Articles of the Creed? |
A60194 | Do we not give him the glory of his omnipotence, that he can help us? |
A60194 | Do we not give him the glory of his omnipresence, that he is every where? |
A60194 | Do we not professe to be Gods Children? |
A60194 | Do we think our selves vessels of grace,( as the Scripture calls the Elect, Children of God,) or no? |
A60194 | Do we think to have any good by him, any benefit by his death, except we make him our King, and Prophet, to rule and guide us? |
A60194 | Do we think to lose Religion alone? |
A60194 | Do you allow in your judgment, and in your conscience the best courses? |
A60194 | Do you do so now? |
A60194 | Do you in your soul justifie such persons? |
A60194 | Do you intend to be good, and come and make your Covenant with God? |
A60194 | Do you think that he intends you any good, in forbidding you to eat,& c? |
A60194 | Do you think to begin to live well when you are gone hence? |
A60194 | Doest thou hope to reform the World against all the World? |
A60194 | Doest thou mean to be so still? |
A60194 | Doest thou think to have glory in another world, which thou didst not think of here? |
A60194 | Doest thou think to have that in another world which thou doest not care for here? |
A60194 | Doest thou think to reap in another world that which thou didst not sowe here? |
A60194 | Dost thou trust him? |
A60194 | Doth God love me, and doth he do good to me abstracted from Christ, my self alone? |
A60194 | Doth God promise that he will be my Father, and I shall be his son? |
A60194 | Doth all come from God, and from his Grace? |
A60194 | Doth he not daily, and continually make those the butts of his displeasure and wrath, that adventure their wisdome and policy against his wisdome? |
A60194 | Doth he not love whole Christ? |
A60194 | Doth he not retract? |
A60194 | Doth not Ahab lie upon his sick bed sometimes? |
A60194 | Doth not Christ bid us come all to him? |
A60194 | Doth not God see every where, abroad, and at home, in our closets? |
A60194 | Doth not God see it? |
A60194 | Doth not St. Paul tell the Galatians they were fallen from Christ, if they added circumcision to Christ? |
A60194 | Doth not a father accept the endeavour of his poor child, and pardon his weaknesse when he can not do as he would? |
A60194 | Doth not he see my wayes, and account all my steps? |
A60194 | Doth the gold- smith hate his precious mettall, when he puts it into the fire, and suffers the fire to work upon it? |
A60194 | Doth this patching out of a holy life please God? |
A60194 | Even God himself( we can not have a more glorious pattern,) what course hath he taken from the beginning of the world with mankind? |
A60194 | Even as in our souls, how may a man know that he hath a soul? |
A60194 | Every Christian, much more a Christian man in Authority and place, a Minister, or Magistrate, ought by all meanes to avoid it? |
A60194 | Faith and hope are two graces altogether from Promises: if there were no promise, there could be no faith nor hope: what is hope? |
A60194 | Fie upon those base conceits: S. Paul here renounceth the regiment of carnal wisdome: what became of him? |
A60194 | First, his own conscience, that he was a good Christian, an heir of heaven, a good Apostle: but when he wanted joy, what would he do? |
A60194 | For Christ in scripture is taken either for Christ himself, or for the members of Christ; why persecutest thou me? |
A60194 | For alas, if God had had by- respects, what could the creature yield him? |
A60194 | For as Christ saith, No man can come to me, except my Father draw him: so where the Father will draw, who can draw back? |
A60194 | For did not he suffer for us that, which if all the creatures in heaven and earth had suffered, they would have sunk under it, the wrath of God? |
A60194 | For first, concerning Apostasie, ask them, what is the reason they are of this or that Religion? |
A60194 | For he knowes well what all else will be ere long; what will all do good? |
A60194 | For how wondrously doth this stablish our faith when we believe in a Saviour that is God: the Son of God Jesus Christ by eternal Generation? |
A60194 | For instance, The Lord hath made many promises, who is it that hath made them? |
A60194 | For instance, a man is Religious onely for carnal respects, he is yea, yea, O he will have the Religion of the times; why? |
A60194 | For instance; a man hath some crosse on him, what saith the flesh? |
A60194 | For may not the soul reason thus? |
A60194 | For the issue in our labours, Oh, what will become of it? |
A60194 | For the promises are Legacies as well as promises, what is the difference between a legacy, and a Covenant? |
A60194 | For were it not for afflictions, and the induring of them, would we ever say, Come Lord Jesus, come quickly? |
A60194 | For what are we? |
A60194 | For what can we say, but it must be reductive, and brought to Christ? |
A60194 | For what do they? |
A60194 | For what is conscience, but the soul it self reflecting upon it self? |
A60194 | For what is the difference between faith, and presumption? |
A60194 | For what is the reason we have so many Apostates? |
A60194 | For what is the sin against the holy Ghost? |
A60194 | For what makes men to double? |
A60194 | For what should the life of a Christian be that is freed from the greatest ill, and advanced to the greatest good? |
A60194 | For where upon is all the abominations of Popery justified? |
A60194 | For who gave you these rules? |
A60194 | For who will labour to please his enemy? |
A60194 | For whom was the Scripture penned? |
A60194 | For why are men insincere, and false- hearted? |
A60194 | For why doth proportion delight the eye, but because it is an agreement of different things, a sweet harmony of different things? |
A60194 | For( I beseech you) what makes a King? |
A60194 | For, doth not God know the mysteries of State better then any man? |
A60194 | For, is it not a strengthening to our case, when another shall say to our comfort, it was my case? |
A60194 | Give me leave to cleare the point a little: How doth patience enter into this great worke of helping our salvation? |
A60194 | Go after me, Satan, saith Christ to Peter, he calls him Divell, why, what hurt was it, he came with a good intention? |
A60194 | God esteemes this as odour, and wilt thou say, I am not worthy? |
A60194 | God hath made all creatures to praise him, and to serve us, that we may praise him; and when they praise him, shall we blaspheme him? |
A60194 | God is become our Father; what a world of promises is in that word Father? |
A60194 | God is in Christ for ever, and thou art in Christ; will he lose a limb? |
A60194 | God is in Christ, and thou art in Christ, how canst thou miscarry? |
A60194 | God is just to punish, and revenge sin, what then? |
A60194 | God is with us, and who can be against us, saith the Apostle? |
A60194 | God will provide for us: are we not in Covenant with God? |
A60194 | Gods providence directs all for their Good: for why doth he suffer wicked men? |
A60194 | Had David forgivenesse of sins upon his confession? |
A60194 | Hadst thou ever grace? |
A60194 | Hast thou knowledge that they think thy courses naught, and on good ground, and doest thou hate them ▪ and hate to be reformed thy self? |
A60194 | Hath a Papist other reasons? |
A60194 | Hath he not all the power? |
A60194 | Hath he promised all things in the world? |
A60194 | Hath not he mens hearts in his hands? |
A60194 | Hath not the Spirit wrought these things in thy heart? |
A60194 | Have we Anabaptists among us, that call this into question? |
A60194 | Have we not matter enough of our own to praise God for? |
A60194 | He delivered the Word plainly, and plainnesse is best in handling the Word of God: for who will enamell a precious stone? |
A60194 | He did not spare Christ, innocency it self, cloathed with mans flesh; and will he spare to bring uncharitable suspitions upon others? |
A60194 | He hath loved us, and washed us, and made us Kings,& c. But how are we Kings? |
A60194 | He hath taken upon him to be our head, what want of influence can there be from such a head, that hath taken all upon him for the body? |
A60194 | He hath the greater, hath he not the lesse? |
A60194 | He hunted after preferment, he hunted after riches, to scrape a great deal for his posterity: how doth God deal with such? |
A60194 | He is called Logos, the Word, why is he so? |
A60194 | He is glorious in the Gospel, and how shall he be so by us, except we set our hearts to believe him? |
A60194 | He that hath the Spirit of God in him, can not endure carnal company: for what shall he hear, what shall he draw in at his senses? |
A60194 | He that spared not his own Son, but gave him to death for us all, how shall he not with him give us all things? |
A60194 | He that takes fleshly wisdome for his counsellour, and adviser, and intelligencer, what doth he? |
A60194 | He that we swear by must know the heart, whether we speak true or no: now who knowes the heart but God? |
A60194 | He was the wisdom of the Father, did he keep out of reproaches? |
A60194 | He who stablisheth us: how is that wrought? |
A60194 | He would gather upon every one; when he saw Agrippa come on a little, Agrippa, believest thou the Scriptures? |
A60194 | Here S. Paul saith, I am your rejoycing, and you are ours at the day of the Lord Jesus: What? |
A60194 | Hereupon we may answer that curious question, that hath been, and now is every where; How we may know that our Church was before Luther''s time or no? |
A60194 | High words are unseemly for a foole saith the Wise man) and what higher words then praise? |
A60194 | How are we in Christ? |
A60194 | How are we to blesse God that we have these advantages? |
A60194 | How are we to magnifie God that we live in the sun- shine of the Gospel, that in Christ we have precious, and rich promises? |
A60194 | How came we to fall at the first? |
A60194 | How can the conscience be satisfied? |
A60194 | How can they reform evills abroad, those that are Governours, when they do not care to refomr themselves? |
A60194 | How can this be that the afflictions of Gods people, are for the consolation and salvation of others? |
A60194 | How can we be thankful for other blessings, when we are not thankful for himself? |
A60194 | How can we look for any thing from God but by promise? |
A60194 | How come we to trust a man? |
A60194 | How comes a good conscience to be such a continual feast? |
A60194 | How comes likewise Despair in time of temptation, and in death, but onely because men want this stablishing by the Spirit of God? |
A60194 | How comes that to passe? |
A60194 | How comes this to pass, that as our afflictions abound, so our consolations abound? |
A60194 | How dares that man that knowes himself, and that knowes God, how dares he think of God? |
A60194 | How darest thou look God and Christ in the face another day, when for his sake thou wilt not leave a superfluous prophane oath? |
A60194 | How do I know light to be light? |
A60194 | How do gifts, and grace differ? |
A60194 | How do men differ one from another? |
A60194 | How do the creatures praise God? |
A60194 | How do these Corinthians acknowledge S. Paul in part? |
A60194 | How do they know he is so, the Scripture saith not so? |
A60194 | How do they know that he can not erre? |
A60194 | How do they live? |
A60194 | How do they spend all that blessed strength with chearfulnesse and joy, that are in that place of joy? |
A60194 | How do they spend it, but in setting forth the praise of God, the wonderful goodnesse of God that hath brought them to that happinesse? |
A60194 | How do we come to be acquainted with Christ? |
A60194 | How do we grieve the Holy Ghost? |
A60194 | How do we know it is the Word of God? |
A60194 | How do you know they are snares? |
A60194 | How do you think, shall he have a peculiar delight in us, if we labour not to be more and more acquainted with him? |
A60194 | How doest thou attend upon God? |
A60194 | How doth God meet with the carnal wits of men in the attaining of things? |
A60194 | How doth God stablish us? |
A60194 | How doth a Christian exercise trust in extremity, in extream crosses? |
A60194 | How doth he prove the minor? |
A60194 | How doth heaven and earth differ? |
A60194 | How doth the Word of the Lord endure for ever? |
A60194 | How graciously did God blesse Abigails word to David? |
A60194 | How happy was his Government till that time? |
A60194 | How happy was the State in Solomons time? |
A60194 | How happy were they in David''s time, who made the Statutes of God, the Man of his Counsel? |
A60194 | How hath Christ dignified me to do good to others? |
A60194 | How is Sincerity discovered in good actions? |
A60194 | How is that? |
A60194 | How is that? |
A60194 | How is that? |
A60194 | How is that? |
A60194 | How is the Church a Church but by the Word? |
A60194 | How is this proved? |
A60194 | How little a trouble will blow away all those that stand on so weak a foundation as an earthly thing is? |
A60194 | How many Cavils might blessed Noah have had, before he built the Ark? |
A60194 | How many Promises are wrapped in that promise of the Spirit? |
A60194 | How many cases did they make scruple of? |
A60194 | How many streames may be drawn from that spring? |
A60194 | How many things are in our natural disposition joyning with them? |
A60194 | How many wayes doth God condescend to strengthen our trust? |
A60194 | How must we know this revealed truth whereby he will be worshipped by the reasonable creature? |
A60194 | How oft doth David charge himself, Wait, and trust in God, O my soul? |
A60194 | How salvation is wrought by affliction? |
A60194 | How shall I do this, and offend against God? |
A60194 | How shall I do this? |
A60194 | How shall I know whether I consult according to the flesh, or no? |
A60194 | How shall I maintain the truth, and resist all opposers of the truth? |
A60194 | How shall a man know that he is a covetous worldling? |
A60194 | How shall a man know that he trusts to the arme of flesh, that he trusts his friend too much? |
A60194 | How shall a man know whether he lead his life by this spiritual, gracious wisdome, or no? |
A60194 | How shall this justifie God at the day of judgment against damned wretches, that have lived in the bosom of the Church, and yet would not believe? |
A60194 | How shall we arm our selves against this suspition, and the fruit of it? |
A60194 | How shall we come to attain this Grace, to converse in the world in simplicity? |
A60194 | How shall we come to be thankful? |
A60194 | How shall we distinguish men of excellent parts whether they be Christians or not Christians? |
A60194 | How shall we esteem it as a grace? |
A60194 | How shall we know a Saint from a meer civil man? |
A60194 | How shall we know that there is such a spiritual sealing? |
A60194 | How shall we know that we acknowledge Christ? |
A60194 | How shall we know that we are in state of Grace with God? |
A60194 | How shall we know that we do not things, and consult not of things according to the flesh? |
A60194 | How shall we know the doctrine of the Gospel concerning Christ to be yea, undoubtedly true? |
A60194 | How shall we know then, whether we acknowledge the Minister, or no? |
A60194 | How should this make us carry ourselves humbly, in a dependance on Christ for salvation, and the carriage of it? |
A60194 | How should we do that? |
A60194 | How then should carnall wretched men look about them, that have not made their accounts even with God? |
A60194 | How was it known whether Saint Paul were a good Minister or no? |
A60194 | How was the Promise made to the Virgin? |
A60194 | How well thriving might our faith be, if we would oft think of these things? |
A60194 | How were the Corinthians Saint Paul''s joy? |
A60194 | How were they S. Paul''s rejoycing? |
A60194 | How wilt thou look the Judge in the face, when as nothing in the world that is excellent will hold out, and avail at that day? |
A60194 | How wisely? |
A60194 | How wondrous happy, and wise were the Children of Israel when they kept the Covenant of God? |
A60194 | How would he think then of Equivocation, when there is yea, and nay at a breath? |
A60194 | How? |
A60194 | How? |
A60194 | I answer, how do we know the Sun shines? |
A60194 | I believe the truths in the Word of God, but upon what grounds? |
A60194 | I beseech you, is not here a foundation for faith to build upon in the Word of God, when God hath thus opened himself to us? |
A60194 | I but how shall we know the truth of his Earnest, that it is true, though it be little? |
A60194 | I but what will they have at the day of the Lord Jesus? |
A60194 | I go hence, but I will send you the comforter, the Holy Ghost; and what shall the Comforter do? |
A60194 | I may answer hence another question, whether a Papist may be saved or no? |
A60194 | I pray, what is the imployment of heaven, of the Angells, and blessed Spirits? |
A60194 | I say all prophane persons are grosse Hypocrites; why? |
A60194 | I will name but some of later times, what hath not prayer done? |
A60194 | I will not prostitute my calling to serve my lust, or to serve my gain, doth not God see it? |
A60194 | I would ask such a party, had not Christ as much wisdom as thee? |
A60194 | I, but for our sins after our conversion, after we are in the state of Grace, what comfort is there for them? |
A60194 | I, but for the troubles of this world, for afflictions, and crosses, what promises have we to build on for them? |
A60194 | I, but whether of them improve their parts and abilities most to the good of others? |
A60194 | If Art, and nature can do so great things, why do we call in question the power of God? |
A60194 | If God by the creatures thus comfort us in our outward wants; what are the inward comforts of his spirit here to his Children? |
A60194 | If God should deal so with such, where were those proud creatures? |
A60194 | If God should seize upon you now, are you in the exercise of faith? |
A60194 | If God spared not his own son, but gave him to death for us all, how shall he not with him give us all things e ● … lse? |
A60194 | If God were not a forbearing, indulgent, sparing God? |
A60194 | If I be a Christian, I am a King; shall I debase my self? |
A60194 | If Saint Paul would have taken occasion to leave them, what good occasion had he? |
A60194 | If a Carpenter have a rule, and hang it up by him, and work by conceit, what is it good for? |
A60194 | If a man had all the contentments in the world, if he had not the testimonie of a good conscience, what were all? |
A60194 | If a mans conscience be quiet, what are all discomforts? |
A60194 | If all the good things in the world will stand us in no stead then, then what will the sins do that thou hast made so much of? |
A60194 | If another man love me, hath not God another mans heart in his hand? |
A60194 | If any of those conditions be not observed, he is not the man he should be: what tyranny do they force upon people over their faith? |
A60194 | If dangerous times come, if we be not stablished, what will become of us? |
A60194 | If he give me the thing without the Grace what am I the better? |
A60194 | If he had not his course, where were night and day? |
A60194 | If he remove not the evill he will give patience to bear it, and what do I lose if he give me not the good thing; if he give me contentment? |
A60194 | If he spared not his onely begotten Son, but gave him to death for us all, how shall he not with him give us all things else? |
A60194 | If health be a gift, what are greater things? |
A60194 | If it be fleshly, why is it wisdome? |
A60194 | If so be that a man do us a little courtesie, how are we confounded if we have not returned some thanks? |
A60194 | If the Promise, and the Earnest here be so, I beseech you, what shall the accomplishment of the promise be? |
A60194 | If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the sinner and ungodly appear, at that time? |
A60194 | If there were no promise to hope, what needed hope? |
A60194 | If they have any State- policy that is worth the naming, is it not from him? |
A60194 | If they were not Athiests in this point, they would think; I am a steward, and what comfort shall I have of scraping much? |
A60194 | If this be so, then why should we be offended at Gods order? |
A60194 | If this be so, what a benefit is this then to have the help of others? |
A60194 | If tryals should come, am I able to prove this from the Scriptures so clear as if it were written( as he saith) with a Sun- beam? |
A60194 | If two be together, if one fall, the other may raise him up, but if one be alone and fall, who shall raise him up? |
A60194 | If we can not endure to be told of our faults, how shall we endure to be tormented for our faults in hell? |
A60194 | If we do not believe the Word of God to be undoubtedly true, in great temptations, and assaults, what armour of proof shall we have? |
A60194 | If we had but onely Gods promise that he will be our God, that he will forgive our sins, were not that enough? |
A60194 | If we had done thus and thus, shall not God search it out? |
A60194 | If we had not other promises, what a world of comfort have we in these? |
A60194 | If we had not that, wherein were not the Turks as good as we? |
A60194 | If we open mens consciences by the Law, and tell them what a terrible estate they are in, what do we but drive them to the Physician? |
A60194 | If we ought to avoid it, how shall we come to know it? |
A60194 | If we want reason what can we do in civill things? |
A60194 | If we were throughly convinced of the prevailing power of prayer, what good might be done by it, as there hath been in former times? |
A60194 | If when we were enemies God gave us his Son to reconcile us, how much more now shall we be saved? |
A60194 | In Baptisme, was not thy promise to renounce the Divel, the World,& the flesh? |
A60194 | In Christ God is a Father, and what can a Father deny to his adopted son in Christ, whom he looks on in his natural Son Christ? |
A60194 | In a word, you may know Grace in a man that hath great parts of nature: How shall we distinguish grace from nature in him? |
A60194 | In all things give thanks, saith the Apostle: what, in afflictions? |
A60194 | In later times in Popish Countreys, if a man read the stories, whence came that blood- shed? |
A60194 | In not believing, what a dishonour do you do to God? |
A60194 | In regard of us, the Church hath some power, in regard of our weaknesse: but what is that power? |
A60194 | In renewing thy covenant in the Communion, dost not thou purpose to cleave to God in all things? |
A60194 | In strong suggestions, a Joseph can say, How shall I do this and offend against God? |
A60194 | In the first place then, why are graces here called anointing? |
A60194 | In the later end of that Chapter he bids defiance to all, what shall separate us from the love of God in Christ? |
A60194 | In the times of Martyrdome, there was fire and fagot, and the frownes of cruel persons: who were the persons that suffered? |
A60194 | In these times of infection, what do we? |
A60194 | In this Verse he labours to remove their false imputation, When I was thus minded to come unto you, did I use lightnesse? |
A60194 | In what a pittiful case was the poor Church and people of God in Hesters time? |
A60194 | In what cases? |
A60194 | In what regard is the Spirit called an Earnest? |
A60194 | In what sense? |
A60194 | Is Christ come in the flesh according to the promise? |
A60194 | Is God so merciful? |
A60194 | Is Poperie Antichristian? |
A60194 | Is a nullitie, and an imperfection all one? |
A60194 | Is he not the God of thy seed? |
A60194 | Is he not true? |
A60194 | Is he not wise? |
A60194 | Is he so? |
A60194 | Is it any inbred goodnesse? |
A60194 | Is it not God that is greater then the wounded conscience? |
A60194 | Is it not Gods honour to set himself against them? |
A60194 | Is it not a beam from that Sunne? |
A60194 | Is it not a grace therefore that we partake of the means of salvation? |
A60194 | Is it not a greater matter for God to become man, and to die in our nature, then for we that are mortal to become immortall by Christ? |
A60194 | Is it not a joyful thing to be united to Christ? |
A60194 | Is it not a shame that we have gotten no more ground now, then we had threescore yeares ago? |
A60194 | Is it not an encouragement to defend a Princes quarrel in his own sight when he stands by to abet us? |
A60194 | Is it not an honour to us? |
A60194 | Is it not better that a limb be seared and cut, then that all be clear cut off, and the whole body perish? |
A60194 | Is it not better to hear of our faults roundly, when other means will not prevail, then to cherish that that will be for our eternal destruction? |
A60194 | Is it not sealed by the evidence of two? |
A60194 | Is it not the foundation of all the comforts of this life? |
A60194 | Is it not the promise of God, of Jehovah, that is truth it self? |
A60194 | Is it the terrible of terribles so to be put off? |
A60194 | Is it to be matter of discourse and talk? |
A60194 | Is it yea, that they saw no Image of God, and therefore they must make and worship no Image? |
A60194 | Is not Herod sometimes troubled in conscience? |
A60194 | Is not a prisoner joyful when he is set at liberty? |
A60194 | Is not all good in him? |
A60194 | Is not all this, that we should not doubt of his love to us, if we cast our selves upon him by faith? |
A60194 | Is not discipline better then execution? |
A60194 | Is not faith confirmation enough? |
A60194 | Is not he a King that is a Lord and Master of all things? |
A60194 | Is not he the great Favourite of heaven? |
A60194 | Is not here incouragement, if thou be not more wedded to thy sinfull course, then to the good of thy soule? |
A60194 | Is not searing, and cutting, better then killing? |
A60194 | Is not the law the law? |
A60194 | Is not the pain of Chirurgery, or Physick that makes a man sick for a while, better to be endured then the painse, and terrours of death it self? |
A60194 | Is not the written Word of God, the VVord of God? |
A60194 | Is not this a comfort that we may go to God alway? |
A60194 | Is not this a comfort to a Christian, that when he is in the state of grace, he hath something that he may build on, when all things else faile? |
A60194 | Is not this a comfort to those that can leave their children nothing else, that they leave them God in Covenant? |
A60194 | Is that all? |
A60194 | Is the truth the worse because there are many that have carnall outward dependance, that seeme to shrink when they should stand out? |
A60194 | Is there a Communion of Saints? |
A60194 | Is there no Balme in Gilead for thee? |
A60194 | Is there not a God in Israel? |
A60194 | Is there not a beam of Gods goodnesse in every creature? |
A60194 | Is this one meanes that God hath ordained to trust him in? |
A60194 | Is this opinion so, and so? |
A60194 | Is this to trust in God? |
A60194 | Is this true, that God is true, that he is truth it self? |
A60194 | It concerns us therefore so to esteem it: Do not many sit in darknesse, and in the shadow of death? |
A60194 | It is a base fault this simulation, which we think to be a lesser fault then the other, which is dissimulation: for whom do we serve? |
A60194 | It is a free mercy of God to have the Gospel: Why? |
A60194 | It is a joy above the joy of riches, or pleasures, or profits; why? |
A60194 | It is an old rule, Falshood can not be under faith, because faith must lye upon truth, infallible and immutable truth; and who is so but God? |
A60194 | It is long then we see ere God deliver, and why? |
A60194 | It is nothing for a mad man to assume himself to be King of another Countrey; why? |
A60194 | It is otherwise with many, their carriage abroad is very plausible: but follow them home, what are they in their families? |
A60194 | It is the subtilty of Satan, and our own hearts joyne with him in the temptation: What should I pray? |
A60194 | It is yea in life, that they merit salvation by works, but is it yea in death? |
A60194 | It may be moved by some perhaps; How doth it appear, how shall we know, by what arguments that it is yea, and not yea, and nay? |
A60194 | Judas had no enemies, God let him loose to himself, what became of him? |
A60194 | Let every man consider, who placed me here? |
A60194 | Let every man reason with himself, why have I this comfort that another wants? |
A60194 | Let it be a Trial of your estate: can you endure a plain, a powerfull, an effectual Ministery? |
A60194 | Let my Sottish flesh murmur against me as long as it will: as the flesh will murmur, who art thou that thou darest trust in God? |
A60194 | Let us every day take these Promises to be Cordials in these dangerous times; and then come life, come death, all shall be welcome: why? |
A60194 | Let us labour therefore to have our hearts stablished by the Spirit of God; and try our selves often, by propounding Queries, how we do things? |
A60194 | Let us look back to the favours that we have injoyed: let us look for the present, what doth he do for us? |
A60194 | Let us not think that he hates us; doth the Physician hate the Patient when he makes him sick? |
A60194 | Let us oft put this query to our soules, I believe the Religion I professe, but upon what grounds? |
A60194 | Let us set that glory before us, and that will prevail against that all the world can threaten, or take from us; what is all to it? |
A60194 | Lightnesse and inconstancy, what is that? |
A60194 | Look to the seed, do we not see that God every spring raiseth things that were dead? |
A60194 | Look which way he will, a Christian hath cause of much comfort: why should he be dismayed with any thing in the world? |
A60194 | Love edifieth, knowledge gathers many materials, stone, and timber& c. what builds the house, the bodie of Christ? |
A60194 | Love is that which animates, and quickens, and enlivens all duties, What are all duties, but love? |
A60194 | Man did naturally affect wisdom; to know good and evil: what wisdome did he get after he had fallen? |
A60194 | Men are ready to say, If I should not dissemble, and double, and carry things after that manner, hwo should I live? |
A60194 | Men say, alas, alas, the times are ill; were they not so in Noah''s time? |
A60194 | More particularly, can you endure a plain, effectual friend, that brings that which is spoken by the Minister more particularly home to your hearts? |
A60194 | Moses knew he should come to see Canaan, did he think to have such a conflict in the Wildernesse? |
A60194 | Must thou be a Saint? |
A60194 | Must we bring the rule to the crooked timber, or the timber and the things to be measured to the rule? |
A60194 | My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A60194 | Nay is it not a glory? |
A60194 | Nay, can they have any other then malicious persecuting hearts against humble, believing Christians, that honour God by trusting in his promises? |
A60194 | Neither things present, nor things to come, nor any thing else: why? |
A60194 | No, how full of uncertainties, and contradictions is Popery? |
A60194 | No, we have many Atheists: it is dangerous Atheism in the Anabaptists to question whether they may take an oath? |
A60194 | No; can you then say then you have a perfect absolution, that depends upon your confession? |
A60194 | Notes for div A60194-e2190 God scatters his Saints, why? |
A60194 | Now all promises coming from love, what love can there be in God to us since the fall, but it must be grounded on a better foundation then our selves? |
A60194 | Now because suspition is a doubtful thing, it is either good or evil; how shall we know when suspition is naught, and evil? |
A60194 | Now doth truth vary according to mens judgements? |
A60194 | Now for a man to follow the humours of men, to follow the multitude, and to stain conscience, what a foolish wretch is he? |
A60194 | Now here are the three persons in the Trinity stronger then all our enemies; He which stablisheth us, is God the Father by his Spirit: upon whom? |
A60194 | Now how can those rest on it that stagger in it? |
A60194 | Now how shall a man know that God hath any part here? |
A60194 | Now how shall we come to carry our selves in sincerity, that we may have comfort in all estates? |
A60194 | Now if the heart be false; though a woman have many vertues, yet if she want the main, if she have a false heart to her husband, what is all the rest? |
A60194 | Now if they had not amended, what would S. Paul have done, think you? |
A60194 | Now in what relation stand we to these? |
A60194 | Now of all outward things( that we are prone to trust in) how doth the Scripture judge of them? |
A60194 | Now this being laid as a ground, the question is, What is the best way to take away sin, whether by gentle means, or severe? |
A60194 | Now this question may be made, whether their additions may be dangerous, or no? |
A60194 | Now thy repentance may be fruitful, it may force theeto make thy peace with God: dost thou think it will alway be thus with thee? |
A60194 | Now what can God have of the creature? |
A60194 | Now what doth he do in all this sicknesse and disgrace? |
A60194 | Now what folly is it to please thy own lust which thou should''st mortifie, and subdue, and to displease conscience thy best friend? |
A60194 | Now what have we from God to trust him for? |
A60194 | Now what is a Promise? |
A60194 | Now when our Conscience shall joyn with Satan, and say, we did nothing to God, we have not obeyed him; how can we answer him? |
A60194 | Now who can still the conscience but the Spirit of God? |
A60194 | Now who is above the soul, and Satan that tempts the soul? |
A60194 | Now why is it by faith that we have this standing? |
A60194 | Now you will say, How come we then to stand by faith? |
A60194 | Now, since we are thus prone to this false confidence, and since we may thus discern it: if we discerne it in our selves, how shall we cure it? |
A60194 | Now, wheresoever the Spirit is, it is with the clear teaching of the Gospel: Received you the Spirit by hearing of the Law, or of faith preached? |
A60194 | O but saith the soul, If I yield to the temptations of Satan, and my own vile corruptions I shall be cast into hell, is not that worse? |
A60194 | Oh but how shall I do that, saith the distressed soul? |
A60194 | Oh how shall I improve things for him? |
A60194 | Oh yes; and is not the soul in as great danger? |
A60194 | Oh, miserable man, who shall deliver me from this body of death? |
A60194 | Oh, yes, there is not the vilest man living, but he hath his good fits, he hath pangs of goodnesse: but what is this to a conversation? |
A60194 | Or if he be on the Sea, and be guided by a Pirate, what good can come to that man that is ruled by those that seek his ruine? |
A60194 | Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh? |
A60194 | Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh? |
A60194 | Other things are but a beame to him: what need a man care for a beame that hath the Sunne? |
A60194 | Our rejoycing is this, that we have had our conversation hitherto well: Is that enough for a good conscience? |
A60194 | Papists can not have a good conscience, why? |
A60194 | Paul may plant, and Apollo may water; but if God give not the increase, what is all? |
A60194 | Perhaps they are yea in life, but are they yea in death? |
A60194 | Peter, who had his heart opened by the Spirit of God, saith he, Lord, whither shall we go? |
A60194 | Physitians that are not Divines in some measure, what doe they? |
A60194 | Put cafe thou hast nothing, hast thou not Gods blessing? |
A60194 | Put case we can not name the men, as idly, and ridiculously they urge, what is that to the purpose? |
A60194 | Put the case a man by passion be led another way, what is his rule? |
A60194 | Rabshakeh comes and tells of the former prosperitie of Sennacherib, Where are the gods of Hamath, and Arpad,& c. Hath not my Lord overcome all? |
A60194 | Saint Paul here declines it, Did I purpose things according to the flesh? |
A60194 | Saith he, When I was thus minded, did I use lightnesse? |
A60194 | Shall God threaten for sins that we are obnoxious to, and shall we not tremble at his threatenings? |
A60194 | Shall I break the peace of my conscience for the gaining of this, and this? |
A60194 | Shall I do this and sin against God? |
A60194 | Shall I pray to God( will some say?) |
A60194 | Shall all this be lost for a vain heart that will not lodge up these promises? |
A60194 | Shall not we therefore ground our faith upon the Word, when he that was the Head of the Church brings all to the Word in his teaching? |
A60194 | Shall the judgment of any man be the rule of truth? |
A60194 | Shall we go to God for mercy, when we will not shew mercy to our selves? |
A60194 | Shall we have certain Promises, and shall we waver and stagger? |
A60194 | Shall we think you are good, because you converse with those that are swearers? |
A60194 | Should we not run every day into the sins that we see others commit? |
A60194 | So I say, when this is in the soul in the greatest extremity, when I can check my soul, Why art thou thus? |
A60194 | So in Psal, 27. he begins triumphantly: The Lord is my shield, whom shall I fear? |
A60194 | So likewise in losses, in want, in want of friends, in want of comforts, in want of liberty: what doth the witnesse of a good Conscience in all these? |
A60194 | So long as we are in covenant with the God of comfort, why should we be over much cast down? |
A60194 | So that we need not to wrangle whether it be this, or that? |
A60194 | So the question is whether living or dying? |
A60194 | So the soule that is married to God, that hath sweet communion with God, if the heart and soul be naught what are all the shewes in the world? |
A60194 | So what a grace is is to a soul afflicted and deserted to ha ve Christ immediately present? |
A60194 | So when we see good done, look not to the good done onely, but go to the wheeles, to the weights, what moves it, and makes it strike? |
A60194 | So, if we be forced to suffer the losse of any thing that is good in the world, or be cast into any ill condition, what saith S. Paul? |
A60194 | Some will be ready to say, I pray for the Church, and I will pray: I, but art thou not able to do somewhat else? |
A60194 | Spring they from self- love? |
A60194 | St. Paul dyed not now, and he had the Spirit of God in him, to know what he spake; how doth this agree then that he had the sentence of death passed? |
A60194 | Take a worldling, can he say so? |
A60194 | Take away Christ, and the promises in Christ, and what is there in the world? |
A60194 | Thankfulnesse for mercy Comfort what? |
A60194 | That we are to seek when troubles come? |
A60194 | That which is good, we have need of sufferings to exercise it, and to know it: for if their were no sufferings, how should we know what good we have? |
A60194 | The Apostle Peter, before the Holy Ghost came upon him, the voice of a weak damsel astonished him; but after, how willing was he to suffer any thing? |
A60194 | The Apostle saith here, God doth deliver us: doth he not give deliverance, and favour, and grace? |
A60194 | The Church holds it: but what authority hath the Church to maintain it? |
A60194 | The Divel sees it well enough, as we see in Job, Thou hast hedged him about, how can I come to him? |
A60194 | The Papists cavil with us, and say, we professe a negative Religion: Ye cut off our opinions, say they, but what have you of your own? |
A60194 | The Pope, he makes Garnet a Traytor, and Thomas of Becket, Saints: how can he know that these were Saints that he Canonizeth? |
A60194 | The Promises of God are indeed Yea, and Amen,( might the soul say) but what is that to me? |
A60194 | The Prophets where are they? |
A60194 | The Psalmist gives the reason, his heart is fixed: upon what foundation? |
A60194 | The Word of God is the seed of the Church, how then is the blood of the Martyrs and Sufferers the seed of the Church? |
A60194 | The believing heart considers the nature of God, the promise of God, and though the murmuring rebellious flesh say, what art thou? |
A60194 | The conscience looks to God, it is a knowledge together with God; how can conscience rest but in that it knowes comes from God? |
A60194 | The enemies therefore of the Ministery of the Gospel, what are they? |
A60194 | The first promise what was it but Christ? |
A60194 | The infallible judgment of the Pope: but how can they tell when he speaks ex Cathedra? |
A60194 | The main ground of all their Religion is yea, and nay; the Pillar of it, what is that? |
A60194 | The person likewise that offers them is good: what is he? |
A60194 | The poore disciples had many comforts from Christ, but because the Comforter was not come, they were not comfortable, but heavie; what was the reason? |
A60194 | The promises are tryed promises that we may rest on them, and as we are Christians what are we but men of promise? |
A60194 | The question between the Papists and us is, whether the Epistles, and the Prophets be the Word of God, or no? |
A60194 | The question is, Who hath the best standing, the Papists, or we? |
A60194 | The reason is this; How can man dare to challenge any thing of the great Majestie of God without a warrant from himself? |
A60194 | The reason is, It is Gods enemy, and our enemy: should a Christian consult and deliberate with his enemy? |
A60194 | The strongest Christians are most desirous of strength: who have you that doth most hunger after the means of salvation? |
A60194 | The things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh? |
A60194 | The veriest hypocrite in the world hath he not pangs sometimes? |
A60194 | The vicissitude and entercourse of all earthly things? |
A60194 | The voice of God shakes the Cedars of Lebanon: so it is with the voice of Gods Word: Shall the Lion roar, and the beasts of the Forrest not tremble? |
A60194 | The whole world was overspread with a deluge of sin; but what was Noah and his family? |
A60194 | The whore of Babylon hath need of a gilded cup, and pictures,( and what not?) |
A60194 | Then again, consent is a lovely thing, and proceeds from love: how sweet a thing is it for brethren to dwell together in unity? |
A60194 | Then again, from sin, we fall into despair for sin at last, why? |
A60194 | Then again, they may call it equivocation, to mince it; but it is a lie, to speak one thing and reserve another: for what is a lie? |
A60194 | Then love will be full of devices, when I see Gods love to me, what shall I do to shew love again, to shew thanks to God? |
A60194 | Then why shall we not look for the accomplishment of all that are to come, on the same ground? |
A60194 | There are many that are Atheisticall, that live even under the Gospell, and what rule have they? |
A60194 | There are many that come to hear the Word to carpe, and to cavil, and to sit as Judges to examine, but how few are there that pray for the Ministers? |
A60194 | There is no man that is a carnall brutish man, but though he live, and have revenues and pleasures, he is cursed in his blessings: For what? |
A60194 | There is no man, but if he nave not faith he stands slippery, though he be never so great; if he be a Monarch, alas, what is it to stand a while? |
A60194 | Therefore examine your selves in this: I have undertaken this cause, upon what ground? |
A60194 | Therefore how much should we prize, and value the testimony and witnesse of a good conscience? |
A60194 | Therefore how will Gods vengeance be justified at the day of judgment, when these courses have been taken, and yet men will not come in? |
A60194 | Therefore let us complain, Lord, thy Promises are sure and certain as thou hast said, what is the reason I can not build on them? |
A60194 | Therefore let us often think, Is my faith good? |
A60194 | Therefore let us search and try our souls for our sins, for our chief discomfort are from sin: for alas, what are all other comforts? |
A60194 | Therefore they are not thankful to God, nor in their wants they go not to the God of comfort, why? |
A60194 | Therefore we should not sin, in hope of concealment: what if thou conceal it from all others, canst thou conceal thy own conscience? |
A60194 | Therefore whas do we but make our selves Gods, when we set upon businesse, especially weighty, without invocation and dependance? |
A60194 | Therfore have we not cause to suspect our selvs, that we are in smooth ways and find no crosses? |
A60194 | These men talk of conscience, and they come not to Church for conscience sake; what conscience can they have, when they have false rules? |
A60194 | They are uncertain riches: Riches they have wings, They are nothing, as the Prophet saith, Wilt thou set thy heart upon that which is nothing? |
A60194 | They have devises forsooth of the Popes treasurie, he, being the Treasurer of the Church, hath a treasurie; and what must that be filled with? |
A60194 | They have false principles, they conclude, may I not do what I list? |
A60194 | They have much jangling about the description of it, whether it be the soule it self, or a facultie, or an act? |
A60194 | They may reason thus; Is God by his spirit so full and so strong in these that are flesh and blood as we are? |
A60194 | They say they stand by faith too, but how? |
A60194 | Think with your selves, Had I grace to receive Christ? |
A60194 | This I speak, to reconcile some seeming difference: Doth Gods Spirit do all, and we do nothing? |
A60194 | This being laid as a ground, the text it self as a doctrine; what subordinate truths arise hence? |
A60194 | This seemeth strange; why, how could they read other things then what he wrote? |
A60194 | This should make us take heed by whom we are led, under whose government we come: Saith S. Paul, Do I purpose according to the flesh? |
A60194 | Those that have great parts of learning, that have great wits, and helps of learning as much as may be, what do they? |
A60194 | Those that have the beginnings of grace, they wait for the accomplishment, what makes this but afflictions and troubles of the world? |
A60194 | Those then that care not for Religion, what standing have they? |
A60194 | Those who have the firmnesse they have in the favour of men, it is but vanity: those that have the firmnesse they have in riches, what are they? |
A60194 | Thou hast a little strength: what doth that little strength move the Church of Philadelphia to do? |
A60194 | Thou shalt swear, How? |
A60194 | Thou wilt ask, what ground, or title, or right hast thou to believe, to claim Christ and the promises? |
A60194 | Though I should name no more, what a many sweet evidences are here to manifest a soul truly acted, and guided, and led by the Spirit? |
A60194 | Thousands go to hell, and think, O, God is a mercifull God, and I will trust in him, but how is thy life, is it carried by Gods directions? |
A60194 | Thus did S. Peter, after he had brought them to Men and brethren, what shall we do to be saved? |
A60194 | Thus we should shame our selves; Can I hear these Promises, and be no more joyful, and be no more affected? |
A60194 | Thus, the Word of God is the seed of the Church, how? |
A60194 | To be led by this is even as if a man should be led by a Pirate, by a thief, by an enemy: and what can become of that man? |
A60194 | To explaine the word a little: what doth he mean by( God) in this place? |
A60194 | To stir us up to this duty, for arguments to perswade us, what need we use many? |
A60194 | To what end? |
A60194 | To whom hath he made them? |
A60194 | Trust in God at all times, in prosperity, in adversity: why? |
A60194 | Unworthy? |
A60194 | Upon what an unchangeable, eternall ground is the love of God built, and the faith of a Christian? |
A60194 | Upon what ground doth the Husband- man bestow more seed? |
A60194 | Upon what ground is this certainty built, that if we suffer we shall be glorified? |
A60194 | Upon what ground, upon what Pillars is this confidence built of the holy Apostle? |
A60194 | Use that apology to a Judge: though malefactors be none of the modestest creatures, will any of them say, It is my custom to rob, and steal? |
A60194 | VVas St. Paul to learn to trust in God, that had been so long a Scholar in Christs School, nay, a Master in Israel, was he to learn to trust in God? |
A60194 | VVe should be brought to this, why? |
A60194 | VVhat authority gives the present Church, when 20. yeares after the Church varies? |
A60194 | VVhat doth a man lose when he trusts in God, though he lose all the world? |
A60194 | VVherefore have we souls, and understandings, but to exercise them in setting forth our dangers, and the deliverances of God? |
A60194 | VVho bade thee look to this, and to be uncomfortable from thence, that thy estate is not good, because it is not such an estate? |
A60194 | VVho will trust his enemy, especially he that he hath made his enemy by his ill course of life? |
A60194 | VVill a man trust him that he makes his enemy by wicked courses? |
A60194 | Victory and Conquest, that makes a King: Is not he a Conquerour that hath that in him that conquers the world, and all things else? |
A60194 | Was Christ the worse for Judas betraying of him, and for Peters denying of him? |
A60194 | Was God merciful to Abraham, and to David? |
A60194 | Was it not Hamans policy? |
A60194 | Was it not a cruell thing in Saul to strike at David when he played on his Harpe, when he sought his good and easement? |
A60194 | Was it not a sick State after Queen Mary, when Queen Elisabeth received the Crown? |
A60194 | Was not David over merciful to Absalom? |
A60194 | Was there ever any fierce against God and prospered? |
A60194 | Was this confidence of St, Paul a presumption without the use of means? |
A60194 | We are as grasse, as a tail that is told; but what is our estate in God, in the promises? |
A60194 | We fall into sin from this very ground: for why do men fall into sin? |
A60194 | We have God himself: hath not he more that hath the spring, then he that hath twenty Cisterns? |
A60194 | We have a seale of that promise, the Sacrament: and is not a broad seale a great confirmation? |
A60194 | We may know it by his course in this life; what miserie are we subject to in this life, but we have comfort fit for it? |
A60194 | We may not think to carry our filthinesse to heaven: Doth the swearer think to carry his blasphemies thither? |
A60194 | We see in the silk- worm, what an alteration there is from a flie to a worm,& c? |
A60194 | We see the weakest creatures, what shifts, what windings and turnings they have to save themselves? |
A60194 | We see what men can doe by Art, they make glasses, of what? |
A60194 | We stand in need of wisdome: for alas, what can we do in this world without wisdome? |
A60194 | We wish them wel it may be: but wishes are one thing, and prayer is another: doest thou pray for the Church? |
A60194 | Well then, if the Spirit doth all, how shall we know then that we have this Spirit? |
A60194 | Well, take your own word then, what is it to be a member of the Church but to be a Saint? |
A60194 | Well, thus we see God doth deliver, Who dilivered us,& c. What will he do for the time present? |
A60194 | Well, will these people be much for their rejoycing in the day of the Lord, think you? |
A60194 | Were not all things taken out of nothing? |
A60194 | Were we learned before? |
A60194 | What Prince will prostitute a pardon to one that is a Rebell, and yet thinks himself a good Subject all the while? |
A60194 | What a blessed thing is this, to have the Spirit? |
A60194 | What a blessing is it to be a good Christian, to have a portion in the prevailing prayers of others? |
A60194 | What a comfort is it then, that I should be able to help the greatest man in the World? |
A60194 | What a comfort is it to a Christain, when he knowes by suffering what he can do, and what he can not do? |
A60194 | What a comfort is this in all dangers? |
A60194 | What a comfort is this? |
A60194 | What a comfort is this? |
A60194 | What a degree of unthankfulnesse is it, when we will not so much as feast with him? |
A60194 | What a fearfull thing is this? |
A60194 | What a happinesse is this, that the more a man is interessed in the good of another man, the more glory, if he be a meanes of any good in him? |
A60194 | What a mad passion is this? |
A60194 | What a mercie is this, that he should press mercie upon us for our own good? |
A60194 | What a mockery is this of God, to ask him mercy, when we will not be merciful to our own souls? |
A60194 | What a pittifull thing is this, that a man should doe many things, many years together, and yet do nothing that may further his day of account? |
A60194 | What a rule is this? |
A60194 | What a shame is it for thee, that carnal company should prevail more with thee then the vengeance of God, and the authority of God in the Ministery? |
A60194 | What a sottish thing is this? |
A60194 | What a spring of comfort is in that? |
A60194 | What a wondrous comfortable life would a Christians life be, if he could yield the obedience faith answerable to the promises? |
A60194 | What a world of promises is in this relation of a head, if there were no particular promise? |
A60194 | What am I, or what is this people, that we should have hearts to give liberally to the Temple? |
A60194 | What am I? |
A60194 | What an absutd thing is Popish Religion? |
A60194 | What an excellent Engine to all things in this life, and the life to come, is this spark of reason? |
A60194 | What an honour is this, that God will be honoured by you? |
A60194 | What are all beings in death, ifa man have not a more stable being in Jesus Christ? |
A60194 | What are all the croses, and sufferings in this world? |
A60194 | What are all these things? |
A60194 | What are riches in the day of wrath, even in this world? |
A60194 | What are the properties of a chief Judge? |
A60194 | What are they in their retired courses, and carriage? |
A60194 | What be the graces of communion? |
A60194 | What be those things? |
A60194 | What became of Ahab with all his plots and devices? |
A60194 | What brings men to hell, in the Church? |
A60194 | What can not he do that can raise comfort out of discomfort? |
A60194 | What can not prayer do, when the people of God have their hearts quickned, and raised to pray? |
A60194 | What can not prayer do? |
A60194 | What can terrifie a Soul? |
A60194 | What can we do in matters of grace? |
A60194 | What certainty is there, when all authority of former times shall depend upon the present Church? |
A60194 | What comfort is there then for such a man by the promises in Jesus Christ? |
A60194 | What consistence hath a man out of the truth? |
A60194 | What construction should we make of crosses, and afflictions? |
A60194 | What contentment had Adam in Paradise, after once by sin he had fallen from the peace of conscience? |
A60194 | What could their sides speak? |
A60194 | What course shall we take that we may derive to our selves comfort from this God of comfort, who comforteth us in all our tribulations? |
A60194 | What did I say proportionable? |
A60194 | What did this incline them to do? |
A60194 | What do men in their Trades, but that they may have that that they may joy in when they have it? |
A60194 | What do they with Christ, but under the Name of Christ serve themselves? |
A60194 | What do they with the Church, but under the name of the Church, carry their own ends? |
A60194 | What do we lose by that? |
A60194 | What do we then when we sin? |
A60194 | What do we think then of Popish spirits, that feed the people only with dead and dull ceremonies? |
A60194 | What do wicked men, carelesse, sinful creatures, that go on in a course of prophanenesse, and blasphemie& c? |
A60194 | What doest thou know in Religion that thou wouldest die for? |
A60194 | What doth S. James mean by this, where he saith, A double- minded man is unsettled? |
A60194 | What doth S. Paul mean by saying, You have acknowledged us? |
A60194 | What doth faith it self stand most on by which we stand? |
A60194 | What doth he build on that? |
A60194 | What doth he plead from this now when he was old? |
A60194 | What doth he reason, when we are dead, either in sin, or in misery? |
A60194 | What doth he say for the time to come? |
A60194 | What doth make a Saint? |
A60194 | What good can we do to God in blessing of him? |
A60194 | What ground hath he? |
A60194 | What hast thou to do to take my Name into thy mouth, sith thou hatest to be reformed? |
A60194 | What hast thou to do with God? |
A60194 | What hath he to do to be ruled by him from whom he is redeemed? |
A60194 | What hath the scripture to take away this objection? |
A60194 | What hinders thee? |
A60194 | What if a man stand on a rock, if he be not built on it? |
A60194 | What if thou be restrained, and shut up from other comforts, can any shut up Gods Spirit, can any shut up God, and our prayers? |
A60194 | What imboldens people to deal falsly with men? |
A60194 | What is Paul, or Apollo? |
A60194 | What is Paul? |
A60194 | What is a blessing? |
A60194 | What is all that we can suffer here, to that that Christ hath indured for us? |
A60194 | What is an Oath? |
A60194 | What is become of Rome, that glorious City? |
A60194 | What is become of those glorious Churches, which St. John wrote those Epistles to in his Revelation? |
A60194 | What is flesh here? |
A60194 | What is he in his nature? |
A60194 | What is he to us? |
A60194 | What is he? |
A60194 | What is in us by nature better then in Turks, and Pagans? |
A60194 | What is it to be fatted to destruction? |
A60194 | What is meant by Grace here? |
A60194 | What is meant here by fleshly wisdome? |
A60194 | What is morethen for decency of place? |
A60194 | What is my aime in coming? |
A60194 | What is our Sealing? |
A60194 | What is our crown, and rejoycing? |
A60194 | What is our life with out joy? |
A60194 | What is our prosperity, and what is all to the blessed truth of Salvation? |
A60194 | What is so comfortable as the light? |
A60194 | What is so comfortable as the presence of God? |
A60194 | What is that stamp then? |
A60194 | What is that that besots them? |
A60194 | What is that to the purpose? |
A60194 | What is that? |
A60194 | What is that? |
A60194 | What is that? |
A60194 | What is the Reason of that? |
A60194 | What is the chief thing in joy, in faith, in love? |
A60194 | What is the meaning of that? |
A60194 | What is the present Church? |
A60194 | What is the reason God brings us to heaven by the Ministery of men, and doth not send Angels? |
A60194 | What is the reason of it? |
A60194 | What is the reason of this, that mean Christians may help great Christians by their prayers? |
A60194 | What is the reason that God goes by contraries in all the carriage of our salvation? |
A60194 | What is the reason that God hath taken away the Gospel from countries abroad,( and may do from us if we be not more thankfull?) |
A60194 | What is the reason that God suffers excellent men to fall foully sometimes? |
A60194 | What is the reason that God suffers great men to fall from the defence of the truth, and from the profession of it in their lives? |
A60194 | What is the reason that God where the greatest excellencies are, adds some imperfection to balance them? |
A60194 | What is the reason that a Christian feares not death? |
A60194 | What is the reason that a Christian is not afraid of his corruptions and sins? |
A60194 | What is the reason that a Christian soule doth not feare God, as a consuming fire, but can look upon him with comfort? |
A60194 | What is the reason that a Christian soule feares not Hell, but thinks of it with comfort? |
A60194 | What is the reason that a Christian stands to his profession, though he be weak, when the greatest learned men in the world flinch in persecution? |
A60194 | What is the reason that a Papist can not be a good Christian? |
A60194 | What is the reason that a man is an incompetent Judge in his own cause? |
A60194 | What is the reason that commonly men have such bad consciences? |
A60194 | What is the reason that excellent Clerks, men of excellent parts die comfortlesse many times? |
A60194 | What is the reason that illiterate men stand out in their profession to blood, whereas those that have a discoursive kind of learning they yield? |
A60194 | What is the reason that in the Church, God chooseth men of meaner parts, and sufficiencies, the Disciples, Fisher- men? |
A60194 | What is the reason that many are so untoward to this duty, and have no heart to it, that they can not indeed do it? |
A60194 | What is the reason that many forget the comforts and consolations that they hear? |
A60194 | What is the reason that men practise secret villainy, secret wickednesse, and give themselves to speculative filthinesse? |
A60194 | What is the reason that men will not part with a penny for good uses? |
A60194 | What is the reason that old men, and wise men, are the mercifullest of all? |
A60194 | What is the reason that our faith is weak? |
A60194 | What is the reason that the earth denies her own to us, that sometimes we have unseasonable years? |
A60194 | What is the reason that there is not any thing in the world but it is comfortable to a Christian? |
A60194 | What is the reason that troubles abound thus? |
A60194 | What is the reason that we sink in temptation? |
A60194 | What is the reason the poore receive the Gospel? |
A60194 | What is the reason, that a well advised Papist,( that knowes what he doth) can not but despair, or else renounce Popery? |
A60194 | What is the reason, that by persecution and afflictions, by one grievance or another, God brings his Children to such a low ebb? |
A60194 | What is the reason, that many here Sermons, and Read sweet discourses, and yet when they come to suffer crosses and afflictions, they are to see? |
A60194 | What is the reason? |
A60194 | What is the second thing? |
A60194 | What is their Church but the Pope himself? |
A60194 | What is then the strong hold of a Christian? |
A60194 | What is there in the world to build on, if we can not build on this? |
A60194 | What is thy merit that thou hopest for such great glory? |
A60194 | What is your life? |
A60194 | What kept Joseph from committing folly with his Mistresse? |
A60194 | What lost they by it? |
A60194 | What made Abraham to trust in God, that he would give him Isaac again? |
A60194 | What makes God honour faith so much? |
A60194 | What makes a Thief, or a Traitor come in, when there is proclamation out against him? |
A60194 | What makes a man bear the Crosse willingly, but this assurance? |
A60194 | What makes a man differ from himself? |
A60194 | What makes a man faithful? |
A60194 | What makes a man so long in endeavouring the good of others? |
A60194 | What makes base flesh and blood divellish in that respect, to attempt cursed means, against the truth, and against good causes? |
A60194 | What makes death terrible and strong? |
A60194 | What makes many as they are in courses that are corrupt in their callings? |
A60194 | What makes them undermine good causes, and go desperately to kick against the pricks, to dash themselves against wrath which is stronger then they? |
A60194 | What need I stand on sincere patience, sincere temperance, sincere sobriety,& c? |
A60194 | What of all this? |
A60194 | What prison can shut up the Spirit of God? |
A60194 | What reason hath any one of you to be ruled by fleshly wisdome, when it keeps you in the state of unregeneracy? |
A60194 | What reformation may we hope for on their side that hold this Position, that they can not erre? |
A60194 | What saith Saint Paul? |
A60194 | What saith the Covenant of Grace? |
A60194 | What saith the spirit? |
A60194 | What say you then to a prophane atheistical Generation, that forsooth make a shew of holinesse; and therefore we must look for none of them? |
A60194 | What shall I doe therefore? |
A60194 | What shall we judge of you by your outward demeanour and carriage, that is oft- times scandalous and offensive? |
A60194 | What shall we say then of those that come not so far as the Heathen man did? |
A60194 | What should I speak of mercy to others? |
A60194 | What should I speak of the state of the Romish Church? |
A60194 | What should become a Saint, but to carrie himself Saint- like? |
A60194 | What should hinder? |
A60194 | What should keep thee off, he is willing to have thee believe? |
A60194 | What should the chaffe do with the wheat? |
A60194 | What should the drosse do with the Gold? |
A60194 | What stablishing hath any man but in Christ, in the truth? |
A60194 | What then doth the Spirit work when we believe? |
A60194 | What then shall become of a Christian when he hath renounced that which is in him by nature? |
A60194 | What then? |
A60194 | What use may we make of this, that God is the Father of Mercies? |
A60194 | What use may we make of this? |
A60194 | What was Idolatry, especially in the Church of God? |
A60194 | What was Ishmaels scorning? |
A60194 | What was the reason they had it not at the first time? |
A60194 | What was the yea of those truths? |
A60194 | What was there danger in St. Paul, to trust in himself? |
A60194 | What will all be in the houre of death, when we must receive the sentence of death? |
A60194 | What will all relations, that we are stiled by this, and that title, what good will it do? |
A60194 | What will avail at the last day? |
A60194 | What will become of us in the hour of death, and in great temptations? |
A60194 | What will become of us? |
A60194 | What will he do for Christ that will not feast with him? |
A60194 | What will he do for the time to come? |
A60194 | What will that impudent spirit do, that will bring the creature in suspition of him that is goodnesse it self? |
A60194 | What will we do for Christ if we will not feast with him? |
A60194 | What wondrous glory hath God in the promises in Christ? |
A60194 | What would Hezekias have done when he received the sentence of death, that he had walked before God in uprightnesse, and sincerity? |
A60194 | What, a member of Christ, of the communion of Saint, and no way furnished, no word of comfort to a distressed soul? |
A60194 | What, was he in peril to trust in himself? |
A60194 | What? |
A60194 | Whatsoever is excellent in nature either in heaven or earth, it serves to set forth the excellencie of Christ, why? |
A60194 | When Christ comes to the soul immediately what abundance of comfort is there then? |
A60194 | When God is become man, and was mortall, why should we doubt that man being mortall should be immortall? |
A60194 | When God is reconciled, all is reconciled, all is ours, have we not cause of joy then? |
A60194 | When I therefore was thus minded( to come unto you) did I use lightnesse? |
A60194 | When I was thus minded, did I use lightnesse? |
A60194 | When I was thus minded, did I use lightnesse? |
A60194 | When Luther arose for the defence of the truth, a man might have said to him, What? |
A60194 | When did the divel set on Christ? |
A60194 | When good things are apprehended by faith, will they not work upon the affections? |
A60194 | When shall we know that it is Gods time to deliver? |
A60194 | When we are tempted therefore to sin, and to base courses, let us say as good Nehemiah when he was moved to flie, What shall such a man as I flie? |
A60194 | When you did good works, did you do them to me, may God say? |
A60194 | Whence is this? |
A60194 | Where be your newters then? |
A60194 | Where is the honour of Martyrdome, and suffering for Gods cause, when men shall speak untruths, and justifie themselves by a lie? |
A60194 | Where is the joy of the ambitious? |
A60194 | Where there is perpetuall dependance upon any man, how doth it inforce reverence and respect even amongst men? |
A60194 | Where this abominable corruption of heart discovers it self outwardly in the tongue, how can we entertain good conceits of you? |
A60194 | Wherefore are their pardons, and indulgences, but to get money basely, as some of their own Writers confesse? |
A60194 | Wherefore art thou come to torment us before our time? |
A60194 | Wherefore did God become man? |
A60194 | Wherefore doth he use so many terms here, of Sealing, Anointing, and Earnest, with words, and Sacraments, and all whatsoever may confirm you? |
A60194 | Wherefore is their Monarchy, all their great preferments, but to increase their ambition? |
A60194 | Wherefore is their lying for advantage? |
A60194 | Wherefore serves all the Promises, not onely of life everlasting, but even of grace? |
A60194 | Wherefore serves the rule but to bring things to it? |
A60194 | Wherefore was Christ himselfe sealed by the Father, Son; and Holy Ghost to his office, when he was baptized? |
A60194 | Whether a Papist may be saved? |
A60194 | Whether a man may glory of any thing in himself? |
A60194 | Who am I? |
A60194 | Who bid thee live by humour? |
A60194 | Who care least for the means? |
A60194 | Who cuts short our lusts, and suppresseth them, that we are not swearers, that we are not licentious persons, that we are not Godlesse persons? |
A60194 | Who delivereth us from our inbred corruptions? |
A60194 | Who doth not think, but he shall live one day longer? |
A60194 | Who gives a mouth? |
A60194 | Who is a wise man in outward matters? |
A60194 | Who is above the soul but the Spirit of God? |
A60194 | Who is the Church but the Pope? |
A60194 | Who keeps us from sin? |
A60194 | Who puts a difference between us and others? |
A60194 | Who reigns in the world but the Devil, and Antichrist; Heathenism, and Paganisme, and all filthinesse? |
A60194 | Who restraines the divels from having their wills of us? |
A60194 | Who was more fool then Achitophel? |
A60194 | Who will love God, or obey God, when he knowes not whether he be his God, or no? |
A60194 | Who will willingly provoke him, of whom he stands in need to deliver him? |
A60194 | Who would be advised, and take counsel by such an enemy? |
A60194 | Who would be grieved at, and afraid of death? |
A60194 | Who would not be in such a state? |
A60194 | Who would not indure a little grievance in the way to have honour in the end? |
A60194 | Who would not reverence this great God? |
A60194 | Who would not therefore labour in this respect to be good, to have a publick disposition, to have a large heart, to doe all the good we can? |
A60194 | Who, among men, if he be wise would be mercifull to a Child, or Servant without acknowledgement of the fault? |
A60194 | Why are Gods Children so sensible in grief, especially in death? |
A60194 | Why are the Angels attendants upon us? |
A60194 | Why are these called the sufferings of Christ? |
A60194 | Why art thou disquieted, O my soule? |
A60194 | Why art thou so cast down? |
A60194 | Why art thou so disquieted, O my soul? |
A60194 | Why art thou so troubled, oh my soul? |
A60194 | Why do we alleadge this now for the Sacrament? |
A60194 | Why dost thou not pray for thy self? |
A60194 | Why dost thou not trust in him? |
A60194 | Why doth God take away our dear friends? |
A60194 | Why doth musick so please the ear? |
A60194 | Why doth not God blesse great preparations( many times) to war,& c? |
A60194 | Why hath S. Paul such a trust of them as of himself? |
A60194 | Why is experience such an enabling to spiritual comfort? |
A60194 | Why is it a rack to them? |
A60194 | Why shall we not look for the resurrection of the bodie, for the day of judgement, for the second comming of Christ? |
A60194 | Why should they labour to be in that state? |
A60194 | Why should we labour that we may rejoyce? |
A60194 | Why should we not expect that which is to come since the greater is done? |
A60194 | Why shouldest thou stagger for the time to come? |
A60194 | Why so? |
A60194 | Why t ● … Apostle names Grace, not Wisdome? |
A60194 | Why; if you intended to come, why did you not? |
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A60194 | Will God give me life everlasting, and will he not give me provision in my pilgrimage till I come there? |
A60194 | Will God give me life everlasting? |
A60194 | Will a Patient be angrie with his Chyrurgion for searching of his wound? |
A60194 | Will any body acknowledge him to go to a great person, when he goes deformed, and in rags? |
A60194 | Will any man sowe in the barren wildernesse where it is lost? |
A60194 | Will any man take offence at the Gold- Smith for purging his mass? |
A60194 | Will he care for the Religion of an oath, that hath no Religion in him? |
A60194 | Will you looke for a reward from God, when what you did, you did it to the world? |
A60194 | Wilt thou know therefore whether thou trustest in God or no? |
A60194 | Wilt thou not trust him for this or that: but thou must use unlawfull meanes? |
A60194 | Wilt thou trust him for Heaven, and wilt thou not trust him for provision, for daily bread? |
A60194 | Without this stablishing in Christ what are we? |
A60194 | Would not God have bestowed health upon Saint Paul, if he had not had their prayers? |
A60194 | Would we have a greater pledge of his love? |
A60194 | Would you have him then at his appearing come and own you, and say then, Come ye blessed? |
A60194 | Would you have more? |
A60194 | Wouldest thou have him who is the great God of heaven and earth to hear thee, and to regard thee, when thou wilt not hear, and regard him? |
A60194 | Wouldest thou so? |
A60194 | Yes he doth, he doth: but are they blessings? |
A60194 | Yes, I do: If I do, can I believe them, and be so uncomfortable? |
A60194 | Yes, they will do much, not onely for thy self, but for others: what are prayers? |
A60194 | Yes, why then who is the better? |
A60194 | You consider not this, and therefore you project so for the time to come: What is your life? |
A60194 | You have acknowledged us, that[ we are your rejoycing;] What is the meaning of that? |
A60194 | You know Isaac was a son of the Promise, how was he born? |
A60194 | You think we wrong you, by not conceiving thus, and thus of you: what ground have we? |
A60194 | You will say to me, what is the reason that Christians are no more comfortable, having the God of comfort for their God? |
A60194 | You will say, how shall we know whether we put over- much confidence in them or no? |
A60194 | You would have us hope well of you, what ground do you give? |
A60194 | a persecution; Christ is scorned in his members, will he endure this at their hands? |
A60194 | according to the pcesent Church? |
A60194 | alas, how many corruptions had they in doctrine, and in manners too? |
A60194 | all these meeting together, in our last conflict, when all comfort will be little enough, what a comfort will it be? |
A60194 | and can I be thus dead, can I be thus dull- hearted? |
A60194 | and do I look to unlawful means? |
A60194 | and doest thou find the testimony of Jesus Christ witnessing to thy heart that they are true? |
A60194 | and doth he prcmise me life everlasting? |
A60194 | and doth not faith and hope of better things, where they are in truth, fashion and dispose every man to be such as may be fit for heaven? |
A60194 | and doth not he fill the bellies of the wicked with good things? |
A60194 | and doth that estate require purity? |
A60194 | and hath he advanced me to so happie an estate in this world? |
A60194 | and hath he given me Christ? |
A60194 | and he is with us in all estates and in all wants whatsoever? |
A60194 | and how can we love him unlesse we be perswaded that he loves us in Christ? |
A60194 | and how hath he revealed himself to us? |
A60194 | and how is the life of grace begun and strengthened, but by the meanes of salvation? |
A60194 | and if conscience be on the rack, what are all comforts? |
A60194 | and if thou canst not pray with distinct words, canst thou mourne and groan to God? |
A60194 | and in Christ how considered? |
A60194 | and is not mercy to the soul the greatest mercy? |
A60194 | and is there such grace and mercy in God to me? |
A60194 | and no unclean thing shall come there? |
A60194 | and shall not they all turn to nothing? |
A60194 | and shall we be patient not to have our soules sealed? |
A60194 | and shall we not trust him when we have his providence, and his promise too? |
A60194 | and shall we think of heaven, and happinesse, and not rejoyce? |
A60194 | and that have had no spiritual experience? |
A60194 | and the Scriptures to be so? |
A60194 | and the people imagine a vain thing,& c. against the Lord, and against his anointed? |
A60194 | and therefore is it not a good religious policy to have pictures of Christ, and pictures of God the Father? |
A60194 | and those that live in a filthy course, when God hath said, Whor emongers and adulterers God will judge? |
A60194 | and to go with boldnesse and earnestnesse to him? |
A60194 | and to have further assurance of all the good things by him? |
A60194 | and to intreat others to pray for us, when we will not be merciful to our selves? |
A60194 | and was Christ so good as to do and to suffer such things for me? |
A60194 | and what a beast was I? |
A60194 | and what are all other discomforts? |
A60194 | and what are the last comforts of all, the comforts reserved at home, when God shall be all in all? |
A60194 | and what glorie to the glorie of Christ? |
A60194 | and what is joy without a good conscience? |
A60194 | and what is this to the ambition of a Christian, to see the Image and representation of Christ stamped in his soul? |
A60194 | and what revealed truth is so, but Divine truth? |
A60194 | and where were a foundation for faith? |
A60194 | and wherefore doth he make intercession in heaven? |
A60194 | and wherefore he did dye and rise againe? |
A60194 | and which St. Paul wrote unto? |
A60194 | are all in the visible Church Saints? |
A60194 | are his Promises in him Yea, and Amen? |
A60194 | are not men delighted with the Images of their friends and of their parents? |
A60194 | are such courses good? |
A60194 | are the main points of Popery that you believe, alwayes yea? |
A60194 | are they not incense kindled by the fire of the blessed Spirit of God? |
A60194 | are we not freed from Hell and Damnation, and have we not Title to Heaven? |
A60194 | are we not fuel for consuming fire? |
A60194 | are we not hewn out of the same rock? |
A60194 | are we not the sons of God? |
A60194 | are we not the sons of our heavenly Father? |
A60194 | are we stronger then he? |
A60194 | are you in Gods wayes? |
A60194 | are you rich or honourable? |
A60194 | as water? |
A60194 | as you imagine? |
A60194 | aym they at our self- contentment, and private interest? |
A60194 | become of us at the day of Judgment? |
A60194 | between a temporizer, and another? |
A60194 | but, what is it for Religion? |
A60194 | can God be merciful to such? |
A60194 | can I part with my goods? |
A60194 | can open the ambages of a troubled Conscience in such perplexity and confusion? |
A60194 | can they be merciful to the souls of others, that are cruel to their own? |
A60194 | can we look for any thing from God by our own conceits? |
A60194 | canst thou trust thy soul with God, and canst thou not trust him with thy family? |
A60194 | could I be content to lose the favour of great ones? |
A60194 | did he ever turn any back from him, but those that went away of themselves? |
A60194 | did he not shed tears for those that shed his blood? |
A60194 | did he want a guide? |
A60194 | did not I give you warning? |
A60194 | do Angels love us better then he? |
A60194 | do I find the Spirit of God with his Ordinance? |
A60194 | do not parents love tohear the voyce of their Children? |
A60194 | do they avoid crosses in any degree, and do they think to have comfort? |
A60194 | do they complain of themselves? |
A60194 | do they go out of themselves? |
A60194 | do we not believe the first four generall Councels? |
A60194 | do we not give him the glory of his truth, that he will make good his promise which we alledge to him, and presse him with? |
A60194 | do you know whither you go? |
A60194 | do you live as you would be content to dye? |
A60194 | doest thou set thy self against the whole World? |
A60194 | dost thou so basely esteem of it, when God is not onely willing that thou shouldest pray for thy self, but requires thee to pray for others? |
A60194 | dost thou suffer in a good cause or no? |
A60194 | doth God say any where in his Word, you shall be judged by the example of others? |
A60194 | doth God stirre up thy spirit to call upon him, especially in extremity? |
A60194 | doth he mean himself? |
A60194 | doth he not put away merits, for the uncertainty of his own righteousnesse? |
A60194 | doth he put me in so certain a hope of glorie in the world to come? |
A60194 | doth he renew his mercies every day upon me? |
A60194 | doth he stand in need of us, or doth he need any thing we have? |
A60194 | doth he take any thing from us but he gives us better? |
A60194 | doth not God mean in good earnest to them when he gives them this? |
A60194 | doth not the Devil envy goodnesse, and good actions? |
A60194 | doth not the rain fall upon the ill as well as the good? |
A60194 | doth not thy profession as thou art a member bind thee to be a Saint? |
A60194 | doth the Spirit of God give me a relish of the Scriptures above all the pleasures in the world? |
A60194 | doth the Spirit of God open them, and shew a light in the Scripture that is divine? |
A60194 | doth the water cure, or purge? |
A60194 | except we make him our Counsellour? |
A60194 | for all other things were not other nations as good as we? |
A60194 | for it is but a minutes work to end thy dayes; what if God should end thy dayes in that minute? |
A60194 | for, are you members of the Church, or no? |
A60194 | had we authority before? |
A60194 | hast thou not found the power of the Spirit working upon thy soul, changing of thee, raising of thee, drawing of thee out of the world nearer to God? |
A60194 | hast thou not( I say) felt the power of the Spirit this way? |
A60194 | hast thou so base an esteem of this incense? |
A60194 | hath God done them any wrong? |
A60194 | hath he done all, and suffered all according to the prophecies, as it was written of him? |
A60194 | hath he not convinced thee in thy judgment that it is so? |
A60194 | hath he not given thee a taste of them? |
A60194 | hath he not him that made the world at the first, and can make another if he please? |
A60194 | hath he not made the promise to thy posterity, as well as to thy self? |
A60194 | hath he not reserved an inheritance, immortall, and undefiled in the heavens for us? |
A60194 | hath he shut up his tender mercies in displeasure? |
A60194 | hath not a wicked man sometimes twitches of conscience which the world sees not, secret checks of conscience? |
A60194 | have I a certain promise to be carried to salvation? |
A60194 | have I a clear understanding of them, because they are divine? |
A60194 | have I not seen Christ? |
A60194 | have they learned to trust in God, when sacrilegiously they take away the time dedicated for the salvation of their souls, and the service of God? |
A60194 | have we not a pledge? |
A60194 | have we not use of every creature? |
A60194 | have ye forgotten that every Son that God chastizeth not is a bastard? |
A60194 | have ye forgotten? |
A60194 | have you renewed your purposes for the time to come? |
A60194 | have you repented of your sins past? |
A60194 | he is no Rebell, cares he for a pardon? |
A60194 | he is our Husband: what a world of promises is there in that? |
A60194 | he knows that that is the way to cure him? |
A60194 | he opposeth his own conversion; what is conversion? |
A60194 | his being in the world, his being rich, his being in favour with such or such, what are they? |
A60194 | his life should be a perpetual thanksgiving to God; and how can a man be thankfull, that is not joyful? |
A60194 | how are they helpers of their joy? |
A60194 | how darest thou that art flesh and blood look to God? |
A60194 | how doth God judge of them? |
A60194 | how doth Satan confound them with distractions? |
A60194 | how doth he prove that Christ is alway yea? |
A60194 | how far would I willingly go in it? |
A60194 | how shall I be able to live in such a time,& c? |
A60194 | how shall we approve our selves to God, and to Jesus Christ at the day of Judgment? |
A60194 | how shall we carry our selves against this disposition of men among whom we live? |
A60194 | how soon do they leave it all? |
A60194 | how was I deluded with this ill company, and with that? |
A60194 | if God have revealed his Will to do so, why do we doubt of this great point of Gods raising the dead? |
A60194 | if I take this and that course, shall these promises be performed? |
A60194 | if we will not feed upon himself, when he stoopes so low as to give himself for us, and to feed us with himself, what will we do? |
A60194 | in death, what can all the creatures help? |
A60194 | in the exercise of holy purposes, to please God? |
A60194 | in the exercise of repentance? |
A60194 | in what confidence? |
A60194 | in whom are they made? |
A60194 | insinuating that if they had remembred this, it would have comforted them; have ye forgotten? |
A60194 | inward grace for the time to come? |
A60194 | is all so clear? |
A60194 | is he a wise man that only talks of States matters, out of Books he hath read? |
A60194 | is he made for this life onely? |
A60194 | is he not Gods Child? |
A60194 | is he not true of his Word? |
A60194 | is here our progresse? |
A60194 | is it against Conscience? |
A60194 | is it against the Word? |
A60194 | is it no tGod that gives a mouth? |
A60194 | is it not a spirit stronger then the wounded spirit? |
A60194 | is it not his work, saith conscience? |
A60194 | is it not meerly carnal wisdome? |
A60194 | is it not water and earth, excellently digested, exquisitely concocted and digested? |
A60194 | is it not wisdome in the Princes Court, first to go to the Favourite, and by him to the Prince? |
A60194 | is it not you? |
A60194 | is it true, that God hath revealed these things in his Word? |
A60194 | is it well built? |
A60194 | is not he a consuming fire, and we stubble for his wrath? |
A60194 | is not he the authour of my calling? |
A60194 | is not his first comming a pledge of it? |
A60194 | is not our nature defiled, and tainted, and can it otherwise be amiable, then considered as knit to him that is first amiable, that is Christ? |
A60194 | is not the greater performed already? |
A60194 | is the Spirit it self this seal? |
A60194 | is there any comfort for such? |
A60194 | is there any thing but saving grace? |
A60194 | is there any thing but that which God loves most, and which is best for his soul that is the object of his spight, and of his poyson and malice? |
A60194 | is there no hope for this in Israel? |
A60194 | is this a vain glorying to commend him, Oh he is a worthy learned Rabbi, a great learned Apostle: and then that they were such, and such people? |
A60194 | is this grace? |
A60194 | it is a dead thing, it hath no efficatious quality, but to cool,& c. Whence comes the efficacy? |
A60194 | may I not make of my own what I will? |
A60194 | meddle not with him: so conscience will say, Did not I witnesse? |
A60194 | must not this whole world be consumed with fire? |
A60194 | nay, that we rather call principles into question? |
A60194 | no removing of objections that the soul makes, no unloosing of the knots of conscience? |
A60194 | nothing but the drosse: What is lost in the body by sickness? |
A60194 | of Satan, and all enemies, Who shall lay any thing to our charge? |
A60194 | or are men in a kind of numbnesse, and deadnesse, and Atheism that they think it is no matter, that they put all to a venture, and think all is well? |
A60194 | or die in? |
A60194 | or do all by his Spirit without help? |
A60194 | or men that should poyson fountaines, and all that should refresh and nourish men? |
A60194 | or the comforts of the Spirit? |
A60194 | or the graces of the Spirit? |
A60194 | or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea, yea, and nay, nay? |
A60194 | or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh? |
A60194 | or then many other people under Satan, and under Popish Teachers, and so rot away in their Ignorance? |
A60194 | or what is Apollo, but Ministers? |
A60194 | or who is this people, that we should be able to offer willingly after this sort? |
A60194 | or who would have comfort in conversing with them? |
A60194 | or why dost thou forget them? |
A60194 | riches, honours, friends, what good will they do in the hour of death? |
A60194 | saith Job: so a Christian in the strength of Temptations, and solicitations, and opportunities to do ill, he considers, Doth not God see? |
A60194 | saith the Apostle, that we of Rebels and Traitors, in Christ should be made the sons of God? |
A60194 | shall I be more base then the senselesse creatures? |
A60194 | shall I blaspheme him, and be like to the divel? |
A60194 | shall I cast my crown in the dirt? |
A60194 | shall he yield to any man living that is inconstant by his disposition? |
A60194 | shall it be the rule in one time, and not in another? |
A60194 | shall not be afraid of evill tydings; why? |
A60194 | shall present men interpret it thus, and say it is so now: and others that succeed say, whatsoever it was now, thus it must be believed? |
A60194 | shall we desire him to spare us, when we will not spare ourselves? |
A60194 | shall we despair? |
A60194 | shall we go from ignorance of particular men, to ignorance of the Church? |
A60194 | shall we have a rich portion, and neglect it? |
A60194 | shall we have an inheritance, a portion, and not labour to know it? |
A60194 | shall we have so many promises, and not improve them, and make use of them? |
A60194 | shall we see others ready to be swallowed up in the pit of despair, with heaviness of spirit, shall we see them dejected, and not take it to heart? |
A60194 | should all that are Baptized, and receive the Communion enter into a profession of sanctity? |
A60194 | should not God, and Heaven, and Heavenly things? |
A60194 | should not these things have place in our hearts, as they have in their own worth? |
A60194 | should we not believe it except the Church say so? |
A60194 | so should we say to any temptation to base courses of life, what shall such a man as I do this? |
A60194 | that have not only betrayed others by neglect; but have maligned good where they have seen it? |
A60194 | that he should be beholding to me for that duty? |
A60194 | that is, none can beare it, it is the greatest griefe: then I would know, what keeps a wounded spirit from sinking that it doth not despaire? |
A60194 | that knowes not that God hath begun a good work in him? |
A60194 | that made him crie: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken mee? |
A60194 | that neither things present nor things to come shall be able to separate me from the love of God in Christ Jesus? |
A60194 | that one place shall stand in stead of all: What man knowes the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? |
A60194 | that we have Christ laid open, and precious, and rich promises, whereby we may have precious faith to lay hold on these precious promises? |
A60194 | that we have stood for God and good causes in the middest of the world, and shined as lights in the middest of a crooked Generation? |
A60194 | that we should doubt of Gods love, when he hath given us that which is greater then salvation, that which is greater then all the world, his own Son? |
A60194 | that were never convinced by the Spirit that these things are so? |
A60194 | that wicked person that had committed that which was intolerable amongst the Heathen? |
A60194 | that would disgrace S. Pauls Doctrine, to win authority to them selves? |
A60194 | the best is behind, and what is our comfort in this world? |
A60194 | the sons of the great King? |
A60194 | the voice of the Spirit, canst thou cry to God with prayer and supplication? |
A60194 | their dispensations, and horrible allowing of any thing? |
A60194 | these Corinthians, that had so many abuses, and such weaknesses, were they the matter of S. Paul''s joy? |
A60194 | they are ready to have every Moneth a new faith, if the times, and Goverment alter, why? |
A60194 | they dare not say but ours is nearer: why then our Church is built upon the foundation of the Apostles: why so? |
A60194 | those that stand only in pleasures and profits, and in the favour of great men, what standing have they? |
A60194 | thy filthinesse, and thy betraying of goodnesse, what will that do? |
A60194 | till Solomon did warp, and bend to Carnall counsell, to strengthen himself? |
A60194 | to Angels, or to beasts? |
A60194 | to be incorporate nearer into him? |
A60194 | to consider of things, to affect us deeply? |
A60194 | to draw the affections of men from religion, and the state where is mercy all the while? |
A60194 | to dye in the quarrel if need be? |
A60194 | to have ill usage in an Inne, and to go to a Kingdom? |
A60194 | to have the understanding forced to understand that he would not, living in a world of iniquity, in the Kingdom of the Devill? |
A60194 | to take his enemy to be his Judge, and his friend, and counsellour? |
A60194 | trust in God: He first chides his soul, Why art thou so? |
A60194 | undoubtedly he doth; and why is it given but for assurance? |
A60194 | upon what grounds? |
A60194 | was Adam under the same Covenant as we are now in Christ? |
A60194 | was Paul''s truth the worse because he had many enemies, Elymas the sorcerer and others? |
A60194 | was it in hypocrisie to others, and in sincerity to them onely? |
A60194 | we are preserved from dangers day and night: who shuts in the doores, who watcheth over us, but he that keeps Israel? |
A60194 | we do; who then will not say that these are sufficient being understood, and believed, to make a man that he be no heretick? |
A60194 | we take pains to no purpose, we rise early, and go to bed late, what will become of all in the issue? |
A60194 | were they not open before? |
A60194 | were they not so in David''s time? |
A60194 | were they not so in S. Paul''s time? |
A60194 | were they not their own joy first? |
A60194 | were this any policy for the body? |
A60194 | were we fit for communion with God? |
A60194 | were we noble before? |
A60194 | were we wise before? |
A60194 | what a deal of comfort do young ones deprive and rob themselves of, that will not be gracious betimes? |
A60194 | what a deal of confirming Grace need we to every good work? |
A60194 | what a grace is it? |
A60194 | what a mercy were it in a common wealth to suffer men that are incendiaries, to have liberty to do what mischief they would? |
A60194 | what a poor delight is this in comparison of the joy that a Christian hath by the seal of the Spirit? |
A60194 | what a shame is this? |
A60194 | what a world of glory hath God by prayer? |
A60194 | what affirmatives have ye? |
A60194 | what an unthankful creature was I to sin against so many benefits, and favours? |
A60194 | what are all friends to the Holy Ghost, which will speak to God for us? |
A60194 | what are we as we are strong, as we are rich, as we are noble, as we are in favour with great ones? |
A60194 | what are we but Ministers of faith? |
A60194 | what are wicked men? |
A60194 | what can a loving husband deny his spouse, that he hath given himself for? |
A60194 | what can friends, or physick, or money help? |
A60194 | what can we do without light? |
A60194 | what cause hath he in us of his dealing toward us? |
A60194 | what did the Spirit work in him? |
A60194 | what do they herein but rob themselves of joy? |
A60194 | what do they? |
A60194 | what doth glorious apparel ease the diseased body? |
A60194 | what doth he answer to them? |
A60194 | what doth he oppose? |
A60194 | what hast thou to do to take my Name into thy mouth either in prayer or in praise, when thou hatest to be reformed? |
A60194 | what hath the one but a great deale of nothing? |
A60194 | what hold have we from any thing that is in you, or from you so to conceit? |
A60194 | what hope can prophane blasphemous persons have that make but a trifle of swearing, when God hath said they shall not go unpunished? |
A60194 | what if he have given him the tongue of the learned, to speak a word in season unto me? |
A60194 | what if particular comforts be taken from thee, is there not a God of comfort left? |
A60194 | what if the Church teach the Doctrine of Devils, as they do? |
A60194 | what if the foundation be never so strong, if he be not stablished thereon? |
A60194 | what is all that we can indure here, to that that we have deserved? |
A60194 | what is all the good we have, is it not from him? |
A60194 | what is all, that we enjoy? |
A60194 | what is his aym? |
A60194 | what is lost? |
A60194 | what is our life without joy? |
A60194 | what is our peace to the Gospel of peace? |
A60194 | what is that work? |
A60194 | what is the ground of lightnesse? |
A60194 | what is the reason so many are so fruitlesse in their lives? |
A60194 | what is the reason that men despair in death? |
A60194 | what is the way to bring him out of this? |
A60194 | what is this seal? |
A60194 | what is your company? |
A60194 | what joy? |
A60194 | what life to the life of Grace? |
A60194 | what makes a man differ from another? |
A60194 | what makes him deny himself in temptations, and corruptions? |
A60194 | what may make for my honour, my pleasure, my estate, my worldly ease here? |
A60194 | what mercy is it to suffer poysoners? |
A60194 | what need the Ministery? |
A60194 | what nimblenesse to that which is good? |
A60194 | what profit is it for him that hath a conscience that will accuse him, that he hath no man to accuse him but himself? |
A60194 | what saith Moses? |
A60194 | what saith Solomon that had tried all the world? |
A60194 | what sets all a going? |
A60194 | what shall become of me if such a thing happen? |
A60194 | what soveraignty hath grace in our hearts? |
A60194 | what strength? |
A60194 | what will a father deny to his son? |
A60194 | what will all favours do us good? |
A60194 | what will make us digest labour, and pains, in dealing with the soules of others, in doing good, and being fruitful in our places? |
A60194 | what will riches be then at the day of the Lord Jesus? |
A60194 | what will the sins do that thou hast betrayed and damned thy soul for? |
A60194 | what will they do when they think of others, such as they have neglected altogether, that God gave them charge of? |
A60194 | what would friends comfort us? |
A60194 | what would riches comfort us? |
A60194 | when a man may by a reflect act of the soul know that he is in the state of grace by believing? |
A60194 | when he hath denied his wit, and his will? |
A60194 | when he hath renounced a bad guide, shall he have no guide at all? |
A60194 | when he is bound by his Promise, when he hath made himself a debtor to us? |
A60194 | when there is a mentall reservation, and such a reservation, that if that were set downe that is reserved, it were absurd? |
A60194 | when we go about to pray: when the best men are about the best actions, what a deal of distraction is there? |
A60194 | when we want joy and peace? |
A60194 | when we will not willingly receive him? |
A60194 | whence is it so? |
A60194 | where be your Politicians in Religion that will keep their Religion to themselves? |
A60194 | where is the authority of your Church? |
A60194 | where is there any that for Cods sake I may do good unto? |
A60194 | wherefore serves an instrument, but to work by? |
A60194 | wherefore serves light, but to walk by? |
A60194 | wherefore serves wisdome, but to guide our lives by? |
A60194 | wherein doth this Communion stand? |
A60194 | whether is it or no? |
A60194 | whether your hearts be thus settled or no by the Spirit of God? |
A60194 | whither goest thou? |
A60194 | who ever in the world was abased as our head Christ Jesus was? |
A60194 | who was a greater fool then Saul, and then He ● … od? |
A60194 | who, if he be discreet, and considerate, will lay his faith and Religion to pawn, for every trifle, in common talk? |
A60194 | who? |
A60194 | why art thou vexed in me? |
A60194 | why do you not joyn with them? |
A60194 | why do you not take them? |
A60194 | why do you not walk their waies? |
A60194 | why doth he humble great men, great and excellent Christians with great falls? |
A60194 | why doth the Spirit give us grace and comfort, seal us, and doth all, and stablisheth us? |
A60194 | why should I doubt to renew my Covenant? |
A60194 | why should he not say so, rather then thus, Not with fleshly wisdome, but by the Grace of God? |
A60194 | why should he not serve God with all the encouragement that may be, when he hath nothing to care for but to serve him? |
A60194 | why should he put Grace, instead of Wisdome? |
A60194 | why should we doubt that we shall be taken up to God since he is come down to man? |
A60194 | why should we not rather sink in despair in troubles, but because the Spirit is in us? |
A60194 | why will you go on in these courses? |
A60194 | why will you stand thus? |
A60194 | why, comfortable: what is the ground of his faith? |
A60194 | why, where is thy faith? |
A60194 | will he give me the greater, and will he not give me the lesse? |
A60194 | will he lose a member? |
A60194 | will he not advance that? |
A60194 | will not the Judge say, It is his custome to cut them off? |
A60194 | will not these be the joy of a mans heart? |
A60194 | will the soul allay it self? |
A60194 | will this alway hold out? |
A60194 | will you be content to die so? |
A60194 | will you make me a Pagan? |
A60194 | with vicious, and carnal company? |
A60194 | with what minds and? |
A60194 | would I stand in the defence of this against any? |
A60194 | would he have cherished proud factious men among them? |
A60194 | would he have enforced us? |
A60194 | would he have suffered them to have cherished the incestuous person among them? |
A60194 | would not he have told them to their face the danger of their sin, and have made them ashamed? |
A60194 | would we ever be wearie of the world, before we be fired out of it, and pulled out of it, as Lot out of Sodom? |
A60194 | would we not be of Peters mind, It is good for us to be here? |
A60194 | would you have us blind? |
A60194 | yes, will every one say, will you make me an Infidel? |
A60194 | you deny his Mercy, his Wisdome, his Justice, his Truth, you deny all his attributes, you make God a liar: what a horrible sin is unbelief? |
A60194 | you shall be judged by the custom of the times you live in? |
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