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A66704 | A stout reason indeed? |
A46993 | Doth not God say to the wicked Drunkard, Thou shalt surely die, when he shews him a Drunkard struck dead suddenly? |
A46993 | How many have drunk Ale so long, until they have been forced to sell Ale for a Livelyhood? |
A46993 | Thirdly, Consider what a wasting Sin Drunkenness is? |
A46993 | Would you not have the Iudgments of God to Cut you off in your Sins, and to stop your Breath, before you have time to ask Pardon? |
A46993 | the Drunkard consumes, that Money on his Vice, which should maintain his Family, and how many good Estates have been wasted by this Sin? |
A25262 | How Penitent, and Crop- sick, have I seen a Spark, after a Debauch? |
A25262 | Then of the sob''rest in the Room,( Tho''ev''ry Man was purely overcome,) I askt th''occasion, how this Quarrel rose? |
A25262 | Why will you tempt me thus? |
A25262 | — And with a Glass, Fit by the Race of Gyants, to be quaft: Think you a Pint can be a Friendly Draught? |
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? |
A87472 | A little Dish, and a large Coffee- house, What is it, but a Mountain and a Mouse? |
A87472 | Admitting then, and not confessing, that the use thereof were healthful for some sorts of Diseases, should it be used for all Sicknesses? |
A87472 | And are not all English- men engaged in the Ship of the Kingdom, or Common- wealth of England? |
A87472 | And is it not just with God, that he who will put out his natural light, should have his spiritual extinguished? |
A87472 | And then to whom are Wounds, broken Heads, blue Eyes, maimed Limbs? |
A87472 | And verily next under the word of God, which is Omnipotent, how potent and wonder- working is the Word of a King? |
A87472 | And what can be more horrible then to die in the act of a Sin, without the act of Repentance? |
A87472 | And what is impossible to the work of his Grace? |
A87472 | And( to conclude) is it not, to the Devil, Most pleasing, pleasing so( most) the most evil? |
A87472 | Another man on Whitson- Eve I saw so sadly drunk, he could neither go nor stand, but sate down on a Door- stone, I asked him, Where he had been? |
A87472 | But now the question may be asked; Why is not Drunkenness usually mortal? |
A87472 | But to cure Drunkards it has got great Fame; Posset or Porrige, will''t not do the same? |
A87472 | But what is there no help nor hope, no Amulet, Antidote or Triacle, are there no Presidents found of Recovery? |
A87472 | But what seest thou? |
A87472 | Can London ever forget those sad and lamentable consuming Flames, that brake forth the Second of September, 1666? |
A87472 | Doth not England match any of her Enemies in Sins and Provocations, namely Drunkenness? |
A87472 | Had we no other Sin reigning but this( which can not reign alone) will not God justly spue us out of his mouth for this alone? |
A87472 | How long ye simple Ones will ye love sumplicity? |
A87472 | If Vertue hate it, is it not unholy? |
A87472 | If men of worth, and minds right generous, Discard it, scorn it, is''t not scandalous? |
A87472 | If the Lion roar, what Beast of the Forest shall not tremble and hide their head? |
A87472 | If this go on, what shall become of us in time? |
A87472 | If woe be to single Drunkards, is not a National woe to be feared and expected of a Nation over- run with Drunkenness? |
A87472 | Is it not the part of an honest true English- man to help to save this Ship, by lightening its burden, and casting these bad Commodities over- board? |
A87472 | Lastly, if all delights of all Mankind Be vanity, vexation of the Mind, All under Sun, must not Tobacco bee, Of Vanities, the vainest Vanity? |
A87472 | Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628- 1699? |
A87472 | Or hath a Spirit of slumber put out thine Eyes? |
A87472 | SEer, art thou also blind? |
A87472 | So is not this the very case of all the great takers of Tobacco, which therefore they themselves do attribute to a bewitching quality in it? |
A87472 | Sure Coffee''s vext he has the breeches lost, For she''s above, and he lies undermost; What shall I add but this? |
A87472 | To whom is Woe? |
A87472 | To whom is woe? |
A87472 | Up and Arise, lift up thy Voice, spare not, and cry aloud? |
A87472 | Up to thy Watch- Tower, what descriest thou? |
A87472 | Watchman, art thou also drunk, or asleep? |
A87472 | What caused God to rain down Fire and Brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah, but their Sins of Pride, Idleness, and fulness of Bread? |
A87472 | What difference is there between sickness and drunkenness? |
A87472 | What hear I? |
A87472 | What shall I cry? |
A87472 | What speak I of Medicine? |
A87472 | What then, take we pleasure in thundering out Hell against Drunkards? |
A87472 | Who smites upon his Thigh? |
A87472 | and ye Scorners delight in scorning, and Fools hate Knowledge? |
A87472 | is there nothing but death and damnation to Drunkards? |
A87472 | should it be used at all times? |
A87472 | should it be used by all men? |
A87472 | to whom is Sorrow? |
A87472 | to whom is Strife? |
A87472 | what Vice so predominant which these subdue not? |
A87472 | what end or number is there of the Vanities which mine Eyes are weary of beholding? |
A87472 | when both meet as the Sun, and some good Star in a benigne Conjunction; what Enemy shall stand before the Sword of God and Gideon? |
A87472 | who saith, what have I done? |
A87472 | why praise they not his name For hoped good, and good had by this same? |
A87472 | yea, should it be used by able, young, strong, healthful men? |
A87056 | Are you Christians or Infidels? |
A87056 | Can there be no medium in your mirth and chearfull repasts, below this sinne of Dishonour, Beastly, and Debaucht behaviour? |
A87056 | Do you professe to worship God, or Mahomet? |
A87056 | Do you think you have no souls to save, nor to lose? |
A87056 | How can you be saved if you will not come unto him that you may have life? |
A87056 | How canst thou call on the Name of that God in the time of calamity and distresse, which thou hast so often cursed and blasphemed? |
A87056 | How canst thou expect that blood to expiate thy sins, and to wash away thy iniquities, that hath so often spit his blood and wounds out of thy mouth? |
A87056 | How sad would it be to us, if we heard the sad cryes in Torment? |
A87056 | How shall you believe on him of whom you have not heard? |
A87056 | If such a judgment be threatned against such as keep not this day; what must be the fearful looking for of Judgment by the profaners of it? |
A87056 | In the morning he set out, and not yet out of the Tovvnes end, one met him, and said, What David, to day, to day? |
A87056 | Is it not a sad thing, to see men drown body and soul together? |
A87056 | Is not the Lords Name as the Apple of his ● e? |
A87056 | Is not this a sad case to be in a Christian Common- wealth? |
A87056 | Is refraining from labour a toil to us? |
A87056 | Is to be eased of sin a burden? |
A87056 | It must be presumed, thou knowest ● to be a sin; How inexcusable then ● st it be unto thee, whose consci ● ● ce is convinced thereof? |
A87056 | Jesus said, Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all Galileans, because they suffered such things? |
A87056 | Lord then let me be burdened? |
A87056 | May I not wish, that Drunken ● esse were a sin rare in the Island of Britain? |
A87056 | Or canst thou expect any blessing upon thy outward estate, when it is in the power of God to dispose of life, being, health, estate, and all? |
A87056 | Seneca Who hath woe? |
A87056 | Shall a Trumpet be blowne in the City, and the people not be afraid? |
A87056 | These are sad examples of Gods Severity and Justice, Who can stand before a consuming fire? |
A87056 | What art thou guilty of that occasions this sin? |
A87056 | What if some have no other living? |
A87056 | What is a more unspeakable mercy, than for souls to have communion with God, as well as our own hearts? |
A87056 | What profit have you of those things wherein one day you shall be ashamed? |
A87056 | What zeal was here in Heathens against this odious sin? |
A87056 | Who hath sorrow ● who hath contention? |
A87056 | Who will not say this was a sad and immediate hand of the Lord? |
A87056 | Would not such ingratitude look odious in vulgar friendship? |
A87056 | how can you hear without a Preacher? |
A87056 | how many destroyed by ● violent death? |
A87056 | is it not the worst of judgements? |
A87056 | let them be examples to you; will not the wrath of God revealed stand in our way, and encompasse us about with terrour and fear? |
A87056 | that at night Gods protection should leave us, as in our graves, when we are in our beds? |
A87056 | the question is, can they live no otherwise, than by making men drunk? |
A87056 | what need then to strike at the root of iniquity? |
A87056 | which is accompanied with so great tokens of Gods sore displeasure? |
A87056 | who would not dread the Issue? |
A87056 | who wound without cure? |
A87056 | will not the Patience, Goodnesse, and Long- suffering of God, lead us to repentance? |
A87056 | would not this swell provocation to the greatest latitude of revenge? |
A67662 | & c. Who hath wo? |
A67662 | 29, 30. Who hath Bablings? |
A67662 | 29, 30. Who hath Woe? |
A67662 | And doest thou like a dumb Dog hold thy peace at these things? |
A67662 | And how can the Sea but boyl, when all the foul Spirits are blowing up a flame underneath? |
A67662 | And what is impossible to the work of his Grace? |
A67662 | And why not Eat his Health, rather than Drink it? |
A67662 | Are these praying postures? |
A67662 | Are you( said he) the person that committed the murther upon the maid at Ratcliff? |
A67662 | But now the question will rise, For whose sins? |
A67662 | But what seest thou? |
A67662 | Did God ever command, or his People ever apply to the Throne in this manner of Address? |
A67662 | Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should return from his wayes and live? |
A67662 | Have men lived to this age, and can not yet distinguish between drinking intemperately and praying fervently? |
A67662 | He answered, that he had: they enquired the grounds of his hopes? |
A67662 | He said, Yes: And did you not murther your fellow- servant? |
A67662 | He said, Yes: O what think you of your condition? |
A67662 | How can any man drink anothers Health? |
A67662 | I fear you will dye, and then what will become of you? |
A67662 | In the end it will bite like a Serpent, and sting like a Cockatrice He begins thus: SEer, art thou also blind? |
A67662 | No, he knew not any: And yet did he hope to be saved? |
A67662 | Oh but there are few good Wits, or great Spirits now a days, but will Pot it a little for company, What hear I? |
A67662 | Or by what new kind of Transubstantiation can his Health be converted into a glass of Liquor? |
A67662 | Or hath a Spirit of slumber put out thine Eyes? |
A67662 | Satan calls for: Would he have a Swearer? |
A67662 | Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? |
A67662 | The next time he asked him, whether he were sorry for the Fact? |
A67662 | Then they asked him, whether he had any hopes of escaping this dreadful punishment of Hell? |
A67662 | They asked him if he knew what Hell was? |
A67662 | They asked him, whether he thought his Repentance could procure for him a Pardon? |
A67662 | They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick: they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? |
A67662 | To whom is Strife? |
A67662 | To whom is Woe? |
A67662 | Up and Arise, lift up thy Voice, spare not, and cry aloud? |
A67662 | Up to thy Watch- Tower, what descriest thou? |
A67662 | Watchman, art thou also drunk, or asleep? |
A67662 | What a Beast was Marcus Antonius, that he wrote a book in Commendation of his great strength to bear strong drink? |
A67662 | What difference is there between sickness and drunkenness? |
A67662 | What do you think will become of your precious Soul? |
A67662 | What hast thou to do to take his Name in thy Mouth, when thou hatest to be reformed? |
A67662 | What shall I cry? |
A67662 | What, know you not that your Body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you? |
A67662 | Wherefore doth the Wicked contemn God? |
A67662 | Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? |
A67662 | and for what sins? |
A67662 | and pacifying his anger that was kindled against him? |
A67662 | and what is now to be done? |
A67662 | give him a Provocation, and there he is: An Adulterer? |
A67662 | or did you see but a Spider in the Glass, would you, or durst you carouse it off? |
A67662 | or did you think that some Caesar Borgia, or Brasutus had tempered the Cup? |
A67662 | to whom is Sorrow? |
A67662 | to whom is Strife,& c? |
A67662 | what end or number is there of the Vanities which mine Eyes are weary of beholding? |
A67662 | what''s the man the better, to have his health drank into my Body, and then piss''d out again against the walls? |
A67662 | who hath Bablings? |
A67662 | who hath Contentions? |
A67662 | who hath Sorrow? |
A67662 | who hath Sorrow? |
A67662 | who hath babling? |
A67662 | who hath contentions? |
A67662 | who hath redness of Eyes? |
A67662 | who hath redness of eyes? |
A67662 | who hath wounds without cause? |
A67662 | who hath wounds without cause? |
A67662 | wilt thou account him thy Friend, or good Fellow, that draws thee into his company, that he may poyson thee? |
A67662 | — I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain? |
A30674 | ( and why so?) |
A30674 | ( why what is the event?) |
A30674 | And I fear that most Drunkards are guilty of many of these: What now can you say for your selves, why this is not your portion? |
A30674 | And is it any wonder if men learn worse words in a worse School? |
A30674 | Are you stronger than he, if not, why do you take up weapons of defence against him? |
A30674 | But I must do as others do, or I shall be mockt, scorned, and had in derision; should I refuse their healths, what would they think of me? |
A30674 | Can an ingenious Child here his Father abused and hold his Peace? |
A30674 | Can the Devil or your Pot- companions better reward you? |
A30674 | Can they defend you from the dreadful judgments of a sin revenging God; can they secure you under the shadow of their wings? |
A30674 | Can those men lay down their lives for Christ, that can not deny their sensual Appetite? |
A30674 | Can you hear the name of God Blaspemed, his Children abused, strict Holiness which is Gods Image derided, and hold your Peace? |
A30674 | Do not you throw down with the one hand what you build with the other? |
A30674 | Doth God speak in earnest or in jest? |
A30674 | God will avenge the quarrel of his Covenant; and where are you then? |
A30674 | He that will break one Command knowingly, what should restrain him from the breach of another, which Nature doth every way as much incline men to? |
A30674 | How can you say to your Brother, Let me pluck out the mote out of thy eye, when you have a beam in your own? |
A30674 | How doth this sadden the hearts of the godly, and fill their faces with shame? |
A30674 | How is Religion loaded with aspersions, as if there were no real difference between the godly and the wicked? |
A30674 | How many beautiful comly Faces, both of Men and Women are thus spoiled? |
A30674 | How much might you promote Religion and Gods interest in your neighbourhood, were your life and conversation exemplary? |
A30674 | If Religion be not good, why did you profess it; if it be, why do you not practice it? |
A30674 | If not, how dare you provoke this God? |
A30674 | If so, what a woful condition are Drunkards in? |
A30674 | Is there any thing in religion that causeth you to forsake it, or hath God ever given you any cause? |
A30674 | Nay, do you not rather boast of it? |
A30674 | Nay, they were not ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore they shall fall amongst them that fall,& c. Is not this your condition? |
A30674 | Nay, what calling is that man fit for in this condition? |
A30674 | Now what pleasure can a man take in such Company? |
A30674 | Oh Eternity, Eternity, how shall we conceive of thee, how shall we number thee? |
A30674 | Or doth Religion teach you such courses? |
A30674 | Testifie against him, hath he been a barren wilderness to you? |
A30674 | The world hates you because of your profession, and will you make God hate you for your Hypocrisie? |
A30674 | To whom( saith Solomon) is redness of eyes? |
A30674 | Was it ever known that a Debaucht Drunkard ever suffered for him? |
A30674 | Was there ever any hardened himself against God and prospered? |
A30674 | Were a Malefactor going to Execution; and laught at you that you would not bear him company; would this move you so to do? |
A30674 | Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? |
A30674 | What a discouragement is it to an Army, when a chief champion not only turns his back, but revolts to the enemy? |
A30674 | What account will you give of this to God at last, what iniquity have you found in him, that you are departed from him? |
A30674 | What cause hath God given you to do thus? |
A30674 | What will he Pray for? |
A30674 | Who can think that you believe there is indeed such a deformity in sin, and such a beauty in holiness, that observes your life and conversation? |
A30674 | Who is it that will mock you for keeping the Commands of God? |
A30674 | Who will not think you do not believe your own words? |
A30674 | Why may not I do as the Penitent Thief did? |
A30674 | Will he not call them to an account at last? |
A30674 | Will he suffer you to do the Devils work all day, and receive his wages at night? |
A30674 | Will not the Lord visit for these things; and will not his soul be avenged on such a people as this? |
A30674 | Will you venture for their love to have Gods hatred, and to go to Hell to bear them company? |
A30674 | Would you reconcile God and the World, it will never be; or would you have your good things both here and hereafter? |
A30674 | and all this is nothing to you when it is daily done in your company, and are not you guilty of the many Acts of Drunkenness? |
A30674 | and had you rather be hearing swearing, cursing, and blaspheming than prayers, or praises unto God? |
A30674 | but what is this to Eternity? |
A30674 | can he Pray? |
A30674 | for the Pardon of that Sin he never intends to leave, and for those Graces he never intends to act or exercise, or can he hear, or read, or meditate? |
A30674 | how he vomits? |
A30674 | if they imagin it will bring them as much or more Pleasure than it, what should keep them in awe? |
A30674 | nay, where do you see one that is much addicted to this vice, but there is a sensible decay in his Estate? |
A30674 | or can he be a guide, that goes himself so far out of the way? |
A30674 | or can he, or will he make good his threatnings? |
A30674 | or hinder the Devils work which they design to promote? |
A30674 | or how can any man void of Reason rule his Children, Servants, or any under his charge, when he is made a Beast and Drink rules him? |
A30674 | or, how can they take Gods part when they themselves are his sworn Enemies? |
A30674 | set on fire, and bedecked with Pearls and Rubies, Pimples, Pushes, and rough and rugged Skin? |
A30674 | what can he do? |
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? |