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A27527 | TO come to the Question whether Christ( after the doctrine of Athanasius in his Symbole) be coequal with the father? |
A90607 | 16 ▪ O yee Hypocrites, yee can discern the face of the Skie, and can ye not discern the signes of the Times? |
A67122 | But should a man, putting in a crosse interrogatorie, demand of M r Walker Whether he hold that Christ hath fulfilled the Law for us or no? |
A67122 | How then am I proved to agree with him in that Errour which he is not proved to hold? |
A67122 | If we have been punished, how are we pardoned? |
A67122 | x Quid aliud est justificatio quàm peccatorum remissio? |
A36460 | But what was the meaning of this Doctrine, that God hath no parts? |
A36460 | Can any man have sence to believe, that if Sin flows from God the first Cause, but it must be attributed to him? |
A36460 | How many Errata''s in this Paraptaph? |
A36460 | How unworthy a thing is it to insult over a dead Lyon, and write against him who rests in the dust? |
A36460 | In commendation of himself in his own life thus?" |
A36460 | Is this great Truth Manichism? |
A36460 | Is this only Infamy? |
A36460 | Is this only Infamy? |
A36460 | Let this be Queried, What Sence is this? |
A36460 | Must then no such word as Essence be used? |
A36460 | Or is there any whole Substance, whose two halves or three thirds are not the same with that whole? |
A36460 | Or that there is any real thing without length every way, that is to say which hath no magnitude at all Finite or Infinite? |
A36460 | THE Author of this Tract may thus be reproached Are not the Corps of dead men Sacred? |
A36460 | The question at the time was, and is still, whether at Gods, or our own choice we will:"Can we will evil at Gods choice? |
A36460 | To violate Tombs and Graves is Sacrilegious, why doth the Author intend to disturb the Manes of this universal Scholar? |
A36460 | To which he thus answers, where doth the Holy Scripture or Synod thus distinguish? |
A36460 | To which''t is thus returned; why doth Mr. Hobs call any thing Incorporeal, when he asserts there''s nothing but what is a Body? |
A36460 | What a force is don by him to the Apostles question; St. Paul asks the Corinthians, Is Christ divided? |
A36460 | What is this to the Trinity?" |
A36460 | Wherein the Nature of Infinity consists? |
A36460 | Whether there be any real being but that which is a body, and hath magnitude? |
A36460 | Will he not be permitted to sleep quietly in the Grave? |
A36460 | no certainly, No Divines say that, What is the meaning of this, that God hath no Parts? |
A36460 | of Armagh, and the Great Professor Dr. Wallis? |
A36460 | only Body 〈 ◊ 〉 surely the word Nature may be used? |
A36460 | what is this Corporeal? |
A67894 | And then what follows, but formall and materiall Idolatry, by their owne confessions, when they adore it? |
A67894 | At Tholouse also, a few dayes after, there was a great slaughter of the godly committed, but by whom? |
A67894 | But did this bloudy Prince prosper in these his ambitious and cruell designes? |
A67894 | But what will yee more? |
A67894 | Charles the ninth of France never demanded of Henry de Clermont Prince of Conde, whether he would turne Papist; but, will you goe,( said he) to Masse? |
A67894 | Is it possible that so many miles distance should not abate and asswage the very malice of Rome it self against them? |
A67894 | Or the young Stoick in Gellius, to maintaine the Apathie of his Sect, neither groane nor frowne in the midst of a burning feaver? |
A67894 | What Mr. Walsingham, saith the Queen- mother upon his next audience, Will your Mistresse have my Son turn Atheist, and professe no Religion at all? |
A67894 | What got he by it, but to have the curse of the Scripture to fall upon him; That the Elder Brother should serve the younger? |
A20674 | 21. but for that frivolous question: What shall this man doe? |
A20674 | 38. or, hast thou entred into the treasures of snowe? |
A20674 | 5. v. 13. art thou for vs or for our aduersaries? |
A20674 | But alas, what is the highest pitch of mans science? |
A20674 | But contrariwise what arrogancy doth wholy possesse them? |
A20674 | But what can possibly keepe out malitious Schismaticks? |
A20674 | Come now to those attributes of his power, his will, and such like; what man is able possibly to reach them? |
A20674 | Concerning the Apostles time, what ardency of good will finde we there? |
A20674 | Concerning these externall rites what tumults haue beene raised? |
A20674 | How frowardly doe men still stand forth against the Church in termes point blanke? |
A20674 | How many now a daies frame their diuiner studies after this method? |
A20674 | How often see wee many here to suffer shipwrack, whilst they couet to goe farther then their ability or strength will permit them? |
A20674 | How respectlessely doe they thrust into the most hidden secrets? |
A20674 | How seriously diligent were the primitiue Fathers in declining such? |
A20674 | How watchfull to represse them? |
A20674 | If missing the center they pricke each part of the circle else? |
A20674 | Is there no such new stratagem? |
A20674 | Let me likewise demand; whose part take they? |
A20674 | Neither in this are the Arminians lesse to bee condemned: Who hath been his counsellour? |
A20674 | Or is our vnderstanding beyond the ancients? |
A20674 | This being so; sithence each where a concord is so requisite, but most in the Church, how fowly doe they trespasse that breake this bond? |
A20674 | To manifest which, least it might languish if conceal''d, how many signes of expression had they? |
A20674 | To that great and sacrilegious city of Ninive what doth he? |
A20674 | Who doth not streight acknowledge his dulnesse? |
A20674 | Whom among the sonnes of men did he choose for his assistant? |
A20674 | Yet what wonder is it if thus reciprocally they maintained charity? |
A20674 | deeper then hell what canst thou knowe? |
A20674 | is he able to satisfie himselfe in any triuiall obiect? |
A20674 | v. 2. t is said, who is able to open the booke? |
A20674 | who but the Lyon of the tribe of Iuda? |
A20674 | with what affection did they mutually imbrace? |
A20674 | with what sharpnesse deserue they to be handled who breed diuisions? |
A85416 | 1. Who is this that darkneth counsell by words without knowlege? |
A85416 | And whether are these weapons carnall, or spirituall? |
A85416 | And whether doe not they, who here seeke to plucke up the tares, by such an Ordinance, plucke up the wheat also there, by the same? |
A85416 | Are they bound to beleeve in this kinde( I mean, beyond what they are able to comprehend by reason) without measure, bounds, or limits? |
A85416 | If so, are they bound to beleeve all things without exception, that shall any wayes, or by any hand be presented unto them? |
A85416 | In what sence doth the Ordinance make it erroneous and punishable, to hold, that God seeth no sin in the justified? |
A85416 | O ● what repugnancy is there in either of those things, unto any of these? |
A85416 | Or doth it intend, all, and all manner of Government by Presbytery, in what sense or notion soever? |
A85416 | Or who have any power or authority from God to appoint Judges in such cases as they please? |
A85416 | Quid ergo saviunt, ut Stulticiam suam dum minuere volunt, augeant? |
A85416 | Quid prodest habere zelum Dei,& non- habere scientiam Dei? |
A85416 | What does the Ordinance mean, by blasph ● ming the name of God, or any of the Holy Trinity? |
A85416 | What doth the Ordinance mean, by impugning the word of God? |
A85416 | What doth the Ordinance mean, by publishing Doctrines with obstinacy? |
A85416 | Whether was there ever any such Ordinance, or State act, ever heard of, or knowne, in any the Reformed Churches? |
A85416 | doth it mean any kinde or degree of sin, against the third Commandement? |
A85416 | doth it mean, the opposing by way of argument and discourse, every truth contained and delivered in the Word of God? |
A85416 | inasmuch as there is a sence,( if not more then one) wherein it is most certainly true, that God seeth no sin in such persons( a)? |
A85416 | nay, who place a great part of their Christianity, in walking, if not contrary to it, yet quite beside it? |
A85416 | or in what Congregation doth it intend it? |
A85416 | or those who as yet stand undeclared in either? |
A85416 | or whether doth it measure children, by age, or by understanding? |
A85416 | whether those, that already are profoundly ingaged on the one hand? |
A85416 | which is not Parochiall, or held in a Parish- Church, whether then doth the Ordinance intend any such Renunciation at all? |
A92140 | 1 Did the Oracle speak immediately to all the actors in the stoning? |
A92140 | 1, 2, 3. in tolerating false teachers? |
A92140 | 10. that we are not to beleeve, but to avoid? |
A92140 | 11. what need of witnesses? |
A92140 | 11? |
A92140 | 12. and enquire and make search, and aske diligently if the thing be truth and certaine? |
A92140 | 13 And to what Church, Sect, or Religious societie can the Christian Magistrate be a nurse- father by his office? |
A92140 | 13. formally denyed God the Creator? |
A92140 | 13? |
A92140 | 15. be as unlawfull as the drawing of the sword against false teachers? |
A92140 | 15. if it were arrogancie and an intruding upon Gods Cabinet counsel to judge a false Prophet by his doctrine to be a false Prophet? |
A92140 | 15. who say that God is a cow, a calf, a fish, why? |
A92140 | 17. by the Law then? |
A92140 | 18, holdeth he not forth that the Theif, the Robber, and the Slanderer are knowable? |
A92140 | 18. that they would make a new heart? |
A92140 | 2 Query, Were the people infallible in discerning the Priest to be a true relater of the mind of God from the Oracle? |
A92140 | 2 Was not the cutting off of the murtherer out of that good land, as typicall as the cutting off of the blasphemer? |
A92140 | 2 We thinke Mr. Williams Arguments weake and Anabaptisticall, we should not swear such a Covenant 〈 ◊ 〉 why? |
A92140 | 2 What a prophanation of the holy name of God bringeth this? |
A92140 | 23. only false Prophets, to whom he extended patience many hundred yeers, even from Moses till his owne coming in the flesh? |
A92140 | 24. must be spared 120 yeeres? |
A92140 | 24. would dissemble? |
A92140 | 3 And if he doe Good, and be an expression of the wisdome of God by being an heretick, why is he as chaffe casten in unquenchable fire? |
A92140 | 3 Is there any bodily punishment, but it is carnall and afflictive? |
A92140 | 3 Query, Was the Priest infallible in discerning the Oracle and relating the mind of God to the people? |
A92140 | 3. for rulers are not a terrour to good works but to the evil, wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? |
A92140 | 4 Is punishment, and cutting off from the Church by death typicall, because bodily? |
A92140 | 5 If we sift every graine of the text, we must say that the Magistrate makes a doubt, Lord, shall I draw the sword against bloody men and traytors? |
A92140 | A wounded spirit who can beare it? |
A92140 | Aman can not( saith the Bounder) beleeve at his own will, how much lesse at anothers? |
A92140 | An hereticke avoid,& c. when Solomon saith, Make not friendship with an angry man, is not the formality of anger in the heart? |
A92140 | And exhorts to it) an over- doing? |
A92140 | And how shall they beleeve in him of whom they never heard? |
A92140 | And how shall they judge hereticks sinning against a Gospell of which they never heard? |
A92140 | And must our lively hope be bottomed on mens credit and learning? |
A92140 | And since Mr. Goodwin acknowledgeth a supernaturall power of the Spirit of Grace to beleeve; what else doth this Spirit cause us beleeve, but lyes? |
A92140 | And the Pastors and Church, shal we cast out the leaven that leaveneth the whole lumpe? |
A92140 | And was not this fallible as well as ours under the new Testament? |
A92140 | And what is the quarrell, but divers Religions and waies of worship about Christ? |
A92140 | And what is this but the highest degree of banishment? |
A92140 | And what vengeance shall lye upon the stones, fields, of Romish Babylon? |
A92140 | And why did you simply without any limitation sweare to endeavour the preservation of the Reformed Religion? |
A92140 | And why may not we, notwithstanding of our fallibility and actuall erring, judge and drive away by the sword, devourers of the flock, as well as they? |
A92140 | And why was Jeremiah persecuted? |
A92140 | And why( saith Augustine) should Sorcerers find the rigor of the Law from Emperors, and Hereticks and Schismaticks go free? |
A92140 | And yet they deny not God the Creator, nor the Scriptures of the old Testament, and by this answer they are free of all bodily punishment? |
A92140 | Are not Papists though known Papists, to be Judges, and Members of Parliament? |
A92140 | Are there no powers ordained of God, but Roman Magistrates? |
A92140 | Are we not also unable to abstain from murther, adulterie,& c. without the supernatural grace of God? |
A92140 | Art thou made of the Kings Counsell? |
A92140 | Artaxerxes knew not the Law of God, which he confirmed, how then could be judge it? |
A92140 | As well as we may? |
A92140 | But Christ rebuked them and said, yee know not what manner of spirit yee are of? |
A92140 | But how? |
A92140 | But if it was sworne to as the Reformed Religion, was it not according to the word of God? |
A92140 | But the Apostles sought not Laws from the Emperors, by which Hereticks might be compelled to imbrace the sound faith? |
A92140 | But the Magistrate( say Liberti ● es) should not judge what is heresie, what sound doctrine, why? |
A92140 | But the particulars of your directorie of worship are not in Scripture, how then can the Magistrate punish for not following the Directorie? |
A92140 | But there were false Prophets also among the people, as there shall be false teachers among you? |
A92140 | But what warrant hath he, thus to make God the author of sinne? |
A92140 | But when did Christ sow the good seed of the Gospel first? |
A92140 | But why should they be punished then who blaspheme, commit Idolatry? |
A92140 | But why then may not a Christian Magistrate, as a Christian, if not as a Magistrate be a Vicar of Christ? |
A92140 | But will it not be bitternesse in the end? |
A92140 | Can a man be the lesse hereticall, and his society the lesse detestable then, that he thinks his heresie is sound doctrine? |
A92140 | Caspensis? |
A92140 | Did God ever accept of faith and repentance extorted through feare of a direfull sword? |
A92140 | Did not the people of Israel suffer the Gentiles to stay in their land, and enjoy their own Religion without troubling of them? |
A92140 | Either as a Parliament, and so by the sword: is not here yet the Prelates conscience squeezed to the blood? |
A92140 | Ergo Christ would not have faithfull pastors to complaine both to God, and to preach against Rulers who punish not uncorrigible adulterers? |
A92140 | Ergo Ministers should complaine to the Godly Magistrate of no omissions at all? |
A92140 | Ergo the Judges under the new Testament who accuse, judge and condemn adulterers, are not followers of Christ? |
A92140 | Ergo, We should extend to bloodie Murtherers of the Lords Prophets, the like patience, and not kill them, for then they are past hope of being gained? |
A92140 | Goodwin, who asserteth a Catholike toleration of all religions, upon the ground of weaknes of freewill, and want of grace? |
A92140 | How beleeved they then some lying Priests who persecuted the Prophets of God? |
A92140 | How did Caiaphas say, What need we any more witnesse, We have heard himself blaspheme? |
A92140 | How is not the killing of the murtherer typicall? |
A92140 | How is that proved? |
A92140 | How much better were it, if we would nourish peace and concord leaving interpretations free to every man? |
A92140 | How then did they say, he is worthy to dye? |
A92140 | Hypocrisie brings this? |
A92140 | If they thrust people away from the Lord that hath ransomed them from Hell? |
A92140 | Is it Popery to advise him so to doe; or to pray when he wants the Spirit? |
A92140 | Is not Christ as meek to whores, publicans, the theife and robber on the crosse, persecutors, and to seducing teachers and hereticks? |
A92140 | Is there no way to come to Gods harbour, but by sayling in the Devills boat? |
A92140 | It respecteth onely the Church of the Jewes, why? |
A92140 | Know ye we are selfe- condemned? |
A92140 | May not reading, interpunction, a parenthesis, a letter, an acc ● m, alter the sense of all fundamentalls in the Decalogue? |
A92140 | Mr. John Goodwin with better ground saith, they hold in all, for must we hold that which is good onely in non- fundamentalls? |
A92140 | None then can bee witnesses under the New Testament to sweare, but such as are regenerate, where is this divinity warranted? |
A92140 | Nor wil it suffice to say, to offer a man to God and kill him, is against the light of nature, and vincibly a sin; what then? |
A92140 | Of the letting out of the Vineyard to those that killed the serv ● ● ts, and the heire, and brought forth ill fruite? |
A92140 | Of this sort is the Pamphleters objection, Religion should not be inacted by the Lawes of the Magistrate, why? |
A92140 | Or if it be, because the substance of the Oath is sin, in that we sweare to put to death the innocent and unrenewed? |
A92140 | Passe over the Isles, and goe to Turkey, to America, and see if such a thing as this hath been? |
A92140 | Should an ignorant man say the Commanding Ministeriall power of the Gospel which saith, except ye beleeve ye shall die in your sins, needlesse? |
A92140 | Should any say, there is no such 〈 ◊ 〉 knowable, should he not contradict the Holy Ghost? |
A92140 | Since Synods may erre, how then place they religion in securitie? |
A92140 | So Elias said to Achab, Hast thou killed and also gotten possession? |
A92140 | So does the bloody Tenet, 1 The Magistrate should not send the Heretick to the Church, to heale the Heretick; why? |
A92140 | So say I, what can preaching of man or angel doe without God, is it not God and God only who can open the heart? |
A92140 | Synods may impose upon others and how? |
A92140 | The theefe in the night? |
A92140 | Then poore Popery, why art thou evill spoken of? |
A92140 | Therefore Paul might not deliver them to Sathan? |
A92140 | This Law, if it did lye upon the strangers and heathen, then; it was not judiciall, but it must lye on us Gentiles, now; Who can free us from it? |
A92140 | To Judge according to the sentence of the Law of God delivered to Moses? |
A92140 | To know revealed truths of God is a commanded worship of God? |
A92140 | To which I answer: And did not the Lord require a willing people then in the Old Testament as now? |
A92140 | WHat is naked and meere simple heresie( say the Belgick Arminians) but a meere device? |
A92140 | Wallacria,& c.( what a letter most contradicent to that might they now write?) |
A92140 | What Scripture maketh the beleeving of lyes, a certain hazard of losing most saving truths? |
A92140 | What are those wounds in thy hands? |
A92140 | What can an Anabaptist alleadge more to prove there ought to be no Magistrates under the new Testament? |
A92140 | What deductions the spirit makes in the soule of an elect, knowing but a few f ● ● dam, and going out of this life, thou knoweth? |
A92140 | What doth this prove? |
A92140 | What if a man void of the Spirit can not pray; ergo, we should not advise him to pray? |
A92140 | What if the Magistrate in punishing heresie, differ from the Church, and strike with the sword, for that which the Church thinkes no heresie? |
A92140 | What inferre Libertines hence against us? |
A92140 | What masacring of people by civill wars? |
A92140 | What needeth the Eunuch a teacher, or Cornolius Peter, or Saul Ananias to teach them? |
A92140 | What of all these? |
A92140 | What shall then the Magistrate doe? |
A92140 | What shall we doe to be saved? |
A92140 | What then shal become of the Covenant? |
A92140 | What then? |
A92140 | What then? |
A92140 | What would this authour give an Atheist leave to say? |
A92140 | What? |
A92140 | What? |
A92140 | Where are the ten Commandements set down in the New Testament in expresse words of Scripture order? |
A92140 | Where reads ▪ Mr. Williams that Christ and his Messengers are to charge the Magistrate to give libertie to Wolves, Boares, Lions, Foxes? |
A92140 | Whether Heresie be a sin or a meer error and innocencie, whether an Heretick be an evill doer? |
A92140 | Whether heresie be a sin, or a meer error and innocency: whether a ● hereticke be an evill doer? |
A92140 | Whether is not reason as strong to refute errours fundamentall as non- fundamentall? |
A92140 | Whether this be not the old argument of 〈 ◊ 〉 who argued from liberty of free- will to conclude liberty of conscience? |
A92140 | Who can reveale and infuse supernaturall nation and truth but the spirit? |
A92140 | Why doe ye persecute me as God? |
A92140 | Why to them more then to Famili ● s? |
A92140 | Why? |
A92140 | Will it follow that the Jewes should be tollerated still, and perpetually to circumcise and keepe the Ceremoniall law, and to teach others so to doe? |
A92140 | Will this man let us hear Logick? |
A92140 | Yea but what shall be done when the Priest and Prophet of God himselfe is called in question? |
A92140 | a lapide ascribe to their Appollo at Rome? |
A92140 | all ou ● comforts of the Scriptures into the reelings of a Wind- mill, and pha ● cies of seven Moons at once in the firmament? |
A92140 | and Bishops Courts, and Consistories continued? |
A92140 | and Idol- shepheards suffered? |
A92140 | and a tale- bearing? |
A92140 | and again, when another unjust King Reignes, they return to their vomit, is this against Nationall righteousnesse and Magistracy? |
A92140 | and doth he foretell of such coggers and jugglers, and yet presupposeth none on earth shall be able to know them? |
A92140 | and doth hee force the Jesuits conscience? |
A92140 | and is there any man who will willingly chuse eternall destruction? |
A92140 | and saw you Gods secret book, and saw our names dashed out of the book of life, and that we are inrolled with Ishmalites? |
A92140 | and such as beleeved in vaine? |
A92140 | and that power which they bring into the New Ierusalem? |
A92140 | and this is a lie; why? |
A92140 | and what Royal power to protect the true Church in their persons and estates as they doe the false? |
A92140 | and what comfort have we in Christs death, if he suffered not that which is equivalent to eternall wrath? |
A92140 | and whereas the servants say, 28. wilt thou then that we go and ● ather them up? |
A92140 | and whosoever suffer for monstrous heresies, must they suffer as the Apostles did? |
A92140 | but so s ● ander free preaching or free Synodicall complaining to the Magistrate? |
A92140 | for either that which 〈 ◊ 〉 asserteth is true, or false, if it be true, why admit we is not? |
A92140 | forbear, why shouldest thou be smitten? |
A92140 | had these beene beaten downe, had not we under God, as a forlorne hope first given them battell? |
A92140 | had they not the Scriptures? |
A92140 | have not some in France, in Holland, in England made defection to Judaisme and Tur ● isme, and turned Apostates from Christ? |
A92140 | how can we avoid an Heretick more then a Saint, if we may not lawfully judge an heretick to be an Heretick? |
A92140 | how can ye say, we hinder Reformation? |
A92140 | is it not to the one, onely true Church of Christ, that professeth the sound faith? |
A92140 | is it reformed, and not according to the word of God? |
A92140 | is not here highest violence done to the consciences of high alter men and adorers of crucifixes? |
A92140 | is not the man persecuted for his conscience? |
A92140 | is this obtruding into another office to give warning to all to be free of the blood of all men? |
A92140 | is this the breasts of the milk of Kings, and their royall power as nurse- fathers? |
A92140 | let Celsus, or any Libertine, shew what end the Fathers had in killing their sonnes and daughters to God? |
A92140 | nor doth sedition make heresie punishable; so they make heresie nothing but a name, who( say they) can say an hereticke is an evill doer? |
A92140 | of the principles of the Gospel? |
A92140 | or at best phancies resolved into humane credit? |
A92140 | or shall not foure hundred Michajahs declare the minde of God to the Prince, because so many false Prophets speake the contrary? |
A92140 | shall he aske the Oracle, whether he himselfe be the false Prophet or no? |
A92140 | shall it follow, that robbers and murtherers, 〈 ◊ 〉 as Barra ● ● s, may not under the New Testament be 〈 ◊ 〉? |
A92140 | shall then Achab heare the voice of the Lord in no Prophet, because foure hundred speake lyes? |
A92140 | should it ever oblige us to beleeve in him, who justifieth the ungodly? |
A92140 | should not we have had bowells of iron, if in charity, wee had not beleeved our brethrens words, oaths, pro ● essions? |
A92140 | should they be indifferent beholders, and not use the sword against such Apostates? |
A92140 | so as the truth must be monopolized to any one Sect, or way? |
A92140 | v. 14. what need of exposition of the written Law? |
A92140 | what doe ye then talke of no compelling? |
A92140 | what shall the Church doe then? |
A92140 | when we are for a further and purer Reformation( your selves being judges?) |
A92140 | when yee knew then, as now, their government was Antichristian, and not according to the word of God? |
A92140 | whether doth not this arguing evict all the Ministery, rebukes, and exhortation, and morall extirpating of heresies by the power of the word? |
A92140 | whether he bee a murtherer who sacrificeth his childe to God in imitation of Abraham? |
A92140 | which may be false for any certainty of knowledge that Libertines allow us? |
A92140 | why doe we imprison the Author thereof? |
A92140 | why must witnesses two or three, depose against him? |
A92140 | why should they be debarred for their Religion? |
A92140 | you would ● it down on this side Jordan, we would advance? |
A85988 | A sensitive Life is for Sense, Motion and Appetite; so it our spiritual Life: Doth Christ do so to us spiritually? |
A85988 | A vegetative, a sensitive, a rational Life is afforded thereby: Doth Christ do so to us spiritually? |
A85988 | Alas wretched soul, what will be thy end, and what is thy case in such delusions? |
A85988 | Alas wretched soul, wilt thou patch up thus a Linsey Woolsey Garment of thy own Righteousness, mingled with Christs Merits? |
A85988 | Anchor within the vail upon the rock of Ages to stay our souls in the midst of all storms? |
A85988 | And is not this a very rare Jewel, that makes a match between Heaven and Earth? |
A85988 | And what''s choiser then this special Grace, that saves his children when he punishes others? |
A85988 | Ar thou diligent in all the means he affords thee, to dispel darkness and get light from him? |
A85988 | Are formality and hypocrifie more loathsome stil to you as to God? |
A85988 | Are not Christians spiritual Merchants? |
A85988 | Are not all his royal perfections, a magnificent sight to a gracious Soul? |
A85988 | Are not his Ordinances, Mercies and Offers strong cords of Love, and the Bands of Man to fetch thee home? |
A85988 | Are not such spiritual Judgements the worst of all to be given up thus to strong delusions, to believe such Lies? |
A85988 | Are not the strong bid to bear with the weak, and not please themselves? |
A85988 | Are not these sure signes of his saving Grace? |
A85988 | Are not we all nearly concern''d therein? |
A85988 | Are not we lawless, but under the Law to Christ? |
A85988 | Are not you like Hydropical Bodies, puffed up with wind, water and humours? |
A85988 | Are not you sick of spiritual Rickets that puff up the head and waste other limbs? |
A85988 | Are they not all corruptly estranged from the womb, and speaking Lyes by time? |
A85988 | Are thy Speculations brought into Realities? |
A85988 | Are we bold with a generous audaciousness to follow Christ, the Captain of our Salvation through all Impediments? |
A85988 | Are we carefull not to forget him, or any thing of his? |
A85988 | Are we convinced of our former neglects? |
A85988 | Are we daily mortifying sin, dying to the world, resisting Tempters, denying our selves through the knowledge of Christ? |
A85988 | Are we enflamed with that prudent zeal which consumed the very heart of Christ, for the purging and settling of his house? |
A85988 | Are we more troubled at the pollution then at the punishment of sin? |
A85988 | Are we not still in that unregenerate state of reigning Ignorance and neglect, of formality and self justifying, of profaness or notional delusions? |
A85988 | Are we sensible of any change there in weakness, inaequality and disorderliness for speedy remove of all obstructions disturbing the same? |
A85988 | Are we still fortifying our souls with his precious Grace, that all our Faculties may be preserved in spiritual health against sin and Error? |
A85988 | Are we studious of that signal charge given and renewed unto all Gods people with so much of power and caution, again and again? |
A85988 | Are we the subjects so wrought upon by him? |
A85988 | Are we thereby fenced against the sinful causes of Error and Revolt? |
A85988 | Are we thus acquainted with the cause and nature, with the properties and effects of this gracious knowledge? |
A85988 | Are we thus spiritually sensible through this gracions Knowledge? |
A85988 | Are you better acquainted with his Person and Office, Progress and Purchase, Relation and Influence? |
A85988 | Are you like a Plant in the Lords Garden, spiritual and civil, in Church and State, ripening still towards a better state? |
A85988 | Are you like to be the safer, or will you be the less vigilant? |
A85988 | Are you more sensible of your need thereof as of your own insufficiency to support and supply you in every Relation? |
A85988 | Are you more sincere and ▪ self- denying, more couragious and zealous for Truth and for Peace? |
A85988 | Are you not like Mushroms, of a sudden monstrous disproportionable growth? |
A85988 | Are you not like the high way, stony, or thorny ground, which are but for a time; but like the good ground fruitful to perfection? |
A85988 | Are you stil striving to grow better and better? |
A85988 | Are your eyes quite out, that you can not discern the issue of all your High- flown Notions? |
A85988 | Art not thou moved from thy place and station, by tempting notions? |
A85988 | Art not thou much worse then Pilate or Judas, then the Jewes and Romanes in affronting and murthering of Christ? |
A85988 | Art thou a studious scholar under Christ? |
A85988 | Art thou fixed in Christs ways, and settled in his Word? |
A85988 | Art thou not bound to be wholly his? |
A85988 | Art thou still wrastling against it, for attaining of Knowledge? |
A85988 | Art thou strong in his strength and power of his might, against all spiritual enemies? |
A85988 | Art thou troubled at the troublers thereof? |
A85988 | Art thou weary and ashamed of thy Ignorance? |
A85988 | Art thou zealous for it in thy place and sphere? |
A85988 | As Caesar to Brutus, Tu etiam mi fili? |
A85988 | Be perswaded by your Physitians to see your danger, and take good Physick? |
A85988 | Bnt why is Christ offered to all then? |
A85988 | Bring our case to the Test, have we learned to act as becomes Christians? |
A85988 | Bruits will take warning, are you worse then they? |
A85988 | But I doubt I am not elected, and then all is in vain? |
A85988 | But doth not this Doctrine lead to presumption and Libetinism? |
A85988 | But how dreadful is their condition that stil feed their disease, and love nothing but what increases distempers? |
A85988 | But if I be a Reprobate, I can not be saved, the labour is lost? |
A85988 | But is it possible, that such a wretch as I should obtain mercy? |
A85988 | But is not God partial in so doing? |
A85988 | But is not Vnbelief the great damning sin? |
A85988 | But is not this Doctrine uncomfortable? |
A85988 | But is not this egregious folly, to slight the Jewel, and mind only the cask? |
A85988 | But may not he work within our heart by gracious communications without a personal fixation there? |
A85988 | But may they not slip away? |
A85988 | But shall sin be covered under Christs royal Robe, or possess his Throne without disturbance? |
A85988 | But this is but A may be? |
A85988 | But what makes thee fear thy estrangedness? |
A85988 | But what must men blieve if Christ died not for every man? |
A85988 | But what needs all this, if the Elects salvation be sure? |
A85988 | But where is the Price to buy it withal? |
A85988 | But why doth he yet complain of the Reprobates, if he give them not sufficient Grace, as to others? |
A85988 | But why then is man commanded to believe and repent, to change his heart,& c? |
A85988 | Can a dead corpse raise it self to Life, or a soul dead in sin contribute ought to its own quickning? |
A85988 | Can the Bramble bear figs, or a sinful man beget a sinless child? |
A85988 | Can the wicked say they sin not wilfully? |
A85988 | Can there be any thing more swett and stately? |
A85988 | Canst thou be willing to live and die with him and for him? |
A85988 | Canst thou climbe to Heaven with a Ladder of thy making, or waft thy self over into the Indie''s in thy own Nut- shel of self- Righteousness? |
A85988 | Canst thou do any thing without sin? |
A85988 | Canst thou hope for Christs Salvation in the high Road to thy damnation? |
A85988 | Canst thou satisfie his Infinite Justice, or deserve his Infinite Mercy? |
A85988 | Couldst thou but see thy Infernal Guide, that leads thee captive at his will, what a dreadful sight would that prove to thee? |
A85988 | DO we love Christ as the best Object for sweetness and beauty, excellency and sutableness, the incomparable Paragon of all? |
A85988 | DO we move upward towards Christ and Heaven, aspiring still after Eternity? |
A85988 | DO we spiritually discern and delight in the Beauty of Christs divine holiness in all his perfections, in all his Ordinances, and in every Providence? |
A85988 | DOth our Hope stir spiritually towards the full enjoyment of eternal good, though surrounded with discouragements from Earth and Hell? |
A85988 | Did Christ merit that thou mightest merit? |
A85988 | Did not Paul himself see the vanity of his utmost Pharisaical holiness, wherein he rested before his conversion? |
A85988 | Do Hymeneus, Philetas and Demas awaken your care, and quicken your diligence, that you may not prove like to them in forsaking Christ? |
A85988 | Do all the parts of the New creature keep an harmonious symmetry and orderly motion within you? |
A85988 | Do not his Active Rayes cherish, by all his renewed Motions the Principles of Life given to all his? |
A85988 | Do not his amiable Aspects produce a joyful Spring of all Divine Graces in the New world by his glorious Light and efficacious Heat? |
A85988 | Do not such wandring stars and blazing Comets manifest divine wrath and portend woful Judgements? |
A85988 | Do not the best find upon due search much of selfishness in all disputes and controversies? |
A85988 | Do not ye see so many before you going up the steps of the Devils Ladder, to execution? |
A85988 | Do not you else subject Gods Will to mans? |
A85988 | Do these wheels and weights stir Regularly? |
A85988 | Do these wings and feet carry our souls orderly? |
A85988 | Do they not affront the God of Glory? |
A85988 | Do they not also find in their private affairs how much self is preferred before Christ? |
A85988 | Do thy heart and hands thrive as well as thy brains? |
A85988 | Do we abhor and detest whatsoever is contrary to that lovely Object, as contrary to our very being also? |
A85988 | Do we concoct and digest it well by spiritual fervour, to be distributed unto every part? |
A85988 | Do we delight in the means of prevention? |
A85988 | Do we draw and attract spiritual nourishment to the supply of our renewed wants? |
A85988 | Do we earnestly redouble our watch and Guard, against such eminent dangers? |
A85988 | Do we endeavour, with diligence the use of all fit means, to keep our selves and others? |
A85988 | Do we expel all sinfull Excrements that continually do breed within us? |
A85988 | Do we hate sin and all Christs enemies as he hates them upon his account? |
A85988 | Do we improve our time and strength, our skil and credit, our utmost endeavours, to prevent and remove the Errors of the wicked? |
A85988 | Do we judge our selves first, and our own sins, that Satan may be judged in us and by us? |
A85988 | Do we labor still to tread self and Satan under foot, with all sublunaries, as Christ and his spouse eminently do? |
A85988 | Do we loath, detest, and cast out duly all filthiness of flesh and Spirit, and all superfluity of naughtiness from every part of us? |
A85988 | Do we long to eject these unwelcome Guests, who still like that serpent in Aesop, will be sure to sting and poison their host, when they recover heat? |
A85988 | Do we love all his for his sake, in subordination to himself? |
A85988 | Do we mourn for the failings and distempers of his people, and make their case ours among his Mourners, marked for safety? |
A85988 | Do we move downward against every sin? |
A85988 | Do we move forward still, toward the price of the heavenly calling, looking at Jesus,& c? |
A85988 | Do we move thus spiritually? |
A85988 | Do we own and study, love and practise that Law; for sanctification, though not for merit? |
A85988 | Do we prefer his flaggons and apples, Do we relish him in his sweetness and comfort before all the worlds chear? |
A85988 | Do we rejoice thus in the Lord always from the possession of that Kingdom of Christ, which is Peace, Righteousness, and Joy in the Holy Ghost? |
A85988 | Do we remember well the things of Christs Glory, and of our own Peace? |
A85988 | Do we retain and keep the same with all diligence, lest at any time we should let it slip? |
A85988 | Do we smite on our thigh, as Ephraim did, because we have born the reproach of our youth? |
A85988 | Do we so lay up as to lay out in the best manner? |
A85988 | Do we so press forward towards the Mark, forgetting the things behind, that we may lose no time in this race of ours? |
A85988 | Do we so record what he teaches us, as to improve it in season and order? |
A85988 | Do we still mind his Word and Blood, his Grace and Favour in every Ordinance and Providence through his Spirits help? |
A85988 | Do we suck his breasts as new born babs, and desire that food that may sustain us to eternal Life? |
A85988 | Do we taste and know how good the Lord is? |
A85988 | Do we thereby see all other things, and reflect on our selves as becomes us, that we may not behold vanity? |
A85988 | Do we therefore abhor the bitterness attending every sin, though sugard with Pleasure, Profit or Honor? |
A85988 | Do we therefore beware of oblivion- water, that we become not like wretched Israel? |
A85988 | Do we therefore love all the ways and means wherein his Love is shewed towards us, that our Love may reciprocate towards him again? |
A85988 | Do we therein imitate David and all the friends of Christ in their spiritual Pantings and longings? |
A85988 | Do you abhor sinful Remissions and intermissions in your self and others? |
A85988 | Do you abhor sins of Omission, as much as you do sins of Commission? |
A85988 | Do you digest well spiritual Nourishment, which every part must assimilate into its proper substance and use? |
A85988 | Do you feel thereby more vigor and strength flowing into your soul out of his fulness? |
A85988 | Do you find his Spirit quickning your spirit by every Ordinance and Providence of his, to an higher Degree of Grace and Knowledge? |
A85988 | Do you give your Lusts neither Peace nor Truce in your warfare against spiritual evils? |
A85988 | Do you grow downward in self- denial and humility, as well as upward in knowledge and comfort? |
A85988 | Do you grow in Patience and Prudence also, as in diligence and Dependency? |
A85988 | Do you grow, as Christ did, in Grace and Favour? |
A85988 | Do you hold on in that gracious course, waxing stronger and stronger, as he that hath pure hands? |
A85988 | Do you long for it and delight in it, grieving for the want, striving after it, restless without it, refreshed with it? |
A85988 | Do you make conscience of the least Precept, in improving every Promise? |
A85988 | Do you mark and bewail your failings& neglects? |
A85988 | Do you pretend Allegiance to him, and yet continue stil in Rebellion? |
A85988 | Do you profess to believe in Christ, and yet will not do what he bids you, nor forbear what he forbids? |
A85988 | Do you profess to own his marriage terms, and yet remain stil wedded to the world, to your gain and will, to sensual pleasure and windy honour? |
A85988 | Do you therefore labour to cast off every weight that doth hinder you, and the sin that so easily besets you? |
A85988 | Do you thus spiritually grow in the gracious Knowledge of our Lord Jesus? |
A85988 | Do your fals and slips quicken your pace and your watchfulness? |
A85988 | Do your sence and motion grow spiritually, orderly and fitly? |
A85988 | Dost thou act the more humbly and self- denyingly, the more watchfully and industriously in thy general and particular calling? |
A85988 | Dost thou bewail thy deadness and dulness, thy sloth and selfishness, thy formality and hypocrisie, thy worldliness and unfaithfulness? |
A85988 | Dost thou close with Christ, and keep close to him in every Ordinance? |
A85988 | Dost thou desire and digest the food of divine Truth, so as to thrive effecutally thereby? |
A85988 | Dost thou feel the want, and bewail the absence thereof? |
A85988 | Dost thou hope still to pacifie him with a few faint words of Lord hove mercy, I am sorry, and such like mock- speeches? |
A85988 | Dost thou learn for practice, and practise in learning? |
A85988 | Dost thou long for it, and delight in it? |
A85988 | Dost thou manifest both in Church and State, that thou holdest Christ for thy head in all things? |
A85988 | Dost thou not give him ten blows for one good word, destroying thy self in disgracing him? |
A85988 | Dost thou not hereby reproach Christ sadly, by preferring creatures before him? |
A85988 | Dost thou not see how many as bad as thou canst be possibly, have been welcom to him; what thinkst thou of Mary, of Paul, of Manasseh? |
A85988 | Dost thou observe him in all his Prescripts, to give thee seasonable preservatives and help? |
A85988 | Dost thou observe the Teachings of his Spirit, internal and external? |
A85988 | Dost thou presume on his mercy still, whilst thou delightest in the Devils work? |
A85988 | Dost thou receive it in love? |
A85988 | Dost thou stand firm against all assaults? |
A85988 | Doth any need Incentives to move thereto? |
A85988 | Doth any of you see the worth thereof? |
A85988 | Doth any suffer but for their sins? |
A85988 | Doth he give us Sense external and internal, as in Nature, so in Grace? |
A85988 | Doth he not blot out all scores and remit all faults by application of his Justifying Grace? |
A85988 | Doth his holy Spirit operate on us by this gracious knowledge, as the Soul doth upon the Body through its variety of intermediate Spirits? |
A85988 | Doth it answer the measure of every part? |
A85988 | Doth it carry it self like a good Steward indeed, bringing out of its store good things, new and old? |
A85988 | Doth it diffuse its species round about, as being the Issue and Image of him who is the chief and most communicative good? |
A85988 | Doth it grieve us to the very soul, that we have grieved such a dear Saviour? |
A85988 | Doth it make us disown what might grieve Christ, and offend his Spirit, whose acquaintance is our chief desire? |
A85988 | Doth it make us flie from whatsoever might keep that from us by keeping God at distance? |
A85988 | Doth it not bewray an ignoble spirit to neglect and slight it? |
A85988 | Doth it not concern every sort of men to look after such a singular Jewel? |
A85988 | Doth it not concern you to mind your Shepheards Voice, that warns against the Wolves and Foxes? |
A85988 | Doth not God make good every Word of his? |
A85988 | Doth not he warn you for your good? |
A85988 | Doth not our profit, delight and credit challenge this from us? |
A85988 | Doth not such a purchase challenge our best knowledge? |
A85988 | Doth not the sensible sight of our vileness and sinfulness recommend such a merciful Redeemer to our apprehension? |
A85988 | Doth not the survey of divine fulness, thus exposed to view, exalt the Lord Christ above all other Lovers? |
A85988 | Doth not this Sun of Righteousness bring Healing under his Wings to all that fear his Name? |
A85988 | Doth not your Interest encroach upon Christ, or your Neighbours various concernments? |
A85988 | Doth our Confidence appear spiritually in Christian resolutions against all Christs enemies to the discharge of our proper Duty he calls us to? |
A85988 | Doth our Disdain act spiritually to scorn all sinfull baseness, which might hinder us from the good desired? |
A85988 | Doth our Intellectual memory spiritually act in laying up those things which those faculties have committed to its charge? |
A85988 | Doth our conscience move spiritually in a due reflection on self, with subordination to Gods Judgement? |
A85988 | Doth our heart keep a right Circulation of spiritual blood from the Center to the Circumference with renewed Reciprocations? |
A85988 | Doth our spiritual Indignation move in holy Zeal to the removing of all obstacles that lie in the way of our Allegiance to our Soveraign Christ? |
A85988 | Doth our will spiritually stir in chusing true good, and refusing true evil? |
A85988 | Doth spiritual Life act so within us, both Concupiscibly and Irascibly? |
A85988 | Doth the Name and Baptism of Christ give thee a Protection from Divine Justice, whilst thou remainest still in open Rebellion? |
A85988 | Doth the Pledge and Earnest of his eternal Glory given us thereby, fill us with that Joy, both unspeakable and full of Glory? |
A85988 | Doth the principle of his Law within us, quicken us still to the careful observance of the perfect Rule of his Law without us? |
A85988 | Doth this filial fear move us with Noah by faith to prepare all things, and repair to the Ark, casting out all slavish tormenting fears? |
A85988 | Doth this knowledge dilate all faculties in Mind and Judgement, Reason and Conscience, Will and Affections? |
A85988 | Doth this knowledge of Christ act thus within us? |
A85988 | Doth thou cleave to him, and rest still on him? |
A85988 | Doth your Growth answer Christ provisions? |
A85988 | Doth your hand grow stronger and steadier in all offices of Justice and Charity as of Piety and true Devotion? |
A85988 | Doth your mind and Judgement, your reason and conscience, your will and Affections, your memory and Sense grow more spiritual, solid and substantial? |
A85988 | Doth your profiting in this Knowledge of Christ appear unto all in all occasions? |
A85988 | Doth your spiritual Life appear to your self and others by your growth? |
A85988 | Examination, Is our Growth Vniversal, proportional, perpetual? |
A85988 | Externally, do your leaves, buds and fruit encrease in Loveliness towards God and man? |
A85988 | Findest thou thy self excluded by Name? |
A85988 | Gilbert, Claudius, d. 1696? |
A85988 | Gilbert, Claudius, d. 1696? |
A85988 | God was in Christ, reconciling the world, not imputing their sin unto them: Is this every mans priviledge to have reconciliation and pardon? |
A85988 | Had he not been a real man, how could he have suffered on his peoples behalf? |
A85988 | Had salvation been intended to each man, what could have hindred the effecting thereof? |
A85988 | Hadst thou struck thy best friend in the dark on mistake, how would it break thy heart? |
A85988 | Hast thou ceased to be a wandring Planet, and a floating Meteor in Religion? |
A85988 | Hast thou lived so long under the Gospel, as the Smiths Dog under the Anvil, to deafen and harden thee? |
A85988 | Hast thou not much more need to bewail thy coldness and deadness, thy cursoriness and heartlesness? |
A85988 | Hath Grace freed us from our sinful bondage? |
A85988 | Hath Satan robbed you of your Religion and Reason at once? |
A85988 | Hath every faculty its proper increase for the service of all other parts? |
A85988 | Hath he blessed the means so effectually, as to make us feel him in and through them all? |
A85988 | Hath he knock ● d us off from all other props, that we might rest upon him alone? |
A85988 | Hath he made every sin more bitter to our Taste, then ever we found any sweetness therein? |
A85988 | Hath he made his Word so to work on us, as to break our hearts and melt them kindly? |
A85988 | Hath he made us thereby cheerfully willing to give up all to him, and prefer him above all? |
A85988 | Hath not experience seen it fulfilled in the predigious Ranters are Quakers of our days? |
A85988 | Hath not he promised a heart of flesh, in taking away of the stony heart? |
A85988 | Hath not he promised that all his people shall be taught of God? |
A85988 | Hath the Key of Heaven opened the great Spring to lift up these everlasting Gates to the King of Glory? |
A85988 | Hath the Law of the Spirit of Life, which is in Jesus Christ made us free from the Law of sin and Death? |
A85988 | Hath the sight and sense of our wofull state so opposite to God, made Christ truly precious to our souls? |
A85988 | Have not the Seekers and familistical Revelationists turned to Levelling, Ranting and Quaking? |
A85988 | Have we been humbled for our many Revolts? |
A85988 | Have we beheld our state in the Glass of his Law, and of his Gospel to make us sensible efficaciously both of our Malady and of his Remedy? |
A85988 | Have we duly observed the unability of all Creatures to afford us help? |
A85988 | Have we found that hammer and fire of his killing our sins and quickning our souls? |
A85988 | Have we learned Christ in the truth of him, that our gracious knowledge might stil be growing? |
A85988 | Have we none in Heaven but him, and none upon earth in comparison of him? |
A85988 | Have you an eye still to the second Table, in minding the first; and to the first, in minding the second? |
A85988 | Have you been so deeply baptized into the spirit of Error, as to loose your Sense, Wit, and good manners? |
A85988 | Have you learned with Paul to forget things behind, and stil press forward? |
A85988 | Have you sucked poison at unaware? |
A85988 | Here is Wisdom to teach, Righteousness to absolve, Holiness to renew, Redemption to save thee: what can thy heart wish that is not laid up here? |
A85988 | How can they but languish and perish, that scorn and defile, that spoil and pervert the precious Means of their Life and growth? |
A85988 | How could he have born Gods infinite wrath for his peoples sins? |
A85988 | How could he have made his soul an offering for sin? |
A85988 | How could he have made infinite satisfaction and procured infinite Salvation? |
A85988 | How doth it trouble us to see our children wasting with Rickets, worms and Feavers through their own folly? |
A85988 | How excellent then is that gracious Knowledge, whose Object is thus excellent in every consideration? |
A85988 | How far are we then in a publike posture acquainted with Christ? |
A85988 | How far art thou from a gracious knowledge, that turnest his Grace into wantonness? |
A85988 | How far art thou from knowing of Christ, that knowest not thy self, but art well conceited of thy good meaing, and thy good Duties? |
A85988 | How far is that Acquaintance improved? |
A85988 | How far is this change wrought in our selves and others? |
A85988 | How knowest thou that? |
A85988 | How shall I come, that I may be welcom? |
A85988 | How shall men believe, if not preached to? |
A85988 | How shall men preach right, if they be not sent? |
A85988 | If Papists be content with picture- Teachers, and blind obedience, slighting and slandering the Word of God; should their folly be followed among us? |
A85988 | If any part of thee be at any time given up to sin against thy husband, what treasonable Adultery will it prove? |
A85988 | If our Light and fire burn better then anothers, have we not cause to be more thankful and communicative? |
A85988 | If they be sickly and wasting, what are they fit for? |
A85988 | If thou be not better then the stony ground, lasting but a while, and soon blasted, what will thy end be? |
A85988 | If thou offer the lame and the torn, is it not evil? |
A85988 | If thy head swel much with giddy Notions, doth it not betoken a woful disease? |
A85988 | If you attend not the Shepherds voyce, how can you but wander? |
A85988 | If you have not so much time as others, why do not you Redeem what you have? |
A85988 | Insufficiency and unworthiness; and thence cast a glance on his sutable and sure Redemption, without admiration? |
A85988 | Internally, do you grow in every faculty and power of the inward man? |
A85988 | Is Christ so little worth knowing and owning? |
A85988 | Is Christ sweeter, and sin bitterer to your soul more and more? |
A85988 | Is Christ thy strength, thy hold and support? |
A85988 | Is Repentance in thy own power, or thy Life and Means, that still thou puttest off? |
A85988 | Is any good to be had, any evil to be avoided without it? |
A85988 | Is he a Remote Saviour, that thy self mightst be thine immediate Saviour? |
A85988 | Is his Spirit put within us, so as to cause us to walk in his Statutes; that we may keep his Judgements and do them? |
A85988 | Is it an universal growth, both internally and externally? |
A85988 | Is it brought over to subject freely and fully to the will of Christ? |
A85988 | Is it continual? |
A85988 | Is it done in season and order, in quantity and quality meet? |
A85988 | Is it mingled with faith? |
A85988 | Is it not a dreadful sin to tempt the Devil, that he may tempt us? |
A85988 | Is it not because thou receivest not the Truth in the Love of it, that God gives thee up to thy own hearts Lusts? |
A85988 | Is it not benum''d, deaded and gangrened by self- love and corrupt Opinions? |
A85988 | Is it not blinded, bribed and feared? |
A85988 | Is it not dreadfull to be abused by our nearest and dearest relations? |
A85988 | Is it not he that quickens the dead? |
A85988 | Is it not still of absolute need, and singular use? |
A85988 | Is it not the womb and Nurse of all sin? |
A85988 | Is it not thy esteem of the Knowledge of Christ? |
A85988 | Is it not well worth the trial again? |
A85988 | Is it not woful, to see so many embrace such palpable Delusions? |
A85988 | Is it not wofull? |
A85988 | Is it our desire to be admonished? |
A85988 | Is it our purpose to avoid the snares? |
A85988 | Is it so with us in the spiritual man? |
A85988 | Is it so with you on a spiritual score? |
A85988 | Is it stil your desire and delight, design and labour to be found ripening towards Gods Harvest? |
A85988 | Is it that Helmet which safeguards our head in all Conflicts with many Legions of sins and devils? |
A85988 | Is it thy greatest trouble and grief, thy shame and sorrow? |
A85988 | Is it universal, proportional, and continual? |
A85988 | Is it written upon our heart? |
A85988 | Is not Christ well worth the taking pains for? |
A85988 | Is not Gods Interest of greater moment to prevail with us? |
A85988 | Is not he come to give Life to that world whom he cals his sheep, and to give it them more abundantly? |
A85988 | Is not he drawing thee internally also by the motions of his Holy Spirit upon thy conscience? |
A85988 | Is not he free to do with his own what he pleases? |
A85988 | Is not he that Living, that quickening Light, that dispels all darkness and Death, by his gracious Visits and Influxe? |
A85988 | Is not his Word a word of Life, Power and Salvation? |
A85988 | Is not our case much worse under our many spiritual consumptions, stil contracted by our negligence? |
A85988 | Is not our ignorance and self- conceitedness, our sloth and neglect about this main thing, the great cause of our sad distempers? |
A85988 | Is not sinful darkness the beginning of Hell and utter darkness? |
A85988 | Is not such a Christ a singular object to exercise our knowledge about? |
A85988 | Is not such a felo de se much to be blamed? |
A85988 | Is not the Father drawing of thee now? |
A85988 | Is not the hour come, wherein such a dead Lazarus as thou, shouldst hear the voyce of the Son of God and live? |
A85988 | Is not the spawn and brood of venemous creatures venemous also? |
A85988 | Is not this Jewel a very precious one, which is of such Import to the benefit of all? |
A85988 | Is not this Jewel the Quintessence of Good, that will sanctifie all conditions to any of us? |
A85988 | Is not this Knowledge a Jewel of Price, which conveighs and assures all good to us? |
A85988 | Is not this Knowledge of singular worth that marries sinfull man to God Almighty? |
A85988 | Is not this Life eternal, thus to know the Father, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent? |
A85988 | Is not this Solemnity so incomparable to be observed with sutatable Enlargements? |
A85988 | Is not this a choice Jewel to be duly viewed? |
A85988 | Is not this a precious sight indeed, to behold such a Saviour in all his proportions? |
A85988 | Is not this evil very sad and common? |
A85988 | Is not this knowledge the most profitable, the most pleasurable, the most honourable that can be conceived? |
A85988 | Is not this the Field that holds the Treasure, and the Pearl of Price? |
A85988 | Is not this the best Trade and Husbandry, the best warfare and surest Venture? |
A85988 | Is not this the cause of so many Errors and Revolts, our not growing in that gracious Knowledge that would prove our Soveraign Antidote? |
A85988 | Is not this thing of a rare value, whose nature appears so supereminent? |
A85988 | Is not this thy picture, thy name and state, and ten thousand times worse? |
A85988 | Is not thy case very desperate, to follow the Devil into every sin? |
A85988 | Is not thy desire to him, and delight in him, thy design for him, and endeavour after him? |
A85988 | Is not your case very woful indeed, that wilfully abide in a Christless state, by still abiding in a sinful state? |
A85988 | Is nothing more active and communicative? |
A85988 | Is our Center above, and our Load- stone there where Christ sits at the right hand of God? |
A85988 | Is our Joy spiritually delighted in that Soveraign good presented to us, to be certainly and intimately enjoyed, both in free and present fruition? |
A85988 | Is our Taste spiritually active to relish the dainties of Christ, the pleasures of his Table, the choiceness of his feast? |
A85988 | Is our Touch also spiritually employed to feel the difference between heat and cold, between good and evil in the things of Christ? |
A85988 | Is our ear opened to our Beloved, and boared to the posts of his house, that we may not hearken after any Tempter? |
A85988 | Is our fear spiritually active, lest we should displease him, and frustrate our own good by neglecting our duty, or doing any thing contrary to him? |
A85988 | Is our fire kindled against sin, whilst our heart melts for the sinners good as far as possible? |
A85988 | Is the Light of Christ so to be disowned? |
A85988 | Is the like felt in us spiritually? |
A85988 | Is the spiritual Change yet wrought within us by the special hand of Christs renewing Spirit? |
A85988 | Is there a divine fire within us, bending still heaven- ward to its first original? |
A85988 | Is there no disproportion between your profession and Conversation; your parts and practice? |
A85988 | Is there no excrescence, or exuberance, no dislocation, or disruption there willingly suffered? |
A85988 | Is there no spark of Ingenuity left? |
A85988 | Is there not matter enough already expressed to inflame all our hearts after it? |
A85988 | Is this Joy of the Lord our strength, to quicken and supple all the wheels of our souls? |
A85988 | Is this our Loyalty to our dread Soveraign? |
A85988 | Is this our kindness to our dearest friend? |
A85988 | Is this our love to our selves and Neighbor, to despise thus the only way of cure? |
A85988 | Is this sense as others, so well exercised to avoid all evil, and embrace the good? |
A85988 | Is thy Judgement well informed and fixed? |
A85988 | Is thy heart cemented to Christ, and rooted in him? |
A85988 | Is thy heart of stone turned into flesh, and this Iron sinew melted into Gods mould? |
A85988 | Is your growth proportional? |
A85988 | Is your growth uniform in its universal augment? |
A85988 | Is your speech active and lively? |
A85988 | Is your way stil as the morning Light, which shines more and more to the perfect day? |
A85988 | It it not a blind, but a well- guided zeal? |
A85988 | It may be you think you Reject not Christ: why then do you reject his Terms, and prefer your own? |
A85988 | It s the God of all Grace, full of mercy and Truth: the Fountain of all good, most precious, most sweet, a most suitable match; wilt thou refuse him? |
A85988 | May not I be of them? |
A85988 | May not London speak loud in this case, if late experience be but testified? |
A85988 | May we not hence also take a Publick Estimate of the state of Affairs in this place, in this Land, in this Republique, yea of any place whatsoever? |
A85988 | Must not his people be lively like him, that they may be stil faithful and successful? |
A85988 | Must not the prime and ultimate cause resolve into Gods Will? |
A85988 | Nay more, to dwell in such dunghils and Receptacles of all filthy Lusts? |
A85988 | Our nature of it self is as bad as the worst; Is it now savingly transformed in the Spirit of our mind? |
A85988 | Saith not Christ to us, as David his Type to his bosom friend that wretched Anitophel? |
A85988 | Shall we not improve then such a precious Jewel? |
A85988 | Should it not quicken thy pace to Christ, that thou maist be saved? |
A85988 | Should not it be our shame and sorrow? |
A85988 | Should not our Relations to others put as upon it? |
A85988 | Should not self- interest move you, if the publick do not? |
A85988 | Should not this prevail? |
A85988 | Should not we still be trading with Christ in the great Commodities of Heaven? |
A85988 | Should not we then improve this stock, and husband this portion upon better ground? |
A85988 | Sin is your plague and you know it not; Error Rules in you and you feel it not; why are you sensless in such a danger? |
A85988 | Such as are under the total Reign of sin and Error, all sinners in grain? |
A85988 | That Christ is no better known unto thee after so much of his glorious discoveries, what a shame is it? |
A85988 | That Christ satisfied, and that Faith is given to receive pardon, is not that free also? |
A85988 | That''s bad indeed; but hath he not a quickning Spirit? |
A85988 | The Lord is continually dropping down fatness from Heaven upon you; Do you Return thither, answer your Receipts thence? |
A85988 | The manner of acting is Political, not Spiritual; by civil Censures, not Ecclesiastical? |
A85988 | The more precious Christ is unto us, the more vile shall we be to our selves? |
A85988 | Thence is the conflict so continuall between the spirit and flesh, the Law in the members, and the Law in the Mind? |
A85988 | There is vertue indeed in heavenly bodies; But who can find out the same distinctly? |
A85988 | This Fatherless man is as Wonderful, as the same motherless God, for who can declare his Generation, as to the manner of it? |
A85988 | Thy sin is thy disease, thy poison and plague; art thou unwilling to be rid of it? |
A85988 | To what purpose then did Christ die for him? |
A85988 | Trie therefore thy soundness in the Truth of Christ, how far art thou from Apostacy: How stands thy heart towards Divine Truth? |
A85988 | Was he ever bound to any Creature? |
A85988 | Was there ever a great Astrologer that hath not bewrayed some Satanical cheat? |
A85988 | Were he not God co- essential and co- eternal with the Father, how could he be one with him, as himself affirms? |
A85988 | Were we effectually convinced by him of sin and Righteousness? |
A85988 | Were we made to see the worst of our selves, that we might embrace the best of Christ? |
A85988 | What Antidote have we got against all such dreadful evils? |
A85988 | What Infinite Mercy is that which carries on the work of Grace through all Opposition, and keeps a weak spark alive in the midst of an Ocean? |
A85988 | What Method and Means did Gods Spirit use, and in what manner did he prevail with us? |
A85988 | What can Rebels expect from a Soveraign whose Orders they stil oppose and reject? |
A85988 | What could more be done for us then he hath done? |
A85988 | What evil of sin, that he limits not? |
A85988 | What evil of sorrow, that the Lord sends not? |
A85988 | What evil so horrid that may not be covered under such a mask? |
A85988 | What good temporal or spiritual, that comes not still from his Providence? |
A85988 | What hath he that he hath not received? |
A85988 | What have we that we have not received to impart to others? |
A85988 | What hope of growing in any good things, without answerable supplies and relief? |
A85988 | What if I come not? |
A85988 | What if I come? |
A85988 | What if they be disguised under sheeps cloathing? |
A85988 | What kind of Christians are we? |
A85988 | What madness keeps thee from coming to him that would help all this? |
A85988 | What makes thee complain of thy Ignorance? |
A85988 | What need the Elect to be warned thus? |
A85988 | What then? |
A85988 | What think you of sin, the murtherer of this Christ, and of that Love which gave him to the death? |
A85988 | What would a dying man give for a sure cure? |
A85988 | What''s freer then pardon to an unworthy Rebel? |
A85988 | What''s fuller then such a pardon, that justifies from all guilt Inchoatively, progressively, consummatively? |
A85988 | What''s more precious then this Miracle of Grace that gives them God in Christ and all things with him? |
A85988 | Whether will ignus fatuus, lead, but to bogs and precipices? |
A85988 | Whither will Satan transformed into an Angel of Light lead thee at the last? |
A85988 | Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? |
A85988 | Who can drive a Trade without pain and venture? |
A85988 | Who can look for the Blessing of Heaven in following the waies of darkness? |
A85988 | Who expects a crop without care& cost? |
A85988 | Who gets acquaintance with the Lords wisdom, without crying, waiting and searching? |
A85988 | Who hath required these things at thy hand? |
A85988 | Who hath told thee so? |
A85988 | Who is on Gods side now, against Blasphemy and damnable Heresie: against divisions and strong delusions? |
A85988 | Who looks for a conquest without trouble? |
A85988 | Who makes a man to differ from another? |
A85988 | Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect? |
A85988 | Why art thou content with a Velleity, and a woulding will without endeavour, like the sluggards wish? |
A85988 | Why art thou pleased with barren desires, and fruitless Resolves? |
A85988 | Why do we study the Lord Christ so little and the world so much? |
A85988 | Why do you stil love what he loaths, and loath what he loves? |
A85988 | Why do you stil provide for your Lusts, and plead for them, covering of them, mincing the matter and returning still thereto as the dog and swine? |
A85988 | Why do you stil then loath his Ordinances, his Word and Sabbath, his service and servants? |
A85988 | Why do you then continue stil in the love and trade of your darling sins, secret or gross? |
A85988 | Why dost thou profess the Knowledge of Christ to abuse him thus? |
A85988 | Why then is our fruit so wild and so empty? |
A85988 | Will not their own conscience condemn them? |
A85988 | Will not thy later end prove most desperate, that hast made so much haste in the broad way to Hell? |
A85988 | Will not you give your watchmen the hearing, on the descry of a dreadful enemy? |
A85988 | Will not you rue it to eternity? |
A85988 | Will this foppish way of dead performances be pleasing to him who is a Spirit, and will be worshipped in spirit and Truth? |
A85988 | Will thy crack''d peny make amends to God for millions of pounds due to him from thee? |
A85988 | Will thy fig- leaves cover thy nakedness? |
A85988 | Will you gallop stil towards your own Ruin? |
A85988 | Will you still run into plaguy Company? |
A85988 | Will you still scorn and reject the Sovereign Physick, that would sute your case? |
A85988 | Will you still slight and abuse your Physitian? |
A85988 | Wilt thon put off God as Heathens serve their Idols, with a liveless worship? |
A85988 | Wilt thou be moved thereto cordially? |
A85988 | Wilt thou give Satan the creame, and Christ the Refuse of thy time and strength? |
A85988 | Wilt thou lay the whole Burthen on the tyred horse, and wave returning till thy elder age? |
A85988 | Wilt thou refuse it yet? |
A85988 | Wilt thou still delight in the Devils work, and yet hope for wages from Heaven? |
A85988 | Yea, Therefore Beloved, seeing ye know these things before,& c. What things? |
A85988 | Yea, to bear with our Ignorance and unbelief, contempt and neglect, abuse and Affronts? |
A85988 | You have disdained him too long already; is it not high time to long for him, to breath and pant, till you obtain him? |
A85988 | a condemned man for a pardon? |
A85988 | a drowning man for help? |
A85988 | all, and all in him? |
A85988 | do we take warning, do we keep our selves from Error and Revolt? |
A85988 | how can they help it? |
A85988 | is your life speaking? |
A85988 | like to escape the snares of Error? |
A85988 | should not you rather spare it from your sleep, work, or Recreation, then from this Jewel, so much concerning both Gods honour and mans good? |
A85988 | that there is yet so little of Grace, and so much of corruption in us, should it not deeply humble us? |
A85988 | thinkest thou to baffle Christ thus? |
A85988 | to be lawless, is to be godless,; For what''s Gods Law but the declaration of Gods Will requiring mans Duty? |
A85988 | whether in a Superior or inferior charge? |
A85988 | whether you say the pardon is Renewed, or continued, or confirmed to the Regenerate, is it not stil full? |