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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A67759 | As what saies wise Solomon? |
A67759 | But you are a Gentlewoman born and bred? |
A67759 | Do not you know also, that you honour your Childe more then GOD? |
A67759 | Hath not self- conceitednesse broken your credit? |
A67759 | If a Professors, a Ministers, an Independent Ministers wife becoms scandalous, how great is her scandal? |
A67759 | Is it a wrong to lay, that you bid defiance to all other Ministers wives? |
A67759 | Is not your good name at the stake? |
A67759 | Mark me what I say, Are you proud of beauty? |
A67759 | Or is it plenty that makes you flaunt it? |
A67759 | Or is it your beauty, that makes you too good for such im ● loiment? |
A67759 | What is wisedom departed from you? |
A67759 | Would you be let go on like Absolom? |
A67759 | Would you have God your friend, or your enemie? |
A67759 | Yea, let conscience say, Whether you be not more careful to preserve your cloaths from dust and spots, then your soul from guilt? |
A67759 | Yea, who can choose but say? |
A67759 | how unnatural? |
A67759 | or would you have Jezabels fare? |
A67735 | ALphonsus King of Aragon being demanded, what company he liked best? |
A67735 | Adrianus, seeing the Martyrs suffer such grievous things; asked why they would indure such misery, when they might( by retracting) free themselves? |
A67735 | And what else can be looked for from them? |
A67735 | And what said Iustine Martyr to his murtherers, in behalfe of himselfe, and his fellow Martyrs; you may kill us, but you can never hurt us? |
A67735 | Aristippus, and AEschenes, two famous Philosophers, being fallen at variance, Aristippus came to AEschenes, and saies, Shall we be friends againe? |
A67735 | How many have chosen rather to embrace the flames, then to reveale their companions, and brethren in Christ? |
A67735 | In one hour he may read it, and for ever after be the better for it Antisthenes being asked what fruit he had reaped of all his study? |
A67735 | Men of Herods mind, whom you shall see turning over the Bible, searching the Scriptures, examining the Prophets, but to what end and purpose? |
A67735 | Pope Adrian when he was to dye, brake forth into this expression; O my Soul, whether art thou going? |
A67735 | There be some that care not to know; and there be some, that care for nothing else but to know; many strive after knowledge, but why? |
A67735 | When Erasinus was asked by the Elector of Saxony, why the Pope and his Clergy could so ill abide Luther? |
A67735 | Where had you your Ordination? |
A67735 | he that is evill to himselfe, to whom will he be good? |
A67735 | where was your Religion before Luther? |
A67750 | And are not all these strong evidences, tha ● I loved and served God, and my Redeemer as I ought? |
A67750 | And in reason, did Christ come to call sinners to repentance? |
A67750 | As how many have I drawn to be Drunkard ●? |
A67750 | But how have I requited this so great, so superlative a mercy? |
A67750 | But is there any hope for one so wicked as I? |
A67750 | But why is it? |
A67750 | For if such honest moral men, that live so unreprovably as you had done, go not to heaven; what will become of me? |
A67750 | God had raised me from a beggar to a great estate: but how did I require him? |
A67750 | O who would not cast his burthen upon him? |
A67750 | Then if you would be satisfied for time to come, whether your Repentance, and conversion be true and sound? |
A67750 | Wouldest thou get out of the miserable estate of nature, into the blessed estate if grace? |
A67750 | Wouldest thou truly k ● ow thine own heart? |
A67750 | and he very sensible how evil and wicked it is? |
A67750 | and of Satan''s bondslave become the childe of God, and a member of Christ? |
A67750 | and shall he not shew mercy to the penitent? |
A67750 | and swearers, and who emongers, and profane persons? |
A67750 | that have been openly profane, and notoriously wicked all my time? |
A67750 | that so thou maist have a more humble conceit of thy self? |
A67741 | And indeed what fence? |
A67741 | And what a shame is it, that our God should not have as faithfull ● ● rvants, as he hath unfaithfull enemies? |
A67741 | And what though their case be not only desperate, but almost hopeless? |
A67741 | And what though ● e can not do what we would? |
A67741 | And why should not a man be deemed a Drunkard for his immoderate and inordinate affection to drink, or drunken company? |
A67741 | As how will they boast what they drank, and how many they conquer''d at such a meeting, making it their only glory? |
A67741 | As what sayes Basil, Shall we speak to Drunkards? |
A67741 | Can the door which is but almost shut, keep out the Thief? |
A67741 | Can the ship that is but almost tite, keep out the water? |
A67741 | Certainly, the more light we have, the more blind men are, or else this could not be; For I would gladly ask such, Are you Christians? |
A67741 | Did you ever know that wicked men, thievs, drun ● ards, adulterers, persecutors, false prophets, or the like, would be damned alone? |
A67741 | In what part of the Word find you a warrant for it? |
A67741 | Shall they labour so hard, for that ● hich will but inhance their damnation? |
A67741 | The souldier that does but almost fight is a coward? |
A67741 | Well may you( with Agrippa) be almost Christians, but sure enough, you are not with St Paul, altogether such: and then what will become of you? |
A67741 | Where find you, that this custom was ever used by any one of the Saints in former ages? |
A67741 | Which being so, what may the many millions of these ding- thrifty dearth- makers consume in a year in all the three Nations? |
A67769 | ( which Scriptures if they be true, what manner of persons ought we to be? |
A67769 | And how can it other, then cut the hearts of those that have felt the love of Christ? |
A67769 | And what though we can not do what we would? |
A67769 | But what''s the reason? |
A67769 | Invent all new vices they could, and destroy the memory of all ancient vertues, as Heliogabalus did? |
A67769 | Know you not, that it will p ● ove your ruine in the end? |
A67769 | Or would he have had cause to complain of being prevented? |
A67769 | Or would you know why our Land( notwithstanding we excell all Nations under heaven, for meanes of light and grace) hath such monsters? |
A67769 | Seduce millions of soules, as Mahomet and the Pope have done? |
A67769 | Some men and women, that will be Bawds to their own Wives and Daughters? |
A67769 | Why, there are some that dare the day to witnesse their ungodlinesse, and do their villanies to be seen of men? |
A67769 | Why? |
A67769 | Yea, and civill men too, account it a crime to be holy? |
A67769 | Yea, how could I here inlarge? |
A67769 | Yea, how often shall you hear old men glory of their fore- past whoredoms, boast of their homicides, cheats, and the like? |
A67769 | as upon an hours warning will lend Jezabel an oath, to rob poor Naboth of his li ● e and vine- yard? |
A67769 | blow up whole States? |
A67769 | depopulate whole Towns, Cities, Countries? |
A67769 | how others could wholly spend and imploy their time,& strength, and meanes? |
A67769 | how they should take such pains, and be at such cost, to commit robberies, rapes, cruel murthers, treasons? |
A67769 | make it their trade to swear and forswear, if any wil hire them, as our Post ● knights do? |
A67769 | make open War against the Church of God, as Herod, Antiochus, and others have done? |
A67769 | or to be so careful to serve their Redeemer? |
A67769 | or to have a tender conscience? |
A67769 | persecute the known truth, as Julian the Apostate did? |
A67756 | 9.21, 22. Who then can cavil, or indeed wonder, at the ensuing story the which I am now to relate? |
A67756 | And are not all these strong evidences, that I loved and served God, and my Redeemer as I ought? |
A67756 | And in reason, did Christ come to call sinners to repentance? |
A67756 | And this common experience shews; for if you observe it, who more jocund, confident, and secure, than the worst of sinners? |
A67756 | And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? |
A67756 | And what saith our Saviour himself to his Apostles, in their pupil- age? |
A67756 | And why so? |
A67756 | Are we as sick of sorrow, as we are of sin? |
A67756 | As what can be further expected? |
A67756 | As who( by looking in a glass) shall spy spots in his face, and will not forthwith wipe them out? |
A67756 | But how have I required this so great, so superlative a mercy? |
A67756 | But is there any hope for one so wicked as I? |
A67756 | But why is it? |
A67756 | Every Member receiveth nourishment from the stomack; yea, the same meat in the stomack? |
A67756 | First, Will makes the difference, and who makes the difference of wills, but he that made them? |
A67756 | For, what sayes one of the Fathers? |
A67756 | How much more can he work the same upon his own children and servants? |
A67756 | If you question what Satan can do in this case? |
A67756 | Me thinks I have observed in you a strange alteration, since our last meeting at Middleborough: not onely in your behaviour, company, and converse? |
A67756 | Or, who would not cast his burden upon him, that desires to give ease? |
A67756 | To what purpose is it to crop off the top of weeds, or top off the boughes of the Tree, when the Root and Stalk remain in the Earth? |
A67756 | To which accordeth that of holy Bernard, Good art thou, O Lord, to the soul that seeks thee; what art thou then, to the soul that findes thee? |
A67756 | Wherein( may some say) lies the difference? |
A67756 | Wouldest thou get out of the miserable estate of Nature, into the blessed estate of Grace? |
A67756 | Wouldest thou truly know thine own Heart? |
A67756 | Yea, how many painful Peters have complained to fish all night, and catch nothing? |
A67756 | and be very sensible how evil and wicked it is? |
A67756 | and of Satans bond- slave, become the Child of God, and a Member of Christ? |
A67756 | and shall he not shew mercy to the penitent? |
A67756 | but even in your countenance: What is the matter if I may be so bold? |
A67756 | that so thou mayest have a more humble conceit of thy self? |
A67752 | As wherefore was Cain wroth with his brother Abel, and afterwards flew him? |
A67752 | As why did Cain envy and hate Abel? |
A67752 | But if thou canst not beare a few ill words for thy Saviour, without murmuring and impatience? |
A67752 | But their usual objection is, why will you be so singular? |
A67752 | But, ARe you Christians? |
A67752 | Christ wore a Crowne of Thornes for me, and shall I grudge to weare this Paper cap for him? |
A67752 | Envy is sicke, if her neighbour be well: and the good mans honour, is the envious mans torment? |
A67752 | Fifthly, Are you scoft and scorned? |
A67752 | First, men scoff and scorn you; and why is it? |
A67752 | Fourthly, are you scoft,& scorn''d for goodness? |
A67752 | If I should not be as faithful a servant to my Saviour? |
A67752 | Onely they have some wit in their anger: For how should Naboth be clenly put to death, if he be not first accused of blasphemy? |
A67752 | Or a company of abject persons? |
A67752 | Or do you own him that made you, and that hath bestowed so many millions of mercies upon you? |
A67752 | Or if you do, what shall you gain, or I loose thereby? |
A67752 | Or shall he net depart Sodome, because the whole City thinks it better to stay there still? |
A67752 | Or shall the name of Round- head dishearten us from the service of God? |
A67752 | Secondly, men hate, scoffe, and scorne you, but who? |
A67752 | Shall Noah leave building the Arke, and so himself and his whole houshold perish, because all the world else thinks him have- brain''d? |
A67752 | Suppose such do think as they speak: Shall Lot leave his Righteousnesse, for such an imputation of singularity? |
A67752 | Thirdly, why do these and the Devill hate you? |
A67752 | Wherefore did Saul so hate and persecute David? |
A67752 | Wherefore was holy David had in derision, hated, slandered, contemned, and made a by- word of the people, a song of the drunkards? |
A67752 | Why are you a thorne in their eyes, as Job was in the Devils? |
A67752 | Why were all the just in Solomons time, had in abomination, and mockt of the wicked? |
A67752 | Yea how could I be thankful to my Redeemer? |
A67752 | a few scoffs for CHRIST? |
A67752 | are they not such as these? |
A67752 | are you wiser then all? |
A67752 | for James Crump, London:[ 1660?] |
A67752 | how can the world pleasure or honour you more? |
A67752 | how wouldst thou endure wounds for him, yea how wouldst thou afford him thine ● ● ires, and write patience with thine own blood? |
A67752 | like those enemies, Acts 17. lewd fellows of the baser sort? |
A67752 | or a sort of vitious persons following their owne lusts? |
A67752 | or in the least love God and my Neighbour? |
A67752 | when this your malice is a sure token to you of perdition, but to me of salvation? |
A67768 | 81. and what follows? |
A67768 | ? |
A67768 | ? |
A67768 | And why did more than forty of the Jews bind themselves with a curse, neither to eat nor drink till they had killed him? |
A67768 | And why? |
A67768 | Are not these the very worst of monsters? |
A67768 | Are not you these wolves? |
A67768 | Are not you those unreasonable beasts and swine? |
A67768 | Are you willing to be saved? |
A67768 | But how hath the Devil bewitcht them? |
A67768 | But in the meantime, what horrible, what hellish ingratitude is this, if it be looked upon with an impartial eye? |
A67768 | Do you beleeve there is a God? |
A67768 | For can he with Crabronius, be ever pudling in a wasps nest, and think to escape their stings? |
A67768 | Here is your case right: Are you not ashamed to be such Sots? |
A67768 | How should the lamp burn, if we take away the holy oyl that should maintein it? |
A67768 | If it be so dreadful to hear of what they shall suffer, if they repent not, how terrible will it be to feel it? |
A67768 | If not, who are? |
A67768 | Is he any other to you, than those three Messengers were to Lot? |
A67768 | Is it possible that the reasonable soul of man( not professedly barbarous) should be capable of such a monster? |
A67768 | Is the Physician to be blamed for the pain of his Patient, or the disease? |
A67768 | Neverthelesse, how few are there so wise, as to take admonition well? |
A67768 | Now what course do you take to be revenged of him? |
A67768 | Now what''s the reason, why down right truth is so unpleasing to carnal minds? |
A67768 | O you sottish Sensualists, what can you alledge for yourselves, or against your Minister? |
A67768 | Or be still blowing in the dust, and not endanger his eyes? |
A67768 | Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? |
A67768 | The Chirurgeon or the wound, which he endeavors by all means to cure? |
A67768 | Were there ever such fools, or frenzie men did commit a greater folly? |
A67768 | Yea, what is the genuine reason, why the worst men and members of a Parish evermore regard a good Minister least? |
A67768 | but he returns to God himself this churlish answer, Am I my brothers keeper? |
A67768 | complain of his bitterness, and seek by all means to remove him? |
A67742 | Again are not they Atheist ● cal fools? |
A67742 | Again, are not they stupendiously blockefied, wh ● all their life long do what God forbids, and yet confidently hope t ● escape what he threatens? |
A67742 | Again, you ● enmity to the Ministry appears plainly in this, you envy not the pr ● digious wealth of Merchants, of Lawyers, of any? |
A67742 | And yet what can you alledge for your selves, or against you ● Pastors? |
A67742 | Are not th ● y drunken sots, frantick fool ● or savage beasts? |
A67742 | Are not these sensless and shallow pated fools? |
A67742 | As what says the Apostle? |
A67742 | But why is it? |
A67742 | Can there be a greater difference between beasts and men, or between the living and the dead, than there is between the one and the other? |
A67742 | Could they ever ● ● us think, speak or do, if they were not either mischievous ● ools, or frenzy men? |
A67742 | Did you ever know, th ● wicked men, Thieves, Drunkards, Adulterers, False Prophets, 〈 ◊ 〉 the like, would be damned alone? |
A67742 | How few are convinced of an antipathy in themselves to all that is good, and that the ● are haters of Go ● by nature? |
A67742 | How many men live, as if the Gospel were quite contrary ● o the rule of the Law? |
A67742 | I know you will say they were all: If so, why are you such lots and shallow brains? |
A67742 | Now these things considered, what can any indifferent man ● ● ● nk? |
A67742 | Now what think you of these blockish Iews, were they more wicked or witless, or ingrateful? |
A67742 | That th ● whole world lieth in wickedness? |
A67742 | Then ● hat are they, that like so many blinde men, run headlong to hell, and yet think themselves in the way to Heaven? |
A67742 | What rare and incomparable Priviledges are these, that the Regenerate man enjoys, over what the Natural man does? |
A67742 | Who think, the ● owed enemy of their souls and all mankinde, can offer them a ● ● ● is without a hook? |
A67742 | Why are you so spightful in spitting out you ● spleen against them? |
A67742 | Yea, what Sea of blood is enough to bemoan this fool ●, wicked and desperate madness? |
A67742 | be it bribe, or any other sinful bait, not once think ● ng this is forbidden fruit, and thou shalt dye the death? |
A67742 | how few see in themselves a general defect of all righteousness and holiness, wherein at first they were created? |
A67742 | who ● esemble Iudas, that preferred Thirty pieces of silver, before him that was Lord of the whole world, and ransom of all mankind? |
A67742 | why do you slight their persons, and detai ● from them their dues? |
A67742 | yea, he gives them the spirit of Wisdom and Revelation, to teach them all needful truths? |
A67742 | yet the world traduced him for a Samaritan, a Blasphemer, a Sorcerer, a Wine- bibber, an ● Enemy to Caesar, and what not? |
A67761 | & c. And the like in our times, as how many thousands do censure and blaspheme the godly; because they hear others do so? |
A67761 | 2,& c. Which being so, how is it possible they should ever agree; although God had not proclaimed an enmity between them? |
A67761 | 2. and experience shews that thousands in these dayes do so; and why did Saul make havock of the Church? |
A67761 | 9. killed? |
A67761 | Again, Why do all the Serpents seed censure, and in censuring ● la ● der us? |
A67761 | Again, wherefore did the Phil ● ● ● ines and Abim ● lech envie Isaac? |
A67761 | And Saul touching David? |
A67761 | And have they not reason so to do? |
A67761 | And how could this be? |
A67761 | And indeed what is the corporal sympathy, to the spiritual antipathy? |
A67761 | And lastly( for I might be endlesse in the prosecution of this,) Why were all the just in Solomons time, had in abomination, and mockt of the wicked? |
A67761 | And lastly, By whom was our Saviour Christ b ● trayed, but by his own Disciple Judas? |
A67761 | And the Master himself? |
A67761 | And why all this? |
A67761 | And will any wise man stumble at Religion for such mens ● c ● ffs and reproaches? |
A67761 | As first, What is their Character in Scripture? |
A67761 | As how many a wife is so much the more hated, because a zealous wife? |
A67761 | As why are not our Sanctuaries turned into Shambles? |
A67761 | As why do many mens hearts rise against every holy man they meet? |
A67761 | BUt how should I a novice, a punio, a white- liver, shake off this slavish yoke of bondage and fear in which Satan for the present holds me? |
A67761 | Besides how should those enemies of holiness work their will upon us? |
A67761 | But Seventhly, To come to these present times wherein we live: Is it possible for a man to live a conscionable and unreproveable life? |
A67761 | Can there be such a parity between the parent and the childe, the husband and the wife, as there is a disparity between God and Satan? |
A67761 | Davids successe is Sauls vexation; yea, he findes not so much pleasure in his Kingdome, as vexation in the prosperity of David? |
A67761 | Have they any reason for their so doing? |
A67761 | How should Naboth be cleanly put to death, if he be not first accused of blas ● phemy? |
A67761 | Neither want we Presidents of this: For by whom was upright Abel persecuted and slain, but by his own brother Cain? |
A67761 | WHerein consists their unlikeness and contrariety? |
A67761 | What said the Orator to Salust? |
A67761 | What should I say? |
A67761 | Wherefore did Josephs Brethren hate him, not being able to speak peaceably unto him, and after sell him into Egipt? |
A67761 | Who can separate the conjunctions of the Deitie? |
A67761 | Why did Esau hate Jacob, and purpose to kill him, but because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him? |
A67761 | Why was Eliah wroth with his younger brother? |
A67761 | Yet the world traduced him for a Samaritan, a Blasphemer, a Sorcerer, a wine- bibber, an enemy to Caesar, and what not? |
A67761 | and our Beds made to swim with our Bloods? |
A67761 | are they not such as these? |
A67761 | as some stomacks rise at the sight of sweet meats: Why do all drunkards and vitious livers hate the religious? |
A67761 | but for the Word of God, and for the testimony which they maintained? |
A67761 | by whom was that vertuous and religious Lady Barbara put to death, for imbracing the Christian faith, but by her own Father Dioscorus? |
A67761 | how many a childe lesse beloved, because a religious childe? |
A67761 | how many a servant lesse respected, because a godly servant? |
A67761 | what better can be expected from them? |
A67761 | who helped to burn Bradford but Bourn, whose life he had formerly saved? |
A67761 | who made Serena the Empress a Martyr, for her faith in Christ, but her own husband Dioclesian? |
A67761 | who scoft at righteous Noah, but his own son Cham? |
A67761 | ● ut because they knew him not? |
A67757 | 17. and indeed, whom can you observe to love this sin, or to have their mouths full of cursing? |
A67757 | 36. and never give a reckoning for our wicked swearing and cursing? |
A67757 | And do you make it a small matter to forsake God, and make a God of the creature? |
A67757 | And in reason, Hath God done so much for us, and shall we denye him any thing he requireth of us? |
A67757 | And indeed why should not Gods servants take as free liberty in reproving, as the Devils servants take liberty in offending? |
A67757 | And indeed, who shall go to Hell, if Cursers should be left out? |
A67757 | And no marvail, for what Leaper will take pleasure in the searching of his sores? |
A67757 | And shall we deny this Lord that hath bought us? |
A67757 | And tell me, Were it a good plea, to commit a Felonie, and say that others do so? |
A67757 | And this God takes as done to himself; What saith Paul? |
A67757 | And who makes the difference of Wills, but God that made them? |
A67757 | Are not their tongues fired and edged from Hell? |
A67757 | Are we come without the Lord? |
A67757 | Are you Christians, as you call your selves? |
A67757 | Are you willing to be saved? |
A67757 | As what is light to them that will shut their eyes against it? |
A67757 | As who by looking in a Glasse shall spy spots in his face, and will not forthwith wipe them out? |
A67757 | Besides, how frequently doest thou pollute and prophane Gods Name, and thy Saviours? |
A67757 | Besides, why dost thou curse thine enemie? |
A67757 | But in this case, Who are you angry withall? |
A67757 | But this is not one half of thine offence, For whom doest thou curse? |
A67757 | But what are these men like, and how are they like to speed in the end? |
A67757 | But what do I urge reason to men of a reprobate judgment? |
A67757 | Did I swear or curse? |
A67757 | Did they not( many of them) live to see their C ● ty buried in ashes, and drowned in bloud: to see themselves no Nation? |
A67757 | Does your horse, the di ● e, the rain, or any other c ● eature displease you? |
A67757 | How much more will wicked men decline from seeing their hainous abominations, and themselves guilty of Hell, and eternall damnation? |
A67757 | How shall I spare thee for this? |
A67757 | Or Wilt thou leap into Hell and cast away thy soul, because others do so? |
A67757 | Shall not the one be as loud for God, as the other are for Baal and Belzebub? |
A67757 | The Iews said, Let his bloud be upon us and upon our children; and what followed? |
A67757 | Was there ever any people under heaven, that was made so fa ● ous a spectacle of misery and desolation? |
A67757 | What Prince hearing himself abused to his face, by the reproachfull words of his base and impotent Subject, would admit of such an excuse? |
A67757 | What will be the issue? |
A67757 | Whence as the Chief Priests answered Iud ● s, What is that to us? |
A67757 | Who could have lesse deserved those curses and stones from ● ● imei, then David? |
A67757 | Whom hast thou blasphemed? |
A67757 | Yea, did not that head deserve to be tonguelesse, that body to be headlesse, that so undeservedly cursed such an Innocent? |
A67757 | Yea, does not this keep them off from embracing the Christian Religion, and cause them to p ● ot ● st against their own conve ● s ● on? |
A67757 | and against whom hast thou exalted thy self? |
A67757 | or reason to them that will stop their Ears from hearing it? |
A67757 | or what is salvation to us? |
A67757 | shall we most spightfully and maliciously fight on Satans side against him with all our might, and that against knowledge and conscience? |
A67757 | sixteen hundred years are now past, since they wished themselves thus wretched; and have they not ever since, been the hate, and scorne of the world? |
A67757 | that whatsoever he spake with his mouth, yet he thought no ill in his heart? |
A67757 | what is heaven to us? |
A67757 | when they might as well say, W ● at is Christ to us? |
A67773 | ( especially if they have not been notorious offenders) Are they a whit troubled for Sin, either Original or Actual? |
A67773 | 12. to 21. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? |
A67773 | Again, this is an infallible truth, that without repentance there is no being saved; and what hope of their serious and unfained repentance? |
A67773 | Are you proud? |
A67773 | As ask them these questions, How do you hope to be saved? |
A67773 | As how many temptations come in by those Cink- ports the senses? |
A67773 | As what saies our Saviour? |
A67773 | As, are we bound to perform perfect obedience to the Law? |
A67773 | But it is very easie to believ, thinks the sensualist; yes, but why? |
A67773 | But it will be demanded how this comes ● be so? |
A67773 | Didst thou never hear Sermons unpreparedly, irreverently,& c? |
A67773 | Does thy heart upon a Sabbath rest from wordly thoughts? |
A67773 | Dost thou expect to have him mercifull to thee, that art unmerci ● ull, cruell, and bloody to ● i m, to his, and thine own soul? |
A67773 | For what wil such a one suggest to himself? |
A67773 | Hast thou been liberal to those that are owners of a part of thy goods? |
A67773 | Hast thou kept the Tenth Commandement? |
A67773 | Hast thou not robb''d God of his worship? |
A67773 | Have you never broke this or that Commandement? |
A67773 | If some that have journied in the wilderness to Kad ● sh- barnea, shall yet never enter into Gods rest; shall those that never left Egypt? |
A67773 | Is the stony ground reprobate? |
A67773 | It is a people that do 〈 ◊ 〉 their hearts, saies God; Why? |
A67773 | No, not they, What should they bee proud of? |
A67773 | Now tell me? |
A67773 | Or will they acknowledge themselves in a lost condition without Christ? |
A67773 | Therefore the mayn question is, Whether thou art a Believer? |
A67773 | Thou canst not away with swearing; but do''st thou reprove others for their swearing? |
A67773 | Thou shalt not commit Adultery? |
A67773 | Were we for disobedience subject to the sentence of condemnation, the curse of the Law, and death of body and soul? |
A67773 | What greater unbelife could there be? |
A67773 | What then is our sinfulnesse? |
A67773 | What will be their manner of answering? |
A67773 | When Christ wept over Jerusalem, what was the cause? |
A67773 | Whence come warrs, and fightings among you? |
A67773 | Which being so, how oft and how many wayes do we all offend? |
A67773 | Why shouldest thou deceive thy self with an opinion of faith? |
A67773 | Yea, what possibility is there that ever such a soul should have any benefit by Christ? |
A67773 | and what was the cause? |
A67773 | com ● they not hence? |
A67773 | hast thou not robb''d thy brother of his good name? |
A67773 | how many more by Satans injections? |
A67773 | much more thy tongue from worldly speeches? |
A67773 | of his Sabbaths? |
A67773 | presenting to the affections things absent from the sences? |
A67773 | to bee affected with joy in hearing the Word, and practice many things, with Herod? |
A67773 | to confess thy sins, and ● esire the people of God to pray for thee with Pharoah? |
A67773 | to venture thy life with Alexander the Copper- smith, in cleaving to the tru ● h? |
A67773 | to ● ee zealous against sin, with Jehu? |
A67773 | who finds not in himself, an indisposition of mind to all good; and an inclination to all evill? |
A67773 | willingly to part with a good part of ● hy goods, with Anarias? |
A67773 | ● o forsake the world& all thy hopes in it; to fol ● ow poor Christ, as Demus and others? |
A67764 | 14 ¶ Secondly, Are you regenerate and born anew? |
A67764 | 3 ¶ What wrong do they do you? |
A67764 | Again says the same Apostle, If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your carnal things? |
A67764 | And do you, instead of honoring, respecting and rewarding them, hate, traduce and persecute them? |
A67764 | And were it not most just with God to take away our faithful Ministers from us, when we so ill intreat them, and so unworthily reward them? |
A67764 | And who is there in all this Nation, that thinks not himself a Christian? |
A67764 | Are we not commanded by the Holy Ghost to have them in singular love, and count them worthy of double honor for their works sake? |
A67764 | Are you not ashamed of it? |
A67764 | As how many of your cavils and exceptions could I reckon up, that I have heard from your own mouths, if I would foul Paper with them? |
A67764 | As what can you alleadge for your selves, or against your Pastors? |
A67764 | But how do they serve Christ& themselves, in so serving their Ministers? |
A67764 | But left what hath been said should not prove sufficient; how basely will you calumniate him that but takes his Dues, especially of a poor body? |
A67764 | But what doting, blockish and brain- sick Bedlam- Positions are these? |
A67764 | Can you tell me? |
A67764 | Do ye not know, that they which minister about holy things, live of the things of the Temple? |
A67764 | Do you do by the Ministers as you ought, or as you would be done by? |
A67764 | Do you strive? |
A67764 | First, Are you of that small number? |
A67764 | If for a President? |
A67764 | If, why I have been silent so long? |
A67764 | Is this an evidence that you have them in singular respect for their works sake? |
A67764 | Is this change wrought in you? |
A67764 | Is this to receive them as an Angel of God, yea, as Christ Jesus? |
A67764 | Much Respected, IF you ask, Why I take this pains? |
A67764 | Now lay all together, and tell me whether this argues not hatred? |
A67764 | Now tell me what you think of these blockish Jews: Were they more wicked, or witless, or ingrateful? |
A67764 | Otherwise, how could you make such a mighty difference between your bodies and souls? |
A67764 | Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? |
A67764 | Secondly of your own, and all the peoples souls, as much as in you lies: For how should your Pastor feed your souls, if you feed not his body? |
A67764 | The righteous shall scarcely be saved; what then shall become of the unrighteous? |
A67764 | The sons of Eli would not hearken unto, nor obey the voice of their Father: why? |
A67764 | Then — Thirdly, Have you a true and lively faith in Jesus Christ? |
A67764 | To which I answer: What then makes you so spightful, in spitting out your spleen against them, when you but hear a Minister mentioned? |
A67764 | What makes you so frequent in slighting, scorning, and scoffing at them where ever you come, and in all companies? |
A67764 | What sayes our Saviour? |
A67764 | Whether you are Regenerate? |
A67764 | Whether you are of that small number, whom Christ hath chosen out of the world? |
A67764 | Whether you have true and saving faith? |
A67764 | You are gathered together against the Lord; and what is Aaron, that ye murmure against him? |
A67764 | and bring upon us a famine of Preaching, who would bring a famine upon the Preachers, by purloining the maintenance of his Ministers? |
A67764 | be rewarded with the greatest evil, for the greatest good; and the greatest hatred, for the most superlative love? |
A67764 | does it not make you tremble? |
A67764 | how should the lamp burn, if you take away the holy oil that should maintain it? |
A67764 | if not, what can? |
A67764 | such a one; why doest thou persecute me? |
A67764 | yea, is it not enough to make you despair of ever finding mercy at the Throne of Grace, or of having Christ your Redeemer and Advocate? |
A67764 | yea, since we love darkness more then light, may not God justly leave us in the dark? |
A67779 | & never give a reckoning for our wicked swearing and cursing? |
A67779 | And do you make it a small matter to forsake God, and make a God of the Creature? |
A67779 | And in reason, Hath God done so much for us, and shall we deny him any thing he requireth of us? |
A67779 | And indeed, what fence for a pistol charged with the bullet of friendship? |
A67779 | And indeed, who shall go to Hell, if Cursers should be left out? |
A67779 | And indeed, whom can you observe to love this sin, or to have their mouths full of cursing, but Ruffian ▪ and sons of Belial? |
A67779 | And indeed, why should not Gods servants take as free liberty in reproving, as the Devils servants take liberty in offending? |
A67779 | And no marvel, for what Leper will take pleasure in the searching of his sores? |
A67779 | And shall we deny this Lord that hath bought us? |
A67779 | And tell me, Were it a good plea, to commit a Fel ● ny, and say that others do so? |
A67779 | And this God takes as done to himself; What saith Paul? |
A67779 | And what a shame is it, that our God should not have as faithful servants, as he hath unfaithful enemies? |
A67779 | And what though their case be not onely desperate, but almo ● ● hopeless? |
A67779 | And what though we can not do what we would? |
A67779 | And whence do these Monsters of the earth, these hellish miscreants, these bodily and visible devils learn this their damnable cursing and swearing? |
A67779 | And who makes the difference of Wills, but God that made them? |
A67779 | Are not their tongues fired and edged from Hell? |
A67779 | Are we come without the Lord? |
A67779 | Are you willing to be saved? |
A67779 | As what is light to them that will shut their eyes against it? |
A67779 | As what saies Basil, Shall we speak to drunkards? |
A67779 | As who by looking in a Glass shall spy spots in his face, and will not forth with wipe them out? |
A67779 | Besides, how frequently dost thou pollute and profane Gods Name, and thy Saviours? |
A67779 | Besides, why dost thou curse thine enemy? |
A67779 | But in this case, Who are you angry withal? |
A67779 | But this is not one half of thine offence, For whom dost thou curse? |
A67779 | But what are these men like, and how are they like to speed in the end? |
A67779 | But what do I urge reason to men of a reprobate judgment? |
A67779 | Did I swear or curse? |
A67779 | Did they not( many of them) live to see their City buried in ashes, and drowned in bloud? |
A67779 | Did you ever know that wicked men, thieves, drunkards, adulterers, persecuters, false prophets, or the like, would be damned alone? |
A67779 | Does your horse, the dice, the rain, or any other creature displease you? |
A67779 | For as none but a Cain will say, Am I my brothers keeper? |
A67779 | How much more will wicked men decline from seeing their hainous abominations, and themselves guilty of Hell, and eternal damnation? |
A67779 | How shall I spare thee for this? |
A67779 | Or if he do, will not the Judge so much the rather send him to the Gallows? |
A67779 | Or wilt thou leap into Hell, and cast away thy soul, because others do so? |
A67779 | Shall not the one be as loud for God, as the other are for Baal and Beelzebub? |
A67779 | Sixteen hundred years are now past, since they wished themselves thus wretched: and have they not ever since been the hate and scorn of the world? |
A67779 | The Jews said, Let his bloud be upon us, and upon our children; and what followed? |
A67779 | Was there ever any people under heaven, that was made so famous a spectacle of misery and desolation? |
A67779 | What will be the issue? |
A67779 | Whence as the Chief Priests answered Judas, What is that to us? |
A67779 | Wherefore seekest thou to take me in a snare, to cause me to die? |
A67779 | Which being so, vvhat may the many millions of these ding- thrifty dearth- makers consume in a year in all the three Nations? |
A67779 | Who could have less deserved those curses and ston ● s from Shimei, than David? |
A67779 | Whom hast thou blasphemed? |
A67779 | Will you believe the Prophet Amos? |
A67779 | Yea, be perswaded to hearken a while unto me, as you would have God another day hearken unto you: Are you Christians, as you call your selves? |
A67779 | Yea, did not that head deserve to be tongueless, that body to be headless, that so undeservedly cursed such an Innocent? |
A67779 | Yea, does not this keep them off from embracing the Christian Religion, and cause them to protest against their ovvn conversion? |
A67779 | and against whom hast thou exalted thy self? |
A67779 | or reason to them that will stop their ears from hearing it? |
A67779 | or what is salvation to us? |
A67779 | shall we most spitefully and maliciously fight on Satans side against him with all our might, and that against knowledge and conscience? |
A67779 | to see themselves no Nation? |
A67779 | what is heaven to us? |
A67779 | when they might as well say, What is Christ to us? |
A67779 | 〈 ◊ 〉 shall we think any pains too much for that whi ● h will ad ● ● to the we 〈 … 〉 our eternal glory and salvation? |
A67780 | And how many more of those Martyrs 〈 ◊ 〉 Queen Maryes Raign, were even ravished, before they could be permitt ● ● to die? |
A67780 | And indeed, what have we by our second birth, which is not miraculous in comparison of our naturall condition? |
A67780 | And what saith our Saviour to the unjust Steward? |
A67780 | And why forsooth? |
A67780 | As let me ask ● ur discreet ones but this question? |
A67780 | As what think you of Ionathan, whom neither steepness of Rocks, nor multitude of enemies, could discourage, or diswade from so unlikely an assault? |
A67780 | But how contrary is the opinion of the World, to the judgment of God, and the wisest of men concerning valour? |
A67780 | But what ever others find, thy sufferings are not thus counterpoysed and sweetned? |
A67780 | But with what comforts doth the Lord supply our losses? |
A67780 | But ● hat if God findes it meet? |
A67780 | For the Law of God, and the Law of Nature forbids it; and doth not the Law of Nations also? |
A67780 | For what are the things our enemies can take from us, in comparison of Christ, the Ocean of our comfort, and Heaven the place of our rest? |
A67780 | Had it been an ill office ● o have cryed out and said? |
A67780 | He that will corrupt his conscience for a pound, what would he do for a thousand? |
A67780 | How oft have we heard men that have been displeased with others, tear the Name of their Maker in pieces? |
A67780 | I, but is it wisdome so to do? |
A67780 | If Iudas will fell his Master for thirty pence, what would he not have done for the Treasury? |
A67780 | Now if all our sufferings are thus counterpoysed, and exceeded with blessings; have we any cau ● e to be angry and impatient? |
A67780 | Now, whethers counsell wilt thou follow? |
A67780 | O Adam take heed what thou dost? |
A67780 | O gentle Cato, how happy art thou to have been such an one? |
A67780 | Shall we receive good at the ● ● nd of God, and not evill? |
A67780 | So he that will not be in Charity, shall never be in Heaven: And why should I do my self a shrewd turn because ● nother would? |
A67780 | The King of Israel set bread and water before the host of the King of Syria, when he might have slain them, 2 King 6.23 ▪ What did he lose by it? |
A67780 | Their conquering was by dying, not by killing: and, can the back of Charity now bear no load? |
A67780 | What need we return rayling for rayling? |
A67780 | What saith Iob? |
A67780 | What saith a Father? |
A67780 | What saith one advisedly? |
A67780 | What will not men undergo, so their pay may be answerable? |
A67780 | What''s the reason? |
A67780 | When Aristippus was asked by one in derision, where the great high friendship was become, that formerly had been between him and Aeschines? |
A67780 | Who will not suffer a few stripes from a Father, by whom he receiveth so much good, even all that he hath? |
A67780 | Why doth the Hare use so many doublings? |
A67780 | Will any man eat poyson because there is but a little of it? |
A67780 | Would any man put his life to a venture, if he knew that when he died he should presently drop into hell? |
A67780 | are the sinews of Love grown so feeble? |
A67780 | but what if I passe over and fall not? |
A67780 | or had we not more cause to be fill''d with joy and thank ● fulness, that we our selves are in better case? |
A67780 | or if a Mastiff had bitten me, would you have me go to Law with him? |
A67780 | or who will be angry with a Dogge for barking? |
A67780 | or, had he cause to repent himself? |
A67780 | slay them? |
A67780 | where are those torme ● ● ● which whilome thou didst so threaten me withall? |
A67780 | which told him, that God was his enemy, and knew no oth ● ● th ● n th ● t hell should be his everlasting portion? |
A67780 | who can ● avell? |
A67762 | 14. and indeed, if they are spiritually discerned, how should they discern them that have not the spirit? |
A67762 | Again, Fifthly, how does Lust blind and be ● ot men? |
A67762 | Again, if it be asked, Why the natural man perceiveth not the things of the spirit of God? |
A67762 | And how should it be otherwise? |
A67762 | And so how poor are the witches, that in confidence of these promises, even sell their souls to the Devil? |
A67762 | And what greater folly? |
A67762 | And what is the summa totalis of all, but this? |
A67762 | Are 〈 ◊ 〉 these so many infallible properties of a fool? |
A67762 | As how often is that spent upon one Christmas revelling by the Son, which was forty years a getting by the Father? |
A67762 | Besides, if these great knowers know so little, how ignorant are the rude rabble, that despise all knowledge? |
A67762 | But Sixthly, what can we think of an improvident Gamester? |
A67762 | But how shall a man know, whether he hath this knowledge? |
A67762 | But why? |
A67762 | But would there men( any one, even the best of them) thus improve, or imploy their knowledge? |
A67762 | Fourthly, what think you of common Idolaters? |
A67762 | How could he other then think, if Lust had not blinded and betwitched him, She whose body is mercenary to me, will easily sell me to others? |
A67762 | How did they shake him off in that pitiful distress, with, Look thou to it? |
A67762 | How the heat of the stomach, and the strength of the nether chap should be so great? |
A67762 | How the waters should stand upon a heap, and yet not over flow the earth? |
A67762 | If Idolaters will needs set up a false god for the true, is it not equal, that the true God should give them over to the false? |
A67762 | In the last place, Are not all wilful sinners a ● ● ant fo ● ls? |
A67762 | Is it not a dear purchase, an ill penniworth? |
A67762 | Is not he a Fool? |
A67762 | Kill the child in the womb, and never hurt the Mother? |
A67762 | Like Prisilla and Aquila, poor Tent- makers, who were able to school Apollos that great Clerk, a man renowned for his learning: What can we say to it? |
A67762 | Or do they desire it to any such end? |
A67762 | Seventhly, let me refer it to any rational man, whether the Voluptuous Prodigal is not a sta ● k Fool? |
A67762 | That think the v ● wed enemy of their souls, can offer them a bait without a ho ● k? |
A67762 | They are such cunning dissemblers, that like Pope Alexander the sixth, what they think they never speak: Why is this cast away, saith Judas? |
A67762 | They set their mouths against heaven, and are like an unruly Jade, that being full fed kicks at his Master; what course doth the Lord take with them? |
A67762 | To have as expert a tongue, and as quick a memory as Portius, a perfect understanding, great science, profound eloquence, a sweet stile? |
A67762 | To have the force of Demosthenes, the depth of Thesius, the perswas ● ● e art of Tully,& c. if withal he wants Grace, and lives remisly? |
A67762 | Was there ever such a motion made to a reasonable man? |
A67762 | What is the notional sweetness of honey, to the experimental taste of it? |
A67762 | What saies Aristotle? |
A67762 | What saith Aristotle? |
A67762 | What saith Pharaoh to his deep Counsellers? |
A67762 | What saith our Saviour? |
A67762 | When Christ taught in the Temple, they asked, How knoweth this man the Scriptures, seeing he never learned them? |
A67762 | Who would not have spurned such a suitor out of doors? |
A67762 | Why a flash of lightning should melt the sword, without making any impression in the scabbard? |
A67762 | Why the Load- stone should draw Iron; or inc ● ine to the pole- star? |
A67762 | Why the clouds above being heavy with water, should not fall to the earth suddenly, seeing every heavy thing descendeth? |
A67762 | With the A ● ● ronomer, to observe the motion of the heavens, while his heart is buried in the earth? |
A67762 | With the Historian, to know what others have done, and how they have sped, while he neglects the imitation of such as are gone the right way? |
A67762 | With the Law- maker, to set down many Laws in particular, and not to remember the common Law of nature, or Law general that all must die? |
A67762 | Yea, how little was Judas set by of the High Priests, when once he had served their turn? |
A67762 | Yea, what a deal of pains and care does the covetous man take for his own damnation? |
A67762 | are not they arrant fools? |
A67762 | but they are grosly mistaken: for wherein doth this their great wisdom consist? |
A67762 | could not Paul shew as much cunning as Tertullus? |
A67762 | ever tormenting himself to get that, for getting whereof, he shall be tormented? |
A67762 | not that there is a deficiency of power in the godly, but will: for could not David go as far as Achithophel? |
A67762 | the wisdom of A ● ithophel into folly ● the wisdom of Nimrod into confusion? |
A67762 | the wisdom of Jezabel, into a shameful death? |
A67762 | the wisdom of the Pharisees into a wo? |
A67762 | the wisdom of the unjust Steward into expulsion out of Heaven? |
A67762 | this divine and supernatural wisdom? |
A67762 | to have the theory, and be able to prattle of wisdom by rote, yet not know what it is by effect and experience? |
A67762 | to search out the cause of many effects, and let pass the consideration of the principal, and most necessary? |
A67762 | was not the wisdom of the serpent turned into a curse? |
A67762 | who Adam like, will receive whatever comes, or is offered them? |
A67782 | 24 ▪ to 32. yea, is it likely that God will accept of thy dry bones when Satan hath suckt out all the marrow? |
A67782 | 49. how glorious and wonderful, is the Maker thereof, and the City where he keeps his Court? |
A67782 | And how little is that man hurt, whom malice condemns on earth, and God commends in Heaven? |
A67782 | And indeed were it not so, what would become of us? |
A67782 | And what makes the difference? |
A67782 | And what though thy sufferings be never so sad? |
A67782 | And where we shall reign with Christ our Bridegroom, and be the Lambs wife? |
A67782 | And would you know whether you belong to Christ? |
A67782 | And wouldest thou know whether thou art a Beleever or no? |
A67782 | Art thou not as conscientious alone, and in private where God onely sees thee, as if thy greatest enemy, or all the world did behold thee? |
A67782 | Art thou not careful in the use of the means, to attain faith in the promise of Gods mercy made in Christ? |
A67782 | Art thou not evil spoken of for well doing? |
A67782 | As what else do these great clusters of grapes signifie? |
A67782 | As who would not, except Satan hath strangely bewitcht him? |
A67782 | Daunce hood- winked into this perdition? |
A67782 | Dost thou desire beauty, riches, honour, pleasure, long- life, or what ever else can be named? |
A67782 | Dost thou not desire and pr ● y for the salvation of others? |
A67782 | Dost thou not love zeal and devotion in others? |
A67782 | Dost thou not make conscience of sanctifying his Sabbaths? |
A67782 | Dost thou not more fear the want of grace then con ● ide in what thou hast? |
A67782 | Dost thou not rejoyce when the righteous are exalted, and grieve when the wicked bear rule? |
A67782 | FOurthly and lastly, these things being so; how doth it concern all, to see that they are Believers? |
A67782 | First, are the joyes of Heaven so unspeakable and glorious? |
A67782 | Heaven shall receive us, we can not conceive Heaven: Do you ask me what Heaven is saith one? |
A67782 | How does the assurance of the pardon of sinne alone, clear and calm all storms of the mind? |
A67782 | How would it charm their mouthes, apale their spirits, strike fear and astonishment into their hearts? |
A67782 | If he shut his ear against their prayers calling to him for pardon, that stopt their ears against hi ● Voice calling upon them for repentance? |
A67782 | If the Air be generally infectious, had we not need to be so much the more strict in our Diet, and carefull in the use of wholesome preservatives? |
A67782 | Is it not grievous to thee to hear God blasphemed, and dishonoured? |
A67782 | Is not Christ thy greatest joy, sin thy greatest sorrow, and grace the prime object of thy desires? |
A67782 | Lazarus was for a time extream miserable; what then? |
A67782 | No sayes he, why shovld I vex my self, because another hath vexed me? |
A67782 | Now what heart would not bleed to see men runne headlong into these tortures, that are thus intollerable? |
A67782 | Or why should I do my self a shrewd turn, because another would? |
A67782 | Secondly, who would not serve a short apprentiship, in Gods service here? |
A67782 | That he will give his heavenly and spirituall graces at the hour of death, to those who have contemned them all their life? |
A67782 | Thirdly, How is it possible? |
A67782 | What a mad conceit were this? |
A67782 | Whatever thou enjoyest on this side Hell, dost thou not think thy self unworthy of it? |
A67782 | When Pilate asked, What shall be done with Iesus? |
A67782 | When thou dost any thing amisse dost thou not accuse thy self? |
A67782 | Whether he finds not his joy to be like the joy of Harvest? |
A67782 | Wouldest thou be loosed from the chains of thy sins, and delivered from the chains of plagues? |
A67782 | Wouldest thou have the same Christ, with his precious Blood to free thee, that shall with his Word sentence others? |
A67782 | Wouldest thou have thy very poysons turned into cordials? |
A67782 | Wouldest thou then have it fare so with thee? |
A67782 | Yea what pain can we think too much to suffer? |
A67782 | Yea, is it not most just and equall if God will not be found of those that were content to lose him? |
A67782 | Yea, who would not be a Philpot for a moneth, or a Lazarus for a day, or a Stephen for an hour; that he might be in Abrahams bosome for ever? |
A67782 | and holy City? |
A67782 | and shall not God much mor ●, who is both the Father of mercies, and the Authour of mercy and compassion in others? |
A67782 | and thy greatest evils made beneficial unto thee? |
A67782 | he should dote upon these transitory things below; that but seriously thinks upon what is reserved for us in Heaven? |
A67782 | how glorious then is the Creator himself? |
A67782 | if any thing well, dost thou not give all the praise to God? |
A67782 | so if the worst of a Believers life in this world be so sweet; how sweet shall his life be in that Heavenly Ierusalem? |
A67782 | thy terrours, changed into pleasures? |
A67782 | what little enough to do? |
A67782 | ● o 24. yea, what Father or Master will not from his young and newly weaned Child, or sick and weak servant, accept of the will for the deed? |
A67763 | 12.18, 20. find out a name for him that takes away other mens? |
A67763 | A man feeds the stomach, that it may nourish and preserve his whole body: if he did not, what should he gain by it? |
A67763 | ANd to speak rightly, who but the Supream Magistrate hath been the cause of all? |
A67763 | And Gold is the covetous mans God: and will he part with his God, a certainty for an uncertainty? |
A67763 | And I need not ask any more, then that you would ask your own conscience, whether you would be so dealt withall? |
A67763 | And how could better be expected from such sons of Belial? |
A67763 | And in all reason, if a man be not worthy of a place, why should he have it? |
A67763 | And indeed: how should not that Eye be blind? |
A67763 | And should they not be all served alike? |
A67763 | And what Court was there almost, in the Land? |
A67763 | And what care men, so they get money, and great places? |
A67763 | And what is the Almighty that we should serve him? |
A67763 | And what man will not hazard a joynt, much more part with a little pelf to preserve his life, and all else he does enjoy? |
A67763 | And yet what should hinder? |
A67763 | Are you already inslaved to this sin? |
A67763 | Are you yet bewitcht with the love of money? |
A67763 | As what sayes the worldling? |
A67763 | As what will all your Honour and Greatness do you good? |
A67763 | As who will not give him bribes? |
A67763 | BUt thirdly, what good can their great wealth and honour do them, if other things concur not therewith? |
A67763 | But fools as they were, hovv could they finde out a better Governour? |
A67763 | But might not our Senators before spoken of, have said to their Soveraign ●; as Socrates said once to this unjust Iudges? |
A67763 | But what followes in the next verse? |
A67763 | But what multitudes? |
A67763 | But what of all this? |
A67763 | But what saith Solomon? |
A67763 | Cambyses falling in love with his Sister, asked the Iudges; whether it were lawful for him to marry her? |
A67763 | Did they not make it lawful to prophane the Lords Day? |
A67763 | Did they not make their greatness? |
A67763 | Did they not think, that because they were great on earth; they might be bold with heaven? |
A67763 | Do you make Gold your God? |
A67763 | Doth Covetousnesse reign in you? |
A67763 | For is not the City, and Country, become as a common prison of cheates? |
A67763 | For to speak really and impartially, what is the Iustice, the Iudge, yea, the King himself? |
A67763 | Have you not heard of a Lawyer? |
A67763 | He that goes to Law, hath a Wolf by the eares: if he prosecute his Cause, he is consumed; if he surcease his Suit, he loseth all: what difference? |
A67763 | How much sweeter then is the fruit of study? |
A67763 | How numberless are those precious Volumes, that are ever tempting us both to delight and profit? |
A67763 | Is your heart riveted to the Earth? |
A67763 | LEt these things be considered, and then tell me, whether we might not complain of our times, as the Prophets of former times, and say? |
A67763 | Might not the worst cause? |
A67763 | NOw what is the reason of all? |
A67763 | Nor can an honest man, buy such bargains: For how can he sell cheap, that buyes dear? |
A67763 | Now these things being so, let them be but seriously considered, and then say, wherein the great gain lies, that should make men desire great places? |
A67763 | Now, whom would not all this ravish with joy? |
A67763 | One asking, how he should have a Suit last him seven years? |
A67763 | Or shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? |
A67763 | Or the foulest crime find favour? |
A67763 | Sell all that ever thou hast, and distribute unto the poor: And is there any hope of his yeelding? |
A67763 | Shall I not visite for these things, saith the Lord? |
A67763 | So you have my Apology; or if you shall further ask why I take this pains? |
A67763 | The un- worthy think still, Who am I not? |
A67763 | Their language is give; and the theeves is but deliver: now what is the difference, betwixt give, and deliver? |
A67763 | To which accords that of the Oracle: The Sibarites desirous to know from Apollo, how long their prosperity should last? |
A67763 | Was not vice countenanced, aud vertue discouraged? |
A67763 | What an heaven lives a Scholar in? |
A67763 | What is it to flourish for a time, and perish for ever? |
A67763 | What shall become of him, that takes away other mens? |
A67763 | What stability is there then, in earthly greatness? |
A67763 | What then will a godly consciencious Christian say? |
A67763 | What were it to have a purple coat, and a polluted conscience? |
A67763 | What will all those goodly Titles of Majesty, and other priviledges avail them? |
A67763 | What''s the matter? |
A67763 | Who but Adrianus, Emperour of the East, for many yeers? |
A67763 | Who can be weary? |
A67763 | Yea, I can wonder at nothing more, then how a Scholar can be idle, or dumpish? |
A67763 | Yea, have not you found it so? |
A67763 | Yea, if I may be so bold, were they not Heads under which the whole body groaned? |
A67763 | Yea, what can a Magistrate do acceptable to the good; but lewd men will misinterpret it? |
A67763 | Yet, Who am I, sayes he? |
A67763 | a Supersedeas to sin, and a Protection against the arrest of judgement? |
A67763 | among all their twelve Tribes? |
A67763 | and chink to bear off the judgements of God, by vertue of their high places? |
A67763 | and in the same manner before specified? |
A67763 | and justle out Gods honour( which should be more deer to Princes then their Crowns and lives) with their own? |
A67763 | if a guilty conscience do but chide them? |
A67763 | if deserving, why should he buy that, which( in justice, piety and true policie) is due unto him? |
A67763 | swarving as much from justice, honesty, and Religion; as a picture does from a man? |
A67763 | the conscience of knowledge? |
A67763 | what event doth not challenge our observation? |
A67736 | 17. and if in ocency found no means of resistance, what hope have we so extreamly degenerated? |
A67736 | 2. and again to Gajus, 3 Iohn 1. whom I love in the truth, but to shew, that to love in the truth, is the only true love? |
A67736 | 2. wouldst thou help the wicked, and love them that hate the Lord? |
A67736 | ? |
A67736 | And Alphonsus King of Arragon being demanded, what company he liked best? |
A67736 | And can we converse with none but will work upon us, and by the unperceived stealth of time, assimilate us to their own customs? |
A67736 | And doth not experience teach us, that the good are sooner perverted by the bad, then the bad converted by the good? |
A67736 | And if Peter walkt upon the pavement of the water, did the rest of t ● ● ● ● sciples step forth and follow him? |
A67736 | And indeed, why do we pray not to be led into temptation, if we lead our selves into temptation? |
A67736 | And was not all this, to shew us what wee should doe in the like cases? |
A67736 | And what else can be looked for from them? |
A67736 | And what if admonition and reproof be as unwelcome to thy friend, as water into a Ship? |
A67736 | Antisthenes being asked what fruit he had reaped of all his study? |
A67736 | As whom would it not stir, to hear oaths 〈 ◊ 〉 for number, with words; scoffs, with oaths; vain speeches, with both? |
A67736 | BUT is it warrantable, may some say, to separate from our old acquaintance,( being vicious) and other the like company? |
A67736 | But is Sathan contrary to himself, and is his Kingdom divided in it self? |
A67736 | But to what end doe I tell a blind man, how glorious and bright a creature the Sun is? |
A67736 | Can none please thee, but such as displease God? |
A67736 | For what availes it to have the bodies from the same original, when the souls within them differ? |
A67736 | For 〈 … 〉 found a guard in the Lyons Den, shall another thrust himself t ● ● reinto for ● ● elter? |
A67736 | He is bold to ask the Lord this question; Who s ● al dwel in thy tabernacle, who shal rest in t ● y holy mountain? |
A67736 | He that hath money, will beware of theeves: if you have any grace venture it not among these ri ● ● ers: 〈 ◊ 〉, art thou inclined to pray? |
A67736 | How many have chosen rather to embrace the flams, then to reveal their companions, and b ● ethren in Christ? |
A67736 | How many have irrecoverably lost their good names, by keeping company with suspected persons? |
A67736 | How many, that meant not to sin, are won only by the opportunity? |
A67736 | How was just Lot vexed with the uncleanly conversation of his wicked neighbou ● s? |
A67736 | If I know the thing to be good, and that I do it to a good end, what care I for their idle misconstruction? |
A67736 | Is every man busie in dispending that quality, which is predominant in him? |
A67736 | Now, saith one, If such a Ce ● ar fell, how shall I stand? |
A67736 | Peter had never denyed and forsworn his Master if he had not been in company with Christ''s enemies: but then how soon was he changed? |
A67736 | The men of the World practise, what once a Jester spake, who, when a great Lord asked him, whether he would go to Heaven or Hell? |
A67736 | The precept is plain, one believeth that he may ● at of all things; and another which is weak ● ateth herbs, saith the Apostle, and what followes? |
A67736 | There is not any one( quoth the sincere Christian) either in blood, or otherwise so near unto me, but if he fall from God, I will fall from him: why? |
A67736 | They were mingled among the heathen( saith the Psalmist) and what followes? |
A67736 | What communion can righteousness have with unrighteousness? |
A67736 | What need men trouble themselves with that which so little concerns them? |
A67736 | What needs the eye serve more to the use of the other members, in being watchfull rightly to direct th ● m, then for it self? |
A67736 | What saith the Prophet to King Ichosaphat, wouldst thou help the wicked, and not only so, but wouldst thou love them that ha ● e the Lord? |
A67736 | What was the reason( think we) that our Saviour would not suffer his weak Disciple, in the Gospel, to go and bury his dead father? |
A67736 | When if there be one in a company, that abhors impious language, they will blaspheme on purpose to vex him? |
A67736 | When they will think themselves slighted, if they be not sent away drunk? |
A67736 | When to depart sober, is 〈 ◊ 〉 incivility? |
A67736 | Why do we pray, deliver us from evil, but that we imply, besides all other mischiefes, that there is an infectious power in it, to make us evil? |
A67736 | Why them, that live with us on earth but a while; equall to them, that shall live with us in H ● aven for ever? |
A67736 | Why was that Law enacted, for the strict avoiding of Leprous persons? |
A67736 | Will any( not debauc ● ed) cen ● ure him of ficklenes ● e for it? |
A67736 | Will you know what course Demostheness took in this case? |
A67736 | Wilt thou neglect the office of a friend, to avoid the suspition of an enemy? |
A67736 | Yea, when it is not enough for them to be bad themselves, except they 〈 ◊ 〉 at the good? |
A67736 | Yea, who, having grace, can hear such wickednesse, and ● eeleth not some sp ● rk of holy in ● ignation arise in him, while he thinks of it? |
A67736 | dost thou not know, that who so will be a friend to such, makes himself the enemy of God? |
A67736 | hee that is evill to himself, to whom will he be good? |
A67736 | it may be deman ● ed; ● hould Christians be friends with them who are enemies to the Cross of Christ? |
A67736 | or a poor man, what summes of money are in the Kin ● s Exchequers? |
A67736 | or go into an infected house, to fetch out a rich suite? |
A67736 | they will tempt thee to play: wouldst thou go to a Sermon? |
A67736 | what needs the hand cast it self betwixt a blow and the head, though it be cut off by this mean? |
A67736 | what should we do in the presence of base persons, when even our seber ignorance, in ill courses, is more then di ● teemed of the world? |
A67736 | where shall we find one spiritual leper alone? |
A67736 | will two friends, like two brands set each other on fire with good, or ill, when one alone will go out? |
A67772 | An ● how am I served accordingly? |
A67772 | And are they to be endured everlastingly? |
A67772 | And indeed, if the gates of the City be of Pearl, and the streets of Gold; what then are the inner rooms, the dining and lodging chambers? |
A67772 | And now for conclusion: Are the Joys of Heaven so unspeakable and glorious? |
A67772 | And what makes the difference? |
A67772 | And what shall I say more? |
A67772 | And withal lose their part and portion in the Kingdom of Heaven, as the Word of God expresly tells us? |
A67772 | As consider, If a dark dungeon here be so loathsom, what is that dungeon of eternal, of utter darkness? |
A67772 | As tell me, Will not their blood be required at your hands, if they perish through your neglect? |
A67772 | As what says the Apostle? |
A67772 | As, Dost thou desire beauty, riches, honour, pleasure, long life, or whatever else can be named? |
A67772 | As, Who would not obtain Heaven at any rate, at any cost or trouble whatsoever? |
A67772 | But, oh wretched Caitiff that I am; how hath the Devil and my own deceitful and devilish heart deluded me? |
A67772 | Christ our Redeemer and Elder- brother? |
A67772 | Dance hoodwinkt into this perdition? |
A67772 | Do we delight in good company? |
A67772 | Do you ask what Heaven is? |
A67772 | FIrst, Is it so, that the torments of Hell are so exquisite? |
A67772 | For as St. Paul tells us, The heart of man is not able to conceive those joyes; which being so, How should I be able to express them in words? |
A67772 | For if the brightness of the body shall match the Sun, what will the glory and splendour of the soul be? |
A67772 | For this incorruptible Crown of Glory in Heaven? |
A67772 | Fourthly, Is it so? |
A67772 | Hath Christ done so much for us, and shall we deny him any thing he requireth of us? |
A67772 | He who brings even idle words to judgment, and forgets not a thought of disobedience, how will he spare our gross negligence and presumption? |
A67772 | Hearken we unto Christs voice, in all that he saith unto us, without being swayed one way or another, as the most are? |
A67772 | Hell in Scripture is called a Lake, that burneth with fire and brimstone; and, than the torment of the former, what more acute? |
A67772 | How does this hang together? |
A67772 | How glorious and wonderful is the Maker thereof, and the City where he keeps his Court? |
A67772 | How is it that we are not more affected therewith? |
A67772 | How sweet then shall our knowledge in heaven be? |
A67772 | How then should we admire the love and bounty of God, and bless his Name, who for the performance of so small a work, hath proposed so great a Reward? |
A67772 | How will it end? |
A67772 | How wouldst thou toss and tumble, and turn from one side to another? |
A67772 | If material fire be so terrible, what is Hell- fire? |
A67772 | If the earnest penny be so precious and promising here; What shall the principal, and full crop and harvest of happiness in Heaven be? |
A67772 | If then the beginning and first fruits of it be so sweet, what shall the fulness of that beatifical Vision of God be? |
A67772 | In whom there is nothing but amiable, comfortable, delectable? |
A67772 | It will put thee to a demur, What have I done? |
A67772 | Now consider, Is one hours twitche of the worm of conscience here? |
A67772 | Now what heart would not bleed, to see men run headlong into those tortures that are thus intolerable? |
A67772 | Oh that men would believe the God of truth( that can not lye) touching spiritual and eternal things, but as they do these temporary and transitory? |
A67772 | Or in case we have peace of conscience, alas, how often is it interrupted with anguish of spirit? |
A67772 | Or that light from whence it receives its light? |
A67772 | SEcondly, Are the Joys of Heaven so unspeakable and glorious? |
A67772 | The Angels and Saints our Comforts and Companions? |
A67772 | The holy Ghost our Comforter? |
A67772 | Then wilt thou say, O that I had been more wise, or that I were now to begin my life again; then would I contemn the world with all its vanities? |
A67772 | What am I now aabout? |
A67772 | What is a thousand years? |
A67772 | What is eternity of hell torments? |
A67772 | What little enough to do, to obtain eternity? |
A67772 | What pleasure shall we take in the company of Saints and Angels? |
A67772 | What then can be more equal, then that thou shouldst suffer everlastingly? |
A67772 | What then will it be to lie in flames of fire? |
A67772 | What though it be usual with men, to have no sense of their souls till they must leave their bodies? |
A67772 | What will it be to enjoy the immediate presence, and glory of God our Father? |
A67772 | What''s a Fetter to a Dungeon? |
A67772 | Whether he finds not his joy to be like to the joy of harvest? |
A67772 | Whether will this course tend? |
A67772 | While we are here, how many clouds of discontent have we to darken the Sunshine of our Joy? |
A67772 | Who would not serve a short Apprenticeship in Gods service here, to be made for ever free in glory? |
A67772 | Will it not be sad to have Children and Servants rise up in judgment against you, and to bring in Evidence at the great Tribunal of Christ? |
A67772 | Will not this be sad? |
A67772 | Yea more, is Heaven so unspeakably sweet and delectable, is Hell so unutterably doleful? |
A67772 | Yea, are all these, and all other pains that can be named put together, but shadows and flea- bitings to it? |
A67772 | Yea, how can we be thankful enough for so great a blessing? |
A67772 | Yea, how little, how nothing, are the poor and temporary enjoyments of this life, to those we shall enjoy in the next? |
A67772 | Yea, how oft do those Russians that deny God at the Tap- house, preach him at the Gallows? |
A67772 | Yea, is one minutes twitch of a tooth pulling out so unsufferable? |
A67772 | Yea, what pain can we think too much to suffer? |
A67772 | Yea, who can utter the sweetness of that peace of Conscience, and spiritual rejoycing in God, which himself hath tasted? |
A67772 | Yea, who would not be a Philpot for a month, or a Lazarus for a day, or a Stephen for an hour, that he might be in Abrahams bosome for ever? |
A67772 | a Gallows to Hell- fire? |
A67772 | and confess that in sincerity of heart, which they oppugned in wantonness? |
A67772 | how would it charm their mouths, appall their spirits, strike fear and astonishment into their hearts? |
A67772 | or as men rejoyce when they divide a spoil? |
A67772 | than the smell of the latter, what more noysome? |
A67772 | the presence chamber of the great Monarch of Heaven and Earth? |
A67772 | the torments of Hell so woful and dolorous? |
A67772 | those delights and pleasures, that are reserved for the glorified Saints, and Gods dearest darlings in heaven? |
A67772 | what then may we think of the maker and builder thereof? |
A67781 | 14 and indeed if they are spiritually discerned, how should they descern them that have not the spirit? |
A67781 | 15. to the hardning of many in their Atheism, and Unbelief: For what should hinder? |
A67781 | Again, Fifthly, how does lust blinde and besot men? |
A67781 | Again, If it be asked, Why the natural man perceiveth not the things of the spirit of God? |
A67781 | And in another place; Know ye not, that the amity of the world, is the enmity of God? |
A67781 | And what greater folly? |
A67781 | And what is the cause they acknowledg not the same now, but their blindness and folly? |
A67781 | And what is the summa totalis of all but this? |
A67781 | Are not these so many infallible properties of a fool? |
A67781 | As how often is that spent upon one Christmas revelling by the son, which was forty years a getting by the Father? |
A67781 | BUt would these men( any one, even the best of them) thus improve, or imploy their knowledge? |
A67781 | Besides, if these great knowers know so little, how ignorant are the rude rabble, that despise all knowledge? |
A67781 | Briefly, how oft doth wisdom without grace prove like a fair estate in the hands of a sool, which not seldom becomes the owners ruine? |
A67781 | But If you would know how to call them, they are properly subtle persens? |
A67781 | But Sixthly, what can we think of an improvident Gamester? |
A67781 | But how shall a man know, whether he hath this knowledge? |
A67781 | But what can the Prince of darknesse propound? |
A67781 | But why? |
A67781 | Did our Saviour Christ forbear to heal on the Sabbath day, because the Scribes and Pharisees took it ● ll? |
A67781 | Fourthly, what think you of common Idolaters? |
A67781 | How could hee other then thinke, if lust had not blinded and bewitched him? |
A67781 | How did they shake him off in that pittiful distresse, with look thou to it? |
A67781 | How the heat of the stomach, and the strength of the nether chap should be so great? |
A67781 | How the waters should stand upon a heap, and yet not over- flow the earth? |
A67781 | If Idolaters will need set up a false god for the true, is it not equal, that the true God should give them over to the false? |
A67781 | In the last place, Are not all wilfull sinners arrant fools? |
A67781 | Is it not a dear purchase? |
A67781 | Is it not the manner of thousands with us? |
A67781 | Kill the Child in the womb, and never hurt the Mother? |
A67781 | Or do they desire it to any such end? |
A67781 | Or that Germain Clow ●, who under- took to be very ready in the ten Commandments: but being demanded by the Minister which was the first? |
A67781 | Paul a polluter of the Temple? |
A67781 | Seventhly, let me refer it to any rational man, whether the Voluptuous Prodigal is not a stark Fool? |
A67781 | She whose body is mercenary to me, will easily fell me to others? |
A67781 | Steven a destroyer of the Law? |
A67781 | Tell me, wherewith thou mayest be bound to do thee hurt? |
A67781 | That think the vowed enemy of their souls, can offer them a bait without a hook? |
A67781 | They set their mouths against heaven, and are like an unruly Jade, that being full fed kicks at his Master; what course doth the Lord take with them? |
A67781 | Thirdly, are the one regenerate, the other carnall? |
A67781 | To have as expert a tongue, and as quick a memory as Portius; a perfect understanding, great science, profound eloquence, a sweet stile? |
A67781 | To have the force of Demosthenes, the depth of Thesius, the perswasive art of Tully,& c. if withal he wants Grace, and lives remissely? |
A67781 | VVhat cause have we then to blesse the giver? |
A67781 | Was it not an a gu ● ● nt that Haman was blinde? |
A67781 | Was not Ahab blinde? |
A67781 | Was not the wisdome of the Serpent turned into a curse? |
A67781 | Was there ever such a motion made to a reasonable man? |
A67781 | We fools thought his life madnesse, and his end to be without honour: How is he now numbred with the children of God, and his lot among the Saints? |
A67781 | Were not the Jews, Scribes& Pharisees blind, who could see more unlawfulness in the Disciples plucking a few ears of Corn on the sabbath- day? |
A67781 | What communion between light and darknesse? |
A67781 | What hath pride profited us? |
A67781 | What is the notional sweetness of Honey, to the experimental taste of it? |
A67781 | What saith Aristotle? |
A67781 | What saith Pharaoh to his deep Counsellors? |
A67781 | What saith our Saviour? |
A67781 | What sayes Aristotle? |
A67781 | When Christ taught in the Temple, they asked, Hovv knovveth this man the Scriptures, seeing he never learned them? |
A67781 | Who would not have spurned such a sutor out of doors? |
A67781 | Why a flash of lightening should melt the sword without making any impression in the scabbard? |
A67781 | Why is this cast away, saith Iudas? |
A67781 | Why the Loadstone should draw iron, or incline to the pole- star? |
A67781 | Why the clouds above being heavie with water, should not fall to the earth suddenly, seeing every heavy thing descendeth? |
A67781 | Will the Merchant be discouraged because his wine pleaseth not a sicke mans palate? |
A67781 | With the Astronomer, to observe the motions of the heavens; while his heart is buried in the earth? |
A67781 | With the Historian, to know what others have done, and how they have sped; while he neglecteth the imitation of such, as are gone the right way? |
A67781 | With the Law- maker, to set down many Lawes in particular, and not to remember the common Law of nature, or Law general that all must die? |
A67781 | Yea, how little was Judas set by of the High Priests, when once he had served their turn? |
A67781 | Yea, how severely will they censure, not only things indifferent, but the most holy and approved good duties in the godly? |
A67781 | Yea, what a deale of paines and care does the covetous man take for his own damnation? |
A67781 | Yea, when it was said of Phocian and Demosthenes, that they could never agree; it was answered, No, how should they? |
A67781 | Yea, will they not more deeply censure our serving of God, then their own blaspheming of him? |
A67781 | an ill penni- worth? |
A67781 | and be themselves the greatest of sinners, then our Saviour to be in company with sinners? |
A67781 | and the Palsie man''s carrying his bed; then in their own devouring of Widows houses? |
A67781 | are not they arrant fools? |
A67781 | but they are grosly mistaken: for wherein does this their great wisdom consist? |
A67781 | could not Paul shew as much cunning as Tertullus? |
A67781 | is not he a Fool? |
A67781 | not that there is a deficiency of power in the godly, but will: for could not David go as far as Achitophel? |
A67781 | or what good hath our riches and our vaunting brought us? |
A67781 | the one Christs friends, the other his enemies? |
A67781 | the one children of light, and of the day, the other blinde and in darknesse? |
A67781 | the one of this world, the other chosen out of it? |
A67781 | the wisdome of Achitophel into folly? |
A67781 | the wisdome of Jezabel, into a shameful death? |
A67781 | the wisdome of Nimrod into confusion? |
A67781 | the wisdome of the Pharisees into a woe? |
A67781 | the wisdome of the unjust Steward into expulsion out of Heaven? |
A67781 | this divine and supernatural wisdom? |
A67781 | to have the theory,& be able to prattle of wisdom by rote; yet not know what it is by effect and experience? |
A67781 | to search out the cause of many effects, and let pass the consideration of the principal, and most necessary? |
A67781 | what peace between the Believer and the Infidel? |
A67781 | who Adam- like, will receive what- ever comes, or is offered them? |
A67781 | who thought Mordecaies not bowing the knee to hi ●, a more heinous offence, then his own murthering of thousands? |
A67781 | who thought they might better murther Christ, then others believe in him? |
A67765 | 10. and how should it be otherwise with these Misers? |
A67765 | 11. and why can I not thus solace my self while it is anothers? |
A67765 | 12. but even lavish& wherle away whole patrimonies; yea, most wickedly spend them in riot, and upon Dice, Drabs, Drunkenness? |
A67765 | 30? |
A67765 | 78. when they said, Can God furnish a table in the Wilderness? |
A67765 | Alass, how often does riches, without Gods blessing upon them, prove or become the owners ruine? |
A67765 | And Gold is the covetous mans god, and will he part with his God, a certainty for an uncertainty? |
A67765 | And indeed, what great difference is there, save in the pride and covetousness of a mans mind? |
A67765 | And is not this thy very case that art covetous? |
A67765 | And is this a small matter? |
A67765 | And what but Idleness makes so many beggers, and base persons? |
A67765 | And what knowest thou? |
A67765 | And when King Agis requested the Oracle of Apollo to tell him, who was the happiest man in the world? |
A67765 | And who hath more interest in the grape, then he that planted the Vine? |
A67765 | And why should I prefer him before a piece of copper, that prefers a piece of gold before his Maker? |
A67765 | Ann why all this? |
A67765 | As how many of our over- reachers have over- reached themselves so far? |
A67765 | As tell me, will it be any desertlesse office, to find out a way to help all this? |
A67765 | As what common and daily experience have we thereof, had men but the wit to observe it? |
A67765 | As what saith our Saviour? |
A67765 | As what will some Momus say? |
A67765 | As who, or where, is the man that desires not to be rich and happy? |
A67765 | As, what is the reason that there are few rich men that will not rather offend the Divine Majesty, then the Temporal Authority? |
A67765 | Besides( which would also be thought upon) what should we have if we did truly love and serve Christ? |
A67765 | Can he provide flesh for his people? |
A67765 | Can we not warm us at the Sun, but we must make an Idoll of it to worship? |
A67765 | Cease from thy wisdome, wilt thou cast thine eyes upon that, which is nothing? |
A67765 | Christianum dogma, vertitur in scomma, and what''s the reason but this? |
A67765 | For why is their ruine recorded? |
A67765 | For, Tenthly, doth covetousness reign in a man? |
A67765 | Have ye not heard of a prodigal young heir? |
A67765 | He smote the Rock that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; but can be give bread also? |
A67765 | How carefully then should we avoid those actions which may ever stain us? |
A67765 | How does he turmoile and vex his spirit, torment his conscience, and make himself a very map of misery, and a sink of calamity? |
A67765 | How does the covetous mans heart droop wish his Mammon? |
A67765 | How many had been good? |
A67765 | I know this is such a paradox to misers, and men of the world; that nothing seems to them more absurd and ridiculous: what? |
A67765 | If any shall ask why the godly are not alwayes, nor oft rich, notwithstanding these promises? |
A67765 | If our prosperity hath made the world our God: how worthily shall our death- bed be choaked with such an exprobration? |
A67765 | Is it Gods unspeakable mercy, that we are not at this present frying in Hell flames, never to be freed, and do we complain for want of a trifle? |
A67765 | NOw why are godly Christians so content with a little? |
A67765 | Nay, to abound with all things, and to be never the better for them, not to partake of them, what fool or mad man hath been known so senseless? |
A67765 | Nay, why hath God spared thee, so long as he hath? |
A67765 | Now ask the covetous muckworm, whether had you rather lack with those Saints, or abound with the devil and the rich man? |
A67765 | Or who will not be willing to sow plentifully, where he shall reap plentifully? |
A67765 | Pyrrhus opened himself to his friend Cineas, that he first intended a war upon Italy, and what then said Cineas? |
A67765 | Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I speak with thee, yet let me talk with thee of thy judgements; wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? |
A67765 | Sell all that ever thou hast, and distribute unto the poor: And is there any hope of his yeelding? |
A67765 | Tamberlain having overcome Bajazet, he asked him whether he had ever given God thanks, for making him so great an Emperour? |
A67765 | The covetous Mammonist does insatiably thirst after riches, placing all his joyes, hopes, and delights thereon; does he not then make them his God? |
A67765 | The wise and godly are of Pythagoras his minde: who being asked why he cared no more for riches? |
A67765 | What hope hath the hypocrite saith Job, when he hath heaped up riches; will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? |
A67765 | What part with a certainty for an uncertainty? |
A67765 | What rare and precious promises are these? |
A67765 | What saith the Apostle? |
A67765 | What saith the Wiseman? |
A67765 | What sayes Solomon? |
A67765 | What was Haman the better for all he had, when the King frowned upon him? |
A67765 | When the hand of God hath never so little touched thee, what good thy great wealth will do thee? |
A67765 | Wherefore hearke n to this, all you self- lovers, that are only for your own ends: Do you indeed love your selves? |
A67765 | Who more right to the crop, then he that oweth the ground, and soweth the seed? |
A67765 | Who so melancholy as the rich worldling? |
A67765 | Why did Ammon draw out two years breath? |
A67765 | Why then do you set so high a price upon them? |
A67765 | Yea all wicked men make the devil their god; for why does Saint Paul call the devil the god of this world? |
A67765 | Yea how oft is that spent upon one Christmas revelling by the son, which was fourty yeers a getting by the Father? |
A67765 | Yea, how many have we known in this City? |
A67765 | Yea, thou that placest thy happinesse, and puttest thy confidence in a little white and red earth; and dotest so upon the world, tell me? |
A67765 | Yea, what can any wise man think of them, are they not stark mad? |
A67765 | Yea, who more needy, and who run more in debt than those, that have hundreds and thousands a year? |
A67765 | and how thankful should we strive to be? |
A67765 | and impotent contentments of men, that place their happinesse in these things: will not this your fair Herodias, appear as a stigmatized Gipsie? |
A67765 | and is he once inslaved to this sin? |
A67765 | and so shamefully undervalue the riches of the minde? |
A67765 | and to make the most poor and melancholy the richest and happiest men alive? |
A67765 | and who more merry then they? |
A67765 | and your souls? |
A67765 | are they not fooles in folio? |
A67765 | but they that are most obeyed? |
A67765 | he was condemned that encreased not the sum concredited to him, what then shall become of him that lawlessely and lavishly spends and impaires it? |
A67765 | how are they immerged in the horrors of a vulned conscience? |
A67765 | is he bewitcht with the love of money? |
A67765 | is his heart rivited to the earth? |
A67765 | or how should they not preferre temporal things, before coelestial and eternal? |
A67765 | or the happier for being lift up the ladder, when he was to come down again with a rope? |
A67765 | or when did God require this of his servants? |
A67765 | perswade them that giving away their goods, is the way to increase them? |
A67765 | that he may be content, and satisfied therewith, How should God bestow this great blessing of contentation upon him, and a true use of his riches? |
A67765 | then we may conquer Carthage and Affrica; and what then said Cineas? |
A67765 | then we will attempt Cicile, and what then? |
A67765 | what do they indure? |
A67765 | wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? |
A67765 | would you be rich indeed, and that both here and hereafter? |
A67765 | yea God sayes, lend, clothe, feed, harbor; The devil and Mammon, say, take, gather, extort, oppress, spoil; whether of these are our gods? |
A97246 | & c. How then can it bee expected that the Visible Church now, should be without hypocrites in it? |
A97246 | & c. In all which thou doest lye, and dissemble most egregiously: for doest thou love God deerly? |
A97246 | ( especially if they have not been notorious offenders) are they a whit troubled for sinne, either originall, or actuall? |
A97246 | ( some whereof the Parliament have sound out, and cast out) like Balaam? |
A97246 | 11? |
A97246 | 13. smite their bre ● st: And with amasement, and indignation say: what have I done? |
A97246 | 2 What is a Mountain of Earth, but an acumulation of many little dusts? |
A97246 | 2, Yea, read we not of more then fifty thousand Bethshemites, stroke dead in the place? |
A97246 | 6 6 and what follows? |
A97246 | 9. Who so is borne of God sinneth not,( that is with full consent of will) and what saith the Law it selfe? |
A97246 | Adam for one Apple: Moses for one unbeleefe? |
A97246 | Againe, how many of them, are like those of the Synagogue? |
A97246 | Againe, is it any more then the holy Ghost hath abundantly foretold, and forewarned us of? |
A97246 | And Judas among the Apostles? |
A97246 | And as for lying, and commanding others to ly, what more usuall? |
A97246 | And did not our Prelates deale just so with the Puritans, in their reports to the King? |
A97246 | And if he can not rule himselfe, how should he rule his own house? |
A97246 | And indeed, if the man be new, why should the old names of his sinnes remaine, and be cast in his teeth? |
A97246 | And is the same back''d with so many solid reasons drawne from the word? |
A97246 | And so at the like in every age of the Church? |
A97246 | And so much concerning your first Misprision Now let us heare what else you stumble at? |
A97246 | And so much of your second Misprision, touching censoriousnesse: does any thing else stagger you? |
A97246 | And so you have the necessity of profession; with six reasons for it, and three against it, if you would make a right use thereof? |
A97246 | And what an unthankfull silence is it, To smother the workes of God in an affected secrecy? |
A97246 | And what know we, but we may win our Brother, and so save his soul? |
A97246 | And what matters it, whether a man receive his death from a Pistol, or a great Ordnance? |
A97246 | And what saith our Saviour? |
A97246 | And what saith our Saviour? |
A97246 | And what thinke we is the reason, our land hath laine bleeding, and languishing so long as it hath: Notwithstanding our much fasting and humiliation? |
A97246 | And while they calld themselves the chiefe priests, were they not Christ ● chief enemies? |
A97246 | And yet how common is it with our malicious enemies( when they can find nothing else to lay to our charge) to cast in our teeth our former failin gs? |
A97246 | Are their sins in them, great sinnes, as great in them as in thee, what then? |
A97246 | As for example, how many of your civill honest men, think they may swear by petty oathes? |
A97246 | As for the first of these, how many Courtiers, Lawyers, Gentlemen, and Tradesmen are there? |
A97246 | As what probability is there? |
A97246 | As when superstition and idolatty were re- advanced in England, by Queen M ● ry: what was mens greatest care, but to serve the times? |
A97246 | As who are they that both passe this censure and best deserve it? |
A97246 | Besides, how were the Angels in Heaven punished for one fault? |
A97246 | But O ye sottish sensuallists, are you so ignorant, as to thinke it any new thing? |
A97246 | But Puritans are scrupulous not only in things forbidden but of things indifferent& not forbidden? |
A97246 | But admit the scriptures were silent herein: What is the Theefe, to the honest man? |
A97246 | But are we beleevers or unbeleevers? |
A97246 | But how? |
A97246 | But let them seriously consider the reasons why they doe so? |
A97246 | But to stop thy mouth( for I have little hope to convince thy iudgement) I would seriously know? |
A97246 | But what is this to our matter in hand? |
A97246 | But why is it, the best of naturall men, thinke that honesty and religion consists only in quietnesse, and living peaceably amongst their neighbours? |
A97246 | By the permission of one sinne ▪ to prevent milio ● s; how many thousands had presumed on their owne strength, if such a Champion had not falne? |
A97246 | Can it be imagined, that one should defile his owne tongue, that he may defile anothers eares? |
A97246 | Did our Saviour Christ forbeare to heale on the sabbath day, Because the Scribes and Pharisees took it il? |
A97246 | Doest thou prayevery day thrice? |
A97246 | Ely for his indulgence only? |
A97246 | For deal they not with the godly, as the daughters of Heth did by Rebecca? |
A97246 | For have they committed such and such sinnes, and so broken their promise and vow made unto God in baptisme? |
A97246 | For who are these verball, orrall, occular professors? |
A97246 | Gen. 27. who made her weary of her life: and forced her to cry out in the bitternesse of her soule, What availeth it me to live? |
A97246 | Hath God inseparably joyned these two together? |
A97246 | Hath it beene otherwise in any Age, or state of the Church? |
A97246 | How many at Peters denying, and forswearing his Master? |
A97246 | How many scorne to beare false witnesse in an open Court of justice? |
A97246 | How many thousand, had dispaired in the consideration of their owne misdeeds, and weakenesses: if such sinnes had not found remission? |
A97246 | How then is it said, Of two evills the lesse is to be chosen? |
A97246 | I need not tell you, how many of their Lordships and their Creatures: have come to their great preferments? |
A97246 | If his heart were not altogether gracelesse? |
A97246 | Is not the church compared in the scripture to a field of wheat mingled with Tares? |
A97246 | Is not unhonest religion, as good as irreligious honesty? |
A97246 | Now as touching the first, they are much found fault withall: as what needs so much profession? |
A97246 | Now if God have remitted why should we retaine? |
A97246 | Of eight soules in the Arke,( a figure of the Church) was not one an impious Cham? |
A97246 | Or a Malignant to religion: that is not a meere formalist? |
A97246 | Or cast away a Ba ● ne full of good Graine, because''t is mingled with some offall? |
A97246 | Profession and beleeving? |
A97246 | Prophane men notorious Hypocrites, 141 ▪ They will go to Hell, and ask what is that to us? |
A97246 | Secondly, how common is it with them to straine and ● ● umble at small sins, and passe over great ones? |
A97246 | So what is any man the better for hidden grace, if it bee not exercised, in the practice of good duties? |
A97246 | The Lord shew mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus( why? |
A97246 | Then in bringing him more customers; to buy wine& milk without mony,& without price? |
A97246 | They might as well say, what is Christ to us? |
A97246 | Those who are called puritans, or those that terme and repute them so? |
A97246 | Though thou mayest be free from many sins, without being beholding to thy selfe: As what wonder is it, if a dumbe man be no swearer? |
A97246 | To a draw net cast into the Sea, which gathereth of all kind of Fishes good and bad? |
A97246 | Was Paradice it selfe without a Serpent? |
A97246 | Was not Saul among the Prophets? |
A97246 | Was the house of Ely, without Hophny, and Phineas sons of Belial? |
A97246 | Was there not one Guest at the Lords Table, who had not on his wedding garment? |
A97246 | We may say of this or that sinne, as Lot of Zoar, is it not a little one? |
A97246 | We say they are the only men, guilty of this crime: they say the like of us; but the tryall is all: and how shall wee try it? |
A97246 | Were there not five foolish Virgins, aswell as five wise? |
A97246 | What can bee more sottish, and unjust? |
A97246 | What difference then between thee, and an honest Infidel? |
A97246 | What is the Hart the better for his horns and strength, since he wants courage to use them? |
A97246 | What saith David? |
A97246 | What sin would a man think could be smaller then that of the Prophet? |
A97246 | What would become of religion and piety? |
A97246 | When there was but four persons in the world that offered sacrifice, was not one of them a murtherous Cain? |
A97246 | When thou seest thy brother slip, first reflect upon thy self, and say with Plato am not I such an one? |
A97246 | Whence, as the chief Priests answered Judas, What is that to us? |
A97246 | Which being so ▪ what more pa ● pable hypocrisie and Puritanisme then this? |
A97246 | Which 〈 … 〉 how can they blame us for granting wha ● they bo ● h 〈 ◊ 〉 ● nd invite us unto? |
A97246 | Will any wise man condemne the Protestant religion, because there are divers Drunkards, Theeves, and murtherers, who professe themselves Protestants? |
A97246 | Yea if I may so speak, how can we requite the Lord better? |
A97246 | Yea, admit they but minded what hath now been said of this argument ▪ what could they have to object? |
A97246 | Yea, are there not many hundreds in this land? |
A97246 | Yea, how many of these Bishops, and Clergie men, have been the incendiaries of this bloody, and worse then salvage war, in all the three Kingdomes? |
A97246 | Yea, the very summe of such mens religion is, either to be verball and superficiall only: as what is their religion? |
A97246 | a Beggar no Broker? |
A97246 | an Evenuch no Adulterer? |
A97246 | and doest thou hate the workes of them that fall away? |
A97246 | and might they not be fitly compared, to the watching Dragon: that kept the golden Fleece? |
A97246 | as faith, troth, and the like? |
A97246 | didst thou declare thy faith by thy works? |
A97246 | didst thou fear an oath? |
A97246 | faith the sensualist( when his spight is at Religion) can not men serve God in secret? |
A97246 | he that will misreckon or tell a lye to save his purse, what would he doe if his life lay upon it? |
A97246 | in persecuting those Ministers, and people whom ● hy conscience tells thee are more faithfull, and righteous then thy selfe? |
A97246 | in scoffing at the religious? |
A97246 | meerly out of a mortall hatred, and enmitie which they beare against zealous Christians? |
A97246 | no, thou hatest him in thy heart, as thy workes shew plainly ▪ Doest thou praise God, and that continually? |
A97246 | or may they not be stiled, or described much after this manner? |
A97246 | or what is the hypocrite to the true religion which he professeth? |
A97246 | or will they acknowledge themselves to be in a lost condition without Christ? |
A97246 | or with Austen may not I doe the like? |
A97246 | over them that serve God in truth? |
A97246 | so many men, so many mindes? |
A97246 | were not nineteen, or rather ninety nine parts of the land, ready to say, as once Hushai to Absalom? |
A97246 | were they not alwayes, as a black cloud between his Majesties pious subjects, and the Princes favour? |
A97246 | what is heaven to us, or what is salvation to us? |
A97246 | who make Religion serve them as a stalking horse, or mantle ▪ that under pretence of it, they may deceive the world; both unseen, and unsuspected? |
A97246 | why should not we pardon where he doth? |
A15848 | 14. they saw the Pillar remove behind them, and the Sea remove before them they looking for nothing but death? |
A15848 | 1555. in the last edition save this? |
A15848 | 4. and Makes not this infinitely for the glory of God? |
A15848 | Alas, what can they doe? |
A15848 | And David speaking of his son Absoloms treason, I was dumbe and said nothing; why? |
A15848 | And herein we fare no worse than Christ; did not his spirit passe from the crosse into Paradise? |
A15848 | And how divers againe are those things that feed them? |
A15848 | And how profitable is that affliction, which carrieth me to Heaven? |
A15848 | And how should they other then miscarry; who have a Pirate( the flesh) for their guide? |
A15848 | And in common reason, can a Clocke goe without a weight to move it, or a keeper to set it? |
A15848 | And indeed, how many have wee knowne, the better for their sin? |
A15848 | And indeed, what shouldst thou doe in case thou seest that the world runs not on thy side, but give over the world, and be on Gods side? |
A15848 | And lastly, shall ou ● moment ● ny sufferings be rewarded with everlasting glory? |
A15848 | And may not this comfort thee? |
A15848 | And see how he followed his Masters example; for which amongst us so loves his Benefactors, as S. Paul loved his Malefactors? |
A15848 | And that devilish plot of Haman against Mordecay and his people, ● o the good of his Church in generall, and of Ioseph and Mordecay in particular? |
A15848 | And what else did Iudas, touching Mary, when he depraved her in our Saviours presence, for pouring that pretious oyntment on his feet? |
A15848 | And what saith Naaman upon the clensing of his Leprosie? |
A15848 | And what will become of him, if he repent not, who can afford no time to argue, but to execute? |
A15848 | And why doth the goodnesse of our God pick out the most needfull times for our reliefe and comfort? |
A15848 | And why is it not so with thee? |
A15848 | And why should I doe my selfe a shrewd turne, because another would? |
A15848 | Are these stripes the chiefest ● okens and pledges of Gods love and adoption? |
A15848 | As how doth Davids patience draw on the insolence of Shemei? |
A15848 | As how few of these Salamāders who are never well, but when they are in the fire of contention, are long lived? |
A15848 | But as thrice Noble Nehemiah said to that false Belly- god betraying- Priest Shemaiah, should such a man 〈 ◊ 〉 ● lee? |
A15848 | But tell me, hath not this roaring Lion prevailed against thy best part? |
A15848 | But to go on; wilt thou follow Gods example? |
A15848 | But what did they answer? |
A15848 | But what doe I tell them of these transcendent examples? |
A15848 | But what hath beene the answer of God alwaies to his Children in such their extasies, but this? |
A15848 | But what of all this? |
A15848 | But what would malice rather have, then the vexation of them whom it persecutes? |
A15848 | But why is it? |
A15848 | Did God and Belial joyne in fulfilling the same act? |
A15848 | Did it ever repent Iacob, when he came to inherit his Fathers blessing, that he had endu ● ed a long exile, and tedious bondage? |
A15848 | Did not he first descend into hell, and then had his ascention? |
A15848 | Do thou beare with others, God beares with thee; is there a too much which thou canst suffer for so patient a Lord? |
A15848 | Doth Satan merit thanks? |
A15848 | For first: Who ever was, that was not slandered? |
A15848 | For the Law of God, and the Law of Nature forbids it; and doth not the Law of Nations also? |
A15848 | For what can be spoken more expresse, direct, and significant? |
A15848 | For, art thou borne of God? |
A15848 | God used the malice of Pharaoh and Shemei unto Good; what then? |
A15848 | Hast thou then a desire after this invincible patience? |
A15848 | Hath hee promised that we shall not bee tempted above our strength? |
A15848 | Hath this Lion yeelded thee any honey of Instruction or Reformation? |
A15848 | Hath thy sin died with thy fame, or with thy health, or with thy peace, or with thy outward estate? |
A15848 | Have mercy upon me( saith he) and hearken unto my prayer: Why? |
A15848 | He knew well enough that cherishing was wo nt to follow stripes: how oft hath a Tragick entrance had a happy end? |
A15848 | He that is modestly valiant, stirs not till he must needs, and then to purpose: who more valiant than Ioshua? |
A15848 | Host to take Elisha, and the Lord had smote them all with blindnesse, and shut them into Samaria, what doth the Prophet? |
A15848 | How can we but say, let the world frowne, and all things in it runne crosse to the graine of our minds? |
A15848 | How deere a Iewell is health to him that tumbles in distempered bloud? |
A15848 | How is that? |
A15848 | How many flying from danger have met with death? |
A15848 | How many severall qualities have the Plants that they brouze upon? |
A15848 | How oft doth guiltinesse make one avoide, what another would wish in this case? |
A15848 | How oft have we heard men that have beene displeased with others teare the name of their Maker in peeces? |
A15848 | How should we not cheare up one another, as Iewell did his friends in banishment, saying, This wor ● d will not last ever? |
A15848 | How smal trifles make us weary of our selves? |
A15848 | How sweet is liberty to one that hath beene long immured within a case of walls? |
A15848 | I meane thy soule free? |
A15848 | I, but is it wisdome so to doe? |
A15848 | If every thing were unlike him, how is it possible he should love us? |
A15848 | If wee be sicke, and the Physitian promises to visit us to morrow with his best reliefe, with what a tedious longing doe we expect his presence? |
A15848 | If you endure chastning, God offereth himselfe unto you as unto sonnes: for what sonne is it whom the Father chasteneth not? |
A15848 | In these cases how full of life and spirit, and holy impatiency did he shew himselfe to be? |
A15848 | Indeed what have we by our second birth, which is not miraculous in comparison of our natural condition? |
A15848 | Is any one afflicted? |
A15848 | It may bee his naturall, spirituall, or politicall parents, in some kinde or other: as who can plead innocency herein? |
A15848 | It remaines in the last place that I declare the Reasons, why God permits his dearest children so to be afflicted? |
A15848 | Let a man but fast a meale or two, oh how sweet is browne bread, though it would not down before? |
A15848 | Let him draw neere, for I chiefly direct my speech unto him: are afflictions and persecutions so necessary and profitable, as hath beene shewed? |
A15848 | Now if we could but remember and lay to heart these promises, when wee feele the greatest assaults or pangs, how could wee want courage? |
A15848 | Now if we make this use of our sufferings, what more precious than the reproaches of an enemy? |
A15848 | Now if ● hy very enemies thus honour thee, how should thy friends( bought with thy precious bloud) glorifie thee? |
A15848 | Now instead of being overcome, dost thou overcome? |
A15848 | Now what is it that we suffer, being compared with their sufferings? |
A15848 | Now what makes the difference? |
A15848 | Now whether had you rather rejoyce for one fit, or alwayes? |
A15848 | Now whethers counsell wilt thou follow? |
A15848 | Now who will esteeme those things good which make us worse, or, that evill, which brings such gaine and sweetnesse? |
A15848 | Now who would not be willing to bleed, when by that meanes an inveterate sicknesse may be prevented? |
A15848 | Now, what sonne of Israel can hope for any good dayes, when hee heares his fathers were so evill? |
A15848 | Now, when so much was uttered, even by a none- such for his patience, what may we thinke he did feele and indure? |
A15848 | O how sweet a thing is peace to them that have been long troubled with wars and tedious contentions? |
A15848 | O what a glorious renowne did the Traytors reproach occasion her? |
A15848 | Oh, it is a good change, to have the fire of affliction for the fire of Hell: Who would not rather smart for a while, than for ever? |
A15848 | Or which of Gods servants did ever repent that they had passed the apprentiship of their service here, and were now gone to be made free in glory? |
A15848 | Or will he provide for his Men and Maides, and let his owne Children starve? |
A15848 | Our holy longings are increased with delayes; it whets our appetite to be held fasting, and whom will not Need make both humble and eloquent? |
A15848 | Revenge being one of those remedies which( not seldome) proves more grievous than the disease it selfe? |
A15848 | Satan begd his shame, who envied his successe? |
A15848 | Shall we receive good at the hands of God, and not evill? |
A15848 | Shall we slight all his blessings, because in one thing he crosseth us, whereas his least mercy is beyond our best merit? |
A15848 | Slay them? |
A15848 | So, what a degree of patience have some men attained unto? |
A15848 | The godly are so patient in their sufferings? |
A15848 | Thy prayer is heard: When did he make this prayer? |
A15848 | To instance in one example or two: Satan did nought touching Iob, but what the Lord upon his request gave him leave to do; what then? |
A15848 | Was Lazarus for a time extreame miserable? |
A15848 | We see then there is danger in being without dangers; and what saith S. Paul? |
A15848 | Well then, art thou vexed, persecuted, and afflicted by some cruell and malicious Saul? |
A15848 | Were none of his children ever exempted from the like? |
A15848 | What Fortifications or Bulwarkes so strong and safe against the affronts of Satan,& the World? |
A15848 | What a load of injuries can some Christians digest, that have beene frequent in sufferings, and long exercised in the Schoole of Affliction? |
A15848 | What can we doe without thee? |
A15848 | What demonstrations can be given more sollid? |
A15848 | What did he loose by it, or had he cause to repent himselfe? |
A15848 | What if Noah were pent up in the Arke, so long as he was safe in it: what if it were his prison, so long as it was his Fort also against the waters? |
A15848 | What need we returne rayling for rayling? |
A15848 | What neede had David to loade himselfe with an unnecessary weapon? |
A15848 | What saith David? |
A15848 | What saith Iob? |
A15848 | What then? |
A15848 | What then? |
A15848 | What will not men undergoe, so their pay may be answerable? |
A15848 | When Aristippus was asked by one in dirision, where the great high friendship was become that formerly had bin betweene him and Estines? |
A15848 | When did God answer the hopes of Sarah, Rebecah, Rachel, the wife of Manoah, and Elizabeth, touching their long and much desired issues? |
A15848 | When did Moses finde succour, but when his Mother could no longer hide him: and he was put into the River among the Bull- rushes? |
A15848 | When had the Children of Israel the greatest victories, but when they feared most to bee overcome? |
A15848 | When then? |
A15848 | When was Hagar comforted of the Angell, but when her childe was neere famished, and she had cast it under a Tree for dead? |
A15848 | Wherefore as Iehoram said to Iehu, when he marched furiously, commest thou peaceably? |
A15848 | Who could feele the odoriferous smell of these Aromaticall spices, if they were not pownded and bruized in the morter of affliction? |
A15848 | Who could know the faith, patience, and Valour, of Gods Souldiers, if they alwayes lay in Garrison, and never came to the skirmish? |
A15848 | Who could know whether we be Vessels of gold, or drosse, unlesse we were brought to the Touch- stone of temptation? |
A15848 | Who dare then say, wherefore hast thou done so? |
A15848 | Who is he that saith, and it commeth to passe, when the Lord commandeth it not? |
A15848 | Who will not be willing to suffer with Christ, that hee may also raigne with him? |
A15848 | Who will not suffer a few stripes from a father, by whom he receiveth so much good, even all that he hath? |
A15848 | Who will not suffer these light afflictions which are but for a moment, when they cause unto us a far more excellent and eternall w ● ight of glory? |
A15848 | Why groanest thou under thy burden, and criest out of unremedied paine? |
A15848 | Why then complainest thou, I am afflicted on every side? |
A15848 | Why were they so long kept from it? |
A15848 | Why? |
A15848 | Will any make choyse of a weake Champion? |
A15848 | Will you take Saint Pauls word for it, or rather GODS owne word, who is truth it selfe, and can not lye? |
A15848 | Wilt thou, saith one, looke to raigne, and not expect to suffer? |
A15848 | Without thee, what can we suffer? |
A15848 | Wouldst thou have faith? |
A15848 | Wouldst thou have the love of God? |
A15848 | Yea, shall our glory be inc ● eased 〈 ◊ 〉 our sufferings have beene more? |
A15848 | Yea, what hath the more temperate worldling to say for himselfe, who hath some small peece of reason for his guide? |
A15848 | Yea, what said blessed Bradford? |
A15848 | You''l confesse then''t is Princely to disdaine a wrong; and is that all? |
A15848 | and is it grievous to thee for the present? |
A15848 | beleevest thou the former Scriptures spoken by CHRIST, and his Apostles? |
A15848 | hast thou kept thy head whole? |
A15848 | hast thou vanquished the world that vanquisheth all the wicked? |
A15848 | if he doe not answer us in every thing, sha''l wee take pleasure in nothing? |
A15848 | or had wee not more cause to bee filled with joy and thankefulnesse, that we our selves are in better case? |
A15848 | shall to dayes Ague, make us forget yesterdayes health, and all Gods former favours? |
A15848 | shall we receive good at the hand of God, and not receive evill? |
A15848 | suppose thy sufferings be great, what then? |
A15848 | that hee was able to say, Though I should walke through the valley of the shaddow of death I will feare no evill: Why? |
A15848 | though we must not doe it with an intent to make his reckoning more, but our reckoning lesse? |
A15848 | which all mingled together, what a well temepred Sallad do they make? |
A67748 | ( admit it be upon thy death bed) what will be thy manner of answering? |
A67748 | ( especially, i ● … thou hast not been a notorious offender) art thou a whit troubled for sin, either Originall, or Actuall? |
A67748 | 12, 13,& c. And likewise Ahab, who was told from the Lord, that if he went to war, he should perish? |
A67748 | 16. is both plaine and easie: which makes him say, Know yee not? |
A67748 | 16. taken aw ● … y by 〈 ◊ 〉? |
A67748 | 18, 20. finde out a ● … me for him that takes away other mens? |
A67748 | A sound and strong joy in the Lord? |
A67748 | A ● … thou ashamed of thy former conversation? |
A67748 | A ● … thou willing to be at cost, to serve the Lord? |
A67748 | All which considered, if they be not good, and godly men; what will become of thousands? |
A67748 | And Gold is the coveteous mans God: and will he part with his God, a certainty for an uncertainty? |
A67748 | And I need not aske any more, then that you would aske your owne conscience, whether you would be so dealt withall? |
A67748 | And Sr. Austin of his? |
A67748 | And as God blesseth thee more or lesse; so dost thou doe good: and the more rich, art thou the more rich in good works? |
A67748 | And as is thy censuring, such is thy envy, and hatred to the Godly; and why? |
A67748 | And canst comfort thy selfe with this? |
A67748 | And could these things possibly he, if thou didst in the least degree love God? |
A67748 | And dost thou observe the several pa ● … a 〈 ◊ 〉 ▪ 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 all things ● … o ● … e ordered thereby? |
A67748 | And having attained thy end, dost thou ascribe the praise thereof, wholly to the free mercy of God in Christ? |
A67748 | And how should not that patient perish, who after he is launced, flies from the Chirurgeon, before the binding up of his wound? |
A67748 | And in praying to God, dost thou not neglect to use the meanes? |
A67748 | And indeed what is that wisdome worth, which nothing profits the owner of it, either touching vertue, or happinesse? |
A67748 | And then conclude with, What shall I render unto thee, Lord, for all these thy benefits? |
A67748 | And what know we? |
A67748 | And without a discovery of our disease: how should there be a recovery of our health? |
A67748 | And 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 wa ● … of g ● … e, then confide in what thou hast? |
A67748 | Ar ● … them active to pleasure others; willing to make thy selfe a servant to all, th ● … 〈 ◊ 〉 in ● … ed of thee? |
A67748 | Are thine eyes opened to 〈 ◊ 〉 the wonders of Gods Law? |
A67748 | Are you already inslaved to this sin? |
A67748 | Are you yet bewitcht with the love of money? |
A67748 | Art thou bettered by affliction? |
A67748 | Art thou bro ● … out of darkenesse, into marvell ● … us light? |
A67748 | Art thou changed, and renewed in every part, pow ● … and faculty? |
A67748 | Art thou faithfull to my friend? |
A67748 | Art thou grieved for the abominations that are done by others: to the dishonour of God, and slander of Religion, or the ruine of mens soules? |
A67748 | Art thou hared of the world for goodnesse? |
A67748 | Art thou inflamed with the love, and estimation of God and of Christ? |
A67748 | Art thou just in the least things, and saithfull to such as put thee in trust? |
A67748 | Art thou just, and 〈 ◊ 〉 in thy deal ● …? |
A67748 | Art thou made a by word and song of the 〈 ◊ 〉? |
A67748 | Art thou more de ● … us to be good? |
A67748 | Art thou more knowing, then the men of the world: as havi ● … the light of Gods spirit, and the Eye of faith above them? |
A67748 | Art thou not dumb in publishing his praise? |
A67748 | Art thou often, and grievously assaulted with feares, and doubtings? |
A67748 | Art thou prone to justifie them, and speake intheir defence? |
A67748 | Art thou zealous to admonish, reclaime, and reduce the ● … 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉, and goe astray? |
A67748 | As tell me; may not God justly another day, call Heaven and Earth to witness against us? |
A67748 | As what can they say for themselves? |
A67748 | Before thou usest the extreami ● …, either of Law or Armes: Dost thou offer conditions of Peace? |
A67748 | But do we thus requite the Lord? |
A67748 | But first make a stand here; and consider whether a good Tree, 〈 ◊ 〉 bring sorth all ● … his evill fruit? |
A67748 | But what is the reason, why men make no more use of these Predictions of this warning? |
A67748 | But why do I call it unthankfulness? |
A67748 | But why? |
A67748 | But will these mens high thoughts of their owne, excellencie serve their turnes? |
A67748 | Can not men serve God in secret? |
A67748 | Canst thou chide him sharpely, and at the same time pray for him hartily? |
A67748 | Canst thou hate the vices of 〈 ◊ 〉 wicked man, and yet love his person? |
A67748 | Canst thou refuse to revenge thy selfe upon an enemy: though thou ha ● … power, and opportunity to loe it? |
A67748 | Canst thou wish well to, and desire thy ● … eatest enemies conversion; together with his prosperity? |
A67748 | Certainly men are stark mad; for otherwise, how could it be? |
A67748 | Christ hath raised thee from a begger, to be one of the be ● … in thy Parish: but how dost thou requite him? |
A67748 | Consider anothers case by thine owne? |
A67748 | D ● … 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 thy sal ● … tion with s ● … e and trembling? |
A67748 | Do not many persecute the Church as ● … olently as Pharaoh, with Chariots and Armies? |
A67748 | Do ● … thou omit no opportunity of doing good? |
A67748 | Do ● … thou ● … ember thy vow in Baptizme? |
A67748 | Doe crosses in thy estate, diseases in thy body, ● … dies in thy minde; prove medicins to thy soule? |
A67748 | Does i ● … cut thy very heart, to heare Christ so wounded with Oathes, Blasphemies and reproches? |
A67748 | Does thy sinne dye with thy same? |
A67748 | Dost th ● … abhor to thinke thy selfe 〈 ◊ 〉 th ● … n o ● … s? |
A67748 | Dost tho ● … freely administer carnall things: where thou pertakest of spiritual things and count the same as a due, not as a benevolence? |
A67748 | Dost thou bewaile ● … nd mourne bitterly for all thy sinnes? |
A67748 | Dost thou declare thy faith by thy works? |
A67748 | Dost thou expresse thy love, and thankeful ● … 〈 ◊ 〉 God, by 〈 ◊ 〉 his ● … ommands? |
A67748 | Dost thou feare an Oath? |
A67748 | Dost thou feele the power, and efficacy of Gods Word, and Spirit? |
A67748 | Dost thou first labour to informe, and then hearken to, and obey the voice of conscience; together with the motions of Gods spirit? |
A67748 | Dost thou grow 〈 ◊ 〉 grace, and finde a blessed thriving, and gracious progresse in true heli ● … sse? |
A67748 | Dost thou hate gifts, and desire rather to buy what thou wouldst have; then that it be given thee? |
A67748 | Dost thou hate sinne thorowly, and universally? |
A67748 | Dost thou impartially believe the whole word of God: precepts, and menasses, as well as promises? |
A67748 | Dost thou intirely love, and highly esteem Gods people? |
A67748 | Dost thou love to heare Christs voyce? |
A67748 | Dost thou make 〈 ◊ 〉 of 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉: and 〈 ◊ 〉 that all under thee, doe the 〈 ◊ 〉? |
A67748 | Dost thou more seeke the power 〈 ◊ 〉 godlinesse, then the shew of it? |
A67748 | Dost thou neither back- bite others, nor give eare to back- biter of others? |
A67748 | Dost thou not desire outward blessing, so much, as Gods blessing upon them; more a contented minde, then a great Estate? |
A67748 | Dost thou prefer Gods favour, before all the worlds? |
A67748 | Dost thou read and heare, to the end onely, that thou maist know savingly, believe rightly, and live religiously? |
A67748 | Dost thou receive and apply whatsoever precept, or promise, is spoken out of the Word: as spoken by God to thy selfe in particular? |
A67748 | Dost thou receive the Word wi ● … all readinesse? |
A67748 | Dost thou reioyce at the progresse of the 〈 ◊ 〉; and ● … n the common good of the Church? |
A67748 | Dost thou see thy selfe, out of measure sinfull? |
A67748 | Dost thou see thy sellse as guilty of Adams sinne? |
A67748 | Dost thou suffer some ● … y for Christ? |
A67748 | Dost thou unfainedly desire, to forsake all sinne: even those sins ● … at are most pleasing and profitable in thy esteeme? |
A67748 | Dost thou whatsoever ● … ou dost, out of duty, and thankefulnesse to God, and thy Red ● … emer? |
A67748 | Dost thou 〈 ◊ 〉 desire the salvation of others: and indeavour to win all thou 〈 ◊ 〉 to Christ? |
A67748 | Dost 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 G ● … d in all thou 〈 ◊ 〉, and acknowledge him in all thou ● … her 〈 ◊ 〉, 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉? |
A67748 | Doth coveteousnesse rayne in you? |
A67748 | Doth each Booke and Sermon in thy desire, increase thy knowledge, and lesson thy vices? |
A67748 | Doth thy knowledge make thee 〈 ◊ 〉 humble? |
A67748 | Even excelli ● … all other Bookes, as Wheate doth the Cha ● … fe? |
A67748 | For did Christ all ● … is for us, and shall we do nothing for him for our selves? |
A67748 | For if hell- fire shall be their ● … ortion that obey not the Gospel, how can they look to escape that oppose it? |
A67748 | For what is light, to them that will shut their eyes against it? |
A67748 | Fourthly, Hath Christ done all this for us, his servants, so mu ● … and so many wayes obliged unto him? |
A67748 | H ● … thou an 〈 ◊ 〉 reable and publike spirit? |
A67748 | Hadst thou rather hazard the censure of some, then hinder the good of others? |
A67748 | Hast th ● … learnt from Gods dealing with thee, to be mercifull? |
A67748 | Hath the Old- man, changed w ● … the New- man? |
A67748 | Have not many ● … onopolists with us, done as bad as those Philippians? |
A67748 | How ● ould they be such witless, graceless, and shameless miscreants, as to swear ● nd curse, even as Dogs bark? |
A67748 | I might instance other examples; as what a warning had Haz ● … el given him by the Prophet; of all the abominable wickednesse he should commit? |
A67748 | I ● … it grievous to thee; to heare him blasphemed, and dishonoured? |
A67748 | If a master, dost thou use thy serva ● … so; as considering that thy selfe is a servant, to a greater Master? |
A67748 | If it be asked, why I seem to forget the character of an ignorant person? |
A67748 | If thou findest any thing, dost thou desire, and indeavour to finde out the owner? |
A67748 | Is the impairing of 〈 ◊ 〉 one, the repairing of the other? |
A67748 | Is thy understanding enlightned, thy minde renued, thy 〈 ◊ 〉 changed, thy affections sanctified,& c.? |
A67748 | Is thy ● … le a sweet compound, of love and anger? |
A67748 | Is your heart rivited to the Earth? |
A67748 | Nor is it any hard matter, to draw it out of thine own mouth; before an hundred witnesses: for let but this question be asked thee: Art thou proud? |
A67748 | Now what shall it profit a man, to gaine the whole world, if he gaine Hell with it; and loose both Heaven, and his owne soule? |
A67748 | Now what should we render unto the Lord our God so good and gracious, in way of thankfulnesse for all these his mercies? |
A67748 | Or how should not that sin be past cure, which strives against the cure? |
A67748 | Or what else hath alienated the Indians from the Christia ● … Religion, making them to refuse the Gospel; but this? |
A67748 | Or wilt thou acknowledge thy selfe, to be in a lost condition without Christ? |
A67748 | Or, commend thy pity? |
A67748 | Or, extol thy praise? |
A67748 | So you have my Apology; or if you shall further aske why I take this paines? |
A67748 | That all our thoughts, words and works, should be the services of the world, the flesh, and the Devil? |
A67748 | That thou art just, and payest men their dues; but art thou holy like ● … and dost thou pay God his dues also? |
A67748 | That we should do nothing else but sin, and make others sin too? |
A67748 | They will neither be softened with benefits, nor broken with punishments? |
A67748 | Thou condemnest, and cryest out upon their profession; when thy spight is at their Religion; as what needs so much profession? |
A67748 | WHat believe the former Scriptures? |
A67748 | We are bound to praise him above any Nation whatsoever; for what Nation under Heaven enjoyes so much light, or so many blessings, as we? |
A67748 | Wh ● … n th ● … 〈 ◊ 〉 done any 〈 ◊ 〉 amiss, D ● … 〈 ◊ 〉 accus ● … thy 〈 ◊ 〉? |
A67748 | What is Heaven to us? |
A67748 | What is it to flour ● … h for a time, and perish for ever? |
A67748 | What saith Sr. Austin most excellently? |
A67748 | What shall I say? |
A67748 | What shall become o ● … him, that takes away other mens? |
A67748 | What should I more say? |
A67748 | When thou hast- prejudiced thy Neighbour, wilt thou willingly, and without compulsion, satisfie for the damage? |
A67748 | When thou mightest as well say; What is Christ to us? |
A67748 | Whence as the chief Priests answered Iudas; What is that to us? |
A67748 | Who was the greatest enemy to Christ? |
A67748 | Will God be thus mockt? |
A67748 | Wilt thou not either for feare, or favour; d ● … any thing against the truth: or give sentence against thy conscience? |
A67748 | Yea, I would fain know, what means can possibly be used, that shall be able to reclaim them? |
A67748 | Yea, admit the Author should be either Begger, Knave, or Foole; wherein lyes the difference? |
A67748 | Yea, as well for the evill, which cleaves to thy best workes? |
A67748 | Yea, dost thou not ● … ffer discretion, to thrust our, and eat up thy zeal and devotion? |
A67748 | Yea, that we should be even mockers of all that march not under the pay of the Devil? |
A67748 | Yea, upon the least change, forgive hi ● … as heartily, as thou de ● … rest God should forgive thee? |
A67748 | Yea, what condemned person would not receive a pardo ● though from the hands of the Hangman? |
A67748 | Yea, what els ● … but the unchristian- like behaviour of Christians? |
A67748 | and as it is sent for thy good, so ● … th it do thee good? |
A67748 | and bandy the dreadful Name of God, in their im ● ure and polluted mouthes, by their bloody oaths and execrations? |
A67748 | and disgrace that blood, whereof hereafter they would ● i ve a thousand worlds for one drop: How durst they tear Heaven with ● heir blasphemies? |
A67748 | and how thankful should we strive to be? |
A67748 | and in a good measure, doe unto all others, as thou wouldest have others doe unto thee? |
A67748 | and know when he speaketh, and when the tempter? |
A67748 | and not to thy wisdome, industry,& c. As thou prayest for deliverance, when thou art in distresse: so art thou accordingly thankfull, when delivered? |
A67748 | and often in combate, between the flesh and the spirit: the spirit in the end getting the upper hand? |
A67748 | and should we by our sins crucifie him again? |
A67748 | and so at the graces, or good successe of any member in particular? |
A67748 | and to have a spirit without guile? |
A67748 | and what peace thou hast? |
A67748 | and 〈 ◊ 〉 in 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 co ● … 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 t ● … du ● …? |
A67748 | and 〈 ◊ 〉 of love to thy fellow Members? |
A67748 | at least art thou evill spoken of, for well doing? |
A67748 | but we may win our brother, and so save his soul? |
A67748 | doe you make Gold your God? |
A67748 | does thy love extend to his soule? |
A67748 | dost thou not detaine ● … ges, nor workemens 〈 ◊ 〉? |
A67748 | hate a lie? |
A67748 | how long since had they been charmed? |
A67748 | how were it possible? |
A67748 | not as the word of men, but as it is indeed the word of 〈 ◊ 〉 And hath it wrought in thee mightily? |
A67748 | or do we what we are able for him again? |
A67748 | or what is salvation to us? |
A67748 | or with thy outward estate? |
A67748 | or with thy peace? |
A67748 | that he would have saved us? |
A67748 | that our eares should be alwayes open to the Tempter, shut to our Maker and Redeemer? |
A67748 | the 〈 ◊ 〉 of grace, and for the assistance of Gods spirit? |
A67748 | what manner of persons ought we to be, in all holy conversation and godlinesse? |
A67748 | who is the life of our lives, a ● … soul of our souls? |
A67748 | wilt thou speake of his 〈 ◊ 〉 to his face; of his vertues behind his backe? |
A67748 | worldly wisedome, with heavenly wisedome? |
A67748 | yea did w ● … us to accept of salvation; saying, Turn ye, turn ye, from your evil ● … ys: for why will you die, ô people of England? |
A67748 | yea, wilt thou not( for some great advantage) sweare a lie? |
A67748 | yea, ● … th it both lessen thy sinnes, and increase thy gr ● … ces? |
A67748 | ô Son of God, who can sufficiently express thy love? |
A67748 | ● … as Christ crucified for our sins? |
A67748 | 〈 ◊ 〉 being in his loynes,) as any Heire is lyable to his Fathers Debt? |
A67748 | 〈 ◊ 〉 use thy power in favour of the wicked? |
A67748 | 〈 ◊ 〉 with thy health? |
A67748 | 〈 ◊ 〉 ● … y th ● … g well, D ● … thou give all 〈 ◊ 〉 praise to God? |
A67743 | 1.7, 8, 9. is a continuall Accuser of the brethren) carry tales to their fellowes, of such as will not consort with them? |
A67743 | 9.12 but how? |
A67743 | Again, Why these, and a thousand more in all ages shut up in prison? |
A67743 | Againe doe you pay God his dues also: doe you repent, and beleeve the Gospell: precepts and menaces, as well as promises? |
A67743 | Againe, Why would they kill our bodies, but because they could not slay our soules? |
A67743 | Againe, why doe these men inveigh and preach against preaching? |
A67743 | And Saul touching David? |
A67743 | And have not we the like murmurers? |
A67743 | And have they not reason thus to do? |
A67743 | And indeed, Who should goe to Hell, if cursers should be left out? |
A67743 | And indeed, how should they, when every word they speake is a slander? |
A67743 | And indeed, what is the corporal sympathy to the spiritual antipathy? |
A67743 | And indeed, whom not heroicall in fortitude( the case standing as it doth) would it not discourage and beat back to the world? |
A67743 | And is it not iust with God, to say, they would none of Christ, let them welcome Sathan and Antichrist? |
A67743 | And lastly, by whom was our Saviour Christ betrayed, bu ● by his owne Disciple Iudas? |
A67743 | And must not hee who is called a Puritan, be derided, hated, persecuted, slandered and laught to scorne? |
A67743 | And must not these mens consciences tell them, that the same they accuse so, are in their lives the most unreproveable of the Land? |
A67743 | And shall not men tremble to deny, what the Devils confesse? |
A67743 | And so fight under Sathans banner against Gods people: And yet take your selves to bee( not Sathans but) Gods servants? |
A67743 | And that whosoever will be a friend of the World maketh him ● elfe the enemy of God? |
A67743 | And the Master himselfe? |
A67743 | And thus you see, That nothing but goodnesse is the whet ● ● on of their malice; which being so, are not we heathenish Christians? |
A67743 | And what do the Cavaliers now, in killing the Saints? |
A67743 | And what is it that Iobs Wife expostulates with him about, but his integrity? |
A67743 | And what is light to him, that will shut his eyes against it? |
A67743 | And what is meant by these words? |
A67743 | And what worke, or service, can the Devil put you upon like this? |
A67743 | And what''s the reason they curse us, but this? |
A67743 | And wherefore is the Devill called by that name, but by reason of his foul mouth in defaming? |
A67743 | And which of the Martyrs did not finde the same verified? |
A67743 | And who but Ieremies familiars watched for his haulting? |
A67743 | And why all this? |
A67743 | Are not the members of Christ more hated, and worse intreated by us, then the limbs of the Devill? |
A67743 | Are ye Christians in earnest? |
A67743 | As how many a Wife is so much the more hated, because a zealous Wife? |
A67743 | As what can bee further expected? |
A67743 | As what makes them contemne us, but, together with pride, their ignorance? |
A67743 | As what saith the wicked in Davids time? |
A67743 | As what stone so rough, but hee can smooth it? |
A67743 | As, why doe their hearts rise against every holy man they see? |
A67743 | BVt to speak really, and as the truth is, why doe they use all these discouragements? |
A67743 | Be ● ides, What should he doe with a talent, that will not improve it? |
A67743 | Betweene whom was this Enmity proclamed? |
A67743 | But Saint Chrysostome, in opening of those words saith, Nay rather, Who is not against us, if God be with us? |
A67743 | But how can God be the Author of it, without being the Author of Sin? |
A67743 | But shall Lot ▪ leave his righteousnesse for such an imputation of singularity? |
A67743 | But what a shame? |
A67743 | But what is the end of these tale- bearers, and informers against good men? |
A67743 | But what saith David? |
A67743 | But what saith Sincerity? |
A67743 | But why into prison? |
A67743 | But why is it? |
A67743 | But will you know, how it comes to passe? |
A67743 | But yet further, what saith Saint Paul? |
A67743 | By whom was that vertuous and religious Lady Barbara put to death, for imbracing the Christian Faith, but by her owne Father Dioscorus? |
A67743 | Can there be such a parity between the Parent and the Childe, the Husband and the Wife, as there is a disparity between God and Satan? |
A67743 | Doe ye not perceive, that God either speaks it in a holy derision? |
A67743 | Doe yee beleeve the word? |
A67743 | Doe you indeed beleeve, that hee who is truth it selfe; speakes as hee meanes in his word? |
A67743 | Doe you not sharpen your tongues in gall; and dip your pens in poyson, to disgrace the graces of God in his children? |
A67743 | For if Christians be charged to blesse their enemies; what will bee their case, that curse their friends? |
A67743 | For if they be spiritually discerned, how should they discern them, that have not the Spirit? |
A67743 | For, what is the notionall sweetnesse of honey, to the experimentall taste of it? |
A67743 | HOw is it, that the practice of Christianity is every where spoken against, under the name of Schisme, as the chiefe Iewes told Paul in his time? |
A67743 | Hath God made any promise to Scoffers? |
A67743 | Hee that is so frighted with a squib, how would he endure the mouth of a Cannon? |
A67743 | How contrary are good Angels and evill men? |
A67743 | How contrary are they? |
A67743 | How doth that appeare? |
A67743 | How is that proved? |
A67743 | How many a Childe lesse beloved, because a religious Childe? |
A67743 | How many a Servant lesse respected, because a godly Servant? |
A67743 | How should Naboth be cleanly put to death, if he be not first accused of blasphemy? |
A67743 | I will put enmity betweene the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman, Gen. 3.15? |
A67743 | I, but what have they whereupon to ground their accusations? |
A67743 | IN the last place what are the Actuall Properties? |
A67743 | If Sampson be thus punished, shal the Philistims escape? |
A67743 | If the godly suffer so many, and grievous afflictions here; what shall his adversaries suffer in hell? |
A67743 | If the righteous shall scarcely be saved, were shall the ungodly and sinner appeare? |
A67743 | If they have called the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household? |
A67743 | Is it any strange thing, to see a blinde man stumble and fall? |
A67743 | Is it done in faith, and out of right ends as out of love, and obedience? |
A67743 | Is it not a capitall crime to bee vertuous? |
A67743 | Is not the name of an honest man, who makes conscience of his wayes, growne odious? |
A67743 | Is the World mended with age? |
A67743 | Is this Christian- like? |
A67743 | It s true, but in what sense? |
A67743 | Know ye not, that to whom ye yeeld your selves as servants to obey; his servants ye are to whom ye obey? |
A67743 | Know yee not( saith St. Iames) that the Amity of the World, is the Enmity of God? |
A67743 | Loe here is reward enough for all that men or divills can do against us: And what will not men undergoe, so their reward may be answerable? |
A67743 | Nay( if I may speak it with reverence) what meanes can God use that shall be able to convert such an one? |
A67743 | Neither want we precedents of this; For, by whom was upright Abel persecuted and slain, but by his owne brother Caine? |
A67743 | Not some, but all: and what all, but even all that will live godly? |
A67743 | Now if it be askt, Why a naturall man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God? |
A67743 | Objection, But you will say, what is this to us? |
A67743 | Or are you wiser then all? |
A67743 | Or can the Crosse of Christ, save them that continue malitious enemies to his Crosse? |
A67743 | Or hath he spoaken the word, and shall not hee accomplish it? |
A67743 | Or if otherwise, they look on our infirmities, they looke not on our graces, on our repentance? |
A67743 | Or must the name of a Puritan, dishearten us from the service of God? |
A67743 | Or shall he not depart Sodom, because the whole City thinkes it better to stay there still? |
A67743 | Or what is this but want of discretion? |
A67743 | Q WHat Uses may this serve for, which hath been spoken touching the properties of this enmity, and our Saviours suffering? |
A67743 | Q WHat are the Causes, why wicked and ungodly men thus hate, and persecute the religious? |
A67743 | See this in Abrahams example, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? |
A67743 | Shall Noah leave building the Arke, and so himselfe, and his whole houshould perish, because all the World else thinkes him haire- brained? |
A67743 | Shall the powder thinke to blow up the house, and scape it selfe from burning? |
A67743 | That have a Library of Divinity in their heads, and not so much as the least Catechisme in their consciences? |
A67743 | The Apostle saith, If God be on our side, who can be against us? |
A67743 | The Corinthians exceedingly slighted Paul, he was this and he was that; But what saith Pa ● l? |
A67743 | True these enemies to holines spare not to cast asper ● ● ions on us, else how should they worke their wills? |
A67743 | WHat are their Verball properties? |
A67743 | WHat instruction from the premisses? |
A67743 | WHat is promised shall be the issue, or effect of it; and who shall get the victory? |
A67743 | WHat is the original ground of the worlds hatred? |
A67743 | WHat is the second Cause, why ungodly men hate and persecute the religious? |
A67743 | WHat is the third cause, why ungodly men hate and persecute the Religious? |
A67743 | WHat is their manner of venting this Enmity? |
A67743 | WHerein consists their unlikenesse and contrariety? |
A67743 | We are bound to praise GOD above any Nation whatsoever,( for what Nation under Heaven in ● oyes so much light, or so many blessings as we?) |
A67743 | What Devill will so affirme? |
A67743 | What God can deliver out of my hand? |
A67743 | What a prodigy is this? |
A67743 | What can hee not perswade them to? |
A67743 | What doth he that curseth the Saints and deare children of God? |
A67743 | What honour of Christ is there among us, wher Religion makes one contemptible? |
A67743 | What instruction affords this? |
A67743 | What is it to him if the superstition, and blindnesse of Popery did over- shadow the Land? |
A67743 | What is meant by the woman and her seed? |
A67743 | What may bee gathered from these tearmes thus explicated? |
A67743 | What occasioned the Lord to proclaime this enmity? |
A67743 | What saith one? |
A67743 | What saith the Scripture? |
A67743 | What say they? |
A67743 | What should I say? |
A67743 | What was it but Iosephs goodnesse, that brought him to the stockes and Irons? |
A67743 | What was the finall cause or end why God proclaimed it? |
A67743 | What was their delinquencie? |
A67743 | What way wee gleane from hence? |
A67743 | What will you be singular? |
A67743 | Wherefore slew Caine his brother, saith Saint Iohn, but because his own Workes were evill, and his brothers good? |
A67743 | Who could have lesse deserved those curses, those aspersions, those stones, then David? |
A67743 | Who helped to burne Bradford? |
A67743 | Who is God? |
A67743 | Who made Serena the Empresse, a Martyr for her faith in Christ? |
A67743 | Who scoffed at righteous Noah, but his owne son Cham? |
A67743 | Who was the Author and proclamor of it? |
A67743 | Why did Esau hate Iacob, and purpose to kill him, but because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him? |
A67743 | Why not unto death? |
A67743 | Why was Ioseph accused of his Mistris for an adulterer, and thereupon committed to prison, but because hee would not bee an Adulterer like her? |
A67743 | Yea, and thinke they doe as good service in it, as Secretaries, and Espialls of Princes, do to the State, when they bring in bills of intelligence? |
A67743 | Yea, have you not strange conceits, and base thoughts of the best men? |
A67743 | Yea, if the feare of the Lord, as Solomon speakes, is the beginning of wisdome, how should they have wisdome, that have not the feare of the Lord? |
A67743 | Yea, who was his greatest enemy but his greatest friend, even one of his houshold- Chaplains? |
A67743 | Yes: for how is a vicious person discredited, and made contemptible, by the vertuous life of an holy man? |
A67743 | Yet the world traduced him for a Samaritan, a Blasphemer, a Sorcerer, a wine- bibber, an enemy to Caesar, and what not? |
A67743 | and also bring forth the fruits of it in your lif and conversation? |
A67743 | and for sins of omissions,& c? |
A67743 | and made them resolve against goodness? |
A67743 | and religion foolishnesse with Michal? |
A67743 | and see that all under you doe the same? |
A67743 | and staggered others, that have made some progresse in holinesse? |
A67743 | and thinke the worse of a man, for having of a tender conscience? |
A67743 | and what instructions afford they? |
A67743 | and with the understanding also? |
A67743 | but because he followed the things which were good and pleasing unto God and in him part his trust? |
A67743 | but because he should bee more exalted? |
A67743 | doe you declare your faith by your workes? |
A67743 | doe you feare an oath? |
A67743 | doe you not deeply censure,& condemne the generation of the just? |
A67743 | doe you not envy, hate, scoffe at, nick- name, raile on and slander the people of God; and mis- consture their actions and intentions? |
A67743 | doe you not with Festus, account zeale madnesse? |
A67743 | doe you pray by the power of the spirit? |
A67743 | doe you receive the word with good and honest hearts? |
A67743 | doe you sanctifie his Sabbaths? |
A67743 | for the evill which cleaves to your very best actions? |
A67743 | grieve for your unprofitablenesse under the meanes of grace? |
A67743 | hate a lye,& c? |
A67743 | instruct your children and servants, and teach them to feare the Lord? |
A67743 | killed, but for the Word of God, and for the testimony which they maintained? |
A67743 | love his children, promote his glory, and strive to gaine others to imbrace the Gospell? |
A67743 | love zeale, and devotion in others? |
A67743 | make conscience of evill thoughts? |
A67743 | or do you not? |
A67743 | reade, conferre and meditate upon it? |
A67743 | saith God, why? |
A67743 | the which scriptures, if they bee true? |
A67743 | they think themselves the worst of sinners? |
A67743 | though hee thrust himselfe into their company? |
A67743 | vaine, and unprofitable words? |
A67743 | watch for their halting, and combine with others against them? |
A67743 | what stuffe so pittifull, but hee can set a glosse upon it? |
A67743 | who is not an open or secret enemy to holinesse? |
A67743 | yea, have you not beaten off many from being religious by your scoffes and reproaches? |
A67778 | ( I mean) thy soul; free? |
A67778 | 1. and that God esteems of Faith above all other graces, deeds, or acts of thine? |
A67778 | 19. that hee was able to say, Though I should walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evill: Why? |
A67778 | 21. and as heartily and unfaignedly desire that thou maist never commit it, as that God should never impute it? |
A67778 | 26. but even) the least parcell of Gods Word into thy mouth? |
A67778 | 5. yet hee neglects coming for many days, lets him die, bee put in the grave untill hee stank; but what of all this? |
A67778 | Admit thou art a great sinner, what then? |
A67778 | Again, shall it ever enter into our hearts, to think that God gives us rules to keep, and yet break them himsef? |
A67778 | Alas, what can they do? |
A67778 | And Pope Adrian, who when hee was to dye; brake out into this expression: Oh my soul, whither art thou going? |
A67778 | And against whom hast thou exalted thy self? |
A67778 | And dost thou make thy slight sufferings an argument of his displeasure? |
A67778 | And doth her adversary vex her sore, year by year; and grievously upbraid her for it, so that she is troubled in her minde? |
A67778 | And have not some been detained( by a violent storme) from coming home, whereby they have been exempt from seeling the down- fall of their house? |
A67778 | And herein wee ● … re no worse, than C ● … st; Did not his Spirit pass from the Cross, into Paradice? |
A67778 | And how profitable is that affliction, which carrieth me to Heaven? |
A67778 | And in reason; did hee come to call sinners to repentance, and shall he not shew mercy to the penitent? |
A67778 | And indeed, how many have we known the better for their sin? |
A67778 | And lastly, shall our momentany sufferings be rewarded with everlasting glory? |
A67778 | And may not this comfort thee? |
A67778 | And see what cause he had so to say; what were these Arrows? |
A67778 | And the Apostles esteemed it a grace, to be disgraced for him: and shall we grumble, or think much at it? |
A67778 | And what though thou canst not powr out thy soul in a flood of words? |
A67778 | And when he hath leave from God, what can hee do? |
A67778 | And wherein does thy case differ? |
A67778 | And whether had you rather rejoice for one ● … it, or alwaies? |
A67778 | And why all this? |
A67778 | And why doth the goodness of our God pick out the most needfull times for our relief and comfort? |
A67778 | And yet thou exceptest thy self, hee excludes none; and dost thou exclude one, and that one thy self? |
A67778 | Are not your failings, your grief? |
A67778 | Are these stripes the chiefest tokens and pledges of God''s love and adoption? |
A67778 | Are thy sins great? |
A67778 | Are we bound to perform perfect obedience to the Law? |
A67778 | As what saith Luther of the whole Turkish Empire? |
A67778 | Ask not( saith Salvianus) why one is greater, another less; one wretched, another happy? |
A67778 | Besides, without some kinde of suffering, how shall your sincerity be approved? |
A67778 | But all the evill thou doest to the godly, is with thy tongue? |
A67778 | But how in this case? |
A67778 | But may some say, Can any good come out of such a Nazarite? |
A67778 | But tell me, hath not this roaring Lion prevailed against thy best part? |
A67778 | But to leave examples; and come to reason: Is it not an evident sign, that if the world hates thee, thou art none of the World? |
A67778 | But what hath been the answer of GOD alwaies to his children, in such their extasies, but this? |
A67778 | But what''s the reason? |
A67778 | But when will there bee an end of this long disease? |
A67778 | But who can measure thy goodnesse, who givest all, and forgivest all? |
A67778 | But why dost thou not altogether believe, that it is a blessed and happie thing thus to suffer? |
A67778 | Can not our enemies diminish one hair of our heads, without God''s special leave and appointment? |
A67778 | Did God and Belial joyn in fu filling the same act? |
A67778 | Did ever any sinner implore the forgiveness of his sins, which did not receiv full remission and pardon? |
A67778 | Did hee not without the Sun at the Creation, cause light to shine forth; and without rain, at the same time, make the earth fruitfull? |
A67778 | Did it ever repent Jacob, when hee came to inherit his Fathers blessing, that hee had indured a long exile, and tedious bondage? |
A67778 | Did not hee first descend into Hel, and then had his ascension? |
A67778 | Did not the sick ever receive their health? |
A67778 | Dost thou determine to continue in the practice of any one sin? |
A67778 | Dost thou not love rather to bee, than seem or bee thought good; and seek more the power of godliness, than the shew of it? |
A67778 | Doth Satan merit thanks? |
A67778 | Doth he make bloody wayls on the backs of his Children? |
A67778 | Doth not God onely gain glory by our sufferings? |
A67778 | Doth the rain and waters, or any other creature displease you? |
A67778 | For consider, doth the Lord say hee will extend his mercie unto all that come unto him? |
A67778 | For, what can be spoken more expresse, direct, and significant? |
A67778 | God used the malice of Pharaoh and Shimei unto good; what then? |
A67778 | Hast thou but thoughts and desires, and canst thou onely express them with sighs and groans? |
A67778 | Hast thou kept thy head whole? |
A67778 | Hath he promised that we shall not be tempted above our strength? |
A67778 | Hath this Lion yielded thee any Honey of Instruction, or Reformation? |
A67778 | Hath thy sin died with thy fame, or with thy health, or with thy peace, or with thy outward estate? |
A67778 | Heaven it self shall power down the food of Angels; have they no meat to their bread? |
A67778 | Hee sends his Serjeant 〈 ◊ 〉 arrest thee for thy debt; commands thee and all thou hast to bee 〈 ◊ 〉 But why? |
A67778 | Hee would have all men saved, and thou comest in with thy exceptive, All but mee; Why thee? |
A67778 | How can we but say, Let the World frown, and all things in it run cross to the grain of our mindes? |
A67778 | How is that? |
A67778 | How many? |
A67778 | How opportunely doth God provide succours to our distresses? |
A67778 | How rashly then hast thou judged of thy Makers dealing with thee? |
A67778 | If it bee asked why God reckons so highly of a sew sighs and groans? |
A67778 | If wee bee sick, and the Physician promises to visit us to morrow with his best relief; with what a tedious longing do wee expect his presence? |
A67778 | If you endure chastening, God offereth himself unto you, as unto sons: for what son is it whom the Father chastenith not? |
A67778 | Indeed, it was Pilates brag to Christ, knowest thou not that I have power to crucifie thee? |
A67778 | Is God more specially present with us in afflictions? |
A67778 | Lastly, look upon Lazarus, though Christs bosome friend? |
A67778 | Let him draw near, for I chiefly direct my speech unto him: Are afflictions and persecutions so necessary and profitable, as hath been shewed? |
A67778 | Neither wants hee ca ● … e; hee that numbers our very hairs, what account doth hee make of our souls? |
A67778 | Never were the Jews more to bee pitied, than when their Prophet delivered these words from the Lord, why should yee bee stricken any more? |
A67778 | Nor love, for if hee hath bought us with his blood, and given us himself, will hee deny us any thing that is good for us? |
A67778 | Now Lord it being thus with us, how can we expect that thou shouldest hear our praiers,& grant our requests? |
A67778 | Now if Saul or Doeg be instead of a Pestilence or Feaver; who can cavil? |
A67778 | Now if that bosom wherein we all look to rest, was assaulted with so many sore trials, and so diverse difficulties, is it likely we should escape? |
A67778 | Now instead of being overcome doest thou overcome? |
A67778 | Now the Tenant is more noble then the House; therefore why are we not more joyed in this, then dejected in the other? |
A67778 | Now what Son of Israel can hope for any good daies, when he heats his Fathers were so evill? |
A67778 | Now when so much was uttered, even by a none- such for his patience; what may we think he did feel, and indure? |
A67778 | Now why doth God by his promise tye himself to bee present with us; more especially in affliction? |
A67778 | O fool? |
A67778 | Oh, it is a good change, to have the fire of affliction for the fire of Hell: Who would not rather smart for a while, then for ever? |
A67778 | Or Joseph, when hee was once made Ruler in Egypt, that he had formerly been sold thither and there imprisoned? |
A67778 | Or which of Gods servants did ever repent that they had passed the apprentiship of their service here, and were now gon to be made free in glory? |
A67778 | Or wil hee provide for his Men and Maids, and let his own children starve? |
A67778 | Or, who would nor cast his burthen upon him, that doth desire to give ease? |
A67778 | Scriptures spoken by Christ, and his Apostles? |
A67778 | Shall wee slight all his blessings, because in one thing hee crosseth us, whereas his least mercy is beyond our best merit? |
A67778 | Suppose thy sufferings bee great, what then? |
A67778 | That thou hast great cause to rejoice and be glad that thou art counted worthi to suffer shame for Christs name? |
A67778 | The Lord hath forsaken us; thou hast cast off, and abhorred us: why hast thou forsaken mee& c.? |
A67778 | The Portugals w ● … ll rejoyce in soul weather why? |
A67778 | The lame, their limbes? |
A67778 | The meditation whereof may bee of some use to thee: Thales beeing asked how adversity might best bee born? |
A67778 | Therefore Bazil, when hee was offered money and preferments to tempt him, answered: Can you give me money that can last for ever? |
A67778 | Thou maist think so, but God will not do so; but in the mean time, how can this bee well taken? |
A67778 | Thou wouldest go the naturall Way to work, What shall I do to inherit eternall life? |
A67778 | Thy Praier is heard: When did he make this Praier? |
A67778 | To instance in some examples; Satan did nought touching Job, but what the Lord upon his request gave him leave to do; what then? |
A67778 | True, they appear not ordinarily, what then? |
A67778 | Was Lazarus for a time extream miserable? |
A67778 | Were none of his children ever exempted from the like? |
A67778 | What Fortifications or Bulwarks so strong and safe agaiest the affronts of Satan, and the World? |
A67778 | What demonstrations can be given more sollid? |
A67778 | What end is that? |
A67778 | What if the Lord for a time forbear coming, as Samuel did to Saul; that hee may try what is in thee? |
A67778 | What saith David? |
A67778 | What saith God to his people in their misery? |
A67778 | What shall I say? |
A67778 | What then? |
A67778 | What then? |
A67778 | What then? |
A67778 | What''s the reason? |
A67778 | When did God answer the hopes of Sarah, Rebeccah, Rachel, the wife of Manoah, and Elisabeth, touching their long and much desired issues? |
A67778 | When did Jacob see a Vision of Angels? |
A67778 | When did Moses find succour, but when his Mother could no longer hide him, and hee was put into the River among the Bull- rushes? |
A67778 | When did our Saviour heal the woman of her bloody issue? |
A67778 | When did we talk without vanity? |
A67778 | When had the Children of Israel the greatest victories, but when they feared most to bee overcome? |
A67778 | When was Hagar comforted of the Angell, but when her child was neer fanished, and shee had east it under a Tree for dead? |
A67778 | When was the Sareptan relieved? |
A67778 | Wherefore hast thou but a touch of sorrow for sin, a spark of hope, a grain of faith in thy heart? |
A67778 | Wherefore, as Jehoram said to Jebu, when hee marched furiously; Comest thou peaceably? |
A67778 | Who but Andronic ● … s, Emperour of the East for many years? |
A67778 | Who ever asked any thing of him which was profitable for him to receive, and did not obtain his suit? |
A67778 | Who is hee that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lordcommandeth it not? |
A67778 | Who is so melancholly, as the rich worldling? |
A67778 | Whom are you angry withal? |
A67778 | Whom hast thou blasphemed? |
A67778 | Why doth a Physician give more Wormwood, or Hellebore to this sick party, then to that? |
A67778 | Why should we not hate the Way to Hell, as much as Hell it self? |
A67778 | Why were they so long kept from it? |
A67778 | Will any make choyce of a weak Champion? |
A67778 | Will you take Saint Panls word for it, or rather Gods own word, who is Truth it self, and can not lie? |
A67778 | Worse than Josephs? |
A67778 | Yea, even when they were wandering in a forlorn wilderness, how did God as it were attend upon them in their distress, to supply their wants? |
A67778 | Yea, shall our glory be increased, as our sufferings have been more? |
A67778 | Yea, the onely Son of God came to this, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken mee? |
A67778 | Yet consider, did God forsake either of them? |
A67778 | and all Gods former favours? |
A67778 | and dost thou say, nay, but hee will not extend his mercy unto mee, hee will have mee to perish, because I am a grievous sinner? |
A67778 | and glory that may eternally flourish? |
A67778 | and shall bastards escape? |
A67778 | and what thou wilt do, or suffer for him, that hath done and suffered so much for thee? |
A67778 | and who sings so merry a note, as hee that can not change a groat? |
A67778 | and why the prayers of the faithfull are so powerfull? |
A67778 | and yet they were delivered; Or is thy case worse than that of Jonas in the Sea, yea, in the Whales belly? |
A67778 | and why should we not make every cogitation, speech, and action of ours, as so many steps to Heaven? |
A67778 | are they not besides your will? |
A67778 | are they not contrary to the current of your desires, and the main bent of your resolutions, and indeavours? |
A67778 | are thy sins more and greater? |
A67778 | as what did our Saviour answer, when the people asked him, What shall wee do that wee might work the works of God? |
A67778 | as why did God set Noah about building the Ark an hundred and twenty years, when a small time might have finished it? |
A67778 | but do they also bring us to repentance, and amendment of l ● … fe? |
A67778 | doth hee deal thus with his Sons; what will hee do with his Slaves? |
A67778 | doth hee invite every one? |
A67778 | doth hee say I would have all men saved, and none to perish? |
A67778 | hee performed it for us: were wee for disobedience subject to the sentence of condemnation, the curse of the Law, and death of body and soul? |
A67778 | hee was condemned for us, and bore the curse of the law; hee died in our stead an ignominious death; did wee deserve the anger of God? |
A67778 | if hee do not answer us in every thing; shall wee take pleasure in nothing? |
A67778 | or doth Satan onely tell thee so? |
A67778 | or how great soever they bee? |
A67778 | or how long soever they continue? |
A67778 | shall to- days Ague, make us forget yesterdays health? |
A67778 | than Mary Magdulen, a common strumpet; possest of many Devills? |
A67778 | than Paul, a bloody pers ● … cutor of Christ and his Church? |
A67778 | than the Theef upon the Cross, who had spent his whole life to the last hour in abominable wickedness? |
A67778 | the blind their sight? |
A67778 | this heavie yoake of bondage? |
A67778 | this tedious affliction? |
A67778 | we hear without wearysomness? |
A67778 | when all the evill in a City, coms from the providence of a good God, which can neither bee impotent, nor unme cifull? |
A67778 | when did in himself an indisposition of mind to all good, and an inclination to all evill? |
A67778 | when did we give without hypocrisie? |
A67778 | when did we reprove without anger, or envy? |
A67778 | when did wee bargain without deceit? |
A67778 | when did wee pray without tediousness? |
A67778 | when hee was thrown into a Pit, and left hopeless; or when sold to the Ishmaelitish Merchants, and then cast into prison? |
A67778 | why doth he permit so many, and such notorious crimes? |
A67778 | why doth he punish the innocent, and acquit the peccant? |
A67778 | why is he so severe towards his own; so gentle to others? |
A67778 | why then should you give your self over, where your Physitian doth not? |
A67778 | yea, how can wee look for other at thine hands, then great and grievous, yea, then double damnation? |
A67760 | & c. What shall become of him that takes away other mens, that robs the poore, turns them out of their own house, and casts them into prison? |
A67760 | 18. but how do we so, if we take not care for them, as we do for our selves? |
A67760 | A friend of his noting it, askt him what might be the reason? |
A67760 | Again, Is there any place so safe as Heaven? |
A67760 | Again, It''s impossible that he who hath love should be ungratefull? |
A67760 | Again, Was not the Gospel written a ● wel to the married, as unmarried? |
A67760 | Am I the first that have sinned? |
A67760 | And Lot& Corunelius? |
A67760 | And O man, what is God that thou art so unmindfull of him? |
A67760 | And again, How sweet are thy words unto my mouth? |
A67760 | And again, being diseased in his feet, it is said, That he sought not to the Lord, but to the Physicians; and what follows? |
A67760 | And can we thinke to keep our riches, by disobeying his commandment? |
A67760 | And certainly if we can not trust him for our bodies; how do we, or how can we trust him with our souls? |
A67760 | And do they assure us of our future reward; and fruition of God''s presence hereafter? |
A67760 | And how wilt thou fare? |
A67760 | And how would God bless us in our souls, bodies, names, estates and posterities? |
A67760 | And indeed what can be a more forcible reason to make our hearts relent, though they be never so stony? |
A67760 | And is there any pain, like the separation from Christ, into everlasting and ever- flaming fire? |
A67760 | And is there such a necessity of shewing mercy to the poor members of Jesus Christ? |
A67760 | And shall we be such Atheists, as to trust the ground, and not God? |
A67760 | And that it is not so much given, as laid up? |
A67760 | And then conclude with, What shall I render unto thee, O Lord, for all these thy benefits? |
A67760 | And thou his Servant by all manner of obligations? |
A67760 | And were it not better then, to prevent a mischief before, then repent you did not when''t is too late? |
A67760 | And what availeth the one without the other? |
A67760 | And what saith holy David; a man of a most brave and divine spirit? |
A67760 | And who knows whether God hath nor put me upon this work, and will accordingly blesse the meanes that shall be used? |
A67760 | And who then that believes this, would not think himself happy in such an exchange? |
A67760 | Are they evident signs of saving Graces? |
A67760 | Are we no less beholding to the poor, then they are to us? |
A67760 | As Rachab, Gaius, Job, The Centurian, Boas, Cornelius, and Mery: as how did our Saviour value and honour Maries bounty? |
A67760 | As how do their hearts droop with their mammon? |
A67760 | As how is Abraham commended for his hospitality, and almes- deeds? |
A67760 | As how will it one day grieve these griping Ingrossers, and Oppressors? |
A67760 | As maist not thou thy self be in affliction or want? |
A67760 | As thus: Would you quiet your clamorous conscience, that will not be friends with you, unlesse you be friends with God? |
A67760 | As what Husbandman does not reckon more of his seed in the ground, then of that in his Barn or Garner? |
A67760 | As what canst thou say against it? |
A67760 | As what gained Balaam, or Judas, or Ahab, or Achan, or Ananias and ● aphira? |
A67760 | As what saith holy David? |
A67760 | As what saith the Holy Ghost? |
A67760 | As what says Saint Paul? |
A67760 | As you see the wicked, because they apply their hearts to wickednesse, how fast they proceed? |
A67760 | Behold thou hast been carefull for us( sayes Elisha to the Shun ● mite,) with all this care: what is to be done for thee? |
A67760 | Besides, how can men partake of that fountain of joy, and rejoyce not? |
A67760 | But Fourthly; Does any one desire or glory in Liberty? |
A67760 | But alas, how many are there that set the cart before the horse, and begin to change their lives, before their hearts? |
A67760 | But aske his conscience the next question; What good hast thou done for his sake? |
A67760 | But how can I speak, whenas my Tongue is tyed? |
A67760 | But if giving might not properly be called gaining, why is it compated to sowing? |
A67760 | But shall I shew you in some Particulars, how gainfull and profitable it is? |
A67760 | But thou wilt say, What can we do for God; or for Christ? |
A67760 | But what a fearful reckoning have these men to make at the day of Judgement, when they give in their accounts unto God? |
A67760 | But what a strange folly is this? |
A67760 | But what do I speak of his being liberall or the approach of Death? |
A67760 | But who will sow those barren Sands, where they are not only without all hope of a good Harvest, but are sure to loose their Seed and Labour? |
A67760 | But wilt thou prove thy self wise? |
A67760 | But you will aske me, from what must we save? |
A67760 | Can the Sun receive light from a candle? |
A67760 | Christians should be like Christ: but how unlike to him are these men? |
A67760 | Do we enjoy all things through Gods blessing? |
A67760 | Do''st thou not know, that with what measure thou metest to others here, God will measure to thee again hereafter? |
A67760 | Dost thou then love thy mony? |
A67760 | Even every sin; for what sin should be so dear to us, as Gods only Son was to him? |
A67760 | First he learnt godlinesse, then godlinesse taught him contentation; and is there any satisfaction like content? |
A67760 | First, Does any man desire or glory in Knowledge? |
A67760 | For did God and Christ, do all this for us? |
A67760 | For if for one sin at the first, God plagued a world of men; how will he plague one man for a world of sin? |
A67760 | For in reason hath he contrived so many waies to save us; and should not we take all occasions to glorifie him? |
A67760 | For what shall it profit a man? |
A67760 | Fourthly, Hath Christ done all this for us, his servants, so much, and so many waies obliged unto him? |
A67760 | God hath said it, and they shall finde it: And what is it to flourish for a time, and perish for ever? |
A67760 | Hast thou not all outward comforts, presenting themselves and their service to thee in great aboundance? |
A67760 | Hath God given thee all things, and dost thou then thinke it a great matter to give him back something? |
A67760 | Hath he done so much for us, and shall we deny him any thing that he requireth of us, though it were our lives, yea our souls; much more our lusts? |
A67760 | Hath he promised to bless the merciful man in his temporal, civil, spiritual, and eternal estate? |
A67760 | He is gracious and full of compassion, he sheweth favour and lendeth, he hath given to the poore,& c. And what shall be his reward? |
A67760 | How hast thou pierced my breast with thy poysoned Dart? |
A67760 | How long shall thy wicked thoughts remain with thee? |
A67760 | How many ruffle it in silke, 〈 ◊ 〉 that are scarce able to pay for wool? |
A67760 | How should it not whet them on, and make them put the same in practise? |
A67760 | I am becom partaker with the Rich Man in his Condemnation, and scorching flames in the horrible pit? |
A67760 | I have been young, and now am old, y ● have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread: and why so? |
A67760 | I will turn my talk to God: Why hast thou lift me up, and cast me down? |
A67760 | I would fain know, whether this be not thy case, that art an unmercifull rich man? |
A67760 | If he still enjoyes his wealth, together with his life for many yeares, yet what will it profit him when sicknesse comes? |
A67760 | If we be righteous, our righteousnesse may profit the sonnes of men; but what can we give unto him? |
A67760 | If you ask David Who are blessed? |
A67760 | If you ask Esay, Who are blessed? |
A67760 | If you ask Solomon, Who are blessed? |
A67760 | If you ask St. James, Who are blessed? |
A67760 | If you ask an Angel, who are blessed? |
A67760 | If you ask him again, Who are blessed? |
A67760 | Is he thy Lord by a manifold Right? |
A67760 | Is it the most certain and infallible way never to want? |
A67760 | Is not this the best Chimistry to turn Earth into Heaven? |
A67760 | Is our Jonathan gone? |
A67760 | Is sparing in this case, the worst thrift? |
A67760 | Is there no such way to grow rich, as by being bountiful to the poor? |
A67760 | Lastly, For conclusion of this point, Wouldst thou be a contented and Happy man? |
A67760 | Now if grace and Gods favour, brings such peace and joy: what fools are sinners? |
A67760 | Now what better inheritance can we leave to our Children, then the blessing of God? |
A67760 | Now what heart would not bleed to see men, yea multitudes run headlong into these tortures, that are thus intolerable? |
A67760 | Now, do we love Christ? |
A67760 | O Satan, how hast thou wounded me? |
A67760 | O how many great streams of Lamentation and tears will wash away and purge mine humble heart? |
A67760 | O thou Devil, what hast thou done unto me? |
A67760 | Objection: But will some say, How shall we obtain this happy condition? |
A67760 | Of Lot''s sons in Law, that counted their Fathers fore- warnings a meer mockage? |
A67760 | Of the rich Glutton, that made no more reckoning of Moses and the Prophets? |
A67760 | Or Fifthly, Is it safety from fear and danger, that a man wishes for or desires? |
A67760 | Or am I the first that fell? |
A67760 | Or can you put it into a better and safer hand, then into the hands of God himself? |
A67760 | Or do we desire to do something again for Christ, who hath done and suffered so much for us? |
A67760 | Or if not for their soules, yet for thine owne: For why shouldest thou love thy children better then thine owne person? |
A67760 | Or like Cardan Doctor of Physick in Rome, who when Out- landish Schollars came to him, would answer them, What have I to do with Forraigners? |
A67760 | Or that God will regard and feed thy Children, who hast neglected his, and suffered them to pine and perish for want of Relief? |
A67760 | Or, commend thy pity? |
A67760 | Or, extol thy praise? |
A67760 | Salvation by Christ? |
A67760 | Secondly, Does any man desire, or glory in Honour and Nobility? |
A67760 | Seventhly, Wouldest thou with all these, have all peace and joy? |
A67760 | Shal we have the benefit of their prayers, and their loins to bless us? |
A67760 | Shall God have glory by it? |
A67760 | Shall the merciful be rewarded with illumination and conversion? |
A67760 | Shall they have cause to pray for, and praise God for us? |
A67760 | Shall they thereby be the better able to serve God in their several stations? |
A67760 | Sixthly art thou but a Steward put in trust? |
A67760 | Sixthly, how much might be spared of what men vainely spend in keeping of Horses, Hawkes, and Dogs? |
A67760 | THankfulness for one benefit, inviteth another: but how worthy is he to perish in the next danger, that is not thankful for escaping the former? |
A67760 | Tamberlain having overcome Bajazet, asked him whether he had ever given God thanks for making him so great an Emperor? |
A67760 | That prefer a little base pelf; before God, and their own salvation? |
A67760 | That there is no being saved without it, hath God therefore given us all, that we may impart some part thereof to others that want? |
A67760 | Thinkest thou that my ruine will avail thee any thing at all? |
A67760 | Thinkest thou to procure unto thy self ease and rest, whiles that I am grievously tormented? |
A67760 | Thirdly, Didst thou desire Children of God? |
A67760 | Thirdly, Does any man glory in riches? |
A67760 | To Parents, as wel as to those who have no Children? |
A67760 | To what purpose is it, to crop the top of the weeds, or lop off the boughes of the tree, when the root and stalk remain in the earth? |
A67760 | Was Christ crucified for our sins? |
A67760 | Was not this fulfilled in H ● man? |
A67760 | What comfort wil it be unto thee, if for getting some trifles for thy posterity on Earth, thou hast lost Heaven? |
A67760 | What for Christ? |
A67760 | What for the members of Christ? |
A67760 | What have you done for God? |
A67760 | What is it to flourish for a time, and perish for ever? |
A67760 | What mad men are Misers? |
A67760 | What mischief hast thou wrought unto me? |
A67760 | What profit does the Sunne receive, by our looking upon it? |
A67760 | What saies Christ? |
A67760 | What saies holy David? |
A67760 | What shall I say? |
A67760 | What shall become of extortion, and Rapine? |
A67760 | What shall become of him, that takes away other mens? |
A67760 | What, not love God? |
A67760 | When God was displeased, what was the effect? |
A67760 | Where didst thou sleep? |
A67760 | Where is that good Shepherd of Souls? |
A67760 | Whereas the Poore shall onely have some outward relief and comfott thereby? |
A67760 | Wherefore in the first place, Hath God so strictly commanded it? |
A67760 | Whether he will have respect unto my humility, and incline his tender compassion towards me? |
A67760 | Whether he will pity my fall? |
A67760 | Whether, he will be moved with my desolation? |
A67760 | Who can say( saies Menander) I shall never do, nor suffer this or that? |
A67760 | Who knoweth whether the Lord wil have mercy upon me? |
A67760 | Who would deny to cloath him being naked? |
A67760 | Who would not give Christ lodging? |
A67760 | Why hast thou forsaken me, and banished me from among the Saints, and astonied me to preach thy Laws? |
A67760 | Why say we then we give to the poor? |
A67760 | Why then hast thou not the like faith? |
A67760 | Why then shouldest not thou know it reason, to do to others, as thou wouldest have them do to thee? |
A67760 | Wil these Works of Mercy bring such joy and peace, confirm our hope, and sweeten all our afflictions? |
A67760 | Wil what we have this way distributed, stand us in more stead at the hour of Death, and Day of Judgement, then all the Wealth in the World? |
A67760 | Wil with- holding from the poor, bring a man to poverty? |
A67760 | Will this Bill pass current, when God comes to cast it up? |
A67760 | Wo is me, that sometime was a Pearle glistering in the golden garland of Glory, but now thrown into the dust, and trodden in the mire of contempt? |
A67760 | Would we( were it our case) think the contrary very unequal? |
A67760 | Wouldest thou become thankefull? |
A67760 | Wouldst thou have saith? |
A67760 | Wouldst thou have the love of God, and the asistance of his Spirit, ask it of him by Prayer? |
A67760 | Wouldst thou pray that thou maist be heard? |
A67760 | Yea how little, how nothing, are the poore and Temporary Injoyments of this life, to those we shall injoy in the next? |
A67760 | Yea how would they praise God, and pray for their bountiful Benefactors? |
A67760 | Yea in truth, what madnesse is it to deny, being requested, to give at his appointment some small portion of our goods? |
A67760 | Yea where is the man that wil not boast of his love to Christ? |
A67760 | Yea ▪ why shouldst thou preferre their wealth before thine own soule? |
A67760 | Yea, let so many of us, as have either heart or brain, in the next place say, O Lord, What is man that thou art so mindfull of him? |
A67760 | Yea, some can carry whole Mannors upon their backs, heads, feet, and fingers, what hospitality then can be expected from such? |
A67760 | Yea, what would they not have given for a little Oyle, and for entrance with the wise, into the Wedding? |
A67760 | Yea, what would you not give, if you then had it? |
A67760 | Yea, why shouldst thou prefer their Wealth before thine own soul? |
A67760 | a great Vsurer? |
A67760 | and Captaines over hundreds? |
A67760 | and Darcas? |
A67760 | and art thou to give an account unto God, how thou hast husbanded thy Master''s Goods; and wil this be the bill of particulars thou hast to give up? |
A67760 | and everlasting life? |
A67760 | and how it brings the blessing of God upon all, or rather all Gods blessings upon him that is godly? |
A67760 | and in providing for them, neglect thy selfe? |
A67760 | and is it not fulfilled daily in our experience? |
A67760 | and much stronger in spiritual, then thou hast in respect of natural things? |
A67760 | and shall we do nothing for him again? |
A67760 | and should we by our sins crucifie him again? |
A67760 | and their flourishing Estate in the World, which is but momentary and mutable, before the fruition of those joys which are infinite and everlasting? |
A67760 | and their flourishing estate in the world, which is but momentany and mutable, before the fruition of those joyes which are infinite and everlasting? |
A67760 | and who wil give streams of tears unto my Eyes, that I may bewail my self in this my sorrowful plight? |
A67760 | and wouldest not thou in thy need, be relieved? |
A67760 | and wouldst thou have it increased? |
A67760 | but the superfluous and excessive love of money? |
A67760 | have so good cheer and banqueting, hear so great melody, joy and triumph? |
A67760 | how didst thou not bethink thy self? |
A67760 | how didst thou not remember? |
A67760 | how didst thou not understand? |
A67760 | how easily, and how quickly they become perfect Swearers, perfect Drunkards, cunning Deceivers,& c.? |
A67760 | how wilt thou answer this before the Great, just and Terrible Judge of all the World? |
A67760 | is not this a good bargaine to part with vaine and uncertain things, to partake of real and durable riches? |
A67760 | my Sons be alive, yet am I barren, Alas O Spirit which camest heretofore down upon me, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A67760 | or ascribe them to thy self, or other helps? |
A67760 | or call them into question? |
A67760 | or did he give thee Children, that thou mightest make them a Plea and Priviledge to neglect his Commandments, and thy duty and love to Christ? |
A67760 | or how should the stream flow and the fountain and well head be dried up? |
A67760 | or to remember, that thy children ruffle it out in worldly wealth ▪ and superfluous abundance? |
A67760 | or what receiveth he at our hands? |
A67760 | or would we indeed expresse our thankfulnesse to him, for what we have received from him? |
A67760 | that hast beaten the poor to pieces, and ground their faces? |
A67760 | though by a most unworthy and insufficient Instrument? |
A67760 | though he should win the whole world, if he gain Hell with it, and loose both Heaven and his own soul? |
A67760 | what is there to be done for thee? |
A67760 | when by seeking unlawfull gain, they lost both what they got, and themselves too? |
A67760 | when they shall receive a multiplicity of torments, according to the multiplicity of their cruel and unconscionable deeds? |
A67760 | where no thief comes, where no Plunderer comes, where no rust comes: Is there any place like that? |
A67760 | who can sufficiently expresse thy love? |
A67760 | who liveth by Faith, rather then by Sence: For by how many secret passages can God conveigh unto thee the reward of thy Alms- deeds? |
A67760 | will he make you all Captaines over thousands? |
A67760 | wilt thou do thy self good indeed? |
A67760 | would not turn all his scraping into giving? |
A67760 | wouldest thou be spoken for to the King, or to the Captain of the Host? |
A67760 | yea what can we think too much, what not too little to give to attain eternity? |
A67746 | & c. Yea, the onely Sonne of God came to this; my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A67746 | 1. and that God esteemes of faith above all other graces, deeds, or acts of thine? |
A67746 | 14. they saw the Pillar remove behind them, and the Sea remove before them, they looking for nothing but death? |
A67746 | 19. that he was able to say, Though I should walke through the valley of the shaddo ● of death I will feare no evill: Why? |
A67746 | 2. and see what cause he had so to say; what what were these Arrow ● s? |
A67746 | 21. and as heartily, and unfaynedly desire, that thou maist never commit it, as that God should never impute it? |
A67746 | 25. Who will not be willing to suffer with Christ, that he may also raigne with him? |
A67746 | 26. and the Apostles esteemed it a grace, to be disgraced for him: and shall we grumble, or thinke much at it? |
A67746 | 31. to 36. and yet he againe reigned in Babell: Worse than Josephs? |
A67746 | 310 Assurance of the pardon of sinne, what a comfort? |
A67746 | Achan for one sa ● reledge? |
A67746 | Admit thou art a great sinner, what then? |
A67746 | Again seaventhly, how excellently was Jobs sincerity made known by Sathans malice, when he brought sorth those Angelicall words; What? |
A67746 | Againe secondly, if wee make this use of our sufferings, what more pretious than the reproaches of an enemy? |
A67746 | Againe, shall it ever enter into our hearts to thinke, that God gives us rules to keepe, and yet breake them himselfe? |
A67746 | Alas, what can they do? |
A67746 | Ana ● ● as for one lye? |
A67746 | And David speaking of his sonne Absaloms treason, I was dumbe and said nothing; why? |
A67746 | And dost thou make thy slight sufferings an argument of his displeasure? |
A67746 | And herein wee fare no worse than Christ; Did not his spirit passe from the Crosse into Paradise? |
A67746 | And how profitable is that affliction, which carryeth me to Heaven? |
A67746 | And how should they other then miscarry, who have a Pirate( the Flesh) for their guide? |
A67746 | And in common reason, can a Clock goe without a weight to move it, or a Keeper to set it? |
A67746 | And in reason, did he come to call sinners to repentance, and shall he not shew merey to the penitent? |
A67746 | And indeed, how many have wee knowne the better for th ● ir sinne? |
A67746 | And indeed, what shouldst thou doe in case thou seest that the world runs not on thy side, but give over the world, and be on Gods side? |
A67746 | And is not Christ to our soules the onely Sun of righteousness, and fountaine of all comfort? |
A67746 | And lastly, shall our momentany sufferings be rewarded with overlasting glory? |
A67746 | And makes not this infinitly for the glory of God? |
A67746 | And may not this comfort thee? |
A67746 | And see how hee followed his Masters example; for which amongst us so loves his Benefactors, as Saint Paul loved his Malefactors? |
A67746 | And what else did Judas, touching Mary, when hee depraved her in our Saviours presence, for powring that pretious oyntment on his feet? |
A67746 | And what more glorious than with Noahs Olive- tree, to keep our Branches green under water? |
A67746 | And what saith Naaman upon the cleansing of his Leprosie? |
A67746 | And what saith that Tyrian Queene? |
A67746 | And what though thou canst not poure out thy soule in a 〈 … 〉 ud of words? |
A67746 | And what will become of him, if he repent not; who can afford no time to argue, but to execute? |
A67746 | And wherein does thy case differ? |
A67746 | And whether had you rather rejoyce for one fit, or alwayes? |
A67746 | And whom did Christ honour with his first appearance, but Mary Magdalen? |
A67746 | And why all this, but that in his owne might no man might be strong? |
A67746 | And why doth the goodnesse of our God pick out the most needfull times for our reliefe and comfort? |
A67746 | And why is it not so with thee? |
A67746 | And yet thou exceptest thy selfe, he excludes none, and dost thou exclude one, and that one thy selfe? |
A67746 | Are these stripes the chiefest tokens and pledges of Gods love and adoption? |
A67746 | Are thy sinnes great? |
A67746 | Are we bound to performe perfect obedience to the Law? |
A67746 | As how doth Davids patience draw on the insolence of Shimei? |
A67746 | As how few of these Salamanders who are never well, but when they are in the fire of contention, are long lived? |
A67746 | As touching the first, why descended he to take our flesh? |
A67746 | As what is a mountaine of Earth but an accumulation of many little dusts? |
A67746 | Beleevest thou the former Scriptures spoken by Christ, and his Apostles? |
A67746 | Besides, how were the Angels in heaven punished for one fault? |
A67746 | Besides, without some kinde of suffering, how shall your sincerity be approved? |
A67746 | But all the evill thou doest to the godly, is with thy tongue? |
A67746 | But bethinke thy selfe, is it worse with thee than it was with those b ● fore mentioned? |
A67746 | But how can I lay downe my life for Christ? |
A67746 | But how in this case? |
A67746 | But is it so? |
A67746 | But may some say, can any good come out of such a Nazarite? |
A67746 | But tell me, hath not this roaring Lyon prevailed against thy best part? |
A67746 | But to goe on; wilt thou follow Gods example? |
A67746 | But what did they answer? |
A67746 | But what doe I tell them of these transcendent examples? |
A67746 | But what ever others find, thy sufferings are not thus counterpoysed and sweetned? |
A67746 | But what hath beene the answer of GOD alwayes to his children in such their extasies, but this? |
A67746 | But what of all this? |
A67746 | But what would malice rather have, than the vexation of them whom it perse ● utes? |
A67746 | But what''s the reason? |
A67746 | But when will there be an end of this long disease? |
A67746 | Can not our enemies diminish one haire of our heads, without Gods speciall leave and appointment? |
A67746 | David, whence came all his troubles by Absalom, Ammon, Adoniah? |
A67746 | Did God and Belial joyne in fulfilling the same act? |
A67746 | Did ever any sinner implore the forgivenesse of his sinnes, which did not receive full remission and pardon? |
A67746 | Did he not without the Sunne at the Creation, cause light to shine forth; and without raine at the same time, make the earth fruitfull? |
A67746 | Did it ever repent Jacob, when he came to inherit his Fathers blessing, that he had endured a long exile, and tedious bondage? |
A67746 | Did not hee first descend into Hell, and then had his ascension? |
A67746 | Did not the sicke ever receive their health? |
A67746 | Doe thou beare with others, God beares with thee; is there a too much, which thou canst suffer for so patient a Lord? |
A67746 | Dost thou determine to continue in the practice of any one sinne? |
A67746 | Dost thou not love rather to be, then seeme, or be thought good; and seeke more the power of godlinesse, then the shew of it? |
A67746 | Doth Satan merit thanks? |
A67746 | Doth hee make bloody wayles on the backes of his Children, and shall Bastards escape? |
A67746 | Doth not God onely gaine glory by our sufferings, but doe they also bring 〈 ◊ 〉 to repentance, and amendment of life? |
A67746 | Even Hazael before hee met with an opportunity, could say, What? |
A67746 | For consider, doth the Lord say he will extend his mercy unto all that come unto him? |
A67746 | For first: Who ever was, that was not slandered? |
A67746 | For the Law of God, and the Law of Nature forbids it; and doth not the Law of Nations also? |
A67746 | For what can be spoken more expresse, direct, and significant? |
A67746 | For, art thou borne of God? |
A67746 | God used the malice of Pharaoh and Shemei unto good; what then? |
A67746 | Hast thou but thoughts and desires, and canst thou onely expresse them with sighes, and groanes? |
A67746 | Hast thou then a desire after this invincible patience? |
A67746 | Hath he promised that wee shall not be tempted above our strength? |
A67746 | Hath this Lyon yeelded thee any honey of Instruction, or Reformation? |
A67746 | Hath thy sinne dyed with thy fame, or with thy health, or with thy peace, or with thy outward estate? |
A67746 | Have mercy upon me( saith hee) and heark ● n unto my prayer: Why? |
A67746 | How can we but say, let the world frowne, and all things in it runne crosse to the graine of our mindes? |
A67746 | How deare a Jewell is health to him that tumbles in distempered bloud? |
A67746 | How is that? |
A67746 | How many flying from danger, have met with death? |
A67746 | How many severall qualities have the Plants that they Brouze upon? |
A67746 | How oft doth guiltinesse make one avoid, what another would wish in this case? |
A67746 | How rashly then hast thou judged of thy Makers dealing with thee? |
A67746 | How small trifles make us weary of our selves? |
A67746 | How sweet is liberty to one that hath beene long imm 〈 … 〉 ed within a case of wals? |
A67746 | I meane thy soule free? |
A67746 | I, but is it wisedome so to doe? |
A67746 | If every thing were unlike him, how is it possible hee should love us? |
A67746 | If it bee a ● ked why God reckons so highly of a few sighes and groanes? |
A67746 | If we be sicke, and the Physitian promises to visit us to morrow with his best reliefe, with what a tedious longing doe we expect his presence? |
A67746 | If you endure chast 〈 … 〉, God offereth himselfe unto you, as unto sonnes: for 〈 ◊ 〉 so ● ● e is it whom the Father chasteneth not? |
A67746 | In these cases how full of life, and spirit, and holy impatiency did he shew himselfe to be? |
A67746 | Indeed, what have we by our second birth, which is not miraculous in comparison of our naturall condition? |
A67746 | Is God more specially present with us in afflictions? |
A67746 | Is any one afflicted? |
A67746 | It may be his naturall, spirituall or politicall parents, in some kinde or other: as who can plead innocency herein? |
A67746 | It was a common complaint with David, The Lord both forsaken us; those hast cast off, and abhorred us: why hast thou forsaken me? |
A67746 | Let a man but fast a meale or two, oh how sweete is browne bread, though it would not downe before? |
A67746 | Let every such Jonas reflect upon himselfe, and say, What evill have I done? |
A67746 | Mirriam for one slander? |
A67746 | Moses for one unbeleefe? |
A67746 | Neither can there be a worse signe, of ensuing evill, then for a man in a carnall presumption to vaunt of his owne abilities? |
A67746 | Neither say of thy sinne, as once Lot of Zoar; is it not a little one? |
A67746 | Neither wants he care; he that numbers our very haires, what account doth he make of our soules? |
A67746 | Never were the Jewes more to be pitied, then when their Prophet delivered these words from the Lord, Why should yee be stricken any more? |
A67746 | Nor love; for if he hath bought us with his bloud, and given us himselfe, will he deny us any thing that is good for us? |
A67746 | Now Lord it being thus with us, how can wee expect that th ● n should ● st heare our prayers, and grant our ● ● qu ● sts? |
A67746 | Now if that bosome wherein we all look to rest, was assaulted with so many sore tryals, and so divers difficulties, is it likely we should escape? |
A67746 | Now instead of being overcome, dost thou overcome? |
A67746 | Now what is it that wee suffer, being compared with their sufferings? |
A67746 | Now who would not be willing to bleed, when by that meanes an inveterate sicknesse may be prevented? |
A67746 | Now, if thy very enemies thus honour thee, how should thy friends( bought with thy precious blood) glorifie thee? |
A67746 | Now, what Sonne of Israel can hope for any good dayes, when hee heares his Fathers were so evill? |
A67746 | Now, when so much was uttered, even by a non- such for his patience; what may we thinke hee did feele, and indure? |
A67746 | Now, whethers counsell wilt thou follow? |
A67746 | O how ● eet a thing is peace to them that have beene long troubled with warres and tedious contentions? |
A67746 | O what a glorious renowne did the Traytors reproach occasion her? |
A67746 | Oh, it is a good change, to have the fire of affliction for the fire of H ● ll: Who would not rather sinart for a while, than for ever? |
A67746 | Or Joseph, when he was once made Ruler in Aegypt, that he had formerly beene sold thither, and there imprisoned? |
A67746 | Or as Jewell did his friends in banishment; saying, This world will not last ever? |
A67746 | Or which of Gods servants did ever repent that they had passed the apprentiship of their service here, and were now gone to be made free in glory? |
A67746 | Or will he provide for his Men and Maides, and let his owne Children strave? |
A67746 | Or with Aarons Rod, to bring forth ripe Almonds, when in appearance wee are clung and dry? |
A67746 | Or, who would not e ● st his burthen upon him, that doth desire to give ease? |
A67746 | Our holy longings are increased with delayes; it whets our appetite to bee held fasting, and whom will not Need make both humble and eloquent? |
A67746 | Shall we receive good at the hands of God, and not evill? |
A67746 | Shall wee slight all his blessings, because in one thing hee crosseth us, whereas his least mercy is beyond our best ▪ merit? |
A67746 | Slay them? |
A67746 | Suppose thy suff ● rings be great, what then? |
A67746 | That thou hast great cause to rejoyce and be glad, that thou art counted worthy to suffer shame for Christs Name? |
A67746 | The Portingals will rejoyce in foule weather; why? |
A67746 | Thou mayst thinke so, but God will not doe so; but in the meane time, how can this be well taken? |
A67746 | Thou wouldest goe the naturall way to worke, What shall I doe to inherit etonall life? |
A67746 | Thy prayer is heard: When did he make this Prayer? |
A67746 | To instance in some examples; Sathan did nought touching Job, but what the Lord upon his request gave him leave to doe; what then? |
A67746 | True, the fainting heart that hath waited some time, may with the Psalmist mutter out some such speech as this, Hath God forgotten to bee gracious? |
A67746 | Was Lazarus for a time extreame miserable? |
A67746 | We are bound to praise thee above any Nation whatsoever: for what Nation under Heaven en ● oyes so much light, or so many blessings as we? |
A67746 | Wee all call our selves Christians: why? |
A67746 | Well then, art thou vexed, persecuted, and afflicted by some cruell and malitious Saul? |
A67746 | Were none of his children ever exempted from the like? |
A67746 | What Fortisications or Bulwar ● es so strong and safe against the affronts of Satan, and the World? |
A67746 | What a load of injuries can some Christians digest, that have beene frequent in sufferings, and long exercised in the Schoole of Affliction? |
A67746 | What can wee doe without thee? |
A67746 | What demonstrations can be given more sollid? |
A67746 | What did he lose by it, or had he cause to repent himselfe? |
A67746 | What evill hast thou done said the Marriners to the distressed Prophet, that this evill is come upon us? |
A67746 | What if the Lord for a time forbeare comming, as Samuel did to Saul; that hee may try what is in thee? |
A67746 | What is this but in effect, and at a distance to contradict the Lord, and give the lye to truth it selfe? |
A67746 | What need had David to loade himselfe with an unnessary weapon? |
A67746 | What need we returne rayling for rayling? |
A67746 | What saith David? |
A67746 | What saith Job? |
A67746 | What saith one advisedly? |
A67746 | What saith the Apostle? |
A67746 | What shall I say? |
A67746 | What then? |
A67746 | What then? |
A67746 | What then? |
A67746 | What will not men undergoe, so their pay may be answerable? |
A67746 | What, saith Saint Hierom, in the like case? |
A67746 | When Aristippus was asked by one in dirision, where the great high friendship was become, that formerly had bin between him and Estines? |
A67746 | When did God answer the hopes of Sarah, Rebeckah, Rachel, the wife of Manoah, and Elizabeth, touching their long and much desired issues? |
A67746 | When did Moses finde succour, but when his Mother could no longer hide him: and he was put into the River among the Bullrushes? |
A67746 | When did we talke without vanity? |
A67746 | When had the Children of Israel the greatest victories, but when they feared most to bee overcome? |
A67746 | When was Hagar comforted of the Aagell, but when her childe was neere famished, and she had cast it under a Tree for dead? |
A67746 | Wherefore, as Jehoram said to Jehu, when he marched furiously; Commest thou peaceably? |
A67746 | Which all mingled together, what a well tempered S ● llad do they make? |
A67746 | Who but Andronicus, Emperour of the East for many yeares? |
A67746 | Who could feele the odoriferous smell of these Aromaticall spices, if they were not pownded and bruised in the Morter of affliction? |
A67746 | Who could know the Faith, Patience, and Valour, of Gods souldiers, if they alwayes lay in Garrison, and never came to the skirmish? |
A67746 | Who could know whether we be Vessels of gold, or drosse, unlesse we were brought to the Touch- stone of temptation? |
A67746 | Who ever asked any thing of him, which was profitable for him to receive, and did not obtaine his sute? |
A67746 | Who is he that saith, and it commeth to passe, when the Lord commandeth it not? |
A67746 | Who is so melancholy as the rich worldling? |
A67746 | Who will not suffer a few stripes from a Father, by whom he receiveth so much good, even all that he hath? |
A67746 | Who would not be a Philpot for a moneth, or a Lazarus for a day, or a Stephen for an houre, that he might be in Abrahams bosome for ever? |
A67746 | Why doth the Hare use so many doublings? |
A67746 | Why groanest thou under thy burden, and cryest out of unremedied paine? |
A67746 | Why is the Lapwing made an Hieroglyphicke of infelicity? |
A67746 | Why should we not hate the way to Hell, as much as Hell it selfe? |
A67746 | Why then complainest thou, I am afflicted on every side? |
A67746 | Why then should you give your selfe over, where your Physitian doth not? |
A67746 | Why were they so long kept from it? |
A67746 | Why? |
A67746 | Will any m ● ● ● choyce of a weak Champion? |
A67746 | Will you take Saint Pauls word for it, or rather GODS owne word, who is truth it selfe, and can not lye? |
A67746 | Wilt thou( saith one) looke to raigne, and not expect to suffe ●? |
A67746 | Without thee, what can we suffer? |
A67746 | Worse than Job, when he sate scraping his soares on the dunghill, had all his houses burn ●, all his cattell stolne, and his children sl ● ine? |
A67746 | Wouldst thou have faith? |
A67746 | Wouldst thou have the love of God? |
A67746 | Yea, how many will confesse, that one affliction hath done more good upon them, than many Sermons? |
A67746 | Yea, how should we not with a great deale of comfort and security, passe through a Sea of troubles, that wee may come to that haven of eternall rest? |
A67746 | Yea, shall our glory bee increased, as our sufferings have beene m ● re? |
A67746 | Yea, what hath the more temperate worldling to say for himselfe, who hath some small peece of reason for his guide? |
A67746 | Yea, what said blessed Bradford? |
A67746 | You''l confesse then t is Princely to disdaine a wrong; and is that all? |
A67746 | and dost thou say, nay but he will not extend his mercy unto me, he will have mee to perish, because I am a grievous sinner? |
A67746 | and he had never been a Courtier, if he had not first beene a prisoner? |
A67746 | and is it grievous to thee for the present? |
A67746 | and the Angell, but Peter? |
A67746 | and to be baptized with the baptisme that I shall be baptized with? |
A67746 | and what thou wilt doe, or suffer for him, that hath do ● e and suffered so much for thee? |
A67746 | and who sings so merry a note, as he that can not change a groat? |
A67746 | and why should we not make every cogitation, spéech, and action of ours, as so many steps to Heaven? |
A67746 | and why the prayers of the faithfull are so powerfull? |
A67746 | and yet they were delivered: Or is thy case worse than that of Jonas in the Sea, yea in the Whales belly? |
A67746 | as what did our Saviour answer, when the people asked him, What sh ● ll we doe that we might worke the workes of God? |
A67746 | as why did God se ● Noah about building the Arke, an hundred and twenty yeares, when a small time might have finished it? |
A67746 | but who can measure thy goodnesse, who givest 〈 ◊ 〉, and forgiv ● st all? |
A67746 | did he not thrust his owne feet into the stocks by that threefold lye of his, uttered in a breath to get the blessing? |
A67746 | doth he deale thus with his Sonnes, what will he doe with his Slaves? |
A67746 | doth he invite every one? |
A67746 | doth he say I would have all men saved, and none to perish? |
A67746 | hast thou kept thy head whole? |
A67746 | hast thou vanquished the World that vanquisheth all the wicked? |
A67746 | he sends his Serjeant to arrest thee for thy debt; commands thee and all thou h ● ft to be sold, but why? |
A67746 | hee would have all men saved, and thou commest in with thy exceptive, all but mee; why thee? |
A67746 | how many furious men, by a rash bloudshed? |
A67746 | if he doe not answer us in everything, shall we take pleasure in nothing? |
A67746 | if when a man reviles thee thou art impatient, how wouldest thou afford thy ashes to Christ, and write patience with thine owne blood? |
A67746 | is thy servant a dogge? |
A67746 | or doth Satan only tell thee so? |
A67746 | or what good have I omitted or intermitted? |
A67746 | or what is a flood, but a concurrence of many little drops? |
A67746 | or with Moses Bush, not to consume though on a light fire? |
A67746 | shall to dayes Ague, make us forget yesterdayes health, and all Gods former favours? |
A67746 | shall we receive good at the hand of God, and not receive evill? |
A67746 | that they have learned more good in one dayes or weekes misery, than many yeares prosperity could teach them? |
A67746 | the blinde their sight? |
A67746 | the lame their limbes? |
A67746 | then Mary Magdalen, a common strumpet; possest of many Devils? |
A67746 | then Paul, a bloudy persecutor of Christ and his Church? |
A67746 | then the Theefe upon the Crosse, who had spent his whole life to the last houre, in ab 〈 … 〉 inable wickednesse? |
A67746 | this heavy yoake of bondage? |
A67746 | this tedious affliction? |
A67746 | was it not his fondnesse and indulgence? |
A67746 | was it not his owne undutifulnesse? |
A67746 | what cunning conveyances? |
A67746 | what jugling, shuffling, and packing will he use, to make any sinne feazable? |
A67746 | what quaint querks? |
A67746 | what sinne have I committed or admitted? |
A67746 | what subtill shifts? |
A67746 | when Balack told him, am not I able indeed to promote thee to honour? |
A67746 | when I can not for his sake, quietly disgest a few reproachfull speeches? |
A67746 | when did we bargaine without deceit? |
A67746 | when did we give without hypocrisie? |
A67746 | when did we pray without ● ● diousnesse? |
A67746 | when did we reprove without anger, or envy? |
A67746 | when did wee heare without wearisomnesse? |
A67746 | when he was throwne into a Pit ●, and left hopelesse; or when sold to the Ishm ● elitish Merchants, and then cast into prison? |
A67746 | who findes not in himselfe an indisposition of minde to all good, and an inclination to all evill? |
A67746 | why doth he permit so m ● ny, and such notorious crimes? |
A67746 | why doth he punish the innocent, and acquit the peccant? |
A67746 | would any man put his life to a venter, if he knew that when hee dyed he should presently drop into hell? |
A67746 | yea, how can wee looke for other at thin ● hands, then great and g ● i ● vous, yea, then double damnation? |
A15845 | & c. Doth not our Saviour himself say, that the gate of heaven is so strait, that few find it? |
A15845 | & c. who persecute the godly, for keeping close to this Word? |
A15845 | ( for they accused him of many things) but, which of you can convince me of sinne? |
A15845 | 10. and what is rebellion but folly? |
A15845 | 10. where God indit ● ing Cain for murthering his Brother, saith, What h ● st th ● u done? |
A15845 | 13. that he will have no mercy, for such as are desperately wicked? |
A15845 | 13. threatned? |
A15845 | 13. yea, if the Campe of Israel suffered so much for one Achan''s fault; what may wee expect, that have such a multitude of Achans amongst us? |
A15845 | 14. and indeed, if they be spiritually discerned; how should they discerne them, that have not the Spirit? |
A15845 | 14. and those mockers, Acts, 2. imputed the true worke of the Spirit to drunkennesse; who would not rather be dispraised, then commended by them? |
A15845 | 14. devilish counsell given to Pilate and the people against him? |
A15845 | 14. take him Prisoner? |
A15845 | 15. and wherein doe these godlesse persons, drunkards,( though they live in our Church) differ from infidels? |
A15845 | 15. cursed? |
A15845 | 15. wherewith he slew a thousand men? |
A15845 | 15. why did they use disdainefull gestures before him? |
A15845 | 17. and if innocency found no meanes of resistance, what hope have we so extreamely degenerated? |
A15845 | 19. and trample upon him with their feet, because hitherto hee hath borne the contumelies of their tongues, and excesses of their lives? |
A15845 | 19. tales carried of him? |
A15845 | 2. and againe to Gajus, 3 Iohn 1. whom I love in the truth, but to shew, that to love in the truth, is the only true love? |
A15845 | 2. and be the same in Closet and Market, as being no lesse seene in the one, then in the other? |
A15845 | 2. had his Doctrine withstood and contraried? |
A15845 | 2. makes cleare: and that they are his servants, kept by the Devill in a snare, and taken Captive of him? |
A15845 | 2. they were all out of their way: but how did they speed? |
A15845 | 2. wouldest thou help the wicked, and love them that hate the Lord? |
A15845 | 20. scoft at? |
A15845 | 21. but shall have their part in the Lake, which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death? |
A15845 | 23. and what not? |
A15845 | 23. to 34: did he make havocke of the Church? |
A15845 | 25. and how fearefull the punishment? |
A15845 | 26, 15? |
A15845 | 26? |
A15845 | 29. hated? |
A15845 | 29. when Christ wept over Hierusalem, what was the cause? |
A15845 | 3 Is every man busie in dispending that quality, which is predominant in him? |
A15845 | 3. how great shall their torment bee in Hell, that pervert many soules to destrustion? |
A15845 | 34. and lastly, put him to death, even that cursed death of the Crosse? |
A15845 | 34. his actions misconstrued? |
A15845 | 34. see this in Abrahams example, shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? |
A15845 | 34. when Pilate asked, what shall be done with Iesus? |
A15845 | 39. combine together, and lay devilish plots to destroy him? |
A15845 | 39. slandered? |
A15845 | 4. there is mercy with thee, saith David, what? |
A15845 | 42. nick- named? |
A15845 | 44. and what can the Lambe expect of the Butcher, but killing? |
A15845 | 5 Yea, which of Gods Servants hath not a woe in his mouth to throw at this sinne? |
A15845 | 5. and Iesus was then in Heaven, but we know, the head will say, and that properly, when the foote is trod upon, why tread you upon me? |
A15845 | 53. undermined in talke, that they might accuse him? |
A15845 | 55. rayled on? |
A15845 | 55? |
A15845 | 57. smite him? |
A15845 | 6. though he thrust himselfe into their company? |
A15845 | 64. hurt and wound him? |
A15845 | 7. murmured against? |
A15845 | 8. for if we once have him, wee have all things: If, saith Paul, God hath given us his own Sonne, how shall he not with him give us all things also? |
A15845 | 8. to 32? |
A15845 | 9. but what''s the issue? |
A15845 | A babling tongue sheweth great pride, and little knowledge; but how seldome is the tongue liberall, where the heart is full? |
A15845 | A drunk ● rd for kindnesse is another Iulian, who was oftentimes bountifull, but how? |
A15845 | A report once comming into the mouth of the vulgar, whether true, or false, like wild- fire, can never be quenched; why? |
A15845 | AS for winning by faire meanes: first, how ready at hand is an evill suggestion? |
A15845 | Again, who will trust a drunkard with either money or commodity? |
A15845 | Againe, how many severall plagues did he remove from Pharaoh and all Aegypt, by his prayer? |
A15845 | Againe, if it be ask''d, why the naturall man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God? |
A15845 | Againe, is none so fit as the wife to tempt the husband? |
A15845 | Againe, let any strong brain''d Achitophel tell me, whether hee had not rather seeme wicked, th ● ● simple? |
A15845 | Againe, whether wee are as carefull to avoide the occasions of sinne, as sinne it selfe, and not now and then, but continually? |
A15845 | And Alphonsus King of Arragon being demanded, what company he liked best? |
A15845 | And Iezabel of hers, who thought it a greater sinne in El ● ah to kill Baals Prophets, then in her selfe to slay all the Prophets of the Lord? |
A15845 | And can any doubt, but drunkards would deale as cruelly with us, if they might be permitted? |
A15845 | And can we converse with none but will worke upon us, and by the unperceived stealth of time, assimilate us to their owne customes? |
A15845 | And could this be, if drunkards were not stupendiously besotted? |
A15845 | And did not a Dyer, of Barkhamsted in Hartford- shire, doe the like? |
A15845 | And doth he not likewise affirme, that all they shall be damned, which believe not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnes? |
A15845 | And doth not experience teach us, that the good are sooner perverted by the bad, then the bad converted by the good? |
A15845 | And hath not this age some, whoequall Lycaon, that was turned into a Woolfe by Iupiter, for his cruelty? |
A15845 | And if so, to what number wil the oathes amount, which are sworne throughout the whole land, yea, in some one Alehouse, or Taverne? |
A15845 | And if the righteous scarcely be saved; where shal the ungodly and sinner appeare? |
A15845 | And in Sodom, who, but faithfull Abraham and just Lot was vexed with the uncleanly conversation of the Sodomites, and prayed to God for them? |
A15845 | And in the old world, who, but righteous Noah was grieved for the sinnes of that age, and the judgment which followed? |
A15845 | And indeed who would buy repentance and misery so deare? |
A15845 | And indeed, how little is that man hurt, whom malice condemnes on earth, and God commends in heaven? |
A15845 | And indeed, what may not an enemy doe to him which wants his sight? |
A15845 | And indeed, why doe we pray not to be led into temptation, if we lead our selves into temptation? |
A15845 | And is all this nothing to move thee? |
A15845 | And is it not most just with God; that hee who will put out his naturall light, should have his spirituall extinguished? |
A15845 | And is it otherwise now? |
A15845 | And lastly, by whom was our Saviour Christ betrayed, but by his owne Disciple ludas? |
A15845 | And so of all other gifts: how many are the wor ● e for them? |
A15845 | And was not all this, to shew us what we should doe in the like cases? |
A15845 | And what else can be looked for from them? |
A15845 | And what if admonition and reproofe be as unwelcome to thy friend, as water into a Ship? |
A15845 | And what if the height had answered their desire? |
A15845 | And what rubing can fetch heat in such a dead body? |
A15845 | And what said Iustine Martyr to his murtherers, in behalfe of himselfe, and his fellow Martyrs; you may kill us, but you can never hurt us? |
A15845 | And what though every plant that is watered, proveth not fruitfull? |
A15845 | And what though some will mocke a these threatnings, with those Sodo ● ites? |
A15845 | And why fares it not so with us? |
A15845 | And you may know it by this token, doe they not make it their Grace, both before and after dinner, to disgrace such an Innocent? |
A15845 | Antisthenes being asked what fruit he had reaped of all his study? |
A15845 | Are not most populous places, by reason of this vice, like Antiochus his army, fuller of mouthes then hands? |
A15845 | As come to a mans house, and where is he? |
A15845 | As for example, Pharaoh and his Host were out of their way, when they pursued the children of Israel going out of Egypt; but now sped they? |
A15845 | As indeed, who were they in all ages that mourned for the abominations of the times? |
A15845 | As tell mee, was there ever any sinne committed which wine hath not beene an occasion of? |
A15845 | As what saith the Holy Ghost by S. Paul? |
A15845 | As whom would it not stirre, to heare oaths strive for number, with words; scoffs, with oathes; vaine speeches, with both? |
A15845 | BUt is it warrantable, may some say, to separate from our old acquaintance,( being vicious) and other the like companie? |
A15845 | BUt is not this base blood, that blushes at a vertuous action? |
A15845 | BUt what doe I admonishing, or speaking sence to a drunkard? |
A15845 | Besides, doe you live willingly in your sinnes? |
A15845 | Besides, how often are they curbed by a Divine hand? |
A15845 | Borrowing, but never paying againe; the Israelites did so by the Egyptians, and why not wee? |
A15845 | But how doth Sathan work men to this height of impiety? |
A15845 | But how just is it with God, that this fire of enuy, should be punished with the fire of Hell? |
A15845 | But if we live, like them that are reserved to judgment; how should we not thinke our selves to be reserved with them? |
A15845 | But is Sathan contrary to himselfe, and is his kingdome divided in it selfe? |
A15845 | But shall we therfore take it for grant, that they are wisest, because they suppose and say they are? |
A15845 | But should this be, should we thinke ever the better of error, though a thousand of the learned should countenance and maintaine the same? |
A15845 | But tell me, were it a good plea, to commit a felony, and say that others doe so? |
A15845 | But to what end doe I tell a blind man, how glorious and bright a creature the Sunne is? |
A15845 | But to whom, saith Salomon, are all kinde of diseases, infirmities, deformities, if not to Drunkards? |
A15845 | But what was Sathan to the children of God? |
A15845 | But what''s the reason? |
A15845 | But wherein doth his vainelye, and the excellency of his braine consist? |
A15845 | But which of these Fooles will beleive this, before the feeles it, and before it be too late? |
A15845 | But why doe I make the comparison, when betweene them there is no comparison? |
A15845 | But why? |
A15845 | But will any now, in this cleare Sunne- shine of the Gospell, be perswaded that they know not Christ crucified? |
A15845 | By whom was that vertuous and religious Lady Barbara put to death, for embracing the Christian faith, but by her owne Father Dioscorus? |
A15845 | Can none please thee, but such as displease God? |
A15845 | Can there be such a parrity betweene the Parent and the Child, the Husband and Wife, as ther is a disparity betweene God and Sathan? |
A15845 | Did none lose the spirit, but Saul? |
A15845 | Did not Nebuchadnezzar finde more depth in Daniel, a poore captive Iew, then he could in all the wise men of Babylon, Daniel 2. and 4? |
A15845 | Did you never heare how Caesar was used in the Senate house? |
A15845 | Do we not know, or have we not heard of such as these, who are indifferent in nothing but conscience? |
A15845 | Doe none grow out of favour with him, but Haman? |
A15845 | Doe we take his wages, and doe his enemy service? |
A15845 | Doth any Prince or Generall make warre with his owne subjects or souldiers, that march under his colours? |
A15845 | For if Daniel found a guard in the Lyons Den, shall another thrust himselfe there into for shelter? |
A15845 | For if I can not see it, how should I describe it? |
A15845 | For if simple ignorance find no mercy; what Cloak is long enough, to cover wilfull and affected ignorance? |
A15845 | For tryall, let such an one tell me, if he can, how many hee hath drawne into the same sinne with him? |
A15845 | For what a barbarous, gracelesse, and unchristian practise is this, to take pleasure in making others drunke? |
A15845 | For what availes it to have the bodies from the same originall, when the soules within them differ? |
A15845 | For what hast thou to say for thy selfe? |
A15845 | For what other can wee thinke of him that gives himselfe to this vice; doth not wine rob a man of himselfe and lay a beast in his roome? |
A15845 | HAve we yet done? |
A15845 | Hast thou any braines, or heart to conceive what it is he hath bestowed, what thou hast received, what thou hast deserved? |
A15845 | Hath God contrived so many wayes to save us, and shall not we take all occasions to glorifie him? |
A15845 | Hath he done so much for us, and shall we deny him any thing that he requires, though it were our lives, yea our soules, much more our lusts? |
A15845 | Hath not his affection rob''d him of his judgement, wh ● ● hinkes better of a filthy strumpet, then of his own chast wife? |
A15845 | Have none their eyes darkened, and their hearts hardened for their sinnes, but the Gentiles? |
A15845 | Have none their hearts hardened for their obstinacy, but Pharaoh? |
A15845 | Have wee a warrant out of the word? |
A15845 | Have you not heard of one drunkard, that sought all the Innes in the Towne for his Horse, when indeed he came thether on foote? |
A15845 | He is bold to ask the Lord this question; Who shall dwell in thy Tabernacle? |
A15845 | He that hath money, will beware of theeves: if you have any grace, venture it not among these riflers: for, art thou inclined to pray? |
A15845 | Hovv many, that meant not to sinne, are vvonn only by the opportunity? |
A15845 | How doth his mouth rune over with falsehoods, against both Christians and Preachers? |
A15845 | How fearefully think you, do the seducer and seduced greet one another in hell? |
A15845 | How heinously then doe they offend, which doe the same, and worse to his children? |
A15845 | How many are so farre from doing good, that they doe great hurt with their gifts, and not seldom the more gifts they have, the more harme they do? |
A15845 | How many have chosen rather to embrace the flames, then to reveale their companions, and brethren in Christ? |
A15845 | How many have irrecoverably lost their good names, by keeping company with suspected persons? |
A15845 | How many men, out of a proud, ignorant, and timerous bashfulnesse, miserably wrong their owne soules, lest the standers by should censure them? |
A15845 | How many sober, and religious Vriahs, have beene wrought to excesse by this meanes? |
A15845 | How many thousand good motions of the Holy Ghost prove still- borne and abortive, through our negligence, or be over- laid with our vanities? |
A15845 | How was just, Lot vexed with the uncleanly conversation of his wicked neighbours? |
A15845 | If Absalom rebell, how unnaturall is his rebellion? |
A15845 | If I know the thing to be good, and that I doe it to a good end, what care I for their idle misconstruction? |
A15845 | If Idolaters will needs set up a false god, for the true; is it not equall, that the true God should given them over to the false? |
A15845 | If Iudas become a traitor, how great is his treason? |
A15845 | If a Castle be besiedged and not defended how shall it stand? |
A15845 | If flaming fire be their portion that know not God, and could not; how terrible shall their vengeance be, that might know him and would not? |
A15845 | If he that found mercy, felt the rod, which scourged him so smart: what shall their plagues be, in whose righteous confusion God insulteth? |
A15845 | If he who had his booke, felt so much paine; what shall they feele, that are sentenced to eternall death? |
A15845 | If it be enough to accuse, who shall be cleare? |
A15845 | If many shall seeke to enter in at the strait gate, and shall not be able; how shall they be able, who seek not at all? |
A15845 | If sinnes come in at the fore- dore, graces will go out at the postern: what communion hath light with darknesse? |
A15845 | If the Assyrians be once blinded, how easily may one leade a thousand of them, into the mid''st of any Samaria, even to their ruine? |
A15845 | If the Serpents seed bee so subtile, what doe you thinke of this old Serpent? |
A15845 | If the civily righteous shall not bee saved in that great and terrible day, where then shall all ungodly drunkards, and deboyshed swilbowles appeare? |
A15845 | If the light become darknesse, how great is that darknesse? |
A15845 | If the wretched Gergasites, who repelled Christ for feare, are sent into the fire: what doe they deserve, who drive him away with scorne? |
A15845 | If their wisdome and knowledge be ig ● orance; how great is that ignorance? |
A15845 | If then I detract not from their worth, who may not benefit by their use? |
A15845 | If then( to use our Saviours words) the light that is in them be darknesse, how great is that darkn ● sse? |
A15845 | If these be their words and actions, what thinke you are the secrets of their hearts? |
A15845 | Is it not a shame, to bee ashamed of things either good, or not ill? |
A15845 | Is it not a sottish feare and cowardise, that puls us backe from goodnesse, much more, that constraines us to evill? |
A15845 | Is it their meate and drinke to doe mischiefe; and shall good duties downe as a Potion with us? |
A15845 | Is not Steven ● on a Towne within two miles of Abindon, famous for his sake, that dranke a Peck at a draught? |
A15845 | Is our Ionathan gone? |
A15845 | Is there a holy man of God, that will not vary a haires breadth from what his Maker commands? |
A15845 | Is this th ● recompence of his love, to doe that which he hates, and hate those whom he loves? |
A15845 | Is this the fruit of his benificence, of our thankfulnesse? |
A15845 | It is a people that doe erre in their hearts, saith God, why? |
A15845 | It is true, they will be strangely importunate ▪ what then? |
A15845 | Knowest thou not, or mayst thou not know, how the wicked owe their lives unto those few good, whom they hate and persecute? |
A15845 | Little doe sinners know how neere their jollity is to perdition; how nere was Nabal to a mischiefe, and perceived it not? |
A15845 | Lot being expuls''t Sodom, dranke somewhat freely to drive away melancholy( as we may conjecture) but what came of it? |
A15845 | Marying of many wives, and putting away such as they did not like; the Fathers did so, and why not we? |
A15845 | Murthering of Princes, Ehud did so, why not we? |
A15845 | NOw why have I unmasked their faces? |
A15845 | Nay, doest thou not, like the Graecian drunkards, use some such phrase as this? |
A15845 | Nay, if I may speak it with reverence, what meanes can God use, that shall bee able to convert such an one, which resolves against yeelding? |
A15845 | None prove Apostates, but Iudas? |
A15845 | Now he which doth these things to evill men, who are Gods enemies, grievously offend him; for what saith the Scripture? |
A15845 | Now if barrennesse bee sent into the fire, how can rapine looke to escape? |
A15845 | Now in this case when that is reputed ridiculous by one, which is accounted sage by another as wise; what shall we doe, but make Gods Word the umpier? |
A15845 | Now steps in the Divell, why should you buy misery with want, when as you may want misery? |
A15845 | Now what decayes health, and strength, and consequently shortens a mans dayes more then whoredome? |
A15845 | Now who, that is not all ● arth, can endure it? |
A15845 | Now, saith one, If such a Cedar fell, how shall I stand? |
A15845 | O how many doe mischiefe insteed of good with their knowledge? |
A15845 | O what swarmes, what litters, what legions of noysome lusts are couched in the stinking stye of a drunkards heart? |
A15845 | Offering our children in sacrifice; Iephta( did so as some thinke) and why not we? |
A15845 | Onely thou, O Father,( to whom nothing is hard) if it be thy good pleasure( as why not? |
A15845 | Or admit they get the name of good fellowes, how ridiculous is that name, when it is gotten? |
A15845 | Or as he doth dayly men and women, that had rather be rich, or honourable, then good? |
A15845 | Or is none so likely as Peter to prevaile with Christ? |
A15845 | Or what did it availe Pharaoh, that himselfe was not smitten with many of those judgements, wherein others perished? |
A15845 | Or will they have themselves to be men? |
A15845 | Otherwise, if godlinesse hath not made us good, what power hath it wrought? |
A15845 | Peter had never denyed and forsworn his Master, if hee had not beene in company with Christ''s enemies: but then how soone was he changed? |
A15845 | Reade wee not that the sinnes of the Iewes were greater, then the sinnes of the Gentiles? |
A15845 | SEcondly, if wee dive deeper into him, and Search into his soule: what one sinne more mangles and defaces Gods Image, and mans beauty, then this? |
A15845 | Saul, Saul, saith Christ, seeing him make havocke of the Church, why persecutcst thou me? |
A15845 | Say, whether thou art guilty of these graces, or not guilty? |
A15845 | Secondly, how easie a Rhetorick drawes us to the worse? |
A15845 | Secondly, though these sparks of grace may kindle piety in others, yet not in thee: for what is light, to him that will shut his eyes against it? |
A15845 | Secondly, will a thiefe or murtherer at the Barre alledge for his excuse and defence, that it hath beene his use and custome of a long time? |
A15845 | Shall they labour so hard, for that which shall confound them; and shall we thinke any paines too much, for that which shall 〈 ◊ 〉 us? |
A15845 | Shall wicked men be at more cost and paines, to please an ill master; then we can afford to please so good a God, so gracious, so loving a Father? |
A15845 | Socrates his wife exasperated her griefe by this circumstance; good Lord, quoth shee, how unjustly doe these bad Judges put men to death? |
A15845 | St. Augustin asketh this question, what we thinke the rich glutton in Hell would doe, if he were now in this life againe? |
A15845 | Suppose thou beest kild for obeying God, rather then man: what greater honor can be done thee? |
A15845 | That other inundation scowred the world, this impures it, and what but a deluge of fire and brimstone, can wash it from so abominable filthinesse? |
A15845 | The Philistines could not blind Sampson so long as he was awake; wouldst thou not be overcome? |
A15845 | The Sonnes of Ely would not harken unto, nor obey the voyce of their father, why? |
A15845 | The lesse vertue, the greater report, who can wonder to finde a flood in the tongue, when the heart is empty? |
A15845 | The men of the world practise, what once a Jester spake, who, when a great Lord asked him, whether he would goe to Heaven or Hell? |
A15845 | The precept is plaine, one believeth that he may eate of all things; and another which is weak eateth hearbs, saith the Apostle, and vvhat followes? |
A15845 | Then what am I, that I should attempt to empty the same? |
A15845 | There be some that care not to know; and there be some, that care for nothing else but to know; many strive after, and pray for knowledg, but why? |
A15845 | There is not any one( quoth the sincere Christian) either in blood, or otherwise so neare unto me, but if he fall from God, I will fall from him: why? |
A15845 | They are such cunning dissemblers, that like Pope Alexander the sixth, what they think, they never speake: why is this cast away? |
A15845 | They were mingled among the Heathen( saith the Psalmist) and what followes? |
A15845 | This is true onely of the ruder sort, and more debauched; and so pertaines not to thee? |
A15845 | To bee briefe, if custome and example could authorize drunkennesse, why could it not as well authorize that abominable sinne of Sodomy? |
A15845 | To whom are pearle faces, Palsies, Headakes, if not to Drunkards? |
A15845 | Was he crucified for our sinnes, and shall we, by our sinnes, crucifie him againe? |
A15845 | Was not Abraham''s prayer so powerfull, that God never left granting one request after another touching Sodome, untill he left asking? |
A15845 | Was not the wisdome of the Serpent turned into a curse? |
A15845 | We see by experience, that the strictest livers are seldome the wisest men; yea, who more vicious, then many that know most? |
A15845 | Well, suppose it bee so, yet what should they suffer from thee, if they were at thy mercy? |
A15845 | What Jayler layes more bolts upon the shackled malefactor, that loves his Prison, and would not change? |
A15845 | What can we say to it? |
A15845 | What communion can righteousnesse have with unrighteousnesse? |
A15845 | What did it availe Cham, that he escaped drowning with the multitude? |
A15845 | What did it availe Lot''s wife, to escape turning into ashes in Sodom, when suddenly after she was turned into a pillar of salt in the plaine? |
A15845 | What difference was there betweene slaughter and Sacrifice, but obedience? |
A15845 | What doe I speake of their being the better, when they are much the worse for this judgement? |
A15845 | What need men trouble themselves with that which so little concernes them? |
A15845 | What said Aristippus to one that boasted how much hee had learned? |
A15845 | What said Callisthenes to one that urg''d him to drinke at Alexanders Feast, as others did? |
A15845 | What said an experienced Gentleman, being informed that his Sonne was given to gaming, whores, prodigality,& c? |
A15845 | What saith S. Basil, shall we speake to drunkards, wee had as good round a dead man in the eare? |
A15845 | What saith St. Hierom? |
A15845 | What saith the Prophet to King Iehosaphat, wouldest thou helpe the wicked, and not only so, but wouldest thou love them that hate the Lord? |
A15845 | What saith the world of him? |
A15845 | What shall I say of a Drunkard? |
A15845 | What shall I say? |
A15845 | What should I say? |
A15845 | What should I say? |
A15845 | What so soone brings suddaine old age? |
A15845 | What then are their censures of us, when wee do offend? |
A15845 | What then, because we can not obey in all, shall we obey in nothing? |
A15845 | What though Christ in the Gospell, hath made many large and precious promises? |
A15845 | What was the reason our Saviour Christ the Master himselfe was envied? |
A15845 | What was the reason( thinke we) that our Saviour vvould not suffer his vveake Disciple, in the Gospell, to go and bury his dead father? |
A15845 | What ● aith Pharaoh to his deepe counsellers? |
A15845 | What''s the difference, betweene Christianity and infidelity, but holinesse? |
A15845 | What, they covetous? |
A15845 | When Cambyses being drunk was admonished thereof by Prexaspes, who was one of his councell; what followed? |
A15845 | When Christ taught in the Temple, they askt, how knoweth this man the Scriptures, seeing he never learned them? |
A15845 | Wherein could Noah( that was but once drunke) have so much shamed and dishonoured himselfe? |
A15845 | Whether we esteem the Word, as if God immediately spake to us in particular? |
A15845 | Whether we have a Spirit without guile? |
A15845 | Whether we seare our own corruptions, as well as Sathans temptations? |
A15845 | Whether we would refuse a booty, if we had as fit an opportunity to take it, and no man perceive the same, as Achan had? |
A15845 | Whether wee would refuse a bribe, like Elisha, though wee should meet with one, which were as willing and able to give it as Naaman? |
A15845 | While thy mouth is opened to sweare and blaspheme, why is it not instantly fild with fire and brimstone? |
A15845 | Who can recount the hurts that by this meanes come to the whole body, especially the head, stomack, liver, and the more noble parts? |
A15845 | Who knoweth not, that the suggestion of one new thought, is harder, and better, then many repeated? |
A15845 | Who then, without a shower of teares, can think on thy deplorable state; or without mourning meditate thy sad condition? |
A15845 | Why do we pray, deliver us from evill, but that we imply, besides all other mischiefes, that there is an infectious power in it, to make us evill? |
A15845 | Why was Sacrifice it selfe good, but because it was commanded? |
A15845 | Why was not thy soule and hers, sent coupled to the fire of torment, as your bodies were undevided in the flame of uncleannesse? |
A15845 | Why was that Law ● nacted, for the strict avoiding of Leprous persons? |
A15845 | Why wast thou not with thy harlot, like Zimry in the armes of Cozby, smitten in the act of thy Adultery? |
A15845 | Will you know what course Demosthenes tooke in this case? |
A15845 | Wouldest thou keepe out of this snare of the divell and drunkards? |
A15845 | Yea, Christ himselfe was a Wine- bibber, a seducer of the people, a Beelzebub, and what not? |
A15845 | Yea, aske them why they drinke, and keepe company so much? |
A15845 | Yea, how impossible is it for a man, not to ruine himselfe, when he wants his sight? |
A15845 | Yea, if discretion and moderation bee as hoops to a vessell, how should these hogsheads keepe their liquor, if you take away those hoops? |
A15845 | Yea, if halfe so much were knowne to man, as God knowes of him, how would all drunkards hang downe their heads for shame? |
A15845 | Yea, if judgement begin at the house of God; where shall the ungodly and wicked appeare? |
A15845 | Yea, if men have so many slights to compasse their matters, how can the compasser himselfe hold his fingers? |
A15845 | Yea, tell me if you can, what hath ever beene found such an enemy to vertue, as this feare; or such a spurre to wickednesse? |
A15845 | Yea, vvhen it is not enough for them to be bad themselves, except they raile at the good? |
A15845 | Yea, vvho, having grace, can heare such vvickednesse, and feeleth not some sparke of holy indignation arise in him, vvhile he thinkes of it? |
A15845 | Yea, who more sottish, then he which refuseth to be a Saint, that he may be a beast? |
A15845 | Yea, who will sooner kill and ● lay then cowards, when once they are pot valiant? |
A15845 | Yea, woe is me, how is the world turned beast? |
A15845 | Yea, wouldest thou be secure? |
A15845 | You often complaine of bastardies, Sheep- stealers, robbers, quarrellers, and the like: will you be eased of these diseases? |
A15845 | and how are our Cities and Townes pestered, and our streets strewed with these filthes? |
A15845 | and if Peter walkt upon the pavement of the water, did the rest of the Disciples step forth and follow him? |
A15845 | and on the other side, to vilifie, reproach, and undervalue all that hate, and loath it in their judgments, or else renounce it in their practice? |
A15845 | and what reeling, and staggering in our St ● e ● ● s? |
A15845 | and what thinke you doe drunkards, the seede of the Serpent, and children of the Devill, more delight in, then the murther of soules? |
A15845 | another, and another yeare, to try whether thou wilt bring forth the fruit of repentance, and new obedience? |
A15845 | are wee in the path of Gods protection? |
A15845 | art thou so farre from loveing and fearing him, that thou hatest others, which doe? |
A15845 | but what was the answer? |
A15845 | certaine duties, on thy part, to be performed, aswell as promises on Gods part to be fulfilled? |
A15845 | contemned? |
A15845 | could not Paul shew as much cunning as Tertullus? |
A15845 | doe none become Infidels, besides the Iewes? |
A15845 | dost thou not know, that who so will be a friend to such, makes himselfe the enemy of God? |
A15845 | dost thou thus requite him? |
A15845 | for who hath heard of your name, that is not driven to admiration and veneration of your singular sufficiencies? |
A15845 | he had better have perished in the waters, then have lived unto his Fathers curse? |
A15845 | he that is evill to himselfe, to whom will he be good? |
A15845 | he that will deprive himselfe of reason, should loose also the guide and pylot of reason, Gods Spirit and Grace? |
A15845 | he that will wittingly, and willingly, make himselfe an habitation of uncleane spirits, should not dispossesse them at his owne pleasure? |
A15845 | himselfe was also stoned: did he afflict his owne countrimen? |
A15845 | himselfe was often imprisoned: did he helpe to stone Steven? |
A15845 | his owne countrimen no lesse afflicted him: did he lay stripes upon the Saints? |
A15845 | his wife knowes not; aske the servants, they know not; when will he bee at home? |
A15845 | how could hee have made himselfe so contemptible, even to his owne children, as he did by being drunk? |
A15845 | how doth it damme up the head and spirits with mud? |
A15845 | how doth it infatuate the understanding, blind the judgement, pervert the will, and corrupt all the affections? |
A15845 | how doth it intrap the desires, surprise the thoughts and bring all the powers and faculties of the soule out of order? |
A15845 | how hath the Devill bewitched you to magnifie, honour, and applaud all that are enthralled to this worse then swini ● h swilling? |
A15845 | how is that become an excuse of villany, which any villany might rather excuse, I was drunk? |
A15845 | how many more by Sathans injections, presenting to the affections things absent from the Senses? |
A15845 | how many thousands in this kingdome are content to bee misled with the multitude, rather then be an object of their scorne and derision? |
A15845 | how oft doth one commend or condemne me for one thing, and another for the contrary? |
A15845 | how should mud take fire? |
A15845 | if I can not know it, how should I make you know it? |
A15845 | if Sampson be thus punished; shall the Philistims escape? |
A15845 | in the way wherein the Angels guard and watch? |
A15845 | is it in hope to humble them? |
A15845 | is it possible that the reasonable soule of man( not professedly barbarous) should be capable of such a monster? |
A15845 | it may bee demaunded; should Christians be friends with them who are enemies to the Crosse of Christ? |
A15845 | nicke- name, raile on, and slander us, even strike, maime, and kill us, but because their hands are tyed by the Law? |
A15845 | not that there is a deficiency of power in the godly, but will: for could not David go as far as Achitohpel? |
A15845 | or a poore man, what summes of money are in the Kings Exchequers? |
A15845 | or goe into an infected house, to fetch out a rich suite? |
A15845 | or if hee doe, will not the judge so much the rather send him to the Gallowes? |
A15845 | or what are they, that can only kill the body, to Him, that after he hath kild the body, can cast both body and soule into Hell? |
A15845 | or what wise man will tax all the Apostles, because one was a Iudas? |
A15845 | or, every one is of this or that judgment, and are you wiser then al? |
A15845 | or, hath he spoken the word, and shall not he accomplish it? |
A15845 | rejoyced at in his misery and distresse? |
A15845 | so the truly humbled soule will say, is this a time to drink and revell in? |
A15845 | that every man shall be punished according to merit; what will become of thee? |
A15845 | that their deaths should bee answerable to their lives? |
A15845 | that thou mightest be despised, blasphemed? |
A15845 | the Iewes layd stripes upon him: was he very painefull and diligent to beate downe the Gospell? |
A15845 | the wisdome of Achitophel into folly? |
A15845 | the wisdome of Iesabel into a shamefull death? |
A15845 | the wisdome of Nimr ● d into confusion? |
A15845 | the wisdome of the Pharisees into a woe? |
A15845 | the wisdome of the unjst Steward into expulsie ● out of Heaven? |
A15845 | the world made havocke of him for it; did he hale men and women to prison? |
A15845 | they dare sweare and blaspheme, why? |
A15845 | they will tempt thee to play: wouldest thou goe to a Sermon? |
A15845 | to have as expert a tongue, and as quicke a memory, as Portius, who never forgat any thing that hee had once read? |
A15845 | to have the theory, and be able to prattle of wisdome by roate, yet not know what it is by effect and experience? |
A15845 | vvhat should vvee doe in the presence of base persons, vvhen even our sober ignorance, in ill courses, is more then disesteemed of the vvorld? |
A15845 | vvhen if there be one in a company, that abhorres impious language, they vvill blaspheme on purpose to vex him? |
A15845 | vvhen they vvill thinke themselves slighted, if they be not sent away drunk? |
A15845 | what bowsing and quaffing, and whiffing, and healthing, is there on every bench? |
A15845 | what can discredit a man more, then to be counted a common drunkard? |
A15845 | what drinking by the yard, the Dye, the dozen? |
A15845 | what forcing of pledges, what quarrells for measure, and forme? |
A15845 | what needs the eye serve more to the use of the other members, in being watchfull rightly to direct them, then for it selfe? |
A15845 | what needs the hand cast it selfe betwixt a blow and the head, though it be cut off by this meane? |
A15845 | what replyed Socrates, wouldest thou rather they should deserve death? |
A15845 | what shall be done to those that persecute Christ in his members? |
A15845 | what should they feare? |
A15845 | what speakes hee lesse then whoredomes, adulteries, incests, at every word? |
A15845 | what ugly, odious, hiddious feinds would represent themselves? |
A15845 | when to depart sober, is held in civility? |
A15845 | where shall a man come and not find a seducer? |
A15845 | which occasions our Saviour to say, not, which of you can accuse? |
A15845 | who doe the Divell such service, who deserve so great pay from him, as drunkards? |
A15845 | who seeme to have beene suckled with the milke of Woolfes, as it is reported of the first founder of Rome? |
A15845 | who shall rest in thy holy mountaine? |
A15845 | who so generous, free, bountifull? |
A15845 | who, through custome, have made sinne so familiar unto them, that the horror of it is turned into a pleasure? |
A15845 | why doe you take paines to bee poore, when you may be rich with case? |
A15845 | why them, that live with us on earth but a while; equall to them, that shal live with us in heaven for ever? |
A15845 | why then wilt thou leape into Hell, and cast away thy soule, because others do so? |
A15845 | why will you embrace certaine cares, in hope of uncertaine comforts? |
A15845 | will any( not debauched) censure him of ficklenesse for it? |
A15845 | will tvvo friends, like tvvo brands set each other on fire vvith good, or ill, vvhen one alone vvill goe out? |
A15845 | wilt thou neglect the office of a friend, to avoid the suspition of an enemy? |
A15845 | with the Astronomer, to observe the motions of the Heavens, while his heart is buried in the earth? |
A15845 | with the Law- maker, to set downe many Lawes in particular; and not to remember the common law of nature, or law generall, that al must dye? |
A15845 | with the Naturalist, to search out the cause of many effects, and let passe the consideration of the principall, and most necessary? |
A15845 | would he take paines, or no, quoth he, would he not bestir himselfe rather then returne into that place of torment againe? |
A15845 | yea, how inconceivably great is the folly of that ignorance? |
A15845 | yea, that the very meanes of their reformation, should become the very fuel of their wickednesse? |
A15845 | yea, what lewdnesse, or basenesse will hee not put in practise, rather then want to satisfie his lusts? |
A15845 | yea, what vengeance shall bee prepared, or is enough for them? |
A15845 | yea, will he not employ all his care and skill, that by avoyding them, he may escape the danger? |
A15845 | § 27 ANd what is their discourse? |
A67744 | & c. And the like in our times, as how many thousands do censure and blaspheme the godly ▪ because they hear others do so? |
A67744 | & c. What shall become of him that takes away other mens, that robs the poore, turns them out of their own houses, and casts them into prison? |
A67744 | ( For, love to the soul, is the very soul of love) Is this an evidence that you have them in singular respect for their works sake? |
A67744 | ( I mean) thy soul; free? |
A67744 | ( especially if they have not been notorious offenders) Are they a whit troubled for Sin, either Original or actual? |
A67744 | ( once miserably forlorn, lost and undone,) and his wayes past finding out? |
A67744 | 12.50? |
A67744 | 14 ¶ Secondly, Are you regenerate and born anew? |
A67744 | 14. they saw the Pillar remove behinde them, and the Sea remove before them, they looking for nothing but death? |
A67744 | 2 Kings 8.12, 13,& c. And likewise Ah ● b, who was told from the Lord, that if he went to war, he should perish? |
A67744 | 2.2,& c. Which being so, how is it possible they should ever agree; although God had not proclaimed an enmity between them? |
A67744 | 2.7, 8 Whence as the Chief Priests answered 〈 … 〉 is that to us? |
A67744 | 3 ¶ What wrong do they do you? |
A67744 | 4 While we are here, how many clouds of discontent have we, to darken the sunshine of our joy? |
A67744 | 5.12 Well may a careless worldling laugh more, as what will sooner make a man laugh than a witty jest? |
A67744 | 5.12, to 21. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? |
A67744 | 6.30? |
A67744 | 78. when they said, Can God furnish a table in the Wilderness? |
A67744 | ? |
A67744 | A calm is best welcome after a tempest,& c. Yea, what serves others sorrows for, but to increase our joy and thankfulness? |
A67744 | A friend of his noting it, askt him what might be the reason? |
A67744 | Achan for one sacriledge? |
A67744 | Admit thou art a great sinner, what then? |
A67744 | Adrianus seeing the Martyrs suffer such grievous things: hee asked why they would endure such misery, when they might( by retracting) free themselvs? |
A67744 | Again secondly, If we make this use of our sufferings; what more preciou ● than the reproaches of an enemy? |
A67744 | Again, Fifthly, how does lust blinde and besot men? |
A67744 | Again, Is there any place so safe as Heaven? |
A67744 | Again, Was not the Gospel written as wel to the married, as unmarried? |
A67744 | Again, Why dost thou curse thine enemy? |
A67744 | Again, shall it ever enter into our hearts, to think that God gives us rules to keep, and yet break them himsef? |
A67744 | Again, this is an infallible truth, that without repentance there is no being saved; and what hope of their serious and unfained repentance? |
A67744 | Alas O Spirit which camest heretofore down upon me, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A67744 | Alas, what can they do? |
A67744 | Alass, how often does riches, without Gods blessing upon them, prove or become the owners ruine? |
A67744 | Am I the first that have sinned? |
A67744 | Ananias for one lie? |
A67744 | And Aristippus, as I take it( though I may be mistaken,) told the Saylers( that wondred why he was not, as well as they, afraid in a storm?) |
A67744 | And David speaking of his sonne Absoloms treason, I was dumb and said nothing; why? |
A67744 | And David, what could he have done for Saul, that he left undone; notwithstanding he so cruelly persecuted him, and hunted after his life? |
A67744 | And Gold is the covetous mans god, and will he part with his God, a certainty for an uncertainty? |
A67744 | And Lot& Cornelius? |
A67744 | And O man, what is God that thou art so unmindfull of him? |
A67744 | And Pope Adrian, who when hee was to dye; brake out into this expression: Oh my soul, whither art thou going? |
A67744 | And Saul touching David? |
A67744 | And again, How sweet are thy words unto my mouth? |
A67744 | And again, being diseased in his feet, it is said, That he sought not to the Lord, but to the Physicians; and what follows? |
A67744 | And against whom hast thou exalted thy self? |
A67744 | And are not all these strong evidences, that I loved and served God, and my Redeemer as I ought? |
A67744 | And are they to be endured everlastingly? |
A67744 | And can we thinke to keep our riches, by disobeying his commandment? |
A67744 | And certainly if we can not trust him for our bodies; how do we, or how can we trust him with our souls? |
A67744 | And do they assure us of our future reward; and fruition of God''s presence hereafter? |
A67744 | And do you make it a small matter to forsake God, and make a God of the creature? |
A67744 | And do you make it a small matter to forsake God, and make a God of the creature? |
A67744 | And do you, instead of honoring, respecting and rewarding them, hate, traduce and persecute them? |
A67744 | And dost thou make thy flight sufferings an argument of his displeasure? |
A67744 | And doth her adversary vex her sore, year by year; and grievously upbraid her for it, so that she is troubled in her minde? |
A67744 | And doth not experience shew, that the language of hell is so familiar with many of them, that blasphemy is become their mother tongue? |
A67744 | And have not some been detained( by a violent storme) from coming home, whereby they have been exempt from feeling the down- full of their house? |
A67744 | And have they not reason so to do? |
A67744 | And herein wee fare no worse, than Cstrist; Did not his Spirit pass from the Cross, into Paradice? |
A67744 | And how could this be? |
A67744 | And how many more of those Martyrs in Queen Maryes Raign, were even ravished, before they could be permitted to die? |
A67744 | And how profitable is that ● ffliction, which carrieth me to Heaven? |
A67744 | And how should not that patient perish, who after he is launced, flies from the Chirurgion, before the binding up of his wound? |
A67744 | And how should they other then miscarry, who have a Pirate( the Flesh) for their guide? |
A67744 | And how wilt thou fare? |
A67744 | And how would God bless us in our souls, bodies, names, estates and posterities? |
A67744 | And in another place; Know ye not, that the amity of the world, is the enmity of God? |
A67744 | And in common reason; can a Clock go without a weight to move it? |
A67744 | And in reason, Hath God done so much for us, and shall we denye him any thing he requireth of us? |
A67744 | And in reason, did Christ come to call sinners to repentance? |
A67744 | And in reason; did hee come to call sinners to repentance, and shall he not shew mercy to the penitent? |
A67744 | And indeed what can be a more forcible reason to make our hearts relent, though they be never so stony? |
A67744 | And indeed what is that wisdome worth, which nothing profits the owner of it, either touching vertue, or happinesse? |
A67744 | And indeed what is the corporal sympathy, to the spiritual antipathy? |
A67744 | And indeed why should not Gods servants take as free liberty in reproving, as the Devil ● servants take liberty in offending? |
A67744 | And indeed, how can they expect a reward from God, when they have done him no service? |
A67744 | And indeed, how many have we known the better for their sin? |
A67744 | And indeed, how shall a man shew his strength unless some burthen be laid upon his back? |
A67744 | And indeed, how should it be otherwise? |
A67744 | And indeed, what great difference is there, save in the pride and covetousness of a mans mind? |
A67744 | And indeed, what shouldest thou do in case thou seest that the World runs not on thy side, but give over the World, and be on Gods side? |
A67744 | And indeed, who shall go to Hell, if Cursers should be left out? |
A67744 | And indeed, who would not be ambitious of the same entertainment, which Christ himself had? |
A67744 | And indeed, whom can you observe to love this sins, or to have their mouthes ● ull of Cursing? |
A67744 | And is not this thy very case that art covetous? |
A67744 | And is there any pain, like the separation from Christ, into everlasting and ever- flaming fire? |
A67744 | And is there such a necessity of shewing mercy to the poor members of Iesus Christ? |
A67744 | And is this a small matter? |
A67744 | And its evident they have not faith; for how should they beleeve in him, of whom they have not heard? |
A67744 | And lastly( for I might be endlesse in the prosecution of this,) Why were all the just in Solomons time, had in abomination, and mockt of the wicked? |
A67744 | And lastly, By whom was our Saviour Christ betrayed, but by his own Disciple Iudas? |
A67744 | And lastly, shall our momentany sufferings be rewarded with everlasting glory? |
A67744 | And makes not this exceedingly for our Makers, for our Guardians glory? |
A67744 | And makes not this infinitely for the glory of God? |
A67744 | And may not this comfort thee? |
A67744 | And now for conclusion: Are the Ioyes of Heaven so unspeakable and glorious? |
A67744 | And see how he followed his Masters example ▪ for who, amongst us so loves his benefactors, as Saint Paul loved his malefactors? |
A67744 | And see what cause he had so to say; what were these Arrows? |
A67744 | And shall we be such Atheists, as to trust the ground, and not God? |
A67744 | And shall we deny this Lord that hath bought us? |
A67744 | And shall we grutch to beare a few scoffs for CHRIST? |
A67744 | And so of all other enjoyments: As, Dost thou desire beauty, riches, honour, pleasure, long life, or whatever else can be named? |
A67744 | And that devillish plot of Haman against Mordecai and his people to the good of his Church in general, and of Ioseph and Mordecai in particular? |
A67744 | And that it is not so much given, as laid up? |
A67744 | And that we are indeed, which we are in temptation: for, can we not abide a drawing plaister, to drain away corrupt blood, and humours? |
A67744 | And the Apostles esteemed it a grace, to be disgraced for him: and shall we grumble, or think much at it? |
A67744 | And the Mister himself? |
A67744 | And the same may be averred of all kindes of crosses: For, is it not commonly seen, that the pleasures of the body are the poisons of the soul? |
A67744 | And then conclude with, What shall I render unto thee, O Lord, for all these thy benefits? |
A67744 | And then conclude with, What shall I render unto thee, ô Lord, for all these thy benefits? |
A67744 | And this God takes as done to himself, What saith Paul? |
A67744 | And thou his Servant by all manner of obligations? |
A67744 | And to be baptized with the Baptism that I shall be baptized with? |
A67744 | And were it not better then, to prevent a mischief before, then repent you did not when''t is too late? |
A67744 | And were it not most just with God to take away our faithful Ministers from us, when we so ill intreat them, and so unworthily reward them? |
A67744 | And what availeth the one without the other? |
A67744 | And what but Idleness makes so many beggers, and base persons? |
A67744 | And what comes of it? |
A67744 | And what else did Iudas, touching Mary, when he depraved her in our Saviours presence, for powring that precious oyntment on his feet? |
A67744 | And what greater folly? |
A67744 | And what greater promotion can flesh and blood be capable of, then a conformity to the Lord of glory? |
A67744 | And what is the cause they acknowledg not the same now, but their blindness and folly? |
A67744 | And what is the summa totalis of all but this? |
A67744 | And what know we? |
A67744 | And what know we? |
A67744 | And what knowest thou? |
A67744 | And what makes the difference? |
A67744 | And what more glorious, than with Noahs''Olive- tree, to keep our branches green under water? |
A67744 | And what said a French Martyr, when a Rope was pur about his fellow? |
A67744 | And what saith Naaman upon the cleansing of his Leprosie? |
A67744 | And what saith holy David, a man of a most brave and divine Spirit? |
A67744 | And what saith our Saviour to the unjust Steward? |
A67744 | And what saith that Tyrian Queen? |
A67744 | And what shall I say more? |
A67744 | And what though their case be not onely desperate, but almost hopeless? |
A67744 | And what though we can not do what we would? |
A67744 | And what will become of him, if he repent not, who can afford no time to a ● gue, but to execute? |
A67744 | And when King Agis requested the Oracle of Apollo to tell him, who was the happiest man in the world? |
A67744 | And when he hath leave from God, what can hee do? |
A67744 | And wherein does thy case differ? |
A67744 | And whether had you rather rejoice for one sit, or alwaies? |
A67744 | And who hath more interest in the grape, then he that planted the Vine? |
A67744 | And who is there in all this Nation, that thinks not himself a Christian? |
A67744 | And who knows whether God hath not put me upon this work, and will accordingly blesse the meanes that shall be used? |
A67744 | And who makes the difference of Wills, but God that made them? |
A67744 | And who then that believes this, would not think himself happy in such an exchange? |
A67744 | And who was his greatest enemy, but his greatest friend, even one of his houshold Chaplains? |
A67744 | And whom did Christ honour with his first appearance but Mary Magdalen? |
A67744 | And why all this? |
A67744 | And why all this? |
A67744 | And why doth the goodness of our God pick out the most needfull times for our relief and comfort? |
A67744 | And why is it not so with thee? |
A67744 | And why should I prefer him before a piece of copper, that prefers a piece of gold before his Maker? |
A67744 | And why should not a man bee deemed a drunkard for his immoderate and inordinate affection to drink, or drunken company? |
A67744 | And will any wise man stumb at Religion for such mens scoffs and reproaches? |
A67744 | And withall lose their par ● and portion in the Kingdom of Heaven, as the Word of God expresly tells us? |
A67744 | And yet thou exceptest thy self, hee excludes none; and dost thou exclude one, and that one thy self? |
A67744 | Ann why all this? |
A67744 | Another for the Covetous? |
A67744 | Another ● o ● the Drunkard? |
A67744 | Are men resolved to destroy themselves? |
A67744 | Are not their tongues fired and edged from Hell, as St. Iames hath it? |
A67744 | Are not these so many infallible properties of a fool? |
A67744 | Are not your failings, your grief? |
A67744 | Are these stripes the chiefest tokens and pledges of God''s love and adoption? |
A67744 | Are they evident signs of saying Graces? |
A67744 | Are thy sins great? |
A67744 | Are we bound to perform perfect obedience to the Law? |
A67744 | Are we come without the Lord? |
A67744 | Are we no less beholding to the poor, then they are to us? |
A67744 | Are we not commanded by the Holy Ghost to have them in singular love, and count them worthy of double honor for their works sake? |
A67744 | Are we then molested with this guest? |
A67744 | Are you Christians, as you call your selves? |
A67744 | Are you not ashamed of it? |
A67744 | Are you willing to be saved? |
A67744 | Aristippus and Aeschines two famous Philosophers, being fallen at variance, Aristippus came to Aeschines, and saies, Shall we be friends again? |
A67744 | As Rachab, Gaius, Iob, The Centurian, Boas, Cornelius, and Mary: as how did our Saviour value and honour Maries bounty? |
A67744 | As Who would not obtain Heaven at any rate, at any cost or trouble whatsoever? |
A67744 | As ask them these questions, How do you hope to be saved? |
A67744 | As consider, If a dark dungeon here be so loathsome, what is that dungeon of eternal, of utter darkness? |
A67744 | As first, What is their Character in Scripture? |
A67744 | As for example, hast thou swallowed some unlawful gain, and wouldest thou pacifie God and thy Conscience? |
A67744 | As how do their hearts droop with their mammon? |
A67744 | As how doth Davids patience draw on the insolence of Shimei? |
A67744 | As how is Abraham commended for his hospitality, and almes deeds? |
A67744 | As how many a wife is so much the more hated, because a zealous wife? |
A67744 | As how many have I drawn to be Drunkards, and swearers, and whoremongers, and prophane persons? |
A67744 | As how many of our over- reachers have over- reached themselves so far? |
A67744 | As how many of your cavils and exceptions could I reckon up, that I have heard from your own mouths, if I would foul Paper with them? |
A67744 | As how many temptations come in by those Cinque ports the sences? |
A67744 | As how often is that spent upon one Christmas revelling by the son, which was forty years a getting by the Father? |
A67744 | As how will it one day grieve these griping Ingrossers, and Oppressors? |
A67744 | As m ● ist not thou thy self be in affliction or want? |
A67744 | As tell me, Will not their blood be required at your hands, if hey perish through your neglect? |
A67744 | As tell me, will it be any desertlesse office, to find out a way to help all this? |
A67744 | As tell me; may not God justly another day, call Heaven and Earth to witness against us? |
A67744 | As thus: Would you quiet your clamorous conscience, that will not be friends with you, unlesse you be friends with God? |
A67744 | As touching the first, Why descended he to take our flesh? |
A67744 | As what Husbandman does not reckon more of his seed in the ground, then of that in his Barn or Garner? |
A67744 | As what can you alleadge for your selves, or against your Pastors? |
A67744 | As what canst thou say against it? |
A67744 | As what common and daily experience have we thereof, had men but the wit to observe it? |
A67744 | As what common and daily experience have we thereof, had men but the wit to observe it? |
A67744 | As what gained Balaam, or Iudas, or Ahab, or Achan, or Ananias and Saphira? |
A67744 | As what is a mountain of Earth but an accumulation of many little dusts? |
A67744 | As what is light to them that will shut their eyes against it? |
A67744 | As what saies Basil, Shall we speak to drunkards? |
A67744 | As what saith Luther of the whole Turkish Empire? |
A67744 | As what saith holy David? |
A67744 | As what saith our Saviour? |
A67744 | As what saith the Holy Ghost? |
A67744 | As what sayes the Apostle? |
A67744 | As what says Saint Paul? |
A67744 | As what says our Saviour? |
A67744 | As what think you of Ionathan, whom neither steepnesse of Rocks, nor multitude of enemies, could discourage, or disswade from so unlikely an assault? |
A67744 | As what true members participate not some way of the bodies smart? |
A67744 | As what will some Momus say? |
A67744 | As whence do 〈 … 〉 Devils learn this their damnable Cursing and Swearing? |
A67744 | As wherefore was Cain wroth with his brother Abel, and afterwards flew him? |
A67744 | As who by looking in a Glasse shall spy spot ● in his face, and will not forthwith wipe them out? |
A67744 | As who, or where, is the man that desires not to be rich and happy? |
A67744 | As why are not our Sanctuaries turned into Shambles? |
A67744 | As why did Cain envy and hate Abel? |
A67744 | As why do many mens hearts rise against every holy man they meet? |
A67744 | As you see the wicked, because they apply their hearts to wickednesse, how fast they proceed? |
A67744 | As, are we bound to perform perfect obedience to the Law? |
A67744 | As, have you not sometimes seen two neighbours, like two Cocks of the Game pick out one anothers eyes, to make the Lawyers sport; it may be kill them? |
A67744 | As, what is the reason that there are few rich men that will not rather offend the Divine Majesty, then the Temporal Authority? |
A67744 | As, why will Christ at the latter day remember, and reward the duties of love and liberality done to men? |
A67744 | Ask not( saith Salvianus) why one is greater, another less; one wretched, another happy? |
A67744 | BEcause suffering is the only way to prevent suffering? |
A67744 | BUt how should I a novice, a punie, a white- liver, shake off this slavish yoke of bondage and fear in which Satan for the present holds me? |
A67744 | BUt what is the reason, why men make no more use of these Predictions of this warning? |
A67744 | BUt would these men( any one, even the best of them) thus improve, or imploy their knowledge? |
A67744 | Behold thou hast been carefull for us( sayes Elisha to the Shunamite,) with all this care: what is to be done for thee? |
A67744 | Believest thou the former Seriptures spoken by Christ, and his Apostles? |
A67744 | Beside ● how should those enemies of holinesse work their will upon us? |
A67744 | Besides( which would also be thought upon) what should we have if we did truly love and serve Christ? |
A67744 | Besides, how can men partake of that fountain of joy, and rejoyce not? |
A67744 | Besides, how frequently doest thou pollute and prophane Gods Name, and thy Saviours? |
A67744 | Besides, how frequently doest thou pollute and prophane Gods Name, and thy Saviours? |
A67744 | Besides, how were the Angels in heaven punished for one fault? |
A67744 | Besides, if these great knowers know so little, how ignorant are the rude rabble, that despise all knowledge? |
A67744 | Besides, what servan ● will wish to fare better than his Lord? |
A67744 | Besides, why dost thou curse thine enemie? |
A67744 | Besides, without some kinde of suffering, how shall your sincerity be approved? |
A67744 | Bless( saith our Saviour) when ye are cursed: and shall not we bless, when thus blessed? |
A67744 | Briefly, how oft doth wisdom without grace prove like a fair estate in the hands of a fool, which not seldom becomes the owners ruine? |
A67744 | Bu ● when will there bee an end of this long disease? |
A67744 | But Fourthly, Does any one desire or glory in Liberty? |
A67744 | But I want these qualifications, without which, how can I expect supportation in my sufferings; or an happy deliverance out of them? |
A67744 | But If you would know how to call them, they are properly subtle persons? |
A67744 | But Seventh ● y, To come to these present times wherein we live: Is it possible for a man to live a conscionable and unreproveable life? |
A67744 | But Sixthly, what can we think of an improvident Gamester? |
A67744 | But a violent and painfull death, is by far, more terrible and intollerable than a naturall? |
A67744 | But alas, how many are there that set the cart before the horse, and begin to change their lives, before their hearts? |
A67744 | But all the evill thou doest to the godly, is with thy tongue? |
A67744 | But as thrice Noble Nehemiah said to that false Belly- god betraying- Priest Shemaiah, Should such a man as I flee? |
A67744 | But aske his conscience the next question; What good hast thou done for his sake? |
A67744 | But do we thus requite the Lord? |
A67744 | But how can I speak, whenas my Tongue is tyed? |
A67744 | But how do they serve Christ& themselves, in so serving their Ministers? |
A67744 | But how have I requited this so great, so superlative a mercy? |
A67744 | But how in this case? |
A67744 | But how shall a man know, whether he hath this knowledge? |
A67744 | But if giving might not properly be called gaining, why is it compared to sowing? |
A67744 | But if thou canst not beare a few ill words for thy Saviour, without murmuring and impatience? |
A67744 | But in this case, Who are you angry withall? |
A67744 | But is it so? |
A67744 | But is there any hope for one so wicked as I? |
A67744 | But it is very easie to believe, thinks the sensualist; yes, but why? |
A67744 | But it will be demanded how this comes to be so? |
A67744 | But lest what hath been said should not prove sufficient; how basely will you calumniate him that but takes his Dues, especially of a poor body? |
A67744 | But may some say, Can any good come out of such a Nazarite? |
A67744 | But shall I shew you in some Particulars, how gainfull and profitable it is? |
A67744 | But tell me, hath not this roaring Lion prevailed against thy best part? |
A67744 | But their usual objection is, why will you be so singular? |
A67744 | But this is not one half of thine offence, For whom doest thou curse? |
A67744 | But thou wilt say, What can we do for God, or for Christ? |
A67744 | But to go on; wilt thou follow Gods example? |
A67744 | But to leave examples; and come to reason: Is it not an evident sign, that if the world hates thee, thou art none of the World? |
A67744 | But what a fearful reckoning have these men to make at the day of Judgement, when they give in their accounts unto God? |
A67744 | But what a strange folly is this? |
A67744 | But what are these men like, and how are they like to speed ● ● the end? |
A67744 | But what can the Prince of darknesse propound? |
A67744 | But what did they answer? |
A67744 | But what do I speak of his being liberall a ● the approach of Death? |
A67744 | But what do I tell them of these transcendent examples? |
A67744 | But what do I urge reason to men of a reprobate judgment? |
A67744 | But what doting, blockish and brain- sick Bedl ● m- Positions are these? |
A67744 | But what ever others finde, thy sufferings are not thus counterpoysed and sweetned? |
A67744 | But what hath been the answer of GOD alwaies to his children, in such their extasies, but his? |
A67744 | But what of all this? |
A67744 | But what saith Salomon? |
A67744 | But what would malice rather have, than the vexation of them whom it persecutes? |
A67744 | But what''s the reason of this their mistake? |
A67744 | But what''s the reason? |
A67744 | But who can measure thy goodnesse, who givest all, and forgivest all? |
A67744 | But who will sow those barren Sands, where they are not only without all hope of a good Harvest, but are sure to loose their Seed and Labour? |
A67744 | But why do I call it, unthankfulness? |
A67744 | But why dost thou not altogether believe, that it is a blessed and happie thing thus to suffer? |
A67744 | But why is it? |
A67744 | But why? |
A67744 | But why? |
A67744 | But why? |
A67744 | But wilt thou prove thy self wise? |
A67744 | But with what comforts doth the Lord supply our losses? |
A67744 | But you will aske me, from what must we save? |
A67744 | But ▪ ARe you Christians? |
A67744 | But, how can I lay down my life for Chriss, when I can not for his sake quietly disgest a few reproachful speeches? |
A67744 | But, what needs all this? |
A67744 | Can he provide flesh for his people? |
A67744 | Can not our enemies diminish one hair of our heads, without God''s special leave and appointment? |
A67744 | Can the Sun receive light from a candle? |
A67744 | Can the door which is but almost shut, keep out the Thief? |
A67744 | Can the ship that is but almost tite, keep out the water? |
A67744 | Can there be such a parity between the parent and the childe, the husband and the wife, as there is a disparity between God and Satan? |
A67744 | Can we not warm us at the Sun, but we must make an Idoll of it to worship? |
A67744 | Can you tell me? |
A67744 | Canst thou endure to dwell with the devouring fire? |
A67744 | Cease from thy wisdome, wilt thou cast thine eyes upon that, which is nothing? |
A67744 | Certainly men are stark mad; for otherwise, how could it be? |
A67744 | Certainly the more light we have, the more blinde men are, or else this could not be; For I would gladly aske such, Are you Christian? |
A67744 | Christ our Redeemer, and elder- Brother? |
A67744 | Christ wore a Crown of Thorns for me; and shall I grudge to wear this Paper- cap for him? |
A67744 | Christ wore a Crowne of Thornes for me, and shall I grudge to weare this Paper cap for him? |
A67744 | Christians should be like Christ: but how unlike to him are these men? |
A67744 | Christianum dogma, vertitur in scomma, and what''s the reason but this? |
A67744 | Dance hoodwinkt into this perdition? |
A67744 | David, whence came all his troubles by Absalom, Amnon, Adonijah? |
A67744 | Davids successe is Sauls vexation; yea, he findes not so much pleasure in his Kingdome, as vexation in the prosperity of David? |
A67744 | Did God and Belial joyn in fu ● filling the same act? |
A67744 | Did I swear or curse? |
A67744 | Did ever any sinner implore the forgiveness of his sins, which did not receiv full remission and pardon? |
A67744 | Did he not thrust his own feet into the stocks by that threefold lie of his uttered in a breath to get the blessing? |
A67744 | Did hee not without the Sun at the Creation, cause light to shine forth; and without rain, at the same time, make the earth fruitfull? |
A67744 | Did it ever repent Iacob, when hee came to inherit his Fathers blessing, that hee had indured a long exile, and tedious bondage? |
A67744 | Did not hee first descend into He ● l, and then had his ascension? |
A67744 | Did not the sick ever receive their health? |
A67744 | Did our Saviour Christ forbear to heal on the Sabbath day, because the Scribes and Pharisees took it ill? |
A67744 | Did we deserve the anger of God? |
A67744 | Did you ever know that wicked men; Thievs, Drunkards, Adulterers, Persecuters, false Prophets, or the like, would be damned alone? |
A67744 | Didst thou never hear Sermons unpreparedly, irreverently,& c? |
A67744 | Do not many persecute the Church as violently as Pharaoh, with Chariots and Armies? |
A67744 | Do they Hate their own souls, as well as holiness,& the Holy God? |
A67744 | Do they love damnation? |
A67744 | Do thou bear with others, God bears with thee; Is there a too much, which thou canst suffer for so patient a Lord? |
A67744 | Do we delight in good company? |
A67744 | Do we enjoy all things through Gods blessing? |
A67744 | Do you ask what Heaven is( saith one?) |
A67744 | Do you ask what Heaven is, saith one? |
A67744 | Do you do by the Ministers as you ought, or as you would be done by? |
A67744 | Do you strive? |
A67744 | Do''st thou not know, that with what measure thou metest to others here, God will measure to thee again hereafter? |
A67744 | Does not the injury seem great to thee, because thou seemest great to thy self? |
A67744 | Does thy heart upon a Sabbath rest from worldly thoughts? |
A67744 | Does your horse, the dice, the rain, or any other creature displease you? |
A67744 | Doest thou expect to have Christ thy Redeemer and Advocate, when thy Conscience tells thee that thou hast seldome remembred Him but to blaspheme Him? |
A67744 | Doest thou expect to have him mercifull to thee, that art unmercifull, cruel, and bloody to him, to his, and thine own soul? |
A67744 | Dost thou determine to continue in the practice of any one sin? |
A67744 | Dost thou not love rather to bee, than seem or bee thought good; and seek more the power of godliness, than the shew of it? |
A67744 | Dost thou then love thy mony? |
A67744 | Doth Satan merit thanks? |
A67744 | Doth he make bloody wayls on the backs of his Children? |
A67744 | Doth not God onely gain glory by our suffe ● ings? |
A67744 | Doth the rain and waters, or any other creature displease you? |
A67744 | Ely for his Indulgence onely? |
A67744 | Envy is sicke, if her neighbour be well: and the good mans honour, is the envious mans torment? |
A67744 | Even Hazael before he met with an opportunity, could say, What? |
A67744 | Even every sin; for what sin should be so dear to us, as Gods only Son was to him? |
A67744 | Fifthly, Are you scoft and scorned? |
A67744 | First he learnt godlinesse, then godlinesse taught him contentation; and is there any satisfaction like content? |
A67744 | First, Are you of that small number? |
A67744 | First, Does any man desire or glory in Knowledge? |
A67744 | First, men scoff and scorn you; and why is it? |
A67744 | For as St. Paul tells us, the heart of Man is not able to conceive those joyes; which being so, how should I be able to express them in words? |
A67744 | For as none but a Cain will say, Am I my brothers Keeper? |
A67744 | For consider, doth the Lord say hee will extend his mercie unto all that come unto him? |
A67744 | For did Christ all this for us, and shall we do nothing for him for our selves? |
A67744 | For did God and Christ, do all this for us? |
A67744 | For first: Who ever was, that was not slandered? |
A67744 | For how else could you Swear and Curse as if he that made the ear could not hear? |
A67744 | For if for one sin at the first, God plagued a world of men; how will he plague one man for a world of sin? |
A67744 | For if the brightness of the body, shall match the Sun, what will the glory and splendour of the soul be? |
A67744 | For if you love them that love you( saith our Saviour,) what thanks shall you have? |
A67744 | For in reason hath he contrived so many waies to save us; and should not we take all occasions to glorifie him? |
A67744 | For instance, Is any one censured, reviled and persecuted of lewd men, for being religious? |
A67744 | For is such honest moral men, that live so unreprovably, as you had done, go not to heaven; what will become of me? |
A67744 | For it hell- fire shall be their portion that obey not the Gospel, how can they look to escape that oppose it? |
A67744 | For the Law of God, and the Law of Nature forbids it; and doth not the Law of Nations also? |
A67744 | For what are the things our enemies can take from us, in comparison of Christ, the Ocean of our comfort, and Heaven the place of our rest? |
A67744 | For what is light, to them that will shut their eyes against it? |
A67744 | For what shall ● t profit a man ● though he should win the whole world, if he gain Hell with it, and ● ● ose both Heaven and his own soul? |
A67744 | For why is their ruine recorded? |
A67744 | For, Tenthly, doth covetousness reign in a man? |
A67744 | For, art thou born of God? |
A67744 | For, what can be spoken more expresse, direct, and significant? |
A67744 | Fourthly, Hath Christ done all this for us, his servants, so much, and so many waies obliged unto him? |
A67744 | Fourthly, Hath Christ done all this for us, his servants, so much, and so many wayes obliged unto him? |
A67744 | Fourthly, Is it so? |
A67744 | Fourthly, are you scoft,& scorn''d for goodness? |
A67744 | Fourthly, what think you of common Idolaters? |
A67744 | God had raised me from a beggar to a great estate: but how did I requite him? |
A67744 | God hath said it, and they shall finde it: And that is it to flourish for a time, and perish for ever? |
A67744 | God used the malice of Pharaoh and S ● imei unto good; what then? |
A67744 | H ● ll in Scripture is called a Lake, that burneth with fire and brimstone: and than the torment of the former, what more acute? |
A67744 | Hast not thou robb''d God of his worship? |
A67744 | Hast thou been liberal to those that are owners of a part of thy goods? |
A67744 | Hast thou been tender of his reputation, and as much as thou couldest vindicated his good name? |
A67744 | Hast thou but thoughts and desires, and canst thou onely express them with sighs and groans? |
A67744 | Hast thou kept thy head whole? |
A67744 | Hast thou not all outward comforts, presenting themselves and their service to thee in great aboundance? |
A67744 | Hast thou then a desire after this invincible patience? |
A67744 | Hast thou vanquished the World, that vanquisheth all the wicked? |
A67744 | Hath God given thee all things, and dost thou then thinke it a great matter to give him back something? |
A67744 | Hath he done so much for us, and shall we deny him any thing that he requireth of us, though it were our lives, yea our souls; much more our lusts? |
A67744 | Hath he promised that we shall not be tempted above our strength? |
A67744 | Hath he promised to bless the merciful man in his temporal, civil, spiritual, and eternal estate? |
A67744 | Hath this Lion yielded thee any Honey of Instruction, or Reformation? |
A67744 | Hath thy sin died with thy fame, or with thy health, or with thy peace, or with thy outward estate? |
A67744 | Have mercy upon me( saith he) and hearken unto my prayer, Why? |
A67744 | Have not many Monopolists with us, done as bad as those Philippians? |
A67744 | Have they any reason for their so doing? |
A67744 | Have ye not heard of a pre ● ● ● young heir? |
A67744 | Have ye not heard of a prodigal young heir? |
A67744 | Have ye then no goverment of your passions, no conscience of your actions, no care of your lives? |
A67744 | Have you not seen a Crow stand upon a Sheeps back, pulling off wool from her side? |
A67744 | He is gracious and full of compassion, he sheweth favour and lendeth, he hath given to the poore,& c. And what shall be his reward? |
A67744 | He smote the Rock that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; but can he give bread also? |
A67744 | He that will corrupt his conscience for a pound, what would he do for a thousand? |
A67744 | He was called of his enemies Conjurer, Samaritane, Wine- bibber,& c. was scoft at, scorned, scourged, crucified, and what not? |
A67744 | Hearken we unto Christs voyce, in all that he saith unto us, without being swayed one way or another, as the most are? |
A67744 | Heaven it self shall power down the food of Angels; have they no meat to their bread? |
A67744 | Hee would have all men saved, and thou comest in with thy exceptive, All but mee; Why thee? |
A67744 | How can we but say, Let the World frown, and all things in it run cross to the grain of our mindes? |
A67744 | How could hee other then thinke, if lust had not blinded and bewitched him? |
A67744 | How could they be such witless, graceless, and shameless miscreants, as to swear and curse, even as Dogs bark? |
A67744 | How did they shake him off in that pittiful distresse, with look thou to it? |
A67744 | How does he turmoile and vex his spirit, torment his conscience, and make himself a very map of misery, and a sink of calamity? |
A67744 | How does the covetous mans heart droop wish his Mammon? |
A67744 | How does this hang together? |
A67744 | How hast thou pierced my breast with thy poysoned Dart? |
A67744 | How is it that we are not more affected therewith? |
A67744 | How is that? |
A67744 | How long shall thy wicked thoughts remain with thee? |
A67744 | How many had been good? |
A67744 | How many ruffle it in silke, tha ● are scarce able to pay for wool? |
A67744 | How many? |
A67744 | How much more will wicked men de ● cline from seeing their hainous abominations, and themselves guilty of Hell and eternall damnation? |
A67744 | How oft doth guiltinesse make one avoid, what another would wish in this case? |
A67744 | How oft have we heard men that have been displeased with others, tear the Name of their Maker in pieces? |
A67744 | How opportunely doth God provide succours to our distresses? |
A67744 | How our formality and irreverence in his service? |
A67744 | How rashly then hast thou judged of thy Makers dealing with thee? |
A67744 | How shall I spare thee for this? |
A67744 | How shall I spare thee for this? |
A67744 | How should Naboth be cleanly put to death, if he be not first accused of blasphemy? |
A67744 | How should it not whet them on, and make them put the same in practise? |
A67744 | How should we not cheer up one another? |
A67744 | How small trifles make us weary of our selves? |
A67744 | How sweet then shall our knowledg in Heaven be? |
A67744 | How the heat of the stomach, and the strength of the nether chap should be so great? |
A67744 | How the waters should stand upon a heap, and yet not over- flow the earth? |
A67744 | How then should we admire the love and bounty of God, and bless his Name, who for the performance of so small a work, hath proposed so great a Reward? |
A67744 | How unsearchable are his thoughts, and intendments to man- ward? |
A67744 | I am becom partaker with the Rich Man in his Condemnation, and scorching flames in the horrible pit? |
A67744 | I have been young, and now am old, y ● ● have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread: and why so? |
A67744 | I know this is such a paradox to misers, and men of the world; that nothing seems to them more absurd and ridiculous: what? |
A67744 | I might instance other examples; as what a warning had Haz ● el given him by the Prophet; of all the abominable wickednesse he should commit? |
A67744 | I will turn my talk to God: Why hast thou lift me up, and cast me down? |
A67744 | I would fain know, whether this be not thy case, that art an unmercifull rich man? |
A67744 | I, but in the mean time, my sufferings are intollerable, saith the fainting soul? |
A67744 | I, but is it wisdome so to do? |
A67744 | If I should not be as faithful a servant to my Saviour? |
A67744 | If Idolaters will needs set up a false god for the true, is it not equal, that the true God should give them over to the false? |
A67744 | If Iudas will sell his M ● ster for thirty pence, what would he not have done for the Treasury? |
A67744 | If any shall ask why the godly are not alwayes, nor oft rich, notwithstanding these promises? |
A67744 | If every thing were unlike him, how is it possible he should love us? |
A67744 | If for a President? |
A67744 | If he still enjoyes his wealth, together with his life for many yeares, yet what will it profit him when sicknesse comes? |
A67744 | If it be asked, why I seem to forget the character of an ignorant person? |
A67744 | If it bee asked why God reckons so highly of a few sighs, and groans? |
A67744 | If material fire be so terrible, what is Hell fire? |
A67744 | If our prosperity hath made the world our God: how worthily shall our death- bed be choaked with such an exprobration? |
A67744 | If some that have journied in the wilderness to Kadesh- barnea, shall yet never enter into Gods rest; shall those that never left Egypt? |
A67744 | If the earnest penny be so precious and promising here; what shall the principal, and full crop and Harvest of happiness in Heaven be? |
A67744 | If then the beginning and first fruits of it be so sweet; what shall the fulness of that beatifical Vision of God be? |
A67744 | If then they be so terrible to hear, what will it be everlastingly to feel them? |
A67744 | If we be righteous, our righteousnesse may profit the sonnes of men; but what can we give unto him? |
A67744 | If wee bee sick, and the Physician promises to visit us tomorrow with his best relief; with what a tedious longing do wee expect his presence? |
A67744 | If why I have been silent so long? |
A67744 | If you ask David, Who are blessed? |
A67744 | If you ask Esay, Who are blessed? |
A67744 | If you ask Solomon, Who are blessed? |
A67744 | If you ask St. Iames, Who are blessed? |
A67744 | If you ask an Angel, who are blessed? |
A67744 | If you ask him again, Who are blessed? |
A67744 | If you endure chastening, God offereth himself unto you, as unto sons: for what son is it whom the Father chasten ● th not? |
A67744 | In Gods goodnesse and Englands unthankfulnesse by the same Authour? |
A67744 | In the last place, Are not all wilfull sinners arrant fools? |
A67744 | Indeed, what have we by our second birth, which is not miraculous in comparison of our naturall condition? |
A67744 | Is God more specially present with us in afflictions? |
A67744 | Is any one afflicted? |
A67744 | Is he thy Lord by a manifold Right? |
A67744 | Is it Gods unspeakable mercy, that we are not at this present frying in Hell flames, never to be freed, and do we complain for want of a trifle? |
A67744 | Is it meet that he who is not only thy Master, but thy Maker, should passe his time in continuall travell, and thou in continuall case? |
A67744 | Is it not a dear purchase? |
A67744 | Is it not the manner of thousands with us? |
A67744 | Is it the most certain and infallible way never to want? |
A67744 | Is not this the best Chimistry to turn Earth into Heaven? |
A67744 | Is our Ionathan gone? |
A67744 | Is sparing in this case, the worst thrift? |
A67744 | Is the stony ground reprobate? |
A67744 | Is there a piece of ground naturally good? |
A67744 | Is there no such way to grow rich, as by being bountiful to the poor? |
A67744 | Is this change wrought i ● you? |
A67744 | Is this courage, to kill one another for the wall? |
A67744 | Is this to receive them as an Angel of God, yea, as Christ Iesus? |
A67744 | It is a people that do erre in their hearts, saies God; Why? |
A67744 | It was a common complain: with David, The Lord hath forsaken us; thou hast cast off, and abhorred us: why hast thou forsaken mee& c.? |
A67744 | It will put thee to a demur, What have I done? |
A67744 | Kill the Child in the womb, and never hurt the Mother? |
A67744 | Lastly, For conclusion of this point, Wouldst thou be a contented and Happy man? |
A67744 | Lastly, lock upon Lazarus, though Christs bosome f ● iend? |
A67744 | Let every such Ionas reflect upon himself, and say, What evill have I done? |
A67744 | Let him draw near, for I chiefly direct my speech unto him: Are afflictions and persecutions so necessary and profitable, as hath been shewed? |
A67744 | Miriam for one slander? |
A67744 | Moses for one unbelief? |
A67744 | Much Respected, IF you ask, Why I take this pains? |
A67744 | NOw why are godly Christians so content with a little? |
A67744 | Nay, to abound with all things, and to be never the better for them, not to partake of them, what fool or mad man hath been known so senseless? |
A67744 | Nay, why hath God spared thee, so long as he hath? |
A67744 | Neither say of thy sin, as once Lot of Zoar; Is it not a little one? |
A67744 | Neither want we Presidents of this: For by whom was upright 〈 … 〉 cuted and slain, but by his own brother Cain? |
A67744 | Neither wants hee care; hee that numbers our very hairs, what account doth hee make of our souls? |
A67744 | Never were the Iews more to bee pitied, than when their Prophet delivered these words from the Lord, Why should yee bee stricken any more? |
A67744 | No, if another be at the charges to serve God, this Churle like Iudas, will cry out, Why is this waste? |
A67744 | No, never they thank God ▪ are you proud? |
A67744 | No, not they; What should they be proud of? |
A67744 | Nor love, for if hee hath bought us with his blood, and given us himself, will hee deny us any thing that is good for us? |
A67744 | Now Lord it being thus with us, how can we expect that thou shouldest hear our praiers,& grant our requests? |
A67744 | Now ask the covetous muck worm, whether had you rather lack with those Saints, or abound with the devil and the rich man? |
A67744 | Now consider ▪ Is one hours twitches of t ● ● ● orm of conscience here? |
A67744 | Now if Saul or Doeg be instead of a Pestilence or Feaver; who can cavil? |
A67744 | Now if all our sufferings are thus counterpoysed, and exceeded with blessings; have we any cause to be angry and impatient? |
A67744 | Now if grace and Gods favour, brings such peace and joy: what fools are sinners? |
A67744 | Now if that bosom wherein we all look to rest, was assaulted with so many sore trials, and so diverse difficulties, is it likely we should escape? |
A67744 | Now instead of being overcome doest thou overcome? |
A67744 | Now lay all together, and tell me whether this argues not hatred? |
A67744 | Now tell me what you think of these blockish Iews: Were they more wicked, or witless, or ingrateful? |
A67744 | Now tell me? |
A67744 | Now the Tenant is more noble then the House; therefore why are we not more joyed in this, then dejected in the other? |
A67744 | Now what Son of Israel can hope for any good daies, when he hears his Fathers were so evill? |
A67744 | Now what better inheritance can we leave to our Children, then the blessing of God? |
A67744 | Now what heart would not bleed to see men, yea multitudes run head long into these tortures, that are thus intolerable? |
A67744 | Now what heart would not bleed, to see men run headlong into these tortures that are thus intollerable? |
A67744 | Now what is it that we suffer, being compared with their sufferings? |
A67744 | Now what should we render unto the Lord our God so good and gracious, in way of thankfulnesse for all these his mercies? |
A67744 | Now when so much was uttered, even by a none- such for his patience; what may we think he did feel, and indure? |
A67744 | Now who would not be willing to bleed, when by that means an inveterate sicknesse may be prevented? |
A67744 | Now why doth God by his promise tye himself to bee present with us more especially in affliction? |
A67744 | Now why must we pledge our Saviour, and sill up the measure of his sufferings? |
A67744 | Now, are some afflicted in reputation? |
A67744 | Now, do we love Christ? |
A67744 | Now, if thy very enemies thus honour thee; how should thy friends( bought with thy precious blood) glorifie thee? |
A67744 | Now, what are we to learn from this double lesson, but a two- fold instruction? |
A67744 | Now, whethers counsell wilt thou follow? |
A67744 | Now, who will not say, Give me the Bird that will sing in Winter, and seek to my window in the hardest frost? |
A67744 | O Satan, how hast thou wounded me? |
A67744 | O gentle Cato, how happy art thou to have been such an one? |
A67744 | O how many great streams of Lamentation and tears will wash away and purge mine humble heart? |
A67744 | O thou Co- eternall Sonne of thine Eternall Father, why should I think strange to be scourged with tongue or hand, when I see thee bleeding? |
A67744 | O thou Devil, what hast thou done unto me? |
A67744 | O what a glorious renown did the Traytors reproach occasion her? |
A67744 | O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death,& c? |
A67744 | O ● ool? |
A67744 | Objection: But will some say, How shall we obtain this happy condition? |
A67744 | Of Lot''s sons in Law, that counted their Fathers fore- warnings a meer mockage? |
A67744 | Of the rich Glutton, that made no more reckoning of Moses and the Prophets? |
A67744 | Oh, it is a good change, to have the fire of affliction for the fire of Hell: Who would not rather smart for a while, then for ever? |
A67744 | Onely they have some wit in their anger: For how should Naboth be clenly put to death, if he be not first accused of blasphemy? |
A67744 | Or Fifthly, Is it safety from fear and danger, that a man wishes for or desires? |
A67744 | Or Ioseph, when hee w ● s once made Ruler in Egypt, that he had formerly been sold thither, and there imprisoned? |
A67744 | Or Wilt thou leap into Hell and cast away thy soul, because others do so? |
A67744 | Or a company of abject persons? |
A67744 | Or am I the first that fell? |
A67744 | Or can you put it into a better and safer hand, then into the hands of God himself? |
A67744 | Or do they desire it to any such end? |
A67744 | Or do we desire to do something again for Christ, who hath done and suffered so much for us? |
A67744 | Or do you own him that made you, and that hath bestowed so many millions of mercies upon you? |
A67744 | Or fourthly, Hath not self- conceitednesse broken thy credit? |
A67744 | Or how should not that sin be past cure, which strives against the cure? |
A67744 | Or if he do, will not the Judge so much the rather send him to the Gallows? |
A67744 | Or if not for their soules, yet for thine owne: For why shouldest thou love thy children better then thine owne person? |
A67744 | Or if you do, what shall you gain, or I loose thereby? |
A67744 | Or in 〈 ◊ 〉 we have peace of conscience, alas how often is it interrupted, with 〈 ◊ 〉 of spirit? |
A67744 | Or like Cardan Doctor of Physiek in Rome, who when Out- landish Schollars came to him, would answer them, What have I to do with Forraigners? |
A67744 | Or shall he not depart Sodome, because the whole City thinks it better to stay there still? |
A67744 | Or shall the name of Round- head dishearten us from the service of God? |
A67744 | Or that Germain Clown, who under- took to be very ready in the ten Commandments: but being demanded by the Minister which was the first? |
A67744 | Or that God will regard and feed thy Children, who hast neglected his, and suffered them to pine and perish for want of Relief? |
A67744 | Or thirdly, Doth not a proud heart make thee over- apprehensive of the wrong? |
A67744 | Or what else hath alienated the Indians from the Christian Religion, making them to refuse the Gospel; but this? |
A67744 | Or which of Gods servants did ever repent that they had passed the apprentiship of their service here, and were now gon to be made free in glory? |
A67744 | Or who will not be willing to sow plent ● fully, where he shall reap plentifully? |
A67744 | Or who would not cast his burthen upon him, that desires to give ease? |
A67744 | Or wil hee provide for his Men and Maids, and let his own children starve? |
A67744 | Or will they acknowledge themselves in a lost condition without Christ? |
A67744 | Or with Aarons Rod, to bring forth ripe Almonds, when in appearance we are clong and dry? |
A67744 | Or, commend thy pity? |
A67744 | Or, commend thy pity? |
A67744 | Or, extol thy praise? |
A67744 | Or, extol thy praise? |
A67744 | Or, who would not cast his burthen upon him, that doth desire to give ease? |
A67744 | Otherwise, how could you make such a mighty difference between your bodies and souls? |
A67744 | Our Churches are full( blessed be God:) but, come we not to please others, as the Poet made his Plays? |
A67744 | Our holy longings are increased with delayes: it whets our appetite to be held fasting: and whom will not Need make both humble and ● loquent? |
A67744 | Paul a polluter of the Temple? |
A67744 | Pyrrhus opened himself to his friend Cineas, that he first intended a war upon Italy, and what then said Cineas? |
A67744 | Righteous art thou, O Lord, whe ● I speak with thee, yet let me talk with thee of thy judgements, wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? |
A67744 | SEcondly, Are the joyes of Heaven so unspeakable and glorious? |
A67744 | Salvation by Christ? |
A67744 | Sampson could not be bound, till he was first got asleep: Wouldest thou not be overcome? |
A67744 | Saul, Saul, saith Christ, seeing him make havock of the Church, why persecutest thou me? |
A67744 | Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? |
A67744 | Secondly of your own, and all the peoples souls, as much as in you lies: For how should your Pastor feed your souls, if you feed not his body? |
A67744 | Secondly, Does any man desire, or glory in Honour and Nobility? |
A67744 | Secondly, men hate, scoffe, and scorne you, but who? |
A67744 | Sell all that ever thou hast, and distribute unto the poor: And is there any hope of his yeelding? |
A67744 | Seventhly, Wouldest thou with all these, have all peace and joy? |
A67744 | Seventhly, let me refer it to any rational man, whether the Voluptuous Prodigal is not a sta ● k Fool? |
A67744 | Shal we have the benefit of their prayers, and their loins to bless us? |
A67744 | Shall God have glory by it? |
A67744 | Shall Noah leave building the Arke, and so himself and his whole houshold perish, because all the world else thinks him hare- brain''d? |
A67744 | Shall not the one be as loud for God, as the other are for Baal and Belzebub? |
A67744 | Shall the merciful be rewarded with illumination and conversion? |
A67744 | Shall they have cause to pray for, and praise God for us? |
A67744 | Shall they labour so hard, for 〈 … 〉 will but inhance their damnation? |
A67744 | Shall they thereby be the better able to serve God in their several stations? |
A67744 | Shall we most spightfully and maliciously fight on Satans side against him with all our might, and that against knowledg and conscience? |
A67744 | Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and not evill? |
A67744 | Shall wee slight all his blessings, because in one thing hee c ● osseth us, whereas his least mercy is beyond our best merit? |
A67744 | She whose body is mercenary to me, will easily sell me to others? |
A67744 | Sixthly art thou but a Steward put in trust? |
A67744 | Sixthly, how much might be spared of what men vainely spend in keeping of Horses, Hawkes, and Dogs? |
A67744 | So he that will not be in charity, shall never be in Heaven: And why should I do my self a shrewd turn because another would? |
A67744 | Steven a destroyer of the Law? |
A67744 | Suppose such do think as they speak: Shall Lot leave his Righteousnesse, for such an imputation of singularity? |
A67744 | Suppose thy sufferings bee great, what then? |
A67744 | THankfulness for one benefit, inviteth another: but how worthy is he to perish in the next danger, that is not thankful for escaping the former? |
A67744 | Tamberlain having overcome Bajazet, asked him whether he had ever given God thanks for making him so great an Emperor? |
A67744 | Tamberlain having overcome Bajazet, he asked him whether he had ever given God thanks, for making him so great an Emperour? |
A67744 | Tell me, wherewith thou mayest be bound to do thee hurt? |
A67744 | That all our thoughts, words and works, should be the services of the world, the flesh, and the Devil? |
A67744 | That there is no being saved without it, hath God therefore given us all, that we may impart some part thereof to others that want? |
A67744 | That they have learned more good in one dayes or weeks misery, than many years prosperi ● could teach them? |
A67744 | That think the vowed enemy of their souls, can offer them a bait without a hook? |
A67744 | That thou hast great cause to rejoice and be glad that thou art counted worthy to suffer shame for Christs name? |
A67744 | That we should do nothing else but sin, and make others sin too? |
A67744 | The Iews said, Let his bloud be upon us and upon our children; and what followed? |
A67744 | The Portugals will rejoyce in soul ● eather why? |
A67744 | The Woman great with childe, is ever musing upon the time of her delivery: and hath not he the like cause, when Death is his bridge from wo to glory? |
A67744 | The covetous Mammonist does insatiably thirst after riches, placing all his joyes, hopes, and delights thereon; does he not then make them his God? |
A67744 | The lame, their limbes? |
A67744 | The meditation whereof may bee of some use to thee: Thales beeing asked how adversity might best bee born? |
A67744 | The righteous shall scarcely be saved ▪ what then shall become of the unrighteous? |
A67744 | The sons of Eli would not hearken un ● ●, nor obey the voice of their Father: why? |
A67744 | The wise and godly are of Pythagoras his minde: who being asked why he cared no more for riches? |
A67744 | The ● — Thirdly, Have you a true and lively faith in Iesus Christ? |
A67744 | Their conquering was by dying, not by killing: and, can the back of Charity now bare no load? |
A67744 | Therefore Bazil, when hee was offered money and preferments to tempt him, answered: Can you give me money that can last for ever? |
A67744 | Therefore the main question is, VVhether thou art a believer? |
A67744 | These Bro ● ers of villany, whose very acquaintance is destruction: as how can they be other then dangerously infectious ▪ and desperately wicked? |
A67744 | They set their mouths against heaven, and are like an unruly Jade, that being full fed kicks at his Master; what course doth the Lord take with them? |
A67744 | Thinkest thou that my ruine will avail thee any thing at all? |
A67744 | Thinkest thou to procure unto thy self ease and rest, whiles that I am grievously tormented? |
A67744 | Thirdly ▪ Does any man glory in riches? |
A67744 | Thirdly, Didst thou desire Children of God? |
A67744 | Thirdly, are the one regenerate, the other carnall? |
A67744 | Thirdly, why do these and the Devill hate you? |
A67744 | Thou canst not away with swearing; but dost thou reprove others for their swearing? |
A67744 | Thou hast a tongue; what thinks the dumbe of that? |
A67744 | Thou hast ears, ask the deaf, whether that be not a great blessing? |
A67744 | Thou hast eyes; ask the blinde, whether that be not a blessing? |
A67744 | Thou hast feet, hands, health, liberty, life, reason,& c. is all this nothing? |
A67744 | Thou shalt not commit adultery? |
A67744 | Thou wouldest go the naturall Way to work, What shall I do to inherit eternall life? |
A67744 | Thy Praier is beard: When did he make this Praier? |
A67744 | To Parents, as wel as to those who have no Children? |
A67744 | To have as expert a tongue, and as quick a memory as Portius; a perfect understanding, great science, profound eloquence, a sweet stile? |
A67744 | To have the force of Demosthenes, the depth of Thesius, the perswasive art of Tully,& c. if withal he wants Grace, and lives remissely? |
A67744 | To instance in some examples; Satan did nought touching Iob, but what the Lord upon his request gave him leave to do; what then? |
A67744 | To what purpose is it, to crop the top of the weeds, or lop off the boughes of the tree, when the root and stalk remain in the earth? |
A67744 | To which accordeth that of holy Bernard, Good art thou, O Lord, to the soul that seeks thee; what art thou then to the soul that finds thee? |
A67744 | Touching the second, What King ever went so willingly to be Crowned, as he to be crucified? |
A67744 | True, ill tongues will be walking, but we need not repine at their insolency; why should we answer every dog that barks, with barking again? |
A67744 | True, the fainting heart that hath waited some time, may with the Psalmist mutter out some such speech, as this, Hath God forgotten to bee gracious? |
A67744 | True, they appear not ordinarily, what then? |
A67744 | VVet ● we for disobedience subject to the sentence of condemnation, the curse of the Law, and death of body and soul? |
A67744 | VVhat cause have we then to blesse the giver? |
A67744 | VVhat greater unbelief could there be? |
A67744 | VVhen Christ wept over Ierusalem, what was the cause? |
A67744 | W ● ● these Works of Mercy bring such joy and peace, confirm our hope, and sweeten all our afflictions? |
A67744 | WHat believe the former Scriptures? |
A67744 | WHerein consists their unlikeness and contrariety? |
A67744 | Was Christ crucified for our sins? |
A67744 | Was Christ crucified for our sins? |
A67744 | Was Lazarus for a time extream miserable? |
A67744 | Was it not an argument that Haman was blinde? |
A67744 | Was it not his fondness and indulgence? |
A67744 | Was it not his own undutifulness? |
A67744 | Was not Ahab blinde? |
A67744 | Was not the wisdome of the Serpent turned into a curse? |
A67744 | Was not this fulfilled in Haman? |
A67744 | Was there ever such a motion made to a reasonable man? |
A67744 | We all call our selves Christians? |
A67744 | We are bound to praise him above any Nation whatsoever; for what Nation under Heaven enjoyes so much light, or so many blessings, as we? |
A67744 | We are bound to praise thee above any Nation whatsoever: for what Nation under Heaven enjoys so much light, or so many blessings as we? |
A67744 | We fools thought his life madnesse, and his end to be without honour: How is he now numbred with the children of God, and his lot among the Saints? |
A67744 | We hate the Turks for selling Christians for slaves, what do we think of those Christians that sell themselves, and how odious are they? |
A67744 | Well may you( with Agrippa) be almost Christian, but sure enough, you are not with Saint Paul, altogether such: and then what will become of you? |
A67744 | Well then, art thou vexed, persecuted, and afflicted by some cruel and malicious Saul? |
A67744 | Were it a good plea, to commit a Felonie, and say that others do so? |
A67744 | Were none of his children ever exempted from the like? |
A67744 | Were not the Iews, Scribes& Pharisees blind, who could see more unlawfulness in the Disciples plucking a few ears of Corn on the sabbath- day? |
A67744 | What Consideration ● are here to shame the Reproachers of Godliness,& to encourag ● the weak against their reproaches? |
A67744 | What Fortifications or Bulwarks so strong and safe against the affronts of Satan, and the World? |
A67744 | What Prince hearing himself abused to his face, by the reproachfull words of his base and impotent Subject, would admit of such an excuse? |
A67744 | What Stuff so pitiful; but he can set a gloss upon it? |
A67744 | What a Key to un ● lock the Rich Mans Chests, and enrich himself by Giving to the Poor, if men will but use them? |
A67744 | What a cure is here for the Swearer? |
A67744 | What a load of injuries can some Christians digest, that have been frequent in sufferings, and long exercised in the School of affliction? |
A67744 | What abundance of such Helps are ready at hand for the Recovery and salvation of any sinner that is but wi ● ling to read and consider them? |
A67744 | What brazen impudence? |
A67744 | What can we do without thee? |
A67744 | What comfort wil it be unto thee, if for getting some trifles for thy posterity on Earth, thou hast lost Heaven? |
A67744 | What communion between light and darknesse? |
A67744 | What cunning conveyances? |
A67744 | What demonstrations can be given more sollid? |
A67744 | What did he lose by it? |
A67744 | What end is that? |
A67744 | What evill hast thou done, said the Mariners to the distressed Prophet, that this evill is come upon us? |
A67744 | What for Christ? |
A67744 | What hath pride profited us? |
A67744 | What hope hath the hypocrite saith Job, when he hath heaped up riches; will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? |
A67744 | What if the Lord for a time forbear coming, as Samuel did to Saul; that hee may try what is in thee? |
A67744 | What is Heaven to us? |
A67744 | What is it to flourish for a time, and perish for ever? |
A67744 | What is the national sweetness of Honey, to the experimental taste of it? |
A67744 | What jugling, shuffling, and packing will he use, to make any sin feazable? |
A67744 | What little enough to do, to obtain eternity? |
A67744 | What mad men are Misers? |
A67744 | What man was ever so desirous to save his life, as Christ was to lose it? |
A67744 | What mischief hast thou wrought unto me? |
A67744 | What need had David to load himself with an unnecessary weapon? |
A67744 | What need we return rayling for rayling? |
A67744 | What needed Mary to speak for her self, when she had such an Advocate? |
A67744 | What part with a certainty for an uncertainty? |
A67744 | What profit does the Sunne receive, by our looking upon it? |
A67744 | What quaint qnircks? |
A67744 | What rare and precious promises are these? |
A67744 | What said one to a Lawyer, offering to right his wrongs, and revenge him of his adversary, by Law? |
A67744 | What said that Gentleman in Athens to his friends? |
A67744 | What said the Orator to Salust? |
A67744 | What saies Christ? |
A67744 | What saies holy David? |
A67744 | What saith Aristotle? |
A67744 | What saith David? |
A67744 | What saith God to his people in their misery? |
A67744 | What saith Iob? |
A67744 | What saith Ioseph to his envious brethren that sold him into Aegypt? |
A67744 | What saith Pharaoh to his deep Counsellors? |
A67744 | What saith a Father? |
A67744 | What saith one advisedly? |
A67744 | What saith our Saviour? |
A67744 | What saith that Ethnick in Seneca, in this behalf? |
A67744 | What saith the Apostle? |
A67744 | What saith the Apostle? |
A67744 | What saith the wiseman? |
A67744 | What sayes Aristotle? |
A67744 | What sayes Solomon? |
A67744 | What sayes our Saviour? |
A67744 | What shall I say? |
A67744 | What shall I say? |
A67744 | What shall I say? |
A67744 | What shall become of extortion, and Rapine? |
A67744 | What shall become of him, that takes away other mens? |
A67744 | What should I more say? |
A67744 | What should I say? |
A67744 | What sin have I committed or admitted? |
A67744 | What subtil shifts? |
A67744 | What then can be more equal, then that thou shouldst suffer everlastingly? |
A67744 | What then is our sinfulness? |
A67744 | What then will it be to lie in stames of fire? |
A67744 | What then? |
A67744 | What then? |
A67744 | What then? |
A67744 | What though it be usual with men, to have no sense of their souls till they must leave their bodies? |
A67744 | What was Haman the better for all he had, when the King frowned upon him? |
A67744 | What will be their manner of answering? |
A67744 | What will it be to enjoy the immediate presence, and glory of God our Father? |
A67744 | What will not men undergo, so their pay may be answerable? |
A67744 | What ● or the members of Christ? |
A67744 | What''s a setter to a Dungeon? |
A67744 | What''s the reason we all die? |
A67744 | What''s the reason? |
A67744 | What''s the reason? |
A67744 | What, not love God? |
A67744 | What, saith Saint Hierom, in the like case? |
A67744 | What? |
A67744 | Whe ● was the Sareptan relieved? |
A67744 | When Aristippus was asked by one in derision, where the great high friendship was become, that formerly had been be ● ween him and Aeschi ● es? |
A67744 | When Christ taught in the Temple, they asked, Hovv knovveth this man the Scriptures, seeing he never learned them? |
A67744 | When God was displeased, what was the effect? |
A67744 | When did God answer the hopes of Sarah, Rebeccah, Rachel, the wife of Manoah, and Elisabeth, touching their long and much desired issues? |
A67744 | When did Iacob see a Vision of Angels? |
A67744 | When did Moses find succour, but when his Mother could no longer hide him, and hee was put into the River among the Bull- rushes? |
A67744 | When did our Saviour heal the woman of her bloody issue? |
A67744 | When did we talk without vanity? |
A67744 | When had the Children of Israel the greatest victories ▪ bu ● when they ● eared most to bee overcome? |
A67744 | When the hand of God hath never so little touched thee, what good thy great wealth will do thee? |
A67744 | When thou mightest as well say; What is Christ to us? |
A67744 | When was Hagar comforted of the Angell, but when her child was neer famished, and shee had cast it under a Tree for dead? |
A67744 | Whence as the Chief Priests answered Iudas What is that to us? |
A67744 | Whence as the chief Priests answered Iudas; What is that to us? |
A67744 | Whence come wars, and sightings amongst you? |
A67744 | Where didst thou sleep? |
A67744 | Where finde ● ou, that this custome was ever used, by any one of the Saints in former ages? |
A67744 | Where is that good Shepherd of Souls? |
A67744 | Where the conscience is clear; death is looked for without fear, yea, desired with delight, accepted with devotion: why? |
A67744 | Whereas the Poore shall onely have some outward relief and comfott thereby? |
A67744 | Wherefore did Iosephs Brethren hate him, not being able to speak peaceably unto him, and after sell him into Egipt? |
A67744 | Wherefore did Saul so hate and persecute David? |
A67744 | Wherefore hast thou but a touch of sorrow for sin, a spark of hope, a grain of faith in thy heart? |
A67744 | Wherefore hearken to this, all you self- lovers, that are only for your own ends: Do you indeed love your selves? |
A67744 | Wherefore in the first place, Hath God so strictly commanded it? |
A67744 | Wherefore liest thou on thy face, said God to Ioshua? |
A67744 | Wherefore was holy David had in derision, hated, standered, contemned, and made a by- word of the people, a song of the drunkards? |
A67744 | Wherefore, as Iehoram said to Iehu, when hee marched furiously; Comest thou peaceably? |
A67744 | Whether he finds not his joy to be like the joy of harvest? |
A67744 | Whether he finds not more joy in goodness, than worldlings can do, when their wheat, wine, and oyl aboundeth? |
A67744 | Whether he will be moved with my desolation? |
A67744 | Whether he will have respect unto my humility, and incline his tender compassion towards me? |
A67744 | Whether he will pity my fall? |
A67744 | Whether you are Re ● ● nerate? |
A67744 | Whether you are of that small ● ● mber, whom Christ hath chosen out of the world? |
A67744 | Whether you have true and saving faith? |
A67744 | Who but Andronicus, Emperour of the East for many years? |
A67744 | Who can say( saies Menander) I shall never do, nor suffer this or that? |
A67744 | Who can separate the conjunctions of the Deitie? |
A67744 | Who could feel the odoriferous smell of these Aromatical Spices, if they were not pounded and bruised in the Mortar of affliction? |
A67744 | Who could have lesse deserved those curses and stones from Shimei then David? |
A67744 | Who could know the faith, patience and valour of Gods souldiers, i ● they alwayes lay in Garrison, and never came to the skirmish? |
A67744 | Who could know whether we be vessels of gold or dross, unless we were brought to the Touchstone of temptation? |
A67744 | Who ever asked any thing of him which was profitable for him to receive, and did not obtain his suit? |
A67744 | Who is hee that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? |
A67744 | Who is so melancholly, as the rich worldling? |
A67744 | Who knoweth whether the Lord wil have mercy upon me? |
A67744 | Who made thee a judge? |
A67744 | Who more right to the crop, then he that oweth the ground, and soweth the seed? |
A67744 | Who so gladly from execution, as he to it? |
A67744 | Who so melancholy as the rich worldling? |
A67744 | Who will not bee willing to suffer with Christ, that hee may also reign with him? |
A67744 | Who will not suffer a few stripes from a Father, by whom he receiveth so much good, even all that he hath? |
A67744 | Who will not suffer these light afflictions which are but for a moment, when they cause unto us a far more excellent end eternall weight of glory? |
A67744 | Who would not bee a Philpo ● for a month, or a Lazarus for a day, o ● a Stephen for an hour, that he might be in Abrahams bosome for ever? |
A67744 | Who would not give Christ lodging? |
A67744 | Who would not have spurned such a sutor out of doors? |
A67744 | Who would not serve a short apprentiship in Gods service here, ● o be made for ever free in glory? |
A67744 | Whom are you angry withal? |
A67744 | Whom hast thou blasphemed? |
A67744 | Whom hast thou blasphemed? |
A67744 | Why a flash of lightening should melt the sword without making any impression in the scabbard? |
A67744 | Why are you a thorne in their eyes, as Iob was in the Devils? |
A67744 | Why did Ammon draw out two years breath? |
A67744 | Why doth a Physician give more Wormwood, or Hellebore to this sick party, then to that? |
A67744 | Why doth the Hare use so many doublings? |
A67744 | Why groanest thou under thy burden, and cryest out of unremedied pain? |
A67744 | Why hast thou forsaken me, and banished me from among the Saints, and astonied me to preach thy Laws? |
A67744 | Why is the Lapwing made an Hieroglyphick of infelicity? |
A67744 | Why is this cast away, saith Iudas? |
A67744 | Why say we then we give to the poor? |
A67744 | Why should we not hate the Way to Hell, as much as Hell it self? |
A67744 | Why shouldest thou deceive thy self with an opinion of faith? |
A67744 | Why the Loadstone should draw iron, or incline to the pole- star? |
A67744 | Why the clouds above being heavie with water, should not fall to the earth suddenly, seeing every beavy thing descendeth? |
A67744 | Why then complainest thou, I am afflicted on every side? |
A67744 | Why then do you set so high a price upon them? |
A67744 | Why then hast thou not the like faith? |
A67744 | Why then should I refuse so fair an offer? |
A67744 | Why then shouldest not thou know it reason, to do to others, as thou wouldest have them do to thee? |
A67744 | Why was Eliah wroth with his younger brother? |
A67744 | Why were all the just in Solomons time, had in abomination, and mockt of the wicked? |
A67744 | Why were they so long kept from it? |
A67744 | Why? |
A67744 | Why? |
A67744 | Why? |
A67744 | Why? |
A67744 | Wil what we have this way distributed, stand us in more stead at the hour of Death, and Day of Iudgement, then all the Wealth in the World? |
A67744 | Wil with- holding from the poor, bring a man to poverty? |
A67744 | Will God be thus mockt? |
A67744 | Will any make choyce of a weak Champion? |
A67744 | Will any man eat poyson because there is but a little of it? |
A67744 | Will it not be sad to have Children and Servants rise up in judgment against you, and to bring in evidence at the great Tribunal of Christ? |
A67744 | Will the Merchant be discouraged because his wine pleaseth not a sicke mans palate? |
A67744 | Will this Bill pass current, when God comes to cast it up? |
A67744 | Will you believe the Prophet Amos? |
A67744 | Will you take Saint Pauls word for it, or rather Gods own word, who is Truth it self, and can not lie? |
A67744 | Wilt thou( saith one) look to reign, and not expect to suffer? |
A67744 | With the Astronomer, to observe the motions of the heavens; while his heart is buried in the earth? |
A67744 | With the Historian, to know what others have done, and how they have sped; while he neglecteth the imitation of such, as are gone the right way? |
A67744 | With the Law- maker, to set down many Lawes in particular, and not to remember the common Law of nature, or Law general that all must die? |
A67744 | Without thee, What can we suffer? |
A67744 | Wo is me, that sometime was a Pearle glistering in the golden garland of Glory, but now thrown into the dust, and trodden in the mire of contempt? |
A67744 | Worse than Iob when hee sate scraping his soars on the dungbill, had all his houses burnt, all his cattell stollen, and his children slai ●? |
A67744 | Worse than Iosephs? |
A67744 | Would any man put his life to a venture, if he knew that when he died he should presently drop into hell? |
A67744 | Would we know our own hearts, and whether they be changed by a new birth? |
A67744 | Would we( were it our case) think the contrary very unequal? |
A67744 | Wouldest thou become thankefull? |
A67744 | Wouldest thou then attein to an unconquerable patience,& be able to undergo great trials hereafter? |
A67744 | Wouldst thou get out of the miserab ● ● 〈 ◊ 〉 of nature, into the blessed estate of grace? |
A67744 | Wouldst thou have faith? |
A67744 | Wouldst thou have faith? |
A67744 | Wouldst thou have the love of God, and the asistance of his Spirit, ask it of him by Prayer? |
A67744 | Wouldst thou have the love of God? |
A67744 | Wouldst thou pray that thou maist be heard? |
A67744 | Wouldst thou pray that thou mayest be heard? |
A67744 | XIV, VVhich being so, how oft and how many wayes do we all offend? |
A67744 | Yea all wicked men make the devil their god; for why does Saint Paul call the devil the god of this world? |
A67744 | Yea are all these, and all other pains that can be named put together, but shadows, and flea- bitings to it? |
A67744 | Yea how could I be thankful to my Redeemer? |
A67744 | Yea how little, how nothing, are the poore and Temporary Injoyments of this life, to those we shall injoy in the next? |
A67744 | Yea how oft is that spent upon one Christmas revelling by the son, which was fourty years a getting by ● he Father? |
A67744 | Yea how oft is that spent upon one Christmas revelling by the son, which was fourty yeers a getting by the Father? |
A67744 | Yea how would they praise God, and pray for their bountiful Benefactors? |
A67744 | Yea in truth, what madnesse is it to deny, being requested, to give at his appointment some small portion of our goods? |
A67744 | Yea more, is Heaven so unspeakably sweet and delectable, and Hell so unutterably dolefull? |
A67744 | Yea where is the man that wil not boast of his love to Christ? |
A67744 | Yea, How can we be thankfull enough, for so great a blessing? |
A67744 | Yea, I would fain know, what means can possibly be used, that shall be able to reclaim them? |
A67744 | Yea, Who would not be a Philpot for a moneth, or a Lazarus for a day, or a Steven for an hour, that he might be in Abrahams bosome for ever? |
A67744 | Yea, did not that head deserve to be tonguelesse, that body to be headlesse, that so undeservedly cursed such an Innocent? |
A67744 | Yea, even when they were wandering in a forlorn wilderness, how did God as it were attend upon them in their distress, to supply their wants? |
A67744 | Yea, how little was Judas set by of the High Priests, when once he had served their turn? |
A67744 | Yea, how little, how nothing, are the poor and temporary enjoyments of this life, to those we shall enjoy in the next? |
A67744 | Yea, how many have we known in this City? |
A67744 | Yea, how many will confess, that one affliction hath done more good upon them, then many Sermons? |
A67744 | Yea, how oft do those Russians that deny God at the Tap- house, preach him at the Gallows? |
A67744 | Yea, how severely will they censure, not only things indifferent, but the most holy and approved good duties in the godly? |
A67744 | Yea, let so many of us, as have either heart or brain, in the next place say, O Lord, What is man that thou art so mindfull of him? |
A67744 | Yea, shall our glory be increased, as our sufferings have been more? |
A67744 | Yea, some can carry whole Mannors upon their backs, heads, feet, and fingers, what hospitality then can be expected from such? |
A67744 | Yea, suppose they overcome, is not this power of theirs the greatest infirmity? |
A67744 | Yea, that we should be even mockers of all that march not under the pay of the Devil? |
A67744 | Yea, the onely Son of God came to this, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken mee? |
A67744 | Yea, thou that placest thy happinesse, and puttest thy confidence in a little white and red earth; and dotest so upon the world, tell me? |
A67744 | Yea, what a brutish and barbarous unthankfulness, and shame were it that God should part with his Son, and his Son with his own precious blood for us? |
A67744 | Yea, what a deale of paines and care does the covetous man take for his own damnation? |
A67744 | Yea, what can any wise man think of them, are they not stark mad? |
A67744 | Yea, what else but the unchristian- like behaviour of Christians? |
A67744 | Yea, what hath the more temperate worldling to say for himself, who hath some small piece of reason for his guide? |
A67744 | Yea, what pain can we think too much to suffer? |
A67744 | Yea, what possibility is there that ever such a soul should have any benefit by Christ? |
A67744 | Yea, what said blessed Bradford? |
A67744 | Yea, what would they not have given for a little Oyle, and for entrance with the wise, into the Wedding? |
A67744 | Yea, what would you not give, if you then had it? |
A67744 | Yea, when it was said of Phocian and Demosthenes, that they could never agree; it was answered, No, how should they? |
A67744 | Yea, who can utter the sweetness of that peace of conscience, and spiritual rejoycing in God, which himself hath tasted? |
A67744 | Yea, who more needy, and who run more in debt than those, that have hundreds and thousands a year? |
A67744 | Yea, why shouldst thou prefer their Wealth before thine own soul? |
A67744 | Yea, why shouldst thou preferre their wealth before thine own soule? |
A67744 | Yea, will they not more deeply censure our serving of God, then their own blaspheming of him? |
A67744 | Yet consider, did God forsake either of them? |
A67744 | Yet the world traduced him for a Samaritan, a Blasphemer, a Sorcerer, a wine- b ● ● ber, 〈 ◊ 〉 enemy to Caesar, and what not? |
A67744 | You are gathered together against the Lord; and what is Aaron, that ye murmure against him? |
A67744 | You''l confesse then''t is Princely to disdain a wrong: and is that all? |
A67744 | a great Vsurer? |
A67744 | an ill penni- worth? |
A67744 | and Captaines over hundreds? |
A67744 | and Doxcas? |
A67744 | and against whom hast thou exalted thy self? |
A67744 | and all Gods former favours? |
A67744 | and art thou to give an account unto God, how thou hast husbanded thy Master''s Goods; and wil this be the bill of particulars thou hast to give up? |
A67744 | and as heartily and unsaignedly desire that thou maist never commit it, as that God should never impute it? |
A67744 | and bandy the dreadful Name of God, in their impure and polluted mouthes, by their bloody oaths and execrations? |
A67744 | and be themselves the greatest of sinners, then our Saviour to be in company with sinners? |
A67744 | and bring upon us a famine of Preaching, who would bring a famine upon the Preachers, by purloining the maintenance of his Ministers? |
A67744 | and can the high- way ground be good? |
A67744 | and count David a coward? |
A67744 | and disgrace that blood, whereof hereafter they would give a thousand worlds for one drop: How durst they tear Heaven with their blasphemies? |
A67744 | and dost thou say, nay, but hee will not extend his mercy unto mee, hee will have mee to perish, because I am a grievous sinner? |
A67744 | and everlasting life? |
A67744 | and glory that may eternally flourish? |
A67744 | and how am I served accordingly? |
A67744 | and how it brings the blessing of God upon all, or rather all Gods blessings upon him that is godly? |
A67744 | and how thankful should we strive to be? |
A67744 | and how thankful should we strive to be? |
A67744 | and impotent contentments of men, that place their happinesse in these things: will not this your fair Herodias, appear as a stigmatized Gipsie? |
A67744 | and in providing for them, neglect thy selfe? |
A67744 | and indeed i ● ● hey 〈 ◊ 〉 spiri ● ually discerned, how should they descern them 〈 … 〉 spirit? |
A67744 | and indeed, whom can you observe to lo ● this sin, or to have their mouths full of cursing? |
A67744 | and is he once inslaved to this sin? |
A67744 | and is it grievous to thee for the present? |
A67744 | and is it not fulfilled daily in our experience? |
A67744 | and more often named Him in thy Oaths and Curses, than in thy Prayers? |
A67744 | and much stronger in spiritual, then thou hast in respect of natural things? |
A67744 | and never give a reckoning for our wicked swearing and cursing? |
A67744 | and of Satans bondsla 〈 ◊ 〉 me the child of God, and a very sensible how evil and wicked it is? |
A67744 | and our Beds made to swim with our Bloods? |
A67744 | and shall bastards escape? |
A67744 | and shall be not shew mercy to the penitent? |
A67744 | and shall we do nothing for him again? |
A67744 | and shalt not to thou, a green Olivetree, in the house of God, planted beside the waters of comfort, bring forth this fruit of the Spirit? |
A67744 | and should we by our sins crucifie him again? |
A67744 | and should we by our sins crucifie him again? |
A67744 | and so shamefully undervalue the riches of the minde? |
A67744 | and that God esteems of Faith above all other graces, deeds, or acts of thine? |
A67744 | and the Angel, but Peter? |
A67744 | and the man''s carrying his bed; then in their own devouring of Widows houses? |
A67744 | and their flourishing estate in the world, which is but momentany and mutable, before the fruition of those joyes which are infinite and everlasting? |
A67744 | and to make the most poor and melancholy the richest and happiest men alive? |
A67744 | and what thou wilt do, or suffer for him, that hath done and suffered so much for thee? |
A67744 | and wherein do they differ? |
A67744 | and who more merry then they? |
A67744 | and who sings so merry a note, as hee that can not change a groat? |
A67744 | and who wil give streams of tears unto my Eyes, that I may bewail my self in this my sorrowful plight? |
A67744 | and why can I no ● thus solace my self while it is anothers? |
A67744 | and why should we not make every cogitation, speech, and action of ours, as so many steps to Heaven? |
A67744 | and why the prayers of the faithfull are so powerfull? |
A67744 | and would we be rid of him? |
A67744 | and wouldest not thou in thy need, be relieved? |
A67744 | and wouldst thou have it increased? |
A67744 | and yet they were delivered; Or is thy case worse than that of Ionas in the Sea, yea, in the Whales ● elly? |
A67744 | and your souls? |
A67744 | and ● herefore what hope of his yielding? |
A67744 | are not they arrant fools? |
A67744 | are the sinews of Love grown so feeble? |
A67744 | are they not besides your will? |
A67744 | are they not contrary to the current of your desires, and the main bent of your resolutions, and indeavours? |
A67744 | are they not fooles in folio? |
A67744 | are they not such as these? |
A67744 | are thy sins more and grea ● er? |
A67744 | are you wiser then all? |
A67744 | as David: others by friends? |
A67744 | as Eli: some, by enemies? |
A67744 | as Iob: others, in liberty? |
A67744 | as Ioseph: some, in body? |
A67744 | as Lazarus: others, in goods? |
A67744 | as Susanna was: others; in children? |
A67744 | as if the first lesson to be wise, were to be 〈 … 〉, If it be asked, Why the natural man perceiveth not the ● ings of the spirit of God? |
A67744 | as some stomacks rise at the sight of sweet meats: Why do all drunkards and vitious livers hate the religious? |
A67744 | as what did our Saviour answer, when the people asked him, What shall wee do that wee might work the works of God? |
A67744 | as why did God set Noah about building the Ark an hundred and twenty years, when a small time might have finished it? |
A67744 | be rewarded with the greatest evil, for the greatest good; and the greatest hatred, for the most superlative love? |
A67744 | bee performed it for us: were wee for disobedience subject to the sentence of condemnation, the curse of the Law, and death of body and soul? |
A67744 | but because they knew him not? |
A67744 | but do they also bring us to repentance, and amendment of life? |
A67744 | but even lavish and wherle away whole patrimonies; yea, most wickedly spend them in riot, and upon Dice, Drabs, Drunkenness? |
A67744 | but even lavish& when away whole patrimonies; yea, most wickedly spend them in riot, and up ● ● Dice, Drabs, Drunkenness? |
A67744 | but even) the least parcell of Gods Word into thy mouth? |
A67744 | but for the Word of God, and for the testimony which they maintained? |
A67744 | but how do we so, if we take not care for them, as we do for our selves? |
A67744 | but the superfluous and excessive love of money? |
A67744 | but they are grosly mistaken: for wherein does this their great wisdom consist? |
A67744 | but they that are most obeyed? |
A67744 | but this; when neither his silence, nor his flat denial could silence her? |
A67744 | but we may win our brother, and so save his soul? |
A67744 | but we may win our brother, and so save his soul? |
A67744 | but what if I passe over and fall not? |
A67744 | come they not hence? |
A67744 | could not Paul shew as much cunning as Tertullus? |
A67744 | does it not make you tremble? |
A67744 | doth hee deal thus with his Sons; what will hee do with his Slaves? |
A67744 | doth hee invite every one? |
A67744 | doth hee say I would have all men saved, and none to perish? |
A67744 | for their humble patience? |
A67744 | for this incorruptible Crown of Glory in Heaven? |
A67744 | hast thou not robb''d thy brother of his good name? |
A67744 | hath he done so much for us, and shall we denie him any thing that he requireth of us, though it were our lives, yea our souls; much more our lusts? |
A67744 | have so good cheer and banqueting, hear so great melody, joy and triumph? |
A67744 | hee was condemned for us, and bore the curse of the law; hee died in our stead an ignominious death; did wee deserve the anger of God? |
A67744 | how are they immerged in the horrors of a vulned conscience? |
A67744 | how can the world pleasure or honour you more? |
A67744 | how didst thou not bethink thy self? |
A67744 | how didst thou not remember? |
A67744 | how didst thou not understand? |
A67744 | how easily, and how quickly they become perfect Swearers, perfect Drunkards, cunning Deceivers,& c.? |
A67744 | how glorious and wonderfull is the Maker thereof, and the City where he keeps his Court? |
A67744 | how hath the Devil and my own deceitfull and devilish heart deluded me? |
A67744 | how long since had they been charmed? |
A67744 | how many a childe lesse beloved, because a religious childe? |
A67744 | how many a servant lesse respected, because a godly servant? |
A67744 | how many furious men by a rash bloodshed? |
A67744 | how many more by Satans injections? |
A67744 | how should the lamp burn, if you take away the holy oil that should maintain it? |
A67744 | how were it possible? |
A67744 | how will it end? |
A67744 | how wilt thou answer this before the Great, Just and Terrible Judge of all the World? |
A67744 | how would it charm their mouths, appale their spirits, strik ● fear and astonishment into their hearts? |
A67744 | how wouldest thou toss, and tumble, and turn from one side to another? |
A67744 | how wouldst thou endure wounds for him, yea how wouldst thou afford him thine ashes, and write patience with thine own blood? |
A67744 | if he was condemned that encreased not the sum concredited to him, what then shal become of him that lawlesly and lavishly spends and impaires it? |
A67744 | if hee do not answer us in every thing; shall wee take pleasure in nothing? |
A67744 | if not, what can? |
A67744 | if when a man reviles thee thou art impatient, how wouldest thou afford thy ashes to Christ, and write patience with thine own bloud? |
A67744 | in chambering and wantonness, surfeting and drunkenness, strife and envying, swearing, prophaneness, earthly- mindedness, and the like? |
A67744 | in what part of the Word finde you a warrant for it? |
A67744 | in whom there is nothing not amiable, comfortable, delectable? |
A67744 | is death to the godly no other then the Brazen Serpent to the Israelites? |
A67744 | is he bewitcht with the love of money? |
A67744 | is his heart rivited to the earth? |
A67744 | is not he a Fool? |
A67744 | is not this a good bargaine to part with vaine and uncertain things, to partake of real and durable riches? |
A67744 | is thy servant a dog? |
A67744 | killed? |
A67744 | like those enemies, Acts 17. lewd fellows of the baser sort? |
A67744 | men commonly say in necessitated sufferings, what remedy but patience? |
A67744 | much more thy tongue from worldly speeches? |
A67744 | not that there is a deficiency of power in the godly, but will: for could not David go as far as Achitophel? |
A67744 | of his Sabbaths? |
A67744 | or a Keeper to set it? |
A67744 | or a sort of vitious persons following their owne lusts? |
A67744 | or as men rejoyce when they divide a spoil? |
A67744 | or call them into question ▪ or ascribe them to thy self, or other helps? |
A67744 | or did he give thee Children, that thou mightest make them a Plea and Priviledge to neglect his Commandments, and thy duty and love to Christ? |
A67744 | or do we what we are able for him again? |
A67744 | or doth Satan onely tell thee so? |
A67744 | or had we not more cause to be filled with joy and thankefullnesse, that we our selves are in better case? |
A67744 | or how great soever they bee? |
A67744 | or how long soever they continue? |
A67744 | or how should the stream flow and the fountain and well ● ead be dried up? |
A67744 | or how should they not preferre temporal things, before coelestial and eternal? |
A67744 | or if a Mastiff had bitten me, would you have me go to Law with him? |
A67744 | or in the least love God and my Neighbour? |
A67744 | or reason to them that will stop their Ears from hearing it? |
A67744 | or that light from whence it receives its light? |
A67744 | or the happier for being lift up the ladder, when he was to come down again with a rope? |
A67744 | or to remember, that thy children ruffle it out in worldly wealth, and superfluous abundance? |
A67744 | or what good hath our riches and our vaunting brought us? |
A67744 | or what good have I omitted or intermitted? |
A67744 | or what is a flood, but a concurrence of many little drops? |
A67744 | or what is salvation to us? |
A67744 | or what is salvation to us? |
A67744 | or what receiveth he at our hands? |
A67744 | or when did God require this of his servants? |
A67744 | or who will be angry with a Dogge for barking? |
A67744 | or would we indeed expresse our thankfulnesse to him, for what we have received from him? |
A67744 | or, as Simon Magus was christened for company? |
A67744 | or, had he cause to repent himself? |
A67744 | or, is it not more for fear of the Law, then for love of the Gospel? |
A67744 | perswade them that giving away their goods, is the way to increase them? |
A67744 | presenting to the affections things absent from the sences? |
A67744 | shall to- days Ague, make us forget yesterdays health? |
A67744 | shall we most spightfully and maliciously fight on Satans side against him with all our might, and that against knowledge and conscience? |
A67744 | shall we receive good at the hand of God, and not receive evil? |
A67744 | sixteen hundred years are now past, since they wished themselves thus wretched; and have they not ever since, been the hate, and scorne of the world? |
A67744 | slay them? |
A67744 | so he will say to them in the matter of suffering, Have ye suffered in love and obedience to me, and my word? |
A67744 | so many Drunkards& sensnal Wretches; so many ung ● dly prayerless Familyes among us, as there are? |
A67744 | so say I to thee: Dost thou grudge to suffer with thy Saviour? |
A67744 | so when we suffer, our question should be, What have we done? |
A67744 | such a 〈 ◊ 〉 why doest thou persecute me? |
A67744 | than Mary Magdalen, a common strumpet; possest of many Devills? |
A67744 | than Paul, a bloody persecutor of Christ and his Church? |
A67744 | than the Theef upon the Cross, who had spent his whole life to the last hour in abominable wickedness? |
A67744 | than the smell of the latter, what more noysome? |
A67744 | that hast beaten the poor to pieces, and ground their faces? |
A67744 | that have been openly prophane, and notoriously wicked all my time? |
A67744 | that he may be content, and satisfied therewith, How should God bestow this great blessing of contentation upon him, and a true use of his riches? |
A67744 | that he would have saved us? |
A67744 | that hee was able to say, Though I should walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evill: Why? |
A67744 | that our eares should be alwayes open to the Temp ● er, shut to our Maker and Redeemer? |
A67744 | that so thou maist have a more humble conceit of thy self? |
A67744 | that the eternal God would die, to redeem our worse then lost souls; that we might not die eternally? |
A67744 | that whatsoever he spake with his mouth, yet he thought no ill in his heart? |
A67744 | the Angels and Saints our Consorts, and Companions? |
A67744 | the Holy Ghost our Comforter? |
A67744 | the Presence Chamber of the great Monarch of Heaven and 〈 ◊ 〉 what then may we think of the Maker and Builder thereof? |
A67744 | the blind their fight? |
A67744 | the one Christs friends, the other his enemies? |
A67744 | the one children of light, and of the day, the other blinde and in darknesse? |
A67744 | the one of this world, the other chosen out of it? |
A67744 | the torments of Hell so wofull and dolo ● ous? |
A67744 | the wisdome of Achitophel into folly? |
A67744 | the wisdome of Jezabel, into a shameful death? |
A67744 | the wisdome of Nimrod into confusion? |
A67744 | the wisdome of the Pharisees into a woe? |
A67744 | the wisdome of the unjust Steward into expulsion out of Heaven? |
A67744 | then we may conquer Carthage and Affrica; and what then said Cineas? |
A67744 | then we will attempt Cicile, and what then? |
A67744 | this divine and supernatural wisdom? |
A67744 | this heavie yoake of bondage? |
A67744 | this tedious affliction? |
A67744 | those delights and pleasures, that are reserved for the glorified Saints, and Gods dearest darlings in Heaven? |
A67744 | though by a most unworthy and insufficient Instrument? |
A67744 | thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods? |
A67744 | to assist us, and prevent our enemies; and is not he able enough to vindicate all our wrongs? |
A67744 | to be affected with joy in hearing the Word, and practice many things, with Herod? |
A67744 | to be zealous against sin, with Iehu? |
A67744 | to confess thy sins, and desire the people of God to pray for thee with Pharoah? |
A67744 | to forsake the world and all thy hopes in it; to follow poor Christ, as Demas and others? |
A67744 | to have the theory,& be able to prattle of wisdom by rote; yet not know what it is by effect and experience? |
A67744 | to search out the cause ● f ● f many effects, and let pass the consideration of the principal, and most necessary? |
A67744 | to see themselves no Nation? |
A67744 | to the hardning of many in their Atheism, and Unbelief: For what should hinder? |
A67744 | to venture thy life with Alexander the Copper- smith, in cleaving to the truth? |
A67744 | what am I now about? |
A67744 | what better can be expected from them? |
A67744 | what do they indure? |
A67744 | what greater incouragement? |
A67744 | what is a 〈 … 〉 mented in that flame: what think we shall that torment be, when body and soul come to be united in torment? |
A67744 | what is heaven to us? |
A67744 | what is there to be done for thee? |
A67744 | what makes them judge Iob a fool? |
A67744 | what manner of persons ought we to be, in all holy conversation and godlinesse? |
A67744 | what peace between the Believer and the Infidel? |
A67744 | what pleasure shall we take in the company of Saints and Angels? |
A67744 | what will become of me if I go on? |
A67744 | when by seeking unlawfull gain, they lost both what they got, and themselves too? |
A67744 | when did we give without hypocrisie? |
A67744 | when did we hear without wearysomness? |
A67744 | when did we reprove without anger, or envy? |
A67744 | when did wee bargain without deceit? |
A67744 | when did wee pray without tediousness? |
A67744 | when hee was thrown into a Pit, and left hopeless; or when sold to the Ishmaelitish Merchants, and then cast into prison? |
A67744 | when they might as well say, What is Christ to us? |
A67744 | when they shall receive a multiplicity of torments, according to the multiplicity o ● their cruel and unconscionable deeds? |
A67744 | when this your malice is a sure token to you of perdition, but to me of salvation? |
A67744 | where are those torments which whilome thou didst so threaten me withall? |
A67744 | where no thief comes, where no Plunderer comes, where no rust comes: Is there any place like that? |
A67744 | wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? |
A67744 | whether will this course tend? |
A67744 | which told him, that God was his enemy, and knew no other then that hell should be his everlasting portion? |
A67744 | who Adam- like, will receive what- ever comes, or is offered them? |
A67744 | who can sufficiently expresse thy love? |
A67744 | who findes not in himself, an indisposition of minde to all good, and an inclination to all evil? |
A67744 | who finds not in himself an indisposition of mind to all good, and an inclination to all evill? |
A67744 | who helped to burn Bradford but Bourn, whose life he had formerly saved? |
A67744 | who is the life of our lives, and soul of our souls? |
A67744 | who liveth by Faith, rather then by Sence: For by how many secret passages can God conveigh unto thee the reward of thy Alms- deeds? |
A67744 | who made Serena the Empress a Martyr, for her faith in Christ, but her own husband Dioclesian? |
A67744 | who scoft at righteou 〈 … 〉 hara put to death, for imbracing the Christian faith, but by her own Father Dioscorus? |
A67744 | who thought Mordecaies not bowing the knee to him, a more heynous offence, then his own murthering of thousands? |
A67744 | who thought they might better murther Christ, then others believe in him? |
A67744 | why doth he permit so many, and such notorious crimes? |
A67744 | why doth he punish the innocent, and acquit the peccant? |
A67744 | why is he so severe towards his own; so gentle to others? |
A67744 | why then should you give your self over, where your Physitian doth not? |
A67744 | will he make you all Captaines over thousands? |
A67744 | willingly to part with a good part of thy goods, with Ananias? |
A67744 | with the everlasting burning? |
A67744 | would you be rich indeed, and that both here and hereafter? |
A67744 | wouldst thou be spoken for to the King, or to the Captain of the Host? |
A67744 | ye ● God sayes, lend, clothe, feed, harbor; The devil and Mammon, say, take, gather, extort, oppress, spoil; whether of these are our gods? |
A67744 | yea did woo us to accept of salvation; saying, Turn ye; turn ye, from your evil ways: for why will you die, ô people of England? |
A67744 | yea, how can wee look for other at thine hands, then great and grievous, yea, then double damnation? |
A67744 | yea, is it not enough to make you despair of ever finding mercy at the Throne of Grace, or of having Christ your Redeemer and Advocate? |
A67744 | yea, since we love darkness more then light, may not God justly leave us in the dark? |
A67744 | yea, what have we done in the same kinde? |
A67744 | yo ● one minutes t ● ● ch of a tooth pulling out, so unsufferable? |
A67744 | ô Son of God, who can sufficiently express thy love? |
A67744 | ● ● and experience shows that thousands in these dayes do so; and why di ● Soul make havock of the Church? |
A67744 | 〈 … 〉 do these great clusters of grapes signifie, but the fertility of 〈 … 〉 Land of Promise? |
A67744 | 〈 … 〉 unsent? |