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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A47046 | Who is he, that overcometh the world, But he that believeth, that Iesus is the Son of God? |
A47046 | can onely be meant, what, or where are the points, articles or Propositions, that are fundamentall in the faith of the Church? |
A29993 | But to proceed a little further, the Question being, Whether it be more probable, that the World, or that God Almighty has been from all Eternity? |
A28945 | whether the Caelestial Orbs are mov''d by Intelligences? |
A45703 | And after that when they were beaten, and commanded not to preach any more in the name of Iesus, what did the Apostles do, did they obey? |
A45703 | Dives he thought himself altogether happy when he enjoyed the world at will, when he fared deliciously every day; but what did this profit Dives? |
A45703 | If Christ crucified be so lovely, how unspeakable lovely then is Christ in Glory? |
A45703 | If judgment thus begin at the house of God, what then shall be the end of sinners? |
A45703 | If the righteous be thus scarcely saved, where then shall the sinner and ungodly appear? |
A45703 | and then see if there be any thing gotten by sin: What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? |
A67397 | ( For, what else is Inherent Righteousness?) |
A67397 | And I would Ask those Men who choose to speak otherwise; Whether they think that, beside Justification, there is such a thing as Sanctification? |
A67397 | But you will say, If we be Justified( as our Church tells us) by Faith onely; what need is there of Holyness, or a Godly Life? |
A67397 | Now, That we are Sanctified by Holyness, no man denies: But is it by Holyness therefore that we are Justified? |
A67397 | What shall we say then? |
A67397 | Why doth the living man Complain? |
A67397 | and, all the Graces of Gods Spirit? |
A59551 | But how is this to be come by? |
A59551 | But why should they pin their Faith upon any Book in the world? |
A59551 | Had not the Christian Religion been true, how could these things have ever come to pass? |
A59551 | Taking now all this together, can any thing like it be said for the Truth or the Authority of any other Book in the world? |
A59551 | Well, but how shall we know whether these Scriptures be faithfully transmitted down to us? |
A59551 | Well, but supposing these men to be the Authors of these Writings; yet how can we depend upon the Truth of what they have Reported? |
A59551 | Where now was the temptation to the generality of men, to own this Man as a Prophet sent from God to Mankind? |
A30834 | ( yea assuredly, by living experience can my Soul say) and is not the Earth the Lord''s, and the fulness thereof? |
A30834 | 22th, having spoken largly of the Fruits and Effects of Faith, saith he, What shall I more say? |
A30834 | And Christ saith, Which of you by taking thought can add one Cubit to your Stature? |
A30834 | And can not he take and give according to his Good Will and Pleasure? |
A30834 | And is not he that is all- sufficient for the Soul, sufficient for the Body also? |
A30834 | And must not he be relied upon, through Christ his Son our Lord, for the Salvation thereof? |
A30834 | Or how shall my Wife and Children be maintained? |
A30834 | Or my Business carryed on? |
A30834 | is not God Almighty All- sufficient for the Soul? |
A30834 | what is too hard, for those that are of and in this true and saving Faith? |
A60586 | Besides, what greater obligation to Obedience can there possible be, than the Revelation of this Mystery, upon which our Salvation is founded? |
A60586 | But how irrational was the demand of both? |
A60586 | For that God may do this, who can question? |
A60586 | If there were no difficulty in the notions, where were that Obedience of Faith, the Apostle St. Paul mentions? |
A60586 | In the case of the blind man, who was restored to his sight, the doubt was rational, How can a man, that is a sinner do such miracles? |
A60586 | Indignum est summo Deo esse testem, inio coram quo judice testis foret? |
A60586 | where would be our submission and humility? |
A41030 | And will these mockers ask in scorn where is this promise of his coming? |
A41030 | But what shall we say of those, who have introduc''d this way of fight into the Christian Warfare? |
A41030 | Have they debated calmly with themselves what death is, how many unwelcome circumstances are hudled up in that short word? |
A41030 | Moreover since in all things else they disbelieve Almighty God, why should they credit him in this? |
A41030 | Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolv''d, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness? |
A41030 | There shall come in the last daies scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of his coming? |
A41030 | Tho alas, what great proof is it of wit, to make others laugh? |
A41030 | Will they find arguments of mockery and laughter, in the place of weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth? |
A41030 | or if they will let him be veracious in this one instance, how are they sure he meant in earnest what he spoke, and did not rally, as they love to do? |
A41030 | tho the Fathers are faln asleep, do they hope by a peculiar privilege to continue still, and reverse the general law of the Creation? |
A53931 | Also whi wrote not ech Apostle as wel as summe? |
A53931 | Also whi wroten not thei to ech Cuntre? |
A53931 | For from whence shall this Tradition be received? |
A53931 | From all Christians, or only from the Clergy? |
A53931 | From whom must we learn the Belief of the Universal Church, if Popes and Councils be rejected? |
A53931 | From whom the opinion of the major part is to be received? |
A53931 | If from the later, whether the assent of every member of the Clergy be required? |
A53931 | If from the latter, whether it be sufficient to hear one or a few Parish Priests, or all, or at least the major number are personally to be consulted? |
A53931 | If not, how great a part may safely dissent from the rest? |
A53931 | Pecock, Reginald, 1395?-1460? |
A53931 | Pecock, Reginald, 1395?-1460? |
A53931 | What Councils, whether Oecumenical, Patriarchal or Provincial may be securely trusted? |
A53931 | What are the necessary Conditions and Qualifications of a General Council? |
A53931 | What these Councils are, what they have defined, what is the true sense and intention of their Definitions? |
A53931 | Whether all these Conditions were ever observed in any Council? |
A53931 | Whether from the Writings of Doctors, or the teaching of living Pastors? |
A53931 | from a Pope, or a Council, or both, or from none of these, but only the Universal Church? |
A53931 | what maist thou loke aftir eny more? |
A42464 | I had confuted some of his points, what points, or point? |
A42464 | What aspersions? |
A42464 | Whether God doth chasten a beleever for sin? |
A42464 | Whether Peters person sinned in denying Christ; or his flesh only? |
A42464 | Whether a Christian ought to afflict his soul, with sorrow for sin, in a day of humiliation, and whether it be sin to sorrow for sinne? |
A42464 | Whether a beleever be as well pleasing to God, in the act of adultery, or murder, as before? |
A42464 | Whether a beleever be bound to conform his life to the morall Law; because God in that Law requires it? |
A42464 | Whether a beleever in sinning, breaks any morall Law? |
A42464 | Whether a beleever in the act of adultery, or murder, may enjoy as sweet communion with God, as in the performance of any holy duty? |
A42464 | Whether a beleever may make threatnings a motive to deterre him from sin; and the promises a motive to encourage him to duty? |
A42464 | Whether he that maketh the Law his Rule; be a Papist in heart, whatever he be in practise? |
A42464 | Whether the Law be a Rule, by which unbeleevers shall be condemned, and not a Rule, by which they ought to walk? |
A42464 | Whether the morall Law did oblige a beleeving Iew to obedience? |
A42464 | Whether the morall Law doth now, as strongly oblige a beleeving Christian to obedience? |
A42464 | Whether there ought to be dayes of fasting and humiliation appointed under the Gospell? |
A42464 | Whether when Peter wept bitterly for denying Christ, he did it out of weaknesse of faith, or duty to God? |
A42464 | and did he hold, and teach the contrary? |
A42464 | or who is able to say, that I ever railed upon you, either in publique, or in private? |
A42464 | or why do you not produce them; or point, at least, to the places, where they are to be found? |
A42464 | why those? |
A64357 | And whether the marks of the True Church do only belong unto the Roman? |
A64357 | And will it not cut as well on the other side, and do Execution against the words, of Fathers and Councils, and the Apostolical Creed it self? |
A64357 | And, if the Roman Church falsifyeth written Tradition, how shall we trust her for Oral? |
A64357 | But is not this Argument two- edged? |
A64357 | But, if the Scriptures were so obscure in necessary matters, what remedy would be administred by the Roman Church? |
A64357 | By what rule was Ebion judged before the Council of Nice? |
A64357 | How doth it give us the sense of the Ancients, when it owneth what it formerly disowned as Canonical, the Epistle to the Hebrews †? |
A64357 | If these were such Guides, what Guided the Church which was before them? |
A64357 | The Case of mixt Communion: Whether it be Lawful to Separate from a Church upon the account of promiscuous Congregations and mixt Communions? |
A64357 | Their Question therefore[ Where was your Religion before Luther?] |
A64357 | What Men or what Books speak the sense of that Church? |
A64357 | What is the Roman Church? |
A64357 | When it now rejecteth the Communicating of Infants which, in former times, was esteemed by many a very necessary point? |
A64357 | When it taketh away the Cup which Pope Gelasius called a grand Sacrilege*? |
A64357 | When perverse Men will raise such Controversies, who is so fit, for Peace sake, to interpose, as that Church where the Flame is kindled? |
A64357 | is not more pertinent amongst Disputers than this is amongst Husbandmen,[ Where was the Corn before it was weeded?] |
A53700 | Bring himself unto an Unconcernment, what becomes of it? |
A53700 | Can you not Pray? |
A53700 | Do you find a secret Joy in your Hearts, upon the Satisfaction you take in the proposal of this way unto you by the Gospel? |
A53700 | Doth the Glory of God in any measure shine forth unto you in the Face of Jesus Christ? |
A53700 | HERE then lieth the Enquiry, namely, How these two prevalent Desires may be reconciled and satisfied in the same Mind? |
A53700 | HOW doth saving Faith approve of this way? |
A53700 | Is any afflicted? |
A53700 | OUR next Enquiry is, what is that Approbation of this way of Holiness which we place as an Evidence of saving Faith? |
A53700 | Shall he then desire that God may part with and lose his Glory, so as that one way or other he may be saved? |
A53700 | The design of this ensuing Treatise is to resolve this great Question, Whether the Faith we profess unto, be true or no? |
A53700 | WHICH of these Desires shall the Sinner cleave unto, unto whether of them shall it give the Preheminence? |
A53700 | What is the way of Acceptance with God? |
A53700 | What shall we do to be saved? |
A53700 | Whence is it that I have deliverance from the Guilt of these sins? |
A53700 | Whence is it that my Soul and Conscience are purged from the stain and filth of them? |
A53700 | Would you have any other way proposed in the room of it? |
A53700 | are you satisfied in it, that it is such as becomes God, and answers all the glorious Attributes of his Nature? |
A53700 | let him pray: Is any merry? |
A53700 | shall he cast off all Hopes and Desires of his own Salvation, and be content to perish for ever? |
A53700 | that way was made for the advancing of Grace in the Pardon of them? |
A53700 | when they tend to encrease the Formality and Hardness of their Hearts, towards the ruine of their Souls? |
A28966 | And if also you further ask, why Melody and sweet things do generally delight us? |
A28966 | And shall not we inquire, whether or no in that future state of things, which shall never have an end, we shall know one another? |
A28966 | And to let you see, that many of his Praises were such, as the Naturalist may best give, he exclaims in one place, How manifold are thy works, O Lord? |
A28966 | But if it be demanded, why then a Discourse finished so long ago, did not come abroad much sooner? |
A28966 | Nay, why a little more than enough of some Objects that produce pleasure, will produce pain? |
A28966 | Or whether God, as Absolute and Supreme Governour of the World, might have freely remitted the Penalties of sin? |
A28966 | Or whether all those things, as antiquated and slight, shall be obliterated, and, as it were, swallowed up? |
A28966 | Or why the smell of Castor, or Assa foetida, produces in most persons that which they call a Stink, rather than a Perfume? |
A28966 | Why among the familiarly visible Stars, there are so many in some parts of the Sky, and so few in others? |
A28966 | Why so many of those Celestial Lights are so plac''d, as not to be visible to our naked eyes, nor even when they are help''d by ordinary Telescopes? |
A28966 | Why their Sizes are so differing, and yet not more differing? |
A28966 | and discords and bitter things do generally displease us? |
A15504 | And what manner of person may receiue Christ, vnto iustification of life? |
A15504 | Attend you your selfe, concerning spiritual being? |
A15504 | Could you not cast away righteous men, but in that name receiue them, were it not for loue of righteousnesse? |
A15504 | Doe you not by a will freed, sollicite the vnderstanding to discerne, and with iudgement truely determining, to commaund right things? |
A15504 | Doe you not desire rightnesse to your conscience, soundnesse of heart in Gods Statutes? |
A15504 | Doth it not afflict you that your loue to Christs presence is no more full and flaming? |
A15504 | Greiue you inwardly, for that which the flesh doeth outwardly or within: not loosing, but vsing loue to God, in resisting sinfull motions? |
A15504 | How did he respect the shaken Disciples, the two going Emmaus? |
A15504 | How shal I know that Iesus Christ by the will of God gaue himselfe for mee, that I may stay vpon him? |
A15504 | I finde not that knowledge of Gods speciall loue to me: can I haue faith and see none? |
A15504 | If he giue quietnesse who can make trouble, whether vpon nations or a man onely? |
A15504 | If the light that is in thee be darknesse, how great is that darkenesse? |
A15504 | Leaue you not the reignes corruption, but are held with a bridle of righteousnesse to serue it? |
A15504 | Ponder you with care and delight to finde willingly, and setledly to follow things of the spirit? |
A15504 | Seeke you not for more light of minde, and holinesse of iudgement, for the guiding of your way? |
A15504 | These two questions are distinct& must not be confounded, what manner of persons they be that God admitts into heauen? |
A15504 | What gather you of Lots lingering in Sodom till( God being merciful to him) the Angel led him out by the hand? |
A15504 | Who am I? |
A15504 | know they are not guilty and are at rest in soule: I am sensible of guiltinesse with painefull feare; how dwelleth then the faith in God in me? |
A15504 | or that some earthly thoughts and affections, striuing against his grace held him? |
A15504 | that comes out of the wildernesse to ioyne her selfe to her welbeloued? |
A15504 | that he had no spirituall life? |
A15504 | what is my worthinesse that I should conceiue of God that he so respected me as to giue his sonne, and with him so great happinesse for me? |
A85434 | 1. he is called the Apostle of our profession[ Apostle] that is, one sent, so the word signifies; and what followes? |
A85434 | 49. he expresseth himself:[ Shall I not do my Fathers businesse?] |
A85434 | A businesse that a man hath praied for much, how doth he long to see it accomplished and fulfilled? |
A85434 | And how did they passe away that long aevum? |
A85434 | And if all this joy of his be only in the thoughts of it, how much more will it delight him when he comes to do it? |
A85434 | And what was it for? |
A85434 | And what was it that moved him to die? |
A85434 | And what was the matter of delight unto them? |
A85434 | Are ye so foolish, — have ye suffered so many things in vain? |
A85434 | As when he sayes, he will not despise a broken heart, is that all the esteem he will manifest to such a heart? |
A85434 | For if thou comest to him, what dost thou come for? |
A85434 | Hast thou a minde? |
A85434 | How many great affaires have been spoiled, because some men have not been the chiefe and first in them that affect the preheminence? |
A85434 | IN the second place, when Christ had assumed our nature, and whilst he remained upon earth, how did this disposition of his abound in him? |
A85434 | If among the Angels in Heaven there be joy at the conversion of a sinner, how much more joy is there in Christs heart? |
A85434 | If there be joy in the bed chamber men( as Iohn speakes) what joy is there in the bridgrooms hearts? |
A85434 | Now what is the thing that these do witnesse unto? |
A85434 | Now what was there to sweeten the death and sufferings of his Son unto him, except his end in it? |
A85434 | Say unto him, Lord, why may it not be made up now? |
A85434 | Would not Paul( I say) alter his purpose because he preached the Gospel, and will God( think you) alter them who gave the Gospel? |
A85434 | [ How shall I give thee up?] |
A85434 | and how glad is he when it falls out as he hath prayed? |
A85434 | and what is it in him that must procure that? |
A85434 | and why, but because it is the fruit of his Prayers? |
A85434 | did I use lightnesse? |
A85434 | or the things that I purpose do I purpose according to the Flesh, that with me there should be yea, yea, and nay, nay? |
A85434 | pardon of sins? |
A59221 | ''T is propos''d then( for example) to our Judging Power, whether America be or no? |
A59221 | Again, many times, when one is smartly questioned, if he be Certain of a thing? |
A59221 | And, if so, is it not as evident, that all the efficacy of Christian Preaching springs naturally from the Impossibility that Faith should be False? |
A59221 | But, the Question returns, Whether, in the end of our weighing their Motives, we discover them to be Truths or no? |
A59221 | Can any discourse be taken higher than from first Principles? |
A59221 | Do these words sound onely an Exclusion of Actual Doubt, or Suspicion of it at present, which Protestant Writers make sufficient to an Act of Faith? |
A59221 | For I ask, was it determin''d enough by any Intellectual or Rational Motives to judg the thing is? |
A59221 | For example, tell him he believes there was a K. Iames because those who pretended to live then have told us so; but what if they were mistaken? |
A59221 | His answer would in likelihood be to this purpose; what a God''s name were they blind in those dayes, that they could not see who was King then? |
A59221 | How frequent is it, when any one asks another, Is such a thing true? |
A59221 | If not, why do we so asseverantly affirm they are? |
A59221 | Is it not evident from the very Terms that''t is Irrational or without any Reason? |
A59221 | Is it not evident it must be some weakness or some blind motive in the Will, not Light of Understanding? |
A59221 | Is it not manifest, this( in our case) honest- dealing Profession would enervate the force of all the Motives they had proposed and prest? |
A59221 | Must he bring a Syllogism consisting of Premisses only morally Certain or possible to be false, to make the other good? |
A59221 | Nature will lead him to this or some such kind of Reply; To what purpose should they all make fools of every body? |
A59221 | Oftentimes indeed they deny Faith to be Evidence or Science, and affirm it to be Obscure: but what''s this to the purpose? |
A59221 | We finde him assent to the Affirmative heartily; But the point is how he is led into that Assent, and whether rationally? |
A59221 | What then must the Opponent or Arguer do? |
A59221 | What will it avail? |
A59221 | You''l ask, what then must be said of the Phrase,[ Moral Certainty] where Certainty seems to admit an allay of Contingency? |
A59221 | and the other replies, I verily think it is; he returns upon him with this pressing demand; I, but are you certain of it? |
A59221 | and why are we bound by Religion to profess them to be so? |
A59221 | if not, what made it judg so when those Motives could not? |
A59221 | may not you be mistaken? |
A59221 | or rather does it not mean that which of its own nature is such as can admit no Possible Cause of Doubt at any time for the future? |
A59221 | or, if we come to discover they are Truths, how are we so stupid as not to discover withall, that they can not possibly be Falshoods? |
A59221 | the Impossibility of its Falshood, is made by this Doctrin full as dark a hole as''t is to alledge the private Spirit? |
A26953 | 1. Who are you that dare dispute against God? |
A26953 | 4. Who is it( then) that with you goes for a Believer, or a Christian? |
A26953 | And how weak in Faith are the most of true Believers? |
A26953 | And that as verily as I ever see a man? |
A26953 | But why would not God let us have the SIGHT of Heaven and Hell; being that would have prevailed for our Conversion more generally and more certainly? |
A26953 | Do you count Faith an Infallible sort of Knowledge then? |
A26953 | Does it not concern every man, then, to make sure of this Faith? |
A26953 | How plain is the reason, that Believers are seriously holy, just, and charitable? |
A26953 | How plain is the reason, that Vnbelievers are careless of their hearts and ways; and mock at Believers care, and take them for fools and mad men? |
A26953 | If Faith be the Eye by which I do see, whereby should I quicken my self to live by it? |
A26953 | If I had seen Lazarus in Abraham''s Bosom? |
A26953 | If the Reward and Punishment were seen, what should difference wise men and fools good men and bad? |
A26953 | In worldly matters, men can go to much cost and pains for things they never saw; why not in spiritual matters? |
A26953 | O how rare a Jewel is true Faith? |
A26953 | O should I then ever chuse to be ungodly, or be patient of so being? |
A26953 | Or for too much and plain Preaching? |
A26953 | Or had a Messenger from God to tell me, I must die to morrow? |
A26953 | Or if it be not, wherewithal should I stir up my self to seek Faith and the Life of Faith? |
A26953 | Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus? |
A26953 | Should I ever be drawn away by Temptations again as I have been? |
A26953 | Should I ever be offended with a Minister again, for plainest Reproof, and closest Exhortation? |
A26953 | Should I ever be quiet under uncertainty of my Reconciliation unto God? |
A26953 | Should I ever stick at sufferings when God calls for them from me? |
A26953 | Should I not give over my greedy pursuit of worldly Wealth and Credit? |
A26953 | Should I not hear at another rate than ever yet I heard a Sermon? |
A26953 | Should I not highly value Christ, his Spirit, his Grace, his Promises, his Word, his Ordinances? |
A26953 | Should I not plead for the most serious Godliness? |
A26953 | Should I not say in my heart, that the most gainful sin is worse than madness? |
A26953 | Should I not then be all for Peace, Quietness and Love, with all that love the Lord Jesus Christ, and are seeking invisible things? |
A26953 | Should a man understand no more than he sees? |
A26953 | WHat means the Apostle by these words? |
A26953 | Well, how shall I know whether I have this true Faith and saving, tho''in the least and lowest degree of it? |
A26953 | What should I be if I had seen the things that God hath done already in time past? |
A26953 | What should I be if I heard Satan accusing me for all my sins unto God, and calling for justice against me? |
A26953 | What should I be if I saw the great and dreadful day of Judgment as Christ doth describe it? |
A26953 | What should I be, if I had seen and did now see the Damned in their miseries? |
A26953 | What should I be, if I saw the Lord continually before me? |
A26953 | What should I be, if I saw the face of Death, and were under the power of a mortal sickness, and were given over by all Physicians and Friends? |
A26953 | What should I be, if I saw the glory of Heaven above? |
A26953 | Why so? |
A39353 | Arte Quando Ego Tranquillâ, Curâ semota Metuque Despiciam stolidi Bacchantia Gaudia Mundi? |
A39353 | But here it may be say''d, why do you not mention the Pardon of Our Sins? |
A39353 | But, say you, God may Non Age ● ● without any Stinting Cause: what restrain''d him fr ● ● making the World from Eternity? |
A39353 | But, say you, Must we not carefully avoid that which Indirectly hinders also? |
A39353 | Can God make no man better than he is? |
A39353 | Do we indeed, and in Truth Resolve, through Christ enabling us, to do Always to All men, as we Would that in the like Case any one should Do unto Us? |
A39353 | Doth God give as much Grace to all he Infidel Heathen World, as to Christians? |
A39353 | Doth God ● o no more, say you, for any, but offer them Grace? |
A39353 | ETernal Reason, Glorious Majesty,* Compar''d to whom what can be say''d to be? |
A39353 | He that hath the Son( sayes his Beloved Disciple) hath Life,& c. But what is it to have the Son? |
A39353 | Here( it may be) some Unsanctifyed man may say in his Heart, but what if I find that I am in a State of Death, what shall I doe? |
A39353 | How shall I do that? |
A39353 | If it be say''d, what Reformation have we now? |
A39353 | In Answer to my Saying that Gods Offers of Grace are in an unlimited Abundance, you write thus: Say you so? |
A39353 | Quando ista Repagula, Sensus, ● laudentes Animum, penitus Rumpentur, ut Intus Alloquio DEUS ipse Suo me Personet? |
A39353 | What can be more plain than this, that the Apostle attributes Life and Death, in divers Respects, to the same Person, at the same Time? |
A39353 | What then is the Cause ● ●? |
A39353 | What ● use than had the first Sin? |
A39353 | When shall these clods of Sense, and Phantsy break, That I may hear the God within me speak? |
A39353 | When with a silent, and retired Art ● hall I with all this empty hurry part? |
A39353 | Whose Attributes are Thee, who art alone, Cause of all various things, and yet but One? |
A39353 | You say to these words of mine, Gods Will is the Same with infinite Goodness, Very true: but the Question is, what that Goodness is? |
A39353 | and whereto are those Respects but to the Animal or Sensitive; And to the Rational or Spiritual Life? |
A39353 | can God make no man ● etter than he is? |
A39353 | doth God do no more for any but offer them Grace? |
A39353 | doth a clod, or stone so ● int Gods Influence that he could not make it an An ● el, if he pleas''d? |
A39353 | is not Faith whereby we accept that offer, the Gift of God? |
A39353 | is the Recipient''s ● xpectancy none of his Gift? |
A39353 | must we not Trust in God for that also? |
A39353 | nor make any creature nobler, or other than it is? |
A39353 | nor take the Heart out of any man, otherwise than by offer? |
A39353 | or do they so stint his Influence that he can give them no more? |
A39353 | who made thee to differ? |
A39353 | why Wilt Thou dye? |
A35974 | And from hence we may conclude what a state of violence, and of suffering contradiction to her nature, must such a soule necessarily be in? |
A35974 | But doth her knowledge reste here? |
A35974 | Can any thing they shall declare and reach, be a sufficient ground of beliefe? |
A35974 | For, what hath all my discourse leuelled att, but to shew, that reason obligeth vs to ground our beliefe vpon Tradition? |
A35974 | Hath it any dimensions? |
A35974 | Hath she acquired by this second birth, no addition to the stocke she had bin toylesomely traffiking for in this life? |
A35974 | How litle must he sett by all the fond toyes that vulgar people busy themselues about? |
A35974 | How miserable must we conclude such a soule to be, though she remained in this state for neuer so short a while? |
A35974 | How then can men deserue the name of learned, who take not the course to know any thing att all? |
A35974 | Now the learning of these men that would passe for so great deuines, wherein doth it consist? |
A35974 | Now, if Eternity be the duration of our blisse; who can question whither it be vnperishable, or no? |
A35974 | Or is it measured by time? |
A35974 | What can be more euident then that 2. and 2. do make 4? |
A35974 | What new partes must there be added, or how must these that are already there be placed and ranked, to make the walles like? |
A35974 | Will not this satisfy any man that professeth to follow the conduct of Reason? |
A35974 | and the long chaine of causes and effects, that runneth trough them all, and comprehendeth them all? |
A35974 | do any colors make it visible? |
A35974 | doth any figure or shape belong to it? |
A35974 | doth it take vp any place? |
A35974 | the admirable connexion, that is betweene each one of them? |
A35974 | the nature of euery one in particular? |
A35974 | to behold the beautifull proportion and symmetry, that is in euery part of it? |
A23663 | 1. he saith, What shall we say then? |
A23663 | 27. saying, where is boasting then? |
A23663 | 6. said to be better Promises? |
A23663 | And God was in Christ reconciling the World to himself, and how? |
A23663 | And how did they so? |
A23663 | And in doing so, what more stress doth he lay upon Duty in this kind, than they that trust to be justified and saved upon their believing? |
A23663 | And in doing so, what more stress doth he lay upon Duty in this kind, than they that trust to be justified and saved upon their believing? |
A23663 | And what Nation is there so great, that hath Statutes and Iudgments so righteous, as all this Law which I set before you this day? |
A23663 | And what are they adopted to, but to an Inheritance for the future? |
A23663 | And why would not all this bring them to Heaven? |
A23663 | And yet how weak a motive is this in comparison of what comes from God, to reduce men to their love and loyalty to him? |
A23663 | But is any man so senseless as to think that Christ made them to see, to hear, and to speak, while they remained blind, deaf, and dumb? |
A23663 | By what Law? |
A23663 | David dealing so with Saul, though a bitter enemy, melted him into tears, and made him cry, Is this thy voice, my son David? |
A23663 | Do we make void the Law through Faith? |
A23663 | For what Nation is there so great, that hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? |
A23663 | He that believeth What? |
A23663 | How can ye believe( saith our Saviour) which seek honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only? |
A23663 | How was it then reckoned? |
A23663 | Is he the God of the Iews only? |
A23663 | Is the Law then against the Promises? |
A23663 | Just like some Iews of old, who though they were very bad in their lives, yet leaned upon the Lord, and said, is not the Lord among us? |
A23663 | Make you a new Heart, and a new Spirit, for why will ye dye, O house of Israel? |
A23663 | Of Works? |
A23663 | Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? |
A23663 | Our Saviour saith, Many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, open unto us: Have we not prophesied in thy Name? |
A23663 | That is, he can not enjoy it, and why? |
A23663 | Was not Abraham our Father justified by Works when he had offered Isaac his Son upon the Altar? |
A23663 | What doth it profit my brethren( saith he) though a man say he hath Faith, and have not Works? |
A23663 | Wherefore then serveth the Law? |
A23663 | Why doth this Faith remain alone in some, when as it is accompanied with Works in others? |
A23663 | as some it seems were ready to infer; God forbid, saith he; how shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? |
A23663 | can Faith save him? |
A23663 | for by Adoption they are made Heirs: If a Son, then an Heir of God through Christ: an Heir of what? |
A23663 | is he not also of the Gentiles? |
A23663 | none evil can come upon us? |
A23663 | shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? |
A23663 | when he was in Circumcision, or in Vncircumcision? |
A33721 | 33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect? |
A33721 | 37. their Hearts were prick''d, they cry out in the midst of the Sermon, Men and Brethren what shall we do? |
A33721 | And is this the Conditional service required? |
A33721 | At how little a hole will self- Righteousness creep in? |
A33721 | But they further say, that this is a conditional service: Why? |
A33721 | Commanded us to believe and pray, what is that? |
A33721 | Doth God mean this, when he bids me believe in Jesus? |
A33721 | How should Hearing of things above our Reason contribute any thing to our believing them? |
A33721 | If Faith and Repentance be thus always joyned together, does it not follow that we are justified by our Repentance as well as by Faith? |
A33721 | Is not this the old, honest, plain down- right notion of believing? |
A33721 | Is this the condition? |
A33721 | Is this the way to quiet and settle the Consciences of poor distressed sinners? |
A33721 | Is this to Preach Christ? |
A33721 | Is this to be raised in power, with our Spirits made perfect? |
A33721 | Life is promised, not simply to believing, but to believing in; in whom? |
A33721 | Must we be set upon a fresh by him? |
A33721 | No, no, after death he hath done with you for ever; he will not dare to look you in the face at the last day: He draw up a charge against you? |
A33721 | The last enemy that shall be destroyed is Death, saith the Apostle; and must we have an after rancounter with the Devil? |
A33721 | There is much Preaching and much Hearing in this City, but what comes on''t? |
A33721 | This should awaken us to Repentance, are there not sins even mong us against the Lord our God? |
A33721 | To Preach the glad Tidings of the Gospel? |
A33721 | To work for Justification is to work for Life, and why should we thus turn the Gospel into the Law? |
A33721 | What do you mean by it? |
A33721 | What does that signifie, how ineffectual is it? |
A33721 | What have we to do to repent of the punishment? |
A33721 | What if we know no more of Justification then is absolutely necessary for our Justification? |
A33721 | What is this Light of Faith, and how does it differ from the Light of Reason? |
A33721 | What, must we work for Life still? |
A33721 | When saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? |
A33721 | Who is against it? |
A33721 | Who must draw up this charge, and manage this false Indictment? |
A33721 | Why do n''t you do it then? |
A33721 | You believe in Christ, what is the English of that? |
A33721 | You''l say then, is the Law against Repentance? |
A33721 | or thirsty and gave thee drink? |
A57960 | And do we act courageously for petty purchases; and faint and despond when we are to strive for Crowns and eternal Glories? |
A57960 | And if all this be short, what will be available? |
A57960 | And shall the Beasts act more reasonably than the professed Sons of Reason? |
A57960 | And why may not the Spirit of God, working by an active Faith and Endeavour, fix Habits and Inclinations on the Soul, as prevalent as those? |
A57960 | Argument can be made a proportioned Medium to prove every Conclusion, that Any thing may be a suitable means to Any end? |
A57960 | Doth not Nature it self teach you, that if a Man have long Hair, it is a shame unto him? |
A57960 | For can the regenerate be full of all manner of concupiscence, and at the same time be crucified to the Flesh, and its affections and lusts? |
A57960 | Having sin dwelling in him; and a captive to sin; and obeying the Law of sin; and yet free from the law of sin and death? |
A57960 | How can they do good, that are accustomed to do evil? |
A57960 | If thou dost well, shalt thou not be accepted? |
A57960 | It is no Question, I hope, whether God, or the Creature is to be first chosen; whether Heaven or Hell be better? |
A57960 | May it not shame us, that we need Instruction from the Creatures that have no understanding? |
A57960 | Though the way is streight, yet''t is certain; or if it were otherwise, who would not venture his pains upon the possibility of such an issue? |
A57960 | We were made for Happiness, and Happiness all the World seeks: Who will shew us any good? |
A57960 | What difficulties in my Duty, too great for Divine Aids? |
A57960 | What is the example of a wicked, sensual, wretched World, to that of the Holy Jesus; and all the Army of Prophets, Apostles and Martyrs? |
A57960 | What is there in the World, that it should be loved more than God? |
A57960 | What pains are we to undergo in the narrow and difficult way, that the Glory which is at the end of it, will not compensate? |
A57960 | Who can tell the exact moment when the night ends, and the dawn enters? |
A57960 | Why should my noble Faculties, that were designed for glorious ends, be led into infamous practices by base Vsages, and dishonourable Customs? |
A57960 | and what is the Flesh, that it should have more of our time and care, than the great interests of our Souls? |
A57960 | carnal, and yet not walking after the flesh, but after the Spirit? |
A57960 | how can these things consist? |
A57960 | one in whom sin revives while he dies; and yet one that is dead to sin? |
A57960 | sold under sin, and yet free from sin? |
A57960 | that any object may be conformable to any Faculty? |
A57960 | who then shall be saved? |
A57960 | — Lord, are there Few that be saved? |
A59860 | And did they lose their Succession too, when they became Reformers? |
A59860 | And is it possible to cure this without an infallible Interpreter of Scriptures? |
A59860 | But do we not see how many Schisms and Heresies have been occasioned, by suffering every one to Expound Scripture for himself? |
A59860 | By what means were men Converted to the Faith? |
A59860 | Did the Reformation of those Abuses and Corruptions, which had crept into the Church, unchurch us? |
A59860 | For, suppose the Church does expound Scripture by Inspiration, how shall we be assured that it does so? |
A59860 | How do these Divisions and Heresies, which disturb the Church, prove, that no man can be certain of his Religion? |
A59860 | How far we must depend on the Authority of the Church for the true sense of Scripture? |
A59860 | How far we must depend on the authority of the church for the true sense of Scripture? |
A59860 | How far we must depend on the authority of the church for the true sense of Scripture? |
A59860 | How many Divisions and Sub- divisions are there among Protestants, who agree in little else, besides their opposition to Popery? |
A59860 | How then shall they be tried? |
A59860 | However be we Hereticks, or Schismaticks, or whatever they please to call us, how does this destroy our Orders and Succession? |
A59860 | I would desire to know whether Christ and his Apostles Preach''d intelligibly to their Hearers? |
A59860 | If he says he learns this from Scripture; I ask him how he comes to understand the Scripture, and how he knows that this is the sense of it? |
A59860 | If the Scriptures be in themselves unintelligible, I would desire to know how the Church comes to understand them? |
A59860 | If they did not, to what purpose did they Preach at all? |
A59860 | If they did not, what reason have we to believe that they determined right? |
A59860 | If they did, how come these Sermons to be so unintelligible now they are written, which were so intelligible when they were spoken? |
A59860 | If they do not think this a good way, to what purpose are there so many Volumes of Controversie written? |
A59860 | If this be not a good way to Convince a Heretick, why do they give themselves and us such an impertinent trouble? |
A59860 | Is it not a Contradiction to common Experience, to say, that the sense of Scripture is plain and certain, when so few men can agree what it is? |
A59860 | Must we believe Contradictions, or must we dis- believe infallible Churches? |
A59860 | Must we believe every Man, or every Church, which pretends to Inspiration? |
A59860 | Whether it be Lawful to separate from a Church upon the Account of promiscuous Congregations, and Mixt Communions? |
A59860 | Whether the Church of England can make out such a visible Succession? |
A59860 | Whether the Church of England can make out such a visible succession? |
A59860 | Whether the Church of England can make out such a visible succession? |
A59860 | Whether these Councils took a sure and safe way to find out Truth? |
A59900 | And what now does this Socinian say to this? |
A59900 | But do I require any man to believe Contradictions? |
A59900 | But does he consider, what the Consequence of this Argument is? |
A59900 | But how will this Socinian, who rejects the Evidence of Sense, confute Transubstantiation? |
A59900 | But must we not hearken to Reason when it finds Contradictions in what men affirm concerning God? |
A59900 | But what is all this to my Sermon? |
A59900 | Can he prove, that they ever deceive us with Qualities and Accidents without a Substance? |
A59900 | Do I any where say, That we must always expound the Scripture to a literal Sense? |
A59900 | For is there no way of knowing what is Bread, and what is Flesh, but by Revelation? |
A59900 | How Soul and Body are United, which can not Touch each other? |
A59900 | How Thought moves our Bodies, and excites our Passions? |
A59900 | How a Spirit should feel Pain or Pleasures from the Impressions on the Body? |
A59900 | How we Think and Reason? |
A59900 | How? |
A59900 | Is not this the proper object of Sense and Reason? |
A59900 | Is there no difference between what Reason ca n''t conceive, comprehend, approve, and what the Reason of all Mankind contradicts? |
A59900 | Nay, How we See and Hear? |
A59900 | Nay, do I say, that there are any such Contradictions? |
A59900 | Not believe Scripture? |
A59900 | That when Christ is called a Way, a Door, a Rock, we must understand this literally? |
A59900 | They are not the supreme and absolute judges in matters of pure Revelation; But does it hence follow, that they can not judge of their proper Objects? |
A59900 | What is the meaning of their Expounding Scripture by Reason, not like Fools, but like Wise men? |
A59900 | What naked Matter stripp''d of all Accidents and Qualities is? |
A59900 | Whether the Pretences of contradicting Reason and Philosophy, and the vain Pretences to Philosophy, signify Reason and Philosophy? |
A59900 | and of what good use such a Faith can be to us? |
A59900 | hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? |
A59900 | what merit there can be in believing such Doctrines? |
A59900 | where is the disputer of this world? |
A59900 | where is the scribe? |
A47618 | * Hilarion morti proximus dixisse fertur, egredere, quid times? |
A47618 | * years, and he hath not once hurt me, and shall I now deny him? |
A47618 | After he had drunk, he paused a little while looking very sadly, and suddenly brake out into these words; Surely I have done amisse, Why so? |
A47618 | And is it not sufficient for my salvation? |
A47618 | Bishop Bonner said thus to him, What say you to the omnipotency of God? |
A47618 | Can a man receive grace offered without a speciall work of grace stirring and exciting him? |
A47618 | Can man work in a way of grace so as to determine and make it effectuall before he have grace, a principle of working? |
A47618 | Dost thou know us? |
A47618 | EVsebius* saith he was wo nt to say when he fell into the company of hereticks: Bone Deus in quae me tempora reservasti? |
A47618 | Egredere, quid times? |
A47618 | For other men we ought to to conclude thus, they also must die as well as my self, my husband, wife, my dear and faithfull friend, who knows how soon? |
A47618 | Good God what times hast thou kept me for? |
A47618 | How early did martyrdome come into the world? |
A47618 | In our tempora Mariana Queen Maries daies; Who hath not heard of bloudy Bonner and Gardiner? |
A47618 | In the vertue of God wife what meaneth this? |
A47618 | Is any thing too hard for the Lord? |
A47618 | Is not he able to perform that which he spoke? |
A47618 | Is the Lords hand shortened? |
A47618 | Objection, God is a free Agent, how can it stand with his honour and absolute liberty to be bound to the creature? |
A47618 | On the contrary, what ravishing comfort did Robert Glover injoy a little before his martyrdome? |
A47618 | Question, Whether a godly man may fear to die? |
A47618 | Question, Whether it be lawfull to desire death? |
A47618 | Question, Whether may one pray against a sudden and violent death? |
A47618 | Question, Whether may we mourn for the dead? |
A47618 | Quid( inquit) putas princi ● em Frideri ● ū propter tearma sumturum dixi? |
A47618 | Samuel before his death, Tell me( saith he) whose ox or asse have I stolen or taken away? |
A47618 | Sed quid aulam invidioso verbo nomino? |
A47618 | Then said he merrily, What? |
A47618 | They ever fetcht consolation from the Promises, as Jacob, Hast thou not said? |
A47618 | What man lives and shall not see death? |
A47618 | What undaunted courage, what invincible patience, what ravishing consolation had the martyrs in the flames? |
A47618 | When Marcion the heretick casually met him and said, Cognoscis nos? |
A47618 | When upon a time one Papist demanded of another, why do you not stop the mans mouth with gold and silver? |
A47618 | Where have you been, said M. Farrar? |
A47618 | Why dost fear O my soul( said Hilarion) thou hast served God this seventy years, and art thou afraid to die? |
A47618 | Will ye make me a Pope? |
A47618 | egredere anima mea quid dubitas? |
A47618 | egredere anima mea, quid du ● itas? |
A47618 | hoc nollem prorsus,& ubi manebis? |
A47618 | septuaginta propè annis serviisti Christo,& mort ● m times? |
A47618 | septuaginta propè annos servisti Christo& mortem times? |
A47618 | will the Lord have four sacrifices? |
A47618 | wouldst thou fain prevail? |
A34599 | 1 Whether there are any gracious conditions, or qualifications wrought in the soule before faith? |
A34599 | 2 Whether any man can gather his evidence of the assurance of his Justification from his Sanctification? |
A34599 | 22, 23? |
A34599 | 3 Whether there bee an active power of Faith, and other gifts of grace in a Christian conversation? |
A34599 | 5. Who are they which are born of the Spirit? |
A34599 | According to that of the Apostle Iames, Is any afflicted amongst yo ●, let him pray? |
A34599 | Alas, how farre are they mistaken, that thinke the contrary Doctrine hath beene sealed with the bloud of Martyrs? |
A34599 | Amongst which marks of the Beast, Is not the decree of Pope Innocentius the third? |
A34599 | And being pricked at the heart, now trembling, cry out, Men and brethren what shall we doe? |
A34599 | And is it not a commandement of God, that all Churches should be gathered according to the Commission of King Jesus? |
A34599 | And then like the wise Merchant, let us cast up our accouut, what it will profit us? |
A34599 | And with many other words hee said,( and must not ● ee doe so likewise? |
A34599 | But is there any hope to see the Nation of England reformed according to the Primitive pattern, founded upon the word of the eternall Truth? |
A34599 | But was Andrew and the other Disciple Iohn baptized, Re- baptized by the Disciples of Jesus the Christ? |
A34599 | But when doth the Lord discover the truth of his calling to his conscience? |
A34599 | But why may not the holy Spirit breathe his first comforts into our soules, even on such conditions? |
A34599 | Else, shall they not be disobedient to the voyce of the Spirit that speaketh? |
A34599 | Else, when thou shal ● blesse with the spirit, how shall he whic ● occupieth the roome of the unlearned ▪ say, Amen, at thy giving of thanks? |
A34599 | Hence, when Jesus demanded of his Disciples? |
A34599 | How prove you that? |
A34599 | If God shall by his good Spirit convince us of the evills that wee have done, so as that we trembling cry, Men and brethren, what shall we doe? |
A34599 | If all Churches come out of Babylon by degrees; then you condemn all Churches that are not of your judgement? |
A34599 | Is any merry amongst you, let him sing? |
A34599 | Is it not a greater Priviledge for an Infant to be borne of a beleever, then to be borne of a Jew, a Turke, or an Heathen? |
A34599 | Is not this to limit the Spirit, who is free, and bloweth where hee listeth? |
A34599 | Must not the reply be, Repent? |
A34599 | WHether a man may evidence his justification by his sanctification? |
A34599 | WHether there be any gracious conditions, or qualifications, in the soule before faith, of dependance unto which, such promises are made? |
A34599 | Was there any necessity that they should be Re- baptized; would not a more perfect instruction have served? |
A34599 | What Congregations deny that Jesus is the Christ? |
A34599 | What Priviledge hath the unbeleeving party, by dwelling and abiding with the beleever? |
A34599 | What if some judge him a Schismaticke? |
A34599 | What is a Psalme? |
A34599 | What is the Antichristian faith? |
A34599 | What is the Forme of this spirituall house? |
A34599 | What is thy beloved more then another beloved; oh thou fairest among women? |
A34599 | What is thy beloved more then others beloveds, that thou dost so charge us? |
A34599 | Whether in receiving of Chris ●( or the Spirit, who commeth into our hearts in his name) we be meerly passive? |
A34599 | Whither is thy beloved gone, oh thou fairest among women? |
A34599 | Whither is thy beloved turned aside that we may seeke him with thee?) |
A34599 | Whom doe men say that I the Sonne of Man am? |
A34599 | Why was it such a Priviledge? |
A34599 | but hee that denyeth that Jesus is the Christ? |
A34599 | so that ● ● ey trembling cry out, Men and ● ● ethren, what shall we doe? |
A34599 | though an unbeleever: Or what knowest thou, oh thou beleeving wife? |
A34599 | whether God will not make thee instrumentall to save thy husband? |
A41441 | 14. for saith he, what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? |
A41441 | But then on the other side, must a man be accounted naked unless he cloath himself in Armour? |
A41441 | But what colour or pretence can there be for that, after God hath said it, and sent his Son to declare this great news to the World? |
A41441 | But what then? |
A41441 | For if mens opinions or perswasions are infallible, what is instruction for? |
A41441 | For to what purpose doth God perswade us, when he hath irrevocably determined our fate with himself? |
A41441 | For what should cow him that hath this Armour of proof, and is every way invulnerable? |
A41441 | For who can consider what his Saviour suffered, and look upon him whom we have pierced, and not mourn heartily for his sin and his danger? |
A41441 | For who disputes whether God should be worshipped? |
A41441 | Is it no priviledge, no comfort to be admitted to the Lords Table, in token of Friendship and reconciliation with him? |
A41441 | Is it no profit to be made ingenuously to weep over our own sins? |
A41441 | Is it no profit to see Christ Crucified before our Eyes, and to see him pour out his heart blood for Sinners? |
A41441 | O but( may some man say) will it not at least be will- worship to affect uncommanded instances of love to God and zeal of his glory? |
A41441 | Or, Will they say, that men impose upon one another, and there was never any such matters of fact as we have here supposed? |
A41441 | Shall a man pretend Piety, and make his table become a snare to his own Soul, and his House a Sanctuary and priviledged place for prophaneness? |
A41441 | Thus men make vain Apologies, but doth God Almighty allow of them, hath he made any such exceptions or distinctions? |
A41441 | What knowest thou, O Wife, but thou maist save thy Husband? |
A41441 | What though old men must dy, yet will not young men quickly come to be, old men too, at least if they do not die first? |
A41441 | What was it that a zealous Jew could provoke his Neighbours to go up to the Temple for? |
A41441 | What, is it no profit that we have done our duty and exprest our gratitude to so great a Benefactor? |
A41441 | Whether affliction be more easy than it used to be, and we can better submit to the yoke of Christ? |
A41441 | Whether our hearts be more in Heaven than they were wo nt, and that we have arrived at a greater contempt of the World? |
A41441 | Whether we are more conscientious of secret sins, and such as no Eye of man can take notice of and upbraid us for? |
A41441 | Whether we are more dead to temptation, especially in the case of such sins as agree with our constitution and circumstances? |
A41441 | Whether we are more sagacious in apprehending, and more careful of improving opportunities of doing good than heretofore? |
A41441 | Whether we be more constant in all the duties of Religion than formerly? |
A41441 | Whether we be more exact and regular in our lives daily? |
A41441 | Who now can doubt whether these things are of mighty influence upon the hearts and Consciences of men to incline them to Religion? |
A41441 | Will men be so wretchedly absurd as to say still, it is impossible that men should live again after they are once dead? |
A41441 | Will men say, Heaven is but a Dream, or a Romantick fancy? |
A41441 | Will they say, God hath a mind to impose upon men? |
A41441 | and if that may not be restrained in its extravagancy, wherefore were Laws made, and Magistrates appointed? |
A41441 | and what part hath he that believeth, with an infidel? |
A41441 | can infinite perfection become a Debtor to Dust and Ashes? |
A41441 | if Conscience be a guide to it self, to what purpose are spiritual Guides provided by divine wisdom for our conduct? |
A41441 | if the light within be sufficient, what is the light of holy Scripture for? |
A41441 | or what knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy Wife? |
A41441 | what communion hath light with darkness? |
A41441 | what concord hath Christ with Belial? |
A41441 | whether a man should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present World? |
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? |
A14753 | Adam Wallacke, a Scot, to a tempting Fryer, If an Angel should say that which thou doest, I would not listen to him: is the Fire ready? |
A14753 | Alexander Cane: when a fooles Cappe was put on his head: Can I haue a greater Honour done me, then to bee serued as my Lord CHRIST before Herod? |
A14753 | And now what doe I any longer in this base and impure world? |
A14753 | And, Oh Death, how bitter is thy mention and memory? |
A14753 | Art thou afraid of a melancholy fit, and fearest thou not this gulfe, and whirlpoole, and sorrow? |
A14753 | Aske Nature, and call to Philosophy, and see if they can affoord any ayd ▪ must they not confesse themselues heere quite posed and plunged? |
A14753 | Augustine, Boughes fall off Trees, and Stones out of Buildings, and why should it seeme strange that mortall men dye? |
A14753 | But what now are we come out to see? |
A14753 | Can it liue in the one, and not in another? |
A14753 | Diogines hearing Antisthenes cry out in his paines, Who shall ease mee? |
A14753 | Doth it waite vpon the body for ioy, sorrow, anger, and the like? |
A14753 | Elam, Meshech, and Tubal, whose feare was vpon the liuing, are they not descended into the graue? |
A14753 | Ferdinand Emperour: If mine Ancestors and Predecessors had not dyed, how should I haue beene Emperour? |
A14753 | For all their Confidence, haue they not gone to the King of Feare? |
A14753 | Gordius, To the Tyrant offering him promotion; Haue you any thing equall, or more worthy then the Kingdome of Heauen? |
A14753 | Hath wisedome deliuered, Strength rescued, or wealth ransomed any out of my fingers? |
A14753 | Hilarion, Soule, get thee out, thou hast seuentie yeares serued Christ, and art thou now loath to dye, or afrayd of Death? |
A14753 | How bruitish and beastly are the preaemises and conclusion of the Epicure and his brood, Let vs eate and drinke ▪ for to morrow we shall dye? |
A14753 | How faine would I snatch thy soule out of this fire? |
A14753 | How many auncient stories and dailie examples haue wee of chereful minds in distempered, pained, languishing dying bodies? |
A14753 | I maruell not, that they feare not a Rapier, or Pistoll, Who would not chuse it before a lingring and paineful sicknesse? |
A14753 | In the times of the late warres in Netherlands, how did the Boares forsake their Farmes, and flye into walled Cities for securitie from dangers? |
A14753 | Iohn Mallot a Souldior; Often haue wee hazarded our liues for the Emperour Charles the fifth, and shall wee now shrinke to dye for the King of Kings? |
A14753 | Ionathan and Saul, swift as the Egles, strong as the Lyon, yet how were they slaine with the mighty? |
A14753 | Now if one President made him so good a Scholler: What dullards and non- proficients are we? |
A14753 | Now then was Ioseph loath to change his prison- ragges, or Hester her olde and meane Cloathes with stately and royall array? |
A14753 | Picus Mirandula, If Christes Death and our owne were euer in eye, how could wee sinne? |
A14753 | Polycarpus to the Proconsull, vrging him to deny Christ, I haue serued him 86 yeares, and hee hath not once hurt mee, and shall I now deny him? |
A14753 | The Flesh shrinkes and sayes, Thou foole, wilt thou burne and needest not? |
A14753 | The flesh saies, Wilt thou leaue thy Friends? |
A14753 | The flesh saies, Wilt thou shorten thy life? |
A14753 | The spirit sayes, Hell fire is sharper, and wilt thou aduenture that? |
A14753 | VVhat if I lose a little Vermillion red mixture of Fleame and Sanguine, shall I not recouer a radiant resplendant lustre? |
A14753 | Were it not for the after- claps of Death? |
A14753 | What need a man care whether hee bee a Sadduces Swine, an Epicures Horse, or himselfe? |
A14753 | What then is the course the Christian takes? |
A14753 | What then shall wee gaine by them? |
A14753 | What thinkest thou, are these things tales and fables, is Hell but a name and word, a scarbug for to keepe fooles in awe? |
A14753 | What violence then should our heauenly Ierusalem suffer of our wishes and desires? |
A14753 | What with selfe groaning phantasies, and iniected temptations, how little respit or rest is here to be found? |
A14753 | Whence is it then that men dye so dully, so vnwillingly, so heauily? |
A14753 | Where is Goliah with his brazen Bootes? |
A14753 | William Hunter to his Mother, For a momentany payne I shall haue a crowne of life,& may not you be glad of that? |
A14753 | doth it not more often begin vnto it? |
A14753 | made their bedds in the slimy valley, and layd their Swordes vnder their heads? |
A14753 | the Kings of Arphad, Iuah, and Sepharuaim? |
A14753 | who would shun this to leape into that? |
A33547 | And how splendid are Men by its Labour? |
A33547 | And is this a reasonable or commendable way of handling a Matter so serious and important? |
A33547 | And was it possible to put so many vast Orbs in motion without Omnipotency? |
A33547 | And was not this an admirable Contrivance, and could it have been without Wisdom and Understanding? |
A33547 | Are not all things made in Number, Weight, and Measure? |
A33547 | Are their disproportionable Quantities of Matter, or disagreeable Qualities conjoined in any Subject? |
A33547 | Are they able to demonstrate that there is no God? |
A33547 | But I pray you, must they carry away Sense and Understanding from others, because they are so vain as to think it? |
A33547 | But how useful is the Silk- Worm? |
A33547 | Can this proceed from any, but the wise and potent Author of all things? |
A33547 | Could either Individuals have been multiplied, or the Kinds propagated without this? |
A33547 | Do not those in Bedlam think themselves wiser than others? |
A33547 | Do they require a Sight of God? |
A33547 | I would ask such Persons what they would be at to satisfie them? |
A33547 | If the Picture or Statue shew Art and Skill, shall the Original be ascribed to chance? |
A33547 | If these Men were capable of Counsel, I would ask them whether they are absolutely sure that they are in the right? |
A33547 | Is it not a Violence to common Sense? |
A33547 | Is it not more reasonable to think that it is the work of some wise and excellent Hand? |
A33547 | Is it not the height of Impudence? |
A33547 | Is it possible that the Terrour of Man could have made them drown or destroy their Brood? |
A33547 | Is it reasonable to deny plain and common things, because there are some things without our reach? |
A33547 | Is not Order, Method, just Proportion and Measure to be observed every where, and in every thing? |
A33547 | Is not all this the wonderful Work of God, of which who can make any doubt? |
A33547 | Now could all these different proper Structures of Animals have been contrived without Wisdom? |
A33547 | Now if the Copy be admired, what doth the Original deserve? |
A33547 | Now is it not more reasonable to ascribe the constant Observance of these Rules to an Intelligent Being, than to Chance or no Cause? |
A33547 | Now who impos''d these hard Laws upon those Beasts and Birds of Prey? |
A33547 | Or would the Power and Dominion over these have been committed to one altogether unqualified and unworthy of it, as Man seems to be? |
A33547 | Shall I put out my Eyes because they fail me in some particulars? |
A33547 | Should Impudence run down Evidence? |
A33547 | Should a Jest or a Witticism be of more Weight than the Dictates of common Sense and sober Reason? |
A33547 | What Pharaoh forbad them to multiply to the Danger of the State? |
A33547 | What a Treasure doth it yield? |
A33547 | What an unlikely beginning has it? |
A33547 | What is it to act intentionally, or with Design, but to propose some certain end, and to carry it on by suitable Means? |
A33547 | What might be said of the Bee? |
A33547 | What should be the use of an Eye, if there was not Light? |
A33547 | When the Body is faint and feeble, seems to have lost all its Spirits, and upon the point of expiring, how suddenly doth a little Food recover it? |
A33547 | Where do they perceive any Confusion or Disorder? |
A33547 | Where do they see irregular and unsuitable Mixtures or Compositions? |
A33547 | Why former Heroes fell without a Name? |
A33547 | Why not their Battles told by lasting Fame? |
A33547 | Why should we think, that Windows were designed to let in Light to the House, and not the Eye purposely framed to see? |
A33547 | and how instantly doth it begin to exert strength and vigour? |
A33547 | because they do not reach beyond the Clouds, nor penetrate into the Secrets of Nature? |
A33547 | how soon is its colour renewed? |
A33547 | how unaccountable that an homogeneous fluid should be the foundation of such an hetterogeneous solid? |
A33547 | should it be slighted because ordinary? |
A33547 | should this be passed over because common? |
A33547 | should we not regard this wonderful Device, by which our Life is maintained from Day to Day? |
A53726 | And as he is not obliged( for who hath known the Mind of the Lord, or who hath been his Counsellor?) |
A53726 | And if it be asked, how I know this Scripture to be a Divine Revelation, to be the Word of God? |
A53726 | But how come we to know and believe these Signs? |
A53726 | But is it of this Authority and Efficacy in it self? |
A53726 | But what Ground or Reason have we to believe it? |
A53726 | But what is this Revelation, or where is it to be found? |
A53726 | But what need is there of any long disputation? |
A53726 | But whence I pray hath it this Authority? |
A53726 | But whence are we so perswaded but from it self alone? |
A53726 | But why should we believe this Word of Prophecy? |
A53726 | But why then do not all believe the Gospel? |
A53726 | Doth any Obligation unto believing hence arise? |
A53726 | For the Inquiries managed therein, namely, what is the Obligation upon us to believe the Scripture to be the Word of God? |
A53726 | Hence the Enquiry in this case is, what is the Reason why we believe any thing with this faith divine or supernatural? |
A53726 | How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? |
A53726 | If any one upon these Principles shall now ask us, Wherefore we believe the Scripture to be the Word of God? |
A53726 | If it be asked how, wherein, or whereby God hath revealed and declared these things so to be, or what is that Revelation which God hath made hereof? |
A53726 | Is not my Word like as fire, saith the Lord? |
A53726 | Sed longa opus est disputatione? |
A53726 | Sed unde oro hanc authoritatem sibi vendicavit? |
A53726 | Si autem Latinè, scirem quid diceret, sed unde scirem an verum diceret? |
A53726 | The Enquiry is what he requireth it unto? |
A53726 | The Question is about the Gospel, or the Declaration of the powerful Coming of Jesus Christ, whether it were to be believed or no? |
A53726 | The material Object of our Faith therefore are the Articles of our Creed, by whose Enumeration we answer unto that question, what we believe? |
A53726 | The only Question is, how it hath discharged it self in this Design? |
A53726 | This gave them indeed sufficient Assurance; but whereinto shall they resolve their Faith who heard not this Testimony? |
A53726 | VVere not this the Word of God, how should it come thus to speak in his Name, and to act his Authority in the Consciences of Men as it doth? |
A53726 | What horrible Darkness, Ignorance and Blindness was upon the whole World with respect unto the Knowledge of God? |
A53726 | What is the Chaff to the Wheat, saith the Lord? |
A53726 | What it is in general, infallibly to believe the Scripture to be the Word of God, and what is the Ground and Reason of our so doing? |
A53726 | Whence could all this proceed but from the watchful Care and Power of divine Providence? |
A53726 | Wherefore we do so believe it? |
A53726 | Why do we so do, on what ground or reason? |
A53726 | Yea but how shall we know the one from the other? |
A53726 | and how shall they hear without a Preacher, and how shall they preach unless they are sent? |
A53726 | and if I should know this also, should I know it of him? |
A53726 | and if it were, upon what Grounds? |
A53726 | and like an Hammer that breaketh the Rock in pieces? |
A53726 | for the living to the dead? |
A53726 | for the living, to the dead? |
A53726 | may not that also be a cunningly devised Fable, and the whole Scripture be but the Suggestions of mens private Spirits, as is objected? |
A53726 | or what it is the believing whereof makes our Faith divine, infallible and supernatural? |
A53726 | quod etsi hoc scirem num& ab illo scirem? |
A53726 | sed unde sumus ita persuasi nisi ab ipsa? |
A53726 | what are the Causes, and what is the Nature of that Faith whereby we do so? |
A53726 | what is the way and means thereof? |
A53726 | what it is that our Faith rests upon herein? |
A53726 | what it rests on, and is resolved into, so as to become a Divine and Acceptable Duty? |
A57956 | And can this be effected without the use of Reason? |
A57956 | And is it possible now to discern the faint and weak glimmerings of Intellectual Light through such profound and clammy darkness? |
A57956 | And to what Purpose were our Faculties given, if they be of no use in those things wherein we most need them? |
A57956 | Annon proprio judicio, intellectu, lumine, haec omnia peragenda sunt? |
A57956 | Are not all these things to be done by a Man''s own proper Judgment, Intellect and Light? |
A57956 | Are we to put off Humane Nature that we may become Religious? |
A57956 | Atque hoc quid aliud est quam Ratio fixa& stabilis, rerum omnium rationes nexúsque immoto oculo simul advertens? |
A57956 | Aut alterius cujuspiam lumine praeeunte ambulabo? |
A57956 | Aut oculi claudendi penitus, quia Aquilarum carent perspicacitate? |
A57956 | Aut quaenam alia facultas reliqua est cujus ductu veram Religionem investigemus? |
A57956 | Can it be imagined that God intended to perplex Humane Intellect with inexplicable subtleties? |
A57956 | Ergóne luce Meridia ● … destituti, languidiores solis radii contemptui erunt,& tenebrae reputandae? |
A57956 | Et quem in finem datae sunt Facultates, si nulli esse possunt adjumento, cùm iis maximè est opus? |
A57956 | For why should the Conjunction of the Deity with the Nature of Christ more trouble the Understanding then the Union of the Soul with the Body? |
A57956 | Hallywell, Henry, d. 1703? |
A57956 | If we once forsake the Guidance of Reason must not all Religion be owing either to Education, Superstition or some Fanatical Impulse? |
A57956 | If we once forsake the guidance of Reason, must not all Religion be owing either to Education, Superstition, or some Fanatical Impulse?] |
A57956 | Illéne putandus est Religionis capacissimus, qui aut superstitiosus maximè aut oscitanter credulus? |
A57956 | Is he to be deemed the fittest subject for Religion, who is most Bigotical and carelesly credulous? |
A57956 | Must he whose Eyes are somewhat dull, be therefore accounted stark blind? |
A57956 | Nay further, is there need of any other Faculty in the choice of Religion, and such Principles as tend to the Regulation of Life, but only of Reason? |
A57956 | Now what is this but fixed and stable Reason looking upon the Reasons and Connections of all things at once, and as it were with an Unmoved Eye? |
A57956 | Num ad normam Principiorum, quae alius mente concepit, vitam meam disponam? |
A57956 | Num affectus inordinatos argumentis non intellectis edomabo? |
A57956 | Num alienis oculis videbo? |
A57956 | Num alterius intellectus meam diriget voluntatem? |
A57956 | Num cui in mentem venire potest Deum in animo habuisse intellectum humanum non- percipiendis impedire atque implicare subtilitatibus? |
A57956 | Num cui paulò obtusior est acies, omni prorsus lumine cassus censebitur? |
A57956 | Num ex solis miraculis? |
A57956 | Num exuenda est natura humana, ut imbuamur Religione? |
A57956 | Num quid ideò excellentius quia omnem excedit intelligentiam? |
A57956 | Num quis alius nostro loco judicium feret? |
A57956 | Num verò hoc fieri potest sine usu Rationis? |
A57956 | Or govern my life by the mea ● … ure of another Man''s Principles? |
A57956 | Or is any thing the more excellent and Venerable, because it exceeds all Understanding? |
A57956 | Or must we quite shut our Eyes, because they want the sharpness and Perspicacity of Eagles? |
A57956 | Or shall the Understanding of another direct my will? |
A57956 | Or walk only by the light that another carries before me? |
A57956 | Or what other Faculty is there left by who ● … e conduct we can search into the Truth of Religion? |
A57956 | Or why should we be such Obedient Fools, as to do more for them then God would have us do for himself? |
A57956 | Quidni itaque Deus uteretur aliquo è nobis, uti Anima Corpore, tanquam Instrumento, quo interveniente consilium suum declaret? |
A57956 | Quidni& nos eadem Commendatio pertingat, si à quocunque dictata, tanquam legem divinitùs acceptam, severissimo examini subjiciamus? |
A57956 | Quorsum Benignissimus Deus largitus est nobis Rationis facultatem, si nefas sit, cùm res nostra maximè agitur, eam munere suo fungi? |
A57956 | Shall I fee with other mens Eyes? |
A57956 | Shall I mortifie my irregular Affections with Arguments that I do not understand? |
A57956 | Shall another Judge for us? |
A57956 | Si Rationis partes deseramus, annon educationi, superstitioni, aut afflatui cuidam Fanatico, omnis accepta ferenda erit Religio? |
A57956 | Supposing it be, 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 where will be the Liberty of our will? |
A57956 | What shall this Teacher of Righteousness answer to these Things? |
A57956 | What then can not Omnipotence do in this kind, if it would? |
A57956 | Wherefore should a Gracious God bestow upon us the Faculty of Reason, if we must not suffer it to do its Office when our concern is most in Question? |
A57956 | Why may not God make use of some one of us( as the Soul doth of the Body) as an Instrument by whose Intervention he may discover his Mind to us? |
A57956 | Will it appear from Miracles alone? |
A57956 | and where that laudable Assent to the Truth, and Aversation from Lies and Falshood? |
A20398 | Againe, what do hunters doe? |
A20398 | Also what do souldiers? |
A20398 | And also when vnto these which say, Lord, Lord, haue we not cast out Diuels in thy name? |
A20398 | And what if a man had seene you abiding in your former state? |
A20398 | And will you not absteine by reason of the truth? |
A20398 | But what if hee obeyed it for all that? |
A20398 | But what if you had not beleeued that message? |
A20398 | But what is the cause that so few beleeue his commandements? |
A20398 | By what meane then, or by what medicine may this my disease of vnbeliefe be cured? |
A20398 | Can you blesse him that curseth you? |
A20398 | Can you pray for him that raileth vpon you? |
A20398 | Can you seeke his welfare which practiseth your death? |
A20398 | Can you wish well to him that reuileth you? |
A20398 | Do fewer folke beléeue his commandements, then do beléeue his doings and promises? |
A20398 | Do you not hereby bewray, that the truth beareth lesse sway with you then one floren? |
A20398 | Do you not now make lesse account of Gods presence then of the presence of a boy? |
A20398 | Doe all speake with tongues? |
A20398 | Doe these tokens follow your faith, Lewis? |
A20398 | Doe you feele as great thirst of righteousnesse, as euer you haue selt at any time of water? |
A20398 | Doe you watch day and night to please God? |
A20398 | Doubt yee? |
A20398 | Doubt you of that? |
A20398 | For Paul writeth: Do all worke myracles? |
A20398 | For if a man would giue you a floren to abstein frō the said dish, would you not absteine? |
A20398 | For in the very same place God calleth them vnbeleeuers in these words: How long will this people spite me? |
A20398 | For whereof comes it, that our Italians doe so easily absteine from drunkennesse? |
A20398 | Gods gracious goodnesse hath yeelded saluation to all men: O how gladly is this admitted? |
A20398 | Haue all the gifts of healing? |
A20398 | Haue we not wrought wonders in thy name? |
A20398 | Haue you euer spent a whole yeare or twaine in the study of godlinesse? |
A20398 | How long will it be ere they will beleeue me, for all the miracles which I haue wrought among thē? |
A20398 | I pray you Lewis, when you were a child did you beleeue in your father? |
A20398 | I pray you make as great reckoning of God, as you doe of men; why doth the feare of God beare lesse sway with you then the feare of men? |
A20398 | If a man should say, that the goods of Christians ought to be common among them, whether sort would easiliest beleeue it, the rich or the poore? |
A20398 | If a mā strike you on the right cheeke, can you turne to him the left? |
A20398 | If we beleeued this promise throughly, should not our mindes be rauished vp into heauen, so as no earthly care might touch vs,& much lesse trouble vs? |
A20398 | If you hated a man deadly, how would you bee minded towards him? |
A20398 | Is your minde nothing troubled at it? |
A20398 | O how truly you say? |
A20398 | Or if you forbeare for feare of punishment at mans hand, and not as well for feare of Gods punishment: doe you not preferre man before God? |
A20398 | Or what if hee should command vs a thing that might seeme vnreasonable? |
A20398 | Shal Gods spirit haue lesse power in man then the spirit of Sathan? |
A20398 | Shall light bee of lesse force then darknesse? |
A20398 | Thinke you then that I haue no faith? |
A20398 | To what purpose then deeme you Christs commandements to serue? |
A20398 | Well: What strength haue you in suffering of wrongs? |
A20398 | What do you concerning Gods promises? |
A20398 | What if God should promise vs some thing that might seeme vnpossible, as when he promised old Abraham a son by Sara, being old and barren too? |
A20398 | What if I should say, that I am delighted with the seruiceable behauiour of that seruant, and with the sweetnesse of his cooquery? |
A20398 | What if a man should deny that mens soules are deliuered out of Purgatory by Masses? |
A20398 | What if hee said he were delighted with her? |
A20398 | What if hee should say, that hee can not but like well of the pleasure? |
A20398 | What if you haue your purse full, or some meane in a readinesse whereby to come by money? |
A20398 | What manner of thing then did you take faith to be? |
A20398 | What meane you by beléeuing in my father? |
A20398 | What néed many words? |
A20398 | What say you to aduersitie Lewis? |
A20398 | What shall I say of those which haue gelded themselues? |
A20398 | What shall wee say of Learning, Lewis? |
A20398 | What thinke you to bee the cause why no man in matters of iustice, is admitted to bee a witnesse in his owne case? |
A20398 | What would the rich folke doe? |
A20398 | What? |
A20398 | When God hauing brought the children of Israel out of Aegypt, commanded them to enter into the land of Canaan, did they beleeue that God commanded it? |
A20398 | Whence haue they so great strength? |
A20398 | Whence, but of beliefe? |
A20398 | Whether then are they to be called beleeuers, or vnbeleeuers? |
A20398 | Which are those? |
A20398 | Who is weakened and I am not the worse at ease for it? |
A20398 | Why doe wee not rather follow those which durst beleeue all things? |
A20398 | Why so? |
A20398 | Why so? |
A20398 | Why then did they not obey him? |
A20398 | Why? |
A20398 | Yea and what do louers? |
A20398 | You are angry with a man, and would faine cudgel him, but you forbeare for feare of the magistrate: Why forbeare you not as well for feare of God? |
A20398 | and hast thou not taught in our streetes? |
A20398 | did you feele any such griefe when we treated of Predestination, or of Free- will? |
A20398 | do they not spend oftentimes the whole winter nights abroad, when the cold is so great that it giueth euen the flints? |
A20398 | might he not well haue auowed, that you beleeued not the message? |
A20398 | or as great desire of Gods kingdome, as the couetous man feeleth desire of money? |
A20398 | or that the Swissers are so resolute in battell, that they will rather be slaine then flye? |
A20398 | or what would you do to him? |
A20398 | what inconueniences do they not most gladly endure to the intent to please the partie whom they be in loue withall? |
A20398 | whether would the Clergie or the Laytie soonest beleeue it? |
A20398 | who is offended and I am not grieued at it? |
A20398 | why answer you not my Lewis? |
A26963 | Aliud, how prove you it to be there, rather than elsewhere? |
A26963 | An Atome of Earth or Water, is not annihilated; and why should we suspect, that a Spiritual Substance is? |
A26963 | And What''s a Contradiction, if this be not, to say, I do that which I can not do, or I can do that which I have no power to do? |
A26963 | And as to the incapacity of misery which you talk of, why should you think it more hereafter than here? |
A26963 | And do you think, that his love and goodness hath no answerable effect? |
A26963 | And do you think, that this doth not more advance Souls than abase them? |
A26963 | And how far their Authority extendeth? |
A26963 | And if they be two, why are they not separable? |
A26963 | And if you feign God to be partible, is it not more honour and joy to be a part of God, who is joy it self, than to be a created Soul? |
A26963 | And is it many, or one concentred Soul? |
A26963 | And what happiness then can we hope for, more than a deliverance from the present calamity? |
A26963 | And whom do they believe? |
A26963 | And why doth the Church believe? |
A26963 | And why should we fear Perfection? |
A26963 | And yet what is more certain than that there is Substance, Entity, and God? |
A26963 | Are all men that can not define, therefore void of all knowledg? |
A26963 | But do you know nothing but by Definitions? |
A26963 | But if the world have but one soul, what mean you by its concentring in the Carcass? |
A26963 | But what is such a mental Spirit? |
A26963 | But what mean you by[ the active Principles concentration in its own body]? |
A26963 | But what''s your proof? |
A26963 | But you would know what''s meant by a spirit, whether all that is not evident to sense? |
A26963 | Can Apes and Monkeys do all this? |
A26963 | Can he not separate them when he will? |
A26963 | Can not God make a Spirit? |
A26963 | Do they not shew his glory? |
A26963 | Do you believe, that each one hath now one individual Soul, or not? |
A26963 | Do you know what material signifieth? |
A26963 | Do you really believe, that there is a God? |
A26963 | Do you think any dust, or drop, any Atome of Earth or Water, loseth any thing of it self, by its union with the rest? |
A26963 | Do you think, that any Atome loseth its individuation? |
A26963 | Do you think, that passive matter doth as much manifest Gods Perfection, and honour the Efficient, as vital and Intellectual Spirits? |
A26963 | Doth God give them Laws to know and keep as moral free- agents? |
A26963 | Doth acting, without Power to act, cause the Power? |
A26963 | Doth not God know every dust, and every drop from the rest? |
A26963 | Doth not all the world difference Virtue and Vice, moral good and evil? |
A26963 | For before you can believe that Jesus is the Christ, and his Word true, how many impossibilities have you to believe? |
A26963 | Hath he not imprinted his Perfections in some measure, in his Works? |
A26963 | How many Score Volumes have told it us? |
A26963 | If God made as many substantial individual Souls, as men, is there any thing in Nature or Scripture, which threatneth the loss of Individuation? |
A26963 | If it be a pure Spirit, I would then know, what is meant by Spirit? |
A26963 | If it be, is it a pure Spirit, or meerly material? |
A26963 | If not here, why should you think that their misery hereafter will be ever the less, or more tolerable for your conceit, that they are parts of God? |
A26963 | If not, how can we lose that which we never had? |
A26963 | If separable, why not separated? |
A26963 | If therefore all men have but one Soul, why is it not you that are in pain or joy, when any, or all others are so? |
A26963 | If to part of the world, if each Vortex, Sun, Star,& c. have a distinct individuate superior Soul, why not men also inferiors? |
A26963 | If you mean, That it''s but an accident, that''s disprov''d before; what accident is it? |
A26963 | Is any Substance lost? |
A26963 | Is it a real Being? |
A26963 | Is it because they believe? |
A26963 | Is it not Earth and Water still? |
A26963 | Is it only the difference of an ▪ Instrument in Tune, and out of Tune? |
A26963 | Is it really different from the Body? |
A26963 | Is it themselves? |
A26963 | Is it therefore a real Being, really different from the Body, and able to be without it? |
A26963 | Is not the Haecceity, as they call it, continued? |
A26963 | Is not this a just progress? |
A26963 | Is the common light and sense of Nature no Evidence? |
A26963 | Is the simple Nature changed? |
A26963 | Is the universal Soul there fallen asleep, or imprisoned in a Grave, or what is it? |
A26963 | Is there not in the Creature a communicative disposition to cause their like? |
A26963 | Is this a Priviledg to boast of? |
A26963 | That you Act vitally, understand and will? |
A26963 | Therefore Belief is first, and is not caused by that which followeth it? |
A26963 | These are now my doubts; but are they the fruits of Diligence? |
A26963 | Those Conceptions are the cause of words and actions: and is there no cause of those Conceptions? |
A26963 | What happiness then can we hope for more than deliverance from the present calamity; or what misery are we capable of, more than is common to all? |
A26963 | What if I said,[ The Chandler made a Candle of Tallow, and then by another kindled it]? |
A26963 | What need you the Power, if you can act without it? |
A26963 | What should hinder it? |
A26963 | What''s here wanting to a Definition? |
A26963 | When the dust of the Carcass is scattered, is the Soul concentred in every atome, or but in one? |
A26963 | When will you shew us an Ape or a Monkey, that was ever brought to the Acts or Habits before mentioned of Men? |
A26963 | Whereas were the Soul such as repesented, who could rob it of its Endowments? |
A26963 | Who can trust the Honesty of such men, as multitudes of Popes, Prelates, and Priests have been? |
A26963 | Why are you not answerable for the Crimes of every Thief, if all b ● ● one? |
A26963 | Why did the knees prevent me? |
A26963 | Why do not Beasts speak as well as Men? |
A26963 | Why should you think he would not? |
A26963 | Will they stick at a Lye, that stick not at Blood, or any wickedness? |
A26963 | Will this make a Captive bear his Captivity, or a Malefactor his Death? |
A26963 | Yea, of those that were born deaf and dumb? |
A26963 | You add, how easie it would have been to you to believe as the Church believeth ▪ and not to have immerged your self in these difficulties? |
A26963 | You add,[ How shall I know the difference between the highest degree of materials, and lowest of immaterials? |
A26963 | You ask, Is it able to be without it? |
A26963 | and am I thus rewarded for not believing at a common rate? |
A26963 | and whether or no all things invisible, and imperceptable to Sense, are accounted such? |
A26963 | and yet knew God and his Law, and how to name the Creatures, and how to dress and keep the Garden? |
A26963 | or is it not? |
A26963 | or what misery are we eapable of, more than what is common to all? |
A26963 | or why the breasts, that I should suck? |
A26963 | or[ a man made an house of Bricks, and cemented them with Mortar,& c.]? |
A26963 | why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? |
A26963 | will you thence prove, That he made a Candle burning without fire, or the House without Mortar? |
A52412 | A Bottomless Depth with( I will not say a Finite, but) so very scanty a Measuer? |
A52412 | And I pray Consider seriously, and tell me truly, do you verily think in your Consciences that your Reason is the Measure of Truth? |
A52412 | And are you sure that you always do, I mean so as to act by it, that you hold it in Hypothesi as well as in Thesi? |
A52412 | And can it be much less for an Infinite Intelligence to have only a Finite Intelligible for its Object? |
A52412 | And do we not find it so when we Convert our selves to it by Study and Meditation? |
A52412 | And do you not then plainly see that your great Maxim falls to the ground, that you are to believe nothing but what you can Comprehend? |
A52412 | And if Christianity be no More, what Proportion( say they) will it bear to its Miraculous Introduction? |
A52412 | And in order to all this it must also be intimately present to it, and united with it, otherwise how can it so act upon it? |
A52412 | And indeed how is it possible it should consist in any thing else? |
A52412 | And indeed if Truth were not Infinite how can the Knowledge of God be so? |
A52412 | And now Sirs what do you think of your Principle? |
A52412 | And what Ground of Assurance can we have from either or both of these, which are apt rather to lay a Foundation of Diffidence and Distrust? |
A52412 | And what an extravagant Folly and Weakness, not to say Pride and Vanity is it to fancy that we can? |
A52412 | And what better way have we to know the Distinction of things, but only that the Idea of one is not the Idea of another? |
A52412 | And what is the Object of the Divine, or of any other Understanding, but Truth? |
A52412 | And what will it be found to have so very Considerable as either to deserve or justifie such an Apparatus? |
A52412 | And why proud of that which should rather deject us, and make us Humble, of our Imperfections and our Defects? |
A52412 | And why then are we Proud? |
A52412 | And yet as if this were not Presumption enough, do you not also make your Reason the Rule of Faith, as well as of Revelation? |
A52412 | Are not the Sciences continually improved, and yet are there not still Depths in every Science which no Line of Thought can ever Fathom? |
A52412 | Besides how comes it to be a Perfection of the Divine Understanding? |
A52412 | But does the supposition of its having Limits infer that it has the same? |
A52412 | But hold a little, before your Reason can be the Measure of Faith, must it not be the Measure of Truth? |
A52412 | But how then can we found the Depth of Truth with so short a Line? |
A52412 | But not to consider Hypothetical Truth, can the Bounds of that which is Absolute be ever fix''d, or its Stock ever Exhausted? |
A52412 | But now I pray what Ideas are so but the Divine? |
A52412 | But now how comes it to be so Dark and Cloudy? |
A52412 | But now what can be more dark and inevident than this Implicit Faith? |
A52412 | But now where does the Ground of this Consequence rest at last, or upon what Principle does it ultimately depend? |
A52412 | But suppose I say he should, would you not believe it? |
A52412 | But then I demand whence has it this Self- subsistence and Independency of Being? |
A52412 | But then it so, what if we add the other Consideration to it? |
A52412 | But what is it that makes them Infinite and Incomprehensible? |
A52412 | But what then, shall we not Believe it? |
A52412 | But why do you not care to own it? |
A52412 | By what Logic does this Latter Proposition follow from the Former? |
A52412 | Can any thing be a Rule to God that is not himself? |
A52412 | Do not these seem flat Contradictions one to the other, and how then shall we adjust the Matter between them? |
A52412 | Do you never assent to any thing but what you can Comprehend? |
A52412 | Do you not see at the first cast of your Eye that you are unavoidably driven upon it by your profess''d Maxim? |
A52412 | Does he Consult or Follow any thing but what is One with his own Divine Nature and Essence? |
A52412 | For do we Dispute about Names or Things? |
A52412 | For how I pray comes the Incomprehensibility of a thing to conclude the untruth of it? |
A52412 | For how should we be able to know it, or upon what shall we ground this our Knowledge? |
A52412 | For if the Object of Faith be alwayes inevident so far as Believ''d, then will it not follow that it May be believ''d though inevident? |
A52412 | For otherwise how should their not being able to comprehend a thing, be an Argument that it is not true? |
A52412 | For what can be More plain than that Not to Comprehend how a thing may be, and to Comprehend that it can not be, are two different things? |
A52412 | For what though it be above Reason, is it therefore above Faith? |
A52412 | For who can define the Out- flowings of the Divine Fecundity, or Number the Rounds of the Intellectual Scale? |
A52412 | For why may not a thing really and in it self inevident be believ''d, when even that which is Evident is Consider''d by Faith as inevident? |
A52412 | Has Faith any regard to Evidence? |
A52412 | His Ground is every whit as Firm and Sure as the others, and why then should the Measure of his Assurance be less? |
A52412 | How comes it also to be the Rule and Measure of his Will, which can be determin''d by nothing but what is just Reasonable and True? |
A52412 | How is it that it is Present in all Places, and to all Minds, so as to be Contemplated by them all at the same time, and after the same Manner? |
A52412 | How, for instance, shall we accord the Vnity with the Trinity, the Society of three different Persons in the perfect Simplicity of the Divine Nature? |
A52412 | I can not Comprehend such a thing, therefore it is not True, where''s the Consequence? |
A52412 | If a Finite Being were able to Comprehend Truth, why must Man be that Being? |
A52412 | If the having any limits does so unqualifie it for the adequate Comprehension of Truth, how then does the having so very short and strait ones? |
A52412 | If to nothing but what is Clear and Evident, how then to what is Obscure and Inevident? |
A52412 | Is any thing a Perfection to God but himself? |
A52412 | Is it not a goodly one, and richly worth all the Passion and Zeal you have express''d for it? |
A52412 | It is as high as Heaven, what canst thou do? |
A52412 | No, For though Finite, its Bounds may possibly be extended further than those of our Understandings, and how can we be sure that they are not? |
A52412 | Or if to what is Obscure and Inevident, how then to nothing but what is Clear and Evident? |
A52412 | Or is it determin''d by any Rational Motive, I mean that is taken from the Nature of the Object? |
A52412 | Or whether there be any thing further requisite to the understanding or knowledge of a thing after a full and clear perception of it? |
A52412 | Since there are so many inconceivable things, or if you please, Mysteries, in the Works of Nature and of Providence, why not in Religion? |
A52412 | Well, be it so as this Gentleman pretends( though I believe upon Examination it would appear otherwise) yet what is this to the purpose? |
A52412 | What but One thing excepted from the Verge, and placed beyond the reach of Human Knowledge? |
A52412 | What is there in the whole Compass of Being that is Necessary, Eternal and Immutable but God and his Divine Perfections? |
A52412 | Whence again has it its fix''d and unalterable Nature, such as we can neither add any thing to, nor diminish ought from? |
A52412 | Why can we not enter into the Detail of Providence? |
A52412 | Will it not inevitably lead you to the denial of all Religion? |
A52412 | Will not this necessarily lead you to the denial of God the Foundation of all Religion? |
A52412 | deeper than Hell, what canst thou know? |
A28523 | * Therefore, if it be asked, what kind of Matter it was, whereinto Gods Word and Heart hath given in it selfe, and made it selfe a Body? |
A28523 | 2. c He asked them, and said, Whom say ye then that I am? |
A28523 | 2. could not God then thus introduce Man into Heaven with the New Birth? |
A28523 | 5. Who is here that can unshut this? |
A28523 | Also, is not the Kingdom of Heaven within us? |
A28523 | And are not the Father the Word and Spirit which bear record in Heaven One? |
A28523 | And do not the Spirit the Water and the Bloud which bear record on the Earth agree in One? |
A28523 | And doth it not consist in Peace Righteousness, and Joy in the Holy Ghost? |
A28523 | And had it not been so, though the Angels world and ours had never been created? |
A28523 | And if we walk in the Light as he is in the Light, doth not the Bloud of Jesus Christ clense us from All Sinnes? |
A28523 | And is not his Flesh meat indeed and his Bloud drink indeed? |
A28523 | And since God worketh in us both to wil and to do, why refuse we to will and to do? |
A28523 | And were not all the Things without them and within them, in Being, though they had not been spoken of in the Scriptures? |
A28523 | And were not the Divine holy Spiritual, and all other Natural things in Being, without the Created inward and outward world as well as in them? |
A28523 | Art thou a ● Champion; why dost thou not strive or fight against the Evil? |
A28523 | Art thou an Enemy? |
A28523 | Art thou the Maker of thy own selfe? |
A28523 | As First, concerning the Creation; what Essence, substance, and property, Man is, whether he be Eternal or not Eternal? |
A28523 | Bring forth the New Jerusalem; It is Day: why should we sleep in the Day? |
A28523 | But I would have the Scorner, and total Earthly Man, asked; whether the Heaven be blinde, as also Hell, and God himself? |
A28523 | But can a Man make of himselfe what he will? |
A28523 | But now Reason asketh: How is then the similitude? |
A28523 | But that Crown hideth it selfe again; for in that place, God becometh Man: How then can there be but Great Joy? |
A28523 | But the fierce wrathful Essence was too strong, so that it overcame the love Essence; what can God doe to that? |
A28523 | But what doth this Evil world now? |
A28523 | But who shall express his Glory, which will be his wages? |
A28523 | Can he there see the wicked Malice before hand: why seeth he not also his wages and recompence beforehand? |
A28523 | Doest thou ask; Why? |
A28523 | Dost thou know this thou Earthly Man? |
A28523 | Doth not Faith come by inward Hearing, and that Hearing by the same word of God? |
A28523 | For, † where our willing and Heart is, there is also our Treasure: Is our willing in Gods willing? |
A28523 | Hath not God shed abroad his Love in our Hearts? |
A28523 | He himself hath not the Mystery, and how then will he give or* dispence it to others? |
A28523 | Here indeed sticketh the Matter, deare defiled piece of Wood, smell into thy bolome, what is it thou stinkest of? |
A28523 | How many Thousand Endless Mysteries, are Treasured up in the hidden wisdom of God in Christ, and in him in us? |
A28523 | How sweet is the water of the Eternal Life our of Gods Majesty? |
A28523 | How then would he have suffered Death; have entred into Death, and destroyed it? |
A28523 | How very amiable and blessed is but the glimps of the divine substantiality? |
A28523 | If then God hath by the Dying of his Sonne, redeemed us, and paid a ransom for us, wherefore then must we also dye and perish or be consumed? |
A28523 | If we say we have no sin, we deceive our Selves; May they be taken as meant speaking of others, and not himself included? |
A28523 | Is it not that* Closed or shut book of him that sitteth upon the Throne or seat in the Revelation of Jesus Christ? |
A28523 | Is not God Omnipotent enough to do what he will? |
A28523 | Is not God himself Light? |
A28523 | It continually saith: where is thy God? |
A28523 | Now behold further: what would remain of the Fire if I should take away the Light and Lustre from the Fire? |
A28523 | Now saith Reason: Had the Devil so great Might? |
A28523 | Now saith Reason: How is it come to pass in this becoming Man or Incarnation? |
A28523 | Now saith Reason; whence hath this its originall? |
A28523 | Now, what can the Light do, if the fire lay hold of somewhat and devoureth it? |
A28523 | Now, when Adam and Eve stood thus in terrour, before the Anger of God,* God, cattel Adam, and said; Adam where art thou? |
A28523 | O thou Noble, Man; if thou knewest thy selfe, who thou art, how woulst thou rejoyce? |
A28523 | OUtward Reason saith: How may a Man in this world see into God, viz: into another world; and say what God is? |
A28523 | Or if he would needs redeem us in such a way; wherefore seeing Christ hath redeemed us, must we, then, also dye? |
A28523 | Or what should it desire other then what it was in its own substance? |
A28523 | Or whether there be also any seeing in the divine World? |
A28523 | Or, what pleasure hath God in thy knowing, when as thou stil continuest wicked? |
A28523 | Outward Reason saith, how may that come to pass? |
A28523 | Seeing then it hath a Life, and the Power and understanding of the Light, why doth it then run into the Fire? |
A28523 | Shall I go out of the Light into Darkness? |
A28523 | Shall we then sinne? |
A28523 | Should now the Holy spirit be blind, when he dwelleth in Man? |
A28523 | Should we then in Christ, be blind, as to God? |
A28523 | Sparrow, John, 1615- 1665? |
A28523 | The Devil knoweth it also well, what doth that avail him? |
A28523 | The Light and Power drew not the Devil into the Fire, but the fierce wrath of Nature; Why did the Spirit assent to be willing? |
A28523 | WHen Christ asked his Disciples,* Whom do the people say that the Sonne of man is? |
A28523 | We generate not as to this World; how will we then see the fruit with the Eyes of this world? |
A28523 | Were we not, in the beginning, made out of Gods Substantiality? |
A28523 | What is it now that is strange to or in us, that we can not see God? |
A28523 | What is it then: or who speaketh out of the Blasphemous Mouth? |
A28523 | What need we flatter our selves; are we righteous? |
A28523 | What pleasure hath God in Death and dying? |
A28523 | What pleasure hath God in Death? |
A28523 | Where are thou, Adam? |
A28523 | Whether God made man out of Earth? |
A28523 | Why did God suffer the Tree to grow, by which Adam was Tempted? |
A28523 | Why do we not eat and drink thereof? |
A28523 | Why do you Teach, when you* are not sent from God? |
A28523 | Why dost thou make thy selfe Evil? |
A28523 | Why dost thou not say to the Light: why Sufferest thou the Fire to be? |
A28523 | Why doth God let it go so, that here is nothing but vain toylsome weariness, as also vexation and oppression, one plaguing and afflicting another? |
A28523 | and then must not all needs be in us? |
A28523 | but by the Holy Spirit? |
A28523 | but if thou strivest or fightest against the Good, thou are an Enemy of God: dost thou suppose that God will set an Angels Crown upon the Devil? |
A28523 | dost thou not see thou are no more in Heaven? |
A28523 | dost thou suppose he will accept thy Hypocrisie? |
A28523 | give me a strong Faith in the Merits of thy Sonne Christ: that he hath satisfied for my sinnes: supposest thou, that, that is enough? |
A28523 | had he not that when he said so, that he might justly exclude himself from having any sinne? |
A28523 | or when shall it come to pass, that I may see the Countenance of God? |
A28523 | or who shall speak of the Crown or Garland of Victory which he attaineth? |
A28523 | or write I this, for my own Boasting? |
A28523 | should we not through Patience possess our Souls? |
A28523 | that be farre off: How shall I will to enter againe into that to which I have dyed? |
A28523 | that he hath not onely suffered his Sonne to dye on the Cross, but that we all must Dye also? |
A28523 | that our Salvation may become generated? |
A28523 | that we might be born again out of the Virgin, out of which Christ was born? |
A28523 | were not the Pure in Heart Blessed? |
A28523 | were not, the Word, God; though John the Apostle had not said so? |
A28523 | what then shall we think was become of his Earthly Old Adam of his outward Flesh and Bloud, wherein he was Mortal? |
A28523 | where is my † Noble Pearl? |
A28523 | where is the virgins- Child; I see it not yet; how is it with me, that I am so anxious about that which yet I can not see? |
A28523 | whether also, the Spirit of God seeth, both in the Love- light- world, as also in the fierce wrath in the Anger- world in the Center? |
A28523 | whether it be strange Matter come from Heaven? |
A28523 | why should we not also stand therein? |
A28523 | will not Heavenly Father give the holy Spirit to them that desire it? |
A28523 | † And he said; Who hath told thee that thou art Naked? |
A28523 | † What say we then? |
A26214 | And first of all I would have thee to tell me: why dost thou conceive that we ought not to Believe? |
A26214 | Because it is a grounded report ● was it grounded upon you, or upon others? |
A26214 | But do I send thee to fables? |
A26214 | But yet thou saist, what necessity is there of delay? |
A26214 | Can they be mo ● e oppo ● ite and contrary to themselves? |
A26214 | Chapter alledgeth these words:( why sayst thou) are not these things done now? |
A26214 | Did not I say a little before that we would seek after the truth, as though we were yet ignorant thereof? |
A26214 | Do they say that they are neither good, nor rightly understood by us? |
A26214 | Doest thou believe that thou art in that number? |
A26214 | For what do we desire to find out at length by so great an endeavour? |
A26214 | For what is more pleasant and familiar to our eyes, then this light is? |
A26214 | For who doth not believe that which he doth approve? |
A26214 | Go to then, and hereafter consider the Scriptures themselves: for what do they object against the books which are called the Old Testament? |
A26214 | How shall they hear without a preacher? |
A26214 | How ● hen may I believe them concerning Christ whom they have not seen: if I may not believe them concerning thee whom they will not see? |
A26214 | I speak of those that are recovering their health: but what do we not enforce the sick men themselves to eat something? |
A26214 | If so, what cause could more profitably enforce thee to travell? |
A26214 | Is it so indeed? |
A26214 | Is it unto that thing which we believe not to have a being nor to belong and appertain unto us? |
A26214 | O Honorat us have we done any such thing? |
A26214 | Or how is that which they follow profitable, if it be not approved? |
A26214 | Or what shall he give in exchange ther ● of? |
A26214 | SEeing my discourse is concerning th ● se that desire to be called Christians ● I pray tell me what reason can that heretick alledge unto me? |
A26214 | Shall I believe them first, and be afterwards taught an ● instructed by thee? |
A26214 | What answer shall we give, but that he ought to be believed? |
A26214 | What can he say to draw me from Believing, as from a rash and incons ● de ● ate thing? |
A26214 | What if I did not believe in him at all, couldest thou teach me any thing concerning him? |
A26214 | What if it be so great a matter ● that unlesse it be diligently sought for, and with all might and power it can not be found out? |
A26214 | What if true Religion be some such thing? |
A26214 | What is a man profited, if he shall gain the world ● nd loose his own soul? |
A26214 | What is more fit and commodious for a body that is consumed and exhausted with sicknesse, then meat and drink? |
A26214 | What shall I say ● but that all Hereticks do exhort us to believe Christ? |
A26214 | What then have I learned? |
A26214 | What then shall I say of my self? |
A26214 | What wish we to attain unto? |
A26214 | What( sayst thou) could be uttered or spoken more redounding to their praise and commendation? |
A26214 | What, upon your warrant and recommendation? |
A26214 | When therefore wilt thou settle thy self to a most painfull and labo ● ious search? |
A26214 | Whither do we long to arrive? |
A26214 | Who are they that affirm it? |
A26214 | Why then hath it not disheartened men from the study of the liberall sciences which hardly yields any profit to this present life? |
A26214 | Why then shall I believe in him? |
A26214 | Why( sayst thou) are not these things done now? |
A26214 | Wilt thou better expound unto me what ● Christ hath ● aid? |
A26214 | and how shall they preach unlesse they be sent? |
A26214 | and that we care not whither there be any or no? |
A26214 | but saist thou, Had it not been be ● ter to alledge reason unto me, that I might followit without any rashnesse whithersoever it should lead me? |
A26214 | but this is sufficiently ● onvinced by the former defense; or will they say, that we rightly understand them, but that the books be naught? |
A26214 | do they say that they are good, but that we do not well and rightly understand them? |
A26214 | finally, why not from the desire of a blessed& an happy life? |
A26214 | moreover, why not from recovering and preserving health? |
A26214 | or do I enforce thee to believe any thing rashly? |
A26214 | or doest thou conceive that by little and little they ought to be led by certain degrees to those chiefest secrets? |
A26214 | what thinkest thou, but that when they reprove those things, the Catholike doctrine is not reprehended? |
A26214 | why not from obtaining dignities and honours? |
A26214 | why not from seeking after money and getting wealth? |
A26214 | ● ill thy rea ● ● n bu ● ● d any thi ● g that is firm& stable upon t ● e foundation of temer ● ● y& ● ashnesse? |
A55568 | Apollyon Has that God which you serv''d, been good to you? |
A55568 | Apollyon How can you call me Lord? |
A55568 | Are you in love with your own damnation? |
A55568 | Are you then interested in him? |
A55568 | At a stand, why so? |
A55568 | Bless God then for what you know, and answer me this question, Is the Iudgement- Day known unto any or no? |
A55568 | But is not the Apocrypha the Word of God? |
A55568 | But who do think is my God now? |
A55568 | But who do you think of these were first, God the Father, or God the Son? |
A55568 | Did he require it of thee, and hast thou done it? |
A55568 | Do you believe all those Truths c ● ● tained in the Holy Bible? |
A55568 | Friend, what do you think Creation signifies? |
A55568 | God will( I see) make use of you to do my soul good, but what do you think now of my Condition? |
A55568 | Have you a minde to lose your soul? |
A55568 | How are you compos''d in minde? |
A55568 | How come you to be out of your place then? |
A55568 | How do I prove it? |
A55568 | How do you mean Saints and Angels? |
A55568 | How do you prove that? |
A55568 | How do you prove, that Salvation is only to be had through Christ? |
A55568 | How do you, my friend? |
A55568 | How is this Faith attained? |
A55568 | How manifold is the coming of Christ; why, is there more comings of Christ then one? |
A55568 | How may I pray, so as to finde acceptance with God? |
A55568 | How now, who taught you to break your Promise, did your Priests? |
A55568 | How then comes it to ▪ pass you look so sad? |
A55568 | How, I pray? |
A55568 | I am afraid so too, what did you do ● hen you were together? |
A55568 | I am glad of it, and therefore bless God; And now tell me, I pray you, what you what is your belief concerning the Incarnation of our Saviour? |
A55568 | I am glad of that; but what think you of this? |
A55568 | I am very well pleased and satisfied in what has been said, have you any more Questions to ask me? |
A55568 | I come now to ask you how and by what means you may come to know God? |
A55568 | I hope you not expect to get to Heaven by your ● ● ayer, do you? |
A55568 | I like it very well; how do yo ● like it, Sir? |
A55568 | I think so, why what is the ma ● ● ter? |
A55568 | Is the bread really transubstantial, and turn''d into the Body of Christ? |
A55568 | Is the loss of Heaven, and the Enjoyment of God nothing? |
A55568 | Nay, hold you; I have heard of Jesus; what of him? |
A55568 | O what shall I do? |
A55568 | Oh fie, why are you so deceived, as to think any such thing? |
A55568 | Paulus Is not the Devil God? |
A55568 | Paulus Is not the Testimony of the Church then of some use? |
A55568 | Paulus Sir, business does call me home, and I am also under such an indisposition of body, as that I can not talk any longer with you? |
A55568 | Paulus When will he come to me then? |
A55568 | Paulus Will you accept of me, Oh Lord? |
A55568 | Pray Sir, is there any Scripture for this? |
A55568 | Pray what is he? |
A55568 | Proceed, why stay you your hand? |
A55568 | Right, what think you now of the Creation of the World; did God make the World of somthing, or of nothing? |
A55568 | The last time that you was with 〈 ◊ 〉( you may remember) you en ● ir''d of me, what company I had? |
A55568 | These are wonderful things, pray tell me now, how Christ will judge the World? |
A55568 | Thirdly, that which follows this day, is the proportioning of a reward unto every Mans work; and now tell me what thou thinkest of these things? |
A55568 | Truly, I question it, but how may I come to have an interest in him? |
A55568 | Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he can not see the Kingdom of God; And what think you of th ● se Scriptures? |
A55568 | Very good, are there more Gods then one? |
A55568 | Very good, the next Question then shall be this, what think you then concerning the Resurrection? |
A55568 | Very well( my friend) for your Answer pleases me exceeding well, but how manifold is the coming of Christ? |
A55568 | Visible in the clouds; for even as he ascended, so shall he descend; but wherefore do you think, my Friend, Christ will judge the World? |
A55568 | WELL met, Friend; Whither are you going? |
A55568 | WELL met, Friend; how is it with you now? |
A55568 | Well met( my Paulus) why does ● thou muse with thy self? |
A55568 | Well, bless God for it; and now seeing, through infinite mercy, an insufficiency in good works to save you, what think you of God? |
A55568 | Well, friend, what think you of this question? |
A55568 | Well, what of all that? |
A55568 | What company,( I pray) good company? |
A55568 | What do you tell me of Figures? |
A55568 | What do you think then concerning Heaven? |
A55568 | What hast thou done then? |
A55568 | What is Prayer? |
A55568 | What is faith? |
A55568 | What is he, I pray? |
A55568 | What is the matter? |
A55568 | What kinde of Providence( I pray friend) has been exercised towards you since I last saw you? |
A55568 | What means this( To reveal I 〈 ◊ 〉 not, to conceal I am bound) who i ● that you are so oblig''d to, as that dare not disoblige? |
A55568 | What opinion am I of? |
A55568 | What opinion( I pray) are you of? |
A55568 | What think you now concerning the last Iudgment, do you believe it or not? |
A55568 | What think you now of the Sacrament? |
A55568 | What would you have me to do? |
A55568 | What, that irrenious fellow? |
A55568 | When Paul disputed this Point at 〈 ◊ 〉 the great Philosophers of the Epicur ● ● ● s laughed at him, What will this Babler say? |
A55568 | Where hast tho ● been all this while? |
A55568 | Whether it is lawfull pray unto Angels? |
A55568 | Who is Jesus Christ; why he is the Son of God? |
A55568 | Who is that, I pray? |
A55568 | Who is the true God? |
A55568 | Whose Throne is Heaven then? |
A55568 | Why, I suppose he is God too, is he not? |
A55568 | Why, do you question getting thither? |
A55568 | Why, doest thou think there is a God? |
A55568 | Will he do one no hurt? |
A55568 | Will the Devil ve a better friend to you then God? |
A55568 | Will the Flames of Hell be as sweet as a Bed of Roses? |
A55568 | Will weeping in the Labyrinth of eternal misery, be more pleasant then the singing Hall ● lujahs in the glorious Heavens? |
A55568 | Yea, I did, what of all that? |
A55568 | Yea, that I do; Do n''t you? |
A55568 | Yes, for have you not read of the Publicans demeanour before God? |
A55568 | You answer right, but what do you think will be the Order of this Iudgement? |
A55568 | You cry out of your misery, but you do not tell mee wherein it does consist? |
A55568 | You understand herein, I shall examine by asking you several questions concerning this duty; as first, ought we to pray unto God, and only unto him? |
A55568 | Your Answer as you should do; But are the Scriptures sufficient of themselves to work faith in us or no? |
A55568 | can one pray, and not speak? |
A55568 | have you not provoked God enough already, and will you provoke him still? |
A55568 | how therefore( my friend) ha ● God dealt with you since I last parted from you? |
A55568 | to see a Play? |
A55568 | what a blasphemous wretch was he that told you, from whence did he come, and where doth he dwell? |
A55568 | what evil company have you commun''d with, know you not, that there is but one God, and that is our God? |
A55568 | ● Dost thou ● know what thou h ● ● done? |
A33723 | 1st, I Answer, Is not a habit of Faith, a Mans habit? |
A33723 | 33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect? |
A33723 | 37. their Hearts were prick''d, they cry out in the midst of the Sermon, Men and Brethren what shall we do? |
A33723 | 7. whose Generation is Eternal, who can declare it? |
A33723 | Alas, what a slender account is this? |
A33723 | And have not the Saints reason to glory in it also? |
A33723 | And how shall we know what that is? |
A33723 | And is this a state to be rested in? |
A33723 | And is this the Conditional service required? |
A33723 | Art thou a new creature? |
A33723 | Art thou born again? |
A33723 | At how little a hole will self- Righteousness creep in? |
A33723 | But alas, how do Men please themselves with their Rich Relations, Great Families, they are Nobly descended? |
A33723 | But they further say, that this is a conditional service: Why? |
A33723 | But this is wrought by God; and is not every Act of Faith wrought by God in the Soul of a Believer? |
A33723 | Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the Leopard his spots? |
A33723 | Can we in any sense say, That we do not commit Sin, that we can not Sin, do no iniquity? |
A33723 | Can you eat, and drink, and sleep so securely under it? |
A33723 | Commanded us to believe and pray, what is that? |
A33723 | Cursed is every one,& c. Do you not hear the Law, says Paul? |
A33723 | Do you make so light of it? |
A33723 | Doth God mean this, when he bids me believe in Jesus? |
A33723 | First, After the commission of Sin; what repentance, what godly sorrow, what shame, what indignation, what revenge? |
A33723 | Hast thou a new heart? |
A33723 | How busie is the Soul? |
A33723 | How hard is it for them that trust in riches, to enter into the kingdom of God? |
A33723 | How should Hearing of things above our Reason contribute any thing to our believing them? |
A33723 | How should we long to be related to such a Father, to such a Brother, to such an Inheritance? |
A33723 | How welcome is he to us? |
A33723 | I do n''t ask what you hold, or what you profess, or what you know, but what you are, what Newness of Spirit do you find in your selves? |
A33723 | If Faith and Repentance be thus always joyned together, does it not follow that we are justified by our Repentance as well as by Faith? |
A33723 | If it be a Truth, as I doubt not you all believe it to be, Why do n''t you follow it home, make something of it? |
A33723 | If you ask, How Life comes to be derived from Christ into the Soul of a dead Sinner? |
A33723 | Is it not infused by God into Man, and placed in Man? |
A33723 | Is not Man the Subject of this Habit? |
A33723 | Is not this the old, honest, plain down- right notion of believing? |
A33723 | Is there such a Principle within us, that we can say from our Consciences, we would not Sin, even when we do Sin? |
A33723 | Is this the condition? |
A33723 | Is this the way to quiet and settle the Consciences of poor distressed sinners? |
A33723 | Is this to Preach Christ? |
A33723 | Is this to be raised in power, with our Spirits made perfect? |
A33723 | Life is promised, not simply to believing, but to believing in; in whom? |
A33723 | Must we be set upon a fresh by him? |
A33723 | My Text speaks of something to be done in you, and upon you, Is that done? |
A33723 | No, no, after death he hath done with you for ever; he will not dare to look you in the face at the last day: He draw up a charge against you? |
A33723 | Regeneration, or our first Conversion, what is it but a revealing Christ in us? |
A33723 | Secondly, After the conquest over the Temptation; what rejoycing, what thanksgiving, what triumphing in the Grace of Christ? |
A33723 | The Positive part is, He doth Righteousness; what do ye more than others? |
A33723 | The last enemy that shall be destroyed is Death, saith the Apostle; and must we have an after rancounter with the Devil? |
A33723 | The main Query is, How this Union is brought about between Christ and our Souls? |
A33723 | The next thing to be considered is, whether you and I are regenerated, and do feel any symptoms of this new birth in our selves? |
A33723 | There is much Preaching and much Hearing in this City, but what comes on''t? |
A33723 | This should awaken us to Repentance, are there not sins even mong us against the Lord our God? |
A33723 | To Preach the glad Tidings of the Gospel? |
A33723 | To work for Justification is to work for Life, and why should we thus turn the Gospel into the Law? |
A33723 | What Preparatory Works are? |
A33723 | What carefulness, what clearing of themselves, what Indignation and Revenge? |
A33723 | What do you alone without Christ? |
A33723 | What do you mean by it? |
A33723 | What does that signifie, how ineffectual is it? |
A33723 | What have we to do to repent of the punishment? |
A33723 | What if we know no more of Justification then is absolutely necessary for our Justification? |
A33723 | What is Grace but Truth put into the inward parts? |
A33723 | What is Regenerating Grace, but a special Providence towards the Elect, carried on with wonderful Wisdom and Counsel? |
A33723 | What is this Light of Faith, and how does it differ from the Light of Reason? |
A33723 | What is this but the hand of the Lord with them at such a season, letting in his Word with power upon their Souls? |
A33723 | What secret inferences does an enlightned Conscience draw from what it believes? |
A33723 | What tho there was a Legal Discipline in the Church of the Old Testament? |
A33723 | What, must we work for Life still? |
A33723 | When saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? |
A33723 | Whence should such an actual Will arise in man, as to desire his own Annihilation, that he may cease to be what he is, and become a new Creature? |
A33723 | Where is the new Nature? |
A33723 | Whether the first step in Regeneration be from Sin to Holiness, or from a sinful state and nature to Christ, that we may be made holy by him? |
A33723 | Who is against it? |
A33723 | Who is that inward Man, but the new Man, the new Creature, born of the incorruptible seed of the Word? |
A33723 | Who must draw up this charge, and manage this false Indictment? |
A33723 | Why do n''t you do it then? |
A33723 | With what reverence doth Paul draw nigh to this great Father? |
A33723 | You believe in Christ, what is the English of that? |
A33723 | You''l say then, is the Law against Repentance? |
A33723 | You''ll say, What are we to understand by the present state of our Souls? |
A33723 | are all things become new within and without? |
A33723 | born of God? |
A33723 | dost thou lead a new life? |
A33723 | his special business was to carry on this Preparatory work in order to conversion; and how does he do this? |
A33723 | how full of discourse with it self? |
A33723 | how short of a new birth? |
A33723 | is the whole course of thy life changed? |
A33723 | or thirsty and gave thee drink? |
A33723 | the Law written in the Heart, the Word abiding in us, and turned into grace in our hearts? |
A33723 | — Art thou born again? |
A62570 | A little will serve for our Passage and Accommodation in this Journey; and beyond that, why should we so earnestly covet and seek more? |
A62570 | And beyond that why should we so earnestly covet more, and trouble our selves for that which is not necessary to our Journey? |
A62570 | And did not following Councils proceed upon the same Rule? |
A62570 | And for the pleasing of our selves for a little while, to make our selves miserable for ever? |
A62570 | And if Blood be not offered; how is it Propitiatory? |
A62570 | And if I speak the truth, why do ye not believe me? |
A62570 | And if it were; why to his Successors at Rome, rather than at Antioch, where he was first, and unquestionably Bishop? |
A62570 | And is an Eternal Inheritance in the Heavens not worth the looking after? |
A62570 | And is there any need now, to exhort men to hold fast the profession of Faith, when the danger of drawing back is so evident, and so terrible? |
A62570 | And is this Consistent with a plain Constitution of our Lord''s, makeing St. Peter Supream Head and Pastor of the Christian Church? |
A62570 | And now that my Race is almost run, and my Course just finished, how loth should I be to be brought back, and made to begin again? |
A62570 | And the High Priest asked them, saying, Did we not straitly command you, that you should not teach in this Name? |
A62570 | And this being admitted, how easie is it for them to confirm and prove whatever Doctrines and Practices they have a mind to establish? |
A62570 | And why should I not be as much afraid to commit any Sin, as if Hell were naked before me, and I saw the astonishing Miseries of the Damned? |
A62570 | And why should we be daunted at any Suffering; if God be pleased to increase our Strength, in proportion to the Sharpness of our Sufferings? |
A62570 | And would they have us shew them a Visible Church, that opposed these Errors and Corruptions in their Church, before ever they appeared? |
A62570 | Are the slight and transitory Enjoyments of this World worth so much Thought and Care? |
A62570 | As for this present Life, and the Enjoyments of it, What do we see in them, that should make us so strangely to dote upon them? |
A62570 | As for this present Life, and the Enjoyments of it; What is it that we see in them that should make us so strangely to dote upon them? |
A62570 | But did any of the ancient Councils of the Christian Church lay down this Rule, and proceed upon it? |
A62570 | But do they find any footsteps of such a Style in Ecclesiastical History? |
A62570 | But how do they prove, that the Roman Church is the Catholick Church? |
A62570 | But how little of this is to be seen among Christians? |
A62570 | But if the enjoyment of these things were sure to be of the same date with our lives, yet how short a duration is that compared with Eternity? |
A62570 | But suppose this to have been so; where doth it appear, by any Constitution of our Saviour, that this Authority was derived to his Successors? |
A62570 | But what Testimony would this be against them, if Christians were bound to deny Christ at their Command? |
A62570 | But what( says he) if we be commanded by our lawful Prince to say with our Tongues, we believe not; must we obey such Commands? |
A62570 | But will any Man admit this way of proceeding in a Temporal Case? |
A62570 | By what Authority then hath the Council of Trent set up this new Rule, unknown to the Christian Church for 1500 Years? |
A62570 | Can any thing be more shameless than this? |
A62570 | Can we be so solicitous and careful about the Concernment of a few Days; and is it nothing to us what becomes of us for ever? |
A62570 | Did they always believe Transubstantiation? |
A62570 | Does St. Paul acknowledg any Superiority of St. Peter over him? |
A62570 | For if Blood be offered in the Sacrifice of the Mass, how is it an unbloody Sacrifice? |
A62570 | For upon these terms, who can know whether any Man be a Priest, and really ordained; or not? |
A62570 | For what Advantage is there in Life? |
A62570 | For what other Reason can they have to conceal it from them? |
A62570 | For what should Men be perswaded to be acquainted withal; if not with That which is the great Instrument of our Salvation? |
A62570 | For when the Young Man ask''d him; Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may inherit Eternal Life? |
A62570 | For( as our Saviour argues) What is a man profited, if he gain the whole World, and lose his own Soul? |
A62570 | He sets before them in this Chapter several examples in the Old Testament of those,( who tho? |
A62570 | He would ask us, why we believe that Book? |
A62570 | His Words are these: What if the Soveraign forbid us to believe in Christ? |
A62570 | Hope that is seen, is not Hope; for what a Man sees, why doth he yet Hope for it? |
A62570 | How deep then must it sink into the heart of a Father to give up his innocent Son to death? |
A62570 | How shall they believe in him, of whom they have not Heard? |
A62570 | In what Father, in what Council before that of Trent, do they find Christ to have Instituted just Seven Sacraments, neither more nor less? |
A62570 | Lord who shall dwell in thy Tabernacle, who shall dwell in thy holy Hill? |
A62570 | Nay rather, what Labour and Trouble is there not in it? |
A62570 | Nay, does he not upon several occasions declare himself equal to the chiefest Apostles, even to St. Peter himself? |
A62570 | Nay, is not the Doctrine of the Scriptures, and of the Ancient Fathers plainly against all these Practices? |
A62570 | Nay, whether he be a Christian, and have been truly baptized; or not? |
A62570 | Or what shall a Man give in exchange for his Soul? |
A62570 | Or what shall a Man give in exchange for his Soul? |
A62570 | Quae Miseri lucis tam dira cupido? |
A62570 | Quis novus hic furor est, ne moriare, mori? |
A62570 | Stedfast and unmovable, in what? |
A62570 | Suppose we had to deal with one that is a Stranger, and Enemy to Christianity, What means are proper to be used to gain him over to it? |
A62570 | Suppose we would live alone; How few are there that can enjoy themselves tolerably alone for any considerable time? |
A62570 | That Book which was written on purpose to reveal and convey to Men the Knowledge of God, and of his Will, and their Duty? |
A62570 | To what purpose should we be so cunning, when our abode in this world is so short and uncertain? |
A62570 | Was Purgatory always believed in the Roman Church, as it is now defined in the Council of Trent? |
A62570 | Was this always an Article of their Faith, and necessary to be believed by all Christians? |
A62570 | We will admit at present this to be the first Enquiry; Which is the True Church? |
A62570 | What argument would it be of any Mans virtue to forbear sinning, after he had been in Hell, and seen the miserable end of Sinners? |
A62570 | What can be more bloody than Blood? |
A62570 | What can be more severe and terrible than these expressions? |
A62570 | What is there then, that should move any reasonable Man to forsake the Communion of our Church, and to quit the Reformed Religion? |
A62570 | What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole World, and lose his own Soul? |
A62570 | What think we would a Judge say to such a bold and senseless Pleader? |
A62570 | What, if for fear of Men, and what they can do to me, I incur the Wrath and Displeasure of Almighty God? |
A62570 | Where then is the Blessing spoken of and signified by the great Words of that Promise, that God was their God? |
A62570 | Which of you convinceth me of sin? |
A62570 | Which of you,( says he) intending to build a Tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? |
A62570 | Why should any man by dissembling his Judgment, or acting contrary to it, incur at once the displeasure of God, and the discontent of his own mind? |
A62570 | Why should we at any time deal unjustly, to attain any of this World''s Goods? |
A62570 | Why would he refuse a Kingdom which was offered to him with so fair an oportunity of doing so much good? |
A62570 | With what Constancy and Evenness of Mind did Socrates receive the Sentence of Death? |
A62570 | Would not this be a wild Bargain, and a mad Exchange, for any Temporal Gain and Advantage, to lose the things that are Eternal? |
A62570 | and consequently whether any of his Admistrations be valid, and we have any Benefit and Advantage by them? |
A62570 | and who gave them this Authority? |
A62570 | or is there any reason and occasion for it? |
A62570 | or what shall a Man give in exchange for his Soul? |
A62570 | or what shall a man give in exchange for his Soul? |
A62570 | or what shall a man give in exchange for his Soul? |
A62570 | that is, of Falsehood and Error? |
A14750 | ANd what is there yet further, thou wouldest haue Faith doe for thee? |
A14750 | Alas, alas, doe not all these know they are in the Chambers of death? |
A14750 | All which made Iob cry out, Why is light giuen to him that is in misery, and life vnto the bitter in soule? |
A14750 | And if a man hath a Target that is impenetrable, what is hee the better if his heart or Arte faile him when hee should defend himselfe by it? |
A14750 | And indeed, how or why should it be otherwise? |
A14750 | And indeede, why is there such a price put into the hands of fooles that know not the worth and improuement of it? |
A14750 | And is not Faith an Hypostasis and euidence to thee of an infallible inheritance? |
A14750 | And must not that needes bee another manner of ioy then euer entred into the heart of a naturall man, then euer a Sardanapalus tasted of? |
A14750 | And what else desire wee but to dye dayly, that the life in Christ may be manifested in vs? |
A14750 | And whom doth hee iustifie but the vngodly? |
A14750 | Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better then the vintage of Abiezer? |
A14750 | Are we not nourished by the same Elements of which wee consist? |
A14750 | Beest thou a Scholler, a Prophet, or Sonne of the Prophets, what is thy worke? |
A14750 | Behold Paul, slaine by the Law, reuiued by the Gospell, what doe wee thinke of him? |
A14750 | Betweene life and life what a breadth of difference is there? |
A14750 | But what doe I treating of the kindes of life? |
A14750 | But what good doth it any to haue a Cordiall by him, if he vse it not? |
A14750 | But what is that you call vsing of Faith? |
A14750 | But what signe shall I haue of the truth of my Faith? |
A14750 | Can, or did any Beleeuer giue the nay to these melting commaundes or commaunding entreaties of Faith, will it take the repulse? |
A14750 | Cherishing and feeding thee till thou come to a full and perfect age in Christ? |
A14750 | Christ hath made vs Holy- dayes, our Paschall Lambe is slaine, Haue any more cause to bee merry? |
A14750 | Commit we sacriledge against Christ in deifying of Faith? |
A14750 | Did Christ indent with Zacheus for Restitution and almes? |
A14750 | Did not Christ take the flesh of Rahab and Bathsheba, and did hee refuse to take their sinnes vpon him? |
A14750 | Did not his blood wash Dauids bloody sinne as white as snow? |
A14750 | Do they not consider how they wrong themselues of the maine benefit of their Iustification? |
A14750 | Doe not Christians consider how vnseemely it is for them, to goe drooping, hanging the head? |
A14750 | Doe they not see how they offend standers by and beholders? |
A14750 | Doest thou beleeue this with thy whole heart? |
A14750 | Doest thou desire to haue a continuall feast, to reioyce alwaies in the Lord? |
A14750 | Doth hee not see the Billes cancelled with the Pretious Blood of his Sonne and our Suretie? |
A14750 | Doth it not constraine and extort more then all rackes and strapadoes, allure more then all wages and prizes? |
A14750 | Doth not all the praise, beautie, and lustre of Faith, as well; or more then of other vertues consist in action and not in motion? |
A14750 | Doth not an experienced both Diuine and Phisition worthily preferre one dramme of it before all the Drugges in the Apothecaries shop for this effect? |
A14750 | Doth not he delight to forgiue much, that hee may binde to loue much? |
A14750 | Doth not this Magnes as easily drawe weighty yron as other Iet doth strawes? |
A14750 | Had you but with the tip of your tongue, tasted of Faiths dainties, how would you haue magnified Faith aboue all your Cardinall vertues? |
A14750 | Hath he not shewed thee, Oh man, that he that trusteh in his Sonne honoureth him most of all in putting to his Seale that hee is true? |
A14750 | How doth it become the Righteous to reioyce? |
A14750 | How hast thou and vsually doest thou spend the day? |
A14750 | How many doest thou knowe within thy conscience, liue this life of Faith? |
A14750 | How shall I be sure it is not that vaine and dead Faith Saint Iames speaketh of? |
A14750 | Ioseph, the LORD requireth the handsell of thy Tombe, and wilt thou deny him? |
A14750 | Is Pharphar like vnto Iordan? |
A14750 | Is a yong Ward prouder and gladder( in his minority) of an vncertaine reuersion, then a yeoman of his present estate? |
A14750 | Is any so simple to think because hee is a Christian that hee should affect a sad carriage, a deiected look, a demure countenance like an image? |
A14750 | Is it not a poorer and meaner Act to beleeue then to loue: more like a beggarly receiuing, then a working and deseruing hand? |
A14750 | Is not Faith able to rectifie nature? |
A14750 | Is not heauinesse a check that driues away and mirth as a lure that wins to the liking of their profession? |
A14750 | Is not one weeke of an healthy man, better, then a yeere of a crasie; one Sun- shine houre, then a gloomy day? |
A14750 | Is not the fruit of it sweeter in the eare then in the blade? |
A14750 | Is not the gaine and benefit of it in sense and feeling, not in knowledge or discourse? |
A14750 | Is not the throne and seat of it rather in the heart then in the head? |
A14750 | Is there any Spicknard too costly for his head? |
A14750 | Is thine haire too good to bee the towell? |
A14750 | Is thy Vertue exhaust, thy strength decayed in this old age of the World? |
A14750 | Many thou seest liue by their Lands, by their wits, by their shifts: but how many by their Faith? |
A14750 | Mary, if thy teares will washe his feete, wilt thou not poure them out? |
A14750 | May it not bee presumption if without repentance and sanctitie? |
A14750 | Oh how doth Faith heere lift vp the Crest, shine and triumph aboue Nature, Reason and all Morall Vertues in her incomparable valour? |
A14750 | Rob we the Lord to adorne the seruant with his diuine honours? |
A14750 | Shall not his fauour abound to the sense of thy Faith, where sinne hath abounded to the wounding of thy heart? |
A14750 | Shouldest thou that hast tasted of the grapes of Canaan, long after the Onions and Garlick of Aegypt? |
A14750 | Stephen, louest thou thy life aboue thy Master? |
A14750 | Take away the soule from the body, and earth becomes earth; seuer Christ and the soule, what is it but a dead carrion? |
A14750 | The Irish aske such, what they meane to die? |
A14750 | Verily, what hath the habite of Faith in it selfe considered better or equall with loue? |
A14750 | WHat then? |
A14750 | Were it not for Conflicts, what superexcellent vse were then of Faith? |
A14750 | Were it not odious to see a man that hath a spouse peerelesse for beautie, to liue with a deformed blouse? |
A14750 | What can God doe which Faith can not doe if requisite to bee done? |
A14750 | What cares hee for thy thousands of Rammes, thy Riuers of Oyle? |
A14750 | What else made Dauid so worthy a Souldier? |
A14750 | What euer you teach, before you haue taught this you were as good Preache to the stooles and stones of your Churches? |
A14750 | What if it doe not yet appeare what thou shalt bee? |
A14750 | What if thou beest of a sad constitution, of a darke complexion? |
A14750 | What is Paul or Apolloes but such as by whom you haue beleeued? |
A14750 | What is a Christian but his Faith? |
A14750 | What is a man the better for a Locke if he haue not the Key to vse it withall? |
A14750 | What is the notionall sweetnesse of honey or sugar to the experimentall taste of them? |
A14750 | What made Onesimus of a false eye- seruant, trusty to his Master, as to the Lord? |
A14750 | What made Paul an able Minister of the Gospell, gaue him the doore of vtterance, made his tongue as the penne of a readie writer? |
A14750 | What then? |
A14750 | What, say they, should hee ayle? |
A14750 | When shee hath appeased her Beloued, howe doth shee adiure her- selfe and others by the Hyndes and Roes, not to awaken and offend him againe? |
A14750 | Whom came Christ to saue but sinners? |
A14750 | Why are many of thy followers so dead, so mopish, so melancholly? |
A14750 | Why loosest thou not thy handkerchiefes and commest out of thy Graue, and walkest chearefully in the Land of the liuing? |
A14750 | Why, but is not this to make Faith a Pandar to sinne? |
A14750 | Yea, in one and the same kind how many degrees? |
A14750 | Yea, why are many ciuill men as righteous as they? |
A14750 | Yet if any such God will perswade to make tryall of this life, thou which saist, what is a Gentleman but his pleasure? |
A14750 | Zacheus, louest thou thy wealth aboue his honour that hath saued thee? |
A14750 | and what is his life but the vse of his Faith? |
A14750 | from the Mushrome to the Angels how many kindes of life? |
A14750 | hast not thou Riuers of water euer flowing out of thy belly? |
A14750 | know and consider in whom thou beleeuest? |
A14750 | or Paul bid the Iaylour first repent, become a new man, and then beleeue? |
A14750 | or is it because men know thee not? |
A14750 | or what should it bee in thy selfe and others, but this life of Faith? |
A14750 | shall it not be a pleasure to thee to want other pleasures? |
A14750 | that wise Christians would as often take the one, as idle Guls doe the other? |
A14750 | the highest of yours to the lowest of ours? |
A14750 | to see one professing some liberall Science, to liue by some base manuall trade? |
A14750 | to weare a sword souldier like by the side, and not to draw it forth vpon an assault? |
A14750 | what difference between your oaten pipes and our heauenly harpes? |
A14750 | what hath cheered and made thee merry in priuate and in company? |
A14750 | what hath this world comparable? |
A14750 | what if GOD looke vpon the Hand- writing against vs? |
A14750 | what is a Christian but his mirth? |
A14750 | what is that makes this man thus merry in all estates? |
A14750 | what is thy scope? |
A14750 | what pittifull subiects for such sublimated wits? |
A14750 | what taught his fingers to fight, so that a bowe of steele was broken in his hand? |
A14750 | what thought diddest thou awake withall? |
A14750 | what was thy morning draught for thy soule next thy heart? |
A14750 | when a dump ouer- takes thee, if thou wouldest say to thy soule in a word or two; Soule, why art thou disquieted? |
A14750 | whence should this wrong and disparagement proceed? |
A14750 | wherein doth the kingdom of Heauen consist but in Ioy? |
A14750 | whether thy sports and meales, more then thy heauenly ejaculations? |
A14750 | why any one part of a day? |
A14750 | why are worldly men as merry, as iocund as they? |
A14750 | why should not thy soule haue her due drinkes, breakfasts, meales vndermeales, beuers, and after- meales, as well as thy body? |
A14750 | would it not presently returne to it rest againe? |
A14750 | would not the Master rebuke the Windes and Stormes and calme thy minde presently? |
A41840 | A worme, and not a man, and yet, he was put from that objection: and I would say this, Are yee below him: In what? |
A41840 | And can such a ● oul say, I have an high account of the Pro ● iser? |
A41840 | And have yee a high account of the Promiser? |
A41840 | And have you a high esteem of the Promiser? |
A41840 | And must not the ● ● omises bee unchangeable that are made ● ● own unto us by the Gospel, that is the ● ord of Truth? |
A41840 | And what is that? |
A41840 | And why then do ye so much dispute? |
A41840 | And will it not be a mysterie unto self denied Paul, when he shall behold so proud and selfish Christians enter into Heaven? |
A41840 | Are there not a bone cast unto a 〈 ◊ 〉? |
A41840 | Are yee inferiour o ● short unto David in holinesse, or necessities? |
A41840 | Are yee not longing to bring the King over Iordan, and to bring him home to your self, and to have your heart brought home to him? |
A41840 | Are you taking delight to entertain fellowship and communion with the Promiser; Is this true? |
A41840 | But may not some say, what advantage is there of this? |
A41840 | But why will ye deceive your selves, Can a nation be born in one day; Or is there but one step between hell and heaven? |
A41840 | Delight thy self in God, and hee shall give thee the desires of thy heart: What can ye have man but it is there? |
A41840 | Did I not all things well? |
A41840 | Did not all the Saints that went to heaven before us go to heaven, living upon the promises? |
A41840 | Examine your selves, whether ye be in the faith? |
A41840 | Examine your selves, whether ye be in the faith? |
A41840 | Examine your selves, whether ye be in the faith? |
A41840 | First, Doth he not command you to come and receive him? |
A41840 | Fourthly, Con ● ider but how he hath concescended to give himself at a very low rate: What will yee give for Christ? |
A41840 | Give all diligence( saith the Apostle) Whereto? |
A41840 | Hath hee said it, and shall it not also come to passe? |
A41840 | Hath it not? |
A41840 | Hath ● ot the losse of things in the world affected ● our heart more, then ever absence from ● hrist did? |
A41840 | He hath begotten us to a lively hope; Who begat that assurance in thee? |
A41840 | He is my God, I will praise him, he is my God, I will exalt him: What needeth David these repetitions, might not one serve? |
A41840 | Hee bringeth joy 〈 ◊ 〉 the holy Ghost with him, and is not that 〈 ◊ 〉 excellent gift? |
A41840 | Hee bringeth patience under sufferings ● ith him, and is not that an excellent gift? |
A41840 | Hee bringeth the love of ● od with him, and is not that an excellent 〈 ◊ 〉? |
A41840 | I would have much gold and silver; I say, come to Christ, and ye shall get much gold and silver: Is that true? |
A41840 | I would only say this, O beloved in the Lord ▪ is not this your guilt, your undervaluing o ● the promises, and your little exercise o ● faith? |
A41840 | I would pose you with this, when last studied ye to apply any promise of the Covenant of Grace? |
A41840 | I ● helpeth a Christian to pray with much fer ● vency; when was it that David cryed to God? |
A41840 | If Ab ● ● ● on should come from hell, and should ● ● each against the evil of ambition, would ye, 〈 ◊ 〉 unto him? |
A41840 | In faithfulnesse hast thou afflicted me; Why doth David say in faithfulnesse? |
A41840 | Iob doth not now any more complain, Why dost ● hou make mee to possesse the iniquities of my ● outh, and setteth a print upon my heels? |
A41840 | Is it not a more excellent robe then the robes of Kings ● nd Emperours in the earth, to bee cloathed with praises? |
A41840 | Is it not pleasant alwayes to be studying Christ? |
A41840 | Is not Christ better to thee then ten sons? |
A41840 | Is not that gold enough? |
A41840 | Is not that th ● language of your hearts; O when shall the Sabbath be over? |
A41840 | Is not the voice of these that sing for joy heard among them? |
A41840 | Is not this a mystery? |
A41840 | Is not this true, that the increase 〈 ◊ 〉 wine and oyl, and of silver and gold hath affected your hearts more with joy than ever Christ did? |
A41840 | Is not unchangeable written above the head of our enjoyment of God? |
A41840 | Is not unchangeable written above the head of our promises? |
A41840 | Is not unchangeable written upon the head of our blessednesse? |
A41840 | It i ● in short this, because mercy made the promises to Abraham, but truth did accomplis ● the promises to Iacob? |
A41840 | It is a soul- concerning question, Master what shall I do to inherit eternal life? |
A41840 | It is faith which maketh one to rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Would yee know why your graces are withered? |
A41840 | It is in Heaven; Would ye know where his hope is? |
A41840 | It is in Heaven; would you know where his thoughts are? |
A41840 | Knowest thou no man after the flesh, are not led by carnal interests, nor affections, art so busie and diligent as all the world counteth thee mad? |
A41840 | Look to these excellent gifts that Christ ● ● ingeth with him, he bringeth Justification ● ith him, and is not that an excellent gift? |
A41840 | Must not the promises be unchange ● ● le that are applyed by the holy Ghost, that 〈 ◊ 〉 the Spirit of Truth? |
A41840 | O Christian, wh ● ● is the rise of your little mortification? |
A41840 | O Christian, what is th ● ground that ye pray so little, and that yo ● pray with so little successe? |
A41840 | O Christian, what is the reason of your so much sorrow, and of your little spiritual comfort? |
A41840 | O Christian, 〈 ◊ 〉 yee knew your self never so well, ye will ● ee forced to cry out, O ▪ is this I? |
A41840 | O Christians and expectants of He ● ven, would you know what is the rise of 〈 ◊ 〉 the sad things that have befallen you in the ● ● dayes? |
A41840 | O be ● oved, what could you answer, when you were thus reproved? |
A41840 | O blessed, blessed are these that are above; Is not the voice of these that shout for victory heard ● mongst them? |
A41840 | O fear that ● nxious disappointment that many of you( it is like) will meet with? |
A41840 | O niggard, what would yee have which ye will not get in Christ? |
A41840 | O sinners, what will ye give for him? |
A41840 | O strange, will ye not do it, upon what terms would the world have Christ, is ● t possible to have him without a consent to take him? |
A41840 | O what will be your thoughts 〈 ◊ 〉 him? |
A41840 | O will ye think on it, What a thing is it for you who are the dust of his feet, to be made conform to him? |
A41840 | Our father''s trusted in thee; O they were excellent men; But what a man am I? |
A41840 | Secondly, Consider the persons who have right to make use of the promises? |
A41840 | The second ground upon which Christians dispute the accomplishment of the promises, ● s their much disputing of their interest in God? |
A41840 | The words of ● hy mouth are better unto me, then thousands of ● old and silver? |
A41840 | They are in Heaven; Would ye know where his conversation is? |
A41840 | Thirdly, Would you do Christ a joy ● ull turn, and make his heart glad? |
A41840 | This is his Commandment that ye should believe? |
A41840 | Thou shalt call me thy Father? |
A41840 | To perform the truth to Iaco ● and the mercy to Abraham: Why is it mercy to Abraham, and it is truth to Iacob? |
A41840 | We ought not to limit infinit wisdom, nor to ● ay unto him that is infinite in strength, How ● an such a thing be? |
A41840 | What a da ● shall it be when that promise shall be accom ● plished, yee shall know as yee are known? |
A41840 | What a day shall it b ● ● when that promise shall bee accomplished ▪ Yee shall bee made like unto him? |
A41840 | What a day shall it bee whe ● that promise shall be accomplished, Ye sh ● ● see him as he is? |
A41840 | What a fool was I to kick against the pricks; or to enter in the lists with such an infinite God? |
A41840 | What a heart is that, that can neither sorrow for sin, nor rejoyce in God? |
A41840 | What are all your pleasures? |
A41840 | What are they all? |
A41840 | What if this word be your portion? |
A41840 | What is sense? |
A41840 | When I walk through the valley of the shaddow of death, I will fear no evil: What brought you that length, David? |
A41840 | When last did ye exercise saith upon any of them? |
A41840 | When was it, O Christian and expectant of heaven, that ye was put to cry forth, God hath arisen, and mine enemies are scattered before my face? |
A41840 | When went you to your prayers, but yee wearied ere yee went away? |
A41840 | Where must th ● Christian go to for strength? |
A41840 | Why? |
A41840 | Why? |
A41840 | Will ye deny that to Christ, Oh, do yee ever think to finde a more down- coming market? |
A41840 | Would yee give the world for Christ? |
A41840 | Would yee have any thing of Christ? |
A41840 | Yes certainly, because your tendernesse lieth within a promise; Will ye not once be much in the exercise of fear? |
A41840 | and is there nor such hearts with us, even with us that ● re here this day? |
A41840 | and what a heart is that, that can neither love Christ when he is present, nor can they ● ong for Christ when he is absent? |
A41840 | and what are all your honours: and what are all your possessions? |
A41840 | and what ● heart is that, O Christian, that can neither ● ove heaven, nor can fear hell? |
A41840 | and when shall the new mo ● ● be gone, that I may pursue after my Idols? |
A41840 | and y ● shall be constrained to answer, Yes: Christ shall propose that question, Are ye not well rewarded for all your pains? |
A41840 | and yet this lyeth withi ● the bosome of a promise? |
A41840 | both are alike mysteries unto them: What a heart is that, O Christian, that can neither believe promises, believe threatnings, nor obey commands? |
A41840 | is very observable, The love of Christ constrained us,& c. Why art thou so painfull a Minister Paul? |
A41840 | must not the ● ● omises be unchangeable that are made by 〈 ◊ 〉 Father who is the God of Truth? |
A41840 | must they 〈 ◊ 〉 be precious things that have such a nob ● ● ● escent? |
A41840 | of that 18 Chapter, Is there any thing too hard for God? |
A41840 | prove your own selves, know ye not your own selves, how that Iesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? |
A41840 | prove your own selves, know ye not your own selves, how that Iesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? |
A41840 | prove your own selves, know ye not your own selves, how that Iesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? |
A41840 | shall it be said, before they travelled, they brought forth? |
A41840 | such a spirit of formality, such a spirit of lazinesse, such a spirit of hardnesse, and such a spirit of undervaluing of Christ? |
A41840 | the Lord valueth them not, What if they be the fa ● ting of you to the day of slaughter? |
A41840 | then believe: Would ye have humiliation? |
A41840 | then believe; Would ye have high thoughts of Christ? |
A41840 | then come to Christ and ye sha ● ● have a crown of glory: Would ye have know ● ledge of the mysteries of God? |
A41840 | there is a price put in the hands of fools, to buy wisdom, and what is the meaning of tha ●, to buy with price, and buy without price? |
A41840 | when the Angels ask the question at Mary, Women why weepest thou? |
A41840 | which Absolon presented unto Hushai, Is this thy kindnesse unto thy friend? |
A41840 | which was a part of Balaams song, Hath hee not spoken it, and will hee not also d ● it? |
A41840 | would ye know why all the pleasant plants of God within your soul are decayed? |
A41840 | 〈 ◊ 〉 bringeth Sanctification with him, and is 〈 ◊ 〉 that an excellent gift? |
A41840 | 〈 ◊ 〉 bringeth himself and all things, and what ● ● ould ye have more? |
A41840 | 〈 ◊ 〉 is it not a mysterie to take up these 〈 ◊ 〉 emanations of love and delight, that 〈 ◊ 〉 passe between Christ and you? |
A41840 | 〈 ◊ 〉 why should I name what hee bringeth? |
A09274 | & c. And certainly;( had she not had Faith, before the spies came, who can thinke she would haue giuen entertainment to such dangerous persons? |
A09274 | ( Hee is neere that iustifieth me, who will contend with me?) |
A09274 | ( If we be not iustified by the workes of the Law, by what then? |
A09274 | ( Is the Law then against the promises of God? |
A09274 | 3. to proue that a sinner destitute of grace can not be made inherently holy, by Morality, or outward workes of Piety? |
A09274 | 32 How knowes Bellarm ● ne that? |
A09274 | 5 What sinne is there against the Gospell, that is not a transgression of the Law? |
A09274 | Againe doth Charitie giue life or liuing actions vnto Faith as the Soule doth vnto the Body? |
A09274 | Against what? |
A09274 | And againe, Lay b downe now, put me in a surety with thee, who is he that will strike hands with me? |
A09274 | And how proued they this? |
A09274 | And if he were not, who is? |
A09274 | And is not Feare of GOD too? |
A09274 | And why? |
A09274 | Are not the Regenerate vnder the Law, that is vnder the Obedience of the Law? |
A09274 | Are other Mens worke without all faults because we know not what they be? |
A09274 | Are they sure they can also satisfie the paines of Pu ● gatorie? |
A09274 | Are they sure they shall passe for satisfactions presently? |
A09274 | Are we? |
A09274 | Be veniall sinnes, sinnes? |
A09274 | Because wee must be syncere without hypocrisie, ergo, we must be perfect in all things without blame? |
A09274 | But can they tell certainly when he doth? |
A09274 | But can they tell how many yeares or daies are left vnsatisfied for; that so all things may be fitted according to the Race of time? |
A09274 | But can they tell vs the i ● st asure of that Contrition which is satisfactorie? |
A09274 | But how hnow they, they be sinnes? |
A09274 | But how know they that? |
A09274 | But is he sure he enioynes iust so much as will doe the Feate? |
A09274 | But now is this imperfection in Humane or Angelicall righteousnes any Euill and Sinne in them? |
A09274 | But now what followes hence? |
A09274 | But now; wherein stands the inward vocation of a sinner? |
A09274 | But was it not fulfilled before that time? |
A09274 | But what is it now which committed this guilt or sinne? |
A09274 | But what is this Yoake of Bondage? |
A09274 | But what reason is there for this, that Circumcision& the Ceremonies should frustrate the benefit of Christs death? |
A09274 | But what''s next? |
A09274 | But what? |
A09274 | But when is this? |
A09274 | But where is it so taken? |
A09274 | But wilt thou know O a vaine Man( or hypocrite) that Faith without workes is dead? |
A09274 | But, might he say, what? |
A09274 | By the Law of workes, that is, by the Law performed by the strength of Nature? |
A09274 | By what Law then? |
A09274 | Can Bellarmine tell vs how much this was? |
A09274 | Can a man that''s regenerate be iustified by his obedience of the Law, when yet after his regeneration hee doth not keepe it? |
A09274 | Can that Faith saue him? |
A09274 | Can there be any other meaning of Iustification here ●: but this onely? |
A09274 | Christ, or wee? |
A09274 | Darest thou indeed stand to it, and vpon these Tearmes appeare in Gods Iudgment? |
A09274 | Did God intend in those Commandements to forbid those actions of stealing and lying? |
A09274 | Did Paul then fulfill the Law? |
A09274 | Doth God the Law- giuer? |
A09274 | For 1. what is that to Iustification? |
A09274 | For do you not beleeue him that he spake true? |
A09274 | For may not good Workes be counterfeited as well as Faith? |
A09274 | For satisfaction say they, To what? |
A09274 | For that the Iesuites conceiue that this is a plaine case: for where is there any one place in all the Bible, that saith, Faith alone Iustifies? |
A09274 | For that which deserues a reward worthily, deserues it fitly:( how else is it worthy of the reward, if the reward be not fit for it?) |
A09274 | For this interrogatiues Was not our Father Abraham justified by workes? |
A09274 | For what hath Christ satisfied? |
A09274 | For what is it for one baptised to desire to receaue that Sacrament againe? |
A09274 | For what now? |
A09274 | For what saith the Scripture? |
A09274 | For what then? |
A09274 | For wherefore must it be suffered? |
A09274 | For who is judge of their actions? |
A09274 | For who will set himselfe( say they) to doe any good worke if the Protestants doctrine be true, that in doing of it he shall commit a mortall Sinne? |
A09274 | For whom doth he offend, or who can challenge him of Sinne? |
A09274 | For why? |
A09274 | From the Habit of Faith, or of Charity? |
A09274 | Hath he done this, or no? |
A09274 | He asketh vs where is the Sinne? |
A09274 | Hovv is it then not giuen? |
A09274 | How comes it to passe then, that the godliest men are many times secure, slothfull, cold and carelesse in the duties of Gods most holy worship? |
A09274 | How doth hee account them Iust, whom he knoweth and punisheth for vniust? |
A09274 | How is that proued? |
A09274 | How is that proued? |
A09274 | How know these men that there was, or is, such a power in the Saints to keepe the Law, when yet the world neuer saw it brought into Act? |
A09274 | How know they that? |
A09274 | How knowes the Pope when he hath bestowed vpon them sufficient supererogatiue Money to pay the Fees of the Prison? |
A09274 | How much lesse shall I answere him( saith he)& chuse out my words to reason with him? |
A09274 | How must this bee vnderstood? |
A09274 | How proues he, that he was so justified? |
A09274 | How should man be iust with God? |
A09274 | How then doth Charity giue life vnto Faith? |
A09274 | How was it then fulfilled at the oblation of Isaack? |
A09274 | How? |
A09274 | If God punish that sinne which is in the Regenerate how then is their sinne couered and their iniquities forgiuen? |
A09274 | If Men can not bee iustified by keeping the Law, to what end was it giuen so long after the Promise was made? |
A09274 | If for Christs righteousnes we be perfectly iustified: how can God accoūt vs perfectly iust for our faith? |
A09274 | If it be euill to breake any Commandement in act: is it not euill to haue, a pronenesse and readinesse of minde to breake it? |
A09274 | If it be his gift, how doth it merit, or of whom? |
A09274 | If the Gospel cōmand Charity, is it any other then that which the Law commands: If the Gospell cōmand Faith, doth not the Law enioine the same? |
A09274 | If thou, Lord shouldest marke iniquities, O Lord who shall stand? |
A09274 | If when all is doen we must be saued by doing, what profit comes there by beleeuing? |
A09274 | In all the Catalogue of the Saints, can you pricke out one that after regeneration, neuer committed sinne against the Law? |
A09274 | In the Apostles will? |
A09274 | Is God offended with them? |
A09274 | Is he certaine that God will take that for paiment, which he decrees to be paied? |
A09274 | Is it a Match presently, that God must doe as thou desirest: and take what thou offerest for paiment? |
A09274 | Is it alwaies? |
A09274 | Is it for the fault and offence committed? |
A09274 | Is it not giuen( quoad directionem) as a Rule prescribing what is to be done, what is not to be done? |
A09274 | Is it not more probable that what neuer was nor will be done, neuer could nor can be done? |
A09274 | Is it onely the obseruation of the Ceremoniall Law? |
A09274 | Is not this a shamelesse Iesuite that will say any thing to patch vp a broken cause? |
A09274 | Is not this a superfine Inuention? |
A09274 | Is not this difference between these Apostles finely accorded think you? |
A09274 | Is the Law then against the Promises? |
A09274 | Is the poore man''s backe euer the warmer? |
A09274 | It is God that iustifies; who shall condemne? |
A09274 | It is dead: How must this be vnderstood? |
A09274 | Likewise was not Rahab the Harlot iustified by workes? |
A09274 | Lord thou art angry for we haue sinned Euen we by our sinnes haue hastened and increased the publique miseries? |
A09274 | Nay, are they without fault, because themselues know not whether there be any in them: or no? |
A09274 | No? |
A09274 | Now in reason wherein ariseth this proportion of any work with that reward? |
A09274 | Now what say our Aduersaries to this? |
A09274 | Or doth S. Michael that hold''s, the Scales send him word, when their satisfactions weigh downe their Sinnes? |
A09274 | Or ours? |
A09274 | Or will it bee a truth from any mans tongue, to say, that he loues God with as great perfection as may be? |
A09274 | Seest thou how faith wrought with his workes, and by workes was faith made perfect? |
A09274 | Shall we finde this perfection in a Monkes Cell, or in a Hermits Lodge, an Anachorites Mue, vnder a Cardinals Hat, or in the Popes Chaire? |
A09274 | Speakes the Prophet this out of confidence, that God vpon search and tryall, shall finde no euill in his heart and thoughts? |
A09274 | Speakes the man reason? |
A09274 | Stands it in the dignity of the worke it selfe; or in the compact made betweene him that worketh and him that rewardeth? |
A09274 | Suppose a Man were made in his pure Naturals, would such disorderly motions be found i ● him? |
A09274 | That a Faith without workes will not doe that? |
A09274 | That a Sinner can not attaine to Sanctification by his owne strength: but he must attaine to it by the grace of God? |
A09274 | Theirs? |
A09274 | Then when they beleeue, and assoone as they beleeue, before they be Regenerate? |
A09274 | Those that are in Purgatory, when haue they satisfied enough? |
A09274 | To pardon a fault and be friends and yet require full satisfaction; to forgiue the debt, yet to exact the payment, be not these trimme kindnesses? |
A09274 | True, they doe call vpon Gods Name: but is this done alwayes with that diligence, with that zeale which God requires? |
A09274 | Was there euer such a toy heard of as this? |
A09274 | Wast then in his ability? |
A09274 | We are iustified by the righteousnesse of God: But what is that? |
A09274 | We hardly see beames in our own eyes: are we then so skilfull to spie the smallest moate? |
A09274 | Were they all idle, and did not doe their best endeauour? |
A09274 | What Imperpection of mans Righteousnes is it, which is Sinne? |
A09274 | What are those? |
A09274 | What consequence is there in this Argument except we expound S. Iames by that metonymie, Workes, that is a working Faith? |
A09274 | What followeth hence now? |
A09274 | What if there be not Aue- Maries enough& c? |
A09274 | What man durst say or thinke in any good worke: Lord in this particular I doe not desire thou shouldest be mercifull vnto me? |
A09274 | What sinne was there in Zacheus or Cornelius almes- deeds? |
A09274 | What then are merits of Congruity? |
A09274 | What then? |
A09274 | What then? |
A09274 | What''s that? |
A09274 | What? |
A09274 | What? |
A09274 | What? |
A09274 | When is this priuiledge of Adoption bestowed? |
A09274 | When? |
A09274 | Whence now comes this assent? |
A09274 | Where is the fault then? |
A09274 | Where''s the certainty, what''s to be done in such a case? |
A09274 | Where''s the warrant for that? |
A09274 | Where? |
A09274 | Wherefore heere we aske the Iesuite whether Charity and other Graces in a man regenerate be so perfect in this Life, as they ought to be? |
A09274 | Wherefore? |
A09274 | Which what is it else but Sanctification? |
A09274 | Who be they? |
A09274 | Who can say that holinesse is perfect in that mā, in whō corruption of Nature, not onely troubleth, but hindreth grace in its holy operation? |
A09274 | Who is it satisfies God''s Iustice for Sin? |
A09274 | Why? |
A09274 | Why? |
A09274 | Why? |
A09274 | Will they stand to this? |
A09274 | Would any man say; except he care not what he say, that God doth not command vs to loue him as much as may be? |
A09274 | Yea, or No? |
A09274 | Yea, or no? |
A09274 | [ If yee he led by the spirit ye are not vnder Law] How is that? |
A09274 | [ The end of the Commandement is loue,( but where?) |
A09274 | [ Who shall lay thing to the charge of Gods Elect? |
A09274 | b Boasting is excluded, saith the Apostle, by what Law? |
A09274 | challenge God to dispute with him, and hope to make his party good in the quarrell? |
A09274 | h Why? |
A09274 | if he weigh them not one graine too light? |
A09274 | it is taken for any ordinary ciuill meeting of people together? |
A09274 | negligently? |
A09274 | or Conuersion? |
A09274 | or Regeneration? |
A09274 | or his belly the ● ● ller, with a few windy complements? |
A09274 | or how know they he doth it not at other times too? |
A09274 | or is he beside himselfe? |
A09274 | or is it God and their owne Consciences? |
A09274 | so that Faith vvithout Workes a sauing Faith, that vvill bring a Man to Heauen? |
A09274 | such persons, or such graces? |
A09274 | that so by that patterne we may know how farre men goe in the true Loue of God before they bee at all sanctified by inherent Grace? |
A09274 | was it by the efficacy and for the word of their faith that this was done? |
A09274 | what hath he gained hereby? |
A09274 | what if we answere him we doe not know; Is hee now euer the wiser? |
A09274 | what silinesse were it to argue in this sort? |
A09274 | what? |
A09274 | when not? |
A09274 | who brings word, when they are deliuered? |
A09274 | who can vnderstand his faults( saith Dauid) wilt thou answere him; Yes I doe? |
A09274 | who told them so? |
A09274 | who wil pray, fast, and giues almes, if when he doth these things he can not but sinne? |
A09274 | why? |
A09274 | will not ordinary almes, or a little more then ordinary serue the turne? |
A52035 | ( saith he) who am I? |
A52035 | ( you wil say) Wherein stands it? |
A52035 | A little to discover what the benefit is that we partake of, by eating and drinking the flesh and the blood of Jesus Christ, What do we get by it? |
A52035 | All these are out of it, What is that? |
A52035 | And bestow more pains about it than about all things in the World besides? |
A52035 | And can you walk before God as obedient Children, at least in the constant bent and tenure of your Souls? |
A52035 | And what get they by it? |
A52035 | Art thou a King? |
A52035 | As for Example: Do all the Saints of Christ live the life of Christ by faith? |
A52035 | Before our eyes God hath overturned all these things; hath not God let us see how he hath pulled down great Princes and Kings? |
A52035 | Brethren, Do you beleeve this? |
A52035 | But now, What the holy Ghost signifies by this, what is it to live by faith? |
A52035 | But what if my difficulty be such an one that I can find nothing in the Word about it ▪ What can my Faith do then? |
A52035 | But what is it? |
A52035 | But you wil say, Do you think the people of God are so much guilty of it? |
A52035 | Can this be? |
A52035 | Can you honor God, and reverence him, and turn to him? |
A52035 | Come into the Shops of your Trades men, How do they keep al their wares? |
A52035 | Did he need any? |
A52035 | Did he want a Child? |
A52035 | Do you keep your Cash right? |
A52035 | Do you let it lie open to let every Rogue and Raskal come in, and every thing to defile it, and can you find time to keep these outward things so? |
A52035 | Do you make choyce of it to be so? |
A52035 | Do you not think you shall live comfortably? |
A52035 | Do you think that the people of God are so much guilty of it? |
A52035 | Doth the Holy Ghost work a Childs heart in you? |
A52035 | First, You see by all this how necessary it is that you should al try and examine your souls, Whether you be partakers of this Life or no? |
A52035 | For the first, First, What are those sins which the Lords people, his own Children are liable to while they live in this world? |
A52035 | God the Father what is his work in our Adoption? |
A52035 | Had not he a Son from everlasting? |
A52035 | Hath he raised up in thee such a desire after him What sayest thou? |
A52035 | Have you learned the Lesson of self- denial? |
A52035 | Have you not left them at home? |
A52035 | How are their Roomes rubbed? |
A52035 | How doth the Lord Jesus Christ''s being in Heaven serve as a relief to Gods people under their many infirmities? |
A52035 | How is every utensil kept tite and clean? |
A52035 | How shall a man attain this Lesson? |
A52035 | How shall we do to live this Life? |
A52035 | How shall we know this Life? |
A52035 | I Lord, I beleeve it: So say I, Do you beleeve this? |
A52035 | I do but allude to that comparison, Now I may say then, Is not thy Heart better than thy Head? |
A52035 | I fear not but many of you can say it is thus with you, the Lord witnesseth that with you, doth he not? |
A52035 | I hope so: Pray have you denied your self? |
A52035 | I remember the Romans said, It was an imitating of Nature, found out for the Solace of the Father, But didst thou Solace God? |
A52035 | I: And are you his Disciples in truth? |
A52035 | In the presence of God tel me, what doest thou weigh in the Ballance? |
A52035 | Is Christ mine? |
A52035 | Is his comfort increased by it? |
A52035 | Is it any less in Christ Jesus the Son of God? |
A52035 | Is it so Lord that the poor soul that casts himself upon Christ is thus made one with him? |
A52035 | Is it true Lord? |
A52035 | Is not this good news to all those that endeavor to walk with Christ in sincerity? |
A52035 | Is not this house yours? |
A52035 | Is not thy heart thy inward man better than thy outward man? |
A52035 | Is not your body more worth than your raiment? |
A52035 | Is there any thing in Heaven and Earth to compare with it? |
A52035 | Is this so? |
A52035 | Is this the Lot of al the Lords People? |
A52035 | Is this to thee 〈 ◊ 〉 the honey and the hony combe? |
A52035 | It is nothing but the spirits perswading, Gods spirit perswades them, And what do you think the Spirit of God perswades them too? |
A52035 | It is with many of Gods People as it was with Christ when he was upon Earth, when he was called King, How was he jeered for it? |
A52035 | Jesus Christ is preached to you in the several meetings in the ministry of the word, Is it this Christ you look for? |
A52035 | Keep thy heart with all diligence, Why? |
A52035 | Keep thy heart, Keep it, What is that? |
A52035 | Many are the evidences I could give you of it in the Scripture, what was Ephraim? |
A52035 | No, there is your care, the issues of it shal be kept as far as thou canst keep it: but what doth thy heart do? |
A52035 | Now if you wil say, How shall we know it? |
A52035 | Now many force themselves, How came you a Child of God? |
A52035 | Now one Question more I must needs briefly speak to, and that is this: But may some say, Do all that live the life of Christ live thus? |
A52035 | Now the third thing in the Doctrinal part( and then I hasten to the Application,) is, Wel, What are the benefits of it? |
A52035 | Now then the Last part of my Sermon which I come to, is, But how should we do this? |
A52035 | Now what are the benefits of our Adoption? |
A52035 | Now what is the Holy Spirit''s work about it? |
A52035 | Or what shall a Man give in Exchange for his Soul? |
A52035 | Pray how do you keep your heart? |
A52035 | Pray tel me, Why, can any body detect me? |
A52035 | Shall I speak a little freely and examin this great Assembly, where doth your eternal happiness lie? |
A52035 | So( friend) have you the right skil of living by faith? |
A52035 | Suppose I should go visit, and ride a Journey of many hundred miles, and lay down my life, and part with my estate; For what end? |
A52035 | That God that knows how thou esteemest thy self can determine this question: Wel thus plainly, Art thou one that carriest such thoughts as these? |
A52035 | That he would die to purchase Coheirs with him? |
A52035 | That the Lord Christ our Mediator doth give his holy Spirit to help us against our infirmities, What is that? |
A52035 | That the Lord Christ who is their high Preist, their suretie? |
A52035 | That when the Lord hath took this strange course, and brought about this strange work, Wherein doth the worth of this Priviledg stand? |
A52035 | The Issues of life, What is that? |
A52035 | The Life you live in this life, is it the Life of the Son of God? |
A52035 | The Second( which it may be you wil more long for, for I suspect not that you wil doubt the truth of the first) is, What is this Life? |
A52035 | Then, Secondly, To that he adds, But( saith he) if any man sin, that is, when we do thus sin, when Gods people do thus sin, What then? |
A52035 | There is a work of Jesus Christ, What is that? |
A52035 | To Peter when he denies his Master? |
A52035 | To whom? |
A52035 | Was it not a strange love that made him from al Eternity choose thee to be his Child? |
A52035 | What Arguments or what Rethorick can you use, that you can expect ever to prevail with men, to turn them off thus from themselves? |
A52035 | What Christ is it? |
A52035 | What Reason for it? |
A52035 | What Relief is the Intercession of Christ to David when he lies in Adultery? |
A52035 | What a woful case are you in? |
A52035 | What am I? |
A52035 | What are the Treasures laid up in the heart of a gracious Man? |
A52035 | What are the treasures that are in the heart of a Gratious man? |
A52035 | What comparison is there? |
A52035 | What doth Solomon mean by the heart here that must be kept? |
A52035 | What if you have not a Mediator, the Lord Jesus that is a Propitiation for our sins? |
A52035 | What is the Intercession of Jesus Christ unto the Saints under such abhominable fals? |
A52035 | What is the body but meerly the shel? |
A52035 | What is there in me that the Son of man should be given me? |
A52035 | What is this work of Adopting, or how is it done? |
A52035 | What it is to be adopted, What is Adoption? |
A52035 | What it is to deny a mans self; he that will follow Christ must deny himself, What is that? |
A52035 | What means he by that life? |
A52035 | What wil all the talk of others do me good if I have not Christ? |
A52035 | Where is your circumscribing Faith within the compass of the Word? |
A52035 | Wherein stands the keeping of the heart in a good frame? |
A52035 | Which he brings in by way of Answer to a tacite Objection, Are you crucified? |
A52035 | Who am I that thou shouldest remember me? |
A52035 | Who are strangers to the Life of Christ? |
A52035 | Who can imagine such a thing? |
A52035 | Who shall deliver me from the Body of this Death? |
A52035 | Whosoever doth thus eat and drink, and thus cometh to me, I wil in no wise cast off; What is that? |
A52035 | Why should I think the Lord Christ would give me this food? |
A52035 | Why should he give it me? |
A52035 | Why, what is our God? |
A52035 | Wilt thou be my Father and the Father of my Child? |
A52035 | Would not this be your Answer? |
A52035 | Would you know why? |
A52035 | Ye( saith he) who were dead in sins and trespasses hath he quickened; How? |
A52035 | Yes: Do you follow Christ? |
A52035 | You shall find Satan the great Enemy, how do we overcome him? |
A52035 | You wil say, What mean you by that? |
A52035 | a feeding of our Bodies that wil return to clay is al that a man gets by it; Now what is gotten by this eating and drinking of Jesus Christ? |
A52035 | all beleevers in Christ, are they all made the Sons and Daughters of God? |
A52035 | and come into our Country, How do People keep their Cattel? |
A52035 | and how got you your interest in him? |
A52035 | and if any thing lie out of its place and pile, How impatient are they with their Servants? |
A52035 | and is all right? |
A52035 | and so rest in him, when all this while he is a Wretch, and runs out of all, and so is my heart wel? |
A52035 | and to others when they fal into the like sins, What is the interecession of Christ to them? |
A52035 | and what are you worth? |
A52035 | as good a man as you I hope, Wherein lies your goodness? |
A52035 | better than my heart, How do you perform your Duties? |
A52035 | but never, why are you troubled, you that have fulness of faith? |
A52035 | but( saith he) is it a smal thing in your eyes, for a man of so mean a stock as I am, to be made the Son in law of a King? |
A52035 | could we think of it, I beseech you tel me, to which of the Angels said God at any time, thou art my Son? |
A52035 | dare you affirm it that none live the life of Christ in this world, but those that you have spoken of? |
A52035 | do we not see you are alive? |
A52035 | doth not God tell us they are not al worth our study? |
A52035 | ever more give us of this meat, But who am I that I should come? |
A52035 | hath he not let us see a thousand, ten thousand a yeer a man may have, and yet live to see them al buried, and himself come to beggery? |
A52035 | have you now the Life of Christ? |
A52035 | have you the life of God in you? |
A52035 | if men sin against men, men shal speak for them, but who shall speak betwixt the Soul and God? |
A52035 | if they have received any mony, how wonderfully careful are they to have a Treasury where it may be barred and kept safe for them? |
A52035 | in that sense I am speaking, Go( saith he) to Pharoah, tel him Israel is my Son: What Son? |
A52035 | is all wel there? |
A52035 | is it so? |
A52035 | saith the Apostle there, Mortifie your earthly members; mark you, they are our members, And what are they? |
A52035 | saith the Lord, I saw Ephraim bemoaning himself; mark there, Ephraim was come home by weeping Cross, What did he do? |
A52035 | tel me in your own hearts, what you would answer to it if God did examin it, where doth your hope of happiness lie? |
A52035 | they all fal a Weeping for, and about him, saith he, why break you my Heart? |
A52035 | though he were dead, he shall live, and living once he shal never die: Doest thou beleeve this? |
A52035 | was it not by faith? |
A52035 | what curiosity shal you find in many about keeping their bodies? |
A52035 | what is it? |
A09277 | 3. shall their unbeliefe make the Faith of God without effect? |
A09277 | A Preacher they have not; and[ How should they beleeve in him of whom they have not heard, and how should they heare without a Preacher?] |
A09277 | Againe for the Vnderstanding, how can it assent unto the Truth or dissent from the Falsehood of such things whereof it hath no apprehension at all? |
A09277 | Againe, Exekiel was an eloquent man, and the Iewes tooke a pleasure to heare him, but where grace wanted what could his eloquence helpe? |
A09277 | Againe, what singular preparation to Faith is it, that our naturall affections be well qualified in their motions about naturall and bodily things? |
A09277 | Alying surmise much like that of the Serpent when hee tempted the Woman, Yea saith he, hath God indeed said so? |
A09277 | And are they so? |
A09277 | And are we certaine then wee have it? |
A09277 | And is this sufficient to our regeneration? |
A09277 | And then shall not that gift which abolishes our sinfull infirmities, bee justly called a Sanctifying grace? |
A09277 | And what is this water? |
A09277 | And what reason had Esay then to complaine of them for not doing that which they could not doe? |
A09277 | And who knowes whether our diligence in doing something, may not be more beneficiall to us, than our sinning in many things may prove hurtfull? |
A09277 | And why are not all learned Divines sanctified also? |
A09277 | And why could they not? |
A09277 | But Satan replies, Are you sure that God spake true when hee said it? |
A09277 | But are they so indeed? |
A09277 | But how know you that those places are Scripture, and that that is the right meaning of those places? |
A09277 | But how know you this reuelation of the Spirit to be true? |
A09277 | But how know you this& the like places of Scriptures to be Gods Word? |
A09277 | But may all this be done without the helpe of Supernaturall revelation? |
A09277 | But now what is this effectuall power, according to the Arminians, and what doth it in all men? |
A09277 | But seeing t is questionlesse true in many, wee may and must charitably suppose it in every one( for when we come to particular whom dare we exclude?) |
A09277 | But shall his seede enjoy it? |
A09277 | But was it the vertue of these words that heald him? |
A09277 | But was this sufficient to convert them? |
A09277 | But what if both should so sinne? |
A09277 | But what if they be inferior? |
A09277 | But what is this Drawing? |
A09277 | But what is this Well Vsing of Naturall gifts? |
A09277 | But what then, are they unknowne too? |
A09277 | But what was the cause of that, was not the meanes sufficient? |
A09277 | But whence then hath the word its effect? |
A09277 | But where''s the seed it sel ● e that shall enjoy it? |
A09277 | But wherefore was all this contention of Spirit, why this striving with utmost endeavour to bee thankefull? |
A09277 | But wherein? |
A09277 | But why is this Divine vertue the seed of our regeneration called Incorruptible seed? |
A09277 | Can a man hate evill, who yet e loves not the Lord? |
A09277 | Can a man thirst after righteousnesse and yet not be d blessed nor satisfied? |
A09277 | Can any thing be more senselesse? |
A09277 | Can he be humble that hath not the sanctifying Spirit, one g fruite whereof is meeknesse and humblenesse of minde? |
A09277 | Can he that is in the flesh, and so an enemie to God, yet greve for displeasing of him? |
A09277 | Can he truly desire the Spirit of regeneration, that is of the c world and can not receive the Spirit because it seeth him not neither knoweth him? |
A09277 | Can hee have a full purpose of heart to i amend his life and cleave unto the Lord, whose heart is not yet touched with sanctifying Grace? |
A09277 | Can hee love God that is f not borne of him? |
A09277 | Can not this worke of Sanctification be wrought in them before Baptisme? |
A09277 | Come to most men and aske them, Why doe you beliue the Scriptures, and these points of religion out of them? |
A09277 | Doe they verily belieue that this is the word of God? |
A09277 | Doe we finde an Holy feare to fall upon us when our sinnes are threatned? |
A09277 | Finally, doe wee love the Word that hath begotten us, preferring that food of our soules before our appointed bodily food? |
A09277 | For among so many hundred volumes written by the Ancients, how few or none almost shall we finde touching the matter of Religion? |
A09277 | For aske a Roman Catholike, why doe you belieue the Pope can not erre? |
A09277 | For aske the question, wherefore do you firmely belieue the Articles of the ● reed? |
A09277 | For aske them, is not the inward disability of our soules to beleeve and convert a part of our corruption? |
A09277 | For can hee that is dead in sinne bewaile his Spirituall death? |
A09277 | For how can the Signe be denied unto them which have and enjoy the thing signified? |
A09277 | For if he would have them come, why doth he not give them that inward worke of the Spirit, without which hee knowes they can not come? |
A09277 | For if the Vnderstanding assent or dissent without understanding of whereto or from what, is not a non- ens the object of such an act? |
A09277 | For let any man speake, Is it not as Honest a thing for wicked ang ● lls to beleeve what God saith, as it is for wicked men? |
A09277 | For to what end is it? |
A09277 | For what history of the Bible can be named that may not be plainly understood, I say not by a learned or godly, but even by any man? |
A09277 | For why? |
A09277 | Hadst thou not thought it? |
A09277 | Hath the Word wrought in us an unfained hatred of that evill which we outwardly forsake, a sincere love of that good which outwardly wee practise? |
A09277 | Have you seene how a tender infant in the apprehension of some danger approching runnes into the armes of his Parent for succour? |
A09277 | Heare the Command, and that given to a dead man: But could these words doe any thing to raise him? |
A09277 | How can that heart be a new heart, a contrite and broken heart sensible of sinne, which is not yet changed out of stone into flesh? |
A09277 | How can yee that are evill speake good things? |
A09277 | How doth Faith live by Charity? |
A09277 | How know you that the Scriptures are Gods Word? |
A09277 | How many prayers of the Saints doe wee finde they have made for knowledge, every where mentioned? |
A09277 | How often is Faith and Knowledge coupled together? |
A09277 | How shall wee know the word which the Lord hathnot spoken? |
A09277 | How then doth the Holy Ghost reueale vnto vs the truth of Scriptures? |
A09277 | How then was Christ described and crucified in the sight of these Galatians? |
A09277 | How we come to see this Light? |
A09277 | If Scriptures are plaine unto themselves, why did they not make them plaine unto others? |
A09277 | If by it self, then why are not the Divels sanctified, who know more of Divinity than haply the learnedst man? |
A09277 | If hee will it not seriously, why doth hee command them to doe that which hee knowes they can not, nay, we know he would not have them doe? |
A09277 | If it doe take effect extraordinarily in some, how know they that? |
A09277 | If it succeed ill, Contented Patience opposed to repining Thought; as, Why should not my Ministery be as effectuall as anothers is? |
A09277 | If knowledge dare venter, what should ignorance doubt? |
A09277 | If learning can not defend it selfe from common- vices, how should rudenesse and simplicity be safe? |
A09277 | If not, wherein lies the dishonesty of that act in the angells, or wherein stands the honesty of that act in men? |
A09277 | If one facultie can doe both, what reason is there to make two? |
A09277 | If that were the cause, why doth hee not equally beleeve all, when Gods authority is the same in all? |
A09277 | Is it by any proper worke of the Spirit distinct from the power of the Word? |
A09277 | Is it from true love to God and Goodnesse, that he is content to be ruled in such things? |
A09277 | Is it of the Law, or of the Gospell? |
A09277 | Is it possible that the creature should bee thus ignorant of his Creators voice, thus presumptuous to censure him of rudenesse? |
A09277 | Is it that knowledge of God and goodnesse whereto the Gentiles might come by the light of nature? |
A09277 | Is it vanished? |
A09277 | Is not the bestowing of them a fruit of his great mercy and love unto us? |
A09277 | Is not this dissembling to say one thing and meane another, to will one thing in word, another in secret intent? |
A09277 | Is there in the Scriptures the least intimation of such a strange and uncouth meaning, when it tells that wee are justified by Faith? |
A09277 | Is this so rare a priviledge of nature? |
A09277 | It sufficeth that God onely command them, if they can not obey, whose fault is that but their owne? |
A09277 | Lastly, If we be asked, How know you that this is the right meaning of such or such a place? |
A09277 | Lord, Lord, have wee not by thy name prophesied,& c? |
A09277 | Man indeed had strength and hath lost it, but how? |
A09277 | May a true prayer be made without the helpe of the Holy h Ghost? |
A09277 | Nay more, what difference can be made betweene Sathans temptations and all the sacred suggestions of Gods word? |
A09277 | No, is it not evident to us that the Scriptures are of God? |
A09277 | Now hee hath him shall hee live in Gods sight? |
A09277 | Now if Infants thus justified and sanctified depart this life, what should stoppe their passage to heaven? |
A09277 | Now what is the issue of such an ill grounded beliefe? |
A09277 | Now what is this else but to trust him? |
A09277 | Now whence is all this frowardnesse? |
A09277 | Quo ● odo resoluating 〈 ◊ 〉 si ● e? |
A09277 | So Christ appearing to Saul, accosts him with this expostulatorie salutation,[ Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou mee?] |
A09277 | So Eliah to Elisha, What have I done unto thee? |
A09277 | So should the Doctrine of Free- will in any kind whatsoeuer, fall to the ground: For how is the Will free, but because it may choose this or that? |
A09277 | So that vnto such as aske, wherefore are the Mathematickes good? |
A09277 | The Question is, How is it knowne certenly that the Scriptures are the very word of God? |
A09277 | The Question then is this, Whether it be in mans power so to resist the grace of God, as finally to hinder his owne Conversion? |
A09277 | The Scriptures are obscure, say they, but to whom trow yee? |
A09277 | The truth of it: where in stands that? |
A09277 | Their answere is, Because they bee the Word of God Yea but what perswades you to thinke so? |
A09277 | They have no justifying faith? |
A09277 | To the Question An Revelatio primae veritatis, ut sit formale objectum fidei, debeat esse obscura? |
A09277 | To their learned Clergie and illuminated Doctors? |
A09277 | To whom then? |
A09277 | True, but what makes vs good trees? |
A09277 | Vnde seis? |
A09277 | Was it externall morall perswasion trow yee that hath made this wonderfull alteration? |
A09277 | Well, but why doe you infallibly belieue that this is Gods word, and that this is the meaning of it? |
A09277 | Well, is not then the infusion of an Ability to Beleeve and Convert, the doing away of that corruption? |
A09277 | Well, what is this further or Greater grace? |
A09277 | What Faith is it that is thus resolued, Theologicall or Humane? |
A09277 | What can be done by a man after his Conversion, more than he can doe in these things before he be converted? |
A09277 | What instance and example can bee given in so many ages of any one among these or other Gentiles, that hath been converted by this Sufficient grace? |
A09277 | What is it then? |
A09277 | What is now my duty? |
A09277 | What is this Seed by which we are borne againe? |
A09277 | What prophecy, the meaning whereof hath not, or will not be plainly found out? |
A09277 | What saith is it then which is resolued into the Churches authority? |
A09277 | What shall he doe then? |
A09277 | What text of doctrine, whereof some have not or shall not understand the right meaning? |
A09277 | What then must hee beleeve? |
A09277 | What then should hinder why these Infants should not also be washed with the water of the Sacrament thereof? |
A09277 | What then, Inward Calling there is none? |
A09277 | What was that? |
A09277 | What was the reason of that? |
A09277 | What, Iustifying Faith? |
A09277 | What, is it equall that he who transgresseth the Law in one point, should be held guilty of the breach of all the Commandements? |
A09277 | When hee is in Ganaan, where bee now his great possessions? |
A09277 | Whence then? |
A09277 | Where then is any worke left for Grace? |
A09277 | Whether God doe give unto all Christians grace sufficient to worke their conversion? |
A09277 | Whether may the childe of such a one bee baptized? |
A09277 | Whether the Gentiles out of the Church have grace given unto them sufficient for their conversion? |
A09277 | Whether those upon whom such sufficient grace is bestowed, may if they list hinder their conversion by the power of their free- will? |
A09277 | Who but Abraham would not here have quarrelled with God, and laid slacknesse, falshood, unjustice, and cruelty to his charge? |
A09277 | Who sees not abroad in the world many wicked and ungodly wretches abounding in knowledge, and yet destitute of all true piety? |
A09277 | Who would thinke himselfe wrongd that is thus blest, or imprisoned that is thus restrained? |
A09277 | Why doe you belieue Purgatory? |
A09277 | Why? |
A09277 | Will there ever be a true Confession in the mouth when there is not Faith and Repentance in the heart? |
A09277 | Yea but how know you infallibly they doe not erre in saying so? |
A09277 | Yea but what are these actions? |
A09277 | Yea, but how is all this done? |
A09277 | Yea, but whence doth Faith fetch this argument? |
A09277 | You know the doome; Take it away, why should it trouble the ground? |
A09277 | [ And such were some of you: but yee are washed]: what''s that? |
A09277 | [ Lord what wilt thou have mee to doe?] |
A09277 | [ Thou beleevest that there is one God, thou doest well:][ the Divells also beleeve it:] and doe not they doe well too? |
A09277 | againe when is this supernaturall knowledge bestowed on Pagans? |
A09277 | and is it not so in the Divell, who as in knowledge he surpasseth the best of men, so in malice far exceeds the worst of all creatures? |
A09277 | and what if they die before that age? |
A09277 | and when t is once found out, may not all understand what one doth? |
A09277 | are the Scriptures obscure, because some things are hard to be understood by the ignorant and unstable mindes? |
A09277 | call we this a prerogative of Nature, and is it worth so much contention as hath beene made for it? |
A09277 | have they it as soone as they come into the world? |
A09277 | if so, t is Naturall: or is it given afterwards at yeares of discretion? |
A09277 | if so, then t is not in Infants, and so not in all the Heathen, and at what yeares is it bestowed? |
A09277 | is it in regard of it selfe, or in respect of the fruite? |
A09277 | or it is some other supernaturall Revelation? |
A09277 | our Iustification or our Sanctification? |
A09277 | shall I beleeve, shall I obey, were I best doe this good worke, or shall I let it alone? |
A09277 | to make it powerfull unto conversion in all to whom it is proposed? |
A09277 | was it evident to the holy men of God to whom they were first inspired? |
A09277 | what should hinder? |
A09277 | whose fault is that but the Clergies? |
A09277 | why so? |
A09277 | yet aske them in their sorrowes and feares, can you beleeve in Christ, committing your soules unto him, depending only upon him and no other? |
A61545 | 34,& c. How can Intrinsecal Mediums, and Evidence from the Object, be only Extrinsecal Pre- requisites? |
A61545 | And can not our Logician distinguish between the Rule of Faith, and the Helps to understand it? |
A61545 | And hath he found out the Churches Authority too, without the Churches Help, and yet doth he want some necessary Points of Faith? |
A61545 | And how can that be proved impossible to be done, which we shew was actually done? |
A61545 | And how could I answer a Question about All, but by shewing where we had All? |
A61545 | And how is it possible for those who differ in Judgment, to have the same Rule, if our Rule and our Judgments be the same? |
A61545 | And how is it possible to suppose any Book so received, so esteemed, so dispersed, so constantly read, could be suffer''d to be lost among Christians? |
A61545 | And if he can do all this, I desire to know whether he can not find out all Necessary Points of Faith? |
A61545 | And if he puts such Questions concerning the Rule, What Tricking was it in me, to give a direct Answer to them? |
A61545 | And if it be so, as to these Points, then why not as well as to other Points consequent upon these? |
A61545 | And if the Foundation be uncertain, what can the Rule do? |
A61545 | And is it not Pelagianism to exclude it? |
A61545 | And is not this Blasphemy against Scripture? |
A61545 | And is that all? |
A61545 | And is this any Disparagement to a Rule of Faith to be plain and easie? |
A61545 | And is this the wonderful Mystery? |
A61545 | And then I pray what need have I to find out this Certain Authority at all, if I may have True Faith and be Saved without it? |
A61545 | And therefore when Mr. G. put his next Question, as he thought very pertinently, By what Certain Rule do you hold it? |
A61545 | And was this any disparagement to his Doctrine? |
A61545 | And what follows? |
A61545 | And what saith J. S. in Answer to this? |
A61545 | And what then? |
A61545 | And what would J. S. do more? |
A61545 | And when the Question was asked, By what Certain Rule do we hold it? |
A61545 | And where lies the Heresie or Danger of this Doctrine? |
A61545 | And where lies the Heresie, the Enthusiasm, the Atheism of this Doctrine, which I have already shewed was asserted both by Fathers and School- men? |
A61545 | And why saith J. S. hath he not answered well? |
A61545 | And will not the same Objections then lie against all those who rely upon it? |
A61545 | Are all Christians Traditionary Christians? |
A61545 | Are all People capable of this Certain Reason, or not? |
A61545 | Are not we certain, because some are not Certain? |
A61545 | Are they written by some Catholick Bishop, to give an Account of his Faith, according to the Custom of the Antient Church? |
A61545 | Are we all to be damned for Dunces and Blockheads? |
A61545 | Bellarmin indeed saith, that a Gift of Interpretation is not to be had by Prayer; and, Do I ever say it is? |
A61545 | But all are not, as Socinians,& c. What are they to us? |
A61545 | But are all Points taught by Christ, or written in Scripture, equally necessary to the Salvation of all People? |
A61545 | But how came they to be Necessary to the Body of the Church? |
A61545 | But how can an erring Church still plead Tradition and adhere to it? |
A61545 | But how can it be a certain Rule, if men that use it may err in using it? |
A61545 | But how comes J. S. to be concerned in this Controversie with Mr. G.? |
A61545 | But how doth this appear? |
A61545 | But how is this possible, if the Sense of Tradition be infallibly convey''d? |
A61545 | But how? |
A61545 | But if they adhere to Tradition, and that Tradition leads them to Christ, who could not err, how can they possibly err? |
A61545 | But is there any such Intellectual Rule as this? |
A61545 | But suppose a College of Physicians interpret Hippocrates otherwise, is he bound then to believe his own Interpreter against the Sense of the College? |
A61545 | But suppose, they come to years of Discretion, what Rule of Faith have they then? |
A61545 | But then, why not, Roman Catholick Letters according to the new Style? |
A61545 | But was not the Question put, whether we had All the Points of Faith which our Saviour taught? |
A61545 | But what Ground is there for all this venemous Froth? |
A61545 | But what is all this to the present Question? |
A61545 | But what is the meaning of all this ado about a Sober Enquirer? |
A61545 | But what would J. S. have done? |
A61545 | But where have I given any Occasion for such spiteful Reflections? |
A61545 | But where now lies the difference? |
A61545 | But wherein doth this Jest lie? |
A61545 | But wherein is it? |
A61545 | But who bid you be so ungrateful to that Certain Reason, which conducted you so far? |
A61545 | But who sets the bounds? |
A61545 | But why do I not as well blame the Greek Churches for not receiving the Apocalypse? |
A61545 | But why must these be call''d Catholick Letters? |
A61545 | But why then doth he urge us to produce our Grounds of Certainty as to particular Points, if himself doth not? |
A61545 | By its Power of making it Necessary to be believed meerly by such Declaration? |
A61545 | Can J. S. tell better than the Managers? |
A61545 | Could any Man but J. S. make such an Objection as this? |
A61545 | Did Christ( saith he) teach any unnecessary Points? |
A61545 | Did I ever give the least Countenance to Enthusiastick Pretenders, or to the Breakers of the Laws and Orders of our Established Church? |
A61545 | Did not the Arians use the same External Acts of Worship with others, with respect to Christ? |
A61545 | Did not they believe St. John''s Authority to be Certain? |
A61545 | Did the Apostles when they went to convert the World, go with Books in their Hands, or Words in their Mouths? |
A61545 | Do I then allow no Authority to Church- Governors, that do not pretend to Infallibility? |
A61545 | Do not all Christians agree the Commands of Christ to be an Infallible Rule of Life? |
A61545 | Do not they make the Vulgar Translation Authentick? |
A61545 | Doth J. S. now take this for a Paradox among us? |
A61545 | Doth J. S. think the vanity of it was not enough exposed by that means? |
A61545 | Doth any Man question the Certainty of the Rule, for Mens blundering in their Accompts? |
A61545 | Doth he deny that they have erred notwithstanding? |
A61545 | Doth he deny that they hold to Tradition? |
A61545 | Doth it make those to whom it is delivered Infallible? |
A61545 | Doth not the Consent of all Ancient Writers, even in St. Jerom''s Time, make a Judgment of the Church? |
A61545 | Doth that Man sin, who professes to believe a thing to be true, though he doth not see the Intrinsic Grounds for it? |
A61545 | Doth the Man hope to raise Himself by exposing Me? |
A61545 | For is it possible for Men to misunderstand a Certain Rule or not? |
A61545 | For is not Traditions being the Rule of Faith any part of it? |
A61545 | For what difference is there between knowing we can not be deceived in our Assent, and that it is Infallible? |
A61545 | For, did not Pelagius and Coelestius the very same? |
A61545 | For, how can we disagree, if we can not mistake the Sense of Tradition? |
A61545 | For, if true Faith may be had without Infallible Certainty, what need any such contending about it? |
A61545 | For, is it ever the less fit to be a Rule, because both Parties own it? |
A61545 | For, pray did Christ teach any Errour? |
A61545 | From whence doth this appear? |
A61545 | Had not they sufficient Care of the Certainty of Mens Minds, and of the Peace of the Church? |
A61545 | Hath God Almighty done it? |
A61545 | Hath he indeed, resolved all Controversies, and yet wants some necessary Points of Faith? |
A61545 | Have they a Judgment of Discretion then? |
A61545 | Have they then any other Rule of Faith, which they rely upon? |
A61545 | He brings the Argument, and I an Instance against it, what are People the wiser? |
A61545 | How can Arithmetick be a certain way of computation, if Men following the Rules of Arithmetick, may mistake in casting up a sum? |
A61545 | How can I deny them such a Priviledge, if I put Matters into their hands above any other Protestant? |
A61545 | How can Reason be certain in any thing, if Men following Reason may mistake? |
A61545 | How can this be, if there be such Mystical Knots which tye it together, that none but the Church- Guides can unloose? |
A61545 | How can this be, unless he asserts that by Scripture alone, we can find no certain difference between Light and Darkness, between Christ and Belial? |
A61545 | How can this then ever be so Known, as to be a Rule of Faith to the People? |
A61545 | How comes Mr. S. to know we are not Certain when we say we are? |
A61545 | How comes he to know better than Mr. G. unless he directed the Point, and Mr. G. mistook and lost it in the Management? |
A61545 | How did I turn off the Enquiry from one thing to another, when I only Answered the Questions he proposed? |
A61545 | How doth he after all clear this Instance of the Greek Church? |
A61545 | How far may a Man safely deny that which he can not with Reason hold to be true? |
A61545 | How is it then possible, for him to be certain of it on his own Grounds? |
A61545 | How many thousand Martyrs Lives, might this Doctrine have saved in the Primitive Times? |
A61545 | How ridiculous is this? |
A61545 | How so? |
A61545 | How then can a pious Disposition of the Will be necessary in order to the Act of Faith? |
A61545 | How was it possible for the Nicene Fathers to have convinced the Arians on such a Supposition as this? |
A61545 | If I were as he, I would never trust him to play my Cards more; for what means this insinuation of Nonsuiting,& c? |
A61545 | If Men by Certain Reason have found out this Certain Authority, What are they to do with this Certain Reason afterwards? |
A61545 | If Men may mistake about Traditions being the Rule of Faith; why may we not suppose, they may as well mistake about any Points convey''d by it? |
A61545 | If Tradition be our Rule, and we interpret Scripture by it, what fault then are we guilty of, if Tradition be such an Infallible Rule? |
A61545 | If against the Heathens we can prove from Scripture, that the Word was made Flesh, Why will not this as well hold against Nestorians and Eutychians? |
A61545 | If he pretends no more than to prove them in general, why may not we be allowed to do the same? |
A61545 | If it doth, then Divine Faith is to be resolved into Natural Means: And what is this but Pelagianism? |
A61545 | If not, how come they to be necessary to be believed now? |
A61545 | If not, how was it possible from thence to prove Christ not to be a Creature? |
A61545 | If not, to what purpose did he write this Epistle to them? |
A61545 | If there were Oral Tradition for it, how came it to be condemned? |
A61545 | Is Certainty of this more, and Certainty of this Book, all one? |
A61545 | Is Mr. S. Certain of his Infallible Ground of Certainty, Oral Tradition? |
A61545 | Is Tradition more Infallible in it self? |
A61545 | Is he bound to hold and profess it to be true, though he doth not see the Intrinsecal Grounds which prove Truth to be Truth? |
A61545 | Is it Pius the Fourth''s Creed? |
A61545 | Is it deliver''d by Persons more Infallible? |
A61545 | Is it indeed into those who taught them to read? |
A61545 | Is it on the Infallibibility of Tradition or not? |
A61545 | Is it the Churches Infallibility? |
A61545 | Is it, that the Doctrine contained in them is undoubtedly Catholick? |
A61545 | Is not all this very obliging? |
A61545 | Is not such a Man fit to hold the Cards for Mr. G.? |
A61545 | Is not that Divine Faith which he goes about to demonstrate the Infallible Certainty of? |
A61545 | Is not this a brave Undertaker, to make Faith infallibly certain, who so evidently contradicts himself as to his own design? |
A61545 | Is not this a fit Person to play out Mr. G''s Game, who shuffles in so strange a manner, and so openly plays false Cards? |
A61545 | Is not this clear and evident Demonstration? |
A61545 | Is not true Evidence from the Object a natural Reason in order to believing? |
A61545 | Is this in Truth your avowed Principle? |
A61545 | Is this possible? |
A61545 | Is this the Answer to the Instance about the Greek Church which Mr. M. promised? |
A61545 | It is very possible it may be as Useful still, why then do you turn Reason off so unkindly after so good Service? |
A61545 | May not you mistake or pervert to Day, what you heard Yesterday, when I find you mistaking or perverting my Sense, but at two lines distance? |
A61545 | Must I be forced to tell him, as the Painters did by ill Pictures, This is a Horse, and this a Wolf? |
A61545 | Must I believe Reason to be Certain just so far and no further? |
A61545 | Must our Reason be quitted, and Men not be allowed to judge of this Authority by it? |
A61545 | No? |
A61545 | No? |
A61545 | Now what saith J. S. to this? |
A61545 | Of making things not Necessary to become Necessary? |
A61545 | Or not thought fit to be communicated by them, when it was most necessary to prevent the early Corruptions and Errours of the Christian Churches? |
A61545 | Or were those Words a jot less Sacred, when they came from their Mouths, than when they put them in a Book? |
A61545 | Pray do you hold that Christ is a meer Man, or that Believing him is a meer Human Faith, or that the Doctrine taught by Him or Them is meerly Human? |
A61545 | Shall the Believing Church then have the Liberty to interpret Scripture against the Teaching Church? |
A61545 | Suppose Men differ about this Certain Authority, wherein it lies, and how far it extends; Are not they to exercise their Reason still about this? |
A61545 | Suppose the Difference between us and the Socinians, What then? |
A61545 | That the Scripture is no Certain Rule? |
A61545 | That we are not Certain? |
A61545 | Then I demand, whether Reason doth afford an Infallible Ground of Certainty, as to this Certain Authority or not? |
A61545 | Therefore we ought to believe Christ''s Doctrine contained in Scripture, and obey his Commands; and do I give the least Intimation against this? |
A61545 | They may be the honestest and best Part of Christendom, for any thing J. S. knows; and what Justice can there be in such Uncharitable Censures? |
A61545 | This Doctrine is now condemned at Rome; but how came it into the Church; Did not they believe the same to Day which they did Yesterday? |
A61545 | This is an Argument, and this an Answer? |
A61545 | This is great; and becoming the Scientifical I. S. But will he hold to this? |
A61545 | This is no New Speculation; But what follows from it? |
A61545 | This is well; but why no sooner? |
A61545 | Was here no antecedent Judgment of the Church in this Matter? |
A61545 | Was it a Secret concealed then from them? |
A61545 | Was the Instance brought against me, or against P. G? |
A61545 | Was there ever such an awkard Man at Reasoning? |
A61545 | We affirm that we are; and who can tell best? |
A61545 | We do not pretend to it as to the Scripture: And what Reason is there for it as to Tradition? |
A61545 | We must in Reason suppose this: And if we do so, how can Persons Renounce its being the Rule, while they can not but believe its being the Rule? |
A61545 | Well; but what Infallible Ground is there for this Divine Faith? |
A61545 | What Evidence can there be like a Man''s plain Words? |
A61545 | What Experience? |
A61545 | What Occasion have I given for such a Question? |
A61545 | What Power? |
A61545 | What Reason then can be given, why such a Rule of Faith should be kept from them? |
A61545 | What a Judge of Controversies have we found at last? |
A61545 | What a desperate Cause is that, which forces Men to fling such Dirt in the Face of so many Christian Churches? |
A61545 | What doth J. S. mean, to call one of the Articles of our Church, a Jest and a Paradox? |
A61545 | What hurt is there in this? |
A61545 | What invisible links hath Oral Tradition to connect things, that seem so far asunder? |
A61545 | What is it, I pray? |
A61545 | What is my saying to the business in hand? |
A61545 | What is that? |
A61545 | What is the meaning that we can not necessarily resolve it? |
A61545 | What is this, but in plain terms to expose the Scriptures to the Scorn and Contempt of Atheists and Infidels? |
A61545 | What kind of sin is it, Mortal, or Venial? |
A61545 | What means then these spiteful Insinuations? |
A61545 | What pittiful Reasoning is this? |
A61545 | What pleasant Entertainment doth he make with the Sober Enquirer? |
A61545 | What saith J. S. to the Case of the Jews, who heard our Saviours Doctrine, and saw his Miracles, did they sin in their Infidelity or not? |
A61545 | What strange Trifling is this? |
A61545 | What then? |
A61545 | What then? |
A61545 | What? |
A61545 | What? |
A61545 | When St. John saith, Try the Spirits, whether they are of God, Doth he only mean, till they had found a Certain Authority? |
A61545 | When a Father believed what Christ taught him, and the Son what the Father believed, did not the Son too believe what Christ taught? |
A61545 | When and where? |
A61545 | When he saith to the Thessalonians, Prove all things, Doth he mean, Swallow all things, and Prove nothing? |
A61545 | Where did I ever dispute against Church- Authority in due proposing Matters of Faith, provided that every Man is to judge for his own Salvation? |
A61545 | Where did they ever separate from the Christian Assemblies, on the account of the Worship given to Christ? |
A61545 | Where doth that fix? |
A61545 | Where is it? |
A61545 | Where is the Tricking in all this? |
A61545 | Who are they? |
A61545 | Who can help that? |
A61545 | Who ever asserted any such thing? |
A61545 | Who is to appoint such a Certain Authority in the Church, to Explain his Word, but God Himself? |
A61545 | Why Presbyterians and Socinians, I beseech him? |
A61545 | Why do I ask such a Question? |
A61545 | Why is it not said, All Christians have gone upon this Principle? |
A61545 | Why may not Men mistake the Sense of Tradition, as well as the Sense of Scripture? |
A61545 | Why then, may not those who deliver it, and those who receive it, both be mistaken about it? |
A61545 | Will he own it to the Cardinals of the Inquisition? |
A61545 | Would he tell him he was Infallible? |
A61545 | Would not the very same Reasoning have made the coming in of Idolatry impossible? |
A61545 | Zeno brought his Argument, and Diogenes his Instance; were not By- standers the wiser, when it so apparently proved the foppery of the Argument? |
A61545 | and F. W. by the brave attempt of throwing Dirt so plainly in my Face? |
A61545 | and which shall they be for; the Argument or the Instance? |
A61545 | has he been Judge of all the Controversies between Us already, and is he to seek for his Rule still? |
A61545 | or into the New Testament, as the Ground of their Faith? |
A61545 | that if one may without the Churches Help find out the Churches Authority in Scripture, then why not all necessary Points of Faith? |
A04187 | & si in alieno fideles non fuistis, quod est vestrum quis dabit vobis? |
A04187 | & vnd ● i ● pia& sacrilega ista meditatio? |
A04187 | * Quid est igitur credulitas, aut fides? |
A04187 | * Their owne writers obserue, that to feare God, in the language of Canaan, is to worship him: and is it lesse to beleeue in him, then to feare him? |
A04187 | 19 Verse 12 Who can vnderstand his faults? |
A04187 | 5 Verse 5 Who is he that ouercommeth the word? |
A04187 | 9 Ethnici putan ● plures esse Deo ●,& hoc tibi videris perfectus Christianus, quod persua sum ● abes vnūesse Deum? |
A04187 | A priuate man to take a Tyrant downe? |
A04187 | After grace infused, or whiles it remaines inherent, or at the first infusion only? |
A04187 | An non ipsi quo ● ● ● Damon ● ●& credunt& ● ontrem ● cum? |
A04187 | And as he addeth, h hereby perceiue we the loue of God, because he laid downe his life for vs. but whereby shall we perceiue our loue to him? |
A04187 | And by what meanes do all such, as are borne of God, ouercome the world? |
A04187 | And did he not well characterize the ambitious man, that said, vt dominetur aliis prius seruit: curuatur obsequie vt honore donetur? |
A04187 | And if he know it, will he not reward it? |
A04187 | And if ye salute your brethren onely, what doe ye more then others? |
A04187 | And is it possible for any without beliefe in one God, truely to beleeue in Christ, or to be truely called a Christian without beliefe in Christ? |
A04187 | And was not this to be ashamed of him and of his Gospell before men? |
A04187 | And what more vsuall, then for a niggards feast( because not agreeable to his ordinary disposition) to smell of waste and prodigalitie? |
A04187 | And who would leaue his fathers house, or lose assurance of his naturall inheritance, for faire promises of a better in a strange land? |
A04187 | Are these obseruations true in workes of nature, or morall affections onely, and not in perswasions of religion? |
A04187 | As in what? |
A04187 | As what man is ther by nature free and bountiful, but wil throughly Assent vnto our Sauiours saying as true& good, a beatius est dare quàm accipere? |
A04187 | Because faith is the argument of things not seene? |
A04187 | Because of his deeds or his workes? |
A04187 | Behold, God speaks to thee, and ● ost thou perfidiously wauer through incredulity of minde? |
A04187 | But by what faith should these Corinthians haue come to the knowledge of brotherly loue? |
A04187 | But for the euerlasting kingdome what can be too deare? |
A04187 | But how can this resolution stand with that daily petition, Lord lead vs not into temptation? |
A04187 | But how must God remit them? |
A04187 | But in what measure? |
A04187 | But is it not a worke of the spirit to be thus perswaded or resolued? |
A04187 | But is there no difference betweene Truth and Goodnesse? |
A04187 | But it may bee this faith was informed, perfected, or instigated to this act by loue? |
A04187 | But loue perhappes did make it meritorious? |
A04187 | But some better minded, perhaps, will here demaund, how farre this vniformity in practise is to be extended? |
A04187 | But some we may suppose died after it was erected; what was the reason? |
A04187 | But vvhat hence followes? |
A04187 | But was either his beliefe, or hope, for this reason, lesse euident then certaine? |
A04187 | But was he enabled exactly to fulfill the perfection of the Law, which had conuerted his soule? |
A04187 | But what is it hee wils vs to belieue with the soule? |
A04187 | But what should haue taught them to haue valued it aright? |
A04187 | But whom doth the remembrance hereof ought affect? |
A04187 | But why should this deterre vs from working in matters of our saluation? |
A04187 | By not imputing them? |
A04187 | By taking his sonnes names vpon them? |
A04187 | By true and liuely faith rooted in the heart? |
A04187 | Can faith and knowledge then reach to heauen, vnlesse they be lengthened by loue and other Christian vertues? |
A04187 | Clamat sanctus Paulus scri ● e ● s Corin ● ● ijs, Nes ● ● tis quia templum Dei estis& spiritus Dei habitat in vobis? |
A04187 | Coniugis augurio quamuis Tricenia mota est, Spes tamen in dubio est: adeo coelestibus ambo Diffidunt monitis: sed quid tentare nocebit? |
A04187 | Credere se in 〈 ◊ 〉 quomodo dicit, qui non facit quod Christus facere pr ● ce ● it? |
A04187 | Deus tibi de ● ● c mundo recedenti immortalitatem atque ● ● ern ● ta ● em pollicitur,& tu dubitas? |
A04187 | Did Saint Paul then euer affirme that a man could be saued or iustified without such workes? |
A04187 | Did hee intend they should accumulate iustifications as we doe degrees in schooles, and be twise iustifyed at once? |
A04187 | Did they as firmely belieue, or know he had mercy for them in store: would they not loue him and seeke to auoide his displeasure? |
A04187 | Did they then mistake him? |
A04187 | Do we from our hearts detest the memory of Annas, Caiphas, or such others, as conspired to take the Lord of life from out the land of the liuing? |
A04187 | Doe not euen the Publicanes so? |
A04187 | Doe not euen the Publicanes the same? |
A04187 | Doth any man not much affect him, whose excellent parts he highly esteemes, aib ● it he expect no reall fauour or commodity from him? |
A04187 | Doth not the Scripture say the same? |
A04187 | For if ye loue them which loue you, vvhat reward haue yee? |
A04187 | For may not hee be said to profit in learning, that brings his opinions to perfect science: albeit the essences of opinion and sciences be distinct? |
A04187 | For tell mee; O yee fooles and blinde, whether is more? |
A04187 | For who is hee liuing that can assigne mee the very instant yea the set hower, day, weeke or moneth wherein his regeneration was fully wrought? |
A04187 | God hath promised thee at thy departure out of this world, immortality and eternity, and dost thou doubt? |
A04187 | His race being run? |
A04187 | How doth hee say, he belieues in Christ, that doth not vvhat Christ hath giuen him in charge to doe? |
A04187 | How great is that glory? |
A04187 | How shall we( ● aith the Apostle) b that are dead to sin liue yet therein? |
A04187 | How then do they perfect faith? |
A04187 | How? |
A04187 | IESVS( saith the g Euangelist) looked round about and said vnto his Disciples, How hardly doe they that haue riches enter into the Kingdome of God? |
A04187 | If the least spice of this disease be so dangerous, what mischiefe may the heat of it procure vnto the soule of man? |
A04187 | If ye haue not beene faithfull in the vnrighteous Mammon, who will commit the true riches to your trust? |
A04187 | In as full and perfect as Adam had it before his fall, or without admixture of corruption drawne from his loynes? |
A04187 | In what manner? |
A04187 | In what sence then doth he say we are iustified by faith, not by workes? |
A04187 | Is God almighty so vnconstant or vnkinde, as to giue a iewell and take it againe? |
A04187 | Is he then saued with workes or without them? |
A04187 | Is it their glory to bee aboue others of their owne rancke and education? |
A04187 | Is not the quantity or perfection of goodnesse as intelligible, as the bare essence or quality? |
A04187 | Is not this victory from faith? |
A04187 | Is the Gospell more indulgent to hypocrisie, then the Law? |
A04187 | Know ye not that all we which haue beene baptized into Iesus Christ haue beene baptised into his death? |
A04187 | Let my foolish thoughts murmure as much as they list, and say: How meane art thou? |
A04187 | Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot iustified by vvorkes, vvhen she recei ● ed the messengers, and had sent them out another way? |
A04187 | Lord forgiue vs our trespasses or mortall sinnes? |
A04187 | Man onely? |
A04187 | Nam quid est cupiditas& laetitia, nisi voluntas in eorum consensionem ▪ qu ● volumus? |
A04187 | No, he answered againe; children how hard it is for them that trust in riches to enter into the Kingdome of heauen? |
A04187 | None, I thinke, but would perswade a man whom he knew to be as yet vnregenerate, to confesse his sinnes, to crie for mercy? |
A04187 | Not at all? |
A04187 | Not by workes ceremoniall? |
A04187 | Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt, but to him that worketh not: to the loiterer or idle person? |
A04187 | Now what heresie was there broached more blasphemous against Christ than this, which abolisheth the principall part of his mediation? |
A04187 | Nunne ● ● etiam si 〈 ◊ 〉 se n ● sse ● Deum ● actis tamen negat? |
A04187 | Or can we in part be moued with some few degrees of goodnesse knowne, and not as much more moued by equall knowledge of farre more? |
A04187 | Or how shall hee ataine to the reward of faith, vvhich vvill not faithfullie keepe his Commaundements? |
A04187 | Or what doth the Councell meane by a Christian; a dead man, or one aliue in Christ? |
A04187 | Q ● i ● i ergo ait: quis est qui 〈 ◊ 〉 mundum, nisi qui cred ●, quia Jes ● ● est filius Dei, ● um& ipse iam mundus i d credat? |
A04187 | Quae enim iustitia,& sanctitas excogitari potest, quae non sit ipsa anim ● m ● ● d ● ties,& innocentia? |
A04187 | Quid magni facis? |
A04187 | Rursus in eadem Epistola, An nescitis quoniam membra vestra templum sunt Sancti Spiritus qui in vobis est, quem habet ● s a Deo& non est is vestri? |
A04187 | Shall we then enter into the kingdome of heauen because we thus farre do thy fathers will, and in some measure obserue his Commaundements? |
A04187 | TAke no thought( sayth our Sauiour) saying, what shall we eate? |
A04187 | Take no thought, saying, what shall we eate? |
A04187 | The same by which they wrought wonders, or some other? |
A04187 | To conclude, what ancient father is there which should not be accursed, if God did not blesse where these Trent Fathers curse? |
A04187 | To men thus affected what duty more necessary to be inculcated, then loue and vnity of soules and spirits? |
A04187 | To remit their sinnes? |
A04187 | To these their demands of the pleasant songs of Syon, he answereth with indignation: b How shall we sing the Lords song in a strange land? |
A04187 | To what vse then doth our inherent righteousnesse or obseruance of Gods Commaundements serue vs? |
A04187 | V is vt ameris? |
A04187 | VVhat is it then they can hope or desire Gods mercies should doe for them? |
A04187 | VVho shall condemne? |
A04187 | VVhy so? |
A04187 | Vnde ea libertas? |
A04187 | Vnto what purpose then can it be to direct men how to worke in matters wherein they do not worke at all? |
A04187 | Was Abraham then destitute of inherent grace, before he belieued the promise concerning Isaac? |
A04187 | Was hee then in no sort iustified by workes? |
A04187 | Was his Gospell lesse powerfully preached in their dayes then now it is? |
A04187 | Was it then the loue of God? |
A04187 | Was it therefore such righteousnesse as deserued absolution or reward? |
A04187 | Was that then such grosse ambition as our corrupt language onely takes notice of? |
A04187 | Was the doctrine of the Gospell lesse probale in their time then in ours? |
A04187 | Were the people of those Countries, wherein it was first preached, lesse docile by nature then we are? |
A04187 | Were they therfore iustified or finally acquitted by or for their works? |
A04187 | What righteousnesse doth he here meane? |
A04187 | What should they cast their mothers bones behind their back? |
A04187 | What should we more say? |
A04187 | What subiect is there whereof we may not logically dispute? |
A04187 | What then is the full meaning or finall resolution of this petition whilest vttered by men as yet not iustified? |
A04187 | What then was the originall of their miscariage? |
A04187 | What was that? |
A04187 | What was the reason? |
A04187 | What was the reason? |
A04187 | What was the reason? |
A04187 | What were the reasons, may we thinke, which so long with- held the auntient heathen from profession of Christianitie? |
A04187 | What were these? |
A04187 | What, venially only? |
A04187 | Who hath beene tried thereby, and found perfect? |
A04187 | Who is he, and we will commend him? |
A04187 | Who is it that ouercommeth the vvorld, but he which belieueth that IESVS is the sonne of God? |
A04187 | Who vseth to say so but dunces? |
A04187 | Why didst thou feare, ô thou of little faith? |
A04187 | Why, is there anie sinne which in the Protestants doctrine is not a transgression of the lawe? |
A04187 | Why? |
A04187 | Why? |
A04187 | Why? |
A04187 | Yet what truth more vndoubted, then that the Lord liueth? |
A04187 | Yet who can be so neere a friend to vs as our Redeemer is to truth? |
A04187 | a Of laughter( sayth the wise King) thou art madde, and of ioy and pleasance what is this thou doost? |
A04187 | as if to trust in them, were to say vnto them, ye shall deliuer mee, to pray or offer sacrifice vnto them? |
A04187 | aut quit iustus, et sanctus, qui hoc ipso non ● it innocens,& imm ● ● u ● a ● us? |
A04187 | aut vnde per ● eni ● t ad pr ● ● ium fidei, qui fidem non ● ● lt ● er ● ● re manda ● ●? |
A04187 | b Was not Abraham our father iustified through vvorks, when he offered his son Isaac vpon the altar? |
A04187 | b Wherein then do they glorifie God more then these Heathen did? |
A04187 | because there is no trust or confidence to be put in our owne good workes or fruits of grace? |
A04187 | by what doserts dost thou hope to obtaine it? |
A04187 | can the faith saue him? |
A04187 | doth not such a one, albeit he professe he knowes God, deny him by his deeds? |
A04187 | h what auaileth it my brethren, though a man say he hath faith when he hath no workes? |
A04187 | he that trusts in riches? |
A04187 | how, spiritually? |
A04187 | i It is easier for a camell to goe through the eye of a needle, then for, whom? |
A04187 | iuxta illi finis& aetas Tota retro, saeraeque velit decus addere morti What freedoms this? |
A04187 | no vse of any distinction betwixt the will and the vnderstanding? |
A04187 | of whom? |
A04187 | one in whom Christ is not yet fully fashioned, but ready to conceiue life? |
A04187 | onely as he is the meritorious cause or fountaine of grace whereby wee are immediately and throughly cleansed? |
A04187 | onely to omit the good deedes of the lawe or to commit such as your selues acknowledge to bee besides it? |
A04187 | or can we rightly value the consequence of diuine truthes in respect of our selues, and not frame desires of them proportionally? |
A04187 | or did he euer hope to attaine to such perfection as the Romanist must ere he can haue any hope of life? |
A04187 | or is it possible a man should goe against the commandement and not transgresse it? |
A04187 | or rather onely feare least they should no longer enioy these? |
A04187 | or was he willing to make the difficulty les ● e then they conceiued it? |
A04187 | or what shall we drinke? |
A04187 | or what shall we drinke? |
A04187 | or wherewith shall we be cloathed? |
A04187 | or wherewithall shall we be cloathed? |
A04187 | or who but haeretickes, would denie the least degree of spirituall ioy to be true ioy, the least sting of conscience to be true griefe? |
A04187 | quid facit in domo ● idei perfidum pectus? |
A04187 | quid qui Christo omnino non credit, appellatur& dicitur Christianus? |
A04187 | should not as properly belong to the obiect of beliefe? |
A04187 | t''was now fit time the end with praise to crowne? |
A04187 | that the thing is good which we intend to worke? |
A04187 | this is all they can condemne in vs. VVhat then? |
A04187 | to be altogether without any sinne deserning death? |
A04187 | to set heauen open vnto them without remission of sinnes or iustification? |
A04187 | was it immoderate desire of greater places then they enioied? |
A04187 | what could more directlie cuacuate that great mysterie of the true and reall vnion betwixt the head of the Church and the members? |
A04187 | what doth a faithlesse breast in the house of faith? |
A04187 | what shall he that belieues not Christ be enstiled a Christian? |
A04187 | what, can they whom we loue best on earth so much affect, as he doth equitie and righteous dealing? |
A04187 | whence is this impious and sacrilegious meditation? |
A04187 | who is he that would not bee more readie to conuey himselfe out of his sight, then with confidence to approach his presence? |
A04187 | who shall rest in thine holy mountaine?] |
A04187 | will ye goe with your young and olde, with your sonnes and your daughters, with your sheepe, and your cattell? |
A04187 | yea do not the very diuels belieue as much and tremble? |
A62581 | * Optatus, concerning the Controversy with the Donatists, asks who shall be Judge? |
A62581 | And are not we hugely too blame, if we do not cry up such mighty Conquerors as these are? |
A62581 | And does not his own Objection rebound upon himself? |
A62581 | And here in Europe, hath not a great part of Poland, Hungary, both Germany''s, France, and Switzerland? |
A62581 | And how doth he prove the contrary? |
A62581 | And if it were not for this very doctrine he was there censured, why doth Mr. White set himself purposely to defend it in his Tabulae suffragiales? |
A62581 | And if the greater part of Christians may fall off from Tradition, what Demonstration can make it impossible for the lesser to do so? |
A62581 | And if this principle were true, why have we not as true an account of the eldest ages of the world, as of any other? |
A62581 | And if we can not be so satisfi''d, where''s the certainty of Oral Tradition? |
A62581 | And in what Age was this done? |
A62581 | And is it not as impossible in the Church of England? |
A62581 | And is it not strange he should expect any particular proofs of so innocent and necessary a thing to the being of a Church? |
A62581 | And is not this argued like a Demonstrator? |
A62581 | And what can this be else but to make new articles of faith? |
A62581 | And what shall hinder the People from embracing those Corruptions? |
A62581 | And where delivered? |
A62581 | And why should it be more necessary for us to know this, than for them? |
A62581 | And why then were any matters of fact and points of faith inserted in the Books of the New Testament? |
A62581 | And yet we see even then the doctrine of Christ was mistaken; and is it such a wonder it should be in succeeding ages? |
A62581 | Are not these fair Concessions, which the evidence and force of Truth have extorted from these Authors? |
A62581 | Are there no passages in Books so plain, that a man may be sufficiently satisfied that this and no other is the certain sense of them? |
A62581 | Are those bare probabilities which leave no suspition of doubt behind them? |
A62581 | Baronius* speaks more particularly, What was then the face of the Roman Church? |
A62581 | But are not Commentators, both Protestant and Popish, generally agreed about the sense of Scripture in that Point? |
A62581 | But doth Mr. S. find any thing to this purpose in the Apologies of the Fathers? |
A62581 | But he thereby notes the unconsonancy of my carriage, Wherein I wonder? |
A62581 | But how do the Church of Rome know that they have perfectly true copies of the Scriptures, in the Original Languages? |
A62581 | But how much to the contrary is there very obvious in the proceedings of it? |
A62581 | But if Mr. S. will not believe me in saying thus, what reason have I to believe him in saying otherwise? |
A62581 | But if he can not do this, why does he make that an Argument against our Rule, which is as strong against his own? |
A62581 | But if tradition be so infallible, why have we not the ancient story of Britain as exact as the modern? |
A62581 | But is the present Pope with Mr. S. a private opinator, or was the last a meer schoolman? |
A62581 | But is this any peculiar Consectary from the truth of this Proposition? |
A62581 | But my demands go on, What evidence can you bring to convince me both that the Church always observed this rule, and could never be deceived in it? |
A62581 | But now how will he reconcile this Discourse with the Grounds of his Demonstration? |
A62581 | But suppose we say, That the Articles of the Apostles Creed contain all necessary matters of simple belief, what hath Mr. S. to say against this? |
A62581 | But that I may not think him superficial as well as his way, he puts a profound Question to me, What do I think Controversie is? |
A62581 | But was it any thing but justice and reason in me to expect and call for a demonstration from them who talk of nothing under it? |
A62581 | But what of that? |
A62581 | But who can warrant, That due proposals will always be made to men, and due care used by them? |
A62581 | But who so blind as he that will not see, that the sense of Scripture is as plain in all necessary points of Faith? |
A62581 | But why can we not, by the Scriptures, mean the sense of them? |
A62581 | But why do I say more contentedly? |
A62581 | But why, I wonder, should Mr. S. think, that if I do not allow of oral tradition, I must needs question whether there were any Fathers? |
A62581 | But will he say, the Pope doth not challenge this? |
A62581 | But, saith he, is that which is wholly built on the nature of things superficial? |
A62581 | By what means a compleat history of all passages relating to it may be conveyed? |
A62581 | Can any thing be finer than for a man to say that by Pompey''s success in fighting against Caesar, he means that Caesar had beaten Pompey? |
A62581 | Can he shew by any necessary Argument, that it is naturally impossible that all the Relations concerning that place should be false? |
A62581 | Christs passion, resurrection, and the nature of his Kingdom? |
A62581 | Comes it from the Authority of the Lord, and of the Gospel, or from the Epistles of the Apostles? |
A62581 | Did not Mr. Charles Thynne pretend to have demonstrated that a man at one jump might leap from London to Rome? |
A62581 | Did they not know, that the safety of Christianity did not depend upon this Book? |
A62581 | Do not Thomas, and Scotus( as Mr. White tells us*) all along pretend to demonstrate? |
A62581 | Do not mankind think themselves sufficiently assured of the Antiquity and Authors of several Books, for which they have not Demonstrative evidence? |
A62581 | Do not they differ about the meaning of these Texts among themselves, as much as they do from the Fathers, and from the Protestants? |
A62581 | Do not they pretend and appeal to what they received from their Fore- fathers as well as the Latins? |
A62581 | Do they say, that Religion is capable of strict and rigorous demonstration? |
A62581 | Does he mean of plain Texts, or obscure ones? |
A62581 | Doth not the same follow from every Proposition? |
A62581 | Doth not this Argument extend to the lives of Christians, as well as their Belief? |
A62581 | For I pray Sir, what doth Mr, S. think of the Greek Church? |
A62581 | For do I not mention believing first, and then doing? |
A62581 | For doth Mr. S. hope to perswade men, that tradition is a rule of faith by his Book or not? |
A62581 | For if the assistance be infallible, what matter is it whether the doctrine hath been revealed or no? |
A62581 | For if the degeneracy be in 1665. or any years after, what becomes of M. S''s demonstration then, that no errors could come into the Church? |
A62581 | For it must either acknowledg some Books have been controverted, or not; if not, why doth he make a supposition of controverted Books? |
A62581 | For neither is there a new object of faith; for how can that be, which common sense draws from what is believed already? |
A62581 | For since they resolved their faith into the written Books, how is it possible they should believe on the account of an oral tradition? |
A62581 | For to take his own instance, will any man in his senses say, that he that believes homo est animal rationale, doth not believe homo est animal? |
A62581 | For to what purpose should a man write a Book to prove that which every man must assent to, without any proof, so soon as it is propounded to him? |
A62581 | For what if there was no need of writing this Doctrine, whilst those living Oracles, the Apostles, were present with the Church? |
A62581 | For what is to be said to Testimonies brought at a venture? |
A62581 | For what though the Priest tell me this was the Doctrine of Christ delivered to him? |
A62581 | For who can imagine, but the barbarous Nations were as unwilling to deceive their posterity as any other? |
A62581 | For why should men make any more scruple of damning themselves and their Posterity by teaching them false Doctrines, than by living wicked Lives? |
A62581 | Had not men eyes, and ears, and common sense in Christ and the Apostles times? |
A62581 | Had not those in it eyes, ears, and other senses, as well as in the Latin? |
A62581 | Hath Christ taken care to keep his Church from Error, but not from Vice? |
A62581 | Hath not Mr. White now done his Rule of Faith great service by this Answer? |
A62581 | Have not the Kingdoms of great Brittain, Denmark, Sweden, and a considerable part of Ireland, in Mr. S''s opinion deserted Tradition? |
A62581 | Have those Christian Nations which are turn''d Mahometans and Pagans failed in their Faith or not? |
A62581 | How a Body can be present in a place after the manner of a spirit? |
A62581 | How a matter of fact evident to the world comes to be conveyed to posterity? |
A62581 | How deformed? |
A62581 | How does the living voice of the present Church assure us, that what Books are now received by her were ever received by her? |
A62581 | How the Traditionary Church can be more certain of the true sense of Scripture, than Protestants? |
A62581 | How the Traditionary Church can be more certain of the true sense of Scripture, than the Protestants? |
A62581 | How they can be more certain of the true sense of Tradition, than Protestants of the true sense of Scripture? |
A62581 | How vain is this? |
A62581 | How will Mr. S. reconcile this with his grand Exception against Scripture? |
A62581 | I ask, Do they receive it as ever delivered for such? |
A62581 | I can not enter into Mr. S''s apprehension, how 24 letters by their various disposition can express matters of faith? |
A62581 | I enquire farther, how I shall know what is the certain sense of Scripture so far as it concerns these points? |
A62581 | If for the government of your spiritual life you have as much as for the management of your natural and civil life, what can you expect more? |
A62581 | If it can not, how am I nearer satisfaction in this point, by acknowledging the infallibility of the Church? |
A62581 | If it can not, how can we be satisfied of the certain sense of any Doctrine Orally delivered? |
A62581 | If not, how can men ground their faith upon it? |
A62581 | If oral Tradition have brought down a certain sense of these Texts, why do they not produce it, and agree in it? |
A62581 | If oral Tradition were the more certain way, why was any thing written at all? |
A62581 | If so much be required to free a man from reasonable doubting concerning a Book, how happy are they that have attained to Infallibility? |
A62581 | If so, Whether this be clearer in Scripture, than that Gad hath hands, feet,& c? |
A62581 | If there be none, can any thing be spoken in plainer words than it may be written? |
A62581 | If there were speculators in former ages as well as this, whether did those men believe their own speculations or no? |
A62581 | If these be uncertain, where''s the constancy and unerrableness he talks so much of? |
A62581 | If they may believe this, doth it not necessarily follow, that they are bound to believe whatever they declare to be matter of faith? |
A62581 | In answer to this, Mr. S. wishes, I would tell him first what evidence means, whether a strong fancy, or a demonstration? |
A62581 | In such a degenerate state of a Church, what strength is there in this Principle, Nothing is to be admitted but what descends by Tradition? |
A62581 | In the same Chapter he complains, Who is there that preaches the Gospel to the People? |
A62581 | Is Mr. S. sufficiently assured that there is such a part of the World as America? |
A62581 | Is it greater than the security which these grounds afford? |
A62581 | Is it necessary that the hopes of Heaven, and the fears of Hell should keep Christians constant to the Doctrine of Christ? |
A62581 | Is it not very pretty to see what pitiful shifts men that serve an Hypothesis are put to? |
A62581 | Is it now repugnant to common sense, that this opinion should be believed or entertained in the Church? |
A62581 | Is it possible to believe, that any thing consists of parts, and not believe that that whole is greater than any of those parts? |
A62581 | Is it then possible to know the Churches judgement or not? |
A62581 | Is this any argument that those Texts are not sufficiently plain? |
A62581 | Is this the man who made choice of reason for his weapon? |
A62581 | Is this the victory over me, Mr. S. mentions to be so easie a thing? |
A62581 | Is, What is the next and immediate means whereby the knowledge of Christs Doctrine is conveyed to us? |
A62581 | Let him therefore speak out whether he doth believe any such thing as inherent infallibility in the definitions of Pope and Councils? |
A62581 | Must I believe a very few persons, whom the rest disown as heretical and seditious? |
A62581 | Nay, why were letters invented, and writing ever used, if tradition had been found so infallible? |
A62581 | Now how is this an Argument against those, who by the Scriptures, must mean unsensed letters and characters? |
A62581 | Now if this be a true representation of the state of the Roman Church in those Ages, was not this a very fit time for the Devil to play his Pranks in? |
A62581 | Now is not this a clear evidence that this which he calls a Demonstration a Priori, is no such thing? |
A62581 | Now, who sees not that the force of all this lies not in proving the minor proposition, or that no age could conspire to deceive another? |
A62581 | Of a right perswasion? |
A62581 | Or are these only the opinions and practises of some Schoolmen among them, and not the doctrine and practise of their Church? |
A62581 | Or if any thing more monstrous than that can be imagined, it might then have taken place; for what Weeds would not have grown in so rank a Soyl? |
A62581 | Or is Christianity only fitted to form mens minds to a right belief, but of no efficacy to govern their lives? |
A62581 | Or was the Council of Sardica? |
A62581 | Or where does he see General Councils? |
A62581 | Secondly, He asks*, Is it a Fundamental that Christ is God? |
A62581 | Secondly, Who deny the Millennium; Many Christians, saith Justin; but what Christians? |
A62581 | So that this Question, What is the Rule of Christian faith? |
A62581 | THe Question he propounds to himself to debate, is, What is the Rule of Faith? |
A62581 | That is, does it say there must be a total Apostacy in faith before the year 1664? |
A62581 | That no man is to do any thing but what is wise and vertuous, does secure the generality of mankind from folly and vice? |
A62581 | That nothing but Truth is to be assented to, doth secure men from Error? |
A62581 | That there should be any mistake about the Doctrine of Christ, when there was so much Ignorance? |
A62581 | Then he will ask him farther, Is there not a necessary connexion and relation between a constant Cause, and its formal Effect? |
A62581 | This is no more easily said then understood; for if these be implied in the former, how can there come a new obligation to believe them? |
A62581 | To speak plainer, is it not possible for men to believe the Pope and Council infallible in their decrees? |
A62581 | To these I might add many more; as, How a thing can be said to be changed into another thing which did exist before? |
A62581 | Upon which very triumphantly he concludes, What''s now become of your difficulty? |
A62581 | Was ever a good cause driven to such miserable shifts as these are, especially among those who pretend to wit and learning? |
A62581 | Was it impossible there should be any neglect of this Duty, when all others failed? |
A62581 | Was it not a practical Tradition, and performed in a sensible matter? |
A62581 | Was not every age among them as unwilling to deceive their posterity as elsewhere? |
A62581 | Was not such an Age a fit season to plant the Doctrine of Transubstantiation in? |
A62581 | Was the Council of Lateran a General one? |
A62581 | Was there ever a more knowing and diligent Teacher of this Doctrine than our Saviour? |
A62581 | Well, but Pope and Councils neither define new things, nor ground themselves on them: but what means the man of reason? |
A62581 | Well, but what says this Synod? |
A62581 | Were not their senses, who saw those matters of fact, as uncapable of being deceived as others? |
A62581 | Were not those Catholicks first, who afterwards became Hereticks; and when they became so, did they not differ in points of Belief? |
A62581 | Were they causes of actual will in Christians to believe well, when they lived so ill? |
A62581 | Were they strongly applied, or were they not? |
A62581 | What a stir is made about the sense of Dabo tibi Claves, Tu es Petrus,& super hanc Petram,& c. Pasce oves? |
A62581 | What can hinder men so disposed from corrupting the Doctrine of Christ, and suiting it to their own Lusts and Interests? |
A62581 | What fault I pray hath the Catholick Religion committed, that it must now come to be excused instead of being defended? |
A62581 | What is it these men mean, when they cry up their own way for demonstrative, and say that we build our faith meerly on probabilities? |
A62581 | What is there in all this Demonstration, which may not be accommodated to the Greek Church with as much force and advantage as to the Catholick? |
A62581 | What saith Mr. S. to this? |
A62581 | What then shall we expect in Religion, but to see a main advantage on the one side which we may rest our selves on? |
A62581 | What thinks Mr. S. of all this? |
A62581 | What, did not they know what their Parents taught them? |
A62581 | When therefore we enquire what is the Rule of Christian Faith? |
A62581 | Where I pray in all the proceedings of that Council doth Mr. S. find them define any thing on the account of oral tradition? |
A62581 | Where are the certain Causes of actual Will to adhere to this Doctrine? |
A62581 | Where is then the infallibility of oral Tradition? |
A62581 | Where then is the force of hopes and fears strongly applied? |
A62581 | Where then shall I satisfie my self, what the sense of your Church is, as to this particular? |
A62581 | Where there were different apprehensions in one age of the Church, whether there must not be different traditions in the next? |
A62581 | Where were then the Arguments of Hope and Fear? |
A62581 | Whether persons agreeing in the substance of doctrines may not differ in their apprehensions of the necessity of them? |
A62581 | Whether the same vertue of Tradition would not have been as powerful to bring down other Points in which we do not agree, had any such been? |
A62581 | Whether those things which are capable of being understood when they are spoken, cease to be so when they are written? |
A62581 | Who can tell but all this may be so? |
A62581 | Who is so little versed in History, as not to understand the dismal state of Religion in the Romish Church, in those times? |
A62581 | Who knows how the World may be changed? |
A62581 | Who shews them the way to Salvation either by Word or Action? |
A62581 | Why is not the effect produced, the Causes being put actually causing? |
A62581 | Why not? |
A62581 | Why so? |
A62581 | Why then is the contrary doctrine censured and condemned at Rome? |
A62581 | Why then may not one who after long searching findeth no Infallibility, rest himself on the like, supposing mans nature affords no better? |
A62581 | Will Mr. S. now say, that in the height of these Heresies the generality of Christians did firmly adhere to Tradition? |
A62581 | and Mr. S. would make it? |
A62581 | and can he demonstrate this to any man, without carrying him thither? |
A62581 | and consequently, whether the resolution of faith be barely into oral tradition? |
A62581 | and is it not as necessary that these arguments should prevail upon them to the practice of it? |
A62581 | and what mean their decrees? |
A62581 | and whether the same vertue were not powerful to bring down this as well as those? |
A62581 | but be it in faith, be it universal, does it suppose this degeneracy already past, which is only proper to your purpose, or yet to come? |
A62581 | but he intends, that they deliver no new doctrine: but how must that be tried? |
A62581 | does it evidently speak of faith, or manners; the Vniversal Church, or particular persons? |
A62581 | doth not the Greek Church profess to believe on the account of tradition from the Apostles as well as the Latin? |
A62581 | if it be so, doth it not unavoidably follow, that the faith of men must alter according to the Churches definitions? |
A62581 | if it did, how comes any thing to be de fide which was not before? |
A62581 | if not, to what purpose doth he write? |
A62581 | if not, why may not this opinion be generally received? |
A62581 | or hath Mr. S. gained the opinion of infallibility both from Pope and Councils, that we must believe his bare word? |
A62581 | or is it so hard to find it? |
A62581 | or ought I not rather to take the judgment of the greatest and most approved persons of that Church? |
A62581 | saith he, why, see we not the place? |
A62581 | that not the Scripture, but unmistakeable, indefectible Oral Tradition was the Rule of Faith? |
A62581 | that they make no new definitions: surely not; for then what did they meet for? |
A62581 | the infallibility of a Pope and Council by immediate assistance of the Holy Ghost? |
A62581 | to give us demonstrations for the grounds of faith? |
A62581 | whereas had tradition been so infallible a way of conveying, how could this ever have come into debate among them? |
A62581 | —* Why should any man now flatter himself with hopes of Preferment, because of his Vertue or Learning? |
A41843 | ( O me slighter of the everlasting Salvation) whither am I now going? |
A41843 | 10. for hee hath cloathed thee with the garments of Salvation, and hee hath covered thee with the robe of righteousnesse: O what robes are these? |
A41843 | 14. where Iob reckoning over many good deeds done by himself, saith, What then shall I do when God riseth up? |
A41843 | 21 Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed to the end of the world, to those that are far off; What hath hee proclaimed? |
A41843 | 37. stop the mouth of misbelief so that it should have nothing to say? |
A41843 | Ah, Turn you ▪ turn you, why will ye die? |
A41843 | Ah, ah, shall we say that? |
A41843 | And I pose your own hearts with this, whether or not your names ● ee written there in that ● oll, among these sho shall be cut off? |
A41843 | And I say to you, who have thus delayed, will ye yet imbrace it? |
A41843 | And I would ask you that question, What a day shall it be when Faith shall ced ● to sight? |
A41843 | And I would ask you this question, what are your thoughts concern ● ng precious Christ, seeing he is that noble ● bject of Faith? |
A41843 | And O how dreadfull is it for an unprepared man to meet with death? |
A41843 | And O how suddenly will death surprise many of you as it did him? |
A41843 | And O may wee not wonder at the precious oath of the everlasting Covenant, whereby he hath sworn, That hee delighteth not in the death of sinners? |
A41843 | And O think ye not that our day is near unto a close? |
A41843 | And as to hope; will not assurance make a Christian 〈 ◊ 〉 forth, Now, Lord, what wait I for? |
A41843 | And doe we not ambitiously desire to walk toward Sion, sleeping( rather then weeping) as we go? |
A41843 | And doth open a door in Heaven, thorow which a Christian is admitted to see Christ sitting upon His Throne? |
A41843 | And if we would ask that question, What is the way to attain to the saving knowledge of God in Christ? |
A41843 | And is it not a mysterious command, to desire people to know that which can not be known? |
A41843 | And is it not a strange thing, that Christians are lesse convinced of the breaches of the Commandements of Faith, then of other commands? |
A41843 | And is it not certain, that these two gracious gifts ought to ingage ou ● souls and hearts much unto him? |
A41843 | And is it not the world the great plea and argoment, that they make use of, When they will not come and make use of Christ? |
A41843 | And is not this a great effect, to make us who were darknesse, become light in the Lord? |
A41843 | And is there not a great difference betwixt an Idol when it is cast out, and an Idol when it goeth out? |
A41843 | And that is an effect of this Great Salvation? |
A41843 | And that is ● ● effect of this Great Salvation? |
A41843 | And these two wounds, that he received in his precious feet, do they not preach this, That we should believe on a crucified Saviour? |
A41843 | And we conceive that the ground which maketh the most part of us have such complaints, How long wilt thou forget us for ever? |
A41843 | And what a Faith suppose yee shall it be thought when wee shall get on that immortal Crown of blessednesse? |
A41843 | And what can yee do who want Faith? |
A41843 | And what moveth Christians to be so desirous to die? |
A41843 | And what shall I answer when he visiteth me? |
A41843 | And why then do ye not take Him? |
A41843 | And would ye know what is your hearing of Sermon? |
A41843 | And yet for all this, shall we be sent away without one consent to imbrace or receive it? |
A41843 | And yet that Heroick grace of Faith cryeth out, Hath he spoken it: He will also do it, Hath he said it? |
A41843 | And yet this( as all the former) attendeth the imbracers of this Great Salvation ▪ Ye ●, would ye be rich? |
A41843 | And, what wisedom is in them? |
A41843 | Are not all wisdoms wayes pleasantnesse, and are not all her paths peace? |
A41843 | Are there any bu ● they must acknowledge they come unde ● this second rank? |
A41843 | Are there any here that will refuse to commend him? |
A41843 | Are there any of you that are sensible that ye are in the fetters of sin, and in the bonds of iniquity? |
A41843 | Are there not some words that we would have taken out of the Bible? |
A41843 | Are y ● ● not weary in pursuit of yours? |
A41843 | Are ye brought to the conviction of this, that ye are yet in the gall of bitternesse? |
A41843 | Art thou afraid at the wrath of God? |
A41843 | Art thou afraid of hell? |
A41843 | Art thou forced to cry out, none but Christ can save me? |
A41843 | Believe mee, more mortification would make more believing, but would ye know the original of misbelief? |
A41843 | But I would only ask at such, have ye any lawfull excuse, why ye will not come and partake of this Great Salvation? |
A41843 | But O will yee not take it? |
A41843 | But are there none here who are heavy loaden with sin, with misery, and estrangement from God? |
A41843 | But are there not many here who never knew what it was to mortifie one lust for Christ? |
A41843 | But as for you who have no resolutions to imbrace this Great- Salvation, O wherewith shall I commend it unto you? |
A41843 | But is it not an easie way of entring into the holy of Holies, to win unto it through the exercise of Faith? |
A41843 | But oh what a hellish word is that, Away with spotlesse Christ, away with transcenden ● Christ, and give us the world? |
A41843 | But this is answered from that letter of His Name, hee keepeth mercy for thousands? |
A41843 | But would ye be wise indeed, and wise unto eternal life? |
A41843 | But would ye know the properties of a Christians Faith? |
A41843 | But, Oh shall the prison doors be ● st open, and yet none come forth? |
A41843 | By what Law, saith he, is boasting excluded? |
A41843 | By what law is boasting excluded? |
A41843 | Can any of you say an ● thing to the discommendation of it? |
A41843 | Can such a delusion overtake you O ● athiests ▪ That ye shall reign with Christ, if ye die not with him? |
A41843 | Can ye imagine any answer unto that question? |
A41843 | Challenge, Oftentimes ye sinned upon every small temptations, and what will ye answer to that? |
A41843 | Dare ye send a charge to Christ, and say ye will defy him? |
A41843 | Dare yee go out at these doors, and neglect ● he Great Salvation? |
A41843 | Did yee ever see such excellent robes at these must bee? |
A41843 | Do not your own necessities commend it? |
A41843 | Do we not covet to be more excellent then our neighbour? |
A41843 | Do we not love to travell to heaven through a valley of Roses? |
A41843 | Dost thou fear that thou shalt be poor: Come and partake of this Great Salvation; and thou shalt be delivered from it? |
A41843 | Doth my heart say, I will sell my birth- right, because I am hungered and ready to die: what will it profit me? |
A41843 | Doth not David that sweet singer of Israel, now sing more sweetly no ● he did while he was here below? |
A41843 | Doth not deserted Heman now chaunt forth the praises and everlasting song of him that sitteth upon the Throne? |
A41843 | Evidence, Doth not the unspeakable stupidity that have overtaken many, say, that we are not a people prepared for death? |
A41843 | Faith; And what secondly is most requisit? |
A41843 | Faith; And what thirdly is most requisit for a Christian? |
A41843 | Fifthly, Is not eternall singing in the enjoyment of God a grea ● advantage? |
A41843 | For a very look ye will get this Great salvation: and do y ● ● ever think to get Heaven at a lower rate? |
A41843 | For what report can Christ carry back but this? |
A41843 | For would yee know what is the description of a crosse? |
A41843 | For, is not this a mystery, to love him whom wee never saw? |
A41843 | Fourthly, Is not eternal liberation from the body of death, a great advantage? |
A41843 | From the first, it answereth all these objections of sense, which do ordinarily cry forth, Doth his promise fail for evermore? |
A41843 | From whence then ● oth Salvation flow unto you? |
A41843 | Hath not Christ been thirty dayes and more in heaven, without a visit from you? |
A41843 | Hath not Christ made a precious exchange with sinners? |
A41843 | Have I it not already? |
A41843 | Have not the most cursed wretches been forced to cry forth, Oh, I would give ten thousand worlds for Christ? |
A41843 | Have ye any thing to say? |
A41843 | Here is the Great Salvation, here is the offer of it, and here is th ● commendation of it; what say ye to it? |
A41843 | How could I answer to God if I had done otherwise? |
A41843 | How long did Iudas lu ● k under the name of a Saint, even with these that were most discerning? |
A41843 | I intreat you to answer all your temptations with that word, What shall I do when he riseth up? |
A41843 | I know you can not? |
A41843 | I mean not that money or coin in your purses, but want ● ● e money? |
A41843 | I say, are ye so poor, that ● e have nothing but the fear of hell? |
A41843 | I think wee will misken our selves; O do yee not think wee will misken our selves, when wee shall put on these excellent robes? |
A41843 | I was often exhorted to take Christ, and yet would never take him; What will Conscience say to that, when death shall table it before you? |
A41843 | If ye can sing that pleasant song, O how may ye be comforted, when your eye strings shall begin to break? |
A41843 | If ye delay your closing with Christ, till death seise upon you, ye shall never be able to make up that losse, For will the dead rise and praise God? |
A41843 | Is a Christian exposed unto afflictions and troubles in a present world? |
A41843 | Is it lawfull for a Christian to desire to live, when he is summoned to die? |
A41843 | Is it not a Great Salvation ▪ Is it not an eternal Salvation? |
A41843 | Is it not an impossible thing, to see that, which can not be seen? |
A41843 | Is it not certain that to will( to believe) is sometime present with you: but how to perform ye know not? |
A41843 | Is it not this, He hath been fourty dayes in Moses School? |
A41843 | Is it not this, to have the Law registrating our Band, and putting us( as we use to speak) to the horn? |
A41843 | Is it not ● lying to the holy Ghost, and a flattering of God with our mouth? |
A41843 | Is it not 〈 ◊ 〉 free Salvation? |
A41843 | Is not Faith that precious grace by which a Christian must take up the sports and blemishes that are within himself? |
A41843 | Is not that a mystery, that one should bring forth without travelling? |
A41843 | Is not the grace of Faith that whereby a Christian doth take up the invisible excellency and vertue of a dying Christ? |
A41843 | Is not this a great effect, to make us who were far off, to be now made near? |
A41843 | Is not this ● great effect( of this Gospel Salvation) to ● ring us out of nature into an estate of grace? |
A41843 | Is not this ● great effect, to make us who were moving ● ● the way to hell, move in the way to hea ● ● n? |
A41843 | Is there a person within these doors, who dare, but acknowledge that he hath slighted this Great Salvation, and delayed to imbrace it? |
A41843 | Is there any person here, that hath any lawfull excuse to present? |
A41843 | Is there not an ample blank put into that mans hand, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? |
A41843 | It is by the Redemption of Christ that we shall once sing that triumphant song, O Death, where is thy sting? |
A41843 | It is long ● ● ce Agur did non plus all the world ● ● th that question, What is his Name? |
A41843 | It is to have Christ in any condition or estate of life; What can ye want that have him, and what can he have that want him? |
A41843 | It is to want Christ in any estate, And would ye know what is the description of prosperity? |
A41843 | Know ye whether or not this shall be the last summonds that ye shall get to believe? |
A41843 | Let him comfort himself in this, That Christ is the God of peace, and of all consolation; Is a Christian under darknesse and confusion of spirit? |
A41843 | Let them come and partake of this Great Salvation; Are there no money- lesse folk here to day? |
A41843 | Lovest thou him more then thy wife? |
A41843 | May I now have it, saith thou? |
A41843 | More then thy friends? |
A41843 | More then thy house? |
A41843 | Most it not be answered, Every one did resemble the person of a King? |
A41843 | Must ye not then confesse it, and say, O how often have I deserted Christ and imbraced my idols upon a small temdtation? |
A41843 | Nay, saith Paul, I desire to be gone, and to be with Christ; Wast thou never with him here Paul? |
A41843 | No ● is there a person here who dare deny thi ● charge, that hee is a slighter of thi ● Grea ● Salvation? |
A41843 | Now are there any here who will be so gross slighters of this Great Salvation? |
A41843 | Now can ye say any thing against Christ, who is the Author of this Great Salvation? |
A41843 | Now have yee any thing to answer when Death shall present this Challenge to you? |
A41843 | Now in all these respects, who would not desire to die? |
A41843 | Now is the cord of this Great Salvation let down unto you: Is there none of you that will take a grip of it? |
A41843 | Now shall Christ depart, and will none of you say, yet are content to take him? |
A41843 | Now therefore, is the bargain closed: Or will yee go away before yee take this Great Salvation? |
A41843 | Now what resolution mind ye to go away with to day? |
A41843 | Now where are your hearts at this time? |
A41843 | Now where do you find your name and ● ● name? |
A41843 | Now will ye enquire at your selves, am I the person that will give my birth- right for a messe of pottage? |
A41843 | Now, are there any of ● ou here to day, who are called willing? |
A41843 | Now, old ● en are ye perswaded to imbrace it? |
A41843 | O Christians, and expectants of heaven, are ye not afraid lest yee be nighted before ye have walked the half of your journey? |
A41843 | O Christians, would ye know that which maketh the superstructure and building of grace to be within you, as a bowing wall and as a tottering fence? |
A41843 | O Grave, where is thy victory? |
A41843 | O be not deceived, God is not mocked, and why will ye mock your selves? |
A41843 | O blessed is the person who hath these thoughts of the world all along his way, which he shall have of it at death? |
A41843 | O could ye never win to this, to count your own righteousnesse as filthy rags, and to rejoice alone in the righteousnesse of a crucified Saviour? |
A41843 | O do ye not know it? |
A41843 | O doth it not concern you, to enquire where ye shall rest at night, when the long shadows of the everlasting evening shall be stretched out upon you? |
A41843 | O dreadfull shall the wrath of God be, that shall be executed upon the slighters of this Great Salvation? |
A41843 | O grave where is thy victory? |
A41843 | O is not Christ much underva ● ued by us? |
A41843 | O slighter of the Gospel, how many alaces wilt thou cry, when thou shalt be passing thorow these dark gates into thy everlasting prison? |
A41843 | O tell me, have ye seen him? |
A41843 | O tell me? |
A41843 | O that strong bar of hardnesse of heart, when shall the omnipoten hand of God break it? |
A41843 | O think upon him, and let not this be a day of slighting him? |
A41843 | O were ye never ravished with one of his eyes, nor overtaken with one chain of his neck? |
A41843 | O what a dreadfull sound is that, Wo ● nto thee, O Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean? |
A41843 | O what do ye say to this offer ▪ Are ye saying, I must now delay( and not receive this Great Salvation) till my Harvest b ● by, and over? |
A41843 | O what else can comfort thee, when going through the region of the shadow of Death, but this, I am Christs, I am Christs? |
A41843 | O what will bee your thoughts at that day? |
A41843 | O what will yee answer to that Challenge, when Death shall present it to you? |
A41843 | O when saw you such a sight of Christ, that ye were constrained to cry our( without a complement) to him; Truly I am thy servant ▪ I am thy servant? |
A41843 | O who would not praise Him, who is the Author of this Great Salvation? |
A41843 | O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? |
A41843 | Oh shall the Great Salvation, that yee have slighted ● o long, bee slighted this day also, and shall there bee none to imbrace it? |
A41843 | Oh, have ye no resolution beyond what ye had when ye came hither to day? |
A41843 | Oh, will ● e not come forth? |
A41843 | Old poor men, where will ye flee when death assaults you? |
A41843 | Old rich men where will ye flee when death assaults you? |
A41843 | Old woman, what will ye answer, when he shall say to you, why slighted ye the Great Salvation? |
A41843 | Old women, where will ye flee when death assaults you? |
A41843 | Or do ye think to see him this day? |
A41843 | Or is this your resolution, that through Christs strength( forsake him who will) ye will never forsake him? |
A41843 | Or shall any come from the land of forgetfulnesse, to take hold upon a crucified Saviour? |
A41843 | Or, have ye this resolution ▪ That ye will esteem more highly of the Great Salvation then ever ye did? |
A41843 | Or, when shall the morning break? |
A41843 | Produce your strong arguments; are there any here who have any thing to say against Him? |
A41843 | Say to it, Are there none of you, who( for all this) will consent to partake of this Great Salvation? |
A41843 | Secondly, 〈 ◊ 〉 not Jesus Christ a notable advantage? |
A41843 | Sense will cry forth, Who is like to thee? |
A41843 | Seventhly, Are there any who are called lame here to day? |
A41843 | She remembereth not her last end, And what of it? |
A41843 | Sixthly, Are there any here to day who are called blind? |
A41843 | Sixthly, Is not eternal seeing of God as he is, a great and noble advantage? |
A41843 | So then, would ye know the compend of a Christian ● walk? |
A41843 | Tell me freely, would ye have us to return this answer to him who sent us, that ye are despisers of the Great Salvation? |
A41843 | That is, want ye righteousnesse? |
A41843 | That there are many within the visibl ● Church, who are neglecters and slighters o ● this Great Salvation;( do yee not all tak ● with it?) |
A41843 | The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it? |
A41843 | They cryed with a loud voice: They would not mutter the song, no ● sing silently, but cryed with a loud voice: And what did they cry? |
A41843 | They rest from their labours, and their works follow them: and is not that a glorious advantage? |
A41843 | Think ye that ye can fight and overcome in one day? |
A41843 | Think yee that Jesus Christ is gone up to prepare a place for you? |
A41843 | Thirdly, Are there any money- lesse ● ● lk here to day? |
A41843 | Thirdly, Be much in the exercise of Faith, making your calling and election sure? |
A41843 | Thou shalt have Salvation from thy darknesse, and from thy ignorance? |
A41843 | To whom shall I speak an ● give warning, that they may hear? |
A41843 | To whom will ye flee for help? |
A41843 | V. Challenge, Ye slighted many precious offers of the Gospel; O men and women in this city, what will ye answer to this? |
A41843 | Was he not to die, and be made like unto one of us? |
A41843 | Was he not to ● ly in the grave? |
A41843 | Was it ever the rejoycing of your hearts that Christ dyed and rose again? |
A41843 | Was it not in f ● ● ● ● condescendency that made His precious he wear a crown of thorns, that we mig ● ● eternally wear a crown of Glory? |
A41843 | Was it not when hee was in the Isle of Patmos, for the testimony of Jesus Christ ● Kingdom, and patience of our blessed Lord? |
A41843 | Was it not when she was brought to the banqueting house, and his banner over her was love? |
A41843 | Was not the Justice of God to be satisfied? |
A41843 | Was not this a low step of condescendency? |
A41843 | Watchman, what of the night? |
A41843 | Watchman, what of the night? |
A41843 | We could wish that all the questions and debates of the time were turned over into that soul concerning question, What shall we do to be saved? |
A41843 | Wh ● knowest thou, O man or woman, but t ● ● shall be the last Sermon that ever thou shalt ● ear concerning this Great Salvation? |
A41843 | What a divine surprisal was this, that heaven should have preached peace to earth, after that earth had proclaimed war against heaven? |
A41843 | What a rediculous thing is that poor complement, that these deluded sinners used to Christ, I pray you have us excused? |
A41843 | What aileth you Paul( might one have said) may ye not be content to stay a while here? |
A41843 | What d ● your consciences speak? |
A41843 | What great impediments( suppose ye) lay in Christs way, before he could accomplish and bring about this Great Salvation? |
A41843 | What holdeth you in? |
A41843 | What is it that maketh sin exceeding sinfull to a Christian? |
A41843 | What is our confer ● ing upon the most divine and precious Truths of God, without believing? |
A41843 | What is that which filleth the soul of a Christian ● with many high and excellent thoughts of Christ? |
A41843 | What is the first most requisit for a Christian while here below? |
A41843 | What know ye, O men,( or rather Atheists) but this shall bee the last summonds that yee shall get to believe? |
A41843 | What maketh many to shake like the leaf of a tree, when they are summoned to appear before Gods Tribunal? |
A41843 | What needeth all these exhortations? |
A41843 | What shall ● e your choise, when Christ shall come in the ● louds? |
A41843 | What think ye is the exercise of these that are above? |
A41843 | What will each of you answer at death, when your conscience proposeth this challenge to you? |
A41843 | What will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? |
A41843 | What( think ye) maketh death a king of terrours? |
A41843 | When his disciples came to him and asked this question, Why could wee not cast out this devil? |
A41843 | When shall it once be? |
A41843 | Whether is it lawfull for any to desire to die and to return unto their long and endlesse home? |
A41843 | Who is he that liveth, and shall not see death? |
A41843 | Whosoever will, ● et him come: But oh, are there none here 〈 ◊ 〉 day who are named willing? |
A41843 | Why then d ● ye not welcome it? |
A41843 | Why will ye slight this Great Salvation? |
A41843 | Will ye slight this Great Salvation, and imbrace your idols, which shal ● once prove a crown of thorns unto you? |
A41843 | Will yee charge your own Consciences with this: Am I content to take Christ and the Great Salvation? |
A41843 | Would any of you ask the Question, What is Christ worth? |
A41843 | Would ye be honourable Come and imbrace this Great Salvation Would ye be eternally happy? |
A41843 | Would ye have a description of Heaven? |
A41843 | Would ye heat the voice of sense, that is rectified? |
A41843 | Would ye kno ● your exercise? |
A41843 | Would ye know a description of your prayers? |
A41843 | Would ye know the rea ● on why his commands are your burden, and why his precepts are your crosses? |
A41843 | Would ye know what is the prayer of a Christian that is not in Faith? |
A41843 | Would yee have that question resolved and determined, What is the best way, Not to stir up our beloved, nor awake him untill he please? |
A41843 | Young men, and young women, inquire at your own hearts what ye will answer when Christ shall say to you, why slighted ye th ● great Salvation? |
A41843 | Young women, where will yee flee when death assaults you? |
A41843 | and what can y ● ● want if yee have it? |
A41843 | and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? |
A41843 | and where will ye leave your glory? |
A41843 | and ● ● at is his Sons Name, if thou canst tell? |
A41843 | are there none here to day, who are called weary? |
A41843 | are we not all nearer to eternity to day, then we were yesterday? |
A41843 | even for you? |
A41843 | i ● it not an excellent Salvation? |
A41843 | is there any other thing can comfort thee in that day, but only this, I am Christs, and He is mine? |
A41843 | my hope is in thee? |
A41843 | that with these two arms yee should eternally incircle Christ, and hold him in your arms, or rather be incircled by him? |
A41843 | when did you make your last testament? |
A41843 | whether it be lawfull for one to cry out, O time, time, flee away( and all my shadows let them be gone) that so long eternity may come? |
A41843 | will ye not close with Christ? |
A41843 | ● nd deeper then hell what can we know? |
A41843 | ● s not this a great effect, to make us who were enemies, become friends? |
A41843 | 〈 ◊ 〉 have been with him, saith he, but what is all my being with him here, in comparison of my being with him above? |
A28197 | & c. More diligent in preparing for thy Dissolution; and more contented with thy present Condition? |
A28197 | 1. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God''s Elect? |
A28197 | 1. and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? |
A28197 | 3. Who are the People interested in this Priviledge? |
A28197 | A. Haft thou found it an hard Work to believe, a Work altogether above thy own Power? |
A28197 | Adversity( as was said before) puts God''s People upon the search of their Hearts and Lives: now they say unto themselves, what have we done? |
A28197 | Alas, what Comfort should we have in this life, if it were not for the Hope of Christ''s second coming? |
A28197 | And do we indeed hope to enjoy all these things for ever and ever, and yet think no more, and speak no more of them? |
A28197 | And do we so seldom think or speak of these? |
A28197 | And dost thou labour to get out the blessing of thy Afflictions, and art most earnest with God for the blessing? |
A28197 | And dost thou labour with all thy might, in the strength of God, to make up all thy losses and breaches in God, and in his Covenant through Christ? |
A28197 | And dost thou pant and thirst more after the manifestations of his Love to thy Soul? |
A28197 | And how earnestly and frequently doth he pray, that God would not hide his Face from him? |
A28197 | And how must this Work be managed? |
A28197 | And were the Primitive Christians Troubles light? |
A28197 | And what if in the Grave we become loathsome Dust, cast out of the sight of Men, as not fit to be endured among the Living? |
A28197 | And when do our Souls thrive and flourish best, but when we are trading above, conversing with God? |
A28197 | And where is he, but at the right hand of the Throne of his Father? |
A28197 | And who are the Lord''s Enemies? |
A28197 | And, can our Hearts be there, and nothing appear in our words? |
A28197 | And, why should we expect to be free? |
A28197 | Are not all these above? |
A28197 | Are not many of God''s People sensible of this? |
A28197 | Are not those invisible eternal things infinitely better than the other? |
A28197 | Are the Promises our great Charter, Heaven and Glory our Inheritance? |
A28197 | Are there not infinitely- better things to be minded? |
A28197 | Are thy Affections raised, and more inlarged after God, and Christ, and Heaven? |
A28197 | Are we Christ''s, really and sincerely his? |
A28197 | Are we born of God, born from above, and do we belong to that City, that hath Foundations, to that heavenly Canaan, to that New Jerusalem? |
A28197 | Are we his, all we are, his? |
A28197 | Are we new Creatures? |
A28197 | Are we the Children of God? |
A28197 | Are we the Heirs of the Promises? |
A28197 | Are we truly converted? |
A28197 | Are we truly regenerated, our Natures changed, God''s Image repaired on us, and his Spirit living and ruling in us? |
A28197 | Art thou more Crucified to the Creature; thy inordinate Affections mortified; thy unruly Passions subdued? |
A28197 | Art thou more meek and patient? |
A28197 | Art thou more sensible of the evil of Sin? |
A28197 | Art thou more watchful over thy thoughts, words and actions? |
A28197 | Art thou, O my Soul, ashamed of, and grieved for thy former Miscarriages, thy mis- spending time, Breath, Liberty, Strength? |
A28197 | Ask any Man or Woman what things are best, Earth or Heaven, God or the Creature, their Souls or their Bodies, Saving Grace of Worldly Goods? |
A28197 | Ay, that was a high frame; I will not strain up your Experiences to Paul''s; But, can you consent to endure them? |
A28197 | Being they are but temporal, passing, transient, momentany things, why then so much care to get and keep them? |
A28197 | Briefly then, let us ask our selves, Is Jesus Christ ours? |
A28197 | But are not Afflictions Tokens of God''s Displeasure? |
A28197 | But how are Afflictions useful and effectual to produce those sweet fruits? |
A28197 | But how can that be, that the Troubles of God''s People are light? |
A28197 | But how can this be? |
A28197 | But how comes this to pass? |
A28197 | But how doth Faith help a Soul to take it off from minding and over- much regarding visible temporal things? |
A28197 | But how easily have we entertained the Enticements of the World? |
A28197 | But how may we know that? |
A28197 | But how shall I do to be content, content to be deprived of my dear Relations, Estate, Health, Liberty,& c? |
A28197 | But how shall I know when I do this? |
A28197 | But how shall we be able to do this? |
A28197 | But how shall we get New Minds? |
A28197 | But how shall we know that our Sins are forgiven as well as our Trouble removed? |
A28197 | But how shall we know when we are crucified to the World? |
A28197 | But how shall we pursue those Ends? |
A28197 | But how will this right Judgment of Earthly things help us to bear our Troubles in this World? |
A28197 | But how 〈 … 〉 of Earthly things? |
A28197 | But if we make Promises to our selves, and then our own Promises deceive us, whom can we blame for that? |
A28197 | But is this all we must do in Affliction? |
A28197 | But must we cast off all care of earthly things, 〈 ◊ 〉 not mind them at all? |
A28197 | But what are all our Afflictions, all our Sufferings, in comparison of Christ''s? |
A28197 | But what is it to live or walk by Sense? |
A28197 | But when do we mind them immoderately? |
A28197 | But when do we mind visible temporal things us much? |
A28197 | But when may we take Comfort in our Afflictions? |
A28197 | But when shall we know, that we have these from the Love of God, and with the Love of God? |
A28197 | But wherein consists this Duty of looking unto invisible eternal things? |
A28197 | But who are the friends of this World? |
A28197 | Call to mind your Sins, and repent, and reform? |
A28197 | Can I be a true Christian, and be a Stranger to this Practice of conversing with those invisible eternal things? |
A28197 | Can I be quiet in Conscience, so long as I live in the neglect of this? |
A28197 | Can I be regenerate, born of God, born from above, and be a Stranger to this Practice? |
A28197 | Can I groundedly hope to live and converse with God and Christ for ever hereafter, and be such a Stranger to this converse with him here? |
A28197 | Can I have any Support in Trouble without this? |
A28197 | Can I have any true Comfort in Life or Death, or bid Sickness or Death welcome, and be a Stranger to this? |
A28197 | Can our Treashres be in Heaven, and our Hearts not there? |
A28197 | Can our hopes be good and well grounded? |
A28197 | Can the Profits and Pleasures of the World command your Hearts, Thoughts, Affections, Time and Strength, yea, and your Consciences too? |
A28197 | Can the World keep you from serving God? |
A28197 | Can this be so? |
A28197 | Can we deny our selves, and part with all things for Christ? |
A28197 | Can we rejoyce when God takes away our choicest Earthly Comforts, our dearest Enjoyments from us? |
A28197 | Can you bear a Persecution from God, without starting from your Duty? |
A28197 | Can you bear a Rod from God when it is to purge your Corruptions? |
A28197 | Can you dispense with the Service of God to attend the World? |
A28197 | Can you turn your feet to all his Ordinances? |
A28197 | Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for whereof is he to be accounted? |
A28197 | Christ ● ose the third day, according to the Scripture: What Scripture? |
A28197 | Consider the Evil of Sin: Are we in any Affliction, are we in Pain, under any Trouble? |
A28197 | Did not David complain, that he was afflicted from his Youth, and the Church in Affliction four hundred years at once? |
A28197 | Did not I waste my time, forget my God and my Soul, and walk after the Flesh, as well as they? |
A28197 | Did not Israel know? |
A28197 | Do we believe in him? |
A28197 | Do we hate and detest all Sin, and do we keep a continual watch and war against all Sin? |
A28197 | Do we hold out the Life of Christ in our Life, and are we like God? |
A28197 | Do we suffer? |
A28197 | Dost thou draw Life and Strength from Christ? |
A28197 | Dost thou endeavour now to go to the Fountain for all Supplies? |
A28197 | Dost thou labour to cast all thy care upon God, and to trust him with all? |
A28197 | Dost thou prize the promises, and labourest to live upon them by Faith? |
A28197 | Dost thou rely on Christ, and trust him with all things, and for all things? |
A28197 | Dost thou value Faith as a Jewel? |
A28197 | Doth Christ live in us? |
A28197 | Doth it overcome the World? |
A28197 | Doth it support under Trouble? |
A28197 | Doth it work by Love, by Love to Christ, to all that hath the Image of Christ on it? |
A28197 | Doth not England know? |
A28197 | Doth this bring Peace to thy Soul? |
A28197 | Doth thy Faith in him support thee in Trouble? |
A28197 | Fourthly, Are you more intimate, friendly, and familiar, more pleasant and joyful in the company of the People of the World? |
A28197 | God, Christ, Glory, Heaven, are seldom in mens Minds and Thoughts: What are most Peoples Morning and Evening Thoughts? |
A28197 | Had not I been in those ● ames, if I had my own way, and if he had let me ● lone to my own will? |
A28197 | Haft thou seen and felt thy loft Estate by Nature? |
A28197 | Haft thou seen the Excellency of Christ, and thy absolute necessity of him? |
A28197 | Hath thy Soul been drawn to Christ, made heartily willing to close with Christ upon his own Terms? |
A28197 | Have not thy good days been many more than thy evil days? |
A28197 | Have we Faith in Jesus Christ? |
A28197 | Have we an equal respect to all God''s Commandments? |
A28197 | Have we broken our League with all Sin, and with all the Idols of our Hearts? |
A28197 | Have we the Spirit of Christ in us? |
A28197 | He taketh away, who can hinder him? |
A28197 | Hearts, Heads, Tongues, Time, Talents; are we all his? |
A28197 | How are we afraid of Dangers to our outward man, and troubled at evil tydings? |
A28197 | How did Love struggle for expression? |
A28197 | How do we dishonour God, and Christ, and the Promises? |
A28197 | How have their Souls been refresht, their Hearts raised, and quickned, and enlarged after God many times? |
A28197 | How long shall vain Thoughts lodge within us? |
A28197 | How long shall we simple ones love this our sinful Simplicity? |
A28197 | How many a weary, painful, tedious Day and Night? |
A28197 | How must Afflictions be born, that they may work thus, to prepare us for that far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory? |
A28197 | How must Afflictions be so born, as that they may thus work? |
A28197 | How must they be improved to attain this end? |
A28197 | How must we improve them? |
A28197 | How oft hath Christ called to us in Ordinances and Providences for entertainment, and we have shut our Hearts against him? |
A28197 | How oft hath Christ knock''d at our Doors in the Ministry of the Word, and Motions of his Spirit, begging our acceptance? |
A28197 | How oft hath the Holy Spirit been striving with us, but we have grieved and quenched him by our Resistance? |
A28197 | How readily have we embraced the Motions of the World? |
A28197 | How ready upon the least occasion to neglect a Duty, or an Ordinance? |
A28197 | How shall I know that I have truly believed? |
A28197 | How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation? |
A28197 | How soon weary? |
A28197 | How then are their Afflictions short? |
A28197 | How weak and feeble must we be, when God doth not continue his Grace to us? |
A28197 | How ● ear do they lie to our Hearts? |
A28197 | I could go a great way to be a Christian, but I can not come off roundly to all the Terms of Jesus Christ: What shall we do in such a case as this is? |
A28197 | If we do know God, why do we not obey him? |
A28197 | If we have Health, Wealth, Liberty, Friends, we should put this Question to our selves; Do we enjoy God''s Love with these? |
A28197 | If you, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give his spirit to those that ask him? |
A28197 | Is Christ most precious to us? |
A28197 | Is Christ our Head and Husband? |
A28197 | Is God and Christ more in thy thoughts and affections than heretofore? |
A28197 | Is God our Father? |
A28197 | Is Jesus Christ more precious to thee? |
A28197 | Is all Sin hated and sought out? |
A28197 | Is any afflicted? |
A28197 | Is he most precious to thy Soul? |
A28197 | Is it Heaven or Earth? |
A28197 | Is it above or below? |
A28197 | Is it not a madness, carefully to preserve the Box, but lose the Jewel? |
A28197 | Is it not so with God''s People? |
A28197 | Is it not the World, things that are seen? |
A28197 | Is the Holy Ghost our Counsellour and Comforter? |
A28197 | Is the Word of God our Rule and Guide, our spiritual Food and Nourishment, our Comfort and Consolation? |
A28197 | Is there any cause of Heart- trouble, when our Heavenly Father, the great Lord of Heaven and Earth, hath his will, which we daily pray for? |
A28197 | Is there any colour of Reason for it? |
A28197 | Is thy Heart more tender, thy Spirit more humble, thy will more subdued to Gods will? |
A28197 | It is Corn, Wine, and Oyl; Who will shew us any good, any visible temporal good? |
A28197 | Let our Consciences speak: Whom do we serve most, follow and pursue most, God or the World, Christ or the Creature? |
A28197 | Let us all bewail this Folly: O, when shall we be wise? |
A28197 | Let us consider for whom, for what, from whom we suffer? |
A28197 | Let us examine our selves: Which way runs the Stream of our Thoughts, the Current of our Affections, the Tide of our Discourses? |
A28197 | Let us in the presence of God ask our selves these few serious Questions: Are we the Children of God, they only are Heirs to this Glory? |
A28197 | Let us mind this: What is the tendency and fruit of a Christian''s Troubles? |
A28197 | Let us now try our selves by this: Where are our Hearts, and Minds, and Affections mostly set, on Heaven or Earth, on Christ or the Creature? |
A28197 | Let us try the truth of our Faith; doth it purifie our Hearts? |
A28197 | Lord, subdue my unbelief: Oh, what pains should we take to be assured of this Glory? |
A28197 | Many say, Who will show us any good? |
A28197 | More careful to please God, more fearful to displease him? |
A28197 | More diligent in holy Duties? |
A28197 | More frequent in Self examination, in heavenly Meditation, in heavenly discourse? |
A28197 | More sensible of the Afflictions of Joseph? |
A28197 | More tender of his Honour? |
A28197 | Must we do nothing but pray? |
A28197 | Not so long as thy Mercies have been: Canst thou number the days of thy Health? |
A28197 | Now in Prosperity, what careless, heartless service do we perform? |
A28197 | Now, let us try our selves; What Character have we? |
A28197 | O poor Believer, if it were put to thy choice, wouldst thou not rather chuse to be freed from Sin, than to be made Heir of all the World? |
A28197 | O what did the Lord see in me, to count me meet for such a state? |
A28197 | O, how cold, dead, and heartless are we in Duty? |
A28197 | O, let us mind those great matters: Have we unfeignedly repented from dead Works unto Life? |
A28197 | O, what wouldst thou give for the Assurance of his Love? |
A28197 | Oh then, how much better and sweeter will those invisible eternal things be to a poor Soul? |
A28197 | Oh then, what will Honours, Riches, Pleasures signifie? |
A28197 | Oh, how little talk is there of these things amongst us? |
A28197 | Oh, how long e''re we be able to discern between Good and Evil? |
A28197 | Oh, how tender are we of our flesh, and how loth to be cross''d? |
A28197 | Oh, what is Sickness, Poverty, a Prison, Losses,& c. to Hell- fire? |
A28197 | Or ever been willing, if he had not made me willing? |
A28197 | Or, if it be possible, is it necessary? |
A28197 | Or, rather what great service did he do the Devil, when he was in his prosperity? |
A28197 | Or, who made me to ● iffer? |
A28197 | Our Rest is not here, our Heaven and Happiness is not here; Earth is going from us, and we from it, and shall we hug what we can not hold? |
A28197 | Our Work now in Affliction is to enquire, What Sins have I committed? |
A28197 | Q. O, but if I knew God did afflict me in Love, I should not grow weary, but patiently and cheerfully bear my Trouble? |
A28197 | Secondly, Are you contented to embrace all Fatherly Corrections from the hand of God, for the killing of the Remainders of Sin in you? |
A28197 | See the 7th and 8th Verses of this Chapter; and elsewhere the Apostle complains, that they were pressed above measure, and despaired even of Life? |
A28197 | Shall the Law? |
A28197 | Shall we kiss and embrace that which is withering in our hands, and dying in our arms? |
A28197 | Shall we profess our selves Christians, and not be like Christ, nor have the Character of Christians? |
A28197 | Should I ever have loved God, if he had not first loved me? |
A28197 | Surely God hath sent it upon some Errand; what is his meaning? |
A28197 | The voice said, Cry; and he said, What shall I cry? |
A28197 | There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus; they are safe, come Plague, Sword, Fire, Faggot: But who are in Christ Jesus? |
A28197 | Therefore, wherefore? |
A28197 | They are his Children, what have they to do among his Enemies? |
A28197 | They are the choicest and the best things, most worthy of our Hearts and Minds, and of our choicest Affections: What is the Chaff to the Wheat? |
A28197 | They took joyfully the 〈 … 〉 their Goods; And why? |
A28197 | Think much on the real spiritual Advantages we shall have by Affliction: Have we not had some? |
A28197 | This is a hard Lesson to Flesh and Blood, who can bear it? |
A28197 | This our eying and owning God''s Almightiness and All- sufficiency, will work in us an holy awe and filial fear of Him: Who would not fear such a God? |
A28197 | Thoughts and serious Meditations are spent upon these things? |
A28197 | Usually in Prosperity Sin is sweet, or at least accounted small: Is it not a little one? |
A28197 | Visibles or Invisibles? |
A28197 | Was not I born in Sin ● nd Wrath, as well as they? |
A28197 | We All hope to go to Heaven when we dye, and to enjoy all those invisible eternal good things, do we not? |
A28197 | We value things by the Price they cost: If any thing we enjoy were purchased by the Life of our deare ● ● Friend, how would we esteem it? |
A28197 | Were David''s Troubles light, from whom we often hear such sad and bitter Complaints? |
A28197 | Were not David''s Sins so to him? |
A28197 | What Content had Ahab in his Kingdom, or Haman in his Honour? |
A28197 | What Efficacy and Influence have the perishings of the outward Man, to help forward the increasings of the inward Man? |
A28197 | What Errand and Message is this Affliction come upon? |
A28197 | What Fruits of the Spirit do appear? |
A28197 | What Interest is uppermost in our Souls? |
A28197 | What Power, Sweetness, and Comfort do Men find in the Word and Promises? |
A28197 | What Provocation have we given God? |
A28197 | What Service doth it do thee in time of Trouble? |
A28197 | What Strength, Life, Comfort, have God''s People found in holy Duties? |
A28197 | What a meeting of Love then will there be, between the new- glorified Saint, and the glorious Redeemer? |
A28197 | What a passionate meeting was there between our new- risen Lord and the first- sinful silly Woman that he appears unto? |
A28197 | What are thy Thoughts most exercised about? |
A28197 | What bad service did Manasses do to God? |
A28197 | What can be more desired? |
A28197 | What can my shallow Thoughts conceive of this? |
A28197 | What care, labour, grief and sorrow have they cost us? |
A28197 | What do most People mind most, and think most upon, and speak most of? |
A28197 | What do we aim at mainly, mind chiefly, look on, and look after principally? |
A28197 | What good to the inner Man have these afflictions done thee? |
A28197 | What hast thou gained by all thy losses? |
A28197 | What have we done? |
A28197 | What have we lost? |
A28197 | What is Earth to Heaven, or the Creature to God? |
A28197 | What is become of Sampson''s Strength, and Saul''s Beauty? |
A28197 | What is it then to walk by Faith? |
A28197 | What is man that thou shouldest magnifie him? |
A28197 | What is most in their Thoughts, Mornings soon, and Evenings late? |
A28197 | What is our life? |
A28197 | What is our life? |
A28197 | What is the Displeasure of a Father to the Revenge of an Enemy? |
A28197 | What is the Dross to the Gold? |
A28197 | What is this minding of them? |
A28197 | What likeness have most Men and Women to God and Christ? |
A28197 | What shall it profit a Man( saith our Saviour) if he gain the whole World, and ● ose his own Soul? |
A28197 | What vain Thoughts lodge in our Hearts? |
A28197 | When by all our Afflictions we are prepared for that far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory? |
A28197 | When had Ezekiel and John such glorious Visions of God, but in Captivity and Exile? |
A28197 | When lesser Mercies are removed, that greater and better may be bestowed? |
A28197 | When our Graces are tryed and acted, and so made more apparent and illustrious? |
A28197 | When the great Proprietor and Owner of all things doth most wisely and most righteously dispose of his own? |
A28197 | When we are called to render back but what we had borrowed? |
A28197 | When wilt thou draw off, and mind thy Everlasting Rest in good- earnest, and lay out thy self to the utmost, to secure thy Title to it? |
A28197 | Where are all our pious Relations that slept in Jesus? |
A28197 | Where are their Hearts and Affections most? |
A28197 | Where are we travelling? |
A28197 | Where is our Country? |
A28197 | Where is our Father, our Redeemer? |
A28197 | Where is our Home, our long Home, our last, our everlasting Home? |
A28197 | Where is our Treasure? |
A28197 | Where lies our Inheritance? |
A28197 | Wherefore doth the living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? |
A28197 | Whereupon are thy Affections most fixedly set? |
A28197 | Which of these two? |
A28197 | Which way runs it strongest, steddiest? |
A28197 | Whither are we bound? |
A28197 | Who am I? |
A28197 | Who hath the precedency and supremacy in our Hearts? |
A28197 | Whom have I in Heaven but thee? |
A28197 | Whom have I in heaven but thee? |
A28197 | Whom have ● in Heaven but thee? |
A28197 | Whose Heart that hath any tenderness, doth not smite him for his neglect of this? |
A28197 | Why do we not trust him? |
A28197 | Why so much Care and Fear about Life it self, which is but a Vapour? |
A28197 | Why so much Joy in possessing? |
A28197 | Why so much fear of losing them? |
A28197 | Will he plead against me with his great power? |
A28197 | and all will confess, that God is best of all, and Heaven better than Earth: If it be so, why then is this World minded more than God? |
A28197 | and give up our Hearts entirely to God and Christ? |
A28197 | and our Minds so glued, our Hearts so fastened to Earthly things, and our Tongues so constantly employed about earthly things? |
A28197 | and that thou shouldest set thy heart upon him? |
A28197 | and that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? |
A28197 | and, can we, or ought we to rejoice in them then? |
A28197 | and, how patiently and cheerfully should we bear our Afflictions, that are designed to prepare us for it? |
A28197 | and, what unspeakable comfort will that produce? |
A28197 | and, why is Earth minded more than Heaven? |
A28197 | and, why so much Trouble in parting with them? |
A28197 | can we have any Title to all the Promised Glory, and not speak often of it? |
A28197 | hath all this been wrought in thee by the Word? |
A28197 | how are the Minds of Men rack''d, tortured, distracted, distempered, macerated with these? |
A28197 | how deeply are our Affections engaged to the Vanities of the World? |
A28197 | how do our Hearts cleave and cling to the Creature, even as our Skin to our Body? |
A28197 | how do we undervalue Christ''s Purchase, and Eternal Life, when we lay out our selves so much for the World, and so little for these? |
A28197 | how little are most affected, when they read or hear of all the great things purchased by Christ, and prepared in Heaven for Believers? |
A28197 | how little are those things minded? |
A28197 | how long shall the God of this World blind our Minds, and the Dust of it fill our Eyes? |
A28197 | how long shall this present evil World gnaw and feed upon our Spirits, consuming and wasting them, and eating out our time and strength? |
A28197 | how long shall thy foolish Heart deceive thee? |
A28197 | how long shall we misplace our Affections, and mistake our Rest? |
A28197 | how long wilt thou set thy Affections on things below, upon lying dying Vanities? |
A28197 | how short and shallow are my Apprehensions of what I am writing? |
A28197 | how strangely are mens Minds bewitched with these things? |
A28197 | how vile and base are all earthly things, in comparison of the Eternal God, the All- sufficient Good? |
A28197 | more weary of it, and more grieved with it? |
A28197 | secretly glad when the work is over? |
A28197 | the Faith of God''s Elect? |
A28197 | till we know the one thing needful, and approve and pursue the things which are most excellent? |
A28197 | to be eternally blessed, to be ever with the Lord? |
A28197 | to look down upon Hell, and see the vast difference between us and them? |
A28197 | to make Souls believe, and to work effectual Faith in them? |
A28197 | to take him for your only Lord and Saviour? |
A28197 | what Disappointments do they meet with? |
A28197 | what Duties have I omitted? |
A28197 | what Strangers are we to this living upon God, and his Love in Christ? |
A28197 | what art thou the better for all those stroaks upon thy outward Man? |
A28197 | what dost thou mind most? |
A28197 | what mean, low, base things are all the visible temporal things of this World, in comparison of God, of Christ, and Glory? |
A28197 | where shall we find them? |
A28197 | while they mind them eagerly and inordinately, What cross Passages fall out? |
A28197 | who durst say to him, What doest thou? |
A28197 | whose Conscience doth not accuse him? |
A28197 | why do we not more meditate on them? |
A28197 | why no more admired, loved, and sought after? |
A69644 | & how then should I think, that his purpose according to election should staud? |
A69644 | 12: 1, 2. as desireous to reason the case with God, VVherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? |
A69644 | 12: 7? |
A69644 | 13. and who can turn Him? |
A69644 | 14, 10. that they loved to wander, and did not refraine their feet: And what followeth upon this? |
A69644 | 14: 26. as he purposeth, so shall it stand Esa 14: 24. Who can disanull what He purposeth? |
A69644 | 14: 9. Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? |
A69644 | 14: v. 4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? |
A69644 | 14? |
A69644 | 16? |
A69644 | 19? |
A69644 | 1? |
A69644 | 20. Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God; and to whom shall he go up from us? |
A69644 | 21: 3, 4, 5? |
A69644 | 22, 23, 37? |
A69644 | 2: 21? |
A69644 | 2: v. 23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? |
A69644 | 40. from vers 12. and forward; and inferreth once and againe vers 18, 25. to whom then will ye liken God? |
A69644 | 44: 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and oppression? |
A69644 | 5, 11. and 43: 5. saying Why art thou disquieted within me? |
A69644 | 53: 8.? |
A69644 | 7. Who, taking a right View of what Christ suffered, will not think themselves called to suffer for His sake, with great willingness and cheerfulness? |
A69644 | 8. shall not the land ● … remble for this,& every one mourn that dwelleth therein? |
A69644 | 89: vers 14: and who is excellent in power and in judgment, and in plenty of Iustice, Iob 37: vers 23? |
A69644 | 8: v. 19. putteth the matter out of question, Is not the Lord in Zion? |
A69644 | 9: vers 12, 13,& c. The Land was perishing, and was burnt up like a Wilderness, that none passeth thorow: And wherefore was this? |
A69644 | 9? |
A69644 | Affliction was no strange or uncouth thing to Him, and why should it be strange to me? |
A69644 | All the day long have I been plagued and chastenedevery morning? |
A69644 | Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? |
A69644 | Am I able to search out the Almighty unto perfection? |
A69644 | And He addeth a Reason;( which is that we are here mainely to speak to;) for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? |
A69644 | And I pray, was not this also Christ''s lot? |
A69644 | And because they might have said, what can we do, when you are put to such sufferings, and are shut up in Prison? |
A69644 | And can we imagine how it can be less? |
A69644 | And corrupt Reason will againe carp, and say, If so, why doth He yet finde fault? |
A69644 | And doth not vengeance belong unto Him? |
A69644 | And had He not a sadder inward exercise, while in the garden, where He was made to sweat drops of bloud, than any that can befall them? |
A69644 | And he is uncontrollable: Who can call him to an account? |
A69644 | And how blinde a judge must that be of Gods Wayes and Dispensations? |
A69644 | And how came it to passe, that the time seemed so short? |
A69644 | And how shamfully came he off? |
A69644 | And how was the way of the Lord, in His stately Marchings, hid from their eyes? |
A69644 | And if not, have they any cause to complaine, and cry out, never man was so hardly dealt with, as they are? |
A69644 | And if one of his purposes could alter, why not another? |
A69644 | And if the Lord thinketh good to double our Trials, ought we not sweetly to submit? |
A69644 | And if there were the least ground of doubt here, where were all my Hop, Comfort& Confidence? |
A69644 | And if we beleeved, that even such a dispensation as this could do no harme to the Church; how little would we be troubled at it? |
A69644 | And is it fit for me to be wishing them evil in my heart? |
A69644 | And it was He, who hid His face from Him; so that He cried out, while on the Cross, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A69644 | And must not this be a great sin? |
A69644 | And need we fear, that our King shall want Instruments, when He mindeth to work by Instruments? |
A69644 | And seing their crosse is light, in comparison of what some dear to the Lord have had, is there or can there be any ground for their so complaining? |
A69644 | And shall I notwithstanding be unwilling to undergo such a small inconsiderable bit of suffering for His Glory, and for the Word of His Patience? |
A69644 | And should I think to dethrone Him, and take his office and work upon me? |
A69644 | And should not I possesse my soul in patience, resting on God by faith, that He will judge all these wrongs and injuries, in due time? |
A69644 | And should not I rejoice, that I am honoured to weare my Captains Livery? |
A69644 | And the Son of man, that thou vis ● … test him? |
A69644 | And then, what can be added to them, or taken from them to amende them? |
A69644 | And what Affliction, Persecution, Tribulation, Distress, Sorrow, Paine and Suffering should I think too much for Him and His sake? |
A69644 | And what can be shorter, than a moment? |
A69644 | And what if, as to those Particulars, wherein they think their owne case singular, it be otherwayes indeed? |
A69644 | And what is mine end, that I should prolong my dayes? |
A69644 | And what is to follow thereupon? |
A69644 | And what then can foolish man, that is like a wilde asses colt, do? |
A69644 | And when settled in the promised Land, how many yeers together was she oppressed by Enemies? |
A69644 | And why should we not do so, in order to suffering, which is also the free gift of God, and is purchased by Christ? |
A69644 | And will He be favourable no more? |
A69644 | And will not their complainings then be found most unreasonable and groundless? |
A69644 | And will not this stop his mouth, That they can be no more rude, absurd, cruel and unreasonable, than those with whom Christ had to do? |
A69644 | And yet how little is this beleeved& beleevingly practised? |
A69644 | Are His mercies clean gone? |
A69644 | Are not all His Graces and Gifts excellent and lovely? |
A69644 | Are the Reasons hereof obvious to all? |
A69644 | Are they not of much more value, than many beasts? |
A69644 | Are they, think we, calculating it by Years or by Dayes, or by Houres? |
A69644 | Art taught to anwer by another question, Since he is strong, why should I despond or doubt? |
A69644 | As if, forsooth, every one almost were not ready to say the same; How few are there, who look upon their own Affliction, as the lightest and easiest? |
A69644 | As in Iob and David: and why may not the Lord dispense thus with others? |
A69644 | Behold I am against thee, O Inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plaine, saith the Lord, which say, who shall come down against us? |
A69644 | Behold he taketh away, who can hinder him, Who will say unto him, what dost thou? |
A69644 | But did this any harme to the Church? |
A69644 | But do they verily think, that none before them, hath had as good cause to speak thus, as they? |
A69644 | But he is in one mind,& who can turn him? |
A69644 | But now, seing their King is not like the Kings of the Earth, why are they so heartless, in the day of their extremity? |
A69644 | But some will possibly enquire, How shall I know, whether or not, I in particular be called to suffer? |
A69644 | But thus saith the Lord, even the Captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered& c. And what then? |
A69644 | But was not Christ so? |
A69644 | But, when with all? |
A69644 | By what colour of law, was he drawn out of the Temple, and almost killed by the Jewes Act 21? |
A69644 | Can I finde out all the depths of his Counsel and Wisdom? |
A69644 | Can this indeed be the work of God, which is thus cast down to the ground, and trampled under- foot? |
A69644 | Canst thou help the matter? |
A69644 | Canst thou make that straighter, than it is? |
A69644 | Consider the Work of God; for who can make that straight, which He hath made crooked? |
A69644 | Could Sampson, without either Sword or Spear, only with what came next to his hand, the Jaw- bone of an asse, slay so many? |
A69644 | Could they imagine a shorter? |
A69644 | Did Christ commit His cause to God, and waite for His decision? |
A69644 | Did He bear that, under which I should have lyen to all eternity, that I might never come into that place of torment? |
A69644 | Did He drink the bitter Cup, the Gall and the Worm- wood of Law- vengeance, that I might be freed therefrom? |
A69644 | Did He lye under the Law- curse, and bear the blowes of Vindictive Justice, for me? |
A69644 | Do not some finde an Antipathy at the cross working and striving in them, even when the Cross is yet far off? |
A69644 | Do they not finde some aversness of soul therefrom? |
A69644 | Do we then make void the Law through faith? |
A69644 | Doest thou well to be angry? |
A69644 | Doth His promise fail for ever more? |
A69644 | Doth His promise fail for evermore? |
A69644 | Doth it vex him to think, that he hath to do with unreasonable men, worse than Heathens or Turks? |
A69644 | Doth it vex them to think, that their own familiar friends and acquaintances turn their back upon them, and refuse to comfort them? |
A69644 | Doth this trouble and vex his spirit, that he is innocent, as to what is laid to his charge, and is persecuted without cause? |
A69644 | Drank he the Cup of pure Wrath for me, and shall I think much to drink a drop of cold Water for Him? |
A69644 | For who hath known the minde of the Lord, or who hath been his Counsellour? |
A69644 | For who hath resisted His will? |
A69644 | For who hath resisted his will? |
A69644 | God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the Son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said and shall he not do? |
A69644 | Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable? |
A69644 | Had he him not sometimes in a net, and compassed him about, on all hands, that there was no apparent escaping? |
A69644 | Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? |
A69644 | Hath God forgotten to be gracious? |
A69644 | Hath God taken away thy goods, and made thee of a rich man, a poor man? |
A69644 | Hath God taken away thy pleasant Children, in whom thou tookest delight? |
A69644 | Hath He forgotten to be gracious? |
A69644 | Hath He in anger shut up His tender mercies? |
A69644 | Hath He in anger shut up His tender mercies? |
A69644 | Hath He smitten him, as He smote those that smote him? |
A69644 | Hath He suffered so much for me, and shall I think much to suffer such a small matter for Him? |
A69644 | Hath not the Church of Christ been a militant Church from the beginning? |
A69644 | Have I Him, even Him, set before me, for a Copie, and why should I not be most willing to write after this Copie? |
A69644 | Have not His Followers then cause of Rejoiceing, upon this account, in the midst of all their Afflictions? |
A69644 | Have they had through acquaintance with all the Saints of God, in all ages? |
A69644 | He had a Baptisme to be Baptized with, and how was He straitned, or pained, till it was accomplished? |
A69644 | He hath determined this to befall me, for his own glory; and should I wish it to be otherwayes? |
A69644 | He is Almighty; and who can justle with Him, and put Him to take new Resolutions? |
A69644 | He is wise in heart and mighty in strength, who hath hardened himself against him,& hath prospered? |
A69644 | He maketh the Earth, and the heavens to tremble, the hils melt and quake before him;& what then can weak man do? |
A69644 | Hence the Godly Soul can reason, Shall I be against mine own good and advantage? |
A69644 | Hence the beleeving soul reasoneth with himself, Shall I stand in the way of God''s getting his glory? |
A69644 | Hereby thou who, in the sight of difficulties, and the sense of thy impotency, art made to say, What is my strength that I should hope? |
A69644 | His Life was a Life of lasting and growing trouble; and should not I be glade to follow Him, and drink of that Cup, whereof He drank? |
A69644 | How and why it is, that these crooked things can not be made straight by one or other of the Creatures? |
A69644 | How averse and unwilling should the consideration of this make us, to judge of God and of his Wayes and Doings, by Carnal Reason? |
A69644 | How is it, that I am not more in love with the Glorious Cross of Christ? |
A69644 | How is the faithful city become an harlot? |
A69644 | How light and easie doth this make every load, that is lying upon our shoulders, when we bear it as bound upon us by an everlasting Decree? |
A69644 | How long shall the rod of the wicked rest upon the lot of the righteous? |
A69644 | How long will God lengthen- out this sad trial? |
A69644 | How long, how long, will this Cup be holden to my head? |
A69644 | How mercifully then hath God dealt with me, that He hath not made my Torments and Grief inward much more insupportable? |
A69644 | How oft did they rebel against him, in the wilderness? |
A69644 | How oft do we finde the Saints of God, in Scripture, cry out of the hiding of God''s face, when outward trouble was lying heavy upon them? |
A69644 | How oft hath it thus fallen out? |
A69644 | How oft is He maligned, tempted, slandered, persecuted, called a Devil, hated and hunted, until He is at length condemned and killed? |
A69644 | How oft was He in hazard of His life, even from His Infancie? |
A69644 | How oft were snares laid for Him? |
A69644 | How patiently will we bear the Indignation of the Lord, when we know, that it will be over within a moment? |
A69644 | How shall I pardon thee for this? |
A69644 | How then can this time be called and accounted so short? |
A69644 | How was He maligned, slandered, called a Devil, a glutton and a wine- biber, a profane Person? |
A69644 | How welcome should an unjust Sentence from men be, when our blessed Lord was taken also from judgment, and was wickedly condemned for a Traitour? |
A69644 | I made no reserves nor exceptions, when I resigned and gave up my self unto Him; and why should I not now submit to all He commandeth? |
A69644 | If Christs Crown and Throne were not surer, than the fading and perishing Regalia of Men, what would beleevers do? |
A69644 | If He will have us venturing upon faith, why should we not glorifie him thereby? |
A69644 | If not, is not their complaint very groundless? |
A69644 | If the People of God had the measuring of the time of their trouble, in their own hand, could they give it any shorter duration, than this? |
A69644 | If this were beleeved, we could not be crying- out, as we are too ready to do, Oh, will those dayes never be at an end? |
A69644 | Is His mercy clean gone for ever? |
A69644 | Is it any new thing to see the Church driven to the wilderness, and tossed in the sea of afflictions? |
A69644 | Is it any new thing to see the Church, even while within the sight of the haven of an happy and glorious Reformation, driven back to sea againe? |
A69644 | Is it any un- heard- of thing, that the Church must be tossed betwixt winde and wave, and have stormes and tides and all against her? |
A69644 | Is it not enough, that the common Souldier be as his Captaine? |
A69644 | Is my strength the strength of stones? |
A69644 | Is not God the judge? |
A69644 | Is not her King in her? |
A69644 | Is not her King in her? |
A69644 | Is not our Lord, in such a case, a God, that hideth Himself? |
A69644 | Is not the Lord in Zion? |
A69644 | Is not this a manifest proof of His being God, when his wayes and Actings transcend our Comprehensions? |
A69644 | Is outward prosperity the mark of the true Church? |
A69644 | Is the Law sin? |
A69644 | Is there any comparison betwixt what is finite,& what is Infinite? |
A69644 | Is there any measure of time shorter, than a moment? |
A69644 | Is there not something singular, uncouth, and rare, in this Dispensation? |
A69644 | Lord why castest thou off my soul? |
A69644 | May not every Beleever say, did Christ undergo the heavy weight of the Wrath of God, for me? |
A69644 | Might not the beleever hence say to himself, are there any of the Gifts of God to be refused, or rejected? |
A69644 | My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A69644 | Nay, but O Man, who art thou, that repliest( or disputest) against God? |
A69644 | Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: And what is added upon this? |
A69644 | Nay, who would not say, that these Dispensations do rather drive on a direct designe to defeate the Promises, who would consult with humane Reason? |
A69644 | Nay, will not the common Souldier be glade to share of the Captains lot of Hardship? |
A69644 | Now this evil would meet with a check, if these Truthes were beleeved? |
A69644 | O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear, cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save? |
A69644 | O Lord, wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? |
A69644 | O how great is this advantage, that they may by faith read love in His heart, when anger seemeth to flow out of His hands? |
A69644 | O how sweet hath He made an hard bed now? |
A69644 | O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God? |
A69644 | O what an excellent frame is this; and how useful and necessary for his people, in a day of clouds and darkness? |
A69644 | Or thy work, he hath no hands? |
A69644 | Or to the woman, what hast thou brought forth? |
A69644 | Or what likeness will ye compare with him? |
A69644 | Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed to him againe? |
A69644 | Or, hath he not spoken, and shall he not make it good? |
A69644 | Ought I not to be ashamed of and displeased with my self, upon this account? |
A69644 | Ought I not to check this aversness? |
A69644 | Ought not they, upon this Consideration, rejoice in their Lot, and suffer cheerfully, that Christs Interest may prosper more thereby? |
A69644 | Prudent and he shall know them? |
A69644 | Satan is at hand, to drive forward; and who can stand, when the Devil driveth down ward? |
A69644 | Seing Christ suffered so much, and bore the Curse, what have beleevers now to endure, or lye under? |
A69644 | Shall I measure the unsearchable riches of his Wisdom and Councel thus? |
A69644 | Shall I not visite for these things? |
A69644 | Shall I not visite them for these things? |
A69644 | Shall I think then that he can bring about my good and felicity, by no meanes, and dispensations, but such as I am satisfied with? |
A69644 | Shall I wish that things were otherwise, than they are, when the only Wise and Gracious God hath ordered and ordained them so, for my good? |
A69644 | Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? |
A69644 | Shall mortal man be more just, than God? |
A69644 | Shall not my soul be avenged of such a Nation, as this? |
A69644 | Shall the prey be taken from the mighty; or the lawful captive delivered? |
A69644 | Shall the thing formed say to Him that formed it, why hast thou ma ● … me thus? |
A69644 | Shall we condemne him, that is most just? |
A69644 | Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? |
A69644 | Shall we devise meanes to shift suffering for the Cause of Christ, when He is calling us to it? |
A69644 | Shall we never see a good day again? |
A69644 | Shall we not drink( would they say) this potion with delight, that God hath prepared, and carefully made up for us? |
A69644 | Shall we sin, because we are not under the Law, but under grace? |
A69644 | Should I carry, as if I repented of owning Him, and His Interest? |
A69644 | Should I not comply with his holy designe of glorifying himself, by this his Dispensation towards me? |
A69644 | Should I not rather desire to imitate Christ, and to strive against mine own passion, and willingly forgive them all the wrongs, they do unto me? |
A69644 | Should not I be satisfied with his being exalted? |
A69644 | Should we not, upon this account, Glory in Tribulations, as in so many enriching gifts, freely bestowed on us of God, and purchased by Christ? |
A69644 | Stood He betwixt me, and the pure Wrath of a sin- revenging God? |
A69644 | Such Priest, such People were here; and what else but ruine could be expected? |
A69644 | That the Lord shall reigne over them, in mount Zion; and what followeth? |
A69644 | The Heads did judge for reward, and the Priests did teach for hire, and the Prophets did divine for Money: And what followeth upon this? |
A69644 | The Priests said not, where is the Lord? |
A69644 | The cup, which my father hath given me, shall I not drink it? |
A69644 | The very hauk will not flie by our wisdom Iob: 39: 26. and shall we think to prescribe Rules to God? |
A69644 | This Trouble will never have an end, this perplexity and exercise is but growing; and what shall I do? |
A69644 | This was their sin, and what followeth? |
A69644 | Thus it appeareth, how many things God hath made crooked, to our apprehensions: But now, who shall, who can make these crooked things straight? |
A69644 | Thus the Lord will consume such, as belch out with their mouth, have swords in their lips, and say, who doth hear? |
A69644 | Thus was this sin become universal through the whole City Jerusalem, and through the whole Land of Judah: And what followeth hereupon? |
A69644 | To the Question then, Why the Lord thinketh good to follow this way? |
A69644 | VVhat do those, who are up before the Throne, think of the many Years of their Trouble and Persecution here below? |
A69644 | VVherefore are all they happy, that deal very treacherously? |
A69644 | VVhy dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? |
A69644 | Was it not so with Hamans device and bloody plot, to cut off all the Iewes? |
A69644 | Was it not so with Saul, in his wicked persecution of David, oftentimes? |
A69644 | Was it not thus also, in the dayes of Deborah, when there was not a spear or sheild seen among Fourty Thousand in Israel? |
A69644 | Was not here a suffering of an high degree, both in body and in name? |
A69644 | Was not the Church keeped fourtie yeers wandering in the Wilderness, before she came to rest? |
A69644 | Was sinless and holy Jesus patient, and should I be impatient, who am punished of God, less than mine iniquities deserve? |
A69644 | We are ready to cry out, when afflictions lye heavy upon our loines, oh will they ever come to an end: shall we never be redeemed herefrom? |
A69644 | We have to do but with men, whose Actions are over- ruled by the Omnipotent hand of a Merciful God? |
A69644 | Were they ashamed, when they had committed abomination? |
A69644 | Were they not captives in Babylon Seventy Yeers? |
A69644 | What a shame were this? |
A69644 | What a wonderful dispensation was this, that the Lord should suffer them to do to this non- such and eminent man, even what they would, and listed? |
A69644 | What are those crooked things, which God hath made? |
A69644 | What faire law or justice could Christ get? |
A69644 | What followeth? |
A69644 | What if that edifie more, than many preachings did, or would do? |
A69644 | What is man that thou art mindful of him? |
A69644 | What is the whole of time unto Eternity? |
A69644 | What men more irrational, than the brutish, ignorant rabble, set on by judicially- blinded and enraged Ring- leaders, the Priests and Rulers? |
A69644 | What shall we then think of the Sufferings of Christ, who was higher than the Princes of the earth, who was King of Kings and Lord of Lords? |
A69644 | What though they have been innocent, as to men; and vvhat though they be sincere and upright, as to God? |
A69644 | What unsutable& unworthy carriage must this be? |
A69644 | What way we should, upon this account, Consider the Works of God? |
A69644 | What will they be, in the hands of the Almighty, who shaketh Nations? |
A69644 | What, shall we meditate a way of shifting and putting away such an honourable Divine Gift, more excellent than faith, in several respects? |
A69644 | What? |
A69644 | When he had prayed for the People, and had said, O Lord God, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Iacob arise, for he is small? |
A69644 | When is that Time and Season, wherein the people of the Lord are called to suffer? |
A69644 | When shall the day dawn, when God shall loose this Yoke from off my neck? |
A69644 | When they consider, how others are spared, and they so sharply exercised, their hearts are ready to say, why doth the Lord deal so with me? |
A69644 | When was this? |
A69644 | Where the the same verbe is used Why dost thou strive against him? |
A69644 | Where then shall His Enemies stand, in the day of His Indignation? |
A69644 | Wherefore hast thou so evil intreated this People? |
A69644 | Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? |
A69644 | Wherefore hidest thou thy face? |
A69644 | Wherein should it appear, that He were Jehovah, if, in all things, he should work according to the thoughts and imaginations of men? |
A69644 | Whether against a Nation, or a Man only? |
A69644 | Whither could they go for consolation, in the day of their Distress and Anguish? |
A69644 | Who can say unto him, what dost thou? |
A69644 | Who can see thorow such a Dispensation, as this? |
A69644 | Who shall then say, wherefore hast thou done so? |
A69644 | Why doth He single me out from others,& deal worse with me, than with them? |
A69644 | Why doth my heart then so much stand out against this? |
A69644 | Why else will we think to reprove Him, and amend what He hath done, as if it were amisse? |
A69644 | Why hidest thou thy face from me? |
A69644 | Why is it that thou hast sent me? |
A69644 | Why should I not rather embrace it with love, and give it an heartsome welcome? |
A69644 | Why should I quarrel upon that account? |
A69644 | Why then am I so little in love with suffering for the sake of Christ? |
A69644 | Why then do they speak so confidently? |
A69644 | Why then dost thou quarrel with Him, or disputest against Him? |
A69644 | Why then should they be so impatient under their light and easie Yoke? |
A69644 | Why then should we account that an age, which the Lord calleth but a moment? |
A69644 | Will not this appear by an impartial view of the Instances adduced? |
A69644 | Will not this year put an end to our trouble? |
A69644 | Will the Lord cast off for ever? |
A69644 | Wo unto him that saith to his Father, what begettest thou? |
A69644 | Would He suffer His Name and Work to be thus blasphemed? |
A69644 | Would the Lord stand by and look on, when His spouse( if she were so indeed) is thus abused by the vilest of men? |
A69644 | Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, have we not taken to ourselves horns by our own strength? |
A69644 | Yea, when Pilat said unto Him, hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee? |
A69644 | and how did Trouble follow Him to His grave? |
A69644 | because I see not, how He can bring about my everlasting advantage hereby? |
A69644 | covered the Daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger? |
A69644 | doth every one get such paining& sickning physick, as this? |
A69644 | hath she not oftentimes seemed to on- lookers to be sunck? |
A69644 | hath there not been a constant enmity betwixt the seed of the Serpent, and the seed of the woman? |
A69644 | how unsearchable are his judgments, and his wayes past finding out? |
A69644 | is he slaine according to the slaughter of them, that are slain by him? |
A69644 | not to mention their being now Non- churched above sixteen hundreth Yeers? |
A69644 | or what Improvement we should make of this Impossibility of helping, what we suppose is amisse, in the Lord''s Works of Providence? |
A69644 | or who shall enter into our habitations? |
A69644 | saith the Lord; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this? |
A69644 | than they imagined: And what wonder? |
A69644 | that I should hope? |
A69644 | that is, how much more shall I go on and devoure? |
A69644 | then he is ready to say, how can I, while thus invironed with evils, have patience? |
A69644 | who then can make trouble;& when He hideth his face, who then can behold him? |
A69644 | with his great power? |
A69644 | — How can he be clean that is borne of a Women? |
A69644 | — Why doth he yet finde fault? |
A69644 | — how unsearchable are his judgments, and his wayes past finding out? |
A09950 | ( And what is that?) |
A09950 | ( As if hee should say) If you beleeue in him, you shall know it by this, Whether doe you reioyce in him, or no? |
A09950 | ( that is) Hath hee euer opened the clouds? |
A09950 | 1 What is the way? |
A09950 | 1 You professe so much, and how is it done? |
A09950 | 1 art thou sicke of love, as the Spouse saith in the Canticles, I am sicke of love? |
A09950 | 4 But, you will say, if we be not justified by workes, to what end are good workes required? |
A09950 | 4 Let mee adde one word more of the next thing: which is, What are the acts of this faith? |
A09950 | 5.44 it is euident, How can y ● beleeue which receiue honour one of another& c? |
A09950 | After this manner comes Christ to vs; we must not say, Am I worthy to make a Spouse for Christ? |
A09950 | Againe, 2 another end of your life is to doe good to mankinde; shall they be able to fare the better for your purposes, for your good resolutions? |
A09950 | Againe, Doest thou hate sinne? |
A09950 | Againe, Doest thou loue CHRIST? |
A09950 | Againe, Doest thou loue GOD? |
A09950 | Againe, Doest thou loue the Saints, those that are like him, those that are of such a disposition as God is of? |
A09950 | Againe, Why should you looke for righteousnesse in your selues? |
A09950 | Againe, doest thou love none but them; that, where grace is, thou lovest, and where it is not, thou withdrawest thy love? |
A09950 | Againe, is he not the uttermost end, are not all natures else subordinate? |
A09950 | Againe, is it not evill in such extraordinary cases to omit such an extraordinary duty? |
A09950 | Againe, shall men haue such priuiledges as we haue by faith, and shall not wee comfort our selues by them? |
A09950 | Againe, thirdly, doe you love them as they excell in holinesse? |
A09950 | Againe, what if such a man be thine enemie? |
A09950 | Am I fit to receiue so great mercies? |
A09950 | And If it be Gods Cause, why doe we shrinke? |
A09950 | And besides this, have you not reason to justifie God in his just judgements upon others, when you shall see God sharply plaguing them? |
A09950 | And besides( my brethren) what doe you live for, is it not to glorifie God? |
A09950 | And if they finde it is a thing that will cost them something, and a thing that they shall get nothing by, how colde and backward are men to doe it? |
A09950 | And if we take an examination of men by this, how few are there that love the Lord? |
A09950 | And if you haue that which the promise is made vnto, is not that sufficient? |
A09950 | And if you object, why doe ye preach damnation to us? |
A09950 | And if you say, who is able to performe this? |
A09950 | And is there not much reason to move you to it? |
A09950 | And now what will you say for your selves, that you speake no more upon those severall occasions that you meete withall in the world? |
A09950 | And seeing it is in generall termes, why will you interline and restraine it? |
A09950 | And so I say, when a man hath a counterfeit faith, Will such a faith as this saue thee? |
A09950 | And so for any pleasure, for any lust: dost thou thinke to follow thy pleasure, to seeke that, to satisfie thy flesh, and to haue CHRIST? |
A09950 | And so for wealth: What is pouerty? |
A09950 | And so, if a man suffer wrong in his name, what is it, if he haue praise of GOD? |
A09950 | And therefore I say to thee in this case, as Saint Iames saith; Know ye not what end the Lord made with Iob? |
A09950 | And therefore consider, and examine thine owne case: Hast thou this reioycing in CHRIST? |
A09950 | And what were they for? |
A09950 | And what will hee doe to the other? |
A09950 | And when he calls for this love againe at thy hands, doth hee call for more than his owne? |
A09950 | And when he loves not the Lord, he doth love somewhat else: And doth it not deserve a curse to preferre their pelfe before the Lord? |
A09950 | And when will the Lord pay? |
A09950 | And when you have done all this, I will adde that further, though you doe bring your hearts to doe it, yet are you willing to doe it? |
A09950 | Another thing that we are ready to object, 2 is, But what if such a thing should come to passe? |
A09950 | Are there not such things in that which wee propound in the Gospell? |
A09950 | Are we stronger then he? |
A09950 | Are you willing to put your selves to it, to denie your selves in your ease, to take some time from other businesses, and to bestow it this way? |
A09950 | Art thou willing to part with any thing for his sake? |
A09950 | At this time you are to consider, you that come to the Sacrament, Is it not a maine thing to consider whether you haue faith or no? |
A09950 | Besides if we consider who it is that requires this love, 2 is it not the great God of heaven and earth? |
A09950 | Besides this, Doe you not looke upon God and upon his wayes as contrary to your hearts? |
A09950 | Besides, I am sure hee hath done for us more than all, as Paul speakes, Was Paul crucified for you? |
A09950 | Besides, consider who it is that hath planted this loue in the heart, is it not the Lord that giues thee this very affection? |
A09950 | Besides, doe we not neede all helpes of grace? |
A09950 | Besides, doe you thinke it is a sinne to neglect comming to the word? |
A09950 | Besides, what is it a man serves for in all his labour under the Sunne? |
A09950 | Besides, why are they hypocrites? |
A09950 | But Christs righteousnesse being offered to men in state of vnregeneration, How shall I know it belongs to me? |
A09950 | But canst thou come to GOD as to a friend? |
A09950 | But how can that be? |
A09950 | But how is it required then? |
A09950 | But how shall I know that they are sure? |
A09950 | But if these things be not in you, you doe not loue him: and then, what is your condition? |
A09950 | But is this enough now to know God and our selves? |
A09950 | But now what kinde of love is it that wee shall have at their hands? |
A09950 | But now when we heare that this righteousnesse saues, the Question is, How shall wee come by it? |
A09950 | But now when you heare that the Lord is thus constant, and thus exceeding in excellencie, a man will be ready to say, what is this to me? |
A09950 | But now, what is this soft voice? |
A09950 | But seeing that the will hath a part in faith as well as the vnderstanding, the second thing is to draw the will: But how is that done? |
A09950 | But the meaning is, How can you beleeue,& take me for your Husband, and yet seeke praise of men too? |
A09950 | But thou wilt say, How should I know that? |
A09950 | But to what purpose is this reuealed, if I know not how to come by it? |
A09950 | But what is it? |
A09950 | But what is that to be cursed? |
A09950 | But what is the least degree of faith, the least assent, the least beliefe of the promises, without which it can not bee said to bee faith? |
A09950 | But what is the reason that God will haue it communicated to the sonnes of men no other way but by gift? |
A09950 | But what should we doe now to remove it? |
A09950 | But will Christ doe to me as hee hath promised, is he powerfull and willing to doe it? |
A09950 | But you will aske, What is that that faith doth empty a man of? |
A09950 | But you will object, What, to loue God aboue my selfe, how can I doe that? |
A09950 | But you will object, then to what end is the Doctrine of humiliation? |
A09950 | But you will say, these generalls are good to exhort us to be doing, but yet in particular what would you have us to doe now? |
A09950 | But you will say, what is it you would have us to doe? |
A09950 | But you will say, who is there that is alwayes at the same stay? |
A09950 | But, when you heare this righteousnesse is giuen, the next Question will be, To whom is it giuen? |
A09950 | But, you will aske, How doth the Holy Ghost doe it? |
A09950 | But, you will obiect, My afflictions are great, and many, and therefore how shall I beare them? |
A09950 | But, you will say, How shall I vse it? |
A09950 | But, you will say, Is there nothing else required of vs? |
A09950 | But, you will say, euery body can pray: Is that such a signe, is that such a distinguishing marke and character, to bee able to pray? |
A09950 | But, you will say, how differs it from opinion? |
A09950 | But, you will say, this is a hard thing, how shall we discerne it? |
A09950 | But, you will say, this may be a delusion? |
A09950 | But, you will say, would you have us to love none but the Saints? |
A09950 | Can faith save him? |
A09950 | Can you finde any creature upon whom to bestow it rather than the Lord? |
A09950 | Canst thou be content to suffer persecution? |
A09950 | Canst thou come to him as to a Father? |
A09950 | Canst thou come to him as to one whose fauour thou art assured of? |
A09950 | Consider of this therefore; Art thou speedy in thy executions? |
A09950 | Consider that, consider how you carry your selues for the things of this life: doe you thinke that GOD will doe the maine, and will not doe the lesse? |
A09950 | Consider therefore what your speeches are concerning God, whether you your selues are ready to speak much, and to delight to heare others speake also? |
A09950 | Consider, if thou loue any creature, or any thing, any man or woman, doest thou not feele thy affection stirring in thee? |
A09950 | Did hee not make thee King of Iudah and Israel? |
A09950 | Did not Dauid trust GOD much? |
A09950 | Did not he give thy Masters wives and thy Masters houses into thy bosome? |
A09950 | Doe not you reckon it a worke to breake horses, to master coltes? |
A09950 | Doe we not see it oftentimes? |
A09950 | Doe wee not see the same daily? |
A09950 | Doe you not thinke that such a good Word of GOD may make carnall men reioyce in it? |
A09950 | Doe you professe that you love the Lord Iesus, and doe you neglect him thus? |
A09950 | Doe you professe to love the Lord, and yet never delight to speake of him? |
A09950 | Doe you take this paines to draw neere to God, to get grace, to excell in it? |
A09950 | Doe you thinke that GOD sent his onely Sonne from Heauen, to dye a cursed death, and would hee haue his blood shed in vaine? |
A09950 | Doe you thinke that he will giue you Christ, and will he not giue you other things? |
A09950 | Doest thou keepe his Commandements? |
A09950 | Doest thou reckon matters of greatest difficulty easie to doe; as Iacob did make it a matter of ease because of loue? |
A09950 | Doest thou thinke that he will prouide for the yong Rauens that call vpon him, and wilt thou not beleeue that he will doe so for thee? |
A09950 | Doest thou thinke to loue GOD, and not to hate that, which he hateth? |
A09950 | Dost thou thinke that Christ came from heauen, and tooke flesh, and suffered death, to forgiue small sinnes? |
A09950 | Doth a man professe to loue GOD, and cares not to vexe him, and anger him? |
A09950 | Doth not GOD require to finde something in vs, if he giue it vs? |
A09950 | Euery man thinkes that this is no newes; what need you tell vs that GOD is infinite in mercy? |
A09950 | Faith makes a man a Fauourite of GOD, a friend to GOD; and will you make no vse of GOD? |
A09950 | Faith( saith hee:) But what faith must that be? |
A09950 | First: How doth it saue? |
A09950 | For if you love the Lord Iesus aright, why doe you not labour to exceed in the duties of obedience? |
A09950 | For the present occasion of receiuing the Sacrament: What is the end of the Sacrament, but to preach faith? |
A09950 | For what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, saith Moses, but onely that you love the Lord your God? |
A09950 | For what is hypocrisie? |
A09950 | For what is it to haue a light shining, if their eyes be shut to whom it shines? |
A09950 | For when a man is once in the Couenant, that the match is made betweene him and thee, why doest thou doubt? |
A09950 | For why doe wee love the Lord, but because we conceive him under such a notion? |
A09950 | GOD is able to doe the greatest, and is hee not able to doe the lesse? |
A09950 | Goe and preach the Gospell to euery creature vnder Heauen: What is that? |
A09950 | Hast thou had the sense of it, and after this hast thou beene reconciled againe? |
A09950 | Hast thou knowledge of that enmity betweene GOD and thee? |
A09950 | Hath GOD giuen thee such a stone with a new name written in it, that is the stone of absolution? |
A09950 | Hath he giuen you such a stone, as you know in the secret of your heart, such as none knowes, but God and your selfe? |
A09950 | Hath not hee planted in us these affections? |
A09950 | Have I beene colde and lukewarme? |
A09950 | Have I beene too much conformable to the times? |
A09950 | Have I beleeved in Christ? |
A09950 | He is your Master, and where is his feare then? |
A09950 | He that made the eye shall hee not see? |
A09950 | Hee was offered for the sinnes of many, and shall appeare the second time to such as looke for him,& c. For whom was he offered? |
A09950 | How great things would it doe, what a reward would it bring? |
A09950 | How proue they that? |
A09950 | How shall that be done? |
A09950 | How shall we doe that? |
A09950 | How shall we know that? |
A09950 | How will you beleeue in him for the giuing of CHRIST? |
A09950 | How will you beleeue in him for the raising of you vp at the last day? |
A09950 | I answer, there is end enough, there are motiues enow: Is not loue a ground strong enough to bring forth good workes? |
A09950 | I answer, when we haue a sure word that it is giuen to euery man vnder Heauen, without any restraint at all, why should any except himselfe? |
A09950 | I come to a third tryall: If you love the Lord Iesus, have you your hearts after his owne heart? |
A09950 | I love the Lord,& c. Why? |
A09950 | I would aske thee, doest thou hate all sinne, every thing that is called sinne, all that belongs to sinne? |
A09950 | I would put you to this tryall, 4 and aske you but this question; you shall know it by this: Doe you love all the Saints? |
A09950 | I, but is it sure to me? |
A09950 | I, but one may seeke a further ground then that: What foundation haue the Prophets and Apostles? |
A09950 | If Grace abound, why may wee not sinne the more; for Grace aboundeth, as sinne aboundeth? |
A09950 | If I bee in the Couenant, why doe I not beleeue perfectly? |
A09950 | If I had riches, I should be able to doe this or that, they are the meanes to make a man happy, though happinesse consists not in them? |
A09950 | If I haue GOD, what is the losse of any creature? |
A09950 | If a man haue a guilded Target, made of paper, a man may say to him, Will that Target defend thee? |
A09950 | If a man should aske many peop ● e, What is the reason that you are perswaded that your sinnes are forgiuen? |
A09950 | If a mans wife play the harlot, will hee returne to her? |
A09950 | If all the Flockes and Heards should be killed, and all the Fishes in the Sea should be gathered together, how should this be done? |
A09950 | If he be not fully perswaded, it is not faith; if he be fully perswaded, that makes it faith, and how can that admit degrees? |
A09950 | If he were not God, if he were as man, my brethren, could hee beare with us as he doth? |
A09950 | If it be onely giuen to some, what comfort is this to me? |
A09950 | If it had its answer, if that were done, for which the Lord had sent it, would he not remoue it againe? |
A09950 | If that be the reason, why doest thou not pitch thy hatred upon those that are found to be so? |
A09950 | If the question be, Whether Abraham was a sinner? |
A09950 | If thou sayest, No, I had rather enioy the sweetnesse of my lusts still, Art thou not now worthy to be condemned? |
A09950 | If thou wilt be perfect,( saith CHRIST) take this tryall, Canst thou be content to let thy wealth goe, to follow me? |
A09950 | If thy Faith be right, it will bring that with it, to make thee humble and vile in thine owne eyes: For what is true faith? |
A09950 | If we did consider this seriously, how would it alter our course? |
A09950 | If you be thus affected to the Lord, and to his glory, why doe you not doe the like for him? |
A09950 | If you love the Lord Iesus, examine your selves by this, are you ready to bestow any thing for his advantage? |
A09950 | If you receiue the praise of men, how can you beleeue? |
A09950 | In that it saues, it is good and comfortable, but it may saue some men, and yet I haue no share nor part in saluation? |
A09950 | Is it an empty Title? |
A09950 | Is it because there are some shewes of holinesse in them? |
A09950 | Is it not as a messenger sent vpon an errand? |
A09950 | Is it such a calme that followed after a storme going before? |
A09950 | Is not GOD the same GOD? |
A09950 | Is not the Sonne angry when he is not received? |
A09950 | Is not this enough to moue vs? |
A09950 | Is there not something first to bee done? |
A09950 | Is your disposition such to your sinnes? |
A09950 | It is a generall Rule in all things, and as true in this, If a man haue an estate, what is he the better to haue it, if he doe not vse it? |
A09950 | It is but yet in the beginning, and what is the Lords meaning in it? |
A09950 | It is that which he expects at your hands; will you haue GOD in vaine? |
A09950 | It is true indeed, it is a businesse that is not ordinary, it is extraordinary: but doe not extraordinary times and occasions call for it? |
A09950 | It is true, with thy owne heart thou art not able to doe it; but what if GOD giue thee a new heart and a new spirit? |
A09950 | It is true: But I would aske this Question concerning this peace: Is it a peace that comes after Warre? |
A09950 | It is well if it be so, but let mee adde this to all that I have said, In what manner doest thou doe that thou doest? |
A09950 | It is well if you doe, but let us consider that: it may be you may be angry with sinne, but doe you hate sinne? |
A09950 | It may be, if you were sure to die within a week or a month, what men would you be? |
A09950 | It would worke another disposition, another affection in vs. A man would consider, that if GOD be sure, what matter is it if a friend die? |
A09950 | Labour to come to this disjunction, if these things be not so, why doe you beleeue them at all? |
A09950 | Lastly for your selves, what is it that helpeth you and doth you good? |
A09950 | Lastly, doe you manifest your loue by delighting in their companie, and by the fruites of love towards them? |
A09950 | Let no man thinke that this is exaction, that it is a hard thing that the Lord requires it with this exaction: for what is it that he requires? |
A09950 | Loue is bountifull: Thou sayest thou louest GOD: What if he will haue some of thy wealth? |
A09950 | Many things are reuealed, but how shall I know that they are mine? |
A09950 | Marke the answer that Peter giues: No: saith he, Whither should wee goe? |
A09950 | Marke what the message was that CHRIST sends to Paul, nothing but to preach faith; but what was that? |
A09950 | May he not taste such sweetnesse, as to take vpon him the profession of Religion, and to bring forth fruit, and to hold out long? |
A09950 | Men are ready to say, Oh, if had such a Physician, or if I had such ayre, or such meanes, I should doe well enough: How doest thou know that? |
A09950 | Might it not truely bee said of them, they would not haue beene fit for Canaan? |
A09950 | Might you not have done much to the setting of a powerfull Minister here and there? |
A09950 | Must GOD doe all, and must we doe nothing but onely take that righteousnesse that is prepared for vs? |
A09950 | My brethren, what a condition is that man in, that hath the great God of heaven and earth to be his enemie? |
A09950 | My soule doth magnifie the Lord: And why? |
A09950 | No, if thou thinke in good earnest that thou art such a man, why doest thou regard trifles? |
A09950 | Now doe you doe so with your sinnes? |
A09950 | Now in the third place, there is one thing remaining, How shall I haue him? |
A09950 | Now what are the properties of fire? |
A09950 | Now what is that? |
A09950 | Now what is the Spirit of Adoption, but the Spirit that tels you that ye are sonnes? |
A09950 | Now what is there on GODS part that hinders? |
A09950 | Now whence doth this come but from the love of the world? |
A09950 | Now, when GOD hath made no exception, why should we make any? |
A09950 | Now,( saith he) what is Dauid? |
A09950 | Or else, why is it that you speake of him no more? |
A09950 | Riches, and honour, and life shall he giue; but to to whom? |
A09950 | Saith CHRIST to his Disciples, Will you also goe away? |
A09950 | Saith CHRIST, Doest thou thinke that hee will cloathe the grasse of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the Ouen? |
A09950 | Salomon saith, Euery man will make shew for fashions sake, of goodnesse, but where can you finde a faithfull man? |
A09950 | Secondly, If there be no mistake of the person, yet what is this taking? |
A09950 | See what Paul did, in such a case; you see what danger he was exposed vnto, but he consulted not with flesh and blood, but what did he? |
A09950 | Sh ● ll a wife professe love to her husband, and ne- never come where he is, never be within dores, and never be in his companie? |
A09950 | Shall a King regard Cottages and trifles? |
A09950 | Shall a man be a Fauourite of a Prince, and get nothing by it? |
A09950 | Shall hee be your GOD, and will you make no vse of his power, of his wisdome, of his ability to hold you vp, to helpe you vpon all occasions? |
A09950 | Shall hee not gather the grapes of his owne Vineyard? |
A09950 | Shall the Lyon roare, and shall not the beasts of the field tremble? |
A09950 | So I may say to every man that heares mee, you are engaged to love the Lord: Why? |
A09950 | So I say to you, what else doth the Lord your God require of you? |
A09950 | So Iacob, when hee got the name of Israel, when he preuailed with GOD, certainely it was the greatest blessing that euer he had: Why was that? |
A09950 | So Paul, did not he trust GOD for his maintenance? |
A09950 | So againe when thou dost not succeede in thy matters, but art crossed, yet so long as that will doe thee good, what needest thou care? |
A09950 | So againe, let us not say we must be moderate, for what is that moderation? |
A09950 | So he that wrought that excellency, shall not he have it in himselfe in a greater measure? |
A09950 | So may I say of Loue: Euery man saith, hee loues, but where shall one finde one that doth loue indeede? |
A09950 | So our Sauiour said to Peter, Why doest thou doubt? |
A09950 | So that when you haue this tract of consequence, I see the promise is sure, Why? |
A09950 | So that, if the question be, Whether Abraham was an hypocrite? |
A09950 | So that, wouldst thou know whether thou haue faith? |
A09950 | So when you come to heare, is this all,( thinke you) that God requires of you, to sit here, and lend us your eares for a little time? |
A09950 | Such a faith as begets love: And what love must that be? |
A09950 | Surely no, there must be a fixing of the eyes vpon the person, that must doe it: Doe you loue him? |
A09950 | Take Dauid, see how he trusted in GOD, how many occasions had he to trust on him? |
A09950 | Take a couetous man, to saue his life, what will not he doe? |
A09950 | That is, I am but a poore miserable man, I am but thus borne, what have I done that the Lord should respect me so farre? |
A09950 | That is, are you grieved when he is absent? |
A09950 | That is, take me for your GOD and LORD whom you will serue altogether? |
A09950 | That is, take the most excellent among them, that therefore are reckoned as gods, yet who among them is like unto thee? |
A09950 | The Converts in the Apostles time, how bountifull were they, laying all their goods at the Apostles feete? |
A09950 | The Lord exceedes them, as David saith, Who among the gods is like thee? |
A09950 | The Love of Christ constraines us: What is the meaning of that? |
A09950 | The question now is, which of these are gainers? |
A09950 | The same faith, that takes hold of the maine promise, is it not ready to take hold of the lesse, and to depend vpon it? |
A09950 | Their desolation shall come suddenly, and their destruction as a whirlewind: Why, is it not so with the godly? |
A09950 | Their hearts are waxed fat, and their eares are dull of hearing, and why? |
A09950 | There is no Christian, no good man, but he would be content to gaine as well as thou; what is the reason hee takes it not? |
A09950 | Therefore consider whether you will take him or refuse him; that is the question, Will you take him, or not take him? |
A09950 | Therefore how should wee examine our hearts by this? |
A09950 | Therefore there is one Question more: and that is, What is this that is required after the making of the match? |
A09950 | Therefore, if you would know whether you love the Lord Iesus, try it by this, doe you hate sin? |
A09950 | Therefore, saith CHRIST, While you seeke the praise of men, how can you beleeue? |
A09950 | Thinkest thou that GOD can faile thee, when he saith himselfe so often, he will neuer faile thee, nor those that trust in him? |
A09950 | This is an act of her minde or vnderstanding: But will you take him, and accept of him for your Husband? |
A09950 | Thou shalt know it by this, as I said before, Dost thou come to him as to a Father? |
A09950 | Thou shouldest come to this disjunction: If I bee out of the Couenant, why doe I beleeue at all? |
A09950 | Thou wilt say, because they doe not answer that which in their profession they make shew to be? |
A09950 | To as many as receiued him, to them he gaue power to become the sonnes of God: What is that? |
A09950 | To haue a friend, what is a man the better if he doe not vse him? |
A09950 | To walke with God what? |
A09950 | Was Gods undeserved, unexpected love such to me, that he spared not his onely begotten Sonne, but gave him to die for mee? |
A09950 | We labour, and suffer rebuke, what is the reason? |
A09950 | We receiued the sentence of death, that wee might learne not to trust in our selues, but in God that raiseth the dead? |
A09950 | Wee vse to say, Oh I will not faile him, for hee trusts in mee; and doest thou thinke that GOD will faile thee in such a case? |
A09950 | Well now what doth faith? |
A09950 | Well, what way is there then to regaine this losse? |
A09950 | What account did Paul make of it? |
A09950 | What am I, or what is my Fathers house, that thou shouldst regard me thus, that thou shouldst bring me hitherto? |
A09950 | What are those? |
A09950 | What can wee say more to perswade you? |
A09950 | What if he will haue thy credit? |
A09950 | What if he will haue thy liberty for his sake? |
A09950 | What if you finde all this in your selves? |
A09950 | What is it then, when you haue the Charter of GOD himselfe? |
A09950 | What is musicke, but the practise of it? |
A09950 | What is patience, but that which enableth us to endure afflictions? |
A09950 | What is that then thou shouldst doe? |
A09950 | What is that? |
A09950 | What is the meaning of that, that he is almighty? |
A09950 | What is the meaning of that? |
A09950 | What is the meaning of that? |
A09950 | What is the meaning of that? |
A09950 | What is the meaning of that? |
A09950 | What is the meaning of that? |
A09950 | What is the reason that the Angels in heaven so love him? |
A09950 | What is the reason that the seeking praise of men should hinder from beleeuing? |
A09950 | What is the reason that we shall love him more in heaven than wee doe now, but because we shall know him more? |
A09950 | What is the reason the Lord calls for obedience rather than sacrifice? |
A09950 | What is the reason then they doe not? |
A09950 | What manner of men( saith the Apostle) ought we to be in all godlinesse& holy conversation, looking for and hasting to the appearance of Christ? |
A09950 | What qualifications are expected? |
A09950 | What shall make me grow in the fauour of GOD? |
A09950 | What shall we say then? |
A09950 | What should I doe? |
A09950 | What sinnes of commission, and what of omission? |
A09950 | What then is the reason that they come not to CHRIST? |
A09950 | What was it that excluded the Iewes? |
A09950 | What was it that lost all mankind the kingdome of heaven? |
A09950 | What was the reason that CHRIST, when he was on earth, would doe nothing except they beleeued in him? |
A09950 | What was the signe of a little faith? |
A09950 | What was their sinne that killed him? |
A09950 | What will it profit, my Brethren, if a man say he have faith, and hath not workes? |
A09950 | When CHRIST came to Peter, and said vnto him, Louest thou me? |
A09950 | When Christ came to Peter, and asked him that question, Peter l ● vest thou me? |
A09950 | When men come to haue sicknesse, and to apprehend death, what will not a man doe for his saluation at such a time? |
A09950 | When the Papists are asked what should moue a man to doe good workes? |
A09950 | When the better is the suitor, and is rejected, what wrath, what indignation breedes it among men? |
A09950 | When thy mind goeth a whoring after thy wealth, what hast thou to doe with CHRIST? |
A09950 | Whence came this, but from their love to the Lord? |
A09950 | Who is a God like vnto thee, taking away iniquities, delighting to shew mercie,& c. Why so? |
A09950 | Why are those three words put in? |
A09950 | Why can not hee forgiue sinnes and transgressions, that in all circumstances are the greatest sinnes, in what nature soeuer? |
A09950 | Why did not these trust in the Lord while they were rich? |
A09950 | Why doe the wicked prosper? |
A09950 | Why should I name any more Instances? |
A09950 | Why should you not beleeue spirituall priuiledges to be as reall? |
A09950 | Why should you not reioyce more in them? |
A09950 | Why sit ye idle here? |
A09950 | Why so? |
A09950 | Why so? |
A09950 | Why then, what is required now? |
A09950 | Why was Moses a man aboue all the rest? |
A09950 | Why, now, why doest not thou give thy consent? |
A09950 | Why? |
A09950 | Why? |
A09950 | Why? |
A09950 | Will a man faile one that trusts in him? |
A09950 | Will not he call thee to an accompt for it? |
A09950 | Will you bestow it upon any man? |
A09950 | Will you professe that you loue the Saints, and that you delight in them, and yet desire to be in any company rather than in theirs? |
A09950 | Wilt thou say thou lovest God whom thou hast not seene, and yet lovest not thy brother whom thou hast seene? |
A09950 | Wilt thou wrap that in a Napkin, and let it lye dead by thee? |
A09950 | Would he not bid the destroying Angell to put up his sword into his sheath? |
A09950 | You have good purposes in you, why doe you not stirre them up? |
A09950 | You know what the Prophet said to Hazael:( saith he) Doest thou know what thou shalt be when thou art King of Aram? |
A09950 | You may examine your selves by that; doe you doe whatsoever he will? |
A09950 | You that doe these things, will you say you love the Lord? |
A09950 | You that professe you love the Lord, doe you not grieve him, and vexe him from day to day, and provoke him by your words, and by your workes? |
A09950 | You will aske me then what it is to trust GOD? |
A09950 | You will aske me, How shall I doe it? |
A09950 | You will aske me, what is the meaning of this? |
A09950 | You will aske, how can that be? |
A09950 | You will object, I doe love the Saints, but who are they? |
A09950 | You will say how shall we doe that? |
A09950 | You will say then, What is it to trust in GOD? |
A09950 | You will say, How doth this prayer doe it? |
A09950 | You will say, How shall I know it? |
A09950 | You will say, How shall wee know this love? |
A09950 | You will say, How shall wee know whether we hate it or no? |
A09950 | You will say, May we not love the things of the world? |
A09950 | You will say, What is that to walke with him? |
A09950 | You will say, how doth this beget love? |
A09950 | You will say, how shall we know that? |
A09950 | You will say, how shall we know this? |
A09950 | You will say, we may desire long enough, but how shall we be able to doe it? |
A09950 | You will say, what is the meaning of that, to love the Lord with all my might, and with all my strength? |
A09950 | You will say, what shall we doe then? |
A09950 | and if this be the rule we are to be judged by, who shall be saved? |
A09950 | and is it not as much to neglect this ordinance? |
A09950 | and is it of necessitie? |
A09950 | and ought they not to be returned to him, to serve him and to pitch on him? |
A09950 | and shall he not eate the fruite of his owne Orchard? |
A09950 | and that shee magnified him so much? |
A09950 | and to whom shall he appeare? |
A09950 | and what profit shall I gaine? |
A09950 | are you content to forsake all, that you may enioy him? |
A09950 | are you content to put your selves to a harder taske, to forbeare things that are pleasant according to the flesh, to take paines for the Lord? |
A09950 | are you glad when you have him? |
A09950 | are you ready to take all opportunities to doe somewhat for his glory? |
A09950 | are you willing to have sinne so cleane taken away, that you may have any no libertie to have dalliance with it in any kind? |
A09950 | are your affections aright, that you love what he loves, and hate what he hates? |
A09950 | art thou as abundant in it, as diligent, and as ready to doe it? |
A09950 | art thou as forward then as when there are all those respects? |
A09950 | art thou willing to doe any thing for his sake? |
A09950 | as he did; how did he behaue himselfe? |
A09950 | as it is in the Hebrewes, Is he not a mercifull High Priest still? |
A09950 | because you are not able to doe it as well as others, and therefore you are loath to expresse your selves? |
A09950 | both may be sicke, and is there not a great difference? |
A09950 | but how soone were they gone againe? |
A09950 | do you hate it so as that you can not endure to come neere it, nor to have it within your sight? |
A09950 | doe not sudden changes come to them as well as to the others? |
A09950 | doe not they often perish by sudden death? |
A09950 | doe you desire to have them wholly extirpate and rooted out of you? |
A09950 | doe you doe it chearfully and readily? |
A09950 | doe you not dallie with sinne? |
A09950 | doe you tell us we are in an evill condition for want of this love? |
A09950 | doest thou not find thy heart thus longing after them whom thou affectest? |
A09950 | doth it not fall on them? |
A09950 | doth it not shew that you are dead? |
A09950 | for why doth the Lord require that as a necessarie condition, that whatsoever is done to him might be done chearfully and willingly? |
A09950 | hath he cast a good looke vpon you? |
A09950 | hath he made your hearts glad with the light of his countenance in his Beloued? |
A09950 | hath hee euer shewed himselfe to you? |
A09950 | hath not Christ bought you, hath not hee redeemed you, hath not he deserved more than all, and should he not therfore be loved aboue all? |
A09950 | have you not had ability to doe it? |
A09950 | hereafter to settle your affections; Consider, is it in your owne power, though you have warning before death, to have this affection of love? |
A09950 | how perfectly would you walke with God? |
A09950 | how would you have your hearts weaned from the world more than they be? |
A09950 | if they be so, why doe you not reioyce in them, proportionable to these priuiledges? |
A09950 | if you had this love in your hearts, would it not be a ground of much comfort to you? |
A09950 | is it because you can not speake? |
A09950 | is it because your understandings are weake and dull? |
A09950 | is it not the Sonne? |
A09950 | it is Nathans speech to him, saith he, Did not the Lord doe thus and thus? |
A09950 | nay, I will goe a step further with you, doe you not hate the Lord? |
A09950 | nor delight to heare others speake of him? |
A09950 | or whom will you bestow your love upon, your wealth, or your pleasures or your phantasies? |
A09950 | so much as you doe, so much you live, your lives are short of themselves, why doe you make them shorter by doing nothing? |
A09950 | that he should love pleasures more than God? |
A09950 | that he should love the praise of men more thā the praise of God? |
A09950 | that is to say, to receiue him in that manner as he hath beene described? |
A09950 | that when you are among them, you are as if you were out of your element, you move as if you were out of your owne center? |
A09950 | there the same argument is vsed; If thou, Lord, shouldst marke iniquity, who should stand? |
A09950 | to have your lusts thorowly and perfectly mortified? |
A09950 | to what end is the Law preached to be a Schoolmaster, if no qualification be required? |
A09950 | was it not an opinion of something they had of their owne? |
A09950 | what aduantage will it bee to vs? |
A09950 | what doeth the Gospell? |
A09950 | what have I done to provoke the Lord? |
A09950 | what if the businesse I goe about proceed not, which is of that moment, I am vndone, if it be not done? |
A09950 | what if the euill that I feare should fall vpon me? |
A09950 | what is it that hee desires but pleasure, comfort and contentment? |
A09950 | what is physicke? |
A09950 | what is the Tree for, but for fruit? |
A09950 | what profit will it bring mee? |
A09950 | when the Spouse is there asked what the reason was that she followed her Beloued so much? |
A09950 | when thou art put to a hazard art thou content to suffer the losse of thy estate? |
A09950 | when you can get into his presence? |
A09950 | wherein doth love and that agree? |
A09950 | wherein will it be to mine advantage? |
A09950 | whether we can say, as the Apostle Paul, Wee desire to be at home, and to be with the Lord? |
A09950 | whether wee desire to be with the Lord? |
A09950 | whether you be glad of any occasion, as those that love are glad to heare those that they love to be spoken of? |
A09950 | who is it that doth not at some times preferre his pleasures and profits before the obedience to a command? |
A09950 | why doe I receiue any comfort? |
A09950 | why doe such men turne from all sinfull delights, and runne another course? |
A09950 | why doe we not shrinke? |
A09950 | why doe wee doe any thing? |
A09950 | why doe you blame those that goe further than your selves are willing to doe? |
A09950 | why doe you not fill your lives with many actions? |
A09950 | why doe you not rise up and bestirre your selves? |
A09950 | why doe you quarrell with that exactnesse and precisenesse, and strictnesse which is required in walking in the wayes of God? |
A09950 | why doest thou no more rest on it? |
A09950 | why go we not thorow? |
A09950 | why should not wee bee ready to trust in him still? |
A09950 | why should you limit the holy one of Israel? |
A09950 | will hee not be angry with such a man? |
A09950 | would it not put other thoughts into you? |
A09950 | would you not have some remainders within you? |
A09950 | you will not stand expostulating the matter, to say must I doe it? |
A26974 | & c. — Dare any say that God hath not commanded good works? |
A26974 | & c.] Is it not necessary that these be done then, both as duty commanded, and as a condition or some means of the end propounded and promised? |
A26974 | ( For the instrument is an efficient cause): And what if I dare not give so much to man? |
A26974 | ( and Receiving as Lord, to be the fides quae?) |
A26974 | ( what''s that to Gospel obedience?) |
A26974 | 1. Who dare say so, but the Vbiquitarians, and Transubstantiation men? |
A26974 | 13.10 Was the Precept of Accepting Christ, loving him in sincerity and obeying him& c. no part of that Gospel ▪ to which Paul was separated? |
A26974 | 2. Who doubteth but God could have bestowed pardon and justification on other terms or conditions, if he would? |
A26974 | 20. of Justification? |
A26974 | 22. that say there is? |
A26974 | 24. and It is God that justifieth: who is he that condemneth? |
A26974 | 5 Doth Trusting or Believing him cure these men as the Instrument? |
A26974 | 5. Who denyeth that we have Faith and Repentance before Justification? |
A26974 | 8.18? |
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A26974 | ?] |
A26974 | A DISPVTATION OF JVSTIFICATION: Whether any Works be any Conditions of it? |
A26974 | A naked term[ Condition] expounded by you that never saw my heart? |
A26974 | Active or Passive? |
A26974 | Am I credible only when I speak amiss, and not at all when I speak right? |
A26974 | Am not I like to have a fair hand think you of this Disputer? |
A26974 | An efficientis Causalitas, Actio? |
A26974 | And I pray search, whether in this Question, you do not confound your Notions ex parte objecti, and ex parte Actus? |
A26974 | And can you think then that Remission and Justification have several conditions? |
A26974 | And do I need to say any more now in defence of this opinion, which my Reverend Brother saith is not to be endured? |
A26974 | And do not men that make address, address themselves in like variety? |
A26974 | And do we make any doubt of this? |
A26974 | And do you think Ghemnitius did join with the Papists of Trent, when he confuted them? |
A26974 | And do you think in good sadness that one single Physical act can be the act of both the faculties? |
A26974 | And do you think that we can any better tell when we have all that are Essential? |
A26974 | And doth he not thereby make over, as it were under his hand, the Lord Jesus, and all his Benefits to them that will receive him? |
A26974 | And doth it therefore follow that they can be no Conditions of our continued Justification? |
A26974 | And doth not every man that is saved so fulfill the conditions of the new Covenant? |
A26974 | And first, We must understand what it is that is distinguished: whether the Habit of faith, or the Acts? |
A26974 | And how can that Law pronounce a man, or his action righteous, which curseth him, and condemneth him to Hell for that same Action? |
A26974 | And how could you over- look it, that your Argument flyeth too boldly in the face of Christ, and many a plain Text of Scripture? |
A26974 | And how do these men vilifie them, and rob them of their highest honor, that deny them to be the Laws of God? |
A26974 | And how many new Methods and Doctrines of Philosophy this one age hath produced? |
A26974 | And how oft hath Bellarmine been called Sophister for supposing, we mean such an apprehension? |
A26974 | And how? |
A26974 | And if faith be a passive physical instrument, it must have a Physical Efficiency? |
A26974 | And if he had said,[ He that repenteth, or loveth, or calleth on the name of the Lord, shall be justified or saved] would not these have done it? |
A26974 | And if means, of what sort, if not conditions? |
A26974 | And if this be common to Hypocrites and Reprobates, what a case are we in then? |
A26974 | And if you did not mean that these are conditions of Pardon, and Justification, when you say they are, who can understand you? |
A26974 | And indeed what man denyeth it? |
A26974 | And is it not Christs whole Law which is of force when he is dead, and called his Testament? |
A26974 | And is it not great partiality to let the same pass as currant from them, which from me must be condemned? |
A26974 | And is it now come to that pass that these can not be known? |
A26974 | And is not Justification one benefit? |
A26974 | And is not final Justification a freeing us from that Curse? |
A26974 | And is not perseverance in faith as necessary as perseverance in obedience? |
A26974 | And is not that the Law and Testimony to which we must seek? |
A26974 | And is not that to say as much as I? |
A26974 | And is not the Promise undoubtedly Gods Deed of Gift? |
A26974 | And is not the imperfection of faith and repentance a sin? |
A26974 | And is the condition of her Dignity, only the Taking him as a Prince who is Rich and Honourable? |
A26974 | And is this wholly superfluous? |
A26974 | And may not this tend to an accommodation between us in this Point? |
A26974 | And now was here a fit occasion to speak reproach fully of Paul, as extream ignorant, or unfaithful, or immanis sophista? |
A26974 | And of our Divines that say there is inherent Righteousness? |
A26974 | And on the other side, whether it may not be of dangerous consequence, as injurious to Christ, to deny so great a part of his Dominion? |
A26974 | And so to Believe, is not agere, but pati or recipere? |
A26974 | And so whether we are justified by Works as such a Condition? |
A26974 | And that repentance is not recipient, how easily do I yeild to you? |
A26974 | And then how were all the faithful justified before Christs Incarnation and Ascension? |
A26974 | And then the question still remaineth, whether those qualifications are means or no means? |
A26974 | And what Reference to Justification is it? |
A26974 | And what Transient Act is it that God then and there puts forth or performeth? |
A26974 | And what do the generality of our Divines mean, when they say that Faith and new Obedience are our conditions of the Covenant? |
A26974 | And what do your defences do to justifie such dealing? |
A26974 | And what is Presumption, if it be not this very faith which Divines call justifying? |
A26974 | And what is the unwarrantable sense? |
A26974 | And what is the 〈 ◊ 〉 or Aptitude of faith but this? |
A26974 | And what is this, but plainly to forbid me to dispute with you? |
A26974 | And what then? |
A26974 | And what think you is the happy Light that deserveth all this ostentation? |
A26974 | And wherein is the Essential, formal difference between a wicked mans resting on Christ for Justification, and a true Believers? |
A26974 | And whether it be not introduced by Pious Divines meerly in heat of Disputation, which usually carryeth men into extreams? |
A26974 | And whether they stick in the air, and have all their Being first there, as Magyrus, and other Peripateticks? |
A26974 | And which is the more clear, certain and safe? |
A26974 | And which should you take to be indeed my sense? |
A26974 | And who ever said that in all or any of these the Soul is Passive and not Active? |
A26974 | And why do not stones wast by such an uncessant emanation? |
A26974 | And why may it not be added also to the Predicate, as well as it may Reduplicatively? |
A26974 | And why may not I be judged Orthodox in that point, when I heartily subscribe to the National Assemblies Definition? |
A26974 | And why may not I with Dr. Preston, Mr. Wallis,& c. say it is an Acceptance, or consent, joyned with Assent? |
A26974 | And why may we not say,[ A state of Sonship or salvation] as well as of Justification? |
A26974 | And why might not Abraham be instanced in? |
A26974 | And why speak you not of faith in one part of your comparison, as well as in the other? |
A26974 | And why then may not we call it faith? |
A26974 | And will you meet all these with your objections, and say,[ How shall I know when I have the full number? |
A26974 | And yet do you think this too big to be essential to Christian Faith? |
A26974 | And yet must we voluminously differ, when I have told you that I allow it? |
A26974 | And yet will you say that faith or inherent righteousness is Legal and not Evangelical? |
A26974 | Are not Knowledge, Words, Works, ours, by all which God saith, we are justified? |
A26974 | Are these things doubtfull among Divines or Christians? |
A26974 | Are we so well agreed, that you marvell at my supposition of this difference? |
A26974 | As for your discourse, whether Paul disputes what is our Righteousness? |
A26974 | At least do they not compound their Righteousness( as to the law of Works) partly of Christs satisfaction, and partly of their own Works? |
A26974 | But I ask, if there be justifying works, how saith Paul true? |
A26974 | But I wonder at his proof of his Sequel[ Because he who is ungodly is not legally righteous] what is that to the Question? |
A26974 | But Paul doth not resolve there[ what is the Condition on which Christ makes over this Righteousness of his?] |
A26974 | But are you indeed of the contrary opinion, and against that which you dispute against? |
A26974 | But do you indeed think that when Paul excludeth the works of the Law, that he excludeth them only as Recipient? |
A26974 | But do you not hereby confess that I give no more to works then you, but only less to faith? |
A26974 | But do you think that Repentance is not necessarily Antecedent to Justification, as well as to Remission? |
A26974 | But for works; How shall I know when I have the full number of them? |
A26974 | But from what interest? |
A26974 | But here is the question, Can a godly man dying, think the Righteousness of Christ is made his by working or believing? |
A26974 | But if it be the Object that he meaneth, then what force or sense is there in his Argument, from the terms,[ Purposing, Intending, Confessing?] |
A26974 | But if you do use it as a means, then what means is it? |
A26974 | But if you mean not this simple apprehension( as sure you do not) then how is it possible to imagine the understanding should be passive in it? |
A26974 | But if you will say so, what remedy But perhaps I intimate so much in my words; In what words? |
A26974 | But if[ only] be here understood, really doth not this Brother desire to know Christ obeying, Christ risen, Christ teaching, ruling, interceding,& c? |
A26974 | But in what sence James saith, we are justified by works, and not by Faith only? |
A26974 | But is it Christ or the believer that you put in these various Relations? |
A26974 | But is it not possible that it may cheat or deceive themselves, though some never utter it to the deceiving of others? |
A26974 | But is this the state of the question with us? |
A26974 | But now, on the other side, what inconvenience is there in the Doctrine of faith and justification as I deliver it? |
A26974 | But the question is whether the Interest of the several acts of our faith be accordingly distinct? |
A26974 | But to his Argument, I deny the consequence of the Major; and how is it proved? |
A26974 | But was it possible for them to be justified without the blood of Christ? |
A26974 | But what Condition? |
A26974 | But what are those All things? |
A26974 | But what condition? |
A26974 | But what if I be mistaken in this point? |
A26974 | But what if works and faith were both of them applyed to procure our Justification? |
A26974 | But what if you had only said that Faith is morally passive, and not physically? |
A26974 | But what is this to you? |
A26974 | But what remedy? |
A26974 | But what strange Arguments are these, that are such strangers still to the question? |
A26974 | But why do you say only of Repentance that[ it is the condition of Remision] and of forgiving others, that[ it is the condition of entring into life?] |
A26974 | But yet further, if Faith be passive Physically, let us find out first what is the Agent? |
A26974 | But you ask[ If Christs righteousness be able to satisfie, what is the matter that it removeth not all our Evangelical failings? |
A26974 | But your Doctrine, what Oedipus is able to unfold? |
A26974 | But, saith he, to what purpose did Paul dispute against Justification by the works of the Law, If the Righteousness of faith were not sufficient? |
A26974 | By what physical act of the Agent? |
A26974 | By what physical contact faith doth receive this? |
A26974 | Can I not tell you that your Argument is a Fallacy, but you will thus exclaim of me, as making you an Impostor? |
A26974 | Can every poor man or woman reach to know what a passive Action, or a passive Passion, or a Passive Instrument is? |
A26974 | Can he know that all shall work to him for good, though he know not whether he love God? |
A26974 | Can no man but the Perfectly obedient, perform the condition of pardon in the Gospel? |
A26974 | Can you find any lower place to give it? |
A26974 | Can you tell? |
A26974 | Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden,( Guilt is the great load:) But under what Notion will Christ be come to? |
A26974 | Dare you tell any man of yout Hearers that though he have not so much as a Purpose to mend, yet he is justified by Faith? |
A26974 | Did Christ expiate the sins, that by the Gospel men are obliged to punishment for? |
A26974 | Did I ever deny that faith must eye and follow Christs death to bring us to God? |
A26974 | Did ever man that writ of Philosophy once think that the soul did componere, dicidere, ratiocinari, judicare, patiendo& non agendo? |
A26974 | Did not Abrahams Obedience, and other works flow from Grace? |
A26974 | Did not each of these forsake that which by the former was accounted the good sound Definition? |
A26974 | Did they ever tell you that this distinction is in them? |
A26974 | Did we ever deny that Faith must be directed to Christ as Priest? |
A26974 | Did you doubt of these? |
A26974 | Did you ever see my Papers, or theirs? |
A26974 | Digbyes Atomes or number of small bodies which are in perpetual motion? |
A26974 | Do I ascribe any of Christs honour in the work to man? |
A26974 | Do I call the duty, a work of the Law, because I say the Law condemneth the neglecters of it? |
A26974 | Do I say any more then the Assembly saith in the preceding Question? |
A26974 | Do you believe in your conscience, that Christ is presented and represented in the Supper only as dying? |
A26974 | Do you believe this your self? |
A26974 | Do you indeed think, that to be an efficient cause of our justification, and to be a bare condition, is all one? |
A26974 | Do you not believe this? |
A26974 | Do you not discern that the Question concerneth you and every man, as much as me? |
A26974 | Do you not give up the Protestant cause here to the Papists in the point of certainty of salvation? |
A26974 | Do you not see that it is against you? |
A26974 | Do you not your selves call it fides formata charitate? |
A26974 | Do you think he did? |
A26974 | Do you think that I deny a godly life to be a comfortable testimony, and a necessary qualification of a man for pardon? |
A26974 | Do you think that any of these do make the pardon to be of Debt, and not of Grace? |
A26974 | Do you think that only the first instantaneous act of faith doth justifie, and no other after through the course of our lives? |
A26974 | Do you think that the Law doth not threaten unbelievers, when the Gospel hath commanded faith? |
A26974 | Do you verily believe that Repentance and Faith have no Interest in our Pardon, in sub- ordination to Christ? |
A26974 | Does not every man that undergoes various relations, variously act according to them? |
A26974 | Doth God every moment at a Court of Angels Declare each sinner in the world, remitted of his particular sin? |
A26974 | Doth he that speaks of receiving a man to be our Husband, King, Master,& c. mean it of one only Act? |
A26974 | Doth his Title cease as oft as he shuts his lips from saying, I thank you? |
A26974 | Doth it intervene between Christ and the effect? |
A26974 | Doth not Christ say, Take my yoak learn of me to be meek and lowly, that they may have ease and rest? |
A26974 | Doth not the Apostle contradict you by expounding himself in the very next verse before those you cite? |
A26974 | Doth that dishonour it? |
A26974 | Doth the Doctrine of faith alone without Christ advance Grace? |
A26974 | Doth the Gospel justifie us? |
A26974 | Doth the first acceptance here serve turn for continuance of what is first received, without the following Homage and Fidelity? |
A26974 | Doth[ Trusting him and Believing him] exclude a Resolution to obey his Directions and the future actual obedience? |
A26974 | Ease and Rest? |
A26974 | Else why may not they see it in it self? |
A26974 | Enquire whether videre, audire, be only Grammatical Actions( as you call them) and natural passions? |
A26974 | Ergo,& c. The Major is evident: What Saint dare say, that he hath a work that makes not the Reward of Grace, especially when it is a work of Grace? |
A26974 | Even the performance of the Conditions on mans part? |
A26974 | Even they that raise questions, what one act of faith doth justifie, whether of the Vnderstanding or Will? |
A26974 | First you say, you exclude a co- operation effective, but why do we strive about words? |
A26974 | First, Did ever any man deny the necessity of inherent Righteousness, that was called a Protestant? |
A26974 | For how can they have any comfort that know not whether they are justified and shall be saved? |
A26974 | For is not this all that Paul ayms at in speaking so oft of Faith in Relation to Christs death and Righteousness, rather then to his Government? |
A26974 | For is that the state of the question with us? |
A26974 | For to what purpose did Paul dispute against Justification by works of the Law, if the righteousness of Faith were not sufficient? |
A26974 | For what Divine denyeth works to be a condition of Salvation, or of the final Justification? |
A26974 | For what is our final Justification, but a Determination of the Question by publick sentence, on our side, Whether we have Right to salvation or not? |
A26974 | For what should I do? |
A26974 | For your question, How come the imperfections in our conditions to be pardoned? |
A26974 | From what? |
A26974 | Had I but delivered such a Doctrine as this, what should I have heard? |
A26974 | Hath not God said?] |
A26974 | Hath the Covenant of Grace( which promiseth Justification and Glorification) any condition on our parts, or none? |
A26974 | Have not I ever yielded to you that all works are excluded from Justifying as works? |
A26974 | Have you not Christs express words, that forgiving others is a condition of our Remission? |
A26974 | He instances in Abrahams works, and excludes them: now were Abrahams works, works done by the meer strength of the Law? |
A26974 | Here is causality, though improper; Here is a causa dispositiva: and yet shall I be blamed after I had removed Efficiency and Merit? |
A26974 | His fifth Argument is, that[ These two Justifications overthrow each other: If by one we have peace with God, what need the other? |
A26974 | His own received him not; What is that but they refused him? |
A26974 | How can good works perfect our Justification, being themselves imperfect?] |
A26974 | How can justifying faith qua talis in the act of Justifying, and Repentance, be reducible duties to the Law taken strictly? |
A26974 | How could he have brought a plainer evidence against himself? |
A26974 | How could you wink so hard as not to see that your Argument is as much against your self as me, if you do but turn it thus? |
A26974 | How doth it receive it? |
A26974 | How oft doth the Scripture expresly mention faith in our Lord Jesus Christ? |
A26974 | How strangely is it painted? |
A26974 | How then can you tell the world in print, that it seems I have met with a pack of Impostors, even them you mention? |
A26974 | How then is Love the fruit of faith, and as Divines say, a consequent of Justification? |
A26974 | How will they know when they Repent and Believe, when they have performed the full of these? |
A26974 | How will you ever prove, that our Entering into Life, and our continued remission or Justification have not the same conditions? |
A26974 | How would you have your Reader understand these two insinuations? |
A26974 | I deny his Consequence: And how is it proved? |
A26974 | I wonder that men should so little know the difference betwixt Earth and Heaven; a sinner in flesh, and a Saint that is equal to the Angels of God? |
A26974 | I wonder what made you think me of such an opinion that I have so much wrote against? |
A26974 | I would know 1. whether we are Guilty( not only facti, sed poenae) of every sin we commit? |
A26974 | I would sain know what that is which you here call Faith, and say its passive? |
A26974 | If God had not said[ He that believeth shall be justified and saved,] would Believing have done it? |
A26974 | If Satan say, This man both deserved death by sining since he Believed( as David) must we not be justified from that Accusation? |
A26974 | If faith should deserve the name of an instrument, when I think it is but a condition? |
A26974 | If faith were such a Physical Passive( or Active) Instrument, whether that be the formal direct reason of its justifying? |
A26974 | If he[ have not works, can faith save him?] |
A26974 | If it be no cause of pardon; Is it a condition sine qua non, as to that manner of pardoning that your prayer doth intend? |
A26974 | If it were, Whether that be the primary, formal Reason of its justifying vertue? |
A26974 | If medii, then what medium is it? |
A26974 | If of that, it s granted: but it s still denyed that perseverance is any of the Condition of our first pardon? |
A26974 | If one righteousness may serve, may not Pilate and Simon Magus be justified, if no man be put to prove his part in it? |
A26974 | If so, what hope of Justice? |
A26974 | If the later, you might as well have said, the Socinians assert that there is a God, and so do we: But to what purpose? |
A26974 | If we are Guilty, how can that consist with a justified state? |
A26974 | If we must fulfill him ▪ why may not a dying man look on them? |
A26974 | If you have, what place is it? |
A26974 | If you say, What need you then dispute the point, if they deny it not whom you dispute with? |
A26974 | Indeed if the Condition be never performed, then it destroyes or prevents the effect, and so the Instrument doth not agere: And why? |
A26974 | Is Believing attributed to God, or is it an act of man? |
A26974 | Is Love any part of the Condition of her Pardon and Dignity? |
A26974 | Is Prayer any cause of Pardon? |
A26974 | Is believing and trusting the Physitian some one single act, excluding all others? |
A26974 | Is here any room for further disputing? |
A26974 | Is it Christ himself that is physically received by faith? |
A26974 | Is it a Passion? |
A26974 | Is it a clear and profitable way of teaching to confound all these, under the general name of Covenant- breaking? |
A26974 | Is it any danger to give less to faith then others, while I give no less to Christ? |
A26974 | Is it fit to Dispute with such dealing as this? |
A26974 | Is it harsh when yet you never once shew the fault of the Speech? |
A26974 | Is it justice for you still to perswade the world that I mean some causality, though not efficiency? |
A26974 | Is it meant they took him not in their hands, or received not his Person into their houses? |
A26974 | Is it not a good Argument Negative, Abraham was not justified by works, therefore we are not? |
A26974 | Is it not at all an Act therefore? |
A26974 | Is it not safe when a man hath prerformed these conditions, to look on them either living or dying? |
A26974 | Is it not this, whether the Gospel Righteousness be made ours, otherwise then by believing? |
A26974 | Is it repent, and Christs Righteousness is by this made yours, and rest in Christ? |
A26974 | Is it the Act of Faith? |
A26974 | Is it the Habit? |
A26974 | Is it the Name or the Thing that you mean? |
A26974 | Is it then a meet phrase to say, that she is pardoned and dignified by loving such a Prince? |
A26974 | Is it then any whit probable that it is Gods meaning to exclude this respect of the act from any conditionality herein? |
A26974 | Is it true, that[ this is that in effect, which the Papists affirm in other words?] |
A26974 | Is not Christ the Law- giver? |
A26974 | Is not Faith ours as much Love,& c? |
A26974 | Is not Love and Obedience part of the Condition? |
A26974 | Is not one kind of work omitted when it s my duty, enough to invalidate my Justification? |
A26974 | Is not this all that our Divines say, or require? |
A26974 | Is not this as much as I say? |
A26974 | Is not this as plain as may be? |
A26974 | Is not this one of the Opinionists, that so far joyneth with the Socinians and Papists? |
A26974 | Is not your Testament that gives your Legacy, because it gives conditionally? |
A26974 | Is that man justified that believeth not in Christ as the King and Prophet of the Church? |
A26974 | Is the Gospel that must be published among all Nations, the History only? |
A26974 | Is the condition of her Deliverance and Pardon, the taking him only under the Notion of a Pardoner or Deliverer? |
A26974 | Is there a further condition required to this condition? |
A26974 | Is there any difficulty in this, or is there any doubt of it? |
A26974 | Is there no aptitude in Christs legal Righteousness to give us life? |
A26974 | Is this a sweet and Christian sense? |
A26974 | Is this adding to the Scripture unjustly? |
A26974 | Is this an Act too? |
A26974 | It can not possibly by any one single Act or Passion which you call the passive Instrument: and do you think to find out many such? |
A26974 | Item quomodo causarentur relationes rationis, sive intentiones logicae, quae sunt in actu collativo? |
A26974 | Must not those Conditions be fulfilled by our selves? |
A26974 | My last Question was, Whether now your Doctrine or mine be the more obscure, doubtfull and dangerous? |
A26974 | Nay is it like to be the great business of that day to enquire whether Christ have done his part or no? |
A26974 | Nay the act is but a moral act, such as a Statute or Bond acteth, and what need Faith to be a physical Instrument? |
A26974 | None''s here so fruitfull as the Leaning Vine: And what though some be drunken with the Wine? |
A26974 | Nonne quod dicere quoque periculosum est, sed ad adificationem proferendum est, d ● abolum Domino praeponit? |
A26974 | Nor what Faith justifieth? |
A26974 | Nor whether Faith justifie? |
A26974 | Nothing to assure men of Justification by faith, but immediate communications to Believers? |
A26974 | Now I pray you tell me whether here be not full as much as Dr. Ward or I say? |
A26974 | Now how will they avoid Tompsons Doctrine of Intercision of that Title to Salvation, upon the committing of such sins? |
A26974 | Now the question is, what is the condition of this womans deliverance and Dignity? |
A26974 | Now would you perswade us that Paul excludeth this kind of Interest, or opposeth faith to it? |
A26974 | OR, Whether all Humane Acts, except one Physical Act of Faith, be the Works which are excluded by Paul in the Point of Justification? |
A26974 | OR, Whether all Humane Acts, except one Physical Act of faith, be the Works which are excluded by Paul in the Point of Justification? |
A26974 | Of a Cause? |
A26974 | Or are there no such conditions which man must perform himself or perish? |
A26974 | Or can any thing but the want of this personal righteousness then hazard a mans soul? |
A26974 | Or do you think none were justified before? |
A26974 | Or doth every weak Christian believe all the twenty Articles that you mentioned at first? |
A26974 | Or from what Agent and Act? |
A26974 | Or he that gives any great matter on Condition of such Receiving, Doth he mean that any one single Act is that Condition? |
A26974 | Or is it excluded? |
A26974 | Or is it that Repentance is conjoyned as to our first Justification, and obedience as to that at Judgement? |
A26974 | Or is it the Intellective Reception of his species? |
A26974 | Or is that Promise to them only that suffer for the Declarative part only? |
A26974 | Or that believing in Christs blood for everlasting Life and happiness, should be any more called works then believing in his blood for Justification? |
A26974 | Or that it is this or that only Act? |
A26974 | Or the omission of many individual acts of faith? |
A26974 | Or was it ever his intent to advance some one act of theirs? |
A26974 | Or what do you say less then I do here? |
A26974 | Or what m ● ● ● Paul to rejoyce in the testimony of his Conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity he had his conversation? |
A26974 | Or whether it is meerly Pati? |
A26974 | Or whether their Being is only in the eye? |
A26974 | Or, Whether all Humane Acts, except one Physical Act of Faith, be the works which Paul excludeth from Justification? |
A26974 | Or, Whether it have only Entity and Verity, or only Goodness for its Object? |
A26974 | Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his Glory? |
A26974 | Our Question is, How the sense of James shall be known? |
A26974 | Our question then is only of the nature, and reason of that necessity? |
A26974 | Pauls Question is, What is the Righteousness which must denominate a sinner just at the Bar of the Law? |
A26974 | Repented of all sins that must be Repented of? |
A26974 | Reply, First, I hope you would not make the world believe that I deny it; Did I ever exclude a dying Christ from the object of justifying faith? |
A26974 | Secondly, But what if that were so? |
A26974 | Seeing you think( truly) that Pardon is iterated as oft as we sin, by what Transient Act of God is this done? |
A26974 | Shall I again tell you the true ground of mens mistake( as I think) in this Point? |
A26974 | So that it is not the natural, but the moral Truth, that is wanting: And what is that? |
A26974 | So that it is one question to ask, Why doth Faith or Works of Obedience to Christ Justifie? |
A26974 | Still the Question wanting in the conclusion: Who denyeth that Christ crucified is the object of justifying faith? |
A26974 | That Readers do you expect, that will take an Assertion of Fear- Love, and Obedience, in stead of an assertion concerning Faith? |
A26974 | That by works he means not simply good Actions, as James doth, but such as make the reward to be of debt and not of Grace? |
A26974 | That the Church must be thus molested by such disputing volumes against it, to make the Papists and other enemies believe we hold I know not what? |
A26974 | The Question is not whether Faith work? |
A26974 | The conclusion never was acquainted with our Question? |
A26974 | The fifth Question is, Whether Faith be any Instrument of our Justification? |
A26974 | The fourth Question is, Whether other Graces may not be as properly called physical passive Instruments as Faith, is your sense? |
A26974 | The like I may say of a Testament or Deed of Gift: But what need many words in a case where the Truth is so obvious? |
A26974 | The question that James disputed, was, Whether men are justified by meer believing without Gospel- Obedience? |
A26974 | The third Question is, Whether faith be passive in its instrumentality? |
A26974 | Therefore it solely dependeth on it: And if these things were true, what are they to our question? |
A26974 | Thirdly, The words of the Jews to John( If thou be not that Christ nor Elias, nor that Prophet, why baptizest thou? |
A26974 | This Union is by Faith: We are united to him as to a Head, Husband and Prince, and not only as a Justifier? |
A26974 | This is the Wills first act towards it object; and will you say that Love goes before justifying faith, and so before Justification? |
A26974 | Thus methinks all that I desire is granted already: what Adversary could a man dream of among Protestants in such a Cause? |
A26974 | Truly it is quite beyond my shallow capacity to reach what you here mean to be so harsh: what should I imagine? |
A26974 | WHether Besides the Righteousness of Christ imputed, there be a personal evangelical Righteousness necessary to Justification and Salvation? |
A26974 | WHether the Faith which Paul opposeth to works in Justification, be one only Physical Act of the Soul? |
A26974 | WHether we are justified by believing in Jesus Christ as our King and Teacher, as well as by believing in his blood? |
A26974 | WHether works are a condition of condition of Justification, and so whether we are justified by works as such a condition? |
A26974 | Wards is to that of the Council of Tre ● t? |
A26974 | Was it ever the less a Law or Promise, the Object of Faith, or Instrument of Justification? |
A26974 | Was it not the Gospel which Christ and the Apostles preached? |
A26974 | Was it only the Declaration of Christs Death, Resurrection,& c. which is the Gospel according to which mens secrets must be judged? |
A26974 | Was not Abraham our Father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the Altar? |
A26974 | Was there no Gospel- grant then extant? |
A26974 | Were Abrahams works in opposition to Christ? |
A26974 | Were it not then better to perswade all people, even when they are whoring, or drunk, to trust on Christ to pardon and justifie them? |
A26974 | Were you not comparing faith in Christ as King, with faith in Christ as Priest only? |
A26974 | What Agreement then hath this Argument with all the rest, or with his question? |
A26974 | What Mystical Relative Union is that which is not a Moral Union? |
A26974 | What a pack of Arguments are here? |
A26974 | What are the Conditions? |
A26974 | What are therefore these two kinds of Righteousness, but contradictory to each other? |
A26974 | What be the Deeds that you know my mind by to be contrary to my words? |
A26974 | What doth faith thus receive? |
A26974 | What doth it concern a sinner to be justified or condemned now before a Court of Angels, where he is not present, nor knows any thing of it? |
A26974 | What if Faith were passive in its Instrumentality? |
A26974 | What if I dare not do so, but give that glory to God, and not to the nature of our own act? |
A26974 | What if the Law condemn the neglect of a Gospel duty? |
A26974 | What is it that you call Sanctification? |
A26974 | What is it then? |
A26974 | What is justifying Faith? |
A26974 | What is more obvious, then that there are many conditions in justificato, which are not in actu justificationis? |
A26974 | What is the Terminus ad quem? |
A26974 | What is this thing called Faith, which you make such a Proteus, to be Active and Passive as to several Objects? |
A26974 | What more proper to the reformed Religion, as such, then to honour the Scriptures? |
A26974 | What not the signs by which faith it self should be known, and therefore should be notiora? |
A26974 | What real difference between the godly and the wicked, the saved and damned? |
A26974 | What room is there for them all, without confusion, If both color, quantity, odor, and all be there? |
A26974 | What sense would you make of it if you should interpret this and such texts as this of all moral Acts? |
A26974 | What the Action? |
A26974 | What the Patient or Object? |
A26974 | What then in the whole world shall escape that censure? |
A26974 | What then is the matter? |
A26974 | What tolearable sense can be given of that multitude of plain Scriptures which I have cited? |
A26974 | What''s this to the Question? |
A26974 | What''s this to the Question? |
A26974 | What, that Faith should be this subservient Righteousness? |
A26974 | When Tolet disputeth utrum ixtelligere sit pati? |
A26974 | When these plants of Hell do thrive upon us, under all our care to weed them up: what will they do when the Vineyard is left desolate? |
A26974 | When will you prove the Consequence of this Argument? |
A26974 | When you ask how saith Paul true? |
A26974 | Whence? |
A26974 | Whether Affiance, Recombency, Assurance,& c. or whether a Passion? |
A26974 | Whether Believing be so, only verbum activum, but Physically passive? |
A26974 | Whether Besides the Righteousness of Christ Imputed, there be a Personal Evangelical Righteousness necessary to Justification and Salvation? |
A26974 | Whether Christ himself be not the object of it? |
A26974 | Whether Faith be any proper Instrument of our Justification? |
A26974 | Whether Good be not the object of the Will, and so Christ be not willed as Good? |
A26974 | Whether Works are a Condition of Justification? |
A26974 | Whether a moral? |
A26974 | Whether faith be passive in its Instrumentality? |
A26974 | Whether is the Condition of the species or individuums of works? |
A26974 | Whether it be necessitas medii ad finem, as to the continuance or consummation of our Justification? |
A26974 | Whether justifying faith be not an act of the Will as well as the Understanding? |
A26974 | Whether the Faith which Paul opposeth to Works in the Point of Justification, be one only Physical Act of the Soul? |
A26974 | Whether the Faith which Paul opposeth to Works in the Point of Justification, be one only Physical Act of the soul? |
A26974 | Whether the same may not be said as truly of other Graces? |
A26974 | Whether they be an image or similitude begotten or caused by the Object, as Combacchius and most? |
A26974 | Whether this or that act? |
A26974 | Whether this willing be not the same as Loving, as love is found in the rational appetite? |
A26974 | Whether to Believe be only verbum activ ● m? |
A26974 | Whether we are Justified by Beliveing in Jesus Christ, as our King and Teacher; as well as by believing in his Blood? |
A26974 | Whether you can call Affiance, or any other act of the will justifying faith, excluding this willing, or not principally including it? |
A26974 | Whether your Opinion or mine be the plainer or safer? |
A26974 | Which call you the good, sound definition of Faith? |
A26974 | Which of those acts do you think goes not before Justification? |
A26974 | Who ever said, and where, that passive Justification( yea or active) is the Gospel it self, or the sign? |
A26974 | Who speaks more against faith, they or I? |
A26974 | Who then gives more to works, you or I? |
A26974 | Who will say so? |
A26974 | Who would have thought that you had held such a point? |
A26974 | Why do I not understand with every dull thought? |
A26974 | Why from what they came burdened with? |
A26974 | Why may not Christ given us ▪ justifie us as the meritorious cause, and a principal efficient; and his Gospel- grant, as his Instrument? |
A26974 | Why may not a man know when he believeth in Christ as King and Prophet, and is his Disciple, as well as when he believeth in him as Priest? |
A26974 | Why may not faith be a condition, as well as an Instrument of receiving the pardon of its own Imperfection? |
A26974 | Why not Conditions as well as Instruments or Causes? |
A26974 | Why then do you still harp upon the word[ works] as if I did give more to them? |
A26974 | Why then should I aim at this mark? |
A26974 | Why then we say, it is his Ransom, his love and free mercy,& c. And if the Question be, what is it in him that dignifieth her? |
A26974 | Will any say that the Saints do no good works? |
A26974 | Will it not be as dangerous to omit that one as all, seeing that one is required as a Condition? |
A26974 | Will not such think they may sin salva fide? |
A26974 | Will not the omission of Repentance for one sin invalidate it? |
A26974 | Will you ask now[ If faith be imperfect, how comes the guilt of that Imperfection to be pardoned? |
A26974 | Will you call to any judicious Reader, to tell you that which I particularly exprest to you? |
A26974 | Will you not maintain it against a Papist when you are returned to your former temper? |
A26974 | Will you not produce your faith and repentance for your Justification against this charge, and so to prove your Interest in Christ? |
A26974 | Will you say, not by the words, but by the sense? |
A26974 | Will you thence infer that none are justified till death? |
A26974 | Will you therefore conclude that the Moral Agency or Efficiency of these Laws is past, and therefore they do not condemn or justifie? |
A26974 | Would you have us say more of them, or less? |
A26974 | Ye will not come to me that ye may have life: How oft would I, and ye would not? |
A26974 | Yea and whether there be any such thing? |
A26974 | Yea how great a controversie is it what the sensible and intelligible species are? |
A26974 | Yea is it not a notorious truth, that it is quite another thing which the Papists affirm in somewhat like words? |
A26974 | Yea what a dangerous loss will Christians then be at, who will hardly ever be able to find out this single Act, what it is and when they have it? |
A26974 | Yea when the rest are acknowledged to be part of the Condition? |
A26974 | Yea who doubteth but he might have given them without any condition, even that of acceptance? |
A26974 | Yea, Why do the best Divines preach so much against Presumption? |
A26974 | Yet in the places cited, who knows not the same word hath different senses? |
A26974 | You ask, Were Abrahams works in opposition to that,& c? |
A26974 | You ask[ Is it repent, and Christs righteousness by this is made yours?] |
A26974 | You confess that by ungodly, is meant such, though Regenerate and holy, that have not an adequate holiness: Adequate; To what? |
A26974 | You demand,[ Will you exclude his Obedience, Resurrection, intercession]? |
A26974 | You here ask me,[ Whether I think you deny a godly life to be a comfortable Testimony, or necessary qualification of a man for pardon?] |
A26974 | You know by Justification they mean principally Sanctification? |
A26974 | You reply, If there be justifying works, how saith Paul true? |
A26974 | You say the question is,[ Whether the Gospel righteousness be made ours otherwise then by believing?] |
A26974 | You say, how then saith James true? |
A26974 | Your conclusion now is nothing to the Question? |
A26974 | [ For if Faith( say you) justifie as a work] But who saith it doth justifie as a work? |
A26974 | [ He that spared not his own son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?] |
A26974 | [ Repent and be baptized( saith Peter) for the remission of sin; Of what sin? |
A26974 | [ The true meaning( saith he) of the Question[ whether we are justified by Faith or by Works?] |
A26974 | [ What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin? |
A26974 | [ Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect? |
A26974 | [ can faith save him?] |
A26974 | and 10 29? |
A26974 | and all because he would not deny either Christ or Faith? |
A26974 | and excuse not Infidels from the guilt of Rebellion against the Redeemer? |
A26974 | and have limited our justification to any one act? |
A26974 | and how called? |
A26974 | and how can they know that, when they know not what justifying saith is? |
A26974 | and how can they know that, who know not whether they have faith? |
A26974 | and how can they know what it is, when it is by Divines involved in such a cloud and maze of difficulties? |
A26974 | and how we receive Christ, as a man takes a gift in his hand? |
A26974 | and instead of the act we are now set to enquire after the passion? |
A26974 | and is that positive or vehement affirming it? |
A26974 | and not as qualifying? |
A26974 | and saith, God giveth to will,( that is, to believe) and to do,& c. that all this is meant of meer Passion? |
A26974 | and should dream of such perfection short of heaven, the place of our perfection? |
A26974 | and so actively justifie us? |
A26974 | and so another to that with a processus in infinitum? |
A26974 | and so is Evangelically righteous? |
A26974 | and such a Love as is distinct from justifying faith as being no part of it? |
A26974 | and that it is of aequal difficulty upon your own and others opinion, as upon mine? |
A26974 | and the King? |
A26974 | and the very same? |
A26974 | and what is that? |
A26974 | and whether it be not the plain and frequent speech of Scripture? |
A26974 | and why hath it not been discovered unto the world? |
A26974 | and will there be joy in heaven for reducing a man from such an opinion? |
A26974 | and yet meerly Recipient? |
A26974 | are not those acts conditions? |
A26974 | believed all necessary Truths? |
A26974 | but what of that? |
A26974 | by him performed? |
A26974 | de Dieu, Bucer, Calvin, Zanchy? |
A26974 | especially least they should yield to universal Redemption in any kind? |
A26974 | except Mr. Pemble and a very few that with him make Sanctification and Vocation to be all one? |
A26974 | from what? |
A26974 | if not guilty: then what need of Pardon, of daily praying Forgive us our Debts, or of a Christ to procure our Pardon? |
A26974 | if so; then doth not faith justifie directly, as the condition of the Gift, Promise, or new Covenant? |
A26974 | is any excepted to the Penitent Believer? |
A26974 | is it by a further condition, and so in infinitum?] |
A26974 | is there any danger in it? |
A26974 | is there any danger in this? |
A26974 | it is God that justifieth: who is he that condemneth? |
A26974 | no deed of Gift of Christ and his Righteousness to all that should believe? |
A26974 | nor his Intercession,( for who shall condemn us? |
A26974 | of that gift? |
A26974 | or do you think the difference to be of no moment? |
A26974 | or doth Scripture tell you? |
A26974 | or doth it signifie any one act? |
A26974 | or else that they do such good works as make the Reward to be not of Grace but of debt? |
A26974 | or is it only a condition without which he will not cure them? |
A26974 | or of another gift? |
A26974 | or of such sins as Davids, before Repentance? |
A26974 | or rather to advance the Lord Jesus whom faith Receiveth? |
A26974 | or shall any be saved that saith,[ I did not repent or believe, but Christ did for me?] |
A26974 | or should I be spoke against for the Doctrine of obedience, as if I gave more to man then you, when I give so much less? |
A26974 | or that ever such a thing can be proved? |
A26974 | or that there is no condemnation to him, though he know not that he is in Christ, and walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit? |
A26974 | or the act of any one single faculty that the people of the land must perform? |
A26974 | or to see through all the difficulties that I have discovered here in your Doctrine? |
A26974 | or to the constitution of the condition in the Gospel? |
A26974 | or what proof is there from Scripture for this? |
A26974 | or yet to enquire, whether the world were sinners? |
A26974 | or yet, that he hath commanded us in the Gospel, so to work that the Reward may not be of grace, but debt? |
A26974 | that every Grass, Flower, Tree, Bird, Stone,& c. and other bodies, have their several distinct species in the Air night and day? |
A26974 | that is to bring Christ down from above: or who shall descend into the deep? |
A26974 | that is to bring up Christ again from the dead: But what saith it? |
A26974 | that we deny even to all: Of a Condition? |
A26974 | that[ If thou confess with thy mouth, and believe in thy heart,& c.] that[ If] is a conjunction conditional? |
A26974 | the Trusting to Christ for Pardon and Salvation only, without taking him for their King and Prophet? |
A26974 | the satisfaction of a surety? |
A26974 | to justifie? |
A26974 | to note[ what in Christ received doth justifie] rather then[ what respect of our act of faith is the condition?] |
A26974 | to the Law? |
A26974 | what is the danger? |
A26974 | what need any more then to be said of it? |
A26974 | when I say, that[ all that I have to do with, grant the Antecedent] and what''s that to the question in hand? |
A26974 | whether Assent only, or Affiance? |
A26974 | whether they can be the Subjects of Passion; and so be passive Acts? |
A26974 | which yet because it is no way made ours but by believing, therefore he so puts the Question, whether by works of the Law, or by faith? |
A26974 | why by its fruits and concomitants, and that we take Christ for Lord as well as Saviour, or to save us from the power of sin as well as the guilt? |
A26974 | why is not the willingness he should raign, part of saving, justifying faith? |
A26974 | why then if you be so tender, who may deal with you? |
A26974 | with most do affirm? |
A26974 | would not men think that learning made them dote? |
A26974 | yea and what Law shall condemn them, if the Law of Works justifie them? |
A26974 | yea deny this to the Gospel it self? |
A26974 | — But the Righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise: Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into Heaven? |
A26974 | — For where was any Legal Righteousness of the good thief on the Cross, condemned for legal unrighteousness? |
A29752 | & are the Reprobate his brethen? |
A29752 | & c. God forbid, how shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? |
A29752 | & if it be not a justification, how can they be hereby formally justified,& constitutively justified? |
A29752 | & in thy name have cast out devils? |
A29752 | & in thy name have done many wonderful works? |
A29752 | & of Iustification, how not? |
A29752 | & prove it too, in the following vers? |
A29752 | & should he not be justified upon the account thereof solely? |
A29752 | & upon many such like, if all these words must be taken properly? |
A29752 | & was not that child& Son a person? |
A29752 | & what can this Imputed Righteousness be: if it be not the Righteousness of Christ? |
A29752 | & what is meaned by this gift? |
A29752 | ( 1) But our Principal difficulty here is to understand, what Mr. Baxter meaneth by the Iewish Law? |
A29752 | ( 1) Will he not distinguish betwixt having of these benefites in Title or Right,& having them in possession? |
A29752 | ( 2) As for our sense of this Expression, who, that will willingly be ruled by the Scriptures, can not submit unto it? |
A29752 | ( 2) If Christ did not bear the sentence or Curse of the Law, how could he be said to have died or suffered in our place, room or stead? |
A29752 | ( 2) Paul also renunceth his Righteousness in this matter,& that several times? |
A29752 | ( 2) What is that Righteousness, which is here said to be procured, or derived upon a Man by faith? |
A29752 | ( 2) When God gave Adam these Abilities, and thereby furnished him with a sufficient stock; was he not to acknowledge God for all that he did? |
A29752 | ( 2) Where are Christs meer Sufferings, as distinguished from His obedience, called a righteousness? |
A29752 | ( 2) Where findeth Mr. Baxter these restrictions, Merely or Primarily, in all the Apostles disput? |
A29752 | ( 2) Where readeth he of Faith in Christ( in order to justification) as our Teacher, or Ruler or Justifying judge, or justifying Sacrifice? |
A29752 | ( 2) Why brought he in the Instance of Abraham, who was before the Law of Moses? |
A29752 | ( 3) If Christ had only been the material cause, as having that virtus effectiva, how could He be called their federal Head? |
A29752 | ( 3) Why should they be called the Righteousness of God, according to this Interpretation? |
A29752 | ( 3) did only the Law of Ceremonies give the knowledge of sin? |
A29752 | ( 4) He talks of the rare use of such a phrase in Scripture; but I would know, where he findeth it used at all iu Scripture? |
A29752 | ( 4) did the curse only belong unto the Ceremonial Law? |
A29752 | ( saith he) And is not gratitude an end,& a thing commanded by the Law? |
A29752 | - Christ died for the ungodly: was this for all? |
A29752 | 10. is there any appearance of the exception of any one sin? |
A29752 | 10: 10. that with the heart man beleeveth unto righteousness, must not this Righteousness be something distinct from beleeving? |
A29752 | 10: 3, 4, 9, 27. only proveth, that Christ''s sheep know& hear his voice: And who denieth this? |
A29752 | 11, 12. what intimation is given of an exception of any? |
A29752 | 17? |
A29752 | 1: 16, 17? |
A29752 | 1: 30? |
A29752 | 1: 4. why did the Lord Jesus give himself for our sinnes? |
A29752 | 1: 7. we have redemption in his blood: what Redemption? |
A29752 | 21? |
A29752 | 26: 28. are not all these sins pardoned virtually& fundamently? |
A29752 | 2: 14. did he not purchase Faith, without which we can not be such? |
A29752 | 2: 17? |
A29752 | 2: 8? |
A29752 | 3. last Do we then make void the Law through faith? |
A29752 | 3: 10- 20? |
A29752 | 3: 21. and not in our Place& Stead? |
A29752 | 3: 25. if the word Faith should be there taken properly,& not for its object? |
A29752 | 3: 26? |
A29752 | 3: 5, 6. have we not Faith also through him? |
A29752 | 3: 9. meaned, by his own righteouness, only such works, as he expresly accounted meritorious? |
A29752 | 3: 9? |
A29752 | 3: 9? |
A29752 | 3: 9? |
A29752 | 3? |
A29752 | 42: 6. if he had a righteousness within him,& had been justified by the Lord, upon the account of that inherent righteousness? |
A29752 | 4? |
A29752 | 4? |
A29752 | 5. he was wounded for our transgressions,& c. and what followeth upon this Impetration? |
A29752 | 5: 19. what then will they say to this? |
A29752 | 5: 21? |
A29752 | 5: 31? |
A29752 | 7: 26? |
A29752 | 8, 9. was given to him, not as Mediator, but for himself, as an humble, obedient man? |
A29752 | 8: 30. Who shall then lay any thing to the charge of God''s Elect? |
A29752 | 8: 33. restricteth both equally unto the Elect: who shall lay any thing to the charge of God''s elect? |
A29752 | 9: 14, 18,& all to purchase a meer Possibility; or a meer Possible Redemption? |
A29752 | 9: 24 Doth our act of beleeving last for ever? |
A29752 | 9: 31, 32. that Israel, which followed after the Law of righteousness, did not attaine to the Law of righteo ● sness; Wherefore? |
A29752 | Adae peccatum imputabitur mihi,& Christi justitia non pertinebit ad me? |
A29752 | Againe, if Justice be satisfied for these others, why are they not liberat? |
A29752 | Againe, what though the word had that Import here? |
A29752 | An peccatum in semine peccatoris,& non justitia in sanguine Christi? |
A29752 | And I would ask, what for a Righteousness this pardon of sins is? |
A29752 | And againe I would enquire, what Righteousness hath it merited unto us? |
A29752 | And againe I would enquire, whether this Justification be accompanied with pardon of sin,& with Right to Christ& to glory, or not? |
A29752 | And are we not all agreed of all this? |
A29752 | And at what cost, paines& charges are they, in seeking to establish their own Righteousness? |
A29752 | And can any reason evince, that the Lord can not conferre& bestow, in the grand privilege of justification, moe particular favoures than one? |
A29752 | And did ever any meane otherwise, when they spoke of faith as an Instrument, or mean? |
A29752 | And did not the Father accept of what he did& suffered, as a full Compensation,& Satisfaction? |
A29752 | And doth he not also tell us, that this would make the reward to be reckoned not of grace, but of debt vers 4? |
A29752 | And for what end? |
A29752 | And further, it doth hereby appear, that all which is procured, is but some power to God& to Christ; But what is mans advantage? |
A29752 | And further, what was this power? |
A29752 | And had not Paul as good ground, as any, to assert his justification by his personal inherent holiness& righteousness? |
A29752 | And how can his death be a price of Redemption for the rest? |
A29752 | And how can we say, that God did intend the Redemption of all, when all are not actually Redeemed? |
A29752 | And how can 〈 ◊ 〉 pardon cause this transformation? |
A29752 | And how could they be punished for that same guilt, if it was not some way theirs, by the just& righteous Judge& Governour of the world? |
A29752 | And how is that 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 o ● Righteousness fulfilled? |
A29752 | And how is the opposition here observed, betwixt Christs being made sin,& their being made the Righteousness of God in Him? |
A29752 | And how sweetly will their hearts acquiesce in this Sure and Saife way of obtaining life? |
A29752 | And how would they hereby glorify God in the world? |
A29752 | And how 〈 ◊ 〉 we think, that He should purchase a Pardon to all, and let the event hang upon the pendulous tottering will of a sinfull creature? |
A29752 | And how, I pray, can this besaid to be procured or derived upon a man by faith? |
A29752 | And if not, where is the consequence of the Apostles argueing from his practice? |
A29752 | And if we enquire, what this was, which Abraham did beleeve? |
A29752 | And in our case, I would require, what he will account Essential? |
A29752 | And is Faith Christ? |
A29752 | And is all this nothing but a General Common thing, that can not save one soul, if Lord Freewil do not consent, of his own accord? |
A29752 | And is it not saifest to keep far from such a dangerous precipice? |
A29752 | And is it not strange, that Paul never once made mention of this distinction? |
A29752 | And it is as improper to say, that pardon justifieth: Let him tell me, how holiness with pardon can justifie? |
A29752 | And may not a person be as well said to be Imputed, as given, seing imputation, upon the matter, is nothing but a giving, or bestowing? |
A29752 | And not also, when the same punishment, in all its essential ingredients, is undergone& suffered by another? |
A29752 | And of the Reprobat, for whom he was not to purchase thereby? |
A29752 | And shall we imagine, that He shall be a Redeemer& Deliverer, and yet no man Redeemed or delivered? |
A29752 | And shall we think, that the effect of all this Non- such Love, both of the Father,& of the Son, was only a Possible Salvation, and Redemption? |
A29752 | And should not this Righteousness, if his beleeving had been it, been of the Law? |
A29752 | And that if our father Abraham were justified by works, he should have had, whereof to glory, though not before God vers 2? |
A29752 | And then why may not both be imputed unto them? |
A29752 | And then, what need it be said, that the State of Justification is continued upon such termes? |
A29752 | And was He not made of a woman, given and born to us? |
A29752 | And was He not obliged to both, as Surety, in room& place? |
A29752 | And was he more obliged unto the Atonement of Christ, than others, who did violate of new these Conditions? |
A29752 | And was not Adam before the fall also bound unto gratitude? |
A29752 | And was not His death& Sufferings also subservient unto this great end? |
A29752 | And what a wonderful Grace is this, that is here manifested? |
A29752 | And what be these? |
A29752 | And what by this meanes hath Christs Propitiatory Sacrifice obtained more, than a meer possibility of salvation, to either one or other? |
A29752 | And what can else be said by such, as make this the whole of what Christ did purchase? |
A29752 | And what errour I pray, or heresie is it, that doth not pretend to the like? |
A29752 | And what for a cause shall we take that, causa sine qua non to be? |
A29752 | And what giveth he for the ground of this? |
A29752 | And what imaginable colour can be from any thing that the Apostle spoke, in the foregoing words, for such an objection, as this? |
A29752 | And what is all this to the purpose? |
A29752 | And what is there here peculiar unto Christ, as Lord Mediator, seing the lives of other Saints are also exemplary? |
A29752 | And what lawyer, I pray, will yeeld to this reason? |
A29752 | And what then? |
A29752 | And what then? |
A29752 | And what then? |
A29752 | And what was it, that they did? |
A29752 | And what would he hence inferre? |
A29752 | And what would he make of Christ? |
A29752 | And where do we read, that all were given unto him to redeem? |
A29752 | And where is then the truth of this axiome? |
A29752 | And wherefore is all this? |
A29752 | And whereunto is that Call? |
A29752 | And who can express the good and sweet of this life? |
A29752 | And who can express what a life this is? |
A29752 | And who doubts 〈 ◊ 〉 the perfection of this, that acknowledgeth the perfection of the Law? |
A29752 | And who knoweth not, that Self can wax proud,& be puffed up, upon a smaller occasion, than is this? |
A29752 | And who may not see the folly of this Reddition, to inferre this from the Lord''s calling Iohn Baptist Elias& the like? |
A29752 | And who, I pray, more guilty of troubling the world with these contendings, than he? |
A29752 | And whose Righteousness else can this be, if it be not Christ''s? |
A29752 | And why is not His obeying also added? |
A29752 | And why may we not say, that He obeyed in the juridical and Law person of a sinner, as well as that He suffered? |
A29752 | And why not also an Universal Salvation conditional? |
A29752 | And why not also by their works of Obedience? |
A29752 | And why not also, if faith be now accounted the fulfilling of the Law, and be now imputed to us, as all our Righteousness? |
A29752 | And why not? |
A29752 | And why saith he not so of the Apostle Paul also? |
A29752 | And why should it then be simply,& without limitation, said that Christ died for all Conditionally? |
A29752 | And why so? |
A29752 | And why so? |
A29752 | And why would the Father send him to die for such? |
A29752 | And why, may we enquire, would the Apostle so laboriously prove both Iewes& Gentiles to be guilty of sin? |
A29752 | And will not Papists, Socinians& Arminians yeeld unto this Imputation: Nay doth not Bellarmine come a further length, in the words formerly cited? |
A29752 | And will not all Socinians grant, that Christ Suffered thus in our stead, that is, in our Nature? |
A29752 | Answere him againe, by asking, how came the world to be condemned by the disobedience of one Adam? |
A29752 | Are herein comprehended all commanded duties? |
A29752 | Are his intentions so fallible, and frustrable? |
A29752 | Are only regenerat persons said to be under the Law? |
A29752 | As the beginning of justification is so contrived, as all boasting is taken away, so must the Continnance thereof be conceived to be? |
A29752 | But I wonder how did the Apostle by his doctrine establish the Ceremonial Law? |
A29752 | But Israel, which followed after the law of Righteousness, hath not attained to the law of Righteousness; wherefore? |
A29752 | But did Paul meane nothing but his consciencious observance of this Law, when he said, I have lived in all good conscience to this day? |
A29752 | But do not many both in sermons& in writtings, even when speaking of Pardon& of justification, joyn Repentance with faith? |
A29752 | But do we say, That pardon taketh away the Reatus culpae, in it self? |
A29752 | But doth he think, that Abraham, or David had any such apprehensions? |
A29752 | But how absurd is it to think or say, that the Beleever hath no more to do with Christ''s Righteousness? |
A29752 | But how can he come, who hath no power to Beleeve or Repent, without grace? |
A29752 | But how proveth this man, what he here alledgeth? |
A29752 | But how shall this sense of the words make them a proof or confirmation of what was said in the former verse? |
A29752 | But how was this work of Salvation begun? |
A29752 | But if the act of obedience in His death, include these, why not His whole state of humiliation? |
A29752 | But it will be said, How then is Christ received by faith, as a King? |
A29752 | But may they for all that perish? |
A29752 | But moreover, where is our Righteousness? |
A29752 | But next, what meaneth Mr. Baxter by this jus actuale? |
A29752 | But now as to works, whereof both make mentione, the question remaineth, whether they be one& the same? |
A29752 | But now, how will this agree with Universal Redemption? |
A29752 | But now, what doth Iames direct us to by the word Faith, which he mentioneth? |
A29752 | But now, what question handleth Iames? |
A29752 | But of what import could that Possible Call be, if Salvation was not also possible unto them? |
A29752 | But seing He was made sin for us,& so died in our room& stead, why may He not be said to have died in our Law- person? |
A29752 | But surder, what of all this? |
A29752 | But the Question is, whether Repentance be a proper Condition of Pardon of sins, committed after Justification: or not? |
A29752 | But then, what need is there of Remission? |
A29752 | But though it be a truth, that justifying faith is a working lively faith? |
A29752 | But was this all? |
A29752 | But what Law is this, by which, he denieth, that any can be justified? |
A29752 | But what Righteousness is or can be in a Law, but what is there, by way of prescription? |
A29752 | But what Scripture doth teach us this? |
A29752 | But what answereth Mr. Baxter? |
A29752 | But what answereth he? |
A29752 | But what answereth he? |
A29752 | But what can he hence inferre for confirmation of the Minor? |
A29752 | But what desperat shifts will not a wrong cause put men to use, who will not be truths captives? |
A29752 | But what doth Mr. Baxter mean by God''s Covenant? |
A29752 | But what ground is there for this in the Text, or context? |
A29752 | But what if ourselves, in our own natural persons, had undergone the penalty, had we therefore ipso facto attained a perfect deliverance? |
A29752 | But what if this be his mistake? |
A29752 | But what is a Potential Right? |
A29752 | But what is all this to the point? |
A29752 | But what is that Righteousness in the law? |
A29752 | But what is that, to accept the gift, as it is? |
A29752 | But what is the meaning of this? |
A29752 | But what is this Faith? |
A29752 | But what is this to the business in hand? |
A29752 | But what is this to the matter? |
A29752 | But what is this? |
A29752 | But what palpable& manifest perverting of the Scripture& of the works thereof, is this? |
A29752 | But what saith all this to the purpose now in hand? |
A29752 | But what then? |
A29752 | But where findeth he this, either asserted, or granted by the Apostle, or the Question thus stated by the Apostle? |
A29752 | But who can tell us, what that proportion, or that sort would have been? |
A29752 | But who seeth not, how this is to set up proud Man, whom Paul would have debased& kept down? |
A29752 | But who speak of such an Imputation of Sanctification? |
A29752 | But why could not this Love effectuat the good of all? |
A29752 | But why is not vers 30. mentioned? |
A29752 | But why, I pray, if this belong not to the object of justifying faith? |
A29752 | But why? |
A29752 | But you will ask of me, if I think, that Christ did die for final unbeleefe? |
A29752 | But you will say, if we be perfectly righteous by the Imputation of Christs righteousness, what need have we of any more? |
A29752 | By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, this Justification is the Application;& whence cometh it? |
A29752 | By what Law? |
A29752 | By what law? |
A29752 | Can God be said to be, upon the death of Christ, Reconciled to all, when it may so fall out, that not one soul shall have peace with God? |
A29752 | Can He not both free the beleever from the condemnation of hell,& adjudge him to the life of glory? |
A29752 | Can He not both pardon sins,& accept as,& declare to be Righteous? |
A29752 | Can a man be changed into a Law? |
A29752 | Can any thing; which they themselves can do, yeeld more ground of Peace& Confidence? |
A29752 | Can faith be said to be revealed from it self,& to it self? |
A29752 | Can the Law require more than absolute perfection? |
A29752 | Can their sinnes be said to be purged, who pine a way in hell for ever, because of their sinnes? |
A29752 | Christ suffered for sins, the just for the unjust: To what end and purpose? |
A29752 | Could Adam do more in sin, than Christ in good? |
A29752 | Did Christ fail in laying down the Ransome? |
A29752 | Did Christ know, whether or not this condition would be performed? |
A29752 | Did ever man before acknowledg faith, to justifie instrumentally,& yet deny the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ, as he doth? |
A29752 | Did he procure Grace unto them, to obey it? |
A29752 | Did he purchase Faith to these few; and would he not purchase Faith to the rest,& yet lay downe the great price for them? |
A29752 | Did it binde him( saith he againe) both to obey& suffer for his new sin, the next Instant? |
A29752 | Did not Christ do& suffer all, which he undertook to do,& suffer for this end? |
A29752 | Did not Christ make Reconciliation for the sinnes of his people? |
A29752 | Did the blood of buls& goats so sanctify, as to the purifying of the flesh, as to leave the most defileing spot of all untaken away? |
A29752 | Do all the world belong to his peculiar people? |
A29752 | Do the Apostles Mediums only serve to prove, that justification is not by the Law Meerly or Primarily? |
A29752 | Do these words carry this sense, where ever they are used? |
A29752 | Do they mean( saith he further) that the Law bound man both to perfection,& to suffering for perfection, or to suffering for sin? |
A29752 | Do we not hear, that a childe was born to us,& a Son was given to us? |
A29752 | Do we then make void the Law through Faith? |
A29752 | Do we then make void the Law, through faith? |
A29752 | Doth he think, that we make Christ such a Surety, as agreeth in all things with every Surety, among men? |
A29752 | Doth not an interest in the Merites, procureing any thing, include an interest in the thing Merited? |
A29752 | Doth this admit of exceptions, and of such an exception, as would unavoidably make all null? |
A29752 | Either the Lord knew, that some would get good by this fruite of wonderful love, or not? |
A29752 | Even when we know nothing by ourselves, yet are we not hereby justified? |
A29752 | For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God? |
A29752 | For by grace are ye saved through faith: and how was this? |
A29752 | Further, why may not his faith, denote the object of his faith, as our hope, or our love may denote the object of our hope& love? |
A29752 | Had we no other Interest, or ground of Interest in it, or in Him, but that it was performed in our Nature? |
A29752 | Haud Dei justitia magis ad condemn ● ndum, quam ad restaurandum valuit? |
A29752 | Having thus dispatched the second particular, we come unto the Third; to wit, to enquire, whether perseverance be a Condition of Justification? |
A29752 | He addeth, But what man is he, that sinneth not? |
A29752 | He died for all: But for what end and purpose? |
A29752 | He is called the Vine stock,& shall he have no Brancnes? |
A29752 | He querieth againe, did the Law binde Adam, to obey& suffer, before he sinned? |
A29752 | He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all: how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? |
A29752 | He that spared not his owne Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall not with him also freely give us all things? |
A29752 | Heb: 13: 12. wherefore did Jesus suffer without the gate? |
A29752 | Hope savingly in God, yeeld Christian Obedience to all the commands of God, without God''s Predetermining motion upon his heart? |
A29752 | How Faith is and may be called an Instrument? |
A29752 | How absurd is it to imagine this? |
A29752 | How absurd is it to say, a thing is Impetrated or Obtained, and yet may, or may not be Bestowed; may be Possessed, or not Possessed? |
A29752 | How came Paul''s righteousness to be his, and so one accident to go from subject to subject? |
A29752 | How came this to passe? |
A29752 | How can Christ be said to satisfie for the rest? |
A29752 | How can Faith be the Righteousness of God, which is by faith? |
A29752 | How can He be said, to have fulfilled all the Law for us, that did not fulfill it to all due ends? |
A29752 | How can any part of the curse work for us a far more exceeding& eternal weight of glory? |
A29752 | How can this be a proof of what was said vers 3. foregoing? |
A29752 | How can this be the end of Christ''s condemning sin in the flesh, as himself said it was, Except 2? |
A29752 | How can ye thus prepare the way to return, and lead your followers back again unto Babylon? |
A29752 | How come they to be under grace,& not under the law? |
A29752 | How cometh it to passe, that many, whose Reconciliation Christ hath purchased, live& die enemies to God? |
A29752 | How could Christ''s blood purge us from all sin, if it were not the Cause of our Righteousness? |
A29752 | How could healing come by his stripes, if he bear but part of our sins, in his body on the tree, seing final unbeleef alone would mar all? |
A29752 | How far then is he active? |
A29752 | How is the Drooping, Sincking, Dead and discouraged Soul, that hath any sense or feeling of this, revived& quickened? |
A29752 | How many fig- leaves do they sowe together, that they may cover the shame of their nakedness withall? |
A29752 | How many subterfuges finde they out, under which they think to shelter themselves from the wrath of God? |
A29752 | How oft is the word Hop put for its object, for the thing hoped for? |
A29752 | How oft is the word Law taken for obedience to the Law? |
A29752 | How proveth he this? |
A29752 | How shall then the new Covenant of Grace be distinguished in specie from the Covenant of Works, made with Adam? |
A29752 | How then was it an Absolute Price? |
A29752 | How unreasonable is it to imagine such a bargane betwixt the Father and the Son, as among men, considering what they are doing, can have no place? |
A29752 | How unreasonable is it to think, that Christ would refuise to Pray for such, whom he loved so dearly, as to lay down his life for? |
A29752 | How unreasonable is it, that such should have right to the Merites, that have no right to the thing Merited? |
A29752 | How will all this shine forth unto them with a heavenly Lustre and Majestie? |
A29752 | If Christ Intercede not for the same persons, for whom he died, we ask for whom he Intercedeth? |
A29752 | If Justification be continued upon Condition of works, we enquire what these works are? |
A29752 | If a Surety be put in prison for the debtor, may he not be said to suffer in the debtor''s Law- place,& in his person in Law- sense? |
A29752 | If a pledge, or hostage, suffer for those he standeth for, may not he be said to suffer in their Law- person? |
A29752 | If he did not undergoe the very punishment; that was due to us, because of sin? |
A29752 | If he died for all the rest of the sinnes of the Reprobat, and of the whole world, why not for that also? |
A29752 | If he had meaned Faith, had not that been his own Righteousness? |
A29752 | If it be enquired, whence doth this proceed? |
A29752 | If it be no Righteousn ● ss, why do they falsly say, that we must cast away our Righteousness? |
A29752 | If it be not purchased by Christ, how come we by it? |
A29752 | If it be thus, how could he then say before, that faith was the principal part of the Condition? |
A29752 | If it was to have an Effect, what was that? |
A29752 | If not, how can it be called a justification? |
A29752 | If not, why are not all these ends attained, in all, for whom he died? |
A29752 | If so, I enquire, what is that Righteousness? |
A29752 | If the first, why would he send his Son to die,& why would Christ come to die for such, as they saw would never have a will to be saved by his death? |
A29752 | If this were understood of Sanctification, why are these words added, who walk not after the flesh, bue after the Spirit? |
A29752 | If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities; ô Lord, who shall stand? |
A29752 | If yea, why doth he adde works more than Paul doth? |
A29752 | Is Faith a mean to it self? |
A29752 | Is God Reconciled to all, when many perish under his wrath, for ever? |
A29752 | Is He at peace with them, and should they have jealous thoughts of him? |
A29752 | Is He reconciled unto them, and should they carry, as keeping up some grudge against Him? |
A29752 | Is Regeneration only brought about by assistance? |
A29752 | Is a meer possible Redemption to be called an eternal Redemption? |
A29752 | Is all the world purified& made zealous of good works? |
A29752 | Is all this a Common thing, and a meer may be, or Possibility? |
A29752 | Is it because the matter is there too clearly hold forth? |
A29752 | Is it for actuall beleevers? |
A29752 | Is it in this, that we say, Remission of sin; is, at most, but part of justification? |
A29752 | Is it in this, that we say, a man may be forgiven, and yet not reputed one, who never broke the Law? |
A29752 | Is it not also hence undeniable, that hereby there is a proportion acknowledged, in some sort, betwixt Faith& the Reward? |
A29752 | Is it not sick of the same discemper of weakness with other graces? |
A29752 | Is it the Righteousness of Christ? |
A29752 | Is it the Righteousness of men themselves? |
A29752 | Is it the Righteousness of our own works? |
A29752 | Is it the same with a remote right? |
A29752 | Is it to be feared that that one shall not serve two? |
A29752 | Is not final unbeleef a dead work? |
A29752 | Is not gratitude an end required in the Law of Innocency? |
A29752 | Is not our Faith called our owne? |
A29752 | Is not that beleeving made our Righteousness,& thereby declared to be no less meritorious, than Adam''s perfect Obedience would have been? |
A29752 | Is not the man purely passive, in the receiving of the effect of that creating act, or in the work of Regeneration? |
A29752 | Is not this to be understood, in respect of their own personal deeds& works? |
A29752 | Is that the single Act of faith? |
A29752 | Is there any other that will do our business? |
A29752 | Is there any third competitour here imaginable? |
A29752 | Is this a meer Possibility? |
A29752 | Is this any conformity to a Law, in whole, or in part? |
A29752 | Is this consonant to justice? |
A29752 | Is this the meaning thereof, that Christ''s sufferings hath merited a Righteousness to us? |
A29752 | Is this the same with jus in re, as opposed to jus ad rem? |
A29752 | Is works the same with conceite of merite, or with works having this conceite adjointed? |
A29752 | It is God that justifieth: who is he that condemneth? |
A29752 | It is excluded by what Law? |
A29752 | It must be that, sure, the contrary whereof is inconsistent with a Justified state: and what can this be, but a total Apostasie? |
A29752 | It were saifer then, in my apprehension, to enquire how or what way is this State& Relation continued? |
A29752 | Iustification is by Faith, what this Faith is? |
A29752 | Knoweth not Mr. Baxter that some can turn the grace of God into lasciviousness? |
A29752 | May it serve him, that we speak, as Paul did? |
A29752 | May we not pray for Faith; and can we pray for any thing,& not in Christ''s name? |
A29752 | Meaneth he nothing but their observance of the Ceremonial Law? |
A29752 | Moreover as to that Condition, whether did Christ purchase it, or not? |
A29752 | Moreover, how could Faith be said to be through Faith? |
A29752 | Much more, if they be brought the length, to go about some religious duties, how will they then sit down& sing, as if all were well? |
A29752 | Must there not be many lives in this one? |
A29752 | Must therefore the mountains be removed for them? |
A29752 | Must we thus ascribe such intentions to God, as must hang upon mans will,& be subordinate thereunto? |
A29752 | Must we thus, on so small occasions, plead so stoutly for man,& pretend to plead for God too? |
A29752 | My Brethren, how think ye to mingle the Law with the Gospel? |
A29752 | Nay, how little of this whole matter of Justification is expressed to us, without Trops& figures? |
A29752 | Need they, who are dead, no more but Assistance? |
A29752 | Nor is the Question, whether Repentance be a Condition of the Covenant, or not? |
A29752 | Nor is the Question, whether the Lord call for Repentance as a duty, at the hands of such as either are to be Justified, or are already Justified? |
A29752 | Not of works; why? |
A29752 | Not so: can not God pardon sin upon a valuable Merite,& Satisfaction of a Mediator? |
A29752 | Now is he an actual King, and shall have none but potential Subjects? |
A29752 | Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? |
A29752 | Now to him, that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt? |
A29752 | Now, how will Mr. Baxter prove that the suffering of the Idem, is only, when it is supplicium ipsius delinquentis? |
A29752 | Now, who seeth not, that the Imputation of a perfect righteousness hath other strength& vertue, then that hath which is personal& Imperfect? |
A29752 | Nunquid justitias meas? |
A29752 | Nunquid verendum, ne non una duobus sufficiat? |
A29752 | Object is, How can God accept him, as just, who is really& reputedly a sinner? |
A29752 | Of works? |
A29752 | One mans sin hath wrought death unto all,& shall the Righteousness of one restore life only to one? |
A29752 | One thing I would ask: How Mr. Baxter came to know, that such, as he opposeth here, were proudly conceited of their own goodness? |
A29752 | Or can it be demonstrated, that they carry this express sense any where? |
A29752 | Or doth not the Father keep condition? |
A29752 | Or had he it so, and for such an end, as none might possibly be the better thereof? |
A29752 | Or if he see, that the Condition will never be performed, how can we think, that he intendeth any thing upon a Condition, that shall never be? |
A29752 | Or is all this meer may be, which may not be? |
A29752 | Or is faith according to no Law? |
A29752 | Or is it in corrupt mans power to Beleeve or Repent? |
A29752 | Or is the meaning this, That through Christ''s merites& sufferings, we have a Righteousness, which is meritorious? |
A29752 | Or that God hath Conditional Intentions& Designes? |
A29752 | Or that he could, or did account any of his works such? |
A29752 | Or that he would do the most for them, For whom he would not do the least? |
A29752 | Or to what other end should God intended that Christ should die for all, than to the ends mentioned in Scripture, of which we have spoken? |
A29752 | Or was it to have an uncertaine End& effect? |
A29752 | Or was this purchased equally for all? |
A29752 | Or what was purchased thereby? |
A29752 | Or where is its pertinency to our purpose? |
A29752 | Or why will he not say, that He obeyed for us, that we, who could not obey of our selves, might be repute to have obeyed perfectly in Him? |
A29752 | Pet, 1: 3? |
A29752 | Quid enim aliud peccata nostra potuit tegere, quam ejus justitia? |
A29752 | Quid namque ex se agere poterat, ut semel amissam justitiam recuperaret homo, servus peccati, vinctus diaboli? |
A29752 | Shall Adam''s sin be imputed unto me,& shall not Christ''s Righteousness belong unto me? |
A29752 | Shall Christ be beholden to mans good will for the purchase he made, at so dear a rate? |
A29752 | Shall God''s Righteousness be more powerfull to condemne, than to restore? |
A29752 | Shall Paul''s directing our thoughts to Christ beleeved in, exclude works, and Iames''s directing our thoughts the same way include them? |
A29752 | Shall he be a King without a Kingdom? |
A29752 | Shall not the curse, or a part of the curse, separat from the Love of God, and of Christ? |
A29752 | Shall not they then be beholden to Christ, only in part? |
A29752 | Shall one imperfect Act of obedience be of more value, than the Full and perfect obedience of Christ? |
A29752 | Shall tribulation, or persecution, or distress, or famine, or nakedness, or perill, or sword? |
A29752 | Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? |
A29752 | Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? |
A29752 | Shall we have so meane& low an account of the ordinances& appointments of God, in reference to spiritual ends? |
A29752 | Shall we imagine that that is the greatest love, which is common to all,& is not able to effectuate the salvation of those upon whom it is set? |
A29752 | Shall we imagine, that God designeth good to persons, who shall never enjoy it? |
A29752 | Shall we impute such jejune& insipide expressions to Paul, or rather to the Spirit of God speaking in& by Paul? |
A29752 | Shall we sin, that grace may abound? |
A29752 | Shall we suppose, that all this was about an Uncertane Bargane? |
A29752 | Shall we then say, that therefore his death was not to make Satisfaction for the sins of his own? |
A29752 | Shall we think that He, who was God, was not a fit enoug Sacrifice for the world; but that He must be made fit and prepared by acts of obedience? |
A29752 | Shall we think that he would lay down his life in vaine,& make no purchase thereby? |
A29752 | Shall we think, that Abraham that holy Patriarch& friend of God, did obey with any such conceite of intrinsick worth, in his obedience? |
A29752 | Shall we think, that Christ became sin, as well, or as much, for Iudas, as for Peter? |
A29752 | Shall we think, that Christ would lay down as great a ransome for such, as he was not to purchase faith unto, as for the rest? |
A29752 | Shall we think, that He redeemed all alike from the Curse of the Law? |
A29752 | Shall we think, that he was given& sent for a Saviour, and took upon him that title& relation, and notwithstanding no man might be saved? |
A29752 | Shall we think, that the Apostles words have but this sense, That faith is unto& upon them, that have faith; or that faith is imputed by faith? |
A29752 | Shall we think, that the Righteous judge shall pronounce& declare him to be Righteous, who is not so? |
A29752 | Shall we thinks, that Christ might have died,& yet one man receive this Adoption? |
A29752 | Shasl not they be in part Satisfiers for themselves? |
A29752 | Should be one that justifieth the Ungodly? |
A29752 | Should not the thoughts of this raise their wondering,& cause them speak to the commendation of the rich and free grace of God? |
A29752 | Should not therefore such carry, as persons that can not be made miserable? |
A29752 | Should we give our first born for our transgression& the fruit of our body, for the sin of our Soul: What would that avail? |
A29752 | So that the question betwixt him and us, is, whether Christ and His obedience, or Faith of a far inferiour Nature, must have that honour? |
A29752 | That he did not make void the law through faith, but did establish it? |
A29752 | That none of us should ever be put to suffer the penalty? |
A29752 | That the Question is not, whether the doctrine of Papists about Repentance in order to Justification, be to be owned, in whole, or in part? |
A29752 | That this may be part of the meaning, may very easily be granted:& what then can hence follow? |
A29752 | The Question then, that we have to discuss, is, Upon what termes& Conditions is this State continued? |
A29752 | The question is not, whether we should have good in us, or not? |
A29752 | Then He hath merited, that our works shall merite justification;& why not also glorification? |
A29752 | Then we ask a Scripture ground for this restriction? |
A29752 | Therefore& c. Who seeth not now, how false the Major propositions is;& how impertinent& ridiculous the probation thereof is? |
A29752 | They will not say, it is unto Salvation, but to Faith: But did not Christ know, that this call would not be obeyed by them? |
A29752 | This consequence, I grant, is good; but what is it to the point in hand? |
A29752 | This is a life, the Good, the Advantage, the Joy, the Comfort, the Peace of which, who can express? |
A29752 | This is but a Continuance of the same cheat: for it is no part of the question, whether the Saints should be vilified, or honoured? |
A29752 | This is so fargood: But why shall not also His obedience be a full confirmation of the force, efficacy& authority of the commanding power of the Law? |
A29752 | This is very true: But what then? |
A29752 | To say this, is to speak plaine non- sense: for what is that to furnish a man with a Righteousness out of the Law? |
A29752 | To what end did Christ give himself for his Church? |
A29752 | True, but what then? |
A29752 | True; what then? |
A29752 | Unius peccatum omnibus operatum est mortem,& unius justitia uni vi ● am restituet? |
A29752 | Unus peccavit& omnes tenentur rei,& unius innocentia soli reputabitur uni? |
A29752 | Was Christ made sin, or a sacrifice for sin, that all the world might possibly be made the Righteousness of God in him? |
A29752 | Was Christ made sin, that the imperfect grace of faith might be made a compleet Righteousness& become our compleet Righteousness? |
A29752 | Was Christ so prodigal of his blood, as to cast it away, for such as were irrecoverably gone? |
A29752 | Was He not by the Law of Mediation bound as well to give obedience to the Law, as to suffer the penalty? |
A29752 | Was He not exemplary to us in His death& Sufferings? |
A29752 | Was He not made under the Law, as well as under the Curse? |
A29752 | Was he infected with that leaven of Pharisaical pride? |
A29752 | Was he then occupied about Sacrifices? |
A29752 | Was it a meer Power& Liberty, that should never have any Effect? |
A29752 | Was it certanely to save some? |
A29752 | Was it not a Rule of life& justification to Adam, in the state of Innocency? |
A29752 | Was it only to make a new Transaction with man, in order to his salvation? |
A29752 | Was not Abraham our Father justified by works, when he had offered his Son upon the altar? |
A29752 | Was not absolute perfection in Christ''s holy Obedience? |
A29752 | Was not his satisfaction full& compleat? |
A29752 | Was not the Apostles scope& desire, to win Christ? |
A29752 | Was not the Humane Nature personally united unto the Godhead, from the very first moment of conception? |
A29752 | Was this Adoption purchased upon an uncertain Condition? |
A29752 | Was this end,& fruit left at an Uncertanty? |
A29752 | Was this fulness for a meer Possible effect? |
A29752 | We are justified by faith? |
A29752 | We are justified by our works done after Regeneration; therefore we may continue in sin, that grace may abound? |
A29752 | We assert no liberty for man: but why should not this liberty be allowed to the Supream God? |
A29752 | Were it not lost laboure for any to enquire, what is the Matter& Forme of this legal Righteousness of Onesimus? |
A29752 | What a life hath the Son and heire of a great King, when he may look upon the many great Dominions& Kingdomes of his Father, as his own? |
A29752 | What a miserable case then are persons in, who will not submit unto this way? |
A29752 | What answere giveth he? |
A29752 | What can sinners invent, that can once be compared here- with? |
A29752 | What could this contribute to prove, that there was now no condemnation to such, as were in Christ Jesus, among the Gentiles? |
A29752 | What did or could Pelagius say more? |
A29752 | What efficacy hath it, seing notwithstanding thereof, all may perish againe? |
A29752 | What excepteth Mr. Goodwine? |
A29752 | What fellowship hath Righteousness with unrighteousness? |
A29752 | What great things of justification could, I pray, Paul''s expressions cause any passe over? |
A29752 | What is his reason? |
A29752 | What is that Righteousness, which faith compasseth, and the Law sought after, and could not attaine? |
A29752 | What is the Condition of our ● ustification by this Righteousness of Christ, whether faith only, or works also? |
A29752 | What is the Lord''s Way, Methode& Manner, how& by which he preserveth his own, in that State of Justification? |
A29752 | What is this? |
A29752 | What maketh all this to the purpose? |
A29752 | What meaneth Mr. Baxter by these jewish observations? |
A29752 | What more? |
A29752 | What more? |
A29752 | What more? |
A29752 | What more? |
A29752 | What more? |
A29752 | What next? |
A29752 | What next? |
A29752 | What poor shifts are these, which men take to support a desperat cause? |
A29752 | What probable ground is there for this imagination? |
A29752 | What reason is, or can be given for the one, which will not hold for the other? |
A29752 | What saith Mr. Baxtor to it? |
A29752 | What saith he moreover? |
A29752 | What saith he to this answere? |
A29752 | What saith he to this? |
A29752 | What saith he we answere hereunto? |
A29752 | What saith he, to make out this alleiged Confusion? |
A29752 | What shall our Adversary now do with faith? |
A29752 | What shall we do to be saved? |
A29752 | What shall we say then? |
A29752 | What then can be meant by the weakness of Moses''s writtings? |
A29752 | What then saith he& his? |
A29752 | What then? |
A29752 | What then? |
A29752 | What was the end obtained for the rest? |
A29752 | What would he hence conclude? |
A29752 | When a Cavilling jew shall object, how can the world be saved by the Rectitude, or Obedience of one Christ? |
A29752 | When a man is punished with death, according to the Law, is he ipso facto presently& perfectly delivered? |
A29752 | When he saith, That Christ suffered in our stead, I would know, in whose stead it was? |
A29752 | When men say( saith he) that faith justifieth, I demand, what is it, they meane by faith? |
A29752 | When the Lord made him to be sin for us, was it only in part? |
A29752 | Where he teacheth that this faith, including works& all obedience, is the only meane of justification? |
A29752 | Where is boasting then? |
A29752 | Where is boasting- then? |
A29752 | Where is now the Confusion Mr. Baxter spoke of? |
A29752 | Where is then the agreement? |
A29752 | Wherefore? |
A29752 | Wherefore? |
A29752 | Wherein standeth this righteousness& justification? |
A29752 | Whereof is it constitute? |
A29752 | Whether a meritorious Righseousness, or a formal Righteousness( as he distinguishad) or both? |
A29752 | Whether is it Christ''s Righteousness imputed to us,& made ours; or is it our Faith that becometh meritorious? |
A29752 | Whether it was in the stead of some select persons, or in stead of all? |
A29752 | Which is wonderfull; where, I pray, must the confusion lye? |
A29752 | Which of them all, I pray, hath only this force? |
A29752 | Who can reconcile this seeming Contradiction, that is not acquanted with the glorious mystery of the Gospel? |
A29752 | Who can say either of these? |
A29752 | Who doth not understand how the Suretys payment is really, in the sense of the Law, the payment of the debtor,& not meerly accepted for him? |
A29752 | Who ever thought, or said, that a pardoned Thiefe or Murderer was a Righteous man? |
A29752 | Who seeth not, how little ground there is for such an imagination? |
A29752 | Who shall then separat such from the love of Christ? |
A29752 | Why are not some of these great things mentioned? |
A29752 | Why did God set forth Christ to be a propitiation? |
A29752 | Why do we then condemne the Pelagians? |
A29752 | Why doth he alwayes oppose Faith unto works,& say, we are justified by faith without the deeds of the Law? |
A29752 | Why should any then, for whom he gave that satisfaction, be liable to Punishment? |
A29752 | Why should obedience here be thus restricked to the Law of Mediation? |
A29752 | Why so? |
A29752 | Why then is all this trouble made? |
A29752 | Why will he not say this also of Christ''s Obedience; seing both were performed by Him, in His estate of Humiliation,& as the Surety of the Covenant? |
A29752 | Why? |
A29752 | Will it therefore follow, that He died not, to make Satisfaction to justice, for the sinnes of His people? |
A29752 | Will not Mr. Baxter grant, that faith is the Condition of our justification by this Righteousness? |
A29752 | Would Justification by Christs obedience give ground of boasting? |
A29752 | Yea, are not the given ones clearly distinguished from the rest? |
A29752 | Yet what doth Mr. Baxter gain? |
A29752 | ],[ Holland? |
A29752 | alius qui peccatorem constituit, alius qui justificat a peccato? |
A29752 | and did He not represent and stand in the room of sinners, as their Political Head& Representative? |
A29752 | and how can this be, that the greatest effect of this greatest love shall be common to all,& smaller effects not common also? |
A29752 | and how it is wrought? |
A29752 | and how very far remote must that Right be( if it be at all) which the Reprobat have? |
A29752 | and is faith the same with works, or with works without this conceite of merite? |
A29752 | and that all this love should be outed; and possibly not one man saved? |
A29752 | and was that all that Christ obtained? |
A29752 | and what hand mans labours and endeavours have in the infusion of the new Principle, the Divine Nature? |
A29752 | and why was it more Absolute as to that, than as to other things? |
A29752 | are we not possessed of right to the reward, and being righteous, are we not free of our sin? |
A29752 | are we therefore agreed with them in judgment? |
A29752 | aut plus potutt Adam in malo, quàm Christus in bono? |
A29752 | betwixt simply sinners, and formally sinners ▪ And what can he meane by formally sinners? |
A29752 | but another person? |
A29752 | can the pardon of murther, or of any prohibited act, make that act conforme to the Law? |
A29752 | could this be true, if no man had been saved? |
A29752 | do they not meane their beleeving of act or faith? |
A29752 | doth Christ redeem all the world from all iniquity? |
A29752 | doth any jote or title of the Law countenance the Imputation of faith, for a proportionable Righteousness? |
A29752 | doth faith answere every jote, title, point and letter of the Law? |
A29752 | doth he not direct our thoughts to Christ beleeved in? |
A29752 | doth not righteousness denote the conformity of actions unto the law? |
A29752 | doth the law hold forth any Righteousness, but perfect obedience? |
A29752 | f. 11. what is that to beleeve in his name? |
A29752 | how can Christ be said to have been made a curse for them; how shall their sufferings not be a part of Satisfaction to Vindictive justice? |
A29752 | how can they be said to be Redeemed from the Curse of the Law? |
A29752 | how should Christ''s death be our life, if we gote not life thereby? |
A29752 | i. e. For what could man, a servant of sin& a bound slave of the devil, do of himself, to recover the Righteousness, which he had once lost? |
A29752 | i. e. Shall I make mention of my Righteousness? |
A29752 | i. e. for what else could cover out sins, but his( i. e. Christ''s) Righteousness? |
A29752 | if Christ died for the sinnes of all persons, how cometh it that they are not all actually pardoned? |
A29752 | if in nothing, then Man must certanely have a great share of the glory: if it was Absolute as to any thing, what was that? |
A29752 | in quo alio nos iniqui& impii pro justis haberi possumus, quam in solo Dei filio? |
A29752 | in whom else, could we, who are naked& ungodly, be accounted for Righteous persons? |
A29752 | is it a Righteousness perperly so called? |
A29752 | is it a thing in our Power, and an act of our owne Free Will? |
A29752 | make manifest; where it is said( in answere to that Question, How doth faith justifie a sinner in the sight of God?) |
A29752 | may not the righteousness of the law be made over to them by faith? |
A29752 | might one say: doth not this quite take away all Remission? |
A29752 | must it not be the Righteousness of Him, whom faith goeth out unto& laith hold on, in order to justification? |
A29752 | no, by the law of faith? |
A29752 | of works? |
A29752 | or all that is required of justified persons by way of duty? |
A29752 | or are there no more Provocations or diseases? |
A29752 | or by which we are justified as the proper Righteousness of that Law? |
A29752 | or can a man have any Righteousness, prescribed by a Law, but by thoughts, words,& deeds, bearing a conformity to the commands of the Law? |
A29752 | or can not these two be conceived as two things formally distinct, though inseparable? |
A29752 | or did Christ only become a Curse, in reference to the breaches of that? |
A29752 | or how can meer Sufferings, as such, or bearing of the punishment threatened by the law, be called a righteousness? |
A29752 | or how could they be said to be chosen in Him, before the foundation of the world? |
A29752 | or how could they be said to be weak through the flesh? |
A29752 | or is it only meaned potentially, that is, that it might be possible, that we should not suffer? |
A29752 | or shall they not all actually be pardoned in due time? |
A29752 | or that Abraham indeed did so? |
A29752 | or that Christ died for all, or for any, Conditionally? |
A29752 | or that any in these daies were pleading for justification, upon the account only of such works? |
A29752 | or that his pardon made him formally Rightheous, and an observer of the law? |
A29752 | or that only such would make the reward of debt? |
A29752 | or that such were Abraham''s works? |
A29752 | or that such works were to be understood by the Law, as if the Law did command no other? |
A29752 | or was he afterward to act without dependance upon, or influence from God, the first Cause? |
A29752 | or what can be the true causes hereof? |
A29752 | or what communion hath light with darkness? |
A29752 | or what ground was there to feare, that Christ''s honour should have been wronged thereby? |
A29752 | or what is it, which the Lord requireth in order thereunto? |
A29752 | or what is required on our part, in order thereunto? |
A29752 | or what is that in Christ, that faith specially eyeth, and carrieth the soul out unto, when Justification before God is only designed? |
A29752 | or where in was it, that he beleeved God? |
A29752 | or whether any thing more be required of us for continueing this Relation than was at first required to the making of it? |
A29752 | or who can conceive what an heaven lyeth wrapped up here? |
A29752 | shall we therefore say, That there was no satisfaction for sins intended thereby? |
A29752 | shall we therefore think, that the Lord, whose judgment is according to truth, shall account any Righteous, who have no righteousness? |
A29752 | than only in the Son of God? |
A29752 | that is, that possibly not one person might be made the Righteousness of God in him? |
A29752 | that nothing can with truth, and in sufficient propriety of speech, be called a Righteousness but what is a conformity to the Law of God? |
A29752 | the Law never threatned a Surety: nor granteth any liberty of substitution: that was an act of God above the Law? |
A29752 | the Righteousness of Christ with your own? |
A29752 | then to enquire? |
A29752 | to Sufferings and death) for our offences, and raised againe for our justification? |
A29752 | was Christ''s death Absolute in no respect; or was it, as to some things, I mean, belonging to Grace& Glory, Absolute? |
A29752 | was he not, according to that Covenant, where in he stood, to purchase the good promised by his doing? |
A29752 | was it only a Possible Call of all, Justice bein satisfied? |
A29752 | was the Lord in Christ reconcileing the world unto himself, not imputing only part of their trespasses to them? |
A29752 | were these part of the Conditions of the Covenant of works? |
A29752 | what Ends, or what Advantages can we imagine of such an Universal Redemption? |
A29752 | what Scripture tels us, that Christ was sen to die, that he might obtain this Power unto God? |
A29752 | what a bundle of Mercies of life is here? |
A29752 | what a life is here, to stand thus related unto the great God? |
A29752 | what an unsearchable mystery of Love and free grace shineth forth here? |
A29752 | what are the Conditions of Not- loseing this State? |
A29752 | what condescension of Love and free Grace is clearly legible in this business? |
A29752 | what could be the designe of Father& Son in this? |
A29752 | what ground can be given for such fictions? |
A29752 | what ground is there to think, that he was called to remove that objection here againe? |
A29752 | what ground of Confidence or of Certainty, can the Arminian& Socinian way, followed by the formentioned Author, give to a poor soul? |
A29752 | what saith Mr. Baxter to this? |
A29752 | when he saith, that our first constitutive justification, is in its( own Nature, a right to Impunity,& to life, or glory? |
A29752 | where are then the Infused Habites? |
A29752 | where is then the difference? |
A29752 | where saith the Scripture, that if we beleeve, Christ died for us? |
A29752 | whether was Paul''s satisfaction the Efficient, or Constitutive cause of Onesimus his Innocency, or non- guiltiness, and the like? |
A29752 | who can dream thus, that God''s intentions& designes should be so loose& frustrable,& that God should be so uncertain in his purposes? |
A29752 | will it satisfie him, that we found the necessity of Imputation of Christ''s Righteoufness on the same ground? |
A29752 | will say to me, in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? |
A29752 | would not every one smile at such Non- sense? |
A29752 | your faith, depending alone upon your Saviour, with your works? |
A29752 | — thou was ● tain, and hast redeemed us to God, by thy blood; and what more? |
A26951 | & c. Is there life where there is no motion? |
A26951 | ( Nay rather let them take heed lest they omit such prescripts:) Or, is it the disorder or defects that makes them odious? |
A26951 | 2 Remember the continual presence of the most holy dreadful God: And can Pride lift up the head before him? |
A26951 | 2. Who should bring a sinner to Repentance, whose heart is corrupted with the love of sin? |
A26951 | A Juda ● kiss is thought sufficient to prove him a true Christian and Pastor of the Church, though it be but the fruit of what will you give me? |
A26951 | Alas, how dead are our affections? |
A26951 | Alas, how far have I been from living, as one that seeth the things that he professeth to Believe?] |
A26951 | Alas, my Lord, is this dark prospect all that I must here hope for? |
A26951 | Alas, what a deal of sin do we daily see or hear of? |
A26951 | All this is true; but still we find it a thing impossible to love our neighbour equally with our selves: Can you teach us how to do it? |
A26951 | Am I not an Apostle? |
A26951 | And I would further ask you; Do you fear damnation, and Gods wrath, or not? |
A26951 | And O how full, and how near a treasure hath it to go to? |
A26951 | And afterward how incessantly was he doing good to mens bodies and souls? |
A26951 | And among how few is the sin of flesh- pleasing sensuality mortified? |
A26951 | And another came with a[ Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?] |
A26951 | And are his rewards no greater than a mans? |
A26951 | And are not both these suitable to your natural perfection, and necessary to your good? |
A26951 | And are you exempt from the universal Law? |
A26951 | And ask your selves daily, How shall I wish at the day of reckoning, that I had expended and used all my estate? |
A26951 | And can I dream that the vast and glorious Orbs and Regions, are all uninhabited? |
A26951 | And can it be a lover of earth, and fleshly pleasures, and also a Believer and lover of Heaven? |
A26951 | And can that man be wise, that foreseeth not his everlasting state? |
A26951 | And can they be idle, while all this lyeth undone? |
A26951 | And can we think that GOD is not much more to be trusted, and is not a greater hater of a lye? |
A26951 | And can you believe this, and yet be so eager to be humoured, and to have all things fitted to your pleasure and desires? |
A26951 | And do they take the world for vanity and vexation, while they mind and seek it more than Heaven? |
A26951 | And do we not all profess to believe these things, as revealed from Heaven by the infallible God? |
A26951 | And do you neither love your souls, nor your lives? |
A26951 | And do you not believe that it''s he indeed that tempteth you? |
A26951 | And do you not profess to believe all this? |
A26951 | And do you not verily believe that all this will very shortly be? |
A26951 | And do you think God will love you ever the better, for that which is against your wills? |
A26951 | And do you think, and speak, and pray, and live, as those that do indeed believe it? |
A26951 | And doth he indeed pray, and labour, and suffer for Heaven, who would not come thither? |
A26951 | And here the first question shall be, How the Apostles, and all other the first witnesses, knew it themselves? |
A26951 | And how aptly doth the very permission of sin it self, subserve this end? |
A26951 | And how basely is it esteemed new by the most? |
A26951 | And how can that be a duty, which is to nature it self an impossibility? |
A26951 | And how can that be true Repentance, which changeth not the will and life? |
A26951 | And how can you justly expect the benefit of such prayers? |
A26951 | And how can you think of Christ, and not think of his Body? |
A26951 | And how miserable are they who make such a God their revenging Judge and enemy? |
A26951 | And how necessary was it that our Sun in glory should continually send down his beams and influence on the earth? |
A26951 | And how shall a man know his godliness, but by his life as the product of his inward graces? |
A26951 | And how should men justifie Abraham for k ● lling his only Son? |
A26951 | And how small a matter is Justification by man, when we may be saved without it? |
A26951 | And if God be willing, will not you refuse it? |
A26951 | And if the proudest Gallants can, with their hat at your foot, profess themselves your humble servants, why may not Religious Bride go as far? |
A26951 | And is it not as great a demonstration of his knowledge also, and of his goodness? |
A26951 | And is not HYPOCRISIE as visible in their practice, as Christianity in their profession? |
A26951 | And is not a lively foreseeing faith as effectual? |
A26951 | And is not a walk in Heaven with better company, a pleasure desirable in such a case? |
A26951 | And is not that good, which calleth us up to the greatest good, and will not allow us to be such enemies to our selves, as to take up with the lesser? |
A26951 | And is not this a question that you are most nearly concerned in? |
A26951 | And is that state better and more desirable, for which all that perish turn from God, and fell their souls, and are befooled and undone for ever? |
A26951 | And it is very observable, how most of the great changes of the world are made? |
A26951 | And let it be your next question, What spiritual good may be got by this affliction? |
A26951 | And let your next question be[ Have I yet got that good which God doth offer me? |
A26951 | And look up to the heavenly Regions, and think, Is this world so replenished with inhabitants, both Sea, and Land, and Air it self? |
A26951 | And many terrible texts come into the minds of humble souls, that have right to comfort, and should not be more terrified? |
A26951 | And mark what contrary answers the flesh and faith will give to it, when it comes to practice? |
A26951 | And may a believing joyful death be expected, without the preparations of exercise and experience in a believing life? |
A26951 | And must all these trifles be considered in our Faith? |
A26951 | And shall I set my heart on that which is not? |
A26951 | And shall Idleness be excused in us? |
A26951 | And shall we envy men such a happiness as this? |
A26951 | And should any be more careful ● to please you, that are but worms and dust, than you should be to please your Maker? |
A26951 | And should that duty be taken for a burden, which as to my comfort maketh all the wealth, and honour, and Kingdoms of others to be my own? |
A26951 | And should this heavenly fire be imprisoned in the body, which it should command and move? |
A26951 | And some Devils would not be cast out without fasting and prayer: And is luxury fit in such a case? |
A26951 | And that a sadder frame is more awakened, illuminated, fixed, sensible, considerate and fit for great employments? |
A26951 | And that if ye will be friends of the world, you are Gods enemies? |
A26951 | And that you would but take his Word to be as sure as sense? |
A26951 | And the consequents on both parts are intollerable; and how are they to be avoided? |
A26951 | And then have not all a promise of the same degree which the best attain, conditionally if they do as much as they for it? |
A26951 | And then who can expect that their consciences should avoid it? |
A26951 | And what can be more suitable to our miserable state? |
A26951 | And what can be so bad that a man will not do, if he take it once to be of Gods commanding? |
A26951 | And what did he ever command you, which was not for your benefit? |
A26951 | And what he hath declared we may know: But how much more do these men pretend to know, than ever Christ declared? |
A26951 | And what is the world when Heaven stands by? |
A26951 | And what it is that the life of man should be spent in seeeking after? |
A26951 | And what kind of Religious performances are most excellent which we must principally intend? |
A26951 | And what laborious lives did his Apostles live? |
A26951 | And when our pravity is undeniable, how credible should it be, that we have such a Law? |
A26951 | And whether it be not sin it self, which is the first part of all mens hell and misery? |
A26951 | And who can walk safely in the dark? |
A26951 | And why is it not foreseen, when it is foreshewn? |
A26951 | And why should any others be bound to use Justice or Charity to you any more than you to them? |
A26951 | And why should not others good be secured, as well as your posterities? |
A26951 | And why should that be my sorrow, which is his benefit, and should be his joy? |
A26951 | And why so? |
A26951 | And why then doth the believing of it do no more, when the ● h ● ng is certain? |
A26951 | And why then should not the believed truth prevail, if indeed you did believe it, when the thing is as sure, as if you saw it? |
A26951 | And will God reward men for such self- made sufferings? |
A26951 | And will you grudge them this much? |
A26951 | And will you grudge to suffer so small and short a chastisement in the way to an endless rest and joy? |
A26951 | And will you use them to turn your affections from him? |
A26951 | And would you be in the same condition again? |
A26951 | And would you wish us to trifle in the sight of Heaven? |
A26951 | And yet are you Believers, and have none of this? |
A26951 | And yet do you say that you get not your wealth by any thing that is unlawful? |
A26951 | And yet that he be so high and near the Father, as may put a sufficient value on his works, and make him most meet to mediate for us? |
A26951 | And, why doth living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? |
A26951 | Are they not not now your friends who love you better than they could do on earth? |
A26951 | Are they not such as were latety near you in the flesh; some of them your dearest companions and friends; and should you causlesly forget them? |
A26951 | Are they nothing to us? |
A26951 | Are they taught, or untaught? |
A26951 | Are we derided, slandered, abused by the ungodly? |
A26951 | Are you and your party all the world, or all the Church? |
A26951 | Are you frowned on or contemned by men? |
A26951 | Are you more offended and grieved when you are crost and hindered in doing good, or when you are crost and hindered from your personal honour? |
A26951 | Are you only for your present ease? |
A26951 | Are you really more mortified, more penitent, more humble, more heavenly, more obedient, more patient than you were before? |
A26951 | Are you slandered by men? |
A26951 | Are you the better Masters? |
A26951 | Are you truly willing that thus it should be? |
A26951 | Are you wronged, oppressed, or trodden on by pride or malice? |
A26951 | Are your words so much more excellent than the words of others? |
A26951 | As if he should say, have you the Spirit of Christ, or have you not? |
A26951 | As we see it in constant experience in men, when they see that they must presently die indeed, how light then set they by the world? |
A26951 | Ask your selves what you would be found doing if death now surprize you? |
A26951 | Behind you, upon Time, and say, It is gone, and never will return: and hear conscience ask you, How you spent it, and what you did with it? |
A26951 | But beyond Sea where it is not so reputed, how ordinarily is it committed? |
A26951 | But doth not Job''s case tell us, that some afflictions are only for tryal, and not for sin? |
A26951 | But how can I have faith indeed, and not desire intuition? |
A26951 | But how shall I know what application to make of Scripture to my self, but by the teaching of the Spirit of God? |
A26951 | But how then shall I know when it is the Spirit which putteth any thing into my mind? |
A26951 | But if all be otherwise, alas, where be they, and how few that love their neighbours, or betters, as themselves? |
A26951 | But if he that hath thousands, and is used to fulness, should be reduced to an hundred, how querulous or impatient would he be? |
A26951 | But if it be demanded, How did the next Christians of the second age, receive all this from the first Churches, who received it from the Apostles? |
A26951 | But if while we seek to be justified by Christ, we our selves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the Minister of sin? |
A26951 | But if yea, then what is it that they serve you for? |
A26951 | But if yet conscience have not begun to plead this cause against you, let me begin to plead it with your consciences: Are you Believers? |
A26951 | But if you have not such gain to shew, what wonder if you are weary of the medicine which healeth not? |
A26951 | But is it by Reason corrupted and by ● ssed by sense, or is it by Reason elevated by faith? |
A26951 | But is it not lawful to set ones self only to Religion, as John Baptist, Anna,& c. did? |
A26951 | But is it not the same Spirit which spake to the Apostles, which speaketh to us? |
A26951 | But is it not worldliness when we follow worldly business, without any need? |
A26951 | But is not additional grace given by way of reward? |
A26951 | But no necessity will excuse your worldly love and cares: What will the love of the world do towards the supply of your necessities? |
A26951 | But shall not all at last be perfect? |
A26951 | But still the difficulty is, What is the condition to be inserted? |
A26951 | But suppose it were so, must not others be regarded? |
A26951 | But the Lord whom we wait for, will once more come and cleanse his Temple: But who may abide the day of his coming? |
A26951 | But the question is, whether you love God for himself, and as your sanctifier better than you do the gratifying of your flesh? |
A26951 | But was not labour and toil a curse upon Adam after his sin? |
A26951 | But what if I find by constant experince, that my soul is more worldly after worldly business, and more cold and alienated from God? |
A26951 | But what if I find that it hurteth my body to labour; may I not forbear? |
A26951 | But what if a man can live without labour; may not be forbear who needeth it not? |
A26951 | But what if they had only doubted of Christs Will? |
A26951 | But what if you do not? |
A26951 | But what then shall we think of the children of godly Anabaptists, whose Judgement is against such dedication? |
A26951 | But when wast thou ever offended at the ambition of loving thee with the most perfect Love? |
A26951 | But who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his Counsellor? |
A26951 | But will this excuse you for loving your riches more than God? |
A26951 | But wilt thou know, oh vain man, that faith without works is dead? |
A26951 | But, silly soul, do Physicians use to charm men into health? |
A26951 | By how small, contemptible and unthought of mean ●? |
A26951 | Can Faith set open the windows of the soul, and no light of heavenly pleasures enter? |
A26951 | Can a bird flye that hath a stone tyed to her foot? |
A26951 | Can any thing in the world be more unlawful and abominable, than to love the flesh and the world, above God and Heaven? |
A26951 | Can faith save him? |
A26951 | Can it peruse the Map of the Land of Promise, or see and taste the bunch of Grapes, without any sweetness to the soul? |
A26951 | Can not a swine have his ease, and meat, and lust, without reason? |
A26951 | Can not the birds make their nests, and breed, and feed their young, and sit and sing, without an intellectual nature? |
A26951 | Can we believe that very shortly we shall be there? |
A26951 | Can we believe that we shall live in Heaven for ever? |
A26951 | Can you do no more for an endless life, and the escaping of the wrath to come? |
A26951 | Can you forget that death is ready to undress you? |
A26951 | Can you have a mind full of lust, and of God at once? |
A26951 | Can you not say, I am sure that I am regenerate, justified and adopted? |
A26951 | Can you play, or loiter away your hours, with Eternity in your eye? |
A26951 | Canst thou possibly forget so great, so sure, so near a day? |
A26951 | Could not you eat, and drink, and sleep, and play, without an intellectual soul? |
A26951 | Could they be sensual, ungodly and secure, if they had a faith that serv''d instead of sight? |
A26951 | Could you be perswaded by any company or recreation, to waste your precious time in vain, with such things in your eye? |
A26951 | Could you go on to think, and speak, and live as sensually, stupidly and negligently as now you do? |
A26951 | Could you live as merrily, and sleep as quietly in a negligent uncertainty of your salvation, if you had seen these things, as now you do? |
A26951 | Could you live at hearts ease, while you know not where you shall be to morrow, or must live for ever? |
A26951 | Dare you go home, and make a jest at piety, and neglect your souls as you have done?] |
A26951 | Dare you think that you are more gracious and merciful than God? |
A26951 | Deal truly, Is it in Heaven or Earth? |
A26951 | Did God ever frame you so glorious a retinuue, to attend you only to sleep, and laugh, and play, and to be idle? |
A26951 | Did it not work more compleatly, and unto more infallibility in their writing the Scriptures, than it doth in our Vnderstanding, and obeying them? |
A26951 | Did they come to Heaven by a worldly, formal, hypocritical, ceremonious Religion? |
A26951 | Did they spend the day in feasting and sports, and idle talk? |
A26951 | Did they swagger it out in pride and wealth,& hate their brethren that were not in all things of their conceits? |
A26951 | Do not many comfortable texts come into the minds of Hypocrites, who are unfit for comfort? |
A26951 | Do not your sorrows then instead of joyes, tell all men that you believe that your friends are gone to sorrow, and not to joy? |
A26951 | Do they believe God, that no man shall see him without holiness? |
A26951 | Do they believe the communion of Saints, while they fly from it, and perhaps detest and persecute it? |
A26951 | Do they believe, that except a man be converted and new born, he shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven? |
A26951 | Do they know who seeth them in their sin? |
A26951 | Do they take Christ for their Saviour, and yet would not be saved by him from their sins, but had rather keep them? |
A26951 | Do they take Heaven for their endless home and happiness? |
A26951 | Do they take the Holy Ghost for their Sanctifier, while they will not have a sanctified heart or life, and love it not in those that have it? |
A26951 | Do we not say, that such a Divine Revelation is as sure as if the things were in themselves laid open to our sight? |
A26951 | Do we not shamefully forget our ignorance, and our distance? |
A26951 | Do you approve of the state of those in Heaven? |
A26951 | Do you believe that God hath promised that all true Believers shall be saved? |
A26951 | Do you believe that if you are or shall be a true Believer, you shall be saved? |
A26951 | Do you call it the fruit of Gods Wisdom and Love, and yet be as weary of it, as if there were nothing in it but his wrath? |
A26951 | Do you carry within you the evidence of things unseen, and the substance of the things which you say you hope for? |
A26951 | Do you fear it, and not believe that there is any such thing? |
A26951 | Do you fetch your Joyes from Heaven or Earth? |
A26951 | Do you impatiently long to be delivered from your gain? |
A26951 | Do you like holiness, when it is for from you? |
A26951 | Do you live the life of Faith, or not? |
A26951 | Do you live upon things that are unseen, or upon the present visible baits of sensuality? |
A26951 | Do you look to be saved for doing as a Swine will do, in leaving that which he can neither eat, nor carry away with him? |
A26951 | Do you not know that they are men, that have seen the Lord, whom they daily serve? |
A26951 | Do you not perceive that a merry prosperous state inclineth to folly, levity, rashness, inconsiderateness, stupidity, forgetting the latter end,& c? |
A26951 | Do you study to do all the good you can, and to make men happy by your Government? |
A26951 | Do you then repent of it, or not? |
A26951 | Do you think when the Israelites passed through the Red Sea, that the Leaders had not the greatest tryal? |
A26951 | Do you wonder why he liveth not in peace, and concord, and quietness with others, who hath no better agreement in himself? |
A26951 | Doth all the frame of nature continue in its course( the air, the waters, the summer and winter) for you as well as for others, or not? |
A26951 | Doth he govern the whole world, and should not I be governed by him? |
A26951 | Doth he not offer me by it all this good? |
A26951 | Doth not Paul say to servants, If ye can be free, use it rather? |
A26951 | Doth not the Master write his Copy more perfectly, than his Scholars imitation is, though he teach him, yea and hold his hand? |
A26951 | Doth the Believer speak against sin and sinners: and for an holy, sober, righteous life? |
A26951 | Doth the Sun shine for you as well as for others? |
A26951 | Faith saith, I must shortly be with Christ; and what then are these dying things to me? |
A26951 | For a Lazarus that must be comforted in Abraham''s bosom, to murmure that he waiteth a while in poverty at the rich mans doors? |
A26951 | For if they be good for nothing else but idleness, and beastly pleasures, why should you expect to have them continued? |
A26951 | For instance, Ask what kind of Religion is likest to that which is in Heaven? |
A26951 | For it is for our profit that God correcteth us; but for what profit? |
A26951 | For what greater dishonour can be cast upon Religion, than to make it seem a friend to sin? |
A26951 | For what maketh them Christians and Churches but the receiving of it? |
A26951 | For what? |
A26951 | Formal preaching and praying in the Church they exclaim against; but how formally do they pray at home, and catechize and instruct their family? |
A26951 | God by his Ministers was wo nt to call to me, How long, O scorner, wilt thou delight in scorning? |
A26951 | God forbid: How shall they that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? |
A26951 | Had you not rather be as great and rich as others? |
A26951 | Had you not rather live at ease and fulness? |
A26951 | Had you seen the things that you say you do believe, what effect would Sermons have upon you, after such a sight ● s this? |
A26951 | Hast thou eaten of the fruit which God forbade? |
A26951 | Hast thou no better wealth, no higher honour, no sweeter pleasures than these husks? |
A26951 | Hath God delivered in Scripture so many signs or characters of the justified in vain? |
A26951 | Hath God given you too much? |
A26951 | Hath God made man for any end, or for none? |
A26951 | Hath God pardoned a Manasseh, a Peter, a Paul,& c. upon repentance? |
A26951 | Hath he Goodness enough to communicate as he hath done to Sun and Stars to Heaven and Earth, to Angels and Men, and every wight? |
A26951 | Hath he commanded all these cares to be our needless torments, which brutes, and fools, and sottish sinners do all scape? |
A26951 | Hath he helped the distressed? |
A26951 | Hath no one need of you? |
A26951 | Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom? |
A26951 | Hath the Lord delight in burnt- offerings, and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? |
A26951 | Have Angels or heavenly Saints deserved so ill of God or us, that we should be so shy of their communion? |
A26951 | Have I any considerable benefit to sh ● w, which I have received by this affliction since it came?] |
A26951 | Have we cause to be ashamed of them? |
A26951 | Have we nothing to do with them? |
A26951 | Have you considered that Faith is the beholding grace? |
A26951 | Have you that Faith that serves instead of sight? |
A26951 | Having enquired whether you are Believers, I am next to ask you, what you will be for the time to come? |
A26951 | He that planted the ear, shall be not hear? |
A26951 | He that spared not his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? |
A26951 | How abundantly they overvalue their own understandings? |
A26951 | How attentively would you hear, and carefully consider and obey? |
A26951 | How blessed an invention would it be, if all the world could be brought again to the use of one universal language? |
A26951 | How can men judge of the acts of Repentance, Faith, Love,& c. which are in the heart? |
A26951 | How can you remember God himself, and not remember those that are his Courtiers, and nearer to him than you are? |
A26951 | How contrary is the judgement of the world to Christs? |
A26951 | How dangerously have I long deceived my self in calling my self a true Christian, and pretending to be a true Believer? |
A26951 | How easily would they pardon wrongs? |
A26951 | How fervently should we importune you in the name of Christ? |
A26951 | How great a loss is it, to lose your part in all those prayers of the Churches( how weak soever) which you disown? |
A26951 | How happy are they who have such a God, engaged to be their God and Happiness? |
A26951 | How hard is it for them that trust in Riches, to enter into the Kingdom of God?] |
A26951 | How highly is it valued by all at last? |
A26951 | How ill they bear the least contempt, neglect or disrespect? |
A26951 | How impossible were it then that you should be careless and prophane? |
A26951 | How is it said of those baptized Believers, Acts 19. that they had not heard that there was a Holy Ghost? |
A26951 | How long wilt thou go on impenitently in thy folly? |
A26951 | How much is Christs family dishonoured by his silly froward children? |
A26951 | How much they love and look to be esteemed, to be taken notice of, to be well thought of, and well spoken of? |
A26951 | How much would a meer Philosopher rejoyce, if he could find out natural evidence, of so much as we know by Faith? |
A26951 | How now will you know whether a man believe Christ, and trust this promise or not? |
A26951 | How patiently would they bear the dissent of honest, upright Christians, who can not force their judgments to be of other mens mould and size? |
A26951 | How plentifully and pleasantly would most poor Country- men think to live, if they had but a hundred pounds a year of their own? |
A26951 | How safely and quietly might we live by them in the world, if they loved their neighbours as themselves? |
A26951 | How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? |
A26951 | How short is the knowledge of the wisest unbelievers? |
A26951 | How should things unseen be apprehended so as to affect our hearts, without any serious exercise of our thoughts? |
A26951 | How soon will all your gallantry shrink into the shell? |
A26951 | How studiously he prosecuted it, and conformed himself to the humours& interest of those, from whom he did seek it? |
A26951 | How to use Faith against particular sins? |
A26951 | How unfit is he to endure imprisonment, banishment and want, who hath alwaies used to please his flesh? |
A26951 | How unlike would their heavenly ravishing expressions be to these our sleepy heartless duties? |
A26951 | How wisely is it determined of God, that he who undertakes all ● is, should be Man, and yet more than Man, even God? |
A26951 | How would such a Message work with you? |
A26951 | How would you deal by the next temptation, if you had heard what use the tempter will hereafter make of all your sins? |
A26951 | How you came into your offices and honours? |
A26951 | I am but pleading a lower cause, How seldom they would be in doing hurt? |
A26951 | I am fully satisfied that Heaven is better than Earth, and God than the creature, and holiness than the prosperity or pleasure of the flesh? |
A26951 | I answer; 1. Who art thou O man that disputest against God? |
A26951 | I do not ask you, where you are, but where you dwell? |
A26951 | I do not say now, How plentiful would men be in doing good to others? |
A26951 | I durst then ask the worst that heareth me,[ Dare you now be drunk, or gluttonous, or worldly? |
A26951 | If God cast him into poverty, how impatient would he be? |
A26951 | If God should regard but one, why should it fall to your lot rather than to anothers? |
A26951 | If Heaven be thy fear or sorrow, what can be thy joy? |
A26951 | If Paul and Silas sing in the stocks, why should not I sing with them? |
A26951 | If all need of pardon had been prevented by Christ, what use were there of his advocation for our future forgiveness? |
A26951 | If an idle life be best, why do you blame it in your servants? |
A26951 | If any say, what use will there be of our superiority, after the world is destroyed? |
A26951 | If he hath, why are you loth that he should shorten it? |
A26951 | If it be not, why do you live such lives your selves? |
A26951 | If none have need of you, what do you in the world? |
A26951 | If not, what troubleth you? |
A26951 | If not, why do you lose it? |
A26951 | If not, why should you desire it to be taken away? |
A26951 | If not, why speak you of them so honourably? |
A26951 | If pride brought you in, you have cause to fear, lest it govern you when you are there? |
A26951 | If sight in all these ten particulars would do so much, should not faith do much, if you verily believe the things you see not? |
A26951 | If some, doth it name them, or notifie them by any thing but the marks by which they must find it in themselves? |
A26951 | If the Sun were an intellectual Deity, and still looked on me, should I presumptuously offend him? |
A26951 | If there were no other life but this, and men had no hopes of future happiness, nor any fears of punishment, what a Hell would this world be? |
A26951 | If thus the innocent Lord of life, and Master of the house was injured and afflicted, am I better than he? |
A26951 | If we are Believers, Heaven and Hell are as i ● were open to our sight? |
A26951 | If we or an Angel from Heaven bring another Gospel, let him be accursed — Is not all this a plain decision of the case? |
A26951 | If you do believe it, how can you chuse but believe also, that every true Believer shall be saved? |
A26951 | If you do not, what maketh you fear damnation? |
A26951 | If you do, tell me then whether you do believe Gods threatning, that he that believeth not shall be damned, or not? |
A26951 | If you had asked them then, H ● w know you that all these things were said and done? |
A26951 | If you have enough, why do you make your selves more? |
A26951 | If you have not enough, why do you complain of it? |
A26951 | If you heard men laugh, and hear not so much as the voice of him that gives the jeast, would you not imagine them to be brain- sick? |
A26951 | If you knew but where to hear an Angel, you would all prefer him before Aristotle or Plato, or Cartesius, or Gassendus; how much more the Son himself? |
A26951 | If you knew his Fulness and Goodness, how joyfully would you run to him, and cry Abba, Father? |
A26951 | If you saw a mans action in eating and drinking, and see not the meat and drink it self, would you not think him mad? |
A26951 | If you saw but what you say you do believe, would you not be convinced that the most pleasant gainful sin, is worse than madness? |
A26951 | If you saw him, and heard him h ● ssing you on to sin, perswading you to gluttony, drunkenness, or unclean ● ess? |
A26951 | If you saw how the world is altered with those, that once were as proud and confident as others, what do you think such a sight would do with you? |
A26951 | If you think me troublesom for mentioning such ungrateful things, what a trouble wil it be to feel them? |
A26951 | If you would not believe that you must die, do you think that this would delay your death one year or hour? |
A26951 | In a word, Are you in good earnest, when you say, you believe a Heaven and Hell? |
A26951 | In a word, how voluminously do they darken counsel by words without knowledge? |
A26951 | In this you are unlike your heavenly Father, that doth good to the just and unjust: would you change cases with them? |
A26951 | In your love to the godly, and your charity, in expressions, and in your daily prayers, what lameness and partiality is there? |
A26951 | Is Christ the Minister of sin? |
A26951 | Is God of as narrow a mind as you? |
A26951 | Is God true in his Threatnings, and not in his Promises? |
A26951 | Is Heaven worth no more ado than this? |
A26951 | Is a day that is spent, or a life that is ● xtinct, any thing, or nothing? |
A26951 | Is it Earth or Heaven that you have prayed for, and laboured for, and waited, and suffered for till now? |
A26951 | Is it any wonder that a d ● splaced bone is painful? |
A26951 | Is it by the eye of sense, or faith? |
A26951 | Is it by your own desire that you are poor? |
A26951 | Is it in Heaven or Earth? |
A26951 | Is it in the multitude of Sects and divisions ▪ every one saying, Our party, and our way is best? |
A26951 | Is it not enough that you shall everlastingly be honoured by the Lord? |
A26951 | Is it not said, Blessed are the dead, for they rest from their labours? |
A26951 | Is it not your duty therefore to learn it when you are at age, rather than not at all? |
A26951 | Is it striving what Pastors shall be greatest, or have precedency, or be called gracious Lords or Benefactors? |
A26951 | Is it studying bare words, and disputing about things unprofitable, or contending and quarrelling about precedency, preheminence or domination? |
A26951 | Is it with Angels and Saints? |
A26951 | Is it your design to make Heaven either contemptible or strange to men on earth? |
A26951 | Is light and darkness more contrary than their words and deeds? |
A26951 | Is not Heaven enough to make you reparation? |
A26951 | Is not eternal joy sufficient for you? |
A26951 | Is not his rod an act of love and kindness to me? |
A26951 | Is not the seal perfect, when the impression is oft imperfect? |
A26951 | Is not this the Carpenter? |
A26951 | Is the Lords Prayer and the Psalms all odious, because they are book- forms? |
A26951 | Is the greatest obedience to God, become a sign of the greatest folly, or the way to the greatest loss or disappointment? |
A26951 | Is the same degree of grace conditionally promised to all? |
A26951 | Is their honour any dishonour to God or us; if it be no more than what is their due? |
A26951 | Is there any sweetness in a feast that was eaten, or drink that was drunk, or time that was spent in sports and mirth, a year ago? |
A26951 | Is this a matter of honour or of delight? |
A26951 | Is this dull, and dreaming, and amazing apprehension, all that I shall reach to here? |
A26951 | Is this living by faith? |
A26951 | Is this mens love to mankind? |
A26951 | Is this sensless heart, this despondent mind, these drowsie desires, the best that I must here employ in the contemplation of so high a glory? |
A26951 | Is this the glory that is so neglected?] |
A26951 | Is this their love to the Kingdom of Christ? |
A26951 | It hath lately been a controversie, whether this be not the golden age? |
A26951 | It is a wonderful and pittiful thing, to read Divines upon this point[ Whether the Laws of men do bind the conscience?] |
A26951 | It is easie there to find, whether laziness or labour, whether sensuality or spirituality hath alwaies been the way to Heaven? |
A26951 | It would be no discrimination of the good and bad, the wise and foolish, if the reward and punishment must be seen? |
A26951 | It''s blind, and therefore seeth not God; and how then should he be feared and loved? |
A26951 | It''s common to say, I do believe: but is it common to find men, pray and live as those that do believe indeed? |
A26951 | John 3.3, 5. and yet never trouble their minds about it, to try whether they are converted and new born, or not? |
A26951 | Know ye not that the Saints shall judge the world? |
A26951 | Know ye not that the love of the world, is enmity to God? |
A26951 | Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? |
A26951 | Know ye not that we shall judge Angels? |
A26951 | Know you not that Christ is in you( by faith) except you be reprobates? |
A26951 | Lastly, And how wisely is it ordered, that God in Heaven, from whom all cometh, should be the end of all his graces and our duties? |
A26951 | Let conscience tell you: What eyes do you see by, for the conduct of the chief imployment of your lives? |
A26951 | Let it be your first question therefore[ What is it that I am obliged to in this condition?] |
A26951 | M ● st God come down to the bar of man, to render an account of the reason of his works? |
A26951 | Mark here what a task Faith hath? |
A26951 | May not a man that hath several callings before him, chuse the easiest? |
A26951 | May not my repentance be renewed? |
A26951 | Must I come in such a sleepy state to God? |
A26951 | Must the Husbandman see the Harvest before he plow his Land, and sow his seed? |
A26951 | Must the Souldier see that he hath the victory before he fight? |
A26951 | Must the sick man feel, that he hath health before he use the means to get it? |
A26951 | Nature and Scripture teach men as soon as they see their sin and misery, to say, What must I do to be saved? |
A26951 | Nay, do you not know without believing, that you must die, and leave your worldly glory? |
A26951 | Nay, that will sin for a shilling, when great ones do it for greater summs? |
A26951 | Nay, would not falshood and perfidiousness become our perfection, to make us like God? |
A26951 | No thanks to any of you all to be godly if Heaven were to be presently seen? |
A26951 | Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A26951-e50550 What true Christian Faith is? |
A26951 | O did you but see what they now enjoy, and what they see, and what they are, and what they do; you would never sure scorn or persecute a Saint more? |
A26951 | O therefore for your souls sakes, and as ever you love your everlasting peace, Examine your selves, whether you are in the faith or not? |
A26951 | O turn not now thine ears from my requests: For if thou receive me not now as thy humble supplicant, how shall I hope that thou wilt receive me then? |
A26951 | O what a change it would make upon our preaching, and your hearing, if we saw the things that we speak and hear of? |
A26951 | O what would you not give ere long for one of the hours that you now mis- spend? |
A26951 | Of all the multitude of covetous Preachers that be in the world, is there any one that will not preach against covetousness? |
A26951 | Oh what a fading flower is your strength? |
A26951 | Oh what manner of persons would you then be? |
A26951 | Or Judas have betrayed Christ, if he had foreseen the hanging himself in his despair? |
A26951 | Or are all words ba ● which are resolved on before- hand? |
A26951 | Or as Paul met with Christ when he humbled and converted him, saying, Who art thou, Lord? |
A26951 | Or can that mind that is used to these inordinate sensualities, be fit to rellish the things that are spiritual? |
A26951 | Or doth the Book, or Press, or Pen, make them odious to God? |
A26951 | Or doth the command of other men make God hate them? |
A26951 | Or else why would Lazarus lie at his gates, if he used not to give something to the poor? |
A26951 | Or how can you remember your selves, and forget your chiefest Friends and Lovers? |
A26951 | Or how can you think of his Body, and forget the most excellent and honourable parts? |
A26951 | Or if all the Churches could be perfectly reconciled, how joyful would the Author of so great a work be? |
A26951 | Or is it in a proud conceit of the peoples power to ordain their Pastors, and to rule them and themselves by a major vote? |
A26951 | Or is it in making the flock of Christ, to dread the secular power of the Shepherds, and tremble before them, as they do before the Wolf? |
A26951 | Or that God is there alone without any company? |
A26951 | Or that there is no Heaven? |
A26951 | Or that which no man ever sinned for, nor forsook God for, or was undone for? |
A26951 | Or what greater honour can be given it, than to represent it as it is, as an enemy to all evil; and to take the blame, as is due, unto your selves? |
A26951 | Or who can love thee truly, and yet be contented to love thee but a little? |
A26951 | Or who ever tasted truly of thy Love, that desired not the fulness of it? |
A26951 | Or would you have his Laws written like the words of a Bedlam, or the Laws of Barbarians or Cannibals? |
A26951 | Or would you have the King pictured like a fool? |
A26951 | Or would you not believe that he is the blessed man, whose delight is in the Law of God, and meditateth in it day and night? |
A26951 | Or would you perswade the world, that the souls of the Saints are not immortal, but perish as the bruits? |
A26951 | Or, If it be for our good? |
A26951 | Or, If it be for the universal good of the world? |
A26951 | R ● member what a mad and sad condition you were in while you lived according to the flesh, and how plainly you saw it when your eyes were opened? |
A26951 | Read over this question once and again, and mark what answer your hearts give to it, if you would know whether you live by sense or faith? |
A26951 | Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? |
A26951 | Shall I ever again resist or disobey the word and wisdom of him, who made and ruleth such a world? |
A26951 | Shall I ever again wilfully or carelesly sin against a God of so great Majesty? |
A26951 | Shall I ever distrust the power of him that made such a world? |
A26951 | Shall I fear a worm, a mortal man, above this great and terrible Creator? |
A26951 | Shall a wicked worldling venture into endless pains, and put himself out of the hopes of Heaven, and all this for a short and foolish pleasure? |
A26951 | Shall no man be restrained from felony or murders, but he that seeth the Assizes or the Gallows? |
A26951 | Shall there be evil in a City, and the Lord hath not done it? |
A26951 | Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? |
A26951 | Shall we distrust God, and trust a lyar and a worm? |
A26951 | Shall worldlings over- do you?] |
A26951 | Shall ● e not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? |
A26951 | So ask, what is it that would make the Church on Earth to be likest to that part which is in Heaven? |
A26951 | Some are constant in Church- duties, perhaps with some superstitious strictness; but in family duties how neglective are they? |
A26951 | Speak out; do you live the life of faith upon things unseen? |
A26951 | Suppose you had seen the matters revealed in the Gospel to your faith, as to what is past and done already? |
A26951 | That I believe, is no where in the Scripture: If it be, doth the Scripture say, that all men believe, or only some? |
A26951 | That is attended in his way to Hell with greater pomp and state than others? |
A26951 | The blind men came to him, and Jesus said, Believe ye that I am able to do this? |
A26951 | The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? |
A26951 | The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? |
A26951 | The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affl ● ction to my bonds — what then? |
A26951 | The question is, whether God or the world have your hearts? |
A26951 | The question then which remaineth is, How we receive all this infallibly from the subsequent Ages or Churches to this day? |
A26951 | Then where are your pleasant habitations and contents? |
A26951 | Therefore if an erring person ask, What am I bound to? |
A26951 | They would not cry out, what needeth all this praying? |
A26951 | This caused Christ to say, How hard it is for the Rich to be saved? |
A26951 | This is all true; but who is there in the world that doth it, or findeth it possible to love another as himself? |
A26951 | Thou fool, this night shall thy soul be required of thee: then whose shall these things be that thou hast provided?] |
A26951 | Though you are full of fears sometimes whether you shall be accepted, and have a part in Christ, or no? |
A26951 | To discover this, will you ask your selves these Questions following? |
A26951 | To say nothing of our own language, what changes are made in all other tongues, since the times that the Gospel was recorded? |
A26951 | True: but mark that their works follow them: And what are the works which follow you? |
A26951 | Vse your selves much to think and speak of Heaven, and the invisible things of Faith? |
A26951 | WHat sins are religious people who fear sin, most in danger of? |
A26951 | Was it not the Spirit of Christ which was in the Prophets, and in all the godly before Christs coming? |
A26951 | Was not the Spirit in a greater measure in the Apostles, than in us? |
A26951 | We are in great danger of sinning, in cases where we are ignorant: For who can avoid the danger which he seeth not? |
A26951 | Were it but an Angel that did thus appear to you, what manner of hearers would you be? |
A26951 | Were our Congregations composed of such persons, what manner of worship would they perform to God? |
A26951 | What Countrey is it that your hearts converse in? |
A26951 | What Garden yieldeth you your sweetest flowers? |
A26951 | What a Baptism and Sacramental Communion do these men make? |
A26951 | What a change would it make on the judgements of the world? |
A26951 | What a happy change would it make upon you? |
A26951 | What a peal will conscience then ring in the unbelievers ears? |
A26951 | What abundance doth the world set together by the ears? |
A26951 | What abundance of complaints and calamity would foresight prevent? |
A26951 | What abundance of trades doth Pride maintain? |
A26951 | What are our News- books filled with, or the daily reports which come to our ears, but sin, and sorrow, vanity and vexation? |
A26951 | What can be so false that a man will not plead for, if he take it to be a necessary truth of God? |
A26951 | What case are your children in? |
A26951 | What case is your soul in? |
A26951 | What company is it that you solace your selves with? |
A26951 | What course would you take, if you had but seen this dreadful day? |
A26951 | What course would you take, what manner of persons would you be after such a sight as this? |
A26951 | What did God ever forbid you, that was not hurtful to you? |
A26951 | What difference between a man asleep and dead, but only that one is more in expectation of usefulness when he awaketh? |
A26951 | What do you in the place of honour that you are in? |
A26951 | What do you think you should be and do, if you had seen but such a sight as this? |
A26951 | What else shall we trust to? |
A26951 | What have you to shew that you gained by your sufferings? |
A26951 | What if I find that worldly business doth hinder me in the service of God; I can not pray, or read, or meditate so much? |
A26951 | What if I were not brought up to labour; am I bound to use it? |
A26951 | What if you had not been brought up to pray, or to read, or to any needful trade, or ornament of life? |
A26951 | What if you should find it so after giving to the poor, or visiting the sick, or providing for your family? |
A26951 | What if your Parents had never taught you to speak? |
A26951 | What is more contrary to Christianity than Pride? |
A26951 | What is the special duty of one in this sickness, this poverty, imprisonment, restraint, contempt, or slander, which I undergo?] |
A26951 | What mind do you think you should be of? |
A26951 | What need then have such as we to be doing, and make much of time? |
A26951 | What say they, Are we not all believers? |
A26951 | What shall we do willingly, if not our duties? |
A26951 | What sins the best should most watchfully avoid? |
A26951 | What then must you do? |
A26951 | What wisdom then remains in Unbelievers, when all their lives 〈 ◊ 〉 mis- imployed, because they know not the end of life? |
A26951 | What worldling or hypocrite is there that will not drop now and then an Alms, while he pampereth his flesh, and satisfieth its desires? |
A26951 | What would you think of a life of sin, if once you had heard such accusations as these? |
A26951 | What would you think of the most serious holy life, if you had seen the things that you say you do believe? |
A26951 | What wretched muck- worm would not pray, if he believed that praying would make him rich? |
A26951 | What, shall we do any thing coldly for eternity? |
A26951 | When Satan saith, Ye shall not die: and when the sinner with Adam hideth himself, Faith will call him out to Judgment, and say, What hast thou done? |
A26951 | When he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; which caused Christ to say[ O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?] |
A26951 | When shall I receive one moments ease? |
A26951 | When the omniscient God, that will certainly perform his Word, hath so plainly revealed it, and so frequently and loudly warns you of it? |
A26951 | When the unbeliever saith, what harm is it to please my flesh, in ease, or pride, or meat and drink, or lustful wantonness? |
A26951 | When you read your Grammar, if one ask you, why? |
A26951 | Whence are the spirits and cordials that revive you; when a frowning world doth cast you into a fainting fit, or swoun? |
A26951 | Whence is the food, that your hopes and comforts live upon? |
A26951 | Where is it that you repose your souls for Rest, when sin or sufferings have made you weary? |
A26951 | Whether Saints were gluttons, drunkards, whoremongers, riotous, licentious and proud, or temporate, chaste, mortified and humble? |
A26951 | Whether it be not much contrary to that clemency of Jesus Christ, by which he pardoneth the failings of Believers? |
A26951 | Which of the Prophets did not your Fathers kill and persecute? |
A26951 | Which world do you take for your pilgrimage, and which for your home? |
A26951 | While you arrogate the name and honour of being Christians, will you bethink you what Christianity is? |
A26951 | Who would not boldly follow such a multitude of excellent persons, who have sped so well? |
A26951 | Why are we no more transported by them? |
A26951 | Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? |
A26951 | Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret? |
A26951 | Why did Paul persecute the Christians, and compel them to blaspheme? |
A26951 | Why do they no more command our souls, and stir up our faculties to the most vigorous and lively exercise? |
A26951 | Why then are we no more affected with them? |
A26951 | Why then are you so glad of good bargains, or of gifts? |
A26951 | Why then do you not cease your wondering at their diligence? |
A26951 | Why then do you not like it for your selves? |
A26951 | Why then doth not faith thus shame temptations, if indeed you do believe these things? |
A26951 | Will he count that man to be no worldling, that would fain have more of the world, and can not? |
A26951 | Will you be Fellow- Citizens with them, and have no communion with them, nor seriously remember them? |
A26951 | Will you envy the trifling commodities or delights of earth, to those that are like to have no more, but to lye in Hell when the sport is ended? |
A26951 | Will you perswade us that the man is wise, that can climb a little higher than his neighbours, that he may have the greater fall? |
A26951 | Without Love the world would have neither unity, peace or safety: What were a family without it? |
A26951 | Would Achan have medled with his prey, if he had foreseen the stones that were his Executioners and his Tomb? |
A26951 | Would Gehezi have obeyed his covetous desire, if he had foreseen the leprosie? |
A26951 | Would Sodom have been Sodom, if they had foreseen that an Hell from Heaven would have consumed them? |
A26951 | Would not usurpers have been less feared, if all could have foreseen their fall? |
A26951 | Would temptations be as powerful, as now they are, if you did but see the things you bear of? |
A26951 | Would the world have despised the preaching of Noah, if they had believed the deluge? |
A26951 | Would you be godly or ungodly after it? |
A26951 | Would you be unsanctified, and unjustified, and unpardoned, and unsaved? |
A26951 | Would you draw the picture of your friend like an Ape or a Monkey, or a Monster? |
A26951 | Would you have us silent, or talk to you as in jeast, while we see such a day as this before us? |
A26951 | Would you know who it is that is the Christian indeed? |
A26951 | Would you sport it out in sin as you have done? |
A26951 | Would you take no better care for your salvation? |
A26951 | You covet to have more to be your own, than God allotteth you? |
A26951 | You live then upon the labours of others, but who liveth upon yours? |
A26951 | You may ask perhaps, what is all this to our faith? |
A26951 | You would take such conceits in worldly matters to be the symptoms of distraction: And will you cherish them where they are most pernicious? |
A26951 | [ How hardly shall rich men enter into Heaven?] |
A26951 | [ Is this the fire that sinners do so little fear? |
A26951 | and also gracious desires, which shall but deceive us, and never be satisfied? |
A26951 | and as if he caused it to stand still a day? |
A26951 | and conversing in another world? |
A26951 | and do you like the way that brought them thither? |
A26951 | and eternity long enough for your joyes? |
A26951 | and go as in a dream to the beatifical vision? |
A26951 | and hath he not Goodness enough to draw, and engage, and continually delight, this dull and narrow heart of mine? |
A26951 | and hath not a greater care of the interest of his creatures? |
A26951 | and how can we preach the Gospel to others, if the only cogent argument of faith be incommunicable, or such as we can not prove? |
A26951 | and how hardly they will think ill of their most false or foolish apprehensions? |
A26951 | and how many are continually at work to serve it? |
A26951 | and how many deeds would be otherwise done? |
A26951 | and how many hours would be otherwise spent, if the change that will be made by Judgement and Execution, were well foreseen? |
A26951 | and how seriously they will then talk of sin and grace, of God and Heaven, which before they could not be awakened to regard? |
A26951 | and how sweet that Love is to themselves? |
A26951 | and how unanswerable are my joyes, and my desires, to those convictions? |
A26951 | and how wise they are in their own conceits? |
A26951 | and how wise would they be esteemed? |
A26951 | and is not the fountain of all fidelity? |
A26951 | and is not this the end of my heavenly Father? |
A26951 | and is ruled by it, and seeketh it more? |
A26951 | and is this the labour of your lives? |
A26951 | and mark what the work of self- denyal is? |
A26951 | and no more composedness and true peace rt home? |
A26951 | and not rejoyce in such believing? |
A26951 | and perhaps deride it? |
A26951 | and seen the glory which they daily seek? |
A26951 | and seen the place of torments which they fly from? |
A26951 | and set me highest in the world?] |
A26951 | and taking God for All, and the world for Nothing? |
A26951 | and tell you, that your sport and mirth is done? |
A26951 | and that it can not be well and safely done without it? |
A26951 | and that it was not an exceeding increase of their courage, who came after in the rear, when they saw most of their brethren safely passed through? |
A26951 | and that loveth God and Heaven no better than the rich? |
A26951 | and that now you have had all that the world can do, for those that serve it, and take it for their part? |
A26951 | and that these things are as certain truths, as if you had seen them? |
A26951 | and to say, They are too bad for such as you to communicate with? |
A26951 | and what a Hell would the world be? |
A26951 | and what a deal of sorrow is round about us? |
A26951 | and what a strange difference there is in their judging of any case, when it is anothers, and when it is their own? |
A26951 | and what all that are in Hell and in Heaven do think of them? |
A26951 | and what can there be added to perfection? |
A26951 | and what he hath told you is or will be, to be as certain as if you saw it with your eyes? |
A26951 | and what it is that you most delight in as your treasure? |
A26951 | and what many thousands are suffering for the like, while they see no danger? |
A26951 | and what will accommodate me best at present? |
A26951 | and what will ingratiate me most with men? |
A26951 | and what wouldst thou have me do? |
A26951 | and where must they set the strongest watch? |
A26951 | and where wilt thou have refuge, if thou fly from God? |
A26951 | and wherein the infirmities of the upright d ● ffer from mortal sins? |
A26951 | and whether d ● th it tend? |
A26951 | and whether work or idleness will be best in the review? |
A26951 | and which we have need of our selves as well as others? |
A26951 | and why complain you? |
A26951 | and why would you keep holy- daies in remembrance of them? |
A26951 | and will you be indeed what you say you are, and would be thought to be? |
A26951 | and ye fools, when will ye be wise? |
A26951 | and yet dare they be unholy? |
A26951 | are none Christians, but those that live so strictly? |
A26951 | are you so childish as to pull off the plaister, if you believe that it is curing the sore? |
A26951 | as if he wanted better means? |
A26951 | at least to have brought him to a freer exercise of his Reason, in a sober consideration of his state and waies? |
A26951 | by him that hath commanded every man his work? |
A26951 | dare you be voluptuous, proud, or fornicators any more? |
A26951 | did the place need you, or did you need the place? |
A26951 | did they seek you, or did you seek them? |
A26951 | dost thou believe this dreadful day or not? |
A26951 | either for your present delight, or for your future happiness; for the healing of your diseases, or the preventing them? |
A26951 | even of them for whom their posterity erected Monuments? |
A26951 | even the Spirit of the Father to be his constant Agent here below; and to plead his cause, and do his work on the hearts of men? |
A26951 | from things unseen or seen? |
A26951 | hath he heard and pittied, even the weak in faith? |
A26951 | hath no one any right to your labours, that you are so long idle? |
A26951 | hath no one hired you? |
A26951 | he that formed the eye, shall he not see?] |
A26951 | how affectionate? |
A26951 | how carefully and fruitfully would you speak and live? |
A26951 | how cold, and how slow are our endeavours? |
A26951 | how far from the truth and power of Christianity? |
A26951 | how flat are our duties? |
A26951 | how full of Infidelity? |
A26951 | how many words would be otherwise spoken? |
A26951 | how much would it tend to their holiness and their peace? |
A26951 | how sensible? |
A26951 | how serious? |
A26951 | how shall I wish that I had used my time, my wealth, my power, when time is at an end, and all these transitory things are vanished? |
A26951 | how strange are many Christians to the extent of this duty, and how far are we all from practising it in any eminent degree? |
A26951 | how unprofitable are our lives, in comparison of what one hours sight of Heaven and Hell would make them be? |
A26951 | how void of Faith? |
A26951 | if not, why dost thou dissemble, by professing it in thy Creed? |
A26951 | if thou do, how 〈 ◊ 〉 thou live so merrily or quietly in a careless unprepared state? |
A26951 | in a dead man, that never troubled you with his presence or reproofs, or in a Saint in Heaven, that comes not near you? |
A26951 | make such a do of p ● verty, imprisonment, injuries, disgrace, with Heaven and Hell before our eyes? |
A26951 | my self- denyal, humility, contempt of the world, patience, and confidence on God, be exercised and increased by it? |
A26951 | not where are your persons, but where are your hearts? |
A26951 | or all that is to be regarded and prayed for? |
A26951 | or by any thing which many others do partake of? |
A26951 | or count it more ado than needs? |
A26951 | or doth it not? |
A26951 | or grace, and not desire glory? |
A26951 | or had you the same promises? |
A26951 | or if we breath as hard after Christ in holy desires, as you do in blowing the bubble of vain- glory? |
A26951 | or is it against your wills? |
A26951 | or rather do you not by your idleness forfeit life, and all these helps and maintainers of your lives? |
A26951 | or that a disordered body is sick, and hath no great pleasure in life? |
A26951 | or that a disordered or maimed watch or clock, doth not go right? |
A26951 | or the life of sense on things that you behold? |
A26951 | or the unchristian folly of those that will obey you? |
A26951 | or to God and Godliness? |
A26951 | or to leap into Hell, when we see it as before us? |
A26951 | or what will your eager desires, and your cares do, more than the labours and quiet forecast of one that hath a contented patient mind? |
A26951 | or, will you find them better work? |
A26951 | or, will you pay them better wages? |
A26951 | shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? |
A26951 | shall we deifie creatures, and say to a stock, Thou art my Father? |
A26951 | so torn in pieces by its zealous ignorant self- conceited Pastors and Members? |
A26951 | so worryed by its open and secret enemies; even by the usurping tyrannizing Wolves in Sheeps cloathing, who spare not the flock? |
A26951 | than[ what is most pleasant to my flesh? |
A26951 | that Heaven is Heaven, and yet prefer the world before it? |
A26951 | that Hell is Hell, and yet will venture upon it for a lust, or a thing of nought? |
A26951 | that the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because Christ was not yet glorified? |
A26951 | the believer takes it as the question of a fool, that should ask[ what harm is it to take a dram of Mercury or Arsenick?] |
A26951 | the evidence of things not seen? |
A26951 | things future or present? |
A26951 | things hoped for, or things possessed? |
A26951 | what ardent love? |
A26951 | what confidence of faith? |
A26951 | what constant patience should one serious thought of God, possess the believing holy soul with? |
A26951 | what earnestness of desire? |
A26951 | what envy and wrath, what malice and persecution, what opposition and discouragements on every side we must expect? |
A26951 | what hatred of sin? |
A26951 | what if they be able to command mens lives, and to hurt those that they hate for a little while? |
A26951 | what is it but to put a scorn on your Creator and Redeemer, to live as if he had created and redeemed you for no better and nobler ends than these? |
A26951 | what is it that Court and Country, City, and all Societies ring of, but vanity and vexation, sin and sorrow? |
A26951 | what is the employment of most of the world? |
A26951 | what lives would you have led, after such sights, as all or any one of these? |
A26951 | what lives would you have led, if you had been eye- witnesses of all these things? |
A26951 | what manner of people would you have been? |
A26951 | what name can express the inhumane cruelty of such a wish o ● motion? |
A26951 | what should you do with reason for such uses? |
A26951 | what thief so mad as to steal at the Gallows, or before the Judge? |
A26951 | what transporting joy? |
A26951 | what work they have made as in the dark, when the case is so very plain and easie? |
A26951 | what, is all this for no higher an end? |
A26951 | when faith makes unseen things to be as seen? |
A26951 | when he told you of dying, and I told you that you should not die? |
A26951 | when shall I see one glimpse of hope? |
A26951 | whence is it that this cometh? |
A26951 | where is thy sting? |
A26951 | where is thy victory? |
A26951 | whether as a part, or end, or fruit, or consequent? |
A26951 | whether in the Scripture, or in our hearts? |
A26951 | whether it be, If God will? |
A26951 | which way will be most comfortable to me in my last review? |
A26951 | while they neither mind nor seek it, in comparison of the world? |
A26951 | who believeth not that there is a God? |
A26951 | who can be more unfit for Heaven, than he that loveth a life of labour, and want, and misery better? |
A26951 | why doth it not do what sight would do, in some good measure, if it were but a lively saving faith indeed that serveth instead of sense? |
A26951 | why then doth not your belief affect you, or command you more? |
A26951 | will you hearken now as long to your consciences, as you have done to me? |
A26951 | will you live upon things seen or unseen? |
A26951 | will you make Infidels of all that are not Saints? |
A26951 | would it leave you as you are? |
A26951 | would you be drunk, or filthy, if you saw him stand by you? |
A26951 | would you ever again reproach it as preciseness? |
A26951 | your honours and attendance? |